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Miss "The Ornithologist" at the Milwaukee Film Festival? Lucky you; it's available on Netflix now.
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Where to watch 2017 Milwaukee Film Festival movies now
The 2017 Milwaukee Film Festival may be done (*sheds tear*), but that doesn't mean the movies playing there for the past two weeks will disappear. Here's where you can find some of the festival picks you might've missed.
By Matt Mueller Culture Editor Published Oct 13, 2017 at 5:01 PM
The 2017 Milwaukee Film Festival may have finished rolling its end credits last night (here's some live footage from inside the OnMilwaukee office today). Thankfully, however, most festival movies have a longer lifespan than just a few screenings during the last week of September and the first week of October. Some are in theaters (or soon to be on their way, hopefully). Others are sitting right on your laptop or TV at home, just waiting for you.
While watching these features on the big screen is always the optimal route, here are the best ways to catch up (legally; none of that illegal pirated poppycock) with some of the Milwaukee Film Festival movies you may have missed these past two weeks.
"A Life in Waves"
Currently available for rent on iTunes and Amazon
"After the Storm"
Currently available for to stream on Amazon Prime, as well as to rent on Amazon and iTunes. Also available on DVD and Blu-ray
"Afterimage"
Coming to Blu-ray on Oct. 24
"Aladdin"
Currently available on DVD, as well as Freeform cable network
"American Fable"
Currently available to stream on Netflix, as well as to rent on Amazon, iTunes and Google Play. Also available on DVD
Currently available to stream on Netflix, but also coming to DVD and Blu-ray on Nov. 14
"The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography"
Currently available to rent on Amazon. Also available on DVD
"The Ballad of Lefty Brown"
Expected in limited theaters on Dec. 15, with possible expansion to Milwaukee
"Big Sonia"
Expected in limited theaters on Nov. 17, with possible expansion to Milwaukee
"Chavela"
Coming to DVD on Feb. 2, 2018
"Citizen Jane: Battle for the City"
Currently available for rent on Amazon, iTunes and Google Play, as well as some television VOD services. Also available on DVD
"Columbus"
Currently showing at the Oriental Theatre
"The Dark Crystal"
Currently available for rent on iTunes and Amazon, as well as some television VOD services. Also available on DVD and Blu-ray
"Elián"
Currently available to stream on Amazon Prime, as well as to rent on iTunes and Google Play
"Ella Brennan: Commanding the Table"
Currently available to stream on Netflix. Also available on DVD
"Esteban"
Currently available to stream for Cinemax subscribers
"Everybody Knows ... Elizabeth Murray"
Coming to DVD on Oct. 24
"Graduation"
Currently available to stream on Netflix
"I, Daniel Blake"
Currently available to rent on Amazon, Google Play and iTunes, as well as some television VOD services
"In Search of Israeli Cuisine"
Currently available to rent on iTunes and Google Play, as well as some television VOD services
"Killing Ground"
Currently available to rent on iTunes and Google Play, but also coming to DVD on Nov. 7
"Landline"
"Lemon"
Currently available to rent on Amazon, iTunes and Google Play, as well as some television VOD services. Also available on DVD on Nov. 21
"Like Cotton Twines"
Currently available to stream on Netflix, as well as available to rent on iTunes
"Like Crazy"
Currently available to stream on Netflix, as well as available to rent on Amazon, iTunes and Google Play. Also available on DVD
"The Lost World"
Currently available to stream on Epix, as well as to rent on Amazon. Also available on DVD and Blu-ray
"Love Jones"
Currently available on DVD
"Mali Blues"
"Manifesto"
Currently available to rent on Amazon, iTunes and Google Play, as well as some television VOD services. Also available on DVD
"The Midwife"
"Mune: Guardian of the Moon"
Currently available to rent on Google Play and Amazon, as well as some television VOD services. Also available on DVD
"The Ornithologist"
Currently available to stream on Netflix, as well as available on DVD
"Pecking Order"
For rent on Amazon and iTunes
"Person to Person"
Currently available to rent on Amazon, Google Play and iTunes, as well as some television VOD services. Also coming to DVD on Oct. 31
"Poltergeist"
Currently available to rent on iTunes and Amazon. Also available on DVD and Blu-ray
Currently available to rent on iTunes. Also available on DVD
"Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan"
Currently available to stream on Netflix, as well as to rent on Google Play and Amazon. Coming to DVD on Nov. 7
"Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World"
"Score: A Film Music Documentary"
Currently available to rent on iTunes, Amazon and Google Play, as well as some television VOD services. Also available on DVD
"Stop Making Sense"
Currently available to stream on Fandor, as well as to rent on iTunes and Google Play. Also available on Blu-ray
"Swim Team"
Coming to DVD on Nov. 7
"Tampopo"
Currently available to stream on Film Struck, as well as available on DVD
"Without Name"
Currently available to rent on iTunes and Google Play
"The Work"
Expected in limited theaters on Oct. 20, with possible expansion to Milwaukee
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Matt Mueller Culture Editor @aManAboutFilm
As much as it is a gigantic cliché to say that one has always had a passion for film, Matt Mueller has always had a passion for film. Whether it was bringing in the latest movie reviews for his first grade show-and-tell or writing film reviews for the St. Norbert College Times as a high school student, Matt is way too obsessed with movies for his own good.
When he's not writing about the latest blockbuster or talking much too glowingly about "Piranha 3D," Matt can probably be found watching literally any sport (minus cricket) or working at - get this - a local movie theater. Or watching a movie. Yeah, he's probably watching a movie.
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La Roja in bid to create history
By Jamie Currie
Updated: 9 June, 2014
A couple of weeks ago Vicente Del Bosque named his final 23-man squad who will endeavour to bring the country back-to-back World Cup triumphs in Brazil.
Such has been their domination in recent years, La Roja who were once considered perennial underachievers on the international stage, are now expected to come home from Brazil still World champions.
Spoiled since their success in South Africa in 2010, hopes are high amongst Spaniards that their country can become the first team since Brazil in 1962, to retain the Jules Rimet trophy.
The nation expects and so do the players. Despite being foolishly written off by some quarters in the media, a bunch of players who for the majority know very little other than success would consider it a failure if they didn't bring back the trophy to the Mediterranean.
The final 23 selected by Del Bosque are:
Goalkeepers: Iker Casillas (Real Madrid), Pepe Reina (Napoli), David de Gea (Manchester United)
Defenders: Cesar Azpilicueta (Chelsea), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Gerard Pique (Barcelona), Javi Martinez (Bayern Munich), Raul Albiol (Napoli), Jordi Alba (Barcelona), Juanfran Torres (Atletico Madrid)
Midfielders: Xavi Hernandez (Barcelona), Sergio Busquets (Barcelona), Xabi Alonso (Real Madrid), Santi Cazorla (Arsenal), Cesc Fabregas (Barcelona), David Silva (Manchester City), Andres Iniesta (Barcelona), Koke (Atletico Madrid), Juan Mata (Manchester United)
Forwards: Pedro Rodriguez (Barcelona), Fernando Torres (Chelsea), David Villa (Atletico Madrid), Diego Costa (Atletico Madrid)
Perhaps the most notable omissions from the squad are long-time right-back stalwart Alvaro Arbeloa. The Real Madrid man has been out for several months of the season due to injury and now has seen his place been snapped up by rival Juanfran of city rivals Atletico. In Juanfran's case, he has had a magnificent season being part of Atleti's title-winning side and can say he has very much played his way into the squad.
Manchester City pair Jesus Navas and Alvaro Negredo can feel very unlucky at being left at home. Navas, who was a vital impact sub in the 2010 World Cup and 2014 Euros wins, wasn't one hundred percent fit according to Del Bosque, and his burning pace will be missed as it helped late on in games to unlock tight and tired opposition defences.
Negredo who had a good first season in England, started on fire then tailed off somewhat after the new year after a shoulder injury. Fellow frontman Fernando Llorente, who had the complete opposite of season's to that of Negredo can also count himself unfortunate to be left out. The Juventus man struggled at the beginning of the season to adjust to Serie A but hit the back of the net regularly towards the end.
Fernando Torres is one who always divides opinion, especially since the striker's move to Chelsea. Again, he hasn't convinced at Stamford Bridge, yet finds himself selected ahead of the likes of the aforementioned duo of Llorente and Negredo. Maybe it's a case of Del Bosque going with the tried and trusted. After all, Torres did win the Golden Boot at Euro 2012 last time out.
It is pretty set in stone how this Spanish side will play, the infamous tika-taka style, and truth be told they know no other way. However the inclusion of Diego Costa in the squad means that if Del Bosque chooses to go with the traditional number 9, it will add another attacking dimension to a team already stacked with attacking options. A plan B, or C(osta) if you like.
The team will be expected to not only qualify from the group, but also top it too. The biggest test will be from the Chilean's who will use the high line and press high up the park and look to hit the Spain backline with the pace of Alexis Sanchez and Eduardo Vargas – two players who will be very well known to the Spanish contingent.
In an intriguing looking group, the Netherlands in the first game will of course be a rematch of the final four years ago. It's a very young Dutch side especially in defence with their main threat looking like coming from Arjen Robben and his lightning-quick pace, and the goal scoring prowess of Manchester United's Robin Van Persie.
Australia are expected to be the whipping boys of the group and even the most optimistic of Aussies will admit that they will find it extremely tough with 34-year-old Tim Cahill being their stand out player. That said, they have produced some shock results in World Cup tournaments gone by, and Spain must guard against any potentially complacency that may slip in. Remember, La Roja did lose to Switzerland in 2010, before going on to win the crown.
It will also be the international swansong for many of this all-conquering squad. David Villa has already stated his intention to retire from national team duties after the tournament and the likes of Xabi Alonso, Xavi, and maybe even Andres Iniesta may not have another World Cup tournament in them.
Yet, many bookmakers and pundits have totally written off their chances of retaining the trophy, it's quite a bold prediction given the strength of the pool Del Bosque has to pick from. You only have to look at the players who didn't make the 23 to see the evidence of that. In a season in the club game where tikki takka has been perceived as dead, it's up to La Roja to go out in Brazil and prove the critics wrong.
The coach expects, the fans expect. Now it's up to the players to deliver.
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Extracts From Chapter Twelve Of
Freedom Under Socialism?
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Six Million Reasons
To Hate The White Race
The Second World War ended with perhaps fifty million dead, and atrocities committed on both sides, for such is the nature of war. Allied atrocities included such acts of insanity as Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the fire-bombing of Tokyo and the destruction of Dresden. However, at the end of the war, the victors hit on the novel idea of putting the vanquished on trial, mostly Germans but also many Japanese, and collaborators such as the World War One hero and leader of Vichy France, Marshal Petain. The focus of the spurious war crimes trials was, and remains, the Nazi death camps, including the alleged extermination camps of Auschwitz and others in the East.
The British, who liberated Belsen, found some thirteen thousand corpses lying around the camp, which was disease-ridden, particularly with typhus, and, on account of severe logistical and other problems, a scene of mass starvation and utter horror. Similar scenes were found at other liberated camps, including Dachau, although by no means all the liberated inmates were infected with typhus, or starving. Some of those liberated at Dachau were fit enough to abuse their former captors. (18)
A study of the true nature of the Nazi camps is beyond the scope of the current work, it will suffice to say here that all the camps, and the Nazi ideology which is said to have created them, have, by clever propaganda and manipulation of the media, become associated permanently in the public mind with racial hatred and genocide. Although it has never been claimed - except by the sensationalist press and the ignorant - that Belsen was any sort of extermination camp, (19) the public perception of the Holocaust has always been, in the minds of the British public at least, the terrible scenes found at Belsen, and these have been used not only as proof that the Nazis gassed Jews, (20) but as proof that any form of white racial consciousness, white racial awareness or antipathy towards any form of race-mixing, is inherently evil and must lead inevitably to genocide. (21)
Both individual Jews and Jewish (specifically Zionist) organisations have quite ruthlessly exploited the Holocaust - whatever it was - for financial, and more often, political, purposes. They may and do scream to high heaven that any such suggestion amounts to rabid anti-Semitism, but it is a point that is hardly worth debating. The most cynical exploiters of the Holocaust though have without doubt been the Socialist International and their fellow travellers in the race industry.
Racial Realities In Recent History -
Over the past few hundred years the white race spread out over the entire globe subjugating all before it, and imposing its customs and institutions on the non-white peoples of the world. Hardly any of the non-white races was left untouched by the long arm of colonialism, and indeed, much of this subjugation was accomplished by one small island nation, Britain. Incredible as it may seem to those white British kids growing up today, at one time the greater part of the civilised world was mapped in the red of the British Empire on which the sun never set.
Because of the pervasive influence of the aforementioned socialists and their fellow travellers, the negative aspects of colonialism and Imperialism have been drummed into the heads of, especially the young, to the exclusion of all else. It is certainly true that many formerly subject races could make out an impressive case against the White Man. The peoples of Tasmania were wiped out, the native peoples of North America were likewise treated at times barbarically, and the colonialism and Imperialism of the British and other European powers certainly did exploit the peoples of Africa and India. But overall, the Imperialists bestowed far more benefits on their subjects than misery.
The distinguished liberal historian Professor Quigley has written that: "British rule in the period 1858-1947 tied India together by railroads, roads, and telegraph lines. It brought the country into contact with the Western world, and especially with world markets, by establishing a uniform system of money, steamboat connections with Europe by the Suez Canal, cable connections throughout the world, and the use of English as the language of government and administration. Best of all, Britain established the rule of law, equality before the law, and a tradition of judicial fairness to replace the older practice of inequality and arbitrary violence." (22)
This was far from the only contribution of the wicked Imperialists to the Indian sub-continent. The Research Bulletins of the Agricultural Research Institute at Pusa for 1911-12 report on flax experiments, wheat cultivation, research into horse diseases, rice diseases, bee-keeping, and much more. (23) Other, equally impressive contributions to the welfare of Indians and other colonial peoples were made in many other fields.
Nowhere was the impact of colonialism greater than in Africa. Contrary to the fantasies of the Boas school of cultural anthropology, there was never any civilisation in Black Africa in any meaningful sense of the word. The first prerequisite for civilisation is a written language, and it is a fact that the Negro has never developed any written language. Thus, even slavery has not been entirely without benefit to the Negro, albeit to later generations rather than those who suffered under it and died in their millions while being transferred to the New World in the most brutal and inhuman of conditions.
Because of the hysteria over racism which has been generated by the scenes found at Belsen and elsewhere, and of the alleged Nazi genocide of the Jews, any suggestion that different races have different (ie inferior) potential to contribute towards the advance of civilisation has become taboo throughout academia as well as throughout the media. The word racism (24) has been used as a catch-all device to blame the White Man for all the sins of the world and to excuse all black shortcomings. Whites have been portrayed as inherently evil; blacks as oppressed. The word racism is used to designate not only a belief in innate racial differences (its original meaning) but hostility to racial integration - including forced integration - hostility to miscegenation and the resultant racial death, telling politically incorrect jokes, poking fun of foreign accents, preference for the company of one's own kind, you name it.
There are those, it is true, who believe that the Black Man has no innate capacity for civilisation at all, that he should be segregated, or even denied the common cultural inheritance (25) which is the right of us all. These people though are, and always have been, an insignificant minority, and in any case such racial intolerance, bigotry or outright hatred is by no means unique to whites. (26)
Since the end of the Second World War, the former colonies of the European powers have been slowly, and sometimes brutally, decolonised. All manner of reasons have been advanced for this, including conspiracy theories, many of them bordering on the absurd. Probably the wisest words ever written on this subject were those penned by Elmer Pendell in his study Sex Versus Civilization. Undoubtedly the world communist movement played a major role in the destruction of colonialism, if only by the spread of communist ideology rather than actual conquest.
The classic example was Rhodesia. This was a country that had been successfully self-governing for over 40 years; its white population numbered some 220,000 to about 4 million Negroes. A declaration of rights was entrenched in its constitution; the franchise was not restricted to the whites but was extended to all citizens who owned property or earned a certain minimum income. In addition to this a chief or headman could vote. The reason for this was clearly, as Pendell states, that a country cannot be governed by ignorance or stupidity, and that where the majority of a country's citizens are illiterate, as they were in Rhodesia, some sort of overlordship is not only inevitable but necessary. (27)
In 1980, when Rhodesia was handed over to the murdering Marxist thug Robert Mugabe, we witnessed the spectacle of illiterate people voting. As Pendell points out:
"Illiterates are likely to be tools of persons already in power - so in effect there is less of government by the people as the suffrage is broadened." (28) And when that happens "the Communists offer their own government machinery - by internal agents. They have something that is better than chaos, and they succeed in convincing their victims of that.
Also they manage to keep a fairly harmonious relationship between the people and the government. That is done by suppressing all but one political party, and by maintaining strict control of the press and other means of communication. The government in a Communist country does not reflect the will of the people; rather it directs the will of the people..." (29)
