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Holidays are a wonderful time to explore both music and world cultures with your young child. Here's a super-easy kids drum craft for St. Patrick's Day – a drum that originally was a farm sieve for separating grain! A kid's size bodhran (pronounced bow-ran) can be easily made from a pie tin or a metal take-out container. And definitely make the "tipper", too. It's a special kind of drum beater that is tapped back and forth and it great for teaching motor skills to kids! Step-by-step directions can be found in the tutorial below from the TPT website.
What do the classic Irish symbols mean? Naturally, you'll recognize shamrocks as symbols of good luck. The Celtic Cross often represents religion and spirituality. A harp is often pictured because it is the national instrument of Ireland and the Claddagh (two hands joined by a crowned heart) is a beautiful symbol that represents the bonds of friendship, love and loyalty.
Wondering what a bodhran looks or sounds like? Watch these three young boys showing off their formidable drumming and Irish dancing skills. Plus, feel free to check out our round-up of Irish music-related crafts and posts for kids, listed below.
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In other words, if you can read a simple chart and place your fingers over the holes of a tin whistle, then you can play this instrument. And, with a little bit of practice, it can sound great!
Also known as a penny whistle or an Irish whistle, the tin whistle has a plastic or wooden mouthpiece; called a fipple, and a metal tube for the body. Although they are made in all major keys, the most popular tin whistles are in the key of D and C. Best of all, the fingerings used to play any tin whistle are similar to those used on the clarinet, flute and saxophone, so exploring this instrument can be a wonderful "headstart" for any child who might continue on with other wind instruments in the future.
Here are a few tips for playing the tin whistle. First, hold the whistle at a 45 degree angle, facing downward and away from you. If you're right-handed, put that hand on the bottom and use your left hand on the top. If you're a lefty, reverse that order. Thumbs hold the whistle from below and you cover the six holes with your fingertips.
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Once you've found the right way to blow a note, begin removing your fingers starting at the bottom and going to the top (until they all are uncovered). You'll hear the difference in the sound and you can begin to play these notes to form your own melodies.
From there, you can jam with your tin whistle or learn to play specific melodies. You can try some advanced techniques like blowing a bit harder and getting a second octave (a set of higher notes) out of your tin whistle. You can try different whistles in different keys or look for books that share your favorite songs or traditional Irish music which is perfectly suited to this simple folk instrument.


