On 26th and 27th March 2014, Transaid organised a workshop that brought together emergency transport stakeholders from over ten different countries to discuss and explore how to improve emergency transport across sub-Saharan Africa. This workshop was funded by the United Kingdom's Department for International Development, through the African Community Access Programme (AFCAP) which is managed by Crown Agents. AFCAP began in 2008 and promotes safe and sustainable access to markets, healthcare, education, employment and social and political networks for rural communities in Africa. To read more about AFCAP visit the website at www.afcap.org.
The AFCAP/Transaid Emergency Transport Workshop was held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The participants included Ministry of Health representatives, ambulance practitioners, NGOs, donors and leading academics in the field who came together to share knowledge and expertise from a range of contexts. The countries that were represented include Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, the UK and Zimbabwe.
This two day workshop acted as a forum for presentation and dissemination of relevant research and allowed for debate regarding how to improve emergency health transport across sub-Saharan Africa. The event also promoted dialogue and advocacy for policy change as well as supporting those wishing to enhance/set up ambulance services.
The first day of the workshop began with an opening address from Dr. Mtasiwa, The Deputy Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Local Government, Tanzania, who emphasised the need and expressed support for improving emergency transport services to people across Africa generally and specifically in the context of Tanzania. The first day of the workshop saw presentations on fleet management, staff training and links to emergency medicine. The afternoon focused on monitoring and evaluation, with presentations and plenary discussions on key research findings in this area, tools that can be used and calls for more robust monitoring and evaluation frameworks in emergency transport initiatives.
Breakout groups throughout the day and a networking event gave participants a chance to discuss potential opportunities for collaboration and learn more about emergency transport practices from different organisations in different countries.
The second day of the workshop saw presentations on innovation, communication and technology and the role of motorcycles and motorcycle ambulances. There was also a presentation and discussion on how to take evidence into practice, including advocacy and knowledge management around emergency transport. The final day of the workshop ended with all the participants sharing what they learned and, most importantly, what they will take away and apply back in their working environment.
The workshop was positively received, one participant remarked; 'Thank you very much Transaid for the opportunity – my eyes are opened. I have learned ideas to incorporate into my program and I will be a better ambassador for emergency transport!' A road engineer who attended also remarked; 'I personally learnt a lot from the presentations and discussions that took place. I will disseminate the good practices from other countries to my colleagues'.
The workshop allowed transport managers and officers to be inspired and motivated by success stories from other countries and created a space to shine a spotlight on transport as a key enabler for improved health outcomes. Practitioners and policy-makers alike fed back that they will be able to apply the principles that were shared and now have access to new research and evidence, new materials and new contacts who are working in the same space.
The AFCAP/Transaid Emergency Transport Workshop saw transport and health professionals come together to debate and explore options to improve emergency transport practices. This was a unique opportunity for emergency transport stakeholders to meet and form relationships, which has resulted in discussions about exciting future collaborative work. All the presentation slides from the workshop and the relevant documents will be shared on the Transaid website. In addition to this, a final report will be produced at the end of April which will include all the findings and recommendations that have evolved out of the workshop and this will be shared and disseminated with all the participants.


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By Liz Wheatley
Harlem 69
"In every city you find the same thing going down/ Harlem is the capital of every ghetto town."
So sang Bobby Womack in Across 110th Street, which refers to the unofficial boundary between Harlem and the rest of New York City. In 1969 Harlem was a city within a city, with more than 90 percent of its population being black. It is the subject of the last book in Stuart Cosgrove's trilogy about key political events and music of the late 1960s.
Cosgrove's series (the earlier two are Detroit 67 and Memphis 68) can be read separately, but to read them as a trilogy gives a real sense of black music and social movements. They are also tributes to the cities at the heart of these movements.
Sixties Harlem was overcrowded, with high unemployment and child mortality rates more than double the city average. The NYC Buildings Department received over 500 calls a day about rats, unsanitary plumbing and lack of heating.
It was also the centre of black politics, home of the Nation of Islam's Temple Number Seven run by Malcolm X until 1963, and with an active chapter of the Black Panthers.
Each of Cosgrove's books takes a significant event in the city — the Detroit riots of 1967, the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968 Memphis — and in Harlem 69 it's the trial of the Black Panther 21. At its conclusion, this was the longest and most expensive court case in the history of New York.
A series of police raids led to the arrest of 21 Black Panther Party members who were charged with conspiracy — allegedly planning to bomb a number of public places and police stations. Bail was set high, and so only two of the defendants could be released — Michael Tabor and Afeni Shakur, soon to be mother of Tupac.
Each day Black Panther members would attend the trial, hold protests outside the court and raise funds for the defence. In court the attorney general read the jurors Mao's Little Red Book and showed the film The Battle of Algiers, while a number of the Panthers defended themselves.
Two years after their arrest and an eight-month court case, they were all acquitted of the 156 charges. The jurors threw a party and invited the defendants to celebrate with them.
The trial was significant for showing the level of police infiltration into the Black Panther Party (and therefore the threat the state believed them to be) to the point of exposing that various bombing campaigns had been organised by undercover police unaware of each other's real identities and roles.
A number of celebrities supported the Black Panther 21 — Leonard Bernstein, Jane Fonda, Harry Belafonte and singer/songwriter Donny Hathaway, who visited the court hearings.
During the early to mid-1960s, black music had been dominated by artists from labels such as Motown and Stax, both forming part of Cosgrove's first two books. But for Cosgrove, Harlem in 1969 held the seeds of new musical genres.
Although released in 1970, Hathaway's "The Ghetto" is synonymous with Harlem life and, Cosgrove argues, groundbreaking musically. Almost seven minutes long and with few lyrics, "The Ghetto" is a masterpiece of soul with a social conscience, paving the way for albums such as Marvin Gaye's What's Going On.
Cosgrove tells us about some of the best-known artists in Harlem at the time, from Miles Davis to King Curtis and Jimi Hendrix. He describes events like the Harlem Cultural Festival, where Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone and Stevie Wonder were among the performers. We also learn about less famous singers, record label owners and musicians, like Fat Jack Taylor and Doris Duke. Substantial parts of the book look at how circumstances and people collided to develop soul music in new directions — jazz funk, disco, hip hop.
One such genre was the Latin soul that came out of East Harlem. Cosgrove introduces Joe Bataan, who after signing to the Fania label started Ghetto Records (partly funded by a local gangster) but went on to coin the phrase, and label name, Salsoul. Formed partly out of members of the Philadelphia International Records house band, the sound of Salsoul was formative in the development of disco in New York.
The Bronx is typically seen as the birthplace of hip hop but in Harlem 69 Cosgrove reminds us about the "spoken word" songs of Gil Scott-Heron and the Last Poets. And we hear about Harlem label owners Sylvia and Joe Robinson who went on to found Sugar Hill Records and release "Rapper's Delight". Tupac Shakur's mother was a Harlem Panther, and Sean Combs's father was a street general of Harlem gangster Frank Lucas.
As with Detroit 67 and Memphis 68, the backdrop to Harlem 69 is the Vietnam War, poverty and racism, and the movements and characters that resist them. The trilogy paints a vivid, detailed picture of the intensity of social deprivation and resistance, and also the way that's reflected in, but also affected by, the music of those cities. Reading Harlem 69 made me want to do two things — dig out and play some of the records mentioned, and fight the powers that be.
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Black Ivy — how black men subverted the style of the white rich
A photo book that captures a fashion revolution
Rules of the Game and the sexist system's cover ups
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Ailey—a powerful portrait of a black dance pioneer
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Arizona teachers have officially voted to stage a walkout starting next Thursday.
Leaders say the walkout starts Thursday in order to give districts and parents time to prepare.
Teacher representatives are also planning walk-ins on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
A grass-roots group overseeing the vote on whether teachers should walk off the job announced the results Thursday night. The vote follows about six weeks of mounting protests to demand increased funding for public schools and an offer by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey to boost teacher pay by 20 percent.
