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Bridges and Other Structures Research at TRB
The mission of the Transportation Research Board is to provide leadership in transportation innovation and progress through research and information exchange, conducted within a setting that is objective, interdisciplinary, and multimodal. This page highlights recently released TRB reports, meeting announcements, requests for proposals, and other announcements related to bridges and other structures. In addition, it includes links to selected bridges and other structure research-related activities taking place at the federal and state levels, and within the academic and international transportation communities. Finally, this page also highlights and provides links to TRB programs and activities, which are the source of most of TRB's bridges and other structures-related research products.
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National Academy of Engineering virtual annual meeting set for Oct. 4-7
September 18, 2020
On October 4-7, the National Academy of Engineering will host its 56th annual meeting, on Engineering for Pandemics: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery . Plenary speakers and technical forum panelists will offer their perspectives on past pandemics, their impacts, and the role of engineering in preparing for and addressing them. The event will be held entirely online. The public program will ...
TRB Webinar: Benefitting from Weigh-in-Motion Data
September 17, 2020
How are state departments of transportation incorporating weigh-in-motion (WIM) data into their highway projects? TRB will host a webinar on Wednesday, October 21, 2020 from 12:00-1:30 PM Eastern that will discuss WIM data use in the United States and in Europe. Presenters will focus on the benefits of using WIM data for bridge and pavement design and management, load ratings, weight enforceme...
TR News July-August 2020 issue table of contents now online
September 17, 2020
The July-August 2020 issue of TR News —with a focus on stormwater—is available in hard copy and digital copy for subscribers. For those who are not subscribers, the table of contents is available. Feature articles in the issue include "Integrating Stormwater Infrastructure into State Department of Transportation Processes," "Transportation Perspective on Virginia's Nonpoint Source Nutrient Cred...
Critical Issues in Transportation 2019
September 17, 2020
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and equity issues will be included soon in Critical Issues in Transportation 2019 . In this report, which is updated periodically by the TRB Executive Committee, a series of challenging questions are posed to explore issues and opportunities that may arise 10 to 20 years into the future. These questions, 63 in all, have been organized into 12 topic ar...
"Tell Us 'Our' Story": "How has TRB helped enrich your professional life?"
September 17, 2020
The TRB "Tell Us 'Our' Story" centennial activity is designed to allow as many of you (TRB's volunteers and friends) as possible to participate in the TRB Centennial Celebration through the submission of your stories, which are our stories. The "Tell Us 'Our" Story" centennial activity consists of a series of monthly questions that will help capture your stories. TRB welcomes all stories: small...
2021 TRB Annual Meeting: Create or update your MyTRB profile
September 11, 2020
You've heard the news that TRBAM is going virtual for 2021. In order to attend the meeting, be sure to create or update your MyTRB profile now. MyTRB allows TRB volunteers, contributors, and participants to maintain their own contact information. You can identify your areas of interest, upload your bio, become a friend of a standing committee, update your address, and order print pub...
TR News March-April 2020: A Century of Progress ... Foundation for the Future
September 10, 2020
Issue 326 of TRB's magazine dives into details from the TRB 99th Annual Meeting, which had a record crowd of nearly 14,000 attendees gathered January 12–16, 2020, in Washington, D.C. The March–April 2020 TR News features photo highlights from the Annual Meeting along with more coverage of the conference. TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely articles on innovative and state-of-th...
Prioritizing bridge repairs
September 10, 2020
Highway Bridge Conditions: Issues for Congress , released by the U.S. Congressional Research Service
Seeking project panel nominations for FY 2021 Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP): Nominations due September 21, 2020
September 9, 2020
ACRP is seeking panel nominations for 18 new projects selected for the FY2021 program. Please nominate yourself or other candidates to serve on the expert panels of these research projects online at MyTRB . These panels will develop requests for proposals, select contractors, and review draft deliverables. Nominations are welcome anytime before September 21, 2020.
TR News 327: Tunnels: Safety and Technology Advances in the United States and Beyond
September 3, 2020
Compared with much of the world, the United States has relatively few highway tunnels. Norway, for instance, has more than 900 roadway tunnels, while the entire United States has 503. In a feature article in TR News magazine, Number 327, May-June 2020, the authors examine the challenges of using tunnels in a road or rail network, including relatively high first costs, the need for continuing ma...
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Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2)
Congress established the SHRP 2 in 2006 to find strategic solutions to three national transportation challenges: improving highway safety, reducing congestion, and improving methods for renewing roads and bridges. Research was focused in four areas, which are described below. The program carried out 145 research projects and produced 130 products as well as 132 research reports.
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The number of chief executives switching between industries has quadrupled over five years.
New data shows a blurring of skills has prompted a 45% increase in executives moving between sectors from 2015 to 2019.
