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Josh Mallett (aka RIP), has been making music for the past 17 years. In that time he has aspired to become a well known local DJ, producer and filmmaker. His passion for music and video production can easily be measured by the amount of energy and focus he puts into every project. He is canny in his decision making when it comes to producing big sounding records with cinema quality music videos on a limited budget. Of course, he would tell you that his friends and family are the real reason he has achieved what he has. Not only because they (and God) inspire him to make the music he does, but also because they often play significant roles in his songs and videos.
We sat down with Josh and spoke to him about his upcoming album, Trinity, set to be released on May 19th, 2017. It's coincidentally the third album in a series of releases which have spanned from 2010 until now, the previous albums titled, Fashionably Late and Sellout.
In addition, we talk a bit about the music industry and get the scoop on his coming of age story, a testament to the evolution of a striving artist who started from the ground up.
Josh Rip, originally based out of Northern Chicago, has now been a Madison-based artist for a number of years. Since his arrival he has managed to win five Madison Hip Hop Awards, an achievement very few can say they have accomplished. His last two albums were huge successes in the Madison hip hop community, and no doubt the third will be as well.
Note: This interview has been edited for clarity.
J: So we are chilling in the studio with Josh Rip.
R: What's going on?
J: It's going pretty good. How are you?
R: Excellent man!
J: So, when and where did you start making music?
R: Man, this is throwing it back. This is going to date me, but I started making music in the 90's in my bedroom. I had started DJing at 14 years old back home in Waukegan, Illinois.
J: What type of music gear did you start with?
S: Meow?
Sammie, Josh's cat just jumped up on Josh's lap.
R: Welcome, cat, Sammie. *chuckles*
J: That is a really cool cat. Is she a tortoiseshell?
R: I'm not really sure.
J: She looks like a tortoiseshell. They have a lot of personality.
R: She loves attention, that's for sure!
*We laugh*
J: So, anyway. Back to the question. What type of music gear did you start with?
R: I started with a Radio Shack mixer, turntable, cassette player and CD player. I would record music on my computer before digital work stations like FL Studio were popular. This was back when Cool Edit Pro existed, which is now Adobe Audition. I would record instrumentals through my analog mixer into a program called N-Track Studio. That was when I got my first taste of really being able to record stuff digitally. I was 14 then and couldn't afford to go to a recording studio… and then I got into producing with FL Studio right around 2001-2002. It was called Fruity Loops at the time.
J: What gear do you use today?
R: I have a home studio in my basement. I have a TASCAM 8-track digital audio workstation and a MIDI controller. I use a lot of software. I have a couple racks and a compressor for my vocals. It's pretty much all software though. I use Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Audition, After Effects and Premier. And I still rock FL Studio.
J: So I see you have a platinum record on your wall. What is that for?
R: It's a certification for Twista's Kamikaze album. Back in the early 2000's I created a website for Twista which later became his official website. I had been making my own websites on sites like Angelfire since the late 90's and started my own official website rip-records.com in March of 2000. Being from Chicago, Twista was one of my major influences but he didn't have a fan page back then, so I built one for fun and that hobby kind of turned into something. The website was going strong with hundreds of thousands of views per month during the time when Twista was in between labels. The site helped his career by showing Atlantic Records that he had a huge core following, and because of that, they gave me a platinum plaque.
J: That's awesome! So what projects are you currently working on?
R: My current project is called, Trinity. It's my third studio album, hence the name, but there are other reasons for that too. It's a new direction, a new phase in my life. Sellout was released 5 years ago and in that time I grew a lot. I matured and came to a point where my new music was leaning on my faith. I wouldn't put the album in a box calling it Christian hip hop though. I think it's got its own lane.
J: How is this new project different from previous records you've made?
R: Like I said, this album is more faith based. It deals with my struggles and addictions, issues with my family. I wouldn't say it has a darker vibe to it but it's more vulnerable. On my last two albums I took a more commercial approach. They were feel good albums. I geared them toward radio play. This new album is me, the real me. This is who I am and you can't use it against me. I put all my faults out there for the world, to let people know I am still accepted by God despite my flaws. That is the message I am trying to convey on the album.
J: What makes this project stand out from the other records you have made?
R: What makes this album special to me personally is I feel God really had his hand on this album, especially lyrically. There were some lyrics where I thought wow, this is something I never could have come up with on my own. Everyone has their own beliefs. I believe our talents were given to us by God.
J: What artists did you work with on your latest project?
R: The artists I worked with on this album were artists I have worked with on previous projects. My guy Billy, aka Sincere, I worked with him on my last album. He is a real talented dude. My homie, ANT da Hopeboy, he blessed me with some vocals. He and I actually won collaboration of the year in 2013 at the Madison Hip Hop Awards. A new vocalist I featured on this album was Katie Scullen. I actually had recorded something with her for my last album but the song didn't make the cut. I love her voice. She has a distinct soulful voice. She has a passion. Even when we shot the video for the single she came out and got her feet dirty out in the swampy grass. She is an artist in every form.
J: Who are your musical influences?
R: Early on, early 90's I listened to a lot of Chicago rap, artists like Twista, Crucial Conflict and Do or Die, but also Warren G and Dr. Dre. And then I got out of that phase and I started becoming influenced by everything. I became more influenced by pop culture and even country music.
J: How do you connect with your fan base?
R: Through social media and live shows mostly. I get a lot of response on Facebook. I also love to perform live. My CD release party will be held at Lucky's 1313 Brew Pub, Wednesday May 17th, 2017. I will also be performing May 27th, 2017 at Brat Fest. I love my supporters though. I don't even like the word fan because that just sounds like we are on two different levels. One of my favorite lyrics is that "I was given a platform but never a pedestal." I don't like being put on that level where people feel like they can't reach out to me.
J: I totally agree. So how do you feel about the music industry?
R: Bittersweet. We are in a different era from when I started making music. I feel like the industry is over-saturated. Anybody can record music or film a video and put it on YouTube and consider themselves an artist, which is great, but it's also a double-edged sword. It's harder to get music on blogs. It's harder to get noticed. At the same time there are a lot of self made musicians who are making it without a record label. Back in the day you needed a record label to help get your music out. Today, if you can get an organic following of supporters you might not need a record label because you have so many supporters and so much muscle already behind you.
J: Do you feel the digital age has helped or hurt artists sell albums?
R: I feel like the digital age has helped and hurt. I read somewhere that they are really starting to crack down on piracy, which I feel is a good thing. It seems like people are starting to accept paying for music online. At first they didn't want to, but now it seems people are coming around… I believe digital is the future though. I knew that back before mp3's were even popular. I was already streaming music from my website in the late 90's. It's a good thing. It gives people a platform to promote their music and get recognized across the world. Traditionally, I wouldn't have been able to get my music out to people from other countries very easily.
