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I haven't posted here for awhile, since January 2020. So much has happened since the pandemic began. I'm posting now to let you know I will be giving a talk at the Salinas Valley Ethnic Studies Conference on Saturday, Sept. 18, 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 pm, at the Hartnell College Alisal Campus (1752 E Alisal St., Salinas, Ca 93905).
My talk will focus on Filipino newspapers published in Salinas Chinatown during the1920s-30s: the Philippine Independent, and the Philippines Mail. Also presenting with me will be members of Asian Cultural Experience (ACE) of Salinas Chinatown. They include Jason Agpaoa presenting on Filipino waves of immigration, Richard Villegas on the 1st and 2nd Filipino Army Regiment, and Alex Fabros on Filipinos in Salinas Valley. Thanks to Jason Agpaoa for arranging this talk and supporting Filipinx and AAPI contributions to Ethnic Studies.
Delfin Cruz (top left), editor of Philippines Mail, mid-1930s to 1983, with friends and family who helped put together the newspaper and distribute it.
Filed Under: Filipino American History Tagged With: AAPI, Chinatown, ethnic studies, Filipino American history, Filipino newspapers, Salinas
Pamphlets: Filipino American History in THE TORCH
A pdf copy of The Torch (1930) published by the Philippines Mail (Salinas), is now available for download on the Pamphlets page of this website. This special issue presents a frank discussion about racial conflicts experienced by Filipinos in the Monterey Bay Area and Salinas Valleys during the Great Depression era.
Filed Under: History, Newspapers Tagged With: Filipino American history, filipino labor, Filipino newspapers
Filipina Lives and Voices in Literature
Speaking of #allpinayeverything, Barbara Jane Reyes wrote about Filipinas she taught in her USF class in 2012 in her Harriet blog article, "Filipina Lives and Voices in Literature," for The Poetry Foundation. Worth mentioning again for Filipino American History Month #allpinayeverything. Thanks to Barbara Jane for mentioning Helen Rillera (Angelica Floresca Marquez) in The Commonwealth Cafe (scroll down to see article). But check out also her references to Colonel Yay Panlilio, Evangeline Canonizado Buell, and Jeanette Gandioco Lazam.
Helen Rillera (Angelica Floresca Marquez) at the wheel, in San Francisco, 1930s. Thanks to the Cacdac Family Collection.
Filed Under: History Tagged With: allpinayeverything, Barbara Jane Reyes, Colonel Yay, Evangeline Canonizado Buell, Filipino American history, Jeanette Lazam, pinays
Abe Ignacio's Discovery
Just found this great article in the Philippine Inquirer.net, which describes how Abe Ignacio, one of the founding authors of The Forbidden Book, became interested in the representation of Filipina/os in American newspapers. Abe's discovery helps us to reconstruct how Filipina/os were perceived in San Francisco during the early 20th century. Check out the article: "Filipinos in San Francisco a Century Ago."
Filipina/o students in Berkeley and San Francisco were painfully aware of how they were perceived in the U.S., and they were moved to write about it in The Filipino Student magazine, especially after the 1906 earthquake, when they realized that Filipino victims of the quake were not going to receive any help. General Frederick Funston was in charge of bringing order to the City after the quake and restoring communications infrastructure. Funston was made Brigadier General for his leadership in capturing General Emilio Aguinaldo during the Philippine-American War. Read more about that in the Editorials & Essays section of this website.
Filed Under: History, Newspapers Tagged With: Abe Ignacio, Filipino American history, Filipino newspapers, Filipinos in San Francisco
Learning & Returning
Rerun of an April 2011 post:
The process of gathering information about Filipina/o writers from the early 20th century is subject to the variables of any life. Authors get sick, die; family members object to releasing information, or can't be found; collectors hoard their materials like gold until they die, and their documents get tossed into the garbage; some people make up stories that are questionable; valuable papers get lost in the shuffle of life.
Still, the archival research process can be incredibly uplifting and pleasurable, even enlightening. Recently I connected with the daughter of a Filipina writer (actually, it's a bit limiting to call her a "writer" since she was multi-talented in a number of directions) who had been published by the Philippines Mail during the darkest period of the Great Depression, also a very dark period for Filipinos in the U.S. This writer, Helen Rillera, had experienced numerous daunting setbacks to her ambitions, and I suspect that her experience as a Filipina writer was more or less representative of the struggles of many Filipinas who had writerly, intellectual, or scholarly ambitions at that time. Still, she carried on with grace until her death in 1995.
In the meantime, her daughter, Lala Llacuna, had become the family historian, not just for her immediate family, but for her very large extended family. She had amassed hundreds (possibly thousands?) of old photographs ranging from the late 19th century to the present, and had created a number of detailed family trees that were meticulously dated and detailed, and highlighted with photographs. For the annual family reunions, she began to write histories of notable family members, which were included in the thick volumes that became the family reunion yearbooks. She also created two extensive digital archives for the photographs, available only to family members, which became a site where these histories could be discussed and added to.
I drove about 90 miles to meet with Lala. When I first entered her house, the first thing I noticed was the large kulintang array (a series of gongs used to play indigenous Filipino music); the second thing I notice were her fishing poles — she is a serious fisher. Photos of family members were hung on the walls. We sat down at a large table, and she offered me some bico, the sweet rice dish that I rarely eat nowadays, since my mother passed away — what a treat!
As we talked-story, she spread out on the dining room table her newspaper clippings, discs, photos, and photocopied pages, not only of her mother's writing, but also of the writings of others about her mother: memorial poems, letters, essays—even a Excel sheet listing dates of articles/essays/poems and their titles, juxtaposed with a timeline. As she talked of her parents and grandparents, I thought of my parents, and the grandparents I never met, and of the many letters I still have, that passed between the United States and the Philippines over the years. Her mother as a child arrived in the U.S. in the same year that my father arrived, 1929; both of them suffered a journey in steerage across the Pacific ocean by steamship.
Later, we had some homemade nilaga (meat/vegetable soup) with abalone that her son had brought back from a dive. She spoke of what got her interested in the family history; meeting and talking to relatives who visited her grandmother and mother; listening to them talk and tell stories. While her interest was spurred by an abundance of stories and exposure to family members, my own interest was spurred by a prescient silence in my family: stories that my father hinted at, but never told in full; grandparents that I never met. While her research focuses primarily on her family circle, in fact, it also connects and speaks to a much larger history of migrations, wars, technology, eras of relative peace, prosperity and economic decline; it's all there, in the family and community.
The amount of research Lala had done—talking to relatives, digging through archives, contacting genealogy sources, letter-writing, transferring to charts, categorizing and dating, scanning and digitizing of photos, etc.—was really significant. Her detailed family trees look like biology charts for genus and species. I was a little overwhelmed, but also very appreciative of all the knowledge that she has gained, and most importantly, passed on to her huge family, and even to me—a relative outsider.
Of course, no matter how small your family circle seems to be, in reality, its roots spread out and intermingle with countless other relations. It's not unlikely that even I am related in some distant way to Lala's family. What's really wonderful, though, about her family research, is the care she has taken to acknowledge and value all of its members in some small way—at least those members that she knows about. It really says something about the power of her generosity and openness of heart.
It also reminds me that such "research" need never be dry, dull, or selfishly competitive, and the documents and photos we study are always part of a living community. I try to approach my own research with a similar curiosity, openness, generosity, and care.
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2014 Orthodox Jewish All Star Joshua Meier, born and raised Modern Orthodox in Teaneck New Jersey, may be one of the most accomplished twenty-year-olds you'll ever meet. Named one of CNN's "Eight Whiz Kids who are the Future of Medicine," in May of 2014, Joshua won fourth place in Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) and first place in the category of Cellular and Molecular Biology.
A sophomore at Harvard University where he is studying Chemistry and Computer Science, Joshua is continuing the research that earned him the Intel award, doing new research using Artificial Intelligence (AI), has founded a nonprofit to help homeless kids, placed high in the Chidon HaTanach (international Bible competition), is interning at a financial tech company, and develops iPhone apps in his spare time.
Last week he launched a new app, TaxiLater, which is getting a whole lot of people excited. Free at the Apple App Store, TaxiLater allows a user to schedule an Uber pick-up in advance, something that up until now has been only a dream for most Uber devotees. Thus far, the app has been a huge success, averaging a rating of 4.5 stars on the app store and receiving some very positive press in Gizmodo, TIME, LifeHacker, Business Insider, and Mashable's "5 Can't Miss Apps" list.
