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The very brief conclusion is intended as a compact summary of the ideas, findings and implications of the book.
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Exchanging words and deeds
The Franklin's Tale and The Manciple's Tale
Chapter 4 focuses on the giving and receiving of promises and speech acts. Reading The Franklin's Tale and The Manciple's Tale from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, it asks what kind of obligations and responses are engaged by promising and other performatives, and how gender and genre make a difference to the effects of these linguistic acts. In The Franklin's Tale, a potential sex triangle is resolved happily through the protagonists' generosities of body, word and coin. The Manciple's Tale, by contrast, has a darker narrative patterning whose reciprocal gestures are destructive, and whose final warnings are of the dangers of giving and telling. Both tales represent the spoken or written word as an unpredictable object, whose meanings and return value may be initiated but not finally contained by its speaker or author.
The gift of narrative in medieval England
Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Author: Nicholas Perkins
The gift of narrative in medieval England places medieval narratives – especially romances – in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange. It argues that the dynamics of the gift are powerfully at work in these texts: through exchanges of objects and people; repeated patterns of love, loyalty and revenge; promises made or broken; and the complex effects that time works on such objects, exchanges and promises. The book ranges widely, from the twelfth-century Romance of Horn and English versions of the Horn story to the romances of the Auchinleck Manuscript, and from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to Geoffrey Chaucer and John Lydgate. In reading these texts alongside some of the debates about giving and receiving that radiate from Anthropology and critical theory, Nicholas Perkins asks a number of questions: What role does the circulation of things play in creating narratives? Do romance protagonists themselves act as exchanged objects, and what difference does gender make to how they navigate networks of obligation and agency? Is storytelling a form of gift-giving? Do linguistic exchanges such as promises operate like gifts? How do medieval stories place obligations on the audiences who listen to them or, perhaps, receive a manuscript copy as a precious gift?
Bringing together literary studies, Anthropology and material practice in an invigorating way, this book encourages close attention to the dynamics and pleasures of the gift in narrative.
The gift of narrative in the romances of Horn
This chapter pays detailed attention to a major but little-studied poem of the twelfth century: The Romance of Horn. It reads the many gifts, obligations and exchanges in the text through ongoing debates about the nature of gift-giving: for example, whether a spirit or surplus is generated in the act of giving, and how an individual gift relates to larger structures of reciprocity in society. It argues that in The Romance of Horn, the eponymous hero acts as a gift to the story: arriving as if unmotivated, before revealing the narrative's prior commitments, debts and patterns of reward and revenge. It also suggests that the act of storytelling, both inside the text and of the text itself, shares these attributes of the gift. The chapter also analyses two English versions of the Horn legend, comparing their treatment of the dynamics of gift and exchange with The Romance of Horn.
The Introduction sets the book in the context of medieval literary studies, theories of the gift, and scholarship on exchange in medieval society. It summarizes each chapter and sets up the argument of the book.
'Kepe þou þat on & y þat oþer'
Giving and keeping in Middle English romances
This chapter focuses on one of the major surviving collections of Middle English romances: the Auchinleck Manuscript. It investigates the movement and value of objects in Horn Childe and Maiden Rimnild, Amis and Amiloun, Tristrem and Orfeo. These objects have their own narrative trajectories, and operate as events themselves, as scholars of material culture have suggested. In dialogue with Annette Weiner's work on inalienable objects, the chapter explores how precious objects in romance also embody personal relationships and the values suggested by keeping as well as giving. Finally, it analyses Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, showing how Gawain acts both as an object of exchange and a participant in exchange who must judge what should and should not be given, and exploring how the poem harnesses the dangerous surplus of narrative that is inscribed in its hero.
The narratives of gift in Lydgate's Troy Book
Chapter 5 explores the persistence and ambivalence of narrative exchange through John Lydgate's Troy Book – a fifteenth-century retelling of the Trojan story encompassing epic, moral history and romance. Lydgate's poem is patterned by repeated exchanges of words, acts of violence, gifts and thefts, and the movement of bodies in and out of the besieged city. The chapter reads The Troy Book's exchanges in the light of theories of materiality, the vibrancy of matter and networks of agency. It also suggests that particular performances of a narrative shed light on how giving and receiving are understood, and it focuses attention on a 'performance' of the Troy Book in Manchester, John Rylands Library MS English 1. This magnificently illustrated copy, itself both a gift book and containing the recursive histories of Trojan exchange, provides an arena for exploring how the reciprocities discussed in each of the book's chapters are not limited to the narrative structures of a particular literary text, but are embedded in relations between source and poem, author and patron, and a book and its owners or audiences.
The traffic in people
Chaucer's Knight's Tale and Troilus and Criseyde
Chapter 3 pursues the idea that people may at times be givers, receivers and exchanged objects in patterns of reciprocal relations. It focuses on prisoners and gendered exchange in Chaucer's The Knight's Tale and Troilus and Criseyde, reading them through debates over the 'traffic in women', and through the reflective work of anthropologist Marilyn Strathern on gender and the gift. How does Chaucer represent these texts' protagonists as both given objects and desiring subjects? Strathern's notion of 'partible' persons, and her attention to the way that people's agency is expressed through the obligations in which they are bound, prompt a reading of Chaucer's poems as a network of obligations, forces and gendered performances, embedded in which are notions of what it means to have agency, to give, and to be given.
Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries
Kinship, community and identity
Series: Social Archaeology and Material Worlds
Author: Duncan Sayer
Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are well-known because of their rich grave goods, but this wealth can obscure their importance as local phenomena and the product of pluralistic multi-generational communities. This book explores over one hundred early Anglo-Saxon and some Merovingian cemeteries and aims to understand them using a multi-dimensional methodology. The performance of mortuary drama was a physical communication and so needed syntax and semantics. This local knowledge was used to negotiate the arrangement of cemetery spaces and to construct the stories that were told within them. For some families the emphasis of a mortuary ritual was on reinforcing and reproducing family narratives, but this was only one technique used to arrange cemetery space. This book offers an alternative way to explore the horizontal organisation of cemeteries from a holistic perspective. Each chapter builds on the last, using visual aesthetics, leitmotifs, spatial statistics, grave orientation, density of burial, mortuary ritual, grave goods, grave robbing, barrows, integral structures, skeletal trauma, stature, gender and age to build a detailed picture of complex mortuary spaces. This approach places community at the forefront of interpretation because people used and reused cemetery spaces and these people chose to emphasise different characteristics of the deceased because of their own attitudes, lifeways and lived experiences. This book will appeal to scholars of Anglo-Saxon studies and will also be of value to archaeologists interested in mortuary spaces, communities and social differentiation because it proposes a way to move beyond grave goods in the discussion of complex social identities.
