I think about my white privilege often. I think about it when I intentionally run a red light, when I ride my bike on the sidewalk or the wrong way down a one-way street, when I drink alcohol in Prospect Park on my picnic blanket, and when I self-serve myself coffee at my local Pret and decide I'll "pay later" because there's twenty people in line.
Alongside the deep horror and painful grief of the endless events of racist police brutality and murders, I am gladdened and also surprised by, taking note of the proliferating media coverage and political commentary on racist police brutality and racist mass incarceration. Racism in policing and in the criminal justice system is nothing new. All the attention on it is not a constant, to say the least.
In my twenty-plus years working in public health, in the HIV and AIDS field, it is a constant that we discuss racial disparities and inequalities, health and wealth disparities. There are wildly different stats in this country for premature birth, infant mortality, disease acquisition and life expectancy between black and white people. This can be attributed largely to poverty (racist economics) and the everyday stress of racism.
I attended a panel discussion not long ago about AIDS amongst gay black men, and yes, even as we discuss the end of the epidemic every single day at my office, it is gay black men who continue to have new infections of HIV and will bear the brunt of the epidemic as it winds down in America. This panel of gay, black professors, academics and physicians, referred regularly to white supremacy in their talk. I was startled by the phrase. It was used in place of where I would have expected "institutionalized racism" to appear.
But I liked them describing the bias in our American society as white supremacy. I live in a land where I can steal coffee, drink wine in public, and break traffic laws in front of the police, and not only am I not arrested and assaulted and accused of assaulting an officer, I don't even suffer the heart palpitations and chemical reactions to stress of fearing these things.
Here's one small example of how institutionalized racism or white supremacy has been established in our land. When FDR initiated Social Security for senior citizens in 1935, it excluded two groups of workers, domestic workers and agricultural workers. 95% of black Americans held one of those two jobs in 1935. This created a legacy of poverty where poverty was already abundant. Black senior citizens could not support themselves when they stopped working. Their middle-aged children could not acquire wealth so easily because they financially supported their parents. Without a single word about race in the Social Security bill, a huge system of government entitlements institutionalized the racism that prevailed throughout the country. It's one small example of so many.
I'm convinced that part of ensuring an avalanche of attention on racist police brutality and racist mass incarceration- and hopefully a societal shift in attitudes and policies- is that we white people recognize our white privilege. Noticing how we "benefit" by being dominant can create a cosmic adjustment. There are so many out there that deny racism even exists anymore. I think most people do not deny it, but I think most people have a ways to go in seeing how racism has not hurt them, and what the cost of that has been.


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Our PHN has since been working around the clock to set up a range of new AOD services within our region.
We have really engaged with local stakeholders in a major way to understand the local needs relating to AOD, and then designed services based on these needs. We've established and worked with our local Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Advisory Committee who has guided the commissioning of Aboriginal specific AOD services and made sure that the services support better mental health as well. Their input also lead to the development of a more a culturally-appropriate commissioning model to ensure the most suitable applicants can be identified through the tender process.
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200: The Great National Debt Debate
April 11, 2018 by David Stein
Joshua Sheats from the Radical Personal Finance podcast and I discuss our different views regarding the national debt and the severity of the U.S. government fiscal situation.
Photo by Jake Ingle
Over the past four years, David has created 200 episodes of Money For the Rest of Us. On this 200th episode, he talks with Joshua Sheats, creator of the Radical Personal Finance podcast. They discuss the national debt debate, why local communities are often the driving force behind the national economy and the biggest concerns when thinking about the future of the United States. Not only do they rationally discuss big economic questions, but they also share why America is still a phenomenal country full of freedom and optimism.
Show Notes</h2
Radical Personal Finance Episode 466 – The USA's Long-Term Fiscal Gap and Why It Matters to You (America's Fiscal Insolvency and Its Generational Consequences by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff)
The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America by David Stockman
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David and Joshua's stances on the great national debt debate
Joshua has covered the national debt debate on his own podcast many times and explains to David that he believes the US government has made promises it can't keep. He believes Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are all programs that are simply not sustainable long-term. David counters this viewpoint by explaining that a national financial collapse will not be because of accounting, but rather be caused by a "morally bankrupt government that doesn't follow the rule of law." He explains that countries such as Japan are successfully operating with a debt to GDP ratio that is double that of the US, and claims that America has, and could continue to, operate on a 3-5% deficit to GDP.
The fiscal situation of the federal government is determined by household and business operations
David explains on this episode of Money For the Rest of Us that even if a government starts with a balanced budget, the year-end result is determined by the actions of households and businesses. If households and businesses decide to spend less and save more (like in the event of a recession), households and businesses will earn less income because businesses will buy less from each other and workers will be laid off. Less income earned means less income taxes paid, which means tax revenue falls and results in a federal budget deficit, no matter how balanced and correct accounting-wise the budget was to begin with.
Cultural capital as it relates to the economy and the importance of not being an alarmist
The idea of cultural capital is discussed throughout this episode. Defined as the collection of experiences, knowledge, skills, and goods that one can use to demonstrate a place in society, cultural capital defines the way a modern society operates. Specifically, the level of education and productivity a community has will define how well it succeeds in a broader economic environment. David explains to listeners that money equals trust, and trust in political leaders and government institutions is what allows a country to flourish. Since money can be created by governments, if trust does not exist then the country is in peril. However, understanding these issues and being unnecessarily alarmed about potential threats are two very different ideas. For all of the details of cultural capital, as well as Joshua and David's debate on financial collapse warning signs, be sure to listen to this podcast.
Still feeling concerned about the national debt? Here's why David & Joshua are optimistic about the future of the United States
Even with the national debt predicament in mind, Joshua and David are still optimistic about the future of the country. They're both adamant about the fundamental good qualities that exist in people and the wonderful flexibility Americans have for building businesses and creating new ideas. They're encouraged by the decentralization of knowledge and the advances being made in artificial intelligence and robotics.
[0:30] David introduces his topic for the 200th episode, the great national debt debate
[2:22] David thanks his listeners for over 7 million downloads over 4 years of podcasting
[4:17] Joshua overviews his episode of Radical Personal Finance that discussed the national debt debate
[6:51] David counters Joshua's stance on the national debt debate
[10:32] Moral collapse vs. financial collapse and the "inevitability" of financial ruin
[11:14] Is there a limit to deficit spending? What exactly is government debt?
[16:49] Taxation as it relates to currency and the national economy
[19:22] Analysis of federal programs such as social security must be viewed in the present, not in a future tense
[20:20] We can take take care of accounting issues, but people must be able to produce goods and services
[21:58] The idea of cultural capital as it relates to the economy
[27:48] Why David and Joshua are optimistic about the future economy of America
[31:50] Trends that concern David and Joshua regarding the future of the country
[42:17] Is it possible to have financial collapse and bankruptcy in the coming years? If so, what are the warning signs?
