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We have been sent these screenshots from a Facebook group of teachers unofficially affiliated with a major union.

We are disturbed to see this misinformation and lack of understanding of safeguarding being circulated.

We agree that it is important for school staff to be mindful of any trans-identified student in their care, suffering from mental distress (or any students experiencing mental distress for whatever reason).

We understand that the #KeiraBell case will have caused distress to some, especially given the dangerous narrative being irresponsibly pushed that this will make children suicidal and was an attack on their rights, not an action to safeguard and protect them.

The opening paragraph displays bias and a lack of knowledge of latest scientific discussions.
This latest critique casts serious doubts on ‘affirmation’ and “Puberty blockers” being in children’s best

There have been many calls for reviews. The review headed by @Hilary_Cass is finally getting underway. We are awaiting to see what is revealed, particularly in regards to the causes of the exponential rise of young girls wishing to identify as boys.

At the risk of crapping on Star Trek: The Motion Picture before it's 40th anniversary, I really think I've figured out why that movie is kind of plodding.

Don't get me wrong, I love the movie. It's my favorite cause it's the closest the movies have gotten to Pulp SciFi.

But it really is slow, lacks character moments and just goes on and on. Robert Wise's Director's Cut does fix things in the case of speeding the movie up, but it's still lacking in a lot of action or character moments.

Ever since I got my hands on the first draft of the movie written by Harold Livingston back when it was a two hour TV pilot, I tried to figure out where everything went wrong.

The pilot is actually really good, has a lot of action, a few nice nice character moments and really moves. The only real flaw is the ending, where V'Ger learns humans created it and it literally just turns and leaves.

How did it go so wrong?

I think it was the "Writer's War" between Harold Livingston and Gene Roddenberry.

I got several other drafts of the movie, including the second draft by Gene Roddenberry. Roddenberry's second draft actually added in a lot more character moments.

This is from 1995 and is an ODI working paper, its insightful because it still references the impact of the SAPs on the rural economic ecosystem https://t.co/tSQo281qVW However, I have an issue with the mindset revealed by the author's framing and evaluation.

Savings is a complicated subject among the informal economic ecosystem's actors, and I want to discuss it further here. Even the formal first world economy is conflicted about savings. Note that its considered valuable for devt here in this snippet.

Yet, until the year 2020 and its pandemic shock to the whole system, the dominant narrative of economic growth relied on consumption, which in turn was a mindset that decried the massive savings seen among consumers in emerging markets like India & China.

The real blockage, it seems to me, is that the informal ecosystem's value flows (disaggregated into goods, services, people, info & knowledge, currency or value equivalent) are air-gapped from teh formal economy's money. The two ecosystems are not well integrated enough for flow

Coming back to the thorny issue of savings in the context of the informal economic ecosystem - the volatile economic ecosystem to be honest, which these days is creeping into the margins of the allegedly formal system etc. there is an inherent conflict between two "systems" here

Statement from the #JusticeForShukriAbdi Campaign

The Coroner released her verdict of accidental death brings to a close a painful chapter for the family, one which has been made even more painful due to the failure of all the institutions that were meant to protect Shukri.

17 months ago,this campaign was created in the wake of the tragic death of Shukri. Since then her mother Zamzam &her family have faced what can only be described as a never-ending nightmare as she demanded answers & the truth of her beloved daughter's last moments on this earth

This vulnerable refugee mother, whose daughter was taken from her in dubious  circumstances, was left in limbo with unanswered questions and her own trauma to deal with all the while trying to support her other children come to terms with what had happened to their older sister

Her family protected her the moment she stepped onto UK soil, but sadly those authorities who should have protected Shukri Abdi, categorically and without question, failed her.  The facts are now firmly out there for the world to see that this was not merely a 'tragic accident'.

This campaign was set up to protect & provide support for the family, & to fight alongside the legal team to ensure that the truth of Shukri's death was exposed, & to ensure that no family ever has to experience the obstacles this mother had to face to simply get to the truth

$NOVN DD Thread (1)

Title: A fundamental analysis covering the most important and valuable information about the recently published 10-Q report of Novan Inc. An in-depth discussion on certain formulations and developments in the area of equity financing and investor interest.

$NOVN Disclosure: This thread is based on in-depth research. In this context, all of the formulations used herein in relation to the quarterly report are backed up by facts. Only thoughts going beyond this are to be regarded as highly speculative. No Investment Advice.