Josh's dream was to create something that would be helpful to people in their everyday life. He noticed that it is frustrating for people who use Uber frequently to have to wait to call an Uber at the last minute. TaxiLater is not the first attempt on the part of independent programmers to create an app to schedule an Uber. In 2015 TimeTravel was created, after Uber opened up access to their Application Program Interface (API), but was shut down due to violations of Ubers API Terms of use agreement. Joshua has worked closely with Uber to ensure that the same fate does not await TaxiLater.
When users download the app on their iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, they must login to their Uber account. The app itself does not store user information, but rather uses its API Token to access the user account. Once logged in, the app looks like what users would be used to seeing from the Uber application. In the main part of the screen it shows the map with pins for your location, and beneath that you can choose your pick-up and drop-off points. What separated TaxiLater from the main Uber app is underneath—You can choose a date and time that you would like the ride, then what type of car (UberX, uberXL, UberBLACK or UberSUV), and then you select 'REQUEST UBER'.
You are not limited to one request, either. On the top right corner of the app there is a button that brings up a menu of 'Pending Requests' which are all future rides that you have requested. Which is, of course, convenient if you happen to forget when you ordered your rides.
What is truly remarkable about this app, however, is its creator. You might think that a commitment to Jewish belief and observance might slow a scientist and programmer down, but Joshua does not see it that way. "Obviously from a time perspective it will be harder," Joshua said about the challenges of balancing Torah observance with the coursework requirement of those in STEM. "There are many things that you're involved in. But I really do think that a lot of these observances help you stay focused. Like if I didn't observe Shabbat I'd be working 24/7."
Despite the challenges, he does not believe that scientific discovery and Torah study are inherently at odds with one another. In fact, he believes steadfastly that the inverse is true. It was his initial introduction to Judaism at his Jewish day school that helped him to develop an interest in science. He found that Judaism encouraged him to ask questions and explore, an aspect he deeply connects to in the sciences. "Science and Torah are about the same thing," he said. "We don't just want to know the answer. We want to make the world better, and we want to stay connected."
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The Nerd Degree: WORD Christchurch Festival 2018
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The thing I really enjoy about comedy podcast, The Nerd Degree, is that though there's generally a theme running through the episodes, you really never know what you're going to get. And neither do the panelists, for the most part. But a safe bet is that there'll be amazing facts, nerdy knowledge and plenty of laughs.
If you've never experienced The Nerd Degree either in person, or in podcast, then the best way to describe it is as a local comedy quiz show for nerds of all stripes (there are many varieties). It's QI meets the MCU (or MMORPG or… LARP) . There are two teams, the host asks the questions, and points are distributed in a rather haphazard fashion.
The nerds at last month's very special episode at WORD Christchurch were local YA author Karen Healey and Jolisa "Tell you what" Gracewood competing as team Comparatively Literate with scary movie specialist Dr. Erin Harrington and Ngāi Tahu writer and artist Nic Low as Essentially Illiterate. With Brendon Bennetts in charge of time-keeping and correct answers.
Karen Healey, Jolisa Gracewood, Brendon Bennetts, Nic Low and Erin Harrington at WORD Christchurch Festival 2018. Sunday 2 September August 2018. File reference: 2018-09-02-IMG_0374
The theme of the episode was "adventure" and we sure were taken on a journey. It's hard to talk about the content of the episode without spoiling it though I can say that Nic Low is a man who has an amazing story about seemingly everything (if he ever writes a memoir it will be a must-read), that Karen Healey has missed her calling as a writer for Macgyver and that apparently armadillo tastes a bit like duck.
But it's probably best if you just have a listen yourself, which you can do via iTunes or on the Nerd Degree website.
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Ted Chiang – Arrival: WORD Christchurch
American science fiction writer Ted Chiang has a very particular way of speaking. He pauses a lot to gather his thoughts, and the intonation, or melody, of his voice doesn't vary much. This can have the effect of making it feel that he is taking a very long time to get to the point. Fortunately, Arrival is the third WORD Christchurch session of his that I'm attending so I've become somewhat accustomed to it. Because once you get past the quality of his voice, he actually does have some interesting things to say.
It also helps that Arrival (the only sci-fi movie I've every watched with a middle-aged female linguist as its hero – feel free to recommend others if you know of any) is a recent favourite of mine, and that I'm part way through reading The story of your life, the novella on which the movie is based.
Local sci-fi and fantasy author, Karen Healey happily lets Chiang talk about the things that interest him about the genre he writes in. You get the impression from Ted Chiang that he spends a lot of time thinking generally, and about science fiction especially, so his thoughts, when he does finally express them are fully-formed. His lines are not throwaway ones. He's considered these things from a variety of angles.
For instance, he rejects the notion that his writing "transcends genre", as, in his opinion, this is the kind of thing that people who don't usually like science fiction say – the implication being that the rest of the genre isn't very good, and that this thing that they somehow like is some kind of aberration.
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Ted Chiang reads one of his short stories at New Regent Street Pop-up Festival. WORD Christchurch Festival 2018. Thursday 30 August 2018. File reference: 2018-08-30-IMG_0120
I especially enjoy hearing about his views on the nature of science fiction storytelling in movies versus in fiction because, as a fan of sci-fi cinema, I recognise that his observations have the unerring ring of truth to them and I may never watch an MCU movie in the same way again.
In Hollywood sci-fi, he says, there's very often a good vs. evil scenario in which the world is in a good/peaceful/stable state then something evil/monstrous/destructive comes along and there is a struggle to overcome this force of evil and return the world to a state of goodness, peace, and harmony. It's a very conservative formula in that it's looking to restore the status quo. This immediately makes me think of Make America Great Again (MAGA) and just how powerful narratives that resonate with people can be. Human beings love stories and we like to use the same patterns of story over and over again.
The kind of science fiction that Chiang is interested in is entirely different. In these kinds of stories the world is changed by some kind of disruption or discovery and the change is irrevocable. There is no going back to the way things were before. At the end of the story the world is a very different place from what it was at the beginning, and more than that it's not necessarily a better place, just a different one. This is a much more progressive storyline and one that you don't get much in Hollywood movies, if for no other reason than that they are not easy to make a sequel to.
For instance, all the Jurassic Park franchise (currently on its 5th film – a 6th is planned) needs for there to be another dinosaurs-cause-chaos story is for some scientists to make the same errors of judgement the first lot did and the "oh no, who could have foreseen this dinosaur-related catastrophe happening again?" scenario can and will happen again.
Compare this with Chiang's favourite science fiction film, The Matrix. In many ways it looks like a battle between good vs. evil story but it's not. The world is a radically different place at the end of the movie. "Neo's monologue at the very end of the film," says Chiang "has really stuck with me". And just in case we didn't believe him, he quotes it, word for word:
I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid… you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.
To Chiang this quote perfectly captures what it is to be a radical or a revolutionary. It is not the status quo and it is not comforting, which good vs. evil stories often are. Ted Chiang is not interested in writing "comforting" fiction.
Humanity, curiosity and evidence
What he is interested in is what it means to be human and for him a sense of curiosity, which Healey points out is often present in his characters, is essential.
To be fully human is to be actively engaged with the world around us…
Trying to learn more about the universe is a really noble pursuit and "profoundly meaningful". And though a lot of his stories have a theoretical question or "though experiment" at their core he feels that science fiction, by tying these ideas to a character with an emotional storyline, can make them more accessible to people.
Philosophy doesn't have to be so radically removed from our lived experience. I think it's interesting because it does apply to our lived experience.
Chiang is an Atheist but has an interest in religion. In one of his stories he imagines a world in which there is irrefutable evidence of the existence of God and explores whether that would make it easier or harder to have faith. In some ways, he thinks it would be harder.
In response to a question from Healey about how you approach people from the past as a topic for science fiction, Chiang is magnanimous – people in the past had a different way of viewing the world. Given the observations they had at the time, their interpretations often make sense. Subsequent observations can change this view, of course. They were engaged in the same general practise as modern scientists are engaged in.
It was perhaps this train of conversation that prompted the first of the audience questions, as a very forthright arm shot up a couple of rows in front of me, and an older gentleman asked what Chiang's thoughts were on the question of "settled science", a phrase that he felt was being used to shut down debate in such areas as Climate Change (a topic, it should be noted, on which the vast majority of the scientific community is in agreement).
