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Before becoming an expert witness in child abuse cases, Dr. David Ayoub argued that immunization amounts to genocide in the Third World. When it comes to population control via sterilization, he once compared the cost of vaccines to the cost of wars, which are messier and more expensive. "They run toward these bullets, so it's ideal," he said in a 2005 speech, according to the magazine.
Thirteen years later, Ayoub, who blames rickets as opposed to violence for broken bones, downplays his criticism of immunization, saying he was concerned about mercury in vaccines and that those levels have been reduced and so his work is done. "I don't talk about that anymore," he says.
His views on vaccines, Ayoub says, have nothing to do with his takes on child abuse. Mainstream experts have derided criticism of vaccines as junk science that puts people at risk. Ayoub won't say whether he believes that vaccines, on balance, do more harm than good. "In order to have an opinion, I have to dig really deep," Ayoub says. "I know what the popular opinion is."
When it comes to child abuse, the New Yorker article portrays Ayoub as pushing against a wall of other experts, blaming rickets, time and again, for fractures in infants that have led to charges against caregivers. He's testified in 80 or so trials, including a few proceedings in Europe and England, and authored reports in, he estimates, 200 other cases. He doesn't charge for his services. Billing, he says, involves a lot of paperwork, and so he doesn't bother. He also says that he's taking on fewer cases these days, but still gets as many as 10 queries a week from lawyers. "I turn down – even when I was doing more – I turn down the vast majority of cases," he says. "I've got too many cases." He says the defense prevails in about half of the criminal cases in which he testifies.
Not everyone is impressed.
"In every case in which he has written a report, he has expressed the opinion that the child in question suffered from a metabolic bone disease," a British judge wrote in January. "In a television interview given in about 2010, he said this: 'I've not seen any high-risk family. I don't believe any case of fractures I've seen has been the result of real physical child abuse, that it's metabolic.'"
The judge wrote that Ayoub doesn't have sufficient expertise to offer opinions in court, and he criticized the doctor as an advocate with entrenched positions as opposed to an objective expert. "(H)is approach is shot through with the dogma that child abuse is over-diagnosed," the judge wrote.
Memorial Medical Center, where Ayoub has privileges, notes that the doctor is not an employee and says that it wasn't aware of Ayoub's work as an expert witness before the New Yorker published its story last week. "Memorial does not share his views," Memorial spokesman Michael Leathers wrote in an email.
In a 2016 case tried in Maryland, Ayoub testified that a six-month-old girl who died three days after being taken to an emergency room with broken ribs, a fractured leg, a broken arm, bruises on her face, bleeding in her eyes and a brain injury had suffered from rickets. The jury couldn't agree on a verdict after hearing Ayoub testify. The doctor didn't take the stand in a second trial, and the daycare operator charged in the death was convicted and sentenced to 50 years, the New Yorker reported.
Ayoub blames bruises in the Maryland case on disseminated intravascular coagulation, a blood condition unrelated to violence. The bleeding eyes and brain injury, he says, also could have been natural ailments. The dead girl, he says, showed no bruising or internal injuries in extremities or on her torso that would be expected if she'd been beaten, although he also acknowledges that he isn't a bruise expert.
Contrary to what the New Yorker published and what others say, Ayoub says that rickets isn't a rare condition in infants. Rather, he says, it's commonplace, and doctors going back nearly a century ago knew it. That's why, he says, mothers once were counseled to dose babies with cod liver oil, which is rich in bone-strengthening Vitamin D, and put infants in the sun for an hour or more each day to help kids absorb the critical vitamin that staves off rickets. "Rickets has been removed from the textbooks," he says.
An overlooked epidemic of rickets, Ayoub says, has broken out due to lack of awareness and preventative measures. Most cases are mild, undiagnosed and self-correcting, he says, but a small percentage are severe enough that even routine handling of a baby can result in fractures. In a recent Florida case, Ayoub testified that an infant who suffered fractures to an arm, a shin bone and a thigh bone likely was injured while being held down for immunizations at a doctor's office. Two experts who disputed Ayoub's analysis pointed out that the child, who had more than a dozen fractures, suffered not a single broken bone after being separated from his accused abuser, according to the New Yorker story.
Ayoub says the sheer number of fractures in the Florida case and others, without corresponding bruises or injuries to internal organs, supports his view that rickets, not violence, is the cause. He says a patient run over by a car typically sustains six factures, and so dozens of fractures sustained by a baby often can't be explained by abuse.
Ayoub dismisses criticism that he hasn't been trained in pediatric radiology and that he doesn't routinely see infants in his practice. Not being an pediatric radiologist, he says, allows him to look at cases with fresh eyes. "I'm not a pediatric radiologist," he says. "I didn't drink the Kool-Aid."
Political correctness, Ayoub says, explains why he's being attacked. Judges, he said, tend to be former prosecutors. As such, they've been part of a system that's unfairly put wrongly accused child abusers in jail and are reluctant to reconsider mindsets. He also says that he didn't intend on becoming controversial when he first agreed to look at a case involving fractures to an infant when a colleague asked for help a decade ago.