"The worst possible thing we could do is not take action right now," said Noah Karvelis, an organizer for Arizona Educators United. Around 57,000 teachers submitted ballots and 78 percent voted in favor of the walkout, according to the Arizona Education Association.
Teachers on both sides of the walkout vote have shared concerns.
It could pose child care difficulties for thousands of families and leave teachers at risk of losing their credentials. How a strike could play out in more than 200 public school districts will vary, but could leave hourly workers like custodians without their paychecks.
Beth Simek, president of the influential Arizona PTA, said she feels the pain of teachers who are torn. Some are concerned about the effect on support staff and what kids might do without school, she said.
The vote in Arizona came after Ducey's pay raise plan didn't address other demands, including more overall school funding. Some walkout supporters say they want to send a message that other workers, such as bus drivers and receptionists, should get raises, too.
More than 1 million students in Arizona go to public school in more than 200 districts, which have varying walkout plans. The state's largest, Mesa Public Schools, has said it would close and hourly staffers would not be paid.
About 100 teachers from the Paradise Valley Unified School District lined the intersection of 32nd Street and Cactus Road Thursday afternoon hoping to attract more community support.
The teachers told ABC15 that Ducey's 20X2020 salary increase and school funding plan does not meet all five demands of Arizona Educators United, the teacher's grassroots group. They are especially concerned about the absence of dedicated money for school support staff raises.
"It's a whole community. It's a whole village that makes it work," teacher Dave Dundas said. "If you just pay the teachers, it's kind of going to put a division between us."
"We don't want to let our parents down and our families down," theater teacher Teresa Minarsich said, "But if we don't do this now, there is no better opportunity or momentum."
The Dysart School District west of Phoenix said it would "make every effort" to avoid closing schools," but they would have to shut down if too few staff members show up, Superintendent Gail Pletnick has told parents.
The Scottsdale Unified School District was finalizing information, spokeswoman Erin Helm said Thursday.
See a complete list of plans we have so far received from Valley districts HERE.
The grass-roots organizing group Arizona Educators United on Wednesday reserved space at the state Capitol for Friday and for four of five days next week for rallies.
The first statewide walkout is complicated by the possible fallout in this right-to-work state, where unions do not collectively bargain with school districts and representation is not mandatory.
The Arizona Education Association, which supports the grass-roots campaign and helped announce the vote results, previously warned its 20,000 members about a 1971 Arizona attorney general opinion saying a statewide strike is illegal under common law and participants could lose their teaching credentials.
Arizona is one of several Republican-dominant states where teachers have demanded higher pay this year. The movement started in West Virginia, where a strike garnered a raise, and spread to Oklahoma, Kentucky and most recently Colorado.
Governor Ducey's proposal has received some support, but others are concerned about finding the money to cover its roughly $650 million cost when fully implemented.
Republican state House Speaker J.D. Mesnard said lawmakers widely support a 20 percent raise, though there's no agreement on how to fund it.
"The broad consensus is, 'We want to see a pay raise,"' he said. "Right now, it's a lot of number crunching, a lot of discussions ... it's all centered around, how do we make this a reality?"
Mesnard had previously said a walkout is a "risk" that could backfire by depleting community support. Many in the public may consider 20 percent a big raise, he said.
"There's no doubt that a teacher walkout would have a negative impact on families," he said.
Arizona Red for Ed movement leaders has established a GoFundMe if you would like to donate to help their cause.
Take a look at the map below for each district's plans to handle the walkout. School districts in red have responded to requests for plans. See a complete list of detailed responses we have received from Valley districts HERE.


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The Valley Jr Warriors Junior A team suffered its third loss of the season on Sunday as the squad fell by a score of 7-2 to the Northern Cyclones.
The Warriors got off to a slow start as the Cyclones were paced by five goals in the first two periods.
The third period was an even battle as the Warriors got on the board at the 7:10 mark on a goal by Dan Holland. Shane Tracy and Charlie Widmar assisted on the tally.
Brendan Heinze then notched his first goal of the season at the 17:27 mark off helpers by Holland and Rudolfs Kalvitis.
The Warriors stand fourth in the EHL North Division. They will next be in action on October 5th in an away tilt against the Washington Junior Nationals.
Click here for a complete schedule of games.
Even when the Warriors are on the road, most EHL games can be seen live on FastHockey.com.


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Granby woman helps cancer patients access resources they need
News | August 1, 2008
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"I'm telling you, I'm one butt ugly bald woman," Jody Archinal says with a laugh, standing in the Shear Design hair studio.
Today she wears the whitish locks she calls her "Carol Channing" look.
Depending on her mood, she alternates between Channing, the red one for "funkier" days, or the more conventional and professional "grandma" look for other occasions.
She admits she has fun switching up her wigs on a whim.
"I'm a natural redhead," she said. "I'm going to miss my alter egos if I ever get any hair back."
Archinal is fighting a lung cancer that spread, causing two tumors on her brain.
She was diagnosed last March and within a three-month period, she endured 30 days of a barrage of radiation treatments and chemotherapy " a series of clinical visits that stripped her of pride when she lost her hair and the physical strength she is working to regain. The radiation also caused burns to her face and ears.
Something as simple as a wig, she said, boosted her self esteem at a time when she needed it most.
"It's devastating to lose your hair, especially for a woman," she said. "I thought, 'Oh my gosh, what am I going to do?"
It was nail technician Tawnya Bailey of Shear Design, Granby, who linked Archinal to wigs provided by the American Cancer Society.
Archinal is a client of Bailey's, and while getting her nails done, she had heard, "I know you have a problem, and I'm here to help."
"There were a couple of wild ones," Archinal recalled the mix of a dozen wigs that arrived to the salon for her to try on.
"Some were long and shaggy. I'd try them on in the back and then come out here, and we'd all laugh."
Bailey became an active volunteer with the Society after taking part in the Relay for Life last year, the American Cancer Society's signature event in which teammates take turns walking around a track throughout the day into the night to raise money for cancer research.
"My grandmother died of cancer," Bailey said. "I always wanted to do something, but wasn't sure what it was."
At the relay, Bailey walked with cancer survivors and family of those who suffered from the disease. "As I talked with them, I knew I wanted to be involved with the organization," she said. "By getting involved with the American Cancer Society, I realized that I can help a lot of people in the community. We have men's wigs as well as women's."
Bailey said she usually discovers someone isn't feeling well and in need of her help through relationships she's established through work. "It's an intimate, close, touchy-feely business," she said. "There's power in the human touch. Touching of the hands is just so personal. We're usually a foot away from each other… Or, it's the power of a stranger. A lot of times people feel safe in telling you."
The synthetic wigs through the Society are free. Bailey also helps Grand County cancer victims gain access to gas cards through the Society to help ease the cost of driving to Denver for treatments. There are also programs that help with lodging, local counselors and local support groups. The American Cancer Society also provides hats for patients, and through Bailey, additional hats are available from a square-dancing group in Denver that knits them for the same cause.
"What we're trying to do at the salon is put a local face to the organization," Bailey said. "Some people don't want to go to the American Cancer Society because it's such a large organization, and they don't realize in a small town that we have the ability to give the same services through the same organization," she said. "I just knew we needed this service in Grand County."
This year's Grand County Relay for Life takes place this Saturday at the Middle Park High School from sundown to sunrise. Ninety percent of the funds raised on Aug. 2 will stay in Grand County. The Relay for Life committee has partnered with the Grand County Rural Health Network, Heart of the Mountains Hospice and the local cancer survivors support group to determine distribution of the funds.
"You know the tears that surge to the back of the eyeballs and you can't hold back?" Bailey said about her first experience taking part in the Relay. "I knew when I was walking around the track last year, those men and women " and seeing how strong they are " I just knew I wanted to help them continue that."
If she feels up to it, Archinal may be taking part in the event this year on wheels.
"I just want cancer patients, especially for women, I want them to feel good about themselves," Bailey said. "I want to give them the opportunity to look in the mirror and see the beautiful them that they always were."
" To reach Tonya Bina, e-mail tbina@grandcountynews.com or 970-887-3334 ext. 19603.