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Prajnadanda (The Staff of Wisdom)
by Sanjib Kumar Das
The text entitled Prajnadanda [Tib. Sherab Dong-bu; Wy1. shes rab sdong bu; Eng. The Staff of Wisdom or The Tree of Wisdom] is one of the very important works is attributed to Nagarjuna-the most venerated Indian Buddhist philosopher, popularly known as 'The Pioneer of Madhyamika Philosophy'. The text contains two hundred and sixty verses based on 'Manners'. It is a type of anthology of elegant sayings. The work is available only in its Tibetan translation in its complete form which has several editions too. The work in Sanskrit original is apparently lost. The original verses were written in variety of metres among which anushtupa is predominant. It was composed most probably in the 8th century AD.
Born in a middle class in West Bengal, Dr. Sanjib Kumar Das was educated at Chandpara Nimna Buniyadi Vidyalaya (Amtala) and then in Gobardanga Khantura High School. Meanwhile, due to some family problems, he fled away from his home and worked as a waiter in several hotels and sweet shops for about two years in Kolkata. Later, he went to Darjeeling and took shelter in a Buddhist Monastery where he also worked as a helper of mason for about a year. Here, an auspicious co incidence came upon in his life that totally changed his life too. On account of the kindness of the Thupten Sanga Ch ling Monastery, he was admitted in its branch school where he studied upto standard VIII. Subsequently, he was sent to Varanasi in 1989 in order to get admission in the then CIHTS, Sarnath for higher studies. Getting admission, he obtained M.A., pursuing upon Buddhist Philosophy, Tibetan Language and other prescribed subjects. In 1998, he was awarded with the Kashi Naresh Gold Medal for being the best student of 1998. After completing M.A, he started doing his Ph.D. which he completed in 2002. In 1999, he was invited as a Translator from TIbetan into English to Taiwan where he stayed for about five months. In 2002, he got a temporary job in the Translation Department in CIHTS, Sarnath and simultaneously a permanent job in CIBS, Leh where he worked for about six years. In 2008, he got a new job in Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan where he is working now on the post of Associate Professor in the Department of Indo-Tibetan Studies. Dr. Das translated, edited, restored, compiled and composed more than fifteen books which have been published by different universities, institutions and reputed publishers in India. Apart from translation, compilation, restoration and editing work, Dr. Das attended number of Local, National and International seminars, and presented papers.
It is indeed a matter of great joy for me to be able to bring out successfully this present work entitled 'Prajnadanda [Tib. Sherab Dong-bu; Wyllie. shes rab sdong bu; Eng. The Staff of Wisdom or The Tree of Wisdom] for the readers which is attributed to Nagarjuna- the most venerated Indian Buddhist philosopher, popularly known as 'The Pioneer of Madhyamika Philosophy', in tri-lingual versions- Tibetan, Hindi and English together with its transliteration. It gives me immense satisfaction as I could finish the entire work of editing, translation, transliteration and typing within a very short span of time. There is another personal reason of happiness which I would like to share with my readers, i.e., during my student life at the present-day Central University of Tibetan Studies, Sarnath I used to memorize a good number verses containing elegant sayings from the text entitled Sanskrit Baladarsa, Ratnadvali, Jatakamdla, Pancatantra and Subhasitaratnanidhi as part of my syllabus. While working on this text I found a few of those verses available in other sources even in Indian sources in Sanskrit. First I was taken aback but then it dawned upon me the common practice in ancient times on the part of scholars or manuscript writers to incorporate favourite verses from other texts while compiling them. It brings to my mind the whole question of ascertaining the authorship and difficulty of editing a text.
Actually the idea of translating and editing the text arose in my mind about eight-nine years ago when I had just joined the Department of Indo- Tibetan Studies, Visva-Bharati and found that a few verses of the text were prescribed for M.A. syllabus. But due to some of other commitments I could not take up the work at that time. Later, when I finished the compilation work, I immediately took up this work. It was possible to finish the work within a very short span of time only with the cooperation of my friend-cum-colleague Dr. Norbu Gyaltsen Negi and my student Sh. Debajit Chatterjee to whom I extend my grateful thanks.
As mentioned above, the Prajnadanda is a work that contains a number of 260 verses based on 'Manners.' It is a type of anthology of elegant sayings. The work is available only in its Tibetan translation in its complete form which has several editions too. The work in Sanskrit original is apparently lost. The original verses were written in variety of metres among which anustupa is predominant. It was composed most probably in the 8th century A.D. The present work is based on the Peking Edition.
Comparison has also been made with other 2-3 leading editions, e.g., Narthang and Derge.
So far my opinion is concerned, some sort of typo-mistake is found in both the Derge and Peking Editions of the text. It is because as per these two editions, verse nos. 101 and 102 are found joined together and is made one instead of two. Besides, some other uniqueness of the metrical form of verses of the text is that atleast two verses are found having three lines each [sloka nos. 144 & 148] and one has six lines. Similarly, regarding the number of words in a verse, some have seven, some have eight, some have nine, some have eleven and some have more than eleven. Another interesting thing is that the author is found using the term 'Chapter II of the text' at the end of the text. I don't understand why such term has been used. I doubt whether the remaining of portion of the work is available in Tengyur. Similarly in quite a few places there is some additional information, e.g. familiarity with the story it is taken from compared to the original Tibetan.
