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September 30, 2017 /by Skate Canada
ZAGREB, Croatia – Marjorie Lajoie of Boucherville, Que., and Zachary Lagha of Greenfield Park, Que., staved off two Russian couples to win the gold medal Saturday in ice dancing at the fifth stop on the ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit.
The Canadians bettered their score from their sixth place finish at the world juniors last year with 150.30 points. Sofia Shevchenko and Igor Eremenko of Russia were second at 145.05 and their compatriots Ksenia Konkina and Grigory Yakushev were third at 143.77.
''We just had a super experience overall this week,'' said Lajoie. ''Everything from the practices to the performances went very well.''
It was a first victory and third medal in five junior Grand Prix career appearances for Lajoie and Lagha. They won silver at the season opening event in Australia and are now qualified for the Grand Prix Final in December.
''Our plan here was just to skate for ourselves and not focus on the results,'' added Lagha. ''We went out there to have fun and that's what worked. For the lead up to the Final our focus will be on the technical aspects and bringing the program to another level.''
Ellie Fisher of Lower Coverdale, N.B., and Simon-Pierre Mallette-Paque of Laval, Que., moved from sixth after the short dance to fifth.
''It's a satisfying result but not exactly what we wanted,'' said Mallette-Paque. ''We will continue to build on that.''
It was a first international experience for the couple.
'Representing Canada was pretty cool,'' said Fisher.
It was Canada's second medal of the competition. On Friday Joseph Phan of Laval, Que., took the silver in men's competition.
Full results: ISU JGP Croatia Cup 2017
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Le premier document qui rapporte l'existence de la localité date de 1322.

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Is Racism an Instinct?
March 14, 2017 March 15, 2017 evolutiontheorist Psychology and Evolutionchimpanzes, chimps, competition, ethnic conflict, ethnic identity, evolution, hierarchy, humans, identity, in-group, instincts, Jane Goodall, out-group, psychology, race, racism
Everyone is a little bit racist–Hillary Clinton
If everyone in the world exhibits a particular behavior, chances are it's innate. But I have been informed–by Harvard-educated people, no less–that humans do not have instincts. We are so smart, you see, that we don't need instincts anymore.
This is nonsense, of course.
One amusing and well-documented human instinct is the nesting instinct, experienced by pregnant women shortly before going into labor. (As my father put it, "When shes starts rearranging the furniture, get the ready to head to the hospital.") Having personally experienced this sudden, overwhelming urge to CLEAN ALL THE THINGS multiple times, I can testify that it is a real phenomenon.
Humans have other instincts–babies will not only pick up and try to eat pretty much anything they run across, to every parent's consternation, but they will also crawl right up to puddles and attempt to drink out of them.
But we're getting ahead of ourselves: What, exactly, is an instinct? According to Wikipedia:
Instinct or innate behavior is the inherent inclination of a living organism towards a particular complex behavior. The simplest example of an instinctive behavior is a fixed action pattern (FAP), in which a very short to medium length sequence of actions, without variation, are carried out in response to a clearly defined stimulus.
Any behavior is instinctive if it is performed without being based upon prior experience (that is, in the absence of learning), and is therefore an expression of innate biological factors. …
Instincts are inborn complex patterns of behavior that exist in most members of the species, and should be distinguished from reflexes, which are simple responses of an organism to a specific stimulus, such as the contraction of the pupil in response to bright light or the spasmodic movement of the lower leg when the knee is tapped.
The go-to example of an instinct is the gosling's imprinting instinct. Typically, goslings imprint on their mothers, but a baby gosling doesn't actually know what its mother is supposed to look like, and can accidentally imprint on other random objects, provided they are moving slowly around the nest around the time the gosling hatches.
Stray dog nursing kittens
Here we come to something I think may be useful for distinguishing an instinct from other behaviors: an instinct, once triggered, tends to keep going even if it has been accidentally or incorrectly triggered. Goslings look like they have an instinct to follow their mothers, but they actually have an instinct to imprint on the first large, slowly moving object near their nest when they hatch.
So if you find people strangely compelled to do something that makes no sense but which everyone else seems to think makes perfect sense, you may be dealing with an instinct. For example, women enjoy celebrity gossip because humans have an instinct to keep track of social ranks and dynamics within their own tribe; men enjoy watching other men play sports because it conveys the vicarious feeling of defeating a neighboring tribe at war.
So what about racism? Is it an instinct?
Strictly speaking–and I know I have to define racism, just a moment–I don't see how we could have evolved such an instinct. Races exist because major human groups were geographically separated for thousands of years–prior to 1492, the average person never even met a person of another race in their entire life. So how could we evolve an instinct in response to something our ancestors never encountered?
Unfortunately, "racism" is a chimera, always changing whenever we attempt to pin it down, but the Urban Dictionary gives a reasonable definition:
An irrational bias towards members of a racial background. The bias can be positive (e.g. one race can prefer the company of its own race or even another) or it can be negative (e.g. one race can hate another). To qualify as racism, the bias must be irrational. That is, it cannot have a factual basis for preference.
Of course, instincts exist because they ensured our ancestors' survival, so if racism is an instinct, it can't exactly be "irrational." We might call a gosling who follows a scientist instead of its mother "irrational," but this is a misunderstanding of the gosling's motivation. Since "racist" is a term of moral judgment, people are prone to defending their actions/beliefs towards others on the grounds that it can't possibly be immoral to believe something that is actually true.
The claim that people are "racist" against members of other races implies, in converse, that they exhibit no similar behaviors toward members of their own race. But even the most perfunctory overview of history reveals people acting in extremely "racist" ways toward members of their own race. During the Anglo-Boer wars, the English committed genocide against the Dutch South Africans (Afrikaners.) During WWII, Germans allied with the the Japanese and slaughtered their neighbors, Poles and Jews. (Ashkenazim are genetically Caucasian and half Italian.) If Hitler were really racist, he'd have teamed up with Stalin and Einstein–his fellow whites–and dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima. (And for their part, the Japanese would have allied with the Chinese against the Germans.)
Some quotes from the NewScientist article:
The murder victim, a West African chimpanzee called Foudouko, had been beaten with rocks and sticks, stomped on and then cannibalised by his own community. …
"When you reverse that and have almost two males per every female — that really intensifies the competition for reproduction. That seems to be a key factor here," says Wilson.