Chiang, as is his habit, takes a while to get to the point of his answer but to summarise it is basically this: Science is practised by human beings who have biases, but scientists are far more aware of their biases than other people (in particular, politicians, who are the worst at recognising their own vested interests). Science fiction in general aligns with scientists. And science by its nature doesn't really get to an end point.
This is so successfully diplomatic a response that the questioner, judging by the nodding of his head, felt he was being agreed with. Sir, you were not being agreed with. You were being disagreed with in a slow, patient manner.
Movies again
The only other audience question was, shockingly, about science fiction and picked up on Chiang's earlier discussion of The Matrix, which the audience member wondering what he made of the sequels. Like most of us, he found them disappointing calling them "the prime example of the harmful effects" of Hollywood's demand for sequels, when "commerce runs counter to artistic goals".
Which led nicely into a discussion of how the film Arrival got made.
The movie's genesis was rather different route than what's usual, as the screenwriter Eric Heisserer had read Chiang's story and wanted to adapt it, but then had to find someone to produce it. Chiang is at pains to point out that Heisserer deserves all the credit for making The Story of your life work as a movie, as Chiang himself considered it "unfilmable" due to its very "internal" nature. And Chiang himself offered a few comments on the screenplay but mostly stayed out of it.
The movie-making business is so, so weird and it's not something I want to be closely involved in.
Diversity in science fiction
Chiang is happy about the shift in science fiction that has seen increasing diversity in its authors and writing, though this hasn't been without its conflicts, Chiang describing sci-fi's "own version of the Alt-Right" laying seige to the Hugo Awards for a number of years. These efforts, in his opinion, have ultimately proved unsuccessful. N. K. Jemisin, a queer, African-American woman winning the Hugo for best novel for an unprecedented three years running.
Chiang also points out that the popularity of The three body problem by Cixin Liu, a work translated into English from Chinese, is another example of a growning openness in science fiction.
I think it's great because for a long time science fiction, despite it being very forward looking – in practice it's been very conservative.
Not to mention the tropes. So. Many. Tropes. And conventions and little in-jokes. Science fiction, Chiang seems to be saying, in some quarters has become unchallenging and… comfortable.
I very much want [science fiction] to be filled with surprising reading experiences. I think science fiction should be about questioning your assumptions… It should make you wonder about things you took for granted, things you assumed to be true but actually are just a societal convention.
The more different science fiction writers there are, he says, the more likely it is that you get that experience.
And there he goes again, advocating against the status quo. Ted Chiang: the slow-spoken, thoughtful revolutionary.
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New Regent Street Pop-up Festival: WORD Christchurch Festival 2018
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The New Regent Street Pop-up Festival is like the whole of WORD Christchurch distilled into an hour and twenty minutes, and if that sounds intense well, yes, that would be an accurate assessment.
In some ways it's like trying to pick something off a menu – how do you know what you'll like the best? What if you choose and don't enjoy your choice? And just to extend the dining out metaphor, the pop-up festival offers three "sets" of readings in much the same manner as restaurant courses, allowing you to mix and match.
For my pop-up dinner I chose the following:
Entrée: Gory Bits at Crate Escape
Main: Science Fiction Triple Feature at Rollickin' Gelato
Dessert: FIKA and Friends at Fiksate Gallery
So how did I do choosing a great meal?
Robin Robertson about to make everyone feel uneasy. Crate Escape. New Regent Street Pop Up Festival. WORD Christchurch Festival 2018. Thursday 30 August 2018. File reference: 2018-08-30-IMG_0109
Meaty, blood-soaked and best served cold, this was a very enjoyable way to start. True, it's rather a full-bodied choice for an entree, but if you're going to have tales of death and fear read to you in the confines of a strange, wooden Antarctic hut fashioned from a shipping container you may as well do it early so it's still daylight when you leave.
WORD Christchurch Festival director, Rachael King read a suitably gothic, Wuthering Heights inspired passage from her book Magpie Hall, and Brindi Joy's flash fiction story of the dead that don't necessarily stay buried had a pleasing rhythm and exotic (for Christchurch) US locale.
But certainly the standout of this "course" was Robin Robertson's readings of gruesome death and murder, his voice dragging on certain words, and fairly growling others – at one point his hands held out in the pose of a man strangling his beloved and… well, lovely man though I'm sure he is, should I bump into him in a dark alley while he's here in Christchurch I'll probably squeal and run the other way, so affecting was his performance. And I fancied as I left, to the screams of children playing at the Margaret Mahy Playground across the road, that they might not all be squeals of delight…
After that kind of darkness what you need is something different, distracting and refreshing. Science Fiction Triple Feature offered a trio of writers of different flavours reading stories and excerpts.
A. J. Fitzwater, a local writer of Spec-Fic (Speculative Fiction) opened with a really interesting take on post-apocalyptic tales, telling the story of a trans vlogger and traveller making their way across Europe in the wake of some catastrophic outbreak. They are on the hunt for… tampons. Which is an amusing twist on the usual dystopian scavenging one usually expects from tales like this, and one that I have always wondered about myself. Sure, the characters in The Walking Dead always look sufficiently unwashed and grimey… but they still seem to be able to find their colour of hair dye and everyone's top lip is still getting waxed so how post-apocalyptic is it really? Yes, I do have tampons in my emergency kit, and yes, so should you.
Another local sci-fi/fantasy writer, Karen Healey then took the mic (in a Thor-themed dress that I am most covetous of) and read from her version of Beauty and the Beast in which Beauty's quest involves dark, spooky creatures who have possessed her beloved father, a malady that only a strapping magical beast might be able to cure. And American author Ted Chiang read a strange and perplexing story of science used to support fiction – a comment on the nature of faith and truth, perhaps.
Ted Chiang with A. J Fitzwater and Karen Healey. New Regent Street Pop-up Festival. WORD Christchurch Festival 2018. Thursday 30 August 2018. File reference: 2018-08-30-IMG_0119
A small sorbet of something completely different was on offer at Fiksate Gallery (a place that I would very much like to go back to) in the form of touching, poignant poetry. Personal tales of a loved one's dementia, or legendary tales of some guy called "Maui". Short and bittersweet. The perfect ending course to this pop-up adventure.
New Regent Street Pop Up Festival, WORD Christchurch Festival 2018. Thursday 30 August 2018. File reference: 2018-08-30-IMG_0096
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No Sex Please, We're Teenagers — WORD Christchurch
27 August 2016 alinacclLeave a comment
Should there be sex in young adult fiction? A resounding yes, according to panellists Karen Healey, Ted Dawe and Frances Young. Sex is a major part of many people's lives and therefore it will turn up in fiction whether or not you've identified it as an important theme in your writing. How it is portrayed, positively or negatively, is another matter — Healey emphasised her wish for sex-positive teen fiction, getting rid of the shame that settles on us in adolescence. Dawe meanwhile was concerned that Harry Potter is leading a movement away from realistic, warts-and-all depictions of young men. (He obviously hasn't read the testosterone-fueled mess that is Order of the Phoenix.)
Frances Young, Ted Dawe, Karen Healey and Mandy Hager.
The role of pornography in teen sexuality
Young cited various statistics linking increasingly violent pornography with sexual violence against women. If teens are discovering sex via violent porn, does this then influence their relationships and sexual experiences in the future? With pornography being increasingly accessible online, and society and media supporting the objectification of women, are we grooming our children into becoming sex offenders? Young considers this a public health crisis which needs to be addressed.
Frances Young. Image supplied
Differences between publishing in NZ/Australia vs. publishing in the US?
Karen Healey. Image supplied
Healey mentions a saucy scene in While We Run which received a very positive response from her Australian editors, and some careful notes on her manuscript from her American publishers. ('Do you have to use the word "unzip"?') Her debut novel Guardian of the Dead was also initially written for an adult audience, and had to be altered to suit a teenage audience. The sex was cut but the violence was allowed to stay.
The Into the River controversy
Ted Dawe. Image supplied
Several panellists brought up the "dubious consent" of a particular sex scene (borderline rape) in Into the River, and the lack of any reprisals or sense of wrongdoing in the novel. Dawe said he dislikes being compelled to write a counter-argument into the text as that's "proselytising" rather than fiction writing. He suggested his books are primers for teens just beginning to have sexual relationships, an accurate reflection of first-time messy unglamorous sex. What a scary thought.
Sex is a controversial topic but makes for fascinating discussion. Were you at the session? Let me know your thoughts in the comments!
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Creating Worlds – Young Adult Readings at WORD Christchurch
9 September 2014 27 July 2015 Alireads2 Comments