This is precisely what happened in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe of course. The likes of the British National Party argue that the resultant despoilation of Rhodesia is the result of the Black Man's innate inferiority; the reality is that it was largely the result of communist subversion; those few African countries that have retained their capitalist economies have proved this. And whatever the ability of any race to build and maintain a civilisation, that ability will be enhanced by a capitalist system: a demand economy and diffusion of power; and regressed, perhaps back to the Stone Age, by the adoption of collectivism, and the resultant stagnation and tyranny. It is, in any case, mattoids rather than morons who have been responsible for almost all of the human tragedies and environmental disasters of the Twentieth Century, and it is mattoids rather than morons who will lead to the eventual ruin of mankind.
Racial Realities In Recent History:
Racism, Racism, Racism
Although it would be foolish to deny the existence of racial bigotry, prejudice, etc, the very concept of racism is a Marxist one. This bogus concept has been imposed on Western society by all manner of dirty tricks, emotional blackmail and outright lies. Again, gas chambers and six million exterminated Jews usually have something to do with this. The first and biggest lie is that race doesn't really exist, that it is a social concept rather than a biological one. This is nonsense of the first order. Race exists and is real; one can hardly deny the existence of white people, of ethnic Chinese, of the short-necked Esquimaux, (30) of the diminutive pygmies or of the Bantu. Before the Second World War, most biologists, anthropologists and others were quite candid about racial differences, often to the point of embarrassment. (31)
Nowadays, the largely Marxist dominated race industry does not shrink from outright lying, and the lies are so grotesque that it is a wonder that anyone would believe them.
A particularly grotesque example is a series of pamphlets spewed out by the so-called Institute of Race Relations in the early eighties. The first in the series, Roots of racism, claims that "there is in fact no such thing as different races, not scientifically speaking. Despite all the years of investigating and charting - this blood group and that, this bone structure and that, this disease and that - scientists have found no biological characteristics that belong exclusively to any one group of the world's people. Separate 'races' do not exist. All we are left with are the scientifically meaningless variations of skin colour." (32)
The most insidious thing about this poison is that it was produced under the guise of educational material in order to indoctrinate the young.
On the very same page, the barely hidden agenda of this pamphlet and of its publisher comes right out into the open: "It is the white nations which have, and appear determined to keep at any cost, wealth, and therefore power, grossly out of proportion to the size of their populations, and it is the non-white nations which struggle relentlessly for justice and equality." (33)
This is very clearly Marxist rhetoric. All whites are seen as oppressors, all non-whites as oppressed. The fact that the white nations have proportionately more wealth and power could just have something to do with the fact that they created this wealth and power by their own industriousness. Again, the capitalist system has more than a little to do with this, for as Ayn Rand tells us: "Under the inept government of the czars and with the most primitive methods of agriculture, Russia was a major grain exporter...That Russia should now be on a list of hungry, wheat-begging importers is the most damning indictment of a collectivist economy that reality can offer us." (34)
Indeed, for all the talk about racism and racial disadvantage, the American Negro has always enjoyed a far higher standard of living than the white Russian. In his 1966 book Bondage of the Free, the American author Kent Steffgen pointed out that American Negroes then owned 4.5 million automobiles - one to almost every four persons - while in the Soviet Union, there was only one car for every 350 people, and most of these were either state-owned or owned by high-ranking officials. Other economic statistics were equally impressive. (35)
It is certainly true that in the United States there is a large and growing black underclass, but although there are most definitely proportionately more blacks on welfare and living in poverty, this is hardly exclusively a black problem. There are many whites also living in poverty, and some minorities, including late arrivals, do proportionately better than whites in many economic and social spheres. There are numerous factors besides race which are responsible for such social trends and the enormous fluctuations between different races.
To take just two disparate examples: persons of Italian descent make up a disproportionate percentage of the catering and restaurant industries in Britain, while virtually all the top heavyweight boxers in the world are not only Negroes but Americans. One reason for the high rate of relative poverty amongst blacks is the simple fact that blacks have coped with the nuclear family very badly. A very high percentage of black households, especially in the United States, are headed by a lone female, more often an unmarried mother than a divorcee. At the other end of the scale, Asians in general have extended families, divorce is relatively rare, and they are very clannish in other ways, which also partially accounts for their phenomenal entrepreneurial success. Racism is not the problem for the underclass, and "anti-racism" is not the solution.
Returning to the poisonous pamphlet Roots of racism, the assertion that the non-white nations struggle relentlessly for justice and equality is in any case plain wrong. The capitalist bloc of Far East nations, led by Japan, has been spectacularly successful economically and most or all of them enjoy very high standards of living. This is all the more remarkable when one considers the devastation Japan suffered in the Second World War. Furthermore, injustice, oppression and appalling civil rights abuses and human rights violations can be found in virtually every country on Earth. The idea that whites oppress non-whites end of story, is too absurd for words.
There is even one predominantly black nation which compares extremely favourably with any white nation. The island paradise of Bermuda whose population is a mere sixty thousand, has the fifth highest standard of living in the world. The people of Bermuda, two thirds of whom are black, pay no income tax, suffer virtually no unemployment, and frequently hop across to the United States on shopping trips. Crime is all but unknown on the island. (36) Another non-white nation which enjoys an extremely high standard of living is the island of Brunei. As with Bermuda, one does not have to look far to see the reasons for Brunei's high standard of living. These two island paradises are totally atypical, but they indicate that there are many causes of poverty, backwardness and oppression besides the universally proclaimed nonsense of racism and Imperialism. (37) And, incidentally, of the far right's much trumpeted genetic inferiority of blacks. (38) Which brings us to so-called racially motivated violence.
Frequently, much is made of this by the media and by "anti-racist" organisations, and absurd figures for racial incidents (meaning white on non-white) including murders are bandied about from time to time. Yet consider the following statistics. Between 1969 and 1987, 2,618 people were killed and more than 33,000 injured in the Troubles in Northern Ireland. (39) Northern Ireland has a population of less than 1.6 million. (40) The majority of these thousands of innocent people were murdered simply because they were Protestants or Catholics. This is what white people do to each other; why should they behave any differently towards non-whites? If there had been proportionately that many racially motivated murders in Britain, we would be talking about a virtual genocide. Then there is the well-documented case of the misreporting and cynical exploitation of so-called racial attacks. (41)
Nor does the story end there. In the United States the most serious crime problem is black on black. A statistic which the current writer has often seen bandied about - one that is truly horrifying - is that one black American male in 21 will eventually be murdered, mostly by other blacks. (42) Predictably the socialists and their fellow travellers even blame this on racism. The disproportionate number of young black males in prison (a figure which is not so much shocking as scandalous), is seen as the result of oppressive policing, ethnic bias in sentencing, and other such nonsense. The fact that more young blacks may be inherently dishonest, thuggish or whatever, is dismissed as racist rhetoric. (43)
In the wake of the genocide in Rwanda, the Socialist Workers Party crowed that: "The roots of Rwanda's civil war lie in the divisions caused by decades of colonial rule by Western powers and the deep poverty that the capitalist world system has brought to Africa.
There will be no solution from French troops or the United Nations. They represent precisely the forces which have pillaged Africa.
The only lasting way out is for Rwandans of all ethnic backgrounds to unite against the foreign troops and the rich."(44)
The truth is that while Black Africa was ruled by the colonial powers it was relatively stable and prosperous. To accuse the whites of being responsible for genocide many years after they have left the country is too absurd for words. (45) Incredibly though, there are some who want to have their cake and eat it, for while the Socialist International did everything in its power to bring about the downfall of Imperialism, some African leftists blame their former rulers not for imposing Imperialism on them, but for abandoning it. An article in the London Times in October 1994 reported that an African diplomat had claimed that many colonial powers should be sued by their former colonies for forcing independence on them without holding referenda! "They left many uncivilised people who, divided ethnically, were incapable of governing themselves", he said. (46) Even more incredibly he suggested that a new form of colonialism should be imposed upon them by their neighbours. (47)
It was, though, Kent Steffgen who pinpointed the real reasons for the vast majority of ethnic tensions: "The Civil Rights Movement has publicized itself as a drive for economic advancement for the Negro but actually revolves about an attempt to invade the social privacy of whites." (48) People resent having their privacy invaded; they resent being told with whom they must associate, and whom they must employ, whom they should like, and they most emphatically resent being branded bigots and haters when they follow their own instincts, interests and other pursuits while at the same time minding their own business.
"Migration patterns show that when a colored family moves into a previously all-white residential district, a colony of Negroes follows, and this family is soon back in an all-Negro district." (49) This is the well attested phenomenon of white flight, although it isn't confined solely to whites. In many major cities across the world can be found small enclaves of ethnic Chinese which are usually known locally as Chinatown. These are Chinese ghettos, and some of them become tourist attractions. No one forces the Chinese to live in small, tightly knit communities; similarly no one forces Negroes to live in Harlem or other black enclaves. (50)
Finally, Steffgen refers to the work of Dr Ernest van den Haag, who was then Professor of Sociology at New York University. Prejudices, he says, whether ethnic, religious or racial, increase rather than decrease in proportion to the degree of non-voluntary contact between separately identifiable groups. (51) In other words, people of all races resent being socially engineered and manipulated, especially by those like the Socialist International who exploit them quite cynically in order to advance a political agenda.
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Gary K. Wolfe Reviews Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller
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Blackfish City, Sam J. Miller (Ecco 978-0-06-268482-0, $22.99, 336pp, hc) April 2018.
If Sam J. Miller's debut novel The Art of Starving was an intimate portrait of a troubled but appealing teen grappling with personal demons like bullies and eating disorders, his SF debut Blackfish City is expansive, ambitious, violent, rich in invention, and populated by a range of colorful figures whose characteristics sometimes seem drawn from sources as diverse as The Godfather, classic urban noir, a few familiar SF tropes, Samurai movies, and even superhero comics (at least there's some Spiderman-style building-scrambling). Not least among these characters is the setting itself – the remarkable eight-armed artificial ocean city of Qaanaaq (which we first glimpsed in Miller's celebrated 2015 story "Calved"), "east of Greenland, north of Iceland" and home to a population of almost a million, many of whom are refugees from the drowned or abandoned cities of the "Sunken World." (By now we're so inured to inundations and dislocations caused by climate change that a simple phrase is about all we need by way of backstory, though Miller does offer a few more details, mentioning that the most recent effort at an American government has collapsed.) It's about as different in scope and tone from The Art of Starving as it can get, but it's also the first SF debut novel I've seen this year that promises to have as striking an impact as Annalee Newitz had last year with Autonomous (which, interestingly enough, also partly took place in a growing Arctic city, Iqaluit). But instead of robots, Miller offers us killer whales and polar bears, and instead of bonding with your robot, something called "nanobonding," by which humans can share awareness with particular animals because of nanomites in the bloodstream.
Qaanaaq is interesting for a number of reasons. It's fueled by undersea thermal vents and governed mostly by artificial intelligences, and although there is a managerial class, capitalism seems virtually unregulated, while a criminal syndicate has amassed its own power. The wealthy live in plush accommodations with moving gardens and twenty-story buildings, while the refugees and itinerant workers of the "upper arms" barely subsist in what amount to stacks of shipping crates. The main viewpoints are those of Ankit, chief of staff to an ambitious politician; Fill, a wealthy heir to one of the city's shareholders, suffering from an unusual condition called the breaks (which, unleashed by "big pharma," has odd effects on memory, later explained in an ingenious but credible way); Kaev, a skilled but damaged professional fighter who makes his living deliberately throwing fights to accommodate the corrupt sport ("beam fighting," a kind of logrolling fought on beams above the ocean); and Soq, a nonbinary street urchin working mostly as a messenger for the mob, which is led by a ruthless godmother named Go.
It takes a while for Miller to reveal how these characters and their worlds are intertwined, since at first each seems to have a different agenda. Ankit, for example, wants to free her mother from a psychiatric facility-cum-prison called the Cabinet, while Kaev – who turns out to be her brother – is simply looking for an honorable way to retire and survive. Fill is interested in discovering the author of an anonymous broadcast called City Without a Map, a kind of insider's guide to Qaanaaq which Miller also uses, sometimes a bit blatantly, as an ongoing infodump, a bit like Dos Passos's "camera" segments of his U.S.A. trilogy. What does eventually knit the characters together is a figure who makes a spectacular appearance in the novel's opening scene: a mysterious woman riding a skiff towed by a killer whale, and accompanied by a huge polar bear. She seems a bit intimidated by the bear, but it becomes apparent that she and the orca are nanobonded – which many view as a kind of unholy abomination. After she goes all Kill Bill on a mob trying to attack her, we learn what her real motive is, and how she is connected to the other characters. Miller's conclusion may seem a bit rushed and CGI-ready, after a novel so dense with ideas and fully-realized characters, but at the same time it makes clear that, beyond the technology and pyrotechnics, Blackfish City is, rather surprisingly, also a novel about family, responsibility, and the possibility of community.
Gary K. Wolfe is Emeritus Professor of Humanities at Roosevelt University and a reviewer for Locus magazine since 1991. His reviews have been collected in Soundings (BSFA Award 2006; Hugo nominee), Bearings (Hugo nominee 2011), and Sightings (2011), and his Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature (Wesleyan) received the Locus Award in 2012. Earlier books include The Known and the Unknown: The Iconography of Science Fiction (Eaton Award, 1981), Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever (with Ellen Weil, 2002), and David Lindsay (1982). For the Library of America, he edited American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s in 2012, with a similar set for the 1960s forthcoming. He has received the Pilgrim Award from the Science Fiction Research Association, the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, and a Special World Fantasy Award for criticism. His 24-lecture series How Great Science Fiction Works appeared from The Great Courses in 2016. He has received six Hugo nominations, two for his reviews collections and four for The Coode Street Podcast, which he has co-hosted with Jonathan Strahan for more than 300 episodes. He lives in Chicago.
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Recent advances in single-view avatar creation have facilitated the consumer accessibility and scalable production of compelling CG avatars, with potential applications in personalized gaming, social VR, and immersive communication. Such images are easy to access and consumer friendly - all you need is a selfie. In addition, such technology is especially useful for instances in which controlled capture is not available - for example, celebrities or the deceased. Photorealistic CG characters are known to be difficult and expensive to produce, especially in the context of conventional production pipelines. The slightest inaccuracy in the modeling, shading, and rendering can result in the uncanny valley effect. Image-based approaches, where photographs of subjects are directly used as textures, can easily achieve convincing results while keeping rendering costs low, but are not suitable for reproducing complex non-linear facial expressions or renderings with novel illumination conditions.
Gallery of results of image-based dynamic avatars. Avatar hair generated using the method of [Hu et al. 2017]. The far right column shows the avatar rendered for a real-time application in a scene for mobile devices.
Dynamic Texture Synthesis. Given a single face image in a neutral pose, along with a desired blendshape expression and viewpoint, our deep generative network (paGAN) is able to produce a realistic image of the face with the desired expression. Our network is conditioned on multiple inputs, including eye gaze and a rendered image of normals of the 3D fitting to the target image, providing fine scale control of the output. We note that we use a single network that is able to work for all identities, whereas the method of [Kim et al. 2018] use different networks trained for each target avatar, requiring for each a source video as training data. Likewise, though Olszewski et al. [Olszewski et al.] can produce animations from a single image of new subjects, they use temporally aligned video performances for training. In either case, a tedious process is required to accommodate new subjects or extend the training set size. Our method works for any number of subjects on a single network, and only requires lightweight annotation of the data (which images have the same identity). Once trained, our network can produce fully-controllable temporally stable video performances from any image.
We have demonstrated paGAN - an end-to-end deep learning approach for facial expression texture synthesis - on a wide range of challenging examples. We show how individualized and continuous variations of facial expressions, including the mouth interior and eyes, can be synthesized in various poses from a single input image. Our technique does not train individualized networks for each identity [Kim et al. 2018], meaning new subjects are easy to process. We show that paGAN enables performance-based animation using an image-based dynamic avatar as well as video-driven facial animation, by generating a compressed model representation that can be run on a mobile device in real-time.


