A pilot training program for indigenous midwives (comadronas), aimed at strengthening their capacity to identify women with high-risk pregnancies and to refer them to hospitals, was developed and implemented in seven towns around Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. . The training was conducted in the women's indigenous language of Tzutujil, and the creation of visual training materials on high-risk pregnancy indicators to accompany the workshops are now being utilized and distributed in training offered by the Reproductive Health Department at the Hospital of Sololá.
Guatemala has the highest rate of maternal mortality in Latin America, with 115 per 100,000 live births, compared to the regional average of 87. Such alarming figures can be attributed to the extremely low levels of formal prenatal and delivery care, especially in rural areas. Almost three- quarters of maternal deaths are among women of indigenous ancestry, and for more than half of all expectant mothers in these rural areas births are more likely to be attended by a comadrona than by a trained health professional. This is largely because many indigenous families lack the capital to afford healthcare from the formal sector and because, due to discrimination, culture, language barriers, and geographic isolation, they tend to prefer traditional healthcare services, such as comadronas. This traditional model lacks formal regulation, however, leading to significant variation in the quality of healthcare services provided. Only one in four rural births occurs in a hospital or clinic, compared to well over two-thirds of births in urban areas. In the Department of Sololá, 1,001 certified comadronas attend 63 percent of the births, typically outside of a formal hospital setting. Many of these comadronas lack the training and critical skills needed to recognize or properly attend to high-risk pregnancies.
The development of a revised, visual curriculum guide to directly address identified areas of concern with the comadronas, such as a general inability to recognize warning signs during the birthing process and a reluctance to refer patients to the National Hospital when confronted with high-risk pregnancies.
Training workshops conducted over a two-week period with two one-day sessions in a local healthcare post for each of the locations.
The provision of safe birthing kits for each comadrona, containing items such as latex gloves, gauze pads, and other tools necessary to provide a sanitary birthing process.
" This is the first time I've come to a Ministry of Health training done in our own language. Normally they are only in Spanish, and many of the women don't understand. We feel more respected, and it makes us want to participate. … I leave knowing I can now save more lives in my community "
A system to track participants and their referrals to the National Hospital to determine whether the training increases the rate of referrals from Sololá. This will be done by cross-referencing comadronas who attended the training with those referring patients to the hospital.
Statistical monitoring of maternal mortality rates in the training areas, both during pregnancy (at three months and again at six months) and postdelivery (at one year). Special attention will be paid to deaths occurring among patients of program participants compared to deaths of patients of nonregistered comadronas working outside of the national healthcare system.
Early signs of progress have been noted even in advance of empirical statistical data. Within two weeks of completing their training, two comadronas referred patients to the National Hospital. They both identified themselves as project participants and stated that they would not have recognized that their patients were in danger had it not been for their recent training. These incidents highlighted the need for systematic tracking of referrals by program participants.
This project was selected as a recipient of the World Bank's Youth Innovation Fund (YIF) competition and received $15,000 in financing from the YIF. The YIF is one of the flagship programs developed by the Bank's Youth to Youth Community (Y2Y), a network of young Bank employees created in 2004 to channel fresh ideas and perspectives into Bank operations and to engage and empower youth in development.
Launched in 2005 as a pilot in the Bank's Latin America and Caribbean Region, the YIF program provides an opportunity for young Bank staff to design and implement youth development projects in client countries. These initiatives provide funding, technical assistance, and knowledge exchange through partnerships with local youth and organizations. All young staff below the age of 33 at the World Bank Headquarters and in country offices can submit proposals. Selected submissions receive grants ranging from US$ 10,000 to US$ 18,000, with approximately nine months for implementation.
A strong partnership was formed with PCIH, an NGO working in the areas of maternal health and diabetes based in Panajachel, Guatemala, as well as with the National Hospital of the Department of Sololá, a public hospital run under the Ministry of Health (MOH). This partnership, coupled with the ministry's ability to leverage training as a mandatory component of comadrona certification, contributed significantly to the high rates of attendance at and participation in the training.
PCIH is currently seeking funds from other donors to scale up this work to other towns in the Department of Sololá, and it plans to submit an official request to the MOH for the continued use and official adoption of this training curriculum in Sololá. Furthermore, this pilot initiative demonstrated the importance of adapting interventions to the local context, providing important lessons for future Bank operations.
"This is the first time I've come to a Ministry of Health training done in our own language. Normally they are only in Spanish, and many of the women don't understand. We feel more respected, and it makes us want to participate. … I leave knowing I can now save more lives in my community." Rosa, comadrona in the town of Santiago.
The comadronas commented that while they had received training previously, this workshop was more interactive and provided information not previously taught.
The comadronas were grateful that the sessions were conducted in their indigenous language of Tzutujil, noting that previous training had been done in Spanish, without recognition or appreciation of the local language and culture.
The comadronas requested future training covering prenatal visits for patients, appropriate nutritional supplementation (e.g., folic acid), and the warning signs of prenatal, birthing, and postpartum risks and dangers. Comadronas in all locations showed a high level of interest in future training sessions.
Concerns expressed by the comadronas included their challenges in accessing the National Health Care system due to logistical, geographic, and language barriers.


Eddie Hearn said Dereck Chisora inadvertently pushed his trainer through a makeshift advertising wall as tempers flared following the weigh-in for his heavyweight fight with Dillian Whyte.
Chisora looked in great shape when he tipped the scales at 17st 8lbs 3oz, with his fellow Brit weighing in at 17st 8lbs 8oz on Saturday morning (AEDT).
The two entourages had to be separated when things then got heated on the eve of the rematch at the O2 Arena and Chisora's trainer Don Charles was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Promoter Hearn told iFL TV while glancing at a board behind him: "Don Charles went through one of these."
He added: "You can't put these fighters in that position continuously [and not expect something to happen] ... they are not normal people.
"They have worked for this moment, tomorrow night they will fight in front of 19,000 people at the sold-out 02 Arena and millions of people globally for our entertainment.
"It's not normal, so don't always expect them to behave normally. But it was contained.
"For me the key was no fighters came together, no one injured. It wasn't handbags, but in terms of what happened in the past, it was definitely handbags."


