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1906-1975 Josephine Baker became wildly popular as an American dancer and singer who brought the essence of the Jazz Age to Paris. Widely known for her daring costumes and exotic cabaret performances, she also was an early civil rights activist and the mother of 12 adopted children known as her "Rainbow Tribe."
A Fleeting Childhood
Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, on June 3, 1906, Baker was the daughter of Carrie McDonald, a washerwoman of African and Native American ancestry, and a vaudeville drummer named Eddie Carson. Her parents split soon after she was born, and even after her mother remarried, the family struggled to make ends meet. While still in elementary school, Baker cleaned house and babysat for white families to help supplement her mother's modest income.
At age 14, she left home and took a job waiting tables at the Old Chauffer's Club, where Baker met and married her first husband and began picking up dance steps and entertainment routines. By age 15, she had divorced and married again, taking her second husband's last name. At the Booker T. Washington Theater in St. Louis, Baker made her stage debut doing comedic routines with the local street musicians called The Jones Family Band. Also performing were the Dixie Steppers, an all-black dance troupe. Baker impressed the manager, who hired her as a dresser, and for a year, she toured the country with them, working on the dancers' wardrobes and secretly memorizing their routines. When one of the chorus girls was injured, Baker happily filled in. Convinced that she wanted to dance, Baker left her second husband and moved to New York City to join the production of Shuffle Along, the first all-black Broadway show.
Once again, she worked as a dresser until she got the opportunity to take a place in the chorus line. Baker stole the spotlight by clowning around while dancing, and she stayed with the show until it closed in 1923. Shortly after, she was recruited for a show called La Revue Nègre, an all-black show that was headed for Paris.
Paris and the Jazz Craze
In 1925, Paris was in the midst of a jazz craze, and French audiences were captivated by African American musicians, performers, and artists. La Revue Nègre presented jazz and blues musicians and introduced tap dancing and the Charleston, but it also catered to French stereotypes with exaggerated jungle themes. For her routine, "Danse Sauvage," Baker and her male partner wore nothing but a few strategically placed feathers.
The performance drove audience members—especially men—wild, and Baker was an instant star. In 1926, when she was just 20 years old, Baker broke her contract with La Revue Nègre in order to star in her own show at the Folies-Bergère theater. It was here that she performed her most famous routine, the "Banana Dance," in which she danced over a mirror tilted toward the audience, wearing nothing but 16 satin bananas around her waist. The performance cemented her superstar status. She became as famous as the screen queens Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson, and was the highest paid entertainer in Europe.
In the United States, segregation and discrimination kept African Americans from acceptance in mainstream American society, but Baker found Paris integrated and welcoming. She quickly made friends among the city's artistic and literary elite, charming such cultural luminaries as Pablo Picasso, e.e. cummings, Jean Cocteau, and Ernest Hemingway. Baker solidified her status as a Parisienne by opening her own nightclub, Chez Joséphine. She then embarked on a two-year world tour, but in 1936, when Baker returned to the United States to star in the Ziegfield Follies, she was shocked by the hostile reception. Audiences and the press couldn't accept a black woman who didn't fit the subservient roles they were willing to recognize. She returned to Paris angry and disappointed.
When World War II broke out, Baker joined the French Resistance, helping to smuggle out refugees and carrying messages written in invisible ink on her sheet music. She entertained troops and performed benefit concerts in North Africa and the Middle East. When the war was over, she returned to Paris, and Sublieutenant Josephine Baker of the Free French Forces proudly received the Croix de Guerre from French General Charles de Gaulle. In the aftermath, Baker continued performing and recording, and began making television appearances. She married Jo Bouillon, a French bandleader, and the pair set about restoring a castle and small village called Les Milandes. Baker poured massive amounts of money into Les Milandes, hoping to turn it into a tourist destination. To support the estate, Baker again toured the United States. This time, she decided to confront American racism directly and refused to perform for segregated audiences. She was largely successful, and the NAACP recognized her efforts by declaring May 20th Josephine Baker Day. Finally content, she and Bouillon began adopting orphans of all different ethnicities, eventually creating a family of 12 children Baker called her "Rainbow Tribe."
In 1963, when she was 57 years old, Baker flew to Washington, DC, to support civil rights at the March on Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In New York City, she was greeted with a standing ovation at Carnegie Hall. Returning to France, however, Baker struggled to support Les Milandes. When the French government foreclosed and the estate was sold to pay off her debts, her marriage to Bouillon also dissolved. On April 9, 1975, Baker made her final comeback, appearing in a show that told the story of her life. The show opened in Paris to rave reviews, but the next day, she suffered a stroke and died.
Baker's rise to fame and struggle to earn appreciation from American audiences is chronicled in Phyllis Rose's book, Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time. Baker's creative and powerful performances epitomized the jazz age, while her tireless support of civil rights predated and outlasted many of her contemporaries.
Ella Baker 1903-1986 Ella Josephine Baker worked with the leading civil rights activists of her time, and played a critical part in...
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One classification of objects in many applications is the Data Transfer Object, or DTO. Here are some more tips that may help you avoid problems when using these objects.
Last week we talked about the definition of a DTO and how they're typically used. This week we'll cover a few more common problems with them and offer some Dos and Don'ts.
It's fairly common to need to map to a DTO and another type, such as an entity. If you're doing this in several places, it's a good idea to consolidate the mapping code in one place. A static factory method on the DTO is a common approach to this. Note that this isn't adding behavior to the DTO, but rather is just a static helper method that we're putting on the DTO type for organizational purposes. I usually name such methods with a From prefix, such as FromCustomer(Customer customer) for a CustomerDTO type. There's a simple example in the show notes for episode 8.
You can also use a tool like AutoMapper, which will eliminate the need to use such static factory methods. I usually quickly end up moving to AutoMapper if I have more than a couple of these methods to write myself.
It's common in ASP.NET MVC apps to use attributes from the System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations namespace to decorate model types for validation purposes. For example, you can add a Required attribute to a property, and during model binding if that property isn't, an error will be added to a collection of validation errors. Since these attributes don't impact your ability to work with the class as a DTO, and since typically the DTO is tailor made for the purpose of doing this binding, I think it's perfectly reasonable to use these attributes for this purpose. You can rethink this decision if at some point the attributes start to cause you pain. Follow Pain Driven Development (PDD): if something hurts, take a moment to analyze and correct the problem. Otherwise, keep on delivering value to your customers.
If you're not a fan of attribute-based validation, you can use Fluent Validation and define your validation logic using a fluent interface. You'll find a link in the show notes.
Avoid referencing non-DTO or primitive types from your DTOs. This can pull in dependencies that can make it difficult to secure your DTO. In some cases, it can introduce security vulnerabilities, such as if you have methods accepting input as DTOs, and these DTOs reference entities that your app is directly updating in the database. An attacker could guess at the structure of the entity and perhaps its navigation properties and could add or update data outside of the bounds of what you thought you were accepting. Take care in your update operations to only update specific fields, rather than model binding an entity object from external input and then saving it.