Before this, W.L. Cambell, Prof. Michael Hahn, Prof. Vidhusekhar Shastri, Rai Bahadur Sarat Chandra Das worked on this text in more or less extensively. But this is the first time in history that such work has ever been done- the Hindi and English translations along with the English transliteration. Prof. Michael Hahn, a German scholar, had been trying hard to restore the entire texts in its original form tracing its verses in other extant Sanskrit sources. Further, Dharma Library has also uploaded the English translation of the text which has also helped me to complete the work within a very short time. I feel extremely grateful to those scholastic personalities and sources to have got help from their works.
Earlier, this text was used as one of the text books for the Higher Proficiency Examination in Tibetan and the text in Tibetan version was edited by Rai Bahadur Sarat Chandra Das and printed in a continuous line as is done in Tibet. It made the students concerned difficult to understand the beginning and end of every individual sloka. It was even introduced in the M.A. syllabus of the Department of Indo-Tibetan Studies, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan about eight years back and so I got the opportunity to study the text to some extent.
I feel extremely grateful to Buddhist World Press, Delhi for giving their consent to publish the text in tri-lingual versions on behalf of their esteemed press. I would also like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to Ven. Geshe Dakpa Kalsang, Reader in Buddhist Philosophy, Central Institute of Buddhist Studies, Choglamsar, Leh; Prof. Jamyang Gyaltsen, Central Institute of Buddhist Studies, Choglamsar, Leh; Prof. Harish Chandra Mishra, Hindi-Bhavana, Visva-Bharati; Prof. Somdatta Mandal, HOD, DEOMEL, Visva-Bharati; and Dr. Norbu Gyaltsen Negi, Assistant Professor, Department of Indo-Tibetan Studies, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan for their enthusiasm and effort in correcting the translation of this text within a very short span of time.
Hope, this translated and edited text will prove helpful to those Tibetan, Hindi and English speaking students and readers who are very much interested to study the text containing a vast number of elegant sayings.
By the merits accrued from translating, editing and transliterating this text, may the nectar-like doctrine of the Buddha spread in the whole world and may peace prevail on earth!
Publisher's Notes v
Introduction ix
1 Root Text 1
2 Alphabetical Order of Verse 159
3 Life of Nagarjuna 167
4 List of Text by Nagarjuna 177
5 Appendix 195
6 Bibliography 203
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Ajoba…
Ajoba is 83, 84 or 87 years old. He says he is not sure. At number 14 he was the last child of the Nigudkar clan. He says at that time there was nothing much for entertainment so people made babies. During his times there weren't any hospitals or records that were kept. There was a room in his big bungalow which was used for child birth. There were two women with not many surgical appliances with them who would be the doctors responsible for the delivery.
My great grand father was a big man in Gwalior. He was a collector and earned 500 rupees a month. Ajoba says that he had a very princely childhood. Being the youngest he was his mother 's favorite. He was pampered. The maid in his house would retire to sleep only after she had massaged his legs in the night. He was her favorite too.
Ajoba has a forearm as big as that of Prakash Padukone's. It's huge. I ask him what is the secret and he tells me, it's because of the buffaloes. He was in charge of 'milking the buffalo 'department. They had 3 buffaloes in the backyard. I have tried milking a cow once and all I got was a drop of milk and one kick. He says he got 15 litres of milk from them. Milking a buffalo for years together is the reason for his big forearm.
Ajoba was rockstar looking, with a wide chest and a flat stomach. He showed me a picture of him sitting on a horse, " I tamed him. He was so wild, though I was wilder. " he says with pride. When my grandmom came to meet him for the first time he had no clue that she was coming. He worked as a librarian in a college library, and was posted to another town. " oh! What a sight she was. Long hair, that saree. I fell in love right there. As she had come to see me I made her the traditional poha and tea as I lived alone then." Aaji says more than how he looked she was really impressed with the poha and a very clean kitchen. " For a bachelor living alone it was spotlessly clean. The poha was so tasty. " she says.
Ajoba is an exceptional gardener. He had a huge collection of flowers on the terrace of his house. As a kid when I went to Gwalior in the summer vacations I would watch him taking care of those plants and also try and help. Together both of us would spend hours on that terrace. Ajoba had to leave that house a few years ago as he had to shift to a smaller one bed room flat. He terribly misses his garden till date.
For a strong man like him, there is one major weakness. He hates hospitals and thinks every doctor is a fraud. When my mom as a young kid broke her hand she had to be rushed to the hospital. Ajoba accompanied her. The doctor took out a big injection and told my scared mother to relax. When he poked my mother with that big needle all of them heard a big thud. Ajoba had collapsed looking at all that blood, and that injection was the last straw. His animated version of that incident is much funnier.