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Foxconn To Make Ventilators In US
According to reports in foreign media, Apple's cooperation partner Foxconn will make ventilators in the US to help the country fight coronavirus.
Omar Ishrak, CEO of Medtronic, revealed that Foxconn's plant in Wisconsin will be used to produce ventilators. Foxconn also confirmed its cooperation relationship with Medtronic in a statement; however, the company did not disclose when or where to make the ventilators.
Due to the global outbreak of Covid-19, many countries are in need of ventilators to treat critically ill patients. The cooperation of Foxconn and Medtronic covers equipment design and development. Ishrak said that they would start production in the next four to six weeks.
Since February 2020, Foxconn has been making facial masks in China. At the end of March, its subsidiary Sharp also started facial mask production in Japan.
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There are schools offering acting classes in Washington State!
Each year, roughly 0.2% of Washington State students graduate with degrees in acting. That means an estimated 261 actors graduate from Washington State's 15 acting schools each year.
University of Washington-Seattle Campus, which is located in Seattle, is the top-ranked school in Washington State that has a acting program. It received a ranking of 13th in the country in 2010. 75 students graduated with a degree in acting from University of Washington-Seattle Campus in 2010. Tuition at University of Washington-Seattle Campus was $8,701 per year.
The second-ranked school in Washington State with a acting program is Whitman College, which is located in Walla Walla. In 2010, it was ranked 21st nationwide. In 2010, 6 students graduated from Whitman College acting program. The tuition rate at Whitman College was $38,770 per year.
Washington State University, which is located in Pullman, is the third-ranked school in Washington State that has a acting program. It received a ranking of 27th in the country in 2010. In 2010, Washington State University graduated 15 students from its acting programs. Washington State University charged in-state students $9,489 in tuition fees per year.
An acting degree from a Washington State school... what next?
According the US Bureau of Labor Statistics the number of actors is expected to grow by 9% by 2018. There are projected to be 930 actors working in the Washington State then.
An actor in Washington State earns $0 per year on average.
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Tapping Social Media's Potential To Muster a Vast Green Army
A rapidly expanding universe of citizens' groups, researchers, and environmental organizations are making use of social media and smart phone applications to document changes in the natural world and to mobilize support for taking action.
By Caroline Fraser • July 11, 2011
Last year, the spectacle of 80 million people flocking to the faux greenery of FarmVille, a social networking game on Facebook, held particular irony for environmentalists who have ritually bemoaned low levels of public interest in biodiversity. Every traditional method and media has been tapped to penetrate this elephantine indifference, from documentaries to dire predictions. Rarely a week goes by without reports on crashing ecosystems or mass extinction, a blizzard of bad news inspiring little more than hand-wringing.
But in the spirit of joining rather than beating, conservationists have begun embracing the enemy, the very force that alienated people from nature in the first place: technology.
Social media have become the latest, hottest tools in natural history circles as scientists confront a populace that knows laptops better than landscapes. In the quest to give communities a grasp on complex ecological systems — particularly as they face decisions imposed by climate change — social networking promises to link scientists with the public, empowering naturalist armies to act on their behalf: monitoring species, observing behavioral patterns, and reporting the presence of invasives and changes in climate, vegetation, and populations.
Citizen science has migrated to the Web, emerging as a potent force multiplier for conservation.
Citizen science — natural history — has been the province of amateur enthusiasts for centuries, long before a young beetle-lover found himself in the Galapagos, flinging marine iguanas into the sea to see if they'd swim back. The popularity of the Audubon Christmas Bird Count, launched in 1900, brought new rigor to backyard observations, revealing the scientific potential of simultaneously gathering thousands of data points across widegeographical areas.
But with the explosion of cell phones equipped with digital cameras and global positioning systems, citizen science has migrated to the Web, emerging as a potent force-multiplier — and watchdog — for conservation. In May, Namibia's government announced an SMS hotline for anonymous poaching tips: "Five fives for rhino." After the Fukushima nuclear plant failure, Japanese citizens skeptical of government reassurances bought their own dosimeters to map radioactive hot spots on the Web. Likewise, during the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science transformed anxiety into "civic science," moving residents to chart the spill with digital cameras tied to kites and balloons.
The most astonishing results from environmental social networking lie in such crowdsourcing. In March, the Smithsonian put out an emergency call on Facebook for specialists to identify 5,000 freshly collected fish specimens from Guyana for export paperwork. Within 24 hours, ichthyologists around the world supplied partial or complete answers for almost 90 percent.
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Project BudBurst users can share observations on their chosen plants' first leaf, first flower, and other phenological phases.
But most projects, from traditional websites to social networking services and apps, are premeditated: Cornell University's Citizen Science Central acts as a clearinghouse for over 130. Many offer training in species identification and invite the public to post targeted observations: the number of gray vs. fox squirrels (Project Squirrel), the appearance of buds in spring and other seasonal plant phases (Project BudBurst), the migratory behavior of Monarch butterflies (Monarch Watch) or hummingbirds (Operation Ruby Throat). Others organize and analyze data online from "BioBlitzes," intensive biological surveys conducted by volunteers with the guidance of specialists. Offering land managers and stakeholders spatially referenced databases on the presence or absence of protected or invasive species, these range from local exercises — a 24-hour "snapshot" of every species in Wisconsin's Beaver Creek Reserve, for example — to large-scale, long-term initiatives like the Adirondack All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory.
Such efforts may seem modest. But Cornell professor Harry W. Greene, an old-fashioned field biologist and self-described "snake guy," regards these observations as "absolutely at the core of all biology." Greene points out that "for most organisms on Earth, we know almost nothing." In years past, he often received frustrating reports of snake sightings from a public uncertain about key details — length, color, markings. Now, people send a digital image. "I write them right back," he says, "and tell them whether the roadkill in their driveway is a Massasauga rattlesnake or a northern milk snake." He describes the outpouring of data from citizens as "revolutionary," not only for science but for amateurs: "When you make an observation," he says, "you put yourself into the life of the organism. You care more." With enough anecdotal reports and photos, meaningful statistical samples can emerge.
One innovator calls social networking part of the 'mass amateurization of everything.'
Greene and a former graduate student developed a prototype for "NatureWorm," a social networking site designed to kindle interest in natural history on a wide scale. Investment lagged, but the niche has been filled by other opportunistic organisms, such as iNaturalist.org, an online community created by students at University of California, Berkeley's School of Information where users can upload photos and hobnob about sightings. On a recent visit, "RussianNaturalistBrazil" had just posted an arresting image of Gongora meneziana, a fleshy, translucent red-spotted orchid found in Brazil's Atlantic forest; Google maps pinpointed his location north of Salvador. Elsewhere on the site, a debate had broken out on the identification of a type of Indian paintbrush in California's Wildcat Canyon.
Project Noah is a more commercial version of an environmental community, led by telecom entrepreneur Yasser Ansari, who grew up in southern California and developed a passion for poison dart frogs as a child. After studying molecular biology and bioinformatics at University of California, San Diego, Ansari collaborated on Noah ("Networked Organisms and Habitats") with fellow students at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Launched in February 2010, it is now available as an app, downloaded to over 100,000 smartphones. So far, participants have uploaded over 60,000 "spottings." Recent caches feature everything from the inevitable white-tailed deer and common garden flowers ("rose," "lantana") to images of a red-eyed tree frog, an Arctic fox, a Plains zebra rolling in dirt, a griffon vulture in flight, and mating common Indian toads.
Contributors to Noah plot sightings on a worldwide map, earn patches (reminiscent of the Boy Scouts'), and join "Missions" — the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Impact — to delve deeper into scientific projects. The National Geographic Society recently provided investment for new software, reposting on Facebook Noah's "Spotting of the Week" — including a spectacular giraffe-necked weevil from Madagascar — for its 6.6 million fans.
Users of Project Noah's mobile app have uploaded more than 60,000 "spottings."
For all the emphasis on documentation, Ansari's view of his social network has evolved. He sees it primarily as a motivational tool, part of the "mass amateurization of everything." While his original vision was to collect data, he now suggests that Noah is "more effective at getting people excited. We're trying to create a powerful gateway drug. If you use Project Noah and then move on to hard-core science, that's a huge win. The data is secondary."
Not necessarily. Project Squirrel, which has expanded countrywide from its origins in Chicago, is keeping watch on both its target species and human observers. "We're correlating what people tell us about habitat to what the squirrels are telling us," director Steve Sullivan says, predicting that the project may document the accuracy of citizen science and its role in stimulating passion for nature.
Project BudBurst, sponsored by NEON, the National Ecological Observatory Network, has registered nearly 12,000 volunteer observers since 2007. Participants have uploaded tens of thousands of observations on their chosen plants' first leaf, first flower, first pollen, and other phenological phases (lilac is among the most popular), yielding datasets that have allowed scientists to extend a 50-year botanical study of Cook County, Illinois. Comparing historical data with three years of BudBurst observations has revealed that, as temperatures rise, forsythia is blooming 24 days earlier, black locust 19 days earlier, and red maple 14.
Both Squirrel and BudBurst are popular in classrooms, but lone individuals are also prolific — one Waco, Texas plant-watcher has been monitoring more than 25 species since BudBurst's inception, including Texas red oak, Texas bluebonnet, spiderwort, and pink ladies.
Today's social media may indeed spark a rebirth of natural history.
Perhaps the most intriguing capability of social media involves something that goes deeper than data. The University of Virginia's Chesapeake Bay Game is an interactive computer simulation with the power to change minds. Beginning in 2000, it plays out over a 20-year horizon, allowing teams to take on the roles and responsibilities of oystermen, crabbers, crop and dairy farmers, real-estate developers, and policy-makers, everyone with an impact on one of the world's most endangered watersheds. As teams make decisions based on economic and regulatory restrictions, determining how much land to cultivate or how many crabs to trap, they watch the real-time, long-term consequences of their choices playing out. Crucially, "the game is politically neutral," says David E. Smith, professor in U. Va.'s Department of Environmental Sciences.
On Earth Day this year, teams from seven Chesapeake Bay-area universities played, each representing a major basin — York River, James River, the Eastern Shore, etc. It was a sobering experience. At the end, a College of William and Mary biology professor acknowledged that despite players' best efforts, "the quality of the bay went down."
The game is impressively accurate: Its recent iteration encompasses tens of thousands of data points, and IBM has selected it for the World Community Grid program, harnessing over a million volunteers' computers to crunch numbers. Philippe Cousteau, grandson of the oceanographer, is partnering with the university to adapt it for other ecosystems, from Australia to Arizona. He foresees a day when younger students can input real data to model their backyards and lobby their parents — "Hey, mom and dad, let's not use fertilizer on the lawn."
Today's social media may indeed spark a rebirth of natural history, but none have yet moved climate change or biodiversity loss forward very far forward on the political agenda. There are tremors: In 2009, 350.org, agitating for action on climate change, used social media to organize more than 5,000 events in some 180 countries, in what CNN called "the most widespread day of political action in the planet's history." Last year, 350.org mobilized tens of thousands of people against offshore oil drilling, holding hands across 900 beaches. Avaaz, the Web-based social justice movement, has inspired more than a million to sign a petition to protect bee populations by banning neonicotinoid pesticides in the U.S. and EU.
Meanwhile, the environment waits for a software wunderkind to find the social formula that may lure a fickle public to fall in love with the real world, not a fake one.
Caroline Fraser traveled on six continents to write Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution. Her first book, God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church, was selected as a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book. She has written widely about animal rights, natural history, and the environment, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and Outside magazine, among others. More about Caroline Fraser →
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Step Right Up: Daniel Bachman
Born and raised in the town of Fredericksburg in Virginia, Daniel Bachman (whose guitar playing style has been dubbed "psychedelic appalachia") is a guitarist of prodigious talent. This summer Bachman completed a hugely successful tour of Europe and will recommence touring his homeland when he tours the east coast of America this August.
Illustration & Words: Craig Carry
At only twenty-two years of age, Virginia-born Daniel Bachman has quietly established himself as one of the finest guitarists around. Listening to Bachman on record brings to mind an array of artists (from John Fahey to Mark Fosson and from William Tyler to Glenn Jones) and similarly transports the listener to a faraway space and time in a deeply engaging and enriching manner. Fittingly, Daniel shared the stage with both William Tyler and Mark Fosson last year while on his U.S. tour (Fosson joined him for the length of the tour while Tyler joined him while playing at his home of Nashville). Despite his tender age, Bachman has already released a lot of material of his own solo material. Formerly going under the pseudonym "Sacred Harp", Bachman has been recording under his own name for the last couple of years. Bachman has released a multitude of material including tape cassette releases and strictly limited capacity material. His records "Oh Be Joyful" (released on the One Kind Favor label) and "Seven Pines" (put out by Tompkins Square) were both issued in 2012 and served to establish Bachman's name in the minds of listeners in Europe as well as his native America.
My first time witnessing Daniel Bachman in a live setting was July 4th of this month. A sunny summer's evening in the intimate setting of Gulpd Cafe (and organized by Plugd Records) served the perfect backdrop for the prodigious talents of Bachman. Witnessing the mastery of Bachman's guitar playing (very much in the same mould as the "American Primitive" school as advocated by John Fahey in the late 50's and 60's) is an absolute joy to savor. Seeing first hand the masterful technique he has honed over the years is a sight to behold. Whether quietly plucking notes (where the notes are left to linger for a time) or strumming intricately picking out notes in a forceful-yet-emotive manner, the music at all times conveys such real feeling and true artistry. Seeing one musician making such incredibly dense, textured and nuanced work on his own is something to truly marvel at, and reminded me of seeing William Tyler perform solo this year (while on his "Practically Friends" tour alongside M.C. Taylor's Hiss Golden Messenger) where a myriad of feelings and a vast array of impressions are cast upon the listener. The guitar and guitarist become one. And the listener is truly fortunate to witness such an inspiring occasion.
In fact, like Tyler, I listen to Bachman's work as a storyteller. Despite having no words to tell, the music seems to communicate rich and immersive stories from experiences made by the artist who wishes to share, in turn, those poignant memories with us, the listeners. In fact, I feel words would only lessen the impact. We would suddenly have a particular idea or theme in our minds, whereas on listening to Bachman's creations our imaginations can conjure up any number of themes, feelings, experiences. Listening to "Seven Pines" (the wonderful title-track or the sublime "Mount Olive Cohoke") and "Oh Be Joyful" brings to mind scenes from Wim Wenders' classic road movie "Paris Texas" where a man at odds with the world wanders the desert landscape under Ry Cooder's evocative score. Additionally, I feel there is also a wonderful connection between such music as Bachman's and that of the photobook, particularly such road trips across America made frozen in time by Robert Frank in his 1958 classic "The Americans." Armed with a 35mm Leica, Frank traversed the length of the country by car and – through eighty-three finally selected photographs – Frank redefined photography in the process. His poetic pictures were created through his off-kilter, intuitive and immediate style. Such intuitive and immediate styles certainly can be seen in Bachman's art also where it feels (listening to Bachman live and on record) that he's creating the pieces almost as he plays them where sparks of creativity and raw honesty can be felt – and admired greatly – on every single note that is played.
Fittingly, "Seven Pines" was issued last year by independent label Tompkins Square, a label who had previously released such classic records as William Tyler's "Behold The Spirit" and Hiss Golden Messenger's "Poor Moon" (not to forget the aforementioned Mark Fosson and his classic Fahey sessions "Digging In The Dust"). The album was based around Bachman's experiences made from living and working in Philadelphia over the course of a twelve-month spell. The resulting seven heavenly pieces of music hint at a wide array of feelings and experiences, from intense abandon and exhilaration to dazed wonderment and acute homesickness. A real sense of place is conjured up in each and every recording.
Bachman's steel fingerstyle guitar playing is sure to only further establish his rightful place as one of the most exciting musical talents around as he continues on his beautiful journey.
"Seven Pines" is out now on Tompkins Square. "Oh Be Joyful" is out now on One Kind Favor and reissued on cd/digital by Debacle Records.
Daniel Bachman tours USA this August (All tour dates are here).
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Across the country, many school districts dropped cursive from their curricula years ago. The new Common Core State Standards now being implemented in most states never mention the word "cursive." Given longhand's waning popularity, lawmakers in several states, including Tennessee, are now trying to legislate a cursive comeback.
The arguments in favor of cursive usually revolve around heritage or tradition. Some parents want their children to be able to read a letter from Grandma as well as our nation's founding documents. Some cursive supporters also invoke science, arguing that learning cursive helps young brains grow more than learning basic printing does.
Professor Amy Bastian, a motor neuroscientist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, has dedicated her career to studying how the brain talks to the body. "The more variety of things you do in the fine motor domain, the more variety of hand movements you make, will improve your dexterity," Bastian says.
That may sound like a ringing endorsement for cursive handwriting, but when asked if cursive writing is better for a child's development than printing, Bastian makes it clear: She doesn't know. Cursive is good, she insists, but it's not certain that it's better or more important for a child's development than printing.


