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Socialism is the State-Party ownership and management of the means of production and redistribution of the product. Obviously, those who are doing the redistributing… well, we have all seen Tom & Jerry cutting a leg of ham at a kitchen table. That is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted to prevent: the individual's labor should be rewarded by commensurate gains flowing to the individual who expended the labor – not redistributed by the Party or Government.
The most fundamental adage of socialism/communism is that you must do as you are told and you will receive as much in pay and freedom as the Party deems appropriate. The Party is the State is the Government – there is no difference. It is an impalpable entity overshadowing you as a poor, powerless individual, a slave to the higher cause. Socialism is another word for slavery, because the individual slaves for someone else under the pretense of some higher cause (usually world peace, environment, eradication of poverty…).
Socialism starts with indoctrination, which is fairly easy because it is basically a continuation of parenthood – only taken over by the State. Children do as they are told by the parents, and if the State takes over this relationship (which never happens all at once but by small, imperceptible steps), children will hardly notice it – and parents, after all, are somewhat relieved that they have absolved themselves of personal responsibility. They do not feel they lost their rights or lost their children – and if they do, they either consider it a fair trade-in or rationalize that they would have lost them anyway.
The most terrifying thing about socialism is how it exploits the good nature and emotions of every human being – while caring not a fig about their minds or hearts or well-being, because, after all, they were born to be slaves to the higher cause; and while they cannot see, grasp, define the Party-State, they can feel its power, the power of an impeccable, immaculate leader, like Stalin, Mao, Kim Junk… and it is awesome and good, because the Party took away their God and substituted the State in its stead, and we all have the need to feel respect and awe for a higher Power, to aspire, to revere, to become.
Thus, every demonstration, public manifestation, cheering and heckling becomes a religious event. There are no individuals, rights, or causes – save for the one Cause that the Party-State says is righteous. This may change, as becomes politically expedient to the higher-ups who hide behind the mantel of the Party and the Cause, all the while eroding from the individual rights, liberties and wealth, all the while amassing their own – until the former have none and the latter have all. That is full-fledged socialism, in other words: tyrannical system of slavery, absolute rule of the individual and every aspect of their lives… or our lives, should I say?


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Historic Register Buildings
As of November 12, 2021 there is a new addition to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, and it is in the Baldwin Park neighborhood! It was, up until June of 2021, the oldest building in the neighborhood that had retained its original function. First, let's look at the other Philadelphia and national historic register buildings in the neighborhood.
For the history articles on the website I have been defining the immediate Baldwin Park neighborhood as being within two blocks of Baldwin Park, as opposed to the larger Baldwin Park neighborhood that is the term used for the former Franklin Town neighborhood (see here). Here are the designated buildings and a brief description of the registers.
Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, established 1956.
including historic districts and streets, designates 11,000 sites;
8 individual designations in the Baldwin Park neighborhood:
United States Mint (now part of the Community College of Philadelphia)
Wills Eye (Colonnade Condominiums)
Masterman School
Parkway Central Free Library
Middishade (1600 Callowhill Street)
Granary (Tidewater Sonder hotel)
National Register of Historic Places, established 1966
60 historic districts, 20,000 total buildings in Philadelphia
583 individual designations in Philadelphia, 7 in the Baldwin Park neighborhood:
Graham and Laird Factories (demolished)
Middishade
Granary
Wills Eye
Harrington Machine Works (1666 Callowhill Street)
National Historic Landmarks, established 1960
67 in Philadelphia, zero in the Baldwin Park neighborhood
You might think that a national designation would be more powerful than a local designation, but the national designation incentivizes but doesn't require preservation, while the Philadelphia designation generally prevents unsympathetic alterations and demolitions. The national register entitles developers to apply for federal, state, and sometimes local tax credits that make adaptive reuse financially feasible. A building might initially only be on the local register, but once it is up for redevelopment, a builder may nominate it for the national register in order to apply for the tax credits. For more on the process and the results see the outside article here from Curbed Philly, here from the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia, and here from the City of Philadelphia.
I will arrange the historic registered buildings in the Baldwin Park neighborhood in three groups, the first four being indisputably historic buildings. Underlined words are links to our website article on that topic.
The first United States Mint was located on 7th Street between Arch and Market Streets, which is the current location of the plaque in the photo below. The second mint building was just across Chestnut Street from what is now Macy's, and the third is our neighborhood building. The Philadelphia mint functions moved to a new building at 5th and Arch Streets in 1969. In 1971 our third mint building was turned over to the Community College of Philadelphia (CCP), which had been founded in 1964 and was holding classes in the former Snellenburg department store building at 11th and Market. Classes began in the mint building in 1973, and when the West and Bonnell buildings on campus were completed in 1983, the Snellenburg location was closed. Today the mint building holds CCP administrative offices, the library, and security services.
Plaque on the east side of 7th Street between Arch and Market Streets.
The third mint of the United States, at 1600 Spring Garden Street, on a postcard in 1902. It was completed in 1901 and placed on the local register in 1984.
The architect was the supervising architect at the Department of the Treasury, James Knox Taylor.
The six-story brick Baldwin Locomotive Works can be seen on the far left and the William Sellers Machine Shop buildings on the right.
The Free Library of Philadelphia system began in 1895, the "free" being in distinction to the subscription library founded by Benjamin Franklin. The Free Library was first located in City Hall, and in 1927 moved to its fourth home, as the Parkway Central Library, after 16 years of construction delays. It was designed by Julian Abele and placed on the local register in 1971.
This building was just four blocks from the Spring Garden Branch of the library system, as discussed in our article here.
The Free Library of Philadelphia on Logan Circle in 2020
The Family Court building just east of the Parkway Central Library had been planned as a paired structure with the library, but construction was not completed until 1941. The architect was John Windrim. It was placed on the local register in 1971, thus preserving its exterior, and the interior was placed on the local register in 2011, thus protecting the 35 New Deal murals within (for photos see 44-page registry nomination application here). In 2014, the Family Court functions were moved to a new building at 15th and Arch Street. In anticipation of redevelopment of the 1801 Vine Street building, designation on the National Register of Historic Places was sought and obtained. This allowed for tax credits to the developer. Development plans are ongoing.
The Family Court building just to the east of the Free Library on Logan Circle in 2020. The national designation was sought 53 years after the local designation in order to obtain the federal tax incentives for redevelopment. This redevelopment is still in process. The building has one of the few designated interiors on the local register.
The Parkway Central Library and the Family Court building are mirror images of each other. Tourists from Paris may also observe that the paired structures are almost mirror images of the paired Hôtel de Crillon and the Hôtel de la Marine on the Place de la Concorde in Paris.
The Hôtel de Crillon on the left and the Hôtel de la Marine on the right, in Paris.
Both date to the mid-18th century.
Another Philadelphia connection, besides the architecture: the Hôtel de Crillon is the building in which Ben Franklin and other United States representatives signed the treaty of alliance with France on February 6, 1778. This alliance turned the tide of the American Revolution in our favor.
