The College of Wooster (6-3, 5-3 North Coast Athletic Conference), vying for a finish in the top four of the NCAC standings, has a tall order on hand as the Fighting Scots cap the 2017 season with this Saturday's 1 p.m. tilt at 12th-ranked Wittenberg University (9-0, 8-0 NCAC), which has already clinched at least a share of the NCAC title and the conference's automatic berth to the NCAA Div. III Championships.
Wooster will be looking to rebound from a 36-26 loss at home to Denison, which maintained possession of the "Old Red Lantern" for the fourth straight year with the win. Wittenberg is coming off of a 42-23 win over Ohio Wesleyan University on Saturday in what marked Joe Fincahm's 200th career win.
On the Air: Wittenberg will carry this week's contest at http://wittenbergtigers.com/broadcast/WittFB. This week's game can be heard on WKVX 960 AM and online at http://wqkt.com.
All-Time Series: Wittenberg leads the all-time series, which dates back to 1912, 38-12-1. The Tigers have won the last eight meetings, and hold a 20-3-1 all-time record in Springfield, Ohio. Wooster last won 27-6 in 2008, and hasn't won on the road in the series since 1949.
Last Meeting: On Oct. 1, 2016, Wooster's defense stole the spotlight early with two three-and-outs to start the game before then-17th-ranked Wittenberg found its groove offensively en route to a 41-13 win. Wittenberg gained 554 yards of total offense with Jake Kennedy leading the way with a 16-for-23 afternoon for 265 yards and three touchdowns. Luke Landis turned six receptions into 127 yards and a touchdown. Wooster's Gary Muntean (Poland, Ohio/Struthers) completed 23-of-32 throws for 257 yards while Antonio Bailey (Duluth, Ga./Meadowcreek) logged a pair of touchdowns on the ground.
Offense Notes: Muntean, whose mobility was limited with an injury, delivered a gutsy performance on "senior day" by completing 26-of-52 throws against Denison. Muntean, who finished the game with 347 yards through the air, upped his season total to 2,939 yards, one shy of his single-season school record of 2,940 set last year. Muntean added a pair of passing touchdowns, including one of the game's final play, which marked the signal-caller's 30th of the season. During Saturday's game, Muntean surpassed his own single-season program record for yards of total offense set last year at 3,140, and he's up to 3,325 entering this week. In fact, Muntean's 22 yards behind Richard Barnes for the most career yards of total offense in program history. Entering the week, Muntean's sixth in Div. III in passing yards, seventh in passing touchdowns, and ninth in passing efficiency (174.2). Sophomore Nick Strausbaugh (Fredericksburg, Ohio/Waynedale) was the recipient of Muntean's final touchdown pass at John P. Papp Stadium, and that marked the 14th of the season for Strausbaugh, moving him into solo possession of first-place on the program's single-season list. Earlier in the game, Strausbaugh broke Richie McNally's 2004 single-season record for receiving yards (1,060), and the Scots' sophomore is fifth in Div. III with 1,120 yards on the year. Bailey has been on a tear of late in the rushing department with 470 yards and five scores over the last four games, and he surpassed 750 yards on the season in last week's contest. In fact, with 16 yards, Bailey will equal his combined total of yards on the ground from his freshman and sophomore years, as will he in the carries department with nine more totes. Seniors Drake Schwenke (Ladera Ranch, Calif./Santa Margarita Catholic) and Patrick Mohorcic (Highland Hts., Ohio/Gilmour Academy) project to make their 38th and 30th career starts respectively on the offensive line this week.
Defense Notes: Senior Patrick Johnson (Homewood, Ill./Homewood-Flossmoor) upped his team lead in tackles to 63, and he's now one of four in the NCAC with at least three forced fumbles on the year. In fact, Wooster forced and recovered two fumbles on Saturday, and the Scots now have 17 takeaways on the year, a total tied for third in the conference and two more than last year. Should the Scots record an interception on Saturday, it would mark the team's 11th of the year, and it'll mark the most since Wooster had 17 in 2013. Junior Marcus Bowers (Roseville, Mich./Fraser) has found success in the pass rush of late, and he's been in on at least half a sack in each of the last three games, including two solo sacks last Saturday against Denison. Freshmen Beau Greenwood (Pittsburgh, Pa./Mount Lebanon) and Danté Fair (Pataskala, Ohio/Watkins Memorial) are tied for second on the team with 58 tackles, while sophomore Christian Santos (Yeadon, Pa./Penn Wood Senior) rounds out the quartet of Scots with at least 50 stops on the year.
Special Teams Notes: Junior Trent Leggett (Waynesburg, Ohio/Carrollton) blocked two kicks last Saturday, the first two by the Scots this season. Wooster attempted and recovered an onside kick against Denison late in the fourth quarter, with Johnson coming up with the recovery. Freshman Drake Pence (Lexington, Ohio/East Knox) leads Wooster with nine special teams tackles on the year, eight of which have come on kickoff coverage. Senior Trevor Bowden (Eatonton, Ga./Gatewood Schools) and freshman Mark Herron (Youngstown, Ohio/Chaney) also head eight tackles on the kickoff coverage unit. Bowden booted a 58-yard punt on Saturday, and it marked his second boot of the year over 55 yards.