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Imran Tahir aiming for spot in South African team
IPL 2022: Imran Tahir ready to make a comeback to the South African T20 team – Imran Tahir, the star Proteas spinner has revealed that he is fit enough to take an active part in the upcoming ICC T20 World Cup 2022 scheduled to take place in Australia. Tahir's comments bank on his impressive performances in domestic T20 performances that he has been a part of recently. Follow Live updates on InsideSport.IN
Despite being snubbed for the South African team in the previous T20 world cup 2021, the 42-year-old spinner hopes his recent performance and form will impress the selectors of the South African cricket team to reinstate his spot in the team.
Imran Tahir believes he is fit enough to be a part of the T20 World Cup 2022
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Currently playing in the Pakistan Super League aka PSL 2022, Tahir in an interview with Geo News said, "I am still available for selection in T20Is. I believe I am fit enough to play in the T20 World Cup [in Australia]. I hope that selectors will consider my performances around the world. If they do, I am sure they'll find me a deserving candidate."
Imran Tahir's performances in domestic cricket all over the world have caught the attention of the 10 IPL franchise teams. Initially thought to go unsold in IPL 2022 Mega Auction, these recent performances will make the teams reconsider their decision of excluding him from the team's roster.
Tahir's last appearance for his nation came in 2019 in the ICC World Cup held in England. The star spinner made his debut in International cricket in 2011 and has featured in 20 test matches, 107 ODIs, 38 T20Is, and aims to carry on.
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Tahir who is born in Pakistan and has played his initial cricket for the country before moving to South Africa to build a career in cricket felt strange when he is considered as an overseas player in Pakistan. He said, "It is a strange feeling that I am an overseas player for Pakistan where I was born and even played my initial cricket, but I am also thankful to South Africa that they gave me a chance to reach my dreams and prove myself in international cricket."
Tahir has played in the U-19 category for Pakistan along with some domestic games and Pakistan A matches. After being constantly overlooked by the selectors he made a shift and moved to South Africa where his career took a splendid turn.
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It's time to get that blood pumping! Zip Lining is an exciting adrenaline packed activity that the whole family will love. Listed below are the best places to zip lining in New Jersey.
The closest zip line to NYC!
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Zip-lining the way it was meant to be!
The newly redesigned zipline measures over 100 yards (longer that a traditional football field)! Children must be at least 6 years old to ride the zipline and they must weigh at least 60 pounds. For adults, the maximum weight is 250 pounds to zipline. Also try your hand at their world class aerial obstacle course that reaches over 35 feet in height! Reservations can be made only up until one day before your visit, at www.turtlebackzoo.com. Please note that you do not need to enter Turtle Back Zoo in order to enter the TreeTop Adventure Course. Please follow the directional signage in the parking lot to access the walkway to the facility.
A zipline that is longer than a football field!
Ironwood offers some pretty cool rope courses that are a fun and challenging way for groups to spend some time together. The course is great for youth groups as well as corporate team-building. The course Features a 225ft zip line, climbing tower, and flying squirrel experience. The Ironwood Outdoor Center activities, courses and ziplines are not just for younger children, nor is the for the faint of heart, it's an exciting experience that you and your guests will not soon forget. One of New Jersey's best kept outdoor activity secrets.
Zip Lining is once in a lifetime experience that both kids and adults will love. The adrenaline rush while zipping overhead is quite intense and unlike any other experience. There is sort of an unsure and somewhat unsafe feeling that makes zip lining such an intense sport. A few short years back, there were no places at all to zip line in NJ. After researching, we have fould only 3 places to date where you can zip line in New Jersey. Most ziplining is closed down during the cold winter months in New Jersey, so it is somewhat of a seasonal attraction. We hope you found our zipline information useful. Find other cool outdoor adventures in NJ.
There are also some other great places to zip line right not far from New Jersey in the nearby Pocono's. To experience the longest zip line in the immediate area, take a small trip to Camelback and dig into their Camelback Mountain Adventures. Also located in the Pocono's is the Skytop Lodge Adventure Center where you can have a go at their treetop zipline challenge course!


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St Martin of Tours Brings Christ to a Pagan World
St Martin of Tours Day is celebrated in many churches on November 11, "possibly the anniversary of his funeral" (The Spreading Flame, by F.F. Bruce, pages 350-351).
This biographer assures us that St Martin "belonged to the true evangelical succession" (ibid, page 350).
He was born in Hungary about AD 317 to pagan parents. His father was a military tribune in the Roman army and in Martin's early years he went with his father to his posting in Pavia in Italy. When Martin reached his teens he was enrolled in the Roman army becoming a cavalry officer.
Following the conversion of Constantine Christianity had been a favoured religion in the military camps and Martin was inclined toward it.
His regiment was soon sent to Amiens in Gaul and this is where "the most famous incident in his life" took place … a meeting with a half-naked beggar at the gates of the city one very cold day. Moved with compassion Martin cut his scarlet officer's cloak in two and gave the beggar half. That night he dreamed – or was it a vision? – of Christ wearing the very cloak he had given away. A voice spoke, "Martin has clothed Me with this garment."
As a result young Martin was baptised into the Christian faith, returned home to win his mother to Christ, and following his release from the army sought to study under St. Hilary, a wise and pious bishop in Gaul with an excellent reputation as a theologian was. When he learned that Hilary was in exile by the Arians he resorted to an island in the middle of the Tyrrhenian Sea. There he pursued a life of piety and self denial.
In 361, when Hilary returned to Gaul, Martin hurried to join him at Poitiers and gained permission from him to set up a solitary life in a desert region now known as Liguge. Many monks gathered around him forming a community which later became the celebrated Benedictine Abbey of Liguge.
When the Bishop of Tours died in 371 Martin was the chosen successor but he ignored all who came to invite him to the post. Finally a ruse was created to get him to the city. A nobleman called Martin to urgently visit the man's dying wife. Martin hurried to the city, unsuspecting, and was there hailed as the new Bishop.
From that post he became famous as a healer, exorcist and missionary. "He was active in winning non-Christians and travelled extensively. He believed that no-one was so depraved that he was beyond the scope of God's pardon…" (History of Christianity, by K. Lattourette, page 231).
His fame spread. He was loved by all … except some bishops! … and he continued to exercise a wide influence.
"Out from Tours as a centre he led an army of monks through the land destroying idols, pagan temples – and preaching," writes Elgin Moyer (Who Was Who In Church History).
Whilst acting as bishop he refused a throne and preferred to sit on a small wooden stool. His principles of self denial still held him. He lived in a small cell not far from Tours and other monks joined him there, creating yet another monastery.
Whilst the stories of many of the 'saints' of the early church are encrusted with legend and superstition, there is good reason to believe that Martin of Tours was a true child of God.
Following a last visit to Rome, Martin went to Candes, one of the religious centres he created in his diocese. There he was struck by the malady which ended his life. Ordering himself to be carried into the presbytery of the church, he died there in 400 (according to some authorities, more probably in 397) at the age of about 81. To the very last he displayed that exemplary spirit of humility and mortification which he had ever shown.
A church built over Martin's sarcophagus was attacked by Protestants in 1562, due to their opposition to the reverence given to a man and his relics. Then in 1793 the atheistic French Revolution saw to the total destruction of the building and the construction of a road on the site, to frustrate further veneration of the ancient saint.
Over 1000 years after Martin's death the Luther family in Germany named their little son after this remarkable monk."!