Ajoba has every paper cutting of mine, filed safely back home. He has framed one of my cutting and kept it in his show pieces. For a man who has lived in a relatively smaller city all his life he is extremely liberal. He always has an ear for my views on things, he argues and listens to me. Recently when I wore a nice dress, Aaji and mother both looked at me with a little unease. " Don't worry about them. You look like Deepika, so beautiful." I am sure he has no clue how Deepika looks, he was never fond of movies. I gave him a hug anyway.
Recently I came back from Parbhani after playing a tournament. I told him about how dirty and filthy the city was. It was a garbage dump and people lived in inhuman conditions. Their wasn't any drainage system, and there were pigs all over the city. I told him how helpless I felt looking at the hopeless situation. " Don't worry so much. You have to fulfill your destiny first and only then can you help someone else. Your destiny is not picking up a broom and cleaning Parbhani. Though I am sure you might have inspired a young girl to pick up a racket instead of a broom. One has to do what one has to do. Your job is to play, do that well."
When I hear stories about parents being disowned by their children it really surprises me. This older generation is a definite asset to our lives. There is wisdom, love, and so many stories to learn from. I love my rockstar Ajoba, why wouldn't I ? He knows how to use an IPad for god sake and he is 83, 84 or 87.
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Early on an autumn misty morning in October we arrived at the Port of Dover, the car ferry negotiated the narrow entrance skillfully. One often wonders how this was achieved in the days before accurate satellite positioning, engine-powered steel-hulled juggernauts ànd electricity. It is to the house of a historic figure living prior to those days that we travelled, a sort of pilgrimage any naturalist should undertake.
To the southeast of Charing Cross, lies an idyllic corner of former-Kentish countryside, presently in the London Borough of Bromley. Tucked away in the small village of Downe, northeast of Biggin Hill sits the home of Charles Darwin, Down House.
The Darwin family acquired the core of the house and surrounding estate around 1841, and they soon after started expanding and renovating the old house, walling the garden, adding a kitchen garden and green house. In 1846, Charles Darwin rented a plot adjacent to his estate, planted it and the path that interconnects both plots was soon called 'The Sandwalk'. It offered Mr Darwin a shaded and sheltered thinking-walk around the estate, a place where he must have contemplated on a myriad of personal and academic topics.
The is presently held within the English Heritage trust, with many of the historic important items curated at or by the National Museum of Natural History in London. The house served many purposes after the family left the house, so little of the original was preserved. Many parts are period restored, and offer perfect insight into the daily lives of the family and work of Charles Darwin.
Visitors are not allowed to take pictures indoors as many delicate original furniture pieces, tools, books and manuscripts are on display, except for one room which is completely period refurbished: the bedroom. The most memorable here is the view Charles and his wife Emma enjoyed of the gardens and surrounding countryside, ever changing at the pace of the seasons. Mr Darwin's favorite bench stood in the garden close to the house just to the left of the view. A narrative written by his son Francis tells how fond Charles Darwin was at sitting on that bench watching the children play the odd game of lawn-tennis, even knocking up a strayed ball with the curved handle of his walking stick.
Outside, the garden paths lead towards a small orchard, tennis court and stylized garden towards the kitchen garden and Mister Darwin's favorite spots of all, his beloved greenhouse and laboratory.
A creature of habit, Mr Darwin organized his activities and belongings very meticulously. For example, in his final years, his old study was moved to the north end of the house, meticulously recreating his old study (a few yards down the hall) by arranging the furniture in identical fashion, even if this meant sacrificing passage of a door.
As organized as he was in his work and study, so were his 'leisurely' walks in the gardens and meadow. At various points in the garden, he has planted or constructed things to study: the flowering of a plant, the effect of worms in the garden, tendril perversions in cucumbers plants, the three-dimensional construction of honeycomb cells, sexual and asexual reproduction in plants, the meadow, woodland animals etc… . His grandfather, an eminent doctor, even made the weight of family members a point of study by weighing them each time they entered the house when visiting, and commenting on it. He may not have inherited a passion for medicine, but the genetic gift was a more fundamental curiosity, which laid the basis for him to develop groundbreaking insights into the natural world.
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The racism in Arab countries results from a fundamental misunderstanding of Islam's ethics, according to a panel discussion titled Slavery, Colonialism, and Race in the Muslim World held on Nov. 17.
The webinar is the third in the year-long series, Decentering Race: Perspectives from the Global South, organized by the Northwestern University in Qatar's Faculty Working Group on Race, in partnership with the Middle East Studies Committee at NU-Q, the Program of African Studies, the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa at the Evanston campus, and the Middle East and North African Studies Program at the Evanston campus.
