Once a year, the Wallace family gets together on a summer weekend. This year, it fell to me to host the gathering in Amagansett. My brother Richard, the professor of environmental policy, accompanied me to the fish market to buy a slab of fish that would feed eleven people. Chalked on the blackboard at the market were choices: we could buy wild or farmed salmon. "Where is the wild salmon from?" Richard asked. "Alaska," was the answer. "And the farmed salmon?" "Canada." "East or West?" "I don't know." We left with a huge 5.5 pound filet of wild Alaska salmon the size of a paving stone, the biggest cut of fish I have ever cooked.
When we got it home, the only thing we agreed on was that we were going to cook it on the grill. Everyone had a different suggestion: rub it in olive oil; add spices; throw it on just as it was; wrap it in tin foil; place it on the hot grill skin side down and turn it after a few minutes. I chose to cook it Richard's way: directly on the grill, with nothing on it but salt and pepper. It was delicious that way, which finally settled all the disagreements.
Years ago I remember an old friend remarking over lunch, "I don't really care very much about the environment", and feeling very displeased with her, not just because I felt she should care about forests and the ocean, but because I felt she was wilfully ignorant of the fact that the environment was more personal still, comprising herself and her immediate surroundings. So that her statement was tantamount to saying, "I don't care if my clothes or my apartment are clean." Since the environment consists of the sum total of our surroundings, environmental issues are pervasive, including the ugly black splotches of gum on city sidewalks and the quality of the air on subway platforms.
Similarly, when I started the Ethical Spectacle, I understood that ethical issues are also pervasive, and that in fact we make dozens of ethical decisions each day. Deciding whether to return the extra quarter in change a store clerk accidentally handed you, or whether to give a quarter to a panhandler in the subway, are both ethical decisions you might make any day of your life in New York, and some of these minor decisions are of surprising complexity (for example, giving money to a panhandler may not be in his best interests). What kind of career you choose, what kinds of things you tolerate or take a stand against, what automobile you drive and whether you talk on your cell-phone while driving it are all ethical decisions.
All environmental decisions are ethical ones; choices related to the environment are a major subset of the ethical decisions we make each day. I was amused and instructed by the importance of the choices we made in buying a piece of fish.
If you are like most Westerners, every week you go to the supermarket and you buy chicken or beef without thinking about the implications of the fact that the animals were raised on a farm. Nobody hunted your cow or chased your chicken through the woods.
Ask yourself when you last ate any meat which was caught rather than raised. Unless you yourself hunt for sport, your answer might be "never" or "not sure". Before I stopped eating red meat entirely, I ordered venison sometimes in restaurants, but despite being presented as a "game" meat, it may have been farmed rather than hunted.
With the fish that you eat, the situation is the exact opposite. Until a few decades ago, every pound of fish you ate in a year was caught rather than farmed (except possibly catfish). Now this is beginning to turn--increasingly your dinner of salmon, tilapia or trout, may come from an acquaculture facility somewhere.
With meat, the change from a hunting to a farming economy took place centuries ago and is an extremely logical one. In much of the world, there isn't enough wild land left, let alone game on it, to feed billions of people. Hunting is also unreliable, especially as the game gets scarcer. By raising animals, we can coordinate supply and demand better, so that if you want a piece of a cow for your family's dinner on Friday, someone only has to say, "I will kill one for you," not "let me see if I can catch one for you." (The names of dishes like "hunter's chicken" are very entertaining, suggesting that this is what hunters eat for dinner when they couldn't find a deer.) We can also control the quality better, making sure the meat will be exactly the tenderness that you want, and not the tough gamy flesh of some angry, muscular survivor animal that has evaded the hunters until now.
Looked at this way, it is remarkable that we continued hunting the ocean for centuries after we switched to raising farm animals on land. The explanation of course is that the oceans were immense, covering much more of the earth's surface than the land, and we were able to continue believing that fish stocks were inexhaustible. In recent decades, this belief system has collapsed along with various fish stocks. There was a time when there was an East Coast U.S. salmon fishery. Now the fish are gone; when someone caught a salmon off Long Island a few years ago in a net full of striped bass, it was news, an event of extreme rarity. The Long Island striper fishery collapsed a few years ago, but the fish are now making a come-back after a few years of stringent federal regulation.
I have been scuba diving on and off for more than a quarter century. When I first dived the Florida Keys in the late seventies, you could sometimes still see a large grouper on the reef; within ten years you never saw any, as they had all been caught for someone's dinner. The average size of large species like tuna and swordfish has radically declined, as we catch every adult fish long before it has a chance to grow to full size. I heard years ago that we catch every adult lobster along the Florida coast before it has a chance to reproduce; the only reason there continue to be Florida lobsters is that the planktonic spawn of Caribbean lobsters floats in every year.
Some of the delicacies we buy at the fish market consist of endangered species which have not yet been protected by international treaty or federal law. For example, there is a persuasive case that you should never buy Chilean sea bass (known as Patagonian toothfish until renamed by the marketing people). Increasingly, we eat species that were thought of as trash fish just a few years ago (eg, tile fish, monkfish), but which come to our tables now as substitutes for more familiar species which have become harder to get.
And we haven't yet mentioned the environmental impact of the way in which we chase and catch the declining numbers of smaller fish. Tuna for some reason swim with dolphins, which are air-breathing mammals; hundreds of thousands of dolphins are drowned every year in tuna nets. Similarly, sea turtles drown in shrimp nets. Most types of nets catch species other than the ones they are set for. Here on the East End of Long Island, the bay-men (local families who made a living from the ocean for centuries) practiced a style of fishing where they would attach one end of a net to a truck on the beach and two other ends to dories (row boats) in the water. They were after stripers but the nets would indiscriminately catch many other species of no interest to them. I remember a trip to Montauk in 1972 in which we saw thousands of dead sea robins, puffers and other fish rotting on the beach, the "by-catch" of one such set by the bay-men. (This type of fishing has now been banned because of its destructiveness. Read Peter Matthiessen's Men's Lives for an account of the baymen and their style of fishing.) Similarly, today's huge ocean trawlers throw tons of unwanted dead fish back into the ocean.
Technology as usual is a neutral force, blindly playing good and evil roles simultaneously. "Turtle excluder devices" and nets which will allow dolphin and even unwanted fish species to escape have been designed, though there is a lack of international monitoring to make sure they are being used properly. On the other hand, nets have become larger and are now routinely dragged across the bottom, crushing coral or destoying seabed, to make sure nothing escapes. (The industry's phrase for removing every living thing from an area of the seabed is "biomass extraction"). Long-liners set individual hooks on miles of line that also catch unwanted species which die before they can be freed. "Ghost" nets and longlines break free from boats and drift through the oceans catching fish which will never be harvested by anyone.