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Henk Wildschut's (NL, 1967) work is characterized by a contemplative and often distant view on the people and situations he photographs which lends a balance and monumental quality to his photographs that incite the viewer to further reflect on the subject. In 2005 Wildschut started a long-term project around European illegal immigration. When visiting several refugee camps across the world, Wildschut was surprised by the need for domesticity. Small gardens were created around the tents and these gardens turned out to be a universal phenomenon. This changed his view on refugees entirely.


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In 'Circumstance,' teens challenge Iranian norms
Filmmaker Maryam Keshavarz's name is instantly recognizable as Iranian. Her accent? Totally New York-New Jersey, where Keshavarz was born and raised. Keshavarz, though, would often return to Iran - she attended school there in the second grade, and also went there for graduate school - so her formative years were split between a country in the midst of religious rule and one that gave her the freedom to be whatever she wanted. This dual experience ultimately fueled the themes that anchor "Circumstance," her drama about two 16-year-old girls who test the limits of Iran's social norms.
In public, the girls, Atafeh and Shireen, behave one way. In private, they attend parties full of drugs and wild music, and they orchestrate quiet moments of sexual exploration - often with each other. Iran's underground youth scene takes center stage in "Circumstance," but so do the dynamics of family life where some parents help their children avoid scrutiny from authorities. Keshavarz's debut feature, Audience Award winner at this year's Sundance Film Festival, opens Friday in Bay Area theaters.
"When you grow up in America, you're always taught that there's right and wrong - and to never lie - and that these are the rules and you follow them," says Keshavarz, who's 35.
"Most of my family lives in Iran, and they would teach their kids to lie, to protect them. Because, especially during the Iran-Iraq war (from 1980 to 1988), government authorities would ask kids, 'Do your parents pray?' 'Do they have alcohol in the house?' Kids were inadvertently turning their parents in. Teaching them to lie became somewhat a part of Iranian culture. We called it 'two faced.' You have something at home and something in public. This idea of always hiding something that you are - it's drastic in Iran, like life and death. That's the central theme in the film - these layers of duality."
Ambiguous sexual identity
Keshavarz, who also wrote the screenplay for "Circumstance," based much of the characters' lives on people she knew or knew about. Though early reviewers have described the teen girls (played by newcomers Nikohl Boosheri and Sarah Kazemy) as lesbians, Keshavarz says their sexual identity is more ambiguous. Experimenting is something Keshavarz has done, saying, "I had a 10-year relationship with a woman, and I'm in a relationship with a man now," then noting that Iran has instituted legal punishments for gays and lesbians. In 2007, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a U.S. audience that, "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country." The difference in how the countries accept non-straight behavior is crystallized in "Circumstance." The film's title refers to the way that conditions - not free will - often determine people's lives.
"It's a coming-of-age story where Atafeh and Shireen are finding out who they are - but unfortunately circumstances are pushing them into a certain direction," Keshavarz says.
Marked for life
"Sexuality and life decisions are so much molded by circumstances (in Iran). And that always kind of blew my mind. If you make a mistake in the States - OK, your parents ground you. You make a similar mistake in Iran and you're marked for life. You're going to have it on your record. You could go to jail. It could ruin your life. Literally one party, one event, one sexual encounter, whatever it is, could change whoever you are."
Keshavarz almost got in trouble while making the movie in Lebanon. The Lebanese military visited the set after getting a tip that Keshavarz was doing a pornographic movie. She and her crew convinced the military that nothing like that was happening, and that their footage shouldn't be confiscated.
Even to get permission to film in Lebanon, which has close relations with Iran, Keshavarz lied to Lebanese authorities. She submitted a phony script that whitewashed all the racy material from "Circumstance."
Keshavarz looks back at the surreptitiousness and laughs a little. So does Reza Sixo Safai, the actor who portrays Atafeh's brother Mehran, a character that becomes increasingly religious and obsessed with Shireen. Safai, 38, was born in Iran and grew up mainly in Palo Alto.
"It's a dream," he says, "to be able to dive into something like this and to work with someone like Maryam, who's really collaborative."
Condemned in Iran
This collaboration was made easier because Safai, Boosheri, Kazemy and Keshavarz all have family roots in Iran. Making "Circumstance" was a chance to dramatize the lives of young, rebellious Iranians there - people who will see the film surreptitiously, likely through black-market DVDs. Iranian authorities condemned "Circumstance" soon after its Sundance honor, Keshavarz says, but the condemnation helped bring even more attention to the movie, which is opening theatrically around the United States and - later this year - throughout Europe. {sbox}
Circumstance (not rated) opens Friday at Bay Area theaters.
To see a trailer, go to www.takepart.com/circumstance.
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Ray Dombeck - BEAMS
Brother Ray is a valued member of the BEAMS Missionary Ministry in assisting the cause of supplying whole Bibles to missionaries around the world. He is serious about preaching the Word of God, seeing souls saved, and influencing people for Christ. He has been effective on mission fields throughout the world in reaching thousands with the life-changing message of the Gospel.