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(Vancouver, April 27, 2021) – Artemis Gold Inc. (TSX-V: ARTG) ("Artemis" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has engaged The Terron Group, LLC ("Terron") to provide integrated Environmental Social Governance ("ESG") services and management training to Artemis in support of the Blackwater Gold Project ("Blackwater" or the "Project") in Central British Columbia. Terron's support services are targeted to help Artemis advance Blackwater in adherence with the Equator Principles ("EP") and International Finance Corporation ("IFC") performance standards and to develop and align the Company's ESG practices and protocols in accordance with such standards.
Steven Dean, Chairman and CEO commented "We are very happy to be working with The Terron Group to help provide essential support to develop the Company's ESG practices and protocols as we grow the Company and advance Blackwater to production."
About The Terron Group
The Terron Group is a woman, minority-owned consultancy whose managing partners have over 50 years of collective experience creating better shared outcomes for companies, communities, and the environment through high-impact ESG solutions. The team has extensive experience supporting projects globally and in British Columbia to adhere to Equator Principles and IFC standards. The Terron Group performs its work acknowledging Indigenous Peoples Rights and reconciliation.
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Gold has various uses, and throughout history it has been so widely used in art, jewelry and technology.
But precious metal has also long been considered a safe haven, and as a result many investors turn to it in difficult political and economic times. Physical gold bars are a common way to expose, but other ways are to jump into space exchange-traded funds (ETFs), gold futures, options and shares of gold companies.
Gold may be a solid long-term investment, so those new to the sector will be interested to learn more about the yellow metal before jumping into the market. Here are five basic facts about gold that all investors need to know.
1. Basic facts about gold: it is the only yellow metal
While other metals may have a yellowish tinge or color, which usually only happens after they have reacted with other chemicals. Gold is the only natural yellow metal on the market.
Pure gold is yellow in part because it absorbs blue light more than other visible wavelengths of light. Substance absorbing blue light will reflect the rest of the spectrum.
Gold is in the last row of the periodic table with atomic number 79 and the chemical symbol Au. With 79 protons in the nucleus, the electrons of the gold atom are subjected to a powerful electrostatic attraction. As a noble metal, gold is resistant to chemical attacks even at high temperatures.
2. Basic facts about gold: various forms of investment
As mentioned above, new investors have many different options if they want to make money by investing in yellow metal. In some parts of the world, buying gold in the form of jewelry remains the largest and most traditional method of producing gold, especially in India.
For the most part, buying and donating gold jewelry is done for sentimental value. Buying gold jewelry is more expensive than just buying a gold nugget. When investors choose gold jewelry, it is important to keep in mind carat amounts and their attitude to price.
Apart from jewelry, investing in gold can be done in a number of other ways, including:
Gold bars and coinsA: This includes regular coins, collectible coins and gold bars. They can be stored in a financial institution or in person.
Gold ETFs: Most gold ETFs track the physical price of gold. According to Gold.org, in terms of grams of gold mined, one unit of gold-plated ETF is usually 1 gram of yellow metal; ETFs can be bought and traded on stock exchanges.
Gold-focused stocks: When investing in gold companies, investors need to know how volatile the market can be. Shares that extract gold, in particular, can have a leverage of three to one for the price of gold.
Gold futures: A futures agreement allows you to trade gold at a predetermined quantity or price with a settlement date in the future. This means that the investor does not have to pay for the gold at the time of the deal, and the seller does not have to provide the investor with gold until the agreed date.
3. Basic facts about gold: It is not consumed
Contrary to popular belief, gold is not consumed like many other commodities. The metal did not burn gas and coaland only about 12 percent of the world's gold is used for industrial purposes.
A small part of gold is used in electronics, computers, medical and dental fields and in aerospace to lubricate mechanical parts. The rest is used in jewelry and for investment purposes such as gold coins and ingots.
Unlike gas and coal or even copperalmost all gold that has been produced over time still exists and is found in institutions or in people.
4. Basic facts about gold: it is the most malleable metal
Flexibility can be defined as the lightness of a metal can be killed or extruded from its mold without breakage and cracking. There is gold most malleable metals – 1 ounce can be broken into a sheet about 5 meters on one side. The resulting sheet of gold can be struck enough times to make it so thin that it becomes transparent.
Not only but yellow metal it is possible to fold, twist and compress in various forms, thus all remains the whole; this is often done while making jewelry. Gold ranges from two to three out of 10 on the hardness scale. Only when the yellow metal reaches the melting point can its purity be dismantled due to temperature.
5. Basic facts about gold: It can be considered as a currency
And last but certainly not least, gold has interesting currency trends. BMG Bullion Notes that gold retains its purchasing power better than paper currencies.
While gold works as a currency, many don't see it as one because you can't use it to buy food at the grocery store. But like other currencies, its price fluctuates – as seen in recorded history, it usually increases when the US dollar falls and falls when the dollar moves up. Yellow metal can also be bought and stored and it has the ability to be converted into money in different currencies.
This is an updated version of the article, first published by the Investing News Network in 2016.
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Disclosure of Securities: I, Melissa Pistilly, have no direct investment in any of the companies mentioned in this article.
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Vancouver writer Aren X. Tulchinsky at the Aug. 16 unveiling in Toronto of Project Bookmark Canada's plaque honouring his novel, The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky. (photo by Lisa Sakulensky)
The Canadian Literary Trail has a new bookmark – one honouring The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky by Vancouver writer Aren X. Tulchinsky. The 25th such plaque to be erected by Project Bookmark Canada across the country, the unveiling took place Aug. 16 in Dominico Field at Barton Avenue and Christie Street in Toronto. Tulchinsky took part in the ceremony.
"Last October, I received a phone call from Laurie Murphy, executive director of Project Bookmark Canada, letting me know my historical novel The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky was nominated for a bookmark," Tulchinsky told the Independent. They chose to unveil the plaque on Aug. 16 because it is the day on which the 1933 riot in Christie Pits took place.
Surprised and thrilled to hear that Project Bookmark Canada and the City of Toronto would be erecting the plaque in honour of his book, Tulchinsky said, "I was particularly struck by the timing, when, right now, we are all being called upon to make sure that dark chapters of our history do not repeat themselves."
He explained, "My novel is about a fictional Jewish Russian immigrant family, living in the Kensington Market neighbourhood in the 1930s and '40s. The main character, Sonny Lapinsky, is a Jewish boxer. He is 9-years-old … when the riot in Christie Pits occurs and, on that night, he discovers he has boxing talent and goes on to become a professional boxer. That same night, tragedy strikes the Lapinsky family.
"Many Canadians are not familiar with the 1933 riot, which involved 15,000 people and is the largest race riot ever to occur in Canada. A group of British- and German-Canadian young men, members of the Swastika Club, set off the riot when they unfurled a huge, black and white swastika flag in Christie Pits during a packed amateur league baseball game on a hot August night. The Project Bookmark plaque in Christie Pits will bring greater awareness to this piece of Canadian history and, of course, to my novel."
Project Bookmark Canada was founded by writer Miranda Hill in 2007, with the first plaque being unveiled in 2009 – for Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion, at the Bloor Street Viaduct in Toronto. There are bookmarks from British Columbia to Newfoundland. Vancouverites have easy access to Bookmark No. 12, which commemorates Wayson Coy's The Jade Peony, at the southeast corner of Pender Street and Gore Avenue in Chinatown.
"Visitors are encouraged to read their way across Canada, online and in person," said Project Bookmark board of directors president Hughena Matheson in the press release about Tulchinsky's honour. "A launching place for conversation, collaboration and learning, the bookmarks provide a unique reading experience and a deeper understanding of the country and its people."
"I think Project Bookmark Canada is an important organization," said Tulchinsky. "Their goal is to get people to read Canadian books. It is vital to celebrate our unique Canadian history and, sadly, our country is constantly in the shadow of the U.S., with American books filling our bookshelves. With the loss of small independent bookstores across the country who used to promote Canadian authors, and with people buying books online from huge American corporations, many excellent Canadian books go unnoticed. As a Canadian and as a writer, I applaud the work Project Bookmark Canada is doing to bring Canadian stories to the forefront."
The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky bookmark text. (photo by Don Oravec)
At the Aug. 16 unveiling, Tulchinsky read the excerpt of his novel – published under the name Karen X. Tulchinsky – that appears on the plaque. "It is the moment when, in 1933, the Swastika Club unfurled a huge swastika flag at the ninth inning of an amateur league baseball game in the park. All summer, the Swastika Club had been bullying Jews on the beaches of Toronto. On this day, they upped the ante and brought their antisemitism to the west side of town, which was mostly Jewish and Italian immigrants. After a summer of being kicked off the beaches, young Jewish men fought back. And, interestingly, the Italian men in the park joined the Jews in fighting against the Swastika Club and their allies, in what became the largest race riot ever to occur on Canadian soil."
"Our past president, Don Oravec, spoke at the unveiling and said the novel was on his radar as a potential bookmark," Project Bookmark's Murphy told the Independent of how The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky was selected. "When Daniel Gelfant made an official submission to us to consider the book and its variety of Toronto settings as potential bookmarks, the wheels were set in motion. The board's national bookmark advisory committee reviewed the proposal and approved it for development. Councilor Joe Cressy made a motion to the City of Toronto to provide funding in support of a bookmark for the Christie Pits ball field, on the anniversary of the riots in 1933. It was approved, and subsequently developed. Additional funds were raised by individual donors attending a bookmark fundraiser on Aug. 15, complete with a boxing demonstration by the author and the Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club at Jazz Bistro."
When he first started writing the novel, Tulchinsky, who was born in Toronto, said it "was loosely based on stories my grandfather had told me about his escape from Russia before the Second World War and his early days in Toronto, where his first home in Canada was in the Kensington Market area.
"When I started researching the Jewish community in 1930s Toronto, I discovered the riot that pitted young Jewish men and their Italian allies against the Swastika Club and their gentile allies…. As a Canadian Jew, I knew immediately that I would tell my story against this backdrop, an important piece of our history that had not yet been told in fiction. So, I created a fictional family, with four sons, all of whom get involved in the riot in different ways. On the night of the riots, one of the brothers is permanently injured in a way that shatters the family, especially the main character, Sonny, whose guilt over what happened to his brother causes a rift between him and his father, that sends the family into turmoil.
"The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky, which takes place … when Hitler first came to power in Germany, and continues through the Second World War years, is about antisemitism in Canada," he said. "It's about how hatred only leads to more hatred and violence. At the risk of sounding like the Vancouverite I am, I believe the only cure for hate is love. Sadly, history tends to repeat itself and, today, in 2019, we are seeing a rise in hate crimes in Europe, the U.S. and here in Canada against Jews, Muslims, South American migrants and the LGBTQ community. We are witnessing the president of the United States taking children away from their asylum-seeking parents and imprisoning them in what can only be called concentration camps. The themes in my novel, sadly, are just as relevant today as ever. I hope people see the parallels in the fascism that swept the world in the 1930s with what is happening today. I just keep hoping that humans will find a better way forward that does not repeat the mistakes of our past."
And Tulchinsky continues to examine that past.
"I am currently working on a new novel, set in 1930s Berlin, in which I follow fictional characters (Jewish and non-Jewish) as Hitler first comes to power. In the story," he said, "we watch as the Jewish characters are systematically stripped of their civil rights, then their livelihoods and, eventually, their lives. For my research, I have read hundreds of books on the Holocaust and the rise of the Nazis in the 1930s and I can tell you there are many policies the Trump administration is pursuing in the U.S. that are taken directly from Hitler's playbook. In the current climate, with antisemitism, racism and homophobia on the rise, I feel particularly driven to finish and publish this new novel."
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Format ImagePosted on September 27, 2019 September 24, 2019 Author Cynthia RamsayCategories NationalTags antisemitism, Canadian Literary Trail, CanLit Trail, Christie Pits, historical fiction, history, Project Bookmark Canada, racism, Toronto, Tulchinsky
History through Eva's eyes
Gabriella Goliger's Eva Salomon's War is an intriguing novel. (photo by Ben Welland))
Award-winning Canadian author Gabriella Goliger has written Eva Salomon's War (Bedazzled Ink Publishing, 2018), an intriguing novel set between the rise of the German Nazi state and the founding of the state of Israel – two complex historical phenomena whose aftershocks we are still experiencing. But, for Eva Salomon, those huge events are mainly engines moving her own story forward from timid German-Jewish adolescent to courageous Israeli young woman. The novel takes us through many intricacies of the competing historical strands that form the background of Eva's life. Readers familiar with various bits and pieces of the history can connect the dots through her eyes.
Written as a first-person bildungsroman, the book opens as the Nazis close in on the Jews, who are wondering which of the many possible responses to embrace. Should they stay and resist? Stay, pray and keep their heads down? Should they emigrate, and, if so, where? Should they join the movement to build a Zionist workers' state in Palestine? So many choices, so many unknowns, and so much peril attached to each decision.
Eva's beloved older sister, Liesel, immigrates to a socialist kibbutz in the Galilee. Sixteen-year-old Eva and her embittered, widowed father migrate to Tel Aviv. We know what happens to the relatives who feel too old to make the trip.
The character of Eva is loosely based on Goliger's own aunt. Letters between Eva and Liesel give us many illustrative details of Jewish life in Palestine in those years. In Breslau, they had enjoyed middle-class lives. In Palestine, they quickly have to learn working-class skills and they have to adapt to their shabby new realities among people with no time for pity or introspection.
Kibbutz life is physically harsh but relieved by the high level of ideological commitment between the comrades: "I sleep in a tent and the food is plain, but I never have to think about where my next meal is coming from. Everything is communal and allotted to me, down to my shoes and socks." Eva flees the misery of life in her father's tiny flat and finds a place to live with Malka, a Hungarian Jewish seamstress who helps her accommodate to her reduced circumstances.
Malka transforms Eva from a ragged miserable waif to a well-dressed young woman who can make her way in the vibrant, uncertain Jewish Palestinian world. Eva learns the meaning of "ein breirah" – no choice – a theme resonating not only throughout the novel but throughout the decades to the present day as one formative part of Israeli Jewish culture.
Eva finds work as an ozerit (cleaning lady) and starts putting together a life of sorts. She finds a music shop that affords her a bit of pleasure – "my refuge, my paradise" – phonograph records feeding her delight in classical music and her longing for romance. Fittingly, it is where she meets Constable Duncan Rees of His Majesty's Palestine Police. Their romance encapsulates many conflicting layers of identity, culture, desire and belonging.
Throughout the novel, most of the characters are rent by doubts and competing loyalties. Only the fanatics of all stripes know certainty. The portrayal of Eva's unbending Orthodox father, seemingly bereft of feeling for his wayward daughter, I found puzzling. We never see anything through his eyes, never understand his inner realities.
Eva is at war with her father, with all rigid religious and political belief systems, with her situation of loving the wrong person, and with her own competing claims of duty. Her personal war intersects with the fighting in Europe, the fighting between Arabs and Jews, the infighting between the various Zionist factions and, crucially, with the growing resistance to the British presence in Palestine.
Eva is a Jewish refugee. Duncan is charged with upholding British laws controlling Jewish immigrants. Despite the growing cultural-personal-political tensions, Eva enjoys their romance. She experiences pleasure and the delights of physical intimacy, which she keeps secret as much as possible. "The more he was my secret, the tighter, I felt, was our bond." Their emotional intimacy is harder to sustain. One feels it can't last and I wondered throughout how Goliger was going to handle it (no spoiler here).
The British White Paper on Palestine brings it all to a head. Tensions explode into violence all over the land, from many different directions, aimed at "traitors" to all the intersecting causes. For each faction, "we" are highly individuated and the others are an undifferentiated "they." Eva, essentially an apolitical person, is helplessly caught up in the sectarian brutality.
One can't help but read the novel through the prism of the tragic unfolding of events since 1948. Goliger vividly illustrates the human urgencies propelling Arabs and Jews in all directions, and the emotional realities behind all the ideologies.
Near the end, I was reminded of Anne Frank's "In spite of everything, I still believe people are good at heart." Eva reflects, "I believe a better world is dawning because … because ein breirah. I must."
Deborah Yaffe lives in Victoria, where she formerly taught in the women's studies department of the University of Victoria. An active secular Jewish feminist since reading Elana Dykewomon and Irena Klepfisz in the 1980s, she is grateful for the many Israeli individuals and organizations working against Jewish persecution of Arab Israelis and Palestinians.
Format ImagePosted on November 30, 2018 November 29, 2018 Author Deborah YaffeCategories BooksTags Gabriella Goliger, historical fiction, Holocaust, Israel, Palestine