The event featured speakers Rudolph Bilal, associate professor of history at the University of California at Santa Barbara and a renowned scholar of Islamic clerical authority and slavery and abolition in West Africa, and Mafaz Al-Suwaidan, a Ph.D. student in Harvard's Committee on the Study of Religion program. It was moderated by Zachary Wright, professor in residence at NU-Q.
During the panel, speakers discussed the history and contemporary resonance of race in the Arab world and how processes of enslavement, colonialism and contemporary prejudice in Muslim societies have racialized "non-white" Arabs and other Muslims, and perhaps even led to the internalization of Western notions of white supremacy.
Al-Suwaidan started by giving examples of anti-Blackness and racism in the Muslim world, focusing on the Gulf. "When it comes to the examples of anti-Blackness in the Arab world…it really doesn't take much searching to see it," she said.
She mentioned that racism is embedded in certain words in the language, the interactions with a predominantly migrant class whether that be non-Khaleeji Arabs or non-Arabs, and the way people treat their domestic workers. She referred to the Kafala system that limits workers' freedom, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation and violation of their rights.
Al-Suwaidan also discussed the problem of media representation and how certain shows and TV programs still use black faces and stereotypes to depict Black people. As an example, she
talked about a Kuwaiti sketch show that aired during Ramadan and explained how "it perpetuated stereotypes of Black Sudanese people" by depicting them as lazy and mocking their accents.
Bilal gave examples of racism in the Arabic language, too. He pointed out that in Mauritania, there is no other word in Hassaniya Arabic to refer to a Black person other than "abd," which literally translates to "slave," and that this word functions in the same way as the n-word in English. He explained that the use of such derisive terms, creating a correlation between Blackness and slavery, demonstrates how deeply entrenched racism is in Arab societies.
Bilal drew on his personal experience growing up in a poor Black neighborhood in Washington, D.C. and his experiences of some of the "most virulent faces of racism in the U.S." to measure the scale of racism in Arab society.
He said that after converting to Islam, he found that the "most open expression of racism and contempt among South Asians and Arab Muslims was worse than anything he had ever experienced in U.S. society growing up."
"Black American Muslims will tell you that their experiences [of racism] in South Asian and Arab Muslim communities are so intense that they drive people out of Islam entirely. They become convinced that this must be a deficient ethical system if this is how these people behave," he said.
Bilal elaborated on the link between racism and the history of enslavement, explaining that it is incorrect to separate the history of enslavement in the Arab world from the history of enslavement in the European world because they are in fact linked.
"If we were honest historians, we would write about the so-called Islamic trade and so-called Transatlantic trade as a single production of modern racialized slavery, but it hasn't been approached that way because of imperialist history," he added.
Bilal explained that the emergence of this intense form of slavery within the Persian Gulf in Oman, in East Africa, and in the Arabian Peninsula in the second half of the 19th century "was profoundly influential in sparking anti-Blackness sentiment and the association of Blackness with slavery."
Al-Suwaidan said the so-called Arab slave trade was a response to the market pressure and that it was the "result of the production of racialized slavery in the West."
"Racialisation of Black people happened within Europe and the U.S. and then got exported as an ideology through colonial and imperial power to the Middle East and other parts of the world," she added.
Bilal then discussed that the Quran offers evidence that racism is ethically wrong. "The Quran is color blind and does not make reference to skin color or hair structure for any human protagonist," he said.
Building upon this, he explained that the most effective way to get Muslim communities to address the problem of systemic racism is by framing it from an ethical point of view as a "violation of God's law and a breach of the unity of humanity that the Quran preaches."
During the second half of the panel, an audience member asked Al-Suwaidan: "What are some strategies and battlegrounds that are most important in the confrontation of racism in the Muslim world?"
She explained that in order to be part of the solution, one should confront its reality and start "questioning practices such as retaining an employer's passport, limiting their freedom and mistreating them" before making links with the global phenomenon of racism.
Another attendee asked the panelists about ways to confront racism in Arab societies through drawing on Islamic traditions.
Bilal said that "we have misrepresented fundamental things in our history" and that "we have written Black people and especially Black women out of the sacred story as if they never existed."
He added that if Muslim Arabs took an anti-racist reading of the history of Islam, they would realize that anti-racism is not something that should be imported from the West but something that is present in the sacred texts.
Al-Suwaidan concluded by highlighting that Islam offers a framework to confront injustices through collective actions. "I think that this is what Islam gives us the moral obligation to respond when we are called upon by the oppressed."
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Q: Get request not passing authorization header I'm trying to pass a GET-request from my Angular front-end to my Spring boot back-end. I'm using JWT to authenticate everything and I'm using an HTTP-interceptor to add the token in the request header like this:
@Injectable()
export class Interceptor implements HttpInterceptor {

