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Cultural Ecology
An interdisciplinary ideational scaffold
Acquiring ecological wisdom
Wholesome knowledge
Wholesome knowledge is a category of wisdom that improves or preserves humans as individuals or groups. In the context of historical anthropology wholesome knowledge supports the fundamentals of living with one another within the ecological production of the planetary economy in ways that are relation-based rather than consumption-based. We look at these lost aboriginal cultures and marvel at their ways of living that seem so wholesome compared to our own. Nevertheless, in our modern world, wholesome knowledge is the acquired wisdom that enables us to position quality of life and greater life fulfilment as primary goals, with aims that lead to processes for utilising the environment to improve or reconstruct a personal identity and lifestyle. The personal gathering of wholesome knowledge therefore helps people adapt themselves to difficult and challenging life circumstances as they grow older. Research into identity development of older people suggests that this period of life is suited for applying creativity and wisdom to discover new ways of viewing Earth as a provider for future generations. This can be seen as a cultural legacy to pass on a message to their children's children that they should only take from the planet what ecological processes of growth and renewal can restore.
Bioscopes: examples of wholesome knowledge
All organisms interact at a cellular interface with the physical and biological world that surrounds them, from the interaction of food with cells lining the human gut to wandering through tropical forests and sailing the open ocean. Bioscopes are examples of systems biology, which is an approach to understanding ourselves of the larger picture, be it at the level of the organism, tissue, or cell, by putting its pieces together. It stands in stark contrast to decades of reductionist biology, which involves taking nature apart.
Systems biology is the study of the interactions of biological components in a spatial entitiy . The components may be molecules, cells, organisms or populations. The spatial entities may be habitats, organisms or organs. At the core of systems biology is holistic thinking. This is the desire to understand natural systems as a functional whole, rather than a sum of parts. Thus, it is not sufficient to simply recognize the different facets of complexity. Instead, the aim is to discover and examine the generally hidden threads that hold everything together and elucidate how these functional links can lead to the emergence of new phenomena and understandings.
Ecological examples that provoke systems thinking about our relationships to other living things in the human ecological niche are important to support lifelong learning. In this context, bioscopes are a category of powerful teaching materials we owe to John Henslow. Henslow, as professor of botany at Cambridge, was the mentor of Charles Darwin but from 1844 he also taught the children in the Suffollk village of Hitcham where he was the Rector. Bioscopes are living worlds within worlds and the particular educational example of systems biology that Henslow introduced to village schoolchildren was plant-pollinator interactions so that they should obtain a basic understanding of sex. The phenomenon could be readily observed in the local hedgerows, and in the classroom it was taken down to the level of naming the sexual parts of flowers. Because of the role birds and bees play in plant reproduction, to tell children about "the birds and the bees" has since become a euphemism for sex education in the English language. Darwin addressed the wider importance of pollination interactions in the process of natural selection when he wrote in 1859, " . . . I can understand how a flower and a bee might slowly become, either simultaneously or one after the other, modified and adapted in the most perfect manner to each other, by the continued preservation of individuals presenting mutual and slightly favourable deviations of structure".
In this wider context, every assembly of plants and their pollinators is a prime example of mutualisms in which both species benefit as a result of an interaction. Because pollination is a mutualism, many characteristics of the flower and the pollinator have evolved in concert including morphology and seasonality. Plant-pollinator bioscopes highlight many fundamental ecological concepts (e.g., foraging theory, competition), evolutionary concepts (e.g., diversification of lineages, adaptations), and applied biological concepts (e.g., agriculture, climate change). They are relevant to current issues surrounding the decline of honey bees and humming birds.
Bioscopes can change the mental balance between an individual and nature forever, particularly when they illustrate connections between our culture of mass production and the ecosystem services vital to our survival. The educational message is that we not only need to be with nature but we have to recognise we are part of nature in everything we do from turning on a tap to taking a making a garden. This deeper understanding is a feature of bioscopes as instances of nature that open windows on our use of the environment and our attitudes towards the maintenance of its habitats and species. In truth, everyone has their own collection of bioscopes, large and small, in the mind's eye. Each has been chosen 'not for what it is' but for 'what else it is'. The 'what else' shifts one's thinking towards humanity's bigger picture. So the small picture of flower and bee yields a complexity of understanding our place in the vast human ecological niche that now encompasses the entire planet. Simplicity of form is a condensation or distillation to engage people more profoundly. This is the educational outcome of a good bioscope. The aim is not to create the appearance of nature but to stimulate thoughts about how we are integral with non-human species and the material world which furnish our ecological niche. This point was made by Marc Trieb** when he chose the Patio de los Naranjos, or the Court of the Oranges, which forms the entrance to Cordoba's Great Mosque and Cathedral, to illustrate complexity condensed within the simple (fig 1).
Fig 1 Courtyard of the Oranges
The simple alignment of the grid of trees mirrors the alignment of the hundreds of stone columns inside the mosque, creating an ingenious spatial relationship between the two. Lines of stones in the pebble mosaic pavement also accentuate the grid pattern making up the whole complex of narrow water channels. Trieb believes that the irrigation system is the most elegant ever conceived in the way it uses water as a way to connect interior and exterior arcitechtural spaces. He reasons that such places are so enduringly beautiful because they speak literally of the root of their inspiration. Irrigation allowed families to settle and raise food, which led to civilization. That gift in turn inspired architectural form and reflected the connection between water as the source of life and the ability of Homo sapiens to build and live in an urban environment.
