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A leaked study examining genetically-modified corn reveals that the lab-made alternative to organic crops contains a startling level of toxic chemicals.

An anti-GMO website has posted the results of an education-based consulting company's comparison of corn types, and the results reveal that genetically modified foods may be more hazardous than once thought.

The study, the 2012 Corn Comparison Report by Profit Pro, was published recently on the website for Moms Across America March to Label GMOs, a group that says they wish to "raise awareness and support Moms with solutions to eat GMO Free as we demand GMO labeling locally and nationally simultaneously." They are plotting nationwide protests scheduled for later this year.

The report, writes the website's Zen Honeycutt, was provided by a representative for De Dell Seed Company, an Ontario-based farm that's touted as being Canadian only non-GMO corn seed company.

"The claims that 'There is no difference between GMO corn and NON Gmo corn' are false," says Honeycutt, who adds she was "floored" after reading the study.

According to the analysis, GMO corn tested by Profit Pro contains a number of elements absent from traditional corn, including chlorides, formaldehyde and glyphosate. While those elements don't appear naturally in corn, they were present in GMO samples to the tune of 60 ppm, 200pm and 13 ppm, respectively.

Honecutt says that the United States Environmental Protection Agency (FDA) mandates that the level of glyphosate in American drinking water not exceed 0.7 ppm and adds that organ damage in some animals has been linked to glyphosate exposure exceeding 0.1 ppm.

"Glyphosate is a strong organic phosphate chelator that immobilizes positively charged minerals such as manganese, cobalt, iron, zinc [and] copper," Dr. Don Huber attested during a separate GMO study recently released, adding that those elements "are essential for normal physiological functions in soils, plants and animals."

"Glyphosate draws out the vital nutrients of living things and GMO corn is covered with it," adds Honeycutt, who notes that the nutritional benefits rampant in natural corn are almost entirely removed from lab-made seeds: in the samples used during the study, non-GMO corn is alleged to have 437-times the amount of calcium in genetically modified versions, and 56- and 7-times the level of magnesium and manganese, respectively.

These studies come on the heels of a recent decision on Capitol Hill to approve an annual agriculture appropriations bill, even though a provision within the act contained a rider that frees GMO corporations such as the multi-billion-dollar Monsanto Company from liability. The so-called "Monsanto Protection Act," written by a lawmaker that has lobbied for the agra-giant, says biotech companies won't need federal approval to test and plant GMO-crops, even if health risks are unknown.

"The provision would strip federal courts of the authority to halt the sale and planting of an illegal, potentially hazardous GE crop while the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) assesses those potential hazards," reads a letter to the House of Representatives that was delivered to Congress last month with the signatures of dozens of food businesses and retailers, as well as interest groups and agencies representing family farmers. "Further, it would compel USDA to allow continued planting of that same crop upon request, even if in the course of its assessment the Department finds that it poses previously unrecognized risks."


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Adventure based games like BlockStarPlanet are always a hit among Android gaming fans. But what if you dont have a smart phone or are using a low configuration phone? If there are two things that no modern gamer would be caught dead without, it's their gaming machine and phone. Considering the range of games out there for Android users, and the handiness of your phone, we understand this.

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Advantages of playing MLB 9 Innings 18 on PC

  • Bigger screen to watch and play.
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  • Longer battery power compared to your phone.
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'Over the next 50 years this is where you should be putting your money' - Spear's Magazine

‘Over the next 50 years this is where you should be putting your money’

‘Over the next 50 years this is where you should be putting your money’

As Chinese growth decelerates and Western economies slow to a crawl, investors of all stripes are asking the same question: Where will growth come from? Edwin Smith discovers that Africa could be the answer

A large part of the challenge facing the world economy – particularly in the West, but also in China and Japan – is the spectre of ageing populations. They threaten the balance between profit-making, tax-paying workers on the one hand, and public service-reliant pensioners on the other. However, there is one part of the world where things couldn’t be much more different.

Africa is the only region of the world where the number of people under the age of 25 is increasing; they already account for 60 per cent of the continent’s 1.3 billion people. By 2036, the working-age population of the continent will exceed each of India and China’s, according to research by the Institute for Securities Study and International Futures. By 2050 the population of Africa is expected to grow to 2.5 billion people and, from there, on to 4.2 billion by the end of the century, according to the Pew Research Center. As a result, many of Africa’s growing urban hubs are expected to evolve into megacities.

By 2100, Lagos, Kinshasa and Dar Es Salaam will be the three largest cities in the world, according to the Global Cities institute, with populations of 88 million, 84 million and 74 million, respectively. Economies are expected to boom too, as more and more people move out of low-productivity employment in agriculture to other sectors. The economy of Africa, worth $2.6 trillion today, is projected to swell to $29 trillion by 2050.

The scale of opportunity – for investors, businesses, entrepreneurs and individuals – is clear. But there are hurdles to overcome. Several of Africa’s largest economies are heavily reliant on natural resources; Angola and Nigeria have suffered torrid economic times due to fluctuating oil prices. Many countries – even the continent’s richest – struggle to build or maintain the infrastructure necessary for a vibrant private sector. Sustainable, long-term growth will hinge on whether nations are able to change this, and untether them-selves from volatility in commodity prices.

A recent World Bank report concluded that a burgeoning digital economy was the key to unlocking ‘inclusive growth, innovation, job creation, service delivery, and poverty reduction.’

If Africa is to segue smoothly into the digital age, then companies such as Andela are likely to play an important role. The business employs software developers in six African countries who work remotely and from Andela offices for companies all over the world, including the BBC and GitHub. Having closed a $100 million funding round in 2019, to add to a previous $40 million round and support from the Chan Zuckerburg Initiative, the company is eyeing expansion. ‘We’re still just scratching the surface,’ says Omowale David-Ashiru, Andela’s country director for Nigeria.

Andela operates in six African countries, including Kenya (pictured)

The company’s growth is undoubtedly good news for the African countries in which it operates; the skilled jobs it provides contribute to GDP and boost human capital. How-ever, there may be limits to what an operation headquartered in New York can do. ‘Certain solutions are more likely to be indigenous,’ says John Ashbourne, a senior emerging markets economist at Capital Economics who focuses on sub-Saharan Africa. ‘African companies know better how to fill niches and how to directly supply certain services.’

One such example is the Lagos startup LifeBank, which delivers time-critical supplies of blood and oxygen through potholed streets and gridlocked traffic. The company was founded by the US-educated Nigerian Temie Giwa-Tubosun and was the recipient of the top award from Alibaba founder Jack Ma’s Africa Netpreneur prize. However, building the business in Lagos has not been easy.