One blessing is that there is a very important margin between the commercial collapse of a species and its actual extinction. Fish that are no longer commercially viable to catch may still exist in sufficient numbers to make a come-back.
Given that the economics of hunting the sea are now, due to the pressures of population and technology, aligning themselves with the economics of hunting the land, wouldn't it make sense to promote fish farming? Why did my environmentally sensitive brother choose to buy a wild salmon rather than a farmed one?
The answer is that large acquaculture is causing some of the same problems as large, factory-style agriculture. Salmon farms are not beloved of their neighbors because the fish's wastes foul surrounding waters. Farmed species sometimes escape and may drive out or interbreed with native species (it is a dangerous thing to farm salmon in proximity to a wild fishery). An article in the July 29, 2003 New York Times (the paper has run an interesting series this past week on fishing and acquaculture) reveals the results of a new report that indicates that farmed fish show much higher concentrations of the pollutant PCB than wild ones. The article also points up a discrepancy between the vanishingly small amount of PCB's the EPA will tolerate in wild fish (it publishes advisories that the public should refrain from eating Hudson river striped bass more than once a month) with the concentrations the FDA allows in commercially-sold fish, which are hundreds of times higher. Apparently, the fat content of farmed fish are also much greater.
A month or so ago, there was a truth-in-labelling scandal pertaining to farmed salmon. Wild fish are natrurally pink because they pick up the color from the shrimp which are a major part of their diet. Farmed salmon, fed on other types of feed, have grey flesh. Some distributors were dying the fish pink, afraid that consumers wouldn't want grey salmon.
Despite these problems, I believe that acquaculture is the way of the future, because recent events have definitively shown the almost insurmountable problems involved in maintaining wild fish stocks under insatiable fishing pressure. Even without regulation I think the market will continue to swing in the direction of farmed fish. A little attention (preferably commercial, government if needed) to moderating the environmental impact of fish farms, and ensuring the health and purity of the product, will ease the transition.


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July 28, 2016 3:31 pm at 3:31 pm #1164348
jewishfeminist02
Health and Ben Levi:
Conventional science and medicine has rejected conversion therapy. No credible, reputable association or institution will make the claim that sexual orientation can be changed or that conversion therapy works. You can throw out "articles" all day from a handful of nutcases who are beyond the pale of modern scientific theory, but it doesn't change the reality that those people have zero credibility.
The only thing that marriage therapy has in common with conversion therapy is the word "therapy". So I don't know what that point was supposed to be.
It is Time for Truth
jewishfeminist02,
"Conventional science and medicine has rejected"
According to you ,anyone born with a predilection to murder or ,say,shoplifting will be unable to control themselves ??
Should we give them a free pass??
There was a article a short while ago that anecdotal evidence often give a better bigger picture than empirical evidence
apushatayid
"anyone born with a predilection to murder or ,say,shoplifting will be unable to control themselves ??"
Whether the answer is yes, or no, nobody sane or intelligent would cheer this person on as he paraded around taking pride in it!
zahavasdad
usually pride parade are made with the idea, that people who are like that have a lower self esteem and the parade is to raise that esteem.
However the past Jerusalem parade became some sort of connection to a murder and people were protesting a murder as well, who murdered someone in the name of hate
A Gadol said some decades ago
"The greste k'fira in heintige tzeitin, is k'fira in bechira !!"
ZD -"However the past Jerusalem parade became some sort of connection to a murder and people were protesting a murder as well, who murdered someone in the name of hate"
Are you condoning this parade because s/o got killed in the last one?
Are you for real?!?
zahavasdad,
Who are You trying to fool ??besides yourself??
JF2 -"Health and Ben Levi:
Conventional science and medicine has rejected conversion therapy. No credible, reputable association or institution will make the claim that sexual orientation can be changed or that conversion therapy works."
Stop with your liberal lies!
I'm actually surprised that YWN lets you post here, because you're pushing the gay agenda which is against the Torah!
From the AMA's website:
"the use of "reparative" or "conversion" therapy that is based upon the assumption that homosexuality per se is a mental disorder or based upon the a priori assumption that the patient should change his/her homosexual orientation."
The obvious implication is that it works! Just you shouldn't call gay people crazy or force them to change!
David Rubin
..most of the worldwide LGBT organizations have a much broader, even aggressive political agenda that goes way beyond ensuring individual freedom. In recent years that agenda has intimidated many Americans, restricting freedom of speech and religious ex?pression by those who oppose .. marriage, and ultimately leading to the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing .. marriage.
Israelis should be concerned, as well. In a blatant show of LGBT intolerance, and as evidence of the aggressive focus on that political agenda, Minister Bennett – along with Jewish Home MK Yinon Magal – were reportedly prevented from attending the Tel Aviv rally by the Israeli National LGBT Task Force, while Energy and Water Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud), who did attend in support of the LGBT community was booed offstage by thousands of attendees. Only those public figures on the Left were allowed to participate, because they support "the agenda", which aims to fundamentally change society by blurring gender identities, eventually leading to public acceptance and legalization of gay marriage in Israel, giving such sexual deviations an equal social status as the traditional family structure, the marriage bond between a man and a woman.
Social laws in a society are based on values, which generally are based on the heritage of the civilization. The traditional family and traditional religious social values are under attack in Western civilization. The international LGBT movement, as an integral part of the Left, is at the forefront of those attacks, which often are quite aggressive, and in some cases, even violent.
People AREN'T born with "predilections to murder or shoplifting" the way they are born with sexual orientations. That is simply false, and again, not backed up by science.
And pride parades have absolutely nothing to do with "raising self-esteem".
🍫Syag Lchochma
I'm not so sure there aren't people people born with predilections to murder or shoplifting. Working with people who have addictions and others who have painfully inappropriate taivos has taught me that there are lots of people out there who are working valiantly to walk in the Torah's path despite their challenges.
And the pride parade is only about self esteem.
There is a difference between condoning something and not condemning especially when condemnation would be taken differently
you can say nothing and not be condoning the parade, pretend it never happend
whatever it is about, it is cheering on, normalizing, and in many instances promoting something the torah says not to do. for no other reason it is worthy of condemnation
"whatever it is about, it is cheering on, normalizing, and in many instances promoting something the torah says not to do. for no other reason it is worthy of condemnation."
This much, I agree with.
Syag Lchochma, addictions are heartbreaking and can do incredible damage, and yes, at a certain point the addict actually loses his free choice. BUT, most people aren't born addicted to anything. They are born with hardwired sexual orientations.
I don't think you can say that definitively about either of them.
Ben Levi
Actually according to Judaism it is a fact that people are born with predilections to murder any one born under the Mazal Maadim, every person is born with a personality that allows for them to either be a "rusha" a "a "beinuni" or a tzadik.