Potent bioscopes also reinvigorate the connection between beauty and the environment. Kate Cullity** defines this beauty as the all-encompassing somatic and visceral kind, with the power to awaken a re-imagining of new ways to relate to and care for nature of which we are a moving part. All bioscopes illustrate ecological processes of regeneration, competition, death and decay and nutrient recycling plumbed into a managerial background. Finally, the deeper and wider messages from bioscopes is that they undermine the foundations of many of our confectionary values, which are grounded in the economy of commodities and unlimited economic growth. All these behaviours link us as consumers with ecosystems near and far. In this context, bioscopes show us that humankind is at one with all non-human species in that we partake of the same pool of Earth's finite resources. It is the planet's productivity that will ultimately put a stop tp population growth.
Lifelong learning***
Culture is the whole complex of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features that characterize a society or a social group. It includes not only arts and letters, but also modes of life, fundamental human rights, value systems, traditions and beliefs. The relatively recent global demographic shift in the age distribution of humanity, which has resulted in an increase proportion of the elderly, is one of the most significant changes now influencing cultures across the globe. Human longevity has now become a central factor in the demography of industrial society. It is one of the most rapid and massive changes on the part of any species. Extended life span is not an optional add-on utilising the power of the pharmaceutical industry. The over-60s now have to be taken seriously as an important socio political segment of society and this has great implications for human cultural ecology. Like the younger segments of society the elderly have significant inputs into transport, infrastructure, financial services, social care, climate change and energy-use, life sciences and constitutional reform. This impact is underway in all countries taking the pathway of consumerism.
Ageing, is a sequence of staged processes, which is first manifest from twelve years of age. This is the age when statistically humans in the Western world are least likely to die. As an all-pervasive phenomenon, ageing may now be truly defined more broadly as 'the combination of biological, psychological and social processes that affect people as they grow older' (Fig 2).
Fig 2 Perspectives on ageing *
As with other phenomena such as 'sexuality', 'race' and 'disability', which appear at first sight to be biological categories, the material changes in the ageing body are shaped by social conditions, such as diet, working conditions, and also made meaningful by social and cultural practices. This ecological perspective of ageing indicates that the concept of 'life course' provides an analytical framework for understanding the interplay between human lives and changing social structures. The individual life course from birth to death is seen as a social process, which results in interactions of individuals in societies and groups that are segmented by age. In particular, patterns of health and well being are affected by a dynamic interplay among biological, behavioural, and environmental expressions of the human genome, which now unfolds throughout an extended life course of individuals, families, and communities. This life course is expressed in profound age-stratified cultural expressions. It defines the analysis of ageing in a biomedical perspective and a socio-cultural perspective. Together, both perspectives form an analytical ecological framework.of human lifespan. The first perspective charts ageing as a decline in fitness caused by the accumulation of cellular errors leading to failures in organ systems. The second perspective deals with age-related social and cultural practices leading to both inequalities and inclusivity.
From the socio-cultural perspective, education through school, home and society has a measurable impact on wellbeing, through all the stages of life. Globalisation with its technological and social changes are key factors that most people will experience during their extended lifetime, resulting in the need for more educational updating than any previous generation. If people are to lead satisfying and productive lives, they will need to learn throughout this extended lifespan in order to maintain a constant engagement with society to maintain and extend their autonomy and identity capital. This reinforces the social glue that older people add to society in addition to any financial contributions they make. Other contributions to their communities and neighbourhoods are made by being active members of the places where they live. Recent research has shown that older people already have a greater propensity to volunteer, to be involved with community-based organisations, to participate in democratic institutions and to vote. Also, elders see life from a very different viewpoint than their children, and so choose different priorities. The virtues we associate with age, namely prudence, caution, deliberation, security, are the very opposite of those materialistic forces that built the modern world. But as the demographic pattern of high industrial society shifts toward the senior years, what have been called 'legacy values' are bound to gain greater political weight. It has always been the role of elders to raise the great questions of meaning and purpose that loom large as death approaches. As we grow older we naturally become more inward and contemplative, wondering what all the effort and the anxiety, the hard pursuit of success and of material resources has really achieved. In particular, facing an extended yet finite life encourages introspection on the meaning of life. The conservatism of elders stems from their concern for security, a state of dependency that influences them toward a different allocation of the nation's wealth than younger citizens might prefer. There is a shift towards thinking about a legacy of humanistic values that transcend the individual life course and will condition the world of their children's children. This is not only the concern of the old. It's important to remember that attitudes and policies imparted by the middle-aged today are most likely the attitudes and policies by which those same middle-aged adults will be judged when they move into the aged population group themselves. It seems to be the fate of an industrial population to age and to alter its values in the direction of its elders.
In contrast with materialistic values, humanistic values, or what we sometimes call simply human values, have to do with human development, human fulfilment and human enrichment. This includes health, the social order, and the natural environment; it includes everything with which we identify or with which we have an internal relationship. People have always been concerned with meeting their materialistic needs and with acquiring the means for doing so, but in the modern consumer society wealth and power have become ends in themselves or means to still more wealth and power. Material values are dominant and the human enterprise conceived as the quest for wealth and power, is different from what it would be in a humanistic culture with the human enterprise defined in terms of human growth, cultural advancement, and social betterment. Indeed, the Swedish sociologist Lars Tornstam developed a theory called gerotranscendence: the idea that as people age, they transcend the limited views of life they held in earlier times. Tornstam believes that throughout the aging process, the elderly become less self-centered and feel more peaceful and connected to the natural world. Humanistic wisdom comes to the elderly, Tornstam's theory states, and as the elderly tolerate ambiguities and seeming contradictions, they let go of conflict, and develop softer views of right and wrong.