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Early Anglo-Saxon community
Duncan Sayer
To conclude, Chapter 6, 'Kinship and community', places the cemeteries back into their cultural context by discussing the legal and textual evidence. Like Chapter 1, this chapter explores whole cemeteries. Each preceding chapter built on the last to introduce thematic elements; this chapter explores cemeteries as complete, and as social phenomena. It establishes cemetery space as a unique and local creation. Each cemetery used different methods which could differentiate between groups of graves and identify distinguished individuals from different generations. However, the creation of these burials was not solely to reconstruct the personhood of the deceased; it also recreated community narrative with a 'scopic regime'. This localised way of seeing used gender and life course as well as situational, political and regional identities within a conglomerate, multi-layered mesh of characteristics. It is this dispositional difference between graves, and between sites and across regions that can be used to discuss the nature of Anglo-Saxon society.
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Metal-metal bonds involving actinides. Functionalization of activated C-H bonds and unusual oligomerization chemistry mediated by a thorium-ruthenium complex
Richard S. Sternal, Michal Sabat, Tobin J Marks
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Sternal, R. S., Sabat, M., & Marks, T. J. (1987). Metal-metal bonds involving actinides. Functionalization of activated C-H bonds and unusual oligomerization chemistry mediated by a thorium-ruthenium complex. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 109(25), 7920-7921.
Metal-metal bonds involving actinides. Functionalization of activated C-H bonds and unusual oligomerization chemistry mediated by a thorium-ruthenium complex. / Sternal, Richard S.; Sabat, Michal; Marks, Tobin J.
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 109, No. 25, 1987, p. 7920-7921.
Sternal, RS, Sabat, M & Marks, TJ 1987, 'Metal-metal bonds involving actinides. Functionalization of activated C-H bonds and unusual oligomerization chemistry mediated by a thorium-ruthenium complex', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 109, no. 25, pp. 7920-7921.
Sternal RS, Sabat M, Marks TJ. Metal-metal bonds involving actinides. Functionalization of activated C-H bonds and unusual oligomerization chemistry mediated by a thorium-ruthenium complex. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 1987;109(25):7920-7921.
Sternal, Richard S. ; Sabat, Michal ; Marks, Tobin J. / Metal-metal bonds involving actinides. Functionalization of activated C-H bonds and unusual oligomerization chemistry mediated by a thorium-ruthenium complex. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 1987 ; Vol. 109, No. 25. pp. 7920-7921.
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SolarWinds hackers gained access to thousands of DOJ email accounts
As the fallout from the recent SolarWinds hack continues, it has now been confirmed that thousands of email accounts at the US Department of Justice (DOJ) have been compromised. The incident is another concerning example of a US Government agency being targeted as a result of the attack.
"After learning of the malicious activity, the [Office of the Chief Information Officer] eliminated the identified method by which the actor was accessing the O365 email environment,� a Department of Justice statement read. "At this point, the number of potentially accessed O365 mailboxes appears limited to around 3% and we have no indication that any classified systems were impacted.�
Given that the DOJ employs more than 115,000 people, 3% equates to just under 3,500 email accounts. It is not clear whether the compromised mailboxes belonged to specific individuals at the DOJ or if the attackers took a more scattergun approach.
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Last month, reports began emerging of a huge supply chain malware attack on software manufacturer SolarWinds. Around 18,000 customers were using the vulnerable version of the company's Orion platform at the time of the attack, with private companies and government agencies affected.
In the days and weeks that have followed the initial discovery of the malware, further evidence has come to light on the sheer scale and sophistication of the attack. The hack, which investigators believe was primarily an intelligence gathering operation, has been attributed to the Russian state.
The admission by the DOJ that thousands of its mailboxes have been impacted is another blow for the US federal government. Previous reports revealed that both the US Energy Department and the National Nuclear Security Administration had also been affected.
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Ducati Multistrada 620 launched internationally
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March 8, 2005 The new Ducati Multistrada 620 was introduced to the international press last week at a Sicilian fishing village in the province of Trapani. The model is new for 2005, one of three new models introduced by Ducati to the Multistrada family range, including the higher specification 1000 S DS and the 620 and Dark entry level Multistrada models.
The international media has greeted the model with great interest. Motorcycle News, Great Britain was quoted with saying; "...It's easy to ride, fun, flickable, ideal for first timers and will definitely turn heads"
The new 620 model sports a number of new changes which are common to the Multistrada range for 2005, including a higher raised windshield, a redesigned seat for greater comfort and control (this also sports a anti slip cover for pillion riders), re positioning of indicators, built into the rear view mirrors and the mirrors themselves are spaced an additional 40mm apart for better vision, additionally the side stand has been re-engineered for greater stability when parking.
The Multistrada 620 represents the entry level option for riders into the Multistrada range, the model sports the 620 engine with a displacement of 618cc, which confidently delivers smooth linear power for ease of riding. Additionally a new Power Torque Clutch has been incorporated which offers light lever pull, further adding to the rider friendly nature of this model.
The model is 13 Kilograms lighter than the existing 1000 DS, the 620 weighing in at 183 Kg. This is achieved through lighter components including a twin sided swing-arm. The Multistrada 620 also boasts handy storage under the seat. The tank design of the Multistrada 620 gives a capacity of 15 litres. Coupled with a lower consumption rate from the 620 engine this combination provides a great fuel range.
Since the introduction of the Multistrada concept in mid 2003, it has been a very successful model providing great on-road performance, with enduro "ergonomics" for an upright position and is very capable on gravel road surfaces making it an ideal concept for dirt road toruing.
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Senate takes up children's issues
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Create a new Office of Public Advocacy to provide representation for children in court and take the job of defending children in delinquency cases away from public defenders are key features of a proposed committee bill that passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month.
"It's a complicated, contentious issue, and it's got a long way to go," said Sen. Locke Burt, R-Ormond Beach, chair of the committee that released a 47-page interim report on the legal needs of children in November.
The new office would consolidate current resources of the state's 21 guardian ad litem offices, the public defender's offices performing delinquency representation, as well as guardian ad litem program oversight provided by the State Court Administrator's Office court proceedings: family court, juvenile court, and dependency court.
The report notes that while children have the right to counsel at all stages in delinquency proceedings, when children are embroiled in abuse and neglect cases in dependency court, only 36 percent are afforded the services of a guardian ad litem, and most have no representation at all.
