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International Mentoring Workshop in Science and Engineering for Women Held in Tokyo
Noriyuki Ishii
On August 8 and 9, the "Joshikai II for Future Scientists: International Mentoring Workshop in Science and Engineering" was held in Tokyo at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation ("Miraikan" in Japanese). Altogether, some fifty-one female students participated from three junior high and nine senior high schools in Japan, conducting experiments and engaging in discussions with women mentors from overseas.
As women around the world are being encouraged to enter the STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields, it has become conspicuous that fewer women are doing so in Japan than elsewhere. Recognizing the untapped potential of women, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), together with the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), co-sponsored and staged Joshikai II for the purpose of encouraging female junior and senior high school students in this country who might be interested in science or engineering to have confidence in their choices and to pursue their dreams, doing so by showing them successful examples. For this second Joshikai, junior high school students were included for the first time. A session was also added for parents and teachers.
JAEA President Toshio Kodama told the attendees, "It is increasingly recognized that the equal participation by men and women throughout society is important. It is also equally important that women play a greater role in the sciences. I have heard that, in the year since the last Joshikai, the attitudes of the senior high school students participating then have changed remarkably, thanks to their interactions with women mentors active in Japan and overseas." He then expressed his hope that junior high school students—a new target this year—would also broaden their outlook as a result.
NEA Director-General William D. Magwood IV
"Women bring new viewpoints," said the next speaker, NEA Director-General William D. Magwood IV, adding that he expected them to participate more in the nuclear industry. He told the students that their seniors and mentors who were active in the sciences had gathered there to support them as they chased their dreams and pursued their careers with confidence. He urged them to make Joshikai II a personal opportunity.
Two guest speakers, Yuhei Yamashita, Japan's parliamentary vice minister of the Cabinet Office responsible for gender equality, and Hideki Niizuma, Japan's parliamentary vice minister of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), then spoke about the reasons why so few women in Japan are working in the areas of science and engineering. They said that women in this country have found it difficult so far to be successful simultaneously in both work and family life, including raising children and caring for elderly parents. Meanwhile, efforts to enlighten women students about careers in science and engineering have generally been lacking.
Under such circumstances, both parliamentary vice ministers referred to the importance for everyone—women, men, the young, the experienced, and people from diverse backgrounds—to be engaged in all areas of study and research if Japan is to remain a top runner in the areas of science and engineering. Both speakers, saying that the government wished for a society to be realized in which women do not have to abandon their dreams, encouraged the participants to consider nuclear or other science and engineering fields.
The keynote lecture was delivered by Associate Professor Ayumi Asai, of the astronomical observatory department of the Graduate School of Science at Kyoto University, who spoke on the theme, "The Way to the Sun and to Space." Born in Kyoto and a devotee of kendo (a traditional Japanese martial art which descended from swordsmanship), Asai also loved physics, chemistry and mathematics when she was in junior high school. A scientist by nature, she decided to major in solar physics, her current professional field, after entering Kyoto University, where she now teaches. Although her study and research bore fruit, she said that she has scarcely spent time with her family, even after marriage.
The students listened enthusiastically as Dr. Asai then explained how solar flares—ejections of mass from the sun—affect our solar system, including all of us living on Earth. She then encouraged the attendees by saying that there were many options in life, and that they should be confident and choose their truly desired path.
Professor Cait MacPhee from the department of biological physics at the School of Physics and Astronomy in the University of Edinburgh
Next to speak was Professor Cait MacPhee from the department of biological physics at the School of Physics and Astronomy in the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Born in Australia, she talked about career selection based on her own experiences. Concentrating on the study of protein structure and function, she is currently working on explicating the onset mechanisms of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Despite her brilliant biophysics career, however, she did not pursue science initially. She first majored in music, wanting to become a clarinet player. Eventually concluding that that was not for her, she gave in to her own deeper curiosity and selected another way.
Once in science, Dr. MacPhee shifted from biology to physics, which appealed more to her sense of precision. Married and with two children, she told the students that as many as sixty-eight percent of all women physicists end up marrying physicists, including herself. When husband and wife are both scholars, she went on, it is normally difficult for both to find jobs at the same place, particularly for the woman. For the two years before getting married, she and her husband lived separately in Edinburgh and Cambridge, respectively, and had to visit each other back and forth. Later, when she was pregnant, they settled in Edinburgh, where she could continue her work, with her husband sharing in the household matters.
According to Dr. MacPhee—who changed her specialty from music to biochemistry to physics—careers are not "straight" like the moving walkways at airports. Not being sure of what you want to do is not the real problem, she said. What is important is that you make the choice yourself and have confidence.
The opening ceremony closed with a video message from Hélène Langevin-Joliot, granddaughter of Marie and Pierre Curie. Her parents, too, were both scientists, and her path was naturally into science as well. During her junior high school years, however, France was under German occupation, with Nazi education prescribing a limited role for women: church, kitchen, children. Langevin-Joliot rejected that thinking, saying that women should work as men do. But she was told by her mother that women had to try harder to gain confidence in order to enhance their presence. Things sometimes go better by using women, she added.
Today, when women do not necessarily find it easy to be successful, Dr. Langevin-Joliot said that most Japanese women consider it important to succeed both in family life and their careers. "It would not be a good outcome if one was denied the freedom to have a family, an important part of one's life," she said. "While some men obviously don't want their wives to have careers, it is important not to leave it as just the 'wife's issue.' Both husband and wife must face existing problem together." For that to happen, she said, the support of society is required.
In the afternoon of the first day, hands-on activities were organized using scientific equipment, with panel discussions held featuring women scientists from overseas.
On the second day, August 9, workshops were staged for the students. The fifty-one junior-high and high school participants, who were divided into six groups, took part in spirited discussions on their own futures, then gave presentations to report their results (photo). One of the invited women scientists or scholars was assigned as a mentor to each group, supporting the discussions.
The students chose one of two themes: either "my future at the age of 22" or "my future at the age of 32." Each then talked about the career she had "chosen," describing her predicted life at that point. Many of them said that they wanted to become doctors, scientists, pharmacists, and so forth, in order to help society. One of the girls said that she wanted to study criminalistics and work to solve crimes.
In the reporting session, one group reported that although some members, when first thinking about their lives at 32, were initially concerned about trying to have a family and a successful career at the same time, they also realized, with the help of the mentor, the importance of enjoying life positively and being confident in their own thinking.
Another group summarized its conclusions by saying that when someone confronts a difficulty, there is more than one way, and that it was always necessary to take steps toward the next goal. That group also concluded that to be successful at work, people must strive to improve their ability to communicate and make use of knowledge and information from overseas, but that ties with others are the most important.
The six Joshikai II mentors also commented on their experiences with the groups, with one saying, "I was amazed at how specifically and deeply the students were all thinking about their own future." Another added, "I told them not to be frightened by the thought of chasing a dream, and that others around them would support them." A third mentor said, "Although there are structural and societal problems, such as the work-life balance, I want women to break away from the stereotypical thinking within their homes that wives must be responsible for household matters."
In the final wrap-up comments by the co-chairs, Kayo Inaba, executive vice-president for gender equality, international affairs, and public relations at Kyoto University, told the students that, given their current awareness of the work-life balance issue, "it is important to decide by yourself first, then to talk with your parents and others around you, and to find a role model near to you. Also, there is always more than one way. When the road you are on hits reaches a dead end, find another."
University of Edinburgh Professor Cait MacPhee said, "I want you to enjoy yourselves and proceed with imagination. Instead of thinking that 'this is the only way,' I want you to pick the way that you think best. When you are 32, the world will be different, due to such things as climate change and energy issues. Science and technology are the basis for adapting and advancing. I want you to choose the way that is most suitable for you."
At the closing ceremony, NEA DG Magwood looked back on his own life, saying that when he was a teenager, he had originally wanted to be a bird specialist, but changed his mind a year later, wanting to be a fusion or semiconductor physicist instead. He even once thought of becoming a writer. He asked the students, "What makes you happy? Where can you be of help?" Magwood went on to say that some people wind up at the end of their lives never noticing their own talent, and that he wanted each of the attendees to "walk forward with faith in yourselves."
