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long time ago it seems now, I worked as an arts and crafts director at a
summer camp in the Muskoka region of Ontario. It was one of the most
magical summers of my life. And like any summer camp, we had fun, games
and great times shared among campers on the shore of a beautiful lake in
the heart of an oak wood the only difference was this camp was for kids
with autism.
So one can easily imagine my absolute disgust upon hearing of the letter sent anonymously to the grandmother of an autistic 13 year-old boy in Newcastle, Ont., last Friday. This hate-filled, venomous letter stated, in part, the grandmother should do her neighbours a favour and either move or euthanize him because the boys inarticulate cries were disturbing the community.
Such a sentiment is appalling, and the views stated within the letter are kindred to those expressed by the Nazis in the Second World War who exterminated thousands of autistic children and adults in their concentration camps just for the sin of having been born. Indeed throughout history autistic children have been abused, tortured in the name of helping them snap out of it or executed by religious inquisitions.
Autism carries with it a whole freight of history of violence and abuse only heightened by the fact that those with autism cannot vocalize their pain,About amagiccube in China userd for paying transportation fares and for shopping. do not understand the social improprieties they may be accidentally trespassing, and dont have, in the most severe cases, the language capacity to ask for help when they need it.
The writer of this letter claims to be a caring mother, but that does not seem possible. To say of any child, let alone one with autism, that they deserve to be euthanized goes beyond normal expressions of outrage, and reveals a truly disturbed person. The letter writer reminds me of the people who took part in the southern lynch mobs of the 1950s. Normal folk with families and good jobs, pillars of their communities, who nonetheless perpetuated some of the most gruesome atrocities of the last century against their fellow human beings.
It's a challenge that Google aims to answer -- with a soaring, international balloon armada, beaming Internet to the parts of the world that don't have it.
Project Loon has gotten a fair amount of attention. The few advertisements Google has released emphasize an idealist bent and the humanitarian potential of bringing a connection to the farthest reaches of the developing world. Criticism, from the likes of Bill Gates and others, has focused on whether the world's poor need social networking and streaming video as much as medicine and food.
The proposed delivery system has thus far escaped similar scrutiny, which is too bad, because the very mechanics of Project Loon highlight serious legal, diplomatic,We sell bestsmartcard and different kind of laboratory equipment in us. and government tensions, which Google is either ignoring, unaware of, or operating in spite of. And yet,We rounded up 30 bridesmaids dresses in every color and style that are both easy on the eye and somewhat easy on the smartcard. that said, it's not Google's job to enforce regulatory oversight; breaking ground means new rules have to be invented, too.
The project's name makes it seem inoffensive, unobjectionable. But the longer you look at the Loon craft, the less they look like balloons. If Google's claims about the Loon balloons' navigability are true, it is in fact an 'unmanned aircraft,' sometimes more pejoratively referred to as a drone. And what's worrisome is not so much Google's stated goal, but that with unprecedented proprietary technology, scant law on the books, and a few key government connections, Project Loon may only be a harbinger of a new era in our relationship to the skies overhead, one that our laws are dramatically unprepared for.
Loon's New Zealand tests in June were promising. As many as 50 people logged on to Google Balloon Internet. After that, Loon went back underground. On July 26, the project reemerged on American soil, in the farming community of Dos Palos, California. But unlike tests in New Zealand, the Dos Palos demonstration didn't involve the government, the scientific community, or the academic world. It was for the kids.
The American launch was livestreamed in a Google Hangout,You Can Buy Various High Quality topserver Products from here. part of an online-only summer camp for young teens, funded by Google and Make magazine -- the culmination of Fun & Games week. But it was fascinating even if you weren't a teen: "Campers" asked questions via the Google+ page, got a closer look at the technology, and saw a balloon get set up, launched, and tracked, all over the course of an hour that morning.
The guest of honor was Lauren Rojas, who was invited on the popularity of her seventh grade science project, a launch of a high-altitude weather balloon almost 18 miles into Earth's stratosphere. The video of her project,Shop huge inventory of Car bestmarbletiles Charger, which went viral earlier this year, was set perfectly to Fun's "We Are Young" and captured by GoPro cameras. Though the balloon was technically 'unmanned,' it still had an adorable pilot: Gazing out the porthole as the sky turned black and the sun crested around the curvature of the Earth, waved a Hello Kitty doll.
