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How the Kremlin Is Militarizing Russian Society - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Over the past eight years, the Russian government has promoted the idea that the motherland is surrounded by enemies, filtering the concept through national institutions like schools, the military, the news media and the Orthodox Church. It has even raised the possibility that the country might again have to defend itself as it did against the Nazis in World War II.
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      criscimagnael on 21 Dec 21
       
      Sounds like WWIII
  • And all are united by the near-sacred memory of Soviet victory in World War II — one that the state has seized upon to shape an identity of a triumphal Russia that must be ready to take up arms once more.
  • This year, the share of Russians saying they feared a world war hit the highest level recorded in surveys dating to 1994 — 62 percent.
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  • Celebration of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II — referred to as the Great Patriotic War in Russia — has played the most important role in that conditioning. Rather than promoting only a culture of remembrance of Soviet heroism and 27 million lives lost, the Kremlin applies the World War II narrative to the present day, positioning Russia as once again threatened by enemies bent on its destruction.
  • A popular World War II bumper sticker reads, “We can do it again.
  • “We’re doing a bit of propaganda, too,” the section leader quipped, declining to give his name.
  • no more than 4 percent — across all age groups — said Russia was at fault.
  • “Right now, the idea is being pushed that Russia is a peace-loving country permanently surrounded by enemies,” said Anton Dolin, a Russian film critic. “This is contradicted by some facts, but if you show it at the movies and translate that idea into the time of the Great Patriotic War, we all instantly get a scheme familiar to everyone from childhood.”
  • Polls show that young people have a more positive view of the West than older Russians, and the pro-Kremlin sentiment prompted by the Crimea annexation appears to have dissipated amid economic stagnation.
  • Veronika Osipova, 17, from the city of Rostov-on-Don near Ukraine’s border, won the award for best female student. For years, she played the harp, graduating with honors from an elite music school. But in 2015, she started learning how to shoot a machine gun and throw grenades. She resolved to join the Russian military to protect the country against its enemies.
  • “I follow the example of girls who, under bullets and grenades, went to fight during the Great Patriotic War,” Ms. Osipova said. “They had no choice, but we do have it, and I choose the army.”
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C.D.C. Recommends Pfizer or Moderna Vaccines Over J.&J - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday recommended that Covid vaccines other than Johnson & Johnson’s should be preferred,
  • The risk was greatest among women aged 30 to 49, estimated at 1 in 100,000 who had received the company’s shot.
  • Several laboratory experiments suggest that a single dose of Johnson & Johnson’s shot may offer little defense against infection with Omicron. The company said late last month that it was testing blood samples from clinical trial participants who have received its shot as a booster to see how their vaccine-induced antibodies fare against Omicron.
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  • Among Americans who have received a booster, just 1.6 percent chose Johnson & Johnson.
  • An increased risk for the condition has also been linked to the shot from AstraZeneca, which is not authorized in the United States. It has not been linked to the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines.
  • “It’s really important, though, that we not completely eliminate this vaccine,”
  • The people who died ranged in age from 28 to 62. Seven were women, and all were white. Obesity was the most common underlying medical condition. Two of the people who died did not have known medical problems, he said.
  • It was previously reported that males between 16 and 29 years had a heightened risk of developing myocarditis. Nearly 11 out of every 100,000 of them developed the condition a few days after being fully vaccinated. On balance, it was estimated that for boys 12 to 17, the shots would cause an estimated 70 myocarditis cases but prevent 5,700 infections, 215 hospitalizations and two deaths, the C.D.C. said. But most recovered within a short period of time.
  • despite the clotting concerns, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine prevented thousands of U.S. Covid hospitalizations compared to three to a dozen cases of the clotting syndrome, depending on the age group. Those over 64 avoided the most hospital stays. Like those immunized with other vaccines, thousands avoided hospitalization
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December 17 TikTok threat: Schools across Philadelphia region on alert due to threat of... - 0 views