Someone born under the Mazal Maadim essentially enjoys "blood' so they can be either
1) A rotzaech, murderer which is a rusha
2) A Shocheit, ritual slaughterer, which is a beinoni.
3) A Mohel, circumcisor, which is a tsaddik.
And what I have written is essentially a quote from the Vilna Gaon brought in Even Shelaima.
Medical experts have said that. Do you disbelieve them?
Jfem,
I am wondering why you are ignoring the thrust of the posts.
Karten is a practicing psychologist, He affirms it does work in his practice and his essential point is that you are dead wrong.
All actual scientific studies done with the same methodology used for any study have proven that it has the same rates of success of any other therapies.
That is a fact and he goes through the actual studies.
There are no studies done that show it not to work much less to be harmful.
Is there anecdotal tales from those it's failed on?
A majority is not ruled out by a minority.
Much as marriage therapy is not deemed harmful because of the anecdotes of those who have been harmed by therapy in specific circumstances.
I have quoted articles, and pointed to exact studies.
You refutation is what?
Are there any specific studies you can point to?
And please do not point to the AMA again, I went through all six people who did that study, and showed how the idisputable facts are on record.
They rejected any attempt to have non-biased people do that study in favor of those who publicly admitted they were biased and had formed opinions beforehand.
if your question was directed toward me – yes. I have been in the health field long enough to know that what's written does not always match what is. And that ten years from now they, too, will change their minds about half the things they swore to this year. I only say it because I have seen too much evidence supporting it.
So you are right, because of what you've seen anecdotally, and ALL of the leading medical experts are wrong?
Ben Levi, you have your majorities and minorities mixed up. You're quoting a minority nutjob against the consensus of the leading medical experts.
SL -"I'm not so sure there aren't people people born with predilections to murder or shoplifting"
Well there are people who are sure! J. Fallon is a neuropsychologist who has proven that he and others can be born a psychopath!
i didn't say i was "right". I said that i would not make such a statement definitively and i also said that medical science changes their conclusions regularly over the decades (that is a fact). I also don't believe that ALL the medical experts have said what you claim, nor do I believe you know what ALL the medical experts claim.
You seem to have disregarded what I actually wrote.
I can only act upon what I have seen and experienced and learned from local experts I work with. If you know of experts who feel differently – great. That is why I did not speak definitively, and said nobody else should either.
Yes, science changes over time, but that's neither here nor there because that line of thinking can lead you to question EVERYTHING. Who says gravity is real– maybe the experts will change their minds in ten years! Maybe sugar is really good for you, that might change in ten years also! etc etc.
The current consensus among leading medical experts is that sexual orientation is hardwired at birth, while addiction is not (unless the mother was addicted to something during pregnancy). Period, end of story, and anecdotal evidence is irrelevant.
People are born with predilections for EVERYTHING
Are you deluged by the zeigeist?
Or are you so deluged by your elegant brainwashing which you mistook for higher education?
People are born with predilections for EVERYTHING under the sun
When two scientists announced that rape is a "natural adaptation", controversy was bound to follow. But with weeks still to go before the UK publication of Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer's book, A Natural History of Rape: The Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion, there has already been an eruption of criticism…
All aspects of living things, including morphology, physiology, cognition and behaviour, result from a complex interaction of genes and environmental factors. Genes alone do not determine any aspect of living things, and neither do environmental factors. Indeed, the interaction of genes and environment is so intertwined that no aspect of a living thing can be accurately depicted as either primarily genetic or environmental..
Neither does the identification of the evolutionary basis of a trait imply anything about the inevitability of the trait, a point many recent critics of our work also fail to comprehend. Instead, identification of the specific ways that genes interact with the environment to produce a behaviour can increase our ability to change the environment in ways that will decrease the chances of the behaviour taking place.
Syag, your comments on this thread particularly show strong strong values. The respectful tone and clarity in sensitive form are an inspiration. Thank you.
Do you follow the medical consensus of the 1950s ?
The consensus of the 1960s ?
How come?
In a 2009 in Canadian Medical Association Journal, Tom Koch discussed the Polio epidemic in the 1950s.( He noted how everyone scrambled to save every life. Gymnasiums were turned into wards and cots were lined up from wall to wall. Steel lung machines were made and people were kept alive in these big negative pressure boxes. It was an imperative to save as many lives as possible. Nobody considered the costs or the quality of life of the people that were saved.) He lamented that "in todays society the polio victims would be counseled against seeking treatment and most would die.
There is a drift in values that would have been unthinkable has become the norm"
Zehavasdad et.al,
..most of the worldwide LGBT organizations have a much broader, even aggressive political agenda that goes way beyond ensuring individual freedom. In recent years that agenda has intimidated many Americans, restricting freedom of speech and religious ex?pression by those who oppose .. marriage…
The traditional family and traditional religious social values are under attack in Western civilization. The international LGBT movement, as an integral part of the Left, is at the forefront of those attacks, which often are quite aggressive, and ..violent.
July 28, 2016 10:27 pm at 10:27 pm #1164377
SL -"That is why I did not speak definitively, and said nobody else should either."
Now there is a difference between a theory and observational study.
He has a physical study. Although it's not foolproof, his observations are more likely to be correct than yours!
JF2 -"The current consensus among leading medical experts is that sexual orientation is hardwired at birth"
What proof do you have?
jf2 – you seem to be getting very upset and carried away about things that weren't even part of this discussion. Gravity?
I never had any questions. You made a statement that sexual orientation is hardwired and other things aren't. I am saying that I don't believe either one is definitive, there are way too many cases that don't concur. If you want to tell me that there are MANY who disagree with me, fine. I don't doubt that. But why would you even make a statement saying that it is all that one way and period. end of story?
As an educated and highly intelligent person you are well aware that there are very, very few things in science or medicine that are definitive to that extent. You want to say it is definitive in the eyes of x, y, and z? fine. You want to say it is the accepted theory in the institute of ___, fine. But I can't imagine you are not well aware that there are many people out there with their own studies and statistics who disagree with your statements and you are welcome to follow your leaders while I follow mine.
I am highly confused about why you are finding this so upsetting. Not only is it common for there to be conflicting beliefs in science, but I have not negated your words in any way, I only claim that there are exceptions to your rule.
July 29, 2016 6:43 am at 6:43 am #1164381
Ben Levi -"And please do not point to the AMA again"
Why not? They implied conversion therapy works!
It's just that the APA bought into the PC!
July 29, 2016 10:26 am at 10:26 am #1164382
dovrosenbaum
People can avoid engaging in certain behaviors if they truly have the will to do so. If a person feels they're attracted to the same sex, their only recourse is lifelong celibacy.
Or as is recently happening, surgically change ones self into the other gender.
