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The Function of the Spleen
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By Jennifer Whitlock, RN, MSN, FN
Jennifer Whitlock, RN, MSN, FN
Jennifer Whitlock, RN, MSN, FNP-C, is a board-certified family nurse practitioner. She has experience in primary care and hospital medicine.
The spleen is one of the least understood organs of the human body. Unlike organs that are noticed every day, such as the skin, most people never think about the spleen unless it becomes damaged by trauma.
While the spleen is not as well known as other organs, it performs multiple important functions. The spleen participates in the creation of blood cells and also helps to filter out the blood, removing old blood cells and fighting infection. The spleen also helps to control the amount of blood circulating through the body by creating a reserve pool of blood that can be released during severe bleeding to help improve circulation, oxygenation and blood pressure in dire circumstances.
The spleen is rarely the cause of health issues so it is often overlooked when talking about wellness and prevention of illness. The spleen does contribute to overall good health, but it is also not an essential organ, which is important because it can be fragile and may need to be surgically removed.
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The Spleen Is a Helper, Not Essential
The spleen works with other organs in the body to complete the tasks of blood storage, fighting infection and filtering the blood. While the spleen is useful and does perform vital tasks, other organs in the body also work to filter the blood and fight infection, and blood cells are mainly produced in the bones.
It is this overlap in duties makes it possible for the spleen to be removed without causing lasting harm to the individual. While most people are somewhat healthier with a spleen, it is absolutely possible to have a normal life without a spleen. So the spleen is important but it isn't essential.
The Fragile Spleen
The spleen holds reserve blood in case of significant bleeding, much like a blood-filled balloon, and acts as a reserve source of extra blood. In a trauma situation, particularly a severe car crash where an individual is wearing a seat belt, the force of impact can actually cause the spleen to rupture and begin to hemorrhage blood. The spleen has a high amount of blood flow, which can lead to a tremendous amount of bleeding when there is a serious injury and the bleeding can quickly become life-threatening. In some cases, when there is no other option, a splenectomy, the surgical procedure to remove the spleen, is performed.
The spleen can also become enlarged, stretching over time, until it becomes unable to function. It can expand over time from normal size (which is approximately the size of a small chicken breast) to the size of a softball or approaching the size of a volleyball. As a spleen becomes enlarged, it becomes more fragile and is more likely to be damaged in an accident.
Living Without a Spleen
As the spleen is not the only organ responsible for any of these functions, the spleen is not a necessary organ. It is possible to have the spleen removed and live a healthy life. Individuals without a spleen may be more likely to contract some types of infections as the body will have fewer B cells, the cells that "remember" exposure to bacteria and "remember" how to fight them.
The risks of contracting an infection are highest in the first two years following surgery. Individuals who have had their spleen removed will need to tell healthcare providers that their spleen is absent, as they will always be at higher risk for infection. It is important that a person without a spleen not ignore early signs of infection, such as a fever, as the body is more likely to require antibiotics to fight infection effectively.
In general, a person without a spleen will go on to have a healthy life, but they will always have a greater risk of contracting pneumonia and vaccines will be less effective. Vaccines nonetheless are essential to prevent serious illness. Along with annual flu shots, talk to your healthcare provider about which other vaccines are especially important, such as vaccines to protect against pneumonia and meningitis.
While the spleen is a well-known organ, it often becomes the cause of significant worry after a car accident or other incident that leads to bleeding. This might require removal of the spleen to stop blood loss. For people who have their spleens removed, aside from being advised to have more vaccines than other individuals might, the end of the recovery from surgery is the last time they are concerned about their spleen.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Asplenia and adult vaccination.
Myeloproliferative Neoplasms and Your Enlarged Spleen
How to Keep Yourself Safe Without a Spleen
What Are Eosinophils?
What Is Blood Plasma?
What Medical Conditions Affect the Spleen?
Monocyte Functions in the Body
The Function of Blood Platelets or Thrombocytes
The Anatomy of the Spleen
The Anatomy of the Portal Vein
An Overview of Lymph Nodes
Splenectomy: How to Prepare
Lower Back and Groin Pain in Women: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments
Splenectomy: Everything You Need to Know
5 Things To Know About Lymphocytes
The Anatomy of the Pancreas
Definition and Function of Lymph Nodes


Facebook made an official announcement on a program that has stealthily been in the work for a year now: the ability for creators and influencers to tag brands in their posts and for brands to allocate advertising budget towards promoting such posts. For now this is limited to Facebook, where influencer marketing is less popular, but expect a similar, more-impactful rollout on Instagram soon.
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Micro-influencers and niche content creators are now just as scalable as celebrities. Previously, brands with multi-million dollar media budgets were forced to partner with celebrities and uber-influencers like Kim Kardashian who had millions of followers just to reach the requisite audience for such a budget. No longer! Now brands can test-and-invest across hundreds of micro-influencers to create their own unique content, measure the results, and then allocate budgets behind the highest performing posts.
It's all about the quality of an influencer's content, not the size of their following. Influencers have traditionally been measured by vanity metrics like how many followers they have or how many likes and comments they receive. Now that brands can promote influencer posts directly, they'll get more measurable feedback on the CTR/CPA/CPC of each post, and the highest performers will be the influencers who made the best content and told the most authentic story.
Promoted audiences through Facebook are infinitely more targeted than large influencer audiences. Kim Kardashian has over 100 million diverse followers on Instagram. But if you're a brand with a niche product, you're probably only interested in reaching a small fraction of that audience. However, if you promote a micro-influencer's post with ads, you can leverage the full extent of Facebook's targeting infrastructure to promote that post to interest-based communities, re-targeting groups, look-alikes and more of the exact audiences you're looking for.
Brands promoting high-performing influencers is a huge win-win. For many influencers, the climb to fame is difficult. Many resort to buying followers or joining "comment pods" to boost their own vanity metrics. But with this feature, brands will allocate thousands of dollars promoting the accounts of the highest performing influencers in their community, showing their content to millions of people who never would have seen them otherwise and boosting their global profile. It's a brilliant virtuous cycle on Facebook's behalf that will help promote the best-in-class creators on the platform.
With all that being said, influencer marketing is not dead, as some have predicted. Because there is a core difference between influencer marketing and advertising: an opt-in audience. The trust and engagement from an influencer's own loyal following will always trump any advertising that's pushed down onto a consumer, and that trust is very valuable.
The key difference is that Facebook has now leveled the playing field between between celebrities and the millions of content creators, artists, photographers and micro-influencers who will be rewarded for creating high performing content.
Eric Lam is the co-founder and CEO of AspireIQ, the content generation + analytics software platform used by over 100 brands such as HelloFresh, GrubHub and MeUndies.


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Q: AngularJS checkbox filter I would like to filter the results.
There is a list of wines, my wish is when no checkbox is checked, the entire list of wine is displayed.

*

*when only 1 checkbox is checked is displayed the related category

*when more than one checkbox are checked the related categories are displayed

I'm a newbie to AngularJS, I tried with ng-model wihout success, here is the code without ng-model associated to the function:

    <title></title>

red: <input type="checkbox">

white: <input type="checkbox">

champagne: <input type="checkbox">

                {{w.name}}
                {{w.category}}

How to use ng-model or ng-change to associate a function to each checkbox button to have a real time filtering model??