The company is on its third internet provider in two years. ‘Companies promise the earth and then cannot deliver,’ says Giwa-Tubosun, adding that service is patchy. ‘It’s really difficult for us to innovate around it.’ Even if LifeBank could itself guarantee good-quality internet service, its users cannot. ‘If they can’t reach us, then someone’s going to die,’ she says. As a result, the company operates a telephone call centre around the clock.

Other African nations have prioritised improved connectivity, but have not always found it easy to deliver. Rwanda’s government laid the ‘backbone’ of a fibre network across the country and expected private companies to add the ‘last mile’, but was disappointed. In 2015 it eventually formed a joint venture to complete the network with Korea Telecom. Today, 33 per cent of the population of the East African Community (covering six countries including Rwanda) has a connected smartphone, a figure that is expected to double by 2025, according to GSMA Intelligence, a data analyst.

Smartphones have already played a major role in boosting African nations’ payments and banking infrastructure, giving previously ‘unbanked’ people the ability to transfer money, make online purchases, save and borrow efficiently. The mobile money service M-Pesa, which was launched in Kenya and Tanzania in 2007, continues to evolve.

In Tanzania, the mobile network operator Vodacom (one of the networks behind M-Pesa) helps to process payments that total around 30 per cent of the country’s GDP and the company aims to bring ‘financial inclusion’ to 100 per cent of the population, says its CEO Hisham Hendi. It is equip-ping merchants with the devices for processing payments and has agreed a partnership with Mastercard to generate virtual credit cards for online purchases. It is also expanding its network of banking kiosks, has launched a micro-financing service and is working with networks in neighbouring countries, such as MTN in Uganda, to facilitate cross-border payments.

Rising tide

In 2011 the Economist published a cover story entitled ‘Africa Rising’ in which it heralded the dawn of a golden age of prosperity and development. As that narrative caught on, billions of dollars began to flow into private equity funds; the Carlyle Group raised $700 million for its first African private equity fund – 40 per cent above its target.

But there was a problem: the money raised by large PE houses did not match the ‘opportunity set’ in Africa, says Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes, founder of Aruwa Capital Management. Few African business were prepared to ‘absorb’ the $50-100 million cheques that the large funds wanted to write, she notes. The lack of M&A activity and capital markets infrastructure in Africa also meant that there was scant opportunity to engineer successful exits.

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The upturn in Africa’s fortunes heralded in 2011 has not yet been realised. Growth in the continent has been sluggish in recent years and fell to as low as 2.1 per cent in 2016, largely due to a combination of commodity price fluctuation and political instability. ‘People are realising that, actually, we can’t just replicate the model that we’ve seen in other markets,’ says Okunbo Rhodes.

Aruwa aims to make investments of between $1 million and $5 million – part of the market it believes is currently under served. The company estimates that there is a $42 billion ‘growth capital demand gap’ in Nigeria and Ghana alone. It is doing its best to fill it by investing in companies such as Wemy Industries, a Nigerian maker of personal hygiene products such as sanitary pads and nappies, that has been growing since the late 1970s, but ‘hit a wall’ when it went in search of capital to fund its next stage of growth.

Nappy valley

According to Okunbo Rhodes, the company is the ‘only indigenous manufacturer of diapers in the entire country’ – a market in which a baby is born once every five seconds, more often than Western Europe. This, along with growing urbanisation, made investment ‘a no-brainer,’ says Okumbo Rhodes. ‘People have caught on to the fact that yes, Africa is rising, but it’s not a short-term play. Over the next 50 years, this is where you should be putting your money. Because this is the most rapidly urbanising continent in the world.’

Urbanisation usually means economic growth and higher living standards. However, this is not always the case in Africa. A 2007 study in the journal Population and Development Review found that ‘Africa’s urbanization process has not been associated with falling overall poverty.’ largely down to infrastructure, especially transport.

Take Lagos, explains John Ashbourne of Capital Economics. No one knows how big the city really is – estimates range from 13 million to more than 20 million people – but the traffic is so bad that people are only really able to access an area of about 800,000 people. ‘That reduces the economies of scale and other benefits,’ he cautions.

 Trade barriers

Some cities, such as Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and Abidjan in Ivory Coast ‘are really trying to throw the kitchen sink at this and get investment into public transport,’ says Ashbourne. ‘But it will take a long time.’ Part of the difficulty is that transport infrastructure either needs to be built before a city gets too big (as in London in the Victorian era) or, Ashbourne says, ‘you have a government like in China, where you have the money and the political system that allows you to build right in the middle of cities. Most African governments don’t have either of those things.’

Funding is certainly a problem for transport infrastructure across the continent. Some large projects have been financed and built by Chinese entities, although it has been suggested that African countries would have got a better deal – and minimised their already unwieldy debt burden – by negotiating as a bloc.

There were positive signs for intra-regional co-operation in 2019 when the African Union launched the operational phase of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Once up and running, it is hoped that the free trade agreement will cover 54 countries and boost the continent’s remarkably low rate of intra-regional trade, which currently stands at around 17 per cent of Africa’s exports. (The equivalent figures for Asia is 69 per cent.)

AfCFTA could also ‘stimulate more cross-border investment’ from African companies and wealthy individuals, noted Sebastian Halle-Smith of wealth management firm Dolfin in a recent assessment of investment trends on the continent. ‘Some individuals are looking to take advantage of lower barriers to cross-border activity by diversifying their holdings away from their home country.’

What’s more, the continent’s wealth is predicted to grow by 9.5 per cent between 2018 and 2023, according to a report by Boston Consulting Group, with investible assets growing even faster than uninvestible ones. GDP growth will pick up to more than 4 per cent in 2020, according to the African Development Bank.

But wherever potential investors are based, one thing remains the same, says Adam Hunt of Standard Bank, the African focused banking group headquartered in Johannesburg. ‘Africa is complex. It is a very large continent of multiple countries – and each one has to be dealt with differently,’ says Hunt. ‘I do think it represents a huge opportunity. But Africa needs is to be looked at with respect.’

This piece is from the latest edition of Spear’s magazine, out now. Click here to buy and subscribe

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Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in southern Utah are now subject to drilling, mining and grazing after the Interior Department finalized the plans on Feb. 6.

The Bears Ears Education Center website describes the national monument as “the first national monument ever created at the request of a coalition of Native American tribes” and “one of the most archeological areas on Earth.”

Utah.com also illustrates Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument as “A … museum of sedimentary erosion that walks you down through a 200-million-year-old staircase of animals …, minerals and vegetables.”

But now, according to The Washington Post, the Trump administration hopes to develop these lands — which harbor “significant amounts” of oil, gas and coal.