[44:05] The importance of not being an alarmist, but being aware of the actual concerns facing the United States
[53:13] Do Americans speak a common cultural language?
[54:42] David's summary of his 200th episode of Money For the Rest of Us.
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Barely a week after the ruling coalition's 11th congress re-elected Abiy Ahmed, with unanimous vote, as chairman which means that he will also remain in his prime ministerial post until the next national election, he experienced incidents yesterday that happen only in a coup d'état like situation.
240 armed Special Forces, who were reportedly deployed to Burayu town in the western outskirts of Addis Ababa to control attack against ethnic Gamo, marched to the palace in the capital Addis Ababa without the knowledge of relevant government bodies. Up on arrival, they reportedly insisted that they want to see Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in person.
The alleged reason, as reported by government media outlets, was that they want to express grievances related to pay, benefits and also what they reportedly described as administrative gaps within the defense force including corruption. That is how government media wanted to project the incident to the public.
Blurry and insensible nature of the story rather caused speculation among Ethiopians as to what really happened. The belief is that the motive was perhaps more sinister and that there are either hostile forces to the ongoing change or external enemies of Ethiopia behind it.
Federal Police Commissioner,Zeinu Jemal, did not hide that there was a little acrimony as the Special Forces tried to enter palace with their arms; which is presumed to have the involvement of palace guards.
In the face of camera,after he apparently distracted public attention by doing push up with the soldiers which was made headlines rather that the main story – a sort of munity, to say the least, Abiy Ahmed wanted to make what has happened appear nothing serious.
Many Ethiopians, analysts and activists, who took the matter to social media seem to be, rightly, concerned and angered at the same time with the level of anarchy those special forces demonstrated by planning to confront the prime minister in his office rather than channeling their demands following the procedures put in place as a show of respect to military discipline. Some even seem to think that it is unlikely for the armed Special Forces to spontaneously march to the palace without some sort of planned coordination and mobilization from behind, and they want Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government to get to the bottom of it to identity motives and agencies behind it.
Indeed, what if the entity that possibly mobilized them to march to the palace is just testing the water as part of a plan to carry out something bigger and more dangerous? And what is the message that the incident sends to the rest of the defense force?
Social values and morality is a border to be defended on its own. Unfortunately, Ethiopia is already living an era of moral decay and anarchism which is to a freate extent a byproduct of the 27 years of rule of TPLF and political elites who rather seem to enjoy sordid gains ( both "fame" and fortune) by promoting ethnic politics, among other things. If the kind of anarchy and moral decay we witness duirng ethnic based attack which is basically driven by hate and ignorance,which fostered gullibility, is entrenched in the military, there is no pillar to hold Ethiopia alive. That is why Prime Minister Abiy needs to deal with the matter seriously while figuring out ways of launching a long term educational program in the military to foster values of selflessness and Ethiopian patriotism. Being a soldier is a selfless and patriotic act. It can not be done otherwise and it can not be done in a selfish way; some have tried to it that way but brought much misery to the country, nothing else.
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Wilson, Carroll A; Wilson, Jean C. S. [Editor]; Randall, David A.; [Alcott, Louisa A.; Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Hardy, Thomas; Hawthorn, Nathaniel; Irving, Washington; Lowell, James Russell; Melville, Herman; Poe, Edgar Allan; and Thoreau, Henry David
Thirteen Author Collections of the Nineteenth Century and Five Centuries of Familiar Quotations [SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY]
New York: Privately Printed by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. First (and only) Edition. Hardcover with loosely laid-in items. A Very Good + to Near Fine copy of the first edition, first and only printing, of this excellent list of works once held by famed collector Carroll A. Wilson, together with Wilson's collection of works containing quotations of famous persons, this being published after the great collector's death in 1947. This set lacks its orginal glassine dust jackets and the original slipcase but COMES TOGETHER WITH AN ORIGINAL of Carroll A. Wilson's 1937 Christmas Greetings (sent by Wilson), printed on a single sheet of elegant paper measuring just under sixteen inches high and ten inches wide folded once horizontally and then once vertically to make a booklet measuring seven and fifteen sixteenth (7 15/16) inches high by five (5) inches wide and which presents within a facsimilie Thomas Hardy's Christmas Poem "The Oxen" and a facsimilie of a letter from Thomas Hardy regarding Christmas and Francis Francillon, a fellow-writer with Hardy for Cornhill magzine, a person for whom Hardy procured a Civil List Pension (as stated on the booklet's rear face). FURTHER TOGETHER WITH a machine copy of an unsigned letter to Carroll A. Wilson's widow from Henry Allen Moe dated September 29, 1950. The letter's main body beings: "Carroll is in my mind always but during the past two months he has been with me more closely than ever. The reasons are two." The letter then details the reasons, which include matters that reveal Wilson's character, important connections, and kindness. ADDITIONALLY, a second machine-copy of a signed letter from Carroll A. Wilson's widow (his second wife), Jean C. S. Wilson, addressed to Henry Allen Moe beginning "Dear Mr. Moe:" In the letter, she notes that she is pleased that Moe is ...going to write a piece about Carroll for the Oxonian..." and enclosing copies of the "poems that were read at Carroll's service". She notes that "One was a sonnet by Butler and the other a selection from Snow-Bound. The sonnet...represents Carroll's intellectual belief about death, and the Whitter his emotional feeling about it." Machine-made copies of both are included -- perhaps the very copies the Widow Wilson sent to Moe, but that conjecture is not verifiable. The set is number 7 (handwritten in blue ink) and the Limitation Notice states "Of this book, 375 copies have been printed by The Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine, of which three hundred and fifty copies will be for sale. No. 7" [with the "7" being handwritten in blue ink]. Volume I's front free endpaper is inscribed and signed by Jean C. S. Wilson as follows: "For Mr. Moe // With /kindest regards // Jean C. S. Wilson // September 23, 1950", and so it appears that this copy was one of the 25 copies withheld from sale. Thus, in consideration thereof and of the ORIGINAL INSCRIPTION and in further consideration of the items loosely laid in and CARROLL A. WILSON'S CONNECTION TO HENRY ALLEN MOE (see below) THIS COPY DISTINGUISHES ITSELF FROM OTHER COPIES FOUND FOR SALE. [NOTE: The set's inscribee, Henry Allen Moe, served as the first director of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was president of the American Philosophical Society from 1959 to 1970. the Principal Administrator of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation from its founding in 1925 to his retirement in 1963. Some of the first fellows chosen by Dr. Moe included the Poet Stephen Vincent Benét, the composer Aaron Copland, the choreographer Martha Graham, and the photographer Edward Weston. Notably, Carroll A. Wilson, as an attorney, served as General Counsel of the Foundation. The New York Times, in its Obituary of Henry Allen Moe stated: "While in command of a Navy destroyer he suffered severe injuries when a boom collapsed. From his hospital bed, he sent an application for a Rhodes scholarship that so impressed Carroll Wilson, a New York bibliographer, former Rhodes scholar and lawyer, that he went to the hospital to visit the applicant and obtained a scholarship for him." Some details of this account are set forth in Moe's letter to Jean C. S. Wilson.] IN SHORT, THIS IS A WONDERFUL AND REMARKABLE ASSOCIATION COPY, AND WE THINK IT TO BE A REASONALBLE ASSUMPTION THAT WILSON'S 1937 CHRISTMAS GREETING DESCRIBED ABOVE WAS SENT OR DELIVERED BY CARROLL A. WILSON TO HENRY ALLEN MOE. A WONDERFUL ASSOCIATION COPY AND RARE INDEED. Very Good +. Item #3604
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Iron deficiency anemia is frequent among the poor worldwide. While it can be prevented with the appropriate supplement or food fortification, these programs often do not consistently reach the poorest. This paper reports on the impact of a potential strategy to address iron deficiency anemia in rural areas: double fortified salt (DFS) — salt fortified with iron and iodine. We conducted a large-scale experiment in rural Bihar. In 200 villages, randomly selected out of 400, DFS was introduced at a price that was half the regular retail price for DFS. After two years, we find no evidence that either selling DFS in villages or providing it for free directly to households has an economically meaningful or statistically significant impact on hemoglobin, anemia, physical health, cognition or mental health.


