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                            __| _/_____/  |__/ ____\__|  |   ____   ______
                           / __ |/  _ \   __\   __\|  |  | _/ __ \ /  ___/
                          / /_/ (  <_> )  |  |  |  |  |  |_\  ___/ \___ \
                          \____ |\____/|__|  |__|  |__|____/\___  >____  >
                               \/                               \/     \/

                    This repository contains personal dotfiles of Ionică Bizău.
```

# dotfiles

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```sh
$ wget -qO- http://goo.gl/3owX4S | sh
# or
$ curl -L http://goo.gl/3owX4S | sh
```

## NPM Config

Do not install Node.JS packages as root (never) but with the current user.

```sh
$ echo prefix = ~/.node >> ~/.npmrc
```

Then open `~/.bashrc` (Linux) or `~/.bash_profile` (Mac) and add:

```sh
export PATH=$HOME/.node/bin:$PATH
```

Finally, run the following command to update the environment variables.

```sh
$ source ~/.bashrc
```

## Johnny's Apps

Small scripts that make the work faster. Put them in the root directory:

            Shortcut
            Alternative to

$ /johnnysapps/moveDev.sh

$ git tag -d dev
$ git tag dev
$ git push --tags

$ /johnnysapps/Master.sh

$ git checkout master

$ /johnnysapps/checkoutMain.sh

$ git checkout master
$ git checkout main.js

$ /johnnysapps/gitCommit.sh "foo"

$ git commit -m "foo"
$ git push

$ /johnnysapps/update.sh

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

## Applications

A list of scripts that will install some applications that I often use.

            Application
            Script

            Qt

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IonicaBizau/dotfiles/master/apps/qt.sh | sh

            Compiles VIM

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IonicaBizau/dotfiles/master/apps/get-vim.sh | sh

            Node & Mongo

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IonicaBizau/dotfiles/master/apps/node-and-mongo.sh | sh

            Node

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IonicaBizau/dotfiles/master/apps/node.sh | sh

            Banish404

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IonicaBizau/dotfiles/master/apps/banish404.sh | sh

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text:
Gail Heriot
gherioT@sandiego.edu
Gail Heriot is a law professor at the University of San Diego and a Member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
No, School Discipline Isn't Racist
By Gail Heriot April 10, 2018
The media rely on faulty logic to allege racism in schools.
Progressives Like Hillary Clinton Make a Federal Case Out of Everything—Even Schoolyard Bullying
By Gail Heriot October 31, 2016
If Hillary Clinton gets her way, the federal government will soon be getting its fingers into all sorts of new pies — including schoolyard bullying.
Smokers Earn Less Than Non-Smokers, but That Doesn't Mean They're Discriminated Against
Smokers earn more than non-smokers on average, but that doesn't necessarily mean that smokers are being discriminated against by employers.
No, There's No SCOTUS Precedent That Justifies the Administration's Transgender Locker-Room Mandate
Is the Department of Education just following the Supreme Court's 1989 decision in Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins?
Will the Supreme Court Rein in the Department of Education's Transgender Locker-Room Edict?
The Department of Education's transgender bathroom and locker-room edict fails to properly interpret Title IX.
Bernard H. Siegan, R.I.P.
By Gail Heriot & Maimon Schwarzschild March 29, 2006
Two of Ronald Reagan's lower-court appointments went down in flames. One was Jefferson Sessions, whose nomination never made it to the Senate floor. Another was our colleague Bernard H. Siegan, ...
Misdiagnosed
By Gail Heriot February 11, 2005
"Half of Bankruptcy Due to Medical Bills–US Study." At least so said the Reuters headline in last week's story. And similar stories in newspapers across the country agree. Soon it ...

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


A smart food assistant that helps you keep track of your perishables.
The old design language for 1960's Hope Center is dated and cluttered, i want to create a new brand identity for the organization.
Creating local awareness and education for puget sound salmon populations through an interactive and challenging fun run.
With the rising popularity of rideshares, we created an app that puts users in a safer position while pursuing these options and relieves any worry or stress from loved ones during these rideshares.


Asking help - no one understands?
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We support the dependent and their family physically, psychologically, socially and religiously to be more productive and happy.
From personal experience we know that there is hope, and as such we have a genuine understanding of the problem.
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Gatherings are informal with the objective of fellowship and mutual support. Group members themselves decides the program. This includes various activities like information sessions, debate, Bible study, media and social functions. We strive to make activities enjoyable and interesting.
No pressure are placed on anyone to take part in activities or discussions. Members usually feel so at ease that they do quickly start joining in the activities. Confidentiality is continually upheld.
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The CAD offers many other tools for a sober lifestyle.
Does it cost money to become a member?
No. It is a free non-profit service.
Do I have to be a specific church member?
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Do I have to complete a rehabilitation programme?
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May I join other aftercare groups?
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YES! Research has shown that the possibility of a relapse is much less if you join a group like the CAD.
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If you think you might have a problem the odds are that you already do! The good news is that this is the first step towards recovery.
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At the CAD you become of a greater, loving, praying and supporting family of winners!
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Neil Manson has been hired to the position of European Regional Sales Manager.
PACE Worldwide is pleased to announce it has hired Neil Manson to the position of European Regional Sales Manager. Mr. Manson brings more than 16 years of experience in the electronics manufacturing industry and is a seasoned professional with a proven track record in growing sales in the European market. Based in the UK, Mr. Manson will be responsible for the development, maintenance, and expansion of PACE soldering, rework and fume extraction products throughout Europe. He will work closely with customers as well as distribution channels.
"This is a great time for Neil to join PACE, with the introduction of new products, such as the ADS200 production soldering station and the soon to be released TF 2800 BGA Rework System," said John Romanowicz, PACE Corporate Director of Sales. "Neil's background and industry expertise will be very beneficial to both our customers and distribution network, so we're delighted to have him onboard as a key team member." Mr. Manson can be reached at nmanson@paceworldwide.com or 44 (0) 7702 211602. For additional information, please visit our website at www.paceworldwide.com.
A recognized developer of solutions for the assembly & repair of highly advanced electronics. PACE provides products/training for the soldering, rework & repair of pcb's, specializing in BGA rework, desoldering & fume extraction.


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Virtual Influencer Shawn is The Star of Upcoming Educational Animated Television Show for Children
Shawn will share his experiences, thoughts, and educational stories with viewers to teach them important values about life.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, January 31, 2022 -- A virtual influencer named Shawn has been announced as the star of an upcoming educational animated television show for children. The TV show, called Life of Shawn, will be based on an 18-year-old virtual influencer named Shawn who enjoys drinking coffee, socializing, and attending events with his virtual buddies, Lea and Ziggy the Sloth. Shawn will share his experiences, thoughts, and educational stories with viewers to teach them important values about life.
The creator of the show, Zera Ng, realized that it's essential to educate children as young as four years old about values. "As a mother of two children, I know how vital it is to instill good habits amongst young ones during their developmental years," said Ng, fashion designer and mastermind behind Life of Shawn. "When the pandemic started in 2020, I realized that the media consumed by children does not do enough to educate our young ones, which gave me the idea to create Shawn, a virtual influencer who can teach values to children."
The first season of Life of Shawn is expected to release by the end of 2022. Viewers can tune in to the adventures of the virtual influencer Shawn, and his friends Lea and Ziggy the Sloth, as they educate children on important values and good habits. The team behind Life of Shawn has already released the first official music video to promote the character and his show. In the music video, the character Shawn is depicted taking safety precautions, such as mask-wearing, handwashing, and social distancing, in order to educate children about protecting against the COVID-19 virus. Currently, the music video has already received over 80,000 views since its recent release.
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To watch Life of Shawn's first music video, go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo0SIJpo97A
To keep up with the latest updates about Life of Shawn, visit the show's Instagram page at https://www.instagram.com/lifeofshawnofficial
Zera Ng
hi@lifeofshawn.com
Tags: Children, Education, Entertainment, Malaysia