The Goal of BEAMS is to provide complete hard cover Bibles free of charge to missionaries. The primary purpose of BEAMS is to raise funds through offerings from local Bible believing Baptist churches for the printing and distribution of these Bibles to missionaries in need. Presently, the BEAMS ministry is serving 2,000 missionaries and national workers in 123 countries. The BEAMS ministry is sending out 10,000 whole hard cover Bibles per month in 24 languages.
Bro. Ray is also a chalk artist. His illustrated chalk sermons are designed to produce a lasting impact on the listeners, as people will retain more of what they see than what they hear. The chalk art service provides an excellent opportunity for attracting unsaved visitors to church, who normally would not come.
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Fellowship tract league
Their Purpose: The Bible gives every Christian the responsibility to take the Gospel to the whole world. God has ordained the local church to carry out His Great Commission.
The Fellowship Tract League is a local church ministry of the Fellowship Baptist Church in Lebanon, Ohio. They believe the world can be reached for Christ through the printed page. Their purpose is to provide the material that is needed for God's people all around the world to fulfill His command.
Their Production: Since the ministry began in 1978, the Lord has allowed them to print and ship over 4 billion Gospel tracts into more than 200 countries. Every tract printed by this ministry has been given away free of charge. At the present time, they are printing in over 85 different languages.
The Fellowship Tract League began operation in one room of the Fellowship Baptist Church's basement with a single sheet-fed press. The ministry now occupies a separate 16,300 square foot building, and operates two presses. Their newest press is capable of printing in full-color, and prints twice as many tracts per hour as the presses they had in the past. The building and equipment are debt free! To God be the Glory!
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Grace Baptist Printing
The Grace Baptist Church under the leadership of Pastor Mark Hiltibidal is privileged to have a ministry of preparing the printed Word of God for the mission field. Every Tuesday evening at 5:30pm church members meet to collate, staple, cut, and box Scriptures. Hundreds of books of John and Romans in several different languages are sent to the mission field for distribution. In the past eight years they have sent out more then 800,000 Scriptures to the mission field. - I John 1:1 "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;".
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Bro. Sexton is a representative for Bearing Precious Seed based out of Milford, OH. Over 150 million copies of the Word of God has rolled off of the presses at BPS. Bearing Precious Seed is actively printing in over 50 languages and partnering with missionaries in over 115 countries around the world. As God blesses and His people continue to support the ministry, millions more Scriptures will be published and untold numbers of lives will be changed. Bro. Sexton's life work is centered around making sure every person around the world is able to hear the Gospel story through the pages of a Bible in his or her own language.


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"They jumped. I saw them jump, and fall, all that way. They jumped," the woman next to me said, her eyes frozen in stare, her face stone cold. All I could do was listen, as we rode up the island on the 1 train. She spoke softly and incessantly, like an insane person, and at first I didn't know if I should trust her. The pain in her eyes, though, showed she told the truth, and I began to see what she saw. She hadn't known what to do, when she saw the tower burst aflame and people jumping out, so she decided to get back on the subway and go home. I'd done the same – boarded the subway to go to work.
On the last morning in history that the date September 11 holds no particular meaning, I am starting a new job as Research Assistant at the Columbia Journalism Review. I'm running late, gathering my purse and my keys, when I hear a resounding bang followed by my neighbor's feet pounding up the steps, and then the slam of the roof door. My roommate Maggie follows. A moment later, I hear the door slam again and my neighbor running the six flights down our building. Maggie returns to our apartment and says, "Something's wrong at the Trade Center. One of the towers is on fire."
We don't have a television, radio, or internet access in our apartment. The only way I can get more information is to go outside, see what's happening, hear what people are saying. I'm also running late for my new job, so rather than going to the roof to see the flames myself, I go downstairs, and walk toward Houston Street, following my typical morning route. A crowd has gathered at the corner of Houston and Avenue A, everyone looking south, toward the Trade Center. I join them; that's when I see the flames leaping from the North Tower and a large plume of black smoke trailing behind it. Words rise from the group:
" . . . could be a fire."
". . . a bomb."
" . . . like 1993."
"What do we do?" I ask.
"Wait for more information, I guess," one man says.
"I have to go to work," says another.
I do, too. I walk to the deli up the block for my morning coffee and olive bread. The owner has the television on, with live footage of the burning tower. I stand and watch it with him.
"Do you know what happened?"
"They say it was an airplane," he answers.
The broadcaster then says something about a private jet, must have gone off course, more information will be available soon. I pay for my coffee and bread and walk back toward the group of people on the corner, on my way to the subway. The East Village Mosaic Man, an eccentric local who adorns neighborhood street lamps and traffic lights with mosaic tiling, has joined them. He's climbed the corner stop sign and is spouting off claims about the Chinese.
"They've always wanted to get us those, Chinese! They hate us. China hates the USA!"
People tell him to stop.
"You're not helping, man."
"Blame China!" he yells in defense.