J: Would you be upset if people pirated your music?
R: My music has been pirated. Fashionably Late, I think I've seen it on the Pirate Bay. I wouldn't be upset. I see it like people want my music and they will get it by any means necessary. I appreciate it. At the end of the day, people who are going to buy music will buy it, and people who are going to pirate it will pirate it. There is no stopping it, but I prefer people purchase my music since it helps me continue doing what I am doing.
J: In what formats do you release your music?
R: I typically release my music in two formats, on CD and digitally (iTunes, Spotify etc.). When I released Fashionably Late in 2010, I thought that would be the last CD I ever pressed up, but the funny thing is I'm still pressing up CD's. I like to have a hard copy.
J: Do you feel physical media is still relevant?
R: Physical media is still important. You get things with it you don't get with digital media. Interacting with fans and giving them something personal that they can take with them is important. I remember buying Vanilla Ice's To The Extreme on cassette which had a booklet of pictures and all the lyrics, and for some reason I really liked that. Being an aspiring rapper, I wanted to get to know the artist. When you search for lyrics online they are often wrong. So having something official from the artist is a good thing, credits, who produced what tracks, I love that. It's an art form in and of itself.
J: How do you feel about streaming services like Spotify?
R: It's the future. It's what people are using to listen to music. Trinity has been distributed on Spotify as well as my last two albums. I am open to having my album on all platforms, whether they pay full price on iTunes or stream through services like Spotify where I get pennies on the dollar per stream, if that, or whether people pirate it, as long as my music is getting out there that's all that matters to me honestly. This latest album especially is not about the money. This album is about evangelizing and ministry. God has blessed me with the things he has and so the money I make is a blessing from God from Him. He will take care of me.
J: How do you finance the production of your album and your videos then?
R: I pour a lot of my own personal money into my music, income I make DJing and producing videos for other people on the side. My music career is not funding itself. But even if I made a million dollars I would put 60% of that back into the music. It's a never ending investment. You have to invest in yourself. I feel that is why people have taken me seriously for this long because I am constantly investing in myself. I cut a lot of costs by producing my own videos, recording my own music. I am a very frugal guy not just in my music career but in my personal life. I cut out middlemen and get the best prices I can on resources. But it still gets expensive. You have to pay for help, for visual effects, sub contractors etc. There are a lot of talented people out there but they are not going anywhere because they don't invest in themselves.
J: Your music videos look amazing by the way. What gear do you use to make them?
R: I shot on a Canon T2i for a couple of years which was a DSLR. Then I upgraded to a Panasonic GH4 which was a DSLM. It was mirrorless, so it wasn't a DSLR, but it was a camera. And then I just recently upgraded to a film camera, the Black Magic Ursa Mini 4.6k which was a big step for me, but it was something I needed to get to take things to the next level.
J: When and where can we purchase your next album?
R: Trinity will be available on my website, whoisrip.com. You will be able to order the CD from there. The CD is great. It has a booklet with all of the lyrics to the songs as well as a bunch of pictures. It will also be available at all digital retailers.
J: Anything else you want the readers to know?
R: I want to thank everyone for reading. I want to thank Murfie for interviewing me. I want to thank everyone who helped out with my album. My homie, Memory, lent me some dope production. He is a great guitarist and producer. I recommend him to everyone. DJ Pain 1 lent some percussive production on the album. Katie Scullen, ANT and my homie Sincere, you guys are awesome. I appreciate all the supporters who are still rocking with me with this new album, new sound and new direction. I love you guys.
Listen to the full RIP interview on Audiomack:
Check out more of Rip's latest music videos from his upcoming album Trinity:
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3D Day
We love 3D Design – and we love working with primary schools so we spent last Wednesday grinning from ear to ear. It was a cold wet January day but we enough to be working with the whole of St Peter's Primary School so that kept us happy!
We used flat packed cake boxes (I know!) to demonstrate to KS1 how we can take flat 2D objects and make them 3D with a few folds. The children were amazed and loved creating things out of their boxes – reception made wonderful buildings complete with windows and doors they had photographed and printed off. They actually look incredibly lifelike – especially when put together to form a street.
Year 1 made aquariums – they created a blue collage background for the water and hung their cut out fish from cotton so they could swim along. – someone even made a glorious octopus.
Y2 & 3 both created theatres form their boxes – Y2 made wonderful seaside Punch and Judy show and 3 designed and built shadow theatres to tell the story of their favourite books.
Y4 & Y5 wove paper to make baskets – again taking a flat material and giving it extra dimension. And they now have a perfect size holder eachh for their learning kits.
For Y6 we made our own version of Ray & Charles Eames House of Cards and discovered that by bending and attching and slotting together flat card we could make huge 3D structures
All in all a super fun time – with all 240 children taking home their unique 3D creation. We can't wait to revisit in the Summer term.
Marvellous Mosaics at gorgeous Greenside
We have just finished a fabulous 3 week project with Greenside Primary School in Shepherds Bush creating a colourful and creative entrance to a really wonderful school. The 240 pupils designed and made mosaics to brighten up the slightly unloved front of their school.
The building was designed by Erno Goldfinger in 1949 and is a Grade II listed building which gave us an interesting challenge as everything we did had to be portable and non permanent but still durable and part of the school. To overcome this we cast concrete in to large planters to hold the arbour and created a slide on-slide off hooking system for the large school emblem mosaic which sits on the tower of the school.
Working with local mosaic artist Emily Fuller we ran a CPD session with all the teachers prior to starting the project. They then worked with their classes using graph paper, colour paper and pens to all create their own design for their year group planter.Emily used elements from each design produced by the children and drew them up, with a colour chart (think painting by numbers) onto large sheets of brown paper. We spent a half day with each form during which they stuck the coloured glass mosaic tiles on to the paper. Each child in the school had a go at this & really enjoyed it.
All the classes from Nursery to Y4 created mosaic panels to cover 4 sides of their own special planter. Y5 spent a day with Davis Baker measuring, marking, cutting, refining and joining wood to create the arbour and trellis.
Y6 worked on the wonderful mosaic of the school logo. Emily created a cartoon of the logo by laying out a large disk on paper with the school logo on it transferred this by hand to the circular marine ply base. The children (who will all be leaving the school this year) then cut and laid the tiles to make their own special legacy which now hangs proudly on the tower at the side of the main entrance.
All in all it was a really fabulous project for everyone concerned. We are delighted with the results and thrilled that such forward thinking teachers (Bec Tossell and Karen Bastick-Styles and their lovely team) were able to see the benefit of all the children working together to create such a dramatic and special piece of art that they and the wider community can enjoy every day.