The negative parts are just "sunk costs". Don't mention them, there is no value in that, just make them go away the next time.
Gnome has had so much money poured into it for so many years, i find the attitude of some of their contributors just plain ridiculous. It is long overdue that KDE gets its fair share at last.
I think its just really useful to have it all in one place. Maemo is doing what our users have been doing for years: mixing technology from both desktops. Its good that we finally realize that.
Hmm, I don't get your point about mentioning money in the GNOME survey. Why shouldn't it be mentioned and not be an aspect of consideration? What do you exactly mean by "knowing the financial situation at their side"?
With regard to the "Qt" on the badges I for myself also considered it childish to hide the logo, but I can definitely also understand that some GNOME people got it as a kind of provocation to *only* have Qt on them.
@andre: They've hired a $100.000 "executive director" who's main job is to secure funds from sponsors (then used to pay her).
They're losing money right now (read their financial stuff, it's available online on their website). Furthermore, I wouldn't know as I'm not involved in Gnome but I've heard several gnomies say things like 'The big money companies run Gnome' and stuff. Often not too hapy about that, btw. No, I won't name anyone but I've worked with several closely during GCDS. Ask around yourself, if you want. I personally think it's exaggerating to say something like that, but Novell, Sun Google and others have much more control over Gnome as they have over a grass-roots community project like KDE.
Frankly, I think we care way too little about money and (big) companies and what they want. For us, it's all about the best technology. Gnome and KDE should have merged years ago, and the FOSS desktop would be in balance. Just my opinion.
@jos heh thanks for the details. The e.V. is doing so well, so I was wondering how the Gnome equivalent could have any problems.
> Frankly, I think we care way too little about money and (big) companies and what they want. For us, it's all about the best technology. Gnome and KDE should have merged years ago, and the FOSS desktop would be in balance. Just my opinion.
As you've analysed quite well imho (when we walked back to the hotels area at the GCDS) GNOME and KDE are taking quite opposite approaches to developing a desktop. For me, that's not a question of which one is better, but which one attracts me.
@Ian: I think "having any problem" is actually a misinterpretation of the numbers and statements about conclusion regarding those numbers.
It is more along the lines of not growing financially as much as anticipated and thus not being able to expand activities as much as planned.
There was bound to be some tension, and that's what having shared face-to-face meetings is all about - confronting it.
I can certainly understand the whole Gnome logo thing because if you're investing in GTK and Gnome Mobile then you're bound to be a bit sore, but considering the funding and, quite frankly, hot air that has been poured into Gnome Mobile and Maemo over the years then it really shouldn't have been unexpected. A bit silly, but understandable.
The interesting thing is that many people point to the perceived and supposed 'corporate' backing that Gnome appears to have from companies like Novell, Red Hat and Sun. However, the downside to that tends to be stagnation. They'll keep things ticking over and they'll happily package up incremental packages and pop them into their 'enterprise' distribution but they simply won't fund anything major like Gnome or GTK 3 unless it means direct revenue. The best things I've seen recently in Gnome have all come from people not employed by companies like Red Hat or Novell.
I still find it a puzzle as to how well e.V. seems to be managing versus the Gnome Foundation though, and I don't think it's the fault of Stormy as she seems to do a fantastic job from what I see.