I kicked off a very full weekend at the WORD festival with some good old oral storytelling. Listening to stories read aloud is one of my earliest memories and my memories sitting in early intermediate school captivated by The Giver and terrified by Goosebumps are much easier to recall than what we learned in class afterwards…
Creating Young Adult Worlds was a great session, with five authors writing for young adults reading aloud from their work. Karen Healey, Laini Taylor, Meg Wolitzer, Elizabeth Knox and Tania Roxborogh gave us all a taste.
Laini Taylor read "the most embarrassing" chapter from the first book in her incredible fantasy trilogy Daughter of Smoke and Bone, in which art student Karou gets a satisfying revenge on her ex-boyfriend. The passage went from hilarious to heartbreaking in the space of a sentence, and included some pretty excellent life advice from a monster:
But here's one. It's simple. Don't put anything unnecessary into yourself. No poisons or chemicals, no fumes or smoke or alcohol, no sharp objects, no inessential needles–drug or tattoo–and…no inessential penises either.
Karen Healey read from a short story 'Careful Magic' which will appear in an up-and-coming anthology Kaleidoscope. Within minutes she crafted an intriguing magical world and a few really fascinating characters that I can't wait to read more about. Kaleidoscope is a collection of sci-fi and fantasy short stories featuring diverse characters, from disabled superheros, time-traveling Chinese-American figure skaters, to transgendered animal shifters. It's is not in our library yet, so while you're waiting why not catch up with Karen Healey's other novels and short stories?
Elizabeth Knox read a passage from her historical-fantasy novel Mortal Fire, based in Southland, an imaginary country similar to New Zealand, which will be known to readers of her Dreamhunter series. Mortal Fire won the New Zealand Post Book Awards this year for best Young Adult Fiction. The story features some really interesting characters, though my favourite is Canny, daughter of a war heroine, Pacifica maths whiz and stubborn as anything.
"People get over things, cultures don't."
Tania Roxborogh read from the 2005 novel The Third Degree. The story is based on the author's real experience of being badly burned when she was young and strongly features her relationship with her mother. Though the story begins when main character Ruth is starting university, many of the themes will be familiar to anyone who had to spend time in hospital as a child. There were some excellently gruesome medical scenes!
If I had to choose out of the five, I'd say that I am most excited to read Meg Wolitzer's new book Belzhar. I couldn't describe it better than Karen Healey did in her tweet:
Me of Belzhar (@MegWolitzer): I can't believe it's taken this long for someone to write the boarding school Sylvia Plath fantasy story.
— Karen Healey (@kehealey) August 30, 2014
Intrigued? We have Belzhar on order so get your name on the waiting list!
Find these authors on our catalogue:
Elizabeth Knox
Tania Roxborogh
Meg Wolitzer
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The more we change, the more we find out who we are – WORD Christchurch
2 September 2014 27 July 2015 alinaccl4 Comments
Karen Healey's first experience with Margaret Mahy came early, as a toddler.
There's a photo of me — I must have been about 4 — reading A Lion in the Meadow, sitting on the toilet, wearing a raincoat and wellies. I'd obviously rushed in without bothering to take them off, but had made enough time to grab a book to read.
In contrast Elizabeth Knox first picked up The Changeover while working in a museum shop in her twenties. She had only recently started reading books for young adults again after a self-imposed diet of 19th century poets. ("I think Mahy would have got on very well with William Blake," Knox adds.) The strong sense of family present in Mahy's works, similar to those by Diana Wynne Jones, have made both writers firm favourites of hers.
Karen Healey:
I first read The Changeover when I was about 13 and it just blew my BRAINS out. I was so excited by this book, because Laura literally writes herself into being a heroine.
Laura's strong, flawed character will be the core of the forthcoming Changeover movie, filmmaker Stuart McKenzie confirms. While some aspects of the book have necessarily been trimmed (including Sorry's backstory and, much to my regret, librarian Chris Holly), McKenzie assures us that they have been pruned to allow better visibility of Laura and her story.
The film is set in post-earthquake Christchurch, updated from 1984. The transformation of the city echoes the various changeovers present in the book, from Laura's physical change from child to adolescent to the changeover of the title.
Another strong character in the movie will be Carmody Braque, whose malevolent presence seeps through the book like the smell of peppermints — yet in the end the reader almost feels sorry for him. We get a glimpse of the person he might have been once, possibly someone quite similar to Laura. Healey admits to stealing the amoral nature of Carmody Braque, a character who decides his need to live overrides your freedom, for her first novel.
Braque is terrifying because you get the sense that he sees himself as quite reasonable. He turns up everywhere in various guises, whether as the patupaiarehe in Guardian of the Dead, or Laurel in Fire and Hemlock. In some ways they are utterly alien, yet there is the possibility in all of us to become another Braque. This role-reversal and exploration of the slipperiness of our sense of self is a theme throughout The Changeover, asking: When do we stop being ourselves?
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Capes and Tights – WORD Christchurch
2 September 2014 27 July 2015 alinacclLeave a comment
I always love panel events because it can be much more of an organic conversation between panellists, bringing up themes and topics that might not otherwise be heard. I was especially excited about Capes and Tights because, well, firstly it's about comics, and secondly, the speakers are all excellent people. The session did not disappoint.
Discussion began with an exploration of each speaker's initiation into comics (Tintin and Asterix being the main offenders), and then their first experience within the realm of the superhero.
Damon Young confessed being drawn as a teenager to the rage and violence of characters such as Ghost Rider, the Punisher and Batman, whereas Dylan Horrocks and Jonathan King were both fans of the fun and absurd superhero comics of the 60s. Karen Healey was a relative latecomer to superhero comics, becoming fascinated with comics such as Kingdom Come at university despite an initial difficulty breaking into the genre as a reader.
Dylan Horrocks asked the panel for their opinion of the "dark and gritty" reboot of many characters, and the fetishization of violence in the superhero canon (comics often being produced with sponsorship by or advertising for the US Army and Air Force). Comments ranged from an appreciation of the way in which physical violence can be paralleled by verbal argument, to the disappointing flattening of a character consumed only by darkness.
Karen Healey brought up the problematic trend of fridging female characters and bemoaned the lack of a Black Widow movie (seriously, when will it happen? We're ready), which segued into a discussion on copyright and our collective ownership of these characters.
Superhero comics are basically fanfiction. The writers, the artists are all fans of these characters and are creating stories in response to that history, but they have no legal ownership of that material.
All agreed that it is time for DC and Marvel to let "their" creations fall into the public domain, to be used as modern myths (à la Robin Hood or King Arthur) without threat of legal action.
What superpower would you most like to have?
Damon Young:
The teenager inside me would say mind control, because that would just be incredibly useful, but I think I'd like physical invulnerability.
At first I thought telekinesis, but then time-travel because imagine how much time you'd save on research!
Jonathan King:
I've always dreamed of flying, so I think I'd have to go for that.
And Dylan Horrocks opted for invisibility.
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When We Wake – New Zealand e-book month
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In 2027, sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl–playing the guitar, falling in love, and protesting the wrongs of the world with her friends.
But then Tegan dies, waking up 100 years in the future as the unknowing first government guinea pig to be cryogenically frozen and successfully revived.
Appalling secrets about her new world come to light, and Tegan must choose to either keep her head down or fight for a better future.
You can read When We Wake as an e-book from our Overdrive collection.
When We Wake is also available as a paper book.
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The shattering – New Zealand e-book month
15 March 2013 31 March 2013 PaulLeave a comment
Summerton is perfect: gorgeous weather, stunning scenery, cute out-of-towners to meet.
But sharp-tongued Keri has been left shattered with grief by her older brother's suicide.
She discovers her other friends have also lost brothers in suspicious circumstances.
Does Summerton hold dark secrets?
You can read The shattering as an e-book from our Overdrive collection.
The shattering is also available as a paper book.
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Guardian of the dead – New Zealand e-book month
8 March 2013 1 April 2013 Paul3 Comments
In less than a day I had been harassed, enchanted, shouted at, cried on, and clawed. I'd been cold, scared, dirty, exhausted, hungry, and miserable. And up until now, I'd been mildly impressed with my ability to cope.
A gripping fantasy set on the shifting boundary between what is real and what is legend. Can Ellie discover a power she never knew she possessed?
At her boarding school in New Zealand, Ellie Spencer is like any ordinary teen: she hangs out with her best friend, Kevin; obsesses over her crush on a mysterious boy; and her biggest worry is her essay deadline. Until everything changes…
In the foggy woods near the school, something ancient and deadly is waiting.
You can read Guardian of the dead as an e-book from our Overdrive collection.
Guardian of the dead is also available as a paper book.