Brilliant bagatelles
Well what would you do with a sheet of plywood and some dowel? (and an amazing D&T teacher, a brilliant RCA student and 17 children?) We were lucky enough to be back at one of our favourite places last week – the spacious and well equipped DT block at Phoenix High School.
At the end of the February camp one of regular students, Beau, asked if we could make pinball machines. Well, we didn't really have the time to create and arcade in 3 days but David Baker came up with a plan to make the next best thing.
All 17 children were given some wood, glue and nails and a worksheet. They discussed the challenges of making their own game, planned how and where they would put their traps and came up with a theme. They measured, sawed, glued and nailed accurately and creatively to create their very own version of the traditional wooden desktop game.
Led by Adam Findlay (ex-cabinet maker and now DT teacher) and ably assisted by Monika Muller (RCA) they worked really hard both in groups and alone to solve problems and find solutions.
It was wonderful to see their ideas taking shape and by Thursday afternoon we had 17 very different bagatelles! Ranging from Batman, through PacMan, and including Night Sky and beautifully sanded and varnished wood we almost did have our own arcade!


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On September 20, 1958 in Harlem Hospital, Dr. W.V. Cordice Jr. worked with a team of surgeons to help save the life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – then 29 years old – from a stab wound to the chest. The blade had missed his aorta by millimeters, and doctors said a sneeze could have caused him to bleed to death. "I think if we had lost King that day, the whole civil rights era could have been different," Dr. Cordice said.
Dr. John Cordice sitting in his home with a photo of the operating room the night Dr. King was stabbed.
Dr. Cordice was a modest hero. He remained quiet about his feat until a 2012 interview with the public radio station WNYC. "It is entirely consistent with his character that many who knew him may well not have known that he was also part of history," said Alan D. Aviles, the president of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation.
Some of Dr. Cordice's other astounding medical contributions include serving as a doctor for the Tuskegee Airmen, the famed group of African-American WWII pilots, and being part of the team that performed the first open-heart surgery in France.
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The Bhagavad Gita is considered to be one of the holiest books by Hindus. It describes the education that Krishna, an avatar of Vishnu distills into Arjuna, a warrior of the Pandava clan. In it is contained Hinduism's most essential concepts laid out in as accessible a way as possible without any compromise on the quality of the ideas being dealt with. Its unique position within the epic Mahabharatha further adds to its prominent and even necessary consideration for anybody interested in the Hindu way.
The Gita is Krishna's answer to Arjuna's dilemma regarding the impending Kurukshetra war. Arjuna realizes that in fighting the war he will be forced to kill his own cousins and relatives - a terror he finds hard to stomach and finds in himself an indecisiveness he has never before experienced, quite uncharacteristic for a warrior of his stature and caliber.
Beck's Cognitive Triad
Before we progress further, I would like to bring to notice Beck's Cognitive Triad which is a widely held indicator of the belief system present in an individual suffering from depression. Borrowing from here, let us see how it maps to Arjuna's predicament.
1. The self is worthless - Arjuna realizes that no matter what he does he is powerless in stopping the guilt and misery that he would face (and therefore lacks in self-worth). If he did not fight the war his brothers (the Pandavas) would be slaughtered but if he did he would be forced to kill his own cousins and relatives.
2. The world is unfair - Arjuna, perhaps for the first time questions the factors that has placed him in his current situation. He makes the rational connection that no matter what he does, he is a sinner for by killing his own relatives he is harming his family and by refusing to fight he is going against his Dharma of being a warrior.
3. The future is hopeless - Arjuna fears the ramifications of any of the choices before him because both lead to his ruin. Pain and guilt from murdering his loved ones could leave him an emotional wreck or the shame and eventual estrangement from abandoning his family and duty at the time when he was most needed.
It becomes clear that Arjuna is in a state of not being able to move forward (with the war) or backward (by abandoning it). He therefore lays down his arms (gives up) and confides in Krishna - his charioteer, his best friend and someone about whom he had always held as there to being something more.
The Modern Man's Solution
Most of the time we err by looking at religious or philosophical treatises by taking them at their face value without first seeing what we can learn from them. It is necessary, before we try to judge a piece of knowledge as having value or not to first try and understand how much of a difference is present between who we are and what the treatise before us is exalting us to be. In much the same spirit let us try to understand what the modern man would do in Arjuna's place.
We have been taught to exercise logic in the place of emotional strife and emotional sensitivity in times of logical conundrums. One would choose the less pricey piece of furniture when two pieces of it have the same appeal and decide based on appeal when they are priced the same. When even this fails we are conditioned to look at the greater good and decide how our decisions would impact society (how would the other people using this piece of furniture experience it?) by actively engaging our theory of mind. With this attitude Arjuna's decision is very clear - he has to fight in the war simply because the Kauravas are the "bad" guys and the Pandavas are the "good" guys. He would be appropriate in claiming onto himself the title of self-sacrificing martyr for the emotional pain and sin that he has to endure for the greater good of the land.
In modern capitalist society where individual freedom is placed as the highest right the concept of Dharma takes a fuzzy position. At best it can be summarized as one's ethical duty to one's profession coupled with the loyalty to one's own brand. In the case of Arjuna his warrior Dharma is considered quite expendable because in today's ideal of equality he could resurface as an expert in any other field and in a totally different social setting (and away from his harmful and dysfunctional familial environment). With this attitude Arjuna's decision is very clear - he has to abandon the war and start over. He needn't unnecessarily take on the sin of murder for what can be interpreted as a pointless war that is happening largely because of pride and irrational and outdated ideas of honour and ownership. As a free man he has a duty to his conscience and his identity as a human being above all. He should choose the path that best ensures his long term survival.
I guess you or I would find either of the above decisions easy to make with support from people close to us.
Krishna's Solution
As you might have guessed Krishna doesn't provide Arjuna with either of the above solutions but eventually Arjuna does decide to fight. What then could Krishna's message have been?
The more self-righteous of my acquaintances have summarized Krishna's message as "Do your best and leave the rest (to Krishna)". On genuinely living with this in mind I realized that it has robbed me of my own faculties of discrimination. The problem never lay in "best", "leave" or "rest" but it may in "Do". I had to ask myself how I knew what to do - and if I then did that whether I was free from ALL repercussions (negative or positive) of my actions?
If I could humbly summarize my understanding of the message of the Gita it is this: "Your life is being lived (by Krishna)". The imago dei whose splendor Krishna shows to Arjuna as his Vishwaroopa (cosmic form) contains within it all potential paths and their consequences that the Ego can experience. Keeping this absolute in mind we can summarize that any path that Arjuna chooses is equally unimportant compared to the magnificence of Krishna.