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'Bachelor' star Colton Underwood said he was 'touched inappropriately' at a charity event
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Colton Underwood.
"Bachelor" star Colton Underwood said he was "grabbed and touched inappropriately" at a charity event.
The San Diego, California, event was for Underwood's Legacy Foundation, which aims to support people living with cystic fibrosis.
"I didn't sign up to be a piece of meat or a zoo animal," Underwood, 27, said in his Instagram story about the incident.
Underwood's season of "The Bachelor" is still currently airing on ABC.
"Bachelor" star Colton Underwood apologized Thursday to fans for leaving an event in San Diego, California, early after he says he was "touched inappropriately" and swarmed by cameras.
In a post on his Instagram story, Underwood said he felt like a "piece of meat or a zoo animal" at an event for Underwood's Legacy Foundation, a non-profit organization that aims to provide resources for people living with cystic fibrosis. The event took place at the Mavericks Beach Club in San Diego.
In the post, the 27-year-old reality TV star and former NFL player explained that while normally, he'd make sure that he had the chance to meet everyone who was waiting to take a picture with him, he was "grabbed and touched inappropriately."
"I'm sorry if you didn't get a picture at the event last night, but at one point during the event, I was grabbed and touched inappropriately while people were throwing cameras in my face," Underwood wrote. "I am the type of person who would have stood in line for hours to make sure anyone who supported the event got a picture, but once that happened I had to do what was best for me as a human being."
His Instagram story.
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"I didn't sign up to be a piece of meat or a zoo animal," Underwood added in his post. "I hope we run into each other at another event or on the street and I can take the time to say hello. Thank you again for coming to support Legacy and the fight against CF."
After posting the statement on his story, he thanked the venue and those who attended the event, posting photos and videos from the rest of the night. TMZ reported that some of Underwood's fellow "Bachelor" alumni were on hand at the event as well, including Becca Kufrin, Garrett Yrigoyen, Blake Horstmann, and Tanner Tolbert.
Underwood's season of ABC's "The Bachelor" is still currently airing on the network.
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.class Landroid/support/v4/widget/ExploreByTouchHelper$MyNodeProvider;
.super Landroid/support/v4/view/accessibility/AccessibilityNodeProviderCompat;
.source "ExploreByTouchHelper.java"