"I am pleased that the Senate is going to take an in-depth look at the important issue of representation of children," said 11th Circuit Judge Sandy Karlan, who chairs The Florida Bar Commission on the Legal Needs of Children that identified representation as a priority issue.
Judge Karlan told the Senate Judiciary Committee that its report "was a good beginning."
Regarding the big debate of whether children in dependency court should have a lawyer or a guardian ad litem assisted by a lawyer, Karlan testified: "There are strong opinions on both sides. It reminds me a little of high-conflict custody cases, where there's a parent on one side, and another parent on the other side. There is no tangible evidence just yet which is right. Guardian or lawyer? And the child is lost. We have children in the system talked about as though they don't exist. Our commission has not come up with a final model yet. But we agree that children need a strong and consistent voice."
The Senate Judiciary proposal recommends a beefed-up guardian ad litem model, where every child has a guardian and every guardian has an attorney, but it is not explained how the state would pay for this costly model.
The rationale of placing the duties of representing children charged with crimes under the proposed new office,explained the committee's Staff Director Dorothy Johnson, is to avoid conflicting court orders when children are involved in both dependency and delinquency court.
But 6th Judicial Circuit Public Defender Bob Dillinger testified against that proposal, asking for more time to let the unified court model work without "creating another bureaucracy."
Public defenders with expertise in delinquency cases are the best line of defense in preventing children from having criminal records that will follow them the rest of their lives, Dillinger said.
"Forty-percent of our dependency cases are delinquency cases, but not simultaneously. When the dependency system fails, they're back in delinquency," he said.
"The irony in dependency cases is that parents get lawyers and there is no lawyer for the child. That's what we want to change."
Sheila LaCroix, a foster mother with eight years experience, testified from Orlando via video-conferencing: "The volunteer GAL program is a definite necessity, but if they don't have lawyers they get railroaded in court. Children need a voice who can speak the same language in the courtroom."
Sen. Skip Campbell, D-Ft. Lauderdale referred to a Utah study where the average stay in foster care was 9.7 months (compared to Florida's two years) after children were given court-appointed attorneys in dependency cases, and a GAL.
"We've got a problem here. It's broke. I congratulate you, Dorothy, on the fine work in this report. But it doesn't go far enough," Campbell said. "It does lead us in the right direction."
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By Bernie Sanders
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(This piece originally appeared in The Guardian.)
If we stand together against powerful special interests we can eliminate poverty, increase life expectancy and tackle climate change.
Here is where we are as a planet in 2018: after all of the wars, revolutions and international summits of the past 100 years, we live in a world where a tiny handful of incredibly wealthy individuals exercise disproportionate levels of control over the economic and political life of the global community.
Difficult as it is to comprehend, the fact is that the six richest people on Earth now own more wealth than the bottom half of the world's population – 3.7 billion people. Further, the top 1% now have more money than the bottom 99%. Meanwhile, as the billionaires flaunt their opulence, nearly one in seven people struggle to survive on less than $1.25 (90p) a day and – horrifyingly – some 29,000 children die daily from entirely preventable causes such as diarrhea, malaria and pneumonia.
At the same time, all over the world corrupt elites, oligarchs and anachronistic monarchies spend billions on the most absurd extravagances. The Sultan of Brunei owns some 500 Rolls-Royces and lives in one of the world's largest palaces, a building with 1,788 rooms once valued at $350m. In the Middle East, which boasts five of the world's 10 richest monarchs, young royals jet-set around the globe while the region suffers from the highest youth unemployment rate in the world, and at least 29 million children are living in poverty without access to decent housing, safe water or nutritious food. Moreover, while hundreds of millions of people live in abysmal conditions, the arms merchants of the world grow increasingly rich as governments spend trillions of dollars on weapons.
In the United States, Jeff Bezos – founder of Amazon, and currently the world's wealthiest person – has a net worth of more than $100bn. He owns at least four mansions, together worth many tens of millions of dollars. As if that weren't enough, he is spending $42m on the construction of a clock inside a mountain in Texas that will supposedly run for 10,000 years. But, in Amazon warehouses across the country, his employees often work long, gruelling hours and earn wages so low they rely on Medicaid, food stamps and public housing paid for by US taxpayers.
Not only that, but at a time of massive wealth and income inequality, people all over the world are losing their faith in democracy – government by the people, for the people and of the people. They increasingly recognise that the global economy has been rigged to reward those at the top at the expense of everyone else, and they are angry.
Millions of people are working longer hours for lower wages than they did 40 years ago, in both the United States and many other countries. They look on, feeling helpless in the face of a powerful few who buy elections, and a political and economic elite that grows wealthier, even as their own children's future grows dimmer.
In the midst of all of this economic disparity, the world is witnessing an alarming rise in authoritarianism and rightwing extremism – which feeds off, exploits and amplifies the resentments of those left behind, and fans the flames of ethnic and racial hatred.
Now, more than ever, those of us who believe in democracy and progressive government must bring low-income and working people all over the world together behind an agenda that reflects their needs. Instead of hate and divisiveness, we must offer a message of hope and solidarity. We must develop an international movement that takes on the greed and ideology of the billionaire class and leads us to a world of economic, social and environmental justice. Will this be an easy struggle? Certainly not. But it is a fight that we cannot avoid. The stakes are just too high.
As Pope Francis correctly noted in a speech at the Vatican in 2013: "We have created new idols. The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly humane goal." He continued: "Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalised: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape."
A new and international progressive movement must commit itself to tackling structural inequality both between and within nations. Such a movement must overcome "the cult of money" and "survival of the fittest" mentalities that the pope warned against. It must support national and international policies aimed at raising standards of living for poor and working-class people – from full employment and a living wage to universal higher education, healthcare and fair trade agreements. In addition, we must rein in corporate power and prevent the environmental destruction of our planet as a result of climate change.
Here is just one example of what we have to do. Just a few years ago, the Tax Justice Network estimated that the wealthiest people and largest corporations throughout the world have been stashing at least $21tn-$32tn in offshore tax havens in order to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. If we work together to eliminate offshore tax abuse, the new revenue that would be generated could put an end to global hunger, create hundreds of millions of new jobs, and substantially reduce extreme income and wealth inequality. It could be used to move us aggressively toward sustainable agriculture and to accelerate the transformation of our energy system away from fossil fuels and towards renewable sources of power.
Taking on the greed of Wall Street, the power of gigantic multinational corporations and the influence of the global billionaire class is not only the moral thing to do – it is a strategic geopolitical imperative. Research by the United Nations development programme has shown that citizens' perceptions of inequality, corruption and exclusion are among the most consistent predictors of whether communities will support rightwing extremism and violent groups. When people feel that the cards are stacked against them and see no way forward for legitimate recourse, they are more likely to turn to damaging solutions that only exacerbate the problem.