A: There are several implementations possible. Here's one:

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*Have a $scope.filter = {} object to hold the state of each filter. E.g. {red: true, white: false...}.

*Associate each checkbox with the corresponding property using ng-model. E.g.: input type="checkbox" ng-model="filter['red']" />.

*Have a function (e.g. $scope.filterByCategory(wine)) that decides if a wine should be displayed or not (based on the $scope.filter object).

*Use that function to filter the items based on their category. E.g.

The filterByCategory function could be implemented like this:
function filterByCategory(wine) {
  // Display the wine if
  var displayWine =
      // the wine's category checkbox is checked (`filter[category]` is true)
      $scope.filter[wine.category] ||   // or

      // no checkbox is checked (all `filter[...]` are false)
      noFilter($scope.filter);

  return displayWine;
};

where noFilter() is a function that checks if there is any filter activated (and returns true if there is none):
function noFilter(filterObj) {
  return Object.
    keys(filterObj).
    every(function (key) { return !filterObj[key]; });
}

See, also, this short demo.

UPDATE:
I created a modified version, which supports multiple filters (not just filtering by category).
Basically, it dynamically detects the available properties (based on the first wine element), adds controls (groups of check-boxes) for applying filters based on each property and features a custom filter function that:

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*Filters each wine item, based on every property.

*If a property has no filter applied (i.e. no check-box checked),  it is ignored.

*If a property has check-boxes checked, it is used for filtering out wine items (see above).

*There is code for applying multiple filters using AND (i.e. all properties must match) or OR (at least one property must match).

See, also, this updated demo.

A: Just to add onto @gkalpak answer, I found this codepen which allows you to provide the total amount left after an option is selected for each category.
Change the ng-repeat from:

      {{ wine.name }} ({{ wine.category }})

To

  {{ wine.name }} ({{ wine.category }})

And with the input labels add:

    <input type="checkbox" ng-model="ctrl.filter[prop][value]" />
    {{ value }}({{(filtered | filter:value:true).length}})

A: I prefer use filter as $filter
app.filter('someFilter',checkboxFilter)
checkboxFilter() {
    return function (arr,filter,key,noOne=false) {
        // arr is an array of objects
        // filter is checkbox filter. someting like {1:true,2:false}
        // key is a property in ech object inside arr
        // noOne is a behavior if none of checkbox is activated (default:false)
        if (!arr.length) return null;

        function noOneCheck(filter) {
            return Object.keys(filter).every((key) => {
                return !filter[key]
            })
        }
        return arr.filter((i) => {
            return filter[i[key]] || (noOne && noOneCheck(filter))
        })
    }
};

html:
ng-repeat="u in project.projectTeamInvite | checkbox:project.status:'status' track by $index">

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Anyone who has driven a car with CVT will have comments about the difference in the drive.
The Continuously Variable Transmission is basically a type of automatic transmission. Without driving the vehicle and just looking at the gear lever you will notice that is exactly the same as a conventional automatic and it does the same thing as the an automatic which is convert the engine's limited range of speed to various ratios automatically to be sent to the driven wheels using a number of different gears.
This difference between the automatic transmission and CVT is the number of gears. The automatic is limited to 4 to 9 gear ratios and there are definite or noticable changes between the gears and this is felt during driving.
The CVT has what is termed an infinite number of ratios ranging from low to high and the transmission move through the gears steeplessly according to the driving situation.
Even though the term infinite is used, the lowest ratio will be close to the first gear in an automatic transmission and the highest ratio will be close to the highest gear in a regular transmission.
All continuously variable transmissions are not the same, some are made to handle more power as there are CVTs for economy sedans and some for vehicles fitted with powerful engines.
This transmission is simple in design with a few components comprising of these parts.
2 Pulleys, a variable input pulley which spins from the power provided from the engine and an output pulley that sends the power to the driven wheels.
A high power/density rubber or metal belt that connects the 2 pulleys and is used to vary the ratios between them as the vehicle is being driven.
There are also various microprocessors and sensors as the transmission must be able to detect the driving conditions.
Continuously Variable Transmissions provide better fuel economy by allowing the engine to run at it's most efficient RPM for any range of engine speed. Vehicles with CVTs drive smoothly as persons in the vehicle don't feel any jerks from gear changes but that wasn't any problem with people.
It is said that a CVT vehicle can accelerate faster than a conventional automatic and some might want to argue that it can accelerate faster than a manual transmission but I don't see CVTs being used on performance oriented vehicles. An improved fuel economy and providing a smoother ride for passengers is where the CVT benefits are most noticed.


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package com.android.internal.app;

import android.test.ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2;
import android.test.UiThreadTest;
import android.view.ActionMode;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;

/**
 * Tests for {@link WindowDecorActionBar}.
 */
public class WindowDecorActionBarTest
        extends ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2<WindowDecorActionBarTestActivity> {
    private WindowDecorActionBar mWindowDecorActionBar;
    private MockActionModeCallback mCallback;

    public WindowDecorActionBarTest() {
        super(WindowDecorActionBarTestActivity.class);
    }

    @Override
    protected void setUp() throws Exception {
        super.setUp();
        mWindowDecorActionBar = (WindowDecorActionBar) getActivity().getActionBar();
        mCallback = new MockActionModeCallback();
    }

    @UiThreadTest
    public void testStartActionMode() {
        ActionMode mode = mWindowDecorActionBar.startActionMode(mCallback);

        assertNotNull(mode);
        assertTrue(mCallback.mIsCreateActionModeCalled);
    }

    @UiThreadTest
    public void testStartActionModeWhenCreateReturnsFalse() {
        mCallback.mShouldCreateActionMode = false;

        ActionMode mode = mWindowDecorActionBar.startActionMode(mCallback);

        assertNull(mode);
        assertTrue(mCallback.mIsCreateActionModeCalled);
    }

    @UiThreadTest
    public void testStartActionModeFinishesPreviousMode() {
        ActionMode mode1 = mWindowDecorActionBar.startActionMode(mCallback);
        ActionMode mode2 = mWindowDecorActionBar.startActionMode(new MockActionModeCallback());

        assertNotNull(mode1);
        assertNotNull(mode2);
        assertTrue(mCallback.mIsDestroyActionModeCalled);
    }

    private static final class MockActionModeCallback implements ActionMode.Callback {
        private boolean mShouldCreateActionMode = true;
        private boolean mIsCreateActionModeCalled = false;
        private boolean mIsDestroyActionModeCalled = false;

        @Override
        public boolean onPrepareActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) {
            return true;
        }

        @Override
        public void onDestroyActionMode(ActionMode mode) {
            mIsDestroyActionModeCalled = true;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean onCreateActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) {
            mIsCreateActionModeCalled = true;
            return mShouldCreateActionMode;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean onActionItemClicked(ActionMode mode, MenuItem item) {
            return false;
        }
    }
}

