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Dictionary.com | Find the Meanings and Definitions of Words at Dictionary. Giving aid to poor countries is hardly a great act of generosity | Global development. We should be happy to engage with trenchant criticisms of aid – it is important to do so if those of us involved in the development sector are to retain credibility in the long-term. Aid has mixed impacts, can harm as well as help development and takes the focus away from other more important things rich countries should be doing to spur development. African governments should set out medium-term plans to reduce aid dependency, while rich countries need to switch from traditional forms of aid-giving to supporting global goods (like clean energy, vaccinations, security) in new ways. But there is one argument against aid that we need to tackle head on; the idea that we cannot afford aid, that we are being over-generous, especially in a time of cuts at home.
Using pejorative terms like "handouts" and "doling out", some parts of the media are mounting a campaign to suggest Britain should be embarrassed by our level of aid giving. But the idea that aid is generous is absurd. ► Ambrosia by A Reminiscent Drive | Afternoon Chill | noornalini | 8tracks. Abstention from Alcohol and Drugs. Glyph of the Day | Every glyph tells a story. Latin “m” Emperor Charlemagne apparently tried to learn how to read and write, but with poor success. Probably part of his difficulty was that he had to spend a bunch of time conquering countries, part of the difficulty was that he started learning later in life, but probably part of the problem was that it was very difficult. There were a bunch of different variations on Latin script that were used, the letters were all crammed together, you couldn’t always tell where word boundaries were, it was even harder to tell where sentence boundaries were, and even abbreviations were different in different “dialects” of the script.
Being the emperor, Charlemagne could do something about it. He called Alcuin, a hotshot scholar, teacher, and cleric of the day to come to his court and um, do something about it. Alcuin looked at the different dialects of Latin script that were in use, and came up with a standardized version of the script. In my opinion, this was a very big deal. Links: Wikipedia. Edge : Conversations on the edge of human knowledge.
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