For those in the darkness that depression puts them under THE key component for recovery is an understanding that everything cannot be perfect all the time. For the more socially insecure, it amounts to the fact that not everybody can be pleased. Eventually in the Gita, Arjuna, like the recovering depressive takes a decisive stand to fight the war (for the future, the greater glory of the Pandava clan and for his Dharma as a Kshatriya) but unlike the modern depressive (who might experience a narcissist rage at the system and those that caused their ordeal) is secure in his understanding of the nature of life itself - that we are nothing but Krishna dreaming consciousness.
Personal Notes
1. Please forgive any factual errors. Do point them out!
2. I understand that I'm grossly reducing the full message of the Bhagavad Gita. You DON'T have to point that out! (But do if you feel like)
3. Thanks for making it to Pt 3. Really.
4. I'm not an expert on the Bhagavad Gita, depression, English or even the human condition. But I am a human being with idle moments which I spend mulling on topics like this article rather than go "meh" at somebody's latest share on a social media platform
Personal Notes
1. Please forgive any factual errors. Do point them out!
2. I understand that I'm grossly reducing the full message of the Bhagavad Gita. You DON'T have to point that out! (But do if you feel like)
3. Thanks for making it to Pt 3. Really.
4. I'm not an expert on the Bhagavad Gita, depression, English or even the human condition. But I am a human being with idle moments which I spend mulling on topics like this article rather than go "meh" at somebody's latest share on a social media platform
5. I'm very aware that the phrase "Your life is being lived" isn't adequately explained but the complete meaning behind that can be found in the Jungian archetype of The Self.


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If you're not a fan of traditional Irish music, Guinness and merriment, try to avoid the Tube on March 12 and 13th. TfL has partnered with the Irish Embassy to bring St Patrick's Day to London's usual misery hotspots, and will host live music performances -- hopefully more than a couple of buskers -- at a number of Underground stations around the capital.
The transport body hasn't yet revealed where the shows will be held, but told us to expect Irish music, poetry and dancers. Sounds like a good, if slightly crowdy, time.
A special exhibition will also take place at Moorgate station, to recognise the contributions of Irish workers to the development of the London's rail networks. Time to dust off your green socks, novelty hats and stories about how you're a sixteenth Irish on your ma's side. [IrishPost]
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A FORMER UCLan student hanged himself in a hotel room after taking 'fatal' levels of heroin, an inquest heard.
Damian Michael Graham, 29, was found dead by a housekeeper in room 203 of Blackburn town centre's Premier Inn on January 16.
After initially struggling to get into Mr Graham's bedroom, the cleaner walked in to find Mr Graham's 'cold' body, the inquest heard.
She shouted for colleagues and an ambulance was called but she said it was "impossible" to perform any resuscitation on the 'lifeless' Mr Graham.
The inquest heard Mr Graham had initially booked a single-night stay at the Premier Inn on January 14, but decided to stay an extra night on January 15.
He told the cleaners not to clean his room and was not seen by hotel staff again.
Detective Inspector Paul Barlow, of Blackburn CID, who was called to the scene of Mr Graham's death, said there were no injuries or assaults to suggest third-party involvement.
Pathologist Dr Deepa Jacob, who carried out the post-mortem examination, said the medical cause of death was hanging and raised morphine levels.
Following a toxicology report, Mr Jacob said he believed Mr Graham's death occurred shortly after he took the heroin he and found 'toxic levels' of morphine in his blood system.
For seven years Mr Graham, who was born in Blackburn in April 1988, battled with mental health issues and drug addiction and three times he attempted to take his own life.
According to Mr Graham's GP records, his mood swings were first reported in 2011 after he went to see various mental health specialists but there was no suggestion of suicidal thoughts at that time.
He met with drug and alcohol service Inspire's recovery manager in April 2016 after he had overdosed on heroin and suffered a cardiac arrest and had to be admitted to Royal Blackburn Hospital.
He was offered support with detox and recovery and weeks later was reported to be feeling much 'brighter' and openly talked about his plans for a future career.
Speaking to a mental health specialist about a potential relapse, Mr Graham said: "Danger of what? That was the past."
However, Mr Graham relapsed on December 4 last year and was taken to Royal Blackburn Hospital after he had taken steps to end his own life, although Mr Graham claimed he did not have enough heroin to do it.
On Christmas Eve, Mr Graham, of Ashworth Close, Blackburn, left his home saying he was going away for a few days and ended up back at the hospital after he had relapsed. Mr Graham was later discharged from hospital again on January 10.
It was agreed with Mr Graham's mother, Tracy, that he would return home but her son never went back to Ashworth Close and instead stayed at hotels in the area, never giving the health specialists a fixed address.
Tracy contacted her son by text and prompted him to get in touch with the mental health team, but he said told his mother to reschedule their next appointment, and she last heard from her son on the morning of January 15.
Reading a conclusion that Mr Graham had committed suicide, coroner James Newman described Mr Graham's death as a tragedy and added mental health issues and drugs were the two biggest demons in modern society.
Mr Newman said: "The tragedy is Damian had completed detoxification which is a statement to his own strength but tragically relapsed. My sincerest condolences to the family. I hope he and the family can find peace."


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Email is a crucial part of running a business – Email is used to communicate with customers, market new products, reach out to potential clients, and the list goes on. While many other methods of communications are available today such as social media networks, chatbots, and collaboration tools like Slack – email is here to stay. In fact, Internet Live Stats currently estimates that approximately 2,641,007 emails are sent every second.
When we talk about business email, there are basically two use cases: transactional emails and marketing emails. Transactional emails typically include information the recipient needs or wants, and the emails are usually automated notifications triggered by user actions. Account creation emails, account notification emails, and purchase receipts are examples of transactional emails. Marketing emails contain information that aims to attract, convert, and retain customers. Newsletters, promotions, and advertisements are a few examples of marketing emails.
This blog post highlights several email APIs businesses could use to integrate transactional and marketing email capabilities with applications:
1. Amazon SES
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a basic email sending and receiving service. It requires some effort to integrate Amazon SES with applications but can be a cost-effective email solution. Amazon SES documentation is extremely thorough although a little hard to follow. Amazon provides many resources for developers including code examples, SDKs, and a sandbox for testing Amazon SES API calls. Pricing is based on what services are used, and while there is a free tier, fees for attachments, mail chunks, and EC2 data transfers apply to all users.
2. MailChimp
MailChimp focuses on email marketing, marketing automation, and branding. MailChimp is a great solution for building and maintaining mailing lists, segmenting lists into different groups, creating marketing campaigns, and automating marketing tasks. The documentation is well-designed and comprehensive with many guides and code examples with corresponding results. There's also a Playground for testing MailChimp API calls with your own data and in real time. Pricing is based on the number of subscribers as opposed to the number of emails sent per month.