In her closing comments, JAEA Executive Director Sonoko Watanabe emphasized resilience, telling the students that "in a severe environment, it is important to be able to take a hit and bounce back." She went on to say, "I hope that this workshop has given all of you hints for the future. It is important to live well and flexibly—without hesitation—and to ask others for help and maintain your dreams." She ended with a quotation from Peter Drucker, described as the father of modern management, saying, "The best way to predict the future is to create it."
After the workshop ended, individual students voiced their thoughts on their experiences. Asked whether anything had changed because of the workshop, one of the girls answered, "After hearing about the eventful lives of the mentors, I have come to appreciate my own passions and interests more." Asked whether women have certain biases themselves, one of the participants said, "Society should place higher value on taking care of children and doing household chores," while another said, "I want to appreciate being a woman more, particularly because Japanese society is now moving toward increasing our participation."
Based on statistics from international organizations and the like, Japanese women still participate in the workforce at lower rates than do women from other industrially advanced nations. Given that, and with the national government working to improve the situation, the workshop was a challenging event, aiming as it did to increase women's opportunities to work in scientific fields a couple decades from now, along with other diverse effects.
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Together for Human Rights
Joint Declaration
Political Pledge
Geneva, 24 February 2020
New York, 26 September 2019
Speech by the High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini
Statement by the High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet
Remarks by António Guterres
Remarks by Michelle Bachelet
Remarks by Federica Mogherini
Remarks by EUSR for Human Rights Stavros Lambrinidis
Once upon a time… Well, to be honest it was early 2018.
Abella and Xander, living in one of the largest cities of a European Union country. They were pretty excited about having their first child. They did not think twice about who would take on the caring roles of their first baby.
Abella took maternity leave when the baby Oliver was born. Due to complications during the pregnancy, Xander had already taken all of his paid holidays and could not be present at Oliver's birth. Abella's maternity leave of three months was followed by her seven months of parental leave. These seven months actually included the three months of Xander's leave which is transferable to Abella. Xander was entitled to one more month of parental leave, but since there is no minimum remuneration for parental leave at that time, the little family simply could not afford Xander taking the remaining non-transferable month of parental leave by himself. Although Abella was missing her financial independence, working part-time also allowed her to drive and support Xander's elderly mother at her monthly doctor's appointments.
One year later, Abella was finally offered her former full-time position. Having invested so much effort, she is afraid of losing her laboriously recuperated position by thinking of a second child. Xander is afraid that he will again miss his child's crawling for the first time and will only see him or her asleep during the week. In April the same year (2019) the European Union passed the Work-Life Balance Directive, which would have a huge impact on their small family.
Fast-forward to 2022, the EU's Work Life Balance Directive has brought positive changes across Europe. The rights available to fathers and mothers have significantly improved. They decide to give Oliver a little sibling. In December 2022, Abella and Xander are over the moon: Mia is born. Thanks to the EU's Work-Life Balance directive, all fathers have the right to a minimum of 10 days paid paternity leave. Xander could spend three days before the calculated date of birth with his pregnant wife, and was sure to be there for the birth and have some days off afterwards. In anticipation of his daughter's birth, he finally could finish the wooden cradle. The birth and the first week after is a wonderful time for both. Abella and Xander share the care for their daughter Mia in the first few days: Abella breastfeeds and Xander realises how well he can take over the role of the diaper-changing father – it's not that hard when you practice.
Abella stays at home for the first four months and gets back in full time afterwards, also to stay economically independent. Then, Xander takes over. Thanks to EU law, two out of the four months of parental leave allocated to each parent is now non-transferable and must be paid. It's a story of take it or leave it! Xander decides to take the opportunity to be with his children. Abella can be part of an important project for the company, which is essential for her future career. Since they know they both will be entitled to their old full-time position, they are not worried about their professional future anymore: They agree to reduce their working hours to 50% over the next two years. Thus, they can share the raising of their children even after their parental leave. Thanks to the EU rules, Xander can also take 5 days of carers' leave to care for his sick mother.
Our Good Human Rights Stories in 2018…
Accountability and Victims Rights
The European Union has implemented a wide package of legal, social and economic measures in support of victims, based on the protection of individual rights across all 28 Member States of the EU.
The European Union's Special Representative for Human Rights, Stavros Lambrinidis engaged in a broad range of stakeholders including with civil society representatives, EU institutions, EU Member States and partner countries to propose the scope to the initiative and identify countries and good practises which could be included in the initial phase of the initiative. For more than 18 months prior to the formal launch, he conducted a programme of successful outreaches and high-level engagement with the partner countries which are members of the initial group of members.
"At a time of challenge for the global human rights architecture, the European Unionhas supported the formation of this alliance", said EUSR Lambrinidis. "We are now actively working to identify cross fertilisation of the good practises nationally, regionally and globally, including where the initiative can grow and maximise impact."
The Good Human Rights Story from the European Union highlights the improvements made for people who are victims of crime and how their lives changed for the better since the EU adopted a law three years ago which better defends their rights. It also features those who assist victims to overcome their trauma, exercise their rights and find the help and treatment they need.
Can you imagine a child having to address a packed courtroom when he or she is too scared to even talk about the crime? Think about those who, because of their past experience, have little trust in the police or in the authorities, and are therefore unable to ask for support? Or think of those very few women who have plucked up the courage to report violence against them? What about the victims of hate crime who do not feel able to report at all the violence they suffer from?
EU law stands by these people and grants them rights which go a long way towards meeting those needs. For example, all EU Member States are now required to ensure that:
Information about their rights is made available to victims;
National victim support organisations are established and that they should be free and that confidentiality is guaranteed;
Victims are able to participate in criminal proceedings and they are supported in this through:
interpretation and translation;
protection measures to reduce the burden of the proceedings on them and ensure their safety;
and the right to compensation;
Not only should victims have access to these rights, but governments should ensure that the police, prosecutors, judges and victim support organisations are properly trained to treat victims in a professional and respectful manner.
Now, three years after the entry into force of this EU law, concrete examples can be showcased of how this legal act has changed peoples' lives.
Hear a personal story of Raquel about her work as psychologist for the Portuguese association APAV and how providing this type of support can make a difference.
Meet Yasmine, an LGBTI victim of assaults in the Brussels streets.
Hear the story of Robbie who has a learning disability and who was attacked by local residents.
Listen to the the testimony of Eve, working for the Irish child support centre Cari who has set up Europe's first courthouse dogs' service for children in criminal proceedings.
While Victims' stories are not always seen as success stories in themselves, it is clear from the examples we have shown that the strengthening of victims' rights can play a big part in empowering victims.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet
"A great part of the work of my Office consists of working to mitigate and resolve situations of human rights disaster. But there are many places where human rights do not go wrong. And sometimes we lose sight of these good stories."
Full remarks
European Union HR/VP Federica Mogherini
"We showcase tens of success stories from all around the world. I hope they can inspire thousands, as they have inspired myself and I believe all of us who have been working on this from the beginning. In sharing our stories today, I believe we are marking a commitment to continue working together, aspiring to have more and more countries joining, strengthening human rights all over the world together with the United Nations."
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres
"Often, the world's spotlight is focused on the bad news – the human rights challenges and setbacks, the human rights agenda losing ground mainly to the national sovereignty agenda. But we know there is more to the story. These good stories deserve to be shared – not only to celebrate the achievements of those who made it happen, but to serve as an example and inspiration for others around the world."

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3 children die, 3 relatives badly hurt in Texas house fire
CONROE, Texas (AP) — Three children were killed early Friday when a burning house collapsed north of Houston and three members of the same family are critically injured, according to a sheriff's official.
Montgomery County sheriff's Lt. Scott Spencer said the children ranged in age from 6 to 13 years and that their bodies were found amid the debris of the home.
"We've moved from a rescue operation to a search and recovery," he said.
The three critically injured people included a 10-year-old boy who suffered severe burns.
The flames and heat drove away emergency responders who attempted to enter the home near Conroe (KAHN'-roh), about 40 miles north of Houston, Montgomery County Fire Marshal Jimmy Williams told KHOU-TV.
Spencer said two Shenandoah police officers who were among the first to respond also were hurt, suffering smoke inhalation and other injuries. An officer with another department was hurt as well.