Global Executive Search firm SRI claims eight of 20 of the largest global sports leagues have cross-industry CEOs in its Convergence Trailblazers report published on Tuesday.
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SRI's survey demonstrated that sports leagues, sporting goods and esports teams are also acquiring cross-industry CEOs from media & entertainment firms.
The report shows esports teams have the highest proportion of cross-industry CEOs (12 of the largest 20 teams).
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Mark Moreau, SRI's co-head of Europe, said: "The entertainment ecosystem is circling around three core challenges: content development and monetization, engaging and retaining the developing consumer, and digitization."

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2020-05-00 Yes, we can manage this country without the corporate priesthood–the cooperative movement shows us how
While it's rarely mentioned by the conventional media, completely missing in the political discourse, not considered by economic planners and chambers of commerce, and not known by most of the public, there are 30,000 cooperatives in America (with 73,000 places of business). A 2009 survey by the University of Wisconsin's Center for Cooperatives (www.uwcc.wisc.edu) found that these energetic enterprises have 130 million members, registering $653 million in sales, and employing more than two million people. There are several types of co-ops, including those owned by workers (there are 11,000 of these, with 13 million worker-owners). Also, there are cooperatives owned by consumers, producers, local businesses, artists, and communities, as well as hybrids of those categories. They function in every sector of our economy–manufacturing, health care, transportation, banking, farming and food, media, massage, child care, funeral services, interpreting and translating services, advertising, home building, hightech, engineering, energy… and even a strip club in San Francisco. Co-op businesses do everything that a corporation can do, but with a democratic structure, an equitable sharing of income, and a commitment to the common good of the community and future generations. You might be surprised to learn that such national brand names as ACE Hardware, Best Western Hotels, Organic Valley, REI, and True Value Hardware are organized as co-ops, rather than as corporations. The strength of the movement, however, is in the limitless number of local cooperatives flowering all across the country. They are highly prized for their unique personalities, human scale, democratic values, and community focus. To help you ponder the possibilities of a cooperatively structured America, Check out some examples of citizen co-ops that are proving day-in and day-out that small can be BIG. Yes, we can manage this country without the corporate priesthood–the cooperative movement shows us how
2020-05-20 From Economic Relief to Pandemic Profiteering
The Pandemic Made Politicians Notice Basic Needs. Workers Left Out of the Paid Sick Leave Discussion. DNC Shuts Out Sanders, But His Ideas May Salvage the Country. Delay or Hold Primaries Amid the Pandemic. How to Avoid Spreading COVID-19 Misinformation. Scientist Pushed from US to China Made a Fast COVID-19 Test. Inaction Will Make Jails and Prisons Ground Zero for COVID-19. Trump's Science Denial Delayed Response to COVID-19. Coronavirus Profiteering.
2020-05-20 From Economic Relief to Pandemic Profiteering
2020-05-19 'No One Will Help, No One Will Listen': Workers Impacted By COVID-19 Outbreak Describe Struggle For Unemployment Benefits
Since the coronavirus pandemic triggered lockdowns across the United States two months ago, more than 36 million Americans filed unemployment claims. The surge of claims has created major backlogs of unemployment claims that plague several states, large and small. This dysfunction is a result of outdated infrastructure, underfunding, and years of right-wing policies. In fact, most workers, who find themselves unemployed in the U.S., will likely never obtain benefits because systems in many states are set up to limit support to the least amount of people possible.
2020-05-19 'No One Will Help, No One Will Listen': Workers Impacted By COVID-19 Outbreak Describe Struggle For Unemployment Benefits
2020-05-17 Karen Greenberg, So Long to American Exceptionalism
Other normal expectations about American life are also breaking down in ways once associated with foreign lands. As George Packer recently wrote in the Atlantic, the federal government now looks more like a failed state than a vibrant democracy. As he put it, the Trump administration's reaction to the coronavirus crisis was more "like Pakistan or Belarus -- like a country with shoddy infrastructure and a dysfunctional government whose leaders were too corrupt or stupid to head off mass suffering." In fact, the government's response to the crisis has failed in a striking set of ways, ranging from the unpreparedness of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to the failure of diplomatic and domestic efforts to procure ventilators and protective masks or implement the distribution of stockpiles of medical equipment.
Meanwhile, the socio-economic level of the country has plummeted as middle-class Americans lose their jobs and begin the long fall into another existence. Since March, significant parts of the economy have been shut down and more than 33 million people laid off with 6% of the labor force filing for unemployment in the last two weeks of that month alone. Official U.S. unemployment recently hit 14.7%, a figure unseen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Unemployment claims have surged catastrophically and are still climbing weekly.
For an increasing number of Americans, food insecurity has become a fact of life. Empty shelves for some products are increasingly common in grocery stores nationwide. While predictions of shortages and price increases vary from cautious denials to measured concern, certain aspects of the usual food chain do seem to be breaking down.