This is a pivotal moment in world history. With the explosion in advanced technology and the breakthroughs this has brought, we now have the capability to substantially increase global wealth fairly. The means are at our disposal to eliminate poverty, increase life expectancy and create an inexpensive and non-polluting global energy system.
This is what we can do if we have the courage to stand together and take on the powerful special interests who simply want more and more for themselves. This is what we must do for the sake of our children, grandchildren and the future of our planet.


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Sandeep Sharma Expresses Disappointment After Going Unsold During The Auction
By CricShots - Dec 27, 2022 11:07 am
The Indian Premier League (IPL) has been the platform for a lot of aspiring cricketers to build their careers, from around the world. There still are cricketers who thank the IPL for their success and growth. The tournament is such, which can take a person from rags to riches. There have been cases where multiple teams get into a bidding war for a player who isn't even played international cricket.
Something similar was witnessed on Friday, December 23, at the IPL 2023 auction where Indian fast bowler, Sandeep Sharma failed to find a buyer in the auction. After finding no bidders for himself at the auction, Sharma said that he was "shocked and disappointed" after going unsold. The 29-year-old was dismayed and said that he failed to believe that even after performing so well for every team he played for, no team showed interest in getting him to their side.
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During a chat with Cricket.com, Sandeep Sharma said, "I'm shocked and disappointed. I don't know why I went unsold. I've done well whichever team I had played for and genuinely thought some team would bid for me. To be honest, I was not expecting this. Don't even know where it has gone wrong. In domestic cricket, I have been performing well. In the Ranji Trophy, last round, I took seven wickets. I did so well in Syed Mushtaq Ali."
Sandeep Sharma has played for the Punjab Kings (PBKS) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at the cash-rich event and has consistently taken wickets, particularly during the powerplay, regardless of the team he has played for. That was one of the reasons he received a T20I call-up from Team India. Sandeep actually holds the seventh position on the all-time list for most wickets per innings, with 1.09 wickets to his credit.
Talking about the same, Sandeep Sharma said, "I have always strived to be consistent in my bowling. And that's the only thing in my hands. I can't control selection or non-selection. If a chance comes then good, or else, I have to keep doing good work."
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There still is a chance for Sandeep Sharma to find himself a spot at the IPL. Registered at a base price of INR 50 lakh, the pacer failed to attract any bid from either of the 10 franchises, but he can play the IPL if any of the teams rope him in as an injury replacement. If a replacement player is required, Sandeep might be near the top of the franchises' list given his talent and experience.
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'It was the scene of some of the most painful experiences in my life' - musician Phil Coulter on how his brother and sister drowned in separate accidents
Phil Coulter on last night's Late Late Show. Photo: RTE
Phil Coulter recounts on his brother and sister died separately on Lough Swilly. Photo: RTE
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Musician Phil Coulter spoke about how he lost one brother and one sister in separate drowning accidents.
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The tragedies would later be immortalised in the laments "Shores Of The Swilly" and "Star Of The Sea" which he wrote in their memories.
Coulter appeared on last night's Late Late Show, where he told host Ryan Tubridy that his sister Cyd and brother Brian who drowned in Lough Swilly in Donegal separately.
He spoke about Lough Swilly, the sea inlet that lies between Inishowen and the Fanad peninsula, and how it has formed both happy and tragic moments in his life.
"It was the scene of some of the happiest times of my life with my two brothers and two sisters, when we were kids."
"We would rent a little house on the shores of the swilly in Inishowen and we'd learn to swim in that stretch of water on play for those endless days in the summer together, and then in adult years it was the scene of some of the most painful experiences in my life."
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More on Wesley Hall's links with Hacker House
Last week we broke news of an apparent link between Boris Johnson's friend Jennifer Arcuri, her controversial Hacker House enterprise, and Lancashire-based convicted criminal and Hampstead hoax pusher Wesley Hall.
While the evidence we presented suggested that Wesley might have been employed as Hacker House's "Digital Marketing Manager", it was not conclusive—and commenter "Fake Name 101" pointed out that Wesley might very well have attached himself to Hacker House without Arcuri's knowledge or consent. The Wesley/Hacker House link was also mentioned on Barthsnotes, where commenter "Annie B Server" reiterated Fake Name 101's arguments against the claim.
Realising that we might very well have jumped the gun, and not wishing to spread unverified information, we took another look. Here's what we've learned so far.
LinkedIn articles
On 17 June 2016, Wesley Hall posted an article on his LinkedIn page [What?! Wesley has a LinkedIn page? Tie my beak and call me Baldy!—Ed.] in which he claimed that Jennifer Arcuri and Lauri Love, "founders of an innovative new start-up – Hacker House", had invited him to attend the International Business Festival 2016 in Liverpool.
The rambling article reads like a promo piece for Arcuri, Love, and Hacker House, and Wesley sounds overwhelmed with excitement at having been asked to play with the cool kids. He mentions wanting to "show solidarity" with the company and its aims, but mentions nothing about his own employment status, there or elsewhere.
He does talk about his friendship with Love:
I've known Lauri for some time now and wanted to show solidarity with the company as sadly, he's currently facing extradition to the US for allegedly hacking the FBI/NASA/Federal Reserve/Department Of Energy, participating in the 2013 #OpLastResort protests in support of Aaron Swartz. I genuinely believe that we need to keep this young man here in the UK and utilise his skills to help shape ethical policy here for our future generations. He doesn't deserve to face a death sentence; torture or life imprisonment for allegedly showing that government system administrators are incompetent.
The above photo of Wesley Hall and Lauri Love, taken two months before the LinkedIn article, appears to bear out Wesley's claim that he knew Love.
Wesley published several more LinkedIn articles about Hacker House.
By 18 July 2016, in an article titled "Cyber Security Importance & Avoiding Data Breaches", he had begun referring to himself as
@1WithThePlanet @HackerHouseUK
Hacker House
He would repeat this in two subsequent articles:
"Do you know what your child is doing online this summer?" (20 July 2016);
"Nearly six million fraud and cyber crimes last year, ONS says" (23 July 2016)
In further LinkedIn articles, published between July and November 2016, he would drop the "Digital Managing Marketer" title, but would continue to refer to Hacker House in the first person plural: "For more information or for a cyber security consultancy from Hacker House, please get in touch with us via info@myhackerhouse.com".
"Learn practical ethical hacking skills for FREE!", dated 18 January 2017 would be Wesley's last LinkedIn article on the topic of Hacker House.
