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My pen
An artist celebrates the many things he can do with a simple pen, and encourages the reader to do the same.
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Skylark and Wallcreeper
While helping her granny Collette evacuate to a makeshift shelter in Brooklyn during Superstorm Sandy, Lily uncovers secrets of her grandmother's past as a member of the French Resistance during WWII.
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Nous sommes Martiniquaises. Pawòl en bouches de femmes châtaignes. Une pensée existentialiste noire sur la question des femmes
Hanétha Vété-Congolo Nous sommes Martiniquaises. L'auteure déduit que, selon la pensée martiniquaise, les femmes sont dans une situation constante de germination les installant dans un processus de recreation que la chute ou l'adversité ne saurait entamer, d'ou la complexité du sujet féminin que VétéCongolo présente comme un probleme qui porte sa solution : « la femme est une châtaigne [...] [une] garantie, un contrepoids face a l'angoisse provoquée par la mollesse du sujet masculin » (p. 50). Deux destins qui attestent implicitement l'aberration du proverbe selon la perspective de Césaire, car le principe féminin devient l'agent productif pluridimensionnel, devant des hommes improductifs et unidimensionnels. L'argumentaire de Fanon laisse entrevoir une division farouche entre les sexes, car Capécia devient ainsi l'ennemi a exclure du collectif, ses propos étant préjudiciables a l'honneur et a l'orgueil du Martiniquais. En dévoilant d'autres controverses, Vété-Congolo souligne que l'œuvre de Capécia refuse d'adhérer aux valeurs de la femme châtaigne, car la réussite sociale implique un changement de classe par l'entremise d'un mariage avec un Blanc.
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Excavating LGBTQ+ lives in the birth cohort: an exploration of pen portraits and data storytelling
Birth cohort studies provide invaluable data on topics across the lifecourse, including health, education, socioeconomic conditions, and well-being. As a result, they are an important resource for biosocial researchers to answer numerous complex research questions. However, despite being positioned as representative of their national or regional context, cohort studies often fail to capture the experience of marginalised groups. One such group is sexual and gender minority (or LGBTQ+) people who, until very recently, have been largely invisible in birth cohorts. This is despite huge social and attitudinal changes in the last fifty years and clear evidence of the social, political, economic, and health and well-being disparities experienced compared to heterosexual cisgender people. However, due to small numbers, opportunities for quantitative analysis are limited and result in the neglect of LGBTQ+ data even when it is captured. This article presents a brief overview of how queer lives have (and have not) been captured by standard data collection and analysis techniques in the British birth cohort studies. Then, using a cohort born in 1970, the authors explore the possibilities of person-centred mixed-method pen portraits to improve understanding of this group’s life trajectories.
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Embracing the Ink Pen Again
A daughter rediscovers her love for ink pens as she honours her father's memories and hopes for a plastic-free future. The nib (thin and small) and the different mechanism for filling ink (by placing the nib inside an inkpot and pressing the refill tube) in those fountain pens used to make my jaw drop. When mechanical pencils were the rage and everyone had a 0.5 mm easily breakable lead pencil, I got a 2 mm lead pencil from a tiny shop in Sivaswamy Salai in the Mylapore area during one of our trips.
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Evaluating the financial sustainability of pension systems: The case of Morocco’s private sector pension scheme
The ageing of populations is one of the main factors contributing to financial unsustainability of pension schemes worldwide, particularly pay-as-you-go schemes. Morocco is not immune to these ageing trends, which have changed the shape of its age pyramid over time. This paper focuses on the pension system for salaried workers in the private sector in Morocco. It presents the results of actuarial modelling of this pension scheme using the “ILO-PENS” model. Developed by International Labour Organisation, this model relies on the cohort simulation method to estimate the future cost of financing pension benefits. The results of actuarial projections based on 2021 confirmed the scheme’s short-term financial unsustainability. From 2027, the scheme’s resources will no longer be sufficient to cover its expenditure. However, thanks to the accumulated reserve funds, the viability horizon extends to 2040. These results are close to the official ones published for the same year 2021[1], which validates the use of the model for assessing the impact of the reform options to be examined. In a context of pronounced ageing trends, reforming the national pension system is imperative, given that the rate of pension coverage for the elderly is among the lowest in the region, standing at 23.4%[2].
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