I continue to the subway – I have to get to work. (I remember descending the steps of the station, but I don't recall which station it was. Had I gone down to Delancey Street, or did I walk all the way over to the Broadway station? If so, did I watch the tower burn as I walked along Houston? I couldn't have, because then I would have seen the second plane hit the South Tower, but I was on the subway when that happened, just seventeen minutes after the first one. I must have gotten on the B or D train, and then transferred to the 1 at Columbus Circle; I remember none of this. I only remember the woman sitting next to me, talking about the people who jumped.)
I want to hug this woman and ask her questions, but I just sit, listening, as does everyone else; none of us know what to do. The train stops at 96th Street, and the conductor tells us to get off: the subways are shutting down, there will be no more service today. Columbia University is on 116th street. I start walking along a nearly deserted Broadway, and stop in at every bar or restaurant that has a television; it's then that I learn, from a bartender, that the second tower has been hit as well, and that the jets were commercial, not private. "Commercial? Like, from the airport? With people on them?" someone asks. Get to work, I think. Get to work and find out what's going on. At 99th street, I enter another bar along with a crowd of other astray pedestrians, in search of a television. The South Tower falls on the screen before us, and we all gasp in horror. I clasp my hand over my mouth. The bartender bursts into tears. A man standing near me shouts,
"That didn't just happen! That didn't just happen!"
The thought of making it to work flies out of my mind; I have to call my parents. Utah is two hours behind – will they be awake? Will they know what is happening? I try a payphone, but service is down. I cross to the west side of the street where traffic runs south and try to hail a cab; they're all filled and none will stop for me. I start running down Broadway, trying each payphone along the way. I stop in at another restaurant, and see on their television that Washington D.C. has been hit as well. Panic sets in. I think of my sister, who lives just a short drive from the Pentagon, and my parents who must surely be frightened – the cities that are home to both of their daughters have been hit. I need to get a hold of them, and of my sister. Running down Broadway, I shout at traffic going by.
"Share your cab!"
I board a bus so heavily packed that it can't drive at an efficient speed. The bus driver starts denying people entry, and asking people to get off. I again take to the street, and to waving down a cab. Finally, one stops for me. It already has a passenger – a young man in a business suit. He throws open the door.
"Get in!"
"Thank you."
"Are you alright?"
"Yes, are you?"
We sit in silence, as our cab driver tells us that his daughter, who lives with him in New Jersey, works at the Trade Center and had been running late to work that morning. He had advised her, against his character, to take the day off. He didn't know why, but he didn't think she should go to work today. He left her at home, while he got in his taxi. An hour later, she called him to tell him that airplanes had struck the towers.
"God told me not to let her go to work today," he said. "Thank God, my daughter is at home."
We listen quietly, as we observe the chaos on the streets, pedestrians running every which way, people sobbing, holding each other, collapsing on the curbs and calling out to the sky. As we get further south, we see clouds of white dust billowing up the streets, engulfing buildings and settling on the sidewalks; we see people covered in ash, their wet eyes searching out from beneath. At 23rd, the streets running south are barricaded. Our driver lets us out there, at Madison Square Park. He refuses our money, saying, "Please thank God for me that my daughter is safe."
I run to Third Avenue, and down into the East Village. I stop on the corner of Third and St. Marks when I see a woman collapse against a payphone. I ask her if she's okay, and I try to help her up.
"Yes, I'm just tired," she says. "Leave me. I'll be fine."
A few blocks later, I pass a businessman carrying a briefcase. He is completely covered from head to toe in white dust, and a thick layer of ash containing bits of burnt paper coats the top of his briefcase. He walks slowly, dispassionately, up the island, his moist eyes fixed on the distance ahead. My heart pounds as I feel, for the first time all morning, true panic rising within my chest. My cheeks quiver with a threat of endless tears.
"Keep calm," I tell myself. I'm not covered in ash, I didn't see people jump, I'm fine.
I once again take to running as I repeat to myself, "Don't panic, just get home."
I run past a row of blue-shirted volunteers at a community center who hand out cups of water to passing pedestrians. While I, along with hundreds of other people, am entirely occupied with getting home, these volunteers are focused entirely on caring for everyone else. My heart swells with gratitude for my city, and the people in it.
On Houston Street, a woman stops me, and, panting, tells me that we're all going to get cancer from inhaling the debris.
"All of us!" she cries.
She says she lives in Brooklyn and is afraid to walk across the bridge.
"They're going to bomb the bridges, I know it!"
"I don't think so. Nobody has bombs today." I try to assure her.
I finally make it home, and my roommate, Maggie, is there. I'm relieved to be in her company, to have a friend to maneuver through this event with, rather than wandering alone among the crowds outside. We get in touch with our families. My sister is worried about my proximity to the attack, and the chaos on the streets. I try to assure her that I'm okay and that the streets are surprisingly safe, perhaps safer than at any other time. Security and community volunteers are out in full-force, we New Yorkers are watching out for each other.