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So I am half-way through my three-week school visit tour of TX. For the last week and a half, I have been visiting the schools of Frisco where the first five episodes of the TV show DALLAS (remember, "Who shot JR?") were shot.
Apparently, the producers of DALLAS rented the house and location from a Frisco owner who had built the house for his wife who was a fan of GONE WITH THE WIND. Unfortunately, after the first five episodes were shot, the house burned down and before the owner could finish rebuilding he and his wife got divorced, she took the insurance money, the producers went elsewhere and he was stuck with an unfinished house. And it is still unfinished to this day. I think that is the story. It sounds like something from the DALLAS soap opera itself, doesn't it?
However, the drama that I have been experiencing at the schools has been on the very pleasant side. There is nothing like hundreds of students calling out, "GraceLin, GRACELIN!" as I walk through the halls. Suddenly, I feel like a rock star.
and fortune cookie lesson suggestions.
It was amazing! And it made all the difference in my presentations. Without the students' excitement fueling me, there is no way I could keep up my presentations. Yay, Frisco students! Yay, Frisco Librarians! Yay, 1.5 weeks!


This grill cart features a sturdy wooden base with an opening for a round charcoal grill, I used a Weber. The cart also has wheels so you can move it and a rack for pushing / holding tools. If you're looking for a better outdoor cooking experience, then this is perfect as it gives space for chopping, storing etc! Overall this is a great weekend project because it's pretty quick to put together, and if you're organized it can definitely be done in a couple of hours.
The first thing I did was to clean the old grill. I sprayed it with water, scrubbed it with coarse steel wool and really focused on some rusty spots, and then I spray painted all those areas with some heat resistant black paint.
Then I took the grill apart, and removed the wheels - I'm going to be using those for the cart to make it movable.
Next up, the wood. I cut all the pieces to length on the miter saw, so they were all ready to assemble.
OK, so I've got some steel pipes and connectors here. This is for a handle for pulling the cart and to work as a towel bar. Here I'm cleaning them up with some denatured alcohol before being spray painting, and I used an oil rubbed bronze color.
For the legs I'm putting together two 2x4s which I screw together. Two of the legs will be slightly shorter than the others to account for the wheels.
And here are the leg sections. I'm also going to add some support pieces in the middle, and then the wheels on the ends.
Now before I left home, I drilled some very small holes in a steel rod, and the wheels will slide on the rod, and these cotter pins will make sure they stay in place. Then I drilled a hole in the two shorter legs for the rod to come through, and then I secured it with the pins.
OK, so time to cut out the hole for the grill with my jig saw.
I began with drilling a started hole, and then I followed along the marked circle with the jig saw.
Initially I had planned on putting in several screws in the wood to prevent direct contact with the wood. But after looking at it, I realized that the grill only touched a couple of areas, because the circle was not perfectly even, so I decided to skip that. There is no danger with this and if any scorching actually did occur it will be easy to add the small screws to decrease the contact.
I also decided to add some cap pieces on the ends to the cart to finish it off a bit.
On the underside I'm adding some cedar fence boards for a shelf, and this is where I picture you would store extra charcoal and things like that.
Next up - sanding, mostly on the top to make it nice and smooth.
Now remember the cart handle I painted, well here I have it assembled and just screwing this bar in on the side of the cart. And you can hold on to this when moving the cart, or use it to hang tools or whatever. Lastly I put on a thick coat of spar polyurethane on the whole cart to protect it from the elements.
To get a look at the final result, and a much better idea of the process of the build, make sure to check out the video!
What size wood and what all do you need for wood in this project?
I need a cut lists please and what kind of wood for outdoor only?
What a great way to restore your grill. I bought a similar Weber grill last year, and was looking for some inspiration for a cart. Thank's for the great post!
how about putting in the dimensions of the BBQ station like height width etc.
Hello, very nice job indeed ! Can you tell me the approx. weight of the whole cart ? In fact, I need to build a cart for moving my BBQ along a long climbing path round the house, for sure I will put 4 wheels but if I need to tow it with the car its not a godd idea :-) :-) Thanks again !
It would have been nice to have a cut list for the wood!
This project is a wonderful idea!! I'm going try it. The one thing that I'd like to do is ,to make the table longer. I guess that I could make the table to the video's measurements ,and build a stationary table , and have the BBQ station attach together with the other when I want to BBQ? Any ideas or help with my idea anyone? Have a great day!! ?
Great Ibble!! Hopefully will build next weekend!!
Great instructable thank you. I wonder if you've used it yet and if you found any scorching? I like your idea of inserting screws to hold the bowl off the wood. Simple but effective!
Very good work ! You have the dimension to do mine?
The outside of the Weber should never get hot enough to burn the wood. I made a metal version of this to fit mine using bed rail, an have it set in the opening with pieces of high-temp auto vaccum tubing as a bumper. It's fine after several years of grilling.
Wood doesn't even begin to char or release flammable gas until nearly 600 degrees Fahrenheit, and won't actually catch fire until over 1000 degrees. So as long as you're only grilling in there and not using using it as a makeshift bonfire it will be just fine. Bbq past 400 degrees will be inedible.
Do you have a cut list for the wood used?
Nice job - "DIY Weber Performer." Consider adding the propane ignition system to conveniently light the charcoal in addition to the ash catcher?