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American Kadi* in Pennsylvania's Court
Posted on 24th February 2012 | Comments Off on American Kadi* in Pennsylvania's Court
(Kadi: the judge, who, according to the theory of Muslim law [sharia], has to decide all cases involving cases of civil and criminal law)
Responding with self-righteous indignation this past August, 2011 to queries about his judicial appointment of Sohail Mohammed, a Muslim, New Jersey governor Chris Christie proclaimed "Ignorance is behind the criticism of Sohail Mohammed." He added, peevishly, that his "sharia-[Islamic]law business is crap . . . and I'm tired of dealing with the crazies!"
But Christie's uninformed and defamatory diatribe willfully ignored that Mr. Mohammed was a board member of the cultural jihadist American Muslim Union (AMU) organization, and personal attorney for AMU's Mohammed Qatanani, an admitted member of Hamas, whose covenantal goal is the jihad genocide of Israel's Jewish population. Of course having been deliberately blind and politically pandering enough—given New Jersey's large Muslim community—to ignore these alarming connections to jihadism, it was easy for the disingenuous governor to angrily dismiss any potential concerns about Mr. Mohammed's predilection for applying sharia in his judicial decisions, as opposed to antithetical US constitutional law.
Fast forward six months to the unabashed sharia-compliant, Islamic blasphemy law-based "decision" of American convert to Islam, and Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania Magisterial District Judge Mark Martin. The proceedings were in fact "surreal", as summarized by blogger Al Stefannelli, and captured on audio. Simply put, Judge Martin chose to abandon his required fidelity to the constitutional law of the US, and instead behaved as dutiful pious Muslim Kadi, albeit in a Pennsylvania state court. Just below is Stefanelli's apt synopsis of the full 36 minute 52 second res ipsa loquitur audio:
The Pennsylvania State Director of American Atheists, Inc., Mr. Ernest Perce V., was assaulted by a Muslim while participating in a Halloween parade. Along with a Zombie Pope, Ernest was costumed as Zombie Muhammad. The assault was caught on video, the Muslim man admitted to his crime and charges were filed in what should have been an open-and-shut case. That's not what happened, though.
The defendant is an immigrant and claims he did not know his actions were illegal, or that it was legal in this country to represent Muhammad in any form. To add insult to injury, he also testified that his 9 year old son was present, and the man said he felt he needed to show his young son that he was willing to fight for his Prophet.
The case went to trial, and as circumstances would dictate, Judge Mark Martin is also a Muslim. What transpired next was surreal. The Judge not only ruled in favor of the defendant, but called Mr. Perce a name and told him that if he were in a Muslim country, he'd be put to death. Judge Martin's comments included,
"Having had the benefit of having spent over 2 and a half years in predominantly Muslim countries I think I know a little bit about the faith of Islam. In fact I have a copy of the Koran here and I challenge you sir to show me where it says in the Koran that Mohammad arose and walked among the dead. I think you misinterpreted things. Before you start mocking someone else's religion you may want to find out a little bit more about it it makes you look like a dufus and Mr. (Defendant) is correct. In many Arabic speaking countries something like this is definitely against the law there. In their society in fact it can be punishable by death and it frequently is in their society."
Judge Martin then offered a lesson in Islam, stating,
"Islam is not just a religion, it's their culture, their culture. It's their very essence their very being. They pray five times a day towards Mecca to be a good Muslim, before you die you have to make a pilgrimage to Mecca unless you are otherwise told you can not because you are too ill too elderly, whatever but you must make the attempt. Their greetings wa-laikum as-Salâm (is answered by voice) may god be with you. Whenever, it's very common when speaking to each other it's very common for them to say uh this will happen it's it they are so immersed in it."
Judge Martin further complicates the issue by not only abrogating the First Amendment, but completely misunderstanding it when he said,
"Then what you have done is you have completely trashed their essence, their being. They find it very very very offensive. I'm a Muslim, I find it offensive. But you have that right, but you're way outside your boundaries or first amendment rights. This is what, and I said I spent about 7 and a half years living in other countries. when we go to other countries it's not uncommon for people to refer to us as ugly Americans this is why we are referred to as ugly Americans, because we are so concerned about our own rights we don't care about other people's rights as long as we get our say but we don't care about the other people's say"
But wait, it gets worse. The Judge refused to allow the video into evidence, and then said,
"All that aside I've got here basically.. I don't want to say he said she said but I've got two sides of the story that are in conflict with each other."
"The preponderance of, excuse me, the burden of proof… "
"…he has not proven to me beyond a reasonable doubt that this defendant is guilty of harassment, therefore I am going to dismiss the charge"
The Judge neglected to address the fact that the ignorance of the law does not justify an assault and that it was the responsibility of the defendant to familiarize himself with our laws. This is to say nothing of the judge counseling the defendant that it is also not acceptable for him to teach his children that it is acceptable to use violence in the defense of religious beliefs. Instead, the judge gives Mr. Perce a lesson in Sharia law and drones on about the Muslim faith, inform everyone in the court room how strongly he embraces Islam, that the first amendment does not allow anyone " to piss off other people and other cultures" and he was also insulted by Mr. Perce's portrayal of Mohammed and the sign he carried. This is a travesty. Not only did Judge Martin completely ignore video evidence, but a Police Officer who was at the scene also testified on Mr. Perce's behalf, to which the Judge also dismissed by saying the officer didn't give an accurate account or doesn't give it any weight.
Abundant contemporary evidence demonstrates that Islamic law and mores regarding blasphemy, today, remain distressingly incompatible with modern conceptions of religious freedom, and human rights. Thus writing in the early 1990s, the esteemed Pakistani scholar Muhammad Asrar, whose opinion was accepted by Pakistan's Shari'a Court, defined "blasphemy", focusing on the Muslim prophet, as:
Reviling or insulting the Prophet (pbuh) in writing or speech; speaking profanely or contemptuously about him or his family; attacking the Prophet's dignity and honor in an abusive manner; vilifying him or making an ugly face when his named is mentioned; showing enmity or hatred towards him, his family, his companions, and the Muslims; accusing, or slandering the Prophet and his family, including spreading evil reports about him or his family; defaming the Prophet; refusing the Prophet's jurisdiction or judgment in any manner; rejecting the Sunnah; showing disrespect, contempt for or rejection of the rights of Allah and His Prophet or rebelling against Allah and His Prophet.
And in accord with classical Islamic jurisprudence (for example, The Risala of al-Qayrawani [d. 996]), Madani argues that anyone who defames Muhammad — Muslim or non-Muslim — must be put to death.
