July 26, 2019. One of
our graduates, Pascual
Ramos, wrote an article
“Psychological teaching
on division and phases
of stress help calm
down” (in Spanish), for the
newspaper La Información in
the Dominican Republic.
Summary: In the so-called
swing of life, the situations
that people naturally confront,
make the sufferings greater; as
the human body, experiences
physical and mental development,
so it assumes the passing
of the years; having to submit to strong family, work
and social pressures;
the product of material
demands, which must be
met, in order to achieve
emotional calmness; and
even spiritual.
You can access the article
through the following link:
http://www.lainformacion.
com.do/noticias/opinion/columnas/
14620/tranquiliza-ensenanza-
psicologica-sobre-division-yfases-
del-estres
Pascual Ramos completed
a Doctorate program in Psychology
at AIU.
August 20, 2019. We want ro
congratulate one of our graduates,
Ahmadou Sardouana,
who has been appointed new
Director General of the National
Real Estate Corporation,
SIC, in Cameroon.
He was appointed today
during an extra ordinary
board meeting of the National
Corporation that equally saw
Celestine Ketcha Courtes
appointed board chair of the
Public enterprise.
The 53 year old who hails
from the North region of Cameroon
is a holder of a PhD in
Civil Engineering obtained at
the Yaounde advanced school
of public works and another
PhD of Science in Project
Management from Atlantic
international university in
America.
He leaves the post of Secretary
General of the Ministry
of Housing and Urban Development
which he occupied
since 2012 to Director General
of the SIC.
He occupied the post of
Regional Delegate of the then
Ministry of Urban development
and housing in the North
region in 2005, the Far North in
2001 and Littoral in 2010.
He replaces Gabriel Bengono,
who spent 8years at the
head of the SIC.
July 16, 2019. One of
our graduates, Fabián
Salazar Sánchez, is
a lawyer by profession,
who has dedicated
his life to studies,
and lawyer of the Central
University of Ecuador. He
has obtained and served as
prosecutor in Ecuador becoming
provincial prosecutor in
Pichincha. Now, Fabián has
been appointed as Dean Director
of the Law Degree at the
University Indoamerica, who
puts himself at the forefront
to achieve solid results in the
faculty of Jurisprudence is yet a further example
of AIU’s growth as he
obtained his Doctorate
in Criminal Science.
Fabián Salazar
Sánchez completed a
Doctorate program in Legal
Studies at Atlantic International
University.
July 31, 2019. One of
our graduates, Abishu
Morke Barisso, has
published a book
titled, “El rostro desafiante
de la culpa,”
(The defiant face of
guilt) in More Books!.
You can read a summary of
the book below:
This document arises from
the need to describe guilt
from another scenario, freer
and bearable, as a reality that
emerges and accompanies the
human being in the learnings
of its constant transformation.
It describes different disciplines that
have investigated
the vicissitudes of
guilt and with them
the realities of two
cultures: Oromo
Tribe (East Africa)
and Mexican, being
referents and recourse to accompany
each other in the
same guilt; sometimes being a
bond or propitious of personal
growth; through stories told
in the different stages of life,
as possible generators and
transcendence of personality,
behaviors and ways of living
in the face of a world that was
given. Therefore “The defiant
face of guilt” is an incentive
for a proper conceptualization
of guilt, inviting to live shared,
that is, as a way of living
thrown into the world and in
the drama of existence itself.
You can find more information
about the book through
the following link:
https://www.morebooks.
de/store/it/book/el-rostrodesafiante-
de-la-culpa/
isbn/978-620-0-02083-3
Abishu Morke Barisso has
completed a Doctorate program
in Psychology at Atlantic
International University.
August 8, 2019. One
of our Academic
Advisors, Prof. Dr.
Andreas Georg
Rissler was recently
honored from his
other University
KSUSTA in Kyrgyzstan
Bishkek with a Dr. h.c. in
Psychology for his research
about Personality-ABC.
This is the personality assessment
system he developed over the last 11 years.
To know more,
visit www.thebehaviourprofiler.
com
(www.personalityabc.
com)
We are very proud
of you Prof. Dr.