Josh Rose, of Bethel, left and Jenna Kaufman, 17, of Bethel, enjoy ice cream at Ferris Acres Creamery in Newtown Tuesday, April 27, 2011.
Ferris Acres Creamery on Route 302 in Newtown, opened for the season Tuesday, April 27, 2011.
Ivan Zamuda regularly rides his motorcycle from his home in Trumbull and stops by Ferris Acres Creamery for a banana split. Photo taken Tuesday, April 27, 2011.
Three-year-old Aeriana Smith, of Shelton, runs through the water at Short Beach Park in Stratford, Conn. Tuesday, April 26, 2011.
Four-year-old Wojenski, of Stratford, splashes in the shore at Short Beach Park in Stratford, Conn. Tuesday, April 26, 2011.
Five-year-old Ben Zwart, visiting from Mozambique, gets a better view of the shore from atop of sand pile at Short Beach Park in Stratford, Conn. Tuesday, April 26, 2011.
Tyler Fefe, 5 of Fairfield, plays a game of catch with his mother Nalan Fefe at Penfield Beach in Fairfield on Tuesday, April 26, 2011. Fefe said the baseball was one of his presents from the Easter Bunny.
Tyler Fefe, 5 of Fairfield, plays a game of catch with his mother Nalan Fefe at Penfield Beach in Fairfield on Tuesday, April 26, 2011. Tyler said the baseball was one of his presents from the Easter Bunny.
Beautiful weather brought many residents out to the beaches to enjoy the day in Milford, Conn. on Tuesday April 26, 2011.
Adam Dicicco, 20, and Sara Goldstein, 16, of Naugatuck, walk through the water at Short Beach Park in Stratford, Conn. Tuesday, April 26, 2011.
Marc Maurath, 4, gets ice cream with sprinkles at the Ferris Acres Creamery Tuesday, April 27, 2011.
Rocco Volpintesta, 1 1/2 of Bethel, takes a bite from his mother Erin's ice cream cone at Ferris Acres Creamery in Bethel Tuesday, April 27, 2011. Tuesday the the first day the creamery opened for the season.
Rocco Volpintesta, 1 1/2, of Bethel, eyes the ice cream cone hos mother Erin is a bout to share with him at Ferris Acres Creamery in Newtown Tuesday, April 27, 2011.
Beautiful weather brought many residents out to the beaches to enjoy the day in Milford, Conn. on Tuesday April 26, 2011. T.J. Altieri does a little kayaking from Fort Trumbull beach.
Beautiful weather brought many residents out to the beaches to enjoy the day in Milford, Conn. on Tuesday April 26, 2011. T.J. Altieri prepares to do a little kayaking from Fort Trumbull beach.
Beautiful weather brought many residents out to the beaches to enjoy the day in Milford, Conn. on Tuesday April 26, 2011. Molly the golden lab runs to shore with a piece of driftwood at Fort Trumbull beach.
Joanne McGillicuddy takes her daily walk through St. Mary's by the Sea Thursday, April, 26, 2012 in Bridgeport, Conn.
Josh Rose, of Bethel, left and Jenna Kaufman, 17, of Bethel, enjoy ice cream at Ferris Acres Creamery in Newtown Photo: Carol Kaliff Ferris Acres Creamery, Newtown – Premium ice cream made daily on the premises of the last working dairy farm in Fairfield County. You'll have to wait – sometimes the line stretches around the open-air shop, but I assure you, it's worth it. Listen to the cows low in the distance while you ponder the seemingly endless list of flavors (and try to pick just one…or two!). Standouts include Caramel Apple Pie (vanilla ice cream, with chunks of their homemade apple pie and ribbons of caramel), Paradise Found (coconut ice cream with fudge, coconut and almonds), and their signature flavor, Cow Trax (vanilla ice cream with swirls of peanut butter and caramel and dotted with mini chocolate chips). Located on (aptly named) Sugar Street, it's a drive worthy of a summer Sunday afternoon.