Intrepid historian David Littman has been chronicling, nearly alone, for over two decades, the concerted efforts of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (now "Islamic Cooperation", OIC) to Islamize international human rights instruments, and apply the sharia "standard" for blasphemy to all nations. Littman warned, for example, about the development of the Shari'a-based 1990 Cairo Declaration (i.e., the so-called Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Islam), to which all member states of the OIC are signatories, publicizing the immediate objections of a brave Senegalese jurist, Adama Dieng. Dieng, a Muslim, who subsequently became a United Nations special rapporteur, then serving as secretary-general to the International Commission of Jurists, declared forthrightly in February 1992 that the Cairo Declaration, under the rubric of the Shari'a,
…gravely threatens the inter-cultural consensus on which the international human rights instruments are based; introduces, in the name of the defense of human rights, an intolerable discrimination against both non-Muslims and women; reveals a deliberately restrictive character in regard to certain fundamental rights and freedoms..; [and] confirms the legitimacy of practices, such as corporal punishment, that attack the integrity and dignity of the human being.
Although Kadi…er Judge Martin clearly does not understand—or abide—US constitutional law, and its non-Islamic principles, his "sensibilities" are ominously consistent with mainstream Islamic blasphemy law as reiterated by the Pennsylvania Muslim judge's co-religionist colleagues from the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America. The Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA), whose mission statement maintains the organization was, "…founded to provide guidance for Muslims living in North America…AMJA is a religious organization that does not exploit religion to achieve any political ends, but instead provides practical solutions within the guidelines of Islam and the nation's laws to the various challenges experienced by Muslim communities…", is accepted as such by the mainstream American Muslim community. Notwithstanding this mainstream acceptance, including uncritical endorsement of its seventh annual American conference in Houston (October 15-18, 2010) to train American imams, AMJA has issued a ruling which sanctions the killing of "blasphemers"—including non-Muslims guilty of this "crime":
Fatwa # 77506: On "Blaspheming" Muhammad, the Muslim prophet, Dr.Salah Al-Sawy 2009-01-21
[F]or those scholars who say that repentance of a person who insults Allaah or His Messenger shall not accepted, [they] mean that repentance does not lift up the set punishment for cursing and insulting the Prophet, i.e., execution. Because the Prophet is the one who was actually wronged and insulted and he is no longer alive, therefore, he is not alive to practice his right to forgive him [the blasphemer] for what he did. Also, no Muslim is ever is entitled or authorized to forgive on the Prophet's behalf.
During his 2008 debate with the cultural jihadist Tariq Ramadan, Ibn Warraq elucidated what is at stake should such Islamic supremacism prevail:
The great ideas of the West — rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule of law and equality under the law, freedom of thought and expression, human rights, and liberal democracy — are superior to any others devised by humankind. It was the West that took steps to abolish slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate even in Africa, where rival tribes sold black prisoners into slavery. The West has secured freedoms for women and racial and other minorities to an extent unimaginable 60 years ago. The West recognizes and defends the rights of the individual: we are free to think what we want, to read what we want, to practice our religion, to live lives of our choosing…Nor does the West need lectures on the superior virtue of societies in which women are kept in subjection under sharia, endure genital mutilation, are stoned to death for alleged adultery, and are married off against their will at the age of nine; societies that deny the rights of supposedly lower castes; societies that execute homosexuals and apostates. The West has no use for sanctimonious homilies from societies that cannot provide clean drinking water or sewage systems, that make no provisions for the handicapped, and that leave 40 to 50 percent of their citizens illiterate.
Notwithstanding the politically expedient, willfully blind moral cretinism of Chris Christie, and other politicians of his ilk, it is well past time for the US to regain its sense of self-worth, disbar any judges who behave like de facto Kadis such as Mr. Martin, disband organizations like AMJA which promote murderous "blasphemy law," and deport AMJA's Muslim "jurists".
Andrew G. Bostom is the author of The Legacy of Jihad (Prometheus, 2005) and The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism " (Prometheus, November, 2008) You can contact Dr. Bostom at @andrewbostom.org
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Impact of Covid-19 Vaccination and Prior Infection in Rhode Island on July-November, 2021"Delta Wave" Covid-19 Infections, Hospitalizations, and Deaths
[Updated] Over half (52.7%; 29/55) of Rhode Island's November, 2021 COVID-19 deaths were among the fully vaccinated; Naturally acquired immunity reduced that risk by 20-fold (per 100,000)
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traeh on Bostom Interview: Exposing the False See-No-Islam Fox News/"Conservatism, Inc." Media Narrative About Ilhan Omar & The Global Pandemic of Muslim Jew-Hatred [Audio/Transcript]
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The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, Updated January, 2020 Edition, With A New Author's Preface
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Iran's Final Solution for Israel: The Legacy of Jihad and Shi'ite Islamic Jew-Hatred in Iran
Sharia versus Freedom - The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism
The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism
The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims
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Q: How to pass data to another web forms in asp.net c#? First web form:
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The code 'Product' is incorrect. Does anyone know how to solve this? Appreciate your help.

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Africa's top ranked side Algeria are out to prove that their impressive FIFA World Cup Brazil2014 campaign and remarkable run through the AFCON qualifiers were no mean achievements as they seek to translate their pre-tournament favorite tag into a second continental title.
The Desert Foxes reached the second round of the FIFA World Cup in Brazil and were first to qualify together with Cape Verde's Blue Sharks as they cruised through their final qualifying pool which had Mali, Malawi and Ethiopia.
With the weight of an expectant nation on their shoulders, the pressure will be on the Desert Foxes to find their way in a group branded the "Group of Death".
They open the campaign against a side that is in fine form and whose trainer says they are in Equatorial Guinea to compete proudly and raise the bar at AFCON 2015.
Star playmaker Yacine Brahimi is confident the squad has the attributes to do well and progress from the group.
"During the preparation, we played a friendly match against Tunisia and that game allowed us to fine-tune our game and correct errors. While in Equatorial Guinea, we just have to manage the group and especially the physical fitness so that we remain at the top," the FC Porto star said.
On the opening match against South Africa's Bafana Bafana, Brahimi said: "We have studied very well the South African game and we will play our game and impose our rhythm. Our goal in this tournament is to win all our matches, starting with Africa South," he said.


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Q: Allowing HTTP Header Content Type */* in Azure WAF Rules I am trying to call the Azure-hosted API endpoint using a 3rd party application. Application sends the HTTP request with the header values ContentType = "*/*";
Azure Application Gateway WAF blocks the request showing the below diagnostics logs.
I am aware that, I can add an exclusion in the Web Application Firewall settings, however, I am not able to extract the Request Header Name since the logs do not show the value due to the wildcard(ContentType = "*/*";) content type sent by the 3rd party app.
I added the below rule, but it is still blocking the request.

How can I allow the request via the AGW?
Please find the logs below.

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Tag Archives: Asian Tournaments
Iran wins gold at U18 Asian Basketball Championships (Photos)
Iran have been crowned champions of the 2016 FIBA Asia U18 Championship after beating Japan 71-65 in the final held at Azadi Basketball Hall in Tehran. It is the third time Iran have won the title of this competition after previous wins in 2004 and 2008.
The hosts lost to Japan and Korea in the group stage, but dethroned the three-time reigning champions China in the quarterfinals and won against Korea in the semifinals. Korea got past Lebanon 86-63 in the 3rd Place Game.
