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Finally, the government surged into the “No Enter Zone”: Mawkef 7ay al Sellom

Posted by: on: October 29, 2017

Finally, the government surged into the “No Enter Zone”: Mawkef 7ay al Sellom

الدولة» تدخل «حيّ السلم»: الفقير الكبير يأكل الفقير الصغير!

على عكس ما أشيع، يؤكد أحد سكان المنطقة أن ما جرى تداوله عن ظهور مسلح «عار من الصحة» (مروان طحطح)

بدأ الأمر في الثالثة فجراً. ربما في الرابعة، أو أقل بقليل. حضر الجيش، بطلب من بلدية الشويفات، لإزالة المخالفات في «موقف حيّ السلم». أزيلت المخالفات. صباحاً، ذاب الثلج وبان المرج. المعترضون هم المخالفون. أحرقوا ما أحرقوه، وعادت الأمور إلى طبيعتها. فقراء، وهذا قد يكون صحيحاً، إلا أن المعترضين على المخالفات أشدّ فقراً بكثير

يارا سعد

الناس في حيّ السلّم، الذي يحدث اسمه وقعاً ثقيلاً، ليسوا كما يقال على مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي. هناك آثار حريق في «الموقف» الذي يبدو أشبه بساحة. هكذا يعرّف سكّان الحيّ مكان الأحداث: «الموقف». هذه نقطة ينبغي توضيحها. ما حدث لم يحدث في «حي السلم»، بل في «موقف حيّ السلم».

من يعرف المنطقة يمكنه تمييز الفارق.

رغم آثار التكسير والحرائق على الأرض، وآثار «التعاطف» الطارئ على «فايسبوك»، الناس كانوا راضين. يأملون خيراً.

ظهراً، انتهى كل شيء في الواقع، واستمر على «المواقع». ما قد يفاجئ كثيرين هو أن سكان المنطقة يريدون «الدولة». يؤكدون ذلك.

العبارة ترد على ألسنة كثيرين يؤكدون أنهم مستعدون للالتزام والانضباط. يريدون «الدولة» التي تخلّت عن مسؤولياتها، وتخلّت عنهم، تاركةً الساحة فارغة أمام أحزاب «غير مبالية»، وأشخاص باسم العشائر يأكلون «أخضر الطرقات ويابسها».
سئم الناس المخالفات. الخوّات. البلطجة. غياب الأمن.

من الأكثرية؟ الذين سئموا أم المخالفون؟ لا يحتاج الأمر إلى إحصاء. اجتماعياً، الجميع فقراء. قد ننحاز إلى الجميع، في قياس الأسباب. ولكن، في القانون، المخالفون يتكاثرون.

نغادر «موقفِ حيّ السلم» كما دخلناه: لا مسلّحين ولا جيش ولا شيء من خيال «ناشطي» فايسبوك

«ما يحدث يحدث باسم العشائر»، يقول أحد أصحاب المحال التجارية في الموقف: «يفرضون علينا الخوّات وعلى العاملين السوريين أيضاً». كان ينتظر الفرصة ليعلن موقفاً معاكساً لما ظهر على الشاشات: «يأخذون من كل عامل ألفي ليرة عن اليوم الواحد، ويبلغ عدد هؤلاء العمال نحو ستين».