Jill Pruetz at Iowa State University, who has been studying this group of chimpanzees in south-eastern Senegal since 2001, agrees. She suggests that human influence may have caused this skewed gender ratio that is likely to have been behind this attack. In Senegal, female chimpanzees are poached to provide infants for the pet trade. …
Early one morning, Pruetz and her team heard loud screams and hoots from the chimps' nearby sleep nest. At dawn, they found Foudouko dead, bleeding profusely from a bite to his right foot. He also had a large gash in his back and a ripped anus. Later he was found to have cracked ribs. Pruetz says Foudouko probably died of internal injuries or bled out from his foot wound.
Foudouko also had wounds on his fingers. These were likely to have been caused by chimps clamping them in their teeth to stretch his arms out and hold him down during the attack, says Pruetz.
After his death, the gang continued to abuse Foudouko's body, throwing rocks and poking it with sticks, breaking its limbs, biting it and eventually eating some of the flesh.
"It was striking. The female that cannibalised the body the most, she's the mother of the top two high-ranking males. Her sons were the only ones that really didn't attack the body aggressively," Pruetz says …
Historically, the vast majority of wars and genocides were waged by one group of people against their neighbors–people they were likely to be closely related to in the grand scheme of things–not against distant peoples they'd never met. If you're a chimp, the chimp most likely to steal your banana is the one standing right in front of you, not some strange chimp you've never met before who lives in another forest.
Indeed, in Jane Goodall's account of the Gombe Chimpanzee War, the combatants were not members of two unrelated communities that had recently encountered each other, but members of a single community that had split in two. Chimps who had formerly lived peacefully together, groomed each other, shared bananas, etc., now bashed each other's brains out and cannibalized their young. Poor Jane was traumatized.
I think there is an instinct to form in-groups and out-groups. People often have multiple defined in-groups ("I am a progressive, a Christian, a baker, and a Swede,") but one of these identities generally trumps the others in importance. Ethnicity and gender are major groups most people seem to have, but I don't see a lot of evidence suggesting that the grouping of "race" is uniquely special, globally, in people's ideas of in- and out-.
For example, as I am writing today, people are concerned that Donald Trump is enacting racist policies toward Muslims, even though "Muslim" is not a race and most of the countries targeted by Trump's travel/immigration ban are filled with fellow Caucasians, not Sub-Saharan Africans or Asians.
Race is a largely American obsession, because our nation (like the other North and South American nations,) has always had whites, blacks, and Asians (Native Americans). But many countries don't have this arrangement. Certainly Ireland didn't have an historical black community, nor Japan a white one. Irish identity was formed in contrast to English identity; Japanese in contrast to Chinese and Korean.
Only in the context where different races live in close proximity to each other does it seem that people develop strong racial identities; otherwise people don't think much about race.
Napoleon Chagnon, a white man, has spent years living among the Yanomamo, one of the world's most murderous tribes, folks who go and slaughter their neighbors and neighbors' children all the time, and they still haven't murdered him.
Why do people insist on claiming that Trump's "Muslim ban" is racist when Muslims aren't a race? Because Islam is an identity group that appears to function similarly to race, even though Muslims come in white, black, and Asian.
If you've read any of the comments on my old post about Turkic DNA, Turkey: Not very Turkic, you'll have noted that Turks are quite passionate about their Turkic identity, even though "Turkic" clearly doesn't correspond to any particular ethnic groups. (It's even more mixed up than Jewish, and that's a pretty mixed up one after thousands of years of inter-breeding with non-Jews.)
Group identities are fluid. When threatened, groups merged. When resources are abundant and times are good, groups split.
What about evidence that infants identify–stare longer at–faces of people of different races than their parents? This may be true, but all it really tells us is that babies are attuned to novelty. It certainly doesn't tell us that babies are racist just because they find people interesting who look different from the people they're used to.
What happens when people encounter others of a different race for the first time?
We have many accounts of "first contacts" between different races during the Age of Exploration. For example, when escaped English convict William Buckley wandered into an uncontacted Aborigine tribe, they assumed he was a ghost, adopted him, taught him to survive, and protected him for 30 years. By contrast, the last guy who landed on North Sentinel Island and tried to chat with the natives there got a spear to the chest and a shallow grave for his efforts. (But I am not certain the North Sentinelese haven't encountered outsiders at some point.)
But what about the lunchroom seating habits of the wild American teenager?
If people have an instinct to form in-groups and out-groups, then races (or religions?) may represent the furthest bounds of this, at least until we encounter aliens. All else held equal, perhaps we are most inclined to like the people most like ourselves, and least inclined to like the people least like ourselves–racism would thus be the strongest manifestation of this broader instinct. But what about people who have a great dislike for one race, but seem just fine with another, eg, a white person who likes Asians but not blacks, or a black who like Asians but not whites? And can we say–per our definition above–that these preferences are irrational, or are they born of some lived experience of positive or negative interactions?
Again, we are only likely to have strong opinions about members of other races if we are in direct conflict or competition with them. Most of the time, people are in competition with their neighbors, not people on the other side of the world. I certainly don't sit here thinking negative thoughts about Pygmies or Aborigines, even though we are very genetically distant from each other, and I doubt they spend their free time thinking negatively about me.
Just because flamingos prefer to flock with other flamingos doesn't mean they dislike horses; for the most part, I think people are largely indifferent to folks outside their own lives.
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23 thoughts on "Is Racism an Instinct?"
alex wu says:
I think racism is instinctual (in the sense that the more similar others look to us, the more we like them). The corollary is that we tend to dislike those who look different from us.
Of course, there often exist other considerations that override race.
And all this is a subset of the our preference for people who are similar to us in all ways (religion, politics, culture, etc.).
Nulle Terre Sans Seigneur says:
Only within gradients. When it comes to very narrow differences in genetic distance, the only kin recognition mechanisms you have at hand are heuristics like geographic proximity and dialect. An example of this is the conflict between Armenians and Azerbaijanis. Azerbaijanis are genetically closer to Armenians than to Turkic peoples, but they have adopted Turkic customs and have a very strong hostility to Armenians owing to incidents like the communal violence during the Russian Revolution of 1905, and the more recent conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
szopeno says:
Your arguments seem reasonable. IN addition, I must say that I have noticed in me a instinctive dislike of children who have no blue eyes. Seriously! When being shown babies pictures from my collegues (All white!) sometimes I think "wow, what cute creatures!" (when they have blue or gray eyes) and sometimes I am indifferent. But when I see real children, I feel I am much more tolerant to the blue-eyed, while I am quick to be angered by non-blue eyed children. This is not rational, so it may be instinct – but it is obviously not racism, as all those children are Slavic and ometimes even related!