The Rodin Museum is briefly covered in our article here. It was funded by movie mogul Jules Mastbaum (a graduate of the Central Manual Training School); designed by Paul Cret and Jacque Gréber; and completed in 1929. It was placed on the Philadelphia register in 1971. The museum is administered by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and contains one of the largest collections of Rodin's works outside of Paris.
The reflecting pool in the inner courtyard at the Rodin Museum on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway (photo credit).
The next two registered buildings are less neo-classical, but have architectural merit and rich histories.
The first Wills Eye Hospital, founded in 1832, was at 18th and Race Streets. The second Wills Eye Hospital at 1601 Spring Garden Street was completed in 1933. It was designed by architect John Windrim. It is sometimes called the Centennial Building, since the inscription of two dates above the columns notes the founding in 1832 and the construction of this building in 1932. In 1980 Wills Eye services moved to 9th and Walnut Streets. The Centennial Building was placed on both the national and local registers in 1984. It is now the Colonnade Condominiums.
The second Wills Eye Hospital at 1601 Spring Garden Street seen shortly after completion in 1932 (photo credit).
The Philadelphia High School for Girls was built next to Wills Eye Hospital at the same time.
It was designed by Irwin T. Catherine and completed in 1932. It is now Masterman High School, consistently ranked as the best public high school in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
It was placed on the local register in 1984 and the national register in 1986.
Northeast corner of 17th and Spring Garden Streets in 2021. This is the former Philadelphia High School for Girls.
The next three designated buildings were industrial and look the part.
In the foreground is the concrete granary at 411 North 20th Street as seen in 1981. This photo was included in the nomination form.
It was placed on the local register in 1981 and the national register in 1982. It is now the Tidewater Sonder hotel on the upper stories with windows and a Fine Wine and Good Spirits store on the bottom two floors at street level.
1600 Callowhill Apartments, placed on the local and national registers in 1987 as the Middishade clothing factory. It was designed by Frank Watson and Samuel Huckel and built in 1908.
The Lofts at Logan View Apartments today at 1666 Callowhill Street, placed on the national register in 1983 as the Harrington Machine Shop. In December 1983 the Philadelphia Historical Commission, finding "no redeeming architectural merit," denied designation. It is not on the local register.
There was one designated building that shows the distinction between the national and local registers, i.e. you can demolish a nationally designated building. The Graham and Laird factory buildings on 19th Street, just north of what is now Baldwin Park, were placed as a unit on the national register in 1978, but demolished in 1979 as part of the Franklin Town development. I did not find any discussion of these buildings in the minutes of the local Historical Commission during the years 1977 through 1979, so I assume there was no nomination form submitted.
The Graham Trimming Factory on the right was built in 1886 and the Laird Shoe Factory on the left in 1891. Both were designed by the firm of Geisinger and Hale. This photo was included in the national register nomination form.
Then there are the neighborhood buildings that were beautiful and arguably historic, but never attained designation and were demolished.
Remember, anyone can nominate any building for the historic registers!
The Preston Retreat, as seen after the third floor was added in 1909.
The original building was designed as a maternity hospital by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter and completed in 1840. Its services were moved to Pennsylvania Hospital in 1961 and the building was demolished in 1963, seven years after the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places was established. The site is now occupied by the two towers of the City View Condominiums.
1908 photo of the new Garretson Hospital facing Hamilton Street.
This building occupied part of the land area now occupied by Units 1C and 1D of the townhouses bordering the north side of Baldwin Park. It also was demolished in the 1970s as part of the Franklin Town development.
The trim and elegant Philadelphia Dental College as seen in 1905 at the southwest corner of 18th and Buttonwood Streets.
This building would become part of the Garretson Hospital and then become the Temple Medical School. It was sold in 1963, demolished, and replaced with a surface parking lot. The site is now occupied by the southern tower of North x Northwest Apartments.
1907 photo of the new Carnegie library at the southwest corner of 17th and Spring Garden Streets. It was designed by architect Horace Trumbauer, who had also designed nearby Garretson Hospital. The library was demolished in the early 1970s as part of the Franklin Town project.
How could this escape designation!!!???
There were buildings in the neighborhood that, like 1600 and 1666 Callowhill Street, had the industrial chic look that seems to be making a comeback lately.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works building as seen in 1916 at the southeast corner of 19th and Hamilton Streets in what is now the northern half of Baldwin Park itself. This was originally used as a munitions plant, then a locomotive plant, a homeless shelter, a warehouse, then as a circuit-breaker factory.
Sketch from the 13 November 1927 Inquirer.
The 61 x 162 foot structure, occupied solely by Otis Elevator, would fill the block between Ralston and Buttonwood Streets on 19th Street. The basement and first floor were workrooms and storage; the second floor general offices; and the third floor executive offices. The facing is light-colored brick and the base and cornices are of Indiana limestone. A nice looking addition to the neighborhood, but as you may have guessed by now, demolished in the 1970s as part of the Franklin Town project.
Looking southeast at 16th and Spring Garden Street in 1901.
Part of the new mint is seen on lower right. There were many blocks of buildings just like this, extending from Broad to 17th Street, all demolished in 1937.
Industrial chic on the rebound, looking very Baldwinian!
These images are renderings for residential units revealed in the fall of 2021 at four sites, clockwise from upper left:
20th and Green Streets (current one-story cleaners)
4300 Ridge Avenue
South and Front Streets (former site of Downey's restaurant)
9th and Christian Streets (former site of Palumbo's restaurant)
(all photo credits here)
Part of the Spring Garden Historic District, so designated in 2000, lies within the Baldwin Park neighborhood. Examples discussed on our history pages include the Stetson Mansion (1717 Spring Garden), the Hoopes Mansion (1733 Spring Garden), the Carpenters' Union (1811-1817 Spring Garden), and the Spanish Chapel (1903 Spring Garden). The entire 430-page nomination for the district can be found at outside link here.
Current map (interactive here) showing Philadelphia historic districts, buildings, and streets in pink shading. The large box at top demarcates the Spring Garden Historic District.
Carlton Street between 18th and 19th Street is near bottom center. There are 484 blocks of historic paving surface in Philadelphia, of which the 1800 block of Carlton is one. This block is the only street in our neighborhood to be on the Philadelphia Historic Streets register.
Looking east down the 1800 block of Carlton Street in 2020.
This street and Belgian block are discussed more in our history article on horses.
On the right in this photo, on the south side of Carlton Street, is Hallahan Catholic Girls High School.
The newest member of the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places is our own Hallahan High School, designated as Catholic Girls High School in November 2021. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia announced in the spring of 2021 that the building would be sold, and a nomination for designation was quickly drawn up, using some of the information in our four-section website history article starting here. Fortunately, the building's exterior will be preserved. Unfortunately, the religious iconography within the building is not required to be preserved; hopefully any developer will be considerate of its history. Members of the Philadelphia Historical Commission noted that they had never seen as large an outpouring of support and emotion as they saw with the meetings about this building's nomination. There are over 40,000 alumnae, after all! It should be noted that Hallahan High School on 19th Street, and the Cathedral Parochial School on 18th Street, were considered as one unit for designation. The complete nomination form, sponsored by the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia, is at the outside link here.