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The Learning Center at Groves Academy is pleased to announce the addition of Meghan Miller, MS, CCC-SLP, as the new staff Speech-Language Pathologist. We are excited to welcome Ms. Miller to The Learning Center and look forward to her expertise in serving the needs of our students and those in the community.
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2004 in Roman Numerals
2004 in Roman numerals is MMIV. To convert 2004 in Roman Numerals, we will write 2004 in the expanded form, i.e. 2004 = 1000 + 1000 + 5 - 1 thereafter replacing the transformed numbers with their respective roman numerals, we get 2004 = M + M + V - I = MMIV. In this article, we will explain how to correctly transform 2004 in Roman numerals.
2004 = 2000 + 4
Roman Numerals = MM + IV
2004 in Roman Numerals = MMIV
1. How to Write 2004 in Roman Numerals?
2. Basic Rules
3. Numbers related to 2004
4. FAQs on 2004 in Roman Numerals
How to Write 2004 in Roman Numerals?
Roman numerals for 2004 can be obtained by using the method given below:
In this method, we break 2004 into the least expandable form, write their respective roman letter and add/subtract them, i.e. 2004 = 1000 + 1000 + 5 - 1 = M + M + V - I = MMIV.
Therefore, the value of 2004 in roman numerals is MMIV.
Basic Rules to Interpret Roman Numerals
When a bigger letter precedes a smaller letter, the letters are added. For example: CL, C > L, so CL = C + L = 100 + 50 = 150.
When a smaller letter precedes a bigger letter, the letters are subtracted. For example: XC, X < C, so XC = C - X = 100 - 10 = 90.
When a letter is repeated multiple times, they get added. For example: XX = X + X = 10 + 10 = 20
Roman Numerals for Numbers Related to 2004
Roman numerals may seem different from numbers, but they are similar. For example, 2004 in roman numerals is equivalent to MMIV. The roman numerals for numbers related to 2004 are given below:
MM = 2000
MMI = 2000 + 1 = 2001
MMII = 2000 + 2 = 2002
MMIII = 2000 + 3 = 2003
MMIV = 2000 + 4 = 2004
MMV = 2000 + 5 = 2005
MMVI = 2000 + 6 = 2006
MMVII = 2000 + 7 = 2007
MMVIII = 2000 + 8 = 2008
MMIX = 2000 + 9 = 2009
2004 in Roman Numerals Examples
Example 1: What is the remainder when MMIV is divided by XIX?
XIX = 19 and MMIV = 2004 in numbers.
On dividing 2004 by 19, it leaves a remainder of 9.
Now, 9 = IX
Therefore, when MMIV is divided by XIX, the remainder is IX.
Example 2: Find the Value of (7 - 38) + 2004 in roman numerals.
Solving (7 - 38) + 2004 = -31 + 2004 = 1973. Now, we will write the answer, that is, 1973 = 1000 + 900 + 70 + 3 = M + CM + LXX + III = MCMLXXIII.
Example 3: Find the value of 3498 - 2004.
Solving the given problem, 3498 - 2004 = 1494
To determine the value of 3498 - 2004 in roman numerals, we will express 1494 in the expanded form, i.e. 1494 = 1000 + 400 + 90 + 4 = M + CD + XC + IV = MCDXCIV.
Example 4: Find the Difference Between 2043 and 2004 in Roman Numerals.
Solving the given problem, 2043 - 2004 = 39
To determine the value of 2043 - 2004 in roman numerals, we will express 39 in the expanded form, i.e., 39 = 30 + 9 = XXX + IX = XXXIX.
FAQs on 2004 in Roman Numerals
What does 2004 in Roman Numerals Mean?
To write 2004 in roman numerals, we will first express 2004 in expanded form. 2004 = 1000 + 1000 + 5 - 1 = M + M + V - I = MMIV. Hence, 2004 in roman numbers is expressed as MMIV.
What is the Value of (46 - 53) + 2004 in Roman Numbers?
Solving (46 - 53) + 2004 = -7 + 2004 = 1997. To express, (46 - 53) + 2004 in roman numerals, we will write the answer, that is, 1997 in expanded form. 1997 = 1000 + (1000 - 100) + (100 - 10) + 5 + 1 + 1 = M + (M - C) + (C - X) + V + I + I = MCMXCVII
Why is 2004 in Roman Numerals Written as MMIV?
We know that in roman numerals, we write 4 as IV, and 1000 as M. Therefore, 2004 in roman numerals is written as 2004 = 2000 + 4 = MM + IV = MMIV.
What Should be Added to 1937 to Get 2004? Write the answer in Roman numerals.
2004 in roman numerals is MMIV whereas 1937 is MCMXXXVII. 2004 - 1937 = 67. Therefore, 67 should be added to 1937 to get 2004. Now, to convert 67 in roman numbers, we will express it in its expanded form, that is, 67 = 50 + 10 + 5 + 1 + 1 = L + X + V + I + I = LXVII.
How do you Write the Number 2004 in Roman Numerals?
To convert 2004 in roman numerals, the conversion involves breaking the numbers based on place values (ones, tens, hundreds, thousands).
Thousands = 2000 = MM
Ones = 4 = IV
Number = 2000 + 4 = MM + IV = MMIV
600 in Roman Numerals - DC
1981 in Roman Numerals - MCMLXXXI
2013 in Roman Numerals - MMXIII
99 in Roman Numerals - XCIX
499 in Roman Numerals - CDXCIX
1994 in Roman Numerals - MCMXCIV
1906 in Roman Numerals - MCMVI

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JPO refused to register 3D shape of Mitsubishi Electric's spiral escalator
TOPICS:acquired distinctivenessArticle 3(1)(iii)Article 3(2)DescriptiveMitsubishi ElectricSpiral escalator
The Appeal Board of Japan Patent Office (JPO) disallowed registration of 3D shape of Mitsubishi Electric's spiral escalator due to lack of inherent distinctiveness and secondary meaning in relation to escalators, class 7. [Appeal case no. 2017-6855]
Spiral escalator
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation first developed the spiral escalator in 1985, and has been the world's first and sole manufacturer of spiral escalators. Spiral escalator is a special design type of escalator in the form of a spiral/helical with curved steps.
On May 3, 2016, Mitsubishi Electric filed a trademark application for 3D shape of spiral escalator (see below) by designating escalators in class 7 to the JPO [TM application no. 2016-23374].
The JPO examiner totally refused the application based on Article 3(1)(iii) of the Japan Trademark Law stating that the applied mark can be easily seen as a 3D shape of escalator and the shape does solely consist of a common configuration to achieve the basic function of escalator. If so, the applied mark lacks distinctiveness as a source indicator.
To dispute the refusal, Mitsubishi Electric filed an appeal on May 12, 2017.
Appeal Board's decision
The Appeal Board, however, upheld the examiner's decision on the ground and dismissed Mitsubishi's allegation by stating that relevant consumers and traders shall conceive of an escalator designed to enhance its function or sensuousness at the sight of applied mark.
Acquired distinctiveness
Mitsubishi Electric also argued that even if the applied mark is deemed descriptive in relation to escalators, it shall be registrable based on Article 3(2) due to acquired distinctiveness of the mark because Mitsubishi Electric Spiral Escalators has achieved 100 % market share in the world and continuously used the 3D shape on escalators for more than three decades.
Article 3(2) is a provision to allow registration of applied mark if, as a result of substantial use of the mark in fact, consumers are able to connect the mark with a source indicator of designated goods or services.
Under the totality of the circumstances, the Appeal Board dismissed the allegation as well.
The Board found that regardless of 100 % market share in the category of spiral escalators, Mitsubishi Electric's domestic supply record of 24 units in the last thirty years shall be a trivial quantity in comparison with total number of escalators in operation. Besides, questionnaire result rather shows a source of the applied mark is unknown to more than 60% of the questionee.
Based on the foregoing, the Board questioned whether applied mark has acquired distinctiveness through actual use in relation to escalators and consequently refused to register the mark based on Article 3(1)(iii) and 3(2) of the Trademark Law.