# annotations
.annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/EnclosingClass;
    value = Landroid/support/v4/widget/ExploreByTouchHelper;
.end annotation

.annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/InnerClass;
    accessFlags = 0x2
    name = "MyNodeProvider"
.end annotation

# instance fields
.field final synthetic this$0:Landroid/support/v4/widget/ExploreByTouchHelper;

# direct methods
.method constructor <init>(Landroid/support/v4/widget/ExploreByTouchHelper;)V
    .locals 0

    .prologue
    .line 1237
    iput-object p1, p0, Landroid/support/v4/widget/ExploreByTouchHelper$MyNodeProvider;->this$0:Landroid/support/v4/widget/ExploreByTouchHelper;

    invoke-direct {p0}, Landroid/support/v4/view/accessibility/AccessibilityNodeProviderCompat;-><init>()V

    .line 1238
    return-void
.end method

# virtual methods
.method public createAccessibilityNodeInfo(I)Landroid/support/v4/view/accessibility/AccessibilityNodeInfoCompat;
    .locals 2
    .param p1, "virtualViewId"    # I

    .prologue
    .line 1244
    iget-object v1, p0, Landroid/support/v4/widget/ExploreByTouchHelper$MyNodeProvider;->this$0:Landroid/support/v4/widget/ExploreByTouchHelper;

    .line 1245
    invoke-virtual {v1, p1}, Landroid/support/v4/widget/ExploreByTouchHelper;->obtainAccessibilityNodeInfo(I)Landroid/support/v4/view/accessibility/AccessibilityNodeInfoCompat;

    move-result-object v0

    .line 1246
    .local v0, "node":Landroid/support/v4/view/accessibility/AccessibilityNodeInfoCompat;
    invoke-static {v0}, Landroid/support/v4/view/accessibility/AccessibilityNodeInfoCompat;->obtain(Landroid/support/v4/view/accessibility/AccessibilityNodeInfoCompat;)Landroid/support/v4/view/accessibility/AccessibilityNodeInfoCompat;

    move-result-object v1

    return-object v1
.end method

.method public findFocus(I)Landroid/support/v4/view/accessibility/AccessibilityNodeInfoCompat;
    .locals 2
    .param p1, "focusType"    # I

    .prologue
    .line 1256
    const/4 v1, 0x2

    if-ne p1, v1, :cond_0

    iget-object v1, p0, Landroid/support/v4/widget/ExploreByTouchHelper$MyNodeProvider;->this$0:Landroid/support/v4/widget/ExploreByTouchHelper;

    .line 1257
    invoke-static {v1}, Landroid/support/v4/widget/ExploreByTouchHelper;->access$000(Landroid/support/v4/widget/ExploreByTouchHelper;)I

    move-result v0

    .line 1258
    .local v0, "focusedId":I
    :goto_0
    const/high16 v1, -0x80000000

    if-ne v0, v1, :cond_1

    .line 1259
    const/4 v1, 0x0

    .line 1261
    :goto_1
    return-object v1

    .line 1257
    .end local v0    # "focusedId":I
    :cond_0
    iget-object v1, p0, Landroid/support/v4/widget/ExploreByTouchHelper$MyNodeProvider;->this$0:Landroid/support/v4/widget/ExploreByTouchHelper;

    invoke-static {v1}, Landroid/support/v4/widget/ExploreByTouchHelper;->access$100(Landroid/support/v4/widget/ExploreByTouchHelper;)I

    move-result v0

    goto :goto_0

    .line 1261
    .restart local v0    # "focusedId":I
    :cond_1
    invoke-virtual {p0, v0}, Landroid/support/v4/widget/ExploreByTouchHelper$MyNodeProvider;->createAccessibilityNodeInfo(I)Landroid/support/v4/view/accessibility/AccessibilityNodeInfoCompat;

    move-result-object v1

    goto :goto_1
.end method

.method public performAction(IILandroid/os/Bundle;)Z
    .locals 1
    .param p1, "virtualViewId"    # I
    .param p2, "action"    # I
    .param p3, "arguments"    # Landroid/os/Bundle;