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Pope says Catholics must practice 'responsible parenthood'
Pope Francis reacts to questions from Associated Press reporter Nicole Winfield about the September U.S. papal visit during a news conference aboard his flight from Manila, Philippines, to Rome Jan. 19. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
By Francis X. Rocca • Catholic News Service • Posted January 19, 2015
ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM MANILA, Philippines (CNS) — Pope Francis stressed that, despite church doctrine against contraception, Catholics fail to practice "responsible parenthood" when they have too many children.
He also denounced the teaching of "gender theory" in schools, likening it to indoctrination of children by the Nazis and fascists.
The pope made his remarks Jan. 19 in an hourlong news conference with reporters accompanying him back to Rome from a weeklong trip to Asia.
Pope Francis reaffirmed his rejection of population-control programs as an example of ideological colonization and his praise of Blessed Paul VI for defending Catholic teaching against contraception.
But "this does not mean a Christian must make children one after another," the pope said, citing the case of a woman who became pregnant an eighth time after giving birth to seven children via cesarean section.
"Does she want to leave seven orphans?" he said. "This is tempting God."
"Some people think — excuse me for saying this — that to be good Catholics we have to be like rabbits," Pope Francis said, yet church teaching provides for "many licit ways" to limit reproduction.
Elaborating on comments he made in Manila Jan. 16 about "ideological colonization that tries to destroy the family," the pope offered a 20-year-old example of an unnamed government official, apparently in his native Argentina, who was offered a loan to build schools for poor children on the condition she assign students a textbook on "gender theory."
Catholic leaders often use the term "gender theory" to refer to ideas that question or deny the God-given nature of sex differences and the complementarity of man and woman as the basis of the family.
Pope Francis said African bishops attending the October 2014 Synod on the Family had complained of similar restrictions on funding for projects in their countries,
"Why do I say ideological colonization? Because they use a people's need as an opportunity to come in and impose their will on children. But this is nothing new. The dictatorships of the last century did the same thing; they came in with their doctrine. Think of the Balilla. Think of the Hitler Youth," the pope said.
The Balilla was a youth organization instituted by Italy's fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini.
One reporter asked the pope to explain his controversial Jan. 15 statement, prompted by the recent killings by Islamist terrorists at a Paris newspaper, that freedom of expression should be limited by respect for religion and that mockery of faith can be expected to provoke violence.
"In theory, we can say what the Gospel says, that we should turn the other cheek. In theory, we can say that we have freedom of expression," he said. "But in practice, let's stop a bit, because we are human and we risk provoking others. For this reason, freedom must be accompanied by prudence. That's what I wanted to say."
Asked about the limited response to his calls on Muslim religious, political and intellectual leaders to condemn violence in the name of religion, Pope Francis said "some of them have done something, but we need to allow a little time, because the situation is not easy for them. I have hope, because there are so many good people among them, so many good people, so many good leaders, and I am sure they will do it."
Pope Francis explained his refusal to meet with the Dalai Lama in December, when the exiled Tibetan leader was in Rome for a conference of Nobel Peace Prize winners. He said Vatican protocol prevents the pope from "receiving heads of state and people at that level when they are taking part in an international meeting."
Pope Francis denied his decision was motivated by fear of the Chinese government, which considers the Dalai Lama an outlaw, and which has often arrested Chinese Catholics who oppose government control of the church. The Vatican has not had diplomatic relations with China since shortly after the country's 1949 communist revolution, but the pope said both sides treated each other respectfully, and he reiterated his openness to meet with Chinese leaders in Beijing or Rome.
While addressing the weightiest topics, the pope once again displayed his disarmingly frank and informal way of speaking. During extended remarks on the evil of government corruption, he recalled being solicited for a bribe by Argentine officials.
"At that moment, I thought about what I would do: either I insult them and give them a kick where the sun doesn't shine or I play the fool," Pope Francis said. "I played the fool."
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Damon Owens says:
Responsible Parenthood is better understood as "conscious" parenthood. It is not measured by the number of children we are privileged to bear and raise in the knowledge of the Lord, but by our reverence for the "munus" (task/duty/mission) God gives each couple in marriage.
This reverence is expressed by our joyful longing to know his will, humble openness to hear his will, and affectionate obedience to do his will.
"Too many" or "too few" children is a judgement only God can make with respect to the couple's faithfulness to His particular Will for them.
Thank you, Papa Francesco!