Construction workers in New York City have one of the most dangerous jobs that any worker can perform. Working at significant heights creates a serious danger that must always be safely protected against with any and all safety equipment and precautions. Safety training for construction workers is a MUST. Not only does work at heights create dangers but almost every aspect of construction work involves tools and materials and procedures that potentially can cause serious injury and in some situations grave INJURY.
This article highlights these dangers and loss of human life that the surge of construction in New York has created. City leaders in New York continue to stand by our construction workers to ensure more training, better safety precautions and ultimately a safer working environment. A well-trained worker is a safe worker.
Last week our firm resolved a 4.5 Million case for a construction worker that was seriously injured as a result of a building that collapsed as a result of multiple violations of the NYC Department of buildings. Unfortunately that worker was a non -union worker that had not been provided safety training or the necessary safety equipment to prevent his injuries. One of the failings of companies that hire Non-Union workers is that they often don't require training. In fact, NYCOSH has found that 80% of construction accident deaths involve non -union workers.
Last week's case was all about worker safety and site safety. Our focus on the defendant's failure to provide each resulted in a summary judgment decision by the court. In other words, the court decided the defendant was responsible without even presenting the case to the jury. The Judge in the case said that as a matter of law there were not proper safety precautions to prevent the client's accident.
It is always the intention of this office to ensure that the cases we resolve for construction workers will send the message to all employers that better training, better safety equipment, and safety precautions will prevent future accidents. The pain and suffering that occurs when safe practices are not followed are unfortunate, extreme and sad. In the case we resolved last week this office worked with construction experts, economists and life care planners to assess the needs of our client and his family for the remainder of his life.
Founded in 1992, Raphaelson & Levine treats every client as if they are the only client in the firm. We are a law firm with the significant resources necessary to see every case through to trial if that's what we believe it will take to secure the largest possible outcome for our clients. Our experienced team of lawyers and support staff works tirelessly for people who have been victims of accidents.


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The Australian Synchrotron Project
The Australian Synchrotron is a world-class national research facility that uses accelerator technology to produce a powerful source of light – x-rays and infrared radiation – a million times brighter than the sun.
Precision Laser Cutting's investment in a Bystronic laser cutting machine was a key component in landing a contract to supply over 100,000 laminations that when glued, pressed together and machined, created a series of powerful magnets destined for the Australian Synchrotron Project.
Over 300 tons of special lamination steel was used and the laser was run on 24-hour shifts to keep within tight deadlines. The Bystronic laser's shuttle table allowed cut laminations to be removed and a fresh sheet of steel to be loaded while the laser was cutting. Powerful servo drive motors combined with a powerful laser meant a fast cutting speed, superb accuracy and minimal time between cuts.
The project proved that Precision Laser Cutting is internationally competitive for quality, price and service. By investing in the best laser cutting technology and CAD/CAM software, one off projects to production runs can be quickly delivered. Economical use of material is ensured with the latest in part nesting programmes giving the customer best value for money.
A synchrotron is a large machine (about the size of a football field) that accelerates electrons to almost the speed of light. As the electrons are deflected through magnetic fields they create extremely bright light.
The light is channeled to experimental workstations where it is used for research purposes. The facility has ten different experimental stations, or beamlines, which harness that light so researchers can see the fundamental structure and composition of materials, on scales ranging from the atomic to the macroscopic – with a level of detail, speed and accuracy not possible in conventional laboratories.
The Australian Synchrotron supports a broad range of high quality research, with applications in sectors from medicine and nanotechnology to manufacturing and mineral exploration. Applications for the synchrotron include medical research, cell biology, atmospheric research, mineral analysis, advanced materials testing and forensics.
Based in the state of Victoria the approximately 200 million dollar project was announced in 2001 and opened in July 2007. Government and partnerships with universities and research institutes from around Australia and New Zealand funded the synchrotron.
Buckley Systems and CMS Alphatech won the 6 million dollar contract to supply the magnets, which make up the heart of the machine. Precision Laser Cutting was sub contracted to cut the magnet laminations.
Our highly advanced techniques and passionate staff are contributing directly and demonstrably to scientific advances and industrial innovations with medical, social and economic benefits for all Australians.
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Open primary offers pluses and minuses
By Lisa Vorderbrueggen | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: May 2, 2010 at 8:51 p.m. | UPDATED: August 15, 2016 at 4:19 p.m.
The open primary initiative on the June 8 ballot would produce scores of Democrat-vs.-Democrat showdowns in California, drive up campaign costs and increase nonpartisan voters' influence, according to an analysis from the Center for Governmental Studies.
Proposition 14 would eliminate the party-based primary election system for statewide, legislative, Board of Equalization and congressional candidates. It is modeled after the only other state with an open primary, Washington, where a similar voting plan survived a 2007 Supreme Court challenge.
Voters could choose among all the candidates regardless of party registration and the top two vote-getters would advance to the general election, also without regard to party affiliation.
A visibly reluctant Legislature placed the measure on the ballot in exchange for then-state GOP Sen. Abel Maldonado's tiebreaking vote in favor of the 2009 state budget.
In a rare bipartisan accord, the Democratic and Republican parties unequivocally oppose the measure as a massive historical shift from the way it selects its nominees. California voters in 1996 passed an open primary system but the U.S. Supreme Court deemed it unconstitutional as a violation of a person's right to associate. Voters adopted the current primary system in 2004.
Minority parties also vociferously object; their candidates would only under extraordinary circumstances advance to the general election under the open primary. It would be almost impossible for underfunded and unknown third-party candidates to garner enough votes to push them into the top two slots.