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Melissa Anne Peterson (born December 17, 1968), known by her pen name Melissa Wiley, is an author of children's books, known especially for two book series about Laura Ingalls Wilder's ancestors: The Martha Years and The Charlotte Years. She is a contributing writer at Wired.com's GeekMom blog  and co-writes a webcomic with her husband, Scott Peterson, and illustrator Chris Gugliotti.

Personal life
Wiley resides in Portland, Oregon with her husband, comic book editor and author Scott Peterson, and six children. One of her sons (born ) has hearing loss.  Her oldest daughter (born ) had leukemia, but recovered. She is a stay-at-home mom and homeschools her children.

Books

Nonfiction
 Antlers in Space and Other Common Phenomena (Split/Lip Press, 2017)
 Skull Cathedral: A Vestigial Anatomy (Autumn House Press, 2020)

Fiction
 Anastasia: Together in Paris (Golden Books, 1997, as Melissa Peterson)
 Hanna's Christmas (HarperFestival, 2001, as Melissa Peterson)
 Fox and Crow Are Not Friends (Random House, 2012)
 The Prairie Thief (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2012)
 Inch and Roly Make a Wish (Simon Spotlight, 2012)
 Inch and Roly and the Very Small Hiding Place (Simon Spotlight, 2013)
 Inch and Roly and the Sunny Day Scare (Simon Spotlight, 2013)
 The Nerviest Girl in the World (Knopf, 2020)

Little House: The Martha Years
Published by HarperCollins.
 Little House in the Highlands (1999)
 The Far Side of the Loch (2000)
 Down to the Bonny Glen (2001)
 Beyond the Heather Hills (2003)

Little House: The Charlotte Years
Published by HarperCollins.
 Little House by Boston Bay (1999)
 On Tide Mill Lane (2001)
 The Road from Roxbury (2002)
 Across the Puddingstone Dam (2004)

Carmen Sandiego Mysteries
Published by HarperCollins and credited to Melissa Peterson.
 Hasta la Vista, Blarney (1997)
 The Cocoa Commotion (1997)

References

External links

 Official website
 Into the Thicklebit webcomic
 Cook, Karla. "'I Remember Laura' - Books & Music". Ramblin' Roads. June 23, 2008.

 Melissa Peterson (real name) at LC Authorities, with 11 records and Peterson at WorldCat
 Anne James (joint pseudonym with husband Scott Peterson) at LC Authorities and James at WorldCat

1968 births
American children's writers
21st-century pseudonymous writers
Pseudonymous women writers
Living people
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LONDON (Reuters) - The moment the besieged British king in Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" defies a far stronger Roman empire to declare his people's independence is filled with tension in any production.
For the South Sudanese troupe putting on the play one chilly spring night in London, that is also the moment where Elizabethan invention and modern African reality collide. Back home, they and their countrymen face the very real threat of war just a year after gaining independence from a powerful ruler.
"We had connotations that could be applicable to the situation in South Sudan," South Sudanese playwright and director Joseph Abuk told Reuters.
Abuk translated Cymbeline into Juba Arabic and co-directed the play alongside Derik Uya Alfred.
"We wanted to pick a play that has a similar conflict that has raged in the country for a very long time," Abuk said.
Since separating from Sudan last July, after signing a peace agreement which ended decades of civil war that claimed millions of lives, South Sudan has struggled to keep peace with Khartoum.
The two countries disagree over citizenship, border demarcation, and transit fees for South Sudan's oil, which must travel through Sudan for export.
That provides the potent backdrop for Shakespeare's tale of the rebellious British monarch who refuses to pay tribute to imperial Rome, sparking war. "Cymbeline" was put on this May in London as part of a cultural festival tied to the Olympics.
"We want to say that we have fought a war, we have suffered, we have reconciled, and it's time for us now to build our new country and to be recognized as a country," the 50-year-old Alfred told Reuters.
Despite the hope wrought by a peace agreement, tensions between Juba and Khartoum have escalated this year, threatening to tip the two sides back into full blown fighting.
Just hours after the company's final performance at the Globe, South Sudan accused Sudan of launching an air strike on one of its oil regions, a development that threatened to derail a promised ceasefire.
Simply producing a script in Juba Arabic, South Sudan's lingua franca and a language without a dictionary, was a tall order, Abuk said.
Another, perhaps more basic challenge for the actors was the change in temperature. While Juba reaches springtime temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius, an unseasonable London chill had audience members sitting in the open-air theatre wrapped in coats, scarves, and blankets.
Actors ran around on stage barefoot, the women often wearing skirts and bra tops, never betraying even a shiver.
"It was a very big challenge, that weather," Alfred said. "If you change the costume, if you put something under it you will be destroying the culture.
Alfred's Kwoto Cultural Centre, launched in 1994, has been active in passing down South Sudanese culture to a generation in Khartoum displaced by war.
His projects rankled the Sudanese government of President Omar al-Bashir, which was then trying to instill Islamic and Arab identity throughout Sudan. The government accused Alfred of violating national culture.
Laced throughout Abuk's script are cultural references to his home country, which provoked laughter and nods of recognition from the many South Sudanese in attendance on the final night of the play.
For instance, at one point a character uses the phrase "washa mukormash," which refers literally to something that is unironed and rumpled, but is a Juba Arabic colloquialism for someone with an angry or upset face.
And though Abuk's translation keeps the original Roman and English character names, the actors wore costumes like animal skins and brightly colored togas and beads.
The play opens with a shrill yell, is punctuated by drums and tambourines, and ends with an exuberant South Sudanese dance.
Alfred said one of the most satisfying aspects of coming to London was performing for the South Sudanese expatriate community. Several told him they had tired of being portrayed as a poverty-stricken country where insects feed on neglected, hungry children.
Gina Abbe, 54 and a nurse, was in the audience with her husband for the final performance. She noted the hopeful ending of the play, in which Cymbeline makes peace with Rome and forgives the shepherd who kidnapped his sons.