    .prologue
    .line 1251
    iget-object v0, p0, Landroid/support/v4/widget/ExploreByTouchHelper$MyNodeProvider;->this$0:Landroid/support/v4/widget/ExploreByTouchHelper;

    invoke-virtual {v0, p1, p2, p3}, Landroid/support/v4/widget/ExploreByTouchHelper;->performAction(IILandroid/os/Bundle;)Z

    move-result v0

    return v0
.end method


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The UNEP Production Gap Report's call for a Just Transition is as timely as it is urgent
Op-ed / October 22, 2021 October 22, 2021 / By Chinmayi Shalya
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and leading global research institutes released the Production Gap Report on Thursday. The report raises clear concern on countries following their net-zero 'pledge'. Most governments plan to produce more than twice the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C. As part …
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Climate: Reality Check
Op-ed / August 13, 2021 August 13, 2021 / By Chandra Bhushan
This article originally appeared in the Times of India. Transition from fossil fuels in India is a matter of politics, communities, federalism & jobs The latest IPCC report paints a grim picture of the future if the world fails to eliminate the use of fossil fuels over the next three decades. India will be disproportionately …
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Just Transition in Coal: A Perspective from Jharkhand
Op-ed / July 26, 2021 July 26, 2021 / By Chandra Bhushan, Srestha Banerjee and Shruti Agarwal
This article originally appeared in Vol LVI No. 29 of the Economic & Political Weekly, published on 17 July 2021. The article discusses why it is an imperative for India to begin deliberation on a just transition from coal in light of some of the compelling factors. It then evaluates what a just transition in …
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Single-use-plastics bans have failed. Relying on command and control to fix environmental problems is taking us nowhere
Op-ed / June 4, 2021 June 9, 2021 / By Chandra Bhushan
The article originally appeared in The Times of India Exactly three years back, single-use plastics (SUPs) took centre stage in India when PM Modi, on June 5, 2018, announced that the country would completely phase out these products by 2022. Now, barely a year before the deadline, the Union environment ministry has issued a draft notification …
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कोयला खनन का ढाई सौ साल पुराना कारोबार बदल जाएगा, इसके लिए अभी से नीतियां बनानी होंगी
Op-ed / March 20, 2021 March 20, 2021 / By Harivansh Singh
This article was originally published in Dainik Bhaskar इंटर गवर्नमेंटल पैनल ऑन क्लाइमेट चेंज (आईपीसीसी) की 2018 रिपोर्ट के अनुसार 2050 तक कोयला आधारित विद्युत उत्पादन लगभग बंद होना है। यह ग्लोबल वार्मिंग को दो डिग्री सेल्सियस के अंदर रखने के लिए आईपीसीसी द्वारा सुझाए गए महत्वपूर्ण उपायों में से एक है। इस तरह कोयला …
कोयला खनन का ढाई सौ साल पुराना कारोबार बदल जाएगा, इसके लिए अभी से नीतियां बनानी होंगी Read More »
Become climate champions: India's top family conglomerates must play a leadership role in its fight against climate change
Op-ed / March 8, 2021 March 8, 2021 / By Chandra Bhushan
The article originally appeared in The Times of India The private sector in India has traditionally avoided engagement on climate issues publicly. But this seems to be changing. On November 5, 2020, 24 leading companies signed a 'declaration of the private sector on climate change' to tackle the climate crisis. This is an important beginning …
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Clean up Indian Railways: It must match its climate credentials with sound pollution and waste management
Op-ed / February 11, 2021 February 11, 2021 / By Chandra Bhushan
This article was originally published in The Times of India Railways fascinate me. Professionally, I advocate for a massive expansion of rail networks to address the air pollution and climate crisis. Rail transport is not only highly energy efficient compared to road and air transport, it can also completely shift to renewable energy. It will, …
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India's Arctic policy must push Western countries to give up double standards
Op-ed / January 28, 2021 January 28, 2021 / By Chandra Bhushan
This article originally appeared in The Times of India 'We need to act for the Amazon and act for our planet,' said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau when fires ravaged the Amazon rainforest in August 2019. He was joined by many Western countries in preaching the virtues of protecting the 'global common' for combating climate …
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Paris agreement isn't enough: Climate crisis is too important to be left to governments alone. Private sector too must pitch in
Op-ed / December 11, 2020 December 11, 2020 / By Chandra Bhushan
This article originally appeared in The Times of India The world is not only suffering because of Covid and economic distress. It's also reeling due to climate disasters. The year 2020 is likely to be one of the three warmest years on record, and 2011-20 will be the warmest decade on record. 2020 has witnessed …
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Energy transition and Just Transition must go hand in hand – as coal mines become rapidly unprofitable
Op-ed / December 5, 2020 December 5, 2020 / By Chandra Bhushan
This article originally appeared in The Times of India The writing is on the wall. A few days back, Coal India Limited (CIL), the world's biggest coal producer and India's largest CO2 emitter, announced its plans to become a 'net-zero energy company' by 2023-24. The company plans to install 3,000 MW of solar power to …
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North Korea launches long-range rocket
Pyongyang says it has succeeded in its mission of placing a weather satellite in orbit.
North Korea has launched a long-range rocket in defiance of critics who believe it is seeking to develop technology that will enable it to deliver a nuclear warhead.
The official Korean Central News Agency said Pyongyang had succeeded in its mission of placing a satellite in orbit.
"The launch of the second version of our Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite from the Sohae Space Centre... on December 12 was successful," KCNA said. "The satellite has entered the orbit as planned."
South Korea's Yonhap news agency also said the launch appeared to have been a success, with all three stages performing as planned.
"The rocket stages fell on areas in line with its earlier announcement and the launch appears to be successful," the agency quoted military officials as saying.
North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) officials in the US also confirmed the launch and that "an object" had achieved orbit following it.
The rocket was launched just before 10am Korea time (01:00 GMT), according to defence officials in South Korea and
Japan.
The UN Security Council will meet on Wednesday to discuss the launch in defiance of threats of sanctions, a Western diplomat said.
"The Japanese and the Americans have requested a Security Council meeting, which will take place late on Wednesday morning" around 11:00am (17:00 GMT), the diplomat said.
NORTH KOREA'S KEY MISSILE AND ATOMIC TESTS:
August 31, 1998: Intermediate-range missile fails to put satellite into orbit
July 4, 2006: Failed test-launch of more advanced Taepodong-2 missile
October 9, 2006: First atomic test carried out
April 5, 2009: Unha-2 rocket places satellite into orbit (no satellite detected)
May 25, 2009: Second atomic test
April 13, 2012: Long-range Unha-3 rocket explodes minutes after takeoff
December 12, 2012: Unha-3 rocket places satellite into orbit
Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett, reporting from Seoul, said the successful launch was "a significant technological breakthrough" for North Korea.
The latest launch comes after a failed attempt in April when the rocket fell apart just minutes after blast-off.
North Korea says the launch is aimed merely at putting a weather satellite in orbit. It is banned from conducting missile and nuclear-related tests under UN sanctions imposed after its 2006 and 2009 nuclear tests.
Under new leader Kim Jong-un, the country's government has pledged to bolster its nuclear arsenal unless Washington scraps what Pyongyang calls a hostile policy.
Richard Broinowski, a former Australian ambassador to South Korea, told Al Jazeera that it was important not to rush to conclusions regarding the intent of the launch.
"This could be called a missile test or it could be called the launch of a satellite. It's the same vehicle in both cases. And that's why I think there's a certain double standard here: when North Korea does this, it's obviously according to the United States, a missile test, but when South Korea or Japan launches their own missiles to put satellites in orbit, it is regarded as a peaceful demonstration of their technology," he said.
Tensions are high between the rival Koreas. The Korean Peninsula remains technically at war, as the 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, and Washington stations nearly 30,000 troops in South Korea as a buttress against any North Korean aggression. Tens of thousands more are in nearby Japan.