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What About Islam?
I WAS WATCHING the FrontLine program, Target America, and it is impressive to see the skill with which the Jihadis successfully put the United States in a no-win double-bind, one after another. When Reagan began his presidency, for example, hostages had been held in Iran for more than eighteen months and Americans felt helpless to get them back.
The U.S. had initiated an arms embargo on Iran and we had urged the world not to sell them any weapons (they were at war with Iraq at the time).
And the U.S. had been urging every government leader to make no deals with terrorists. This was the ardent stand of the United States.
Then the U.S. made a deal with terrorists by selling weapons to Iran in exchange for freeing hostages!
Why? Basically out of intense frustration. At that point, they would have tried anything. Iran had successfully put the United States in a double-bind. If the U.S. did nothing, it looked weak and impotent, the U.S. government would be abandoning its own citizens, and the Jihadis would win.
But when the U.S. found a way to get the hostages back, the only viable option they thought up made the U.S. president look like a lying hypocrite, and America lost respect and credibility with our allies.
I was thinking of writing an article about the infuriating cleverness of Jihadis, and I was wondering what I could use to illustrate what they're doing. And then it came to me in a flash: The movie, What About Bob?
In the movie, Bill Murray plays a psychiatric patient who drives his psychiatrist crazy (Dr. Leo Marvin, played by Richard Dreyfus).
I just watched it again and the parallels are amazing. Bob uses the same techniques on Dr. Marvin that Jihadis use against the United States and Europe, and with similar results: Bob successfully fools everyone except Dr. Marvin, and Dr. Marvin becomes infuriated and helpless, but unable to stop it. Bob is able to cleverly insert himself into Dr. Marvin's life without his consent, and able to turn Dr. Marvin's friends and family against him.
As I watched, I kept stopping to write notes every time I saw a parallel. Here are my notes:
1. Bob's stand is: I am suffering. Islam's stand is: We are an oppressed people, we are under attack, we are the underdog, and we are suffering. Bob takes any and all normal events in life and he suffers from them. Jihadis take anything their enemies do and turns it into "oppression." And if their enemies do nothing offensive, Jihadis create opportunities to be affronted.
Read any mainstream Muslim publication, like the Muslim Public Affairs Committee newsletter, and you will see a strong theme running through almost every article: Muslims are oppressed and persecuted (and therefore must "defend" themselves).
I subscribe to several pro-Muslim e-mail newsletters, and this is such a strong theme. Every little "hate-crime" they can come up with proves that Muslims are an oppressed minority. I recently read this: In the year 2007, the number of hate-crimes in the U.S. committed against someone because of their religion was 1400. Here's how the hate-crimes break down by religion:
Anti-Jewish 969
Anti-Catholic 61
Anti-Protestant 57
Anti-Islamic 115
Anti-Other Religion 130
Anti-Multiple Religions, Group 62
Anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc. 6
(Source: FBI Hate-Crime Statistics)
Over the course of a year, and with 300 million people in this country, that's a pretty low incidence of hate-crimes against Muslims. But their perpetual position is that they are an oppressed minority.
2. Bob uses every technique he can find to keep pushing for what he wants. And he uses the one tool that gives him the most leverage with normal people: Pity. Evoke genuine pity, and you can pretty much gain any concession you want.
Stealth jihad uses this principle constantly. Jihadis try to portray themselves — just as their leader Mohammad did — as innocent victims of wrongdoing. Then, having aroused pity, they seek a concession of some kind.
They continue gaining concessions and giving none. Islam is a ratchet: It only goes one way.
3. Bob uses deceit masterfully. Bob hires a hooker to portray Dr. Marvin's sister to get through on the phone (when Dr. Marvin is on vacation and is not taking calls). Bob impersonates a detective and lies to the operator to get information about where Dr. Marvin is vacationing.
Islam has a principle called taqiyya, which means "religious deception." They can and do lie to non-Muslims and they have Allah's permission to do so as long as it serves the cause of Islam.
In the movie, Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West, there are several good examples, captured on film, of a Muslim leader speaking to Western media, saying one thing, and then speaking to their fellow Muslims saying just the opposite. You see them speaking peace and tolerance to Westerners and two days later vigorously preaching jihad against the West to their fellow Muslims. This is taqiyya.
Probably the single most important reason Jihadis have gotten away with so much is because they use deceit masterfully.
4. Bob pushes for concessions because he is special, unique, weird. And Bob captures everyone's attention and doesn't let them go about their normal lives.
Muslims do the same thing. In Norway, for example, Muslims are agitating for a law that would make it illegal to serve alcohol in discos on certain nights (because they are uncomfortable around alcohol). Hege Storhaug, the co-founder of Human Rights Service, rejects such a proposal. "All the time they have special rules," says Storhaug, "and we reject special requirements. We get a split-up society and Islam gets more presence in the public sphere. People force religious opinions on others. In the most extreme consequence it leads to the Islamization of society...All the time it's Muslims who come with special requirements. We never hear a peep from Catholics, Jews, Hindus etc."
One way to try to gain a concession is to simply ask. Another way, and far more effective is to ask and give a good reason why an exception should be made for you that would not be made for others. Bob had "special needs" because he was agoraphobic or afraid of sailing or deathly afraid of germs, and people went out of their way to accommodate him, conceding things to him they would never concede to a normal person.
Islam does the same thing. And they often succeed (read more about what kinds of concessions they have gained). They press for concessions because they are oppressed or because they are unique (they have particular needs because of their unique religion), or because they've been wronged or persecuted or whatever.
5. Bob seems really nice to everyone but his enemy. People usually recognize Bob is unusual, but they think he is innocent. But Dr. Marvin sees what he's doing and how deliberately and insidiously he's doing it.
By the skillful use of taqiyya, Muslims — even Muslims we know to be bloodthirsty killers — are considered "really nice people" by those who don't know better. (Read a good example of that here.)
Islamic countries are often very friendly to Western countries while at the same time whipping up national hatred against those same Western countries on Islamic television stations, and funding global jihad against those same countries.
6. Bob uses public embarrassment to force concessions. When he arrives in the small town where the well-respected Dr. Marvin spends his summer vacation, Bob starts yelling at the top of his lungs in the middle of the street, "Dr. Marvin! Doctor Leo Marvin!" He keeps yelling until he has everyone's attention and Dr. Marvin can't simply ignore him and get away, which is what he was planning on doing.
Jihadis try to embarrass organizations into doing what they want. They will go to court even though they know will lose, they will get the press involved. They'll do whatever it takes to embarrass people or companies or governments into conceding. Radio stations have fired good people because the station didn't want to deal with the public embarrassment of a lawsuit. Politicians restrain themselves and go out of their way not to say anything honest that might be offensive to the super-sensitive Muslim-advocacy organizations, because those organizations will do what they can to embarrass the politicians.
Jihadis have wormed their way into training programs for police and intelligence agencies and intimidated them into not saying anything that might lead to public embarrassment, demonstrating again and again that the Muslim organizations will use public embarrassment to silence critics of Islam.
7. Bob uses Dr. Marvin's enemies against him. There is a husband and wife in town who are angry because the rich city doctor came and bought their dream home out from under them. Bob gets these people to help him, and they do it to help ruin Dr. Marvin's life.
Islam is actively converting and recruiting disgruntled convicts in prison — people who are already enemies of the society. Iran sends soldiers into Iraq in order to kill U.S. soldiers, but Iran also supplies Russia and China with oil, so if the U.S. wants to do something about Iran, we will have our two biggest enemies to contend with. In essence, Iran uses our enemies against us.
Closer to home, those of us who are in the process of alerting our fellow citizens to the danger of Islamic supremacism have enemies among our own fellow non-Muslim citizens. The blind multiculturalists in the media actively fight against us, trying to discredit anyone who criticizes Islam, and the Jihadis use those enemies against us.
I get a newsletter from CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) that brags in almost every issue about how they are bringing this suit against this person or sending press releases out about this or that grievance, and you can see from their wording that they are hitting every hot-button they can think of to gain sympathy from our "enemies."
8. Bob exploits all of Dr. Marvin's weaknesses — his egotism, his desire to win his family's love and approval, his failures and embarrassments, his family's kindness and innocence, his family's resentment against Dr. Marvin's pomposity — Bob exploits it all to get what he wants.
Jihadis exploit Westerners' weaknesses, too. One of our "weaknesses" is our reverence for life. Jihadis will hide behind civilians during a battle, knowing Western soldiers will not open fire.
Here's another example of this principle, from DhimmiWatch:
"Palestinian jihad fighters have even used Christian sites and people as shields against the Israelis. In Spring 2002 they appropriated Bethlehem's Manger Square as a base of operations, knowing that Israeli forces would not attack them there and would face international opprobrium if they did. This activity precipitated the siege of the Church of the Nativity in April and May of that year. After launching attacks against the Israelis from Manger Square, a group of jihadists fled into the church, where they remained for 39 days — secure in the knowledge that Israel would not attack a Christian holy site. Meanwhile, they desecrated the church."
Jihadis are masters of exploiting their enemy's weaknesses. They immigrate into free countries and then use the democratic process and rights of free speech to agitate against those freedoms and seek to subvert the democracy, as illustrated in the ironic picture at left.
They also exploit the multicultural beliefs of the resident population in order to wage jihad by gaining concessions.
9. Bob is absolutely relentless. He doesn't let up. Neither do the Jihadis. Jihadis keep infiltrating, they keep immigrating, they keep agitating, they keep killing, they keep intimidating, and they will never stop on their own. They've been doing it for 1400 years, and they are determined to keep it up until the whole world acknowledges there is no god but Allah and Mohammad is His Messenger.
10. Bob makes sure every response Dr. Marvin makes will backfire. He ensures that no matter what Dr. Marvin does to return to his normal life or solve his problem, it will not work. This brings me back to Target America. Each successive president through the seventies, eighties, and nineties tried many different ways of dealing with the Jihadis, and every attempt backfired.
The Jihadis made sure they set up a situation where no matter what the U.S. did, it would go badly.
The same infuriating frustration Dr. Marvin feels is what I saw on the faces of all the presidents in Target America as they tried and failed to deal successfully with hijackings and captured hostages and bombings.
11. No matter what he does, Bob makes Dr. Marvin look like the mean one and Bob look like the innocent, underdog victim of Dr. Marvin's apparently bad-tempered selfishness. Osama bin Laden's plan was to run planes into the Twin Towers in the hopes that the U.S. would overreact, counting on the fact that the violent overreaction would cause Muslims around the world to unite against the West.
Many people think that's exactly what happened. Muslims flew planes into the Twin Towers, killing thousands of office workers, and in the end, the U.S. looks like the mean one to a lot of people, and Muslims look like the underdog victims who only need potable water and a little compassion from big, bad America.
12. Bob causes Dr. Marvin's wife and kids to sympathize with Bob against Dr. Marvin. They all try to look out for poor Bob. They push for Bob to get what he wants. This is analogous to Jihadis causing multiculturalist Westerners to sympathize with Muslims and turn against their fellow countrymen who are trying to protect us all from further harm.
So we have one group of people in the U.S. who want to make sure we're no longer vulnerable to attack by Jihadis. And then we have another segment of the U.S. who wants "no more war," wants to "give peace a chance," and wants to stop "racial profiling."
In other words, Jihadis have successfully turned some of our own people against each other. They have manipulated the situation so some non-Muslims are pushing for the Jihadis to get what they want.
This is not just happening in America, it is happening in free countries all over the world.
13. Bob keeps provoking a hostile overreaction from Dr. Marvin and then appears to be the innocent victim of Dr. Marvin's cruel insensitivity, and then he leverages that to gain concessions. If Dr. Marvin doesn't respond, Bob escalates or persists in his provocation until Dr. Marvin can't take it any more and bursts out in anger.
One memorable example from the movie is the dinner scene. Bob moaned with pleasure while he was eating. He kept moaning and saying, "This is so delicious!" And he kept it up until Dr. Marvin suddenly yells at him to shut up. All of Dr. Marvin's family looks at him with anger and embarrassment. Bob looks like the innocent victim of Dr. Marvin's irrational rage.
I quote from William Bennett's Why We Fight: Moral Clarity and the War on Terrorism:
"From the beginning, the Palestinian strategy was, and still is, to provoke outrages to which Israel has had no choice but to respond with stringent countermeasures, thereby supplying endless footage of Palestinian casualties and eliciting fresh pressure by the West to accommodate ever-escalating Palestinian demands. Israel's commitment to peace stimulated in the Palestinians not a spirit of reciprocal amicableness but an appetite for more..."
14. Bob knows full well what he's doing, but successfully appears innocent to everyone but Dr. Marvin, who sees right through him but can't get anyone else to see it. Those of us who have been trying to alert our fellow Westerners to Islam's relentless encroachment are having a very difficult time.
Islam appears innocent to many people, and to them, we are suspect. We must be racists or bigots or Islamophobes. This assessment effectively shuts their ears to accurate information about something real enough to cause over twelve thousand deadly attacks since 9/11.
15. Dr. Marvin clearly expects the problem (Bob) to go away, but he will never go. He keeps insinuating himself more and more thoroughly into Dr. Marvin's life. Almost every non-Muslim I talk to about Islam's relentless encroachment or Islamic terrorism expects someone to take care of it and expects the problem to go away. But it isn't going away. It's getting worse. Islamic supremacists are insinuating themselves more and more thoroughly into Western societies.
16. Bob is skillful, but conceals it. Dr. Marvin comes up with a brilliant scheme to admit Bob into a mental institution, but the institution can only legally hold Bob for 24 hours before they let him go. They can keep him there only if the staff agrees Bob needs to be institutionalized. Dr. Marvin is sure everyone will see Bob is crazy, but they don't. Within a few hours, they release Bob. Bob completely charmed the staff, telling jokes and cracking everyone up.
Like Bob, Islam is skillful, but conceals it. The more I learn about the clever infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood into mainstream American life, the more impressed I am at the long-range planning and the skillful, sophisticated understanding of the American mind. (Read more about that here.)
One branch of the Muslim Brotherhood is CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. They have successfully fooled most people in America that they represent moderate, peace-loving Muslim Americans. Read about what they are really up to.
17. Bob is in it for the long haul. Eventually, Dr. Marvin loses his mind, goes off the deep end, and he becomes violent and irrational, mainly because nobody else sees what Bob is really doing except Dr. Marvin.
Jihadis find every crack in the wall they can find and work their way in, and they twist every event and utterance to their purpose. They will not stop, they will not tire, and they have nothing else to live for. This is it. This is the meaning of their existence: Islam must win. Islam must dominate all other cultures, all other religions, all other governments. Allah wills it.
They have infiltrated our schools by giving donations to colleges and then using their seat on the board to exert influence (creating a campus culture of Islam-loving, America-hating students). Jihadis are offering the British government and banks on Wall Street money to help them through the present financial crisis, but with strings attached — the money is "Shari'a compliant" which means, among other things, that there is a built-in written agreement that a certain portion of the money goes to particular charities — charities that support jihad against the West. Jihadis have created "legitimate," mainstream organizations that lobby Washington and "represent the Muslim community" to governments and to the media, and yet have a secret agenda, revealed at the recent Holy Land Foundation Trial, of conquering America from within.
The list goes on and on. They are in it for the long haul, and they absolutely will not stop, ever. They won't grow tired or give up. If they are going to be stopped, we must stop them. And we had better do it with more success than Dr. Marvin had with Bob.
To get rid of Bob, out of mad frustration, Dr. Marvin tries to blow him up, but Bob ends up "accidentally" blowing Dr. Marvin's vacation home to smithereens, and then marries Dr. Marvin's sister!
Bob won. Dr. Marvin lost. We've got to do better.
Would you like to entertain yourself while watching a demonstration of Jihadi techniques? Watch What About Bob?
And while you're watching, see if you can come up with ideas we can use. What would you do if you were Dr. Marvin?
Come back here and leave your ideas in the comments. This is serious business and we need all the smart ideas we can get.
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Ben 10:45 PM
Yours is a brilliant analysis of modern Islamic tactics. I believe that this post can be an effective eye opener. I request permission to cross post it at Freedom Ain't Free.
The cinematic comedy works because it plays out in a relatively short time, with the director letting us see Murray's lovable rogue from multiple angles so that we are in on the secret.
Dr. Marvin's escape route could have been a referral to a specialist.
In the real drama being played in real time in the streets of Baghdad and Americaa's media & courtrooms, the time scale is not condensed and the audience is not in on the secret.
That is where we come in. We expose the audience to critical elements of the plot.
If you can condense this post to fit on a single sheet of paper, it could be printed and distributed by groups such as the U.A.C. and Act for America. It should be a very effective flier for them.
Thank you, Ben, and well said. Yes, you have my official permission to cross post it.
That's a good idea to condense it so AFA and UAC can use it.
Thank you so much for this excellent analysis of Islamic schemes. I've cross posted this article and titled it: "Jihadis successfully put the United States in a no-win bind." It is located here:
http://twana.wordpress.com/2008/11/22/jihadis-successfully-put-the-united-states-in-a-no-win-bind/
Thank you again. This is so helpful - I think it might open a lot of peoples eyes to the truth.
Oh hey, I'm sorry I just read the comment by Ben. May I please have permission to cross post your article?
Yes, American Truths, cross post to your heart's content.
You nailed it when you said they absolutely will not stop...
And where American Truths wrote:
"This is so helpful - I think it might open a lot of peoples eyes to the truth."
I agree it can, and I hope it does, BUT we must do WAY MORE than just open our eyes. We have to somehow open our fellow Westerner's eyes to the concept of long duration subversive malice. Malice measured over decades and centuries as indicated in this snip from Oriana Fallaci's "The Force of Reason":
Fallaci's research demonstrates there is a long-range plan. She admits she was unaware of it when she was at the height of her prestige as a correspondent. George Habash of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine boasted during an interview in Beirut in 1972:
"Our revolution is part of the world revolution. It is not confined to the reconquest of Palestine. The entire Arab Nation must go to war against Europe and America. It must unleash a war against the West. And it will. America and Europe don't know that we Arabs are just at the beginning of the beginning. That the best has yet to come. That from now on there will be no peace for the West. To advance step by step. Millimetre by millimetre. Year after year. Decade after decade. Determined, stubborn, patient. This is our strategy."
At the time, Fallaci thought he was talking about terrorism. Only later did she understand: "He meant the cultural war, the demographic war, the religious war waged by stealing a country from its citizens, the war waged through immigration, fertility, presumed pluriculturalism."
Such evil is completely outside of the conceptual experience of Westerners and the problem is compounded by "fellow travelers" who have effectively dumbed us down as illustrated via the links below:
The Origins of Political Correctness:
http://www.academia.org/lectures/lind1.html
Documentary: The History of Political Correctness parts 1 through 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DGoEWjT28Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvAshCchGhQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iAVOdNIYqU
Still, were going to really kick ass in this war when we finally get rolling. Cheers.
Travis 8:07 PM
We have to be both more subtle and firm than they. Our boundaries need to be set with an attitude of shock that they would respond with such vehemence and a deflecting concern which takes their pity game and uses it against them.
"We are so sorry that you feel so uncomfortable with pork on the school menu, but no, we don't change the menu because someone doesn't like it."
"Why, I had NO IDEA that they would be so angry and abusive about this. It must be because they are so new to our country. You're right, we really should show them some gracious help."
"We've put together a program called 'Living in a Multicultural Society' for all of you to help you understand how we live togther and how we make sure that one people's religious practices aren't allowed to take precedence over others. I'm sure you will find it VERY enlightening."
Lots of contant expressions of shock and relentless verbal relegation of the shrillest Islamists to the extremest category. "So and so has been SO INAPPROPRIATE. I'm sure that he doesn't represent NORMAL MUSLIMS." [Followed by LOTS of highlighting of his behavior.]
The further we allow them to get, the harder it is to stop them.
I love your blog. I don't take the time that I should to follow it and take even less time to comment. Keep up the great work. Spot on with "Bob".
Interesting but not true. When taking the correct action, the so-called double bind does not hold.
A stalker must be stopped as fast as possible as strongly as possible, this means the police in a big way. Second, the good doctor should have told his stupid wife and out of control children that he was not putting up with any of it. His guilt and wish to look good was his undoing, not Bob. It is not always easy to do the right thing. Say NO,over and over again.
The power of choice and accepting the consequences unties the double bind.
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Although the website of the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists intends to be the main site on the Web on international, multingual resources for the Unitarian and Universalist world, fortunately it is not the only one. Although, alas, there are not many. Here you will find a few more.
A good place for general information is the Wikipedia entry for the ICUU. It is up-to-date on membership information and it includes the declaration of Principles and Purposes and even a list of non-affiliated Unitarian churches worldwide.
Among denominational websites, the site of the Canadian Unitarian Council is an excellent place to find out information about international U*Uism. It is currently showing news on the election of the new President, the Canadian Rev. Brian Kiely, in its homepage, and there is an International page with many useful links to other English-language websites.
The geeky and dynamic Canadian leadership has created several new electronic resources: you may want to check the new ICUU Facebook community, and a mailing list devoted to ICUU news.
Although hard to find, there is also some international information in the UUA website. Rather than lose your nerves with the embedded Google search engine, you'd rather want to go directly to the International Office page. There you will find links to pages devoted to the Global Chalice Lighting series and to the ICUU RE curriculum, Garden of Unitarian-Universalism, a work-in-progress that aims at including and updating teaching materials on Unitarianism as it manifests around the world. There are also links to the international work of the Unitarian Universalist Partner Church council.
The revamped website of the British Unitarians also includes a section on Unitarians Worldwide, with links classified alphabetically.
Among non-English websites, the site of the French-speaking Assemblée Fraternelle des Chrétiens Unitariens (AFCU) is particularly noteworthy. Being the almost single-handed effort of a committed French Christian Unitarian leader, Jean-Claude Barbier, it includes a wealth of information and photos not only about international Unitarianism, but also European liberal Protestants and Catholics, religious debate, and news and anecdotes from around the world, and it is updated almost daily. It is complemented by another blog devoted to Unitarian history.
Finally, among other sites, let me mention the Transylvanian and Hungarian Unitarian pages (with many links but scarce updating), and, inmodestly, my own Spanish-speaking UU-Hispano website, which includes a news blog that now has a new editor, Mexican Unitarian leader Francisco Javier Lagunes.