Online travel sales to residents recorded strong growth in 2017. Belgian travellers became more familiar with online bookings and payments, particularly Millennials, who represented the largest proportion of the online community.
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I've been on hyg black tops now for 4 months taking 5iu pre bed. I'm so tired through the day every day, missed going to work a few times, all I can think about is sleeping! Surely this isn't normal? This is the 2nd time I've ever used hgh , about 2 years was the other time I used it and I felt on top of the world! Never really needed to sleep ect , is anyone else having these problems?
Yeah I've had the tiredness. Falling asleep at my desk etc. is there a reason you are doing it all pre bed?
I've been using the black tops for about 4 -5 months too also at 5iu and haven't had any of the sleepiness problems since I started playing around.
I had the same problem when taking 4IU in the morning .
other problem I occurred is crazy midnight sugar cravings and raiding the biscuit cupboard. which doesn't help any with the fat loss I am chasing.


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Sioux Army Depot was established on 23 March 1942 as Sioux Ordnance Depot. It was the only U.S. Army Ammunition Depot in Nebraska during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The depot was initially under the command of the U.S. Army Ordnance Department and later the U.S. Army Materiel Command. Sioux Army Depot's mission during its entire history was the receipt, storage, and issue of all types of ammunition from small arms to 10,000 pound bombs, all types of general supplies from small automobile parts to jeeps, and various strategic and critical materials. The depot occupied 19,771 acres and included 801 ammunition storage igloos, 22 general supply warehouses, 392 support buildings, 225 family living quarters, 51 miles of railroad tracks, and 203 miles of roads. Depot personnel assigned ranged from 625 to 2,161 civilian employees and from 4 to 57 military personnel depending on Army activity. Sioux Army Depot was deactivated on 30 June 1967. Dedicated by the Sioux Army Depot Employees on 25 July 1992.
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You may hear this phrase all the time, whether it's from the doctor, the dentist, or even from your parents and teachers. But if they advise it, it's because the food we eat affects our body on a molecular level. Whatever you ingest will reflect on your overall health condition. That's why many athletes and Olympians hire dieticians that plan out their meal to make sure that they're getting the nutrients that their body needs to keep it healthy. Eating more fruits and vegetables is a good way to start. This will get your body prepared and relaxed so that you can feel better before your next sports physiotherapy session in Singapore.
After the therapy, your body will need a lot of rest since you still work out your muscles. Sleep is our body's natural way of recovery, and it helps heal our ailments and injuries. Sometimes, due to other activities and everyday responsibilities like work, we tend to stay up late or ruin our sleeping patterns. Rest doesn't only benefit your body, but it also regenerates your mind and spirit. Stress that builds up from a lack of sleep is one factor that causes diseases and contributes to a weaker immune system. Thus, try to avoid working too hard and get your body rested when it needs to.
Not too many people are familiar with physiotherapy, and you can do the world a favour by telling them about this beneficial process. You can start by telling your family and friends about it. If you know any people who suffer from ailments such as muscle injuries or arthritis, you can share with them about the procedure and tell them how you have benefited from it as an example. You may be wondering how doing this can help you prepare yourself, but it does. Talking about it can ease the tension or jitters that you may be feeling about your upcoming therapy session and encourage the people around you to support you in your treatment.
Our muscles provide strength to our body and make us able to flex and relax depending on the activity. Thus, it's important to take good care of them. As we age, our body becomes weaker, but with proper care and discipline, we can be as active for as long as we need to be. If you undergo regular physiotherapy, your physical prime will last longer, too.