Meanwhile, as the homelessness rate grows, many shelters have closed and those that remain open, social distancing being impossible and sanitary conditions bleak, are now potential hotbeds of infection, or as Emma Grey Ellis put it in Wired, "Homelessness is incompatible with health." And let's not forget the nightmare of nursing homes, some of which have become literal graveyards for the aged and infirm. Prisons and detention centers have similarly become incubators for the spread of the disease, as our incarceration system suffers the kinds of deaths that might once only have been possible in countries like Chile, El Salvador, Peru, or elsewhere in Latin America (where notoriously overcrowded prisons have led to the rampant spread of Covid-19).
2020-05-17 Karen Greenberg, So Long to American Exceptionalism
2020-05-17 Democracy Dies in Dysfunction
There are clear steps we can take now to ensure fair and functional elections in November—but time is quickly running out.
2020-05-17 Democracy Dies in Dysfunction
2020-05-16 Dissenter Weekly: Federal Whistleblowers Try To Save Americans From Corrupt COVID-19 Response
Bright was retaliated against by officials in President Donald Trump's administration after he recommended in January that the administration take the coronavirus pandemic more seriously. He also challenged cronyism, including the manner in which certain drugs were fast-tracked for approval to address COVID-19 simply because a company had political connections to Jared Kushner or others.
2020-05-16 Dissenter Weekly: Federal Whistleblowers Try To Save Americans From Corrupt COVID-19
2020-05-12 We Can't Lose the Right to Protest in the Age of Coronavirus
2020-05-12 We Can't Lose the Right to Protest in the Age of Coronavirus Mayor de Blasio at his press conference on Sunday illustrated why elected officials should not determine who gets to exercise Constitutional rights. "I'm a huge believer in the First Amendment," the mayor said before declaring that "to gather in the middle of a pandemic" is "idiotic." He insisted that all activists should seek to call attention to issues online. But as leading civil rights attorney Norman Siegel told the Indypendent, "COVID-19 could be with us for a couple of years or longer, so we need to speak out. We should use [our] rights. If we don't, they'll atrophy. And then one day we'll wake up, and we won't have them anymore."
2020-05-12 We Can't Lose the Right to Protest in the Age of Coronavirus
2020-05-12 Street Medics See Cuba As A Model For COVID-19 Response In Vulnerable Communities
Prevention is key to the successes of Cuba's free and universal healthcare system, which is a direct result of the revolution's progress. Some of their health achievements include one of the highest doctor-patient ratios in the world, a higher life expectancy rate than the U.S. and many so-called developed nations, accessible clinics in almost every neighborhood throughout the island, and the development of several successful vaccines and treatments. In Cuba's health care system, the profit motive is largely nonexistent, which many experts suggest is a key factor in the country's incredible achievements. It is highly common for medical workers like Cabrera to make dozens of house visits a day, with rural communities and people outside of major cities or in poorer neighborhoods receiving regular care. Cabrera explains that once the COVID-19 outbreak began, they moved swiftly to "classify and move patients immediately" to predetermined locations which already existed. The Cuban health care system is not perfect, however, most problems are a direct result of the U.S. economic blockade. The decades-long policy has created a scarcity of medical necessities, like respirators and basic medicines, as well as a lack of soap products, which public health professionals internationally have lambasted as breaking international humanitarian law. Most recently, the blockade prevented Cuba from obtaining medical supplies needed to combat the pandemic.
2020-05-12 Street Medics See Cuba As A Model For COVID-19 Response In Vulnerable
2020-05-11 We Shouldn't Need GoFundMe to Respond to Catastrophes.
We Need a Strong Welfare State. Even if everyone who started a GoFundMe for a desperate need did get the money they requested, forcing everyone in such situations to sacrifice their privacy and throw themselves on the mercy of strangers by crafting a "compelling" story would still be obscene. And it's absurd to ask random people to "chip in anything they can" rather than funding basic social goods through redistributive taxation. The $1 million Arnold Schwarzenegger donated to the Frontline Responders Fund represents one-quarter of 1 percent of his net worth. The equivalent for someone with $30,000 would be $75 — except that they'd notice the loss of the $75 a hell of a lot more than Schwarzenegger will notice the loss of $1 million. At bare minimum, any reasonable solution to the "shortage of masks, gowns, gloves, and other critical supplies to protect our medical professionals" involves taxing far more of the necessary funds from the Schwarzeneggers of the world and making collective democratic decisions about where the money needs to go, rather than hoping that enough individual eyeballs happen to be caught by any particular story.