The gerotranscendence theory does not claim that everyone will achieve wisdom in aging. Some elderly people might still grow bitter and isolated, feel ignored and left out, or become alientated and judgmental. Also, just as in other phases of life, individuals must struggle to overcome their own failings and turn them into strengths. Life long education comes in here to aid a natural tendency of the elderly to assemble their experiences as a lifetime whole, gathering the necessary information and understanding from a wide range of sources. This is where bioscopes come in because they reveal that all living things are part of a global human ecological niche in which we of necessity partake, but should also give. We are but one species in a multitudinous mass of living organisms built on the same dynamic carbon framework. This biochemical oneness with all other creatures is expressed in every breath we draw in. It is also expressed in our mortality when an individual's life course ends in death. Evidence that elders take readily to educational bioscopes comes from the membership lists of nature conservation organisations and surveys of visitors to nature sites. The issue is how to embed learning through bioscopes into the entire life course of everyone so that we manage nature for a greater purpose and pass this message on to future generations. The starting point is that ageing makes our mental picture-making become more holistic to increase the focus on the development of hidden or neglected skills, which lead to a delight in life with potential for cultural change.
*Perspectives of Ageing
https://sites.google.com/site/ageinglifecourse/home
Futurescapes ISBN 978-0-500-51577-8
*** Ageing in Society ISBN 978-1-4129-0020-1
http://www.jblearning.com/samples/0763726559/SampleChapter02.pdf
http://www.uncp.edu/home/marson/348_ecological.html
http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3147&Itemid=247
http://roxbury.net/images/pdfs/clcwebch1.pdf
http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/uploaded_files/research/life_course_influences_on_health_and_well-being_in_later_life-_a_review.pdf
** http://jeffreygardens.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/patio-de-los-naranjos-cordoba-spain.html
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rRcYvyfDgFUC&lpg=PA85&ots=DULkDcE9Vl&dq=wholesome%20knowledge%20assmann&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=wholesome%20knowledge%20assmann&f=false
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2 Old Men Just Escaped Their Nursing Home To Attend a Heavy Metal Music Festival
If you've got cojones like these two old men, growing old does not have to be such an FML.
According to the DW two elderly German men escaped from their nursing home on Friday to attend a heavy metal music festival. The nursing home alerted the police after the gentlemen were found to be missing from the home.
The party animals were found "disoriented and dazed" at 3 a.m. at the Wacken Open Air, the world's largest heavy metal music festival. You go, grandpa's.
Better yet, the eldery men actually put up a fight when they were finally found. They were so reluctant to leave that police had to escort them with out with the help of a taxi and a patrol car.
"They obviously liked the metal festival," police spokeswoman Merle Neufeld told public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk. "The care home quickly organized a return transport after police picked them up."
The FML here is that your grandpa will probably never be this cool.
By Nadine / Tuesday 7 August 2018 16:36 /
FMLNews
Instadrama
Coherence dude, do you have it?
When nature calls
By brentkd - United States
Today, I found my lost iPhone earbuds. In the cat litter box. I am 100% sure that they passed through my cat to get there. FML
By Ashleighx94 - United Kingdom
Today, my bedridden mother called me selfish. After an operation two weeks ago, all I've done is feed her, clean her and the house every day. She called me selfish because I couldn't lift a TV into her room. FML
By teejayrn - United States
Today, I told my boyfriend I loved him for the first time. His response was to smile and pat me on the head. FML
By oppsiedaisey
Today, it's been so long since my husband has been able to give me an orgasm that when he finally did today, I started sobbing. FML
By shampoogirl - United States
Today, I finally landed a new job, and thinking he would be proud, I told my boyfriend. Instead of congratulating me, he got mad that my work hours include Saturday, his laundry day. FML
By MrFerret
Today, it's my birthday, and my present is that my mom is coming over to see me so that she can borrow three hundred dollars. FML
By mishyb - United States - Englewood
Today, my horse farted and scared itself, then ran all the way up the hill and wouldn't stop until I fell off. FML
By musicman2005 - United States
Today, I was at work, about to go to lunch. There were some girl scouts out front selling cookies. I told my manager that I would be using a different exit, and when he asked why, I told him that girl scouts really annoy the crap out of me. The girl scouts out front were his daughters. FML
By Anonymous - United States - Bellerose
Today, I had to get stitches on my nutsack. I didn't know my mom had waxed the bathroom floor, and while I was stepping into the tub to take a shower my feet slipped in different directions. I landed crotch-first on the metal door frame. FML
By Wrongdoor - United States
Today, I was taking a placement test for the new college I am going to. After the test and picking up a few numbers, I left with great pride. I opened the door and started walking out. I then realized that I had walked into the closet. FML
By sluttyfox
Today, I was excited to finally receive my Halloween costume in the mail after the one I ordered back in September got lost in transit. Upon reaching my mailbox, I saw the lock had been broken off and my new costume had been stolen. The party is tomorrow. FML
By Ldp56 - United States
Today, I got a call from my daughter's school. Apparently, she was learning about the food pyramid and when she was asked to identify what she had eaten the day before, she said "dog food". FML
By MonsterProblems - Croatia
Today, I had a sneeze attack while my nose was bleeding. Now my living room looks like a crime scene. FML
Today, I was responsible for taking care of Hoppers, the rabbit belonging to my sons 3rd grade class. Tomorrow my son returns Hoppers so the next student can care for him. That won't be happening because Hoppers hopped out my 5th story window. FML
By missbutthole - United States
Today, after being chronically constipated for the better part of a week, I finally have the urge to poop. Too bad I'm 30 minutes early to work and locked out of the building. FML
By Galaxy-eyes photon human - 4/6/2020 02:00
Today, I found out my boyfriend is cheating on me. The worst part is I'm currently stuck in his house and can't even deal with a fight right now. Why? Because I just had surgery this morning. FML
By EpicFail - Canada