    constructor(public auth: AuthService) { }

    intercept(request: HttpRequest<any>, next: HttpHandler): Observable<HttpEvent<any>> {

        const token: string = this.auth.getToken();

        if(this.auth.isAuthenticated()) {
            request = request.clone({
                setHeaders : { Authorization : `${this.auth.getToken()}`,}
            });
        }

        return next.handle(request);
    }
}

I don't see the token being added in chrome's request headers:
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And the back-end doesn't see it either, thus returning a 403. I suspect that this has something to do with CORS (I'm hosting both front-end and back-end on the same machine, and I'm using Chrome + CORS plugin).
So I tried allowing CORS requests to my back-end:
@Override
protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {

    http.csrf().disable();

    http.cors().disable()
            .authorizeRequests()
            .antMatchers("/login").permitAll()
            .antMatchers(HttpMethod.OPTIONS, "/**").permitAll()
            .anyRequest().authenticated().and().addFilterBefore(new JwTokenFilter(jwTokenProvider), UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter.class);
}

This still doesn't seem to work. Also I've tried using Postman to do the same GET-request and that seems to work just fine. Can anyone help me out here?

A: Also override cors mapping or define @Bean for CorsMapping, please define your correct froent end origin I believe its as per your screen shot allowedOrigins("http://evil.com")
@Configuration
public class MvcConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {