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Ralph of Coggeshall and the English Giants
Do you remember Ralph of Coggeshall? Chances are that you don't, but he plays an important role in fringe history because his Chronicon Anglicanum recorded the story of the so-called Green Children of Woolpit, the famous tale of a mysterious pair of green children who appeared in medieval Suffolk, acted strangely, and then disposed of themselves infamously (the boy by dying, and the girl by becoming sexually promiscuous). Ralph's account was translated and published by Thomas Keightley in 1850, and his account was rewritten as the story of the Green Children of Banjos and spread among twentieth century fringe historians like Brad Steiger and Charles Berlitz. I am not interested in this story today but in the one that immediately follows it in Ralph's Chronicon, composed sometime before 1227. I will quote the passage from folio 89b in full, in my own translation from the Latin:
On Giant Teeth
In the time of King Richard, on the seashore at Essex, in a village which was called Eadulphnesse, there were found two teeth of a certain giant, of such magnitude that two hundred of the teeth which men now have might be cut out of them. These teeth we saw at Coggeshall, and we handled them with plenty of admiration. A rib of this giant was also discovered in the same place, of astonishing size and breadth. There was found in the province of York, on the seashore, the head of a giant, which was capable of holding a summa (8 bushels) of grain. All of this bears witness to the truth of that which we read in the ancient histories about the bodies of the giants. And there was also seen by people known to us, in Gwalia, a young man of immense stature, whose height was five cubits, and great was the length and thickness of his fingers, but he was deprived of his strength by some chance during his adolescence. In the same province, in the same year, in a grassy plain there appeared human footprints of extraordinary length, and wherever these footprints had been pressed down, the grass remained scorched, as if by fire.
This passage is fascinating for several reasons, but I want to start with the most ridiculous. The first two sentences of this passage are well-known to fringe historians and gigantologists, but the remainder, with only the rarest of exceptions, is not. This is because in eight hundred years we can count on one hand the number of fringe historians who have ever bothered to read the original. Instead, the fame of the first two sentences rests on the chance work of more accessible authors. William Camden published those sentences in Latin his Britannia of 1586, which was translated into English several years later, and John Weever quoted the lines from the English edition of Camden in his frequently reprinted Ancient Funeral Monuments (1631). Almost all fringe historians' accounts derive from the early English translation of Camden, either directly or via Weever.
I am astounded that in eight hundred years virtually no one thought to check the original. I mean, come on—it has flaming giant footprints!
Anyway, it's also interesting that Camden exists right on the edge of the scientific revolution, and his analysis of Ralph's account sits on the cusp between credulity and doubt. For clarity, I will modernize the early spelling: "Neither do I deny but there have been men that for their huge bodies and firm strength were wondrous to behold […] Yet may we very well think that which Suetonius hath written, namely that the huge limbs of monstrous sea-creatures elsewhere, and in this kingdom also, were commonly said and taken to have been Giants' bones." (He is referring to the passage in the biography of Augustus written by Seutonius which notes that the Roman emperor displayed the bones of sea creatures as those of monsters.) Yes, Camden was one of the first writers of the modern era to believe that fossil animal bones were responsible for the discovery of "giants."
His opinion was quite influential. John Speed's Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World of 1627, while wrongly ascribing the discovery to the reign of Richard II instead of Richard I, went further than Camden and suggested that the teeth were probably those of an elephant. Speed was friends with Camden and started his geographical works under Camden's encouragement. It is certainly how he came to learn of Ralph. But it's not where he got the idea that the teeth belonged to an elephant.
Here is where things get a bit odd, or rather, interesting. Camden's Britannia was a geography of the British Isles, and the poet Michael Drayton sought to make it more interesting by rendering the geography of Britain into an epic poem. The result was the Poly-Obion, which does not concern us directly. However, the philological exposition called the "Illustrations" by the antiquarian John Selden which accompanied the Poly-Obion upon its publication in 1612 is of interest, for Selden uses the occasion of a reference to mighty men of old in "Song I" to offer a disquisition on the subject of the Nephilim, which I placed in my Fragments on Giants. The most relevant section applies to his opinion on English giants' teeth, such as those seen by Ralph:
…the eye's judgment in such like hath been, and is, subject to much imposture; mistaking bones of huge beasts for human. Claudius brought over his elephants hither, and perhaps Julius Caesar some, (for I have read that he terribly affrighted the Britons with sight of one at Cowaystakes) and so may you be deceived.
Selden, as we can see, correctly guessed that "giant" teeth and bones were the remains of elephants—as Ralph's teeth probably were—but because he lacked a concept of extinction could only ascribe elephants to the works of the Romans.
Speed, for his part, almost certainly used Selden in explicating Camden's opinion on Ralph, thus applying Selden's opinion on elephants to Camden's views on Ralph's teeth. But he wasn't the only one. Weever quoted Selden's passage immediately following his quotation from Camden in the Ancient Monuments, and this prompted later writers to mix the two up. Thus, Joseph Yelloly Watson, writing in his 1877 book of Essex sketches The Tendring Hundred in the Olden Time, did not want to admit to borrowing his knowledge of Camden from Weever and mistakenly attributes the sentence on Claudius to Camden.
And after all that, the remainder of the passage from Ralph—the giant rib and huge skull and the flaming footprints—disappeared into the vaults of history, forgotten, aside from very rare mentions in scholarly accounts.
But there was an exception: Harold T. Wilkins, our old friend, found and translated the lines for his 1958 book Strange Mysteries of Time and Space. Sadly, few fringe writers borrowed the lines from Wilkins, and none, so far as I can find, ever recognized that the flaming footprints, the giant teeth, and the Green Children were all in the same folio of the same medieval work.
The Nephilim was specifically a metaphor for the enemies of the Israelites.
We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them."
A Buddhist
This complete passage that you cite puts the allegations of Ralph of Coggeshall about green children in different light. He can be understood as a collector of all marvelous tales, decreasing the credibility of any incident that is taken from his work. Is this not a good explanation for why the longer passage that he wrote is rarely quoted?
Yes. A section before the Green Children is about a merman.
Mermen? how interesting. I wonder how popular stories of mermen were compared to tales of giants in Christian Europe. The Bible, especially in its more esoteric parts, discusses giants, but Mermen are not in that book. They are in portions of esoteric Buddhism dealing with the Perfection of Wisdom (called nagas).
Bob Jase
Ethel?
>>> The Bible, especially in its more esoteric parts, discusses giants<<<
But there's nothing esoteric about the references in to the Nephilim in the Bible. It's rather dull and straightforward.
>>>Perfection of Wisdom (called nagas)<<<
Wisdom does not add up to anything - put your own thing in the [ ]
Whatever your desired choice of belief
"[Mermen] are in portions of esoteric Buddhism dealing with the Perfection of Wisdom (called nagas)."
Um. Excuse me. What?
Do you even KNOW your mythology? Naga are largely land-dwelling beings with snakes for butts. Mermen are ocean-dwelling half-man, half-fish beings that come from GREEK mythology!
Seriously. What the HELL.
If you can't even tell that much, I have serious doubts about the perfection of your ANYTHING, much less whatever passes for wisdom.
V: Whence is your source for land-dwelling Nagas? Some Nagas are said to have guarded the World-Honoured Buddha upon the land, but that is different from their living always upon land. There is a strong Buddhist tradition about sea Nagas: see, e.g., the wikipedia article about Prajñāpāramitā ("the Perfection of (Transcendent) Wisdom" in Mahāyāna Buddhism), which says "Prajñāpāramitā terma teachings are held by some Tibetan Buddhists to have been conferred upon Nāgārjuna by the Nāgarāja "King of the Nāgas", who had been guarding them at the bottom of the sea." So if the King of Nagas dwell beneath the sea, then other Nagas also may.
In any case, Nagas and mermen are united in being scaly humanoids who live beneath the sea and possess wisdom. Mermen know about storms, while Nagas know about the Perfection of Wisdom Texts.
May these words help to drain your venom and spread truth.
V: Also, I will admit that I am imperfect. My whole life is in a wheelchair, and I am half deaf, and can type with only one finger. Scholarship is my pleasure, and being insulted is my great terror.
Adhering to some religious philosophy is no different to following a Judge Dredd comic. All this technical stuff about some religious concepts just don't add up to anything substantial or tangible. It only makes people feel better, but nothing more than that.
The above discussion between A Buddhist and V has nothing in common with scepticism. The discussion belongs to a religious forum.