The chief conclusions of the 113-page study by the Los Angeles-based nonpartisan policy group support proponents' arguments that an open primary could boost the chances of moderate candidates, ease the increasingly ideologically polarized political climate and hike participation of nonpartisan, or decline-to-state, voters.
The James Irvine Foundation and California Forward helped pay for the study, released Thursday, which involved the analysis of voter registration data, turnout and primary election results.
Among its major findings:
More than one-third of California legislative and congressional general election races would likely be between two members of the same party, and nearly all would be Democrat vs. Democrat. The report based its findings on the large number of districts, mostly in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, where Democrats hold a 25 percentage point or greater party registration advantage — 15 of 40 Senate districts, 28 of 80 of Assembly districts and 19 of 53 congressional districts.
State Senate races would be disproportionately affected because established, termed out Assembly members often run for those seats.
Some of the races between two members of the same party would be close enough that nonpartisan voters and those from the other party could swing an election to the more centrist option.
Decline-to-state voters comprise a fifth of the state's electorate but they fail to vote in large percentages in the state's party primary system even though the parties permit it, the report found.
Only 14 percent of the 2008 primary election turnout was from nonpartisan voters, and when they did vote, three-quarters requested Democratic Party ballots.
On the other side of the aisle, the report authors agree that passage of Prop. 14 could trigger longer and more expensive campaigns.
Candidates in an open primary would seek to influence a far larger spectrum of voters in the primary election rather than just those from their parties.
The top two vote-getters could also face two costly campaigns rather than one. Under the existing system, the winning primary candidates in districts that heavily favor one party rarely face serious general election challengers.
Lisa Vorderbrueggen covers politics. Contact her at 925-945-4773 or www.ibabuzz.com/politics.
Download the full report, "Open Primaries and Top Two Elections: Prop. 14 on the California's June 2010 Ballot," by the Center for Governmental Studies, at www.cgs.org.
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Special Olympics Texas has kicked off the #SOTXSTRONG fundraising and awareness campaign to bring attention to the financial difficulties the non-profit is facing following Hurricane Harvey's landfall. The organization faces a budgetary shortfall of hudnreds of thousands of dollars. Because of damage to venues, several fundraisers have been canceled; some businesses have withdrawn sponsorship dollars and redirected those funds to hurricane relief; and other event participants have requested that donations be returned because they face hardships of their own.
We're trying to raise $100,000 in 30 days, and would like to raise even more if possible.


The following sample code is distributed under the GNU General Public License. It comes with no warranty or support.
This sample code (124k ZIP, 8-21-06) is designed to control SparkFun's Nokia-like graphic color LCD with an Atmel AVR microcontroller.
The sample code was written for an Atmel ATmega644 AVR microcontroller, but should run on the mega16, mega32, mega128, etc.
The code uses C++ classes. If you have ever forgotten to set the direction register for an output, or neglected to call a setup function to initialize a counter, you'll appreciate that the class constructors automatically take care of all the setup required for each object.
Note: This project is intended as an example of how to communicate with the SparkFun graphic LCD. It assumes that you are familiar with C++ and programming the Atmel AVR family of microcontrollers. If you are not, it would be a good idea to find another project as a learning tool.
Read the readme.txt included in the ZIP. It contains lots of useful information!
Look at the code in main.cpp for examples of how to use the features in the LCD code.
For files in the "lib" (library) folder, look at the code in the .h files to see what each object can do. You shouldn't need to modify the .h or .cpp files in the lib folder.
Read the comment at the beginning of "makefile" to see what commands you can specify.
Use the "make setfuse" command to ensure that your microcontroller's fuse bits are set for the sample code (e.g. 8 MHz processor speed). You only need to do this once; the fuse bits are persistent.
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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has appointed France's Dr Pierre Demolis as vice-chair of the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP).
Dr Demolis is director of the oncology and haematology division at the French Medicines Agency (ANSM) and originally trained as a cardiologist.
In his new role, he will work with chair Dr Tomas Salmonson of Sweden to head the CHMP, which provides recommendations on the use of drugs in the EU.
Dr Demolis' appointment comes after six years serving as a member of the CHMP. He has prior experience at the EMA, including serving as a member of the Scientific Advisory Working Group.


Shortly after Dan Filler started this blog in the spring of 2008 I put up a couple of posts about blogging. One asked why I'm doing this (or, to use the inverse of Kim Krawiec's phrase, why would anyone blog). Another post discussed blogger's disease. Over the past -- wow, I guess it's -- five years I've become more convinced that blogger's disease is a real problem, though I've also finally turned to the view that blogging can be positive. Funny how I'm behind the times in this. I had a conversation recently with a friend who's a serious blogger and I mentioned that I was finally developing a positive attitude towards blogging. He looked at me somewhat oddly and aked, "are blogs still relevant?"
Without entering the really interesting discussion of whether blogs are still (or ever were) relevant, let me try to crowd source some informaiton on the subject of another post I put up back in 2008: trends in the legal academy. I predicted that there would be a renewed focus on teaching and an increase in teaching loads along with it. I thought of this post when a friend at another school asked me how schools are implementing increased teaching loads. I had to confess that I didn't know. There's a significant difference in the utility to the students and schools in how they manage this. Does the increase come in a major lecture course or in a small enrollment course, for instance? Or does the increase come in an experiential learning course -- which has lots of student contact already -- or an upper-level lecture class, which though it has a lot of students may not have nearly so much contact?
I've heard a lot recently about schools looking at the student credit hours that faculty teach (the number of credits for each course multiplied by students enrolled in the course). Is this part of the calculations at schools that are increasingly teaching loads? Are schools increasing teaching loads across the board or are they increasing some teachers' loads more than others?
It would be interesting if he ABA required disclosure of teaching lads as part of law schools' consumer information.
Interesting suggestion, Jim. How are you thinking consumers would use this information -- as an indicator of the efficiency of a law school in using resources/tuition dollars?
Yes, that, and as an indicator of the law school's priorities as to teaching and scholarship.
You would think that potential students, if they cared at all, would want _lower_ teaching loads per professor. I would think that a professor that is teaching only one or two small classes would have more time to dedicate to the class and each student than if they were teaching several large classes at the same time.
I don't think a prospective student would prize either high loads/professor or low/professor -- the former suggests priorities (but also lack of attentiveness, and maybe cost savings resulting in higher profit margins), and the latter greater potential attentiveness (but only if the professors devoted the freed time to their classes and students). They should want to see something on class size (not just averages), ultimately trading off higher class sizes for lower tuition (if they could).
I hadn't heard before about student credit hours calculated by multiplying the number of credits for each course faculty teach by students enrolled, but it seems like it has some real benefits, including incentivizing professors to make their classes more appealing and more popular so they get more bang for their buck (i.e., the more energy I put into making my class interesting and my teaching reviews excellent, the more students I'll get, the less additional teaching burden I may have). On the other hand, it may also incentivize teachers to be "easy" instead of hard--less socratic, assign less material, etc.