Maggie and I don't have access to information in our apartment, so we go to a friend's apartment on East Seventh Street to watch his television. We stop at a deli for some beer, and find the shelves completely empty. The store proprietor tells us he's clean out, it's been a busy night. We go, empty handed, to our friend's apartment. He cooks risotto for us, and we spend the evening watching Brian Williams on NBC Nightly News. His composure and paternal warmth gets us through the next several hours, and when his program ends and he signs off, I again feel a deep gratitude for my city and the people in it.
As we walk home that night, we see that all streets below Houston, including mine, are under tight security. Residents have to show I.D. and proof of address to get past the barricade. We don't have proof of residence on us, but the guard takes us at our word and lets us past with a stern warning to carry such papers on us at all times henceforth. I flashback to living in Russia two years prior, and I worry about what ramifications today's attack will have on our civil liberties.
For days, a thick white cloud envelops my Lower East Side neighborhood, and a fine white powder coats every outdoor surface. The air is thick with the scent of burning metal and electricity. The streets are calm, and almost beautiful, like after a fresh snowstorm, but there's that smell . . .
In these days immediately following the attacks, people mostly stay inside. Even the old Chinese man, who sits on an upturned bucket outside the front door of his apartment on the fifth floor, wearing nothing but his underwear while his wife cooks on the stove range behind him, has gone inside. His front door remains closed, and I feel concerned for him.
My sister has been calling, asking me to go stay with her in Washington D.C. She doesn't think I'm safe in New York City. I do my best to convince her that I am safe, and that I have an important new job to go to. My parents take up her cause and begin calling me on her behalf. I hold my ground, and remind them that D.C. was hit, too. Finally, my brother-in-law calls.
"It's for her sake. She needs you right now," he says.
I pack a bag, and the next morning I go to Penn Station to catch a train to D.C.
I spend the next two weeks sheltered in the Virginia suburbs. Sylvia and I go into the city a few times, and one night we stop in at a Barnes and Noble. The cover of Time Magazine, an up-close image of the towers burning, shakes me up and I start crying in front of the magazine stand. Sylvia takes the magazine out of my hand and hugs me.
"Don't look. Let's walk," she says, and we go walking, arm in arm, around the neighborhood.
I return to New York City ten days later, and finally begin my new job at Columbia. The people of New York have all gone back to work, have gotten the city up and running, and I'm proud to be part of it. The gaping hole at One World Trade Center continues to burn, though, and the streets below Houston are still covered in a fine powder, and there's still that smell.
Now, all these years later, the odor of a building on fire, or a burning electrical line has the power to stir a storm of emotion within me, containing in mixed part sadness for the lives lost, and for that immediate unity of our nation that evaporated in the political aftermath, nostalgia for a Manhattan that doesn't exist anymore – a Manhattan of surety and security. And it contains gratitude that my family and friends are still with me, and I with them, and that, through my reflections on the day, I have the opportunity to live a life with a little more purpose than perhaps I understood back then – the purpose of compassion for not only my city, but my country, and my world, and the people in it. On what was perhaps the worst day in our nation's history, people came together to take care of one another. This, I believe, is our singular purpose.


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Teens, Tattoos & Piercings
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One of the most controversial advances in the construction sector will be the focus of a breakfast debate being held in Telford next month, with a £27 billion UK market at stake.
Shropshire Constructing Excellence is hosting the event on June 8 – the same day as polling for the General Election – with the arguments on both sides expected to be just as interesting! BOOK HERE!
The Big BIM Debate is focused on Building Information Modelling – the practice which sees the creation of a single digital model of a building that everyone — architect, client, suppliers, builders, environmental managers — can work on.
Shropshire Constructing Excellence vice-chairman Dan Leech said: "BIM represents a multi-billion pound opportunity in the UK for construction companies and their supply chain – yet the construction sector seems reluctant to adopt it.
"The debate look at what BIM is, why companies need to be BIM ready and hear from project managers currently commissioning multi-million BIM builds in the region.
"We will also hear from the other side – from contractors who are BIM compliant but believe the sector as a whole will struggle to meet demand. We're expecting a lively debate on an issue which divides the sector but actually has the power to bring a real economic boost to this region if Shropshire is ready for it."
The Big BIM Debate, which will be held at Shropshire Chamber of Commerce's Telford offices, will also look at the legalities around BIM amid a changing sector landscape.
Dan explained: "The regulations around BIM can be complex, but Michael Craik is a specialist construction lawyer who will spend a few minutes explaining in plain English what companies need to know if they are to bid for BIM contracts.
"Our aim with this SCE event is to raise awareness of BIM, how companies can be ready for when the majority of major contracts awarded by the public sector are BIM project and ultimately access a £27m market."
The event is free to attend for SCE members and £20 for non-members. For more information and tickets, visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-big-bim-debate-tickets-34121966721
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The solemn speech of the president on loyalty and attachment to the whole media is hypocrisy because in fact she enjoys praise and lack of criticism, political analyst Vytautas Bruveris tells LRT Radio. According to him, the widely known scandal between D. Grybauskaitė and a Latvian journalist regarding questions shows that the president is no different from the denizens of the political swamp and jungle, lrt.lt writes.