The Twitter connection
While he stopped promoting Hacker House on LinkedIn, from February 2017 on Wesley maintained friendly Twitter relations with the company's principals, Jennifer Arcuri (@jennifer_arcuri) and her husband, Matthew Hickey (@hackerfantastic).
They began tweeting one another in April 2016—shortly before the first LinkedIn articles began to appear—and have continued since then.
The earliest tweet came from Hickey…
…and was both "liked" and retweeted by Arcuri's Innotech Network, Arcuri herself, the Hacker House corporate Twitter account, and Wesley.
Wesley, Hickey, and Arcuri have engaged in numerous Twitter conversations since then. Interestingly, Wesley seems to converse more regularly with Hickey than with Arcuri, but Arcuri has posted pictures of Wesley to her Instagram account:
Wesley Hall, Ian Smith, and Jennifer Arcuri
It appears likely that Arcuri and Hickey were aware of Wesley's claims that he worked for Hacker House. In this tweet, Wesley shared his LinkedIn article, "NHS patients being put 'at risk' because of cyber security flaws":
As with his other Hacker House-related LinkedIn articles, Wesley referred to Hacker House in the first-person plural. The article concluded:
For more information or for a cyber security consultancy from Hacker House, please get in touch with us via info@myhackerhouse.com
Among those who "liked" and retweeted the tweet: @MyHackerHouse and @HackerFantastic.
It's unlikely that Hickey would have appreciated any attempt by Wesley to falsely insert himself into the company.
More recently, Wesley leapt to Arcuri's defence when her relationship with Boris Johnson hit the media. He adopted a buckshot approach, tweeting the same message to a variety of people:
(There were more along these lines, but you get the idea.)
How Wesley would be privy to who made the grant application on behalf of Hacker House is anybody's guess.
However, it is seeming more and more likely that Wesley was, in fact, employed by Hacker House, at least for a few months in 2016–2017. Whether Hacker House and its principals were aware of, or cared about, his chequered past, is far less clear.
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Sabine Not-McKenzie says:
"However, it is seeming more and more likely that Wesley was, in fact, employed by Hacker House, at least for a few months in 2016–2017."
Does it? What is evidenced here is that he was hanging off the back of the bus, as usual. The opinion that each and every one of those involved in the Hacker House project and the project itself is dodgy, is something you could defend in court – the rest is entirely questionable.
Conversations on twitter? Right up there with replies to letters from Santa Claus it's become the domain of choice for attention-seekers (commercial and otherwise) and the credulous and the odd, but otherwise serves very-little by way of serious purpose. Selfies? Simply a part of the playground culture that keeps the proles of today in their place. Name any politician that walks among the unwashed and you'll find many selfies of them with people they simply don't know. Dots? Join? The?
Reasonably; Wesley saw a bandwagon loaded with bigger fleas and tried to jump on. – Is that picture even real? Why are Wesley's fleshtones so very different from the other people in the picture? And why does his left side fall away so oddly behind the other chap?
This 'hanging on' happens with criminal gangs too. How many ageing wannabe-crooks in London will claim to have once-been part of the Kray gang, when in reality they might once have run to the shops to buy Ronnie a packet of fags? And the rest of their career as a criminal overlord was spent fiddling tax discs, flogging duty-free ciggies on the street corner, resetting shoplifted goods and the odd stolen woodchipper?
So, Wesley maybe-knew one of 'the gang'? Maybe. Isn't it the case that gangs keep idiots close in case they become useful?
Interestingly one or two of those 'tweets' say " …@myhackerouse. NOT @Jennifer_Arcuri. "
And that was rather the point made against the last post.
What was posed as Wesley's email address wasn't actually an email address at all. And while there is no doubt where the myhackerhouse domain is pointed, there is no evidence of who owns it or where the associated email actually goes – they could be two different places.
Indeed, the point has also been made that just because someone posts something somewhere with an email address – unless that address is actually verified by sending a message to it, and requiring a response, there is no evidence of it existing at all.
For instance, If I send an email to sabine.macneil@hoaxteadresearch.com (the email address I used to post here) the board's software does not reject it! – Your email software may baulk, or if the domain exists the automated 'postmaster' might send a rejection response. Or it might just disappear into the ether.
Without a reply, you have nothing.
To be clear here, I am no fan of Boris, quite the reverse. Arcuri? Just another ridiculous character on the merry-go-round of so-called Influencers. I believe that elsewhere, attention was drawn to the 'hormonal' nature of her presentation in the first video you linked to EC?
Grants, funding and business support in this country most-often seems to go to scammers and empty barrels. The truth is that most burgeoning businesses (those that are likely to survive in the long-term) are dull workaday things underpinned by grey figures that simply stack up. They're not something you can set a brass band to; thus of no interest to self-serving political types.
This was a circus. And there perhaps was Wesley, a small-time lowlife shyster, at the edge of the field, having snuck-in to flog painted balloons on a stick.
In a completely different and unrelated place, I saw a very credible author warn against 'throwing the kitchen sink' at Boris. A warning well-placed.
Its been pointed out before, but if you discredit even a worthy target with dubious claims there is a possibility of those things being debunked. And as they fall so might legitimate matters of concern. In fact, there is a school of thought that suggests that might be the very purpose of many a hoax; to cloud serious issues and cause them to collapse.
Jaw.Drops.Floor.
EC is turning out to be, just like Anna Raccoon, one of Fleet's Street's better investigative journalists they never had. More fool them.
Whatever Weasel's involvement, which sounds like it may be as EC pans it out, he has leaped to Mizz Arcuri's defense which would indicate there is no ill-feeling between them. He's rather desperate attempt to claim Boris had no involvement with the grant is quite silly but I reckon that's more about maintaining his role as Manchester's Pound Shop Citizen Smith whereby he could not possibly appear to be cohabiting with an Eton Tory.
Difficult to tell about the pic- could be faked or could be the Weasal popping into a snap at the last minute.
Of course these days it's so much easier to inveigle yourself into the life of a "celebrity" via the internet and with bloody camera phones it devalues the whole point of having your snap taken with a famous face.
The only tiny flaw, if that's what I can call it, is that Arcui was an unknown until recently and Weasel is not clever enough to foresee that she would become so very famous. At the time of this hackerhouse set-up she was very small time. The grant was pretty small as far as business goes and I reckon she set out to find enough lay-abouts ( I mean that kindly) to attend something somewhere (what on Earth does she or they do?..so difficult to work it out) and pretend there was a business with enough key words to bedazzle people while she pocketed most of the loot.