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Nicolas Tredell
Colin Burrow
Parson Wordsworth
Michael Hofmann
Luljeta Lleshanaku
Brecht's Poems
David Harsent
From Loss
Anne Carson
First Choral Ode from Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (a translation of Euripides' Helen)
Asterisks and Obelisks
Matthew Bevis
A.R. Ammons
Literature and literary criticism, Poetry
Vol. 14 No. 19 · 8 October 1992
Out of the Rain by Glyn Maxwell
Bloodaxe, 112 pp, £6.95, June 1992, ISBN 1 85224 193 4
Body Politic by Tony Flynn
Bloodaxe, 60 pp, £5.95, June 1992, ISBN 1 85224 129 2
Red by Linda France
Red-Haired Android by Jeremy Reed
Grafton, 280 pp, £7.99, July 1992, ISBN 0 586 09184 X
Leaf-Viewing by Peter Robinson, with an essay by Peter Swaab
Robert Jones, 36 pp, £9.95, July 1992, ISBN 0 9514240 2 5
In Henry James's The Golden Bowl, the Prince found by the River Thames 'a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have left by the Tiber'. Of course, the truth of the ancient state, like the truth of the British state at the turn of the 19th century, was not necessarily a wholly savoury one. Conrad had already imagined the great imperial waterway as leading to – and from – the heart of darkness, and by 1922, The Waste Land was to find by the Thames the signs of an imperium in full decadence. Glyn Maxwell, in 1992, offers his own vision of riparian decay:
Just say you went beside the fires by the river,
in neither night nor day, insofar as
violet and lime were the shades of the air that steamed or anchored over
the slurping water, and this was the River Thames you somehow knew it.
This opening stanza of 'The Fires by the River' is characteristic of Maxwell's poetry. The diction is a mixture of the offhand and the elevated, the lyrical and the slangy. The rhythm is sinewy and resourceful, sentences running on over lines of different lengths in sustained enjambment. The world evoked is recognisably our world, but displaced, made strange, caught at two removes. The effect is both oneiric and substantial – the sense of a dream, a vision, with weight. Maxwell's Thamescape, like that of Eliot, has its lyric moments, but it is also, like Eliot's, a decadent, nearly infernal one – 'a mezzanine or less / up from hell' – and the lyric colours could signify pollution and addiction, in a world in which 'there was a drug called drug, and a drug that went by day in a blue guise'.
This riverine floor over hell is not placed specifically in the 1990s – as with Eliot, the temporal location slips and slides so that we might sometimes be in the past, in 'those days', and sometimes in the non-horological zone of dream and vision. Such uncertainty might lead to a poetry that proffered an abstract image of spiritual decay and lost its political and social purchase. But Maxwell does not reduce his scope in this way: he does concern himself with politics and with physical as well as spiritual suffering. 'In Herrick Shape for Her' mingles a restrained and dignified love lyric with a powerful evocation of the homeless and vagrant of England's capital – 'the Burnt-Out, the Despite' – who do not scorch in hell but freeze physically on the streets:
London's now where what is cold
Is terminal.
This poem is also a political indictment:
The lady was a liar
Who blared from the unblurring screen
Home truths of the Great British.
If the remarkably crafted 'Herrick shape' of the poem invokes 17th-century lyric, its melding of direct attack, didacticism and concern calls to mind Augustan poetry – Johnson's 'London', for example – while its vision of extremity echoes that of Blake's 'London'.
In contrast to Eliot, Maxwell's perception of decay does not lead to a nostalgia for hierarchy and order, but the strength of that desire is recognised. In 'From the Fisherman's Bastion', tourists stand on the Bastion in Buda, the statues of the Hapsburgs behind them, looking over the Duna, and the city which bears the traces of two lost empires, the Hapsburg and the Soviet. The continuing power of the drive towards a monolithic identity, the source of both imperialism and smaller-scale nationalism, is vividly apprehended.
Throughout Maxwell's poetry there is a strong sense of human needs, desires and fears being displaced into a world of imaginary identifications and trivial pursuits. The manipulations of collective response are sharply portrayed in 'We billion cheered', which evokes a world in which fear is constantly displaced into spectacle and repetition. 'The Eater' jauntily takes up the theme of the disparity between the ideal world portrayed by advertising and the shortfalls of actuality, and develops an image of death as the ultimate consumer. It would be interesting to compare this poem with Larkin's 'Essential Beauty'. 'The Uninvited' is a particularly resourceful, funny and suggestive poem in which country house guests act out detective games in an attempt to control the fear of death – 'Let us be Anybody other than Body!' – and to reassure themselves that the world is intelligible – 'it would all be explicable / soon in the lounge' – but find themselves disturbed by 'the hairless stranger / who wasn't invited and wouldn't answer' and whose followers mass together, perturbing the guests and producing a sense of guilt. It could be a compressed version of an unwritten Henry Green novel.
The centrepiece of Maxwell's collection is the long title poem, a sustained and inventive achievement. 'Out of the Rain' partakes of biblical tale, medieval allegory, surrealist comedy. It tells the story of a flood – the Flood – which descends upon a decadent town. The narrator is one of a group of sporting, drinking young hedonists who call to mind, variously, yuppies and lager louts, Essex Men and the Bright Young Things of Waugh and Huxley and Eliot and Scott Fitzgerald. The narrator describes the night of the flood, his glimpse of the entrance to the ark – 'a dry risen corridor of light' – and his own strange survival, borne out of the rain by a unicorn into a cottage full of animals – a cottage which is, as he sees when he goes out in the morning, 'dry and pocketed' in a protected zone in the midst of the sea which covers the land. But once he thinks 'there are no such things as unicorns', the water bursts through. By the end of the poem, he has returned to his usual way of life, and the status of his experience of the Flood is indeterminate: was it vision or delusion? The poem's echoes of the Bible and of medieval allegory, of Eliot and Waugh, also highlight a key difference from those precursors: for it does not portray a world where formal religion has much to offer. If there is a zone between a remote and dubious faith and a complete absorption into a world of trivial pursuits, it is represented by the animals whom the narrator meets in the cottage, who are, according to the unicorn, the Others – the animals who, for a range of reasons, did not enter the Ark. God's great eugenic plan does not include them, but they are also excluded – and, it may be, destroyed – by a failure of imagination.
It would be wrong to reduce the otherness of Maxwell's poems by turning them too much into allegories, political or spiritual. His poetry outruns conclusive interpretation; for all its intertextual resonances, it is original and disorientating, working into areas difficult to map in terms of existing categories. Its strength lies in its rhythm, its syntax, its diction and an overall tonal control – most evident in 'Out of the Rain', but a constant, surprising delight throughout the collection – which enables Maxwell to move, vertiginously but triumphantly, between a disparate range of moods and modes.
'The bag of bones / shivering under a blanket / of excrement' is the focus of the title poem of Tony Flynn's collection. Like Maxwell, Flynn is concerned for the health of the polis and understands that health in physical as well as spiritual terms. As Maxwell does with the homeless, he draws attention to what the polis chooses to forget – the body, which should inform the body politic, the state, as a mode of concern, but which the state regards only as an object to subdue or reject. Flynn is concerned with that body in its vulnerability – open to violence, violation, deprivation, deformation, dismemberment, death – and with the vulnerable mind, witness and sharer of corporeal affliction. 'The Bride' and 'Domestic Interior' focus on those who grieve for the victims of political violence. 'Autumnal' addresses, with tact and restraint, the sufferings of those in Nazi concentration camps – Primo Levi is crucial here for Flynn. 'The Butcher' is a graphic tale of a mother who stabs her baby daughter in obedience, as she believes, to God's command, His bloody instructions not rescinded at the last moment for her as they were for the patriarch Abraham. The image of butchery recurs in 'Preferred Terms', which opens with an image of a baby's head as
like something from
the offal bowl,
fashioned in the butcher's
bloody hands.
But the mother here resists the smooth patriarchal authority of the young consultant whose preferred term is 'Down's Syndrome', and affirms that her child is a 'Mongol', gagging on her words but finally swallowing them like chewed-over gristle. Here the body is affirmed against responses of repugnance and strategies of distancing. Death may come by natural causes as well by violence, and the last two poems in the volume evoke the sadness of a son losing his mother and a wife losing her husband. In each case, the loss is focused metonymically, by means of objects associated with the dying person – the mother's favourite dress, with which the son pleads as the last rites are administered in the next room; the blown eggs once gathered by the dying husbnd, one of which the wife cups in her palm,
pressing it gently to
her lips, as though she might breathe
the living yolk back into it.