I would recommend this book to everyone who cooks. I've only tried a few of the recipes, and while they aren't bad, I prefer to find those types of recipes elsewhere. Next, I created tagliatelle with chapignon sauce. I am hankering to make it again. The combination of flavours is complex.
With the incisive authority that has made him one of the most esteemed food journalists of our time, Michael Ruhlman distills decades of cooking, writing, and working with the world's greatest culinary professionals into twenty essential ideas guaranteed to elevate your cooking. I love how to the author ¨divide¨ on the uses on various parts of the world. I'm happy to have good food to eat and to see him explore a new hobby he enjoys so much. Eat Your Books has indexed recipes from leading cookbooks and magazines as well recipes from the best food websites and blogs. It is an extremely thorough span of recipes to suit a dozens of tastes. This is the best book I've ever read about the basics of cooking: techniques. Although the recipes in this book are delicious, simple and quick, the true value for me was in the technique lessons he sneaks into every recipe like searing and steaming chicken breasts and the encouragement to make your own variations of the recipes.
It really has changed our lives, including both how we eat and how we survive as parents of young children. This makes them harder to read- and this one needs to be read- and harder to cook from. Abstract: Includes clear and easy to understand process shots for many of the techniques, as well as beautiful colour photographs of the various steps and finished products of each of the 100 recipes. He explains the difference between similar techniques and how to choose using one over another and gives I checked this out from the library, after reading I've decided I need to own it. Ruhlman's Twenty contains 20 Techniques, 100 Recipes and is a cook's manifesto. Twenty is a lot of things, but most of all it's blueprint for self-improvement, and I value that very highly. There are still some recipes that we haven't tried in the book, but others we use weekly or seasonally.
Whether cooking a multi-course meal, the juiciest roast chicken, or just some really good scrambled eggs, Ruhlman reveals how a cook s success boils down to the same twenty concepts. In his newest book Ruhlman's Twenty he has distilled everything down to the most essential 20 techniques that will help build solid skills and a positive outlook in the kitchen. The short stories to the left of the recipe itself helped a lot to explain the history or key points of cooking for the dish, and the tips to alternate the recipe to your liking was helpful too. These recipes rev it up at least an order of magnitude. Michael Ruhlman born 1963 in Cleveland, Ohio is an American writer. And others have been definitively disappointing.
More importantly the proper usage of the power pressure cooker has been clearly presented. Sometimes we feed the kids early, then put them to bed so we can have a glass of wine, cook together, and catch up with each other. Some of them are a small more involved fried chicken and pan fried pork chops which both require brining , while other things we've picked up from that book are so easy yet so profound. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking to up their cooking game, or anyone who wants a beautiful coffee table book with lots of delish-looking photos. James Beard Award, 2010 winner! Who knew it could be so easy to cook a chicken and then come up with a delicious pan sauce for that chicken? Still- I'm about a third of the way through reading it albeit with difficulty , and have learned a lot from the text- and the recipes I've tried have been spot-on, and I want to make them all again soon. It's very worth it, though; I adore caramelized onions, and this soup emphasizes them.
Cooks of all levels will revel in Ruhlman s game-changing Twenty. Have fun it, its great. Other Titles: Ruhlman's 20 Responsibility: Michael Ruhlman ; photographs by Donna Turner Ruhlman. It'll be interesting to taste how it is after fermenting for a couple of days in the fridge. I haven't attempted them yet. I love the time table from this book where you can actually maximize your preparatoins as well as having a delicious and tasty food for dinner.
I definitely knew it was done. The roasted shallots are like candy; I could eat them all day, but heroically refrained because I need some for the coq au vin, which we just ate and which is rich and flavorful and amazing. I found it educational and also inspirational. A basic cookbook combining fundamental techniques, some gastronomic science, and some exemplary recipes, Ruhlman's 20 is a different kind of cookbook in that it's not about a theme, or an ingredient, or a style. Rare is the cookbook that redefines how we cook. With the illuminating expertise that has made him one of the most esteemed food journalists, Ruhlman explains the hows and whys of each concept and reinforces those discoveries through 100 recipes for everything from soups to desserts, all detailed in over 300 photographs.
There is a attractive close-up picture for each featured spice so you know what to look for in the grocery store. Browse and save recipes from ruhlmans twenty 20 techniques 100 recipes a cooks manifesto the ideas and techniques that will make you a better cook to your own online collection at eatyourbookscom. Some topics were very basic, such as 'Salt'. First technique: Think, think ahead and prep. For the past two days, I have came home from work and read this cookbook straight through.