Hallahan High School looking northeast in 2020. The Cathedral Parochial School (an elementary school) is down Wood Street on the lower right of the photo.
The 18th Street entrance to the Cathedral Parochial School, also designated.
This school was attended by several Friends of Matthias Baldwin Park.
authored by Joe Walsh, December 2021

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Health updates on Trey Burke and Caris Levert, as well.
Tim Hardaway Jr. has been the model of consistency recently for the New York Knicks.
The guard played four games last week, averaging 17.5 points with three games of 20 or more. He's the leading scorer, and one of the few bright spots, for a Knicks team in the midst of a four-game losing streak.
He tallied 20 points on 15 shots Monday against the Wizards, including 4-of-9 from deep. He did this in the face of former All-Star guards in John Wall and Bradley Beal.
He also battled to 22 points Thursday versus the Celtics and 21 points Sunday night against the Hornets. He scuffled to just seven points in a Saturday loss to crosstown rival Brooklyn.
He's having a breakout winter. In his career, he managed a solid 12.8 points, 1.8 assists and 2.5 boards a game. He's boosted his numbers this year to 21.5 points and over three dimes and caroms a contest.
With the rest of Michigan's NBA alumni nursing injuries or fighting for playing time, Hardaway has proven to be the most successful and durable former Wolverine at this time.
Hardaway's former Michigan and current New York teammate Trey Burke is "day to day" with a knee injury. He hasn't played since Nov. 28.
Brooklyn net guard Caris LeVert is "back in the gym" this week to continue working his way back from a dislocated foot.
Phoenix Suns guard Jamal Crawford is slowing down in his 18th season. After averaging nearly 15 points a game in his career as a sixth man, he's currently mustering 6.6 a night.
He racked up just 14 points on 21 shots in three games this past week, with two six-point outings in losses to Miami and Sacramento.
Pistons wing Glenn Robinson III started Friday against the Philadelphia 76ers. He made a dent in the stat sheet, reaching five points, three rebounds and a steal in a 117-111 loss.
On Monday against the Thunder, he racked up six points and six caroms in a 27-point defeat. He's finding plenty of minutes in MoTown, scoring five points a contest in over 16 minutes a night.
Portland gunner Nik Stauskas totaled 19 points in three games this past week, despite only sinking one trey. He's averaging seven points a game, while connecting on 36 percent of his threes.
The Milwaukee Bucks recalled forward D.J. Wilson from the G-League last Tuesday and promptly scored seven points in six minutes against the Detroit Pistons, with six of those points coming from threes.
Friday Michigan Recruiting Roundup: Reactions from recent visitors We have more visitor reactions for this week's final Recruiting Roundup.


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Eun Jeong Seong records 1st hole-in-one by amateur, sits T-2 at ANA Inspiration
By Beth Ann Nichols March 30, 2017 3:19 pm Follow	@golfweeknichols
By Beth Ann Nichols | March 30, 2017 3:19 pm	Follow @golfweeknichols
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. –Eun Jeong Seong took a dip in Poppie's Pond on Mother's Day last spring after winning the AJGA's ClubCorp Mission Hills Desert Junior. Consider it a warmup.
The 17-year-old South Korean star finds herself one shot out of the lead on the same course – only this time it's a major.
"I have good memories of here," said Seong, who became the first amateur to record an ace March 30 at the ANA Inspiration.
First ace @ANAinspiration in 5 years is made by reigning U.S. Women's Am and U.S. Girl's Junior champ Eun Jeong Seong. Now on @GolfChannel pic.twitter.com/4JZsRUz2WW
— LPGA (@LPGA) March 30, 2017
Seong, who last summer became the first player to win both the U.S. Women's Amateur and U.S. Girls' Junior in the same year, holed out with a 6-iron from 182 yards on the par-3 fifth at the Dinah Shore Tournament Course. It marked the championship's first ace in five years.
"Not many people were there," Seong said, "but I'm happy."
Another piece of Seong history: At 16 she became the youngest player to win three USGA titles. (She owns two Girls' Junior titles.)
Seong's 4-under 68 performance puts her in a tie for second with LPGA rookie Sung Hyun Park and major winners Michelle Wie and So Yeon Ryu. Frenchwoman Karine Icher leads the field at 5 under. While the morning wave competed in docile conditions, high winds forced officials to halt play for the day at 7 p.m.
Seong's best finish at an LPGA event, T-17, came last year at the KEB Hana Bank Championship. She missed the cut at last year's Evian Championship, her major debut.
While she's young enough to still compete in the Girls' Junior, Seong plans to skip the event this year. She'll also have to miss the Women's Amateur as it's held immediately after the Ricoh Women's British Open.
Seong's Amateur victory earned her exemptions into all five majors. In order to receive those exemptions, she plans to remain an amateur throughout the year and enter LPGA Q-School in the fall. She turns 18 on Halloween.
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I've gotten back into sketching!
So far, been eyeballing photos and practicing in my notebook.
I'd say it's going pretty well for my first time trying anything like this!
P.S. aren't my classmates (pictured above) cutttttte?


I have been letting the design of the axillary water tank simmer by not rushing to a design solutions. I have been open to all options, especially the selection of the plumbing fittings. More and more I want to make it a convertible system in that it can be easily removed to free up the storage space. To this I want an elegant solution that is user friendly and robust fool proof - though well aware better fools are the tendency of evolution.
I keep a notepad in Brunnhilde to jog down ideas or things that requires attention. Of course many things I jogged down but never get above the cut line. Some are enhancement projects that I let simmer often from a rough concept.
I have been wasting too much time trying to procure the few Comet parts that is crucial to the success of this project. Amazing in this day and age of Global economy buying something retail from another country can be this freaking hard. The problems are currency conversion, banking, and shipping carriers. It takes a bit of smarts and time to make small purchases without paying too much in currency conversion and yes, shipping cost.
Since yesterday, there is rapid progress on this project. I have been very doubtful if this is a good project given the pricy tradeoff of the precious storage space. Also can I execute a solution that is in keeping with what Westfalia has done in a well rounded product where everything is painstakely designed and refined?
Before getting further in the fresh water capacity augmentation project I should recap what the original first post I wrote but accidentally deleted due to an auto-save mishap. I tried to ascertain Brunnhilde's fresh water storage capacity. You would think this should be easy, just refer to the owner manual or the marketing material. It would turned out there are multiple inconsistencies in this capacity.
I spent a bit of time doing more research today after running into some challenges. I made some phone calls and to my amazement, I made some big strifes.
Today is a blue sky sunny day here in Portland. Not my favorite kind of weather. I know it just sound so strange. I prefer overcast and cool days. Give me mid sixties (mid to high teens for those living in the metric world - that means just about everywhere out side the US of A) with a bit of breeze and I am happy as a clam. When the day gets hot, I go shopping.
