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Black Agenda Radio Commentaries (weekly 1 hour show)
Black Agenda Radio Weekly for Feb 18, 2015
Black Agenda Radio February 18
Black Agenda Radio – February 16, 2015
KKK-Style Lynching of Haitian in Dominican Republic
Police were quick to dismiss race as the motive for the lynching of a 24 year-old Haitian man despite anti-Black riots and the burning of Haitian flags on that same day in Santiago, the Dominican Republic's second largest city. "They specifically did this to terrorize, and to make it clear that this is KKK-style stuff that's going on here," said Dahoud Andre, a Haitian community activist who helped organize a New York City protest against the murder. A 2013 court decision paved the way for expulsion of many Dominican descendants of immigrants from neighboring Haiti. However, Andre blamed the turmoil on multinational corporations that control the country "lock, stock and barrel. Dominicans," he said, "are used as proxy racists to do what is happening to Haitians."
Newark Police Review Board Won't Replace Protests
Mayor Ras Baraka's draft plan for Newark, New Jersey's first Citizens Complaint Review Board "is pretty good, and we shouldn't throw out the baby with the bathwater," said Larry Hamm, chairman of the People's Organization for Progress (POP). The board would be empowered to subpoena witnesses, investigate police wrongdoing and recommend punishments, but its recommendations could be vetoed by the city's police director. POP and four other community organizations would name members to the board. Asked if POP's involvement with the board might lead it to hold back on protests, Hamm said: "This is not in any way going to change the activist nature" of POP. "If we did such a thing we would betray the very people we say we're fighting for." Public feedback on the plan continues until the end of the month.
U.S. to Answer at UN for Treatment of Political Prisoners
Veteran human rights lawyer Efia Nwangaza and other activists are preparing to meet with U.S. and international diplomats on the plight of former Black Panthers Assata Shakur and Russell "Maroon" Shoatz. Nwangaza said the U.S. must respect Shakur's rights as a political exile in Cuba, and provide necessary medical care to Shoatz, who is suffering from prostate cancer. Since 2010, Nwangaza has been a lead activist in focusing international attention on U.S. treatment of political prisoners from the COINTELPRO and civil rights eras, which will culminate in a United Nations Periodic Review of U.S. behavior on May 11 in Geneva, Switzerland. Contributions to support the effort should be sent to the Malcolm X Center for Self Determination, in Greenville, South Carolina, where Nwangaza is director.
Obama Wants Unlimited Powers to Expand Wars
President Obama's request for congressional authorization to engage in combat against the so-called Islamic State and its "associates" for three years "could very easily lead to an expansion of the U.S.-led war on ISIS to neighboring countries...and where the whole world is a potential battlefield," said Sarah Lazare, a staff writer with CommonDreams.org. Lazare wrote a recent article titled "Obama Seeks Broad Powers to Wage Geographically Limitless War."
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After Dark Ride
A ride like never before, to experience the adventure of riding under the starlit open skies amidst the vast Rajasthan landscape and palatial havelis. After Dark had 12 riders on Royal Enfield motorcycles ride out from Jodhpur and riding through some of the most scenic locations before culminating at Bikaner. Riding at Night opens up a completely new dimension introducing one to sights and sounds around us which we miss out in the daytime. This ride also brought out the different aesthetic appeal of the Royal Enfield motorcycle at this hour.
Luni (Jodhpur)
Tarmac, Sand Dunes, Flatlands
Gajaner (Bikaner)
Key places of After Dark
Bullet Baba Temple, Pali
Dechu
Sam Dunes, Jaisalmer
Khichan
Gajaner
The Shrine dedicated to Om Banna or Bullet Baba as he's better known is dedicated to the Royal Enfield Bullet 350 that was ridden by him and is located at Pali, Rajasthan. This temple is located right on the Highway is frequented by locals as well as travellers who cross the spot to seek blessings for a safe journey.
Located 35 Kms off Jodhpur, Luni is a small village based on the banks of the river Luni and is known for its artisans and palatial Chanwa fortress. Fort Chanwa at Luni is a red sandstone fort, whose foundation was laid over a hundred years ago during the rule of Maharaja Manish Soni. The red sandstone comes from Jodhpur. Today the fort is a luxury heritage hotel. Its main features are manicured gardens, carved lattice work friezes and Jharokas (or balconies).
A village in Jodhpur district, Dechu is known for its sand dunes and the Samsara Luxury resort amidst these dunes. It is located in that part of the Thar desert where the sand dunes start appearing.