من هم؟ «الزعران»، يجيب. ليس خائفاً. لا يمثلون العشائر، هذه صفة يحاولون أن يلصقوها بأنفسهم. يقول آخر بين كومةٍ من الخراب: «يزعجون الزبائن ويمنعوننا من ركن سياراتنا أمام محالنا، أما المخفر فإنه لا يسمن ولا يغني من جوع».
لهذه الأسباب تدخل البلديات والقوى الأمنية والجيش؟ ربما. حديث الناس مدخل أساسي لفهم المعترضين على إزالة المخالفات. وهؤلاء المعترضون، في الأساس، تبلغوا القرار قبل شهر عبر البلديات.
أسئلة كثيرة يجب أن تسأل عن «تسوية أوضاعهم»، وعن عدم جواز «المساواة» بينهم. وهم، في جميع الأحوال، يستحقون إجابة واضحة عن سؤال يسألونه دائماً: «ما البديل؟».
لكن الناس ضاقوا ذرعاً بالمخالفات، ولا بد من بداية.
الاعتراضات وافرة. مِن أمام محله، يضيف رجل مرحّب بالحملة: «يبنون محالّ غير شرعية على الطرقات العامة ويؤجّرونها بما يقارب ألف دولار، متناسين أن خلف محالهم المزعومة محال لأناس آخرين». المخالفات كبيرة. والفقراء يأكل بعضهم بعضاً كالسمك. الكبير يأكل الصغير.
ثمة «قطبة» مخفية. علاقات القوة في حيّ السلم لم تعد قائمة على العلاقة مع الدولة. الدولة غائبة. العلاقة تقوم على «الغابة». هناك درجات في «الاستضعاف». الذين ينتمون إلى العشائر يستقوون بهذا الانتماء. لا يعني ذلك أن العشائر موافقة. أبناء الجنوب ليس لديهم «حظوة» في حيّ السلم. وهناك رجل من طائفة أخرى يدفع الخوّات، ويخاف أن يتحدث.
محله الشرعي يقبع قرب محل غير شرعي مهدّم. هل إزالة المخالفات بارقة أمل؟ ربما. لا يملك الناس هناك إلا الأمل.
على عكس ما أشيع، يؤكد أحد سكان المنطقة أن ما جرى تداوله بخصوص الظهور المسلح «عار من الصحة»،
ويقول جازماً إنه لم يسمع «طلقة رصاص واحدة». وثمة من يحب أن يسجّل موقفاً سياسياً: «مع المقاومة حتى النفس الأخير»، ثم يستدرك معاتباً: «كنا نظن أن حزب الله نسينا، لكن الآن بإمكاننا أن نقول حزب الله عاد طالما الدولة عادت».
أحد الواقفين يجد الأمر فرصة ليطالب بـ«سرية لقوى الأمن الداخلي أو الجيش لحل كافة المشاكل وفرض السلطة والقانون».
الناس تعبوا. من جهة أخرى، رفض كثيرون التحدث عمّا جرى، تفادياً «لوجع الرأس» أو تخوّفاً من «أيّ ردّ فعل تجاههم». الحملة ما زالت في بدايتها. في حيّ السلم، تكفي الناس مشاكلهم. المياه والكهرباء والأوضاع المادية وضيق الطرقات والأحوال.
يخشون أن تكون الحملة «غيمة صيف»، وأن يتركوا وحدهم، كما اعتادوا… «بلا دولة».
نغادر «موقفِ حيّ السلم»، كما دخلناه. لا مسلّحين. ولا جيش. ولا شيء من خيال «الناشطين» على فايسبوك.
ما استقبلك ستجده في وداعك: أعلامٌ صفراء وخضراء ترفرف هنا وهناك. دراجات نارية تسير «عكس السير» المزدحم دائماً. على الأطراف سيارات مركونة بفوضى. شرائط الكهرباء المتشابكة تأكل السماء. أكياس النفايات على الطرقات. ألم تجد من يلمّها منذ الصباح؟
تسأل، والناس يسألون «ماذا بعد الحملة؟»، على أمل أن تحل بركة «الدولة» على هذه المنطقة. في حي السلّم الجميع يعترض. المخالفون والذين أرهقتهم المخالفات. الفقر ينسحب على الجميع.
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Architects: Design for the ear, in hospitals, classrooms… For health, safety and learning

Posted by: on: October 29, 2017

Architects: Design for the ear

Noise goes up, heart rate goes up.

Because of poor acoustics, students in classrooms miss 50% of what their teachers say and patients in hospitals have trouble sleeping because they continually feel stressed.

Julian Treasure sounds a call to action for designers to pay attention to the “invisible architecture” of sound.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference in 2012, and was featured by our editors on the home page.

Julian Treasure · Sound consultant studies sound and advises businesses on how best to use it.

It’s time to start designing for our ears. (The easy way out in design is designing for vision. Rarely design consider the senses of smell, touch and taste)

Architects and designers design for themselves, which is why we end up sitting in restaurants that look like this — (loud crowd noise) — and sound like this, shouting from a foot away to try and be heard by our dinner companion, or why we get on airplanes — (flight attendant announcements) — which cost 200 million pounds, with somebody talking through an old-fashioned telephone handseton a cheap stereo system, making us jump out of our skins.

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We’re designing environments that make us crazy. And it’s not just our quality of life which suffers. It’s our health, our social behavior, and our productivity as well.

First of all, ambiance. I have a whole TEDTalk about this. Sound affects us physiologically, psychologically, cognitively and behaviorally all the time.

The sound around us is affecting us even though we’re not conscious of it.

There’s a second way interference. Communication requires sending and receiving, and I have another whole TEDTalk about the importance of conscious listening, but I can send as well as I like, and you can be brilliant conscious listeners. If the space I’m sending it in is not effective, that communication can’t happen.

Spaces tend to include noise and acoustics.

A room like this has acoustics, this one very good acoustics. Many rooms are not so good. Let me give you some examples from a couple of areas which I think we all care about: health and education. (Hospital noises)

When I was visiting my terminally ill father in a hospital, I was asking myself, how does anybody get well in a place that sounds like this? Hospital sound is getting worse all the time. Noise levels in hospitals have doubledin the last few years, and it affects not just the patients but also the people working there.