2020-05-11 We Shouldn't Need GoFundMe to Respond to Catastrophes
2020-05-09 Getting Trumped by COVID-19 Donald Trump is not a president
He can't even play one on TV. He's a corrupt and dangerous braggart with ill-concealed aspirations for a Crown and, with an election coming up, he's been monopolizing prime time every day, spouting self-congratulation and misinformation. (No, don't inject that Lysol!) His never-ending absurd performances play out as farce against the tragic background of the Covid-19 pandemic sweeping the nation. If we had a real president, which is to say, almost anybody else, things would be different. We would have seen the pandemic coming. It would not have attacked me in my old age. And most of the dead might still be alive. The records of other countries make this clear. South Korea, Taiwan, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, New Zealand, and Norway have all had commendable success in protecting their people. Could it be by chance that seven out of eight of the most successful nations in combating the Covid-19 pandemic are headed by women?
2020-05-09 Getting Trumped by COVID-19 Donald Trump is not a president
2020-05-07 Ten Tips on Talking about China, Chinese People and COVID-19
A quick read for organizers on how to talk about China, Chinese people and COVID19. The rise of xenophobia and the onslaught of China bashing is just another right wing political and narrative strategy to deflect responsibility of COVID-19 by Trump.
2020-05-07 Ten Tips on Talking about China, Chinese People and COVID-19
2020-05-06 'The most horrifying aspects of capitalism':
To the ultra-rich, the coronavirus pandemic is a trial run for apocalypse But for some people the coronavirus pandemic is a type of utopian dream. Many right-wing Christians see the combination of the pandemic and President Trump as good things. Why? Because in their mythology these events are harbingers of the apocalyptic "end times," a titanic battle between good and evil during which true Christians who are "saved" will be raptured away to paradise.
2020-05-06 'The most horrifying aspects of capitalism':
2020-05-06 Mass Unemployment Amid the Pandemic Is an Indictment of Capitalism
Worker co-ops lack capitalism's irrational fixation on profit, so they are not subject to boom-and-bust job cycles. Unemployment always stood as a mocking indictment of capitalism. Unemployment also threatens capitalism. This system rewards employers with profits from the waged labor of employees. Yet it fails to keep them working and thereby undermines its profits. Worse, that failure recurs quite regularly — a phenomenon known as the business cycle. Its cycles expose capitalism as intrinsically socially irrational. Unemployed workers continue to consume, albeit in reduced quantities. They just stop producing. It would obviously be better to keep workers producing what they keep consuming. Capitalism cannot do that during its recurring cycles despite countless efforts, including Keynesian economics and policies since the 1930s. The cycles repeatedly cause much suffering and loss.
2020-05-06 Mass Unemployment Amid the Pandemic Is an Indictment of Capitalism
2020-05-04 US Government Fears China will Give Away COVID-19 Vaccine for Free
Dean Baker, Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Utah and Senior Economist at the Center for Economic Policy Research in Washington, D.C., offered an alternative view. Baker has previously advocated for replacing the system of private medical research with a publicly funded open source system that he believes will not only save lives but will save money. telling MintPress News that: The coronavirus pandemic is a clear instance in which the whole world shares a common interest in developing and distributing a vaccine. This should mean that we have open research, where all findings are posted on the web as quickly as possible, so that they can build on them. Once a vaccine is developed we should want it spread throughout the world as quickly as possible at the lowest possible cost. Trump's concern that China would somehow "steal" a vaccine means that he is more concerned about protecting someone's profits here, as well as possibly an ego trip (we're number one) than possibly saving hundreds of thousands of lives.
2020-05-04 US Government Fears China will Give Away COVID-19 Vaccine for Free
2020-05-03 Pushback: US Elites Use Russiagate Playbook To Blame China And Promote Hostility
The US establishment is demonizing China over the COVID-19 crisis with a familiar Russiagate playbook of specious claims, fearmongering, and deflecting responsibility for homegrown dysfunction.
2020-05-03 Pushback: US Elites Use Russiagate Playbook To Blame China And Promote Hostility
2020-05-02 COVID-19, Capitalism, and Socialism Coronavirus
reveals the divide between the socialist principal of using health care to meet human needs and the capitalist practice of treating health care as a commodity.
2020-05-02 COVID-19, Capitalism, and Socialism Coronavirus
2020-04-30 Ecocide and the Coronavirus: How the Capitalist Mode of Production Makes Pandemics Inevitable
Since its earliest days, the capitalist mode of production has been fundamentally incompatible with a sustainable relationship to nature. In recent decades, however, it has become all too apparent that capitalism's war on nature threatens not just nature itself but much of humankind. There now exist two potential catastrophic scenarios for humanity. The first, global warming, began to be widely accepted by scientists in the 1980s. Less than three decades later we began to witness extreme weather events produced by climate change — hurricanes, wildfires, droughts, flooding — that threaten the lives of millions each year. We can now add a second existential threat created by capitalist ecocide: worldwide pandemic. Infectious diseases and even plagues have existed throughout all of human history, of course. But the extension of the capitalist mode of production around the globe has created the conditions for the most deadly pathogens to reach every corner of the world in a matter of weeks.