In a world marked by suffering and loss, there are moments of imagined tranquillity, as when two rowers on a lake wish, for the two swans they have disturbed – and perhaps, implicitly, for themselves –
a quiet lake, where only
their own reflections glide
between them on the water.
And there are epiphanies of grace, of restoration and healing, as in the epithalamium 'Gleanings'. Flynn's sparse, careful diction, which enables him to use a word like 'soul' without seeming archaic or overblown, is evident throughout this volume. He often works with two or three-line stanzas, and usually employs short lines, but the effect of his line breaks is not one of abruptness but of a precise pausing and modulation of the sound and sense. A number of his poems end in a way which shifts the meaning of what has gone before and leaves reverberations in the mind. Body Politic demonstrates that Flynn has developed a poetic register that is admirable in its discipline and economy and that can encompass and evoke a range of themes and moods.
The poetic register of Linda France in Red is no less disciplined but more copious and conversational. It enables her both to explore the everyday and to enter more esoteric zones, as at the start of 'Dutch Interior':
Let's say this light-filled space is the Netherlands
And I am one of that loose knot
of people unravelling themselves, making
straight for the edge.
Like Flynn, France is good at endings which shift one's perceptions of what has gone before and leave one pondering. In 'Precious Stones', the speaker recalls the purchase long ago, by herself and a lover, of a ring set with different stones, the first letters of which spell 'Regard' – 'an Edwardian whimsy'. The poem ends with a couplet which returns us to the speaker's present, to the performance of a formal, recurrent social transaction that echoes, with a poignancy that is neither indulged nor wryly dismissed, a richer relationship now faded:
Every year at Christmas we exchange cards –
I hesitate before writing Regards.
France's conversational mode does not confine her to recounting what are presumably her own experiences. Red offers a range of dramatic monologues, employing personae drawn from myth, history, art, modern life. The putative speakers of most of these monologues are women in situations of oppression and subordination: a sea nymph raped by Poseidon; Mary Josephine Travers, who accused Oscar Wilde's father of sexual assault; the wife of the Victorian apocalyptic painter John Martin; a figure based on Edward Hopper's painting Hotel Room; a girl caught up in a sexual abuse case; a woman prisoner. These monologues are all effective for the most part, evoking specific experiences and making their points without stridency: but they sometimes seem insufficiently differentiated from France's own voice. 'Call me kitten', for instance, tries to capture the idiolect of a woman in prison, and deploys feline and feral imagery to help characterise its persona, but she still seems too polite, a bourgeois pet with clipped claws and a contrived snarl. At times, the monologues smack of the stereotype, as in the attempt to connote 'Irishness' by making Mary Josephine Travers say: 'I was only a young girl then, green / as shamrock.' But these are small lapses in a quietly accomplished collection.
In Red-Haired Android, Jeremy Reed attacks 'the poetry world', which he sees as dominated by 'exponents of the ordinary, /opponents of the visionary':
Their safety-net is Larkin's provincial
de-sexualised climacteric; the flat
sensibility bred by a library.
Imagination's better on the street,
picking up vibrancy or anywhere
the light transforms experience
into discovery.
This poetic manifesto is echoed elsewhere in this collection. In 'Dusting the arm-rest', for example, Reed affirms that poetry is, or should be, close 'to the street-corner, the edge' and his own heroes are those who lived on and in some cases went over the edge – Blake, Rimbaud, Hölderlin, Trakl, Hart Crane, Artaud.
The opposing of the visionary to the ordinary, the call for poetry to live dangerously, the invocation of Larkin as the epitome of grey on grey – these have been familiar cultural moves at least since Alvarez's New Poetry anthology, and they have, as Reed's hall of fame suggests, a much older ancestry. But in Reed's case, there is a certain contradiction. For it could be argued that Larkin shared Reed's view, expressed here in 'Rock and Poetry', that 'poetry needs street-cred' – though he might not have put it in quite that way. For poetry to have 'street-cred', however, it might need its share of the ordinary, and in fact Reed's poetry is not, as poetry, especially adventurous: rather less so, in fact, than Larkin' s can be, and certainly less so than Glyn Maxwell's, which seems much more likely than Reed's to have street-cred for the Nineties. Reed's poetry smacks of 'a backward ethos', to borrow a phrase from one of his poems; or rather, it smacks of two – that of the Sixties, and that of the decade of which the Sixties were a popularisation, the 1890s. Reed's poems offer pleasures similar to those of the poems of Wilde and Symons – the self is posed as voyeur, consuming sights, colours, sensations, frissons, playing with the possibilities of alternative identities and with aspirations to transcendence. Red-Haired Android offers us aestheticism updated not so much to the Nineties as to the Sixties and early Seventies, with glam-rock and Star Trek Series I accoutrements. It is polychrome rather than pastel aestheticism; the frequent use of colour words gives the poems dazzle and burnish. But Reed's strong chromatic sense is not matched by visual or verbal precision. His palette is vivid, but his facture is slack.
Peter Robinson's Leaf-Viewing is a slender, finely-produced pamphlet which comes complete with a commentary by Peter Swaab. The commentary is helpful and perceptive, but it raises the question of why – other than to fill out the pages – it was necessary. Can't the poetry stand alone? In fact, these undemonstrative poems – line-and-wash drawings to Reed's peacock fans – are interesting and effective. They were written between 1989 and 1991 in Japan, where Robinson teaches: he thus joins a line of expatriate poets which includes Empson and Enright. The challenges for such a poet are threefold: how to negotiate with cultural difference – an especially complex problem today, when Eurocentrism has been strongly challenged; how to relate to the world he has left; and how to distinguish himself from his poetic predecessors. Robinson meets these challenges with tact and skill. Both 'A Dedication' and 'In the Borrowed Scenery' register misreadings, moments of slippage which highlight cultural difference. 'Lost Objects' delightedly portrays the Japanese custom of placing small lost objects in clear view – 'A blue purse on a fire-escape!' – and develops, in an unforced way, a more general image of loss, echoing Empson's 'Missing Dates' but shedding that poem's portentousness:
Leaving a local station platform
under white sky filled with heat,
a memory, loved one, or poem
has been left behind. But what?
Wordless in front of the next
lost property office's window
you find yourself looking perplexed.
Another poem evokes 'the slight vertigo' felt each day on crossing a bridge in Japan and the spectrum of possibilities, from fruition to extinction, that the views from the bridge open up. Signs of violence between East and West often surface, as memories – 'malnutrition, sores, / the swollen bellies of first post-war years' – and as present realities – the news of the Gulf War heard on the BBC World Service. And in Japan as England, the 'emblems of a dream of empire' persist.
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MRI sensor that enables long-term monitoring of oxygen levels could aid cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Unlike healthy cells, cancer cells thrive when deprived of oxygen. Tumors in low-oxygen environments tend to be more resistant to therapy and spread more aggressively to other parts of the body.
Measuring tumors' oxygen levels could help doctors make decisions about treatments, but there's currently no reliable, noninvasive way to make such measurements. However, a new sensor developed at MIT could change that: A research team led by professor Michael Cima has invented an injectable device that reveals oxygen levels over several weeks and can be read with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Using this kind of sensor, doctors may be able to better determine radiation doses and to monitor whether treatments are having the desired effect, according to the researchers, who describe the device in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of April 21.
"In cases where you are trying to make therapeutic decisions, you want to have some numbers that you can fall back on," says Vincent Liu, a graduate student in Cima's lab at MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and lead author of the paper.
The injectable device is made of two types of silicone — one that provides the MRI signal, and one that offers structural support. This is the first MRI sensor of any kind that can be left in the body for extended periods of time — so far, up to four weeks, in testing with rats.
Cima, the David H. Koch Professor of Engineering, is the paper's senior author. Other authors are recent MIT PhD recipient Christophoros Vassiliou and recent master's degree recipient Syed Imaad.
Long-term MRI
MRI uses magnetic fields and radio waves that interact with protons in the body to produce detailed images of the body's interior. Injecting magnetic materials known as contrast agents can help boost the visibility of certain tissues, but these agents are typically designed to break down soon after the MRI is performed.
Doctors often use MRI to diagnose tumors, but currently MRI can only reveal the size and location of a tumor. With the new MIT sensor, doctors could track the state of the tumor and predict how it might respond to radiation treatment, according to the researchers.