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Football team finds hope in Graham outreach
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>> by Alex Sibley
Southwestern Seminary newswriter
Luis Lama, an associate minister at Prestonwood Baptist Church en Español, imparts his hope to the Dallas-area Thomas Jefferson Patriots high school football team, which has won only one game in the past three years.
DALLAS (BP)—Having won only one game in three years, the
Thomas Jefferson Patriots high school football team in Dallas needed hope. Team chaplain Luis Lama used My Hope America with Billy Graham to fill the void.
Lama, associate minister of Prestonwood Baptist Church En Español, used My Hope's video resources to culminate a 10-week study of the Gospel of John.
"They were captivated," Lama said. "They were focused. At the end of the video, I got up and gave a testimony. And I prayed and gave an invitation. And I believe that was the best possible way that we could end the chapel series with these students, because 15 students (and one coach) came to Christ."
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) produced a video of Lama's outreach, available at billygraham.org.
Since that day, Lama has been discipling students with BGEA follow-up resources. Lama and Jefferson Patriot coaches participated in a community service project in December. The team attended the church service where the new believers were baptized.
Students in the Prestonwood student ministry that Lama leads have been supportive of the outreach to the football team through prayers and attending the games. "I feel that the students have had a front-row seat to the workings of the Spirit of God," Lama said.
"It is possible to me
et new people, invest in them, share God's message and invite them to respond."
Born in Lima, Peru, Lama's early life did not indicate he would have such a fruitful ministry. Until Lama was 10, his family attended Pentecostal house churches but adopted Mormonism after encountering a pair of Mormon missionaries.
"I was a faithful follower along with my family, until my senior year of high school. Being a part of religion didn't compare to the other things the world had to offer," Lama recounted. "The pursuit of being entertained became my quest: money, fashion, pleasure, the night life. 'Give me fun, just don't talk about Jesus and ruin the mood' was the way I looked at things."
His life of sin persisted until God intervened. At age 26, Lama had a major arrhythmia attack. The EKG registered 280 beats per minute. Unable to open his eyes, control his breathing or communicate coherently, doctors in the ER injected him with a tranquilizer. The moment they did, he flatlined, but then his heart immediately started back up at 86 beats per minute.
"Never had death become a probability until it was a reality," Lama said. "I spent the following weeks seeking the help of cardiologists to help me with my physical heart, but also in prayer to help my spiritual heart. I started attending Prestonwood a few months later."
This led to Lama's salvation.
"The moment of decision came at a men's conference," he said. "On March 31, 2007, my knee caps were shaking as I stood up and received Christ by faith as Lord and Savior. The only thing I remember about the message was that it made me take an honest assessment of myself…. I was a sinner in need of forgiveness. The cross finally made sense to me. It was an overwhelming rush of love that covered me."
Lama pursued God through discipleship classes, service opportunities and missions. While on a five-month stay in Argentina, Lama sensed a call to ministry and, upon returning to Texas, Prestonwood Baptist Church offered him a student ministry internship. He was admitted into Southwestern Seminary that same year, graduating with a master's degree in missiology in December 2011.
Lama said Southwestern played a key role in preparing him for ministry.
"First, since I didn't grow up in a Christian home, I was taught (at Southwestern) the doctrine of God," Lama said. "I was taught the Bible" by what he described as "the best professors in the nation."
"Second, Southwestern organized the balance of my time. The life of a pastor is not a simple one. I believe that my coursework pruned out the unnecessary of my life. Only the activities that truly matter are given attention when your time is limited."
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5 A.M. wake-up time, 3 juice cleanses a week, 2 dogs—the supermodel's life by the numbers.
5:00 A.M. When I'm in New York taping my show, The Face, I get up at five or six. When I'm not, I'd say nine. I don't like alarms. I don't like really sudden, loud noises; they make me jump. I wake up on my own. When I've had to put on an alarm, I always anticipate it, and I wake up before. The first thing I do is have hot water with lemon and probiotics. I've never drunk coffee; I don't like the smell. I'm a tea drinker. If I need it I will have one cup of green tea. I'm more into herbal tea. After that I get up, take a shower, and then I have another set of drinks—one for the immune system and one with aloe. Then I do yoga or Pilates, and after, a big glass of green juice. In the shower I only use baby soap. I don't like too many perfumed shower gels. I use Biofirm Lift cream, and I use eye cream. I moisturize my skin constantly, my whole body, and I use moisture serums for my face these days. I think all the makeup and heavy moisturizers just clog the pores. It doesn't take me long to get dressed—I'm quick. When I'm going to the TV studio, I just wear jeans from AG or Acne, Alaïa ballet flats, and a nice top. My favorite labels are Azzedine Alaïa, Alexander McQueen, Dolce & Gabbana, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton, Roberto Cavalli, Versace, Marc Jacobs, and Zac Posen. I'm in heels all day at work and I'm dressed up, so it's nice to be in something grounding while I can. I love most brands; I don't just go by the name. It can be $10. If I like it, I'm going to buy it. It depends if it's comfortable—comfort for me is very important. When I'm working I don't wear much jewelry, just a cross, a Lorraine Schwartz evil-eye bracelet, and a yellow sapphire on my left hand.
7:00 A.M. I go to the studio by SUV or Maserati. I catch up with phone calls and e-mails, things with Europe. Sometimes I read magazines in the car when my driver has them, but I actually prefer books. Right now I'm reading The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz. I'm also reading Clean, by Alejandro Junger, this detox book that's been around forever. It's about how to take care of your body, what you put in your body. And then before I know it, I'm at the studio. During hair and makeup I continue to do my e-mails and calls and stuff like that and try and get them out of the way. I can't keep the phone on when I'm on set. I have a BlackBerry and an iPhone; I just got the new ones. I have two dogs, a Malkie named Milo and a bulldog named Winston, but I don't bring them to work because there are too many people around and too much going on and lots of cables—I don't want them to eat anything from the floor. I do take my blanket, and walnuts, dates, apricots, lots of dried fruit, Smartwater, tea bags, a packed lunch. I just became a vegetarian, and I find it a little hard to figure out what to eat, so I just bring stuff from home. I went to this place where they teach you how to take care of your body and clean it inside and out. After that I decided I didn't want to eat pork, chicken, or anything I felt was unhealthy. I never thought I would ever do it. It was just something I decided to do. I don't know how long it's going to last, but I feel lighter and just easier. I think once you clean your intestine, you wanna try and keep it clean. I do juice cleanses two or three times per week. When I get to the studio, I usually go and check on my girls, my team: see how they are, how they slept, if they are okay in their rooms 'cause it's a new environment for them. And then I go into my room and change. They allow us, like, three hours for hair and makeup, but it's too long, so we do, like, an hour and a half.
9:15 A.M. We have meetings to talk about what we're gonna do for the day and how the fashion challenges are gonna go and the bullet points we have to hit for the brand. There are lawyers on set, which is a standard thing for reality shows, I understand. I'm new to this.
12:00 P.M. My lunch is, like, salad and vegetables or something vegetarian like seitan, which tastes like meat but it's not. Sometimes my lunch could be just a juice. I pick them up at Juice Crafters or Organic Avenue. I have probably two or three green juices a day, and I have chamomile or mint tea or Smartwater.
6:00 P.M. Yesterday was the first time I got to do some shopping, and it was 10 past six. I went to Helmut Lang and Louis Vuitton. They were really sweet and let me go in. I bought some stuff, but I never say what I buy or the prices; it's not my thing. I wanted to make sure I got some things that Marc [Jacobs] has done. When I'm not working I like to do a Zumba class in the evening.
7:30 P.M. I don't really like eating past eight if I can help it. So I prefer to have a big lunch and skip dinner. But if I go out to dinner with friends, of course I'm going to eat, but lightly. I usually go with what my friends suggest because I'm traveling constantly. I don't drink alcohol, but once in a while I'll have dessert. It depends. The other day I had cotton candy, but I hadn't had so much sugar in my body for such a long time, I couldn't sleep. It really is true when they say sugar is a drug. If I go out, I like to go to dinners and openings and the theater. Lately I haven't been to anything. I wanted to go to the movies while I'm in New York, to see all these great films I know will be up for the Oscars, like The Butler, and I haven't been able to. And I love music. I have eclectic taste—I like deep house, rap, rock, pop, punk. I love Jay's album, and I'm looking forward to the new U2 album. I like to go to concerts; the last one I went to was Barbra Streisand in London back in June. I got to sit next to Sir David Frost.
2:00 A.M. Sometimes we finish taping the show at two, sometimes we finish earlier. It really depends. On the day of the challenges, it tends to be longer 'cause we've got a lot more work to get in. And when we've got more girls, it takes a lot longer, more time. And as you get toward the end of the show, it takes less time, obviously. I love doing the show and helping young women who want to get into the modeling industry, just to give them inside tips on how to conquer and be gracious and elegant in their approach. When I get home it's makeup off, shower, bed. Normally I would say to you, I watch my computer, I catch up on the reality shows I like to watch, but lately there's been no time. It's really just get as much sleep as you can. When I have more time I watch all the Real Housewives—I'm a big fan of Andy Cohen, NeNe Leakes, and Lisa Vanderpump—and Scandal. There's some really good stuff on television right now. To relax sometimes, even when I get in at, like, midnight, I like to get a massage, because when you're in heels all day it just throws your alignment out. I do that maybe two or three times a week.
The Face, with Naomi Campbell, returns in March on Oxygen.