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Anon. says:
>All else held equal, perhaps we are most inclined to like the people most like ourselves, and least inclined to like the people least like ourselves–racism would thus be the strongest manifestation of this broader instinct.
Doesn't seem like a plausible hypothesis to me. Consider the "narcissism of small differences" (see the classic SSC posts "Post-Partisanship Is Hyper-Partisanship" and "I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup"): fargroups don't get hate because they don't compete with us. Instead they're exoticized. Tribalism tends to be drawn across the lines most relevant to our success.
I think this relates to how, 100 years ago, people in New England were well into romantic near-mythology about American Indians, while people in the Southwest lacked such romanticism, maybe something to do with the final Apache raid occuring in 1924 (according to Wikipedia)…
This is pretty much what I try explaining to anyone who will listen.
I will say, the Internet and broadcast media familiarize people with thedes they would never come into contact with. I suspect the printing press had a similar effect. Red team identified Islam as an enemy (possibly because they considered Israel an ally), so blue team decided to import more Islam to help them fight their common enemy. The split between secular and orthodox Jews plays out this way, too.
bernardkablog says:
I follow your argument; I think we all exhibit some degree of biases (racism?) towards groups of people or cultures that we are are familiar with and who may be instinctively perceived as threat to our norms. We however, have the ability to remove these biases and appreciate/celebrate our differences when we get know each other better………….
Giovanni Dannato says:
I remember reading that black slave children and white kids were allowed to play together in the old south but they went their separate ways when they hit a certain age.
I can remember having no concept of race myself when I was a small child and differences in skin tone didn't preoccupy me.
By the time puberty came on, kids became much more racially and socially aware.
I can remember by middle school "rappers" were all the hispanic and black kids against the "rockers" and "skaters" who were mostly white with a few hispanics.
As people grow up they assume roles in groups and have investments in social capital. This leads to competition over mates, political power, and jobs.
Like breeds of animals it becomes hard not to notice that race isn't just skin deep and each group only wants to hire and have social safety nets for its own kind. Vicious internal competition only underlines that no one has the luxury of giving other peoples much consideration outside of a "token" capacity.
Blacks like loud music and sports.
Asians like structure and rules.
Whites are more willing to try new things but lack common sense.
These generalizations are true most of the time about groups as a whole.
What people get wrong about racism is it's about groups, not individuals.
People also focus too much on skin color and not on the subtelties of neurotype.
For example, sense of humor. I've always enjoyed the quirky British-Celtic style of subtle wit. But most American humor is obvious, literal slapstick.
And apparently one of my grandfathers made puns the exact same way I do even though he was dead before I was born.
Not long ago, I was playing Cards Against Humanity with a room of Indian university students. I learned quickly I had to adjust to what they would find funny as their brains were collectively on a different wavelength.
It's things like humor, propensity for pair-bonding, sense of honor and fairness, conscientousness, collectivist/individualistic, future time orientation, clannishness that divide the races.
Telling a joke and being surrounded by people who understand you. Or being secure your neighbors won't throw their trash into the street.
This is priceless social capital that's invisible for most until it's gone because it forms their basic definition of proper human behavior. When that definition is challenged people become "racist."
Cord Shirt says:
Good point and well put.
Some on the cultural left have traditionally made this point as well, such as when arguing that a given culture is "male-identified" or exhibits "colorblind racism."
This is priceless social capital that's *invisible for most until it's gone because it forms their basic definition of proper human behavior*.
is precisely what is (or, traditionally was) meant by "colorblind racism."
IOW, the claim is that cultures reflect the neurotypes and preferences of those creating them. And so if your neurotype is different from that, you'll have a harder time fitting in and displaying that culture's idea of "proper human behavior." And so, at the group level, if you take a culture that grew up among members of one race, and you toss in a small group of members of a different race who are now trying to live and succeed in that culture…you are likely to see differential outcomes by race.
Affirmative action was intended to ameliorate this problem by sparking the organic growth of cultures out of the neurotypes of the whole American populace, rather than those of just whites or WASPs or etc. That is why the focus on proportional representation.
(See also: "Migrants start eating some of the foods of the country they move to, but at the same time older residents start trying some foods from immigrant cultures. There's a mutual exchange, and behavior meets somewhere in the middle. As students of migration repeatedly claim, acculturation is a two-way street: America is different because of Italian and Irish migration, and not just because of the food we eat." This was the goal of affirmative action.)
As you can probably infer, there was a background assumption that The Gap was a *result* of the cultural+personality differences. It seems to have turned out that it was actually more of a (huge) confounder. But in fairness, there was really no way to be sure of that at the time, and Americans understandably chose to err on the side of assuming it *could* be "easily" altered by altering the culture.
Uh so anyway, as you can probably gather from the above, those complaining of "colorblind racism" traditionally did *not* wish simply to remain within the uncongenial culture but just receive "breaks" (as many of today's HBDers seem to assume). No…they *wanted the culture to change to be more congenial* to them.
(Why, after all, should one group of citizens get to have that "precious social capital" while another group of citizens of the same country is forced to struggle along without it?)
In fact, many fair-minded people wanted their society's culture to become equally congenial to all races (at the group level).
Of course…there is no way to really know if a society *is* equally congenial to all races. So…they decided a reasonable proxy was…equal outcomes. "When there are equal outcomes by race," they thought, "that will mean our society finally is an equally good fit for all races."
…John Derbyshire has mentioned this history too. :shrug:
SFC Ton says:
Think about our brutal, violent evolutionary past when every stranger you happened across was a serious threat
Racism is natural and right; it's one of those things that keep you alive, keeps your shit your shit, your woman your woman and not some other dudes rape toy and your kids your kids instead of having the heads bashed in or sold as slaves
evolutiontheorist says:
Yes, but in the evolutionary past, most "strangers" weren't members of other races, because other races lived thousands of miles away. Distrust of all strangers could be an instinct, or distrust of people who don't look like you. But an instinct specifically and *only* limited to people who didn't interact with each other seems unlikely.
Strangers were the people who didn't look like you
And members of other races look like you the least
I also think your position down plays the importance of micro evolution
Stephen W says:
An instinct that makes you suspicious of strangers with small differences may also make you suspicious of strangers with large differences.
Yeah, but I'm not suspicious of birds at all, and they're really different. At what point is someone too different for me to care?
It is usually said that the uncanny valley nadirs at Zombie's.