Andreas Georg Rissler. You
are an asset to AIU and your
community, and we wish you
more success in your professional
projects.
August 18, 2019.
One of our graduates,
Ahmed Elimam,
had his paper titled,
“Neuro-Linguistic
Programming: A Cognitive
Communicative
Process to Hypnosis
Trance and Reframing in
Storytelling,” published in the
book “Studies in Linguistic &
English Education”.
Abstract: The Neuro Linguistic
Pattern, in contexts
and beyond storytelling, is
a representational system
aiming at broadening the narrative
knowledge towards a
constructive organized modeling.
This paper investigates
literature reviews and defines
reframing hypnosis when episodically negotiates
the conscious and
subconscious minds
as a communicative
approach, employing
signals to urge all
senses towards more
acceptability among
recipients. The paper finds
that the NLP analysis may be
used as an experiential approach
in storytelling, though
still under investigation.
The paper concludes that
a storytelling, via NLP, may
require a real conflict with
factual cues, or even circumstantial,
to create an environment
through convincing or
unconvincing melodrama. It
allocates a kind of study support
in recalling information to bring pen to paper.
You can find more information
about the book through
the following link:
https://advisor.aiu.edu/
submissions/profiles/UD-
7977HED14657/comms/783963_
ahmad-imam%20Published%20
AIU%20Paper%20PDF.pdf
Ahmed Elimam has completed
a Doctorate program in
Linguistics at Atlantic International
University.
August 18, 2019. One of our
graduates and Academic Advisor,
Leidy Dahiana Berroa
Mercedes, won second place
as a scientific researcher in
the country on the 1st Scientific
Research Contest created
in the Dominican Republic.
About 116 teachers took part,
national level, approaching a
problem that affects the educational
system.
Leidy Dahiana created a
low-cost interactive digital
whiteboard that would allow
technological advancement in
education, with the following
tools: 1 An infrared pencil 2 A
Nintendo Wii control 3 A
projector 4 A computer 5 The
Bluesolei program, with a
computer with bluetooth
6 The Smoothboard Air
program, for digital whiteboards
7. The Annotator
program, which is useful for
designs on digital whiteboards.
It was necessary to give
workshops to teachers and
students to train them in the
subject. The project was also
presented to other educational
centers, and from there
they began to address the
concerns of how to implement
them. So both the initial
center and other centers were
benefited, and the governor
of the city already committed
to provide one for the start
of the new school year in an
educational center.
Leidy Dahiana Berroa
Mercedes has completed a
Post-doctorate program in
Educational Research at AIU.
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Ahmed Elimam
Trunos Grison
David Ange Kana
Fairul Abdullah de Souza Philip Ignatius,
Introduction
This article describes the
lifesaving initiatives that have
been brought about to infants
that are born from HIV positive
mothers and they have also
seroconverted as positive. In
Malawi and around the Sub-
Saharan Africa there is still a
good number of infants that
are identified as HIV positive
through testing at 2 weeks. Malawi’s
Early Infant Diagnosis
(EID) program provides DNAPCR
testing to infants born to
HIV positive mothers, in order
to quickly diagnose and initiate
children who require anti-retroviral
therapy (ART). Without
ART, infants who acquire HIV
in the first months of life are
likely to die before reaching the
age of two years. Malawi began
its program in 2007, testing
1,507 children in the first year.
Since then, the program has
tested over 100,000 children
and provided diagnoses for
more than 40,000 children
in 2017 (EID SOP 2018). This
program has also helped early
identification of infants that
are positive and linking them
to care.
Background
Malawi is one of the countries
that has adopted the
UNAIDS 90-90-90 strategy.
This has also been stipulated
in the 2015-20 National Strategic
Plan for HIV and AIDS.
The initiative to be described
in this article, is tackling the
second 90 of the strategic
plan, thus making sure that
there is early identification
of positive infants as well as
linking them to care. Access to
life-prolonging ART treatment
is one of the primary goals in
early infant diagnosis of HIV
programs, as early diagnosis
and treatment initiation significantly
reduces morbidity
and mortality.