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Allenton mum Cassandra Toland hit a taxi driver then called him 'a terrorist'
Mum-of-one launched a foul-mouthed racist tirade against the cabbie
A Derby mum has been branded "a bigot" after she embarked on a foul-mouth racist tirade against a taxi driver and accused him of being "a terrorist".
Cassandra Toland, of Allenton, swore at the cabbie, who was of Asian appearance, and told him "your type are responsible for the Manchester bomb" before attacking him in his own car.
Then, when she was arrested by the police, she called a female officer "a dirty tramp" and told her the taxi driver "is a terrorist and should not even be in this country".
Cassandra Toland was handed a suspended jail term (Image: Martin Naylor)
Sentencing Toland to 12 weeks in jail suspended for 12 months District Judge Jonathan Taaffe said: "This was an appalling display of bigotry, arrogance and aggression towards a taxi driver simply trying to earn a living and pay his taxes.
"He is a decent citizen who is no more responsible for events which happened on Manchester and London than you or I.
"The language you used is dangerous and does nothing to assist in harmonious relations."
Peter Bettany said the offending took place at around 3.30pm on June 16 in Norfolk when Toland, of Wilkins Drive, had gone to a concert with her cousin.
He said they ordered the taxi which picked them up and as they set off Toland, who was sat in the back, started arguing with the cabbie who was trying to get her to put on her seat belt.
The driver was asked to stop at a cashpoint in a Tesco car park and while her cousin went to withdraw money Toland started racially abusing the driver and then hit him once to the back of the head.
Mr Bettany said: "He asked her to get out of the car saying he would not take them any further and she reacted by swearing at the taxi driver calling him 'a foreigner' and 'a terrorist' and saying 'you have to take me, I am paying you'.
"He said to her 'I don't have to take you now get out' and he called 999.
"When the police arrived he told them 'I can handle the swearing but not the other things she is saying to me'."
Mr Bettany said Toland was spoken to by the police and said to them "he's (the cabbie) a terrorist and should not even be in this country".
He said Toland, a mother-of one, was arrested and called the female officer "a dirty tramp' and said to her "You wait until I get out of these handcuffs".
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She was later charged with racially-aggravated assault which she pleaded guilty to.
Judge Taaffe asked Toland, who defended herself in court: "Is there anything you want to say to me about this disgraceful incident?"
Crying in the dock she replied: "I am really sorry, I was with my cousin, we had been to a concert, I'd had a lot of alcohol."