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Normandie Kent says:
Native Americans are hardly " Asian". If that's the case then Europeans and Middle Easterners are far mor recent Asians than the Native Americans, since ME and EUR. Left Asia 2,500-4,000 years ago, as opposed to NAs 25,000-40,000 years ago.
Middle Easterners, Europeans, and Indians (from India) are genetically part of the "Caucasian" clade. East Asians and Native Americans are part of the "Asian" clade. The use of geographic names to refer to groups of people is merely a convenience; merely having been born on a particular continent does not determine genetics.
"Racism" (in quotes because there are, of course, no different human "races") is a modern extension built by colonialism of a redundant anti-stranger instinct probably evolved to protect against communicable disease. In practise, when indulged by the less aware, it's a form of bullying, and is a function of power relatiinships: it's prejudice plus institutional power. If we understand its evolutionary roots, it's easier to choose not to indulge it.
See my blogpost, 'Colour me racist, blame my genes – racism explained as a redundant instinct'.


Owen turned 7 yesterday. He thinks his birthday should be a holiday.
Over the weekend he got to take some of his friends to tour the College Football Hall of Fame. His favorite part was pretending to be announcer on TV.
For dinner, he got to pick the place and chose to go to Chik Fil-a. Luckily this was a good deal with passes we got from the hall of fame.
He was pretty happy with his loot-Pokemon, Star Wars, books and Legos.
He recently started playing basketball. He is the youngest player on the team but seems to really like it.


Reports of paranormal encounters are regularly dismissed due to skeptics' ridicule or religious doctrine. Far more insidious are the government cover-ups obscuring information from potentially reliable sources. David Pinchbeck talks with UFO researcher Richard Dolan and parapsychologist George Hansen who argue that advances in technology are expanding the limits of human consciousness to the point where supernatural phenomena will become commonly accepted occurrences in this interview originally webcast November 12, 2013.
As evidence of otherworldly contacts increases, the motivation to keep such information suppressed increases as well. Richard Dolan feels public disclosure will happen, but it will require a major paradigm change. George Hansen explains how our perceptions of paranormal experiences are the direct result of the anthropological structures of our spiritual mythology. Together, they reflect upon the changes needed in our social structures before we can normalize supernatural experiences.


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Haiti frees US aid worker accused of kidnapping
An American aid group working in Haiti says one of its founders who was accused of kidnapping has been released from prison.
Materials Management Relief Corps said on its Web site that Paul Waggoner left the national penitentiary Wednesday and is getting medical attention. A Haitian father claimed the former Massachusetts resident had kidnapped his infant son. Authorities detained him for 18 days while investigating the allegation.
Waggoner and his supporters said the boy died at a hospital where he was a volunteer in February.
Waggoner's lawyer told The Associated Press that he had provided a court with the boy's death certificate from the hospital and an affidavit from the doctor who treated him.


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Music To Die For
The Cremona Violin by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1818)
Tuesday's Tale of Terror June 6, 2017
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann popularly known as E.T.A. Hoffmann, was a Romantic author of Gothic, weird and fantasy fiction. He believed that music could 'bring us into unknown kingdoms.' He would, of course, think this since he was a composer of music. But more to the point this writer loved the supernatural, sinister characters, and the grotesque elements in human nature. His fiction is astonishing with wild leaps of imagination paralleled with psychology and spectres of the macabre.
I began reading Hoffmann's fiction while researching my novel Greylock. Because Greylock deals with the power of supernatural music in the life of my character Alexei Georg, a composer, I wanted to know more about Hoffmann's creative fiction, and how he built his characters and stories around musical themes. And his stories did not disappoint.
Hoffmann's short story The Cremona Violin features a violinist named Councillor Krespel, who decides to build a rather unconventional house with misplaced windows and doors. By trade, Krespel obsessively rebuilds antique violins and searches the world for the violins of the old master violinists. Living with Krespel is a young woman, Antonia, a singer who has the beauty and voice of an angel. Our story's narrator, a lawyer, describes Antonia as "impossible to tear myself away from her blue eyes, her sweet rosy lips, her uncommonly graceful, lovely form…" Krespel is obsessed with Antonia and compulsively forbids her to sing. Here the mystery gets thick with the bizarre.
Read The Cremona Violin at Ebooks.Adelaide.edu.
Listen to the audio by Librivox.org/weird-tales
Hoffmann's novels are The Devil's Elixirs, the King's Bride, The Nutcracker. Short stories The Sandman, The Entail, The Deserted House, and others.
Don't forget to view the INDEX above of more free Tales of Terror. This is a compendium of 200 short stories by over 100 famous storytellers of mystery, supernatural, ghost stories, crime, sci-fi, and horror. Join me in reading two short stories every month.
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Dancing the Witches' Goat Dance
The Ensouled Violin (1892) by Mme. Blavatsky (Helena Petrovna Blavatsky)
Tuesday's Tale of Terror October 8, 2013 Women in Horror Month
Words create images. Does this headline conjure up images of craggy women flying on goats or witches dancing back to back around fiery circles? Press refresh in your mind. What if musical notes could create thick shapes and figures right before your eyes? Imagine the dance of violin music. If you've ever listened deeply to Paganini's Witches' Dance (La Streghe) you might know how his music can enter us in a very muscular way. But could music transform into a spell of images before our eyes? If music could perform such a supernatural event, is it the violin or the violinist that has that power?
Mme. Blavatsky brings us a story full of musical mesmerism, and Paganini is a major character drawn in full color. Paganini's reputation for becoming bewitched by the devil in exchange for his brilliant career holds the central theme. The Italian was revered for playing his Witches Dance "pizzicato" with the left hand directly on the gut strings—without the aid of the bow. Was his superior talent singularly human?
In The Ensouled Violin, Franz Stenio, our semi-talented, young and aspiring musician dreams with his eyes open. He daydreams of nymphs and sirens, Calliope, Orpheus, and Olympus. These muses contribute to his Bohemian and penniless life. Until an old German, Samuel Klaus, a generous and hearty music teacher, decides to take Franz into his home as his own son. Klaus instills in Franz an ambition for exceptional talent and worldly fame, fame that might compete with the great and powerful Paganini. Off they go to Paris.
Yep, there are lots of discordant notes going on here, cacophonous cries of frenzy, a phantasmagoria, and Eastern Black Magic. Violins are mysterious instruments, singing out to us with the smallest swipe of the bow from their enchanting gut strings. One wonders, exactly whose gut strings are they that can create such beautiful sounds? Goats? Cats? Sheep? This is where the story gets especially ghastly. What kind of gut strings does Paganini use in his violin?