Radiation kills tumors by initiating DNA damage, but oxygen is required to help finish the job. An accurate reading of how much oxygen is present would help doctors calculate how much radiation might be necessary. Measuring oxygen levels could also reveal the metastatic potential of a tumor: Those with lower oxygen levels tend to spread more aggressively.
The new MRI sensor combines two forms of silicone — a solid called PDMS and a substance known as DDMPS, which has an oily consistency. The oily DDMPS can be dissolved in PDMS, creating what's called a "swollen polymer." The researchers shaped this polymer into a 1.5-millimeter sensor that could be implanted in tissue during a biopsy; they also created smaller particles (tens of microns long) that can be injected through a needle. After injection, these particles clump together to form a solid sensor.
DDMPS absorbs molecular oxygen, which alters the proton spins inside the silicone — a phenomenon that can be detected with MRI. Measuring this shift in the MRI signal reveals how much oxygen is present.
To test the sensors, the researchers implanted them in the hind legs of rats and then measured how the signal changed as the rats breathed pure oxygen, regular air, and pure oxygen again. The sensors detected changes in oxygen pressure as small as 15 millimeters of mercury, and it took less than 10 minutes to see the effects of a change in inhaled gas.
When the experiment was repeated four weeks later, the sensors yielded the same results.
Ralph Weissleder, a professor at Harvard Medical School and director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Molecular Imaging Research, says this type of sensor is a novel way to potentially track how cancer patients respond to treatment.
"The cancer field certainly needs something like this," says Weissleder, who was not part of the research team. "The ways we currently have to measure oxygen tension are fairly cumbersome and not quantitative, so no one really uses them."
"What's happening in a tumor"
This type of sensor could also be useful for monitoring blood flow in diabetic patients, who often experience restricted circulation in their extremities, or people who have suffered traumatic injuries. The researchers also anticipate that it could help scientists learn more about tumor biology.
"As opposed to just studying the genetic profile of tumor cells, this could also reveal how they're interacting with the stroma that surrounds the tumor. Oxygen tension, as simple as it sounds, is a good measure of what's happening in a tumor," Cima says.
The researchers are now working on sensors that could be used to monitor other biological properties, such as pH. "We hope this is the first of many types of solid-state contrast agents where the material responds to its chemical environment in such a way that we can detect it by MRI," Cima says.
The research was funded by the National Cancer Institute Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence and the U.S. Army Research Office.
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It is not valid to sell something for an unknown price or for a price to be paid within an unknown period of time
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There is a man who had a piece of land, and he needed money so he wanted to sell it. One of his relatives came and gave him the money he wanted on the basis that it was part of the price of the land, but they did not agree on the price or on a time for paying the remainder of the price. That happened a year and a half ago, and the price of land is increasing.
Should the price of the land be worked out on the basis of current prices or should it be worked out on the basis of the price at the time when some of the price was paid in the past?
Firstly:
A sale for an unknown price is not valid, because it involves ambiguity. One of the conditions of a sale being valid is that the price should be known.
Ibn Hazm (may Allah have mercy on him) said in al-Muhalla (7/512):
It is not valid to sell something without a known price, such as one who sells something according to the market price (without specifying what it is), or for whatever So and so bought it for, or for the current value. All such transactions are invalid, because they are transactions that involve ambiguity and consuming people's wealth unlawfully. End quote.
Ad-Dasooqi (may Allah have mercy on him) said in his Haashiyah (3/15):
It is essential that the price and the item for which it is to be paid should be known to both the seller and the purchaser, otherwise the transaction is invalid. End quote.
Ibn 'Aabideen (may Allah have mercy on him) said in his Haashiyah (4/529):
One condition of it being valid is that the amount and price of what is being sold should be known. End quote.
Ibn 'Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
If the price is unknown, that leads to the transaction being rendered invalid, because one of the conditions of the transaction being valid is knowing the price.
End quote from ash-Sharh al-Mumti' (8/233)
Please see also the answer to question no. 134752
Similarly, the transaction is not valid if the payment period is unknown.
An-Nawawi (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
They were unanimously agreed that it is not permissible to sell an item for a (known) price to be paid within an unknown period.
End quote from al-Majmoo' (9/339)
An-Nafraawi al-Maaliki (may Allah have mercy on him) said in al-Fawaakih ad-Dawaani (2/80):
An example of ambiguity in the payment period is if a person purchases an item for a known price to be paid when things get better, or until Zayd comes. Transactions involving ambiguity are not permissible, and neither are sales of unknown items or sales in which the payment period is unknown, such as if one says, "I will sell you this animal, and the price is to be paid from its offspring, or when things get better.
End quote.
Based on that:
The sale of this land in the manner described in the question is an invalid transaction, because the price is unknown and the payment period for the remainder of the price is also unknown.
Both parties have to undo the transaction: the seller must return the money to the purchaser and the purchaser must return the land to the seller. Then they should do the transaction all over again, on the basis of today's price, or whatever they agree upon.
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ibraaheem (may Allah have mercy on him) was asked about a woman who sold her date palms, approximately two months before her death, for one thousand riyals immediately and fifty saa's every year for the rest of her life, and the fruit of another, unspecified, date palm every year, also for the rest of her life.
He replied: This transaction is obviously invalid, because the price is unknown, and it is also unknown how long the woman will live. Once it is clear that the transaction is invalid, then the exchange that you mention is not valid either. In fact the scholars have stated that anything that is taken on the basis of an invalid transaction or contract comes under the same ruling as items that are usurped or taken by force, so he should return it with its increase (in value or number).
Based on that, these date palms are regarded as not having passed out of the possession of that woman, so in fact she died when the date palms were still in her possession and they form part of her estate. Therefore they are subject to the rulings on inheritance and her legitimate shar'i heirs are entitled to them. What she took from the purchaser of dates and money is regarded as a debt that she owes and it should be paid back from her estate.
End quote from Fataawa wa Rasaa'il ash-Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ibraaheem (7/49-50)
See also: al-Bayaan wa't-Tahseel by Ibn Rushd al-Jadd (8/58)
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So, there's no rooster on Trader Joe's Sriracha Sauce. Can't call it rooster sauce then. But there's a dragon, so...dragon sauce? I don't know. Sounds kinda lame. But better than an alternate name for rooster sauce that I'd rather not type out for fear of sounding too crude. We try to be family friendly here.
Anyways, the animal decoration of choice isn't the only difference between the typical and the TJ's version. First things first, there's the consistency. Not that sriracha is generally all that chunky, but there's is a micro-chunkiness to it, in some ways. Not TJ's. It's as smooooooooth as a freshly greased Justin Timberlake. No glop. No plop. It just squeezes right out of the bottle when provoked and doesn't even make that awful gassy sound that make me hate squeeze bottles. I'm not sure if the texural difference is an overall plus or minus, but the lack of farty noises when trying to enjoy my dinner is an absolute plus.
Then there's also the taste. Maybe I've dabbled too much in the sriracha-derived condiment world to remember what sriracha actually, truly tastes like in an unadulterated state, but...this stuff tastes sweet. Like, really sweet. Don't get me wrong, there's a good chile wallop that can be sinus-clearing worthy but...I taste a lot of sugar too. With sugar being a key ingredient in fermentation, and fermentation being one of the main steps for sriracha production, I'm thinking that perhaps there's something different going on here, but I can't quite figure it out what it exactly would be. Maybe it's a fume-free process - the factory neighbors would be grateful. Don't know.
Still, there's enough here to like overall. I've paired the sriracha with grilled chicken wings, eggs, sweet potatoes...all with good results. Sandy mixed some up with soy sauce, garlic, brown sugar, and probably another ingredient or two for a shrimp and broccoli stirfry the other night that was deeeeeeelicious. Good taste, with good flavor profile, just a little extra sweet with the heat. I will add that the following day after ingestion, there have been some mild digestive side effects that I will not elaborate on (yet again in fear of sounding crude). I will instead invite you to listen to this classic tune by Johnny Cash. Anyways, for no more than a coupe bucks for the bottle, this sriracha was a good buy which will be repeated.
This sauce is different from the original but still good (although my g prefers the original!). For a tasty dipping sauce, mix this with plain yogurt (or sour cream). Great on burgers, dumplings, etc.