The issue of early infant
diagnosis tracking came
about because between Q4
2014–Q3 2015, 1,108 infants
who were identified as HIV+
via DNA-PCR in Malawi, 697
(63%) were not initiated on
ART. These HIV+ infants need
to be initiated on life-saving
ART immediately, as 50% of
HIV+ infants do not survive
past the first two years. Due
to long wait times for results to be delivered back to a facility
these children become lost
to follow up. There are a lot
of reasons that contributed
to these infants not initiated
on ART.
1. Long turnaround time;
results take a long time,
sometimes 4 months from
sample collection to result
delivery at facility.
2. Poor record keeping; healthcare
workers do not always
keep the sample registers up
to date.
3. Poor linkage to ART; there
is rarely active follow up by
health care workers to communicate
results and ensure
HIV positive infants are
initiated on ART.
4. Samples are sometimes lost
on the way to the lab and
results are lost on the way
back from the lab.
All these problems resulted to
some children dying before
results are delivered back to
the facility or communicated
to the caregiver.
Method
To address all the above
challenges, a system was
created to record all DBS (dry
blood spot) samples from
exposed infants, track results
and linkage to care of HIV+
infants. This system was set
up to complement the existing
system that is already in place.
The tracking system
involves health care workers
to send in an SMS (text
message) when they collect
a sample, or receive a result,
communicate the result to the
caregiver and when applicable
initiate HIV+ infant on
ART (anti-retroviral therapy).
The goal for the tracking
system is to report the status
of all infants who had a
sample collected, to confirm
the sample result delivered to
caregiver, to improve turnaround
time of sample results
and to initiate antiretroviral
therapy on all infants with
positive results.
How the system works
The health care worker at
the facility notifies the system
by sending SMS (text message)
that sample has been collected.
The next step is that the
sample is sent to the district
laboratory and is entered into
the system. Then the sample is
sent to the central lab where it
is run and results entered into
the system. When sample has
arrived at the central lab, the
health care worker is notified
through SMS that the sample
has arrived at the lab. When
the result is ready, the health
care worker receives SMS that
the result is ready and confirms
receipt. Lastly the health
care worker delivers result to
care giver and confirms ART
initiation (if the child is HIV
positive). All this is documented
in the patients HIV Clinic
Care card and all the registers
that are used. If the result
is HIV positive, the system
sends a reminder message to
the health worker to initiate
the infant on treatment. If the
infant has been initiated the
health care worker will send
a message to the system to
say the infant has been initiated
on care so that no more
reminders are sent. Figure 1
shows how the tracking system
works.
Conclusion
This tracking system has
not yet been rolled out to the
whole country but the initiative
proved to be very useful.
Health care workers really
liked the idea of reminders
being sent about positive results,
and results given to care
givers, this improved linkage
of infants to care and start
antiretroviral therapy. Follow
up of clients was easy and
sample tracking too. Facilities
could get feedback very
fast and results on time. The
other thing is that facilities
were able to know what is
happening to all the samples
throughout the whole process
until they receive a result. The
system improved documentation
as well, since throughout
the process everything was
recorded both in the system
and registers. As of now linkage
to antiretroviral therapy
has improved from 37% to
49%, there are other strategies
that are being considered to
improve the coverage to at
least 61%.
We hear about the world
and notice that people
refer to different concepts.
What about the world concept?
We live in a society that
uses more technology every
day; communications are made
in less time and the information
is more and more without
checking what they say.
We say that we live in the
knowledge society, in the
information society and in
globalized commerce and that
there is abundance.
Voices are heard that we
must have a global culture and
unique legislation.
What happens to us as human
beings living in a world
like the one we describe?
Nature is our source of life.
There is the social world because
we interact with others.
There is the world of
science.
There is the world of the
economy because we have to
know what income we have to
know how much we can spend
on the goods we need.
It is in the world of the
economy: health, housing and
education.
What do human beings do
with all those worlds in which
we have to live?
But there is more: world organizations
such as the World
Bank (WB) or The United
Nations Organization (UN),
in their reports have different
data. World wealth is owned
by only 10% of the population;
there are serious problems of
unemployment even in developed
countries.