Today, I got a text message saying "I'm sorry, I know it's our 4 month anniversary but it's not working out, I need to break up with you" followed by her complaining that I never call her as well. WTF? I haven't had a girlfriend for 6 months. FML
By Anonymous - United States - Woodbridge
Today, I got fired for having a visible tattoo on my neck. The tattoo in question is a scar from a surgery I had 2 months ago. The same one paid for by my employer's insurance and missed 2 weeks of work for. FML
By condiments - United States
Today, I went shopping with my mother, when someone snuck a pack of condoms into our cart while our backs were turned. When we got to the register, my mom, whose wealth makes me ineligible for financial aid, noticed the condoms and she announced that she wasn't paying for the college I got accepted to next year because she doesn't want a promiscuous daughter. FML
By dirtyclothess
Today, my mom informed me that she doesn't wash my clothes anymore. Instead, she sprays them with Febreze to "save money". FML
By me - United States - Norman
Today, I found out my mom has been telling my entire family I need surgery on my "Labia" instead of my "Labrum". I went from needing shoulder surgery to needing vagina surgery with one group text. Thanks, mom. FML
By Brokebitch2017
Today, I finally got my phone and internet services reinstated after a billing mishap. During the week that I was without service, I had 3 requests for interviews and a position offer. None of those opportunities are still available. FML
Today, I let my on-again, off-again boyfriend spend the night. For months we had been fighting about his new flame. After he convinced me that they are no longer an item, we had the most mind-blowing sex then we fell asleep. I awoke to him moaning her name. Followed by pelvic thrusts. FML
By Anonymous - 27/7/2020 20:00
Today, I was turned away from a private event by security for being a girl. My name is Max; the name on the guest list was Max, but the security meathead insisted Max can only be a man's name and threw me out of the building. I was the event's key lecturer, and without me the event was cancelled. FML
By failure - United States - Shreveport
Today, my fiancée of 2 years and mother of my son, who is also pregnant with our second son, commented on how lucky two friends getting married were to have found each other. I said that we're just as lucky. She responded, "No. They actually love each other." FML
By DeniedAgain - United States
Today, I walked into a gas station and saw some $.25 gum. It looked good and I thought I'd had a quarter in my pocket. I find no change in my pocket once I get to the register, so I pull out my credit card. The cashier laughs a few seconds later. My card was declined for a piece of gum. FML
By Queen_Dread - United States - Ocean Park
Today, my fiancé and I appeared in the paper for obtaining our marriage license. In the same column half way down his parents appeared for filing their marriage dissolution petition. FML
By Anonymous - Reserved
Today, I walked in on my flatmate squatting over the bathroom scales, completely naked. When I asked what he was doing, he replied very seriously, "weighing my testicles, you should try it sometime, if they're too heavy you may have cancer". I'm a girl. FML
By Journo - United States
Today, after two months of unemployment, I got a call from a marketing firm offering me an interview for an entry-level position. While Googling the company, I discovered it's a scam. I graduated college in 3 years with a 3.5 GPA, and the only interview I can get is at a fake company. FML
By sleepy - United States
Today, as I was standing in the checkout line in a store, my six year old daughter proudly announced to everyone that I fell asleep on the toilet last night. FML
By Kaitlyn Aronson
Today, my coworker spilled sticky fruit glaze all over my cake display cake and left it overnight uncleaned. The same display case I spent 2 hours cleaning the day before. FML
By squirts
Today, I arrived home after leaving for college in August. My dad figured that the most appropriate way to welcome me back was a loud, piercing fart right when I walked through the front door. FML
By Itsnotmeitsyou - Australia
Today, the creepy regular customer found out I was lying about having a boyfriend in order to keep him away. He now thinks this is me playing hard to get. FML
By lauren555 - United States
Today, after finishing a huge French essay, I realized my printer wasn't working. So, I emailed it to a guy in my class to print and then give to me. When I get to French, he said he had already turned his in early and never got my email. It turned out he used mine. I got an F on the essay. FML
By Anonymous - United States - Brighton
Today, I had to sneak out of work early to pick my 14-year-old son up from school. He and a friend had been found covered in Astroglide, racing each other down the corridor on their bellies. My boss noticed my absence from work, and now my son and I are both on suspension. FML
By dominator152 - United States
Today, my dad decided that my diploma makes a good pen-tester. FML
Thievery Ltd.
Today, I saw a neglected potted palm tree on the front porch of what I thought was an empty house down the street from me. I took it home to nurse it back to health. When I got home from work, it was gone. Later, when taking a walk, I spotted the palm, right back on the porch I'd taken it from. FML
By ReineXre
Today, I went to the bathroom in a mall. As I was in the stall, a woman tried to open it. I yelled out that's it was occupied but she kept shaking it to open it. It came up to the point where she had to crawl under the door to see that I was there. FML
By beaten - United States
Today, my Marine friend got back from his tour of duty overseas. We went out for drinks to celebrate his return. His own form of celebration was to pick a fight with a returning Navy SEAL and his friends. We lost. Badly. FML
By ElodieUNU - France
Today, I went on a blind date. The guy greeted me with a "What's up, bitch?", which I wrote off as him just being really laid-back. By dessert, he'd asked me if my boobs are real, then when we finished, asked how many more dates it'd take before I put out. So much for that. FML
By Glowworm56 | 25
#7673012 - Wednesday 8 August 2018 2:15
This is the elderly equivalent of a bunch of teenage girls sneaking out of the house to go to that one crazy house party that their parents didn't want them to go to.
Sounds like something I would do, that is, if there were a Barry Manilow/Rick Astley/Helen Reddy/Carpenters tribute band tour.
I just checked out the line-up, and I don't blame these dudes one bit! Judas Priest, Children of Bodom, In Flames, Arch Enemy... and those are the just the ones I can be bothered to list!
By real life problems | 26
Ah.. finally a father figure that I can look up to.. better yet theres two of them
Whos the chick that thinks shes young
julfunky | 29
#7673381 - Wednesday 8 August 2018 18:32
The one who's just standing there?
By DragonMaiden7 | 15
Real metalheads let nothing stop them on the journey to rock.
Party on my brothers!
The festival couldn't have gone on without them as they are the drummer and bassist...
By abigiggles | 38
You're right, because my Grandpa is dead.
By JasonThorn | 18
Today, I read a news story and realized that I'm an unnamed character in someone else's wacky comedy. FML
By jkjorn | 15
I love the blinged-out walker that guy has in the first picture! That should've tipped off the nursing home staff that he was planning something though.