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Policy on Israel / Palestine adopted at the Congress of the Australian Council of Trade Unions Unions (ACTU), May 2018
Policy on Israel / Palestine…
Support for ending the 50 years of occupation of Palestine and a just and sustainable peace in accordance with resolutions 242 and 338 of the UN Security Council, with the removal of illegal settlements, the withdrawal of Israel from all Palestinian lands along with the dismantling of the separation wall. In line with our commitment to a two-state solution with the security of borders for both nations, we call on all countries to recognise, without delay, Palestine as a sovereign state with East Jerusalem as its capital. This will confirm the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination in a free and independent Palestine.
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Regime Shifting: The TRIPs Agreement and New Dynamics of International Intellectual Property Lawmaking
Laurence R. Helfer
Challenges to existing methods of international intellectual property lawmaking are becoming more prevalent and more pointed. Those challenges increasingly target the 1994 Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (hereinafter referred to as TRIPs, or the Agreement)' which folded into the World Trade Organization (WTO) an enhanced set of patent, copyright, trademark, and other private rights of intellectual property owners. Unlike prior international intellectual property agreements negotiated under the auspices of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), TRIPs has teeth. It contains detailed, comprehensive substantive rules and is linked to the WTO's comparatively hard-edged dispute settlement system in which treaty bargains are enforced through mandatory adjudication backed up by the threat of retaliatory sanctions.
Laurence R. Helfer, Regime Shifting: The TRIPs Agreement and New Dynamics of International Intellectual Property Lawmaking, 29 Yale J. Int'l L. (2004).
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Training and development are vital for progressive organizations. It is a fact that poorly trained employees can pose a serious operational risk and threat to very existence of banks. Therefore, banks need to pay due attention to training and development of their employees. Employee development is a joint, on-going effort on the part of an employee and the organization for which he or she works to upgrade the employees' knowledge, skills, and abilities. Successful employee development requires a balance between an individual's career needs and goals and the organizations need to get work done. Employee development programs make positive contributions to organizational performance. A more highly-skilled workforce can accomplish more and a supervisor can accomplish more as employees gain inexperience and knowledge.
Given the high rate of knowledge obsolescence, banks are expected to create a culture of learning in their organizations. Towards this end, banks are adopting e-learning methodology for capacity building of their employees and ensure that function specific trainings in critical areas such as AML/CFT, Forex, IT Operations etc., are available to all employees through intranet for learning purposes. It is encouraging that banks are exploring new training channels like mobile based learning, webcasting, video conferencing, virtual classroom services etc. which will ultimately help banks to reach a wider range of employees. Moreover, increased coordination with Institute of Bankers Pakistan (IBP), National Institute of Banking & Finance (NIBAF), and local business management schools/universities directly or through Pakistan Banks Association (PBA) forum helps in developing and designing specific courses that cater to the specific needs of banking industry.
MCB has a mix of training methodologies for its employees which can broadly be categorized into five groups; needs analysis, instructional design, validation, implementation and evaluation.
Training methods used by UBL are soft skills functional training, on the job training and classroom lectures. In soft skills training, UBL gives training to improve personality traits, social grace, personal habits, friendliness and fluency of language. In on the job training, UBL uses coaching or understudy method in which the supervisor acts as coach and teaches the trainee to perform the task. Job rotation method is used by UBL for those employees who need multi skills to perform their jobs.
Training & Development function is carefully handled by HBL management. To cater the need of an organization, the bank has a separate system of Management Development Institutes, which are located at Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. These institutes not only serve for their own bank but also provide professional training on request of reputable organizations. Along with this training institute, the training team also deals with reputable and specialized training institute for enhancement of staff skills. This department is continuously working for better future of organization.
NBP encourages employees to obtain professional courses/certifications relevant to their job requirements by allowing reimbursement of fees, rise in salary or lump sum rewards etc. Trainings and certifications are also linked with performance appraisals, promotions, or other benefits. Further, internal employees are nominated as trainer or part-time faculty for providing adequate internal support to their training and development initiatives. The Bank also has training plans for employees posted at remote area branches so that they do not suffer in getting appropriate number of trainings during a year.
Training and development is the most important function of HR department at ABL. The HR managers train the organization's employees and develop performance culture among the organization's workers to achieve the organizational goals and objectives.
Apart from conventional banks, training and development in Islamic banking industry is a big challenge. Although there are a number of internationally benchmarked qualifications in Islamic banking and finance offered by a number of training providers in UK, UAE, Bahrain, Malaysia and some other countries and given the leadership role Pakistan has played in the development of global Islamic banking and finance industry, the country needs to exploit it by offering comprehensive training programs from undergraduate and post-graduate degrees to professional qualifications.


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The PM and the Sultan: Sacred history and expression collide in Turkey
Original text of translated chapter: "Il premier e il sultano: il conflitto turco tra storia sacra e libertà de espressione." In The Turkish touch: Egemonia neo-ottomana e televisione turca in Medio Oriente. Le monografie di Arab Media Report N. 1 – Dicembre 2013, pp. 33-36.
Publicity poster for Magnificent Century, 2012.
Suleiman the Magnificent was the longest-reigning Ottoman sultan, holding power for 46 years and overseeing massive expansions of the Empire's territory during the 16th Century. His TV counterpart, Turkish actor Halit Ergenç, has actually conquered more of the globe, but his reign over ratings bas been threatened by the man some are calling Turkey's next sultan, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan.
On 25 November 2012, while speaking at the opening ceremony for an airport in the city of Kuthaya, Erdoğan veered from his remarks on the progress Turkey has seen under the past decade of his Justice and Development Party's (AK-Party) rule to lambast one of the country's most popular TV shows, the sometimes sultry Ottoman costume drama Magnificent Century. Noting that opposition leaders had criticized his government's foreign policy, Erdoğan responded by saying, "We know our responsibilities. We'll go everywhere that our [Ottoman] ancestors went, but I think some may be imagining the ancestors in Magnificent Century. People watch that show and believe it's a documentary. We don't recognize that Suleiman. The real Suleiman spent 30 years of his life on horesback, not in the palace like you see on the TV show. I condemn the directors and the owner of the channel and, since they've been warned, I expect a judicial decision on the matter."
Though the PM didn't detail his concerns with the show, he tapped into a discourse about respect to sacred figures that has plagued Century since its premiere. Critics feel that the show delves too deeply into speculation on the Sultan's private life, particularly with regard to his interest in women and the significance of harem intrigues. They are also worried that the Turkish public takes the show as fact, and is therefore getting a skewed sense of this heroic figure.
Erdoğan is arguably the most popular and powerful Turkish leader since the founder of the country, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, so when he speaks, things happen. Within a few days, a tour guide from the city of Konya had filed a law suit against the show, claiming that it misrepresents history and distorts Turkish values. The following week, an AK-Party MP, Oktay Saral, introduced legislation to amend the constitution of the country's censorship board, RTUK. Taking cue from a statute that already protects the memory of Atatürk, this new law was to ensure that, "historical events and characters that contribute to national values shall not be diminished, disrespected, or shown in manners other than they were." Days later, Saral appeared on TV promising that Century would be taken off the air in 2013 and, the following day, Turkish Airlines canceled its plans to offer the popular program as in-flight entertainment.
Erdoğan's opponents were far from silent on the matter. Many claimed that this was simply another example of the PM trying to distract the public from more pressing issues. Just as six months prior he had come out against abortion to silence critics of a military operation that killed 34 Kurdish civilians, critics said, he was now trying to divert attention from increasing Turkish/Kurdish tensions and serious problems on the border with Syria.
Some historians pointed out the PM's historical nescience, saying that archive documents indicate Suleiman spent about eight years on (horseback) campaign rather than 30, and suggested that his speech was simply an attempt to rewrite Ottoman history for political ends.
A number of critics noted that iconoclasm was nothing new for Erdoğan. On a visit to the eastern city of Kars in 2011 the PM had attacked a sculpture dedicated to Turkish/Armenian friendship, calling it an "abomination" both because it was ugly and because it was near a religious site. The sculpture was quickly torn down.
Perhaps the most damning critique, however, linked the PM's attack on Century with a December 2012 report on press freedom by the Committee to Protect Journalists, which noted that Turkey had more journalists in prison (49) than any other country in the world. Adding to these the hundreds of students, politicians, and activists rounded up on questionable charges of terrorism, critics claimed that Erdoğan's volley was just the latest in a series of AK-Party attacks on freedom of expression in recent years.
At present, the fate of TV's Suleiman looks brighter than that of the journalists. The show, which reaches an estimated audience of 150 million viewers in 44 countries throughout the world, made some quick changes to its format. Female characters began to dress more modestly in the weeks after the PM's remarks, and Suleiman's wife, Hürrem, took to praying. Whether in response to these actions or not, the so-called "Suleiman" law seems to have stagnated in parliament, at least for the moment. The show is slated to end in June of 2014, and it is unlikely that any law will come into effect soon enough to harm it, though such a law could be a concern for the latest big-budget Ottoman drama, Fetih, which premiered in September of 2013 and tells the story of Istanbul's conqueror, Mehmed II.
Suleiman, Mehmed II's great grandson, was called "magnificent" throughout the world for the strength and expanse of his empire. In Turkey, however, he is known as the "law maker" because he codified a set of rules regarded as strict on the one hand, but also as reasonable and just. Erdoğan, Turkey's strongest leader in years, may be pondering his own epithet as he contemplates his abortive assault against the Sultan of the airwaves.
This entry was posted in comment and tagged censorship, Erdoğan, iconoclasm, Magnificent Century, Muhteşem Yüzyıl, research, Turkey, TV on 5 May 2014 by senorfunes.