Metaphors in the speech
The annual address was filled with metaphors, various quips, sometimes even amusing, political analyst Vytautas Bruveris tells LRT Radio.
"The main thought was also fairly metaphorous, symbolic – Lithuania is as if a surrounded fortress, which is being successfully rebuilt and defended, but which is constantly attacked by enemies both within and without. I would say this is very military symbolism, the defence of a castle. It would appear that the address also concludes symbolically. To my knowledge, in Ukraine it is a paratrooper motto: "Who else, if not us," V. Bruveris mused.
Journalist Ramūnas Terleckas notes that metaphors are a dangerous tool because not everyone understands them equally, similarly to jokes. "I have already said – the genre of the annual address itself is very peculiar. It is difficult to understand, why prior to the break in the political season. Is it a report? I don't think so. You also cannot describe it as a view of tomorrow, what must be done. While there are hints, there's no vision of the future," R. Terleckas believes.
He observes that it is as if a summary of the current situation and some metaphors: "As I've said, those who like Dalia Grybauskaitė will also like this annual address. Those who do not like her will also not like the address. Not everyone analyses the actual text – we simply have our likes and dislikes. They decide based on that."
R. Terleckas believes that talks can exist, but he personally finds it lacking in specifics: "Speeches are always overly propagandist, they contain too much abstract symbolism, efforts to play with the feelings of sympathisers and supporters."
An unassuming address
As such, R. Terleckas emphasises, it would be of value to hear in more detail, how the head of state views certain key matters, important problems, core challenges that the state and society face. And this address was unassuming, fairly abstract.
"For example, I was awaiting for the president to make a statement about her relations with the infamous MG Baltic political corruption case. Here she also mentioned her "tulip mail", her correspondence with E. Masiulis, the former Liberal leader. Thus, she simply avoided this topic. But there was a sentence that the oligarchic conquest of the democratic system has been obstructed, even if everyone painfully burned their fingers, including herself," R. Terleckas says.
R. Terleckas disagrees with V. Bruveris' comment ""I also got burned", so understand that she suffered due to her morality, fairness and independence." R. Terleckas disagrees because it would be odd if the president were to overly blame herself in the annual address: "I believe the president intentionally avoided it and described bribes in metaphor as money boxes or something else."
Nevertheless, in V. Bruveris' opinion, the president's position was clear – she spoke about the unseen layers of corruption in Lithuania and sent a message that she views the case as closed.
Painful blow to R. Karbauskis
"To me personally it was interesting, what she will say about the ruling majority and its leader Ramūnas Karbauskis. There were a number of arrows of criticism. Last year's address strongly criticised the majority and it is similar this year. Perhaps more abstract, but it is fairly clear that the entirety of the ruling majority's actions are viewed negatively. As for Mr. Karbauskis, she made a painful blow when she spoke of the most painful and sensitive aspect for the "Farmers" – agriculture, which according to her, is in an unfortunate and bad position, where some are impoverished and others grow rich. R. Karbauskis is specified as wealthy, earning from the toil and tears of poor farmers," the political analyst notes.
Thirdly, V. Bruveris adds, foreign policy was underemphasised: while based on the Constitution this is the president's prerogative, she reviewed it in brief glimpses: "It was just said that matters are grim, threatening and unclear in the world, that's it. I wanted to hear more, how the head of state, the chief of diplomacy and the armed forces views specific problems that global policy has no lack of."
Only official support for freedom of press
In terms of the president's statement on news media, R. Terleckas says that D. Grybauskaitė always supported news media and its freedom, but only officially: "The role of the news media is large, however we see a desire to use it for political goals, the current government's aim to rein in the news media is obvious. Perhaps the president's word has a say or perhaps none at all."
V. Bruveris states that he will only believe the president is earnest when she will truly defend the news media from the majority's ploys. "We will also see the desire to suppress the news media in autumn, in the new political season and Mr. Ramūnas Karbauskis will make sure of it. I recall one of the most expressive events during D. Grybauskaitė's two terms – the scandal with a Latvian television journalist over the so-called arranged questions. This reveals one obvious and simple matter. The president is no different from the denizens of the political swamp and jungle," he stated.
According to V. Bruveris, the president enjoys a useful, uncritical and pandering news media: "In my opinion this is obvious. She is morbidly intolerant of media criticism and such solemn speeches on loyalty and attachment for the whole news media in principle is something of a hypocrisy."
If she thought of integrity, she would not organise conflicts
Speaking of the president's criticism to the majority, R. Terleckas says that this year's address was not as fierce and overt regarding it. "Last year's address, to my memory, mentioned a number of specific matters and ministers. This time the address was noted for metaphors," he muses.