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Everything you need to know about the CIA director email hack
BYRobert Hackett
A hacker and his buddies claimed this week to have broken into the personal email account of John Brennan, director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. No mean feat, to be sure. Initially, people were incredulous that a self-identified stoner high school student, according to the New York Post, could have gained unauthorized access to the Aol email account of the nation's top spy chief.
Then came the leaks. The hacker, appearing on Twitter under the handle @phphax and @_CWA_ (the latter account has since been suspended), posted screenshots of sensitive information for top U.S. officials and others. The leaks included an alleged phone call log of former CIA deputy director Avril Haines, as well as Social Security numbers for more than a dozen U.S. officials, including Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, whose Comcast account, the hacker claimed, had also been breached.
The hacker—part of a group that identifies as CWA, or "Crackas With Attitude"—apparently gained access to the account associated with Brennan by masquerading as Verizon (VZ) employees, manipulating workers at the company into divulging Brennan's information, and then eventually taking control of the account. (Verizon bought Aol for $4.4 billion earlier this year.)
Social engineering, as the scam is known, is a common ruse. (Of course, it's also possible that the hacker lied, or that it was an inside job; this early on, who knows?)
Although officials have not confirmed whether the account was indeed Brennan's, comments from a CIA spokesperson—along with the contents of the leaked documents—seem to suggest that it was.
"The hacking of the Brennan family account is a crime and the Brennan family is the victim," said spokesman Dean Boyd on behalf of the intelligence agency in a statement. "The private electronic holdings of the Brennan family were plundered with malicious intent and are now being distributed across the web. This attack is something that could happen to anyone and should be condemned, not promoted."
"There is no indication that any the documents released thus far are classified," Boyd added, invoking a line of defense that presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used after the public learned that she had used a private email server for official state business. (That assertion turned out to be false, in Clinton's case.) "In fact, they appear to be documents that a private citizen with national security interests and expertise would be expected to possess."
David Samberg, a Verizon spokesman, told Fortune via email: "Verizon and its operations, including AOL, take the security of customer information very seriously. We are working with law enforcement to actively investigate."
On Oct. 16, Aol apparently deactivated the account in question after a battle with Brennan over its ownership. The hackers claim to have had access to the account for three days.
By Monday afternoon, the hacking group had begun posting redacted—and eventually non-redacted—versions of their allegedly pilfered documents.
WikiLeaks soon got in on the act, too, vowing to publish the leaked documents "over the coming days."
As promised, the site rolled out the first leaked files soon after. The documents were a bit underwhelming, truth be told. They included recommendations on U.S. foreign policy pertaining to Iran; a letter from the vice chair of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee on ways to frame the CIA's harsh interrogation methods as "compliant" and "legal;" a copy of Brennan's national security background investigation SF-86 Form (which contains his Social Security number, a record of his past addresses; and information on his close family members), as well as a legal docket involving a dispute between Brennan's former private firm—The Analysis Corporation—and the CIA. All the documents appear to date back to 2007-2008.
On Thursday, WikiLeaks continued publishing more documents. One file is a report on strategic recommendations for the U.S. in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Another is a concise six-bullet point summary of that document. And the third is a list of email addresses allegedly contained in Brennan's Aol contact list, which includes more than 100 government email addresses.
Compared to other data leaks this year, the Brennan Files appear to offer peanuts as far as actual revelations or public interest is concerned. The most shocking thing about the leaks—aside from the private information, which can be abused by identity thieves and financial fraudsters—so far are the headlines: Stoner high school student hacks CIA director's personal email. The contents themselves are pretty mundane.
Follow Robert Hackett on Twitter at @rhhackett. Read his technology and cybersecurity coverage atfortune.com/author/robert-hackett. And subscribe to Data Sheet, Fortune's daily newsletter on the business of technology, where he writes a weekly column.
For more on political email scandals, watch this video.


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We store this information, which may also constitute personal data, in server log files. This information is needed to make our website available in a permanent, user-friendly and reliable way and to ensure data security and protection of personal data, including by third parties or with the assistance of third parties.
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We send announcements and notifications using third-party services or with the assistance of service providers. Cookies may be used in this context.
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We have a presence on social media and other online platforms to allow us to communicate with interested parties and publicise information about our offer. Personal data may be processed outside Switzerland and the European Economic Area (EEA) in this context.
The general terms and conditions (T&Cs), conditions of use, data protection policies and other terms of the individual operators of these online platforms apply separately. These terms provide information about the rights of data subjects which include, for example, the right to information.
Insofar as the GDPR applies, we are jointly responsible with Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (Ireland) for our social media profile on Facebook, including 'Page Insights'. Meta Platforms Ireland Limited is one of the Meta companies (including in the USA). Page Insights show how visitors interact with our Facebook presence. We use Page Insights to make our social media presence on Facebook effective and user-friendly.
Additional information about the nature, scope, and purpose of data processing, information about the rights of data subjects, and contact information for Facebook and the Facebook Data Protection Officer is available in the Facebook Data Policy. We have concluded the 'Controller Addendum' with Facebook, in which we agree that Facebook is responsible for guaranteeing the rights of data subjects. Information about Page Insights is available at 'Information about Page Insights,' including 'Information about Page Insights Data'.
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We use third-party services to make our offer available in a permanent, user-friendly, secure and reliable way. Such services may also be used to embed content in our website. These services (for example, hosting and storage services, video services and payment services) require your Internet Protocol (IP) address in order to transmit content.
Third parties whose services we use may also process data connected to our offer and from other sources (including cookies, log files and tracking pixels) in aggregated, anonymised or pseudonymised form for their own security, statistical and technical purposes.
Google Services: providers: Google LLC (USA) / Google Ireland Limited (Ireland) for users in the European Economic Area (EEA) and in Switzerland; general information about data protection: 'Our privacy and security principles', Privacy Policy,
'We are committed to complying with applicable data protection laws', 'Google Product Privacy Guide', 'How Google uses information from sites or apps
that use our services' (Google information), 'How Google uses cookies', 'Ad personalization' (activation/deactivation/settings).
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Third parties with whom we advertise and with whom you are registered as a user may associate the use of our product with your profile.
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Google Ads: search engine advertising; Google Ads-specific data protection information: Advertising based on search engine queries; different domain names – especially doubleclick.net, googleadservices.com, and googlesyndication.com – are used for Google Ads, 'Advertising' (Google), 'Why you're seeing an ad'.
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We use extensions for our website to make additional functions available. In particular, we use:
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We use services and programs to determine how our website is being used. In this context, we may, for example, measure the performance and reach of our website and the effect of third-party links to our website. However, we may also test and compare how different versions of our website or parts of our website are used ('A/B' test method). We may correct faults, bolster in-demand content, or improve our website based on the results of this performance and reach measurement.
The Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of individual users must be stored to enable the use of services and programs for performance and reach measurement. As a rule, IP addresses are abbreviated (pseudonymised) to comply with the principle of data minimisation and to improve the data protection of visitors to our website ('IP masking').
The use of services and programs for performance and reach measurement may require the use of cookies and the creation of user profiles. User profiles include, for example, the pages visited and content viewed on our website, information about the size of your screen or browser window, and the (approximate) location. As a rule, user profiles are pseudonymised. We do not use user profiles to identify individual visitors to our website. Individual services with which you are registered as a user may associate engagement with our website with your profile on these services. Typically, you must give your consent to such association in advance.
fusedeck: performance and reach measurement; provider: Capture Media AG (Switzerland); data protection information: 'Privacy Policy and Information on the Right to Object' (website), 'Data Privacy' (fusedeck), Privacy Policy (fusedeck).
Google Analytics: performance and reach measurement; Google Analytics-specific data protection information: Measurement across browsers and devices (cross-device tracking) and using pseudonymised Internet Protocol (IP) addresses which are only transmitted in full to Google in the USA in exceptional cases, 'Privacy Policy', 'Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on'.
Google Tag Manager: integration and management of performance and reach measurement services and other services of Google and of third parties; additional information about data protection is available from the individual integrated and managed services.
11. Final provisions
We may amend or expand this Data Protection Policy at any time. We will notify you of such amendments and expansions in an appropriate form, in particular by publishing the updated Data Protection Policy on our website.