There are a several issues here.
First, for financial reasons, many schools want to be able to "process" the same number of students with fewer total faculty. This could be accomplished by shrinking faculty rolls through attrition. Since students *have* to enroll in courses, teaching "loads" would automatically or naturally increase in the form of higher enrollments for the remaining profs' classes. But note here that "teaching load" only really matters at the institutional level: fewer total profs on payroll to teach a given # of student-credit-hours overall means more students are being processed by fewer profs _on average_.
Second, note that the focus on what _individual_ professors are teaching (or how many student-credit-hours they teach) is really more of a distributional issue of concern just in the sense of intra-faculty politics or intra-faculty equity. Once the law school has achieved the payroll it wants to achieve, whether one prof teaches 400 student-credit-hours per year and another teaches 200 student-credit-hours is perfectly equivalent to having two profs teach 300 student-credit-hours. This point is why putting profs in "competition" with each other for students is pretty silly. If one prof likes big classes and one likes small classes, who cares? Let them teach what they want, and let students sort themselves into the courses they want to take.
Third, many law schools will face space constraints in their push to get faculty to "teach more". This is especially so as to larger enrollment classes, where amphitheaters of sufficient size might not by available. This means that many pushes for faculty to "teach more" may just mean adding on a small-enrollment course or seminar, which will eat up faculty time for research but not really "process" many more students in a cost-effective way.
Fourth, implementing targeted course-load increases (through a two-track "research" or "teaching" plan, for example, or putting higher loads on non-research-active faculty) makes a lot of sense in theory, but can be difficult to implement. The law school administration needs to be able to actually keep track of who is teaching what, something that many law schools don't have the administrative systems or practices in place to do. I think this is true even though what faculty are teaching is readily available on the law school website, or from its registrar. The problem is that often there will be no one "in authority" who has been given the task of regularly monitoring what courses faculty sign up to teach, how many students enroll, who is on what "track", etc. To make a two-track system work, the administration also needs to have the backbone to tell faculty who think they are "productive" that they haven't been, and so need to teach more. That can be a difficult conversation. Absent workable standards as to what adequate research productivity actually is, or how it is measured, a differential system seems at risk of favoritism or arbitrariness in application, and may hurt faculty morale.
"The law school administration needs to be able to actually keep track of who is teaching what, something that many law schools don't have the administrative systems or practices in place to do."
Is this really true? How is a law school functioning if they don't know who teaches what, and how many students are enrolled.
At my school, at least, I don't think they have been trying to increase teaching loads, and there is a very wide range of student-credit-hours taught on the faculty. As someone who tends to teach a lot of student-credit-hours (over 1,000 this academic year), I wouldn't mind more equality, but I think it's somewhat hard to achieve given that the overwhelming number of classes are elective.
John- It is not that schools don't know what classes are going on in any given semester (I hope), it is that, at least at the two schools I have been at, there is no real long term tracking of who taught what class when in a systematic way. There is a general sense that "Oh, So and So teaches Civ Pro and IP" but what that person has taught, over time, cued to student credit hours is not tracked in a systematic way. That being said, there is no reason that the system couldn't be put in place, since all the data is there, just not aggregated.
1) Increased class sizes. Larger classes may be a more efficient use of faculty resources, but it also means less faculty-student engagement and less feedback.
2) Fewer courses. Maybe we could do with fewer courses on Nietzsche and the Law, but it's hard to predict which classes will be eliminated. If the purpose of decreasing teaching loads is to encourage more scholarship, there is likely to be facultly resistance to offering fewer courses related to faculty interests and more skills-related instruction.
3) Increased reliance on adjuncts. From the faculty perspective, the often-expressed concern is that adjuncts are less skilled and less demanding teachers than tenured faculty. Students, on the other hand, often seem to prefer their adjunct instructors because of the practical knowledge they bring to the classroom. Shifting more of the teaching load to adjuncts would seem to undercut the faculty argument that tenured faculty are irreplaceable.
"It is not that schools don't know what classes are going on in any given semester (I hope), it is that, at least at the two schools I have been at, there is no real long term tracking of who taught what class when in a systematic way."
OK, that makes a lot more sense. But as you say, it shouldn't be too much of a burden to aggregate existing data.
Every institute wants to earn more and spend less. Many institutions appoint less teachers but work load is more so every teacher has to take more lectures in a day but i think its the QUALITY which matters not the QUANTITY. So if a institute hire less no. of faculties but they are talented enough then it is ok to increase their work load but only when they are provided salary according to their work.


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US craft volumes up at HY18
29 August, 2018 02:33:00 Larry Nelson
Up overall, but smaller producers far more robust
Net number of craft brewers sets new record
A survey of its members by the Brewers Association has found that craft beer volumes have risen an estimated 5% during the first half of 2018 – but that this growth was uneven between its larger and smaller members.
Looking at scanned data from places like supermarkets and convenience stores, according to BA chief economist Bart Watson craft brewers producing up to 10,000 barrels enjoyed growth averaging 30.78%. (Although this was tempered by the comparison to 2017, when half-year growth reached 42.80%.)
Against this was the scanned data performance of larger craft brewers. Those more than one million barrels in size were recorded as having 2.47% decline; craft brewers between 100,000 and one million barrels dropped by 1.46%.
Watson noted that the 50 largest breweries in the BA survey reported an average 2% gain, contrasting with the scanned data findings. He argued that this could be because these breweries were growing at a faster rate in on-premise sales, that the scan was missing growth in non-measured off-premise locales, and that the scan could be poorly weighted in terms of brewery sizes.
There was again a record number of craft breweries. The Brewers Association reported that as of June 30th there were 6,655 active breweries, up from 5,562 from the same time period last year.
And there are more breweries on the way. An estimated 2,500 to 3,000 breweries are in planning, a finding based on active Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.
Watson noted that 2018 is on pace to have the highest number of closures to date, but that the total number of breweries is still a net gain.
He said, "New players looking to enter the space should be aware of the constructs of the current landscape, work to differentiate themselves and will need to make quality beer to succeed."


Concrete is relatively low-maintenance when it comes to outdoor surfaces, as a concrete patio is easier to clean and maintain than a deck. Despite its tough exterior, concrete is porous and easily absorbs liquids, which can lead to tough stains. The texture of the surface also provides plenty of pores for dirt, moss, and other materials to accumulate.
To remove stains and get your patio clean, you'll need something that will also sink in and lift the offending spot. Cat litter, sawdust and other absorbent materials remove fresh spills, but do very little to absorb what sinks into the surface.
