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This document discusses Spiral Dynamics, which is a theory that people's values and worldviews develop through different stages represented by colored spirals. It presents a diagram showing these stages (memes) from earliest to most advanced, including Beige, Purple, Red, Blue, Orange, Green, and Yellow. Each meme represents a core value system that emerges to help societies adapt to changing life conditions and problems. As new memes develop, earlier dominant systems fade away.
Hyundai Heavy Industries has developed state-of-the-art circuit breakers and contactors for electrical systems. The document discusses Hyundai's technologies and provides diagrams of their electrical components. It focuses on Hyundai's leadership in technology for electrical systems.
The document discusses new standards for electrical construction materials. It introduces MUT and STAND-BY as material standards that play an important role. It also provides specifications for MUT and STAND-BY, such as acceptable voltage levels. The standards are meant to ensure safety and reliability for electrical construction projects.
1. The document discusses a new C6 alloy of R12 developed by Teamic for use in aircraft components.
2. It describes how the alloy exhibits high strength and corrosion resistance at temperatures up to 650°C, making it suitable for applications such as turbine blades and combustion chambers.
3. The alloy was tested according to aviation standards and showed excellent mechanical properties and oxidation resistance, indicating it can replace nickel-based alloys currently used in aircraft engines.
1. IMMIGRANTS
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Looking at Root Causes: Why do Immigrants Come to the U.S.?
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“We must never forget that many immigrants come to this country in desperate circumstances. Some have
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fled political persecution, war, and economic devastation . . . Others have wagered on finding a better life in
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this country in the face of economic desperation at home. As Pope John Paul II has noted, ‘In many regions
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of the world today people live in tragic situations of instability and uncertainty. It does not come as a surprise
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that in such contexts the poor and the destitute make plans to escape, to seek a new land that can offer them
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bread, dignity and peace. This is the migration of the desperate. . .’”
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U.S. Catholic Bishops, Welcoming the Stranger Among Us: Unity in Diversity, Nov. 15, 2000
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There are 60 countries in today’s world that are poorer than they were thirty years ago. A fifth of the world’s
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population (1.2 billion people) lives on less than $1 per day and almost half the world’s population, or 2.8 billion
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people, live on less than $2 a day. Every second, a child dies of malnutrition. Economic injustice still plagues most
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of the world, providing a strong impetus for immigration. Given this situation, any true “solution” to illegal immi-
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gration to the U.S. must take into account the root causes of the poverty from which many immigrants are trying to
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escape.
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An Unjust Trading System
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The poorest countries of the world account for only 0.4 percent of international trade, yet they lose and estimated $700 bil-
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lion a year due to unfair trade rules. The U.S. and other developed countries are currently pursuing “free trade” agree-
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ments with many developing countries. Developing countries, which often utilize higher levels of tariffs and taxes on incom-
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ing goods in order to gather revenue for their governments, are often forced to eliminate these tariffs and taxes as part of
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free trade agreements. Yet, many people concerned with poverty are pointing to statistics that show that unregulated,
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“free” trade primarily benefits wealthy corporations and wealthy countries; poverty is increasing around the world despite
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increased free trade. They point to the fact that the gap between the rich and the poor has increased under free trade: the
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median income of the richest 10 percent is 122 times higher than the poorest 10 percent. From the perspective of Catholic
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Social Teaching, this is not authentic human development for all groups of people.
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One of the most unjust aspects of the trade system is the use of agricultural
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subsidies by the U.S. and the EU. The U.S. provides hundreds of billions of
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“It is evident that the principle of free
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dollars of agricultural subsidies, most of which goes to a few large
trade, by itself, is no longer adequate
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agribusinesses who control most of the agricultural production in the U.S.
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for regulating international agreements.
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This allows agricultural production to occur en masse and to knock smaller
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It certainly can work when both parties
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competitors - in the U.S. and in developing countries - out of business.
are about equal economically; in such
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cases it stimulates progress and re-
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The Failure of the “Washington Consensus” wards effort. That is why industrially
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In the 1980s and 1990s, the international financial institutions, such as the developed nations see an element of
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International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, promoted a set of justice in this principle. But the case is
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policies called the “Washington Consensus.” Many developing countries
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quite different when the nations in-
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were pressured to liberalize trade and the financial sector, cut back on volved are far from equal . . . (T)rade
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social spending, and privatize services that were run by the state. relations can no longer be based solely
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on the principle of free, unchecked
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Most countries, for example, those in Latin America, followed the recom- competition.”