Learn how to get an API Key here.
3. Mailgun
Mailgun describes its product as the "transactional email API service for developers." Mailgun can be used by developers to easily add to applications email sending, receiving, tracking, validation, and other email capabilities. The Mailgun API can be used for a variety of use cases from adding basic messaging to applications to building advanced marketing applications. The documentation is comprehensive, easy to follow, and you can view code samples in a number of languages. Pricing is based on the number of messages sent per month along with the number of dedicated IP addresses used.
4. SendGrid
SendGrid focuses primarily on transactional email, primarily transactional senders. The platform does include marketing email capabilities but does not currently have advanced automation built into its tool. Developers can use the SendGrid API to easily add transactional email capabilities such as weekly user stats emails and password reset emails to applications. The documentation is easy to follow, interactive, and provides code samples for a number of languages. Pricing is based on the number of emails sent per month and the number of contacts stored in Marketing Campaigns.
Related: How to use the SendGrid API
5. Temp Mail
Use this API to produce temporary email addresses. The email addresses will "self-destruct" after a certain amount of time making it no longer available.
This API could come in handy when you need to provide email addresses but do not want to disclose personal information.
To get started, subscribe to a pricing plan and connect to the API. The Temporary Email API allows up to 100 free API calls per month.
Which Email API Should You Choose?
The only way to know which Email API is the best one for your use case is to try them all out. All of these APIs have a free tier so that developers can try them out and see if they work well in their applications. It's also important to carefully review the pricing for each API (all of these providers have a pricing calculator on their website). Pricing for most of these APIs is based on email volume per month so the higher the email volume, the higher the cost.
Summary: Best Email APIs
|Basic email sending and receiving service
|Free Tier.
Fees for attachments, mailchunks, and EC2 data transfers
|Build and maintain mailing lists
|Based on number of subscribers
|Easily add email sending, receiving, tracking, validation, and more
|Based on number of messages sent/month
|Add transnational email capabilities
|Based on number of emails/month and number of contacts
|Temp Mail
|Create temporary disposable emails
|Free up to 100 daily calls. Paid plans available.
Check out some of the other Email APIs listed here on RapidAPI.


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It's the perfect time to revel in the intoxicating floral aroma and sweet lemon flavor that only Meyer lemons can offer. If you're lucky, your backyard tree is loaded with these beauties, but if not, you will now begin to see them at your local farmers market or grocery store ready for the taking. The sweet flavor of Meyer lemons make them a natural to use in desserts, but they are also perfect for cocktails, pastas, chicken, salads and other savory dishes. The possibilities are endless. Meyer lemons might just be one of natures best inventions; so if you haven't already, fill up your grocery cart with a few of these golden gems while you can!
The Basics:
Meyer lemons are a cross between Eureka or Lisbon lemons and a Mandarin or orange. This variety of lemon contains less acid and has a thinner peel than your average lemon. They are also a much milder, sweeter in flavor and often have a deeper yellow almost orange tone to them.
In Season:
Meyer lemons are typically at their peak from December through April.
What to Look For:
When looking for the perfect Meyer lemon make sure it is plump and has a smooth shiny skin with a golden hue sometimes reminiscent of an egg yolk. Try to avoid picking lemons that have any blemishes, soft spots, discolorations or punctures. Lemons with a green tint to their skin are not fully ripe and should be passed up. Make sure that they feel heavy for their size and have a fragrant smell when their skin is gently rubbed. They should be firm to the touch but should give under slight pressure.
Meyer lemons are an excellent source of vitamin C, which is crucial to the function of a strong immune system and is linked with a reduced risk of death from stroke and heart disease. They also contain great anti-cancer and antioxidant properties. Meyer lemons are high in calcium, potassium and vitamin A. One lemon contains about 30 calories of juice and is low in fat making them a great addition to a low fat diet or for use for individuals with coronary disease.
How to Store:
Meyer lemons can be kept at room temperature for up to a week or for about 3 weeks in the refrigerator. If you have more lemons than you can use before spoiling, squeeze the juice into ice cube trays and once frozen, transfer the cubes to a freezer bag or airtight container for up to 6 months.
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1 medium Meyer lemon equals about 3 tablespoons of juice.
Meyer lemons can be substituted for standard lemons in most recipes; just expect a sweeter flavor with less acid.
Meyer lemon juice, when squeezed on cut avocados or apples, can delay browning.
Vegetables like turnips, potatoes and cauliflower will keep their color in water that contains lemon juice.
Before cutting, roll your lemon firmly on a flat surface to release the juice.
Because the skin and pith of a Meyer lemon is so thin, they can often be eaten in their entirety, peel included.
If you are trying to reduce your sodium or fat intake, try squeezing fresh lemon juice in or over your dish instead of adding salt or butter.
You can store dried lemon zest in a cool and dry place in an airtight container, to use for future recipes.
Meyer Lemon Recipes you might enjoy:
Meyer Lemon Pudding Cake from Two Peas and Their Pod
Meyer Lemon Risotto from Simply Recipes
Meyer Lemon Cheesecake Cake from Recipe Girl
Fizzy Blueberry Meyer Lemonade from White on Rice Couple
Meyer Lemon Basil Pasta from The Shiksa
Meyer Lemon Macadamia Nut Tart from Love and Olive Oil
Meyer Lemon Pizza from How Sweet It Is
Meyer Lemon Brown-Butter Cookies from Bake at 350
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The newly awarded patent might help Apple to provide additional sources of information for Siri
There are times when Siri is just not able to find the answer to the questions posed by users, especially if the questions are asked using the confusing language. Apple Balla reports that Apple is hoping to support Siri by providing additional sources of information, including crowdsourcing. The Apple was awarded a new patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office, which describes how Apple plans on tapping into the crowd to find answers. The new patent called "Crowd sourcing information to fulfill user requests" explains the next step in Siri's evolution in offering better quality information to the users of Apple's devices.
At the moment, Siri uses Yelp, Wolfram Alpha and Bing to search for answers to the questions. But, these sources are sometimes just not capable of providing an answer, especially if the questions were worded in a confusing language. As described in the new patent, Apple's plan is to use additional information sources, such as online forums and general and expert info sources. The collected information will then be stored in a crowdsource database and will be accessible by asking questions using natural language.
The additional sources of information would be available to Siri if it could not answer a question, or the users could choose the source of information they prefer. Siri would depend on users' feedback and rating for further learning. The length of time the users would have to wait for an answer would depend on the difficulty of the question and the amount of time necessary to search the crowd for answers.