Surrounded by rocks, sand and five salt ranges, its Hindi name Pokhran (पोखरण) means "place of five mirages". It is located en route between Jaisalmer and Jodhpur and was part of the kingdom of the Champawats, the clan of Rathores of the state of Marwar-Jodhpur. This is also famous for being the location of the famous Indian Nuclear Test site.
Sam sand dunes, is one of the most authentic desert dune site in whole India, where you will find 30-60 meter tall sand dunes, and many travelers enjoying Desert Safari on camels or jeep, Sam is located about 45 km west from Jaisalmer city. Built amidst the golden sands of Thar, the camps here brings together the best of nature, culture and cuisine of the majestic state.
Khichan is a village in Rajasthan state of India. It is located in the Phalodi tehsil of Jodhpur district. The village is known for a large number of demoiselle cranes that visit it every winter. This annual bird migration began with around a hundred cranes in the 1970s, when a local couple started feeding them along with pigeons.
Gajner is a 20-mile south-west settlement area of Bikaner. It was inhabited at the time of Maharajah Gaj Singh and is famous for its large lake which becomes a favorite haunt of migratory birds in Winters. In earlier days due to the arrival of ducks, flutters etc. in winter it became a great hunting ground for a few days.
4th Dec
Briefing, Scrutiny and Ride to Bullet Baba Temple:- Before the ride starts, registration, scrutiny of gear and motorcycles and briefing on the ride and safety procedures happen.
Luni to Dechu:- The ride starts with the Flag-off from the company store, Jaipur. Ride to Nahargarh.
Dechu to Sam Dunes:- A short ride to the city of lakes allows the riders to explore the sights of Udaipur.
Sam Dunes to Khichan:- An exciting ride through a good mix of tarmac, broken roads and ghats take the riders to the hill station of the desert state.
Khichan to Gajaner:- En route to the historic city of Jodhpur, the riders make a quick visit to Om Banna's temple, where an old Royal Enfield is worshipped.
Checkout from Gajaner:- The riders go deep into the hinterland of the deserts. The day ends with a night over at one of the desert camps.
The right gear is what differentiates a good ride from an epic adventure. Here is how to gear up for the ride. Link takes you to store.royalenfield.com on the jacket section.
Riding at Night
What to carry?

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Literature Movies Reviews
An Enjoyable Romp Through the Swinging 1920s' London
The Secret Adversary (1922) and the short stories eventually collected in the slender volume Partners in Crime (1929) count among Agatha Christie's earliest publications; early enough to have promised their quirky protagonists, Tommy and "Tuppence" (Prudence) Beresford as long and eventful a fictional career as that of their colleague Hercule Poirot, who had debuted two years prior to them with his own first case in The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Alas, that wasn't to be. Nor did Tommy and Tuppence enjoy even half as many adventures as Agatha Christie's almost equally well-loved (and her personal favorite) village sleuth Miss Marple, whose first adventure (Murder at the Vicarage) would not be published until 1930, and who would solve crimes in twelve novels and a total of twenty short story collections over an improbable period of 40+ years. In fact, Christie only authored three more Beresford mysteries: 1941's N or M? (a WWII spy thriller set in a coastal guesthouse), 1968's By the Pricking of My Thumbs (where a visit to a nursing home prompts them to track down the real-life object of a painting, only to find themselves hunting for a child murderer) and Postern of Fate (1973), the last book ever written by Christie (although not the last one published); at a time when her powers as a writer had seriously waned and thus, at best, a rather tedious postscript to the superior earlier stories.
Not as eccentric as Poirot and Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence are nevertheless immediately likeable, and perfectly cast in this 1983–1984 TV series with Francesca Annis and James Warwick, reprising their successful collaboration from the 1980 TV adaptation of Christie's Why Didn't They Ask Evans? Taking its title from the second entry in the Beresford cycle, the TV series includes a feature film-length dramatization of The Secret Adversary and shorter, two-part episodes based on most, though not all of the short stories contained in the eponymous book collection, in which the Beresfords solve crimes in the style of the Golden Age's other (then-)well known detectives; including, incidentally, Hercule Poirot, however in a story not included in the TV series (The Man Who Was No. 16, which parodies Poirot's case in The Big Four).