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Birni is a community development block (CD block) that forms an administrative division in the Bagodar-Saria subdivision of the Giridih district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

Overview
Giridih is a plateau region. The western portion of the district is part of a larger central plateau. The rest of the district is a lower plateau, a flat table land with an elevation of about 1,300 feet. At the edges, the ghats drop to about 700 feet. The Pareshnath Hills or Shikharji rises to a height of 4,480 feet in the south-eastern part of the district. The district is thickly forested. Amongst the natural resources, it has coal and mica. Inaugurating the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana in 2016, Raghubar Das, Chief Minister of Jharkhand, had indicated that there were 23 lakh BPL families in Jharkhand. There was a plan to bring the BPL proportion in the total population down to 35%.

Maoist activities
Jharkhand is one of the states affected by Maoist activities. , Giridih was one of the 14 highly affected districts in the state., Giridih was identified as one of the 13 focus areas by the state police to check Maoist activities. In 2017, the Moists, in Giridih district, have torched more than 50 vehicles engaged in road construction or carrying goods.

Geography
Birni is located at .

Birni CD block is bounded by Dhanwar and Jamua CD blocks on the north, Giridih CD block on the east, Dumri and Suriya CD blocks on the south and Markacho CD block, in Koderma district, on the west.

Birni CD block has an area of 319.98 km2. It has 28 gram panchayats, 172 inhabited villages. Birni police station serves this block. Headquarters of this CD block is at Birni. 14.74% of the area has forest cover.

Rivers in Birni CD block are Barakar, Irga and Bhutaha.

Gram panchayats in Birni CD block are: Padariya, Kapilo, Bangra Kala, Dalangi, Makhmargo, Birni, Tetariya Salaiya, Simra Dhab, Barmasiya, Arari, Jaridih, Kendua, Khairidih, Kharkhari, Shakhawara, Manjhiladih, Barwadih, Kusmai, Tulsitand, Gadi, Pesham, Chongakhar, Padarmaniya, Baliya, Manakdiha, Balgo, Khedwara and Keshodih.

Demographics

Population
According to the 2011 Census of India, Birni CD block had a total population of 169,451, all of which were rural. There were 85,970 (51%) males and 83,481 (49%) females. Population in the age range 0–6 years was 32,912. Scheduled Castes numbered 25,853 (15.26%) and Scheduled Tribes numbered 2,475 (1.46%).

Literacy
 census the total number of literate persons in Birni CD block was 83,928 (63.22% of the population over 6 years) out of which males numbered 53,591 (77.54% of the male population over 6 years) and females numbered 30,337 (45,00% of the female population over 6 years). The gender disparity (the difference between female and male literacy rates) was 32.54%.

 census, literacy in Giridih district was 63.14%  Literacy in Jharkhand was 66.41% in 2011. Literacy in India in 2011 was 74.04%.

See also – List of Jharkhand districts ranked by literacy rate

Language and religion

Khortha is the main spoken language. Hindi is the official language. Urdu and Santali are also spoken.

Rural poverty
40-50% of the population of Giridih district were in the BPL category in 2004–2005, being in the same category as Godda, Koderma and Hazaribagh districts. Rural poverty in Jharkhand declined from 66% in 1993–94 to 46% in 2004–05. In 2011, it has come down to 39.1%.

Economy

Livelihood

In Birni CD block in 2011, amongst the class of total workers, cultivators numbered 34,044 and formed 45.82%, agricultural labourers numbered 20,281 and formed 27.30%, household industry workers numbered 1,774 and formed 2.39% and other workers numbered 18,199 and formed 24.49%. Total workers numbered 74,298 and formed 43.85% of the total population, and non-workers numbered 95,153 and formed 56.15% of the population.

Note: In the census records a person is considered a cultivator, if the person is engaged in cultivation/ supervision of land owned. When a person who works on another person's land for wages in cash or kind or share, is regarded as an agricultural labourer. Household industry is defined as an industry conducted by one or more members of the family within the household or village, and one that does not qualify for registration as a factory under the Factories Act. Other workers are persons engaged in some economic activity other than cultivators, agricultural labourers and household workers.  It includes factory, mining, plantation, transport and office workers, those engaged in business and commerce, teachers, entertainment artistes and so on.

Infrastructure
There are 172 inhabited villages in Birni CD block. In 2011, 29 villages had power supply. No village had tap water (treated/ untreated), 168 villages had well water (covered/ uncovered), 163 villages had hand pumps, and all villages had drinking water facility. 26 villages had post offices, 5 villages had a sub post office, 11 villages had telephones (land lines) and 135 villages had mobile phone coverage. 171 villages had pucca (paved) village roads, 27 villages had bus service (public/ private), 30 villages had autos/ modified autos, and 102 villages had tractors. 17 villages had bank branches, 4 villages had agricultural credit societies, no village had cinema/ video halls, no village had public library and public reading room. 72 villages had public distribution system, 16 villages had weekly haat (market) and 81 villages had assembly polling stations.