    @Override
    public void addCorsMappings(CorsRegistry registry) {
        registry.addMapping("/**").allowCredentials(true).allowedOrigins("http://evil.com")
                .allowedHeaders("Authorization", "Cache-Control", "Content-Type", "Accept", "X-Requested-With", "Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Origin")
                .exposedHeaders("Access-Control-Expose-Headers", "Authorization", "Cache-Control", "Content-Type", "Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Origin")
                .allowedMethods("GET", "OPTIONS", "POST", "PUT", "DELETE", "PATCH");
    }
}

or defining @Bean in configuration or you can also define Filter
   @Bean
    public WebMvcConfigurer corsConfigurer() {
        return new WebMvcConfigurerAdapter() {
            @Override
            public void addCorsMappings(CorsRegistry registry) {
                registry.addMapping("/**").allowedOrigins("your origin or * for allow all");
            }
        };
    }

approach 2:
@CrossOrigin on the Controller
@CrossOrigin(origins = "http://example.com", maxAge = 3600)
@RestController
@RequestMapping("/account")
public class AccountController {


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Tobacco in Russian History and Culture
The Seventeenth Century to the Present
Matthew Romaniello
Tricia Starks
Published April 21, 2011 by Routledge
Published May 14, 2009 by Routledge
Tobacco in Russian History and Culture: The Seventeenth Century to the Present
Book Description Table of Contents Editor(s) Reviews Instructor Resources Support Material
According to the World Health Organization, approximately seventy percent of men and thirty percent of women in Russia smoke, and the WHO estimated that at the close of the twentieth century 280,000 Russians died every year from smoking-related illnesses – a rate over three times higher than the global average. The demographic crisis in current Russia has occasioned interest by President Putin in health care efforts and by historians in the source of these problems. Tobacco in Russian History and Culture explores tobacco's role in Russian culture through a multidisciplinary approach starting with the growth of tobacco consumption from its first introduction in the seventeenth century until its pandemic status in the current post-Soviet health crisis.
The essays as a group emphasize the ways in which, from earliest contact, tobacco's status as a "foreign" commodity forced Russians to confront their national, political, and economic interests in its acceptance or rejection and find there markers of gender, class, or political identity. International contributors from the fields of history, literature, sociology, and economics fully present the dramatic impact of the weed called the "blossom from the womb of the daughter of Jezebel".
Acknowledgements. List of Figures. 1. Tabak: An Introduction. Matthew P. Romaniello and Tricia Starks. 2. Muscovy's Extraordinary Ban on Tobacco. Matthew P. Romaniello. 3. Sex, Drink, and Drugs: Tobacco in Seventeenth-Century Russia. Nikolaos Chrissidis. 4. Tobacco and Health in Early Modern Russia. Eve Levin. 5. Regulating Virtue and Vice in Siberia. Erika Monahan. 6. "I Think, Therefore I Smoke": Tobacco as Liberation in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature and Culture. Konstantine Klioutchkine. 7. Smokescreens: Tobacco Manufacturers' Projections of Class and Gender in Late Imperial Advertising. Sally West. 8. Tobacco Prohibitions as Ritual Language. Roy R. Robson. 9. Papirosy, Smoking, and the Anti-Cigarette Movement. Tricia Starks. 10. Tobacco Production in Russia: The Transition to Communism. Iu. P. Bokarev. 11. "The lads indulged themselves, they used to smoke…": Tobacco and Children's Culture in Twentieth-Century Russia. Catriona Kelly. 12. "Tobacco Is Poison!" Soviet-Era Anti-Smoking Posters. Karen F. A. Fox. 13. The Iava Tobacco Factory from the 1960s to the early 1990s: An Interview with The Former Director, Leonid Iakovlevich Sinel'nikov. Elizaveta Gorchakova. 14. Smokes for Big Brother: Bulgaria, the USSR, and the Politics of Tobacco in the Cold War. Mary Neuberger. 15. Tobacco and Transition: The Advent of Transnational Tobacco Companies. Anna Gilmore. 16. Up in Smoke? The Politics and Health Impact of Tobacco in Today's Russia. Judy Twigg. List of Contributors. Index.
Matthew P. Romaniello is Assistant Professor of History at University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He has published several articles on the history of the Russian Empire, and is currently completing a monograph on Khanate of Kazan' after the Muscovite conquest.
Tricia Starks is Associate Professor of History at University of Arkansas. She is the author of The Body Soviet: Propaganda, Hygiene, and the Revolutionary State, (2008). She is currently completing a monograph on the cultural history of cigarettes in the Soviet Union.
"This volume explores in considerable depth the unusual history of tobacco use in Russia, as compared to other countries. In so doing, as might be expected from the quotidian nature of the commodity in question, it also reveals some fascinating insights into wider Russian social and cultural attitudes. Although there are sixteen chapters from fifteen authors, which vary greatly in approach and focus, a thoughtful and active editoriaI process has moulded each discrete contribution to form a consistent and satisfying whole … This volume admirably achieves its stated aim of describing the trajectory of tobacco use in Russia, with a judicious combination of economic commentary, statistical analysis, and social history, creating a cohesive book that will pique the interest of anyone who studies the country, let alone the commodity."
– Russian Journal of Communication
"[T]he collection of papers put together by Matthew Romaniello and Tricia Starks constitutes a highly useful contribution to our knowledge. Standard Russian/ Soviet history books do not treat the subject of tobacco in any meaningful way. In addition to the generally high caliber of the scholarship, the editors have done an excellent job in recruiting papers that almost seamlessly cover the beginnings of tobacco use through the present day with all relevant periods covered."
– Slavic Review
"[T]here is much in this collection that will interest both economic and cultural historians, historians of medicine and students of contemporary Russian politics and society."
– Social History of Medicine
"One of the many fascinating aspects of this edited collection is the spotlight it throws on the role of Russia's European neighbours in encouraging the spread of tobacco use within Russia from the early modern period through to the Soviet era. … [A]s a whole, the book makes a substantial contribution to the cultural and economic history of Russia . Many of the chapters in the volume also give an insight into the enduring attraction of tobacco for its users, despite the best (or worst) efforts of the state."
– Medical History
"A collection of essays that explains the Russian love affair with tobacco is timely ... Matthew Romaniello and Tricia Starks initially assembled panels on the subject for the November 2007 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. The resulting volume is a collection of chapters by mainly U.S. scholars (with input from Britain's Catriona Kelly, two Russian scholars, and the former director of the Moscow cigarette factory Iava), who analyze a fascinating topic from the various methodological approaches of economics, culture, consumerism, politics, policy and comparative history, international relations, and gender analysis. … This collection … suggests that Russia's tobacco history deserves further research."
– Business History Review
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Irhimeh, M, Fitton, H and Lowenthal, RM 2007 , 'Fucoidan ingestion increases the expression of CXCR4 on human CD34+ cells' , Experimental Hematology, vol. 35 , pp. 989-994 , doi: 10.1016/j.exphem.2007.02.009.
Objective. Transplantation of hematopoietic progenitor stem cells (HPC) is an important treatment modality for a variety of neoplastic diseases. HPC collection for transplantation with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor may be unsuccessful in patients who have received prior chemotherapy or for other reasons. Methods to improve mobilization of HPCs are required. Disruption of the interaction between the cell surface receptor CXCR4 and its ligand stromal derived factor-1 (SDF-1) is a mechanism for HPC release from the bone marrow into the peripheral blood (PB).
Methods. We carried out a clinical trial to evaluate the effects of ingestion of a fucoidan, galactofucan sulfate (a putative HPC mobilizing agent) on circulating CD34+ cells, CXCR4 expression, and levels of SDF-1, interferon gamma (IFN-g) and interleukin 12.
Results. Following ingestion of fucoidan, CD34+ cells increased significantly in the PB from 1.64 to 1.84 cells/mL after 4 days. The proportion of CD34+ cells that expressed CXCR4 increased from 45 to 90% after 12 days, the plasma level of SDF-1 increased from 1978 to 2010 pg/mL, and IFN-g level increased from 9.04 to 9.89 pg/mL.
Conclusion. Oral fucoidan significantly amplified the CXCR4+ HPC population. The ability to mobilize HPC using sulfated polysaccharides and mobilize more HPC with high levels of CXCR4 could be clinically valuable.