Muriatic acid is sometimes used to clean concrete and masonry. But the binder in concrete, Portland cement, dissolves when it comes into contact with an acid. Plus, acid-based cleaners pull calcium hydroxide out of the hardened concrete, which then quickly forms a white, dusty material called efflorescence. This material can become so thick that you'll need to clean it off of your patio.
Another widely used concrete cleaner is trisodium phosphate (TSP). It is alkaline, so it will not harm your concrete, but it is alkaline enough to cause skin irritation and even burns. TSP is also very bad for the environment. If it ends up in lakes and streams, the phosphates trigger an overgrowth of algae that results in a depletion of oxygen levels in the water, which endangers fish and aquatic plant life.
Simple Green Oxy Solve Concrete and Driveway Cleaner can be used with a pressure washer or for manual cleaning of concrete surfaces including driveways, sidewalks, patios and walkways. It removes oil, grease, grime and most stains and discolorations. Its biodegradable formula is safe for lawns and pets. The non-corrosive and non-degrading formula utilizes the natural power of peroxide to provide high-performance cleaning and stain removal without toxic or abrasive chemicals.
Add Simple Green Oxy Solve Concrete and Driveway Cleaner. Pour Simple Green Oxy Solve into your pressure washer detergent tank, or drop your siphon tube into the bottle.
Rinse with water. Switch equipment to plain water at low pressure and wet the surface.
Apply Simple Green. At low-pressure setting, apply Simple Green to an area that is small enough to be rinsed before it dries.
Let sit. Allow the cleaner to dwell on the surface for 3-5 minutes.
Rinse with water. Rinse at high pressure, keeping the nozzle at least 2 feet from the surface and the spray perpendicular to the surface.
Make Simple Green mixture. Mix 1 measure of Simple Green Oxy Solve with 20 measures of water in a bucket (example: 1.5 cups Simple Green to 2 gallons water).
Scrub. Clean in sections with a soft-bristle scrub brush. Do not allow the cleaner to dry on the surface before rinsing. Do not scrub with a wire brush, as metal pieces can sink into the pores in concrete and eventually form rust stains.
Rinse. Rinse with a garden hose at the highest pressure.
Repeat. Move to a new section and repeat.
TIP: Clean your patio on an overcast day. Your cleaning solution will evaporate more slowly when the sun isn't beating down on it. It's also a good idea to start cleaning early in the day before the sun has the chance to warm the surface.
TIP: Once your patio is clean, protect it from future stains by sealing it with a concrete sealer. Use a paint roller to apply. Start from the middle and roll out to the edges.


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Johanna Wallin appointed Director of Transport and Päivi Alakuijala Director of Communications
HSL's Executive Board elected two new directors in its meeting on 1 March. Johanna Wallin, who has a Master's degree in transportation and highway engineering, was appointed to the position of Director of Transport for the Transport division, and Päivi Alakuijala, who has a Master's degree in consumer economics, was appointed Director of Communications of the Communications division. The directors of HSL's divisions report to Executive Director Mika Nykänen. The new directors will begin in their respective positions on 1 April.
There was a lot of interest towards the open director positions and we had several competent applicants who were interested in building better public transport services for our customers. I congratulate Johanna and Päivi on their new roles and welcome them to the HSL team", says Executive Director Mika Nykänen.
Johanna Wallin, 37, is currently working at HSL as the acting Director of Public Transport Planning Department. Wallin has worked at HSL for eight years, her previous position being the Head of Group for Rail Service Planning. Prior to HSL, Wallin has worked at WSP as a Project Manager.
Päivi Alakuijala, 54, is currently working as a communications entrepreneur. Alakuijala has previously worked as a journalist, communications consultant, Communications Manager of Posti and Head of Marketing and Communications of Caverion.
As of 1 April, HSL will have six divisions: Administration (director: Ilmari Mäkinen), Strategy (director: Sini Puntanen), Transport (director: Johanna Wallin), Markets (director: Mari Flink), Technology (director: Hannu Heikkinen) and Communications (director: Päivi Alakuijala).


It's that time of year again…testing season! During the month of April, many schools will participate in standardized testing to measure what their students have learned this year. These tests require students to sit in front of a computer for long periods of time while pushing their brains to the max. There are some students that are natural test takers, who welcome the challenge of tests and consider these tests to be more of a game. However, there are those students who "freeze up" under the pressure of testing and fail to live up to the promise of what they seem to have learned. Often the results of a test do not give a clear picture of the student's knowledge because of test anxiety.
There are a number of ways that parents can help support their child's learning habits on a daily basis that will help them be more prepared when it's time to be tested and hopefully relieve some of the test anxiety.
• Make sure that your child gets a good night's sleep. Children who are tired will have difficulty focusing on their work.
• Make sure that your child has good attendance at school.
• Make sure that your child eats a nutritious breakfast with representatives of the lean protein, whole grain, fruit, and low fat dairy food groups on test days. Studies suggest that good nutrition helps children concentrate and perform better in class.
• Make the morning of test days pleasant. Stress will impair your child's ability to perform their best.
• Make sure that your child makes it to school on time so they do not miss any instructions and are allowed ample time to settle and relax before the test begins.
• Taking interest in what your child is doing at school and helping them prepare for tests will have a positive impact on them.
• Have students set goals. Keep goals small, realistic, and achievable. Helping students set personal goals can improve their attitude toward testing.
• When proctoring the test, make your presence known by walking around the room, monitoring, to make sure students are engaged in the testing.
• Stay calm and model a positive attitude towards testing. If the teacher is not stressed out over testing then students will be less likely to stress out.
• Look at data from previous years to look for patterns of areas where students did well and areas that did not go so well. Look for ways to improve instruction in those areas so that students are better prepared.
• Provide test preparation activities incorporated into the regular, ongoing instructional activities whenever possible throughout the school year.
These are just a few ways that teachers and parents can help students get through this stressful part of the school year. Standardized testing can be a positive experience. If students are prepared, and parents and teachers are positive about the experience, students can succeed on these tests and walk away feeling confident.


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New team member at The Pod Hotels
The Pod Hotels is striving to address the rapidly-increasing demand for affordable lifestyle hotels targeted at progressive-minded and budget-conscious travelers who are creative and ambitious and who maintain high expectations when it comes to authentic experiences, smart design and intuitive technology.
As part of this progress, BD Hotels today announced the appointment of Rani Gharbie as the Head of Acquisitions & Development for The Pod Hotels, BD Hotel's highly profitable micro-hotel concept to replicate this successful business model in even more key markets including Miami, San Francisco, Chicago, Austin, Boston, Nashville, Seattle, Montreal, Toronto, and Mexico City, amongst others.
Gharbie formerly oversaw development and acquisitions for North America at Virgin Hotels where he actively contributed to grow the brand's footprint in key markets.
As Head of Acquisitions & Development working closely with BD Hotels owners Richard Born and Ira Drukier, Gharbie will be responsible for identifying potential investment opportunities and bringing together strategic partners and investors to fund future projects in numerous markets. He will leverage BD Hotels' expertise in hotel development, investment and operations to expand The Pod Hotels brand across the country and eventually globally.