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Academic journal article African American Review
True Terror: The Haunting of Spike Lee's 25th Hour
By Smith, Derik
The opening sequence of Spike Lee's Malcolm X (1992) is a relentless act of cinematic aggression. Malcolm's rhythmic condemnation of "the white man" as history's greatest scourge provides aural context for the infamous video footage of the Rodney King beating. These discrete audio and visual texts resonate to create an inescapable ideological indictment that draws to a close upon a stark visual presenting an American flag engulfed in flames, burning away to reveal an iconic letter "X." In the confluence of its texts, this sequence amounts to a militant statement of black grievance and defiance. However, as this assault arrogates and deforms the master symbol of the American flag, it also suggests that the film to follow speaks about African America within an American discourse. Like the film it prefaces, the evocative opening of Malcolm X announces aggressively Lee's desire to be understood as an auteur consciously attempting to engage and influence public narratives about the idea of race in America and, therefore, about the idea of America itself. Along with other films from his early career, Malcolm X helped establish Lee's reputation as a bold yet mainstream cultural commentator whose films "require their audiences to question conventional structures of feeling, the normative approaches to life as lived in the United States, and to rethink national mythology" (Massood, "Introduction" xvi).
Perhaps, then, it is not surprising that more than a decade after becoming a reliable provocateur Lee directed 25th Hour, Hollywood's first contemplation of the national trauma produced by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Released just sixteen months after the event, the film's post-9/11 New York setting was the representation of a national wounding, still raw. Projecting it upon the silver screen was in itself an aggressive gesture; it was a risk no other Hollywood filmmaker would take until almost five years after the attacks. Yet at first blush it appears that in 25th Hour Lee handles his confrontation of the American imagination with uncharacteristic deference; one critic described the film as a "heartfelt love letter" to New York and America (Massood, "Introduction" xvii). The ideological fire witnessed in Malcolm X seems tamped in reverence to the sensitized post-9/11 audience. Issues of race feel muted in a narrative focused upon the fate of a sympathetic white protagonist; and Lee's treatment of the events of 9/11 is ostensibly apolitical and ideologically open. On its surface, the film strikes its viewer as a collage of intimate character studies, distanced from the public discourses of race and nation that organize so much of Lee's earlier work. However, in the context of Lee's oeuvre, 25th Hour represents not a departure in theme and attitude, but rather a shift in method. The film is in fact a profound contemplation of the way in which race continues to haunt the American mind, and it is an important development in Lee's extensive and evolving artistic project. Modernizing the national gothic tradition, 25th Hour suggests that, despite programs of gentrification, suburbanization and incarceration which have virtually inoculated the affluent white body against racial hazard, America remains deeply troubled by its dark bogeymen. This argument is elaborated amidst a specific post-9/11 historical context that was--among other things--animated by rhetoric of American interracial solidarity marshaled against a cave-hidden threat from abroad. Lee's film carefully hollows out this rhetoric by demonstrating that for the American imagination, even in the post-9/11 moment, the most potent menace lurks at home--in a sepulchral prison system that efficiently disappears black male bodies from civil society and social discourse, while intensifying the terror they produce in the national psyche.
The subtlety and restraint that Lee uses to re-create the hauntings in 25th Hour gives the film a simmering, understated power that distinguishes it from his more noted films of the late 1980s and early '90s, like Do the Right Thing (1989), Jungle Fever (1991) and Malcolm X--films that conveyed ideology in heavy-handed, sometimes didactic, terms that could prompt an unsympathetic (and hyperbolic) critic like Stanley Crouch to declare Lee's aesthetic fascist" (qtd. …
Publication: African American Review
Volume/issue: Vol. 45, No. 1-2
Publication date: Spring-Summer 2012
Smith, Derik
Lee, Spike--Criticism and interpretation
World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001--Political aspects
World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001--Social aspects
25th Hour (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation
Art and life--Criticism and interpretation
Black-white relations--Criticism and interpretation
Black-white relations--Portrayals
African American culture--Portrayals
African American culture--Political aspects
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The long quest for "precision." American precision warfare was never perfect. Nevertheless, during the Obama years, the administration made genuine attempts to minimize civilian casualties. Indeed, the moral and strategic search for precision has a long history in American warfare; the origins of Obama-era precision can be traced back to the Cold War nuclear context of the 1980s. Albert Wohlstetter, a prominent American nuclear strategist of that era, argued that conventional precision missiles could offer an alternative to massive nuclear destruction in the event of hostilities with a nuclear armed state. Thanks to advances in computer data gathering and transmission, missile range and yield, and offensive accuracies and reliability, precision missiles could provide an effective "discriminate deterrence," Wohlstetter wrote. The logic was that precision missiles could guarantee the pinpoint destruction of enemy military targets around the globe without resorting to the nuclear option—and the civilian casualties that would come from nuclear war. This strategy was not used in the Cold War, but in the post-Cold War era precision weapons dominated American warfare.
Building upon the initial success of the Gulf War that ended in 1991, the Kosovo War of 1998 and 1999 marked a fundamental milestone in the way the United States conducted warfare. It was within this conflict that precision was achieved with near-perfection, paving the way for it to become a staple of American strategic thought. No longer did American political and strategic thinkers need to concern themselves with justifying a heavy cost to both civilian and American military lives. Instead—through the combination of unarmed surveillance drones, real-time video transmission, and Tomahawk cruise missiles—precision increased, the costs of war were reduced, and the strategic advantage was maintained. Despite some high-profile incidents in which civilians were killed, Secretary of Defense William Cohen declared Kosovo to be "the most precise application of air power in history." There were zero NATO combat deaths in Kosovo, so for the United States the war was seemingly cost-free and bloodless. These perceived successes had a lasting impact on American warfare.
Precision continued to dominate American strategic thought during the subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Drones became armed, coupling long-range surveillance and loitering capabilities with the instant justice of the precision missile. Although armed drones were introduced during the George W. Bush administration, they matured under Obama. Drones were by no means a panacea, but they made it easier to avoid cost-heavy ground wars and the ubiquitous threat of improvised explosive devices. For Obama, the virtue of these precision weapons was that power could be projected over vast distances, targets could be struck with accuracy, and the cost to life could be reduced. As the "drone president" stated in 2013, "Simply put, these strikes have saved lives." Over time, however, the disconnect between Obama's precision ethos and the realities of war became apparent.
Collateral damage. Between 64 and 116 civilians were officially listed as victims of counterterrorism strikes "outside areas of active hostilities" (then defined as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria) under Obama. The Pentagon recently estimated that more than 350 civilians have been killed in US-led strikes against Islamic targets in Iraq and Syria since 2014—although critics say official estimates are murky (for one thing, they do not distinguish between drone and conventional strikes) and that the actual collateral damage is greater than reported.
One issue is that precision is only as precise as the intelligence at hand and the tactics used. The cost to American military life was mitigated under Obama, and suspected terrorists were killed, but the risk to civilian life continued. This did not go unnoticed by the administration, and a struggle persisted throughout Obama's eight-year tenure.
The world is now, however, a very different place. There is a new president, and the American approach to drone warfare has changed.
The new drone president. Under President Trump, the search for a just precision no longer lies at the heart of drone policy. On the campaign trail, Trump threatened to "take out [the] families" of terrorists. He said he would "blow up the [oil] pipes…blow up the refineries…blow up every single inch, there would be nothing left" in response to the Islamic State's campaigns in Iraq and Syria.
The full impact of these changes is still unclear, but a worrying trend is starting to emerge. Not only are strikes increasing—Trump reportedly launched about one strike or raid per day during his first 74 days in power, compared with one strike every 5.4 days under Obama—but these strikes also appear to be more indiscriminate, resulting in more civilian fatalities. This is not to say that Trump is deliberately targeting civilians (although his campaign rhetoric would not rule this out); it is more that, with the relaxation of regulations and the toleration of higher risks, more civilians are dying. As in the less regulated early days of the Obama administration, "mistakes" are now more frequent. Examples of civilian casualties can be found in reports coming out of central Yemen and southern Somalia, the 200 civilians killed in Mosul, the bombing of a mosque near Aleppo, the misdirected airstrike in Tabqa, and the destruction of a school in Raqqa. It appears that a new drone playbook is emerging, one that is likely to mark the start of a dangerous future.
The dangers ahead. Under Trump, destructiveness has been mistaken for effectiveness, and this is likely to prove counterproductive. Knee-jerk and extreme responses do not make good counter-terror policy. Trump's shift toward a more indiscriminate form of air strike—alongside the increased deployment of drones—might increase the risk of "blowback," as former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General James E. Cartwright called it. So, in the future, drone-strike-inspired terrorism will likely remain a danger to the United States and its allies.
Trump's new strike policy also sets a dangerous precedent about what level of force is acceptable, or indeed required, in the fight against terror. Will the Trump-era norms pave the way for other states to test the United States on how much force—and collateral damage—will now be tolerated? Recent trends in indiscriminate Russian strikes, and the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government, appear to highlight the emergence of just such "testing." Finally, a point to consider—one that relates back to this issue of norms—is what Albert Wohlstetter, and colleagues such as Fred Iklé, warned was the "global diffusion of advanced technologies." Defense One technology editor Patrick Tucker predicts that, by 2024, all states will have access to armed drones. With the large number of drones on the market, the technology is already spreading to non-state actors, which will have access to even more advanced armed drone technologies in the future. Great powers such as China and Russia are often discussed within this context, but smaller nations—including Myanmar, Nigeria, Egypt, Poland, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan—have also recently acquired armed drone technologies. What norms of use will set the benchmark for how these precision weapons will be used in the future?
It appears that the United States is at a fork in the road, with Obama's "precision ethos" behind us and the "Trump doctrine" ahead. Neither is perfect, but the latter is more dangerous. If Trump's tactics become the new normal, not only will it be harder for future US administrations to stand up to "drone atrocities" by smaller actors, but zones of conflict will likely become increasingly complex places for the United States, or indeed any great power, to navigate.