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Eat A Meal with Natasha or Dance the Pounds Off with Imelda
Peconic County: Just a Myth?
By Barry Bassis
What's with all the plays with Russian titles this past season? There was "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," "Nikolai and the Others," and "Natasha, Pierre And The Great Comet of 1812." The last one is a musical based on part of Tolstoy's "War and Peace" and is being performed in Kazino, a supper club erected just for this show. Both the venue and the musical are worth taking in.
Unlike Sergei Prokofiev's epic opera of "War and Peace," "Natasha …" covers just the romantic part (a small section of the novel). This one is billed as an "electro-pop opera." The audience gets to drink vodka, just like the characters, although you can substitute drinks. (A three-course Russian dinner is included in the ticket price). It's an immersive experience. The musicians are placed around the room and the audience is mostly seated at communal tables. If you're sitting at the end of the row, as I was, the performers will occasionally nudge you to move over so they can sit down.
The plot revolves around beautiful, innocent, 19-year old Natasha Rostov. She is engaged to Prince Andrey, who is serving on the front lines against Napoleon's forces. Natasha and her cousin Sonya move to cosmopolitan Moscow. The incorrigible womanizer Anatole Kuragin is intent on seducing her. The boozy, ineffectual aristocrat Pierre Bezukhov (a friend of the Rostov family and of Andrey) has an unfaithful wife, Helene. The opening number tersely but wittily introduces them: "Anatole's hot, Helene's a slut, Sonya's good." The song also reminds the audience that the source is "a complicated Russian novel/Everyone's got nine different names." There's a suspenseful love story, a duel and then the comet at the end. Thanks to director Rachel Chavkin who has the actors moving around the club, each of the performers makes an impression.
The cast is terrific, especially Phillipa Soo is a radiant Natasha, Lucas Steele as the good looking but devious Anatole and Dave Malloy as the accordion-playing world-weary Pierre. The highly talented Malloy also wrote the songs and the sounds range from Russian folk to pop, rock and country & western.
"Natasha, Pierre And The Great Comet of 1812" is running until Sept. 1st at Kazino (West 13th and Washington St.; 866-811-4111; ovationtix.com).
"Here Lies Love" is even more of an immersive experience. I knew the show was about Imelda Marcos (the former First Lady of the Philippines) so I thought the recommendation to wear comfortable shoes was a reference to her fascination with footwear. (She probably would have enjoyed "Kinky Boots.") Anyway, it turned out that the stage moves and so does the audience. At least at "Natasha" you could sit and nosh. The show bears a resemblance to "Evita" in that it charts the rise of the central figure from poverty to becoming the wife of a dictator. It also covers her prior romance with Ninoy Aquino, who becomes her political enemy. Director Alex Timbers is certainly inventive, with actors popping up in different parts of the theater, a DJ, newsreel footage, and video projections. David Byrne and Fatboy Slim originally created the score as a concept album and it is highly engaging, as is Ruthie Ann Miles in the lead role. I enjoyed the show but frankly I found it physically uncomfortable. I would have preferred one of the seats in the balcony, but note that the less sedentary audience members were happily dancing to the music.
"Here Lies Love" is running at the Public Theater (425 Lafayette St.; 212-967-7555; publictheater.org) until July 28th. •
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Creating Opportunity for a Better Life
The people who show up at our doors are broken. They think that they need a job, but what they really need is to believe in themselves.
Dan Jusino, founder of Emerge CT, a transitional work program with academic and social supports for recently incarcerated men and women. Photo Kathleen Cei
Dan Jusino has had a long career working with people coming out of prison. For most of it, he was a firm believer in "rapid attachment to work," the principle that finding someone a job upon release was the first and most important step to preventing reincarceration. Then he took a hard look at the data on re-offense rates and discovered that he had been wrong. The majority of people returning to prison, in fact, were working at or shortly before the time of their re-arrests. So he committed himself to doing his work differently.
He consulted veteran workforce expert John Padilla, a fund founder at The Community Foundation and former board chair, and visited a half-dozen successful reentry programs around the country. Taking what he learned, Jusino founded Emerge.
The Emerge model is based on the evidence that overwhelming numbers of people cycling through our prison systems are functionally illiterate and have longstanding emotional and mental health problems. Left unaddressed, these issues put them at risk of reoffending whether they are working or not.
"The people who show up at our doors are broken," says Jusino. "They think that they need a job, but what they really need is to believe in themselves. When they begin to believe in themselves, then they can do for themselves and not wait for others to do for them."
Because the men and women walking through Emerge's doors expect help with transitioning to a real job, Jusino uses their expectation as an incentive to buy into the larger program. As Jusino puts it, the job is a "carrot" and the primary outcome is not employment, but a better life.
Emerge is a social enterprise that has contracts with local construction and landscaping employers to supply work crews. The job experiences pay above minimum wage and offer training. To make it on to a work crew, participants must first commit to improving themselves. If they test below high school-level reading and math, they are assigned to an Emerge tutor and must show progress in a self-directed computer-based academic curriculum. Those with children take parenting classes. Court-ordered debts are examined for modification. And no one is allowed to avoid addressing long-standing emotional and behavioral issues.
Jusino makes mental health a top priority and has established partnerships with therapy providers for referrals.
Emerge work crews learn construction skills on the job while earning a paycheck.
"Most of the people I work with have unresolved traumatic childhood experiences," Jusino says. "When we get them to pause enough to address them, they can move forward. We provide them with the tools and the opportunity to forgive themselves. That translates into real opportunity." By combining transitional work training with additional support services, Emerge's model is proving effective.
Compared to the state recidivism rate of 47 percent, the rate among Emerge participants is 14 percent, and state officials are talking with Jusino about how to bring the model to other locations. And while he can't prove it, he believes the behavior transformations that took place in some of Emerge cohorts have moved the needle on lowering street violence in New Haven.
The ripple effect, Jusino says, is greatest when he gets buy-in from someone who has served a lengthy prison sentence and is known to a younger generation.
"If I can get one of them to put on an Emerge vest, then that sends a message. They are now an ambassador."
Emerge is a multi-year grant recipient of The Community Foundation.