Wesley certainly fits that bill as a dill who would think he's getting involved with an amazing new enterprise while she may have thought he's got such a rough head and disheveled look that if she let him sit in a corner somewhere people may mistake him for a genius hacker rather than a low-life crim.
After all Weasly seems to believe he's an enterprising genius (ref: see squatting on 100s acres of Spanish land and growing the UK's entire Marijuana consumption) but he's just another sad chancer. Could just be defending her now to give the impression he's a close pal while as you infer, he had sod all to do with the set-up.


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As crime and vandalism rises, Burgerville temporarily closes in Lents neighborhood
Burgerville's CEO cited deteriorating conditions in the surrounding area as a reason for the closure.
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Published: 10:33 PM PDT August 3, 2021
Updated: 11:20 PM PDT August 3, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore. — Burgerville on Southeast 92nd and Powell has closed temporarily because of what management describes as deteriorating conditions in the surrounding area, as employees report an increase in crime and vandalism.
Employees of the fast food restaurant said they have found weapons, drug paraphernalia and human waste on the property.
"While it saddens me to temporarily close this Burgerville I will always put the safety and security of our employees first," CEO Jill Taylor said in a statement. "There is a humanitarian crisis happening throughout our region and we need to come together around solutions."
KingPins bowling alley, located next door to the Burgerville, was buzzing with activity when KGW went to speak with co-owner Jon Tang about the situation Tuesday afternoon.
Tang said business is "back to pre-pandemic levels from 2019," and he's excited to see it. What he is not thrilled about are the needles and human waste, among other things, that he finds around his property.
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Many of the lanes at KingPins were busy Tuesday afternoon.
Tang believes it's coming from nearby homeless camps. Tang is empathetic, but he is also worried about his business.
"We're not getting any support from the city and it's frustrating 'cause it leaves us business owners on our own," he said.
Mark Medina of the Burgerville Workers Union is concerned about what's happening in the area, but he wonders if that is what's really to blame for the temporary closure.
"In the list of top 10 things workers want to discuss and talk about, this has never been a main concern of anyone," Medina said.
This Burgerville sits at the corner of SE 92nd and Powell.
Conditions in the area are a concern for Tang. He is hoping for a resolution sooner rather than later.
"We just need help and need a better, humane way to take care of the homeless," Tang said. "It's inhumane to see the homeless out there in those camps."
KGW has learned all of the employees at the Lents Burgerville will be offered positions at nearby locations during the temporary closure.
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The report also highlighted Mr. Holtzer's work advising creditors and stakeholders in complex restructurings. He represented Ambac Assurance UK Limited as financial guarantor in both the Irish scheme of arrangement process and the related chapter 15 case of Ballantyne Re plc, and is advising Johnson & Johnson in Imerys Talc's chapter 11 case.
Mr. Holtzer is widely recognized among the foremost restructuring attorneys in the country. He was previously named one of the "Outstanding Restructuring Lawyers" of 2017 for leading the landmark chapter 11 case of Westinghouse Electric Company, among other prominent restructurings.
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"It's The Martian meets The Evil Dead... at the end of the Aztec Empire." A new prehistoric scifi horror from an Ancient Alien visitor. I wish he'd hurry up and sacrifice me, like I planned it. Otherwise I might die in this dank temple. But here he stands, nephew to the emperor of a quarter-million Aztec warriors, and Moctezuma does the one thing I don't want: he waits. I've been locked up on this planet too long. If I don't get home soon, I'll be one dead alien. All I really need is for Moctezuma to drag me up to the altar, pluck out my beating heart, maybe coat his forearms with my blood if he has time. Is that so much to ask? I wonder...Maybe Moctezuma knows what I really am. I mean, I look human. At least I think I got all the head-holes in the right places. But what if Moctezum...
Genre: Humor & Entertainment, History, Americas, Ancient, Literature & Fiction, Humor & Satire, Horror, United States, Native American, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Religious Studies, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Teen & Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Humor, Dark Comedy
Squared Away! - Cartoons: Funny books, humor and jokes
by Nils Ofstad
Nils Ofstad lives outside Trondheim, Norway, together with two kids, and one wife. He is a senior lecturer and has begun a doctorate which he does not seem to complete, ironically, since the field of study is motivational psychology. 'Squared Away' (Norwegian: Helt Nils) has since August 2007 become one of Norway's most printed single panel cartoons with a permanent place in the success magazine Pondus and in a thirty-number Norwegian newspapers. The panel is packed with madness, absurdities and more or less sick ideas....
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels, Humor & Entertainment, Humor
What the F*ck Just Happened?: Stories From the Supermarket
by Blake Cooper
Confessions of a Grumpy High Priest: J. Golden Kimball From the Back Row
by Zan Larsen
Genre: Humor & Entertainment, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Humor
Wishes Of The Heart
by Roberta L Greenwald
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Genre: Humor & Entertainment, Literature & Fiction, Humor & Satire, Genre Fiction, Sagas, Humor, Satire
The Lehman Diaries
by Willy Babbit
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Memoirs, Humor & Entertainment, Humor
The Siege of New Terra (The Star Sojourner Series Book 7)
by Jean Kilczer
Genre: Humor & Entertainment, Literature & Fiction, Humor & Satire, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Humor, Romance, Dark Comedy
The French Love Pastry and Her Tale in the Sand: A Dip into the Byblos Foretold Novaplex
by M.E. Meegs
Once upon a time, on the north coast of France, a callipygian chambermaid set her sights on a rich American with a fetish. It's the spring of 1903, and the coy Nicole—intoxicated by a combination of youthful infatuation and ageless avarice—puts all her most promising parts to work. But it's not by her comely tail she'll win this learned lad's heart, for his obsession runs deeper—or, at least, further down….
Reminiscent of the tales comprising The Decameron, this singular story recounts yet another skirmish in the age-old battle of the sexes, and then betters Boccaccio by adding a pair of instructive morals, à la: If you lead him by the nose, be sure to check the porridge for parts.
For more information on the novaplex, please visit: ByblosForetol...
Genre: Humor & Entertainment, Literature & Fiction, Humor & Satire, Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Mythology & Folk Tales, Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Humor, Romantic Comedy, Historical, Literary Humor, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Sagas, Satire, Fairy Tales, Single Authors
The Metaphysics of Monotheism
by Ethan Indigo Smith
If it's for you, you probably know by now. Advice for the next prophet is an esoteric and occult exploration of God, spirituality and monotheism. Do not read this if you are not the prophet or a seeker. If you are a believer and not a seeker do not read this. Believers have stopped seeking and this is for seekers. It is arguably written for one person, but it's written in a way that will help the one person raise up every person, every seeker. One love....