2020-04-30 Ecocide and the Coronavirus: How the Capitalist Mode of Production Makes Pandemics Inevitable
2020-04-29 Undocumented Workers Need a Bailout
Too Beyond performing essential labor, we are humans — and, in a pandemic, that should be enough to deserve help. COVID-19 has devoured the country's health care system and led to what's been called the "deepest global recession in history." As an attempt to provide some relief to struggling Americans and businesses, Congress recently passed a $2 trillion stimulus and bailout package. But the deal they negotiated gave a cold shoulder to the backbone of our economy: 11 million people and their families currently living in desperation. The stimulus bill, in short, simply left out undocumented people. In 2018, a typical year, undocumented immigrants contributed around $20 billion in federal taxes, plus nearly $12 billion in state and local taxes. But because people need a valid Social Security Number to benefit from federal financial assistance, they're getting completely left out of the stimulus their own tax dollars paid for. Undocumented immigrants can forget about, for example, collecting the $1,200 stimulus checks promised to every U.S. household. Even worse, as more undocumented construction, housekeeping, and service workers find themselves unemployed, they won't be able to file for unemployment benefits, which were expanded and extended under the stimulus. Making matters worse, immigrant workers often work the front line jobs most exposed to the virus — while lacking health care or any meaningful social safety net.
2020-04-29 Undocumented Workers Need a Bailout
2020-04-28 'Oligarchs don't care about democracy': Pulitzer winner warns COVID-19 will 'trigger a decline unlike anything seen since the Great Depression'
Empires fall a little bit at a time and then all at once. Over the last two decades, America has proven itself to be well along on that journey. The coronavirus pandemic has simply pushed our nation further along that downward spiral. Ultimately, the pandemic has further exposed and exacerbated — for those still somehow in denial about the decades-long reality of America as a decaying empire — deep political, social, economic, cultural and other societal problems.
2020-04-28 'Oligarchs don't care about democracy': Pulitzer winner warns COVID-19 will 'trigger a decline unlike anything seen since the Great Depression'
Frankly, it's devastating to watch all this unfold. So long dismissed as pie-in-the-sky, the policies Sanders advocates for are being proved essential as the sky is falling. But still, we're unlikely to see them enacted, no matter how many lives they might save, because they remain at odds with the systems run by powerful people desperate to hold on to their standing.
2020-04-06 The Coronavirus Makes Me Wish We Already Had a President Bernie Sanders
2020-04-06 The Coronavirus Makes Me Wish We Already Had a President Bernie Sanders
2020-04-15 COVID-19 as a Weapon. The Crushing of the Disposable Working Class – by Design "Many Americans will not have jobs to return to after the coronavirus pandemic ends…"
"We're going to see the progressive Amazonification of our economy as Amazon's one of the only businesses out there that's hiring more and more. "One thing I've been saying is that we're going to see something like 10 years of change in 10 weeks, because businesses are being put in a position where it makes sense to speed up a lot of the automation that they were considering investing in." "The fact is right now this virus is the perfect environment for companies to get rid of people, bring in robots and machines, and figure out how they can operate more efficiently." And while the Amazonification of our economy ploughs full steam ahead, independent shops and services are pounded into dust, while public services are shut down, opening the door for further privatization. While prepping the citizenry for coming and required "certifications", the deliberate and violent contraction of the economy continues. The decimation of small enterprise with monetary wealth directed, again, upward. McDonald's, Starbucks and Walmart ("essential services") remain open while small business is forced to remain closed. "Universal basic income is going to become the topic, not just here in the United States, but Spain's adopting a version of a minimum income. Legislatures around Europe are all very, very much focused on this." March 18 2020: Over 500 academics and public figures called on governments to implement universal basic income via an open letter: "It is time for governments to enact emergency universal basic income, ensuring that everyone in their jurisdiction has enough money to buy the food and other essentials they need to survive."
2020-04-06 The Coronavirus Makes Me Wish We Already Had a President Bernie Sanders
2020-04-06 "The Coronavirus pandemic is Magnifying the Cruelty of US Foreign Policy"
: The Decade of Transformation: Remaking International Relations No country can fully recover from COVID-19 or the economic collapse unless these crises are resolved for the whole world. Both the economy and pandemic are global and interconnected as are the looming crises of climate chaos and nuclear war. Rather than showing solidarity with other nations in the midst of the crises, the US is escalating economic sanctions and threatening war while undermining a global response to climate and increasing the risks of nuclear war. Black Alliance for Peace points out: "The brutality and criminality of the colonial/capitalist system of state violence is reflected most graphically by the illegal and immoral policy of sanctions imposed on 39 nations by the U.S. and its Western allies." Venezuela, Iran and other nations are being denied the ability to import medicines and medical equipment to protect their populations from the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 23, the UN General Secretary António Guterres called for "an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world" saying nations should "focus together on the true fight of our lives – the #COVID19 pandemic." Fifty-three countries immediately agreed. Instead of heeding this call, the US has threatened Iran and Venezuela with military attacks and continued the war with Yemen while eliminating the majority of humanitarian assistance to Yemen. These actions were wrong before the pandemic, but in the midst of the pandemic, they are obscene.
