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Since the summer of 2013, CRC has been following the implementation of Michigan’s new school district dissolution policy.  On November 4, voters in the dissolved Buena Vista School District rejected the renewal of a tax dedicated to pay off the district’s accumulated deficit.  Failure to get voter authorization to levy the tax raises the question of who will pay to eliminate the district’s deficit.  Also, this vote reveals some of the unintended consequences inherent in the district dissolution policy

Repurposing the 18-mill School Operating Tax

The state adopted a new law (Public Act 96) in the summer of 2013 to allow for the dissolution of school districts that are not deemed “financially viable.”  Almost immediately after its enactment, state officials determined that the factors were met for dissolution and steps were taken to dissolve Buena Vista School District (Saginaw County) and Inkster Public Schools (Wayne County), the two districts that precipitated the development of Public Act 96.  The districts ceased educating students at the end of the 2012-13 school year and their students were assigned to neighboring school districts effective with the 2013-14 school year.

Due to years of overspending, Buena Vista School District had amassed a $4 million accumulated operating deficit by the end of 2012-13.  In addition, the district had outstanding long-term debt totaling $2.6 million backed by a dedicated tax.

The new law requires a dissolved school district to continue to exist solely for the purposes of satisfying its debts, including any accumulated deficit.  A dissolved district continues levying all authorized taxes until its debts are settled.  Most importantly, in order to enable a district to eliminate its operating deficit without a direct state bailout, the law effectively repurposes a school operating tax for deficit reduction.

By law, the 18-mill school operating tax on non-homestead property is used to finance the local portion of a school district’s per-pupil foundation allowance.  Because a dissolved district no longer educates students, it does not receive the state foundation allowance funding that accompanies each student.  This makes the 18-mill tax proceeds available for debt repayment.  However, if, as was the case for Buena Vista School District, authorization to levy the 18-mill tax expires before the debt is fully repaid, voter approval is necessary to continue levying the tax.

State Plan Hits a Snag

The expiration of authority to levy the 18-mill operating millage created a snag in the state’s use of the school district dissolution law.  Voter authorization to levy school operating taxes is provided for a set number of years.  At the completion of that term, school districts must seek voter approval to continue levying a school operating tax.  Experience has shown that requests for voter approval for these taxes have been somewhat perfunctory since passage of Proposal A of 1994 because primary residences (people’s homes) are usually exempt from the tax.

Buena Vista School District levied the 18-mill tax in 2013 and 2014, generating about $1.5 million annually, and directed the proceeds to deficit reduction.  According to the state’s original plan, these revenues should have been sufficient to eliminate the district’s deficit by the end of 2014, when authorization to levy the tax was scheduled to expire.  However, the district’s 2012-13 audit, released in early 2014, revealed that at least a portion of the 2015 tax levy would be needed to eliminate the deficit as the final deficit figure was larger than originally estimated.

The state’s plan to pay off the Buena Vista School District’s debts hit a snag with the November 2014 general election.  At the election, voters were asked to renew the authorization to levy the tax for another three years to pay off the district’s deficit.  It was estimated that the district would eliminate the tax with the 2015 levy and likely at a rate below the full 18 mills.  Voters rejected the tax renewal question.

It is of little surprise that Buena Vista’s tax renewal question was not approved.  First, the tax is generally not well understood by voters because most people don’t pay it.  The tax is levied on business and second home properties, while most homeowners are not subject to it.  Second, voters were asked to approve a school operating tax for district that no longer is educating students.  While the district exists on paper, it was dissolved over a year ago and its former schools remain vacant and unused.  Finally, the request for voter approval for a longer duration than was previously stated as necessary to retire the debt may have bred distrust in this tax question.

What Happens Next?

Regardless of the reasons behind recent voter behavior, the November election result raises the question:  Now what?  The district, which exists only on paper, has no funds to liquidate the remainder of its deficit, estimated at $800,000.

There appears to be three possible paths forward at this time, each with its own set of considerations.  First, the district could take another shot at gaining voter approval for the 18-mill tax.  This would likely have to take place in early 2015, as the millage has traditionally appeared on the summer tax bill.  This response would require the Saginaw Intermediate School District to shoulder the costs of running the millage election, including any voter education efforts involved.  Passage of the millage request the second time is not be guaranteed, although other districts have successfully gained approval of the tax after an initial defeat.

A second course of action would be for state policymakers to provide a direct appropriation for the express purpose of satisfying the remainder of Buena Vista’s deficit.  The state has already provided $5 million to assist with the dissolution of this district and Inkster Public Schools, so a similar response would not be precedent-setting.  Like the earlier appropriations, this response would result in other school districts bearing the costs, as there would be fewer state resources to distribute to schools.

Finally, the state could pursue a judgment levy to raise the needed funds.  As opposed to the state appropriation approach, this would localize the cost of debt repayment by forcing taxpayers in Buena Vista School District to share in the burden of resolving the remainder of the district’s deficit.  Whereas the 18-mill tax is levied only on non-homestead property, a judgment levy is spread across the entire tax roll.  In CRC’s assessment, a number of factors suggest that this is the least attractive option.

Unintended Consequences

In previous writings, CRC highlighted some of the unintended consequences arising from the state’s school district dissolution policy.  Others have surfaced based on the Buena Vista experience.  Of immediate concern is the fact that the new law does not contemplate what happens if a situation like the one in Buena Vista School District arises.  There is no “Plan B” should the 18-mill tax not be available for debt repayment.  This creates uncertainty for many entities that are potentially impacted, including taxpayers, state officials, intermediate school district administrators, and local assessors.

The inequitable treatment of taxpayers has arisen as another consequence.  With the expiration of the 18-mill tax in Buena Vista School District, district taxpayers (primarily business) are going to enjoy a tax advantage over their competitors in other parts of the state.  Under the new dissolution law, the tax base in a dissolved district is not transferred to a receiving district until all the debts are repaid.  This means that business property will not be subject to the taxes levied in a nearby district (i.e., where the 18-mill tax is levied) until the Buena Vista deficit is eliminated.

Finally, the experience in Buena Vista School District reveals the problems with ad-hoc policy responses.   The new state law allowing for school district dissolutions was initiated as a policy response to address severe fiscal stress in a limited number of cases because policymakers believed that the state’s primary, long-standing tool (i.e., the emergency manager law) was not a workable solution.  In enacting this “made-to-order” policy, however, lawmakers bypassed the deliberative processes outlined in the state’s emergency manager law in favor of one that promised a more speedy and expeditious resolution to school financial problems.  Based on what has happened in Buena Vista School District, a speedy and clean resolution is not guaranteed under the new policy.

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Why Erik Killmonger Has Dethroned Loki As The MCU’s Best Villain

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***Spoilers for Black Panther are ahead…***

Black Panther is now the most critically acclaimed MCU film thus far. The movie has so far made over $700 million world wide and has been out for only three weeks. Coming off his introduction in Captain America: Civil War, actor Chadwick Boseman gives his best performance as the newly crowned King of Wakanda. After his father’s assassination, T’Challa is forced to become the leader of Wakanda. The films timeline takes place only one week after the events of Civil War and poses a challenge for the new king.

While the film in its own right is T’Challa’s, one would be forgiven to believe that the movie is more-so about the development of the films primary antagonist; Erik Stevens. Played brilliantly by Michael B. Jordan, Erik poses a threat to a nation that has kept its secrets in tact. But what made Jordan’s villain so compelling when compared to other MCU villains? Well let’s start out with the films opening scene…

The Opening Scenes Narrative Was Erik’s Story, Not T’Challa’s

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This is something you may not catch upon the first viewing. After all, it is the very first scene of the movie and there’s plenty to take in with an over 2 hour movie runtime. The films opening scene gives us some narrative backstory while placing us into the shoes of a young Erik Stevens. We soon hear Erik’s father N’Jobu (T’Chaka’s brother) talking to his son about the hidden nation of Wakanda and the history behind it. The opening scene certainly serves a purpose not just to help establish a young Erik but also to give audiences a small but crucial history lesson on the culture of Wakanda.