Oct. 1 would be the earliest date the government could approve new mining claims or implement any development on the grounds of these national monuments. However, there is still controversy surrounding these plans.

In 1996, President Bill Clinton created the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and in 2016, President Barack Obama created Bears Ears and officially recognized the land as sacred to certain tribes.

Yet, on April 26, 2017, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 13792, which requested for the Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, to review designations of national monuments made since 1996.

“I’m doing the right thing,” Trump said during his announcement of the executive order. “I’m signing an executive order to give that power back to the states and back to the people.”

An article by National Geographic outlined a map of the 26 national monuments Zinke reviewed after Executive Order 13792 was implemented.

At the conclusion of Zinke’s process, it was only Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments that were chosen to reduce in size: Bears Ears by 85% and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 46%.

According to The Washington Post, the officials from the Interior Department and U.S. Forest Service, who manage the lands, said “the new plans balance the region’s economic interests against the need to safeguard natural and cultural wonders.”

Despite their remarks, an article from Sierra, the Sierra Club’s national magazine — an environmental club founded by John Muir who was considered the “Father of the National Parks” — said the Trump administration is “trying to destroy” these monuments.

David Gessner, who wrote the article featured in the magazine, recalled something Theodore Roosevelt said during a speech he gave at the Grand Canyon’s edge: “Leave it as it is.”

Indeed, some people remain concerned about the future of national monuments and parks under the Trump administration. It is true, however, that Trump signed a land conservation bill on March 12, 2019 and created five new national monuments.

St. Francis Dam in Los Angeles, Medgar Evers’ house in Jackson, Miss. and Jurassic National Monument in Utah are some of the places that became protected by the bill.

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument’s acting manager, Harry Barber, said in an interview with The Guardian that protections would still remain in place, even though the lands were no longer within the monument.

“It’s not a free-for-all,” Barber said. “That seems to be what I hear a lot, people feeling like now anybody can go out and do anything they want to do on these lands. But, they need to realize that we still have our rules and policies.”

Van Sistine can be reached at [email protected].


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Step3. Arrange coins around the base of the candle.

Step4. Light the candle and chant:

''Money Grow, Money Flow
Candle Burn, Watch Me Earn
Money Grow, Money Flow
I'm In Tune
Attract It Soon''

Step5. Close your eyes, take 3 deep long even breathes, slowly open your eyes, and snuff out the candle, don't blow.

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Creating a safe place for girls to play sports part 1: The landscape

Lisa Travella Murawsky, GNW, Sport, Development, Girls, Naandi, Nanhi Kali, Safe Place
Author: Lisa Travella Murawsky
Copyrights: Global Nomad's World

Creating a safe place for girls to play sports part 1: The landscape

An article series sharing factors contributing to a welcoming and empowering environment for girls sport in India from Global Nomad's World, who works with The Naandi Foundation to create a safe landscape for 37,000 girls to play sports in India.

I had the pleasure of leading a sport activity day in Vizag, India on the Bay of Bengal, for a group of 40 girls aged 11-15 years old. This sports day was one of hundreds that took place throughout India this year as part of "The Nanhi Kali Sports Project, a partnership between Global Nomad’s World (GNW) and The Naandi Foundation. The project includes 37,000 female participants and 1,800 female officials and is continuing to evolve to create a sports curriculum for over 150,000 girls throughout the country.

As I arrived at the grounds of one of the local schools in the early morning, I was thrilled to see hundreds and hundreds of active children joyfully playing numerous sports including volleyball, cricket, and badminton. The only thing missing in this picture was girls. Every single participant was a boy!

So as the 40 eager girls looked on from their seated area for our event to begin, I went and joined the boys’ volleyball game! The boys were both thrilled and shocked to have me join and I took advantage of their momentary bewilderment to serve two aces. Only once the school bell rang and all the space was cleared, would the girls take to the field to participate in their first ever Nanhi Kali Sports Day.

The landscape

One major challenge in organising sports for girls in India is creating a safe place for them to play. One of the most basic elements of this challenge is offering an actual physical safe landscape for them to play on. In my experience with organising sports in North America or Europe, this was more of a simple question of contacting a school or sports venue and reserving the space to play. Not only will your reservation include your exclusive use of the facility but also guaranteed a safe facility with all amenities. But in India this process is much more complicated.

As was the case of Vizag, school grounds have often been used for the Nanhi Kali sports events. But contrary to my experience elsewhere, one cannot assume that the landscape is “safe” for the girls to start their activity. These open spaces are usually filled with not only people but also debris. Time is spent removing obstacles such as large rocks and some garbage from the area. Also, don’t be surprised to have the occasional wild dogs, goats or even cows cross your path during your sporting activity!

Reserving a space exclusively for the girls to play is another big challenge. In an extremely densely populated country such as India, space is an incredibly valued commodity. One cannot simply make a phone call and reserve a space. This is where the expertise and experience of The Naandi Foundation is crucial in this sports journey. Through thousands of female community educators, the Naandi Foundation has worked closely with the community for decades; developing the trust of families, government, authorities and school officials. Oftentimes, these ladies work tirelessly going door to door, speaking to the families and authorities. It is through this stealth network, built up from years of development, that the Nanhi Kali Sports Project can reserve an exclusive place for the girls to play.  As the Vizag experience clearly demonstrates, the exclusivity of the venue adds a critical sense of safety for the girls to play.

But with many interested and curious observers the temptation for others to slowly return to reclaim the space is always a risk. To help maintain the exclusivity of the space for the duration of the activity, the Naandi network depends on their relationship with the authorities, and at times security personnel are employed to keep a caring watchful eye on the girls’ sporting activities.

Preparing the physical landscape for girls to play sports is just one key element that this Nanhi Kali project applies to help ensure a safe space for tens of thousands of girls to play sports in India. The Naandi Foundation's lengthy experience and understanding of the safety needs of the girls is an incredibly invaluable tool in this sport project journey

Stay tuned for part 2 of this posting where we look at another element of the Nanhi Kali Sport Project that helps to create a safe place for girls to play sports: a space free from cultural judgement.