I think we would like for dispensing errors to be zero, wouldn’t we? And yet, as noise levels go up, so do the errors in dispensing made by the staff in hospitals.

Most of all, though, it affects the patients, and that could be you, it could be me. Sleep is absolutely crucial for recovery. It’s when we regenerate, when we rebuild ourselves, and with threatening noise like this going on, your body, even if you are able to sleep, your body is telling you, “I’m under threat. This is dangerous.”

And the quality of sleep is degraded, and so is our recovery. There are just huge benefits to come from designing for the ears in our health care. This is an area I intend to take on this year.

Education. When I see a classroom that looks like this, can you imagine how this sounds? I am forced to ask myself a question. (“Do architects have ears?”)

Some of my best friends are architects. And they definitely do have ears. But I think sometimes they don’t use them when they’re designing buildings.

Here’s a case in point. This is a 32-million-pound flagship academy school which was built quite recently in the U.K. and designed by one of Britain’s top architects.

Unfortunately, it was designed like a corporate headquarters, with a vast central atrium and classrooms leading off it with no back walls at all. The children couldn’t hear their teachers. They had to go back in and spend 600,000 pounds putting the walls in. Let’s stop this madness of open plan classrooms right now, please.

It’s not just these modern buildings which suffer. Old-fashioned classrooms suffer too.

A study in Florida just a few years ago found that if you’re sitting where this photograph was taken in the classroom, row four, speech intelligibility is just 50%. Children are losing one word in two. Now that doesn’t mean they only get half their education, but it does mean they have to work very hard to join the dots and understand what’s going on.

This is affected massively by reverberation time, how reverberant a room is. In a classroom with a reverberation time of 1.2 seconds, which is pretty common, this is what it sounds like. (Inaudible echoing voice)

If you take that 1.2 seconds down to 0.4 seconds by installing acoustic treatments, sound absorbing materials and so forth, this is what you get. Voice: In language, infinitely many words can be written with a small set of letters. In arithmetic, infinitely many numbers can be composed from just a few digits with the help of the simple zero.

Now that education you would receive, and thanks to the British acoustician Adrian James for those simulations. The signal was the same, the background noise was the same. All that changed was the acoustics of the classroom in those two examples.

If education can be likened to watering a garden, which is a fair metaphor, sadly, much of the water is evaporating before it reaches the flowers, especially for some groups, for example, those with hearing impairment.

Now that’s not just deaf children. That could be any child who’s got a cold, glue ear, an ear infection, even hay fever.

On a given day, one in 8 children fall into that group, on any given day. Then you have children for whom English is a second language, or whatever they’re being taught in is a second language. In the U.K., that’s more than 10% of the school population.

And finally, after Susan Cain’s wonderful TEDTalk in February, we know that introverts find it very difficult to relate when they’re in a noisy environment doing group work. Add those up. That is a lot of children who are not receiving their education properly.

It’s not just the children who are affected, though. (Noisy conversation)

This study in Germany found the average noise level in classrooms is 65 decibels. I have to really raise my voice to talk over 65 decibels of sound, and teachers are not just raising their voices.

This chart maps the teacher’s heart rate against the noise level. Noise goes up, heart rate goes up. That is not good for you.

In fact, 65 decibels is the very level at which this big survey of all the evidence on noise and health found that, that is the threshold for the danger of myocardial infarction.

To you and me, that’s a heart attack. It may not be pushing the boat out too far to suggest that many teachers are losing significant life expectancy by teaching in environments like that day after day.

What does it cost to treat a classroom down to that 0.4-second reverberation time? 2,500 pounds.

And the Essex study which has just been done in the U.K., which incidentally showed that when you do this, you do not just make a room that’s suitable for hearing-impaired children, you make a room where behavior improves, and results improve significantly,

The study found that sending a child out of area to a school that does have such a room, if you don’t have one, costs 90,000 pounds a year. I think the economics are pretty clear on this.

I’m glad that debate is happening on this. I just moderated a major conference in London a few weeks ago called Sound Education, which brought together top acousticians, government people, teachers, and so forth.

We’re at last starting to debate this issue, and the benefits that are available for designing for the ears in education, unbelievable.

Out of that conference came a free app which is designed to help children study if they’re having to work at home, for example, in a noisy kitchen. And that’s free out of that conference.

Let’s broaden the perspective a little bit and look at cities. We have urban planners. Where are the urban sound planners? I don’t know of one in the world, and the opportunity is there to transform our experience in our cities.

The World Health Organization estimates that a quarter of Europe’s population is having its sleep degraded by noise in cities. We can do better than that.

And in our offices, we spend a lot of time at work. Where are the office sound planners? People who say, don’t sit that team next to this team, because they like noise and they need quiet. Or who say, don’t spend all your budget on a huge screen in the conference room, and then place one tiny microphone in the middle of a table for 30 people.