Although The Mysterious Affair at Styles had already proved Christie to be a writer of exceptional talent, her first Tommy and Tuppence adventures – penned for financial reasons as much as out of a desire to write – still show her style as a work in progress, sometimes lacking certainty as to what exactly works in terms of characterization and storylines. While she succeeds, like in the first Poirot mystery, to immediately draw in her audience, and the Beresfords are presented in as much detail as the little Belgian with the many gray cells, the plotlines – particularly that of The Secret Adversary – sometimes stretch credibility and have a whiff of the kind of story that Arthur Conan Doyle could get away with 20 years earlier, but which Christie herself (wisely) only took up infrequently later (and even then, not always with more solidly constructed plotlines and at least halfway successfully only when also using Poirot as her main character). Thus, if the televised versions of these early Tommy and Tuppence stories appear somewhat less convincing than the more acclaimed adaptations of Christie's Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries starring David Suchet and Joan Hickson in the title roles, this is at least partly owing to the literary originals themselves: The creators of the TV series did, however, reproduce the mysteries' "swinging Twenties" setting successfully and with a fine eye for detail; and Francesca Annis and James Warwick give terriffic performances as the vivacious, hat-loving Tuppence and her (almost) equally witty, only slightly more settled husband.
Tommy and Tuppence's boisterous young assistant Alfred is portrayed by Reece Dinsdale; best known, since, as the father of Coronation Street's Tina McIntyre (Joe McIntyre), as well as Guildenstern in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, D.I. Scott in the mid-1990s British cop show Thief Takers, and one of the protagonists of the 1995 football/soccer movie Undercover. There are also recurrent appearances by British TV regular Arthur Cox as Detective Inspector Marriott, in the televised version chiefly responsible for establishing the couple as owners of Blunt's International Detective Agency (in the books, the agency is a cover for the Beresfords' spy activities), who informally continues to consult them whenever he feels that Scotland Yard's official capacities have reached their limits.
The Secret Adversary sees Tommy and Tuppence after the end of WWI, both out of work (Tommy has been an intelligence officer, Tuppence a nurse) and looking for adventure. That opportunity presents itself when, as a result of two newspaper ads, they are sent on the hunt for a lost treaty which, if published now, would cause a general strike and throw the country into turmoil, thus playing into the hands of a mysterious criminal known only as "Mr. Brown," and set on nothing less than the attainment of absolute power. The key to the treaty is believed to lie with a young American woman named Jane Finn, who has likewise disappeared and whose cousin Julius P. Hersheimer (or is he really?), Tommy and Tuppence learn, is "the third richest man in America." – Further notable appearances here include those of Alec McCowen (influential barrister Sir James Peele Edgerton), Gavan O'Herlihy (Hersheimer), Peter Barkworth (intelligence chief Carter) and Honor Blackman, as well as George Baker of Inspector Wexford fame, as members of "Mr. Brown"'s gang.
The shorter Partners in Crime mysteries have Tommy and Tuppence hunting for a vanished pink pearl and uncovering, inter alia, the mastermind behind a string of poisonings (The House of Lurking Death: drawing on Christie's trademark knowledge acquired when she was a nurse in WWI herself), the culprit of a murder during a masked ball (Finessing the King), and the evil spirits responsible for a series of seemingly unearthly occurrences in an old house (The Clergyman's Daughter: again drawing on Christie's own experience, as the sleuthing couple's client is compelled – like Christie's mother periodically – to rent out rooms in her large house as a means of survival). The common trait of these mysteries is Tommy and Tuppence's assumption of the roles of other literary detectives; albeit, while famous in their time, not all of them still remembered today: the portrayed characters are most easily recognizable when the Beresford attend the aforementioned masked ball disguised as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, when they solve a fog-beset rural locked door mystery in the style of G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown (The Man in the Mist), and when they hunt a ring of money forgers led by a shady character whom they are quick to dub "The Crackler," and who could (ambiance and all) have stepped straight out of the pages of a thriller by Edgar Wallace. Died-in-the-wool aficionados of golden age mysteries will probably also recognize the methods of R. Austin Freeman's Dr. Thorndyke in the first one of the shorter episodes, The Affair of the Pink Pearl.