The creator (David Tran - of Vietnamese and Chinese descent) was born in the year of the Rooster. The name Huy Fong is hommage to the ship (carrying the same name but spelled Huey Fong) on which he fled communist Vietnam.


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Q: Change Format from DD/MM/YYYY hh:mm to YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm I tried to use the below statement to change DateTimes into  SQLite desired DateTime format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm so as to perform calculations. But the statement gives me an "incomplete input" message. Sample input-output is below:

e.g. 03/05/2020 17:34 => 2020-05-03 17:34

> UPDATE Combined_Bike_Ride SET started_at = substr(started_at,7,4) ||"-"|| substr(started_at(4,2)||"-"||substr(started_at(1,2)||" "||substr(started_at(12,2)||":"||substr(started_at(15,2)

What do you think is missing in the statement?

A: for debugging in such cases, take "baby steps".  Change content in a dummy column in a dummy test database. Then split your update command to smaller parts, adding one at a time.
It took about 2 minutes to see that you put a bracket where a comma was needed.
UPDATE dt
    SET
       md =
       substr(sa,7,4) ||"-"||
       substr(sa,4,2)||"-"||
       substr(sa,1,2)||" "||
       substr(sa,12,2)||":"||
       substr(sa,15,2)

You had  substr(sa(4,2)  in  most of them, making it an (incomplete) function.
Btw, it's perfectly OK to split the SQL statement over lines, which makes it more readable.
Most important lesson: in debugging  take baby steps
Notice btw that your function will fail if one of the dates do not have leading zero. It is more reliable to do this in a programming language, as discussed here

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Today, I was at a meeting. One of the other members decided to share that their cat had passed away recently. I got an uncontrollable nervous laugh, started crying because I was laughing so hard, and left the room while everyone watched in horror. FML
By (-,..,-) - 24/07/2015 17:24 - France
Today, I lost out on a job opportunity because the interviewer said my "fake fangs are unprofessional and frankly disturbing". The "fangs" are my real canines, and they have always looked this way. FML
Today, I got in a car accident on the way to the DMV to take my drivers test. FML
By mommabuser - 01/07/2012 15:59
Today, my daughter's hamster pulled the water bottle off the glass, so I decided to super-glue the bottle back on. We came back an hour later to see if it had stuck, only to find both the bottle and rodent glued to the glass. FML
Today, I finally got my paycheck from working at my minimum wage job for the last three months. I was delighted when I saw it was worth $846. On my way to cash it, I destroyed my car's suspension. It's going to cost almost $800 to fix. FML
By notsohappilyeverafter - 26/11/2011 21:54 - United States
Today, my boyfriend dropped by my work to break up with me. I had to go the rest of my shift with a smile, fighting back tears. I work as the Cinderella at Disney Land. FML
By gringa_Peru - 18/04/2009 01:19 - Peru
Today, I had the good fortune of finding a seat on the bus, not the norm in Peru. Several minutes after sitting down, I felt something on my shoulder. Thinking it was a hand, I turned my head to look. I came face to face with a dirty man's crotch, it was his erection resting on my shoulder. FML
By scarlett666 - 05/06/2009 02:04 - United Kingdom
Today, on a plane home from Ireland, my husband who was severely hungover, vomitted in a bag before we took off. When he got up to put the bag in the bin the stewardess forced him to sit back down. I had to hold on to a bag full of vomit for a good few minutes whilst my husband was passed out. FML
By Anonymous - 03/12/2013 00:56 - Mexico - Distrito Federal
Today, I opened my heart to my father-in-law, telling him how he was a very good example for us and how his name would be great for our first born son, he interrupted, saying, "Cut the cheesy crap, now." FML
By tryfailtryget11 - 05/09/2009 04:23 - United States
Today, I was on the phone with my boyfriend. We were messing around and I always jokingly say "You're adopted, nobody loves you" to everybody. His reply, "That's pretty fucked up, I am adopted." He really was. FML
Susaluda 0
Thursday 4 March 2010 23:24
That sucks! Dads...
dreamer13 0
what a big dick!
roxy210 0
Friday 5 March 2010 0:07
she's not bashing TKD snickerdoodles...
blueeyes24 0
How was he bashing it?
yea_or_no 0
reyemrein 0
He could have walked in and said "let's go honey, your test results are ready. They had better be negative or we're going to have you put down just like we did your brother."
boopityboppity 11
My guess is that someone had been bashing TKD, but due to the comments glitch, snick's reply was posted as a standalone comment. Then the comment she had been replying to disappeared for the same reason. Or maybe she did just misinterpret the FML. Occam's Razor and all that.
Physcomerk 0
TKD is for pussies. YDI
MF12 0
21 that's what I'm thinking too, snick put quotes around "the real world", indicating that someone else had said it.
Fedor_is_KING 0
I think she was talking to me. I wasn't bashing it, because taking any MA is better than none, I just think it's more of a pretty MA that is a bit too traditional, but that's just my opinion, if TKD helped Snickers lay a beatdown on some fool, good for her :D
osemness 0
lol u remember modding this one
FYLDeep 25
Kick your dad's ass like you were taught.
jsusfreek927 0
@28: I took TKD for four years. got to 3rd degree black belt, certified instructor...got to run a class of thirty wild little kids... er...where was I going with this... oh. I learned a lot from TKD. I could kill some giant attacker if I had to, and I'm a little 20 year old, 125 lb girl. just sayin. it works.
mylifeblows3232 3
anybody else smell that updog?
GMX_fml 0
Actually snickerdoodle's coent is number 1 so she was just being stupid. FYL your dad is an ass
tedwin223 0
tkd is for men who cab kill someone with their bare hands, guns are for pussies who can't fight and need an easy effortless way to kill someone
AznWaffle8 0
But then the dad got to post, "Today, I picked up my daughter from taekwondo because she was having bad diahreea. As I walked in, I explained to everyone present it was because she was 'shitting her pants with fear'. MLIA"
caittycat95 0
#20 your funny. :)
UberFail79 0
I hereby argue on the behalf of the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program. And Sig-Sauer. Screw with me, and you get two .357 SIG rounds to the chest, and one to the head. Taekwondo is great, but always supplement martial arts with good ol' fashioned firepower. Buy a subcompact Glock or something.
@65, You are either literally mentally retarded, or just an asshole, but you just offended me to the pit of my soul. Firearms are the best way of self-defense against almost any physical threat. There is a massive amount of evidence to back me up, as well as eight years worth of preparation to deal with ignorant people such as you. Don't ever even joke about that to a hoplophile. Let's see you perform a taekwondo technique over 600 yards.
chrislegend 0
what kinda shit school did you get your 3rd degree black belt at in 4 yrs, you're probably in WTF...
Smexxxibear 0
Sucks to be you!
eat_this_buddie 5
^^ftw
crukestal 1
Friday 5 March 2010 14:21
Updog? What's updog? (pitches big softball across the plate...)
Butterfly_Kisses_fml 0
Sunday 7 March 2010 4:40
@52 you got your 4 th degree in onlyfour years? I was in it for 4 and only got my first, as did all my friends
tobyraza 0
Sunday 7 March 2010 17:27
Im sitting on the toilet with diarrhea right now -_-
NzxtZ06 0
Saturday 29 May 2010 0:34
oh man, 20 = epicly epic win.
00yoda4 0
Thursday 13 May 2010 3:54
zac12345 0
Your dad is hardcore, sounds like a MLIA
droppintacos 0
oh good one man... why u trying to defend snicker anyways, she knows no one likes her go look at every other fml, ur wierd!
Shrop 0
I wouldve done the same thing. That shits funny 
omgitsalex62 0
wow. what a nice dad...
Rickyretardo 0
#5 is right I am awesome
paigeatsflesh 11
ahahahaha. that's discusting. xD 
xXSc3n1cXx 0
lolz. i love that. 
vansbabe66 0
Horney4her69 0
sexy.... not!
HoesInaBox 0
I'd like to see that o.o ^^
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Home Truces Cessation of Hostilities In Its 8th Day: 36 Breaches in the Ceasefire Agreement
In Its 8th Day: 36 Breaches in the Ceasefire Agreement
The Killing of 62 individuals and not less than 289 breaches since the ceasefire started
SNHR issued its 8th report that documented the violations of truce which started on Saturday, 27 February. It recorded 36 breaches which included 23 breaches through military attacks by government forces. 13 breaches through arrests including 10 breaches by government forces and 3 breaches by Kurdish self-management. The total of breaches were 289 breaches since the beginning of the truce.