The Naandi Foundation should be an example to NGOs who have similar development expertise and thus, a wonderful potential to build a sport for life journey for their population. GNW would like to invite you to the conversation and encourage you to unleash this wonderful sport potential. Let the sport journey begin! Contact


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3Below: Tales of Arcadia (2018) s01e02 Episode Script

Terra Incognita - Part II

1 One, two, three below! Leave this place, or suffer certain death! H-Hey, you're pretty funny! Can I interest you guys in a newspaper subscription? What's a newspaper? I know, right? It's a dying medium.
When'd you guys move in? It's like it just sprouted out of nowhere.
- What are you doing? - Perhaps Varvatos should destroy him.
Whoa, retro cool.
Really cool crib.
Do people say "crib" anymore? There's a pool, too? You can be my flip-flop To the top, don't stop Fascinating.
Oh! What's that sound? Where is it coming from? You've never heard of vintage music? We gonna do it right - I like vintage.
- Lively.
Whoo! Yeah! Who are you, cute fur-ball? Is that Luug? What happened to him? He's covered in terrestrial fungus.
It's so soft.
Lively! Mother must have changed him.
Where are your parents? Who demands to know? Me, I guess.
- Our parents are in stasis.
- What? There was an accident.
They are regenerating.
- Huh.
So they're, like, at a spa? - Yes.
And we don't like interlopers.
Who sent this insidious nuisance? Wow, you're strong for a geezer.
" I like that word.
- Speak of what you have seen to anyone - "Geezer.
" and Varvatos Vex will see that you face a terrible, terrible death.
He's intense.
Mother, what have you done? I've altered the ship's structure to match indigenous, primitive architecture.
No, I mean, why is Varvatos wrinkled and saggy? I think the local term is "geezer.
" Varvatos is like a feeble larvox.
His bones, brittle.
Not good for crushing.
I love this fleshy covering.
It is known as "skin.
" Unlike on Akiridion-5 where life is energy-based, the inhabitants of this planet are biological.
- Oh, flisghaag.
- I believe the Earth idiom is "gross.
" Surely there are less gross forms for us to take! Reconfigure the camouflage matrix to something more befitting of Varvatos Vex.
Oh this is comfortable.
I am afraid I cannot, Commander.
The energy expenditure required to alter the matrix is too high.
Energy expenditure? Our parents! Thank Gaylen! They're still in stasis.
Secondary Manifold, the Kelso transponder, the CDR sensing unit.
What does all that Klebso mean? I think it means we have a problem.
Ha! A problem? Mother, tell them.
I calculate I haveÃÂ enough energy reserves to sustain the royal life force for only three parsons.
Three parsons? Wait, do you mean If I cannot maintain the cores, the king and queen will be lost.
How is the ship so low on power? The plasma fields must have blown in the Daxial Array.
Where is the Daxial Array? Judging from the damage we sustained in the escape from Akiridion-5, I would put its current position somewhere within the Ardell Meteor belt.
Ay, ay, ay.
It's going to be okay.
We're just going to have to go out there and find the new "that's the other way.
" Daxial Array.
And we can't go out there.
This dump-heap planet is primitive beyond description.
It will be an adventure.
Come on, let's go! Brother Pele's in the backÃÂ  Sweet Zina's in the front Cruisin' down the freeway in Klebtastic! Suddenly red-blue lights flash us from behindÃÂ  Loud voice booming Please step out onto the line Hmm! How bizarre Huh.
Let me make it work.
How bizarre Fascinating! Glorious! How bizarre I love popp-ed corn! Mmm.
Ugh! Destination unknown As we pull in for some gasÃÂ  A freshly pasted poster reveals Elephants and acrobats Lions, snakes, monkey Pele speaks righteousÃÂ  Sister Zina says Funky, funky, funky" Oh, no! So squishy.
I love this Earth! Aja! Are you absolutely sure? This is the atomic, super-double, bowel-loosening, Diablo Maximus breakfast burrito with extra hot sauce.
Hey, you've got to pay for that! Careful.
The Diablo Maximus is not for the faint of heart.
Mere humans can't withstand more than one or two bites before they Wha-aa-at? Mmm.
That was lively.
I'm going to go ask for another one.
- A second one?! - You seem to know a lot about this planet.
Are you one of its rulers? Eh, I do kind of rule.
I'm technically a duke.
The name's Toby.
Duke Toby, if you're fancy.
Tell me, do you know where I can find a Daxial Array? "Daxial Array"? Is that a band? You can get that at the record store.
No! No.
Yes! Finally, the dump-heap has something to offer.
- Music.
- Fascinating! Mmm Though it doesn't taste as good as the Diablo Maximus breakfast burrito.
Okay, youngsters,ÃÂ it's time to go home.
- Hey.
Hey! - Music.
Hey, you've gotta pay for that.
She seeks vengeance against you.
Exciting! I mean, he needs to buy it, you know, with money? - Like crestons? - Like money.
Do we have a problem here? He just shoplifted that.
Impossible! That shop is far too heavy to be lifted.
Do you have money to pay for the record, kid? It would appear doubtful.
Lift! The King-in-waiting is correct.
This structure defies even Varvatos' vaunted strength.
Uh! Ow! Problem solved.
You guys aren't from around here, are you? - You could accurately say that, yes.
- But you live in Arcadia, don't you? Maybe.
Well, why aren't you kids in school? You know what a school is, right? Let's assume not.
It's a big building with a lot of math and books, wise guy.
Math? Do you think we might be able to find - a "dance the world away" there? - You know what I think? I think it's illegal for you ÃÂ not to be in school.
But Varvatos is strong.
Very strong! What the? Yeah, you're spry for your age.
Now put the bench down.
- This weak back! - Are these your grandkids? They are under the protection of Varvatos Vex.
Who's Varvatos Vex? Varvatos Vex is unexplainable, unknowable.
Who are you, good sir? Who do you serve? I am Detective Scott, Arcadia Oaks PD.
You know, here to serve and protect.
What about destroying, pillaging, feasting upon the bones of your enemies? Uh, yeah.
Well, Varvatos, these kids are going to school, now.
It's all right, Grandpa Geezer.
Krel and I will go to the building of math and search for the array.
You You seem trustworthy.
But harm my charges, and Varvatos will slay you while you sleep! Is your grandpa off his medication? - It's entirely possible.
- Remember! In your sleep! Detective Scott tells me you're not from around here.
Not anywhere close, no.
- In fact, we just arrived.
- Really? From where? - From where? - Yes, from where? Ustedes hablan anything? Mmm Eh - Can-ta-loupes.
- What? - Cantalou - Pia.
- Cantaloupia.
- Hmm - How do you spell it? - Spell? We don't have magic on Akiridio on Cantaloupia.
I can't seem to find it on the Internet.
- It's new.
- I can't find it.
I don't know how things are done in Caliapy - Cantaloupia.
- But this is the United States of America.
Kids here go to school.
- Do you have any papers? - Papers? Papers.
IDs, passports.
I have the agility and reflexes of a larvox.
Listen, school bureaucrat.
We don't know anything about "eye-Ds" or "pass ports.
" We're just here to a find a Daxial Array.
I've never heard of that band.
I only listen to Barry Manilow.
What's a "manilow"? What's "Barry Manilow"? That's it! What's your number? - I am calling your parents.
- You're calling them what? What my little brother means is, our parents are away, at the spa.
I'll tell you what, my two little delinquents.
When your parents get back, you can tell them all about a little something I like to call math class.
The formula for the area of a triangle is They receive knowledge by being talked at, rather than through thermogenic cosmosis.
I have a question.
Then raise your hand.
- Uh, which one? - Either will do.
Back home, I have four of them.