supported the crew of Brown Sugar during the 43rd Transpac Race!
The Crew Linus Ralls, Steve Horst, Skipper Steve Brown, Scott Atwood, Russ Turk, Gordon Boivin ready to leave the Long Beach Dock.
July 6...3 days to go.
July 7...2 days to go.
The weather forecast looks LIGHT. Too light. Forecast is variable, 10 knots or less, patchy fog, slight chance of T-Storms!
The Crew is busy preparing. Today they loaded the boat almost completely in preparation for the big Transpac Kick-off party tomorrow.
July 8. Tomorrow we race!
The weather forecast hasn't changed much...still light.
Wonderful send-off party at the Hyatt really got the crew feeling the spirit of Aloha. The crew is excited and ready for a great start tomorrow!!!
Brown Sugar was relieved to have a beautiful steady breeze this afternoon at their 1:00 Start. They gained good position and were sailing strong as they quickly moved out of sight toward the West End of Catalina. They'll take The Island to port then head for Honolulu. They looked REALLY GOOD out there. Let's hope the wind holds up!
Here's the view from Gypsy, the Columbia 53 that took some Brown Sugar fans out to watch The Start.
Positions as of early this morning for the leaders in Div 6 and Aloha A. Already we can see big differences in strategy as the fleet anticipates (or guesses) how the weather will shift.
Check the blog for e-mail reports sent from the boat.
Brown Sugar, Shanti and X-Dream took a northern course. Ariadne and Windswept took a big dive to the south.