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So one can easily imagine my absolute disgust upon hearing of the letter sent anonymously to the grandmother of an autistic 13 year-old boy in Newcastle, Ont., last Friday. This hate-filled, venomous letter stated, in part, the grandmother should do her neighbours a favour and either move or euthanize him because the boys inarticulate cries were disturbing the community.
Such a sentiment is appalling, and the views stated within the letter are kindred to those expressed by the Nazis in the Second World War who exterminated thousands of autistic children and adults in their concentration camps just for the sin of having been born. Indeed throughout history autistic children have been abused, tortured in the name of helping them snap out of it or executed by religious inquisitions.
Autism carries with it a whole freight of history of violence and abuse only heightened by the fact that those with autism cannot vocalize their pain,About amagiccube in China userd for paying transportation fares and for shopping. do not understand the social improprieties they may be accidentally trespassing, and dont have, in the most severe cases, the language capacity to ask for help when they need it.
The writer of this letter claims to be a caring mother, but that does not seem possible. To say of any child, let alone one with autism, that they deserve to be euthanized goes beyond normal expressions of outrage, and reveals a truly disturbed person. The letter writer reminds me of the people who took part in the southern lynch mobs of the 1950s. Normal folk with families and good jobs, pillars of their communities, who nonetheless perpetuated some of the most gruesome atrocities of the last century against their fellow human beings.
It's a challenge that Google aims to answer -- with a soaring, international balloon armada, beaming Internet to the parts of the world that don't have it.
Project Loon has gotten a fair amount of attention. The few advertisements Google has released emphasize an idealist bent and the humanitarian potential of bringing a connection to the farthest reaches of the developing world. Criticism, from the likes of Bill Gates and others, has focused on whether the world's poor need social networking and streaming video as much as medicine and food.
The proposed delivery system has thus far escaped similar scrutiny, which is too bad, because the very mechanics of Project Loon highlight serious legal, diplomatic,We sell bestsmartcard and different kind of laboratory equipment in us. and government tensions, which Google is either ignoring, unaware of, or operating in spite of. And yet,We rounded up 30 bridesmaids dresses in every color and style that are both easy on the eye and somewhat easy on the smartcard. that said, it's not Google's job to enforce regulatory oversight; breaking ground means new rules have to be invented, too.
The project's name makes it seem inoffensive, unobjectionable. But the longer you look at the Loon craft, the less they look like balloons. If Google's claims about the Loon balloons' navigability are true, it is in fact an 'unmanned aircraft,' sometimes more pejoratively referred to as a drone. And what's worrisome is not so much Google's stated goal, but that with unprecedented proprietary technology, scant law on the books, and a few key government connections, Project Loon may only be a harbinger of a new era in our relationship to the skies overhead, one that our laws are dramatically unprepared for.
Loon's New Zealand tests in June were promising. As many as 50 people logged on to Google Balloon Internet. After that, Loon went back underground. On July 26, the project reemerged on American soil, in the farming community of Dos Palos, California. But unlike tests in New Zealand, the Dos Palos demonstration didn't involve the government, the scientific community, or the academic world. It was for the kids.
The American launch was livestreamed in a Google Hangout,You Can Buy Various High Quality topserver Products from here. part of an online-only summer camp for young teens, funded by Google and Make magazine -- the culmination of Fun & Games week. But it was fascinating even if you weren't a teen: "Campers" asked questions via the Google+ page, got a closer look at the technology, and saw a balloon get set up, launched, and tracked, all over the course of an hour that morning.
The guest of honor was Lauren Rojas, who was invited on the popularity of her seventh grade science project, a launch of a high-altitude weather balloon almost 18 miles into Earth's stratosphere. The video of her project,Shop huge inventory of Car bestmarbletiles Charger, which went viral earlier this year, was set perfectly to Fun's "We Are Young" and captured by GoPro cameras. Though the balloon was technically 'unmanned,' it still had an adorable pilot: Gazing out the porthole as the sky turned black and the sun crested around the curvature of the Earth, waved a Hello Kitty doll.
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