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Health care cloud offers some risk, endless possibilities
While some physicians still need reassurances about the benefits of cloud computing services, they could be an attractive answer for storage, networking and EHR systems.
Health care information technology, in many ways, trails other vertical markets. Contract attorney Diana McKenzie of HunterMaclean in Savannah, Ga. put it this way: When she first started practicing health IT law more than two decades ago, she found health care about eight years behind finance.
"People always thought I was really smart to know the future, but all I was doing was copying what was going on in the rest of the world," said McKenzie, in a presentation at the Health Information Management Systems Society's HIMSS 2011 conference. "That gap has narrowed now, but we're still three years or so behind what's happening in financial IT transactions."
McKenzie spoke about legal matters involving hospitals and their IT vendors, but one could say something similar about health care and cloud computing services. While the rest of the world more or less embraces cloud storage and applications -- whether it's something small such as Google Inc.'s Web-based Google Docs, large commercial services like Amazon.com or even elaborate private clouds -- health care is just warming to the idea.
Data ownership, regulations top health care cloud concerns
Part of the reason health care is just now taking its first tentative steps is because the sector's IT infrastructure is a few years behind. That's not surprising, considering the lives at stake when it comes to experimenting with new technology. Playing it safe is part of the science of health care.
Another part of the reason is fear of what could potentially go wrong when a provider entrusts protected health information to a third party. Physicians worry that cloud vendors won't be able to comply with state privacy laws as well as federal regulations -- chiefly HIPAA, but also Federal Trade Commission consumer protections. This becomes an even bigger fear when a cloud vendor outsources storage to foreign soil, where enforcement can be complicated.
Even in situations where a host company's security is robust, doctors have a hard time trusting outside vendors with patient data, said Robert Buchanan Jr., CIO of Anna Jacques Hospital in Newburyport, Mass. That perception will change, albeit slowly, as providers focus on implementing federal meaningful use requirements that incorporate data exchange in the cloud. "As we move forward, we'll overcome that cultural barrier. But it will take time for people to become comfortable with that."
Another issue is uptime and access. Since health care practitioners access data in the course of administering care, network access can literally be a life-or-death matter. That makes some physicians and their IT leaders leery of letting that data offsite.
Add to that the nebulous matter of ownership. Territorial physicians and hospitals compete and therefore do not necessarily trust third parties to handle patient data, assurances and contracts notwithstanding. Finally, what happens if either side fails to fulfill its contract -- that is, what if a health care provider cannot pay its bill on time, or what if the cloud service provider goes out of business? Is the data no longer available to the health care organization?
Cloud storage, data exchange the beginning
These are legitimate concerns, but prudent planning will reduce the risk that providers face. Necessity may drive health care cloud adoption anyway.
Many hospital data centers can't keep up with expanding demand from radiology departments producing X-rays, MRIs, CT scans and other imaging studies. Not only does increasingly sophisticated gear capture higher-resolution still images and videos than ever before, but state and federal laws are mandating longer terms of records storage -- up to 25 years in certain scenarios.
Prudent planning will reduce the risk that providers face, but necessity may drive health care cloud adoption anyway.
Most health care CIOs say that imaging comprises at least half of their data in storage, with some claiming it's up to two-thirds. With patient care documentation requirements escalating, electronic health record (EHR) systems, and their need for storage, are also growing. Add to that federal mandates to participate in health information exchange, or HIE, and it's a perfect storm for cloud storage and application vendors.
As part of the 2009 stimulus package, each state received funding to build an HIE organization, to which local physicians will connect. Eventually, the statewide HIEs will connect to each other. Meanwhile, private and public local and regional HIEs are springing up all over the country as well. Some cover a specific geographic area, such as the Brooklyn and Bronx boroughs of New York City. Others, such as Verizon Business' cloud-based health information exchange, aim to cover the entire nation.
The holy grail of HIE isn't single-patient data exchange, but whole-population health research that simply is not possible with current systems. By using clinical data analytics tools to examine disease trends and treatment patterns across the country, researchers will be able to better understand health care issues and respond more quickly to events such as food contaminations or pandemic flu outbreaks. On a smaller scale, some facilities have begun using data marts in private health care clouds as a portal to developing their own treatment innovations through research.
Private clouds also are proving to be a viable way for large hospitals to extend IT services to affiliated solo physicians in their communities. For example, Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center streamlined its EHR network by setting up a private cloud and virtual servers for remote physicians -- one server per doctor, with each containing practice management, billing and EHR modules. The service-oriented architecture (SOA) model may also suit the health care cloud, as it could potentially alleviate some security concerns.
Demand ultimately will push cloud computing offerings into the foreground of health care, according to Dr. Joseph Kvedar, director of the Center for Connected Health at Boston-based Partners HealthCare System Inc., which helps administer one of the most interactive telemedicine and personal health record (PHR) applications in the United States. As consumers push demand for telemedicine and PHR services, hospitals will have to turn to cloud computing services as their IT needs multiply beyond their technical ability to support them. Or for that matter, pay for them.
"The fact that you can buy unlimited storage for five bucks a month," Kvedar said, "[will] really help us lower our IT infrastructure costs."
Telemedicine, EHR systems on frontier of health care cloud
In May, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a final rule that eases the credentialing burden for telemedicine services. This is important first step in legitimizing the use of Web videoconferencing for remote doctor-patient visits.
Experts on both the hospital and vendor side believe telemedicine will first be used to connect specialists to patients in either sparsely populated rural areas or inner cities. Beyond that, remote patient monitoring devices, which send regular updates to physicians' EHR systems via Wi-Fi enabled computers and phones, show promise for home-based care for chronic disease patients, who would not have to come to physician offices as frequently as they do now.
Meanwhile, though the Apple Inc. iPad and its tablet competition are popular devices among physicians and nurses, so far they seem to be used more as consumer devices than tools to enable care delivery. However, EHR software for tablet devices, in conjunction with desktop virtualization, is changing that. This solves the problem of storing patient data on remote devices and, as a result, makes compliance with HIPAA patient privacy laws much simpler.
A few small vendors, including Pulse Inc. and ClearPractice LLC, offer Software-as-a-Service EHR systems accessible from a laptop or iPad. Most large vendors, such as General Electric Co. and eClinicalWorks LLC, have SaaS instances of their flagship EHR systems in the works or already on the market. Perhaps the most ambitious cloud EHR vendor so far is athenahealth Inc., which also includes practice management and billing components that track and pool claims reimbursement data into one database.
Let us know what you think about the story; email Don Fluckinger, Features Writer.