"Rani joins us at a pivotal time as we scale The Pod Hotels portfolio exponentially in North America" said Richard Born, Owner of BD Hotels. "He will undoubtedly be a tremendous asset as he brings over 20 years of experience in hotel acquisitions, development and operation."
"I'm looking forward to expanding the profitable model Richard and Ira created to key markets nationwide," said Gharbie. "I see great growth potential for the brand as there is an increased desire from today's travelers to stay at smart, innovative brands like The Pod Hotels."
Prior to joining Virgin Hotels, Gharbie was the Managing Director and Founder at Cedar Funds, a New York City based development and investment firm with a focus on progressive hotel and real estate assets, as well as regional Director of Development with InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG). In addition, Gharbie is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia's Masters in Real Estate Development program, where he teaches the spring course Private Equity Development, Hotel Focus. He holds a Masters Degree from the program, an MBA from the HEC Business School in Montreal, a Bachelor degree in Hotel Management from the Glion Hotel School in Switzerland, and a Certificate in Hotel Real Estate Investments and Asset Management from Cornell University in New York.
The Pod Hotels currently has five properties in the portfolio, three of which opened over the past two years (the brand's flagship Pod Times Square opened in January 2018; Pod DC and Pod Brooklyn opened in 2017), with the brand recently announcing two more hotels in the direct pipeline (Pod Philly opening in fall 2019 and Pod LA slated for 2020). With its functional guestrooms, vibrant communal space and flexible design, The Pod Hotels presents superior investment returns when compared to legacy hotel brands of similar positioning.
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SriLankan Airlines' new plan to be like Emirates
In a bid to turn the loss making airline into a profitable venture, SriLankan Airlines has come up with a five-year strategic plan. Part of the plan will see them emulating industry leader Emirates, with a new hub and spoke network model.
In a statement SriLankan Airlines said:
"SriLankan Airlines has formulated a new five-year Strategic Business Plan for the period 2019-24 with the objective of transforming itself into a financially viable organization airline group with high brand visibility and a global reputation for excellence,"
They went on to say that the national carrier had an 'enormous contribution' to make to the GDP of Sri Lanka, including import, export and tourism.
What is SriLankan Airlines planning?
Their latest five year strategic business plan includes major development of the Colombo hub to make it a key connecting point for a variety of markets. SriLankan are targeting passengers connecting through Africa, Asia and the Middle East, in a bid to grow as big as rival airline Emirates.
As a member of Oneworld, SriLankan are hoping to leverage their membership to develop their network for the future. In contrast to their current point to point model, they plan to work on more of a hub and spoke model to develop new opportunities.
The plan is to be presented to the Government of Sri Lanka for approval shortly.
New routes and fleet
Currently, SriLankan Airlines operate with a fleet of 27 Airbus aircraft. Specifically, these are 13 A320 family aircraft and 14 A330s. As part of the five year plan, the carrier intends to select new fleet inclusions which match the requirement of their developing route network. They have also said they want to reconfigure their existing fleet to offer an enhanced business class service.
Already, the airline has announced a fifth weekly service between Colombo and Tokyo from July onwards, using its Airbus A330-300s. If the plan is formalized by the government, we expect to see many more new route announcements over the coming weeks.
As well as routes and fleet, the plan specifies that it will:
Enhance the customer experience by improving customer-centricity throughout the airline
Adopt best practices to improve productivity
Grow online sales to reach a wider market in a more cost effective manner
Improve employee engagement
Implement a competitive cost structure through a greater cost consciousness throughout the company
The plan is being headed up by Group Chief Executive Officer Vipula Gunatilleka, who was appointed to the airline in mid-2018. Prior to joining SriLankan, Gunatilleka was a board member and CFO of TAAG Angola. There, he worked closely with Emirates while they were managing TAAG, so no doubt knows his hub and spoke business very well already.
A loss-making airline
The airline is undergoing a major shakeup with a view to turning a profit. Over the last nine months, the carrier's net loss more than doubled to a total loss of $135m. It is hoped that the five year strategic plan being tabled today will transform the airline by 2024.
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BD Hotels plans rapid expansion, hires Head Of Acquisitions & Development
BD Hotels today announces the appointment of Rani Gharbie as the Head of Acquisitions & Development for The Pod Hotels, BD Hotel's highly profitable micro-hotel concept. The Pod Hotels currently has five properties in the portfolio, three of which opened over the past two years (the brand's flagship Pod Times Square opened in January 2018; Pod DC and Pod Brooklyn opened in 2017), with the brand recently announcing two more hotels in the direct pipeline (Pod Philly opening in fall 2019 and Pod LA slated for 2020). Now, The Pod Hotels hires Gharbie to replicate this successful business model in even more key markets including Miami, San Francisco, Chicago, Austin, Boston, Nashville, Seattle, Montreal, Toronto, and Mexico City, amongst others. Gharbie formerly oversaw development and acquisitions for North America at Virgin Hotels where he actively contributed to grow the brand's footprint in key markets.
The Pod Hotels addresses the rapidly increasing demand for affordable lifestyle hotels targeted at progressive minded and budget conscious travelers who are creative and ambitious and who maintain high expectations when it comes to authentic experiences, smart design and intuitive technology. With its functional guestrooms, vibrant communal space and flexible design, The Pod Hotels presents superior investment returns when compared to legacy hotel brands of similar positioning.
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Reunion Island breaks tourist arrivals record
Despite a difficult end to the year, 2018 was profitable and even historic for Reunion tourism as more than 574,000 outside visitors were welcomed . This is 4.1% more than in fiscal 2017, which had already had an unprecedented inflow of visitors.
In 2018, 35 ships and 39,433 cruise passengers landed on the island, which was satisfactory, although slightly lower as several companies were forced to review their routes in November and December.
Nevertheless, with revenues still increasing and amounting to more than 432 million euros, also a new record for the destination, the tourism sector confirms its preponderant place in the economy of Reunion.
Reunion's neighbors in the Indian Ocean remain fond of the destination. Arrivals from the Indian Ocean area remains above 60,000 tourists in 2018, after a spectacular increase of 46% recorded in 2017. Within this Indian Ocean zone, Mauritius remains the main source market since it represents more than 30,000 tourists, or 5.8% of total arrivals to Reunion.
The communication and promotion actions carried out on the main European markets, other than France, have also been fruitful, as this visitor source market now accounts for 7.4% of total arrivals, compared to 6% in 2017. In total, 39,664 visitors came from the rest of Europe in 2018 which is 4.2% more than last year!
Unsurprisingly, the leisure clientele represents an overwhelming majority of arriving visitors with 90.8% of the overall volume of arrivals on the island, supplemented by 8.5% of business tourism.