A Buddhist, everything I have read about naga has them being guardians of freshwater sources at the most, not deep sea ocean dwellers. I will admit that my understanding of them has been primarily formed via Japanese Buddhism, wherein they tend to dwell in swampy areas--which are still land, not ocean. And they are always, always, ALWAYS described as being half-SNAKE, serpent, or dragon.
Mermaids, on the other hand, have a VERY specific lineage as coming from the GREEK children of Poseidon, and are very specifically described as being half-FISH.
There is absolutely no reconciling half-snake with half-fish, making your statement that naga are mermaids still blatantly ludicrous and your claims to scholarship debatable at best.
And if I seem passionate about the subject, it is because I am passionate about mythology as a whole and about understanding the diverse and varied roots of these tails and the rich traditions behind each. Trying to claim that anything remotely similar to one culture's stories is really this thing from one's own preferred culture is bad scholarship and disrespectful to both cultures.
Time Machine, go sit on a spike. Discussions of the origins of myths are precisely on topic in a discussion of a very old text about mythological stories. You're just jealous--again--that you aren't allowed to say and do whatever you want, and it's getting very old, very fast. GO AWAY if you don't like these things, instead of sitting around making yourself more and more dyspeptic.
V: I have read your new words, and confirmed them to be true. I am not a scholar of these topics, but I like reading and learning about such scholarship. The stridence of your initial criticism was very harsh, though. I made no claim to possess the Perfection of Wisdom (and am physically imperfect).
May both of our lives increase in wisdom and compassion.
David Bradbury
"Eadulphnesse" ("Aedulvesnasa" in Domesday Book; "Edulfesnesse" when granted by King Athelstan to St. Paul's Cathedral) is now simply called "The Naze", and is an excellent site for finding fossils and ancient bones:
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It's also close by Hamford Water, the setting for Arthur Ransome's novel "Secret Water"- home of the Mastodon !
"And there was also seen by people known to us, in Gwalia, a young man of immense stature, whose height was fifteen cubits, and great was the length and thickness of his fingers, but he was deprived of his strength by some chance during his adolescence."
That sounds like a case of the real form of Gigantism. I wonder how many others there are scattered through the records plundered by mysterymongers?
I have to apologize for the error! The number is FIVE cubits (7.5 feet), not fifteen, and he it certainly does sound like gigantism. I'll get the number fixed.
skathes3
As an observation, the comment regarding 'the young man of great stature' who was 'deprived of his strength' during his adolescence, suggests a form of gigantism. These individuals whose stature is extreme, suffer greatly from their growth and often have died young. One wonders at a conflation of circumstance that supported the notion of giants in this case.
E.P. Grondine
It looks to me like someone should call Adriene Mayor.
Sharon Connors link
I find this all quite fascinating ! I will have to do some reading. Ralph de Coggeshall is my Great Grandfather. My direct Coggeshall line goes all the way to my 2nd Great Grandmother Charlotte Coggeshall Anthony. My 10th GGF John Coggeshall was a founder and first President of the colony of Rhode Island.
I run and co-Admin numerous genealogy groups on Facebook. Quite busy so don't have so much time to always dig deep into my own lines.
Charles Verrastro link
Regarding the Green Children of Woolpit, I wrote a short article about them years ago that, in retrospect, merely shows my own confusion over the sources and the subsequent literary descent. Deep into my Classical Languages studies I had read at least the main source in the Rolls series. When I turned my interest to English history and antiquarian literature I couldn't reconcile the varying accounts and interpretations. Antiquarians such as Camden, Aubrey, Keightley, etc. seemed to veer off in opposite directions as to whether the children popped out of the center of the earth or dropped from heaven. When I began collecting UFO literature I found the Proto-Ancient Astronaut community seemed curiously happy with either explanation or both at once.
I was extremely pleased to read the recent essay by John Clark, Emeritus of the Museum of London, providing a detailed roadmap to the even more curious journey of the two children in the centuries between the early Medieval chroniclers and today. It showed quite clearly how partially edited texts of the original 2 chronicles spawned conflicting accounts by others quoting partial or conflated accounts.
My original article, while confuting the Hon. Algernon Herbert's suggestion they were woad dyed Picts (a bit anachronistic by the twelfth century), made the now embarrassing suggestion the town's name of Woolpit was the solution. I assumed they were dye pits for the wool industry of the town, and that the duo were orphaned children taken in by some cruel overseer to work in the dye pits (hence their stained skins and poor diet). Learning the town's original name was actually 'Wolve's Pits' (which I assume referred to either the many wolve's dens in the area or pits dug by herdsmen to trap and kill the predators on their flocks).
In any case, it takes us on an interesting journey which ultimately shows how the shoddy citations in the early UFO literature came to embrace the seemingly disparate interpretation of the children as either ETs coming from outer space or emerging from hidden enclaves deep within the Hollow Earth.
https://www.academia.edu/43911820/Curbing_horsepower_the_archaeology_of_curb_bits_in_medieval_England_and_elsewhere?email_work_card=view-paper


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Can someone show me how I can replace the list of URLs from the function with the ones from JSON object?
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One of my favorite Korean dishes!
You guys know I am a big fan of Korean foods.
But seriously, this is super easy to make.
But worth to try~ the sauce is a bit spicy but full of veggie flavors.
If you like Korean food, you must like this dish too.
1. Finely cut Carrot and Cabbage into long strips.
2. In a pot, add 2 bowl of water(500ml) and consommé powder. (You can substitute it with salt).
3. Add Red Pepper Paste and sugar into the broth, mix well.
4. Bring it to boil and cook it for 10 minutes with medium heat.
5. When the sauce become thicken, add the vegetables.
6. You can also add any food like fish cake.
7. Cook it for 5 minutes or until all cooked.
8. When the sauce become this thickness, it is done.


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Shanghai (Gasgoo)- AIWAYS, one of Chinese internet-based EV startup, recently revealed the designing image of its first pure electric roadster. The new model, mainly designed by Roland Gurnpert, father of Audi quattro as well as founder and CEO of Gumpert, will be unveiled at the 2018 Beijing Motor Show.
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A Book! Movie!! Review by Dan Stumpf: LUKE SHORT – Ambush / Film (1950).
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REVIEWED BY DAN STUMPF:
LUKE SHORT – Ambush. Houghton Mifflin, hardcover, 1949. Bantam #853, paperback, December 1950. Many other reprint paperback editions.
AMBUSH. MGM, 1950. Robert Taylor, Arlene Dahl, John Hodiak, Don Taylor, John McIntire, Jean Hagen, Leon Ames, Chief Thundercloud and Charles Stevens. Screenplay by Marguerite Roberts, from the novel by Luke Short. Directed by Sam Wood.
Reading Luke Short's Ambush, it's easy to see why so many of his books were translated into noir Westerns: The terse, tough dialogue; fast, bloody action, and most of all Short's view of the World as nasty, brutish and vast. Short's heroes seem to be shaped by the terrain they travel, from snow-bound mining camps, to wide open cattle ranges and harsh deserts, pitiless as Chandler's Mean Streets. Thus they beget films like Ramrod, Station West, Blood on the Moon … and Ambush.
As the novel opens, ex-army scout Ward Kinsman has been mining gold for months in Apache country, keeping his presence a secret until old friend and fellow-scout Frank Holly noses him out and brings the Apaches down on them both. We get a long, tense scene of the two men making their way down an escarpment in the dark to escape, then back up again to throw their pursuers off the trail. Finally they reach the Army outpost whence Holly was sent to summon him, he's asked to scout for an expedition to find a war chief known as Diabolito and rescue a captive from him — a mission he flatly refuses, in the tradition of hard-boiled heroes everywhere.
Of course, Kinsman does eventually take on the job, and while he's working his way around to it, we get background on the soldiers and soldiers' wives who make their homes at the outpost, and the little dramas that fill their lives. This could have been a dull stretch, but Short keeps it moving with clever dialogue ("What comes after a Billion?" "I don't know. Fifteen, I think.") and bursts of action.
Best of all, when the expedition gets underway the action is plentiful and shaped by the relationships we watched simmering back at the fort. Short has a gift for letting the rough-hewn characters shape their own ends, and best of all he knows how to keep it exciting.