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Ages 6 weeks – Kindergarten Letterkenny Army Child Development Center (CDC) is an on-post child care center that offers full-day, and hourly care for children in rich and stimulating environments where children can develop motor, cognitive, social and emotional skills through a balance of exploration and planned curriculum. Learning activities are designed to support the natural development of children and include individual, small group and large group experiences. Our philosophy is based on the idea that children learn practical life skills through programs and activities that emphasize fun, play, action, group and individual challenges supported by the National Association for the Education of Young Children standards.
To provide a quality program in an environment where your child can enjoy developmental growth physically, cognitively, socially, and emotionally.
To facilitate family self-reliance and reinforce Army values.
To maintain affordability of child and youth programs for both patrons and the Army through researching metrics, operational efficiencies, and seamless service delivery.
To establish and sustain CYSS program quality as a "benchmark for the nation" in accordance with statutory requirements, DOD, and Army standards.
The Letterkenny Army Child Development center supports the Army Family Covenant by offering full-day, and hourly care for children ages six weeks through kindergarten.
Child Development Center programs provide rich and stimulating environments in which children develop motor, cognitive, social and emotional skills through a balance of exploration and planned curriculum. Learning activities are designed to support the natural development of children and include individual, small group and large group experiences.
Each staff member completes a series of comprehensive training modules which address the domains of child development (social, emotional, cognitive, language, physical). Our goal is to ensure that all children who attend the Child Development Center, receive care which is developmentally appropriate nurturing each individual child. A full-time Training and Curriculum Specialist is on site to support and guide staff with ongoing training and to offer hands-on support in the classroom.