Education is not what many
countries say they have because
the reports of the United
Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) have low rates of
schooling and also those who are supposed literate don’t
understand what they read:
they can't read; they are called
functional illiterates.
Hence the UNESCO Program
for Sustainable Development.
The United Nations Educational
and Scientific Organization
(UNESCO) was created at
the request of two of the UN
member countries following
the situation generated by
World War II. Those countries
were the United Kingdom and
France who convened a conference
that was held November
1 – 16, 1945.
After discussing projects
and proposals from countries
belonging to the UN, the
Conference determined the
creation of a United Nations
Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization whose
headquarters would be in
Paris. On November 16, 1945, in London, UNESCO was created.
The minutes attesting to
the foundation of the organization
were written in English
and French.
Among the articles of the
constitutive act is that being a
member of the United Nations
gives the right to belong to
UNESCO, in the same way that
members who are suspended
from the UN will be automatically
suspended from
UNESCO.
Educational, scientific and
cultural organizations may belong
to UNESCO at the request
of the Member States; Atlantic
International University (AIU)
belongs to the Organization
through UNESCO Clubs.
Today, UNESCO is working
for the well-being of world
society in the 2030 Sustainable
Development Agenda.
This program arises from the
70th UN General Assembly
that was held in New York in
September 2015.
The Objectives of the 2030
Sustainable Development
Agenda are:
1. End of poverty.
2. Zero hunger.
3. Health and well-being.
4. Quality education.
5. Gender equality.
6. Clean water and sanitation.
7. Affordable and non-polluting
energy.
8. Decent work and economic
growth.
9. Industry, innovation and
infrastructure.
10. Reduction of inequalities.
11. Sustainable cities and
communities.
12. Responsible production
and consumption.
13. Action for the weather.
14. Underwater life.
15. Life of terrestrial
ecosystems.
16. Peace, justice and solid
institutions.
17. Alliances to achieve the
objectives” UNESCO (2015)
What this Agenda demonstrates
is that the world is not
what those who market everything
tell us.
That is why we say in our
heading: “The world we bring
with us”.
What world is that we build in our minds?
With the misinformation
that
surrounds us and
the pressures of
reality that we do
not know: what
world is it we
bring?
With the world
of misinformation
we build our life.
Is it possible to
be happy like this?
It seems not.
What do we
have to do?
We have to
study and read
documents from reliable sources.
You have an online university,
Atlantic International University
(AIU) that allows you to
have a working life and study;
an educational institution that
belongs to UNESCO and at the
same time that you study you
know the world in which they
make us live and the world that
we all have to build
What world is it you bring?
Will you be happy in the
world they sell us? The answer
after reading this article is no.
What do you have to do?
You have to start building a
world in which you know reality
and build your well-being
and the others, which will also
be your well-being and therefore
your happiness now; as
we said in the number before
this document: you have to be
happy now; not to see when it
will be.
To be happy you have to
know, what world do you want
to bring?
Do we know the
world we bring, or
know the world that
they sell us?
It will depend on
you, what world do
you want to bring?
It will depend on
you, what world do
you want to live in?
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There’s an old saying, “You learn something every
day.” In my opinion, the best study tip of all study tips
is to study every day. Why would I say this? There are
6 reasons:
1. Studying every day shows your passion. You wake
up in the morning with questions that you want to
answer. Then you study to find the answer. Then
you go to sleep at night wondering about the deeper
knowledge that you gained. To be so present and inspired
by your search for knowledge shows passion.
2. At night, your brain assimilates new knowledge
while you sleep. So, if you study only one day a
week, your brain only has one night a week to assimilate
knowledge. Yet, even you study 5 minutes
every day, your brain is actually able to assimilate
more knowledge.
3. When your brain assimilates knowledge better,
you will be able to write your assignments faster
and easier, because your brain is better prepared to
express the knowledge and analyze the knowledge.
4. Gaining knowledge is like breathing and eating.
These are things that we do every day. Gaining
knowledge is part of the purpose of life. Ultimately,
we want to develop wisdom and understanding.
Knowledge is the basis of wisdom.
5. Studying gives you surprises. When you experience
new knowledge, it is a surprise that allows your consciousness
to open even more. Studying gives you a
gift every day.