Agriculture
Hills occupy a large portion of Giridih district. The soil is generally rocky and sandy and that helps jungles and bushes to grow.  The forest area, forming a large portion of total area, in the district is evenly distributed all over. Some areas near the rivers have alluvial soil. In Birni CD block, the percentage of cultivable area to total area is 22.96%. The percentage of cultivable area to the total area for the district, as a whole, is 27.04%. Irrigation is inadequate. The percentage of irrigated area to cultivable area in Birni CD block is 11.01%. May to October is the Kharif season, followed by the Rabi season. Rice, sown in 50% of the gross sown area, is the main crop in the district. Other important crops grown are: maize, wheat, sugar cane, pulses and vegetables.

Mica mining
Mica is mined in Birni CD block.

Backward Regions Grant Fund
Giridih district is listed as a backward region and receives financial support from the Backward Regions Grant Fund.  The fund created by the Government of India is designed to redress regional imbalances in development. As of 2012, 272 districts across the country were listed under this scheme. The list includes 21 districts of Jharkhand.

Transport
Birni is on Suriya-Rajdhanwar Road.

Education
Birni CD block had 24 villages with pre-primary schools, 156 villages with primary schools, 85 villages with middle schools, 13 villages with secondary schools, 9 villages with senior secondary schools, 15 villages with no educational facility.
.*Senior secondary schools are also known as Inter colleges in Jharkhand

Healthcare
Birni CD block had 1 village with community health centre, 1 village with primary health centre, 14 villages with primary health subcentres, 3 villages with maternity and child welfare centres, 3 villages with allopathic hospitals, 9 villages with dispensaries, 2 villages with veterinary hospitals, 1 village with family welfare centre, 16 villages with medicine shops.
.*Private medical practitioners, alternative medicine etc. not included

References

Community development blocks in Giridih district

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Moharana's bike service has played a crucial role in transporting patients to the nearby hospitals at a time when ambulance services are not available to people in remote areas. Sometimes, patients die here as they are not shifted to hospitals in time.
Moharana is a carpenter by profession. "My village is 10 km from Anandapur sub-divisional hospital. Poor patients are unable go to hospitals due to lack of money and some fail to get ambulance service. I take them to hospitals on my old bike," he said.
"I do this not to draw attention, but to help those in genuine need which gives me immense satisfaction," he added.
Moharana has been working as a carpenter for 40 years. He sometimes goes out of the district to work in houses, temples and offices. His family consists of wife, four daughters and a son. Three of his daughters are married.
He recalled his early days when he used to learn carpentry from his father. He is also teaching students who are eager to learn free. Moharana has not received any financial support from any government agency or anyone so far.


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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust. It located in central Washington, D.C., adjacent to the National Mall.
Related to the museum is the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, which was established by Congress in 1980 to lead the nation in commemorating the Holocaust and to raise private funds for and build the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Once the Museum opened in 1993, the Council became the governing board of trustees of the Museum, an independent establishment of the United States government operating as a public-private partnership that receives some federal funding to support operations of the Museum building.
The organization has been involved in forbidding free research and debate on the Holocaust, such as when it was involved in Romania in 2015 passing a "Holocaust denial" law.[1] The website of the organization also has a generally supportive view on outlawing free speech on the Holocaust, but writing that this is not (for now) possible in the United States due to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The FBI sends all trainees to the organization, for private, guided tours of the museum and a class on "everyday law enforcement" in National Socialist Germany, presumably especially on the Gestapo. "A portion of the class at the museum is led by the program's creator, David Friedman, the Anti-Defamation League's director of law enforcement initiatives." [...] the FBI isn't alone. Nearly every federal law enforcement agency sends new recruits to the museum. The 90,000 who have been there since 1999 include agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Secret Service and U.S. Marshals, according to the Anti-Defamation League."[2] See the article on the Anti-Defamation League regarding various criticisms, such as illegal mass surveillance of American citizens and support of Israel and associated Jewish supremacism. See also the article on the Gestapo.
The "Elie Wiesel Award" is its highest honor, named after the controversial Elie Wiesel.
The museum in 2017 declared that "the Holocaust" only refers to Jews and excludes all non-Jews. This despite that the presidential executive order which established the museum on invaluable federal land referred to the "11 million victims of the Holocaust."[3]
One criticism is that the museum to visitors shows misleading film clips and photographs from the liberation of Western Holocaust camps. Even non-revisionist historians now admit that these camps were not "extermination camps".[4]
See the "External links" section regarding various criticisms.
As I observe young people in relativistic societies seeking an absolute for morals and values, they now can view the Holocaust as the transcendental move away from the relativistic, and up into the absolute where the Holocaust confronts absolute Evil and thus find fundamental values.
—Michael Berenbaum, former director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.[5]
Binjamin Wilkomirski
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Holocaust demographics: Early history of the number six million Jews - Including on usage of the number six in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Holocaust uniqueness
Holocaustianity
List of Holocaust memorials and museums - on the numerous other Holocaust memorials and museums in the United States and elsewhere.
Codoh: Organizations: Exterminationist
Codoh: Post WWII Revisionism: Shoah Business
↑ Why Romania had to ban Holocaust denial twice https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/07/27/why-romania-had-to-ban-holocaust-denial-twice/
↑ FBI sends agents to Holocaust museum https://money.cnn.com/2014/07/15/technology/security/fbi-holocaust/
↑ Anti-Gentiles Deny the 5 Million! https://codoh.com/library/document/4239/?lang=en
↑ Probing the Holocaust, The Horror Explained https://codoh.com/library/document/4056/?lang=en
↑ Holocaust Handbooks, Volume 15: Germar Rudolf: Lectures on the Holocaust—Controversial Issues Cross Examined 2nd, revised and corrected edition. http://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?page_id=15
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Top 25: Wichita State off to record start
No. 12 Wichita State beats Tennessee 70-61
WICHITA, Kan. -- Tekele Cotton scored all 19 of his points in the second half and No. 12 Wichita State beat Tennessee 70-61 on Saturday as the Shockers got off to the best start in school history.
Darius Carter had 11 points and 14 rebounds and Cleanthony Early added 13 points for the Shockers (10-0).
Jordan McRae scored 26 points for Tennessee (6-3), which shot 16 of 47 (34 percent) over the final 35 minutes.
Trailing at halftime for the fifth time this season, Wichita State methodically worked its way to a 39-34 lead -- the largest of the game for either team to that point -- on Cotton's tip-in with 15:06 remaining.
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Just 37 seconds later, Stokes dunked again while being fouled. He made the free throw for a 44-41 lead.
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No. 1 Arizona rallies past Michigan to stay unbeaten
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Nick Johnson made six free throws during the final 25 seconds, and No. 1 Arizona held on for a 72-70 victory against Michigan on Saturday after rallying from an 11-point deficit in the second half.
The Wolverines (6-4) led by one when Johnson drew a foul on a drive with 24.6 seconds left. He made both free throws, and Michigan's Nik Stauskas missed at the other end. After a tie-up, the possession arrow gave the Wildcats (11-0) the ball with 9.5 seconds remaining.
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Ross, Smith each score 18 in No. 3 OSU's 79-62 win
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Brust leads No. 4 Wisconsin past Eastern Kentucky
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No. 7 Oklahoma State beats Louisiana Tech 70-55
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The fears over changes to broker remuneration have been echoed across smaller lenders.
The Customer Owned Banking Association's (COBA) CEO Michael Lawrence has urged policy makers to ensure the focus on competition is not lost.
He said, "The broking channel is an important one for many smaller lenders. We are keen to proceed with caution to ensure that there is no adverse impact on consumers' access to lenders and that competition in the home lending market isn't eroded.
CEO of SME lender Scottish Pacific, Peter Langham, said he had "real concerns over the drastic changes".
"We work closely with commercial brokers to organise funding for thousands of SMEs," he added. "While the Royal Commission recommendations focus on residential brokers, we are concerned about the impact this will have on the viability of the whole broker sector and consequently on small and medium business owners.
"Adding a broker fee for service is likely to be detrimental to anybody who can't get funding from the banks. Brokers play a major role in putting non-bank lending alternatives to their clients, providing real solutions for business owners when the banks can't or won't lend to them.
It's almost like Matt Comyn wrote brokers remuneration part of RC report.
The report needed a disclaimer: "This report brought to you by the letters C, B and A and the number 4.6 Billion"