Iran, Japan and Korea will represent Asia at the 2017 FIBA Under-19 World Championship in Egypt.
Sources: IRNA, FIBA 1, FIBA 2, Wikipedia | 2016 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship
This entry was posted in Sports and tagged Asian Tournaments, Basketball, Iran, Japan, Korea, Photos, sports, Youth on August 3, 2016 by socialinform.
Iran's women win silver medal at the Asian Canoe Polo Championships in Hong Kong (Photos)
The 16th Asian Canoe Polo Championships have been held in October 2015 in Hong Kong, with over 200 players in four categories (Men, U21 Men, Women, U21 Women) from eleven participating countries (Brunei, China, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Chinese Taipei and Hong Kong).
Iran, Singapore, Chinese Taipei and Japan dominated the finals of the Championships. Each of them respectively won a championship in the end. Iran won a total of four medals (one gold, two silver and one bronze) and the top scorer titles in the U21 men and women categories.
Singapore's women canoe polo team defeated five-time defending champions Iran 3-1 in the final, winning the title for the first time. Singapore had fallen to Iran at the final hurdle thrice (2005, 2009 and 2013). Iran's U21 women team cut Singapore's title hopes winning the final 5-1. Iran men won bronze after future champion Japan defeated them 7-6 in the semifinals. The U21 team lost 2-6 to Chinese Taipei in the final to settle for a silver medal.
Photos of the Iranian team during the championship in Hong Kong
The Asian Canoeing Championships are subdivided into three tournaments: canoe sprint, canoe slalom and canoe polo. Canoe polo is a combination of canoeing and water polo. The canoes that are used are lighter and shorter than a conventional one, for easier manoeuvrability. Two teams of five players attempt to score using a water polo ball in an area slightly smaller than an Olympic-sized pool. The game can be played in a swimming pool or a lake. The 20-minute game is divided into two halves, with a three-minute interval. The players score by sending the ball into a goal, which is suspended 2m above the water's surface. Besides using the paddles, players can also use their hands to pass the ball, similar to the practice in water polo. Each player has to wear protective gear such as helmet, vest and face guard.
Sources: Wikipedia | Asian Canoeing Championships, The Straits Times, Asian Canoe Confederation, Iran Daily, Fars News, Sportsoho
This entry was posted in Sports, Women and tagged Asian Tournaments, Awards, Canoe Polo, Canoeing, Iran, Photos, sports, sports-women, women on November 14, 2015 by socialinform.
Iran wins sixteen medals at the Asian Canoe Sprint Championships in Palembang, Indonesia
The 16th Asian Canoeing Championships, hosted in Palembang, Indonesia from November 4th to November 8th, were attended by 500 athletes from 21 countries: Cambodia, China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, North Korea, South Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Tajikistan, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vietnam. Unfortunately athletes from Nepal and Pakistan were not able to attend the event due to a delay in their visas.
Iran had a very succesfull run winning a total of sixteen medals (five gold, five silver and six bronze). Kazakhstan dominated the tournament, grabbing the most medals.
Results – Senior
Women C1 200m Fatemeh Karamjani (Gold)
Women C1 500m Fatemeh Karamjani (Silver)
Men K4 1000m Ali Aghamirzaei / Babak Darban / Farzin Asadi / Amin Boudaghi (Gold)
Men C1 200m Adel Mojallalimoghadam (Bronze)
Men K1 1000m Farzin Asadi (Bronze)
Men K2 200m Ali Ojaghu / Seyedkia Eskandanihahosseini (Bronze)
Men K2 1000m Ali Aghamirzaei / Amin Boudaghi (Bronze)
Photos: Iranian canoe athletes at national and international canoeing competitions
Results – Junior
Women K1 200m Mina Abdolahi (Gold)
Women K2 500m Ebrahimi / Tahmasabi (Gold)
Women C1 200m Atena Raofi (Bronze)
Women K1 500m Mina Abdolahi (Bronze)
Men C1 1000m Nabi Rezayi (Gold)
Men K1 1000m Alireza Farmande (Silver)
Men K2 1000m Masoud/Sharifi (Silver)
Dragon boat races
Women 200m (Silver)
Sources: Wikipedia | 2015 Asian Canoe Sprint Championships, palembantribunnews.com, antarasumsel.com I, antarasumsel.com II, antarasumsel.com III, The Straits Times, Mehr News 1, womencanintl.com, Mehr News 2
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Winners of Asian Women's Futsal Championship welcomed in Iran (Photos)
Iran women's national futsal team were received at the airport in Tehran by their families, fans, Football Federation officials and a number of media representatives after having been crowned inaugural champions of the AFC Women's Futsal Championship in Malaysia.
Fereshteh Karimi was awarded AFC Women's Futsal Championship 2015 Most Valuable Player after beating Japan 1-0 in a thrilling final at the Nilai Indoor Stadium. The 26-year-old scored six goals in the campaign but undoubtedly her most important was the one she notched in the final.
Sources: IRNA Photos, AFC | Iran crowned inaugural AFC Futsal Champions, AFC | Fereshteh Karimi attributes MVP accolade to team effort
This entry was posted in Sports, Women and tagged Asian Tournaments, Awards, Futsal, Iran, Photos, sports, women on October 3, 2015 by socialinform.
Photo gallery: Iranian football fans at the 2015 Asian Cup in Australia
The 2015 Asian Cup started on January 9th and ends on January 31st. Iran reached the quarterfinals but lost to Iraq on penalties in a nerve-wrecking match.
As a goodbye to this year's Asian Cup a compilation of photos of Iranian fans:
Sources: mostafagraphy.tumblr.com, Iran beat Bahrain in 2015 Asian Cup opener – in pictures, Asian Cup – The fans of Iran, Bing Image Search
This entry was posted in People & Society, Sports and tagged Asian Cup, Asian Tournaments, Fans, football, Iran, People, Photos, soccer, sports on January 23, 2015 by socialinform.
Iran beach soccer team claims gold in Asian Beach Games in Thailand
Iran's beach soccer team defeated Japan 4-3 and won the gold medal in the 4th edition of the Asian Beach Games on Friday.
Shahriar Mozhdeh Roudsari, Ali Naderi, Amir Hossein Akbari and Hassan Abdollahi scored for the Iranian outfit at the Saphan Hin. Moreira Ozu (twice) and Takasuke Goto scored for the Japanese team. […]
Iran has already won five gold medals in the games which is underway in Phuket, Thailand. The Iranian athletes are competing in 17 out of 26 sports in the event.
Kamran Hosseini Jam at the Men's Freestyle -80kg, Mohammad Naderi at the Men's Freestyle -70kg, Jaber Sadeghzadeh at the Men's Freestyle +80kg, Ghanbar Ali Ghanbari at the Men's -66kg and Sobhan Taherkhani at the Men's Long Jump Final have previously won a gold medal in the games.
The 4th Asian Beach Games opened in Thailand on November 14, attracting 3,272 athletes from 43 Asian countries and territories. There are a total of 196 categories in 26 sports. The first Asian Beach Games was held in Indonesia in 2008. Vietnam will host the fifth edition in Khanh Hoa Province and Da Nang City in 2016.