The film opens in the year 1992 and we learn very quickly that it’s a nation that poses as a third world country and intends to remain hidden. However, after T’Chaka finds out that his own brother is selling Wakandan technology to the Black Market, he makes a bold choice by killing his own brother. T’Chaka was scared that the technology would end up in the wrong hands and the nation itself should remain hidden forever. Thus begins Erik’s story arc and arguably the best developed MCU villain.

Erik Has Been Waiting For This Moment His Entire Life

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As the movie progresses, we get to learn a little about Erik Killmonger’s childhood. Given the nickname Killmonger, his father was murdered when he was very young. He served in the military as a Navy SEAL and he learned about everything there was to know about the nation of Wakanda through books his father used to read to him.  The man has studied about Wakandan culture and knows exactly what he has to do to take over the throne.

Erik is a broken individual and has trained for the very moment to take on the adversary who stands in his way as king. Killmonger is aware that he is family so he knows that he must be given a chance for the throne. He knew how much Ulysses Klaue posed such a threat to Wakanda, so he worked with Klaue long enough to eventually kill him and bring him to Wakanda. This was his gateway into the country and was all part of his plan.

You Understand His Purpose, But He Goes About It The Wrong Way

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Because of all his losses, Killmonger sees the rest of the world as evil. He knows what Wakanda possesses and wants to utilize their technology to take out the enemy. After all, Erik was a SEAL in the special armed forces and has killed many men and proves this by getting tattoos all over his body for every man he’s killed. Here’s his quote before facing off against T’Challa:

“I lived my entire life waiting for this moment. I trained a lot. I killed in America, Afghanistan, Iraq… I took life for my own brothers and sisters right here on this continent! And all this death just so I could kill you!” -Erik

Erik has come a long way to get what he has sought after his entire life. What makes a great villain is when you fully understand his motivations and you can absolutely sympathize with him. Erik has struggled with his life but his reasoning behind getting the Wakandan technology is just the wrong way to handle things.

His Villainous Arc Never Changes

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One big story arc that we’ve seen plenty of times in Hollywood is where the villain halts his plans at the last second and has a change of heart. He/She will either sacrifice themselves to stop what they’re doing or team up with the protagonist to prevent total destruction. On the other hand, Killmonger never changes and it makes his character all the more relateable.

From start to finish, Erik never stopped believing in himself. He wanted to take over that throne and rule the most powerful nation in the world by any means necessary. Even at the end of the movie after he’s defeated by T’Challa, he still won’t surrender easily and would much rather die than be kept in jail for the rest of his life. His last statement to T’Challa overlooking a beautiful sunset tells audiences everything they need to know about his character:

“Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from the ships, because they knew death was better than bondage.” -Erik

Shortly after he pulls the knife out of his chest, Erik is no more and the villains story comes to an end. As much as we’d rather see Killmonger fight to live another day, his death allowed T’Challa to unite Wakanda with other nations and introduce their technology and way of life to the rest of the world. T’Challa had learned from his father’s mistakes and plans on making them right.

So what do you all think? Is Erik Killmonger the MCU’s best villain or do you think it will be Thanos when Avengers: Infinity War hits theaters on April 27th. Sound off in the comment section below!

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Leveraging technology to minimise the gender pay gap

By John Cleary

Leveraging technology to minimise the gender pay gap

Technology has undoubtedly been the driving force behind many major changes to society in the last century. By harnessing the power of data, it can also tackle some of the many challenges surrounding inequality in today’s world. Including the gender pay gap.

Despite huge progress, the gender pay gap, amongst other barriers for women, still stifle any progress in the workplace. The developing world faces even greater problems, including a lack of access to education, work, and technology. Activists and employers alike are searching for solutions by leveraging analytics to increase visibility, reduce bias, and change behaviour in workplace processes for women around the world.

Barriers and biases in the tech sector

Tech-related jobs are still male-dominated all over the world. In some countries, women have been shown to be eight times less likely than men to work in information and communication technology (ICT) roles.

Technology has to address these barriers and biases when it comes to recruitment and the gender pay gap. There is research into the development of tech-enabled sponsorship that bridges the diversity and inclusion gaps.

The premise of a sponsor is to actively support a woman’s career by advocating her to senior leaders. There is already a mountain of data available for employers to implement this. However, tech-enabled sponsorship can harness meaningful data points, such as networking analytics, to accelerate women’s career development and contribute to closing the gender pay gap.

In the workplace, it can reduce the barriers and biases in place by matching the expertise of sponsors with the skill gaps of women in middle management using self-created profiles. Technology can schedule network meetings, map milestones, prompt for ratings, and integrate active sponsorship into everyday work practices.

Does artificial intelligence have a part to play in diversity?

HR departments have been trying to utilise artificial intelligence to help breakdown the biases involved in the hiring process.

What large companies, such as Amazon, actually discovered was that this entirely depends on the historical data that fuels this technology. If implemented incorrectly, it is capable of reproducing the exact same biases it is trying to resolve. This is because an algorithm has a tendency to teach itself to prefer men’s resumes over women’s.

Only the future will tell if these programs become more effective at reducing bias in the hiring process. To be truly successful, we need to think more about technology’s ability to leverage data before we integrate it to minimise the gender pay gap.

What we require today is a combination of technology and human input. We are in a position to recognise the gender biases that surround us. And if we can do that then we can action a solution to solve the problem. It isn’t an issue that will disappear overnight, but it is our duty to do what we can to lay the groundwork for future development.

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Credit Dnepr Bank increases its authorized capital by UAH 1.173 billion

05 November 2018
Credit Dnepr Bank increases its authorized capital by UAH 1.173 billion, or 43.1%, to UAH 3.89 billion. The corresponding decision was made by the shareholder of the financial institution on November 5, 2018. Additional capitalization will be carried out through the private placement of additional shares at an available nominal value.
"Credit Dnepr Bank fully complies with all the necessary requirements, fulfills its obligations to clients, partners and regulator in a timely manner," said Olena Malinska, chairman of the Bank's Credit Dnepr Board. - This capitalization program is part of a restructuring plan developed on the basis of stress testing by the regulator and in accordance with its recommendations. The shareholder capitalizes the bank for the fourth time in three consecutive years, thus confirming the confidence in the success of a financial institution's post-crisis business strategy. Our further systematic work to improve the operational financial performance and asset quality, increase the efficiency and volume of the new business, along with systemic support from the shareholder, guarantee the implementation of the restructuring plan within the set time limits and will enable us to reach a sustainable profit-making activity. "
The previous capitalization program, approved in 2016, was executed by the bank ahead of schedule: in August 2018 the procedure for increasing the authorized capital by 78.8% - to UAH 2.72 billion was completed. The updated version of the bank's statute was registered on August 15, 2018.


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Scrapbooking & Papercraft

So Much Happy – Australasian Blog Hop

Hi and welcome to the ‘So Much Happy’ CTMH Australasian Blog Hop.

If you arrived here from Vandra’s Virtual CTMH Craftroom , then you’re in the right spot. But if you just happened upon us, please enjoy the ongoing ‘So Much Happy’ inspiration by following the link at the end of this page. How could you not be inspired by a product range with a name like ‘So Much Happy’ right?!