(Laughter) If you can hear me, you can understand me without seeing me. If you can see me without hearing me, that does not work. So office sound is a huge area, and incidentally, noise in offices has been shown to make people less helpful, less enjoy their teamwork, and less productive at work.

Finally, we have homes. We use interior designers. Where are the interior sound designers? Hey, let’s all be interior sound designers, take on listening to our rooms and designing sound that’s effective and appropriate.

My friend Richard Mazuch, an architect in London, coined the phrase “invisible architecture.“ I love that phrase. It’s about designing, not appearance, but experience, so that we have spaces that sound as good as they look, that are fit for purpose, that improve our quality of life, our health and well being, our social behavior and our productivity.

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It’s time to start designing for the ears.

Note 1: In Industrial engineering, there is a section called Human Factors in engineering. It deals with health and safety in workplaces, and product designs. Vision and acoustics are major issues, besides posture (Ergonomics). I was exposed to all these issues in my graduate studies and did a few experiments on degradation of health and safety in noisy environment.

Note 2: All architects, interior designers, urban planners, product designers must be exposed to the health and safety issues in the environment they are professionals in.

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Third Eye? Pineal Gland in center of our brain?

Posted by: on: October 29, 2017

Pineal Gland Our Third Eye: The Biggest cover-up in human history?

Note: I also publish controversial articles, for you to study, discriminate and reflect on your own

Hovig Vartabedian shared a link on FB. October 27, 2016 · Mysticbanana.com

The pineal gland (also called the pineal body, epiphysis cerebri, epiphysis or the “third eye”) is a small endocrine gland in the vertebrate brain.

It produces the serotonin derivative melatonin, a hormone that affects the modulation of wake/sleep patterns and seasonal functions. I

ts shape resembles a tiny pine cone (hence its name), and it is located near the center of the brain, between the two hemispheres, tucked in a groove where the two rounded thalamic bodies join.

The Secret : What they don’t want you to KNOW!

Every human being’s Pineal Gland or The third eye can be activated to spiritual world frequencies and enables you to have the sense of all knowing, godlike euphoria and oneness all around you.

A pineal gland once tuned into to proper frequencies with help of meditation, yoga or various esoteric, occult methods, enables a person to travel into other dimensions, popularly known as astral travel or astral projection or remote viewing.

With more advance practice and ancient methods it is also possible to control the thoughts and actions of people in the physical world.

The United States, former Soviet Union governments and various shadow organization have been doing this type of research for ages and have succeed far beyond our imagination.

Pineal Gland is represented in Catholicism in Rome; they depict the pineal as a pine cone in art. The ancient societies like the Egyptians and the Romans knew the benefits and exemplified this in their vast symbologies with a symbol of an eye.

Pineal Gland reference is also in back of the U.S. dollar bill with what is called the ‘all seeing eye’, which is a reference to the ability of an individual (or group of individuals) to use this gland and go to the other side (spiritual world) and possibly control the thoughts and actions of people in the physical world by knowing what they are thinking at all times in our physical world. (Big Brother institutions?)

Various research being conducted so far confirms that there are certain periods in the night, between the hours of one and four in the morning where chemicals are released in the brain that bring about feelings of connectedness to one’s higher source. (Period I mostly get sexual erections?)

The Conspiracy : How they are Killing your Pineal Gland

In the late 90’s, a scientist by the name of Jennifer Luke carries out the first study the effects of sodium fluoride on the pineal gland. She determined that the pineal gland, located in the middle of the brain, was a target for fluoride.

The pineal gland simply absorbed more fluoride than any other physical matter in the body, even bones.
Pineal gland is like a magnet to sodium fluoride.

This calcifies the gland and makes it no longer effective in balancing the entire hormonal processes through the body.

Various Researches ever since have proved Sodium Fluoride goes to the most important gland in the brain? It’s the only thing that attacks the most important center of our gland in the brain. It’s prevalent in foods, beverages and in our bath and drinking water.

Sodium Fluoride is added in 90% of the United States water supply. Water filters you buy in supermarkets do not take the fluoride out. Only reverse osmosis or water distillation. The cheapest way is to buy a water distiller.

Sodium Fluoride is in our water supply, food, pepsi, tooth paste, mouthwashes, coke, to dumb down the masses, literally!.  The fluoride was introduced into the water by the Nazis and the Russians in their concentration camps to make the camp population docile and do not question authority.

I am not a conspiracy theorist, but I believe that if you take away the seat of the soul, this disconnects our oneness with our god and power of our source our spirituality and turn us into a mundane slave of secret societies, shadow organizations and the control freak corporate world.

I like to end my article with this quote..

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.

Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.

But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”

– :Buddha

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