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Fracture: A Novel (Hardcover)
By Andrés Neuman, Nick Caistor (Translated by), Lorenza Garcia (Translated by)
Critically acclaimed, prize-winning author Andrés Neuman's Fracture is an ambitious literary novel set against Japan's 2011 nuclear accident in a cross-cultural story about how every society remembers and forgets its catastrophes.
Mr. Yoshie Watanabe, a former electronics company executive and a survivor of the atomic bomb, has always lived like a fugitive from his own memories. He's spent decades traveling the world, making a life in different languages, only to find himself home again, living in Tokyo in his old age. On the afternoon of March 11, 2011, Watanabe, like millions of others, is stunned by powerful tremors. A massive earthquake has struck to the north, triggering the Fukushima nuclear disaster—and a stirring of the collective past. As the catastrophe unfolds, Watanabe's mind, too, undergoes a tectonic shift. With his native land yet again under nuclear threat, he braces himself to make the most surprising decision of his nomadic life.
Meanwhile, four women who have known him intimately at various points in time narrate their stories to a strangely obsessive Argentinian journalist. Their memories, colored by their respective cultures and describing different ways of loving, trace sociopolitical maps of Paris, New York, Buenos Aires, and Madrid over the course of the twentieth century. The result is a metalingual, border-defying constellation of fractures in life and nature—proof that nothing happens in only one place, that every human event reverberates to the ends of the earth.
With unwavering empathy and bittersweet humor, and facing some of the most urgent environmental concerns of our time, Andrés Neuman's Fracture is a powerful novel about the resilience of humankind, and the beauty that can emerge from broken things.
Andrés Neuman was born in 1977 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and grew up in Spain. He has a degree in Spanish philology from the University of Granada. Neuman was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists and was elected to the Bogotá-39 list. Traveler of the Century was the winner of the Alfaguara Prize and the National Critics Prize, Spain's two most prestigious literary awards.
"Neuman is a literary alchemist . . . [Fracture is] a moving meditation on the reverberating waves that shape us and the inescapable impermanence of life." —Kirkus Reviews
"Filled with insights into cross-cultural intimacies, [Fracture] is charged with . . . distaste for what history does to tragedies: turning injuries of flesh and blood into crude symbols." —The New Yorker
"Fracture is by far the Argentinian writer Andrés Neuman's most successful experiment . . . that which should be said must be said – and Neuman undoubtedly says it beautifully." —Ian Sansom, The Guardian
"Fracture asks how we can live, as individuals and as communities, in the long shadow of catastrophe . . . More than once, Mr. Neuman's evocations of the aftermaths of 1945 and 2011 bring the vacant, haunted spaces of 2020 to mind. In our deserted cities, we too have had "to contemplate what life looks like when there should be no one left." —Boyd Tonkin, The Wall Street Journal
"A prolific writer, Neuman . . . delights in language and linguistic ambiguity. In Fracture, he explores the fragmented nature of memory, emotional scars, a city's wounds after a disaster and the cracks in a relationship caused by cultural difference . . . Perceptively translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia, Fracture is a novel for our times and astonishingly relevant." —Lucy Popescu, The Guardian
"Neuman uses highly imaginative, highly poetic language to tell a cinematic story constructed like a puzzle while raising urgent social, political, philosophical, and ecological issues. This tour de force, akin to a six-voice musical offering . . . is a profound, captivating novel, written with confounding intelligence and wit, a heartbreakingly beautiful exploration of human consciousness." —Hélène Cardona, World Literature Today
"We find ourselves immersed in a story about a man written by a man but narrated by four women, an act of ventriloquism mirrored by reading the book in its easy-flowing translation (by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia) from Spanish . . . in this enjoyable and strangely tender book, Neuman asks us to look beyond the present." —David Pilling, Financial Times
"Stirring . . . Neuman slowly builds meaning in the book's recursive structure and language . . . This weighty meditation on human interconnection is well worth a look." —Publishers Weekly
"The fragmented and destructive power wielded by memory and trauma in developing one's outlook on life, coupled with a two-pronged narrative technique for character development, makes Neuman's [Fracture] a winner." —Library Journal (starred review)
"[Neuman is] a wildly talented and curious writer whose books roam energetically around the world and across genres . . . Fracture is very much about how catastrophe and trauma ripple across the world—the book hopscotches from Tokyo to Madrid, Paris, Buenos Aires, and New York—and, in that sense, offers an eerie reflection of the global reach of our present pandemic." —Vanity Fair (31 Great Quarantine Reads)
"Tracing the flow of time, tragedies both individual and global, and our memories of what occurred, Neuman leads us into the lives and loves of his characters, filling in the gaps between one character's memories with another's . . . Neuman knows that the ways in which we're broken not only form an essential fabric of our being, but often remake us in entirely new ways." —Chicago Review of Books
"Fracture spans more than six decades, five time zones, and four love affairs. It's one of the most ambitious books I've read recently; [Neuman] tackles issues of gender, love, environmentalism, translation, and international relations in just under 350 pages." —Alina Cohen, Observer
"A talented travel writer (How to Travel without Seeing, 2016), inventive storyteller (The Things We Don't Do, 2015), and acclaimed novelist (Talking to Ourselves, 2014), Neuman presents a realist novel told in an unconventional style which centers around one man's life as refracted through the viewpoints of numerous women who knew him. Another fascinating work of fiction from a generously prolific author." —Diego Báez, Booklist
"Fracture is a masterfully written novel about brokenness and the possibility of repair—even when such repair is itself a constant reminder of brokenness . . . Though comparisons to Bolaño are inevitable (Bolaño himself was an ardent champion of Neuman's writing), Fracture feels far more modern than postmodern, and is particularly Woolfian in its character depth and ambitious narrative structure . . . ere is just one example of Neuman's brilliance and importance as an international writer, demonstrating the linguistic virtuosity Bolaño no doubt recognized in the young novelist." —Edwin Alanís-García, Asymptote
"This feels like a massive step forward for Neuman in terms of scope and self-assurance, which is saying a lot after Traveler of the Century, Talking to Ourselves, and The Things We Don't Do . . . The way Neuman writes about failed relationships, about beauty at different ages, about sex and longing and mystery . . . is so heartfelt and human." —Chad Post, Three Percent Blog
"Impressive in scope and touching in its telling, Fracture is Neuman's most mature outing to date . . . Tenderly told, Fracture is a masterful tale— one perhaps all the more important in our own current shared moment of uncertainty, change, and loss." —Jeremy Garber, Powell Books
"Reading Andrés Neuman's nostalgic Fracture, which centers partly on the Fukushima nuclear disaster, could be a fraught experience during a pandemic—and, indeed, many of the main characters' convoluted feelings are likely to resonate with, and unsettle, the reader. The author's skill, however, makes this compelling story well worth the emotional investment . . . These women could easily have become simply foils for Watanabe's inner journey." —Mariko Hewer, Washington Independent Review of Books
"Questions of personal, national, and historical identity, as well as the ways in which experience, memory, communication, and relationships are affected by history, nationality, language, and dislocation, all reverberate through Fracture . . . Neuman's deeply researched, ambitious novel stretches and uses the life-as-journey structure to explore the characters' inner spaces, and their personal and political history." —Ellen Prentiss Campbell, Fiction Writers Review
"It is impossible to classify Andrés Neuman: each of his books is a new language adventure, guided by the intelligence and the pleasure of words. He never ceases to surprise us and is, doubtlessly, one of the most daring writers in Latin American literature, willing to change, challenge and explore, always with a unique elegance." —Mariana Enriquez, author of Things We Lost in the Fire
"Fracture is adventurous, big-hearted and seductive, and it has an appetite for life that is, to me, the trademark of great fiction. Neuman is as generous here as ever." —Juan Gabriel Vásquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling
"One of the things I love about Andrés Neuman's work is how he restores writing as the most powerful source of knowledge. Fracture, this dazzling and devastating novel, is a terrific demonstration of that." —Alejandro Zambra, author of Ways of Going Home
"Traversing languages and cultures, decades and generations, Fracture unites its many fragments to form a powerful and redemptive vision of a single, and unbroken, human life. A searching, humane, and vital novel." —Eleanor Catton, author of The Luminaries
"Andrés Neuman is a born storyteller. Fracture is a deeply generous, wise and resonant novel that glides effortlessly between the intimate and the global, the tragic and the comic, all underpinned by Neuman's electric, ludic intelligence. If you are about to turn the first page, you are very lucky - a reader on the threshold of a book that in the most wonderful of ways will enrich and enlarge your life." —Owen Sheers, poet and playwright
"Neuman's striking novel weaves a tapestry of life and society since Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed, as told through the story of the wanderer and electronics executive Mr. Watanabe, the legacy of his childhood trauma, and the women around the globe who loved him. Rich in detail, political as well as personal, from the foibles of language to economic decline, the world the characters inhabit is constantly shifting underfoot, and the act of remembering emerges as a shore on which to stand and face the sands of time. A finely wrought, beautifully translated novel." —Saskia Vogel, author of Permission
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The first time I ever saw Elliott Carter was on the 7th Avenue IRT, as it was called then. We both happened to be in the same subway car, coming from the 125th Street station going downtown (that was the nearest stop from Juilliard, which was on 122nd St. and Claremont Avenue at that time). He was on the faculty and I was a student there, must have been 1964 or '65. He seemed to be deep in thought and I certainly was not about to disturb him. Little did I know what lay ahead. Fast forward to the mid '70s, when I was a member of Speculum Musicae; we had commissioned Elliott to write a vocal piece with ensemble – A Mirror on Which to Dwell, his first piece for voice in over forty years. Other than the Woodwind Quintet (which I had performed as a student quite a few times), this was the first of many of his pieces with which I was to be involved as a clarinetist. I remember that we rehearsed intensely, without the soloist; during those years Speculum, as a matter of principle, rehearsed about an hour – minimum! – for every minute of music. Elliott showed up at one of the full rehearsals, and to our amazement decided, without hesitation, to make some significant note changes in the vocal line in one of the movements to make the soloist more comfortable. (I remember the conductor of the piece, Richard Fitz, being quite taken aback by this.) That was the first time, as I look back, that I witnessed how Elliott was almost always willing to make revisions in a carefully composed piece to accommodate a soloist.
Fast forward again to the early '90s: Elliott and I had worked together frequently and had become friends when I got a telephone call from him asking me to talk to Phil Lesh (the bass guitarist with the Grateful Dead), who had called him. Elliott was not exactly sure who Phil Lesh and the Grateful Dead were at that time, but Lesh had offered to give a substantial grant from the Rex Foundation towards a Carter project. Elliott called Oliver Knussen for advice, and Oliver suggested that I would be the right person to discuss this with Phil. Oliver (who was a close friend whom I had also managed in the U.S. for a number of years) and I decided that a recording project, to include the Violin Concerto, Concerto for Orchestra and the Three Occasions for Orchestra would be a good idea; Phil Lesh agreed and this became the first of many Carter recording projects on which I worked as Executive Producer. From that point on my involvement with Elliott and his music intensified dramatically, and soon thereafter I became his personal assistant, a role I assumed for the next twenty-plus years.
During the summer of 2001 I was surprised to find a fax from Elliott waiting for me one morning with sketches jotted down for a solo bass clarinet piece (which became Steep Steps), and the note "Is this possible, Virgil?" I immediately called him and told him that it certainly was! I had had no indication that he had decided to write a piece for me; we had never talked about the possibility, and I would never have asked him for one. I was, of course, thrilled! Throughout the compositional process he asked me to play passages for him. Except for the very few last measures, on which we collaborated, and which were revised a few times, no other modifications were made; but I could see that he was always open to any suggestions. Another example of the care and respect he showed to performers: the opening measures of the piece he wrote for cello and bass clarinet, Rigmarole, for the cellist Fred Sherry and me, for his 103rd birthday concert. Elliott decided to write it at the very last minute, a gift for us. The original opening had the bass clarinet playing a treacherous note pattern in groups of septuplets at a very fast tempo without any rests, played continuously over and over again, nonstop. I practiced this section relentlessly before I finally realized that the chances of my being able to successfully achieve what he had written were very low indeed. I very reluctantly went to him and asked him – quite embarrassed and extremely apologetic – if he would consider changing the passage. This was a first for me. I played it for him at a reduced speed at first so he could hear what I meant; I was fully prepared for him to reject my plea, and was worried about what he would say. But without hesitation he added a few rests in one of the measures in the middle of the passage, and asked me if that would be all right. I cannot tell you how relieved I was. It made all the difference in the world; and he later even said that he thought it had improved the opening of the piece.
I've recounted these personal references as they speak to Elliott's attitude to the performer. He had said on many occasions, and in countless interviews, that he always wrote the music he wanted to write regardless of trends, or other outside pressures, which might give the impression that he was rigid regarding what he wrote; but I found him to be quite the opposite, always placing the utmost importance on the performer, without compromising his musical integrity – and while always pushing the musical envelope along the way.
What a remarkable composer he was and an equally remarkable human being. What a privilege it was for me to have such a close relationship with him and to be with him all these years.