The ‘So Much Happy’ paper suite

Let me introduce you to some of the range first, so you know what we’re working with;

It so delivers on its moniker – ‘So Much Happy’.

Workshop Your Way kit – So Much Happy

If you struggle for layout ideas, or are short on time, then the Workshop Your Way kits are the perfect solution for you. Why? Because they come with printed step by step instructions to create 3 double page layouts. Plus, they include all the materials to do just that. And the layouts for the So Much Happy range are just beautiful.

So Much Happy Workshop Your Way (WYW) layouts
So Much Happy Workshop Your Way scrapbook layouts

Aren’t they just stunning? The great thing about these layouts is that you’ve got clear instructions that you can copy, but you can also still modify anything you want. The page at the top I changed to suit my photos etc. Compare how it differs to the original above.

So Much Happy Workshop Your Way modified layout

But wait, there’s more!

CTMH have also created a DELUXE So Much Happy Workshop Kit. This is for those who want to ‘play’ a little more, and includes stamping and Thin Cut techniques, as well as combining traditional and pocket scrapbooking pages.

More So Much Happy …

I travel a lot, so often have a ton of photos I want to add to a page. I’d seen some layouts created by our Home Office Design Studio for North American incentive trip earners, and fell in love. What do you do when you fall in love with a layout? You copy! And yes, I usually modify them a little, but I love having something ‘concrete’ to start from.

Here’s the first layout:

So Much Happy Scenic Route layout

Now I know this doesn’t look like too much without photos, but trust me when I say, when you get your photos on here it’s going to look FAB! And ….. this layout takes 11 photos!!! Just perfect if you’re like me and have a ton of photos you want to cram onto a page – without it looking crammed!

So Much Happy Adventure layout

I’m super in love with this one – and I can say it looks even better in person.

Here’s what I used;

I created cloud cutouts in Cricut Design Space, then used these to daub around in Glacier ink. So simple to dramatically transform a plain white background.

The title for these was created using a combination of the So Much Happy Complements stickers, and the Brushed Letters alphabet stamp (E1041). I LOVE LOVE LOVE the effect of this stamp set.

Although I’ve used Adventure as my title, you could of course change this to suit your own photos – that’s the beauty of alphabet stamps.

I do hope you’ve seen something here to inspire you to get into your craft space, and create. Now as I’m fuelled by good vibes, if you’ve liked what you’ve seen, please leave a comment below, or give me a ‘like’. 🙂

All of these products are available from your local CTMH consultant. If you don’t have one, and are a kiwi, you can shop for these HERE.

Now it’s time to continue the inspiration, and pop on over to Shaunna at Passionate about Pages. She always has something fab to share.

PS. Into home decor? Have you seen the latest workshop kit just released? Check out all the details HERE.

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    Doris Taylor
    March 15, 2019 at 12:40 pm

    Great layout Megan, always on the look out for layout ideas with lots of photos. I will be trying that one.

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      March 16, 2019 at 9:45 pm

      Thanks Doris. Share when you do 🙂

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    Shaunna Richards
    March 15, 2019 at 12:42 pm

    Such fun a delightful layouts Megan

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      March 16, 2019 at 9:45 pm

      Thanks Shaunna

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    Lauren Moore
    March 15, 2019 at 1:43 pm

    Oh wow, these layouts are fantastic! I especially love the cloud sponged background on the second layout.

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      March 16, 2019 at 9:45 pm

      Thanks Lauren. You won’t believe how much better even it looks in ‘real life’. And so easy to do!

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    March 15, 2019 at 5:51 pm

    The scenic route layout is my favorite!

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      March 16, 2019 at 9:45 pm

      It is going to look so fab with lots of photos on!

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    Vandra STenton
    March 16, 2019 at 12:03 am

    SO many beautiful pages. I really love the ampersand & and how you’ve used it.

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      March 16, 2019 at 9:44 pm

      Thanks Vandra

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    March 16, 2019 at 12:27 am

    Great layouts & the love the one for lots of travel photos – it is when we do take way more photos,

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      March 16, 2019 at 9:44 pm

      Thanks Maz

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Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, LLC. serves as the investment advisor to CSAFE.

These duties include:

  • Providing the Board of Trustees with monthly investment information.
  • Monitoring the changes in the capital markets.
  • Structuring of the securities portfolio.
  • Executing security transactions and providing for the settlement of those transactions.
  • Obtaining third party pricing of all securities for use in determining CSAFE’s net asset value.
  • Monitoring cash flow on a daily basis and for making the adjustment of CSAFE’s portfolio's so as to meet the daily liquidity needs.
  • Use its best efforts to obtain the best net price and the most favorable execution orders for the purchase and sale of portfolio securities.
  • Organizing quarterly meetings and financial reports

Administration Services

LT Trust company, Inc. provides administrative services to CSAFE Participants through a staff of professionals.

These duties include:

  • Maintaining all Participant records and overall Participant relations.
  • Servicing all Participant accounts in a manner customary to the industry.
  • Determining and allocating income of CSAFE's funds.
  • Maintaining separate accounts for each participating entity.
  • Recording individual transactions and totals of all investments.
  • Serving as registrar for the Trust.
  • Arranging for the redemption of shares by participating entities.
  • Providing confirmation for all transactions, purchases and redemptions.
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Switching Gears

Teaching the body how to switch gears is important. Both up and down.

There are always times within a race whether climbing a hill or passing someone that you will be required increase your power. This will inevitably cause the heart rate to go up and the breathing to increase. Typically, this could also be a period where you begin to feel uncomfortable.

By doing speed intervals (Fartleks or whatever you label them ) and then slowing the pace to 80 – 85% of normal you are teaching your body to recover on the fly. This is important because you don’t want to have to walk every time to you run up a hill or increase your speed slightly. ( There are certain times this is acceptable, but by in large we try to avoid )

It can also help you learn to handle that uncomfortable feeling of an elevated heart rate.

These are things you can do on your own during your long runs with no assigned times. Pick your pace up slightly..and then bring it back down. On a hill, run through the top of the hill…don’t slow down at the top.

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Portuguese amateur radio clubs united against 2 meter French reallocation proposal

On Saturday, 6th, 17 Portuguese amateur radio clubs – including IARU and EURAO representatives – came together in the city of Santarém to devise a common course of action in response to the recent proposal to reallocate the amateur 2 meter band to the Aeronautical service that, if not opposed soon, will be on the table at the WRC2023.

The meeting took place at the headquarters of ARR, the local amateur radio club, who provided the space for the meeting and, for those who couldn’t be present, teleconference equipment.

At the end of the conference, the group agreed on a common strategy to follow and elected a representative body of five elements that will hand deliver a written statement, signed by all club representatives, next Monday, the 15th, to ANACOM, Portugal´s telecommunications regulatory body.

Earlier in the week, the regulator responded to several radio clubs and individual amateur radio operators that had sent letters urging the opposition to the French proposal to reallocate the 2 meter band to the aeronautical service know as PTA(19)090R1.

ANACOM´s amateur radio head officer wrote back, saying that it “made a note” of the objections and that was inviting “external entities” to attend a preparatory meeting of the team representing Portugal in WRC2023, that will take place next Monday, the 15th, at ANACOM´s headquarters, in downtown Lisbon.

On a public note distributed on Sunday afternoon, the attending clubs made their intentions public, noting that all “vehemently repudiate” the French proposal and urged the Portuguese government to oppose PTA(19)090R1 “on all instances, both at CEPT and ITU”.

Yesterday, the 9th, the representative body announced that three more clubs officially joined the petition, make 20 the number of amateur radio clubs that are signing the document.

Morse Day! 27th April

The best way to celebrate Morse Day was to do some CW QSOs.