6. Studying every day develops discipline, such that
you develop a strong control over your knowledge.
You remember the knowledge easier. If you only
study one day a week, it is easier for your brain to
forget the knowledge. Ultimately, you want control
over your knowledge and to remember it when you
need it.
Reading through these reasons, you can see strong
benefits to studying every day, even 5 minutes a day.
You know what to do now.
An “adulting" seminar for seniors
at a Kentucky high school has
been such a success that people can’t
stop talking about it. “The parents
didn’t know anything about it until
it started blowing up on the internet
and being on everyone’s social media,”
Christy Hardin, director of the Bullitt
Central High School Family Resource
and Youth Services Center, told TODAY
Parents. “(The response) has been
overwhelmingly positive.”
Hardin based the course, in part,
on a meme she saw that pokes fun at
what people learned in school, such
as algebra, when they wished they
learned how to prepare their taxes. “It
frustrated me a little bit because we
offer these classes, but it has to be an
elective path that they choose,” she
said. “(I thought), ‘Well, what can I do
about that?’” ...
The seniors could sign up for three
hour-long breakout sessions, which
included: Dorm-room cooking · How
to interact with the police · Healthy relationships
and boundaries · Personal
finance · Physical fitness after high
school · Writing a resume and cover
letter, filling out an application · When
you need to see a doctor and what
level of care you need (ER compared to
family doctor) · Basics of checking and
savings · Why it’s not worth the T-shirt
to fill out the credit card application ·
UPS on-the-spot hiring ...
According to Feeding America, an
estimated 1 in 8 Americans are
food insecure, that's roughly 40 million
Americans including more than 12 million
children. And yet at the same time,
40% of the food produced in American
goes uneaten, ending up in landfills.
In 2016, Jessica McClard of Fayetteville,
Arkansas found a brilliant way to
help the uneaten food get distributed
to those who are hungry. Inspired by
the Little Free Library movement, she
decided to create the Little Free Pantry
project based on the same premise.
Little Free Libraries are small boxes,
usually mounted on someone’s front
lawn, where neighbors can share
books, like the “need a penny, take a
penny” jar at a liquor store. ...
After McClard opened the first Little
Free Pantry, she received an “immediate
and overwhelmingly positive”
response from her community and
decided to spread the idea through the
Little Free Pantry Project.
“The LFP is about feeding people, yes.
But it's also about working together and
about choosing reciprocity, trust, and
grace over scarcity, mistrust, and judgment,”
McClard told World Hunger.
“Less obvious but no less profound is
the project's effect on stewards and
communities. It changes them.” ...
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A new sperm separation technique
may one day allow prospective
parents undergoing IVF to choose
whether they have a boy or a girl
before fertilisation takes place, researchers
say. Scientists in Japan have
reported a new method which allows
them to separate mouse sperm carrying
an X chromosome from those carrying
a Y chromosome, meaning that sperm
can be selected based on whether they
will result in female (XX) or male (XY)
offspring when used to fertilise an egg.
The researchers say they made their
discovery as part of a project to unpick
and understand the differences between
sperm carrying an X chromosome or a
Y chromosome, noting that the former
carries far more genes than the latter.
“This is first study to scientifically
[show] the functional differences, [ie]
fertilisation ability, between X-sperm
and Y-sperm,” said Masayuki Shimada,
co-author of the research from
Hiroshima University.
The scientists say their work could
also prove useful in agriculture. “In
a dairy farm, the value of a female
dairy cow is much higher than male,
because milk is only produced by female
cows,” said Shimada. “In the case
of beef meat production, the speed of
growing is much higher in males after
castration than females.”
While there are already existing
methods such as flow cytometry that
can be used to sort sperm, these are
based on the ...
The three architects of supergravity
are getting some high-profile recognition,
more than four decades after
they developed the influential theory.
Sergio Ferrara, Daniel Freedman
and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen will
receive a $3 million Special Breakthrough
Prize in Fundamental Physics
for their formulation of supergravity in
1976, Breakthrough Prize representatives
announced today (Aug. 6).