The average length of stay of these foreign tourists is 17 days and remains unchanged compared to 2017, a figure particularly important for a long-haul destination such as Reunion.
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Aloha is not "Aloooooha": Stop visitors from offending Hawaiians
Do not say ALOHA or better ALOOOOOHA when visiting Hawaii.
"Those of you particularly in the tourist industry and in entertainment, stop saying "ALOOOOOOOHA". There is no such word and as the Hawaiian Queen said herself, they have stolen the country, and now they want to redo our language. Stop it. Just stop, It's Aloha, not Alooooooha.", said Adam Keawe Manalo- Camp, a native Hawaiian resident on Oahu.
Hawaii visitors and the travel and tourism industry together with the entertainment world is making Hawaiians very angry. Hawaiians think the largest industry in the State of Hawaii misusing the word "Alooooha" is disrespecting them and their rich ancient culture.
The Hawaii Tourism Authority should better educate stakeholders and visitors on cultural concerns native Hawaiian people raise. HTA must put an increased effort in on managing tourism and not just look at increasing arrival numbers. Increasing arrival numbers may not be a good indicator for a healthy tourism industry anymore.
With mass tourism and thousands of visitors arriving and leaving the US Pacific State every single day, it appears a boiling point is on the horizon. There may be is an urgent and immediate need to keep this industry safe and profitable. The largest industry in the State of Hawaii is seen as a business of invasion and disrespect by many.
Are you planning to travel to Hawaii? Are you operating a tourist attraction in the "Aloha State?" Overtourism comes with great concerns, and a massive number of people on Waikiki's sidewalks, restaurants, hotels, and shopping malls, and beaches are a good indication there is a limit to tourism. Has this limit been reached? Native Hawaiians are even more concerned. They are worried the travel and tourism industry is overwriting their rich Hawaiian Culture. For them shouting out "Alooooha" is a good indication.
A recent discussion on the eTurboNews Publishers Facebook points out such concerns.
Derek Hiapo told eTN: "To use the HAWAIIAN word "ALOHA" I need to make something VERY CLEAR!! HAWAIIANS AND THE USE OF OUR LANGUAGE have been taken over by people who have NEVER known the true meaning of the word. For us kanaka maoli, we have had EVERYTHING stolen from us by people who are intent on raping us of EVERYTHING WE HAVE!!! The meaning of aloha cannot be lived or practiced, when what people have learned about the word "aloha" was taught to them at the usual tourist luau with someone onstage screaming the word and giving some halfwitted story about what that word means.
THERE'S WAY MORE MEANING TO THE WORD ALOHA AND THE PRACTICE OF LIVING ALOHA!!! You ask where is the aloha?? Being chased off of, and away from, it's native homeland!! Where is the aloha?? In the bank accounts and pockets of all who've come to Hawaii to make their money at the cost of us kanaka maoli!! Where is the aloha?? In the twisted history being taught to the world that says that Hawaii was "saved" by America and not being told the TRUTH behind the theft of our internationally recognized sovereign kingdom. People want us to show ALOHA, but all we've been shown is disrespect, poverty, death, and the bastardization of our culture for the benefit of the illegal foreign occupier."
Adam added this story:
"A long time ago, there lived a Hawaiian family. They worked the land for generations. Then one day there appeared a stranger. He was a haole guy (caucasion guy) who got lost and stumbled upon the Hawaiian family.
They told him where to go back but they invited him to stay with them as he seemed to have a cold. He lived with them for a week and they took care of his needs. He eventually left.
Then soon afterward, the family got sick and only the mother was left. The man returned and brought his Japanese friend. They stayed in the Hawaiian family's house. The Hawaiian mother took care of them as she was still in mourning. The haole guy and the Japanese guy decided that it would be great if others could experience her hospitality and "the culture".
They devised plans and started a tour business. When the Hawaiian woman began to complain as she now was being forced to work under them in her own land, they asked her, "Where was your Aloha Spirit? Don't be such an angry Kanaka" She then began to be quiet. Then more of her time and food was being given to the strangers. She then complained again.
This time the haole guy said "Okay let's be fair and democratic about this. Let's vote. " The haole and Japanese guys voted to keep the Hawaiian woman as their employee while taking over her family's lands. And that, in a nutshell, is what is happening in Hawai'i."
Aloha is not only a magical word for Hawaii but was stolen further by destinations like Hainan, China. The Chinese destination is fully banking and integrating on the magic this word had for many and is further offending native people in Hawaii.
The overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii began on January 17, 1893, with a coup d'état against Queen Liliʻuokalani on the island of Oahu by subjects of the Kingdom of Hawaii, United States citizens, and foreign residents residing in Honolulu.
Read what the Queen said in 1907:
The Hawaiian Queen comment on the word ALOOOOHA
Wikipedia posted: Liliʻuokalani was born on September 2, 1838, in Honolulu, on the island of Oʻahu. While her natural parents were Analea Keohokālole and Caesar Kapaʻakea, she was hānai (informally adopted) at birth by Abner Pākī and Laura Kōnia and raised with their daughter Bernice Pauahi Bishop. Baptized as a Christian and educated at the Royal School, she and her siblings and cousins were proclaimed eligible for the throne by King Kamehameha III. She was married to American-born John Owen Dominis, who later became the Governor of Oʻahu. The couple had no biological children but adopted several. After the accession of her brother David Kalākaua to the throne in 1874, she and her siblings were given Western style titles of Prince and Princess. In 1877, after her younger brother Leleiohoku II's death, she was proclaimed as heir apparent to the throne. During the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, she represented her brother as an official envoy to the United Kingdom.
Liliʻuokalani ascended to the throne on January 29, 1891, nine days after her brother's death. During her reign, she attempted to draft a new constitution which would restore the power of the monarchy and the voting rights of the economically disenfranchised. Threatened by her attempts to abrogate the Bayonet Constitution, pro-American elements in Hawaiʻi overthrew the monarchy on January 17, 1893. The overthrow was bolstered by the landing of US Marines under John L. Stevens to protect American interests, which rendered the monarchy unable to protect itself.
The coup d'état established the Republic of Hawaiʻi, but the ultimate goal was the annexation of the islands to the United States, which was temporarily blocked by President Grover Cleveland. After an unsuccessful uprising to restore the monarchy, the oligarchical government placed the former queen under house arrest at the ʻIolani Palace. On January 24, 1895, Liliʻuokalani was forced to abdicate the Hawaiian throne, officially ending the deposed monarchy. Attempts were made to restore the monarchy and oppose annexation, but with the outbreak of the Spanish–American War, the United States annexed Hawaiʻi. Living out the remainder of her later life as a private citizen, Liliʻuokalani died at her residence, Washington Place, in Honolulu on November 11, 1917.
It appears the problem of overtourism and local culture is not unique to Hawaii.
Barcelona also thinks Tourism is an invasion, but ETOA doesn't want tourists to go home yet
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