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Cement Truck Driver Kills Cyclist Near Greenway in Hell's Kitchen
A cement truck driver fatally struck a cyclist at W. 55th Street and 12th Avenue in Manhattan. The red arrow represents the approximate path of the driver and the white arrow indicates the approximate path of the victim, according to NYPD. Image: Google Maps
A cement truck driver killed a woman riding a bike near the Hudson River Greenway in Hell's Kitchen this morning.
The 65-year-old victim was westbound on W. 55th Street, riding toward the greenway, at around 6:45 a.m. when the driver, also westbound, struck her while attempting to turn right onto 12th Avenue, according to NYPD.
A police spokesperson told Streetsblog the victim was riding in the crosswalk when she was struck. There is a painted bike lane on the south side of W. 55th Street, but the transition to the greenway entails biking in a crosswalk from the northern side of the street.
The victim, whose identity had not been released as of late this morning, pending family notification, sustained injuries to her head and body and died at the scene. Media reports said the victim was a man, but NYPD told us that information was incorrect.
NYPD withheld the driver's name, identifying him only as a 56-year-old man. The department's description of the crash strongly suggests the victim had the right of way, but NYPD's public information office did not provide a determination of who was at fault and said the Collision Investigation Squad was still working the crash.
The victim of today's crash was the second person killed by a truck driver in Hell's Kitchen in the past week. Maria Munez-Carna, a tourist from Spain, was struck last Friday in a crosswalk at W. 39th Street and 10th Avenue.
This fatal crash occurred in the 18th Precinct, where officers ticket around one motorist a day for failing to yield, and in the City Council district represented by Helen Rosenthal, where truck drivers have killed two cyclists in the last four weeks.
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Uber Driver Injures Cyclist at Hudson River Greenway Crossing
By Brad Aaron	| Mar 7, 2017
A for-hire driver in an Uber cab injured a young man riding a bike on the Hudson River Greenway last week. The driver blamed the victim, and indications are NYPD did not conduct a full-scale investigation. The Taxi and Limousine Commission declined comment.
NYC Motorists Killed Four People Walking and Biking This Weekend
By Brad Aaron	| Jun 13, 2016
New York City motorists killed four people walking and biking this weekend. One of the victims was struck in a Midtown crosswalk while crossing with the right of way, but NYPD and Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance haven't filed charges against the driver. Po Chu Ng was crossing Sixth Avenue at W. 30th Street at […]
NYPD Blames Victim After Box Truck Driver Kills Cyclist Corbin Carr, 17, in Hell's Kitchen
In light of the department's track record of putting out misleading crash information, initial police accounts can't be trusted in the absence of video evidence or testimony from witnesses other than the driver.
Dershowitz Death Illuminates Dangers Faced By Greenway-Bound Cyclists
By Brad Aaron	| Jul 6, 2011
Green lines are major north-south bike routes; red lines represent obstacles to the West Side Greenway; purple lines are wide, dangerous crosstown streets; and orange lines are westbound connections to the greenway. View a larger map. Streetsblog reader Mark Davis has put together a map showing how greenway-bound cyclists are funneled through the West 29th […]
Truck Driver Kills Tourist at Lincoln Tunnel Access Point in Hell's Kitchen
By Brad Aaron	| Dec 12, 2016
Maria Munez-Carna, 57, was crossing W. 39th Street when 28-year-old Rance Clyburn hit her with a Freightliner flatbed as he turned left onto 39th from 10th Avenue
Three Killed in Traffic in Three Days as City Council Dithers
By Brad Aaron	| Oct 22, 2012
Three pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes on consecutive days in Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan this weekend. At approximately 1:15 this morning, Andrew Schoonover, a 31-year-old from Florida, was struck by the driver of a city sanitation truck at the corner of Second Avenue and East 84th Street. NYPD told the Daily News and the […]