The old German teacher tells Franz the story of Paganini's supernatural art and the Italian's reputed deal with the devil. Franz is shocked but deeply curious. He asks Klaus, "Do you really believe that had I only the means of obtaining human intestines for strings, I could rival Paganini?"
Klaus unveiled his face, and, with a strange look of determination upon it, softly answered: "Human intestines alone are not sufficient for our purpose; they must have belonged to someone who had loved us well, with an unselfish holy love."
Unselfish holy love? Blavatsky doesn't leave us hanging for long with this sinister turn in the story. By the witches of Thessaly and the dark arts of Circe, our young and tender Franz chooses his fate … and the fate of another.
Blavatsky was a seductive storyteller. She became famous for being a philosopher, spiritualist, pioneer in the occult, one of the first people to coin the phrase the sixth sense, and was co-founder of The Theosophical Society in 1875. Her fiction is a small batch of stories in Nightmare Tales, published in 1907.
Read The Ensouled Violin at Gaslight:
http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/gaslight/ensoulvn.htm
May I suggest, for an added appreciation of this very extraordinary short story, you listen to Paganini's Witches Dance at Classical Music Online. What could be better than a classic horror story and a magnificent piece of classical music to complement the experience? Well, perhaps a glass of wine, preferably in a cut-glass goblet. Magnifico!
http://classical-music-online.net/en/listen/43608
You can access more of Mme. Blavatsky's short stories in the links below, at the Theosophical University Press Online Edition.
CAN THE DOUBLE MURDER? — (c. 1876-77)
AN UNSOLVED MYSTERY — (c. 1876-77)
KARMIC VISIONS — (June 1888)
THE LEGEND OF THE BLUE LOTUS — (April 1890)
A BEWITCHED LIFE — (c. 1890-91)
THE LUMINOUS SHIELD — (c. 1890-91)
THE CAVE OF THE ECHOES — (c. 1890-91)
FROM THE POLAR LANDS — (c. 1890-91)
THE ENSOULED VIOLIN — (c. 1890-91)
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Tag Archives: Blood tribe
Blackbird Calling by Laura Swart
When I first received Blackbird Calling (Quattro Books, 2016) and started reading it, I soon put it aside because I wasn't ready for it, my mind wanted an 'easy' read at the time (it being summertime and the season of distractions, not to mention yard work) but I vowed to return to it one day. That day came months later, and I finished it in one day. And I wondered why I hadn't returned to it sooner.
"I knew that an invisible kingdom drummed within me and around me, something more powerful and present than anything I could see with my eyes."
Blackbird Calling is a story that exists on several levels. There is the story of an unidentified teenage girl who befriends Gloria Little Chief from the Blood tribe who lives in the "double houses" with other natives in another part of her neighbourhood. From Gloria and from her Ni'is (Uncle, I believe) she learns many things, such as the past treatment of native people, residential schools, reservation life and life lessons that she doesn't receive from her own parents. Then there is the deeper context and the metaphors such as the marshland ecosystem where the Redwing Blackbird is king and how it mirrors life itself, as her brother's wondrous stories highlight: "The wetland is not a wasteland as some suppose; it's a Kingdom. And Red-winged Blackbird is King." The girl thinks: "I knew that an invisible kingdom drummed within me and around me, something more powerful and present than anything I could see with my eyes." Consider Hamish, an older boy who comes into the neighbourhood and changes the way the other children must play hide-and-seek in the neighbourhood:
"As the nights drained into weeks and months, Hamish gained more and more control. He picked the donkey each turn, directed people to their hiding spots, and decided when the game was over for the night. anyone who did not conform to the new rules fell into a void, like Indians in double houses, strangers outside the camp. Hide-and-seek seemed synthetic now, institutionalized."
This brings to mind the way aboriginal people were herded onto reserves, pushed out of the lands they had occupied and cared for centuries before the white man came, then were subjected to the institutional residential school system in which generations of native people were forced to speak English and told to forget their native ways. This was one of the biggest takeaways of Blackbird Calling for me: how the children at the residential schools missed out on the stories the elders would have passed down to them, and how some of the stories would die with the elder or older tribe members, never to be told again:
[Bonnie Plaited Hair (a mixed Cree and Blackfoot woman) laments]: "But we're the mothers and fathers now. It's up to us to teach our culture to the younger people. So many of the parents went to residential schools and didn't pass on the culture. And now the youth are lost because they don't know who they are. They don't have their culture to lean on."
I had never considered that particular cultural wound inflicted by those schools on native children and their future generations.
There are many gems to be gleaned from the few pages of this story. There are tragedies, misunderstandings, preconceptions and sometimes, outright violence against those with darker skin, high cheekbones and straight black hair. However, there is the awakening of the unnamed girl's mind to her heretofore hidden native heritage and the way the land and creation can 'speak' and the importance of being attuned to what it says. I genuinely liked this novella and I gave it 4/5 stars at Goodreads.
Laura Swart is passionate about writing and teaching. She taught academic writing at the University of Calgary for twenty years, encouraging students to move their writing from the sterile walls of the classroom to the arenas of publication and exhibition. She is Founder and Director of I-AM, a faith-based ESL program that uses story and song to teach the intricacies of English to refugees. Laura's degrees and research in Education and Philosophy have shaped her pedagogy, and the theories of Hans Gadamer in particular, have woven themselves into her thinking, her teaching, and her writing.
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This entry was posted in Fiction, Indigenous Titles, Novella, Social Issues and tagged aboriginal, Blood tribe, racism, residential schools on January 19, 2017 by James M. Fisher.


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President Trump And Melania Coin – The Truth Exposed
If you are a fan of President Donald Trump and want to show your support, you may think about purchasing a Trump coin. Despite the fact that the president has actually not yet minted a new coin, the United States Mint is currently providing $1 gold coins to commemorate the president.
It's possible that you're not aware of this reality, so let's take a look at some of the truths about Trump's presidential dollar coins.
The previous first lady of the United States, Melania Trump, has actually announced the launch of a new non-fungible token (NFT) venture. This NFT platform will consist of a series of digital collectibles. It will likewise include physical artwork and an one-of-a-kind accessory.
According to a statement provided by her office, the collection is created to highlight "iconic moments" from the administration of President Donald Trump. In addition to the collection of NFTs, the previous first lady stated the profits will be utilized to help children aging out of foster care. She will donate an unspecified amount to the effort.