I posted this post a few weeks ago on May 14. However thanks to the stupid autosave "feature" the post was trashed with a very early version. I hate writing the same article twice so grudgingly I am reposting this draft for now, and will refine it when I have time.
This is a catch-all post of diverse photos that would require separate posts.


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WE'RE ALREADY BARRELING TOWARD THE NEXT PANDEMIC
A year after the United States bombed its pandemic performance in front of the world, the Delta variant opened the stage for a face-saving encore. If the U.S. had learned from its mishandling of the original SARS-CoV-2 virus, it would have been better prepared for the variant that was already ravaging India.
Instead, after a quiet spring, President Joe Biden all but declared victory against SARS-CoV-2. The CDC ended indoor masking for vaccinated people, pitting two of the most effective interventions against each other. As cases fell, Abbott Laboratories, which makes a rapid COVID-19 test, discarded inventory, canceled contracts, and laid off workers, The New York Times reported. Florida and Georgia scaled back on reporting COVID-19 data, according to Kaiser Health News. Models failed to predict Delta's early arrival. The variant then ripped through the U.S.'s half-vaccinated populace and once again pushed hospitals and health-care workers to the brink. Delta's extreme transmissibility would have challenged any nation, but the U.S. nonetheless set itself up for failure. Delta was an audition for the next pandemic, and one that America flubbed. How can a country hope to stay 10 steps ahead of tomorrow's viruses when it can't stay one step ahead of today's?
America's frustrating inability to learn from the recent past shouldn't be surprising to anyone familiar with the history of public health. Almost 20 years ago, the historians of medicine Elizabeth Fee and Theodore Brown lamented that the U.S. had "failed to sustain progress in any coherent manner" in its capacity to handle infectious diseases. With every new pathogen—cholera in the 1830s, HIV in the 1980s—Americans rediscover the weaknesses in the country's health system, briefly attempt to address the problem, and then "let our interest lapse when the immediate crisis seems to be over," Fee and Brown wrote. The result is a Sisyphean cycle of panic and neglect that is now spinning in its third century. Progress is always undone; promise, always unfulfilled. Fee died in 2018, two years before SARS-CoV-2 arose. But in documenting America's past, she foresaw its pandemic present—and its likely future.
More Americans have been killed by the new coronavirus than the influenza pandemic of 1918, despite a century of intervening medical advancement. The U.S. was ranked first among nations in pandemic preparedness but has among the highest death rates in the industrialized world. It invests more in medical care than any comparable country, but its hospitals have been overwhelmed. It helped develop COVID-19 vaccines at near-miraculous and record-breaking speed, but its vaccination rates plateaued so quickly that it is now 38th in the world. COVID-19 revealed that the U.S., despite many superficial strengths, is alarmingly vulnerable to new diseases—and such diseases are inevitable. As the global population grows, as the climate changes, and as humans push into spaces occupied by wild animals, future pandemics become more likely. We are not guaranteed the luxury of facing just one a century, or even one at a time.
It might seem ridiculous to think about future pandemics now, as the U.S. is consumed by debates over booster shots, reopened schools, and vaccine mandates. Prepare for the next one? Let's get through this one first! But America must do both together, precisely because of the cycle that Fee and Brown bemoaned. Today's actions are already writing the opening chapters of the next pandemic's history.
Internationally, Joe Biden has made several important commitments. At the United Nations General Assembly last week, he called for a new council of national leaders and a new international fund, both focused on infectious threats—forward-looking measures that experts had recommended well before COVID-19.
But domestically, many public-health experts, historians, and legal scholars worry that the U.S. is lapsing into neglect, that the temporary wave of investments isn't being channeled into the right areas, and that COVID-19 might actually leave the U.S. weaker against whatever emerges next. Donald Trump's egregious mismanagement made it easy to believe that events would have played out differently with a halfway-competent commander who executed preexisting pandemic plans. But that ignores the many vulnerabilities that would have made the U.S. brittle under any administration. Even without Trump, "we'd still have been in a whole lot of trouble," Gregg Gonsalves, a global-health activist and an epidemiologist at Yale, told me. "The weaknesses were in the rootstock, not high up in the trees."
The panic-neglect cycle is not inevitable but demands recognition and resistance. "A pandemic is a course correction to the trajectory of civilization," Alex de Waal, of Tufts University and the author of New Pandemics, Old Politics, told me. "Historical pandemics challenged us to make some fairly fundamental changes to the way in which society is organized." Just as cholera forced our cities to be rebuilt for sanitation, COVID-19 should make us rethink the way we ventilate our buildings, as my colleague Sarah Zhang argued. But beyond overhauling its physical infrastructure, the U.S. must also address its deep social weaknesses—a health-care system that millions can't access, a public-health system that's been rotting for decades, and extreme inequities that leave large swaths of society susceptible to a new virus.
Early last year, some experts suggested to me that America's COVID-19 failure stemmed from its modern inexperience with infectious disease; having now been tested, it might do better next time. But preparedness doesn't come automatically, and neither does its absence. "Katrina didn't happen because Louisiana never had a hurricane before; it happened because of policy choices that led to catastrophe," Gonsalves said. The arc of history does not automatically bend toward preparedness. It must be bent.
On september 3, the White House announced a new strategy to prepare for future pandemics. Drafted by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the National Security Council, the plan would cost the U.S. $65 billion over the next seven to 10 years. In return, the country would get new vaccines, medicines, and diagnostic tests; new ways of spotting and tracking threatening pathogens; better protective equipment and replenished stockpiles; sturdier supply chains; and a centralized mission control that would coordinate all the above across agencies. The plan, in rhetoric and tactics, resembles those that were written before COVID-19 and never fully enacted. It seems to suggest all the right things.
But the response from the health experts I've talked with has been surprisingly mixed. "It's underwhelming," Mike Osterholm, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota, told me. "That $65 billion should have been a down payment, not the entire program. It's a rounding error for our federal budget, and yet our entire existence going forward depends on this." The pandemic plan compares itself to the Apollo program, but the government spent four times as much, adjusted for inflation, to put astronauts on the Moon. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 pandemic may end up costing the U.S. an estimated $16 trillion.
"I completely agree that it will take more investment," Eric Lander, OSTP director and Biden's science adviser, told me; he noted that the published plan is just one element of a broader pandemic-preparedness effort that is being developed. But even the $65 billion that the plan has called for might not fully materialize. Biden originally wanted to ask Congress to immediately invest $30 billion but eventually called for just half that amount, in a compromise with moderate Democrats who sought to slash it even further. The idea of shortchanging pandemic preparedness after the events of 2020 "should be unthinkable," wrote former CDC Director Tom Frieden and former Senator Tom Daschle in The Hill. But it is already happening.
Others worry about the way the budget is being distributed. About $24 billion has been earmarked for technologies that can create vaccines against a new virus within 100 days. Another $12 billion will go toward new antiviral drugs, and $5 billion toward diagnostic tests. These goals are, individually, sensible enough. But devoting two-thirds of the full budget toward them suggests that COVID-19's lessons haven't been learned.