Screenwriter Marguerite Roberts and director Sam Wood were smart enough to stick close to the book when they filmed this, and they do a fairly good job of getting through the personal drama quickly and on to the injun fightin'. Robert Taylor uses his type-cast sharpness to good effect; his piercing glance seems to take in each rabbit and lizard scuttling across the rocky terrain and file it away for future use. John McIntire, made up to look like Buffalo Bill, is fine as Frank Holly, and Jean Hagen puts in a quietly moving performance as a battered wife that steals the show from ostensible leading lady Arlene Dahl.
There's also some movie shorthand here that works well: In the book, Luke short limns the characters of Diabolito, crazed war chief, and Tana, a warrior who has switched sides (or has he?) to scout for the Army. The movie doesn't have time to do this, so director Wood simply uses actors Charles Stevens (who made a career of crazy Indians) and Chief Thundercloud, whose inexpressive face seems to hint at all sorts of possibilities.
There are a couple of awkward spots where the screenplay departs from the book and Roberts patches it over with awkward dialogue, but Ambush brings off a memorable finale, as the Cavalry rushes to catch up with fleeing foes… and we suddenly see they are charging into the canyon where the film opened – with an ambush.
Nice touch, that.
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As I've mentioned before as much as I love cake I do try and balance it with clean eating. Last week, more as an experiment than anything else, I tried to have a wheat free, diary free, sugar free week (Mon to Fri).
I started the day with an egg white 'omelette'. The only reason it was egg white was because I had so many left over from making pasteis de nata. It wasn't a true omelette as I much prefer egg poached to fried so I tried poaching the egg white. I had it with tomatoes and mushrooms which I fried in a little rapeseed oil, added a bit of thyme, a splash of red wine vinegar and some seasoning.
For a morning snack I had some roasted mixed nuts and seeds.
For lunch I had a fab veggie salad. I started by 'roasting' some peppers. I did this by charring them directly onto the gas. Remove the metal pan stand, turn the gas on and rest the pepper against the flame. Keep a careful eye on it and turn it every so often until it the skin is blistered and black in places. Put them into a bowl and cover tightly with cling film. This will help the skin come off. Leave them for about 10mins and then peel them. This is easiest under running water. Chop into chunks.
My afternoon snack was coconut yoghurt also from @wfm_kensington which is dairy free and would make a fantastic ice cream.
For dinner I had chicken which I marinated in oil, mint, chilli, ginger, lime zest and line juice. I pan fried it and then whilst it was resting I quickly fried off some rice noodles that I had pre-soaked in water. This is a trick I learnt in Thailand which means there is no news to boil them. In a separate pan I fried some broccoli and finished it with soy sauce and a little sesame oil.
For dessert I made a chia pudding. Chia seeds originate from Mexico and are great as they can soak up ~10 times their weight in liquid. This means they are fab for thickening and can be used in smoothies as well.
I put about 2 dessertspoons of chia seeds in a blender with 1 dessertspoons of cacoa nibs. I added a teaspoon of vanilla extract, a handful of raw porridge oats, a handful of mixed roaste nuts and about a cup of almond milk. I blended it until it was quite smooth and poured it into a bowl and chilled it until it thickened slightly. Now I wouldn't serve it at a dinner party but considering it is a pudding with no sugar in it was really quite tasty!


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SOAPBOX VIEW 2012 - 2022
The Great Hall Film
CONTENTS: Essays
Charles M. Fraser
The 2020 Essay Witch Hunts' Relevance
For the American Literary Historical Society
39 East 68th Street Reading
Witch Hunts' Relevance
Confabulation sounds accurate, considering our present era's relationship with the term, "Witch Hunt." Except confabulation's definition - the replacement of a gap in a person's memory by a falsification that he or she believes to be true - might not exactly fit. Because filling in memory with what one believes to be true, at the very least, implies honest mistakenness. The discrepancy being America's public forum has long been primed, as in cultivated, as a means of obfuscation rather than confrontations with embellishment and inaccuracy.
Whereas obfuscation - the action of making something obscure, unclear, or unintelligible - was how our president used "witch hunt" as a tool to both fray and skew perceptions. Handling imagery so that whatever flies. There was even a Sean Hannity Show episode, years back, featuring Republican polling strategist Frank Lundtz, demonstrating, before a studio audience, how the truth doesn't matter when numbers show the public believes otherwise. Well? Polls are for guaging what people understand, however encircled by the narrowest of explanations.
Defining current political posturing as witch hunt-ian is an exacerbation of soundbittenly neglected due, diligent, circumspection. Framing and stigmatizing Americans' public opinions shouldn't be the cornerstone of Publicity Relations. Where, despite fervent polishing, loyalty's tarnished by an above the law manner abusing patriotism's role of common cause. In fact, scapegoatinging discordance as "the liberals fault" is a narrow-castingly broad stroke. But all in good sport when winning's everything. Cult of Personality.
After all History's Cold Cases are never, ever, really retried. When what's gotten away with has to be rendered virtually legitimate, for countries, to, even halfway, face themselves? For instance Indigenous Americans' Commercial Gambling is just bandaging something broken that never set. "But they," no, but they had their land taken. The rich beautiful America couldn't be shared with savages. Sit on that a while. Having President Jackson's war with indigenous American landholders equated with almost outright righteousness, result's from arrogance rules. Immorally superseding God's legitimate desire to forgive. No? Yes, if all participation is nothing but going along, to get along, conformity. As if adhering to a Politburo's rubber stamp? Scary? ("I don't think Science knows.") Another facet of witch hunt's meaning is persecution without impartial judgement. Impartiality doesn't disregard objectivity.
The packaged personality has been with us so long, generations lose the ability to distinguish between levels of complete to dubious sincerity. Public perspective, encased by indifferent celebrity, is smoothed over such that to the consumptive public, "perfect" only requires a portrayal. Shelving suspicion as not just labelled perspective, but honest doubt or wonder as mere matters of taste. Unworthy of being thought through.
When what's meant can't be considerately perceived as denial, the very ideal of perception can be ridiculed as contrary to patriotic loyalty. Becoming not just a populace trapped inside Plato's, narrow minded, Cave, but consumed by the sport, and arrogance, team politics represents. The accusation of fake, only, if ever, quantified through sound bites that wear down all explanation into likewise frivolity. Popularizing the concept people think comprehensively without the benefit of exercising their minds through reading or, perhaps even, listening over the perpetual mental hum. Instead mesmerized by the imagery of concentrated concern. Substantiation undermined by "style." As per the first Presidential Debate when Fox News' close-ups covered our president's fed up angry look whenever he took a break from interrupting.
The first Tuesday following the November 2016 American Presidential Election, I recorded myself reading from my competent parody of The Cold War novel. The business of literature having, so far, missed fathoming the necessity for crossing this particular misunderstood cultural barrier. Exploitation trumping ambition, so to speak. Because, for one possible reason, or excuse, against sound advice, I wouldn't change the novel's title The Hammer and Cycle Messenger Service. Because people aren't expected to discern that the title, as sound bite, is anti-totalitarianism. Because despite contrary claims that the present matters most, history's now within the second. And trying to provide real insight is what history's all about. Political polemics aren't novels and The Hammer and Cycle ... isn't a polemic. Though one theme advances the concept fully functioning capitalism is socialist. What Republicans claim but semantically differ with. While what's gotten away from the mass of ideologically bound, exploited narrowness, is knowing that the schism, separating the points of view, block everyone's heads from getting around economics' evolution. Ideology's stuck in a time warp believing in kings when there should be none.
So I filmed myself reading that second Tuesday night of November 2016. Beside the front doorstep of the decades deceased pre-Presidential legal councillor for the newly elected Chief Executive of our United States. Roy Cohn. Was my choice to read there due to their alliance in the Trump family's avoiding facing repercussions for blocking African-Americans from living in their New York City buildings? Something like that is a personal concern. The home I was raised in became an African-American funeral home the year, the consistently re-elected, racist, Lake County, Florida Sheriff Willis V. McCall was finally removed from office. His home a block-and-a-half from mine.