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Secrets of Fluorescent Microalgae Could Lead to Super-efficient Solar Cells
Flourescent proteins in the laboratory
(Photo : University of Birmingham)
Red algae are among the most efficient energy converting organisms on Earth.
(Photo : Unsplash)
Tiny light-emitting microalgae, found in the ocean, could hold the secret to the next generation of organic solar cells, according to new research carried out at the Universities of Birmingham and Utrecht.
Microalgae are probably the oldest surviving living organisms on the planet. They have evolved over billions of years to possess light harvesting systems that are up to 95 per cent efficient. This enables them to survive in the most extreme environments, and adapt to changes our world has seen over this time-span.
Unravelling how this system works could yield important clues about how it could be used or recreated for use in new, super-efficient organic solar panels. Because of the complexity of the organisms and the huge variety of different species, however, progress in this area has been limited.
The team made use of some of the advanced methods of a technique called mass spectrometry, which enabled them to characterize individual components of the algae light-harvesting system. This approach enabled them to reveal details of distinct modules of the system that have never been seen before. This fine detail will help scientists understand why microalgae are so efficient at light harvesting.
Aneika Leney, in the School of Biosciences, at the University of Birmingham, is one lead author on the study, which is published in Cell Chem. "Microalgae are fascinating organisms that can do things so much better than systems designed by engineers," she explains. "By applying this knowledge, we can start to make real progress towards adapting these systems for use in solar panels."
Professor Albert Heck, Scientific Director of the Netherlands Proteomics Centre, Utrecht University, added: "Our presumption is that when you see algae, they look sluggish and certainly not very interesting. But when you look into the molecular details of their machineries that make them convert sun light into energy so efficiently, you think these are more sophisticated than the most sophisticated Swiss watch. This needs to be the product of 3 billion years of fine-tuning, called evolution."
The next step for the team will be to study in more detail how energy is transferred through these light-harvesting systems and pinpoint why the modules they have identified are so efficient. "With most solar panels on the UK homes operating at 10-20 per cent efficiency, increasing this efficiency to 95 per cent will dramatically increase the use of solar power technology and in doing so help protect the environment," adds Dr Leney.


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November Country Rookie of the Month: Megan Moroney
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Thanks to her viral hit "Tennessee Orange," Megan Moroney's career is red-hot.
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The Douglasville, Georgia, native recently inked a hybrid label deal with Sony Music Nashville and New York-based Columbia Records as SMN sends "Tennessee Orange" to country radio where it debuted at No. 60 for Billboard's Country Airplay chart dated Dec. 3.
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The heartfelt ballad, about being so smitten with someone that you're willing to temporarily trade her University of Georgia red and black hues for their beloved University of Tennessee orange, broke onto the Billboard Hot 100 in October. "Tennessee Orange" sits at No. 21 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, while Moroney is at No. 13 on Billboard's Emerging Artists chart. According to Luminate, the song has earned 52.5 million on-demand official U.S. streams.
Of her Sony Music Nashville/Columbia Records deal, Moroney tells Billboard, "I felt like they most understood what I've been doing. They don't want to change me at all. My goal is to stay country. We brought in Columbia because my lyrics feel cultural — I'm not necessarily singing about trucks and beer and stuff like that. I noticed in my messages and comments, so many people are like, 'I don't like country music, but I love your songs.' I wanted a team that can get this music out to a bigger audience, so that's why I felt we needed the Columbia team, too."
Moroney grew up in a musical family, taking piano lessons and singing with her dad. However, she "never really thought of music as a career," and initially studied accounting at the University of Georgia, before transitioning to marketing and music business. She was in college when she began writing music and quickly integrated herself into the Music City co-writing scene once she moved to Nashville in 2020.
Moroney spoke with Billboard about crafting "Tennessee Orange," working with Sugarland's Kristian Bush (who produced "Tennessee Orange"), and her dream collaborations.
What do you recall about writing your first song?
I had the opportunity to open a show for Chase Rice at the Georgia Theatre and he told me I needed an original song to do the show. So I wrote my first song at 19, called "Stay a Memory," to be able to do that—it was my first real gig. I didn't grow up dreaming of being a music artist. As a little girl, I did music for fun, but I never would've thought that songwriting and being an artist could be a career.
You graduated from UGA and moved to Nashville in mid-2020. What was that like trying to break into the industry during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic?
I moved here and was trying to meet people and network, but it was hard because everything was closed. At UGA, because I had been in the music business program, I was Kristian Bush's intern in Atlanta, and we kept in touch after I graduated. I had been in Nashville about three months, and Kristian was asking how it was going and I was like, "Well, I've met friends, but not really any co-writers." So he offered to help me record some demos of songs I had written.
When you were an intern, did Kristian know you were also an aspiring artist?
I didn't really bring it up, that I was trying to do the whole music thing — because the first time I walked into their studio, there were a bunch of CMA awards and Grammys on the wall. I was like, "I'm keeping my mouth shut. I've written like three decent songs in my life, so I'm not gonna sit here and tell them that I'm an aspiring artist."
You are managed by Juli Griffith at Punch Bowl Entertainment. How did you two get connected?
Kristian introduced me and Juli was a publisher in Nashville for a long time. She connected me with Ben Williams and that was my first co-writing session ever, on Zoom. He wrote like half my EP [Pistol Made of Roses, released in July].
Before you released the EP, you'd released a song called "Wonder." How did that shape you as a songwriter?
I wrote that completely by myself, and it was one of the songs I demoed with Kristian. I was at the beach with my friend Natalie and she was arguing with this guy and was upset about it. I told her, "If he loved you and cared about you, you wouldn't be wondering if he did." I had a couple of drinks in me and just started rhyming s–t. We had a house full of people we went to the beach with and I played it for them and they were like, "How did you do that?" I think that was the first song that I wrote where I thought, "There is something here."
You wrote "Tennessee Orange" with Ben, David Fanning and Paul Jenkins. What do you recall about the writing session?
Ben is my go-to writer, and I had not met David or Paul before. I woke up that morning and had the hook of "In Georgia they'd call it a sin/ I'm wearing Tennessee orange for him." I felt like it was risky taking that idea for a song in, because I didn't know two of the other writers, and I didn't know if they even cared about football. But it was a great writing session, and I just became obsessed with getting the song right.
I went home and kept chipping away at it for a couple more hours and then I sent them the changed version — just changing things like [how] the line about "You raised me to know right from wrong" was in the second verse originally, but I felt like we needed that [in the first verse] to make the storyline — you have no idea what I am going to say until the hook, and the verse builds up that mystery.
What has the reaction been like when you play "Tennessee Orange" in Georgia?
I had two shows in Athens in November, and was so nervous to play it — but the crowds sing it really loud anyway. I played the Georgia Theatre this past week, and it was the loudest I've heard a room of people sing it. They are so supportive, which I am grateful for. I have a show in Knoxville this spring, and I'm sure it will go over really great there.
You are working on a full album. Where are you in the process?
We haven't gotten into the studio yet, but it's completely written. The songs are all very me. I don't like cutting songs that I could just pitch to any female country artist. They all have to be very personal to me.
Who are some of the co-writers on the project?
Ben is on a lot of the songs, but also David Messy [Mescon]. And there's a song I wrote called "Girl in the Mirror" with Jessie Jo Dillon and Matt Jenkins, and it's so freakin' good.
Who would some of your dream duet collaborators be?
Chris Stapleton and Miranda Lambert are at the top for me. I've been a fan of both of them for so long. I'm also obsessed with Justin Bieber, so that would be fun.
You moved to Nashville when artists were off the road. Now that you are able to get out and tour, what are some of your on-the-road essentials?
Advil and Red Bull [laughs]. I drink probably two Red Bulls a day when I'm on the road. I have to have my Airpods for sure, and all of my flashy boots.