(November 15, 2013) Veteran Cincinnati broadcaster Ken Broo has his next sports broadcasting job. An STA client, Broo is joining WCPO 9 as a sports anchor / reporter.
A former radio voice of the Cincinnati Bengals, Broo has worked mostly in the Queen City since 1987. TV stops have included WLWT, WKRC and WLWT. He's also been a radio sports talk host at WLW. He's also spent time in Washington D.C, Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Tampa.
Broo is a graduate of Ohio University.
(Visit Ken's STAA Talent Page).


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GARDEN STATE EQUALITY OPPOSES JACK KELLY FOR STATE PAROLE BOARD
Governor Christie's recent nomination of anti-LGBT Ocean County Freeholder is a slap in the face to LGBT New Jerseyans and anyone who believes in a fair criminal justice system
NEW JERSEY, MAY 11TH 2016 – Garden State Equality is dedicated to serving the best interests and well-being of the LGBT community and are deeply concerned about Governor Christie's recent nomination of the anti-LGBT Jack Kelly. His history of discrimination would have devastating results to our justice system.
"LGBT people, especially those who are people of color, face higher rates of incarceration and often injustice in our prison system." said Christian Fuscarino, Executive Director of Garden State Equality. "We must ensure unfair criminalization has no place in New Jersey and that means no Jack Kelly. The State Parole Board should require individuals with experience, intelligence, and tolerance, not homophobia and racism."
We are thankful for elected officials, including Senator Weinberg and Senator Lesniak, speaking out against this nomination and encouraging others to join in opposition.
Steven Fulop, Mayor of Jersey City, said "As Jersey City is one of the largest LGBT communities in New Jersey and our administration in Jersey City also provides a model prisoner re-entry program, this nomination is concerning. Clearly, our hope is that the Judiciary Committee rejects this nomination. In Jersey City, we have an understanding of the needs of those who re-enter society and an open mind and unbiased views are necessary to properly guide that mission. We shouldn't allow anyone to impede progress with prejudices. We are concerned about Jack Kelly's recorded views and they have no place on a board that impacts the lives of residents."
In order for LGBT people to thrive and succeed, we cannot allow individuals with personal bias impact our justice system. We urge our legislators to keep our State Parole Board clear of bigotry by voting no on Jack Kelly.
At the time of this release, Senate President Stephen Sweeney did not provide a statement.
ABOUT GARDEN STATE EQUALITY
Garden State Equality is New Jersey's largest statewide advocacy and education organization for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. In this post-marriage environment, GSE's main focuses are youth, transgender people, and seniors, and our work on those issues is informed by racial, economic, and disability justice concerns. GSE is working on campaigns to address safe environments for youth, improvement of health services that meet LGBT community needs, and respectful treatment of seniors.


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Fishbone Logo & Identity Design
Art Direction, Branding, Graphic Design
Fishbone is a company that currently specializes in notebooks. The client's brief challenge was to design a modern identity that could support a possible future expansion of the brand into a wide range of new product lines. With the logo acting as the brand name in a bold minimalistic style, the design is clearly applicable to a variety of products.
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Are you ready to go beyond just surviving in your business? Do you want to thrive regardless of what the current economy does? If so, join Michelle Neujahr as she challenges, educates, and motivates business leaders to chart a new course toward long-term excellence. This content-packed webinar will challenge attendees to get real about the current state of their business and take immediate action to chart a new course. In addition attendees will learn how to keep an eye on the weather, make adjustments when needed and learn to enjoy rough waters. Michelle will inspire attendees to rethink their current strategies, recalibrate more quickly and take action toward reenergizing their organization. As the result of this seminar, you'll be equipped with simple navigational tools to help you thrive in any type of weather.


This hat is hand woven from the Cuenca Cane which grows at high elevations in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador. The colorful design is handwoven and takes days to weave. The wide brim is flexible, but holds it's shape. These hats are incredible because they naturally wick moisture away instead of absorbing perspiration.


I Want to Work in an Association – Now What??? Published! | Find meaning at work and advance in your career.
I'm happy to announce that my book I Want to Work in an Association – Now What??? A Guide to Getting a Job in a Professional Association, Membership Organization, or Society is available!
In the works for nearly a year, this endeavor would not have been possible without the more than 50 association professionals who contributed their knowledge and experiences – THANK YOU.
Why did I decide to write this book? Simple – to let people know that this industry exists, and to provide them with the resources they need to be hired in the field. Nearly everyone who contributed to this book "fell into" the profession because it still flies under the radar. Career changers and recent college grads don't realize this great opportunity is out there. Even many of the job hunters who are aware of associations don't realize that it's different from other organizations.
While the association industry is subject to many of the same problems as others (i.e. layoffs, financial concerns, etc.), there are some key attractions, like the belief that you're getting the "best of both worlds" – pay is often competitive with for-profits, yet associations are more mission-driven rather than bottom-line driven. Several of the people interviewed for this book expressed the sentiment that they liked that they are able to contribute to missions important to them, while still making a good living.
Regardless of what role you are hired into, chances are you'll have to wear multiple hats – even more likely at smaller organizations. With members being the highest priority in an association, a customer service mentality is at the core of the whole operation. Several hiring managers told me this is one of the most important attributes an employee can possess.
Though many of the same career management principles still apply, it helps to know about some of the unique facets of the industry, not to mention association-specific resources such as niche job boards. So, if you're thinking about making a career change or want to learn how to advance in your association career, this book is for you!
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From unseen pictures shot for Life magazine to identifying works of art contained in pictures.
More than four million photographs shot for Life magazine are now available for anyone to look through – tagged by Google's computer vision algorithm to make searching through the vast archive easier.
Life Tags is one of three experiments – all of which use AI algorithms in the background – to be shared by Google and held up as an example of what can be achieved by using artificial intelligence and machine learning.
It combines the company's AI know-how with the desire to use technology for the benefit of culture, something explored at the Arts & Culture Lab in Paris.
Astronauts, laughing babies, dogs and more are all tagged.
Life magazine, which was published between 1936 and 1972, only published about 5% of the millions of pictures which were shot for its pages. Now four million of those images are searchable.
"Our experiment brings the iconic magazine to life. Browse, search and rate images corresponding to thousands of labels as funny, right or wrong," Google explains on its blog.
Pictures have been classified using Google's Image Content-based Annotation (ICA) algorithm to generate labels based on image pixels – the same tech used in Google photo search, meaning the database is searchable and cross-referenced.
A picture of the Queen on her wedding day by William J Sumits crops up automatically in "England", "Royal Family", "Great Britain", "Marriages" and "1940s".
But it goes deeper than that – AI can identify "babies making funny faces" just as easily as a "shoe" and even identify pictures which are "calm".
For the second AI-driven experiment from the Google Lab, colour is key.
Art Palette allows users to select colours and then "using a combination of computer vision algorithms, it matches artworks from cultural institutions from around the world with your selected hues", explains Damien Henry, experiments team lead based at the Google Arts & Culture Lab, in a blog post.
For anyone more keen on practical applications, this tech could be used to find a piece of art which matches a colour scheme.
The final experiment focuses on the photographic collection of the Museum Of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
The gallery has taken pictures of its exhibitions since its first show in 1929, but the archive lacked information about the works in then.
Mr Henry added: "To identify the art in the photos, one would have had to comb through 30,000 photos — a task that would take months even for the trained eye.
Google hopes that by sharing details of its experiments it will "lead you to explore something new, but also shape our conversations about the future of technology, its potential as an aid for discovery and creativity".
The experiments are designed to be explored either on the dedicated website, or via the Google Arts & Culture app, available for iOS and Android.