Do you have a question, Mr.
Tarron? Do you have a Daxial Array? - We are talking about triangles.
- Hardly.
You forgot to account for the triangle's area when applied to the fourth dimension.
The fluctuations of the hypotenuse alter the triangle's shape.
But if we use Claxon's 38th Theorem, we get a reasonable approximation of Now, strange woman, can you lead us to a Daxial Array? Take me back to the ship, Luug.
What do you mean you don't know where it is? Got your queen! - Queen? - Your queen is gone! Come on, Luug! Agh! - I'm about to take your knight.
- A-ha-a-ha-ah-ah! That would leave your king in jeopardy.
I'll worry about my own king.
You worry about your king, thank you very much.
Wow, wow, wheezy-wow.
Can I help you with something? This queen you speak of, is she trapped inside? Is this a means of representing combat? Are you warriors? You never heard of chess? Chess? Yeah, chess.
You, too, are also wrinkled.
Are you geezers? Are you gross? Can we help you with something? Hey, give me that.
What?! Yes, Varvatos wishes for the geezers to explain more of this chess now! New kids, you've gotta take the rope challenge.
I'm not taking anything.
I keep telling you people this.
I love challenges.
Every kid here should be able to climb that rope and ring that bell.
For what purpose? 'Cause I said so.
Next challenge, please.
What? I've never seen anybody do itÃÂ that fast before.
I thought you said every kid could do this.
Ugh! That was in theory! You two are messing with my head.
A Daxial Array is not a band! It is a critical piece of technology.
Okay, bro.
Look, if it's tech, maybe the science lab will have it.
- Ai-ee! - You will take me to the leader of the science lab now! What type of country is Cantaloupia, anyway? - Are you guys adopted? - No.
Then why do you look, um, different? Different? What do you mean? Mother made sure we look just like you.
Your technology is beyond primitive.
What do you mean, "your technology"? Do you always ask this many questions, human? Only when I'm suspicious.
Ã¿Que pasa? What's going on here? That one is interrogating us.
And I am trying to locate a Daxial Array, which is not a band of any kind.
You're not supposed to be here unsupervised.
No, we're just not supposed to get caught.
Students are not supposed I want to speak with your parents.
Tonight, six o'clock, sharp.
I want to meet them.
Both parents.
No excuses.
Very intriguing.
And if Varvatos wins, Varvatos can enslave your entire family? Usurp your property? Burn it to the ground? - Dude! - Whoa, whoa, whoa! It's just a game.
What is the purpose of a game? Who knows? Maybe, uh, have some fun.
If that were true, there would be killing.
Oof! - We need to talk to you.
- It must wait.
Varvatos is about to vanquish his foe in chess.
Actually, you're down everything but your king and two pawns.
Varvatos will triumph gloriously! Ha! Checkmate, butt snack.
Your butt shall be mine to snack upon! Agh! - Victory shall be mine! - Dude! Could victory be yours tomorrow? Krel and I have a bit of a problem.
Varvatos Vex shall return tomorrow to smite you both.
- Oh, I can't wait.
- Smite this.
Tonight, make amends with your women For tomorrow, you face death.
Jeez, that guy's intense.
How is this a problem? Simply defy the petty tyrant's orders.
Now can Varvatos get back to his pawns? It's not that simple.
All youth must attend this school of theirs.
And if we don't, we'll remain prisoners in this ship.
It's full of humans our age, and they play games and have really easy challenges.
Either way, we won't be able to return unless we have parents to show the bureaucrat.
Then we are doomed.
There is no chance of transforming the pair of you into "pay-rents.
" I'm drawing a blank.
- Blanks.
Maybe blanks! - Where's he going? Right.
The blank robots! Blank units, come along.
What are you doing with the blanks? Madness! Mother, initiate camouflage protocol.
You'll be Dad.
You'll be Mom.
Mother, load their data caches with your research of human culture.
Before we do this, you should know my information on this planet is approximately 60 human years out of date.
No matter.
Like you said, this dump-heap planet doesn't evolve that fast.
Are your parents here? Yes, both parents.
No excuses.
Hey, hey, hey, Mr.
Underpaid Bureaucrat.
Nice to meet you.
SeÃÂÃÂ±or Uhl.
- Blank.
- We're French.
Your children said you were from Cantalope-something.
It's French.
Parlez-vous franÃÂÃÂ§ais, fella? The name is Uhl.
Or preferably, Interim Principal Uhl.
Easy, fella.
What are you trying to do, break my hand? That is one heck of a grip.
Strong and manly.
I like it.
You never get a second chance to make a first impression, right? - No.
- Yes that is right.
Do you know your kids were caught walking around town during school hours today? By gum, those scamps.
That sure ain't swell.
It's 10:00 p.
Do you know where your children are? It's 6:37 p.
, and I have no children.
But yours were busted sneaking into the science lab.
Oh, those scamps.
That sure ain't swell.
"Swell"? Is this some kind of joke? Do you find it funny? No, and I don't find it funny that you broke into the science lab.
- You break it, you buy it.
- Oh, you want money, fella? I'm a little strapped for Benjamins this month, but I'll see what I can do.
- You know, it doesn't grow on trees.
- Yeah, put your money where your mouth is.
- Say that again.
- Put your money where your mouth is.
- You can say that again.
- Put your money where your mouth is.
- Again, again - Nein! Don't put your money anywhere.
You're, you're, you're Oh, no! Mr.
Bureaucrat's all tongue-tied.
All right, enough! I'm contacting Child Protective Services.
Clearly, your home life is not stable.
Home? This isn't our home.
Our home has been stolen from us by General Morando.
He destroyed the capital and hurt our parents, and we were forced to come here where we know no one.
Seklos and Gaylen.
We are alone here.
Wait, wait.
There's been a coup in your country? Exactly.
I'm so sorry.
- I will protect you until Cantalucia - Cantaloupia.
is free again.
For as long as your home is in turmoil, you will have a place in Arcadia Oaks.
Thank you.
We should probably get glowing.
I mean, going.
- You can say that again.
- Yeah, put your money where your mouth is.
They are peculiar.
What's happening? The energy dispersal from the transduction must be wearing off.
We have to get back to the mother ship now.
You could have been discovered! The humans must never see us in our native, non-saggy forms.
How were we supposed to know the transduction effect would wear off? My apologies.
It seems the effect lasts only 12 horvaths before it requires re-implementation.
Now you tell us? What is happening to you? What is that? My eyes are leaking.
Humans call this discharge of bodily fluid "tears.
" They are the result of extreme emotional states accompanied by the irrational expulsion of liquid from the ocular sphere.
- Are you okay? - Humans are so wasteful.
I I don't know.
I was thinking about how we're never going to find a Daxial Array, and we'll never save Mama and Papa, and then I think this is what it means to be afraid.
You saved that? You saved their cores.
I saved this.
Do you know the ritual? Varvatos does.
- I don't want to be queen.
- And you won't be.
You will be Queen-in-waiting.
Hey, before the ceremony, Papa told me that we are all each other has.
That's why I'm not afraid.
Because I have you.
All I ever wanted was to be normal.
But Mama told me I wasn't.
This ridge This ridge is the mark of your ancestors, and proclaims you worthy of the crown of Akiridion that has stood for righteousness since ages past.
The royal traitors are at large.
Bounty Hunters Slay the royals and bring their parents' life cores to me, and you will be rewarded with treasures that will make you the envy of all bounty hunters.
Destroy any and all who stand in your way.