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Jokowi to oversee Indonesia peat restoration agency but details thin on the ground
by Mongabay Haze Beat on 26 November 2015
Indonesia's forestry minister says a government agency to manage the archipelago's peat restoration plans will be overseen by the president.
The Indonesian Palm Oil Association (Gapki) announced new policies at a palm oil conference in Bali on Thursday.
A shipping trade publication in Singapore surveyed 250 people in the city state and found 18% of them would relocate if the haze "became an annual norm."
Indonesia will form a government agency overseen directly by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to manage what could be an unprecedented restoration of the archipelago's peatlands following this year's devastating wildfires.
"I want this body to be formed immediately," forestry minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar said on the sidelines of a tree-planting ceremony in South Kalimantan province on Wednesday.
Indonesia has informally committed to restoring 2 million hectares of peat in Kalimantan and Sumatra in order to minimize the risk of future fires.
The minister said the agency was still being prepared by the office of the state secretariat and the cabinet secretary. Siti added that the forestry ministry was consulting with vice president Jusuf Kalla on the establishment of the peat restoration body, and that the government was studying the existing legal framework before publishing a regulation to launch the agency.
Siti said a principal responsibility of the agency would be to establish a database of canals in Indonesia's peatlands, and list those which have been blocked.
How this agency will be funded remains an open question. The minister said Indonesia has received informal interest from the government of Norway and the World Bank, but the details are far from finalized and external donors will likely remain in wait-and-see mode until the agency is formed.
Analysts and NGOs emphasize restoring Indonesia's peatlands will require a substantial financial commitment over decades. The government is still in the early stages, however, of establishing a funding formula for the restoration.
"It must be clear who picks up the costs," said Nyoman Suryadiputra , executive director of Wetlands International Indonesia, adding that he was supportive of the peat restoration agency, in principle.
"The government should not be covering the cost if the land being restored is managed by the private sector," he said.
Also up in the air is an impending presidential decree on peatland protection. Jokowi has promised to issue the regulation, but it could take any of several forms, not all of which are equal in strength.
The Indonesian Palm Oil Association (Gapki) meanwhile announced new policies at a palm oil conference in Bali on Thursday.
Gapki uses data from Indonesia's forestry ministry that show 59% of fires occurred in plantation areas. The palm oil industry body said the reduced oil palm yield caused by fires damaged plantation companies' bottom lines, and emphasized that the burning of land ran counter to their interests.
"Smoke and fires lowers productivity by 28-40%," said Gapki secretary general Joko Supriyono. "So it does not make sense for palm oil companies to deliberately burn land when it is against their self-interest."
Gapki said its members would increase firefighting capacity, boost cooperation with local police forces and the Indonesian military, and take a more active role in distributing face masks in affected areas. Gapki is also being consulted by the coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs in drafting new land-management regulations.
A landscape burns this year in Indonesia's Riau province. Photo by Rhett A. Butler
Indonesian government and NGO officers are preparing this week to travel to Paris for crucial climate change talks beginning November 30. The region's haze problem will be back in the spotlight after fading from the headlines in recent weeks after the onset of the rainy season in Kalimantan and Sumatra.
A shipping trade publication in Singapore surveyed 250 people in the city state and found 18% of them would relocate if the haze "became an annual norm." One shipping company said it had considered building an office barge which could be towed to a clean-air location when necessary.
"If two months out of the year are spent with the haze, expats will not want to live and work in Singapore," one shipping executive said in response to the survey.
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agribusiness, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Policy, Environmental Politics, Forestry, Forests, Law Enforcement, Palm Oil, Peatlands, Plantations, Pulp And Paper, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Tropical Forests
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The 1990 Atlantic hurricane season featured the most named storms of any hurricane season at the time. During the season, 14 tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean became named storms. The season officially started on June 1, 1990, and ended on November 30. These dates, adopted by the convention, historically delimit the period each year when most Atlantic tropical systems form. However, storm formation is possible at any time of the year, as was the case this season, when Tropical Depression One formed on May 24; Hurricane Nana, the season's final storm, dissipated on October 21.

The season produced 16 tropical depressions, of which 14 intensified into tropical storms, 8 became hurricanes, and 1 became a major hurricane. Although the season had the highest number of named storms at the time, it featured only two notable storms, primarily because many of the tropical cyclones remained either weak or at sea. The two most significant storms of the season, in terms of damage and loss of life, were Hurricane Diana and Tropical Storm Marco. However, the strongest tropical cyclone of the season was Hurricane Gustav.

This timeline includes information that was not operationally released, meaning that data from post-storm reviews by the National Hurricane Center, such as a storm that was not operationally warned upon, has been included. This timeline documents tropical cyclone formations, strengthening, weakening, landfalls, extratropical transitions, and dissipations during the season.

Timeline

May

May 24
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression One develops roughly halfway between Limón, Honduras , and Cape San Antonio, Cuba.
May 25
0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT May 24) – Tropical Depression One attains its peak intensity with winds of 30 mph (45 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 1007 mbar (hPa; 29.74 inHg).
Between 1200 and 1800 UTC (8:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression One makes landfall near Guasimal, Matanzas, Cuba with winds of 30 mph (45 km/h).
May 26
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression One is absorbed by an approaching cold front while located about 45 miles (70 km) west of Key West, Florida.

June
June 1
The 1990 Atlantic hurricane season officially begins.

July
July 22
0600 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Two develops about 1,345 miles (2,165 km) east of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
July 24
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Two intensifies into Tropical Storm Arthur.
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – A subtropical depression develops just offshore of North Carolina.
July 25
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Arthur attains its peak intensity with winds of 70 mph (110 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 995 mbar (hPa; 29.38 inHg).
July 27
0600 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Arthur weakens to a tropical depression.
0600 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) – The subtropical depression acquires tropical characteristics and is reclassified as Tropical Depression Three.
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Arthur dissipates south of Jamaica.
July 28
0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT July 27) – Tropical Depression Three intensifies into Tropical Storm Bertha.
July 29
0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT July 28) – Tropical Storm Bertha intensifies into a Category 1 hurricane.
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Hurricane Bertha weakens to a tropical storm.

July 30
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Bertha re-intensifies into a Category 1 hurricane.
July 31
0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT July 31) – Tropical Depression Four develops south of Cape Verde.

August
August 2
0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT August 2) – Hurricane Bertha attains its peak intensity with winds of 80 mph (130 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 973 mbar (hPa; 28.73 inHg).
0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT August 2) – Tropical Depression Four intensifies into Tropical Storm Cesar.
0600 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) – Hurricane Bertha weakens to a tropical storm while making landfall near Sydney, Nova Scotia, with winds of 70 mph (115 km/h). Simultaneously, Tropical Storm Bertha transitions into an extratropical storm.
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Cesar attains its peak intensity with winds of 50 mph (85 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 1000 mbar (hPa; 29.53 inHg).
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – A second subtropical depression develops in the vicinity of the Azores.
August 3
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – The second subtropical depression intensifies into a subtropical storm.
August 4
0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT August 3) – Tropical Depression Five develops in the southwestern Caribbean Sea.
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – The subtropical storm weakens to a subtropical depression.
August 5
0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT August 4) – Tropical Depression Five intensifies into Tropical Storm Diana.
2000 UTC (3:00 p.m. CDT) – Tropical Storm Diana makes landfall near Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo, on the Yucatan Peninsula with winds of 65 mph (100 km/h).
August 6
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Cesar weakens to a tropical depression.
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – The subtropical depression acquires tropical characteristics and is reclassified as Tropical Depression Six.
August 7
0600 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Diana intensifies into a Category 1 hurricane after emerging into the Bay of Campeche.
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Cesar dissipates roughly 1,150 miles (1,850 km) east of Bermuda.
1800 UTC (1:00 p.m. CDT) – Hurricane Diana intensifies into a Category 2 hurricane. Simultaneously, the storm attains its peak intensity with winds of 100 mph (165 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 980 mbar (hPa; 28.94 inHg).
1900 UTC (2:00 p.m. CDT) – Hurricane Diana makes landfall near Tuxpan, Veracruz, Mexico, with winds of 100 mph (165 km/h).
August 8
0000 UTC (7:00 p.m. CDT August 7) – Hurricane Diana rapidly weakens to a tropical storm.
1200 UTC (7:00 a.m. CDT) – Tropical Storm Diana weakens to a tropical depression.
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Six intensifies into Tropical Storm Edouard.