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  • Earlier this year, TikTok challenges encouraged students to destroy school property. Now there's another one spreading nationwide. It started out as a challenge to ditch school, which morphed into a threat of violence at schools on Friday, December 17
  • "Years ago, not being as well versed in handling these situations, I think we would've reacted a little bit differently. But now our number one objective is to keep schools open and keep kids safe,"
  • "If you see a change in behavior in a student who is experiencing something profound: it could be deep depression, it could be anxiety, it could be them mentioning or displaying a weapon. It could be they're talking about suicide. Any kind of self-harm discussions. Please don't keep that inside,"
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12 Remaining Members of a U.S. Group Kidnapped in Haiti Have Been Released - The New Yo... - 0 views

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  • The 12 remaining members of a group of 17 North American missionaries who had been kidnapped in Haiti two months ago have been released,
  • The group, which included children, was made up of 16 Americans and one Canadian. They were taken in October by a gang called 400 Mawozo in a nei
  • ghborhood of Port-au-Prince after visiting an orphanage.
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  • Haiti’s caretaker government had asked for U.S. military assistance to safeguard critical infrastructure after Mr. Moïse’s murder, but the request was swiftly rejected in Washington. The United States has a long and troubled history of armed intervention in Haiti.
  • Gangs have steadily taken over new sections of the capital after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, in July, effectively seizing control of all overland supply routes to and from the city.
  • “If I don’t get what I need, these Americans, I’d rather kill them all,” Mawozo’s leader, Wilson Joseph, said in a video released on social media in late October, after police killed five of his gang’s members. “I’ll unload a big gun in the head of each one of them.”
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English Teenager Finds Bronze Age Ax Using a Metal Detector - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • On her third day out with a metal detector, Milly Hardwick, 13, found a hoard of items from more than 3,000 years ago. “We were just laughing our heads off,” she said.
  • In Britain, the biggest successes often involve discoveries of treasures from ancient eras — like the 3,000-year-old ax that a teenager unearthed in eastern England in September.
  • Milly, her father and her grandfather started dancing out of excitement, she said. They kept digging and found a hoard of other artifacts, including socketed ax heads, winged ax heads, cake ingots and blade fragments made of bronze. Milly’s findings were reported last month by The Searcher, a magazine about metal detecting.
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  • the council confirmed that 200 items, believed to be from the Bronze Age, were found.
  • The Bronze Age in Britain lasted from 2,300 B.C. to 800 B.C., during a period referred to as prehistoric England, before there were written records,
  • Bronze axes, she said, are “common enough that you would expect to find one, but rare enough to be excited when you do.” She added, “What’s unique about this one is the number of finds in one place, making it a hoard.”
  • Over the last two decades, museums around Britain have acquired more than 5,000 artifacts that were found by members of the public, including Bronze Age axes, Iron Age cauldrons and Roman coin hoards.
  • The growing popularity of metal detecting as a hobby meant that more historical objects were being found, including some of archaeological significance that did not meet the previous “treasure” definition, which had been in place since the 1990s. In 2019, 1,311 pieces went through the process in which a committee determines whether an item should be considered treasure, the highest number on record. In 1997, 79 pieces were found.
  • Since her discovery, Milly has gone out on most Sundays with her grandfather and father in search of more items. She says that when she grows up, she wants to be an archaeologist.
  • “The Romans have been there, everyone has been there — and we’re the ones to find it,”
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Man in Italy Tries to Get Vaccinated in a Fake Arm - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • “Rubber foam,” said Ms. Bua, 59. “It was made of rubber foam.”
  • His goal, she said, was to obtain a vaccination certificate, enabling him to go to work without actually getting the shot.
  • Last week, Italy announced that people would need proof of vaccination to sit inside bars and restaurants, and required the same proof from all hospital staff, teachers and law enforcement officers.
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  • The country has adopted several measures to push skeptics to get a vaccine. It became the first in Europe to mandate vaccinations for health care workers, then broadly required people to obtain a health certificate, or Green Pass, to participate in many social activities and to go to work.
  • “It was so humiliating,” Ms. Bua said, “thinking that a nurse cannot tell the difference between rubber foam and skin.”
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Anti-abortion advocates thrilled with possibility of overturning Roe v. Wade - 0 views