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Podcasting Mania!

Wow…seems like a busy podcasting week for me.

Sunday night I was on the Typical Mac User Podcast with Victor Cajiao talking about doing things with your Mac. It was a lot of fun and got some good questions from the chat room. Victor always has a lively bunch hanging out during the show, and he knows how to work the crowd.

Monday night I got the privilege of hanging out and talking with Dean Jensen of the Soho Technology Podcast. Bruce Barr and I were on talking about Open Source in the Soho environment. Dean brought something up that I hadn’t thought about in a while. Smaller networks, or more specifically, small businesses needs are different from that of larger corporations. It isn’t a one size fits all world and I know that, and not having been involved with small businesses/small networks in the capacity that Dean has as a consultant in a long while kinda got lost somewhere in my mind.

*update* I almost forgot to mention that Chuck and I interviewed Dr. Pamela Gay Sunday about Her podcasting and of course, Astronomy…loads of fun. That should be coming out this week on Technorama.

Stack your Drive Mounts in Leopard

I was looking for a way to get any drives or shared folders I had mounted to show up in my sidebar under Leopard. I mean it is a little cumbersome to move to an empty space, F11, or minimize everything to get to your mounted drives on the desktop. SO, I went looking on the net for a solution.

After looking around a bit I found that there is in fact no way to put mounts into the sidebar in finder. What a bummer…seems like that should be a no brainer on Apple’s part, BUT, fear not, I have a solution that is a close second. Stacks.

That’s right, let’s use the stacks on the dock to show my mounted drives. So I can easily click the icon on the dock and instantly see a list of my drives. Here is how you do it.

Open Finder. Click Go in the menu, and select Go to Folder. A box will open and asking what folder you want. Put in ‘/Volumes’ (no quotes) then click go. Once there, you should see your mounted drives. Click on the column view. Now you should see the Volumes folder. Just click and drag that folder to the area on the dock where your other stacks are/were and there you go. You can now just click on that to see anything mounted like external drives, thumb drives, shared folders.

There you go, hope this help you out!

(Thanks go to MacOSXHints.com)

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iTunes with Podcast support

iTunes 4.9 is available for download now! It supports podcasts out of the box, and I think that this is great for anyone new to the medium.

I installed it and found that it was easy to start building a list of podcasts that I was subscribed to. One notable feature I like is that there are options for what to keep, so that you don’t fill up your harddrive with shows that you are done with or didn’t listen to. Also, it keeps your podcast shows separate from your Library of music. To me that is a awesome. I often loose shows when they are mixed in with the general population, unless the genre is set to “Podcast” or something.

There are a few notable things that I believe could use improving. One is importing of OPML lists, and maybe some smartlist capability, however I think that this is a step in the right direction…

Linux is likely the big loser in Apple’s Shift?

In this article John Dvorak says that Linux has the most to loose from this apple shift aside from the likes of IBM and Microsoft.

He mentions OSS licensing issues, and people being more prone to switch to a machine that can basically run OSx and Windows as being factors that could detract from Linux’s development. But I don’t exactly agree. I mean, you will still have to purchase an Apple machine, just like today to get to OSX. If that will be the case, then why isn’t it happening now?

Now if OSX was stand alone, like Windows is and ran on Intel for everyone….That would be another story. I could see a mass exodus from MS and Linux for that matter.

Apple throws the switch, aligns with Intel

Ah, now some more info…
Looks like OSX will only run on x86 Macs, and not just any x86 machine…

Apple throws the switch, aligns with Intel | CNET News.com

After Jobs’ presentation, Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller addressed the issue of running Windows on Macs, saying there are no plans to sell or support Windows on an Intel-based Mac. “That doesn’t preclude someone from running it on a Mac. They probably will,” he said. “We won’t do anything to preclude that.”

However, Schiller said the company does not plan to let people run Mac OS X on other computer makers’ hardware. “We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac,” he said.

Awww Man!

Update: I started thinking about this whole thing after I posted…I guess this really means that there is no story. So what, OSX will run on Intel, but only Mac with Intel. Big Deal.

Here is really what happened to Apple.

Marty McFly: What about all that talk about screwing up future events, the space-time continuum?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Well, I figured, what the hell.

Looks like Apple is doing it. They do make great machines…but if I can run OSX on a standard PC why buy a premium Mac x86? Maybe the only hardware they care about is the iPods…and selling software.

I hope this works out for them.

Me and minime

Ok, I know that I am not the only one to call my Mac mini ..well.. minime. But hey, I did name my iPod Ã¢â‚¬Å“Escape PodÃ¢â‚¬Â so I get points there.

I wanted to share some impressions during my first month with the Mac mini. The form factory is a big plus. I have it on my desk right beside my monitor, and it takes up no space to speak of.

I purchased the 1.5g model with 512mb or ram. Performance seems to be very good. I have used it to burn DVDs and iMovie for editing, and it seems to just crank along. It is also very quiet. I have turned off my Linux box, and really only have the Mac on always. I can sit in my small windowless (in more ways than one) office at home, and I can think.