America failed to test sufficiently throughout the pandemic even though rigorous tests have long been available. Antiviral drugs played a bit part because they typically provide incremental benefits over basic medical care, and can be overly expensive even when they work. And vaccines were already produced far faster than experts had estimated and were more effective than they had hoped; accelerating that process won't help if people can't or won't get vaccinated, and especially if they equate faster development with nefarious corner-cutting, as many Americans did this year. Every adult in the U.S. has been eligible for vaccines since mid-April; in that time, more Americans have died of COVID-19 per capita than people in Germany, Canada, Rwanda, Vietnam, or more than 130 other countries did in the pre-vaccine era.
"We're so focused on these high-tech solutions because they appear to be what a high-income country would do," Alexandra Phelan, an expert on international law and global health policy at Georgetown University, told me. And indeed, the Biden administration has gone all in on vaccines, trading them off against other countermeasures, such as masks and testing, and blaming "the unvaccinated" for America's ongoing pandemic predicament. The promise of biomedical panaceas is deeply ingrained in the U.S. psyche, but COVID should have shown that medical magic bullets lose their power when deployed in a profoundly unequal society. There are other ways of thinking about preparedness. And there are reasons those ways were lost.
In 1849, after investigating a devastating outbreak of typhus in what is now Poland, the physician Rudolf Virchow wrote, "The answer to the question as to how to prevent outbreaks … is quite simple: education, together with its daughters, freedom and welfare." Virchow was one of many 19th-century thinkers who correctly understood that epidemics were tied to poverty, overcrowding, squalor, and hazardous working conditions—conditions that inattentive civil servants and aristocrats had done nothing to address. These social problems influenced which communities got sick and which stayed healthy. Diseases exploit society's cracks, and so "medicine is a social science," Virchow famously said. Similar insights dawned across the Atlantic, where American physicians and politicians tackled the problem of urban cholera by fixing poor sanitation and dilapidated housing. But as the 19th century gave way to the 20th, this social understanding of disease was ousted by a new paradigm.
When scientists realized that infectious diseases are caused by microscopic organisms, they gained convenient villains. Germ theory's pioneers, such as Robert Koch, put forward "an extraordinarily powerful vision of the pathogen as an entity that could be vanquished," Alex de Waal, of Tufts, told me. And that vision, created at a time when European powers were carving up other parts of the world, was cloaked in metaphors of imperialism, technocracy, and war. Microbes were enemies that could be conquered through the technological subjugation of nature. "The implication was that if we have just the right weapons, then just as an individual can recover from an illness and be the same again, so too can a society," de Waal said. "We didn't have to pay attention to the pesky details of the social world, or see ourselves as part of a continuum that includes the other life-forms or the natural environment."
Germ theory allowed people to collapse everything about disease into battles between pathogens and patients. Social matters such as inequality, housing, education, race, culture, psychology, and politics became irrelevancies. Ignoring them was noble; it made medicine and science more apolitical and objective. Ignoring them was also easier; instead of staring into the abyss of society's intractable ills, physicians could simply stare at a bug under a microscope and devise ways of killing it. Somehow, they even convinced themselves that improved health would "ultimately reduce poverty and other social inequities," wrote Allan Brandt and Martha Gardner in 2000.
This worldview accelerated a growing rift between the fields of medicine (which cares for sick individuals) and public health (which prevents sickness in communities). In the 19th century, these disciplines were overlapping and complementary. In the 20th, they split into distinct professions, served by different academic schools. Medicine, in particular, became concentrated in hospitals, separating physicians from their surrounding communities and further disconnecting them from the social causes of disease. It also tied them to a profit-driven system that saw the preventive work of public health as a financial threat. "Some suggested that if prevention could eliminate all disease, there would be no need for medicine in the future," Brandt and Gardner wrote.
This was a political conflict as much as an ideological one. In the 1920s, the medical establishment flexed its growing power by lobbying the Republican-controlled Congress and White House to erode public-health services including school-based nursing, outpatient dispensaries, and centers that provided pre- and postnatal care to mothers and infants. Such services were examples of "socialized medicine," unnecessary to those who were convinced that diseases could best be addressed by individual doctors treating individual patients. Health care receded from communities and became entrenched in hospitals. Decades later, these changes influenced America's response to COVID-19. Both the Trump and Biden administrations have described the pandemic in military metaphors. Politicians, physicians, and the public still prioritize biomedical solutions over social ones. Medicine still overpowers public health, which never recovered from being "relegated to a secondary status: less prestigious than clinical medicine [and] less amply financed," wrote the sociologist Paul Starr. It stayed that way for a century.


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And it would also be a nice benchmark to do sentiment analysis across multiple social networks.
Some interesting use cases of using Twitter that have been used in R.
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Wanted: Oscar-Worthy Lead Roles for Black Women
Best Actress, usually an all-white affair, needs more splashes of color.
Tis the season again.
Every year-end when Oscar-caliber movies start rolling out with weekly regularity, we start hearing a familiar song. The chorus, though, isn't nearly as catchy as "Jingle Bells."
Nor is it particularly jolly. The lyrics bemoan the paucity of meaty film roles for women, especially those over a certain age (35ish). In interviews and during acceptance speeches at award ceremonies, actresses sing along to thunderous applause.
The lyrics may be spot on, but those singing loudest often leave out an important refrain. Somehow the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences always manages to come up with five Best Actress Oscar nominees — and somehow the contenders are almost always all white.
If white actresses are nonetheless scrambling for substantial film roles, where does that leave black actresses — or other actresses of color? From the beginning, Hollywood has had woman trouble and issues with race. Although things have improved somewhat for black and female talent over the decades, when it comes to Hollywood's racial and gender divide, actresses of color still bear the brunt of discrimination.
Although things have improved somewhat for black and female talent over the decades, when it comes to Hollywood's racial and gender divide, actresses of color still bear the brunt of discrimination.
Every so often a black performer sneaks into the Best Actress race (even more rare: a Latina nominee … and we haven't had an Asian finalist since Merle Oberon in 1936). And considering that in all the ceremonies from 1976 to 2001, just two black women made the shortlist (Whoopi Goldberg for The Color Purple and Angela Bassett for What's Love Got to Do with It, only the fifth and sixth black Best Actress nominees), the Academy has been doing a better job this century (five black Best Actress contenders) than it did in the last one.
Even with the modest strides, Halle Berry remains the only black actress ever to win an Oscar for a leading role (Monster's Ball, in 2002). We have to go all the way back to 1973 to find two black female leads nominated in the same year (Cicely Tyson for Sounder and Diana Ross for Lady Sings the Blues).
While Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, and Will Smith each have been nominated more than once for a leading role, a black woman has yet to score a second Best Actress nomination.
This year, the 80th anniversary of Gone with the Wind, the film that made Hattie McDaniel the first black woman to win an Oscar (for Best Supporting Actress), an unusually high number of black women could conceivably enter the 2020 Best Actress fray: four. There's 12 Years a Slave's Best Supporting Actress winner Lupita Nyong'o for the thriller Us, previous Best Supporting Actress nominee Alfre Woodard for the death-row drama Clemency, Cynthia Erivo for the Harriet Tubman biopic Harriet, and Jodie Turner-Smith for the fugitive-lovers-on-the-run tale Queen & Slim.