Genre: Humor & Entertainment, Religion & Spirituality, New Age, Religious Studies, Humor
Growing Up Movies...
by Clint ington
We used to talk to each other and play outside...then we got a VCR and decided not to talk to each other and watch #MOVIES. It was a great life and I share it with you now. Learn the "ins" and "outs" of my viewing experience and take a nostalgic trip with me about my family, friends, and that crazy analog video projector that introduced me to so many different worlds......
That's So Funny!: Tales of a Narcissistic Mother
by Shannon P. Drake
Narcissists are in the news (and they love it!), but what does it mean to grow up with one? Drake takes us into the world of his narcissistic mother, where an escaping dog leads to a vast neighborhood conspiracy, where one should be grateful for a folding chair at Christmas, and where one woman with the reflexes of a ninja and an unrivaled intelligence matches wits with the all-powerful and all-knowing The Man. There are also pictures of cute cats.This Extended Edition includes more stories taking readers onto the smelly seas of pee, into a world where dogs where diapers, and further into the dark neighborhood conspiracy with The Man's successor: the deadly The Man II. Also I fixed the screwed-up pictures....
Genre: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Mental Health, Humor & Entertainment, Humor
Never Trust a Fart: True stories of grown men who have accidentally pooped their pants
by Jason Herbert
Like a hard hitting investigative reporter, I asked the tough questions and got down to the truth! Grown men throughout the world regularly poop their pants. Here are their stories....
Genre: Humor & Entertainment, Literature & Fiction, Humor & Satire, Humor, General Humor
The Screen Savers
by Bryan Romaine
The Screen Savers is a quirky, bittersweet comedy novel laced with mystery, satire and offbeat romance.Adam, who aspires to be alone, loves watching non-mainstream films at his local cinema – films that, thankfully, few people want to see. But when the cinema decides to stop showing these films, he must do the unthinkable: make more friends. At the very least he must work with others intent on keeping these screenings going: first, a mysterious woman who knows everything about him, then a group of misfits who are suspiciously similar to his old friends. Together they form The Screen Savers.Most of the films Adam watches are about how to gain friends – about how to get over your flaws and integrate back into society. But what do you do if you've got too many friends and they're all ...
Genre: Humor & Entertainment, Literature & Fiction, Humor & Satire, Genre Fiction, Humor, Dark Comedy, General Humor, Satire
Totlandia 2-Book Set
by Josie Brown
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Genre: Humor & Entertainment, Literature & Fiction, Humor & Satire, Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction, Genre Fiction, Women's Fiction, Family Life, Humor, General Humor, Satire, Literary Humor, New Adult & College, Romance
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by RosaLinda Diaz
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Genre: Humor & Entertainment, Literature & Fiction, Literary Fiction, Genre Fiction, Coming of Age, Humor, Contemporary Fiction, American, Urban, Romance
30 Days Whole Foods Cookbook for Beginners : 700 Simple, Easy and Delicious Recipes to Help You Succeed with 30-Day Diet Meal Plan
by Brittany B. Lopez
★ Are you ready to effectively lose weight ? Do you want to get healthy and feel great?★Following a diet is a difficult task for many people as we are used to eating whatever we like and whenever we want to eat. However, it is an extremely necessary and essential thing to do to stay healthy. Many people can follow a diet when they eat at home. However, people who need to go out often cannot follow a diet properly. Food available in restaurants and joints are often calorie rich and include processed items. It becomes quite difficult to stay on a diet while eating out. In this chapter, you will find tips that will help you stay on a diet while eating out. The Whole 30 diet is one of the best programs that you can choose to work with. This diet plan focuses mainly on eating foods that are...


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Rechercher Université Bishop's
FondsMG077 - Christine Ljungkull fonds
Fonds MG077 - Christine Ljungkull fonds
Anglais » Christine Ljungkull fonds
Christine Ljungkull fonds
Supports multiples
Université Bishop's
CA BU MG077
1995-1998 (Production)
Ljungkull, Christine
2 textual records
7 artefacts
2 textile items
Christine Ljungkull was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota and attended Summit School and the University of Minnesota. She moved to Canada in the 1970s and in 1980 took a job with the Eastern Townships' monthly newspaper, The Townships' Sun. Then, in 1985, enrolled in Bishop's University to finish a degree in Fine Arts and Business, graduating in 1988 with distinction. The following year (1989) received a Certificate in Management from the Canadian Institute of Management offered through Bishop's University. Ms. Ljungkull was employed as Director of the Bishop's University Artists' Centre, now the Foreman Art Gallery, from 1986 until her resignation in 1996. While with the Artists' Centre she mounted eighty exhibitions of historical and contemporary works including the popular sesquicentennial exhibition Bishop's University 1842-1992. After leaving Bishop's, she was elected to the Board of Directors of the Lennoxville Ascot Historical and Museum Society holding numerous positions including President, Chairperson of the Collection Committee, the Exhibition Committee, and the 2002 Fund Raising Campaign. Then, served from 1999 to 2001 on the Board of the Uplands Cultural and Heritage Centre as chair of the Buildings and Grounds Committee. From 2003 to 2010 she sat as an appointed member to the Board of Directors of The Eastern Townships Research Centre as a representative of the community. and also sat on the ETRC Archives Subcommittee. Other community work included spearheading the makeover of the Lennoxville Library in 2006, and serving as a Member of Corporation for the Jerome Foundation, a Minnesota based Foundation, that makes grants to emerging artists in the State of Minnesota and New York City.
-The Old Lennoxville Golf Club/ Le Vieux Club de Golf Lennoxville. Season Tags (Christine Ljungkull and Doug MacAulay);
-Gaiters Men's Basketball finals: March 21, 1998, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Includes official programme, tickets, and Daily Newsletter of the CIAU Basketball Championship (3 issues);
-Bishop's University Campaign "Partners in Learning" - apron
-"This Campaign's Cooking!"; Granite coaster bearing the Bishop's crest, green and gold - awarded to campaign canvassing volunteer, Doug MacAulay, husband of Christine Ljungkull, at the Capital Campaign Banquet held [to be verified];
-Gaiterization 1998 - laundry bag;
-2 invitation cards to Bishop's events;
-Lennoxville Golf Club t-shirt;
-Bishop's football socks;
-t-shirt: 1994 Churchill Bowl, Gaiters vs. UWO;
-Photographs: football/fans/"Melonhead" - Cameron Hughes '93, construction and opening of Gazebo 1993; snow sculptures 1993; official re-opening of McGreer Hall; BU Birthday party/cake, December 8, 1993; Time-capsule Sesqui project; Fine Arts Party 1987.