OSX is nice. Linux with Gnome is a lot like it in some ways, so I feel comfortable with it. I like how when I attach a new device to it, you don’t see balloons popping up telling me that there is a new device installed (Well Duh). For example, my DVcam, I hooked it up, couldnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t tell if it was recognized. I opened iMove and it was just there waiting for me. Now, Installing applications are a little different. Most of which you just drag the application into the applications folder. It is odd at first, but makes the machine very easy to manage.

I did install Gimp on it, and I wasnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t quite happy with that. It felt very Ã¢â‚¬Å“Tacked onto OSX”. I get that feeling with the Windows version too, like mouse focus was quirky or something with X. However native OSX apps are awesome. So unless Photoshop for OSX falls out of the sky, There are some things that I will just have to continue do on my Linux box.

So, I see me using it for really anything. I bought it for editing movies primarily, but it has proven to be a great general purpose machine. Very happy with it, and I would recommend it to anyone, especially family.

BTW: iLife is worth the price you paid for the whole machine, and consider a USB, and a Firewire hub.

Dude, I got a Mac!

So far I likes what I sees.

First off..This thing came all the way from China to Charlotte, NC in 2 days. I got a shipping notice on the Jan 19th and Here it is on the 20th.

I have never really used OSX, except looking at it in the store. It is nicley done. In some ways Linux with Gnome is like it, but OSX, of course is more polished and the interface is a little different.

Garageband is very easy to use, I was throwing together music in no time. I am hoping that the rest of iLife will be the same and I think that it will be.


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“L’amour est un oiseau rebelle” – “Love is a wild bird”: in her famous Habanera, Carmen sings about the fickleness of this strongest of feelings. Thus, she wins the heart of Sergeant Don José. Torn between his passion and his duties as a member of the military, he decides in Carmen’s favour and follows her to the mountains, where they live with a band of smugglers. When the bullfighter Escamillo turns up, however, Carmen’s feelings prove to be just as fickle as described in her own Habanera. She leaves Don José, who is thrown into a jealous rage – with deadly consequences.
The encounter with Carmen also decided Georges Bizet’s fate: based on a novella by Prosper Mérimée, its first performance at the Opéra comique in Paris in 1875 fell through. Only a few months later, however, a performance in Vienna marked the beginning of its triumph on opera stages around the globe. Georges Bizet, however, did not live to witness the only world success of one of his works: debilitated, he had died shortly after its world premiere at the age of 36.

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Good content offers value to your customer, amplifies your company's voice in the marketplace, and positions your biz as the go-to expert.

Today's Tool: Use content as a tool to tell a compelling story and create an opportunity to lead customers to your business.

Every business has a story. It's up to you to tell it. As you craft a narrative that defines your brand and tells a compelling story to your customers, content is a powerful tool to help attract, retain and ultimately drive customers to take profitable action.

Content takes shape in many ways (articles, interviews, infographics or videos) and can be shared across many channels (social media, a blog, or email). Good content is about more than just advertising and selling your product or service. It's about reaching your customers with the right message, delivering it to them in the right place at the right time, and ultimately guiding them on a journey to the center of it all — your product.

Content that offers value, like relevant education, problem solving ideas and entertainment, can help you amplify your business' voice amidst competitors. And positioning your product or service at the center of your message makes you the go-to expert on that topic. It gives you a platform to answer the big questions your customers are asking: "What do you do?", "Who do you work with?", "Why do I need what you have?", and "Why is what you do the best?"

As you set out to curate your customer's experience with your brand, the content you put out into the world becomes the narrative that teaches your customer why and how to interact with your business. While operations are vital to run your business, your content is a key part of engaging your customers. Take time to tell your customer a story and guide them through an experience that will speak on your product's behalf.

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  1. Ideate: Start anywhere. What’s your story? What style of communication is most authentic to your biz? What do your customers need to know about? Where do your customers spend time online? What are content trends in your industry? Other industries? Eventually you’ll start to recognize patterns. Make note of them.
  2. Sort: Where do your ideas fit? Are they overarching concepts or do the fall into tactical specifics? Remember, not everything should be directly about your product or service. Give your readers the education/information/entertainment they’re looking for that may not seem directly related, but has a tie back to your business offering.
  3. Schedule: Get ready for accountability. Set deadlines, find tools, time-block. Map out when, where and how your content will go live.
  4. Create: Feeling inspired? Capture those moments. Stick to your plan and bring your ideas to fruition Write it down. Partner with a creative friend to make a video. Hop on Facebook Live. Snap an Insta-Story. Design that email campaign. Post the article that points to your product. This is where your ideas come to life and your story takes shape.
  5. Engage: It’s not enough to put it out into the world and let it sit. Post it on your social media pages and interact with commenters and readers. Encourage sharing. Don’t forget to make sure your current customer base is reminded about the new stuff

Remember This: If you give your customers valuable content they didn't even know they needed, and connect your offering to the solution they're looking for, they'll see what you do as invaluable to their own individual story.

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STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, FEB. 12, 2020.....Opponents of a proposed ballot question that would require vehicle manufacturers to allow repair shops to access digital information are running a "fear campaign" by alleging that the suggested law would create privacy risks, consultant and former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said Wednesday.

The proposal, which would update a 2013 law by mandating that vehicle owners and independent repair shops can access telematic data often held by manufacturers, has prompted significant debate about cybersecurity.

A coalition formed to oppose the idea argues that current law provides sufficient access to automobile diagnostic information and that expanding the statute would expose personal data to hackers. The group plans to spend half a million dollars on an advertising campaign calling for voters to oppose the ballot question.

Davis, who launched his own security firm after retiring from the Boston Police Department and is a paid consultant for the Right to Repair group pushing the ballot question, said at a legislative briefing that those claims are unfounded.

"I know a little bit about this business, and I also know a fear campaign," Davis said. "That's what we're seeing here. When I drive down Route 93 and I see billboards with menacing-looking people with hoodies on talking about your security — that's inappropriate for what we're having here."

"If I buy a car and I drive out of the dealership, I don't want to be bound by chains to that dealership," Davis continued. "I want to be able to do what I do with my own car. This prohibits that (binding) from happening."

Since the "right to repair" law was approved in 2012 and implemented in 2013, supporters say, technology has evolved and automobiles have increasingly included digital features. They hope the update will ensure that manufacturers cannot prevent outside shops from accessing important information about their customers' vehicles.

Proponents are hoping to use the initiative petition process to trigger either a legislative change or a November ballot question. They want to expand the existing law to guarantee consumer or independent business access to telematic information exempted in the 2013 statute.