“The discovery of supergravity was
the beginning of including quantum
variables in describing the dynamics
of spacetime,” selection committee
chairman Edward Witten, a theoretical
physicist at the Institute for
Advanced Study in Princeton, New
Jersey, said in a statement. “It is quite
striking that Einstein’s equations
admit the generalization that we know
as supergravity.” ...
The trio’s supergravity work began
in 1975, with discussions between Ferrara
and Freedman at the École Normale
Supérieure in Paris. These two
soon brought in van Nieuwenhuizen,
who was already working on quantum
gravity at Stony Brook University in
New York.
Together, the three devised a supersymmetry
theory that included
the gravitino, the supersymmetric
partner of the graviton, which is the
hypothetical boson that mediates the
gravitational force. ...
Japanese underwater photographer
Ryo Minemizu
has dedicated his 20-year
career to capturing some of the
smallest organisms in the sea
—plankton. Shooting primarily
in the shadow of Mount Fuji
in the Osezaki sea and off the
Okinawa coast, Minemizu goes
deep underwater to discover
the beauty and diversity of
these microscopic creatures.
His dedication sees him
spending two to eight hours
underwater every day, where
he sets about photographing
these tiny organisms. As they
typically measure between 2
mm and 40 mm, Minemizu has
had to develop special techniques
to achieve his incredible
photographs. Through trial and
error, Minemizu developed
the Black Water Dive, a night
dive with underwater lighting
to bring out the best of larval
plankton.
“Plankton are intriguing
and beautiful creatures. They
symbolize how precious life
is by their tiny existence,” the
photographer writes. ...
Industrial designer Kim Ramain-
Colomb’s brightly packaged Habibi
cosmetics range is based on traditional
Moroccan makeup.
Created as part of Ramain-Colomb’s
diploma project at ECAL, the makeup
is held in small poured clay pots –
which resemble the tiny terracotta
bowls that hold Berber lipstick. The
designer referred to typical swiping
gestures used on smartphones to create
paper sleeves that wrap around
the terracotta. The packaging features
simple embossed geometric shapes
and colours that depict the product it
contains. ...
A team in Sweden claims to have
uncovered an intricate network of
cells underneath skin that helps process
certain kinds of pain. The find could
broaden our conceptions of how we feel
pain, as well as how to relieve it.
Typically, it’s thought that we perceive
harmful sensations on our skin
entirely through the very sensitive
endings of certain nerve cells. These
nerve cells aren’t coated by a protective
layer of myelin, as other types are.
Nerve cells are kept alive by and connected
to other cells called glia; outside
of the central nervous system, one of
the two major types of glia are called
Schwann cells.
The authors of the new study, published
Thursday (August 14) in Science,
say they were studying these helper
cells near the skin’s surface in the lab
when they came across something
strange —some of the Schwann cells
seemed to form an extensive “meshlike
network” with their nerve cells,
differently than how they interact with
nerve cells elsewhere. When they ran
further experiments with mice, they
found evidence that these Schwann
cells play a direct, added role in pain
perception, or nociception.
One experiment, for instance, involved
breeding mice with these cells in
their paws that could be activated when
the mice were exposed to light. Once
the light came on, the mice seemed to
behave like they were in pain, such as
by licking themselves or ...
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Changes in breathing —for example,
breathing at different
paces or paying careful attention to the
breaths— were shown to engage different
parts of the brain.
Humans’ ability to control and
regulate their brain is unique ... These
abilities are not trivial, nor do humans
share them with many animals.
Breathing is similar: animals do not alter
their breathing speed volitionally...
Given that many therapies —Cognitive
Behavioral Therapy, trauma therapy,
or various types of spiritual exercises—
involve focusing and regulating
breathing, does controlling inhaling
and exhaling have any profound effect
on behavior?
A recent study finally answers these
questions by showing that volitionally
controlling our respirational, even
merely focusing on one’s breathing,
yield additional access and synchrony
between brain areas. This understanding
may lead to greater control, focus,
calmness, and emotional control. ...
The findings provide neural support
for advice individuals have been given
for millennia: during times of stress,
or when heightened concentration is
needed, focusing on one’s breathing or
doing breathing exercises can indeed
change the brain. ...