The report documented the killing of a girl and 6 armed members at the hand of government forces.
The report questioned the ceasefire and its outcomes since it is sponsored by Russian and the USA. As it is known, Russia cannot take that part since it is a loyal ally to the Syrian regime and one of its supporters. The Syrian regime has violated and breached several UNSC resolutions and it was not held accountable.
Fadel Abdul Ghani, head of SNHR, stated that: "The international community, represented by the UNSC, knows exactly what it should do to end this circle of violence, however, it resorts to unproductive solutions. They need a political transition that would transform the ruling to a democratic one. They have previously said that after Geneva 1, the bloodshed is not going to end and state administrations will be doomed to failure. ISIL and Iranian militias are filling the space the corrupted Syrian government left. They are with any agreement or resolution that would end the cycle of violence and massacres in Syria."
The report indicated that the Syrian regime and its Russian accomplice can strike regions under the control of armed opposition in northern of Syria under the pretext of the presence Al Nusra front, even if it is extremely limited, without breaching the ceasefire.
The report documented the bare minimum of what they were able to document according to their methodology and based on two different sources of information for each incidents. The report depicted the military attacks by all those binding truce (government forces, Russian forces, Kurdish self-management, and armed opposition groups) in regions under the control of armed opposition and in regions that are controlled by joint forces of Al Nusra front and the armed opposition groups. The report also did not include any military operations in regions under ISIL's control.
The report mentioned that there are many regions are still besieged like northern Homs suburbs.
According to the report the breaches though military attacks according to governorates were distributed as follows: 14 breaches in Damascus suburbs, 6 breaches in Homs, and one breaches in each of the following Daraa, Idlib and Lattakia.
The breaches through arrests by government forces were distributed as follows: 3 breaches in Damascus suburbs, 2 breaches in each Damascus, Hama and Deir Al Zour, and one breach in Lattakia. The breaches through arrests by Kurdish self-management were distributed as follows: 2 breaches in Al Hassaka and one breach in Aleppo.
The report recommended the joint American and Russian committee to investigate those incidents, announce its results to the Syrian people and prevent it from happening again.
The report demanded the international community to correlate the ceasefire with political efforts that would pave the way towards a transitional stage that would result in a democratic regime, which will end the suffering of the Syrian people.
The report indicated that if breaches are still being committed, then that fragile ceasefire may fail at any moment. Since USA is a major advocate for this agreement, then it should persuade the Russian government to cease its airstrikes and pressure its ally the Syrian government to do so.
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The Motive
Javier Cercas
Title: The Motive
Author: Javier Cercas
Written: 1987 (Eng. 2005)
Original in: Spanish
Availability: in The Tenant and The Motive - US
El móvil - US
in The Tenant and The Motive - UK
in The Tenant and The Motive - Canada
in The Tenant and The Motive - India
El móvil - España
Spanish title: El móvil
Translated by Anne McLean
Published together with The Tenant
B : nicely twisted little story
Financial Times . 25/6/2005
The Observer . 4/6/2005 Amanda Hopkinson
"The Motive, with its Kafkaesque theme of life imitating art taken to the extreme, where a failing novelist attempts to orchestrate a real world to anticipate the fictitious one he is struggling to create, is an altogether darker tale, although the profound irony of each erupts into moments of hilarity." - Amanda Hopkinson, The Observer
Javier Cercas' debut, The Motive, is a story about trying to become a writer, and the ideals of what literature can and should be. Its protagonist is Álvaro, a man who has: "made his life subordinate to literature". He dedicates himself, and everything, to his art (and his conception of literature).
Before he begins his own writing, he knows that he needs to read a lot -- "to create a solid genealogy" -- and he immerses himself in books. He then carefully considers what he wants his own work to be; tempted first to write an epic poem he ultimately settles on the novel form. He has some concerns -- "could one still write novels ?" -- but believes the form still allows for the sort of artistic creation that he has in mind. His model: not more modern masters but rather Flaubert.
Álvaro has some grand ideas for his novel, but it takes him a while to settle on his plot. Still, he reminds himself:
Any theme is good for literature; what matters is the manner of expressing it. The theme is just an excuse.
Yet he can't resist making one of the novel's four main characters: "an ambitious writer who is writing an ambitious novel". And he's soon tempted to see -- and treat -- some of his neighbors as stand-ins for his other characters. He immerses himself in their lives, both spying on them and interacting with them -- and nudges them along, to elicit reactions he is hoping for. He wants his novel to be true-to-life and, both intentionally and inadvertently, blurs the lines between fact and fiction. Needless to say, his art consumes him.
Given that the novel leads to murder ... well, we can see where this is headed. Of course it's entirely predictable, but Cercas' obsessive protagonist and his single-minded pursuit are nicely rendered, making it a pleasure to follow Álvaro in his dedication to work (and where we know that will lead).
This is very much the work of a new writer, already trying to cram in everything he knows about writing, and his love of literature, into a clever story, but Cercas has the talent to pull it off. Sure, it's far from the most original idea, and it's yet another novel about writing a novel (featuring a writer who is writing a novel featuring a writer who is writing a novel ...), but it's nicely done (some fine writing here) and perfectly good entertainment.
- M.A.Orthofer, 19 February 2016
The Motive:
Bloomsbury publicity page
Tusquets publicity page
Un libro al día (Spanish)
Other books by Javier Cercas under review:
[The Anatomy of a Moment]
Soldiers of Salamis
The Speed of Light
See Index of Spanish literature
Spanish author Javier Cercas was born in 1962.
© 2016 the complete review


The St. Joseph Joes have not been idle these past few weeks. They have been swinging the bat well according to Manager Pat Schneider, and pitching has been in top form. And that helped to put them in the middle of the dogfight for a league title.
On July 28, Joey Atkinson pitched almost five innings givsing up seven hits and collecting four strikeouts and four walks. But the hits came in bunches and allowed the Sartell Muskies to put up seven runs.
Alex Kendall came in and allowed one hit and got three strikeouts allowing no runs. Atkinson was tagged with the loss.
It was an important game for the team, Schneider said.
Schneider was more than a little pleased with the grit his team showed against the Foley Lumberjacks in their July 22 game at Foley. In a previous game the Jacks had pummeled the Joes (13-5) pretty good, so this was a chance for revenge.
Foley jumped out to a one-run lead in the the second inning and held on like pit bulls until the sixth inning when St. Joseph pushed four runs across to take the lead. But Foley wasn't finished and answered with two runs of their own in the bottom of the seventh. With only a one-run difference between them, St. Joseph managed to push across another run in the top of the eighth inning and the score stood 5-3. But Foley was not finished and scored one more run of their own. Going into the ninth inning the score was 5-4.
From there on, St. Joseph chomped down like a pit bull on a ham bone and held the Lumberjacks off to collect a 5-4 win.
St. Joseph smacked nine hits around the ballpark including three doubles.
Atkinson was the winning pitcher throwing for 5-1/3 innings, giving up three runs, striking out two. Alex Kendall finished out the rest of the game giving up one run and throwing four strikeouts.
On July 21, the Stone Poneys of Sartell visited Schneider Field in St. Joseph and gave the Joes a tough game to remember. Matt Maurer of the Stone Poneys faced off against Greg Anderson of the Joes. It was a hare and hound kind of game with the Poneys quickly scoring two runs in the second inning and another in the fifth giving them a 3-0 lead in the top of the fifth. The Joes managed a run in the fifth to make it 3-1. and added runs in the sixth and eighth innings to tie the game going into the ninth inning.
The game came down to the last swing of the bat in the ninth when the Joes put together enough hits to push that fourth run across for a 4-3 win.
It was a hitters field day with the Poneys corralling 10 hits and the Joes gathering 13. The problem was trying to string together several hits in a row to push the runs across.
Poney Jake Light smacked one big bammer over the fence, and team mate Shawn Lindsay smacked a double, but mostly it was single after single for both teams.
RJ Alpers of the Joes managed a pair of doubles.
In the first round of Region 11C Tournament at Watkins, the Joes lost to Kimball, 2-0.