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Date: 09-11-2013
Source: Fortune
Mariana Zanetti had been working as a product manager for Shell (RDSA) in Buenos Aires when her husband got a promotion to a new job in Madrid. One of her colleagues, a Harvard Business School graduate, suggested that the Argentina native go to business school for her MBA while in Spain.
She took his advice, enrolling in the one-year MBA program at Instituto de Empresa (IE) Business School In Madrid. Zanetti borrowed money from her family to pay for the degree. And when she graduated in 2003, it took her a full year to land a job as a product manager at a Spanish version of Home Depot, at exactly the same salary she was earning three years earlier, without the MBA.
For years, Zanetti says, she wanted to write a book on her experience but didn't out of fear that it would hurt her career, which included stints as a product manager for Saint-Gobain and ResMed, a medical supplier. Now that she has left the corporate world, Zanetti says, she can tell the truth about the MBA degree.
Her take, in a self-published book called The MBA Bubble: It's just not worth the investment. "There is an education bubble around these kind of degrees," she says. "I don't think they have much impact on people's careers. There are exceptions, of course, in management consulting and investment banking, where the MBA is always valued. But for the rest, it's a nice-to-have degree. It's not that it is harmful to you, but every market expert I interviewed for the book says that what is needed today is specialized knowledge and skills, and an MBA is generalist training." Read the rest of this entry »


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The Goya Van and Goya man, Andy King plus assistant and Goya Youth rider
Chris Murray have arrived in Brandon Bay, South West Ireland. The van was
packed to the roof literally as it was carrying the complete line up of the
Goya range ready for any takers to come and demo. Jamie Knox Watersports are once again providing
with some great accomodation with in minutes from from the best beach of the day, after a fueling of
very filling breakfasts and early morning surf.
As usual Ireland has provided some great conditions already with 2 days of nice
clean surf on our arrival followed by an excellent wave sailing day at
Killcummin. It was20knts + side shore with some set wave grinding through at well
over logo high. Some out side sets were providing mast high ramps on the
way out allowing for some great height on jumps. As the tide came in it
produced a real punchy inside section for aerials.
Check out the pictures and join us on the kit designed for it.
The official dates for the Goya demo are the 24th April till May 15th,
however demo boards have already been out on the water, just ask at Jamie
Knox Watersports Centre for the Goya Vans location.
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Last week the QROWD team met Prof. Alessandro Bozzon from Delft University of Technology, to learn about his experiences in using crowdsourcing in smart city contexts.
Under the title "Weaving the Web of People and Things for Intelligent Cities", Prof. Bozzon provided an inspiring vision of the innovative approaches and practical examples of the work he and his team have been doing with IoT technology for crowd monitoring, and on traffic characterisation with social media. His presentation was followed by a constructive discussion on lessons learnt and their value for enhancing ongoing QROWD activities. Thank you Alessandro!


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Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Renée Perle, 1930-1931, originally uploaded by Gatochy.
comicslams: Secret Hearts No. 52, January 1959
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During the 1910s young girls wore big bows on their hair that fell onto the head, and so they became known as "flappers". The name would stick with this generation, as they grew up in the 1920s.
What a beautiful image; I adore this! Thanks so much for sharing.
She had such unique features, I've never seen anyone like her.


text: [Federal Register Volume 77, Number 192 (Wednesday, October 3, 2012)] [Notices] [Pages 60431-60432] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2012-24216] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0878; FRL-9364-4] Agrobacterium radiobacter strains K84/Kerr-84 and K1026; Notice of Availability AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: This notice announces the availability of EPA's final registration review decision for the pesticide Agrobacterium radiobacter strains K84/Kerr-84 and K1026, case 4101. Registration review is EPA's periodic review of pesticide registrations to ensure that each pesticide continues to satisfy the statutory standard for registration, that is, that the pesticide can perform its intended function without causing unreasonable adverse effects on human health or the environment. Through this program, EPA is ensuring that each pesticide's registration is based on current scientific and other knowledge, including its effects on human health and the environment. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For pesticide specific information, contact: Ann Sibold, Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division (7511P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (703) 305-6502; fax number: (703) 308-7026; email address: [email protected]. For general information on the registration review program, contact: Kevin Costello, Pesticide Re-evaluation Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (703) 305-5026; fax number: (703) 308-8090; email address: [email protected]. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. General Information A. Does this action apply to me? This action is directed to the public in general, and may be of interest to a wide range of stakeholders including environmental, human health, farm worker, and agricultural advocates; the chemical industry; pesticide users; and members of the public interested in the sale, distribution, or use of pesticides. Since others also may be interested, the Agency has not attempted to describe all the specific entities that may be affected by this action. If you have any questions regarding the applicability of this action to a particular entity, consult the pesticide specific contact person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. B. How can I get copies of this document and other related information? The docket for this action, identified by docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0878, is available at http://www.regulations.gov or at the Office of Pesticide Programs Regulatory Public Docket (OPP Docket) in the Environmental Protection Agency Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West Bldg., Rm. 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001. The Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the OPP Docket is (703) 305- 5805. Please review the visitor instructions and additional information about the docket available at http://www.epa.gov/dockets. II. Background A. What action is the agency taking? In accordance with 40 CFR 155.58(c), this notice announces the availability of EPA's final registration review decision for Agrobacterium radiobacter strains K84/Kerr-84 and K1026, case 4101. When used as a microbial pest control agent in seed, root, and stem treatments of nonbearing fruit, nut, and ornamental plants, Agrobacterium radiobacter is intended to protect treated plants from Crown Gall, which is caused by the plant pathogen, Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Both strains of Agrobacterium radiobacter control Agrobacterium tumefaciens through direct competition, which is primarily accomplished by the production of agrocin 84, a bacteriocin produced by both Agrobacterium radiobacter strain K84 and strain K1026 that is specific for certain pathogenic strains of Agrobacterium spp. Bacteriocins are peptides that are produced by certain bacteria, and are known to inhibit the growth of other bacteria. In accordance with 40 CFR 155.57, a registration review decision is the Agency's determination whether a pesticide meets, or does not meet, the standard for registration in FIFRA. EPA has considered Agrobacterium radiobacter strains K84/Kerr-84 and K1026 in light of the FIFRA standard for registration. The Agrobacterium radiobacter strains K84/Kerr-84 and K1026 Final Decision document in the docket describes the Agency's rationale for issuing a registration review final decision for this pesticide. In addition to the final registration review decision document, the registration review docket for Agrobacterium radiobacter strains K84/ Kerr-84 and K1026 also includes other relevant documents related to the registration review of this case. The proposed registration review decision was posted to the docket and the public was invited to submit any comments or [[Page 60432]] new information. During the 60-day comment period, no public comments were received. 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Present and future: Habitat III must acknowledge young people's role in shaping our cities
Such a role for children and the youth traditionally has gone unrecognized. The New Urban Agenda will fail if we don't reverse this trend.