Kenyan Men Empowerment Network (KEMEN) is a closed group for Kenyans males living abroad in the diaspora. Kenyan Men United is the name that was adopted for the group. The group aims to create a forum where Kenyan men living in diaspora will address issues that affect them and find solutions that are applicable to solve them. It will also be a platform that will educate the society on how to meet the challenges one meets on their daily lives. The ability to generate, access, and use information has become a key factor in personal, social, and economic growth. That's why this forum will expand global information the society requires the free flow of information; in reshaping our personal, education, and social activities.
The mission of the group is to bring the Kenyan men living in Diaspora together. The group seeks to address the issues faced by the Kenyan men when they are away from home and also help in the celebrating and encouraging them.
Our vision is to create a network where all the members get to interact and know each other, share ideas and simply be each other brother's keeper. This will play an increasingly vital role in empowering individuals, communities to maximize the benefits of the information age shared.
Men the diaspora face various challenges and we hope the group will address these challenges through collaboration and mentorship.
The strategy is to ensure Kenyan men in the diaspora find a leaning shoulder and someone to guide them through in facing the various issues one faces when living in the diaspora. By traditional and societal measures of success, men (boy child) are slipping away. They are underrepresented in the higher education and have been disproportionately affected by the economic downturn.


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Twitter launches video app for Apple and Amazon TV, Xbox One
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(Reuters) – Twitter Inc launched a new video streaming application for Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc TV platforms, as well as Microsoft Corp's Xbox One gaming console as it brings its video content to the forefront.
Shares of Twitter were up nearly 3 percent at $18.26 in early trading.
The application will also be available for users of these devices without a Twitter account or a pay-TV subscription, the company said in a statement on Wednesday.
The application will feature video content from a number of Twitter's partners, including the National Football League and the National Basketball Association, as well as curated tweets and shorter video from its Vine and Periscope services.
The news comes a day ahead of the first of the 10 NFL Thursday night games that Twitter obtained streaming rights for in April.
Jack Dorsey-led Twitter has made a significant push into video, signing deals with several media companies and sports organizations to stream major events.
(Reporting by Narottam Medhora in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta)
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The SCOOP Story
Measuring the Impact
Footsteps to India
SCOOP Crew
Select PageHomeAbout us— Our Mission— The SCOOP Story— Measuring the Impact— Our SponsorsAdventures— Footsteps to India— Past EventsOur Schools— India— CambodiaSCOOP CrewStories for ImpactContact UsGive Now
June 9, 2019By Lisa RennieFundraisers, India
Footsteps to India is an adventure to inspire for impact
It inspired three Australians to travel with purpose
For Natalie, Sabrina and Lisa it was about embarking on a journey to witness the magic and heart of India. A journey where they would be walking with the students from The School of Life. A school where most of the students call the streets of Varanasi home. The crew would then travel to Varanasi to witness first-hand where the students live and go to school.
Early in the planning phases it was clear that having a solid and clear itinerary was not going to happen. Despite planning from the comforts of Australia, the crew were working on India time where plans are never certain, and life is about living in the moment. Before stepping foot in India, the crew learnt the power of letting go and leaving the itinerary in the hands of the universe.
What started with a five hour delay in the Perth International Airport, the crew had to embrace a new motto. At every turn from enduring a gruelling 7 hour drive up the Himalayan mountains only to arrive to a power failure in Ravangla, the crew's new motto 'just go with the flow' had firmly established itself as the guiding mantra to get them through each challenge and obstacle.
Once at the top of the mountain it was clear what role each traveller would play. Natalie would become the fact expert when random questions would unfold. When the travelling would get intense, like the moment the crew encountered a bogged truck on the edge of the mountain Sabrina would always find a way to get the team laughing. On the other end of the spectrum, Lisa would keep things real with a contingency plan mapped out for every obstacle.
With little hiking experience the crew didn't know what to expect for the hike, particularly having travelled from Australia to hike with a group of teen boys, many of whom were born on the streets. Yet, the Australians found themselves humbled beyond anything they could have ever experienced.
The gruelling 9 hour hike up Maenam Hill was made easier as the boys would wait for the Australian crew to catch up and offer jungle sticks to take the edge off. The boys also offered to share their lunch of a single hard-boiled egg. What do you say to a boy who has faced the greatest hardship in life and yet offers you a lending hand of support.
Footsteps to India was able to raise over aud$3800 for The School of Life. We thank donors from all over Australia for believing in the impact of their support on the education of the kids at The School of Life. This money has enabled the school to provide life-changing outdoor activities for the students.
What we can't measure is the impact of the trip on people's lives. Each hiker embarked on the journey to overcome a challenge unique to themselves. For the Australian crew, it was a journey to the unknown to witness first-hand the magic of India. For the boys from The School of Life the trip to the Himalayan mountains was so much more.
As the world develops our connection to nature is forgotten, and this is even more so for the boys. Life in Varanasi is fraught with scarcity and insecurity no human should endure. The opportunity to travel to the mountains was an idea the boys never even thought was possible. To breathe fresh mountain air and escape the chaos and uncertainly of life on the streets the trip to the India's mountains allows the boys a moment to escape and reflect on the possibilities of life.
The School of Life has been educating India's street kids for 16 years and with the support of the global community they will continue to provide free education, a basic human right, to India's street kids.
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Footsteps to India 2019 was the first international event organised by SCOOP Australia
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Natalie (owner of White Rose) and Sabrina (owner of Sorelle) joined Lisa, the founder of SCOOP Australia on this unique once in a lifetime opportunity.
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Note on the Pattern of the Fall of Empires by Ibn Khaldun
A note on the pattern of the fall of empires, by the Arab philosopher of history from the 1300's, Ibn Khaldun, with a certain level of applicability to Western Europe and to a lesser degree North America.
Ibn Khaldūn or Ibn Khaldoun (full name, Arabic: ابو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي, Abū Zayd 'Abdu r-Raḥman bin Muḥammad bin Khaldūn al-Ḥaḍramī) (May 27, 1332 AD/732 AH – March 19, 1406 AD/808 AH), was a famous Arab Muslim polymath: a historian, historiographer, demographer, economist, philosopher, sociologist and social scientist born in present-day Tunisia. He is considered the father of demography, cultural history, historiography, the philosophy of history, sociology, and the social sciences, and is viewed as one of the forerunners of modern economics. He is best known for his Muqaddimah (Latinized as Prolegomenon) (from Wikipedia)
Ibn Khaldun studied the history leading up to his time, which was a time of Muslim domination of vast areas of the world, and gave an interpretation of history in its cycles of empire growth, maturity and decline. He sees the following successive phases in every empire:
1) A victorious people settles down after victory to enjoy its new conquest, whether new lands they have expanded into, or a new regime that has taken over the existing land.
2) They grow in complexity of social relations and authority is concentrated and institutionalized to maintain order.
3) With order comes growth in wealth and education. Science, philosophy and arts grow. Cities grow as rural life diminishes. Urbanization and widespread comfort mark the beginnings of decay.
4) The enriched society comes to love pleasure, luxury, and ease, over work, risk, and martial strength. Religion weakens, morals become confused and deteriorates, pederasty and homosexualaity and other abnormal practices grow. Foreigners are brought in and used for the work. These lack natural patriotism to assist and defend the ideals of the society that are now nebulous and weakened.
5) The troubled society invites conquest, whether from without, or by revolution or intrigue from within. The cycle begins again at phase one.
Ibn Khaldun says that "it is always so." Do any similarities to current or past regimes strike you at salient?