Source: Payvand News
This entry was posted in Sports and tagged Asian Beach Games, Asian Tournaments, Awards, Beach Soccer, Iran, sports on November 23, 2014 by socialinform.
Iran beat China to lift U-20 Asian volleyball crown
The Iranian team wearing their gold medals
Iran has pulled off a stunning straight-sets victory over China to take gold at the 17th Asian U20 Men's Volleyball Championships in Bahrain. A match billed as a clash of the Asian junior titans became a volleyball clinic, with Iran strolling to its fifth Asian U20 title, all achieved in the past nine championships.
With the exception of the first five points of the match, which China won, Iran was in total control. The seeds were sown in the sixth point of the opening set, when Rahman Taghizadeh rose to block a Runtao Xia spike. That block not only stopped the Chinese momentum, it also signaled a change in direction for his teammates. […]
Zhejia Zhang, the Chinese blocking machine later named the tournament's best middle blocker, managed just one for the night. Runtao Xia, later to be named best outside spiker, was restricted to just seven points.
Iran played almost all its pool matches with just ten players, after visa problems left two of its players cooling their heels in Tehran. […]
"They worked very hard for this, working, working, working, step-by-step. Today the players showed they were one team and they were the best in the competition."
It was a powerful display by Iran, and guarantees Asia will be well served at next year's U23 World Championships in Mexico. "In 2007 I was with the Iran youth team when we won the gold medal, and I hope next year we can repeat history and win another gold medal," coach Farhad said.
Final result: Iran vs. China 3-0 (25-19, 25-18, 25-19)
Iranian supporters in Manama, Bahrein, at the 2014 Asian junior men's volleyball championship
Iranian team members celebrate their victory
Iranian defensive wall
Final standings – TOP 5
1. IRAN
2. CHINA
4. BAHRAIN
Best setter: Yu Yaochen (China)
Best outside spiker: Valaei Akbar (Iran)
Best outside spiker: Xia Runtao (China)
Best middle blocker: Alla Verdian Sahand (Iran)
Best middle blocker: Zhang Zhejia (China)
Best libero: Lee Sanguk (Korea)
Best opposite spiker: Mohamed Anan (Bahrain)
Most valuable player: Mohammadjavad Manavinezhad (Iran)
Source: asianvolleyball.org
This entry was posted in Sports and tagged Asian Tournaments, Awards, sports, Volleyball, Youth on October 27, 2014 by socialinform.
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By Joe Bavier, Abdi Sheikh, Michael Ovaska and Aditi Bhandari
Published Dec. 14, 2022 08:30 GMT
Muted video of Nadifa Abdi Isak, a Somali woman, fanning an outdoor stove, sitting on the ground outside a tent with three of her young children.
Nadifa Abdi Isak cooks food in a Mogadishu camp for displaced people. REUTERS/Abdirahman Hussein
In October, Nadifa Abdi Isak brought her malnourished daughters to hospital in Mogadishu. That day, a nurse said, 42 other children had already been checked into the emergency unit, ravaged by hunger. There were 57 the day before that.
Staff at the Benadir maternity and paediatric hospital said admissions of malnourished children have more than doubled their patient numbers over the past year. They are now treating over 1,000 emergency cases each month.
Half a million children's lives are at risk from a looming famine in Somalia, according to the United Nations – that's more than in any country worldwide this century.
Across Africa, from east to west, people are experiencing a food crisis that is bigger and more complex than the continent has ever seen, say diplomats and humanitarian workers.
One in five Africans – a record 278 million people – were already facing hunger in 2021, according to data from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). It says the situation has worsened.
The number of East Africans experiencing acute food insecurity – when a lack of food puts lives or livelihoods in immediate danger – has spiked by 60% in just the last year, and by nearly 40% in West Africa, according to the World Food Programme (WFP).
Conflict and climate change are the long-term causes. Heavy debt burdens following the COVID-19 pandemic, rising prices and war in Ukraine have made things much worse as European aid has been sucked away, data and testimony from more than a dozen experts, donors, diplomats, medical staff and men and women in farms and marketplaces across nearly a dozen countries in Africa and beyond shows.
Benadir Hospital is coping, said Dr. Aweis Olow, head of its paediatric department. But referrals from other clinics are accelerating: "Without a lot of help from the rest of the world, the situation will be out of control."
Here, alongside Isak's story, are five reasons Africa is suffering from the worst food crisis ever recorded:
East Africa has missed four consecutive rainy seasons, the worst drought in 40 years, Michael Dunford, the WFP's East Africa director said. "The situation has never been as bad from a regional perspective as it is today," he told Reuters.
African countries account for only around 3% of the global emissions responsible for climate change, but suffer more than any other region from its impact.
Of the 20 nations ranked as most vulnerable to climate change, all but four are African, according to the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index, which measures countries' vulnerability.
Some 22 million people across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia face high levels of acute food insecurity due solely to the drought, a number projected to rise to up to 26 million by February if the rains again fail, the WFP said.
Phases of food insecurity
Three maps of Somalia highlighted to show the current and projected levels of food insecurity. Several regions in northern and central Somalia are projected to experience a food insecurity emergency - the fourth of five increasingly severe phases of insecurity – and parts of the Bay region near the country's capital Mogadishu are projected to experience a famine in mid-2023.
Sources: Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC); Natural Earth.
The lack of rainfall has caused crops to fail. In northern Kenya, pastoralists dig deeper and deeper in search of water for their livestock. Traditional Maasai herders, whose culture revolves around their cows, face the choice of selling them or watching them die.
On the other side of the continent, parts of West Africa have been hit by flooding after the most intense rainfall in 30 years. By mid-October, 5 million people and 1 million hectares of farmland were affected, according to the WFP.
Rainfall anomaly compared with historic average
Maps of the Horn of Africa from 2020, 2021 and 2022 showing the rainfall anomaly – or the difference between current rainfall and the 1981-2010 average for the same period – in August, September and October. In 2021 rainfall was well below the historic average across Kenya, Somalia and southern Ethiopia. 2022 saw similar deficits in rainfall.
Note: Anomaly is the difference between current rainfall and the 1981-2010 average for the same period.
Sources: Climate Hazards Center (CHIRPS), UC Santa Barbara; Natural Earth
In Chad, over 19,000 head of livestock were swept away after rivers broke their banks, and in neighbouring Nigeria, flooding has hit 29 of the 36 states.
In October in Benue state, part of Nigeria's agricultural heartland, farmer Abraham Hon looked out over water stretching to the horizon, covering some 20 hectares of his ruined rice fields.
"You have drought in some places, then you have floods in some places," he said. "That is a real shift."
Abraham Hon, Nigerian man sits at the bow of a pirogue as it steers across his flooded fields, pointing towards electrical poles in the distance.
Abraham Hon gestures to his flooded rice fields. REUTERS/Abraham Achirga
Zoomed-in terrain map of southern Somalia, highlighting Nadifa's journey from her hometown of Dinsoor to the regional capital of Baidoa, and then to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.