November 7, 2010 - Employees of the Central Java branch of state-owned power company PLN are working to repair power lines broken by snapped trees. Heavy ash rains have hit the Central Java town of Muntilan hard. Two days ago, several centimeters of ash from the Mount Merapi volcano came down in a large area, causing power outages, breaking trees and grinding life to a complete halt in the area.


THE CHAMBERS Atkin Chambers is a leading set of commercial barristers, based in London, with an international reputation for providing advocacy and advice on cases concerning domestic and worldwide construction, engineering and infrastructure projects development and disputes. Cases are extremely varied and include transport, power, water/sanitation, IT and telecommunications, and social infrastructure projects. Wider commercial and professional negligence work is often, but not always, related to such disputes.
The barristers at Atkin Chambers offer a huge breadth and depth of experience in technically complex disputes and many are recognised as being leaders in their field.
In the UK members work on cases of all sizes in court and arbitration from domestic disputes to many landmark and high-profile cases including, for example, disputes relating to The Shard, Wembley Stadium, the Olympic Village, the Channel Tunnel, The British Library, The Rolls Building, Heathrow T5, the M25 and London Underground, as well as major oil and gas, and renewable energy projects on and offshore.
A substantive amount of members' work involves representing clients in court and they are regulars in the Business, Property and Appellate Courts.
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A number of authoritative and influential texts are authored and edited in Chambers including the Building Law Reports and the International Construction Law Review. The seminal work on the law relating to building and engineering contracts in the UK and internationally - Hudson's Building and Engineering Contracts - has been edited in Chambers since 1959 and is cited in many common law jurisdictions.