"When we agreed to that (exemption) as the olive branch with the manufacturers back in the original generation of this bill, telematics was in its infancy. It is no longer," said Glenn Wilder, whose family has owned the Wilder Brothers tire and repair shop in Scituate for 112 years. "Cars we're using right now have it in there right now. My fear moving forward is there's real-time information manufacturers are collecting through telematics that are not being shared with the independent repairers."

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The Coalition for Safe and Secure Data, which opposes the ballot question, argued in response that existing law already allows access to diagnostic and repair telematic information and only exempts other information such as location data.

In a statement after Wednesday's briefing, CSSD spokesman Conor Yunits — whose group already launched its own advertising campaign — said "deep-pocketed groups have invested more than a million dollars into their misinformation campaign and indicated their clear intent to put this question in front of voters."

"So let’s be equally clear, remote access to driving habits and location in real-time is never necessary to diagnose or repair a vehicle," Yunits said. "Under this ill-conceived proposal, the personal data of Massachusetts drivers will be readily available to strangers, hackers, and criminals without any safeguards for protection. Our Coalition will continue to advocate for safe and secure data and work to defeat this dangerous ballot question."

Several speakers at the briefing hosted by right-to-repair reform supporters pushed back on allegations that opening up access to the information is dangerous. Brian Romansky, chief technology officer at Owl Cyber Defense, said the technology in question more securely manages credentials and rights than do most web platforms.

Retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Michael Brown, who previously served as director of cybersecurity coordination for the Department of Homeland Security and now works for Davis's company, agreed that the transmission of information can and must be done securely.

"The owner of the vehicle may want a certain part of the information, whereas, rightfully so, the manufacturer may not want to provide access to elements of its operating system, but from a repair standpoint, that information can and should be provided to independent users," Brown said. "You have control over how the information is accessed and you have control over who has access to that information."

Lawmakers have until May to act on the proposed "right-to-repair" update and other ballot questions for which supporters collected enough signatures. If the Legislature declines, campaigns can collect 13,374 signatures to force the question onto the November ballot.

The Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure grilled advocates from both sides of the issue in January.

Rep. Paul McMurtry, who hosted Wednesday's briefing and filed legislation mirroring the ballot question, told the News Service he is hopeful that fellow lawmakers will find consensus and avoid a statewide ballot question.

"I always feel better public policy is generated through the legislative process, so I'm going to remain optimistic that we're able to continue the conversation, like today's briefing, and educate my colleagues on this issue," he said. "I remain hopeful we can act on it before a ballot question is taken up."

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Child abandonment is when one relinquishes their claim or interest in their children with the intention being that they don't want to continue taking care of them.

Causes of abandoning children

One of the major causes of child abandonment seems to be poverty. People find that they are not financially capable of looking after their offspring and ultimately end up abandoning them. This act can vary from leaving the child/children with relatives to selling their offspring off, or even worse.

Teenage pregnancies are also a reason for child abandonment as the parent may feel that they are unprepared to raise a child. Financial stressors may also have a major role to play in this decision.

A parent looking after a child may be suffering from a mental health condition themselves, and they may be experiencing abnormal behaviours which result in them abandoning their child/children.

One or both parents may feel overwhelmed with their responsibilities and decide to abandon the family and, ultimately, their offspring.

Other reasons for abandoning children may include superficial issues such as the appearance of the child, the gender of the child or due to the child having physical or mental handicaps.

What is the effect of abandonment on children

Children who have been abandoned do get hurt due to this action being taken by their parent(s).

The impact that this decision has on them is psychological and can include the following emotions:

  • Shock and confusion- especially if the abandonment was sudden and/or unexpected.
  • Shame - the child may feel unworthy and/or unloved and can ultimately suffer from low self-esteem.
  • Guilty - they feel that they may have done something wrong to cause their parent(s) to leave them and that they are at fault.
  • Fear - they worry that they may bond with their new caregiver(s) and they may also end up abandoning them.
  • Grief - they feel sad over the situation and that they may never reunite with their parent(s). Any unresolved grief may carry over when they become adults and can manifest in anxiety or mood disorders such as depression.
These combined emotions can lead to increased stress on the involved child and may result in resentment, general mistrust and anger which tend to carry over into adulthood. This can lead to physical altercations and other negative behaviours such as substance abuse.

Gender-identity issues may also arise since a father and mother offer sons and daughters specific attributes while growing up. These include a father appreciating and affirming their daughter's femininity and a mother offering maternal moulding. A father needs to be an example to his son as he observes how a man behaves and how he treats women and other men.

Many reasons exist for parents abandoning their children and this can cause long-term effects which may need to be resolved with medication and/or psychotherapy. Any long-term psychological affects should be addressed as soon as possible.

It's very important that young children and adults who were abandoned as children remember that the decision taken by their parent(s) was not their fault and that they shouldn't blame themselves for the parent(s) actions.

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The University of Stirling is one of eleven leading universities in the UK to partner with Aviva in a new scholarship programme which aims to promote British education in Asia.

The Aviva Scholarship programme will assist outstanding students in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam to further their studies at a select number of UK universities.

Applications open in September 2017 alongside the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) process, and the first group of scholars is expected to matriculate in autumn 2018.

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Stirling has a thriving international student population.

The programme is open for Aviva customers in Asia and their children for the duration of all applicable undergraduate and graduate courses.

Professor Leigh Sparks, Deputy Principal for Internationalisation and Graduate Studies at the University of Stirling, said: “Stirling has a thriving international community and we are very proud of our strong partnerships with universities and businesses across Asia.

“This exciting and innovative programme from Aviva will attract qualified Asian students to Stirling and the rest of the UK, whilst promoting British education, culture and trade in Asia.

“We look forward to welcoming our first cohort of Aviva scholars next year. The students can expect a warm welcome, innovative teaching and a fantastic student experience at Stirling.”

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Chris Wei, Executive Chairman of Aviva Asia and Global Chairman of Aviva Digital, said: “As the UK’s leading insurer, Aviva is proud to have this exclusive opportunity to work with leading UK universities and strengthen ties between the UK and South East Asia.

"As someone who came to the UK to study and now works for Aviva, I’m really pleased that we’re able to offer students from Asia the opportunity to pursue new knowledge, skills and life experiences."

Jo Johnson, Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation said: “It is fantastic to see two world leading UK sectors – higher education and insurance – come together to create a dynamic partnership that will offer scholarships to the brightest and best students in Asia to enable them to study in the UK. This innovative, collaborative approach is another great example of my desire to continue to build bridges between the UK and the rest of the world.”

Students from overseas make up 20 per cent of Stirling’s 14,000-strong student body, with the University ranked first in Scotland for welcoming international students, according to the International Student Barometer (ISB) 2016.

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