Source: Natural Earth
"Saving our children"
Isak's hometown, Dinsoor, is about 370 km (230 miles) from the capital in Somalia's Bay region. In June, she and her husband and children set out on foot, hoping to escape drought. The journey to Mogadishu took 12 days.
They brought their savings of around $15, and some milk and food.
They walked. "We fled in the hope of saving our children," she said, seated on a hospital bed with her two girls – Nasib, 4, and Fardawsa, 3 – and an infant on her back.
A day into the journey, they were ambushed by bandits. The robbers took their money and food, but spared their lives. They kept walking. A stranger gave the children a lift on his donkey cart.
After four days they reached the regional capital, Baidoa, but couldn't find help there. Someone gave them a lift to Mogadishu. There, they found a spot on government land and built a shelter with other displaced people.
Mohamud Abdi Ahmed, an official for the Garasbaley district where the family set up camp, said there were 50,000 displaced families there.
"Sometimes it's difficult to count them, because more arrive every minute."
2 Conflict in Africa
Conflict has long been a driver of hunger. War forces civilians from their homes, livelihoods, farms and food sources. It also makes it dangerous to deliver assistance.
The number of displaced people in Africa has tripled over the past decade to a record 36 million in 2022, according to U.N. data. That represents almost half the displaced people in the world. Most were displaced internally within their own countries by conflict.
Africans internally displaced by conflict
Bar chart showing the increasing number of people internally displaced in African countries due to conflict, from close to 10 million in 2010 to more than 25 million at the end of 2021.
Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
Conflicts are worsening across the continent, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), a crisis monitoring group.
In 2016, it recorded 3,682 "battles" between armed groups in Africa. There were 7,418 in 2021.
Isak's country, Somalia, has been unstable since a civil war in the early 1990s and today is a patchwork of clan strongholds, government-controlled areas and zones in the grip of al Shabaab, an al Qaeda-linked militant group fighting to impose its own rule based on a strict interpretation of Islamic Sharia law.
A U.S. non-profit, Fund for Peace, ranks global states by how fragile they are. In 2022, 15 African nations occupied the top 20 slots of its rankings.
A mother lays beside her malnourished child, who is receiving oxygen in the Benadir hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia. REUTERS/Feisal Omar
Whenever Isak had food, her youngest children were given top priority.
"The children were getting weaker for months," she said. She and other mothers say malnourished children swell up and their skin thins. They bruise easily.
Just a week after the family arrived in Mogadishu in June, two of Isak's daughters - 6-year-old Muna and 7-year-old Hamdi - fell ill one after another.
They were weak and ran fevers, their legs bowed and limbs swelled. They began to cough and struggled to breathe.
People who don't get enough minerals or vitamins can develop iron-deficiency anaemia, which means they do not have enough healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen to tissues throughout the body.
So as children starve, their bodies slowly suffocate.
Dr. Olow said such cases are becoming commonplace. Children arriving at Benadir Hospital receive oxygen, emergency feeding and, if needed, blood transfusions. Just 3% die, Olow said.
By the time Isak brought Muna and Hamdi for treatment, it was too late.
"The doctors could not help them, because they were about to die when we reached the hospital," Isak said.
3 Conflict in Europe
Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February, which Moscow calls a "special military operation," added to Africa's problems.
The crisis distracted wealthy governments' humanitarian agencies for the first half of this year, said a senior Western government official involved in humanitarian response in Africa, who asked not to be named because he was not authorised to speak to the media.
"When Ukraine happened, it sucked all the oxygen out of the room," he said.
As the food crisis deepened earlier this year, the African Development Bank set up an emergency food production fund of $1.5 billion aimed at helping African farmers produce 38 million tonnes of wheat, corn, rice and soybeans.
But needs across Africa's crises have risen by 13% over the past year alone, the data shows. While total donor funding over that time has increased 12%, it currently meets just half of requirements.
European countries in particular have cut aid in Africa. European governments contributed 21% of humanitarian relief aid to African countries in 2022, down 16 percentage points since 2018.
Share of humanitarian aid to Africa from:
Stacked line chart showing the percentage breakdown of African humanitarian aid highlighting the decrease in European donations with the EU and member states contributing 17% in 2022, down from 24% in 2018. Other European countries dropped to 4% of funding in 2022, down from 12% in 2018.
Some countries – such as the United States – have since boosted humanitarian assistance budgets, but the shortfalls remain, a Reuters analysis of U.N. data shows.
Funding appeal and donations for humanitarian aid in Africa
Stacked line chart showing funding appeal and donations for humanitarian aid in Africa with the U.S. government funding $5.9 billion in 2022, up 112% since 2018. Other funding in 2022 reached $3.3 billion, and appeals not funded was $9.2 billion.
Four of the five African countries receiving the most humanitarian funding under the 2022 aid appeal are located in or border the drought-stricken Horn of Africa region.
Stacked line charts showing the rise in funding and appeals for the five African countries receiving the most donations in 2022 – South Sudan with $1.63 billion, Ethiopia with $1.57 billion, Somalia with $1.25 billion, Democratic Republic of Congo with $887 million and Sudan with $825 million
Note: Data as of Dec. 2, 2022 and includes response plans for the Horn of Africa and Yemen 2022.
Source: Reuters analysis of data from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
That's leading to some tough choices.
The WFP has, in some cases, been forced to reduce rations, said Ollo Sib, a senior researcher for the agency in West Africa.
"We can keep people alive, but we don't just want to keep people alive," he said.
Chad, for example, currently hosts 577,000 refugees from other countries – the largest group in West Africa. Since 2020, conflict there has also more than doubled the number of internally displaced Chadians to around 381,000.
Faced with overwhelming needs, the WFP has already begun reducing rations for some refugees. And it told Reuters that, without more funding soon, it could be forced to suspend food assistance for all but the 10% of refugees considered the most vulnerable.
Moscow's Ukraine campaign also throttled grain exports.
The U.N. and Turkey brokered a deal in July to unblock three Black Sea ports. Under that initiative, 615 vessels left Ukrainian ports between Aug. 1 and Dec. 13 carrying over 13.8 million tonnes of corn, wheat, rapeseed and sunflower oil.
Just 11 ships were destined for sub-Saharan Africa, however.
"It's making a contribution. But there is no silver bullet," said the WFP's Dunford.
Disruptions caused by that war have also provoked a fertiliser shortage. Where stocks are available, prices have risen beyond the means of many farmers. The result will be smaller harvests next year: In West Africa, the WFP estimates cereal production could fall 20%.
Somali displaced mother Binti Moalim Hassan lays beside her malnourished 3-year-old daughter Faduma in a Mogadishu hospital. REUTERS/Feisal Omar
"They don't know they're dead"
The Benadir hospital can't always help.
"Sometimes mothers bring us dead children," said Farhia Moahmud Jama, head nurse at the paediatric emergency unit. "And they don't know they're dead."