Syag Lchochma, I am not "getting upset and carried away", actually, I'm not sure why you think I am…Gravity was an example to illustrate the point I was making about scientific consensus and how at a certain point you have to accept that consensus and consider it a done deal– UNLESS and UNTIL the medical establishment itself decides to reconsider. A handful of "studies" published by people who are not recognized medical experts and whose work is outside the pale, should be disregarded.
I'm almost afraid to hear the response, but I'm curious whether or not anybody here believes that man-made climate change is real. That would be another definitive conclusion reached by the scientific community. Are there a minority of people who deny climate change? Yes. Do some of those people have scientific degrees? Sure. But when 99% of scientists, including the best and brightest in the industry, the leading voices of modern scientific theory, when they all come to the same conclusion, what good is it to cry "But Dr. So and So did a study!" It just doesn't make any sense.
Health, what are you talking about? The AMA says that conversion therapy does NOT work.
dovrosenbaum: Correct. Their actual sexual orientation will never change, but they can choose celibacy.
You are aware that the "consensus" medical opinion until fairly recently was that homesexuality was a "mental disorder".
So according to you up till the diagnosis was changed everyone was to believe that it was so and if they disbelieved it they were minority "nutjobs".
The morning after the changed diagnosis, those who disagreed became "nutjobs".
As for questioning everything.
There was one truth that God gave us and attested to the fact it will never ever change.
It's called the Torah.
JF2 -"Health, what are you talking about? The AMA says that conversion therapy does NOT work."
And where does it say that?
I quoted from them above:
Health: Are you unable to make a point without stooping to an irrelevant insult? Mods, what was the point in allowing Health's last line through?
Sam2 -"Mods what was the point in allowing Health's last line through"
OK Sam – they removed it for you!
"Health: Are you unable to make a point without stooping to an irrelevant insult"
That was very relevant!
No one, including you, have cleared up the AMA's actual position!
If you look at how the APA deals with homosexuality and other matters, it's obvious it's a political process.
I value the opinion of the AAPS over the liberal AMA, which functions as a politicized tool towards social engineering.
That…doesn't say what you think it says. It tells you what conversion therapy was designed to do. Conversion therapy as a treatment for homosexuality is, by definition, based on the assumption that homosexuality is a disease or disorder. Otherwise there would be nothing to "treat".
It is a fact that that is how conversion therapy was designed. But acknowledging the fact of what it's for and how it came to be is not a statement on its efficacy. Those are two very separate things.
As I showed previously there is the AMA and APA cannot state that those therapies are proven scientifically not to work because when they were actual scientific studies were carried out they were proven to work.
What they can state is there is anecdotal evidence of it not working since there are those whom it has no effect on.
Just as marriage therapy does not work on everyone and all other sorts of therapy.
However for some reason in all other cases the actual data is chosen over singular anecdotes.
JF2 -"That…doesn't say what you think it says. It tells you what conversion therapy was designed to do. Conversion therapy as a treatment for homosexuality is, by definition, based on the assumption that homosexuality is a disease or disorder. Otherwise there would be nothing to "treat""
Actually your misrepresenting what they're saying!
This is from a website called Faith in America:
If anyway it implied what you're saying – they would spell it out!
They're a pro-gay site.
"American Medical Association (2003)
American Psychiatric Association (1998)
They do bring other organizations that are more pro – gay.
Those two aren't!
What they're saying don't force s/o to change from being gay because they aren't all crazy.
If they want to change, they can!
Really this is all moot, even in a bizarre case where someone has zero attraction to the opposite gender.Does it matter ?
Such a person should stay behind the shtender
or devote themselves to the klal
There have been, in the past, more than a few such cases
Do you believe in the cardinal precepts of your religion for
all Humankind ,or.. ??
Do you believe these these developments cause downward spiral and degradation of every society ??
For your own enrichment
perhaps you also ought to read up on the research of Thornhill and Palmer referenced above
More importantly,that anything is inevitable due to genetics,environment,etc.:
"The findings of science have nothing to say about what is morally right or wrong.. The identification of the evolutionary basis of a trait implies nothing about the moral rightness of the trait. To think otherwise is to commit the "naturalistic fallacy", a fallacy that some critics of our work continue to make despite having the fallacious logic of their position explained many times by evolutionary scientists. "
It also should further satisfy who gets to define the consensus:
"Thornhill and Palmer consistently state that their theory does not justify rape and argue that their aim is to eradicate the behaviour, but they have nonetheless encountered vehement opposition wherever they have gone. Scheduled lectures have been cancelled..
Almost as contentious as their theory of why men rape has been Thornhill and Palmer's recommendations for how to prevent it. They have drawn fire for their suggestion that young women be advised of the dangers of plunging necklines and short skirts."
August 1, 2016 3:51 pm at 3:51 pm #1164394
Time for Truth: No, I do not believe that homosexuality "causes downward spiral and degradation of every society".
Yes, a religious Jew who is gay should remain celibate and find a way to integrate into the community outside the framework of family life. However, this is far easier said than done, and honestly is irrelevant to the question of whether or not homosexuality is genetically hardwired.
I have no interest in reading the work of a pair of "researchers" who believe that the best way to fight rape is by telling women to cover up.
Health: You're still not making any sense. The statements you quoted are not proof that the AMA and APA support conversion therapy.
They state that they oppose therapies that are designed to treat homosexuality as a disease or disorder. Then you mention that the associations do not recognize homosexuality as a disease or disorder. Well and good, but proponents of conversion therapy certainly do! So we're back to where we started.
it seems you are having somewhat of a difficult time understanding Health's point.
Health is pointing out that in the APA and AMA's manual's they do not address whether or not the therapies work, rather they simply state they oppose anything that would make someone feel that homosexuality is a problem.
What can be gleaned is that they themselves recognize that the therapies do indeed work, they simply oppose them because of what they imply.
What I have stated is simply that the AMA and the APA would have a very difficult time stating that the therapies have been proven not to work on a scientific basis since all actual scientific studies carried out showed that statistically speaking they do in fact work the same as any other therapy.
"statistically speaking they do in fact work the same as any other therapy."
And how do those therapies work? Well, not well? Case by case basis?
On a positive note. The Evita club in Tel Aviv closed down 2 days ago.
Ben Levi:
It is true that the AMA's policy manual simply states that they are opposed to conversion therapy, without giving a reason why or directly stating there that the therapy does not work. However, if you look at other materials and statements produced by the AMA, it is patently obvious that their stance is that the therapy is ineffective, and has even been shown to be damaging and harmful.
No links allowed here, but google "A Request for Conversion Therapy" and "AMA" and see what you find. It's pashut that their position is not what you and Health believe it is.
More than anything, alot of this discussion is political in nature. Medicaid in NY State (my home state, which is why I looked up its guidelines – other states may or may not have the same policy)for example will not cover conversion therapy except in certain situations. The stated reason for non coverage is contradicted by the exceptions that are covered.