V. Bruveris points out that it is curious, where the president's statement "prohibit and punish" appeared from: "To my memory it is a song by a character in the children's book Karlsson-on-the-Roof. Speaking of the content of the speech itself, it must be noted how the president invited the governments not to fight and instead cooperate. She strictly formulated criticism to the Seimas, apparently the Seimas has become a bastion against the people's freedoms and rights. I do not know whether D. Grybauskaitė's confrontation against R. Karbauskis will reach a culmination, even if it appears every day that it will."
V. Bruveris says that if the president thought about cooperation and integrity, she would not organise peculiar conflicts and attacks in R. Karbauskis' direction. "What do these talks that R. Karbauskis cannot be in Seimas, that he breaches the Constitution by his mere presence in Seimas, just because he has a business, that he holds stocks and such mean? In recent times it is almost as if D. Grybauskaitė has been urging the Seimas to impeach R. Karbauskis for these matters."
President's position on parties changed
The Lietuvos Žinios editor in chief also notes that the president's position toward parties has changed: earlier she enjoyed criticising political parties, but in this year's address the head of state admitted that traditional parties are the engine of democracy.
"There were also talks of electoral committees or political powers, which are not parties, but civic movements. There, in my opinion, there are problems of control and ideology. The Central Electoral Commission, which I believe should be reformed and depoliticised, was also touched upon, as well as the use of European Union funding, which is certainly bogged down.
And the main note – the civic resistance movement. A beautiful metaphor that parties now need volunteers. Many areas probably now need volunteers – both education and culture. In my opinion, the greatest problem of Lithuania is not only social segregation, but also the fear formed through it," R. Terleckas says.
According to him, the Lithuanian people, especially those living in the province, in their disbelief that they can change anything, fear the government of local "kinglets" and this is a distortion of democracy.
"The president said that possibly her greatest regret is that processes did not proceed all that fast. I believe she should also regret that we have the sort of Seimas composition we have right now," R. Terleckas mused.
V. Bruveris took doubt regarding the president's notion that selective parliamentary control and the mass frequency of commissions only increase the feeling of injustice in the country. In his opinion, selective justice does not create a further negative effect and is simply a symptom of overall political fracture and a certain political degradation.
"Parliamentary inquiries were held in all Seimas terms, in essence political processes and this is no exception. I can only agree with the president's thought that this investigation is equally a political instrument to deal with political opponents and the news media, which is also being exploited by this government.
Just to return to the "tulip mail", I would like to remind that at a time when it was necessary to try and wash oneself and repair falling ratings, the parliamentary investigation suddenly became very important and significant to the president and she evaluated it very positively.
And afterward, when the special VSD report leaked and unveiled the operation, the typical confrontational conjuncture with the "Farmers" was returned to and the investigation once more became for the president what it objectively is – a purely political process," the political analyst comments.
Prime minister avoiding confrontation with the president
"I believe that this time the address placed less attention on social segregation. Two years ago, there was much talk of it, but this time the emphasis was on completely different issues. Only a few sentences were dedicated to social segregation, also there were applauds for how much has been achieved in this regard – both regarding violence against children and initiatives for Lithuania," A. Terleckas says.
V. Bruveris adds that the address focused more on the quality of politics in the country and the civic capacities of the public.
"While the president's remark about yesterday's search for the Eastern border was intended for specifically the prime minister and his initiatives to end political isolation on Russia from the Lithuanian side, S. Skvernelis nonetheless praised the speech.
This is nothing new – two of the three highest state officials would evaluate the annual addresses of the president excellently, even if the addresses would lash out at them. This also applies to this prime minister, who is obviously holding a different political tone than R. Karbauskis. He is striving to avoid confrontation with the president," V. Bruveris explains.
A. Terleckas does not believe that the president's annual address will raise political tensions in the country because it appeared at the end of the political season. Nevertheless, he believes that R. Karbauskis will not forget the president's criticism: "Mr. Karbauskis is morbidly ambitious and morbidly vengeful, he will remember the mentions of himself in the address, will put it in paper and keep the paper in his pocket, ready for autumn."
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The Bible verses don't prohibit the human beings from dancing while enjoying life. This act of dancing is associated with songs and praises. This physical movement means "rejoice". People praise God while dancing,'' Praise Him with timbrel and dancing; Praise Him with stringed instruments and pipe.'' (Psalm 150:4) The Aaron's sister, Miriam, played the timbrel. The daughter of Jephthah used tambourines. The music has been accompanied by the dance. Also, the dance has been an expression of joy in celebrating the victories. But not all the dances led to a holy state of being. The daughter of Herodias danced for the death of John Baptist and those who danced for Baal didn't receive any answer from him. In Lamentations 5:15, it is mentioned, ''The joy of our hearts has ceased; Our dancing has been turned into mourning.'' Why has the joy ceased? When does the joy cease? There are some situations very well specified in the Bible: when people are ''befallen'' by the Lord, when the inheritance is given to the strangers, when the children are orphans,when the women are widows, when people cannot drink water without paying, when they sin, when they are enslaved, when they are starving, when the women are raped, when the feelings of love are sick in the hearts,and when God doesn't listen to the prayers.