No. A primary reason for reading there can be summed up by an overwhelming thought I had, as I rode, the wrong way, away from Mr. Cohn's 39 East 68th Street home. Underneath the police surveillance cameras, at Madison Avenue, wondering whether, no matter how obscure, it'd look bad if our new president became more independently discerning as people want to believe our presidents grow? While thought of fear of my being stigmatized, as against what's patriotically decent, was replaced with remembering presidents facing the future facing the past is a good reason for being there. Whether a confabulation, or not, I most certainly deny.
When healing an aggravation, understanding soothes. This essay, Witch Hunts' Relevance, was conceived while rereading Naming Names by The Nation's Publisher Emeritus, Victor S. Navasky. An overview of the mid-20th Century's black-listings Witch Hunt. Including a fair explanation why everyone, then, were victims. An un-rectified result loudly passed down the generations, through us even now, as we speak. As they say.
Can humanity surpass our squabbling rival nature? Ever agree on anything other than celebrating celebrities is leadership? Anything's possible, and eventually something's faced, whether, or not, it's ourselves. But certainly a president, if they so chose, can narcissistically equate their victimhood with those of the "Spanish Inquisition," as composer David Raksin described his endured experience with The Witch Hunt on page 251?
Wondering how much forty year old "Witch Hunt" material, relevantly, applies today? Who wouldn't be most comfortable doubting everyone?
On page 311, Navasky, (my phrasing), refers to the steerers of public rectitude, including Nixon and McCarthy, as having - in common political opportunism and a demagogic capacity to exploit nativism and know-nothing passions. With 319 pointing out - the practical consequences of the naming ritual's real significance was symbolic. Naming names intelligence agencies already had. Our president's victimization claim relates? That is the point. The correlations are vagaries allowing charlatanism to slip between history's pages for a time?
Page 322 Navasky continued, explaining - The degradation ceremonies satisfied the needs of the mass media, which were neither capable, or interested in, exposing the ways in which the ritual distorted truth when it lent itself so elegantly to reproduction on radio and television. Exploiting the peculiar vulnerability of mass media through pseudo-event, coined by Daniel J. Boorstin, at the time Librarian of Congress, distinguished historian and namer of five former Harvard colleagues. Navasky describes the pressures people underwent in giving up their right to free speech. Page 356 notes - Some ex-party members felt ambivalent about the suffering inflicted on their families as a result of activity in a party whose program turned out to be so flawed. Facing down aberrant socialism is Mr. President's creed. Such a billboard you've made of yourself. An apparently happy corporate welfare recipient? Shrewd, you admitted in other words, and mercurial. Nothing's stuck to Teflon Don but the mirror.
Page 422/23 cites George Orwell's coining forged history. While Stalin's apologists were the excuse to institutionalize blacklisting that, analyzed, was so commercial, an enterprise, that vacating idealism for a fear riddled public was convenient. Tragically, as is the case, but not a law, the precedent was set, from our country's start, that the position of president should be one of character. Except when an office overrun by characters assumes the mask.
A witch hunt, historically, are frivolous accusations lashed out from public forum's podiums. Twitter's a platform. Circling the troops in defense of authority rather than authority looking out for ALL THE TROOPS is not the purpose for which America's defense was founded. Autobiographical protectionism in the guise of defendable history is mystification, the enemy of enlightenment, as page 426 highlights - the dynamic of victimization and scapegoating across history. Stating on 427 - We have seen what happens when the citizen delegates conscience to the state. Deep state, shallow state, political state. Insiders claiming to be out has proven the same conspiratorial difference.
So, why not conclude thus? That the brand of obfuscation our president expresses, and represents, through irreverence and hostility, is his style. And not a mere so what. Yet, as page 311, of noted socialist Irving Howe's autobiography, A MARGIN OF HOPE, figured, about that earlier political era - each triumph of publicity chipped away at the slender remains of good sense. So, as accused, all mass media's guilty of our incapacitation? Though Shakespeare, long ago, noted, "the fault's within ourselves."
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No Respite From Molded Public Opinion Game
1995 Vitriolic Email from Provocative Mega-Celebrity ____ _______, co-starring TRAYVON MARTIN Noting here earlier that pity ...
Museum Of Natural History's Grand Re-Opening Of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial
Political Celebrity You Can Trust? For presidents, the Museum of Natural History carefully shows, President Theodore Roosevelt s...
Editorialist Weighs Value Of Open Secrecy
MURPHY BROWN Essay Series, starting with BILL KELLER's The Leak Police Sunday's online The New York Times edition ran editor...
ADVISING GOOD CAUSE NONPROFITS SINCE 1981
WAS REVOLUTION ALWAYS COMMERCIAL?
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Dawn of the Automat Age
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FORGETTING HISTORY'S THE WORST MEANS
THEN IF REVOLUTION WASN'T ALWAYS COMMERCIAL, WHY HAS PROSPERITY BEEN LINKED TO SOCIAL PROGRESS?
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Onebox HD App is Crashing on my LG Smart TV, Can I Fix it?
I heard that the onebox hd app will help me stream content to my tv and that can replace any paid services such as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, etc.
I have tried installing it from the official website http://oneboxhdapp.org/ but it's getting crashed whenever I update it to the latest version and I am not able to play the movies on my LG Smart TV. Any Expert views on this? Need urgent help and thanks in advance.
It looks like you are trying to install an Android APK on webOS, which will not work as the two OSs are completely different beasts.
Oh, thank you, sir, Is there any alternative method to do that?
The easiest way would be for OneBox to produce an app for webOS, otherwise no you are not going to get the service.
Oh, Ok sir, Thank you for your time and support.
There is still no native webOS app for Terrarium TV to the best of my knowledge.


Living in Cité Soleil, the largest haitian slum, is in itself a stigma, hindering access to social services and humanitarian aid. Repression and the increasing presence of armed gangs imposed a culture of silence. Violence became normality, particularly against women. Their survival strategies can be summarized by kalkile, calculate, pervading the individual and social body. When confronted with inequity in health, choices may turn into acts of resistance.
Still, women continue to organize collectively. Some counteract their despair with works of art, reproducing the beauty of what in their memory remains "the pearl of the Antilles": Haiti.
Dugas S. 2006, Haïti pourra-telle renaître de ces cendres?, «La Chronique des Amériques», 11, Observatoire des Amériques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), http://risal.collectifs.net/spip.php?page=imprimer &id_article=1657.
Kovats-Bernat J.C. 2006, Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince. An Ethnography of street children & violence in Haiti, Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
UNDP 2000, Gender-Related Development Index, «Human Development Report 2000», New York: Oxford University Press. http://www.undp.org /hdr2000/english/ book/bac2.pdf,2000.


Richard Lamont Pope, a long-time resident of Chicago, Illinois; native of Bear Lake, Utah; retired editor at Encyclopedia Britannica; and former English professor at Brigham Young University ( BYU ) and Wayne State University ( WSU ); passed away peacefully May 28. He was 85.
Pope was preceded in death by partner of 52 years, Richard Weisenseel, and was the loving father of Alan Lamont Pope; grandfather of Ashley Collette Pope; brother of Mardell Ray ( the late Wanda ), Stephen Dee ( Caroline ), and the late Laurel Jay ( Sharon ) Pope; son of the late Lamont and Fern Pope; and uncle, cousin, and friend of many.
He completed B.S. and M.S. degrees at BYU; fellowships at University of Chicago and WSU; Ph.D. course work at WSU. He taught English, composition, creative writing, literature and journalism at City University of New York ( Baruch College of Business ) and modern poetry at Donnell Library, New York City; guest-lectured at Northwestern University, Illinois; trained teachers at BYU laboratory schools; audited accreditation standards quality at University of London; and published articles in several British and U.S. magazines and newspapers.