August 1, 2016 10:08 pm at 10:08 pm #1164401
Actually I did not state what I personally believe their position to be. I merely explained what Health was deriving from their writings.
I do not know their current position nor, to be frank, do I much care what it is, when those that formulate a position state clearly and openly beforehand that they are biased I do not know how any intelligent person can take what they say with a grain of salt.
What I have stated is that regardless of what they believe based on anecdotal evidence of unproven theories, actually scientific studies have proven that it does in fact work.

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As I have gotten older, it seems to me that it seems less of taking a leap and more like not letting fear decide my fate. There are many times when I worry or am fearful of the outcome, but if I let those emotions consume me I would never get anything done. Instead I take the "no's" and "mistakes" as opportunities to learn and grow. To build my wings and fly.
On these pages you will find layers of color as well as layers of gelatin prints. I love my Gel Printing Plate from Gelli Arts. I used a variety of stencils on the background along with some splatters & stamps. I highlighted a few of the stenciled hearts by outlining them with a black pen. The wings of my potty girl stamp by Cocoa Daisy Kits had to be bold. Insert more purple since I had lots of yellow in the background. I love the staggered title, especially with the words "Fear" & "Fate" larger and in the grey color. I borrowed the title from the song "Kill your heroes" by Awolnation since it resonated my exact sentiments.
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Hartlepool college rebuilt to be fit for young people has 'Heart'
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A NORTH-EAST college has opened its doors after an extensive three-year design and build process.
Mark Tilling, headteacher of High Tunstall College of Science in Hartlepool, said: "The college has been an important part of Hartlepool for over 47 years, but the building was old and tired. The facilities and the resources for our young people were not up to the standard they should have been.
"The design of the new college is really special. We've worked hard with BAM Construction to ensure that the architects and designers have devised a college that is fit for purpose and moves us forward.
"The new college is designed around the Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) agenda meaning STEM is at the heart of everything we do."
Facilities in the new building include 10 new science rooms and one demonstration laboratory used to showcase scientific activities which cannot safely be performed by students.
Also included are new art rooms, creative design rooms, food technology and food demonstration rooms where the school will invite top chefs to demonstrate to its students. A brand-new learning resource centre has also been included where students can learn independently from classes.
The four-court sports hall features solid wood flooring and the ground floor will feature a theatre and dance studio.
Classrooms in the new college contain brand new interactive televisions designed to ensure functional tools which allow teachers to teach, and students to learn. The new school has been built around what Mr Tilling describes as the 'Heart'.
He said: "We have really placed emphasis on this building being for young people. The 'Heart' contains our special needs units and our open plan dining area which is accessible for all students.
"The exterior of the 'Heart' has been designed from the bottom up with the creative and design subjects occupying the bottom floor, academic subjects such as Mathematics and English on the middle floor and specialist subjects such as Science, Information Technology and Languages on the top floor.
"Also, linking into the retained building will be further subjects, humanities, music and drama. Meaning we continue to offer a broad and balanced curriculum at High Tunstall."
Funding for the project has been allocated by the Government's £4.4 billion Priority School Building Program fund, local authorities and from capital directly raised by the school.
High Tunstall is also looking at growing the size of its year groups from 240 students per year group to 270 students, meaning more students can benefit from improved learning on offer at the college.
Future developments planned for the school include a 3G pitch, tennis courts and improved swimming facilities which could be completed in 2020. The school has now re-opened to students and the official opening of the new college buildings will take place on March 24 when the college expects to welcome a special guest STEM lecturer to perform the grand ceremony.
Over the past three years the college has welcomed esteemed guests like Helen Shaman OBE, Professor Lord Robert Winston, Marcus du Sautoy and Dave Coplin to be the lecturer and look forward to carrying on this tradition.
Mr Tilling said: "This project showcases that our students are cared about and invested in. We've always been proud of the High Tunstall name and now we have a facility that is befitting the name, befitting the College and will make parents and students feel proud for years to come."


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That's an interesting perspective considering they're currently being taken to task on a national level by fans and the media alike. That's hardly worshipful behavior.
I'd say so too and that puts them pretty much in line with the history of the league. I'm still waiting for someone here to express outrage at the Vikings heating up footballs on the sideline earlier this season to gain an advantage. They were cheating. They violated the rules and the league warned them about it. Shouldn't we be incensed?
I suspect the turmoil over this topic has a lot less to do with worshipfully putting Belichick and Brady on a pedestal than knocking them off one.
Weren't both teams heating (defrosting would be a better term) the footballs?
Maybe we should be questioning the Colts (or any other team that played the Patriots in recent years) for not doing the same?
He also went 9 for 9 to start the second half and threw all 2 of his 3 TDs during that stretch... and all of that was after the officials had addressed the ball problem. So, where did the advantage really manifest itself? It certainly didn't clearly show in Brady's on-field performance. He was better after the balls were inflated to the correct PSI. I can't speak for anyone else but I'm downplaying it because I don't think it's a big deal. I think media are treating it like Watergate because it's a ratings/clicks/paper-selling godsend during the first of two weeks between the conference championships and the Super Bowl and because of the Pats past transgression.
If they cheated, they cheated and as I said earlier in the thread, they should face whatever consequences the league deems necessary but there is very little reason to believe the deflated balls had any serious impact on the outcome of the game.
I don't think it would've made a difference in this game. Maybe in the Ravens game?
Were/are people outraged over this?
so... the nfl is investigating its own team's crime and it's getting smaller and smaller? How is this not a conflict of interest?! Does the nfl really think we are such fools? How many more things will they blow up and scale down before they are satisfied that everyone forgot about Adrian Peterson and Ray Rice and how roger goodell totally screwed those situations up!
The NFL issued a statement Friday on "DeflateGate," saying it's been determined that footballs used by the Patriots in the second half of Sunday's AFC Championship Game were properly inflated, but footballs used by the Patriots in the first half were "under-inflated."
The investigation is being led by Ted Wells and Jeff Pash. Wells and Pash have interviewed 40 people, and their investigation remains "ongoing" with no timetable for a resolution. Per the initial statement, "The goals of the investigation will be to determine the explanation for why footballs used in the game were not in compliance with the playing rules and specifically whether any noncompliance was the result of deliberate action." The Patriots have publicly denied altering footballs at any point before or during last Sunday's game.
dead_poet wrote: The NFL issued a statement Friday on "DeflateGate," saying it's been determined that footballs used by the Patriots in the second half of Sunday's AFC Championship Game were properly inflated, but footballs used by the Patriots in the first half were "under-inflated."
The simplest answer is usually the correct one. Since we know the weather had nothing to do with it, The Colts balls were not affected, then it had to be done by someone.
The only thing you need to know is that pressure is on one side of the equation, and temperature is on the other. If temperature goes down, so does pressure.