Us aside, race is an overt and towering presence in each movie, as it has been for nearly every film featuring a black female Oscar nominee over the last 80 years.
Yet, any buzz they've received has been drowned out by the loud roar over Renee Zellweger in Judy, Charlize Theron in Bombshell, and Scarlett Johansson in Marriage Story. Speaking of the latter, Netflix's acclaimed drama about a marriage on the rocks already has deafening Oscar buzz for Johansson, Adam Driver, and Laura Dern. Why don't they write movies like that for black actresses … ever?
Yep, it's the same old song — again.
We shall overcome … just not yet
After 2016's shameful Oscars blackout and the subsequent #OscarsSoWhite boycott over the lack of black nominees, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences did a complete 180 in 2017 by embracing color in an unprecedented way. A record six black performers were nominated that year, with three of them competing in the Best Supporting Actress category alone.
Meanwhile, three of the nine Best Picture nominees (Fences, Hidden Figures, and the eventual winner, Moonlight) featured predominantly black actors in the main cast. That was a first. Just three years earlier, Lee Daniels' well-received The Butler had been shut out of the Oscar nominations, presumably (depending on whom you ask) because it had the misfortune of being released in the same year as the eventual Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave. Two simultaneous race-themed, black-led Oscar contenders told from a black perspective, seemed virtually unthinkable then.
Had black thespians actually overcome in 2017? Despite the obvious progress, closer inspection of the nominees revealed a troubling and ongoing pattern. When it comes to black performers and the Oscars, the Academy's choices continue to be maddeningly narrow.
Every black acting nominee was cited for a movie with predominantly black actors in the central roles (so-called "black" movies) or one with racism at its center (Loving). Two black performers, eventual Best Supporting Actor winner Mahershala Ali and non-nominee Janelle Monae, appeared in both Moonlight and Hidden Figures.
I suppose we should be thankful that none of the black Oscar contenders that year were nominated for playing slaves. Of course, if an old rape accusation hadn't come back to haunt and cancel The Birth of a Nation auteur Nate Parker, that certainly would not have been the case.
I remembered wishing that just one black actor or actress had been nominated for a role she or he could have won over, say, Michelle Williams or Casey Affleck, who, perhaps tellingly, remained a clear Best Actor frontrunner for Manchester by the Sea, despite sexual harassment allegations against him by two women who worked on his 2010 directorial effort I'm Still Here. (He would go on to win the gong.)
Who's to blame?
The problem, however, wasn't really with the Academy. Considering the options they were given, the voters did remarkably well. I had to commend them for pulling off one of the most diverse line-ups in the history of Oscar nominations.
The problem was with Hollywood's power players and their delusions of white supremacy when it came to storytelling and casting. More than sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education integrated U.S. schools, the movies still had segregation issues. They still do.
Studios and casting directors continue to overlook actors of color for non-race-specific movie roles. When three black actresses (Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monae) headlined the box-office hit and Best Picture nominee Hidden Figures, it was easy to assume that the demands of historical accuracy had forced the hands of the filmmakers, who probably would have preferred a summit of white big-name actresses (like Bombshell's Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie).
Did White Shame Hurt This Black Film's Oscar Shot?
How Barry Jenkins went from Moonlight to Best Picture snub.
In some ways, 2017 was a step backwards from 2002, when Halle Berry and Denzel Washington took the lead acting Oscars for roles that, with some story tweaks, could have been played by Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks. At the 2019 Oscars, Regina King and Mahershala Ali won for their respective supporting roles in If Beale Street Could Talk and Green Book. Those films, the only ones to feature nominated black actors, were all about race and racism, like so many previous films with black nominees.
At least, the Best Supporting Actress category has been increasingly open to black talent this century. Since 2000, 15 of the nominee slots have been filled by black actresses (five more than the total number in the previous seven decades), and six of them have won (compared to two pre-2000).
Despite the asterisk hovering over my enthusiasm in 2017, I did consider the racial diversity of that year's Oscar nominees to be a positive step. On Oscar night, I was cheering as loudly as everyone else when Viola Davis picked up her Best Supporting Actress prize for Fences.
But I'm still hoping that a white Hollywood director will have the good sense to cast her in a leading movie role as dynamic and un-race-specific as her Emmy-winning one on How to Get Away with Murder. Annalise Keating is one of the most complex characters ever to hit TV screens, and she easily could have been played by Nicole Kidman or Julianne Moore.
They wouldn't even have been slumming. TV is no longer viewed as being on a lower Hollywood rung than movies. I like to think that's partly because, unlike films, TV is finally getting diversity right.
May movies, and by extension, the Oscars, follow television's lead and stop treating black actresses and other actresses of color like second-class talent. We don't want to sing that song anymore.
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NEWS: Leinster's 2020 home jersey is "all about numbers", for some reason
Leinster have revealed their brand new home jersey for the 2020/21 season, and the press blurb for the new kits describes it as being "all about numbers" which… yeah? Sure.
It's not immediately apparent why, but apparently this jersey has been inspired by the individual and unique number given to each Leinster player when they represent the club, "That number stays with each player forever, signifying their place and marking their legacy in the history of the club," says the blurb.
We're not quite sure what the myriad stripy dot patterns that criss-cross the top half of the design have to do with numbers, but hell, it looks cool so why not?
While certainly not a traditional jersey, traditionalists will at least be pleased to see that unlike the last few Leinster jerseys that Adidas produced, we have more than one shade of blue in play here, with the darker blue of the shorts and the lower half of the jersey (that's 'night indigo' if you're interested) fading up into a lighter shade on the top half ('victory blue' – bleugh).
We also get dark blue shoulder stripes, and some dark blue sleeve cuffs – okay there's no glorious white and gold band in the middle but if you squint REALLY hard you could even say it's a spiritual modern successor to this wonderful late-90s thing.
Sadly, the fade from light to dark blue has a story attached to it, as everything must do these days, so apparently this is meant to represent the, "proud tradition of producing players From The Ground Up".
Look, we like it when jerseys have stories that reflect the design of the jersey – it gives us something to write about – but sometimes it's okay just to say, "We did the thing because it looks cool". Seriously!
All that aside, it's worth noting that if you want to get your hands on one of these, they'll be available exclusively from Life Style Sports as usual, but don't expect one any time soon…
The club notes that jerseys will not ship until Leinster's Heineken Champions Cup campaign comes to an end, just in case they need to affix a fifth star to that club badge – now that's confidence for you…
Leinster fans, what do you think of your new home jersey? Let us know in the comments below.
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»The human right abuses and wars behind the screens of sparkling diamond industry is not a lesser known fact but still the demand for diamonds is growing by 3-5% every year. Can blockchain play some role in controlling the blood shed«
In 2018 alone around 147 million carats of diamonds were mined all across the globe. The mining was spread across geographies like Australia, Botswana, Russia, South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The entire diamond supply chain in each demography is a potential source of infringements which range from violation of fundamental human rights (Story of Blood Diamond), compromised working standards, environmental impact, and corruption.