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Jamie Margolin, 17, is a Colombian-American
writer ... who founded Zero Hour, an international
youth climate justice movement. If you were watching a movie, and all
of the characters in it knew there were
only 10 years left to save the world, but
they continued going on with their lives
as if nothing was happening you would
yell at the screen right? I would.
We on planet Earth are living out that
movie. Climate change and environmental
destruction are quite literally ending
the world –and the United Nations has
made it crystal clear through years of extensive
scientific research that we have a
maximum of 10 years left in order to turn
the tides on the climate crisis and save
humanity and every creature we share
this once-blue earth with. ...
... It is not fair to my entire generation
that we are inheriting this monstrosity
of a problem. It’s hard enough
trying to grow up and live your life...
That’s why I, along with 12 other
young people ... recently sued the state
of Washington. Why? Because the
whole state government is screwing
over my generation. Washington
state’s elected officials love to talk
about solving the climate crisis, but
then turn around and issue permits for
fossil fuel plants that poison communities,
and destroy ecosystems, water,
air and land that my generation and
future generations need to survive. ...
Last month, A young transgender
woman from Central America
applied for asylum in the US. Unlike
thousands of others requesting asylum
at the US-Mexico border, this person
was especially fortunate. She had her
birth certificate as well as a lawyer to
represent her. She presented herself to
Customs and Border Protection officers
in San Ysidro, California, ... and was
put in detention, and eventually into
protective custody. While detained, she
turned over all her belongings to the
border patrol. But when it came time to
file the asylum paperwork, the woman's
birth certificate was gone. “We run
into these issues literally all the time,”
says Allegra Love, an immigration attorney
who is representing the woman
and who says CBP officials couldn’t
produce the document when her firm
requested it. ...
A study by the American Immigration
Council, a nonprofit group that
advocates for immigrants, found that
40 percent of migrants who were detained
in 2016 didn’t get back some or
all of their belongings even after they
were released. But the transgender
woman was prepared. Before crossing
the border, she visited a legal clinic in
Tijuana run by immigrant rights group
Al Otro Lado. While there, she uploaded
her birth certificate to a secure
cloud-based digital locker. Her lawyers
only had to request a copy. ...
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From the 1st of July through November
15, 80,000 Cape fur pups,
still dependent on the teat, are beaten
to death with pick handles for their
fur pelts. A further 6,000 adult bull
seals are shot at point blank range so
that their penises can be used to make
ineffective sex potions for the Asian
markets, thus fueling an illegal trade in
animal body parts for fake medicines.
Each year, despite massive international
criticism, flawed science,
mounting public outcry, and warnings
from the IUCN, the quota gets
increased. For 139 days, terrified
pups are rounded up, separated from
their mothers and violently beaten to
death. The colony are rounded up at
daybreak. Pups, bulls, and cows are
surrounded and kept away from the safety of the sea. Men with clubs move
in and the seals run in fear.
To kill the animal, the men need to
administer a swift blow to the head.
...This initial strike is seldom sufficient
to kill the animal and, as it tries to take
evasive action, it is repeatedly beaten
until it is either dead or unconscious.
The sealer then stabs the little ones in
the throat, sometimes while they are
still alive. The baby seals are known
to become so terrified that they will
vomit their mother’s milk. ...
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This bobbing and
smiling figurine comes to you straight
from Denmark with only one goal:
bringing you cheer. Designed by Gustav
Ehrenreich. store.moma.org
With its uniquely vertical design, the
tape dispenser makes a striking architectonic
statement. Mint, light gray, or
warm yellow. store.moma.org
Modeled after two of the artist Yayoi Kusama’s most
famous works, one Kusama Snowglobe features Kusama’s distinctive pumpkin surrounded
by gold glitter, and the other, a likeness of the artist with reflective spheres
that move in waves—a reference to her Narcissus Garden project. store.moma.org
“There is no such thing as life hacks
cheap food. The real cost
of food is paid somewhere.
And if it isn’t paid
at the cash register, it’s
charged to the environment
or to the public
purse in the for of subsidies.
And it’s charged to
your health.”
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