A friend asked to be helped to make his the first CW QSO.
He was successful and very very happy at the end of the QSO.

It seems that this is a true image of what was going on during the QSO…

Image stolen from a friend CT blog

My first CW QSO using QO-100

Using a setup for which I had made done some calculations, tonight I was testing the QO-100 (CW / 2.4 GHz on the uplink and 10.4 GHz on the downlink) when a German station (DL3GAK, Udo) called me.

Despite being with the helix antenna (home made) in the hand, outside the window (!!!!), the signal produced is more than enough to make QSOs.
My performance as an antenna rotor was poor because I produced a lot of QSB when I’m looking to other stuff…

Next step will be the production of more helix for the OMs of the Quinta do Lambert Amateur Radio Society*…
Just after that I will put up all antennas in the rooftop. That will take a litle longer because it will be necessary to attach all equipment in a watertight box.

I would like to thank the many OMs who had shared their knowledge, some of which are Portuguese.

TKS ! CU at QO-100!

A close view of the 19 turns homemade helix

* This Amateur Radio Society doesn’t exist but we are 3 OM that live really close by and we like to call ourselves that way…

Wow… A “software PLL” FOR RX QO-100!

G4ELI, Simon, just presented the world with the latest version of SDR-Radio (Release 3.0.7) which incorporate a very useful feature for those who desire to receive the QO-100.
It a PLL-like but made with software.

The software lock into the upper beacon (NB / BPSK) and compensates the drift of the LNB.
So, all those who have a PLL LNB without GPSDO or TCXO could use this important feature to listen accuratley the QSOs on the QO-100.

In my modest view, this a major breakthrough fore a lot of amateur radio operators!

BIG TKS Simon!

Latest version of SDR-Radio could be downloaded here:

I’m not related with Simon’s work – I don’t even emailed him – but I think that we all should support him by donate some amount.
He deserve it!

QO-100: almost there!…

Esta noite dei mais um passo para operar o QO-100…

Tonight I made a climb another step toward QO-100…

Fiz uma helix para o uplink de 2,4 GHz e modifiquei o amplificador de potência para que este trabalhe devidamente, como mostrado pelo
George, M1GEO

Se tudo trabalhar FB (testar antes…), amanhã experimentarei o uplink.

I produced a 2.4 GHz helix to the uplink and modified the amplifier to work properly like advised by George, M1GEO.
If everything work FB (testing…), tomorrow I will try the uplink.

Sim, a minha primeira chamada será em CW, o meu modo preferido em qualquer banda.
Yes, my first try will be CW, my main mode in any band.

O QRP está de luto. George Dobbs, G3RVJ, SK!

O Grande George Dobbs, G3RJV, morreu hoje de manhã, de pneumonia resistente aos antibióticos.

O George foi um enorme adepto e impulsionador do QRP em todo o mundo, e em particular, no Reino Unido.

Foi um radioamador único e que marcou gerações, entre as quais a minha.

Todos os que operam QRP ficam um pouco órfãos com esta notícia!

Aqui fica uma sentida homenagem ao George por anos e anos de ensinamentos e partilha de conhecimento.

As mais sentidas condolências à Jo, sua XYL de sempre!

OSCAR 100 aka QO 100 or Es’heilsat – Pedido à Anacom

A ANACOM acaba de me conceder autorização (20FEV2018) para operar no novo satélite geoestacionário do serviço de amador por satélite.
O meu pedido foi apenas para o transponder banda estreita (NB), porque não tenho interesse no transponder Wideband (TVA).

Aliás, a potência necessária para chegar ao transponder WB necessita de muita vontade, esforço e investimento do radioamador (100 W numa parábola de 2,4 m, e uma largura de banda de 3,33 MHz, ou seja, 1,33 x 2,5 MSymbols/sec).
E a TVA nunca foi do meu gosto!

Assim, partilho o pedido que fiz no site da ANACOM, na área reservada ao serviço de amador (área reservada e com login para cada radioamador).

Comece por entrar na sua área.

É preciso lembrar que o uplink do satélite está fora das bandas atribuídas ao serviço de amador (ver eQNAF).

Então, escolha a opção assinalada.

Agora comecemos a preencher os dados.

Quaisquer que sejam as datas de inicio e fim, devido ao facto de se tratar de uma estação fora das bandas de amador, a ANACOM apenas pode conceder autorização por 1 ano, no máximo, devido à legislação.

Nas condições técnicas adicionais, a emissão será “apontada” para cima.

Para calcular o valor da elevação, sugere-se a utilização do site SATLex, que pode ser encontrado aqui.

Depois escolhe-se o QTH ou indica-se outra localização (no meu caso escolhi a estação fixa principal).

E envia-se…

Agora é só aguardar que a ANACOM responda.

Entretanto, vá ouvindo QSOs no Qatar OSCAR 100 NB WebSDR e aguçando o apetite!… 🙂

73 do Pedro, CT1DBS / CU3HF

Activation CT/ES-004, Monte Manique, 27JAN2019, AM

Activation with CT7ABE, João Fragoso.

Meteo ok, no rain, North wind… The wind child drop the temp to 7C, aprox.

First QSO with SA4BLM, at 09h15.

The surprise of the day happened when John, ZL1BYZ, ansererd my calls, at 09h21! 🙂

15 QSOs. (9/20m, 6/40m). 40m was noisy at beginning due a contest….

TKS chasers!

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What Are The Common Symptoms And Causes Of Tonsillitis?

The tonsils are crucial to a person’s health. They sit in the back of the throat, and they act as filters. Their main job is to filter out germs and keep them from getting into the airways and causing a nasty infection. Unfortunately, the tonsils sometimes become infected in the midst of serving their bodily purpose. The following is some information on a condition called tonsillitis.

What Is Tonsillitis?

The term tonsillitis is a term that describes inflammation of the tonsils. The inflammation of the tonsils is usually a symptom of another condition. A doctor who inspects a patient with tonsillitis will notice an extremely red swollen area. The person’s throat will most likely hurt. The severity of the pain will depend on what caused the condition. Sometimes a person will have a bad cough. Other symptoms that may occur are headache, halitosis, headache and fever. The specialist will want to conduct research to discover the cause of the problem.

What Causes Tonsillitis?

Tonsillitis can be caused by a number of bacterial and viral infections. Streptococcus bacteria usually cause cases of tonsillitis. Some viruses that may cause the condition are adenoviruses, the influenza virus and the herpes simplex virus.

What Are the Treatment Options for Tonsillitis?

The specialist would have to conduct an individual assessment of the affected person to determine a viable treatment option. Pain neutralizers such as ibuprofen can help to alleviate the pain. Extreme cases of pain may require a hospital grade dosage of ibuprofen or a pain pill. If the tonsillitis comes from a bacterial infection, the doctor will want to prescribe antibiotics. Viruses do not respond to antibiotics, so the specialist would not prescribe them for such a condition. However, he or she would conduct a strep test to ensure that the patient does not have strep throat.

Recurrent cases of tonsillitis may call for removal of the tonsils. The procedure can spare a person from missing work frequently and feeling under the weather. A tonsillectomy is an option that the doctor will offer.

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Consumer Math Modules Draft Nov 17 2013At my school we are looking to develop a track for math for students with disability for whom the traditional math courses are inappropriate. Many of the topics and concepts from the traditional courses are addressed but in a practical approach with the principles of UDL incorporated. This is not a typical dumping ground situation that many of us have encountered. These are courses for students who need support in being independent and who will not benefit from being exposed to simplifying (5x + 2y – 3xy) – (7x – 8y + 9xy). Here is a link to some documents, including the units and topics. Contact me if you would like more info!