The world is paying a huge price for the natural sparkle which goes beyond the monetary cost.
The value chain of diamonds is superiorly flawed. In 2017 rough diamonds worth 17.5 Billion U.S. dollars were mined, after the processing, the price figure rose to 25 billion U.S. dollars which is a 42% increase in the price. If a supply chain inflates the price to such an extent, the issues need to be addressed with immediate action.
What is hard to comprehend is that the conflict diamonds remain a pain area in 2018 also. Little do the diamond jewelry adorners know who produced the big rock on their finger and how its mining is the biggest contributor to human abuse? As per Bain & Company's seventh annual report on the global diamond industry, per year rate of mining of rough diamonds is around 133 million carats. Around 65% of these diamonds are mined in Africa out of which only 25% of diamonds are mined in a regulated manner. So every 1 out of 13 diamonds that reach the global diamond market has its roots in Blood diamond zone of Africa where violence due to diamond mining is a matter of international concern.
Startling facts around Blood Diamond
Diamond mining deaths aggregated to 3-4 million
The average pay of a blood miner per day is $0.07
4% of the world's diamonds are mined as conflict diamonds
1/5th of Sierra Leone's diamond reserves originate as blood diamonds
The history has been witness to the devastating impacts of blood diamond:
Angola Civil War – 1961-2002- 500,000 lives taken
Democratic Republic of Congo Civil War – 1998-2003 – 3 Million lives taken
Sierra Leone's Civil War– 1991-2002 – 500,000 lives taken
Liberia Civil War– 1989-1997, 2000-2003 -200,000 lives taken
To curb the blood-shed, United Nation established the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme(KPSC) in 2003 to prevent the blood diamonds from entering the mainstream market. The implementation significantly reduced the flow but recently the integrity of the KP has been questioned.
The transparency and integrity of the certification standards are being stated as ineffective. Furthermore, the certificate issued by Kimberley Process applies to the collection of rough diamonds and not every single stone which leaves a big window open for the smugglers to place conflict diamonds in the supply chain. As no single diamond leaves its trail, the tracking system around the Kimberly process fails miserably according to Guardian's report in 2015.
Until 2020, the global demand for rough diamonds is expected to surpass 26 billion dollars which will fuel the growth of illicit trade of diamonds.
The industry is in great need of a track and trace model that ensures the high demand international markets receive only conflict-free diamonds with an assurance of the cost of purity the buyer ends up paying. Blockchain protagonists believe the rife corruption and smuggling levels in the diamond industry can be solved effectively using the distributed ledger technology.
Let us uncover the benefits of the disruptive effect of Blockchain:
Effective Track and Trace solution
In 1998 human rights violation and war crimes rooting from its diamond trade had peaked out. The United Nations Security Council Resolution 1173 was passed against National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) which prohibited the diamond trade clearance without a certificate of origin.
In 2000, Robert Fowler, a Canadian diplomat, investigated the stance of Resolution 1173 and reported that UNITA was still funding its war by the trade of conflict diamonds in the international market. The UN clamp down initiative had failed miserably.
After the repetitive failures of the Kimberley Process that were discussed in the introduction of the article, the Diamond giant De Beers in mid-2018 announced the success of the diamond track and trace blockchain platform Tracr. The pilot tracked the journey of 100 top-value diamonds right from the site of mining to the buyer's doorstep over the immutable blockchain platform.
In contrast to the KP certification process where a batch of diamonds is certificated, Tracr platform will be creating a Global Diamond ID for every single diamond. Each Diamond ID will be recording the characteristics of each diamond-like its clarity, color, and carat. The recording is expected to start tracing the characteristics right at the point of mining which will be verified at every point in the supply chain. With such blockchain initiatives, the introduction of blood diamonds will be curtailed. Once these conflict diamonds are not able to the entire supply chain, the production process will be stalled bringing in world peace.
Currently, KPCS is the only authority of authenticity of diamonds. The international diamond fraternity has reported fake KPCS certificates making round in the market for diamonds penetrating the supply chain from Congo, Angola & Malaysia and Ghana. While KP is aware of the stance nothing constructive has been done to address the forging damage.
2014 uncovered an elaborate scheme where diamond buyers were invited to Sierra Leone to purchase mined rough diamonds. When the buyers evaluated the stones later, even the fake stones were provided a fake Kimberley Process certificate. The fake certificate was a faint variation of real certificate SL 004199.
In 2018 U.S. Customs and Border Protection, along with the Department of State, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs advised the public to stay aware of numerous diamond trade scams using Kimberley Process Certificates. Some of the scams were advance fee-scams conducted over the internet where buyers were promised KP certificates.
The dishonest certificates of purity of diamonds are not an issue around KPSC only. The organizations of the repute of International Gemological Institute and EGL USA Gemological Laboratory (EGL) have also been accused of providing inaccurate reports to consumers. With distributed ledger technology, the decentralization can be brought to the diamond ecosystem that will prevent any forged certificates of fake diamonds to reach the consumers. As the blockchain will store the diamond data in an immutable form, the market penetration of fake diamond certificates will be eliminated.
Chow Tai Fookand, a Hong Kong-based jewelry giant and the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) have associated together to build a blockchain platform which will store the origin and authenticity stats of the diamonds.
Immutable Lifespan tracking
The fake diamonds do not enter the supply chain at the point of mining only. The diamond supply chain has multiple clearance points where they are exchanged. Every diamond trader at this point needs to comply with relevant trading guidelines, Kimberley process, banking and anti-money laundering protocols. The concern right now is the traders are able to break through the process and trade in diamonds in a non-compliant manner.
The missing transparency in the trade of diamond gives traders a perfect environment to breed dishonest transactions, fake certificates and money laundering using diamonds.
This is the exact problem that blockchain promises to resolve. As all the data concerning the lifespan of diamonds are recorded onto the blockchain, the trading and clearance process is bound to become 100% transparent increasing the reliability of the supply chain.
There is no single point of failure where the traders can alter any detail related to the lifespan of the diamond. Every attempt to alter any information will be tracked on the diamond making sure the end consumer knows he is paying for what he is getting. Pure Diamond Lab, in Tokyo, is a specialized lab for the creation of synthetic diamonds. These flawless diamonds are half the price of mined diamonds but the Pure Diamond Labs is planning to take their product to the next level by reaching to its consumers using a blockchain platform. The platform will store all the details of the production of diamonds like the production process, refinement, appraisal and sale so that their user base encounter no low value or fake encounter of synthetic diamonds.
Secure supply chain
Trading diamonds involves high-value transactions. Utilizing blockchain to secure such high-value transactions will preserve stones value and legitimacy at the same time. Not only will the use of blockchain expedite the sales, but it will also stamp out the illegal money transfers without regulation.