I. Summary of the financial overview

Let‘s start with a look at some numbers on the balance sheet: Total current assets have been increased significantly compared to December 31, 2019. With cash and cash equivalents in the amount of $43,072M we can see that $NOVN...

...has successfully raised capital through different financial options. (I‘ll go into this in more detail in the next chapter.)
In its consolidated financial statements, $NOVN clarifies how this initial financial situation will affect future operating business.

This statement indirectly suggests that the next phase of growth will be dedicated to investors and shareholders. It can be said in support that the term "increasing / maximizing shareholder value" has been used more frequently in recent weeks. $NOVN

4 December 2020 #MAGAanalysis #RestoreTheConstitution

Correcting A Monstrous Crime Against Our Country

My friend and legal mentor @shestokas provided this article and spent a bit of time with me speaking about

2) Dave told me that it's author, Publius Huldah, is one of his most trusted and respected authorities on all things constitutional. He encouraged me to go slowly with the article, contemplating each point carefully. That's what we're going to do together, here.

3) What's more, we're going to be build our Constitution reading skills while we're at it. As I started studying, I realized that I have never grown comfortable with the Constitution's format, in reading it. I get it, but I've not spent much time doing it.

4) Great news! The Internet makes it SO much easier than you might imagine. At this link, you can easily navigate to any section Publius Huldah (PH) guides us to. You'll also see, we really need to read it in context. Check this

5) Our story begins with Article IV, Section 4., with a clear statement of powers, responsibilities, and hierarchy of holding elections. If we're going to address this monstrous crime, we need to know exactly what the crime is, and who committed it. PH points us straight there.

1. Ok, I'm liking @RepSeanMaloney

"I sure as hell didn't win 5 Xs as a gay guy in a Trump district"

Much more imp he just correctly pointed out that even liberal MSNBC gives the GOP a major assist by constantly talking about Defund the Police, socialism, & intraparty fighting

2. and @JoeNBC is right, in my "modernized moderates" plan, you have to have these candidates go on offense. Its CRAZY that @SpanbergerVA07 is defending her record as a moderate when she's running against an ideologue in Nick Freitas.

If you ask the wrong questions & ask them

3. the wrong way, the evidence & data will screw you. Such as it did in 2020 because there is no reality in which Dem congressional/senate candidates were well-served by pulling out all their registration and in-person voter contact while the GOP was doing it. It was a bold

4. decision that someone, looking at the weak or inconsistent findings of research on effects of GOTV and esp the diff between in-person and "remote" forms and decided "you know, there is likely no diff from in-person and remote & in fact, remote you can contact WAY more people."

5. And the fact is, maybe this is right. Maybe the Ds total bomb on the congressional map has nothing to do with the decision to suspend the field programs of the House & Senate campaigns. Maybe. I'll be interested in the analysis when the voter file is updated I'll be looking at

Looking or thinking to change career path?

Come on in. Let’s discuss ways you can strategically do this.

Find a seat and make yourself comfortable.

Thanks for joining in today. As many know, I started off as a Graphic Designer in Lagos on a N30K/month pay.

Today, I am a Senior BOA in one of Canada’s Big 5.

On another day, I'll give details of what prompted the change, why I changed & how I navigated the path.

Today, I'd be putting you through this 6-Step strategy to help with your career change journey.

Also, if you have questions at any point, you can indicate. I'd find time to answer.

1. WHERE ARE YOU NOW?
(Evaluate Yourself & Your Situation)

It is important to assess yourself in the most honest way before making any decision or allowing your emotions to guide you.

You must understand that making a career change requires commitment & sacrifice.

Things will change, so are you up for it?

Evaluating means asking honest questions like:

-Why am I seeking a change?
-Will I be happier?
-Is the workload at my present job stressing me?
-Do I just need more money?
-Is a new career the answer or another job in the same field?

Happy #JobsDay. 8:30 ET @BLS_gov delivers the most-important signals abt how economy is changing.

Forecasts' center:
+432,000 jobs
6.8% unemployment, tick down from 6.9%

But lots of reason to expect weaker jobs growth.

+245K jobs gained last month (mid-Oct to mid-Nov).

Small +11K revisions of last 2 months.

This continues the deceleration of job growth we seen steadily for months.

We are down 9.8 million jobs since Feb and growth is decelerating, likely to turn negative over the current month.

For comparison, during the Great Recession, we lost fewer than 9 million jobs.

We lost 9.19 million jobs over the last 12 months.

We gained 245K last month (0.2 million). This is half the growth rate over the last 3 months and an eight of the growth rate over the last 6 months.