-Homecoming beer bottle Fall 2008.
-Pin: Partners in Learning, Bishop's University Campaign;
-Glass mug: Bishop's Gaiters, Men's Basketball National Champions, 1998.
Christine Ljungkull
Note générale
apron, coaster and laundry bag donated summer of 2001; invitation cards, t-shirt and socks donated January 2003; photographs and beer bottle donated October 27, 2008; pin and mug donated October 19, 2010
Ljungkull, Christine (Producteur)


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Sat, Feb 20, 2016 page3
Declaration for Religious Freedom made
Staff reporter / By Abraham Gerber
A Taiwan Declaration for Religious Freedom was announced yesterday following an international conference in Taipei attended by activists, legislators, government representatives and religious leaders from around the world.
Participants in the Asia-Pacific Religious Freedom Forum swelled a Legislative Yuan auditorium as they stood for the reading of the declaration by Freedom House president Mark Lagon.
The declaration said that freedom of thought, conscience and religion was an inalienable human right and called for the review of any laws limiting freedom of conscience and expression.
Delegates promised to work to protect the rights of religious minorities while publicaly condemning any acts of intolerance, discrimination, persecution or violence perpetuated in the name of religion.
"I think it will be a roadmap for those who are from restricted nations," said China Aid president Bob Fu (傅希秋), whose organization jointly hosted the forum along with former vice president Annette Lu's (呂秀蓮) Democratic Pacific Union.
The three-day event is set to conclude today and has been attended by advocates, politicians and religious leaders from 26 nations.
Fu called the forum a "platform" to allow networking between advocates in free and restricted nations, calling the resulting declaration "a covenant for us to stick together until true religious freedom is fully realized in every corner of the Asia-Pacific region."
The Democratic Pacific Union had been instrumental in raising support for the forum and helping to facilitate participant visas, he said, adding that as a forum Taiwan underscored the need for China to open further.
"China is one of the worst persecutors, and I think it is such a contrast that freedom can be realized here in a similar culture, so China has no excuse," Fu said, adding it was "regretful" that representatives of Tibetan Buddhists and Xinjiang Muslims had been unable to attend after being "discouraged" by the administration of President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九).
The Reverend Bernard Munono Muyembe, an official of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said that protecting religious freedom in the region was particularly important.
"It is imperative to assure that in Asia – in the Pacific and elsewhere — every human being, regardless of social origin, race, language and culture, has their humanity and inalienable dignity respected, which includes an inherent right to freely choose their religion, to profess it and to worship individually and in community with others who share the same faith, without being subjected to discriminatory treatment as a second class citizen," he said.


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Giants WR Barden says best is yet to come
Steve Serby
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August 17, 2013 4:00am
Ramses Barden has an edge to him, and thinks he knows why.
"I am me. … I am Ramses," he says. "I'm unconcerned with being anybody else. I can only be me. I will only be me."
Here he is, five years after the Giants selected him in the third round out of Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, hoping he could be The Next Plaxico Burress or some facsimile, at least in the red zone.
"I was never going to be the next anybody," Barden says
Of course not. It didn't mean Barden, 6-foot-6 and 225 pounds, could not see the similarities.
"I admired [Burress]. He was one of my favorite players to watch at the time, being that there were things in his game that I wanted to incorporate and places that I saw his success might mirror my own," Barden says.
Barden has caught 29 NFL passes, for 394 yards, and his next NFL touchdown will be his first NFL touchdown, which means the Giants are still waiting for him to be The First Ramses Barden.
He had that one magical Week 3 night against the Panthers (nine receptions for 138 yards) last season.
"I had a ball," Barden says. "Whenever you're playing and your team's winning and I'm able to contribute to that success, it's a great feeling. And I also have the confidence to know that I could do that any given Sunday."
Except there hasn't been another any given Sunday anywhere close to that.
But ask Barden, 27 now, if the best is yet to come for him, and he says, "Absolutely."
His vision for himself?
"All Pro," Barden says.
That will be problematic with Hakeem Nicks, Victor Cruz, Rueben Randle and Louis Murphy ahead of him on the depth chart. Is there room for Ramses Barden?
"That's not my decision," he says. "I know I'm going to make room for myself wherever I'm at. I carve out my own niche. I'm confident that I'll be here. I plan on being here. I am here. I'm concerned about — excuse me, not even concerned — I'm focused on today."
The last thing he'll focus on is what might happen tomorrow.
"Fear and worry is concern with the future, what's going to happen," Barden says. "There's nothing that I'm scared of in my life, period. Whether it's football or life or walking across the street, I'm completely grounded in this present moment."
Sometimes you don't get opportunity. Sometimes it's a case of not making your own opportunities. Only a week after his breakout game at Carolina, he suffered a concussion. He caught two passes the rest of the year.
"I had a concussion the following week. I didn't play the following week, and in such a competitive room, you miss a couple of days of practice, things happen, and I understand that," Barden says. "I have no regrets. That final series in the Eagles game, the two-minute drive, I hit my head twice. I got hit, then I hit it on the ground."
Asked if it has been frustrating for him, Barden says: "The same way I have no fear, I have no frustration. I wouldn't waste time concerning myself with things that don't serve me, or they're out of my control."
But when the 2012 season ended, Barden figured it was time for a fresh start elsewhere. He wound up settling for a one-year, $780,000 free-agent deal with the Giants.
"This is home," he says. "This is where I wanted to be originally, and I got the opportunity to come back, I came back."
Ask Barden how he would sum up his Giants career to date, and he tells you: "Oh, I wouldn't sum it up. I'm in it. I'm in the middle of it."
Ask Barden next how he would evaluate his first four years, and he tells you: "Oh, I don't need to evaluate anything. Evaluation is another product of completion. I'm in the midst of working hard and preparing myself to contribute to my team's winning."
A big game tomorrow night against the Colts would nevertheless be timely for him.
"[Barden is] a bigger body, so it's harder to get around him on the shorter, quicker routes," Giants cornerback Jayron Hosley says. "He's not one of those down-the-field threat guys, but on a fade ball he can be a problem. I used to call him Keyshawn [Johnson] last year."
Giants safety Stevie Brown says: "His red-zone moves have gotten real well this camp. His slant has gotten real well. He's able to get corners leaning, and then stab 'em with his outside hand and bring his arm through or just opening up enough space for anybody to put the ball in there."
Barden is told he seems mature beyond his years.
"My eyes are always open," he says, and smiles. "All of 'em."
He is reminded he only has two of 'em.
Still smiling, he responds, "You think so, huh?"
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