2020-04-06 "The Coronavirus pandemic is Magnifying the Cruelty of US Foreign Policy"
2020-03-27 Capitalism Is America's Religion. The Virus Makes That Clear
2020-03-27 Capitalism Is America's Religion. The Virus Makes That Clear President Trump has said he wants the United States to be "opened up and just raring to go" by Easter, in less than three weeks. Why Easter? "I think it'll be a beautiful time," he told reporters on Tuesday, even as the Pope was instructing bishops to help Catholics celebrate Easter from home. "Wouldn't it be great to have all the churches full?" said Trump. Let's be real: Despite his recently adopted pro-life views, our twice-divorced, oft-philandering president has never been religious. What he really wants is to end the lockdown quickly in order to save "the economy." Politicians keep suggesting we forgo public health advice and get back to work for the sake of this "economy" thing; the ironic hashtag #DieForTheDow trended on Twitter after the 69-year-old lieutenant governor of Texas suggested he'd risk dying from the virus to keep the stock market chugging. (But would he be resurrected on Easter?)
2020-03-27 Capitalism Is America's Religion. The Virus Makes That Clear
2020-03-27 Cuba Leads by Revolutionary Example
"We have more physicians working abroad than practically any other country in the world, not because we are exporting anything but simply because we want to participate in building a world with better health conditions and living conditions," Cuban doctor Luis Herrera declared in an exclusive interview with TeleSur. Dr Herrera is credited with developing the Interferon Alpha 2B 40 years ago, which is being used to prevent medical complications that could arise from contracting the COVID-19 strand of coronavirus. Cuba is now receiving international requests to supply the Interferon Alpha 2B. The neoliberal West is seeking the aid of a communist country under blockade to solve its problems and true to its revolutionary spirit, Cuba will be complying with the requests. As governments worldwide dedicated to neoliberalism struggle to contain the virus spread, closing borders and imposing military control, Cuba has maintained its internationalist approach, leading by revolutionary example. Cuba has been able to take such decisions knowing the country is well prepared in preventive medicine to keep any possible virus transmission under control. And yet, the West often reminds us that socialism doesn't work; to justify, perhaps, the incessant forms of foreign intervention designed to maintain the West's supremacy. COVID-19 has exposed the exploitative systems of capitalism and neoliberalism.
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2020-03-20 Capitalism is an Incubator for Pandemics. Socialism is the Solution
It is only going to get worse. The spread of the virus is impossible to stop — and this is due to social reasons more than biological ones. While doctors recommend that people stay home when they are feeling sick in order to reduce the possibility of spreading the virus, working-class people just can't afford to stay home at the first sight of a cough.
Suggestions from government leaders show their disconnect from the working class. 58% Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings and around 40% of Americans could not afford an unexpected bill of $400. So, for many, staying home or not using public transit is simply not an option.
Even more people avoid the doctor when we get sick. With or without insurance, a trip to the hospital means racking up massive medical bills. The Guardian reports that 25% of Americans say they or a family member have delayed medical treatment due to the costs of care. In May 2019, The American Cancer Society found that 56% of adults report having at least one medical financial hardship. Medical debt remains the number one cause of bankruptcy in the country. One third of all donations on the fundraising site GoFundMe go to covering healthcare costs. That is the healthcare system of the wealthiest country in the world: GoFundMe.
Of course, these costs will be no problem for some. The three richest Americans own more wealth than the bottom 50% of Americans. The concentration of wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer capitalists is part of capitalism's DNA. But as Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkson highlight extensively in their book The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger, people in more equal societies are healthier. They live longer, have lower infant mortality, and have high self-ratings of health. Inequality leads to poorer overall health.
A central aspect of socialism is a democratically run planned economy: an economy in which all resources are allocated according to need, instead of ability to pay. Need is decided democratically by both producers and consumersWith the means of production under workers' control, we would be able to quickly increase production of these products in an emergency.
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One of my favourite and rewarding experiences as a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator is teaching classes. I LOVE meeting new people and inviting them into my home and helping them create beautiful gifts for family and friends.During our classes, I love to show you our gorgeous products while teaching you tips, tricks and techniques!! The best part is watching you discover how simple, easy and fun it is to create beautiful projects that you can give to family and friends!
July Event with Stamp with Anne
Scrapbook Night– Friday July 17th– 7pm to 9pm – RVSP – July 12
This month we will be creating a Double Page layout using the Whale of a Time Designer Series Paper and the Whale Done Bundle. This page is perfect for a beach theme, water, ocean or summer.