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EU failing to comply with obligations on migration, according to new report
Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax from Queen Mary's School of Law has written a report for the European Parliament on the EU's External Migration Policy and the Protection of Human Rights.
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The report covers EU cooperation with Turkey, Libya, Niger, and Afghanistan and comes as the European Commission has launched a New Pact on Migration and Asylum.
Implications of EU policy
The report provides an in-depth analysis of the human rights implications of EU external migration policy interventions. It identifies human rights obligations owed to third-country nationals (non-EU) when engaging in cooperation with third countries and non-EU actors. It also assesses the means and level of compliance with these obligations when designing and implementing the main policy instruments. In addition, the report also determines the existence and adequacy of operational, reporting, monitoring and accountability mechanisms available in each case to track and respond to potential violations.
The report found that that there was defective compliance with relevant EU obligations when it comes to the rights of third-country nationals. Recommendations include proposals for the European Parliament to action annulment proceedings to challenge measures adopted. It also recommends that the Parliament should make use of its budgetary control and monitoring powers to ensure compliance with EU legality principles.
Compliance with standards required
The in-depth analysis reveals that the full effect of the EU fundamental rights legislation in extra-territorial situations has not been duly accounted for. It proposes a system to ensure compliance with the relevant standards covering the pre-conclusion, design, adoption, implementation, evaluation and review phases, highlighting the role of the European Parliament and civil society organisations in this process.
Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax, Reader in Law at Queen Mary and author of the report, said: "My analysis of the EU external migration policy reveals a conspicuous lack of appreciation for the full reach and importance of fundamental rights obligations when engaging in extra-territorial activity, especially at sea and when cooperating with third countries through informal means.
"The overwhelming focus on the fight against irregular migration has brought about issues of defective compliance that need to be corrected. It should be abundantly clear from the outset that EU law requires the observance of fundamental rights, including the fundamental rights of migrants, in all EU internal and external actions, by all EU institutions, bodies and agencies as well as by Member States when implementing EU law. This requires not only the abstract recognition of the relevant standards in general terms, but also appropriate operationalisation through detailed and specific instruments that allow for effective protection in practice."
Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax has previously called for policy change on the rescue of refugees at sea, arguing that such interventions are not crimes but obligations under international law.
Read the full report, Violeta Moreno-Lax, EU External Migration Policy and the Protection of Human Rights, PE 603.512 (Brussels: European Parliament, 2020)
Study Law at Queen Mary.
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Homeownership Reduces Your Chances Of Becoming An Entrepreneur, Report Says
By Bonnie Kavoussi
Decades of promoting homeownership may have stifled the U.S. economy.
That's the implication of a new study, which found that owning a home makes people less likely to become entrepreneurs.
The study, by Philippe Bracke, Christian Hilber, and Olmo Silva, economists at the Spatial Economics Research Centre in London, found that homeowners in the U.K. are less likely to become entrepreneurs because their mortgage is so risky that they are unwilling to take on more risk by starting a new business.
The U.S. government has been promoting homeownership for decades, and it's worked. More than 65 percent of all Americans are homeowners, according to the Census.
The study's authors write that homeowners "typically have to overinvest in housing" at the expense of entrepreneurship. This is particularly true for homeowners with a mortgage.
The study found that homeownership reduces "genuine entrepreneurship" in particular: that is, entrepreneurship that is in professional work or involves hiring other employees. That is an important point to distinguish, since the vast majority of U.S. businesses have no employees, according to the Census. Among those 21 million nonemployer businesses, millions of people have been forced to do odd jobs since they cannot find work.
Many U.S. government policies, including the mortgage tax deduction, create incentives to buy a home. Homeownership advocates argue that the incentives are good for everyone because homeowners are more invested in their communities.
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SUN JINCHUAN IN QISHUYAN
July 8, 2022 richristow
This post was originally posted in 2016.
Chinese revolutionary monuments are sometimes difficult to find. Half the ones mentioned on Baidu maps are simply not there. I know because I've tried to find them and end up walking or riding in circles. Or wading through drainage ditches. Or looking at piles of garbage. So, it's always fascinating for me to find one that is actually where the map says it is.
It's in Huaxi Park 花溪公园 in the former Qishuyan district. The area within the park goes by the Martyrs Memorial Plaza 烈士纪念广场. The memorial itself contains two stone markers. One is of a more abstract shape, but the other is a bust Sun Jinchuan 孙津川. His life story, and the placement of his statue has an interesting correlation.
The railway industry is still a huge in Qishuyan, but it used to not always be that way. One of the big players was the Wusong Machinery Factory, who has since changed names several times. Before it relocated to Changzhou for national security reasons, the plant operated in Shanghai. At the time, the nationalist Koumintang ran the Chinese government. Underground communist organization and agitation was ongoing at the time.
This carried into trade unions like the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway Workers Association. Sun Jinchuan was elected into a leadership role within that union. He helped organize strikes and even armed action around the Wusong factory before it relocated to Changzhou. As the story goes, the KMT eventually arrested him and repeatedly tortured him for information. The official story goes on to say the Sun Jinchuan remained defiant up to the end in October of 1928, shouting CPC slogans and singing while being dragged to his execution.
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ALGAE PARK AND THREE GOATS
This was originally published in July of 2017
You can say about 95% percent of the Changzhou's public parks have a unique identity. Xianhu Park 仙湖公园 is no different, but this one has a subtly strange and schizophrenic vibe to it. This place is located in Yaoguan Township 遥观镇 in Wujin, in what used to Changzhou's eastern Qishuyan district. This is nowhere near Hutang and the parts of Wujin most expats know. Yaoguan is definitely small town China within Changzhou's city boundaries. I am sometimes out around these parts because of corporate trainings Hohai University organizes with some of the railway companies like CRRC out here. The park itself is split into two by Jianshe Road 建设路.
One half of the park has a lot of brick and stone work, giving the water a canal-like feel without actually feeding into any canals. In this regard, it looks a lot like a man made urban pond.
There are two sets of statues here suggesting industrial themes. Unlike other parks, there are no explanatory plaques or Chinese wisdom idioms attached to give a greater meaning. Perhaps the biggest "this is not urban Changzhou" indicator was this …