Weakened by hunger, camp residents are vulnerable to disease and people are dying due to a lack of food, said Nadifa Hussein Mohamed, who managed the camp where Isak's family initially stayed.
"Maybe the whole world is hungry and donors are bankrupt, I don't know," she said. "But we're calling out for help, and we do not see relief."
Isak and her husband said some nights, armed men threaten and beat the residents: "They want to sell the land."
Ahmed, the district official, said security around the camps was tight.
4 Debt
COVID-19 left Africa facing the strongest economic headwinds in years, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
After years of borrowing, countries are struggling to service their debts. According to the IMF, 19 of sub-Saharan Africa's 35 low-income countries are in debt distress – where a government is unable to fulfil its financial obligations and debt restructuring is required – or at high risk of it.
Ghana is an example. The country of 32 million people owed 476 billion cedis – or around $42 billion in September – over $1,300 per person. In July, the government turned to the IMF for relief. In December, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta said debt had topped 100% of Ghana's Gross Domestic Product.
Ghana's currency, the cedi, is Africa's weakest. At its lowest level this year, in November, it sank by 59% against the dollar, straining the country's ability to pay for imports. Shopkeepers shut their doors temporarily in October in protest.
A young girl holds a pack of free lunch (left) during a food distribution exercise by the Food For All Africa organisation led by Chef Elijah Amoo Addo (right) in Accra, Ghana June 3, 2022. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko
In October, Ghana's inflation rate hit a new 21-year high of 40.4%, driven in large part by higher food costs. Cereal prices have gone up over 51%. Dairy and eggs by nearly 59%.
Globally, prices of cereals, dairy, meat, vegetable oils and sugar climbed over 23% in 2021, the fastest in more than a decade, according to an index from the FAO.
Food expenses constitute 40% of households' consumer spending in sub-Saharan Africa – the highest share in the world, according to the IMF.
For Ghanaian Evelyn Lartey, a trip to market in the capital Accra has become a race.
"The maths you use one day expires the next, and you don't know what are the real prices," she said. "You just have to pay what you're told or else keep walking."
Nadifa Abdi Isak's 3-year-old daughter, Fardawsa, sits on a bed in the Benadir hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia after receiving a blood transfusion through her scalp. REUTERS/Feisal Omar
Heart pain
On Wednesday Oct. 19, months after Muna and Hamdi's deaths, two of Isak's other daughters – Nasib and Fardawsa – could not sleep.
"They were complaining of heart pain. It was 2 a.m.," she said.
They set off for the hospital. There were few vehicles on the road, and none stopped when they tried to wave them down, so Isak and her husband carried the children for four km.
A normal three-year-old child has between 11 and 13.7 grams of haemoglobin, the iron-rich protein that carries oxygen around the body, per decilitre of blood.
Doctors told Isak that Fardawsa's blood contained 1 gram of haemoglobin per decilitre. She needed a blood transfusion.
The medics couldn't find a vein on her hands, so they transfused the blood through a vein in her head.
"It's not yet her time to die," her mother said, relieved.
5 Governments
African governments have done little to prevent food crises from recurring.
In a move to boost production, reduce import reliance and improve food security, leaders in 2003 pledged to commit at least 10% of their national budgets to agriculture and rural development within five years.
By 2021, nearly two decades later, just two countries in sub-Saharan Africa – Mali and Zimbabwe – met that target.
Instead, an analysis of 39 African countries by UK charity Oxfam found, spending on agriculture fell as a share of budgets between 2019 and 2021.
Agriculture makes up nearly 20% of Africa's GDP and more than half of Africans work in the sector, according to the World Bank. Most of this is low-productivity subsistence farming, and the region is a net importer of staples including wheat, palm oil and rice, the FAO says.
Productivity and crop yields have increased, but they are still the lowest in the world and the FAO says they come nowhere close to keeping up with the continent's growing population, which the U.N. forecasts will more than triple to 4.3 billion by the end of the century.
So agricultural production per capita is falling, according to the FAO.
Self-sufficiency for major food commodities is decreasing. Without action, the World Bank says Africa's food import bill, which stood at $43 billion in 2019, could rise to $110 billion in 2025.
"We have 65% of the world's available arable land. We have to wake up," Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank, told Reuters. "For me, the bare minimum is that Africa is able to feed itself."
Nadifa Abdi Isak plays with her son Farhan, who recently received an emergency transfusion to treat malnutrition-induced anaemia. REUTERS/Feisal Omar
"Strength, but no work"
Nasib and Fardawsa spent a week in the hospital, receiving blood transfusions, medicine and nutritional biscuits. They recovered, but then Isak's four-month-old, Farhan, needed care.
He received an emergency transfusion and treatment. The doctor prescribed syrups and supplementary iron tablets that the family cannot afford.
"I don't have any money," she said.
In search of aid and security, in November the family moved onto an abandoned military camp closer to the city centre.
They are no longer harassed, but attacks by Islamist militants periodically send the city into lock-down. Isak's husband, Mohamed Ibrahim, hoped he could earn money for food in town, working as a porter.
"I have strength but no work. I have a wooden wheelbarrow," he said. But most people use the services of tuk-tuks instead.
After months on the move – from her village to the city, from camp to camp, and hospital to hospital – Isak is running out of energy. She believes she herself and two other children are now also anaemic.
"If he gets a dollar or two, this is not even enough for food for the children."
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Founded in 1950 as the Art Guild of Boca Raton, art classes and exhibitions were first held in space provided by the Town Hall and the historic Mimer-designed Boca Raton Hotel and Club.
In 1962, the Art Guild acquired 2.5 acres of high-visibility property located on a main traffic route between Interstate-95 and downtown Boca Raton, and constructed the building that the Museum occupies today (2000). In 1969, two studio classrooms were added. In 1973, the Art Guild became a not-for-profit corporation, and 17 years later, changed its name to the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Inc., filing Articles of Amendment to its Articles of Incorporation.
In 1978, the Museum hired its first full-time Director and began a serious program of collections acquisition and changing exhibitions. By the late 1980s, the Board of Trustees began to address the need for museum expansion to accommodate the growth of the Museum's collections, programs and attendance. In 1990, a 1,340 square-foot gallery was added to house the newly-acquired Dr. & Mrs. John J. Mayers Collection of Modern Art, as well as a third art classroom, and expanded museum shop and administrative offices to meet the museum's immediate needs. With an eye to the future, in 1993, the Museum purchased a 175,000 square-foot building (the former IBM assembly plant) for investment and possible future expansion.
Annually, the Museum presents academically-superior changing exhibitions ranging from international artists and art movements, to historical overviews of art movements such as the "Painting With Light: 19th Century American Landscape Painting" (1996), "Wolf Kahn: A Dialogue Between Traditional and Abstract Art" 1970-1995 (1996), "Matta: Re-Generation" (1997), "Surrealism and American Art 1932-1949" (1997-98), "Sandro Chia: New Work, Celebrating Canaletto: 18th Century Etchings," and "Six Centuries of Venetian Glass" (1998). Additionally, each year the Museum organizes up to eight exhibitions that highlight Florida artists, as well as showcase recent donations to the Museum's collections.