This is our normal.: Offie!! Offie!!
This is Declan's shout out for everything that mommy drinks. Can you tell she likes coffee?? Well, she used to drink a lot of "coffee", but the problem with mommy's coffee was that it had tons of french vanilla creamer in it. That's no longer so weight watcher friendly, so I don't have much of it anymore. But I do drink a lot of pop (diet), and Declan still calls it "offie". Oh, and he adds a whiiiine and he hopes that he can run off with it. Nice try, buster.
I can't believe it but he is going to be two this Sunday. Where has the time gone? Add to that the fact that the twins are already 6 months old and I think we're officially crazy here.
We fed the twins cereal last night. Macey went first and she no likey. Not at all. She didn't even try, just made horrid faces. Madelyn went next and she was good with it, even trying to "chew" a couple of times! We did get some video and pictures. (I bet you're sick of me saying that when I never actually post any pictures. I wish I could be better about that but mostly I blog from the laptop downstairs and all the pictures have to be uploaded upstairs....aaaaaaaaaand I'm lazy, so you just don't get to see pictures. If there were an easier way around that (like does anyone know - can I just hook up a cord from my camera to the laptop and haul them onto here from there??) I would post pictures more. )And in case you're wondering, the only reason we fed them cereal was that they are waking up in the middle of the night again and we just switched to 8oz. bottles, so we figured they were hungry. Last night they were still up in the middle of the night, but the amount of cereal they actually got in was little (Madelyn) to none (Macey). Otherwise, no way would I have started them on cereal yet. It goes back to that lazy thing. Plus once you start, you can't really quit. Which again, goes back to that lazy thing.
But before I force you to believe that I am THAT lazy, I did do the 30 Day Shred again last night! Heather came over and we did it! I think we both nearly planned each others' funerals but we worked it out! Avery exercised with us, too, and she quit more often than me. Hey, I have more endurance than a 5 year old!!! Wait. Should I be proud of that??
I thought you were "allowed" to start feeding infants cereal when they were around 6 months? Go Madelyn!!
Congrats on the 30 day shred! I bought it and have it set up on the computer. I just need to feel better to start. No sense when I've got a cold. Blah!
When Caroline started waking up in the middle of the night at 6 months, I put the cereal in her last bottle of the evening and she drank it. Worked well. Good job doing the 30 Day DVD!!
Keep up the good work with your 30 day shred!


Forvie is managed to provide a range of habitats for wildlife and birds, including nesting eiders and terns.
Forvie NNR covers 1,000 hectares of internationally important coastal habitats between the North Sea and the estuary of the River Ythan. Home to a variety of wildlife, Forvie is particularly renowned for its birds, including the largest breeding colony of eiders in Britain. There are also four species of breeding terns, a wealth of wildfowl, waders and seals on the estuary.
More than 30,000 visitors a year come to Forvie to explore the reserve and watch wildlife.
Our priorities for the reserve are to improve the coastal habitats and actively manage the colonies of terns and eiders. We keep habitat management to a minimum – but we do remove trees and invasive species that spread onto the dune habitats.
We put measures in places to protect the terns and eiders. Each year we close sections of the reserve to minimise disturbance. We also install electric fencing to minimise the risk from predators.
We want visiting the reserve to be an engaging experience for everyone. This might involve exploring this extensive and secluded coastal reserve or watching the amazing wildlife. Through a visit to Forvie we want to inspire visitors about nature.
We will continue to provide a visitor centre and facilities, along with paths to enable visitors to explore the reserve. We encourage responsible behaviour and ask visitors to respect the restrictions in place and not disturb wildlife.
Consultation Report on the Management Plan for Forvie – a summary of the responses received during the consultation in 2014.


Salvacion Zamora-Rodriguez is a low profile person, but she is a by-word among the people of Dos Hermanos, Talisay, Negros Occidental, PH and Barangay 2, La Carlota City respectively as efficient Barangay Health Worker (BHW).
Her name, Salvacion is a Spanish in origin. It is equivalent to English word, salvation. No wonder why, she has "saved" some people who are suffering from serious diseases. Thus, in the very nature of her work as barangay technician for health on primary health care, she had "saved" two poor sick people in her area of assignment.
These persons were native of La Carlota City. It happened that one of them is my nephew. One of the children of uncle George Iligan. He is Dikiam Iligan. Now he fully recovers and is earning for a living a skilled carpenter. The other one is Mary Ann Gonzales who is also suffering from a malignant disease. Both of them were saved from possible death by Sally who administers for their daily medical needs and assistance.
If not for Sally's consistent health service in monitoring and dispensing prescribed medicines for them, probably they might have had passed away.
Sally as her friends fondly called her is a jolly fellow. By looking at her, you might mistake her as arrogant and ill-tempered person. But she is not once, you're acquainted with her, You could say that she's amiable, friendly, happy and easy to get along with.
Sally values service above self. She has been in working as health worker for 25 years, 8 years in Talisay and presently she is still working in La Carlota City. She works persistently from day in to day out and even doing "extra miles" for clinical and medical assistance without any monetary consideration. She's not only an effective health worker, but also a good cook. Service for her counts most. I used to buy some native delicacies from her.
Sally never complains the risky nature of her work. Though receiving a meager remuneration from the government, she's just happy and contented because of the unfailing moral support from her 8 grown-up children, 17 lovely grandsons and granddaughters, and his ever-loving hubby, Enecirio Rodriguez who is already dead.
Every August 22, Sally is celebrating her birthday as being as grateful as she is in her natal day she thanks the Lord the Almighty for giving her another life. This means another big opportunity for her to continue and even better improve her present job as humble, efficient health worker, and her role as a parent, grandmother, and a caring, loving wife to her kids, grandsons and granddaughters, and husband.
She wants to express thanks to Mrs. Precy Treyes of Dos Hermanos, Talisay, and Mrs. Eufrecena "Diding" Montales of La Carlota City and her co-workers and friends for their warm friendship and camaraderie. She is also thanking them for their comfort when she's down and despondent, and their sympathy when she's in high spirits and satisfied.
My wife, Rebing and I would like to express our humble prayer that Sally will be blessed with better health, the strength and the courage of the Lord to overcome any form of afflictions, trials and challenges that may come along the way as she dutifully does her exemplary humanitarian job for the welfare of those in need. Sally is worthy to be emulated.
More power to you, Sally. By the way, Sally is one of the sponsors of the marriage of our eldest son, Dondon, who is now residing somewhere in Mindanao!
She really helped lots of people for her job and blessed it continuously by God. More blessings will come to her and people too, will extend for their love to this woman.
There was this joke on my previous work where "nice-looking people are not actually nice, snob people are actually the good", just an implication not to judge the book by its cover hehe. Miss Sally is sure to be a great example for this for she has helped a lot of people.
It's a rarity nowadays to come across people like Sally. They should be appreciated, honored and recognized as much as they deserve. She is definitely a very admirable and dedicated woman in the service of her countrymen. God bless her.
It is great to know that there's still good people like her in our country. She's indeed an amazing woman. May God bless her more.
Kudos to Ms. Sally. Thank you for recognizing her service and introducing a inspirational real person to all of us.
Sally really does a lot of good deeds. She deserves to be honored and people should follow her.
It's good to know that we still have good souls like her around. Gives you a bit more hope that such nice people do exist now.
Ms. Sally did a very excellent job in helping people. Respect her much!
Good to hear that Ms Sally got the recognition for her work and as a person too. I feel that little respect and admiration can do wonders.
I am glad your nephew was helped by Sally. There should be more recognition for healt workers like her.
Truly admiring to hear stories of inspirational people who help out without expecting much in return. God bless you, Sally!
Thanks for giving Sally a very great honour with the credit over here! I believe it's the thought that counts, and being grateful makes everything better and easier!
what an inspiring personality. Thanks for the wonderful article and letting us know about sally and her work.