Deceleration is clear.

Payrolls in November rose a mere +245k. That's the sort of number you might see in a "normal" month, and definitely not what you're hoping for in the snapback from a covid-induced shutdown.

THE RECOVERY IS STALLING.

Remember, the economy lost 22 million jobs, then gained roughly half of them back.

We still have 10 million fewer jobs than we did in February. Clawing the rest back at +245k per month will take basically forever. If this is the second half of the recovery, it's going to be grim

The dramatic ups and downs of recent months might hide the real story here: The economy is in a deep hole -- as deep as in the darkest days following the financial crisis -- and the recovery is faltering. Barely there. Making no progress. Stalled. Stopped.

The proximate causes of our slowing economy are obvious:
The virus is back, which hobbles the service sector, and stimulus has basically petered out, leaving the economy with little help. It doesn't have to be this way.

The household survey suggests that employment actually declined (by -74k) last month. So the fall in unemployment from 6.9% to 6.7% largely reflect the fact that an additional 400k people dropped out of the labor force.

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BHAKTI MARG ACCORDING TO SHIVAPURAN

There Nothing is more pleasurable than the Path of Bhakti in all the Loka's and in all the four Yuga, whoever dives in this sacred ocean of Ishwara's Bhakti , can definitely attain Mokshā and get relief from BhavaSagara ,

it is more pleasing in the Kali Yuga as compared to others., The reason is the lack of both knowledge and disinterest in humans.

Bhakti is the only path through which we can connect with Ishwara and whoever become hurdle in Ishwara's Devotees with bad intentions he is always

punishable by Ishwara.

The Bhakti which is inspired by Shashtra's and is surrendered to Ishwara by heart selflessly , considered to be श्रेष्ठ , and which is full of Selfishness is always called निम्नकोटी भक्ति .

Both these types of devotion are of two types in terms of नैष्ठि and अनैष्ठि

- there are 6 types of नैष्ठि and
- 1 of अनैष्ठि

There are mainly two types of devotion -

1) सगुण
2) निर्गुण

The nine parts of both Nirguna and Saguna have been described, which is something like this -

● श्रवण - Hearing the Lord's Kirtan by drowning in devotion.

● कीर्तन - Performing bhajan with pure devotion by singing the glory of the Lord.

Yograj Singh father of Yuvraj Singh made some blasphemous comments on Hindu Community.

Here are some of them:
"Inki Aurate Take-Take ke Bhaw Bikti thi"
"Humne inki aurato ko bachaya"
"Ye Hindu Gaddar Hai, 1000 saal mughalo ki ghulami ki"
"Don't trust Gujaratis like Modi & Shah--

they will lie even after swearing by their mothers"
"In Hinduo ne Guruo ke saath Gaddari ki"

That's how an average Khalisi thinks, why? Because of over compensation and appeasement by RWers.

Now Fact Check:
1. Sawai Jai Singh & Ram Singh saved Guru Tegbahadur from Aurangzeb.

2. Sawai Jai Singh supported Tegbahadur to be the head of Sikhs, otherwise sikh groups themselves were against him.
3. Most ferocious fighter of Sikhs Banda Vairagi was a Hindu Rajput of Jammu.

4. Bangla Sahab Gurudwara was a gift of Sawai Jai Singh to Sikhs, they don't have 1 photo of Jai Singh there but have proudly put pictures of Bhindrawale.
5. Ramgarh, raipur rani, Chamba, Raikot are places where Sikhs got protection from Mughals, all were Hindu Rajput ruled.

6. Sikhs didn't know how to fight, Rajputs turned a religious movement into a warrior community, some of them are: Rajputs like Bajjar Rathore, Madan Singh Rathore, Rao Jaita Rao Sigara etc.
7. 18,500 acres of land was given to Sikhs at Nankana Saheb by Rao Bullar Bhatti.

Needs do not matter. History is full of thinkers falling into the trap of referring to needs as were they something real and distinct. But by referring to what people "need," you're really using rhetoric without substance. You are creating the illusion that your claims are

objective, whereas they are not. To put it differently, it sounds smart but isn't. Economists recognized this fact in the early 1870s, which caused a revolution in the study of economics. Until then, they had, like everybody else, been trapped by thinking of people's needs in the

objective meaning that the term seems to imply. But there is nothing objective about it, and even if there were--it would still be irrelevant. So referring to "need" in your argument is akin to the trade of stage magicians: what you're doing looks impressive, but it's not. When

we think of a need, we think of something fundamental, basic, and necessary--without it, we could not survive. So our "needs" include food, shelter, and clothing, all those "life's necessities" without which we could not go on. A want, in contrast, is ephemeral, volatile,

unnecessary (in the strict sense), and could be (often is?) based only in the whims of whoever expresses it. But there are two fundamental problems with using the seemingly much more important concept of "need" when trying to explain or understand the world. Because it is, in a

SEX, DRUGS & SANTA CLAUS

It's Friday, March 278th, 2020, and this is the longest thread we've ever written. Let that sink in.