The Joes play Foley this Saturday, Aug. 4 at 11 a.m. If they win they play again at 4:30 p.m. for a state tourney birth. Both games are in Watkins.
Other teams playing for a chance to move on to the next level include Luxemburg, Foley, Clear Lake, Pearl Lake and the Sartell Muskies. Check bracket for times and dates or go to http://www.mnbaseball.org/page/sections-regions for all the section and region brackets. Just click on 11C and the bracket and times should pop up.
Brandon Bloch eyes a fat pitch to drive somewhere they ain't during the game against the Sartell Muskies.
Charles Vaughan stands at the edge of the infield looking in and waiting to spring into action if the ball should come his way.
The St. Joseph Joes 2018 Baseball team. Kneeling: (left to right) Pat Schneider-manager, Brandon Bissett, Burke Tagney, Willie Willats, Hunter Blommer, Tanner Aleshire, Brandon Bloch, Nick Gill and Peter Nelson.
Standing: (left to right) Craig Hern, Charles Vaughan, Caz Novak, Zach Overboe, RJ Alpers, Tanner Blommer, Alex Kendall, Isaac Holthaus, Ben Alvord, Joey Atkinson.


Westtown's big 3 continued to carry the lion's share of the load for Seth Berger's club at the National Hoops Festival. On Saturday, 6-9 Duke-bound Cameron Reddish poured in 34, Jake Forrester had 22 points and 10 rebounds and Jalen Gaffney pitched in 17 in a 2 point loss to very good Georgetown Prep (MD) team that will challenge to dethrone Bullis (MD) as Interstate Athletic Conference top dog. Reddish came back day two with a 50-piece, 53 to be exact in victory over reigning Georgia state champion Holy Spirit. Games: 12/12 George 12/15 Episcopal at Bullis Tourney, 12/16 TBA at Bullis Tourney.
Phil Jukovic has claimed "STATE GOLD", the Notre Dame Football recruit will now look to duplicate that success and get back to Hershey come March. Without the Football team, the hoopers managed to win their Tip-Off Tourney with wins over Summit Academy 81-26 and Highlands 63-39. There may be some early season mishaps until their basketball legs are back under them, but when the dust clears you can expect Pine-Richland to be a difficult out come bracket play. Games: 12/12 @Upper St. Clair, 12/15 Mt Lebanon.
The Little Lions are the 2017-2018 Skip Coleman Tip-Off Tournament Champions defeating Economics & Finance (NY) 78-36, knocking down 12 3-pointers and then taking out St James (MD) 58-41, led by 6-9 Pitt recruit Bryce Golden. Drew Friberg, Ryan McNulty and Brandon Clark made the All-Tourney teams and Keaton Ellis was also impressive both nights. Games: 12/12 @ Central Dauphin East and a Friday night home game vs preseason #22 and current Honorable Mention Harrisburg.
Kyle Thompson's 28 points, eight rebounds, and five assists lifted St. Joseph's Prep to a 74-61 triumph over Penn Charter, to win the Enable Sports & Fitness Invitational championship. PREP SCENE 2020 Trevor Wall added 17 points for the Hawks and Darius Kinnel distributed five assists. Ed Croswell had 12 points and 8 rebounds Games: 12/13 Germantown Academy @Philadelphia Univeristy 12/15 Berks Catholic @ Albright College.
Roman went 2-1 in the Gonzaga DC Classic, defeating Riverside Baptist (MD) 76-60 and Cardinal Hayes (NY) 78-60 before losing in the Championship to the host Gonzaga (DC) 71-53. Seth Lundy led the way averaging 17.3 followed by Greer 16.0, Betrand 13, and Hakim Hart with 12.0 over the 3 game weekend. Games: 12/15 Cheltenhem in the ALL-CITY @Bishop McDevitt.
Coach Phil D'Ambrosio has a thoroughbred he can ride to a hoops triple crown in Sam Sessoms. With wins over Springside Chestnut Hill Academy 62-53, PREP SCENE Honorable Mention Academy New Church 65-50, and PREP SCENE #18 Neumann-Goretti 69-64 in the Scholastic Play by Play this week, Shipley jumped into the top 20. Sessoms 37 vs Goretti was spectacular to watch and the type of performance legends are made of. Games: 12/12 William Penn Charter, 12/15 PREP SCENE #21 Archbiship Carroll in the ALL-CITY @Bishop McDevitt, 12/16 PREP SCENE #5 @Archbishop Wood in Coaches vs Cancer.
Games: Won the Midland Tip-Off Tournament with 64-56 win over Lincoln Park and 62-53 win over Hickory in the Championship. Davion Stephens was named to the All-Tournament team scoring 29 points during the weekend. Games: 12/11 vs Propel, 12/13 Burrell, 12/15 @Plum.
Goretti dropped a tough one at the Play by Play Showcase to PREP SCENE #16 Shipley. The Saints were led by Dymir Montague's 21, as Marcus Little 14 and Chris Ings 10 also hit double figures. Games: 12/16 PREP SCENE Honorable Mention Cheltenham in Coaches vs Cancer @Archbishop Wood, 12/17 Our Savior (NY) @South Philly HS in ALL CITY.
Saturday's game with Cardinal O'Hara was cancelled, Emmaus was inactive. Games: 12/12 @Pocono Mountain West, 12/15 @Northampton, 12/16 Scranton Prep @Northampton Community College.
Games: Mars beats Avonworth by a whopping 51 points, 91-40. Robbie Carmody, Notre Dame recruit scores, 29 in limited action on opening night. The next night he comes back and drops 43 going 15-15 from the free-throw line on South Park in a 90-46 victory to move the Fightin' Planets to 2-0. Games: 12/12 @McKeesport, 12/15 @Knock.
The Bobcat Tip Off Champions defeated Delone Catholic 80-40, with much of the production coming from the backcourt duo of Albany-bound Antonio Rizzuto (22 pts) and the human highlight reel, Fred Mulbah. The returned the next night to for a 60-52 win over Northern York. PREP SCENE 2020 Nate Wilson tossed in 17. Games: 12/13 Red Lion, 12/15 @Dallastown, 12/17 York Suburban.
The Panthers dropped their opener at the Scholastic Play by Play to #12 Bethlehem Catholic @ Archbishop Carroll High School 65-51. Games: 12/11 Sankofa Freedom, 12/14 @PREP SCENE #4 Imhotep Charter, 12/17 The Haverford School.
You are 100% correct, they were considered for one of the Super 25 slots, and are a definite Honorabld Mention team, that was an oversight not to have them as a HM. Thanks for noticing!! There are plenty of worthy teams across the state that could make the list, but they were meant to be on.
Lol, no problem. Tough job in such a big state. Don't know how you all do it. But, yes they are playing a pretty tough schedule this year, will be a progam on the rise.


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March 29, 1930 — February 24, 2016
William Arthur Kidd, 85, of Bridgman died surrounded by family on Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at Lakeland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph. Cremation has taken place and the family will be remembering him privately. Memorial contributions may be given to the Bridgman Public Library, 4460 Lake Street, Bridgman, MI 49106.
Bill was born on March 29, 1930 in Fleetwood, Lancashire, England, the son of John and Ann (Anderton) Kidd. He served in the British Royal Marines 40 Commando Unit from 1948 - 1955 and saw combat duty in Malaya. He married Patricia Margaret Turner on June 17, 1961 and they immigrated to the United States in 1968. From 1969 - 1981 Bill worked at Nylen Products and retired from Desco Engineering in Sarasota, Florida in 1992.
He will be missed by his wife Patricia of 54 years; children: Alan (Terry) Kidd of Phoenix, AZ, Colin (Christina) Kidd of Toronto, Canada, Kim (Jack Diefenbach) Kidd of Baroda, Laura (Ken) Zielke of Dowagiac, William Kidd of Bridgman; grandchildren: Andrew, Michael and William Kidd, Adrianna Avery, Julia, Liam and Aidan Diefenbach, Robert Seageren, Aimee Veldt, Shannon Fernando, Jessica Kidd-Wilkins, Ashley Nelson; eight great grandchildren and many nieces, nephews and other relatives..
Bill was preceded in death by a son: Derek; a grandson: Daniel; and siblings: Jack, Bob and Irene. Bill loved all animals and will be greatly missed by Lady, his latest love in a lifetime of doggy friends.
Family will be remembering him privately
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