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This Comic's Cast:

Reading over this in quick succession, it occurs to me I did this comic quite soon after the Simon and Alucard series. Maybe it was a little too close. Still fresh. Oops.
Super Mario 2 level, if you were curious.
To note, there was only a minor change to this comic during the DSWC revamp. I updated Richter's speech color to use a blue consistent with his other 8bit appearances.

When evil spreads across the land, and darkness rises and the monsters roam. When the creatures of the night make beautiful music, and the things that go bump in the night go bump with greater enthusiasm. When the world is in peril and is in need of a hero...

These guys are, sadly, the best the world can hope for. These are the adventures of the heroes of CVRPG. They mean well, they try hard, and occasionally they do the impossible...

They actually do something heroic.


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lecture of Imam W.D. Mohammed(ra) / Host Mark Shahid presents guests to the AM360 audience @ The CWSC Friday Roundtable – Imam Munir  Muhammad of Inkster,Mi /CWSC & AM360 Reps

Share Your Jumuah: Masjid Adam  of Bronx, NY; Khateeb Imam Thabbit I’d Deen 1pm EST;12pm CST; 11am MT; 10am PCT

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Come spend the Labor Day weekend with us in bucolic Filucy Bay near Longbranch in the South Sound.

The Plan

A nice, lazy, relaxing cruise. Southwest of Tacoma on the Key Peninsula. The large, quiet cove is dinghy and kid friendly. Raft-up and pot-lucks. Fantastic view of Rainier! Good areas for exploration: safe and quiet or more distantly exciting - like Eagle Island State Park (between McNeil and Anderson Islands). Biking is also possible. Filucy Bay has a four star rating (out of five) by cruising author Migael Scherer. Friends and family can even drive there!

  • While navigation is each boat's individual responsibility (as usual) a good guide to start with would be Chart #18448.
  • Tides are OK heading south on Friday and Saturday. Excellent for retuning north on Monday.
  • Local services are limited: bike-able, not really walkable, Taxi/Lyft/Uber situation unknown

Note: Shore access is limited to dinghies at the Longbranch Improvement Club marina. Reciprocal dockage is highly unlikely, unless you have connections. This is one of the small community's bigger homecoming weekends. Usually a musical celebration.

All-in-all this should be a delightfully low-key atmosphere!

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Alison Tetrick and RPM2 Look at Standing Force and How Injuries Can Impact Symmetry

Throughout the 2016 season, Cylance Pro Cycling athletes have been conducting product testing for RPM2, along with their traditional power data collection. It was during this product testing that a discrepancy in one of our rider’s results was noticed. A previously sustained injury had not prevented Alison from becoming a world class professional athlete, so she put it behind her until the use of RPM2 demonstrated a clear difference between her right and left leg symmetry.

For the past several weeks Alison has been completing specific exercises designed to record her symmetry and range of motion, with the hope of improving her fitness in her dominant leg while also bringing her injured leg into better symmetry. The RPM2 insole power meter and app allowed us to track her progress while she participates in the protocol and we asked Alison to share her experience:

Although the exercises are not too draining, the feeling when completing them is dependent on the training or racing or injury from that day.  It was beneficial to get into a routine to complete the exercises, and after a few weeks of not doing the exercises, I have felt some detraining in the flexibility and strength.  I think it has been useful to remind by body to engage some muscles and balance that it hasn't for several years.

It is interesting to see my injured leg catching up with the strength and flexibility of my dominant leg.  A graph to note (see below) is the standing force graph.  You can see where I was making improvements but then crashed on my right side (injured side).  With broken ribs and an injured shoulder, it was difficult to have the same amount of force placed on the right.  My dominant side became much more dominant as I healed.  Through continuing the exercises, I was able to recover and re-engage my injured side to return to pre-crash force and start making improvements again.

We will be working with RPM2 in the following weeks to fully evaluate the data we’ve collected throughout the duration of this exercise protocol; while we can’t predict what the data will say, Alison benefits from the accuracy of RPM2’s software that will allow the team and Alison to better understand how she can continue to help her body recover from these injuries.

The completion of entire exercise protocols will provide the makers of RPM2 a pool of data, that is being captured by all manner of athletes, who take part in all types of sports. This data will provide a window into how range of motion can change over time through targeted exercises.

Alison will be sharing some of her exercises on her social media, while RPM2 will continue to work with Cylance Pro Cycling to analyze her results on a weekly basis.

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American College Of Pediatricians Warns: Youth Transgenderism Is Child Abuse

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The American College of Pediatricians issued a sharply worded statement warning against any policies that condition children to accept transgenderism as normal.

“Conditioning children into believing a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse,” the statement said.

One of the statement’s three co-authors is John Hopkins Medical School professor Paul McHugh. The former chief psychiatrist at John Hopkins Hospital, McHugh has long warned that sex-reassignment operations ignore and even worsen a patient’s underlying problems. Monday’s statement made a similar point: “Facts — not ideology — determine reality.”

“When an otherwise healthy biological boy believes he is a girl, or an otherwise healthy biological girl believes she is a boy, an objective psychological problem exists that lies in the mind not the body, and it should be treated as such,” the doctors went on to say.

Citing findings from the American Psychiatric Association, the College pointed out that “as many as 98% of gender confused boys and 88% of gender confused girls eventually accept their biological sex after naturally passing through puberty.”

The College, whose stated mission is “to enable all children to reach their optimal physical and emotional health and well-being,” noted that “Rates of suicide are twenty times greater among adults who use cross-sex hormones and undergo sex reassignment surgery, even in Sweden which is among the most LGBQT-affirming countries.”

“What compassionate and reasonable person would condemn young children to this fate knowing that after puberty as many as 88% of girls and 98% of boys will eventually accept reality and achieve a state of mental and physical health?” the doctors asked.

The College’s statement comes amid a nationwide push to allow school children to use whichever bathroom or locker room conforms most to their “gender identity.” Michigan’s State Board of Education, for example, recently drafted a guidance that would advise the state’s public schools to let children choose which bathroom they want to use, regardless of parental or doctoral input.

Monday’s statement, however, sharply criticized policies like the one being pushed in Michigan. (RELATED: Michigan Schools To Let Students Choose Gender, Name And Bathroom)

“Endorsing gender discordance as normal via public education and legal policies will confuse children and parents, leading more children to present to ‘gender clinics’ where they will be given puberty-blocking drugs,” the doctors warned. “This, in turn, virtually ensures that they will ‘choose’ a lifetime of carcinogenic and otherwise toxic cross-sex hormones, and likely consider unnecessary surgical mutilation of their healthy body parts as young adults.”

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12 Things You Didn't Know About Chanel West Coast This article has been updated May 30, 2019 for exciting updates! Chanel West Coast has released an epic new music video and Daily High Club created a custom celebrity bong to match. Chanel West Coast's bong has her own logo sandblasted into the purple-toned straight tube! It also features the signature DHC doob in the pattern. We got to have an epic photoshoot with Chanel West Coast and her new customized bong! In honor of our September subscription box collab, here are 10 other facts you might not have known about...