Today, diamond trade is making knitting the nations closer which puts a high demand on the ecosystem to support transparency between all the stakeholders like traders, regulators, banks and retailers. The distributed system of blockchain brings a promising opportunity for the diamond trade ecosystem to address the supply chain streamlining issues.
At MARKNetwork, we are embracing the disruption blockchain technology is about to bring in. With the development of customized enterprise solutions, we are expediting the adoption of technology. Our solutions will establish transparency, legitimacy and support paperless global trades in diamond ecosystem challenge head-on.
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High school football: Things have come full circle for Massillon coach Nate Moore
Chris Easterling IndeOnline.com Sports Editor
MASSILLON — It's been five years since Nate Moore last coached a game for Cincinnati La Salle. The current Lancer seniors were seventh graders in January 2015 when Moore departed to become the coach at Massillon.
Now, five years later, things have come full circle for Moore, La Salle and Massillon. His old program and his current one will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday for the Division II state championship at Canton's Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium.
Moore's two seasons at La Salle concluded with a state championship in 2014, the program's first. Since his departure, the Lancers have sustained the success with state titles in 2015 and 2016, and qualifying for the playoffs in four of five seasons.
From Massillon, Moore has watched with pride as La Salle continued to produce at a high level.
"There's definitely a sense of pride," Moore said Monday morning. "I've loved everywhere I've ever been. ... I've got a lot of friends in all of those communities that I still talk to to this day. It was cool. We loved our time at La Salle and Cincinnati. I definitely take pride in the success that they're having in a lot of ways."
La Salle is on its second coach since Moore left for Massillon. Pat McLaughlin replaced Jim Hilvert in 2017 when Hilvert became the coach at Baldwin-Wallace College.
McLaughlin, who was offensive coordinator at Cincinnati Moeller during Moore's time at La Salle, spoke highly of Moore, a former University of Dayton teammate.
"I just know the type of guy he is," McLaughlin said. "I know the type of leader he is and the type of program he runs. They were well-coached, they were disciplined. All of those things that I'm sure Massillon is, I know Massillon is today ... he's done a great job everywhere he's been."
That includes setting the stage for sustained success at Minster, Moore's first stop, as well as La Salle.
La Salle has gone from a program that had been winless in four previous playoff appearances before 2014 to one that is 21-1 in the postseason in the past six seasons. Minster's only year without a playoff appearance since Moore departed was the year after he left in 2013, and it had won two titles and finished second once in that span.
Both Minster and La Salle had losing records — the Tigers were 1-9 in 2009 and the Lancers 4-6 in 2012 — before Moore's arrival, and Massillon was coming off a 49-point first-round playoff loss to Perrysburg.
Struggling programs usually struggle for the same reasons, Moore said.
"There's always going to be differences, but I think most broken programs have similar symptoms," he said. "Selfishness is definitely one of them, and lack of commitment to the weight room is probably the other one. Those are probably the two main ones. Those were factors everywhere, and eradicating those symptoms were things that got it going in the right direction everywhere."
At Minster, that included a first-year run to the regional finals after a 5-5 regular season. Both La Salle and Massillon, though, dealt with losing seasons in his first year — 3-7 for the Lancers, 4-6 for the Tigers — before the success began.
Moore said there was a perception issue inside the programs that had to be overcome.
Both Minster and La Salle are members of ultra-competitive leagues: the Midwest Athletic Conference and the Greater Catholic League South division. However, Moore said removing the crutch of having not had as much success as some other conference members was a big part of the turnaround.
Even at Massillon, there were similar, yet much different, crutches to remove.
"Everyone has built-in excuses for why you can't be good there," Moore said. "Those excuses will be ready to go when you show up. If you start attaching yourself to those, it's a really, really slippery slope. You don't have any control over those external factors, so they can't exist for you."
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Becoming the Ulysses of Europe
Multiculturalism makes us more human, and in turn more European. When we are receptive to external stimuli from different languages and cultures we ourselves become richer in every way. Coming from someone who speaks 32 languages, both active and 'dead', who has studied the history and origins of most known languages, and who has travelled the world in order to speak them, this statement carries considerable weight.
Ioannis Ikonomou is one of the hundreds of translators that work for the European Commission. What makes him stand out though is his thorough knowledge of dozens of languages and the enthusiasm with which he expresses his passion for learning languages.
'I don't learn languages to have them in dictionaries gathering dust' he explains. Languages are learnt to be lived. And the best part of learning a language is that it enriches your life, it allows you to travel to different places and communicate with the locals in their own language, to delve into new cultures, new mentalities, and different ways of life.
Language learning should begin from a young age, from the moment the mind can start soaking up new words and new worlds and when the sound of different tongues serves as a stimulus for a life of globe-trotting. That is what happened with Ikonomou who says that it was the sounds made by foreign tourists on his home island of Crete that inspired him to start learning languages. Indeed, learning to communicate in the language of the 'other' opens up more doors than a 'common' language ever will. The late Nelson Mandela said, 'if you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.'
Ikonomou tells me how his knowledge of languages has helped him read literature he would have never been able to discover had he not known the corresponding languages. He says that many Hungarian, Turkish, Polish, Romanian and other great writers have not even been translated into English. When you invest time to learn a language, you expect to reap the fruits of your labour – and just as money breeds greed, language learning breeds a burning desire for life experiences, memories, and friendships. This is what it really means to be European. Breaking monolingual language barriers and stepping into the realm of the 'other' – that's what it's all about. By learning languages you allow yourself to engage and interact with different cultures, values and traditions.
Every language is a different world, a different way of life, a unique mentality, and as such even the simplest of words (for example 'bread') will have different connotations in every language. Translators and interpreters have a difficult job. Ikonomou knows this well, having served as both. But at the same time he relishes the mental challenge offered by his job, because, as he says, leaping from language to language is a fantastic exercise. It is like balancing between worlds.
Having studied linguistics, Ikonomou knows that learning the history and origins of languages helps you to better understand your own. In the words of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 'those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.'
Multiculturalism and multilingualism imply openness. They suggest that you are able to escape the introvert phobias that are prevailing in Europe with the rise of the far-right, and that you are able to live with and learn from the 'other'. Ulysses was enriched by the cities he encountered and the people he met, says Ikonomou as he recites a lyric from Homer in ancient Greek. Ulysses was much more prosperous than his son Telemachos who stayed in Ithaca all his life, and as such Ikonomou declares, 'I want to be Ulysses,' living in an open society. He dreams of an open society receptive to stimuli and different people from around the world, because it is only when we embrace each other's cultures and languages that we will truly be able to live harmoniously with one other.
Ikonomou says that he doesn't want to live his life stuck in a daily routine. What better way to break free from schedules than delving into a different world, culture and way of life? By truly learning what 'united in diversity' means, and by being able to acquire an insight into the customs and life of our European neighbours.
This article was published on cafebabel.com on 18 December 2013, under the title "I speak 32 languages". It has since been translated into Spanish, Italian, French and Polish.
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In this tutorial I will take you through how to set custom nameservers with a domain name registered with GoDaddy. There are a number of different reasons why you may wish to do this, including using a third party DNS provider or host.
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