Note: the Musella Foundation For Brain Tumor Research And Information runs this website. For information about our organization, click HERE. We have no relation to the following organizations. They are listed here because they are important resources and we encourage you to contact them!
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VT Gayle SHeldon Memorial Foundation for Brain Cancer, Inc.
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HOPE With Support was established to give extra support to those whose lives are affected by brain tumors, including survivors, caregivers and their families and friends.
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The National Brain Tumor Society is a nationwide non-profit organization serving people whose lives are affected by brain tumors. We are dedicated to promoting a cure for brain tumors, improving the quality of life and giving hope to the brain tumor community by funding meaningful research and providing patient resources, timely information and education.
NBTF has awarded over $5 million in brain tumor research since our founding in 1981 and is the leading provider of services to brain tumor patients and their families. Services include a toll-free Patient Information Line (800.934.2873), comprehensive website (www.braintumor.org), Essential Guide to Brain Tumors and other printed publications, caregiver workshops, medical information nurse, patient and caregiver support network , support groups across the country, Search newsletter, monthly e-newsletter, teleconferences, conferences, financial assistance, resources in Spanish, Angel Adventure fundraising walks and community days, Racing Ahead for NBTF program and more. All of our programs are free.
Brain Tumor Society, founded in 1989, exists to find a cure for brain tumors. BTS is committed to research, education and support. BTS strives to improve the quality of life for all those affected by a brain tumor diagnosis. BTS provides psychosocial support through telephone counseling, assistance in finding and accessing local support groups or services, informational materials, and educational events for patients, survivors and their families.
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Bryan's Dream Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization established in memory of Bryan Timothy Opremcak. The mission is to make life a little brighter for children with brain tumors, and other pediatric cancers, and their families by providing financial assistance, information & support, to promote pediatric brain tumor awareness and to provide funding to pediatric brain tumor research.
Jeffrey Thomas Hayden Foundation The Jeffrey Thomas Hayden Foundation was created to increase Awareness about Pediatric Brain Tumors and provide Education and Support to affected families. To raise money to fund worthy causes; such as Academic Scholarships, Research, and assist other support organizations with their efforts, with a focus on finding a balance between the best available treatments with the best quality of life.
Lauren's First and Goal Foundation created to raise funds to support pediatric brain tumor research, support local pediatric cancer services, provide financial assistance to families living with a pediatric cancer diagnosis and to raise public awareness regarding pediatric brain tumors.
The Charles Warren Brain Tumor Awareness Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)3 with the purpose of promoting brain tumor awareness and raising funds for research and development of a cure.
Sydney Neuro Oncology Group is a charitable organisation in Australia NSW who deal with brain tumour patients both in research and support.
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THE TIM AND TOM GULLIKSON SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM- This foundation will give scholarships to children whose parents who have had or has brain tumors. Just type in Tim and Tom Gullikson Foundation.
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AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY http://www.cancer.org/ A nationwide, community-based voluntary health organization with more than 3,400 local offices. Provide a wide range of emotional and practical support for patients, families, caregivers, and communities. Trained cancer information specialists are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to answer questions about cancer and link callers with resources. Call 800-ACS-2345 (1-866-228-4327 for TTY). Callers who speak languages other than English and Spanish can also be assisted. Note they can help you get discounted hotel rates and ground transportation when traveling for "second opinion" consultations or treatment.
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Stand Up to Cancer is launching a new movement to attack cancer once and for all by pushing promising scientific breakthroughs to the finish.
Resources to help explain brain tumors to kids!
This list maintained by Jessica Taylor - of the young adult cancer group in St Louis.
Musella Foundation Co-Payment Assistance Program Helps people with Glioblastoma Multiforme who have insurance pay for treatments.
Musella Foundation Drug Assistance Program Helps people (even who do not have brain tumors) who do not have insurance (or who have bad insurance) get a discount for any prescription drug.
CancerCare Financial Assistance can help with: Transportation, Home care, Child care, Pain medication, and Lymphedema supplies. Does not cover basic living expenses (such as rent, mortgages, utility payments, or food). Assistance is need based.
The SAMFund assists young adult survivors with transition into post-treatment life by providing financial support through grants and scholarships. Covers many things such as medical bills, car and health insurance premiums, rent, utilities, tuition & loans, gym memberships, transportation costs. Start taking applications in June of each year.
NeedyMeds may provide assistance with obtaining medications that are not covered by insurance or have a very high copayment.
CancerCare Co-payment Assistance Foundation helps individuals with insurance cover co-pays for treatment of various cancers. Go to the website to find the covered diagnoses and medications.
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Home » Sentry Video Shows Nissan Leaf Owner Unplugging Tesla- But The Ethics Aren't So Simple
Sentry Video Shows Nissan Leaf Owner Unplugging Tesla- But The Ethics Aren't So Simple
In a recent Youtube upload by user, Tesla P3D, we can see a woman caught on their sentry-mode camera unplugging their Model 3, to use the charger for their own Nissan Leaf.
What a terrible thing, right? Well, yes, and no…but definitely yes. Okay, truth told, it is more complicated by that, and our first instinct, that this is absolutely terrible, has some major ethical implications in the world of EV ownership. Watch the video, then we can continue out exploration of charging etiquette.
So, as we said before, this seems not nice. That's fair, and the conversation could stop there, if only the condemnation of these acts were so simple. Unfortunately, there is a competition for the limited charging resources at some destinations, which all EV owners have experienced.
Well, I say all, and honestly it's more like most. You see, I drive a Nissan Leaf, from 2012 at that, with only 76 miles of range. Where I almost never need a destination charger, the emergency does occasionally present itself, and it thankfully has always been fine.
However, on more than one occasion I've become upset with the state of chargers. There have been construction workers in ICE-trucks, parked in EV spots. That's clearly terrible. There have been plug-in hybrids parked in EV spots. Could we agree, that is also slightly terrible?
Plug-ins can charge at home and get home on gas, a 2012 Leaf cannot. The logic behind ICE cars persists, but to a lesser degree.
Now, we come to this incident. As pointed out in the Youtube comments, the Tesla has (in most circumstances) access to the much touted Supercharger network, which other EVs cannot use (yet). I get that Tesla installed them for exclusivity, and I applaud their trailblazing. One may not have been available to the Model 3 here, we don't know.
Regardless, the situation here begs the question, does an EV with at least three times the range, and with both an exclusive and superior alternative method of charging, deserve priority?
I'm totally in support of first-come, first-serve, and have no idea if either person needed to get to the hospital or something (I doubt they did), but still these are murky waters.
If the Tesla charges faster, holds more juice, and has another option, than maybe the Leaf didn't do something so terrible. Furthermore, non-Tesla EVs often show their state-of-charge on the exterior. If the tables were turned, the Tesla owner could see if the Leaf were fully charged, and make a more informed decision than this Leaf owner ever could.
Well guys, the devil's advocate position has been logged. Unfortunately some lesser people are still constrained by the EV woes of yesteryear, but does that give them a possible out from judgement?
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