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Return unto the Lord thy God

Return unto the Lord thy God

“I have learned, in whatever state I am, therewith to be content.”
Philippians 4:11

These words show us that contentment is not a natural propensity of man. “Ill weeds grow apace.” Covetousness, discontent, and murmuring are as natural to man as thorns are to the soil. We need not sow thistles and brambles; they come up naturally enough, because they are indigenous to earth: and so, we need not teach men to complain; they complain fast enough without any education. But the precious things of the earth must be cultivated. If we would have wheat, we must plough and sow; if we want flowers, there must be the garden, and all the gardener’s care. Now, contentment is one of the flowers of heaven, and if we would have it, it must be cultivated; it will not grow in us by nature; it is the new nature alone that can produce it, and even then we must be specially careful and watchful that we maintain and cultivate the grace which God has sown in us. Paul says, “I have learned … to be content;” as much as to say, he did not know how at one time. It cost him some pains to attain to the mystery of that great truth. No doubt he sometimes thought he had learned, and then broke down. And when at last he had attained unto it, and could say, “I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content,” he was an old, grey-headed man, upon the borders of the grave–a poor prisoner shut up in Nero’s dungeon at Rome. We might well be willing to endure Paul’s infirmities, and share the cold dungeon with him, if we too might by any means attain unto his good degree. Do not indulge the notion that you can be contented without learning, or learn without discipline. It is not a power that may be exercised naturally, but a science to be acquired gradually. We know this from experience. Brother, hush that murmur, natural though it be, and continue a diligent pupil in the College of Content.

GAL. 5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

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If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

“Thy good Spirit.”
Nehemiah 9:20

Common, too common is the sin of forgetting the Holy Spirit. This is folly and ingratitude. He deserves well at our hands, for he is good, supremely good. As God, he is good essentially. He shares in the threefold ascription of Holy, holy, holy, which ascends to the Triune Jehovah. Unmixed purity and truth, and grace is he. He is good benevolently, tenderly bearing with our waywardness, striving with our rebellious wills; quickening us from our death in sin, and then training us for the skies as a loving nurse fosters her child. How generous, forgiving, and tender is this patient Spirit of God. He is good operatively. All his works are good in the most eminent degree: he suggests good thoughts, prompts good actions, reveals good truths, applies good promises, assists in good attainments, and leads to good results. There is no spiritual good in all the world of which he is not the author and sustainer, and heaven itself will owe the perfect character of its redeemed inhabitants to his work. He is good officially; whether as Comforter, Instructor, Guide, Sanctifier, Quickener, or Intercessor, he fulfils his office well, and each work is fraught with the highest good to the church of God. They who yield to his influences become good, they who obey his impulses do good, they who live under his power receive good. Let us then act towards so good a person according to the dictates of gratitude. Let us revere his person, and adore him as God over all, blessed forever; let us own his power, and our need of him by waiting upon him in all our holy enterprises; let us hourly seek his aid, and never grieve him; and let us speak to his praise whenever occasion occurs. The church will never prosper until more reverently it believes in the Holy Ghost. He is so good and kind, that it is sad indeed that he should be grieved by slights and negligences.

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Oliseh’s Super Eagles Class of 1994 Narrative, Gov. Wike of All Times

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It was week of sorts last week in all spheres as we witnessed some landmark events. However, this page will zero in on two of such memorable events. One of them is the re-election of the very outstanding sporting Governor of Rivers State, Barrister Nyesom Wike, despite the gang-up which failed flat.

It would be recalled that the Governor of Rivers State is a frontline supporter of sports development in the country. Governor Wike has never hidden his interest and admiration in his spirited effort to develop the Nigerian child through sports. His depth of contribution in that area has been widely acknowledged even beyond the shores of Nigeria.

One has not hidden his admiration for the number one citizen of Rivers State due largely to his workaholic nature that touches the lives of his subjects. He does not blow hot air. In short, he is an action governor of all times.

This page highlighted the Real Madrid Football Academy embarked upon by His Excellency in Port Harcourt as he vehemently restated that the project would be commissioned in May. Let me reveal that as at Monday last week, about eight thousand plus visited the site to read the story and immediately after the Governor’s re-election, the visit jumped to high heavens.

Login and see it practically for yourself.  A recap, I have said it severally here that Governor Wike makes a good copy anytime be it political or sports. He does not pretend nor talk cheap where action is necessary. He is one governor that is at home with his people and the majority of the great and faithful people of Rivers State have never hidden their love, confidence, reliability, etc, on Governor Wike’s ability to deliver successfully on the welfare of the masses.

We will anchor here and join others to congratulate Governor Wike for his re-election despite all man-made odds. Same last week, Aiteo and NFF annual Awards came alive in Lagos. It was as usual a night of million stars. One of the highlights that caught this reporter’s attention or fancy was the Award that was extended to the Class of 1994 Super Eagles ex-internationals. We are all aware that this class of the national team remains significant in the annals of the evolvement of the country’s prime football brand.

It was a night to behold as I was present to watch and keenly observe the proceedings. The emotion laden speech by Sunday Oliseh, the spokesperson for his colleagues, was the needed antidote that forced me to swallow some obvious lapses some NFF officials again displayed this 21st century.

Aside its usual discrimination on how its invitation was distributed by its Department of Public Communications which again left sour taste in the mouth, the Award for the 1994 Class of the Super Eagles wholly dwarfed other shortcomings of the body. To this columnist, the thought to present Award to the 1994 Eagles put the icing on Nigeria’s march unto the world football stage.

Let me place it on record that the 1980 class of Eagles that won first ever Nigeria’s Africa Nations Cup set the tone for the nation’s football growth. The team of 1980 started the onward journey thus far and the icing came in 1993 when the Eagles of that era qualified Nigeria for her first ever World Cup football summit in 1994 where the side did not do badly in performance.

It was historic as it was real. Therefore, no honour for these men will be too big or small as their contributions towards Nigeria’s football evolution is un-quantifiable as we heard from one of the horse’s mouth, Sunday Oliseh. That was how the national and by extension Nigeria was; one love keeping us together then. Being our brother’s keeper was topmost unlike now when the country is so divided along tribal and ethnic lines.

To be honest with you, Oliseh aptly captured the mood and held his audience spellbound. Aside eloquence and interjecting jokes that fitted in perfectly, he was able to tell his narratives soundly. For NFF it was better late than never for the Awards which came up just last week as this remains the way forward. We are moving forward and this signifies that better days are ahead despite absolutely lack of continuity in this part of the World where survival of the fittest and tribal animosity hold sway. Let us keep our fingers crossed and keep counting.

One hopes that all Oliseh highlighted would be looked into and action taken soon. Let us discuss further on our social media handles. Keep shooting hard till next week!!

Source Daily Sports

Posted April 8, 2019

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Tuesday, April 30, 2019

In the Lok Sabha elections 2019, most voters faced the proverbial horns of a dilemma. These voters who want a non-communal, non-corrupt government have, on the one hand, voted for a particular party whose record in combating communalism and corruption belies its lofty rhetoric of upholding values of honest politics and secularism. On the other hand, some may have voted for a new party, whose unique selling pitch is its tirade against corruption, and whose new-ness has ensured that it has no real record of malfeasance.

However, these two choices—though made in desperation—have a fatal flaw built into them: they are stopgap solutions and have consequences for the future of the polity, society, and the environment for the next 10 or 20 years. As far as electoral representation is concerned, if the abovementioned dilemma gets resolved momentarily by choosing the lesser evil, throughout the next several decades, we shall only be electing the lesser evil.

One can appreciate why many voters are desperate. The Indian first-past-the-post electoral system with the minoritization of thousands of communities often leaves people with little choices other than the short-term, stopgap ones. Often, voters operate based on guesswork over how best not to waste one’s vote, and also get some short-term benefit by choosing the lesser evil. More often, one hopes that the short-term choices have no long-term destructive consequences.

It is crucial, therefore, to have a new type of political conversations, which ensures long-term solutions to our current problems. Our powerless-ness and hopeless-ness during elections should encourage debates over long-term changes in politics, society, and environment. As many have started to recognize, deepening democracy and combating communalism and corruption cannot happen during elections alone. What we do and say after an election, anticipating the next, buffers us from powerless-ness and can truly give us a choice. Accordingly, we can think of education, workers’ rights, and environmental protection as part of a multi-pronged strategy for providing us with better choices during elections.