You inflate the balls to 12.5 psi in the locker room at 75 degrees. You take the balls outdoors to 35-degree temperatures, and it a scientific fact that the pressure will drop. As a matter of fact, it will drop to 10.6 psi, given the volume of the football.
The rule DOES NOT SPECIFY what the temperature must be when the pressure is measured. It only states the pressure, and that the balls must be delivered to the officials no less than 2 hours, 15 minutes before game time. THE OFFICIALS then are supposed to determine whether they meet specifications.
So ... let's say that Tom Brady understands the ideal gas law. That's not far fetched. After all, we all understand it intuitively when we inflate our tires, and Brady is a 15-year veteran who knows his craft. And let's say that Brady KNOWS if he has the equipment manager inflate the balls to exactly 12.5 psi at 75 degrees, they'll end up at 10.6 psi once they've equalized with the outside temperature.
Even if he knew all that AND did it intentionally to gain a competitive advantage ... HE DID NOT CHEAT.
Tax accountants understand this. They will use any legal means to save their client money. They will use the tax code to their client's advantage. The Supreme Court has ruled that this is legal.
This is all Tom Brady did. The rule does not specify temperature. He used the rule to his advantage. The rule places the onus on the refs. Brady used that to his advantage, too.
I say, "Nice job outta you, Tom Brady."
Don't want anyone to use the rule to their advantage? Write a better rule.
J. Kapp 11 wrote: This is all Tom Brady did. The rule does not specify temperature. He used the rule to his advantage. The rule places the onus on the refs. Brady used that to his advantage, too.
You sound pretty sure about that, and I might buy it but for one small problem - neither Brady nor Belichek said that was what happened. In fact, both of them, despite being pretty astute individuals familiar with footballs, pretty much said they had no idea what caused the footballs to deflate.
Other problem with your theory is that pretty much nobody else in the pro football world (mostly former QBs and players) is saying that is what must have happened either.
It would be a nice job if indeed it was the explanation, but it doesn't seem to be based on what those involved are saying.
VikingLord wrote: You sound pretty sure about that, and I might buy it but for one small problem - neither Brady nor Belichek said that was what happened. In fact, both of them, despite being pretty astute individuals familiar with footballs, pretty much said they had no idea what caused the footballs to deflate.
Thanks for posting that link, frosted. That is the first I've seen others discussing Kapp's theory, and as I said in my response to him, it is actually a reasonable possible explanation for what was observed.
But the problem remains that neither Brady nor Belichek brought that up, and both have been around footballs long enough to know they could deflate under those conditions. If either of them had just said "Hey, footballs lose pressure if they're inflated warm and brought outside", I'd be more inclined to believe that is what happened.
VikingLord wrote: Thanks for posting that link, frosted. That is the first I've seen others discussing Kapp's theory, and as I said in my response to him, it is actually a reasonable possible explanation for what was observed.
No problem, I just happened to see it a few minutes ago actually, haha - and I mean, it's still a pretty sketchy way of going about things, even if it is true. At this point, I'm more or less just pumped for a (hopefully) great football game a week from Sunday.
First of all, I couldn't give two schicks what anybody else in pro football thinks. This isn't a theory. It is a physical fact. Don't believe me? Conduct your own experiment. Inflate a football to 12.5 pounds at room temperature, put it in the refrigerator for an hour (most refrigerators regulate temperature at about 37 degrees, roughly the same air temperature as the game that day), remove the football, and measure the pressure. The ideal gas law is a physical law that WILL apply to your experiment. The ball will measure somewhere between 10.5 and 11 pounds. Nothing the so-called pro football experts can say will change the immutable laws of physics.
Second, given the prevailing attitude and stunning lack of understanding on the subject, there is no way Tom Brady is going to tell the truth. I mean, we're talking explaining the ideal gas law to a thousand media hacks who didn't pay attention in 9th grade science. They'd crucify him.
And besides, It just doesn't matter. The rule doesn't account for temperature, so if the balls the Patriots turned in to the refs 2 hours and 15 minutes before the game were inflated to at least 12.5 pounds, then they did nothing wrong ... even if they knew the pressure would drop. They followed the rule as written. Again, if you don't like the Pats taking advantage of a rule, write a better rule.
They wouldn't cop to intentionally skirting a rule to gain an advantage cause it's still cheating. If that's how it happened no one will ever admit to it.


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Posted: October 11, 2018 by Jane Funk in Books We Like...and Hate (3/5 ) Meta: Demetra Brodsky, Supernatural Thriller, Young Adult
DIVE SMACK (Amazon), Demetra Brodsky's debut YA novel, is a fast-paced mystery that conveys both the exhilaration and exhaustion of teen life with a supernatural twist. In diving parlance, a 'dive smack' occurs when a diver mis-judges their entry and hits the water painfully instead of smoothly. It also describes the situation of Theo Mackey, who's the captain of the dive team and has a good shot at a scholarship to Stanford–if he can keep the rest of his life from spiraling out of control.
When Theo is assigned a family history project at school he freaks out. Theo has a good reason though–hewas playing with matches the night his house burned down, killing his mother. He blames himself her death as well as his father's, which followed three years later. So when Theo is assigned a family history project at school he…freaks out. The bad news is that the only way Theo can find out about his family history is by asking his alcoholic grandfather, or his Uncle Phil, both of whom are reluctant to answer his questions. The good news is that his crush Iris is in his group but even that feels like more stress for Theo.
Under mounting pressure to perform well on the dive team and on his family history project, Theo starts having flashbacks. As lost memories surface, Theo begins to doubt his own narrative about childhood and his relationship with his Uncle Phil. When Theo realizes that some of his 'memories' haven't happened yet, he suspects that he shares his mother's gift for precognition and that there may be more to the story he's always told himself about the fire that destroyed his home. Working with Iris and his best friend Chip, Theo uncovers increasingly disturbing information that spurs him to confront his past.
Brodsky gives Theo a sharply realized interiority. Even as the book delves into the supernatural, Theo still struggles to be a good team captain, deal with the stress of school work, family trauma (including an alcoholic caregiver), and dating Iris–struggles that will be relatable to a wide variety of teens.
Theo and his best friend, Chip, have the most convincing relationship in the book; unfortunately, Brodsky's efforts to give Theo's budding romance with Iris the same believability fall flat. Some of this may have been my inherent suspicion of characters who rescue butterflies, which Iris does one of the first times we meet her, along with several other characteristics that pushed her towards 'manic pixie dream girl.' In trying to connect a 'jock' and a 'nerd' Brodsky relies too heavily on stereotypes for Iris to really shine.