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Food & Drink Mar 5, 2014 at 4:00 am
The Great Mesob Returns as Shewaber
The Peripatetic History of a Favorite Ethiopian Restaurant
Charles Mudede
Zufan Abebe at her new spot. Kelly O
This story begins on 23rd and Cherry. Here, about 15 years ago, Mesob, an Ethiopian restaurant, opened its doors for business. Anyone who lived near this location at that time, the late '90s, saw the grand opening as something of a godsend because there wasn't another restaurant for miles around (or what felt like miles around). That corner, and the Central District as a whole, was still in the shadow of the bleak crack years, but its future was becoming clearer by the day—young white Americans were increasingly moving in, the older black Americans were increasingly moving south, and the value of homes was going up and up. In this twilight—the space between black and white, the end and the beginning—Mesob not only provided the area with a venue that was close, a place you could walk to, but also served food that was prepared by someone who knew how to cook.
That person was Zufan Abebe, a lively woman who had a delightfully rough boom in her voice and, between working in the kitchen and manning the bar, always seemed to find time to talk to her customers about everything. And as I ate from my big plate (the greens, the light-brown lentils, the slices of okra, the bits of beef—never overcooked or undercooked), I would watch her talking to black Africans, black Americans, and white Americans with the same mirth. Though her first language dominated her English words and their syntax, you always caught her meaning and way of thinking. The general impression her gestures, eyes, and body gave was of one who was at once world-weary and optimistic—she had seen it all, but tomorrow was surely a brand-new day.
A big TV dominated the north wall of the first Mesob. The TV was not, however, the kind of flat screen that graces the restaurants of our day, but one with a super-bulky back. Her son would watch shows or sports as she worked, as she talked, and as her customers ate. Mesob was in this location for two years, but its departure was not a blow to the neighborhood, because by that time several Ethiopian restaurants had settled in the area—though their cooking was not as consistent, as yummy, as satisfying as Zufan's.
Thirteen years later, I entered the Frye Art Museum to attend the opening of the exhibit Intangible Effects (No. 1), organized by a University of Washington professor, Tad Hirsch. The installation concerned the Seattle City Council's decision to demolish Yesler Terrace, a 70-year-old housing development that supported a substantial East African population. Hirsch worked with this community to gather and display the sounds and images of a world that was soon to become history. To my surprise, Ethiopian food was served at the opening. To my surprise, the dishes were really good (particularly the stewed cabbage). To my surprise, Zufan walked out of the museum's kitchen. She had prepared the meal and was now receiving praise from all around. Eventually, she recognized me, and an old conversation was renewed. How had she been? How were the children? How was Mesob? I knew she had relocated her restaurant to the edge (14th and Jefferson) of Little Addis Ababa (the center of which is on 12th and Jefferson). I also knew many Seattle University students were fans of the bar there. Zufan told me that she was being kicked out of the place. When you hear the answer, you will wonder why I even asked why. "They are going to build town houses! Four town houses. I'm moving from a great place so that we can have more town houses in this city."
"Where will you go?" I asked her.
"I have no idea. We have to wait and see."
Two years later, I left Saigon Deli with a sandwich, walked to the corner of 12th and Main, and, before heading to work, noticed two things: first, the ghostly buildings of Yesler Terrace, and second, a sandwich board that read "Mesob." Zufan had found a new place, here in Little Saigon. She is a survivor. But when a few nights later I located the new Mesob, I discovered another name on the restaurant's green and yellow awning: Shewaber. Zufan is its owner, and she still works in the kitchen, but the space is about half the size of the second Mesob. The new joint contains eight or so tables, a bar, a real flat-screen TV (no bulky nothing), and pictures of the Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I.
I ordered a glass of white wine ($5) and two beef dishes: ketfo ($9.49) and zilzil tibs ($11). The change in name and location has had no perceivable impact on the food—it's still as rich and tasty as the first meal I had many years ago at the Mesob on 23rd and Cherry. As always, the plate easily feeds two people and the salad dressing has a strong punch. I asked Zufan, who in my eyes has not aged in all of this time, why she changed her restaurant's name—after all, "mesob" is a word the mouth loves forming. Zufan explained that it was for personal reasons (the world-weariness appeared in her eyes). She then told me the new name represents glorious things in her culture and also a new direction in her life (the optimism grew in her eyes).
"See that," she pointed to a piece of wood art over the bar, "that is a Shewaber. It's one of the five gates in Harar, where I come from." And what are the five gates of Harar? I decided to save that question for another visit.
Charles Tonderai Mudede, The Stranger's senior staff writer, is a Zimbabwean-born cultural critic, urbanist, filmmaker, college lecturer, and writer. Mudede collaborated with the director Robinson Devor on three films, two of which, Police Beat and Zoo, premiered at Sundance, and one of which, Zoo, screened at Cannes. He has also written for the New York Times, Cinema Scope, Tank Magazine, e-flux, LA Weekly, and C Theory.
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Can you use DS4 on PCSX2?
I'm just wondering as the only controller I have is the Dualshock 4. Is there a way to make it work on PCSX2?
Well I'm currently using DS4 to Xinput to play my steam games. Do you think that would work?
Yeah, that's what we use.
Ok, So I have DS4 all set up now and connected to my PC so how do I enable it in PCSX2?
(12-18-2014, 09:17 PM)EoinIRL Wrote: Ok, So I have DS4 all set up now and connected to my PC so how do I enable it in PCSX2?
After input of your DS4 with the XInput wrapper works for other software go to lilypad plugin settings where you can bind controls by clicking on the second tab and then hitting one button after another in the plugin window and on your DS4.
You should also check the recognized gamepad listbox if you cant get it to work. The XInput wrapper should be written there.


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Two of the UK's most treasured presenters are joining forces to bring you this year's instalment of 'I'm a Celeb", and it's set to be one of the best ones yet! Dec's usual side kick – Ant – has had troubles recently (as we know), meaning he is going to spend time working on himself, whilst Holly takes the reigns.
The bubbly blonde has been friends with the boys for years, moving in the same circles both on and off-screen. When the news broke that Ant wouldn't be fulfilling his usual duty on the show, the bet was on Holly to step in.
Holly was dubbed the 'obvious' but 'best' candidate for filling the boots of the other half of the dynamic duo 'Ant and Dec', in the jungle this year.


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