We must have political conversations over issues that are useful in the long-term. Education is fundamental if one is to live in an empowered society. In recent times, Goa has seen the demand for government aid for English as a medium of instruction at the primary schooling level. In terms of higher education, we are witness to spirited fights for securing the right for education and employment in universities through affirmative action.

The importance of education and the discrimination therein should impress upon all the need for affirmative action in our schools and universities. The empowerment of a generation of young persons, otherwise excluded from these spaces, will create a citizenry that contributes to equal or equitable social relations. Currently, schools and universities are battlegrounds where the marginalized lose out to the privileged. The reason is that schools and universities have not provided equal opportunity for all. By leveling the field through education, the electoral process will see the participation of young voters who are not easily swayed by demagoguery or false promises.

Another theme for a political conversation is migrant workers and the bogey of ‘vote-banks’. Some of us get enraged by ‘vote-bank’ politics when the truth is that it denies a large section of the population their basic rights. These workers provide vital labor and hence, rather than rail against the ‘vote-bank’, we need to be sensitive to the matter of their fundamental rights. Securing the rights of workers such as minimum wage, health insurance, housing and enforcing these rights in good faith empowers a constituency to be not exploited by the vote-bank politics of the national and regional parties.

Protecting the fundamental rights of migrants have advantages for locals as it strengthens the rule of law internally. One can see an interesting parallel with the denial of basic rights to migrant labor and the crisis facing Goa’s mining-dependent, or the locals. In the case of the mining-dependent, the government had no safeguards against rampant illegalities and the economic fluctuations of an industry based on the whims of the global capitalist players. The mining-dependent, much like the migrant labor, are expendable in the larger scheme of the capitalist-party politics nexus. The mining dependents form a large group of people whose destiny depends on the goodwill of politicians and big businesses. They, too, vote but hardly control their destiny.

Thinking of workers’ rights and mining dependents, we can easily see the connections with environmental degradations. More and more people are pushed into doing the work for large, capital-intensive industries like mining and construction in the name of ‘development’. This ‘development’ often occurs by flattening forests or filling prime agrarian land. Every successive election sees an intensification of the destruction of the forests and the communities that call these forests their home. Together with the communities which depend on agriculture and mining, the forest-dwelling communities form another chunk of voters. It is best if the electoral process does not deny these communities an independent say, so they also contribute to the common good.

In each of the issues I have discussed above, there is currently a tremendous opposition from privileged members of our society, blinded by the caste and class privileges they enjoy. In such a context, a change in political conversations emphasizing social justice above everything else will alter the rules of the electoral game. Taken together, then, an emphasis on equal access to education, securing rights and protection for workers, and preventing environmental degradation promotes the empowerment of many voters who vote due to powerless-ness rather than out of free choice. Without truly empowered voters there are no democratic choices.

(First published in O Heraldo, dt: 1 May, 2019)

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

In Goan politics, the politician is an indispensable cult figure, one whose image is more important than his or her ability to discharge his or her public responsibilities. The unexpected presence of the ailing Pandurang Madkaikar, Cumbharjua MLA, for the first time in public in 11 months, at the floor test of the BJP government, a few weeks ago is a case in point. Madkaikar, who suffered a brain stroke last year, has been away from public life all this while. Despite his ill health, Madkaikar contributed, or was forced to contribute, to the cutthroat power struggles, even though he has not discharged his public responsibilities and was dispensed from his minister’s post since last year.

In the images beamed by local news channels, Madkaikar looks cheerful although he is clearly not fully fit. Two attendants hold him steady as he slowly inches his way to his seat. Once seated, he does not appear to be comfortable. But he manages to joke and chat with his colleagues while two uniformed guards keep a close watch throughout. During the decisive moment of the floor test, Madkaikar raises his hand with difficulty—another attendant helps him.

To be fair, Madkaikar is not the only one who has clung to power despite ill health while being unable to function in a public capacity. There was former MLA of Mapusa, the late Francis D’Souza, who clung to his position. It was common knowledge to his constituents in Mapusa that D’Souza would frequently be away for treatment. The former CM, the late Manohar Parrikar, is, of course, the most recent example of clinging to power as the CM. In Parrikar’s case, the BJP and the Chief Minister’s Office went on a propaganda blitzkrieg to convince all that the CM was in good health.

In the farce that is contemporary Goan politics, Madkaikar’s public appearance at the floor test showed the BJP government in poor light. There was simply no able second-rung leadership—a comment oft repeated following Parrikar’s demise as well. Surely, the people of Goa deserve better. Especially since the in-fighting amongst various elected representatives has plunged Goa into an uncertain political future while the destruction of its people and landscape, initiated by various governments, both present and previous, is continuing unabated.

The lack of substitute leadership stems from the fact that Goan politicians jealously cultivate their own cult. They make themselves apparently indispensable to the voters as well as their followers. Many political commentators have stressed that Parrikar was the one who cultivated a cult following for himself more than anyone else. Parrikar’s close friend and mentor, Subhash Velingkar was one of the commentators who gives the best insight into Parrikar’s functioning. Reflecting on Parrikar’s political career, Velingkar noted to a local news channel that Parrikar was “dictatorial” by nature. He was often unable to work with the rest of the leadership in his party.

Velingkar and many other commentators allude to the ‘cult of the personality’—a figure like the kings and queens of olden times—in Parrikar’s functioning and rise to power. In fact, all politics in Goa operates through the ‘cult of the personality’. The constituent or the voter is expected to be beholden to the politician in a patron-client relationship, while in a democracy such a relationship is theoretically and legally not necessary. Parrikar, though the best example, is not the only one who assiduously cultivated his own cult. Others, like Madkaikar too, cultivated their own cults.

Whether driven by naked ambition, a greed for power, the persistence of their supporters, or social circumstances, politicians like D’Souza, Madkaikar, and Parrikar enable and sustain a politics of the ‘cult of the personality’. This leaves truly little room for efficient leadership to emerge and thrive. Rather than having leaders who lead, we only have rulers who want power and nothing but power. These rulers, in fact, serve those who fund their campaigns more than the people who vote for them. As such the most important function of democratic politics—to govern society efficiently and look after the welfare of each of its members—becomes a marginal issue in the grand scheme of cutthroat power struggles.

Think about Parrikar’s compromises with the casino and mining companies which have almost destroyed the rivers and forests and think also about his belief in Hindutva which has furthered the already existing social and communal fractures in Goan society. To think, then, of Parrikar’s legacy as an indispensable leader and cult figure is to realize the damage done by cult figures to the social fabric, culture, environment, and polity.

One of the reasons why the ‘cult of the personality’ marks our electoral politics is because our society is fundamentally stratified by caste and class. The severely stratified society makes it easier for politicians from dominant groups to become godfathers to leaders from the Bahujan underclass. The leaders from the Bahujan underclass find it difficult to rise and survive unless they compromise with the agendas of their groups. The result is dismal for a democratic polity: subaltern groups are further marginalized and minoritized simultaneously with environmental and cultural destruction.

In life and in death, the careers and legacies of politicians have lasting scars on the landscape, the culture of the land, and the future of the polity.

(First published in O Heraldo, dt: 4 April, 2019)


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La Roche Posay Toleriane Ultra Nuit and My #MomentOfRelief

A month ago, I started using Toleriane Ultra Nuit, the latest product from La Roche Posay’s Toleriane collection. The night cream is specifically designed for sensitive, irritated, allergic and intolerant skin.