How can cities of the future promote healthy, economically vibrant and inclusive environments for children and youths?
When over 60 percent of urban dwellers are projected to be under 18 years old by 2030, we cannot deny these groups' right to the city. But what kind of city do we need for the young, particularly to create an urban area that is healthy and just?
At a recent Urban Thinkers Campus organized by World Vision, participants offered a range of specifics on this question. A healthy city is one that promotes the sustainable management of water and waste, for instance, ensuring that children and youths have access to clean and safe physical environments. A just city is also one that sees children stay in school instead of working in informal labour, and one that gives youths access to safe and dignified work.
To attain this, cities will need to be equitable, inclusive and transparent. This means that processes of designing and monitoring urban policies and services take place at all levels of the city. Transparent cities also support innovative governance approaches such as participatory budgeting and community contracting, reflecting meaningful multi-stakeholder engagement.
[See: How Boston gives youth control over part of the city budget]
The Urban Thinkers Campus, held in Geneva at the end of October, was one of more than two-dozen global stakeholder events being organized as part of UN-Habitat's World Urban Campaign in the run-up to next year's Habitat III conference on urbanization. The Geneva campus was built around three issues affecting children and youth: water, waste and work. These issues were discussed by experts from UN-Habitat, the World Health Organization, the International Labour Organization, the Stockholm International Water Institute, Eawag, WasteAID and other groups.
One major focus of the sessions was on public space, in recognition of the theme of this year's World Habitat Day. Public space is a vital component of a prosperous city, and the state of public space is directly related to city residents' quality of life. Yet many children today live in overcrowded spaces in cities of the developing world, where streets are contaminated with hazardous waste, leading to inadequate safe spaces to play. Wasted space is a wasted asset of the city.
Another major focus was on urban environmental hygiene. Uncollected solid waste, poor water quality, and unreliable and inadequate facilities for dignified sanitation are growing problems within informal settlements. These concerns are also critical determinants of a child's well-being. Access to clean and reliable water alone significantly influences the probability of whether a child survives his or her first year of life.
Finally, the campus focused on urban livelihoods. Child labour is a fundamental violation of human rights, known to affect a child's mental and physical well-being. Estimates suggest that tens of millions of children, some as young as five years old, live or work on the streets of today's towns and cities. Children growing up in families that do not have access to decent work opportunities are often at higher risk of leaving school early and being exploited within the informal labour workforce. Child labour is rampant in the water and waste sector.
"With less than a year until Habitat III, the question we need to keep asking is: What is the role of children and the youth in identifying and designing solutions to key issues that will shape our future cities?"
[See: All of Citiscope's coverage on the Urban Thinkers Campuses]
If cities are really meant to be "designed to live together", as the World Cities Day motto suggests, children and youths must be counted in local, national and global decision-making processes that shape our future cities.
A strengthened role
Children are typically the first casualties of urban poverty — often living on the streets, engaged in hazardous child labour and trafficked to the city. More than a billion children reside in cities today, and millions of these are living in slum conditions.
With less than a year until Habitat III, the question we need to keep asking is: What is the role of children and the youth in identifying and designing solutions to key issues that will shape our future cities?
[See: Bridging the GAP: Urban advocacy for children and youths]
Traditionally, the role of children in shaping our cities has been unrecognized. But we have seen that when given the appropriate space and tools, children and youths are able to play multiple important roles.
They can impact policy by bringing information about their experiences, needs and solutions to governing bodies. They can hold decision-makers accountable by fulfilling a monitoring role to ensure good governance and accountability in cities. They can be transformational agents, and influence peers and communities to be responsible citizens.
For example, at the first Children's Assembly — led by World Vision at World Urban Forum 7 last year in Medellín — over 200 children from Colombia, Bolivia, El Salvador and Honduras gathered to demonstrate their role as knowledge experts of their cities. Carolina Jaramillo, 13, also addressed delegates, stating, "We are the present, we will be here tomorrow, and adults need to listen to us."
At that event, children and youths explored issues and solutions to attaining the city they feel they need. This resulted in a formal Children's Charter that was presented to Joan Clos, the secretary-general of Habitat III. "We need to break gaps: education and health for all, where cities do not develop themselves but we develop them," said Cecilia Condor, 13, from Bolivia. Guadalupe Castillo, 12, from El Salvador, said, "I want a healthy, educated, safe, clean city, without violence and with real leaders who can defend child rights."
In April in Bangladesh, children and youths raised key issues they faced in the city to nominated candidates for the mayor of Dhaka City Corporation, the first such elections in over a decade. Children and youths called upon mayoral candidates to demonstrate their commitment to young people's participation in processes to develop city planning, including establishing a strategy on child rights and allocating greater funding to budgets for these constituencies.
[See: In Dhaka, Habitat III forum confronts staggering population forecast]
At the Geneva Urban Thinkers Campus, participants explored two case studies that underscored the role that youth groups are already playing in the provision of basic urban social services — specifically, waste management in informal settlements and low-income areas of Nairobi. While addressing the inadequate supply of basic services, youth groups in these areas are contributing to safer public spaces and broader community development outcomes, including income-generation opportunities.
'Cities for children'
Together, the newly adopted Sustainable Development Goal 11 — the urban SDG, aiming to "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable" — and Habitat III present an important new opportunity. The global community can formally recognize children and youths, who are the present and future, as valued contributors to urban policy, including in the formulation and measurement of the New Urban Agenda, the 20-year urbanization strategy that will come out of Habitat III.
This is also an opportunity for child- and youth-focused organizations such as World Vision to promote this new vision. We want to see "cities for children" that are healthy, safe, resilient and prosperous, where children and youths thrive, especially the most vulnerable and marginalized. We want to see healthy and just cities where there is safe and sustainable access to water, waste and sanitation services, and where children are in school, not forced into unjust labour. We want to see cities where youths have access to decent work, and where transparency and participatory city planning is widely promoted.
"Participation isn't enough for cities; engagement is the real goal," Clos stated earlier this year in Tel Aviv. Indeed, U. N. member states need to commit to framing policies that are equitable and inclusive, where children, youths and their representative community organizations are key stakeholders in the decision-making of strategies and programmes related to human settlements.
These policies must balance economic development and the building of social capital. Doing so holds out the opportunity to transform cities into inclusive centres of growth, where all citizens of the city, including children and youths, receive their fair share of returns.
The New Urban Agenda will not succeed if we fail to recognize the diverse needs and perspectives of children and youths in the development of local, national and global urban policy.
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