There were three goats roaming around and eating everything from the grass and the bushes. Some of these animals had collars and leashes, so it is safe to assume that these are not feral, marauding goats. These were domesticated. Nearby, there was a woman washing something in the "canal-pond" water. I didn't feel like being nosy about what she was actually washing. So, I didn't take a picture of her. It is likely safe to assume the goats were hers. If you were to cross Jianshe Road to the park's other half, you would see this.
There are a lot of walkways, but notice the surface of the oibd. There is a thick, very green algae skin to the water here. By the way, the person with net is not fishing. Typically, a very big algae population like this makes water low in oxygen an not habitable. This person was not fishing out garbage, either.
This person was actually harvesting the algae itself. While that may sound weird to some, algae has a lot of uses like as a farmland fertilizer. There are also chemical compounds that can be extracted and multi-purposed in food production, wastewater treatment, and much more.
Essentially, this is a profoundly local park. Changzhou has places like Qingfeng, Hongmei, and others that are meant for mass public and tourist use, and Xianhu Park is not one of them. I found this place because I was already in Qishuyan on a teaching assignment and just wandering around my ebike.
However, this place is also a positive reminder that what I like to call Real Changzhou; this city is vast and more storied than what some foreigners might think. There is life beyond Xinbei, the city center, and Hutang. I don't mean that as, "Ooh, this is quaint." I mean that in this exists, it is here, and it is part of Changzhou.
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This article was written By Rowena Santos Aquino on 05 Oct 2018, and is filed under Reviews.
Aaron Read, reviews, Sean Devlin, Typhoon Haiyan, Vancouver International Film Festival, When the Storm Fades
About Rowena Santos Aquino
Rowena Santos Aquino is a Los Angeles-based film lecturer who teaches courses on Asian cinemas, Film History, and Documentary Film. Her scholarship focuses on documentary film histories, productions, and cultures. She has been published in journals such as Transnational Cinemas, Asian Cinema, and LOLA, and in the 2016 anthology Film Music in 'Minor' National Cinemas. As a film critic specifically covering Asian cinemas and film festivals. While a Cinema & Media Studies graduate student, she embarked on the path of film criticism by writing for the UCLA-/USC-based Asian/Asian-American popular culture magazine Asia Pacific Arts. After she received her doctorate degree, she began writing for the Toronto-based film website Next Projection and continues to focus on coverage of Asian cinemas and documentary films.
When the Storm Fades (Canada/Philippines, 2018) [VIFF 2018]
The 'storm' referred to in the title of activist-comedian Sean Devlin's crowdfunded film is Typhoon Haiyan, or Super Typhoon Yolanda, the strongest tropical cyclone recorded in recent decades that occurred in November 2013. Most severely hit was the central Philippines, including the island of Leyte and its capital city of Tacloban. Devlin's film is set in Tacloban, three years after the typhoon yet whose devastation continues to be acutely felt — be it mourning the loss of loved ones or living amongst the ruins of what had once been houses. But because the film was produced in adherence to Jemez Principles (as stated in the closing credits), it actively combats poverty porn and the patronising, exoticising anonymity that goes with it in following the separate but gradually intertwining strands of the Pablo family who survived the typhoon, a white couple visiting the area partly as tourists and partly as disaster relief volunteers, and local activists speaking about (misguided) efforts of post-typhoon recovery, reconstruction, and prevention. And contrary to its straightforward documentary prologue — an aural montage of newscasters speaking of the dire conditions in the aftermath; the link between climate change and the increased frequency of such calamitous typhoons; and the demand for international aid, not just (long-distance) attention, over an ever-widening shot of the damage caused by the typhoon — the film also intertwines documentary and fiction.
Occupying one documentary tier is the Pablo family: Nilda, Abner, and their children Lovely and Arnel. Sequences devoted to their lived experiences at times feature voiceovers of their witnessing of the typhoon, such as Arnel's, who speaks of the roof of their house being blown away, being rescued by a cargo ship, and the deaths of a maternal aunt and her child. Rather than emphasising their hardships (already in plain view and so do not need to be spelled out twice), Devlin focuses on how life goes on. Nilda and her sister Imelda continue to cook and sell lumpiya (spring rolls) in their community, with one sequence even consisting of a comic deadpan exchange about other types of lumpiya that they could sell to rack up more customers. Lovely and Arnel converse about her upcoming college-related trip to Singapore; in this same conversation, Lovely mentions to Arnel to be nice to the 'foreigner.'
The 'foreigner' in question is Trevor (Aaron Read), who with Clare (Kayla Lorette) occupies a fictional tier that becomes woven with that of the Pablo family. Initially, they are presented as completely disconnected from their third world surroundings. Following a scene of Abner and Arnel in their ramshackle house with the former asking how one could spend fifty pesos a day and telling Arnel to be more responsible with money, a cut introduces Clare jogging through a road as if in a different location altogether and Trevor awkwardly inquiring about fruits at a kiosk. In other words, an element of incompatibility or incongruity — driven by a lack of knowledge — characterises Clare and Trevor's presence in this space. This incompatibility-incongruity gives rise to moments of dry (if predictable) humour: Trevor 'teaching' Arnel to play basketball or educating the family on the importance of a compost bin; Clare gifting something to Nilda or facing a question about religion from Lovely; or Clare and Trevor helping to replant mangrove trees in the shoreline but becoming more preoccupied with taking pictures of themselves. Such moments are not limited to their interactions with the Pablo family either. In tourist mode, they meet with another white couple that is clearly more knowledgeable, educated/trained, and experienced in their transnational activism — and also less prone to trumpeting it. But their incompatibility-incongruity with the Pablos and Tacloban is not immutable, particularly for Clare.
Another, though less prominent, documentary tier concerns local activists led by Marissa Cabaljao. Though appearing only several times in the film, Marissa's presence/voice injects an activism-awareness that contrasts sharply with that of Clare and Trevor. This contrast is then subtly reflected when Marissa talks at a radio station about a foreign-backed tide embankment project undertaken without consulting locals, the money for which could have simply been given to survivors instead.
Each of these tiers possesses its own interest in the frank way that it addresses the everyday lived realities in Tacloban, the bumbling touristy gaze of foreign aid workers, or the swooping voracity of corporate interests after catastrophes. At the same time, the manner of bringing together these multiple tiers of truths/experiences is not entirely seamless. Scenes are at times so fragmentary and not allowed to breathe on their own and in their growing connections to each other that they are hardly memorable. Emotional and/or consciousness-raising impact is thus patchy at most.
When scenes are able to breathe fully, as it were, their emotional impact is strong, as in the sequence of Nilda showing Clare the ruins of her late sister's house. The two women hold hands as Nilda speaks of her witnessing and feelings, with her most poignant words obliquely but powerfully expressing her grief and love for her late sister: 'I can sing before; now I don't know how to sing.'
When the Storm Fades is showing on October 7 at the Vancouver International Film Festival.
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