My hereditary eczema and psoriasis have been flaring up lately. A combination of stress, changes in weather and central heating induced dryness have exacerbated these issues. My skin can go from feeling tight and dry, with a bit of redness and flaking, to full on red, scaly and inflamed. It feels uncomfortable and it can sting. I have to be especially gentle when cleansing my face. Lotions with a strong fragrance or active ingredients can actually burn when applied. I have changed my diet and tried to eat foods that support healthy skin like bananas and potatoes. I’ve even reduced dairy and gluten. These things help, but reactions still pop up.

my happy little La Roche Posay Toleriane family – for night, for day and for eyes

I started using Toleriane Ultra Nuit a couple weeks ago. Since then I’am pleased to say my skin has been happy and comfortable. I wake up with soft skin and the tightness is gone. The red scaly bumps on my temples and around my eyes have disappeared. Toleriane Ultra Nuit allows my skin to detoxify as I sleep, while hydrating and healing my skin. My sensitivity is reduced and washing my face is no longer a potentially painful exercise. When my eczema flares up on my eyelids, applying any makeup at all is impossible. Flaky skin and redness covered in makeup is not a good look. Thankfully, that’s no longer an issue for me.

My skin is experiencing a #momentofrelief
My skin is experiencing a #momentofrelief

And I’m not the only one! My husband gets rosacea and has very sensitive skin. Shaving combined with our dry central heat makes his skin super reactive, so I suggested he try Toleriane Ultra Nuit with me. He loves it, and his skin seems to as well. It’s gentle enough to use post–shave and soothes skin while it moisturizes. I have an office full of products and he has tried many, but the Toleriane collection is one he wants in his shaving bag when he travels. I’ve even convinced him to use the Toleriane Ultra Eye Contour!

There’s no reason for anyone to suffer the effects of damaged or irritated skin when you can find relief while you sleep with La Roche Posay Toleriane Ultra Nuit. Get your own #MomentOfRelief over at La Roche Posay and win your own bottle of Toleriane Ultra Nuit!

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The Curing of a Bibliomaniac Part 11: The Amphora Project (William Kotzwinkle, 2005)

Books remaining: 15. Weeks left to read them: 28 (I laugh in the face of danger).

As a pubescent, I read Kotzwinkle’s E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, a novelisation of the legendary 1982 Steven Spielberg film and thought the book just about better than the movie. Don’t throw rocks at me. The book was excellent.

Hence when I came across an original Kotzwinkle several years ago I snapped it up and, true to form, didn’t read it. Until now.

The Amphora Project

The Amphora Project

This is the story of Amphora, the immortality machine, and the humans who foolishly try to use it to achieve eternal life, at a time in which the Earth has long stopped being habitable, and people have long stopped accepting the idea of going quietly into that good night. When it becomes clear that Amphora is unstable and threatening the very existence of the race trying to use it, a band of fugitives makes one final attempt to destroy the device.

Lovers of a good robot, look no further – little Upquark, who converts himself into a suitcase in times of stress, is drawn haplessly into the battle and is hands-down what most endeared this story to me.

Upquark stared about in wonder. There was sand in his rollers, but excitement in his emotional card. Highly unusual circumstances were unfolding, for which he had no reference. He’d tossed and turned for hours in Ren’s ship, analysing for hours the terrible sequence of events he and his friends had undergone, and then, quite on its own, a train of nondeductive inference had begun, culminating in a picture of himself as a dangerous outlaw with a high metallic luster. Now he tried out a menacing gesture with his grippers, but no one seemed to notice. Perhaps he required Pugnacity Firmware.

Special mention, too, goes to the ‘junkernauts’, hazardous monoliths formed of obsolete, lunatic and half-broken robots determined to go on functioning in whatever capacity possible, with the result that they join to form these enormous oddities that sail about the galaxy, spectacularly destroying everything in their paths.

With its invention, whimsy and vivid stable of lovable, repulsive, weird and sexy characters, this would in fact itself have made a great movie. As a book it was a little hard to get, and stay, immersed in.

Though I put this down to lack of time to ‘get a run at it’, I find myself questioning this conventional wisdom. Surely the lack of ability to ‘get into’ books is not all because we all now have woefully short attention spans and even less free time.

When I feel truly captivated by a book I make the time, constantly rushing off for five minutes more to poke my nose into it, deciding to let this or that task slide so I might polish it off. Perhaps if we are so time-poor and have so much competing for our attention we should only keep reading any book if we feel that pull, and never let anything less suffice. (Though had this been my philosophy always there would doubtless be no chance I ever would have finished, for example, Mrs Dalloway  – a bit painful, sure, but undoubtedly worth it). But as a general rule…

I vaguely knew Kotzwinkle’s work, sure, so picking up the book was justified. But as you keep reading a book that is not compelling you, what else is going unread? Right now because of this project, I am not reading Peter Carey’s Amnesia. I’m not reading Annabel Crabb’s The Wife Drought or Don Watson’s The Bush or letting the Matriarch pass on her latest book club book, Karen Joy Fowler’s We are All Completely Beside Ourselves or sharing the Ministry’s new obsession with Vince Flynn’s Mitch Rapp thrillers.

Did I enjoy The Amphora Project? Yes. Would I recommend it to a sci-fi lover? Yes. Was it worth feeling cut off from the new book world for? Not really. Welcome to my learning curve.

Slowly I am realising I don’t actually want to read every single one of the hundreds of unread books I own, though I feel like saying it quietly in case they hear me. It is not that they have no value. It is just that I am realising the value they have to me, and to who I am, lessened over the years I carted them around.

Now what I value is freshness and space, clarity and time. A load of books is not proof of personality or taste and nor should it be. If an object is in my home, I should get joy from touching it and seeing it, not a vague sense of guilt and overwhelm.

There are only so many rainy days I will have in my life.

This is why from now in on How to Cure a Bibliomaniac that for each letter I do as the second half of the alphabet approaches – if I pick one book above the rest, with the internet as my witness, I will get rid of the others if I’m not serious about reading them.

And I’m not going to keep this book either.

This post was inspired by The Minimalists.


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Bradford teen parents, students offered parenting course

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As part of my senior journalism program Capstone course, I investigated and reported on education topics in Bradford County, Florida. In my research I came across a teen parenting program where Bradford County educators may have discovered a way to counteract the high dropout rate of teen parents in the area. The full video and supplemental written story published on the WUFT-FM website can be found here.

New Leaf Market Farm Tours

The New Leaf Market Farm Tours is an annual event held in Tallahassee each fall where locals can tour different farms surrounding Leon County. I took all of these images, and the close-up picture of the man picking peas was awarded 1st place in the 2012 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards in Region 3.

Top Twitter User Charities

As part of experimentation with data visualization using Adobe InDesign, I created this interactive graphic showing the charities supported by the 2o top most followed users on Twitter (last updated Dec. 5, 2011 at 5:13 p.m.). When each name is clicked, the charities that Twitter user supports will darken. Unfortunately, since the file is too large, it cannot be seen on this website, but you can see the before and after image when”Justin Beiber’s” name is clicked.

Florida’s Population Visualized

I reported on education in Bradford County, Fla. for a capstone project in spring 2013. published one of my videos on teen parenting courses offered through the high school and preschool. This visual I made after publication using Google Fusion Tables to help understand the the population of the counties in Florida.

Portraits: Environmental and Headshots

These are some examples of environmental portraits and headshots I’ve photographed.

Study Abroad in Italy 2012

Studying abroad had been a dream of mine since elementary school. The summer of 2012 gave me the opportunity to live my dream and travel to Italy for a language and history program. I visited Rome, Cinque Terre, Venice, Florence, Ischia, Pompeii, Tivoli and Orvieto in my first time outside the country. View my blog I kept while abroad here.