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Australia's Trade Minister Simon Birmingham said that ongoing reports of bans and disruptions to the country's key exports to China were "deeply troubling," Annika Burgess reported for Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa).
Chinese authorities are reportedly planning to halt around 6 billion dollars' (US$4.4 billion) worth of imports of Australian wine, lobsters, sugar, coal, copper, barley and timber. The reports from industry, as well as Chinese state-run tabloid The Global Times, have not been confirmed by Beijing.
In a morning interview with national broadcaster ABC, Birmingham said that although China has denied taking discriminatory actions against Australia, it "doesn't seem to be what industry is seeing and hearing at present."
"There's a lot of inconsistency in what we see and hear," Birmingham said. "We hope that the Chinese government is true to its word and that these issues can be resolved, but there's no denying the fact that the range and extent of concerns that industry are hearing is deeply troubling." This week, millions of dollars' worth of Australian rock lobster was hit with customs restrictions. Barley and timber imports were also held up, with Chinese customs claiming that shipments may have been contaminated. Relations between China and Australia have become increasingly strained this year, after Canberra supported US calls for an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Enhanced New River oyster habitat and a warm winter should help guide Ricky Kellum find more spotted seatrout during April.
North Carolina didn't experience bone-chilling, cold-stun fish kills this past winter. So spotted seatrout fishing should be extraordinary this spring, especially from Jacksonville to New River Inlet.
"April is when the trout bite really turns on," said guide Ricky Kellum, "especially since we didn't lose any fish this winter.
But the main attraction will be topwater fishing at main-river points, he said.
April may be Kellum's favorite because topwater fishing heats up.
His favorite river trout lure is a Zara Spook Jr., white body/charteuse head. But he also likes the bone color, a shade of ivory.
"I also like a MirrOlure 808, which is orange and gold. It not only catches trout, but red drum in the main river," said Kellum, who also fishes Catch 2000 suspending lures and 17 MR MirrOlures in electric chicken color.
Kellum expects fishing to get a boost in 2019 from the 26-mile "Oyster Highway" — a project started in 2018 to place oyster rocks and young oysters in the New River to create a chain of oyster reefs. The major goal is to grow more oysters to filter the river's water, but oyster bars and reefs also provide excellent habitat for many fish species.