One of my biggest disappointments with DIVE SMACK was that Brodsky never developed the horror and gothic elements in her novel. At first I thought this lack of creepiness was deliberate; the story is paced like a thriller and many thrillers never develop into full-blown horror despite their darker elements. However, after reading about Theo's terrifying visions, Iris' accurate fortune telling, a visit to a crumbling psychiatric institution that literally has a graveyard attached, and the reveal of some creepy twins, it felt these gothic elements weren't just happenstance, but essential to Brodsky's plot. The horror is already there–by leaning into it, both with tone and narrative attention–I think Brodsky might have taken this book from good to great.
Brodsky also sells herself sort by mis-timing the climax. At one point I wondered if I was going to be left hanging and have to read a sequel to find out critical information because the wind-up was so long. Because the climax comes so late, there's no room for a proper denouement; by not allowing her characters (or readers) to come to terms with the consequences of their discoveries, Brodsky misses some emotional impact.
Overall, I think YA readers will enjoy this book. The narrative flaws I mentioned aren't sink or swim (ha!) and Brodsky is a strong enough writer that I would be interested in reading a subsequent novel by her.
Language: Yes, lots of teenage boys swearing
Violence: Not much--a climatic fight scene
Sex: A good amount of sexual innuendo, one scene that fades to black
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My Citations, Bibliometrics, and Scholarly Communication
This PowerPoint was prepared by UCI Health Sciences Research Librarian, Linda Suk-Ling Murphy, MLIS.
Contains information on:
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Role of Negative Impact
Recent trends in bogus metrics and predatory publishers encourage scholars to be very cautious about publishing claims regarding impact. There has been a call for what can be considered negative metrics. The Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity has developed some lists and they appear in the following publications:
56 Indicators of Impact
Nature column
Look out for Bogus Impact Factor Companies (2013)
More about Social Media
The resources found on this guide will help you share and communicate the progress and status of your research via a variety of social media tools.
Metrics Toolkit launches to help academics better understand research impact - January 30, 2018
Metrics Toolkit, a resource built to help researchers and evaluators navigate the ever-changing research metrics landscape, launched on January 30, 2018..
The Metrics Toolkit includes 27 expert-written, time-saving summaries for the most popular research metrics including the Journal Impact Factor and Altmetric Attention Score.
Even better, the Metrics Toolkit includes an app that can recommend discipline-specific metrics to satisfy your specific use cases.
Best of all, the Metrics Toolkit carries a CC-BY license so you can reuse its content as you wish!
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Labels: altmetrics, bibliometrics, impact factor, metrics, research, scholarly impact, Scholarly_Communications
Several recent journal issues and articles have explored different metrics, and cover altmetrics in particular.
New Study Identifies Half-Life of Journal Articles ( LJ, January 2014)
Abbott, A., et al. (2010). Do metrics matter? Nature, 465(7300), 860-862.
Altmetrics Bibliography, version 1:10/14/2013 (includes content from January 2001-September 2013)
Armbruster, C. (2010). Whose metrics? citation, usage and access metrics as scholarly information service. Learned Publishing, 23(1), 33-38. doi:10.1087/20100107
Chen, C., Ibekwe-SanJuan, F., Hou, J. (2010). The structure and dynamics of cocitation clusters: A multiple perspective cocitation analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 61(7): 1386-1409. doi:10.1002/asi.21309
Communication in Science: Pressure and Predators (2013), Science, Special Issue, October 4.
Egghe, L. (2006) Theory and practice of the g-index, Scientometrics, 69 (1): 131–152. doi:10.1007/s11192-006-0144-7
Emmanuel, Jenny (2013) Users and Citation Management Tools: Use and Support, Reference Services Review, 44(4):
Garfield, E. (2007). The evolution of the Science Citation Index. International Microbiology, 10(1), 65-69.
Gordon, G. J. (2010). What we don't know we don't know. Against the Grain, 22(4), 18-20.
Hirsch, J. E. (2005). An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output, PNAS 102 (46): 16569–16572. doi:10.1073/pnas.0507655102
Howard, J. (2013). Rise of altmetrics revives questions about how to measure impact of research. Chronicle of Higher Education, June 3. http://chronicle.com/article/Rise-of-Almetrics-Revivies/139557/
Jacs, P. (2010). Eigenfactor and article influence scores in the journal citation reports. Online Information Review, 34(2), 339-348.
Kraker, P., Körner, C., Jack, K., & Granitzer, M. (2012). Harnessing user library statistics for research evaluation and knowledge domain visualization. Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web WWW 12 Companion (p. 1017). ACM. doi: 10.1145/2187980.2188236
Larsen, P. O., & Von Ins, M. (2010). The rate of growth in scientific publication and the decline in coverage provided by Science Citation Index. Scientometrics, 84(3), 575-603. doi: 10.1007/s11192-010-0202-z
Lopez-Cozar, E.D., Robinson-Garcia, N., Torres-Salinas, D. (2013). Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics: Simple, easy and tempting. http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0638 (this version, v2)
Lapinski, S., Piwowar, H., and Priem, J. (2013). Riding the crest of the altmetrics wave: How librarians can help prepare faculty for the next generation of research impact metrics. College & Research Libraries News 74(6), 292-300. http://crln.acrl.org/content/74/6/292.full
Piwowar, H., ed. (2013) Special issue devoted to Altmetrics. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 39 (4), April. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi10.1002/bult.172.v.39:4/issuetoc
Piwowar, H. (2013). Altmetrics: Value all research products. Nature 493 (7431) 159. doi:10.1038/493159a http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v493/n7431/full/493159a.html
Priem, P., Taraborelli, D., Groth, P. and Neylon, C. (2010) Alt-metrics Manifesto. http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/
Priem, J. (2013). Scholarship: Beyond the paper. Nature, 495 (7442). doi:10.1038/495437a http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v495/n7442/full/495437a.html
Priem, J., & Hemminger B.M. (2010). Scientometrics 2.0: Toward new metrics of scholarly impact on the social web. First Monday, 15(7), article 2. http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2874/2570
Roemer, R. C. & Borchardt, R. (2012). From bibliometrics to altmetrics: A changing scholarly landscape. College and Research Libraries News, 73(10), 596-600. http://crlnews.highwire.org/content/73/10/596.full.pdf+html
Rovner, S. L. (2008). The import of impact: new types of journal metrics grow more influential in the scientific community. Chemical & Engineering News, 86(20), 39-42.
Schreiber, M. (2008). An empirical investigation of the g-index for 26 physicists in comparison with the h-index, the A-index, and the R-index. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53(9), 1513-1522.
Shaikh-Lesko, R. (2014). Self Citation Gender Gap. The Scientist, March 18.
Taraborelli, D. (2008). Soft peer review. Social software and distributed scientific evaluation, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems (COOP '08)
Tous, R., Guerrero, M., & Delgado, J. (2011). Semantic web for reliable citation analysis in scholarly publishing. Information Technology and Libraries, 30(1), 24-33.
Van Leeuwen, T. (2008). Testing the validity of the Hersch-index for research assessment purposes. Research Evaluation, 17(2), 157-160.