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      criscimagnael on 05 Dec 21
       
      It's terrifying to think that Roe v. Wade could be overturned at any time. No matter what your opinion is, it is important to know that it is so dangerous. Women who want abortions will find a way whether or not it is legal. Keeping it legal keeps it safe for everyone.
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Yes, There's a Blizzard Warning in Hawaii. No, It's Not That Weird. - The New York Times - 0 views

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      criscimagnael on 05 Dec 21
       
      Apparently snow is normal there, but the attention this blizzard warning is getting makes it seem as though this year it is unusually snowy and windy. It seems as though the harsher conditions are a byproduct of climate change
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In a Nonbinary Pronoun, France Sees a U.S. Attack on the Republic - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • the first lady. “There are two pronouns: he and she,” she declared. “Our language is beautiful. And two pronouns are appropriate.”
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      criscimagnael on 29 Nov 21
       
      It's surprising, yet not, that the first lady would say something so harsh. Although I'm unsurprised of her beliefs, I'm surprised she voiced her opinion so clearly and succinctly. Many politicians would try to sugarcoat their views to attempt to seem more inclusive, but she did not try to hide how she feels about it.
  • “This for me was very violent,” Mx. Delhomme said in an interview. “Coming from the first lady, from a woman, from a French teacher, from someone whose relationship went against many societal norms, it made me lose hope
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      criscimagnael on 29 Nov 21
       
      Mx. Delhomme found the first lady's statement as hurtful, and understandably so. As they stated, the Macrons do not conform to socially acceptable relationships and they too have faced adversity, which one reason Delhomme found this so shocking
  • “pronouns have not changed since the fourth century.” As for the masculine form, “it plays a generic role, that’s just the way it is, and has been since vulgate Latin.”
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      criscimagnael on 29 Nov 21
       
      Some people are stuck on tradition as the french pronouns have been the same for centuries. Some people argue that the masculine pronoun already represents the "generic" or non-binary role
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  • When a French dictionary included the gender-nonspecific “iel” for the first time, a virulent reaction erupted over “wokisme” exported from American universities.
  • “You must not manipulate the French language, whatever the cause,” he said, expressing support for the view that “iel” was an expression of “wokisme.”
  • American “woke” assault
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Climate Change Threatens Wine, and a Way of Life, in Jura - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • “We knew the French were struggling with changing climates, but we didn’t realize how bad it was until we got to Jura,” he said. “You can taste the impact by comparing different vintages. Yesterday I tried a chardonnay from 2019 and then from 2020 and there was a big difference.”
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      criscimagnael on 29 Nov 21
       
      Many people understand that climate change is an issue, but not many people understand how drastic, severe, and current it is
  • Some of them lost everything.”
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      criscimagnael on 29 Nov 21
       
      Climate change isn't something that will hurt us in the future, it's already damaging and harmful to our environment, obviously, but also our livelihoods.
  • I’m an optimist and I’m hopeful for 2022, but if it continues like this, how will we continue to make Jura wine? I really don’t know.”
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      criscimagnael on 29 Nov 21
       
      There is still hope, but if nothing is done, the ability to make Jura wine, and therefore Dodane's livelihood, along with other people's livelihoods will be destroyed.
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  • They have been grappling with record crop losses caused by frost, hail and higher temperatures, all spurred by climate change. These extreme weather conditions, which have compounded over the past five years, have led to despair and suicides in the region, as locals worry about how they will maintain the unique properties of their wines when their grape harvests persistently fail.
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      criscimagnael on 29 Nov 21
       