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The Northern Rhodesia Police passed into history when the Republic of Zambia came into existence on 24 October 1964. The 'Story of the Northern Rhodesia Regiment', published in Lusaka in 1953, did not neglect the civil side of the Force in the years up to 1 April 1932 when the old Northern Rhodesia Police split into what was to become the Regiment, and a more conventional colonial police force. The Special Edition of the Northern Rhodesia Police magazine, 'Nkhwazi', in April 1964, contained a short history written by Paul Speich. My contribution to the 'Northern Rhodesia Record' in 1992, was written under the impression that it was to be annexed to a history of the Provincial Administration and highlighted links with that, the most prestigious and probably most important, part of the Government Service. My researches since then have revealed much new material so that I believe I can fairly claim that this work is not merely a consolidation of what has been previously written about the NRP, including my series of articles in the Journal of the Police History Society, but the first full history of the NRP from its roots in the last decade of the Nineteenth Century.
Some may question why so much space has been devoted to the campaigns in which the Military Branch of the Force took part between 1914 and 1918 and to military aspects over the following thirteen years. Firstly I believe I have been able to provide a more comprehensive account than that in "the Story of the Northern Rhodesia Regiment", of the part played by the NRP in the conquest of what is now Tanzania. Secondly from 1911 until 1927 there was no direct recruitment of Africans into the Town and District police. Candidates had first to serve four years in the Military Branch. Capt Percy Wardroper, the Commissioner of Police in 1932, had himself served with the Service Battalion in the Field from 1915 until 1918 and been Adjutant of the Force for several years thereafter. Commissioned officers in the 1920s might find themselves serving a tour of duty with the Town and District police at Livingstone or Broken Hill before returning to the Military Branch. At least one Town and District constable, Ronald Howe who went on to become Chief Inspector, had a spell at the Front. The Northern Rhodesia Regiment rightly inherited the Battle Honours and colours but could claim no higher proportion of veterans in its ranks than the purely civil NRP of 1932.
In Peace the purpose of the old Military Branch was to deal with any major disturbances beyond the capabilities of the civil administrative officials and the Town and District Police. In fact the role of the Military Branch was identical with that assumed by the Northern Rhodesia Police Mobile Unit in 1949. When there was a real danger of armed incursion from Zaire in the early 1960s platoons of the Mobile Unit were deployed on the border alongside regular infantry units, as indeed, A/Insp Bernard O'Leary and a police detachment were deployed alongside the Northern Rhodesia Regiment on the same border in 1939. One cannot properly separate the military and police history of pre-1932 Northern Rhodesia.
The members of a police force serve in diverse detachments at full stretch 365 days a year in peace and war. Even on a small station the investigation of one particular crime or a public order operation will seldom involve the whole staff. Patrols and other investigations will continue though the heavens may fall. Small parties or individual police officers are engaged in separate battles and skirmishes in the war against crime, the protection of life and property and maintenance of the Sovereign's peace. To write the history of a police force is, therefore, a very different undertaking to writing that of a battalion of infantry operating as a body or in a handful of sub-units or detachments, with periods of action interspersed with peacetime routine and training, or even of a regiment with battalions serving in different theatres. Whether involved in great events or small a police force is engaged on a myriad of fronts and can never be taken out of the line to retrain, rest or reorganise. Of course major events and investigations will dominate its written history but the reader should bear in mind that in "other corners of the Field" life was not without its dangers, frustrations and successes.
It is some 15 years since a challenge in the Northern Rhodesia Police Association Newsletter led me to assemble my old Force magazines and other papers from my service with the NRP and Zambia Police, L H Gann's "Birth of a Plural Society" and Moyse-Bartlett's definitive history of the King's African Rifles, both purchased many years before in Lusaka, and sketch out my first draft of this work. In the late 1960s I had foolishly lent out my copy of "The Story of the Northern Rhodesia Regiment", which had not been returned. In 1990 the book was republished by Galago but this was the 1980s and I was in Germany. Happily I was able to borrow copies of that work and Colin Harding's three books from the Ministry of Defence Library (Central and Army) in Whitehall the staff of which served me well in this and other matters.
My thanks are also due to the staffs of the Public Record Office, British Library, Rhodes House Library, Oxford, Imperial War Museum, the National Police College library, Bramshill, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, my good friends at the Prince Consort's Library, Aldershot, Dr Peter Liddle and his staff at the Liddle Collection, Leeds University and Sir Peter O'Sullevan, the son of an officer who served in the Barotse Native Police and the North-Eastern Rhodesia Constabulary and was a founder member of the Northern Rhodesia Police, Alan Walker, Peter Silk, Mike Faddy and Brian Taylor.
I am grateful to the committee of the Northern Rhodesia Police Association, Michael Mylod OBE, our Chairman, Jeremy Hawkins, Chris Lyon and Priscilla Flower-Smith who read my draft, corrected errors and made helpful suggestions. I am especially grateful to Jeremy who lent me his full run of the Northern Rhodesia Journal and other publications, some of which he had previously lent me at Livingstone in 1958. I have also received assistance from many other old friends and colleagues including John Coates CPM, Bob Barkley CPM, Denis Bird MBE CPM, Don Bruce QPM, Fred Buckton, who lent me his almost full run of Nkhwazi, Wally Clarke, Roger Heckford, Nick Hulette, Joe Joseph OBE, Iain Mackintosh, Alan Marginson, John Maybank, David (Chiefie) Oliver CPM, David Deptford QPM CPM, Malcolm Flower-Smith, A St John Sugg CMG, Paul Wheeler, David Williams, the late Ross Collett CPM and "Compol" himself, the late Col J P I Fforde CBE QPM CPM. Mention must also be made of L A Heatlie, David Mkankaulwa and B D (Chunky) Powell and Edward Deane Simmons MBE and Eddie Raubenheimer from whose contributions to Nkhwazi and the NRP Association Newsletter I have quoted or drawn material.
T B WRIGHT
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A HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN RHODESIA POLICE
By TIM WRIGHT
PART I: ANTECEDENTS
Chapter One "THE LOQUS IN QUO"
Chapter Two "THE NORTH-EASTERN RHODESIA CONSTABULARY"
Chapter Three "THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA POLICE IN NORTH-WESTERN RHODESIA"
Chapter Four "THE BAROTSE NATIVE POLICE"
Annex to Ch 4 Roll of Officers & British Other Ranks BNP
PART II: MILITARY; RED
Chapter Five "THE NORTHERN RHODESIA POLICE" 1911-1914
Chapter Six "ON ACTIVE SERVICE" 1914-1916
Chapter Seven "A LONG, LONG TRAIL A'WINDING" 1916-1918
Chapter Eight "SOLDIERS FROM THE WARS RETURNING" 1919-1924
Chapter Nine "POLICE & MILITARY UNDER THE CROWN" 1924-1932
Chapter Ten "FAREWELL TO THE MILITARY"
PART III: POLICE; BLUE
Chapter Eleven "PURELY POLICE" 1932-1939
Chapter Twelve "ON THE HOME FRONT" 1939-1945
Chapter Thirteen "POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION" 1946-1953
Chapter Fourteen "TOWARDS A NEW DOMINION" 1953-1959
Chapter Fifteen "INTERIOR ECONOMY" 1957-1960
Chapter Sixteen "RETREAT FROM FEDERATION" 1960-1963
Chapter Seventeen "END OF EMPIRE" 1964
2.FATAL AFRICAN CASUALTIES 1914-1918 – click here to see the Livingstone Police Camp Memorial page
3.AWARDS TO AFRICAN POLICE – click here to see the Honours page
4.ALPHABETICAL LIST OF OFFICERS APPOINTED 1.4.24-23.10.64 – not included
BIBLIOGRAPHY- not included
INDEX – not included
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MAFS contestants Tracey and Dean break their silence.
MARRIED At First Sight's Dean and Davina might be laying low after their affair was exposed in an explosive commitment ceremony on Sunday night, but their spouses Tracey and Ryan are speaking out.
"I had no idea. I had no idea," Tracey said Monday morning on Nova's Fitzy & Wippa breakfast show. "I mean, I was sitting right next to Dean and Davina at that dinner party. But I just thought it was having a little flirtation. I had no idea what was really going on."
Last week's dinner party saw Dean and Davina take their secret fling to the next level, with the pair hatching a plan to leave their partners at Sunday night's commitment ceremony. In a shock twist, Dean revealed the affair but decided to stay with his wife.
And Tracey took him back. But the version of events given by Dean last night don't quite match what viewers watched play out over previous weeks.
"If only I knew then what I know now," Tracey said. "Because I didn't know any of that until what he said to me - as you saw last night - on the couch. It was all news to me. So yes, there are a few different versions there."
Tracey breaks down as her husband Dean reveals his fling with Davina.
In the days leading up to the commitment ceremony, viewers also watched Davina befriend Tracey and try to convince her to break up with Dean. Now, watching the events play out on television, Tracey said she she's shocked at the lengths the pair went to.
" ... The fact was she was trying to befriend me and be best friends with me, who does that?" she said.
"It's hard to come back from that. Once the girl code's broken, it's broken. And I was taking her on face value as she was trying to befriend me. But not gonna happen now."
Ryan is kept in the dark by his wife Davina as she attempts to win Dean.
Appearing on 2Day's Em, Grant & Ed breakfast show on Monday, Davina's partner Ryan said watching the secret fling unfold on television over the past week has been "a bit to take on".
He admitted he thought the bikini model was "the one" when he met her on their wedding day but added he "didn't love her".
"We only knew each other for three weeks. But I was very blindsided by what happened," he said.
The Maroubra tradie also managed to take a few friendly swipes at his TV wife during the interview.
Asked about the love heart tattoo he got for Davina during the series, he told the radio show he now plans on having the word "divorce" inked inside it.
"If I knew she was with Dean I would've got 'Dean' tattooed on my arm, I guess," he joked.
And when probed about who he was last intimate with, he replied.
"My wife. The real question is, ask her who hers was. Probably not me."
Married At First Sight continues tonight on Nine at 7.30pm.