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mended policies. Unfortunately, economic growth rates were generally Pope Paul VI, Populorum Progressio, #58-59
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better before the changes than after, and the region remains very poor.
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Many experts agree that this was a major setback for Latin America.
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Unfortunately, some of the same policies are still being recommended by
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the financial institutions.
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2. IMMIGRANTS
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The Continuing Debt Crisis
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Despite recent initiatives to reduce the debt of poor countries, Case Study: At the Root of Immigration
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such as the Heavily-Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) Initiative “As a volunteer in Duran, Ecuador, I worked
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and the Multi-laterial Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI), dozens of with a ‘scavenger’ community which subsisted off a
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countries have still not received relief and are still enslaved to garbage dump. Alongside diving vultures, emaciated
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debt. High levels of debt hurt the poor because the money cows, and a thick wall of flies and insects, adults and
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that governments must spend on paying interest on debts
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children dug through rotting trash with their bare
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takes valuable resources away from much-needed social hands. They were trying to find tin, metal, wood,
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services in poor countries. plastic, glass-anything-they could sell for money to buy
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food. Many of these people had no other choice: in a
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According to Jubilee USA, debt slavery is foreign aid in country with high unemployment and very few oppor-
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reverse--for every dollar sent to the poorest countries in aid, tunities, this became the way of life for many people.
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$1.30 flows back to lenders in debt interest. Additonal debt
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Many children in the school where I taught had skin
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forgiveness is needed to help alleviate poverty in these covered with diseases like scabies and impetigo. They
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countries. were often hungry and had trouble concentrating.
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Although they were forced to live like animals, they
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Insufficient Development Aid were beautiful, loving, and so generous.
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In 1970, at the UN General Assembly, developed country One day, when my volunteer term was
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governments pledged to devote 0.7% of their Gross National nearing an end, Monica, a wonderful, dynamic, loving,
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Income (GNI) on Official Development Assistance (ODA) woman who had been voted ‘Mother of the Year’ by
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by the mid-1970s. the community, pulled me aside. She grasped me by
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the arms and looked desparately into my eyes. She
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However, none of the developed country donors reached this said to me, ‘Please, if you can, if there’s any way you
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goal. Instead of 0.7%, the amount of aid has been around 0.2 can, take my son with you when you go back to the
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to 0.4%, some $100 billion short. The U.S. has fallen short U.S. I love him so much. But there is nothing for him
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even worse than other developed countries, allocating just here. If he stays, he will only live like me, in this
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0.22% of its GNI to ODA. (Compare this to: Norway-0.93%, dump.’ My heart almost broke: she loved her son so
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Denmark-0.81%, Sweden-0.92%, Austria-0.52%, UK-0.48%, much and conditions here were so terrible, that she
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France-0.47%, and Canada-0.34%.) was willing to sacrifice her motherhood. It was in that
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moment that I truly understand the ‘push’ factors of
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In 2005, the European Union pledged to spend 0.56% of GNI immigration. In Monica’s desparation, I saw why
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on poverty reduction by 2010, and 0.7% by 2015. People people come.”
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concerned about global poverty are calling the U.S. to take - A former volunteer with Rostro de Cristo (Face of Christ)
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similar action.
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Prayer to Change Our Hearts, Our Policies ○
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Undocumented persons among us are often accused of breaking the law. Instead, it is our poverty-produc-
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ing policies which have broken the law of human dignity. Change our hearts and our policies, O God.
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Our leaders sometimes see these persons as a burden. Yet, if we came from a life without opportunities,
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wouldn’t we do the same? Change our hearts and our policies, O God.
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We long for a more just world, where families need not be separated for lack of opportunity. Inspire us to
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challenge the systems and structures that perpetuate poverty. Change our hearts and our policies, O God.
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Amen.
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- prayer by Jill Rauh
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2 / 2 April 2006