The NFT will be offered through a payment platform called MoonPay. Charge card payments will be accepted. Payments using the SOL cryptocurrency will also be accepted.
The collection will be sold for a price of $50 per token. Each NFT will include an image of the previous first lady's blue eyes. An audio recording of her voice will accompany the images. They will be available for purchase in between Dec. 16 and Dec. 31.
In December, the previous first lady revealed that she would be selling NFTs on her brand-new platform. While the sale went efficiently, the task has actually faced criticism. Some have called it a rip-off while others questioned her motives.
Melania Trump began her modeling profession at age sixteen. She has actually appeared in numerous high-profile ad campaigns. Her newest NFT venture is her very first publicly announced venture given that leaving the White House.
She has actually mentioned that she was "motivated" by the American spirit. She thinks that the NFT is a way to return to children aging out of foster care. However, her press contact has not reacted to questions about contributions.
In addition to launching NFTs on her website, the previous first lady is likewise creating a series of advertising campaign. She mentions the Be Best initiative as the reason for producing her NFTs. As part of the campaign, she will be donating a part of the profits to the National Foster Care Association.
Aside from her new NFT endeavor, the former first lady has actually released a line of handcrafted Christmas accessories.
The LGBcoin has actually remained in the news for a while now, but one of its most noteworthy champions is its magnate creator, Madison Cawthorn.
For all of his flaws, Cawthorn has shown to be a gentleman of the greatest order. He's been a good sport in the media and has apparently even rolled the dice on the odd job in the past.
One of his more significant accomplishments is the truth that he's been named to your home of Representatives as one of the most eligible males in the land. That indicates, as the old saying goes, there's no telling what he'll be doing in the next 4 years.
If he's lucky, Cawthorn could be relegated to the minors for the rest of the decade. Not a bad deal for a man with a studful of prizes to his name. Besides, a little hyphy is never ever a bad thing.
When it comes to the rest people, we're a little concerned with the possibility of a lil ditty like Cawthorn in our middle. Luckily for us, he's not the only dubious congressional alumno on the loose.
The United States Mint started releasing Presidential $1 coins in 2007. This series honors former United States presidents. They are golden colored and include a picture of the previous president on the obverse and an image of the Statue of Liberty on the reverse. A slogan, "IN GOD WE TRUST", is inscribed on the edge of these coins.
These coins are suggested to be used in vending devices, parking meters, and other locations where they can be acquired. The Federal Reserve Banks disperse the coins to their members, banks, and credit unions.
A group of officials met the United States Mint to go over production, packaging, circulation, and other issues. Based upon this feedback, the Federal Reserve established techniques for future issuance and management of the coins. In the past, celebratory circulating coin programs have come across challenges. To avoid comparable problems, the Federal Reserve has carried out market research and has consulted with the Mint to develop a program.
The Federal Reserve has actually incorporated feedback from other celebratory distributing coin programs into its strategy for the Presidential $1 Coin Program. It has also executed modifications to its distribution practices, which include automated messages for depository organizations. Ultimately, the Federal Reserve will determine the level of need for the coins before figuring out how to handle them.
The first coin to be provided under the Presidential $1 Coin Act was the George Washington coin. It was released 2 weeks before the John Adams coin was issued.
This was the first in a series of four one dollar coins to be issued each year. The designs on these coins have actually changed in time. Some of the previous coins have actually included the slogan, "IN GOD WE TRUST," on the obverse. Given that 2009, the slogan has actually been moved to the obverse of all presidential dollar coins.
The Presidential $1 Coin Program has actually launched a number of promotional materials. It has actually carried out outreach to regional companies, schools, and customer groups. There are free instructional products offered for anyone thinking about the coins.
However, it will depend on the Mint to deal with these companies and schools to ensure that these new coins receive the public attention and media coverage that they are worthy of.
Silver And Gold Trump Coin – The Truth Exposed
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King David, one of the greatest Prophet's, who was the ancestor of Jesus, he was said to have deceived Ahimelch the Priest. The purpose was to safeguard the priest from knowing if he knew what David did – if the king found out, Ahimelech would have been slaughtered. Although David had good intentions to protect himself, he used deception to achieve this. Hence, this is another verse amongst many more where the Bible permits one to lie in those circumstances.


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National Entrepreneurship Awards Scheme – 2016
Team Estrade - December 21, 2016
New Delhi, Delhi, India/Businesswire India//-- The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MoSDE) Government of India has instituted the annual National Entrepreneurship Awards to encourage a...
Programme Sponsors Commit to Launch of IIGP 2.0
A record 100 BUSINESS ENGAGEMENT AGREEMENTS ANNOUNCED AT THE TIRUPATI TECHNOLOGY EXPO Tirupathi, Andhra Pradesh, India/Businesswire India//-- A record 100 domestic and international business agreements were...
Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities: Aegis Receives National Award
MUMBAI, December 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- - National Award Presented by the Honorable President of India, H.E. Shri. Pranab Mukherjee - Includes Cash Reward From Government...
Government launches Solar Photovoltaic Training Program
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India/News Voir//-- The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India has launched an ambitious program of installing 100 GW of...
National Tourism Award: Hyderabad International Convention Centre
Team Estrade - December 6, 2016
HYDERABAD, India, December 6, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Celebrating the legacy of a decade gone by, Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC), one of South Asia's most...
HRD Ministry: 1.34% of GDP spent on Higher Education
New Delhi, India/PTI//-- Government has spent 1.34 percent of Gross Domestic Product on higher education during 2013-14, Lok Sabha was informed today. As per publication...
People in India Deeply Concerned about Welfare of Dairy Animals
Team Estrade - November 25, 2016
In the run up to National Milk Day tomorrow, World Animal Protection's research reveals over whelming support for better welfare standards for dairy animals New...
Estrade SPOTLIGHT
Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 bills, no longer legal tender
Team Estrade - November 9, 2016
Mumbai, India, November 9, 2016/Team Estrade//-- In a surprise television address, Narendra Modi, Hon'ble Prime Minister of India, announced the scrapping of Rs. 500...
GPS tracking & panic buttons on all transport vehicles
Team Estrade - July 21, 2016
After phones, Govt wants GPS tracking & panic buttons on all transport vehicles The Government of India has issued a draft notification for making the...
Air India plans to lease seven A320 neos
Air India plans to lease seven more new A320 neos for up to 12 years as the national carrier seeks to augment its fleet...