Van Noorden, R. (2010). Metrics: a profusion of measures. Nature, 465(7300), 864-866.
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Bibliometric Limitations
This series of videos from Irish academics discuss some of the limitations of bibliometrics, and the importance of using a variety of methods to evaluate impact.
Limitations of Bibliometrics 1
Professor John Walsh, University College Dublin, discusses the problem of comparing data and the under-representation of certain types of scholarly work.
Professor Ray O'Neill, National University of Ireland Maynooth, discusses how citations don't necessarily indicate quality and problems in evaluating individuals.
Dr. Kevin Lalor, Dublin Institute of Technology, discusses problems with metrics in the humanities and social science and literature not included in measurements.
Professor Dermot Diamond, Dublin City University, discusses gaming the system, and how accuracy varies between disciplines.
Other Resources & LibGuides
Many people have compiled interesting guides about how to introduce and present the growing resources on research and scholarly impacts. They continue to inspire me to revise this guide. Some of them are here:
University of Saskatchewan LibGuide
James Cook University, Australia
UIC Guide
AAAS 2014 Workshop
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For a long time, American Airlines has been very public with its views on fellow oneworld alliance member, Qatar Airways. American take issue with Qatar Airways being a state-owned airline, and accuses the Qatari carrier of 'receiving massive subsidies to support its operating costs and expansion efforts'.
Qatar has denied unfair subsidies and said U.S. airlines have absolutely benefited from government assistance (despite being a private company), as well as benefitting from bankruptcy laws that wiped out debts and pension obligations at American Airlines, among other US carriers.
American's attacks on Qatar Airways are continuing to an extent that Qatar Airways CEO is now threatening (again) to withdraw from the oneworld alliance, telling media in New York that "Qatar's commitment to the oneworld alliance has diminished as we are constantly being attacked by a oneworld partner."
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It's ironic because airlines in the US have enjoyed billions of dollars in various government subsidies over the years, despite being private companies, and not state-owned airlines such as the Gulf carriers. Furthermore, in the U.S. nearly all commercial airports are owned by the government and many share revenue with airlines.
At one point last year, American Airlines were pushing the following statement: "For every international flight that US airlines are forced to close due to subsidy-fueled Gulf carrier expansion, economists estimate that over 1,500 American jobs are lost" — a statement that has since been withdrawn, given Gulf Carriers have entirely different route network strategies to US carriers, and there hasn't been any real example or evidence of a route whereby a Gulf carrier directly 'drove out' a US airline.
American is yet to specify any violation of the existing Open Skies agreements between Qatar and the US, but is instead keen to continue the rhetoric of 'Qatar Are Stealing American Jobs By Flying All Over The World'.
For those familiar with this decade-long dispute, you may remember a Delta Air Lines-led campaign against the Gulf carriers, including this (propaganda) video —
Do I think Qatar Airways will leave oneworld alliance?
No, I do not think we'll see Qatar Airways withdraw from oneworld, purely because it makes better business sense to remain a member. Qatar is an investor in British Airways, Iberia, Cathay Pacific, and LATAM — all of which are in the oneworld alliance.
Qatar is also a super-connector airline, using its hub at Doha's Hamad International Airport as a gateway to the world, and oneworld membership ensures passengers are able to easily connect to & from Qatar Airways operated flights.
While I do not think we will see Qatar Airways leave oneworld, I understand why the CEO is threatening to do so. Al Baker clearly isn't happy with oneworld continuing to allow American Airlines (a fellow member) to attack Qatar Airways so publicly, especially when the attacks and accusations are as generic as 'the airline is state-owned, and so this hurts Amerian jobs'.
State-owned airlines are not a 'new threat' to private airlines, and if American Airlines executives are so concerned with the idea of a country's government money funding an airline, why are they not attacking Saudia Airlines, Oman Air, Air India, Finnair, Singapore Airlines, Kuwait Airways, among others?
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Dropping the labels: Thrift shop removing men's, women's categories in move toward inclusivity
From left: Thrifty Fashions employee Ida Millie, Mokami Status of Women Council executive director Stacey Hoffe, store employee Katherine Hutchings and store manager Dawn Crocker. (Heidi Atter/CBC - image credit)
Sorting and organizing clothes by gender has been done for decades, but a thrift shop run by a women's shelter in Labrador is changing up the practice to better reflect and include the community.
Thrifty Fashions in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, run by the Mokami Status of Women Council, has been a staple in the community for decades and provides free clothing to people in shelters and those in need throughout Labrador's north coast.
Now staff are modernizing the shop by no longer distinguishing clothing as "men's" or "women's."
"We want people to come in here and feel safe, feel, recognize, feel acknowledged. And so we are going to start organizing our store and sorting our donations by item instead of by gender," said Stacey Hoffe, the organization's executive director.
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Mokami has launched a new campaign, called Clothes Have No Gender, that encourages people to wear what they feel comfortable in, regardless of the label. Hofffe said it's part of a commitment announced this past summer to make the organization more inclusive for gender-diverse people.
Jade Rachwal, a gender-nonconforming volunteer with Safe Alliance in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, said it's great to see the commitment to providing a safe space.
"I think the campaign certainly speaks the truth in that clothes do not have any gender, and it can be a very positive thing to challenge gender norms that are often quite restrictive," Rachwal said.
Rachwal said Mokami has supported the LGBTQ community for a number of years and she's glad to see that continue. Mokami posted on social media that the organization has been a part of the problem in the past by excluding people "who are gender diverse through binary policies, binary procedures and binary thinking," according to its Facebook post, and is working to change. Rachwal called it is a positive step.
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"I absolutely respect that Mokami is open in acknowledging that they can change and improve. That's incredibly healthy because I think all of us, as we work towards being more inclusive, will find ways to improve as we go along," Rachwal said.
Manager hopes for larger space for second-hand shop
Thrifty Fashions manager Dawn Crocker said it's a welcome change. Crocker has been advocating for those in need after a friend of hers died on the trails in Happy Valley-Goose Bay.
"She was a dear friend of mine through my past employment and I just thought, you know, this shouldn't be. There's people in our community who are in need and their needs are being met. And I don't want anybody else to suffer, as she did," Crocker said.
The Labrador woman started a blanket drive not long after and is now able to give out blankets, mitts, hats, jackets and more to those in need. The Mokami Status of Women council has a free voucher program for parents or individuals in need where they can exchange it for clothing.
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"Even if it's a pair of socks or a pair of mitts or wool head scarf blanket that you know they're going to be warm and this is a safe place to come and ask for that help," Crocker said. "It's a very gratifying position when you see the looks on people's faces."
Crocker said it gets busy and the shop received so many donations they had to close down taking in donations for three weeks during the summer. Along with the labelling changes, said Crocker, she hopes to have a larger space in the future.
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