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Disinterested in politics, Punjab's 93% women farm workers "ignorant" who is India's PM
Even as political parties are fighting a pitched battle during the Lok Sabha elections, a recent study, 'Socio-Economic Conditions and Political Participation of Rural Women Labourers in Punjab', has made the stark revelation that "a very large majority of the rural woman labourers, i.e., 95.28 per cent have no interest in politics", even as pointing out, "They do not read, listen and watch news."
The study says, not only do rural woman labourers "have no time to watch or listen to news because they remain pre-occupied with the domestic chores", and being illiterate, they "are not able to read newspapers", significantly, 89.28 per cent of the respondents "do not know even the name of the Chief Minister of Punjab."
Carried out by a team led by agricultural economist Dr Gian Singh and his team comprising Dharampal, Gurinder Kaur, Veerpal Kaur and Jyoti, the study says, "Similarly, a very large majority of the respondents, i.e., 92.72 per cent failed to tell the name of the Prime Minister of the country." Further: "Almost all the respondents, i.e., 99.21 per cent have no idea about the name of the President of the country."
The study, which has been carried out in three geographical regions of Punjab, Majha, Doaba and Malwa, and is based on a survey of 1,017 respondents, with more than half (51.33 per cent) whom having begun to work as labourers when they were less than 20 years of age, says, "A large majority of the respondents, i.e., 83.28 per cent do not know the names of any two female political leaders of the state and 78.56 per cent could not tell the names of the various political parties in India."
According to the study, while it is a "good sign" that a very large majority of the respondents, i.e., 95.97 per cent cast their votes in the last Punjab Legislative Assembly elections, during the field survey, it was observed that "a majority of the woman labourers in all the three regions cast their vote by the choice of their senior male family members".
Even these male family members, the study claims, were found to be "further pressurized" by the money-lenders, shopkeepers, traders, employers, landlords and religious leaders, adding, a very large majority of the women respondents, i.e., 97.25 per cent, have "never participated in any political campaign/public assembly." This is because these woman labourers "have to perform dual duty at the workplace and on the domestic front."
The study also shows that "a very large majority of the respondent labourers, i.e., 96.67 per cent are not willing to be elected as representatives in elections, if they get an opportunity", with the respondents feeling "very disappointed regarding this aspect." In fact, they gave responses like "asi ane joge kithe?", "hun tan agle janam vich dekhange?", "gareeban nu kon moaka dinda?", which bring "out the extent of exclusion of the rural woman labourers in the Indian political system."
It comments, "This approach makes the rural women insignificant for voting results and so the development policies ignore their interests."
Women workers' profile
The profile of the women agricultural labourers in the study shows that more than two-thirds of the rural woman labourers (67.35 per cent) are illiterate, and even among the literate, majority of them are educated up to the primary level, with poor economic conditions compelling them "to start work as labourers at an early age.
Further, the survey shows, a large majority of the rural woman labourers, i.e., 92.43 per cent belong to the Scheduled Caste category, 7.08 per cent to the Backward Class category and only 0.49 per cent to the General Caste category. Majority of them live in semi-pucca houses, and most of their houses are in dilapidated conditions. They find it hard to even get their houses repaired.
Pointing out that an average rural woman labour household earned Rs 77,198, with only 24.91 per cent of their total income coming from hiring out (contractual as well as casual) labour in agriculture, "too low to meet the basic needs", the study says, "This is the reason that the earning members of the rural woman labour households are also struggling to earn their income from other sources."
Other sources of income include working at MGNREGA sites, as domestic servants, white-washing, brick-kiln workers, livestock, vending vegetables/fruits, dairying, labour in grain markets and tailoring, the study says, noting, however, "Not even a single respondent woman labourer is aware about the Minimum Wages Act which provides for fixing the minimum rates of wages for them."
Ignorant towards their basic rights, the study also reveals that majority of the rural woman labourers, i.e., 62.83 per cent, are suffering from one or the other serious diseases such as body aches, sugar and blood pressure, bronchia problems, heat exhaustion and so on, apart from unhygienic living conditions and lack of balanced diet. Even then, medical facilities such as hospitals and laboratories are not available to them and consult local medical practitioners only.
The study says, "More than one-fourth of the respondents, 25.27 per cent, complain that they face caste discrimination at the workplace. They reported that the 'socalled' higher caste employers often use abusive language such as 'chuhri', 'chamari' and so on for them." It notes, during the survey, "5.01 per cent of the respondents said they faced sexual exploitation at the workplace, whereas a large majority of them (70.60) did not given any response on this issue."
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Uma said…
This is not surprising. After all, when do we get a chance to even hear the president, forget listening to his speeches, except for an occasional condolence or congratulatory message which he is coached to utter. As for the majority of ministers--national or state--unless they stir up controversies, they are over-shadowed by the vocal few.
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Elsie Matthews
The inspirational holiday story of the woman who brought Meals on Wheels to Canada.
Tim Ford, December 21, 2022 // Brantford, Ontario A look back at Elsie Matthews hard at work in our community. Stock photo.
Imagine a cold Brantford, on a November afternoon in 1963. Our downtown would have been buzzing with throngs of Brantfordian's trampling down the slushy sidewalks of Colborne Street. Folks would have been hustling from store to store, trying to get a head start on their Christmas shopping and attempting to cross a few names off the ever-growing Christmas list they had assembled. Picture a cut-out of the Coca-Cola Santa winking and cheers'ing his delicious cold Coke, standing in the doorway of the corner market on King Street, as cash registers chimed like silver bells into the streets.
A few blocks west, local resident Elsie Matthews flipped up the collar of her jacket, trying to shield the freezing rain from her face. She walked away from the bustle of Colborne's Christmas commerce and onto the calming quiet of William Street. She stopped at the corner of William and Church Street and climbed the steps of a grand manor that was built in 1894 for a wealthy Industrialist, but at that time it was being occupied by the local Red Cross. Elsie politely asked for an ear and presented a simple but noble proposal that she drew inspiration from when travelling through England.
While overseas in a newly post-WWII Britain, she witnessed a program they had developed where they brought warm meals to people in need. This was due to the blitz and the fact that it had destroyed many homes and people did not have kitchens to cook from. When she observed this, it made her think of the members in her own community that could use a helping hand as well. Elsie knew there were people in our town struggling, especially through the holidays, and wanted to make a difference in any way she could.
Knowing what a hardy meal could do to improve a person's well-being, she passionately illustrated her plan to cook and personally deliver dinners for seniors throughout the community. Along with the meal, they would get some much-needed support and company as the food was being dropped off. The members of the Red Cross agreed to the proposition. They offered their kitchen, a station wagon for drop-offs, and began local food drives to help with Elsie's initiative. This gave Elsie everything she needed to establish the very first 'Meals on Wheels' in Canada.
That holiday season, twelve seniors would reach out for help. Each week, Elsie, along with her gang of volunteers, loaded up the wagon and dropped off the dinners they cooked themselves, offering a nice meal and conversation to those who needed it. The program became so needed that they began to offer their services to disabled and lower income families in the area, also giving aid to those often-overlooked communities. Elsie's selfless ambition to simply give a
warm meal to those who needed one, quickly encouraged and inspired those around her.
Vintage logo of Meals On Wheels. Stock photo.
It wasn't long after Elsie launched her program that neighbouring towns followed her initiative and began their own chapters of Meals on Wheels. Today, there are 181 communities in Ontario alone that offer this service. According to The Red Cross, the program wheeled over 100,000 meals across Canada in 2021.
Elsie probably didn't realise how important that walk she made down William Street was on that cold November day in 1963, but the profound impact of her endeavour is undeniable. Elsie Matthews is an excellent example of that Dickensian holiday spirit so often talked about around this time of year, yet her name is almost never mentioned. It was a first for Canada, and it happened in our little community.
It was difficult to research this important story, as there is little information about Elsie, except for brief mentions in a few articles online. While her accomplishments should be lauded, it's a double-edged sword. The fact that Meals on Wheels is being used throughout most towns across the country, now more than ever, proves there is still so much work that needs to be done in our communities.
Maclean's magazine reported at the end of last year, demand for the service was up 60% from the previous year in Ontario and continues to struggle with donations and funding present day. With higher demand for Meal on Wheels, the organization struggles with a lack of volunteers and drivers, a key component to the success of the program.
The grand manor on William and Church St. in Brantford, Ontario. Stock photo.
The grand manor on William and Church St. became too big and cumbersome for the Red Cross and they moved their operations to 446 Grey St, where they still run the Meals on Wheels program today.
Elsie Matthews saw the power of community aid and was inspired. Her story proves what is possible even in a small, sometimes forgotten town. The actions of one person can ripple throughout a nation.
For more information on how you can help, please contact your local Red Cross at (519) 753-4189 or on redcross.ca
redcross.ca
https://www.macleans.ca/society/demand-for-meals-on-wheels-and-the-drivers-who-make-it-possible-is-soaring/
Tim Ford is freelance hobbyist who lives in his twelfth home in Brantford, Ontario…so…yeah, he knows a thing or two about aluminum siding.


YANGON: US-backed Radio Free Asia has pulled broadcasts from a television channel in Myanmar after the government tried to ban the word "Rohingya" on its shows.
Myanmar labels the persecuted Muslim minority "Bengalis" as it does not recognise the Rohingya as native to the country, and bristles when the word is used in media coverage. Radio Free Asia made the decision to stop airing its Burmese broadcasts with local network Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), which airs on state television.
The move came after the government told DVB that they could not carry content with the word "Rohingya", referring to Radio Free Asia's coverage. The president of RFA Libby Liu said complying with Myanmar's order would be "inaccurate and disingenuous to both our product and our audience" in a statement posted online on Monday .
"RFA will continue to refer to the Rohingya as the 'Rohingya' in our reports," she said, adding that forbidding the usage was an "Orwellian step". RFA said it will continue its coverage of Myanmar on radio and social media platforms such as Facebook.
The Democratic Voice of Burma worked in exile during military rule but came back after Myanmar launched political reforms in 2011 that included the abolition of pre-publication censorship. It was one of a handful of companies recently granted new television licenses by the government and started broadcasting on the state-controlled MRTV channel in April.