He will be remembered as an educator, researcher, author and poet; creator and producer of countless articles and books; winner of prestigious writing competitions; a voracious reader known for his article "clipping service" personalized for friends and family members; avid supporter of the visual and performing arts; collector of books and artwork, world traveler, lover of nature and children. He was an expert on Mormon history and theology; served a mission in London, England; and, at age 20, he became the youngest editor of Millennial Star, the church's longest continuously published periodical.
Pope was particularly supportive of Chicago's Newberry Library, Gilda's Club and Howard Brown Health Center; Sierra Club and Audubon Society.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his name to Gilda's Club: www.gildasclubchicago.org, 312-464-9900.
Arrangements by Cremation Society of Illinois, 773-281-5058 or www.cremation-society.com .


I always say that ANYONE can sew, and that goes for kids, too. This is why I love Sew a Softie, the wonderful recurring event created by Trixi from Coloured Buttons. My children and I participated in Sew a Softie last summer with a pattern and tutorial for a stuffed bone for plush puppies. And this month we're participating with a hand sewn plush heart pillow with a pocket for love notes!
Let me tell you a bit about why this February version of Sew a Softie is so special. Trixi has teamed up with the Children's Museum of the Arts in New York for a month-long Global Kids Sewing Party. The theme of the event, "kindness and caring," is perfect for the month with Valentine's Day, and participants are asked to have local sewing parties to sew a soft hand-sewn item to give to a loved one or member of the community to show kindness and caring. Isn't that just the nicest theme possible?!
And that's why my hand sewn plush heart pillow pattern and tutorial is a perfect project for this round of Sew a Softie! The design is easy enough for children to sew by hand (or you can sew it by machine, as I did with the sequin pillow above), the heart shape is great for Valentine's Day, and the incorporated pocket holds thoughtful messages to express how much you care about the person you are giving it to!
Wouldn't receiving a love note like this one just make your day?!
Are you ready to make your own hand sewn plush heart pillow with a pocket? Let's get started!
Fabric. I recommend that children or beginners who are hand sewing use fleece or felt, which don't fray and are easy to cut and sew. I used a stretchy velour and faux-sequin fabric in my machine-sewed version.
Fabric shears. I loooove these Fiskars tabletop scissors* because they make it easy to cut around patterns.
Pins. We used these Dritz ballpoint pins* that protect stretchy fabric.
Embroidery floss. My daughter used 3 strands of DMC 666 embroidery floss*, but use whatever color matches your fabric best.
Hand needle. We used a Pebbles embroidery needle*.
Stuffing. This was the first project I stuffed with memory foam stuffing*, which makes for a super squishy pillow.
If you are making your pillow with a sewing machine, you will need matching thread and a machine sewing needle, as well as a hand needle.
2. Cut out the pattern pieces, then use them to cut out the fabric. You need one pocket piece and two pillow pieces for each pillow.
As I mentioned before, this project can be sewn by hand or by machine. Let me start with the easier version for beginners.
3. Thread the needle with 3 strands of embroidery floss (or more, if you prefer the more chunky look).
4. Fold the flat edge of the pocket piece 1 cm (3/8″) towards the wrong side and sew across it with a running stitch.
Make sure that you sew through all three layers of fabric when working through the bottom part of the pillow with the pocket.
I suggest leaving a decently large opening to make stuffing the pillow easier.
And you're done! The only thing left to do is to decide who to give your hand sewn plush heart pillow to and write him or her a little note expressing how much you care!
I love the message that Sofia wrote in hers!
I decided to use some fancier fabrics left over from my Sea Snuggler Mermaid Tail Blankets, however they fray, so I couldn't leave the edges exposed. So I decided to use my sewing machine and keep all edges inside the pillow. Here's how.
Prepare the pieces as with the hand-sewn version and sew the top of the pocket by machine.
See? Wasn't that easy? This method leaves very finished edges and is only slightly more complicated than the hand-sewn version.
But either the hand sewn plush heart pillow or the machine sewn one is perfect for giving to someone you care about! Especially when you put a heartfelt message inside!
If you want to share the love of sewing with a child while celebrating kindness, head on over to the Sew a Softie Facebook page for more information, or join the Global Kids Sewing Party Facebook event to share your projects! Tag any photos you share on social media with the hashtags #sewasoftie and #CMACIVICKIDS as all photos will be featured in the Museum's online exhibition and on the Sew a Softie Instagram page.
If you love creating with children, make sure you check out all the posts in my "Crafts with Kids" section! There are lots of wonderful ideas for bring out the best of your child's imagination in many creative ways!
Don't forget to sign up for the Cucicucicoo Newsletter here for access to tons of free creative supplies, including this hand sewn plush heart pillow pattern! The Newsletter is sent out every other week with lots of great ideas and links to a different free sewing pattern every week!
And, of course, make sure you click here to save this fun kid-friendly sewing tutorial on Pinterest!
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It's for these reasons that the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts has created the Arts Visibility Project. Nine major projects are planned in hopes of promoting the arts at SDSU. The goals of the project are to increase awareness of art events and opportunities, increase student attendance and expand art events and practices in the curriculum at SDSU.
"The idea—the goal—is to bring art to the whole campus, to make an art-infused campus and to expose students to art and give them opportunities to be involved with the arts more," Couttolenc said.
The first project is the Performing Arts Plaza bench designs, in which students have painted their own designs on the benches by the Performing Arts buildings. A task force within PSFA, in which Couttolenc is a part of, came up with the idea and assigned her as head of the project.
Couttolenc teaches graphic design and a class on environmental graphic design. One of the class projects involves designing a signage system that directs those on campus to the School of Art and Design. It's a hypothetical project, but the arts visibility bench project is turning those ideas and concepts into reality.
The designs for the benches were a class project. However, the competition was open to any students of art and design. There were 26 design submissions and a panel of judges narrowed the choices down to 19 for the benches in the Performing Arts Plaza. Many of the submissions chosen were designed by students enrolled in Art 454 and majoring in graphic design.
Photo by Kristian Carreon, staff photographer.


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Dr José Ramos-Horta address and book launch at Victoria University
Former President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, Dr José Ramos-Horta hopes to encourage dialogue about the UN in a Turbulent World when he addresses Victoria University staff and students at an event on Wednesday, 25 July 2018.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner (1996) will also launch his latest book Words of Hope in a Troubled Time: Selected Writings 1992-2017. Currently Dr Ramos-Horta is reviewing United Nations peace-keeping operations in his role as Chair of the recently established United Nations High Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations.
On his recent visit to Berlin to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Dr Ramos-Horta said:
"Looking in from the periphery, I cannot but admire this great but reluctant European Leader, Angela Merkel. From the Eurozone crisis to the humanitarian catastrophe at the gates of Europe, when other great powers baulked, Merkel did not betray Europe's most cherished values, took enormous political risks for which she is paying a price, but saved Europe from a potentially profound moral crisis."
In Words of Hope, Dr Ramos-Horta says the 21st Century offers an opportunity to coalesce common global interests – to reverse the nefarious consequences of climate change, manage clean water reserves that are becoming a rare commodity, eliminate extreme poverty and hunger, and de-escalate tensions on the Korean Peninsula and South China Sea, and between India and Pakistan, India and China.
"If we were to spend less on armament, we would be able to spend more on education, health and food security for all."
Victoria University has had a longstanding relationship with Timor-Leste spanning more than three decades. Nearly 180 Timorese students have studied in VU's Higher Education or VU Polytechnic courses. In 2009 Dr Ramos-Horta was awarded an Honorary Degree by Victoria University, in recognition of his outstanding commitment to the defence of human rights and for his contribution to establishing the independence of Timor-Leste.
Dr Ramos-Horta has limited availability for interview.
To arrange media contact:
Frances Atkinson, [email protected], 0435 960 793 or 03 9919 4061.
Media are invited to attend and film the lecture, RSVP essential to [email protected]
Address moderated by David Manne: Wednesday 25 July 2018, 4.45pm – 5.45pm
Book launch and signing: Wednesday 25 July 2018, 5.45pm – 6.30pm.
Where: Victoria University City Campus, Level 12, 300 Flinders Street, Melbourne.