Your class fee with include the following supplies:
A Full Pack of the Whale of a Time 6 by 6 Designer Series Paper, A Stampin' Seal Adhesive and a pack of Dimensionals and all the supplies to create the double pages.
You will need the following supplies to create your page at home the night of class:
Pacific Point, Granny Apple Green, Pool Party Markers
Granny Apple Green, Just Jade, Calyspo Coral,
Blackberry Bliss, and Bumblebee ink pads
Paper Trimmer
** you can add these items onto your order OR you can use the colours you have on hand at home **
The cost of the class is $45 which includes a full pack of 6 by 6 pattern paper, Stampin' Seal, a pack of Dimensionals and all the supplies to create the projects at home.
Want to add on the Bundle:
Whale Done Bundle – includes the stamp set Whale Done and the Whale Builder Punch – The additional cost would be $48(save the shipping when you add on as part of this class)
The night of class, we will meet via Zoom and I will be stamping with you as we create this gorgeous page together.
Whale Done Card Café – Thursday July 23th at 7pm – RSVP – July 12
Welcome to the Card Café to go! Are you missing stamping with your friends? I know that I am! I'm excited to offer you the Card Café Express to go! You will create 10 occasions card (2 each of 5 designs). Everything will be cut, prep and package for you.
You will also receive a PDF with all the instruction and you can also join me in a Zoom class on Thursday July 23th where we will stamp, chat and assemble our projects together.
To complete the kit all you have to do is assemble and stamp the greetings. I have designed this class around The Whale Done Bundle set and a few supplies.
You will need the following supplies to complete your projects at home:
Whale Done Stamp Set
Blackberry Bliss Ink Pad
Just Jade Ink Pad
Bumblebee Ink Pad
Memento Ink Pad
Granny Apple Ink Pad
Details of the Class:
Place a minimum $35 order between July 2 to July 12, using this hostess code 7FQUYRW6 OR you can email me your order and use the Keyword "Whale done" to qualify for the make and takes package.
To allow me time to prep for the class, all RSVP and orders are due by Sunday July 12. I will cut and package up your kits and they will be ready to go Monday July 20th. You can either to do porch pick up, meet up for delivery or I can mail to you.
The cost of the class is a minimum order of $35 in product. You can choose to order anything you want. Want the same greeting that I used, I would suggest adding the Whale Done Stamp set to your order OR you can choose to use any stamp sets that you have at home.
Then before Thursday July 23th, I will send you a Zoom Link and Password along with the PDF so we can stamp together as we assemble our kit, to register for this class, please email me by Sunday July 12th
Did you know that stamping with your friends is very beneficial to your health! Why not call your friends today and reserve a spot at one of these classes!! Bring a new friend to join in the fun and you both get to pick out 5 Handmade Cards from my Basket.
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The Federal Government and South-West governors have reportedly reached an agreement on Operation Amotekun.
The media aide to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, Laolu Akande, made this known via his official Twitter handle on Thursday.
However, he did not give details of the agreement reached. "News Flash: FG, Southwest Governors agree on Amotekun," he tweeted.
Osinbajo and the governors had closed door meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday. The agenda is the security outfit, Operation Amotekun, recently launched by the states in the zone.
The minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, and the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu, also attended the meeting.
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However, the governors had insisted they would not dump Amotekun and sought rather to meet with the Presidency in the hope that the differences would be ironed out.


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Four clubs owe their places in the fourth round draw of the FA Cup to goals from former Sky Blues players.
Non-League Telford United toppled Crewe Alexandra 1-0 with a second-minute strike from Lee Mills to set them up for a home tie to First Division Millwall.
Kidderminster Harriers, who were within a minute of flooring Wolves thanks to a John ?Flying Postman? Williams goal, would be at home to West Ham if they came through their replay.
Tranmere Rovers, who held Bolton Wanderers 1-1 thanks to Simon Haworth, will be playing for a tie at Luton Town.
And Stoke City, who drew 1-1 at Wimbledon after John Eustace had fired them in front, could earn a trip to his former club Birmingham City if they come through their replay.
As for Coventry?s draw, like last season, they have been given the perfect opportunity of making the last 16 of the competition and bringing in some welcome revenue and much needed cheer.
Last year saw that chance thrown away in a dreadful display at Rochdale but Highfield Road will provide a more stable setting for seeing off either Accrington Stanley or Colchester.
The latter, of course, were on the end of a 3-0 defeat at City last season in the Worthington Cup, as Saturday?s opponents Peterborough were defeated earlier this season and two years ago after extra time and penalties at London Road.
If Accrington make it through the replay, it will be the first time the two clubs will have met since 1960 when the Sky Blues did the double over them in the old third division. The only other time the sides have met was back in the 1925/26 season in Division Three North when City lost away but won at home.