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Tinashe And Chris Brown Have A Sexy Dance Off In Their "Player" Video
Mike Wass @mikewassmusic | November 2, 2015 6:44 pm
Tinashe delivered one of the best videos of 2015 with the Kanye West-approved "All Hands On Deck." While the rising star's latest visual doesn't quite reach the same heights as that effort (the concept is a little cheesy), it taps into a similar vein of nostalgia. Namely for a time when being able to dance was part and parcel of being a pop star. And make no mistake, the 22-year-old knows how to bust a move.
The "2 On" diva progresses through several stages of a dance competition in the Emil Nava-directed clip until she reaches collaborator Chris Brown in the final round. Only they spend more time groping each other than doing anything resembling choreography. "Player" is the lead single from Tinashe's sophomore LP Joyride. The song hasn't cracked the Billboard Hot 100 yet, but it's gathering serious momentum at rhythmic radio. Which means a debut can't be too far off.
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North Korea prepares to conduct another missile launch: report
By Nikita Vladimirov - 11/01/16 02:55 PM EDT
North Korea's government is preparing to conduct another ballistic missile launch within the next three days, two U.S. officials told Fox News on Tuesday.
The launch planned within 24 to 72 hours is aimed at showcasing North Korea's intermediate-range ballistic missile technologies that the country has been working to perfect since the start of its nuclear program.
These missiles are typically easy to conceal and can be launched from road-mobile vehicles, officials told Fox.
The launch of the intermediate-range Musudan missile would be North Korea's ninth test launch this year.
North Korea has long pushed to build intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of striking the U.S., despite international sanctions and efforts to derail the country's nuclear program.
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Source: Ellen Ochoa in NASA gear | Source: Getty Images
34 Ellen Ochoa Quotes That Inspire Women to Reach for the Stars
By Dayna Remus
https://amodays.com/296973-ellen-ochoa-quotes.html
Space is an unending mystery that humanity continues to study with ongoing fascination. Some of us even get to travel there, one being Ellen Ochoa. Ochoa's achievements in the field as a Hispanic woman put her squarely in the history books. Read 34 quotes from the powerful woman below.
Ellen Ochoa was born in Los Angeles on May 10, 1958. She went to Stanford University and studied electrical engineering, eventually completing her master's degree in 1981 and her doctorate four years later.
These doctorates were just the beginning of Ochoa's historical achievements. In 1993, the astronaut was the first Hispanic woman to go to space. From there, she didn't slow down, becoming the first Hispanic and second female director of the JSC, among many other successes.
Read through the following 34 quotes to discover more about Ochoa's journey from the ground up.
Ellen Ochoa's quote: "It was just very peaceful." | Image: AmoDays
Ellen Ochoa's Quotes on Education
"I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background." — Ellen Ochoa
"I believe a good education can take you anywhere on Earth and beyond." — Ellen Ochoa
"A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another; if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that." — Ellen Ochoa
"Education is what allows you to stand out." — Ellen Ochoa
"I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people." — Ellen Ochoa
Ellen Ochoa's quote: "I believe a good education can take you anywhere on Earth and beyond." | Image: AmoDays
"I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important." — Ellen Ochoa
"Don't be afraid to reach for the stars." — Ellen Ochoa
"Throughout Johnson Space Center's history, contributions to STEM innovation and discoveries have been both through new technologies developed to advance human spaceflight and through educating, inspiring, and hiring students in STEM fields." — Ellen Ochoa
Ellen Ochoa's Quotes on Being a Woman in Space
"Today, women are represented throughout the NASA family, and they share the attributes that have always been important in NASA throughout its history: education, determination and enthusiasm, and an absolute belief that there's nowhere else that we'd rather be and there's nothing else that we'd rather be doing." — Ellen Ochoa
"If you know high school students or you're a high school student tuning in, think about applying for our WISH program, that stands for "Women in STEM High School Aerospace Scholars." — Ellen Ochoa
Ellen Ochoa's quote: "What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but the motivation, perseverance, and desire — the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery." | Image: AmoDays
"Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college." — Ellen Ochoa
"This was the last astronaut job that was not [yet] done by a woman. Now with this milestone, we can focus on the fact that what is important [is] to succeed in life, it does not matter whether you are a man or a woman." — Ellen Ochoa
"Women's suffrage created a greater representation of diverse views in our political and social system. That was an important milestone that really step-by-step eventually led to NASA's selection of the first six women astronauts in 1978." — Ellen Ochoa
"I was born in 1958, the same year NASA was established, which I like to think of as not a coincidence. I was 11 when they landed on the moon Apollo Eleven. And, of course, everybody in the whole world was watching that. But I can tell you, at that time, nobody ever asked a girl, 'Is that something you want to grow up and do?'" — Ellen Ochoa
"What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but the motivation, perseverance, and desire — the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery." — Ellen Ochoa
Ellen Ochoa's quote: "Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college." | Image: AmoDays
"I had the privilege of flying a very significant historic artifact during one of my space shuttle missions to the international space station. It was a banner of the National Women's Party which was used one hundred years ago as the party was fighting to secure for women the most basic right of a democracy: the right to vote." — Ellen Ochoa
"Sally [Ride] made it possible for anyone to become an astronaut." — Ellen Ochoa
Ellen Ochoa's Quotes on Her Life and Career
"I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows." — Ellen Ochoa
"The ISS operates as the 'anchor customer' in low earth orbit to support new commercial space services, including delivery of cargo and, before long, crew transportation services." — Ellen Ochoa
"Well, with so many space shuttle missions that we've done, I think it's just sort of natural that each one hasn't necessarily gotten the attention that the early ones did." — Ellen Ochoa
Ellen Ochoa's quote: "I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows." | Image: AmoDays
"We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars." — Ellen Ochoa
"I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level." — Ellen Ochoa
"These robotic arms, provided by Canada, have been invaluable in allowing us to build, maintain, and repair space structures, and I've been very fortunate to have gotten to operate them." — Ellen Ochoa
"It's fun to work the robotic arm in part because it's really a team effort." — Ellen Ochoa
"I followed my brother's footsteps and obtained my pilot's license." — Ellen Ochoa
Ellen Ochoa's quote: "I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level." | Image: AmoDays
"It was just very peaceful." — Ellen Ochoa
"What we do here at NASA is explore space and understand how you can get humans to and from space safely as well as accomplish something in space — whether it's going farther or understanding how you really live and work—and accomplish science objectives. It's hard, and it really does take a team. To me, that's one of the great rewards of working here. You get to feel like you're part of a team that is so talented and so dedicated." — Ellen Ochoa
"We are constantly emphasizing to people that they need to address anything that affects flight safety or mission success — many pathways to do that. We need to understand better what may be preventing people from using those pathways." — Ellen Ochoa
"There was a lot of light and a lot of rumbling and vibration, especially the first minute or minute-and-a-half. And then after about two minutes, when the solid rocket boosters separated, the ride got a lot smoother." — Ellen Ochoa
"We run the programs, and we support them through all of our folks, but usually the hardware is somewhere else." — Ellen Ochoa
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Ellen Ochoa's quote: "I followed my brother's footsteps and obtained my pilot's license." | Image: AmoDays
"Astronauts are very professional, and when preparing for a launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of their lives." — Ellen Ochoa
"Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they're passionate about…" — Ellen Ochoa
"I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college." — Ellen Ochoa
"I'm honored to be recognized among generations of astronauts who were at the forefront of exploring our universe for the benefit of humankind." — Ellen Ochoa
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Ellen Ochoa's quote: "Don't be afraid to reach for the stars." | Image: AmoDays
In 2018, Ochoa officially retired and became vice chair of the National Science Board (NSB). Four schools have been named after her, and she has received numerous medals and awards, such as an Outstanding Leadership Medal in 1995 and the Exceptional Service Medal two years later.