While not quite on the level of Christie's more famous mysteries and their TV adaptations starring David Suchet and Joan Hickson, this series is an enjoyable romp through the the swinging 1920s' London; and it seems likely that it will remain the only adaptation faithful to Christie's original Tommy and Tuppence stories for some time to come: Although the Beresfords' later adventures were eventually adapted for television, too, there was, alas, no continuation of the 1980s series starring Annis and Warwick. Rather, the book series's first and third entries (The Secret Adversary and N or M?) were included in a 2015 TV series starring Jessica Raine and David Williams, which moves the underlying time frame to the 1950s (a decade in which none of Christie's five Tommy and Tuppence books actually takes place); and the series's fourth novel, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, was adapted in 2005 by French director Pascal Thomas under the title Mon petit doigt m'a dit …, starring Catherine Frot and André Dussollier, and thereafter (2006) rewritten as a Miss Marple story for the series starring Geraldine McEwan, whose Miss Marple essentially usurps Tommy's character, though both Tommy and Tuppence, portrayed by Anthony Andrews and Greta Scacchi, are still featured; however, nowhere near true to the characters created by Agatha Christie. – Pity: I'd have hoped that modern TV makers would accord the Beresfords the same kind of respect as they did to the Queen of Crime's two greatest detectives, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, in the series starring David Suchet and Joan Hickson respectively. Alas, it seems that wasn't to be. All the more do I therefore treasure the incarnation that the book series's first and most lighthearted two installments have found in this 1980s adaptation liberally sprinkled with the charm, wit and vivacity of Francesca Annis and James Warwick.
The Secret Adversary
The Affair of the Pink Perl
The House of Lurking Death
The Sunningdale Mystery
The Clergyman's Daughter
Finessing the King
The Ambassador's Boots
The Man in the Mist
The Unbreakable Alibi
The Case of the Missing Lady
The Crackler
Production Credits /
Studio: London Weekend Television (LWT) / ITV (1983 – 1984)
Directors: Christopher Hodson / Paul Annett / Tony Wharmby
Producer: Jack Williams
Screenplays: Pat Sandys / Paul Annett / David Butler / Jonathan Hales / Gerald Savory
Based on books by: Agatha Christie
Music: Joseph Horovitz
Recurring Cast
Francesca Annis: Prudence "Tuppence" Beresford née Cowley
James Warwick: Tommy Beresford
Reece Dinsdale: Albert
Arthur Cox: Inspector Marriott
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime at the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime at the British Film Institute's Screenonline
Agatha Christie Ltd.
Agatha Christie's biography at the Kirjasto Authors' Calendar
Themis-Athena's Agatha Christie author page
Project: Little Grey Cells: St. Mary Mead & Elsewhere
Themis-Athena's review of the Agatha Christie's Poirot TV series and some of its episodes:
The A.B.C. Murders
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Themis-Athena's review of the Agatha Christie's Miss Marple TV series and some of its episodes:
The Body in the Library
A Murder Is Announced
A Pocketful of Rye
The Murder at the Vicarage
Themis-Athena's review of the movie adaptation of Witness for the Prosecution
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The Art of Science: Mike Tyka Folds Proteins in Copper
Michael Tyka, KcsA Potassium Channel, Copper and Steel, 2011
Mike Tyka is not the first scientist to see artistic potential through his microscope, but he's taken his love for the structure of protein molecules much farther than most – not only learning metalworking to make beautiful copper sculptures, but creating a studio/makerspace to do it in.
Tyka earned a PhD in Biophysics in 2007 and went to work as a research fellow studying the structure and dynamics of protein molecules. His particular area of interest is protein folding, and he has written computer simulation software to better understand the process. Tyka says that "protein folding is the way our genetic code is interpreted from an abstract sequence of data into the functional enzymes and nano machines that drive our bodies."
Tyka got interested in sculpture in 2009 when he helped design and construct Groovik's Cube, a 35ft tall, functional, multi-player Rubik's cube. The cube will soon be on view at New Jersey's Liberty Science Center as part of its Beyond Rubik's Cube Exhibit.
Although the Groovik's Cube project gave him his first taste of art-making, building a giant welded steel cube hardly prepared him to make exquisite replicas of complex biological forms. So he took to the internet. "I learned almost everything I needed from youtube and from jeweler friends. I didn't have a space to work so I got together with some friend and founded an artspace (Seattle's ALTSpace) and acquired or built all the tools I needed."
Tyka was obviously very familiar with the protein forms and knew how he wanted them to look. He chose to work in copper, a warm, soft metal, because he wanted the sculptures "to look smooth, soft, liquid. Proteins are not solid objects, they're more like jelly, they move and vibrate. I wanted to reflect that property somehow."
You can see Mike Tyka's work at the Hutchinson Cancer Institute in Seattle and at Science House in New York, and see lots more photos on his website. You can follow him on twitter @mtyka
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