August 9
0600 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Edouard attains its peak intensity with winds of 45 mph (75 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 1003 mbar (hPa; 29.62 inHg).
1800 UTC (12:00 p.m. MDT) – Tropical Depression Diana dissipates after emerging into the Gulf of California.
August 10
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Edouard weakens to a tropical depression.
August 11
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Edouard transitions into an extratropical storm while located east-northeast of the Azores.
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Seven develops southwest of Cape Verde.
August 13
0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT August 12) – Tropical Depression Seven degenerates into a tropical wave.
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – The tropical wave re-generates into Tropical Depression Seven.
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Seven intensifies into Tropical Storm Fran.
August 14
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Fran attains its peak intensity with winds of 40 mph (65 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 1007 mbar (hPa; 29.74 inHg).
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Due to heavy land interaction with Venezuela, Tropical Storm Fran dissipates in the extreme southeast Caribbean.
August 24
0600 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Eight develops 965 miles (1,555 km) east of Barbados.
August 25
0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT August 24) – Tropical Depression Eight intensifies into Tropical Storm Gustav.
0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT August 24) – Tropical Depression Nine develops  west-southwest of Cape Verde.
August 26
0600 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Nine intensifies into Tropical Storm Hortense.
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Gustav intensifies into a Category 1 hurricane.
August 27
0600 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) – Hurricane Gustav intensifies into a Category 2 hurricane while passing 205 miles (330 km) to the east of the Lesser Antilles.

August 28
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Hortense attains its peak intensity with winds of 65 mph (100 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 993 mbar (hPa; 29.32 inHg).
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Hurricane Gustav weakens to a Category 1 hurricane.
August 30
0600 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) – Hurricane Gustav re-intensifies into a Category 2 hurricane.
August 31
0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT August 30) – Hurricane Gustav intensifies into a Category 3 hurricane.
0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT August 30) – Tropical Storm Hortense weakens to a tropical depression.
0600 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) – Hurricane Gustav attains its peak intensity with winds of 120 mph (195 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 956 mbar (hPa; 28.23 inHg).
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Hortense dissipates about 805 miles (1,295 km) east-southeast of Bermuda.

September
September 1
0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT August 31) – Hurricane Gustav weakens to a Category 2 hurricane.
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Hurricane Gustav weakens to a Category 1 hurricane.
September 2
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Hurricane Gustav weakens to a tropical storm.
September 3
0600 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Gustav transitions into an extratropical storm while located east of Newfoundland.
September 4
0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT September 3) – Tropical Depression Ten develops southwest of Cape Verde.
September 5
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Ten intensifies into Tropical Storm Isidore.

September 7
0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT September 6) – Tropical Storm Isidore intensifies into a Category 1 hurricane.
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Hurricane Isidore intensifies into a Category 2 hurricane. Simultaneously, the storm attains its peak intensity with winds of 100 mph (165 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 978 mbar (hPa; 28.88 inHg).
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Hurricane Isidore weakens to a Category 1 hurricane.
September 8
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Hurricane Isidore weakens to a tropical storm.
September 9
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Isidore re-intensifies into a Category 1 hurricane.
September 16
0600 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) – Hurricane Isidore weakens to a tropical storm.
September 17
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Isidore transitions into an extratropical cyclone while located a few hundred miles east of Cape Race.
September 18
0600 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Eleven develops about midway between the Lesser Antilles and Africa.

September 20
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Eleven attains its peak intensity with winds of 35 mph (55 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 1003 mbar (hPa; 29.62 inHg).
September 21
0600 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Twelve develops west of Cape Verde.
September 24
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Twelve intensifies into Tropical Storm Josephine.
September 26
0600 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Josephine weakens to a tropical depression.
September 27
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Eleven dissipates well north-northeast of the Lesser Antilles.

October
October 1
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Josephine re-intensifies into a tropical storm.
October 3
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Thirteen develops just east of the Lesser Antilles.
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Thirteen intensifies into Tropical Storm Klaus.

October 5
0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT October 4) – Tropical Storm Josephine intensifies into a Category 1 hurricane.
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Klaus intensifies into a Category 1 hurricane, while about 12 miles (20 km) east of Barbuda. Simultaneously, the storm attains its peak intensity with winds of 80 mph (130 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 985 mbar (hPa; 29.09 inHg).
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Hurricane Josephine attains its peak intensity with winds of 85 mph (140 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 980 mbar (hPa; 28.94 inHg).
October 6
0600 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) – Hurricane Klaus weakens to a tropical storm.
0600 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) – A subtropical storm develops 875 miles (1410 km) southeast of Cape Race.
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Hurricane Josephine weakens to a tropical storm.
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Josephine transitions into an extratropical cyclone while west-northwest of the Azores.
October 8
0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT October 7) – Tropical Storm Klaus weakens to a tropical depression.
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Klaus re-intensifies into a tropical storm.
October 9
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Fourteen develops near Caibarién, Cuba.
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Klaus is absorbed by a low pressure system.
October 10
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Fourteen intensifies into Tropical Storm Marco.
October 11
0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT October 10) – The subtropical storm acquires tropical characteristics and strengthens into Hurricane Lili. Simultaneously, the storm attains its peak intensity with winds of 75 mph (120 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 987 mbar (hPa; 29.15 inHg).
0600 UTC (2:00 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Marco attains its peak intensity with winds of 65 mph (100 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 989 mbar (hPa; 29.21 inHg).

October 12
0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT October 11) – Tropical Storm Marco weakens to a tropical depression while making landfall near Cedar Key, Florida.
1200 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Marco transitions into an extratropical cyclone near the Florida/Georgia border.
October 13
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Hurricane Lili weakens to a tropical storm.
October 15
0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT October 14) – Tropical Storm Lili transitions into an extratropical cyclone while just offshore of Nova Scotia.
October 16
0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT October 15) – Tropical Depression Fifteen develops northeast of the Lesser Antilles.
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Fifteen intensifies into Tropical Storm Nana.
October 17
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Nana intensifies into a Category 1 hurricane.
October 19
1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) – Hurricane Nana attains its peak intensity with winds of 85 mph (140 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 989 mbar (hPa; 29.21 inHg).
October 20
0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT October 19) – Hurricane Nana weakens to a tropical storm.
October 21
0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT October 20) – Tropical Storm Nana weakens to a tropical depression.
1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression Nana dissipates south of Bermuda.

November
November 30
The 1990 Atlantic hurricane season officially ends.

See also

Timeline of the 1990 Pacific hurricane season

Notes

References

 Timeline
1990 Atlantic hurricane season
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Facebook apologizes after its shitty AI labeled a video of a Black man as "about Primates"
The company calls this an "unacceptable error," ensures that it's working on a fix.
A Daly Mail video from 2020 has made quite the stir over the last few days after revealing a pretty major flaw in Facebook's AI. The video featured a Black man as the main focus and Facebook's shitty AI was asking people if they wanted to "keep seeing videos about Primates?"
According to a report from The New York Times, this video prompt was recently brought to Facebook's attention, and the company has since apologized, calling it an "unacceptable error" and confirming that it is looking at the recommendation feature to make sure it doesn't happen again. Here's what Facebook spokesperson Dani Lever said to The New York Times:
"As we have said, while we have made improvements to our AI, we know it's not perfect, and we have more progress to make. We apologize to anyone who may have seen these offensive recommendations."
It is unclear exactly how long this prompt has been attached to this particular video, but former Facebook employee Darci Groves recently found the "horrifying and egregious" error and brought it to the company's attention on a forum for current and former Facebook employees.
Artificial intelligence has found itself under some scrutiny and this isn't the first time that we've seen unacceptable mistakes like this one on social media. Just a few months ago, Twitter abandoned its photo-cropping AI after it was discovered to be extremely racially biased.
These companies are beginning to use AI more and more on a daily basis and something needs to be done about these disgusting issues. With the number of resources that Facebook has accumulated, there's no justification for sickening mistakes like this one.
Texas is about to pass a law that bans Facebook from banning conservatives
Twitter's photo-cropping AI likes to show people that are young, slim, and 'pretty'
Instagram is finally updating its search to make it actually work
TikTok was changing people's faces without their permission
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