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Reigning Davis Cup champions Czech Republic came through their World Group First Round game against the Netherlands following a 3-2 scoreline.
Tomas Berdych ensured the win when he beat Thiemo De Bakker in the fourth rubber on Sunday afternoon on the hard indoor surface at the Cez Arena in Ostrava.
It took the Czech number one just an hour and 46 minutes to complete the 3-0 win against the world number 139 to reward Betfair backers of the nation. As usual odds were not that favorable online at the best tennis betting sites but one could still bag a healthy profit for the Czech win.
The Netherlands made a good start to the fixture of Friday as Robin Haase came through a five set encounter against Radek Stepanek with a win 3-6 6-4 6-7(4-7) 6-2 6-1 to put the visitors in front.
Berdych then dropped just six points in a 3-0 scoreline over against Igor Sijsling to level the scores after day one.
The former Wimbledon finalist returned for the doubles game on Saturday where he paired up with Stepanek. They needed four sets to beat Haase and doubles specialist Jean-Julien Rojer.
Berdych then recorded his third point of the game with his 6-1 6-4 6-3 win over De Bakker.
The victory, which puts the holders into the quarter-final, is their 10th straight success in this competition.
Czech Republic will now face Japan away from home in the last eight where they will be favourites again with Betfair. They are bidding for their third successive trophy in the Davis Cup.
In the 2012 final in Prague, Czech Republic defeated Spain 3-2 for their first trophy since 1980. Then 12 months later, they beat Serbia in Belgrade in another final rubber decider 3-2. Stepanek won the final game against Dusan Lajovic 6-3 6-1 6-1.
France currently head the outright market for the 2014 competition. They overcame Australia 5-0 in their first round tie.


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Examples of retro edtech futurism: Depicting the future of technology in education from an earlier period
This video provides a collection of examples of Retro edtech futurism, that is, the way in which people from an earlier period imagined the future of technology in education. Not only does the list provide curious examples as to how our grandparents imagined the way in which technology could change education, but it also shows what people from past generations placed their attention to, what they valued and what kind of technology they deemed to be educational. The video provides food for thought for those who would like to reflect on the vision(s) of technology in education that we are currently holding, our assumptions and the present challenges.
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Children's book expert extraordinaire, Betsy Bird, formerly of the New York Public Library and now head of special collections right here in Evanston, lugged a big bag of books to my home last week to tell all of us on hand about the Best Children's and YA Books of 2016. There are so many terrific books here! if you haven't sewn up your holiday lists, you're in luck. Personal favorites: PAX, Jazz Day, Quite Calling Me a Monster and The Cookie Fiasco!


Express Builder recently launched a new housing project Express Zenith at Sector 77 Noida. They are offering 2 and 3 Bhk luxurious apartments with all type facility like health club, Kid zone, swimming pool etc. Now Express Builder provides 24x7 hour security surveillance. The project totally based on Indian Vastu Sastra.


LWSA wants to give you options, ways to support and improve body, mind and spirit. If you'd like assistance, but you're not sure what would be best for you, schedule an appointment called"Session with Sue." You can come in and share with her what is happening, and the two of you can determine what that session will look like.
Sue is the owner of Living Well San Antonio. She became interested in alternative health in 1995, when she learned that one of her children was allergic to all types of antibiotics. This lead her to study how she could help her daughter live a long , healthy normal life. What Sue learned changed everything, and now she works to help others know there are many options available to support various health conditions. Sue is a Licensed Massage Therapist and an Essential Oils Educator.
Sue is a graduate of Loras College, Lionheart Institute of Transpersonal Energy Healing and Lauterstein-Conway Massage School. Most clients come to her for BodyTalk and/or Raindrop Technique sessions. Sue continues to study and take classes to advance her knowledge and loves what her sessions do for her clients.
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This illustration depicts an oil refinery as well as falling oil prices.
Crude oil sustained its four-year high on Tuesday, boosted by possible U.S. sanctions on Iranian exports and the refusal of OPEC and Russia to increase output to fill the gap.
The Brent crude oil gained 89 cents to peaked at $82.52 a barrel at 4:30 p.m. Nigerian time, before pulling back to $81.94.
U.S crude, West Texas Intermediate, gained 37 cents at $72.45 a barrel to reach the highest since mid-July.
Experts expect the United States to target Iran's oil exports with sanctions from November 4, while applying pressure on companies and governments dealing with Iran to fall in line and cut purchases.
The sanctions are expected to hurt Iran's crude exports and weaken its economic productivity.
However, Mohammad Barkindo, secretary general of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), said it is imperative for the cartel and its partners to cooperate so it will not "fall from one crisis to another". Meaning, OPEC at some point might fall in line and increase supply as demanded by President Trump on Saturday.
Global oil demand is expected to grow by 1.4 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2018 and 1.5 million bpd in 2019, according to the International Energy Agency recent forecast.
Therefore, if OPEC and partners fail to raise output going into the fourth quarter of the year, oil price might rise to $90 a barrel by Christmas, when Iranian exports would have stopped, and $100 in the New Year.