Accrington currently have an ex-Coventry player in their side with Paul Cook seeing out his playing career with the non-league outfit.
But more famous links with the club are the legendary George Hudson and Ian Gibson, and George Stewart who all played for Stanley before their time at Highfield Road.
Looking at the fourth round, the fact that there are four all-Premiership ties clearly gives the Sky Blues a much greater chance of progressing even further in the Cup, assuming they get through their own game.
That is worth #75,000 to them and would come on top of the #50,000 they earned at the weekend after getting through the third round.
City have progressed beyond the fifth round just once in the last six seasons when they made the quarter finals against Sheffield United.
They are, of course, past masters at embarrassing themselves in cup competition, the most humiliating of which was at non-league Sutton United in 1989 when they became only the fourth top flight side to be beaten by a non-league outfit since the War.
The majority of the players at Ryton on Monday lunchtime were hoping for a big name like Manchester United or Arsenal, apart from Stephen Warnock who went for Accrington, but recent history against Tottenham and Chelsea has shown that there is not much to be gained from getting one of the big guns in the earlier rounds.
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London, 29 June 2015 -- The banking system outlook has changed to negative from stable for Azerbaijan
(Baa3 stable), says Moody's Investors Service, reflecting
the impact of lower global oil prices and currency devaluation on the
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Moody's notes that the slump in oil prices has put downward pressure
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accounted for close to 37% of nominal GDP at the year-end
2014. Moody's forecasts that Azerbaijan's GDP growth will
slow to 1.0% in 2015, based on an assumption of oil
prices averaging $55 per barrel this year, and that growth
will only recover to 1.7% in 2016. Slower economic
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"Developments in the non-oil economy are the principal determinants
for the banks' operating environment, and, as such,
dictate the evolution of bank performance," says Maria Malyukova,
a Moody's Analyst and author of the report.
Moody's report says that alongside the weak operating conditions,
the local-currency devaluation in February of this year is credit
negative for banks. "We believe that banks' asset quality
will deteriorate following the local-currency devaluation,
as most foreign-currency loans in Azerbaijan are to borrowers that
do not have foreign-currency revenues. Moreover, higher
inflation reducing consumer spending power and seasoning of banks'
loan books amidst a slowdown in lending growth will also contribute to
an increase in problem loans to not less than 15% of gross loans
this year from 11.4% at the end of 2014," adds
Ms. Malyukova.
Moody's says that the revaluation of FX assets and higher credit
losses are pressuring Azeri banks' profitability and capitalisation.
"We project average credit costs of around 3% of gross loans
in 2015, absorbing most of banks' pre-provision profits this
year and reducing their internal capital generation ability. We
estimate the immediate negative effect on system-wide banks'
capitalisation from the revaluation of foreign-currency assets
at around 2 percentage points. However, most rated banks'
buffers are sufficient to absorb expected losses under the central scenario
of our stress test. On the funding side, the devaluation
weakened depositor confidence, causing significant deposit shifts
into foreign currency, widening mismatches between banks'
FX assets and FX liabilities", explains Ms Malyukova.
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Streams of sweat poured off her brow, the heat unrelenting and true to form during this time of the year in Matebeleland North's Lupane district. Her name is Lizzy Mwinde, she is clearly unbothered by the incessant heat, her attention is on feeding and caring for her bulging head of goats comprising of indigenous and exotic breeds - the boer goats.
Although this area is well known for goat production, Lizzy's passion and dedication to her goats is clearly evident in her comparatively excellent structures and impressive state of her goats. As she speaks about her project, her posture changes and her face glows, "I have a passion for goats, when I started it was difficult to convince people that goats had the potential to generate income that can sustain a family. This is so because most people consider goats as a poor man's cow that is unable to create meaningful income."
With a 17 doe-unit, Lizzy was selected to be one of the 1000 anchor farmers in the 12 districts where the goat value chain is being implemented. The anchor farmers will be trained to cascade support to an approximate 9000 small and medium holder farmers.
Operations of small and medium scale farmers have been impeded by a number of challenges that the project seeks to address.
"Some of the challenges we have been facing as goat farmers include accessing viable markets, lack of superior breeds, lack of coordination of small and medium scale farmers and lack of access to agro-financing," added Lizzy.
Lizzy said that she was attracted to the project after learning of how the VALUE project sought to promote collective action by organising farmers into Goat Producers Business Associations (GPBAs). The GPBAs will drive the commercialisation efforts of the goat farmers in the various districts through the Goat Improvement Centres which the project will establish.
She added that the establishment of Goat Improvement Centres and the promotion of collective action was timely and appropriate to commercialise while addressing challenges that have bedevilled the goat farmers over a prolonged period. Farmers like Lizzy can apply for Smart Subsidies under the project to upscale their production through breed improvement and infrastructure development.


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