It is important to know what holds the values in life and how the human development can falter. It is a process of understanding the human condition. People need to be happy and to live a meaningful life. Martin Seligman wrote about ''authentic happiness and abundant gratification." People can change the negative style of thinking through dancing. This way, they can change how they feel and how they think about the nature of happiness. This dance is a movement of the body necessary for the non-verbal communication. While dancing, people use the gestural vocabulary to express their emotions or to explain the story of their life. The dance ''explores the nature of all movement'' while being a social interaction. For example, the ballet is a dance narrating a drama '' in the most theatrical sense of the term''.
The endorphin boost of salsa and the lower levels of stress hormones together with higher levels of testosterone in tango are very important to increase the self-confidence. Donna Newman-Bluestein, a dance therapist, said that "dancing lifts the body to an open, optimistic posture." Rosa Pinniger mentioned about dance that it ''interrupts negative thought patterns that contribute to anxiety and depression.''
During the International Day of Happiness, many people around the world may share their videos in which they dance to be happy. The dance has become one of the main cultural forces in the whole world. "Dance is such a universal phenomenon," said Ahalya Hejmadi, PhD, a psychology professor at the University of Maryland University College. ''There is no vehicle more joyful and playful for providing such training than early childhood music and movement," said Dee Joy Coulter, Ed.D, Neuroscience Educator.
The music is combined with the notions of motor control, becoming a form of art. Moreover, the music may be the product of the movement, or the dance may be the movement itself, but generally, it is a synchronization between the body movement and a recurrent musical beat to include feelings of bonding, empathy, cooperation, and social identity. Romania has some traditional dances because its feudal system has lasted until the mid 19th century. The Romanian folklore still exists in the natural environment like villages. Romanian dances are, usually, chain dances, men's group, and couple dances and they are accompanied by loud shouts and calls. An example of men's group dance is the dance called ''Calusarii''. A long time ago, it was considered to be a sacred dance being performed only in the spring by a chosen number of men while having a mystic signification. During the time, it remained the most famous Romanian folk dance being an inheritance given by the Dacians. It is believed that it is a fertility ritual or a method to cure those people being affected by a kind of delirium, which is caused by those fairies called "iele". The dancer who wears a mask uses to have a sword and a red wooden phallus. The word "calusar" comes from the Latin word "collosium" meaning a dance group in a secret society that has the duty to "cure" and to "protect" people from evil spirits for nine years. An early retirement can lead to sickness, paralysis, or misfortune. This dance can be found in Serbia, too. African, Ballet, Salsa, Bellydance, Zumba, Flamenco, Tap Dance, Tango, or any other, each dance has its complexity and sensibility, making us understand how the dance steps and the music rhythms are closely intertwined.
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Seligman, Martin (1990). Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life. Free Press.
Seligman, M.E.P. (Spring 2004). "Can Happiness be Taught?". Daedalus. 133 (2): 80–87. doi:10.1162/001152604323049424.
Ammon, M. (2003). Psychological studies on human structural dance: Group Analysis Vol 36(2) Jun 2003, 288-306.
Berrol, C. F. (1992). The neurophysiologic basis of the mind)body connection in dance/movement therapy: American Journal of Dance Therapy Vol 14(1) Spr-Sum 1992, 19-29.
Lane Anderson, Mind Your Body: Dance Yourself Happy /Why swinging your body lifts your spirit published on July 1, 2010.
Samantha Grossman, Everyone Everywhere Is Celebrating International Happiness Day By Dancing to Pharrell's 'Happy', Time, March 20, 2014
Sadie F. Dingfelder, Dance, dance evolution/ Psychologists' research on the power of movement is giving us insight into why we first danced and how cultures built on that ancient impulse, Monitor Staff 2010, Vol 41, No. 4 Print version: page 40
Steven Brown, Ph.D. teacher at McMaster University,Is Dance "The Next Wave" in Cognitive Neuroscience? Dancing stimulates the brain in interesting ways, Nov 23, 2011.
AMZULESCU, A. (1973) Folk Dances at Desa, Gottingen, Institut fur den Wissenschftlichen Film.
LONEUX, J. (1996) A Propos Des Danses Roumaines, J Loneux.
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There is a common misconception in the general community that people who file for bankruptcy are deadbeats, responsible (if not the cause) of their financial misfortune. "They should plan better," or "They should live within their means," or "Why don't they just pay their bills like the rest of us" are some of the disparaging comments I've heard.
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Dr. Deborah Thorne of Ohio University. the co-author of a widely quoted 2005 study that found medical bills contributed to nearly half of the 1.5 million personal bankruptcies filed in the U.S. each year, said that Aldrich's situation is "asinine" but increasingly common. In fact, it's gotten even worse in the past two years.
Bankruptcy in the light of large medical bills is "unfortunately the only choice many people have," she said. "They will never in their lifetimes pay them off.
"To talk with these people again and again is so frustrating. They're such thoughtful, kind folks who are being set up by the system we have now. What's most appalling is they're ashamed."
Like Aldrich, Thorne said, three-quarters of the individuals in the study who declared bankruptcy because of health problems were insured.
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