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Q: Loading backbone.js in a node js app I'm using node.js and backbone for a web app.  Backbone is part of my package requirments.  I've used Rails and Backbone before, and the helper gems are nice for piecing together all the assets (js files) that need to get to the client.
With that said, I had to manually download backbone.js and manually add it and all the other supported js libraries in the header of my app's layout file.
Should installing the backbone module get me away from that manual effort to create the required source for my client app? Is there some kind of jammit/asset pipeline?

A: you should simply npm install backbone in your main directory, this way all the submodules you use will find this exact backbone, and will use it
moreover, this way you can easily extend backbone with additional submodules

A: I use the stitch package to serve my scripts in node apps. With that, it's as simple as listing backbone.js as a dependency, and I install it with npm. That's convenient.

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A tradition of talent The 2010 Pogo Art Contest has officially closed. The judging is completed, and the winners have been posted. Thank you for your submissions this year. Browsing the gallery is a must. Send in your entry now!Upload Submission I agree to the Official Contest Rules If you have any trouble uploading, let us know! We can help. Listed below are the categories we'll be considering. For each category, we will choose a winner. The Grand Prize will be rewarded to the highest score in a [Read further].
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Registrations started 3160 days ago.
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The total award prizes sum to: 703 Euros (€).
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Judging criterion #3is artistic skill.
A tradition of talent The 2010 Pogo Art Contest has officially closed. The judging is completed, and the winners have been posted. Thank you for your submissions this year. Browsing the gallery is a must. Send in your entry now!Upload Submission I agree to the Official Contest Rules If you have any trouble uploading, let us know! We can help. Listed below are the categories we'll be considering. For each category, we will choose a winner. The Grand Prize will be rewarded to the highest score in all four categories. Artistic Skill The level of skill evident in the work. Creativity/Originality Show us something we've never seen before! Realism Although not required to win the grand prize, we will be awarding prizes to the most realistic entry. Judge's Choice This is your chance to charm us. Connect with our judges and you'll take home the prize!


In a letter to Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, the Governor has thanked Yeddyurappa for requesting him to participate as a chief guest in the valedictory of the conference on March 13.
Bhardwaj said that the richness of Kannada and the contribution of Kannada literature to the literary glory of the country was unparalleled, with the highest number of Jnanapith award winners from Karnataka.
"This is certainly an occasion to celebrate the richness of Kannada language and Karnataka's culture. I am confident that the conference will provide an opportunity for all thinkers of the State to reflect on the State's development and provide a vision for its all-round development in the coming years," he said.
Meanwhile, Karnataka High Court Chief Justice, J S Khehar, has written to the Chief Minister saying he could not inaugurate the exhibition of books on Wednesday (March 9), organised as part of the Kannada conference in Belgaum, as Wednesday was a working day and he had to hold court in Bangalore.
"I regret my inability to attend the function," he said.


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Does it matter how we worship God? If we could ask two old testament priests named Nadab and Abihu that question, doubtless they would answer, "Yes!" When the sons of Aaron burned incense to the Lord, the fire they used was not obtained from the correct place. They instead offered "strange fire" unto the Lord which angered God and the fire consumed them. In this broadcast of Let the Bible Speak, we see how dangerous it is to play with fire.
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Does God expect His people to submit to scripture? Does it claim to have authority over the modern church? In the last lesson of a four-part series on the internal claims of scripture, we consider The Authority Of The Bible.
Innovations in Communion
Our series on Innovations concludes with a look at departures that have taken place from the original design of the Lord's Supper as instituted by Christ. The elements that Christ chose to commemorate His suffering and its result are profound in their simplicity. They reflect the unity and joint participation the church is to enjoy in the benefits of Christ's death and the new covenant that was thereby established. In this broadcast of Let the Bible Speak, a look at how the later practice of multiple loaves and cups distorts the beautiful picture Christ originally portrayed in the divine feast.
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Innovations and the Divine Pattern Part 7: Women Preachers
Women have made an indelible mark on the modern world in business, politics, art, and religion. They have well-proven their intellect and talent to be equal to and in many cases, surpassing their male counterparts. Consequently, the rise of women's liberation and the women's rights movement has opened the pulpits of many churches to females to serve as pastors, teachers, evangelists, etc. Is this according to God's will or is it a change to the divine pattern for the work and worship of the church? In this broadcast of Let the Bible Speak, we continue our series on Innovations and the Divine Pattern by focusing on women preachers and teachers in the church.
Innovations and the Divine Pattern Part 6: Sunday Schools
In the 18th century, Robert Raikes saw an urgent need: the education of poor children in England. The dawn of the industrial era led to the working-class children of Great Britain being forced into hard factory labor six days a week. On Sundays, many of these juveniles roamed the streets and fell into trouble. With no public schools and no time nor money for education, Raikes conceived an idea to have churches band together and provide Sunday School's for these indigent children. The bible and other religious curriculum was used to teach reading, writing, and other basic subjects and provided a moral foundation for the struggling youth. The concept caught on and within a matter of a few years the new schools were flourishing and spreading to other lands. What began as a precursor to the public school system, in a matter of time, became an arrangement for local churches to provide outreach to the young people of their communities and to indoctrinate them in the doctrines of their churches. Today, most churches divide into Sunday School classes to teach their membership. What may have been borne out of a pure motive became an arrangement for edifying the church contrary to the arrangement the apostles set forth by divine authority. As we continue our series on Innovations and the Divine Pattern, find out how Sunday School became a prominent part of the work of most churches and why it is opposite to Paul's instructions for the church assembly.
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Innovations in Baptism
How and why did the early church practice baptism? As we continue a series on Innovations and the Divine Pattern, we have already shown how the government of the church was corrupted from an arrangement of qualified elders in each local church to a hierarchy of power, eventually becoming centered in Rome. This departure led to a multitude of doctrinal changes through the centuries and swept the church further into error and apostasy. One of the changes that resulted was in regard to the apostolic teaching about baptism in water. Within 200 years, the design of baptism began to change and by 1,300 years after the establishment of Christ's church baptism officially became something other than what the early disciples practiced and it's purpose changed. In this broadcast of Let the Bible Speak, we look at the slow evolution of thought concerning this sacred practice and why most religions today misrepresent the bible's teaching about baptism. Is your baptism from heaven or men?
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Innovations and Church Government
One of the first substantial departures from the apostolic pattern that took place in the early history of the church of Christ pertained to its organization and government. Offices set in place by the apostles were transformed and expanded beyond their original scope. This paved the way for many other heresies in doctrine and practice. The autonomy of the local church is a safeguard against apostasy but the change from elders in local churches to a worldwide hierarchy of power over the universal church allowed churches everywhere to be swept up in error. In this broadcast of Let the Bible Speak, we continue the series 'Innovations and the Divine Pattern' with a study of 'Innovations in Church Government.
God's Ancient Landmarks
In the days of national Israel, after they moved into the land of promise, property lines were drawn and marked by stones called 'landmarks'. Those boundary markers were considered sacred and were not to be moved. The Old Testament sternly warned the Israelites to "Remove not the ancient landmarks which your fathers have set", thus infringing on the property of others, especially the poor. Spiritually speaking, God has set certain landmarks in our lives but they too, are being moved. In this broadcast of Let the Bible Speak, we consider part 1 of "God's Ancient Landmarks".
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