Mr.J J Pinto joined S N Mudbidri Polytechnic in 1988 as lecturer, Dept. of E&C Engg. He was promoted as Head of the Department in the year 1997 and assumed the charge of Principal in the year 2000. He is an Engineering Graduate from Sri. Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore, Mysore University and has secured M.Tech from National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh. During his tenure as principal the institution has marked several developments such as construction of new block, addition of new programmes in Civil and Mechatronics Engineering, establishment of new laboratories, library, up gradation of infrastructure, Placement activities, establishing Industry relationships etc.
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Q: C++: Class member reference validity? Class A
    {
     A(int& foo) : m_foo(foo) {}

     int& m_foo;
    };

int main(void)
{
 A* bar = 0;
 {
   int var = 5;
   bar = new A(var);
 }
 std::cout << "Is m_foo still valid?:" << bar.m_foo << std::endl;
}

"m_foo" is a reference and "var" is a local variable which is given to the constructor. "var" gets out of the scope before printing the value so does it make m_foo also invalid?
If m_foo is a pointer, then it would be invalid but does it work the same way with references?

A: m_foo is not valid when int var falls out of scope.  The thing to which it refers has gone away.

A: Yes, a reference member becomes invalid if referenced object gets de-allocated. Same as with pointers. If you intend to keep references, make sure the lifetimes nest. Or use something like boost::weak_ptr.

A: Yes.  The behaviour is undefined.

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State controller owes $169K to Industry for…
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State controller owes $169K to Industry for withholding records of developer's involvement in audit
City officials were angered that instead of taking the city's side, Controller Betty Yee allegedly doing a favor for the developer of a massive solar farm
Cows graze the hills of Tres Hermanos Ranch, a 2,450-acre preserve owned by City of Industry, between Diamond Bar and Chino Hills on Monday, January 28, 2019. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
By Jason Henry | jhenry@scng.com | Pasadena Star News
PUBLISHED: July 24, 2020 at 6:39 p.m. | UPDATED: July 25, 2020 at 9:16 a.m.
State Controller Betty Yee's office has been ordered to pay $169,000 in fees to the City of Industry's attorneys to resolve a public records act lawsuit alleging the state agency audited the city as a political favor for a developer with an ax to grind.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge determined that while the Controller's Office eventually complied with the city's records requests, it only did so as a result of the lawsuit and, as such, should have to pay the fees, according to a court ruling.
Records released during the legal battle showed the controller's general counsel and other employees coordinated with developer and Democratic donor Bill Barkett and his longtime personal attorney, David Gilmore, in the days before a second audit of Industry was announced. Only one other city, Bell, has been audited twice by the State Controller's Office.
The same month the audit began, Gilmore filed a lawsuit on behalf of the "Concerned Citizens of the City of Industry" accusing Industry's City Council of corruption and asking a judge to strip the governing body of its power. Jerry Brownfield, chief of the state controller's Division of Audits, filed a declaration in support of the lawsuit, though officials later said the declaration only supported two paragraphs related to a previous audit. That lawsuit is still ongoing.
Coordination 'unprecedented'
In a news release, city officials declared victory and called the coordination between Barkett and Yee's office "unprecedented."
"While the controller touts values of openness and transparency in government, the Court's decision makes it clear that she has not implemented those values in her own office, and employs a double standard used to help political insiders," Mayor Cory Moss said in a statement released by the city.
In a statement, Yee denied the allegations.
"First, the ruling is on the PRA and not the merits of the case," she said in the statement. "Secondly, none of the documents produced in any way suggest that the audit was politically motivated."
Phil Hosp, an attorney representing the city, said Yee went to lunch with Barkett in April 2018 and then subsequently gave him "unlimited access to the controller's office and its legal department." Yee previously told the L.A. Times she cut the meeting short after realizing there was a potential conflict.
Yee did not answer a question through a spokesperson about the nature of her meeting with Barkett.
Official offers developer assistance
The same day as the meeting, Rick Chivaro, the controller's chief counsel, offered his assistance to Barkett in an email. Gilmore later provided a list of topics auditors could focus on and the State Controller's Office did review some of them, but not others. It's unclear if that letter had any effect on the probe, as the recommended areas also were previously publicized in news reports.
Barkett was a lead figure behind a proposal to build a massive solar farm on Tres Hermanos Ranch, roughly 2,500 acres of pristine rolling hills on the edges of Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties. Industry backed out of the deal in 2018 and filed suit against Barkett's companies, alleging they had taken $20 million and yet could not produce evidence of their work. The city eventually sold the land to a joint conservation authority controlled by itself, Diamond Bar and Chino Hills.
Despite the very public battles over the property, the state controller's second audit did not look at the Tres Hermanos deal at all. City officials even asked Yee's office to review it, according to Hosp.
"She should have been on the city's side," Hosp said. "The city is interested in trying to figure out where this money went, but rather than the controller's office helping the city do that, she's helping the crooked developer try to get more money out of the city."
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The Ultimate Lanyard is a lanyard that will hold your whistles, count flushes of two different species of birds and guide you out of the woods (compass only available on Camo and Yellow versions) when it's finally time to head back to the car.
The Mendota Ultimate Lanyard, the lanyard that all others are compared when it comes to total functionality. Simple in design, the Ultimate Lanyard has two clasps for whistles, two flush counters and a compass (compass only available on Camo and Yellow versions), all on Mendota's famous braid material that is soft on the neck.
The whistles in the picture are sold separately.


Howard Eissenstat, associate professor of history and Turkish affairs expert, was quoted in Vox news on Turkey's detention of an American pastor, which has impassioned many evangelical Christians.
Eissentat has also been featured in The Huffington Global regarding strains between the United States and Turkey over NATO and Al-Monitor regarding the dentention and trial of the American pastor.
Update Aug. 3: After the Trump administration threatened to impose sanctions on Turkey, Eissenstat was interviewed by the Voice of America (VOA), Vox, and Al-Monitor.


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Q: conversion of date string 12 hours and 24 hours format getting wrong values I am having a date string
 NSString *strDate=@"12 March 2015 07:20:57 pm";
which I am getting from server
For 24 hours device format getting wrong value

03/12/2015 12:20:57

Which should have been

03/12/2015 19:20:57

My code is Here
-(NSString *)changeformate_string24hr:(NSString *)date
{

    NSDateFormatter* df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]init];

    [df setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone systemTimeZone]];

    [df setDateFormat:@"dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss a"];

    NSDate* wakeTime = [df dateFromString:date];

    [df setDateFormat:@"MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss"];

    return [df stringFromDate:wakeTime];

}

Please let me know where is my problem and help me to get out from this
Thanks in advance

A: Correct input format should be
[df setDateFormat:@"dd MMM yyyy hh:mm:ss a"];

Difference between HH and hh is described here


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