So, we need to talk about how we're going to spend our holidays. Before we get into it, let's pause to appreciate being able to have this talk. (1/13)

We should be proud of our efforts that got us here. But we must stay the course. The winds can quickly change if we let our guard down.

We'll still celebrate the holidays...no one is taking that away from us. It'll just be different than normal. So let's chat about that. (2/13)

You've likely heard the term 'harm reduction' before. It's a pillar of public health based on reducing harms while still respecting autonomy. Evidence shows that just telling people to avoid certain things can be futile, so this approach guides you on being safer about it. (3/13)

Yes, when things are really bad, stronger methods are needed (i.e. lockdowns), but we're not there now.

So, why not say DO NOT GATHER WITH ANYONE & be done with it? Because experience tells us it doesn't work. Look at the ill-fated "Just Say No!" campaigns of the 80s-90s. (4/13)

Or go watch Reefer Madness. It's...it's a thing.

In our approaches to sexual health or substance use, our goal isn’t to simply tell you not to do something and then call it a day. It’s to provide you with the best information available so that you can make safer choices. (5/13)

Im the quintessential middle-class man of this country!
1. I pay my taxes even when I see influential people avoid it
2. I follow all the rules even when I see influential people break/bend it
3. I pay my EMIs even when I see scamsters and frauds willingly default..

4. I turn-up and vote even when people sell their votes for cash
5. I give up my subsidy cos a leader asks me to give it up even when the majority lives off it
6. I stand in traffic blocks in sweltering heat as VIPs pass me by
I'm the all singing all dancing doll of this country

So,hear me out!
1.I buy movie tickets only for entertainment & all you moviestars are nothing without me, so know your place & don't pontificate
2.I pay taxes so that the govt can subsidize a few people and I get good services so without my taxes people who avail subsidies are..

Nothing.. this includes farmers, so know your place and don't pontificate
3. I watch cricket for entertainment so all you asshole cricketers know your place, with your fancy wives, cars and houses, and don't pontificate
4. All you politicians i elect you.. do you job and don't..

Pontificate!
5. All you NGOs i don't even care if you exist or don't so don't even think about pontificating
6. I dont give a rats backside about environment etc. I want what someone in a "developed" nation has, so "environmentalists" don't pontificate

refuse the assumption that risk & harm associated w data practices can be bounded to mean same thing for everyone, everywhere, at every time; acknowledge how historical & systemic patterns of violence & exploitation produce differential vulnerabilities

refuse to be disciplined by data, devices & practices that seek to shape & normalize racialized, gendered & differently-abled bodies that track, monitor & surveil; commit to taking back control over the ways we behave, live, and engage with data and its technologies.

3. We refuse the use of data about people in perpetuity. We commit to embracing agency and working with intentionality, preparing bodies or corpuses of data to be laid to rest when they are not being used in service to the people about whom they were created.

refuse to understand data as disembodied & thereby dehumanized & departicularized; commit to understanding data as always & variously attached to bodies; vow to interrogate biopolitical implications of data w keen eye to all forms of embodied difference

Data can - and should always - resist reduction. Data is a thing, a process, and a relationship we make and put to use. We can make it and use it differently.

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6TH (😱😱) ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER
FRIDAY, 12/04/2020
ALL-DAY THREAD
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We have a few new people here since our December 2019 event, so let's start things off with some background 😬

Waaaayyy back in 2015 – seriously, how many decades ago was that?? – I teamed up with local schoolteacher Turquoise Parker (@PrkrsProfessors) to help her out with a problem

Turq taught at Eastway Elementary, which was just a couple blocks from my law office

Eastway is also one of the poorest schools in Durham (including, for example, having a few homeless shelters whose kids it serves)

And all the schools shut down for several weeks each December

Y'all know how much kids like to eat

So Turq was worried their parents wouldn't have the means to keep them feed over the winter break, and we decided to run a food drive to help her class