      This issue is so grave that people are killing themselves out of despair from losing everything. Climate change isn't just hurting the environment, it's hurting people as well
  • “This year we had terrible frost in April, then hail in June, followed by a horrible cold summer with lots of rain that caused disease in the vineyards and rotted the grapes,”
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      criscimagnael on 29 Nov 21
       
      I'm glad it is more often referred to as "climate change" now rather than "global warming" because this gives the false impression that it is only making the Earth warmer, when in fact it throws everything off balance and it can be cold in the summer as well
  • Climate Change Threatens Wine, and a Way of Life, in Jura
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      criscimagnael on 29 Nov 21
       
      World Historical Significance: Many people, and I can be guilty of this as well, tend to believe in "out of sight, out of mind." And because the large majority is not personally affected by climate change, sometimes it's easy to forget how serious it is. Climate change is not something that is on its way, or will hurt us in the future. It is already here, and it is damaging the world. Not just slowly impacting the environment, but impacting us in return. These poor small vineyards are dying out and losing everything they have because of climate change, reminding us that climate change is present and already damaging us, even if not personally.
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The Development of the Printing Press and the Decline of the Chronicle as Historical Me... - 0 views

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  • While the printing press gave the chronicle its popularity, it also began to lead it to its death, or what Woolf refers to as its “genrecide.”
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      criscimagnael on 30 Oct 21
       
      We did not talk much about chronicles in class, but it's interesting to see how they led to the printing press, and then the popularity and efficiency of the printing press led to the death of chronicles
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      criscimagnael on 30 Oct 21
       
      In class, we talked about the printing press, humanism, and individualism, but we didn't talk about how they affected each other. This article ties them all together
  • Scholarship became very important – with a new interest in the accuracy of facts, historians began to develop a scientific and systematic method of criticism and analysis for sources and evidence. With this “reorientation of historical studies,” historians were no longer confined to the recent past, accepting tradition as tradition; rather they pulled sources together in order to rediscover the remote past.9 As these changes took hold, historians broke away from the chronicle, leading to its decline.
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      criscimagnael on 30 Oct 21
       
      This article shows how important the printing press really was at this time. When we talked about it in class, I knew it was significant, but this article emphasizes the importance of the printing press and how it led to the Renaissance
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The Development of the Printing Press and the Decline of the Chronicle as Historical Me... - 0 views

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  • Other times, printers were willing to take the risk, and the chronicles became bestsellers, such as Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland.
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      criscimagnael on 30 Oct 21
       
      Interesting. This must be where the current word "Chronicle" comes from. I never knew that they were originally verbal testaments
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6 Surprising Discoveries From Medieval Times - HISTORY - 0 views

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      criscimagnael on 28 Oct 21
       
      These discoveries, which are constantly occuring, change the way historians think. Areas of Knowledge, and shared knowledge in general, is constantly changing. These discoveries add more information for historians to formulate arguments and maybe even change their views.
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      criscimagnael on 28 Oct 21
       
      This article mainly connects to the middle ages, which we are talking about in eHEM, but it ties both history and TOK together.
  • According to the Israel Antiquities Authority, the weapon is 900 years old, and belonged to a knight who came to the Middle East to fight in the Crusades, in which European Christian armies fought Muslims over control of Jerusalem and other sites.
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      criscimagnael on 28 Oct 21
       
      The sword most likely belonged to a crusader, and it's possible that it was lost during a battle on a beach.
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  • “First, it dates to just before—or possibly around the very start of—Christianization in Ireland. St. Patrick, writing about a hundred years after the idol was made, in the fifth century, condemned “pagan” figures like this one. Second, it was found in a bog; bogs were special sites, neither water nor land, where people dumped sacrifices and the bodies of executed victims. This figure was found with animal remains and a dagger, thus clearly part of a ritual. Third, all this suggests something about religious practices in Ireland before people turned Christian.”
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      criscimagnael on 28 Oct 21
       
      This changes historians views on religion during the middle ages. As we talked about in class, it seemed that paganism was ended during the Roman Empire, but these facts clearly suggest otherwise
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