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Fr John Wallis, Founder of the Missionary Sisters of Service.
In a spirit of joy and celebration, a group of 28 pilgrims spent five days travelling through Tasmania to mark the commencement of the 75-year anniversary of the Missionary Sisters of Service (MSS).
The pilgrims came from Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania and included 13 MSS and 15 friends and colleagues. The pilgrimage commenced in Launceston, at Calvary St Vincent's Hospital, which is the site of the first 'foundation house' of the then Home Missionary Sisters Our Lady.
In the chapel at St Vincent's, MSS congregational leader Stancea Vichie lead a reflection that acknowledged the courage and foresight both of Fr John and the four initial women who responded with a yes. Acorns from the same oak tree that stood in the front yard of the foundation house, which still stands on the grounds of St Vincent's were handed to each of the pilgrims.
After visiting further places significant to the MSS story in Launceston, the bus took the pilgrims to Scottsdale and Derby, the first parish the early sisters visited on mission. Parish priest of Scottsdale, Fr Edwin Thundathil Xavier, celebrated Mass, which was followed by a generous lunch prepared by the small parish community. It was a time of warm reunion and much story telling and sharing.
In each place the people among whom the sisters had previously lived and worked welcomed pilgrims. After a brief ritual in the parish church, they were treated to a generous morning or afternoon tea, or lunch, lovingly prepared by the locals.
The climax of the pilgrimage arrived on Sunday 25 November when the pilgrims journeyed to Alonnah, Bruny Island, joined by three more of the MSS (who live in Tasmania), along with another busload of pilgrims, and many others who travelled independently.
More than 100 people gathered in the Alonnah community hall for lunch and an official welcome by Chris Smith, Chair of the John Wallis Foundation Hobart Branch. Following this, everyone gathered outside St Brendan's church for the blessing and dedication of a memorial to Father John Wallis, the Founder of the Missionary Sisters of Service, and the women who came together in 1944 to begin what became the MSS community, and those who followed them into the highways and byways.
The memorial, situated in the grounds of St Brendan's church, comprises two interpretative panels telling the story of the beginnings and development of the MSS. Between them is a sandstone feature with a silhouette of Fr John on his bicycle depicting the way in which he visited people on Bruny Island back in 1933.
Bruny Island has particular significance to the MSS story given this is where the seed was sewn in Fr John, then a 23-yr-old country Victorian priest who was fresh out of the seminary. While visiting Catholic families on the remote island (on bike, foot and horse), he met a mother, Kit Hawkins who asked, "who is looking after the spiritual needs of our children – out of sight, out of mind". Eleven years later, in 1944, a number of courageous, pioneering women took up the call from Fr John to "go out into the highways and byways of rural and remote Tasmania", and later mainland Australia.
While the initial purpose of the MSS was to provide spiritual education and support to isolated families and communities, the Sisters' mission adapted to the needs of the people they encountered over the years. In later years they have worked in different situations in adult formation, chaplaincy, counselling and other areas of urgent concern in rural and urban areas, especially with groups of people who have been on the margins.
Today there are 26 MSS still living in Australia – in Melbourne, Toowoomba, Hobart, Mackay, Bribie Island and Whyalla. Though older and less mobile, they continue to serve in their local communities, in whatever way they can, as well as continuing to read the signs of the times and setting up structures that will enable the charism to be carried in new and innovative ways by the laity.
"It's important that while there are still 26 of us alive, that we can mark this amazing time," said Stancea Vichie MSS. "Seventy five years of service is something to celebrate. It also links in with the development of our mission being carried on by other people in a new way in the 21st century, always maintaining the spirit of the MSS and Fr John, through the John Wallis Foundation and now the new entity named Highways and Byways: a Community of Service.
Throughout 2019 a number of events will be held to commemorate the 75-year anniversary of the MSS, including a special commemorative coffee-table cookbook with recipes and photos provided by the Sisters and friends.
A second book to be published during this jubilee is Dear Mother, Dear Father – John Corcoran Wallis' Letters Home 1927 – 1949 by Bernadette T. Wallis, a fascinating and rich insight into the early life of Fr John Wallis from the time he entered the seminary at Springwood up, his early years as priest in the archdiocese of Hobart and through the early years of the Home Missionary Sisters of Our Lady, now known as Missionary Sisters of Service.
Emeritus Archbishop Adrian Doyle's homily at the Mass following the dedication and blessing of the memorial.
Angela and Dennis Derrick with the newly dedicated memorial. While a working party was responsible for the design, Dennis did the installation, including the silhouette of Fr John in the centre.
RSJ Sisters Mechtild and Veronica Dillon and Irene Sword, descendants of the Bruny Island families visited by Fr John 85 years ago.
Chris Smith, Chair of the Hobart branch of JWF, was MC for the event.
Bruny Island CWA catered for lunch and afternoon tea.
Amanda Freeman, Bishop Pat Power and Liz McAloon.
Pat Roberts, Elizabeth Jordan and Josephine Dare.
RSJ Sisters Colleen Power, Joan Cowmeadow and Jill Dance.
Frances McShane mss welcomes Marcia McMahone mss, Liz McAloon looking on.
The Memorial to Father John Wallis and the Missionary Sisters of Service.
The total group of pilgrims at St Brendan's church, Alonnah.
Mother Pat and sons Francis and Richard our bus drivers for the pilgrimage.


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The works in "Density Betrays Us" conflate figure and ground, individual and mass, weight and weightlessness, and visual and non-visual elements and events.
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Workhorse Queen explores the complexities of mainstream television's impact on queer performance culture.
Professor Washko Exhibits at the Korean Film Archive
Professor Angela Washko's work "At the Expense of Watching" is included in the exhibition "GameXCinema – Machinima" at the Korean Film Archive in Seoul.
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Professor Johannes DeYoung will exhibit his work in Festival ECRÃ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 15–25, 2021.
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Case is in great shape, and the sale includes two small shank mouthpieces to go with the horn. The case DOES NOT have a musty smell and for the age, the case is in surprisingly good condition.
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Grand Armory Brewing opened earlier this year as downtown Grand Haven's second brewery following the now well established Odd Side Ales which has been open since 2010. Grand Armory Brewing is located in the historic 110-year old Armory building in which the brewery shares space with Aldea Coffee, Righteous BBQ, and the Armory Art Center. The Grand Opening Street Party was held this past October and featured a pig roast from Righteous BBQ and a live performance from the Grand Rapids-based folk rock band The Crane Wives.
Grand Armory Brewing's diverse beer lineup originated with small batch recipes made available at the Armory location earlier this year while waiting for the equipment for their off-site production facility to arrive. These recipes have been well received and include lighter offerings such as the Beechtree Blonde to dark offerings which include the Buzzuka Milk Stout. Grand Armory also has no shortage of hoppier offerings which currently include the Red Ryder IPA and Crop Duster Citra IPA. Grand Armory Brewing also offers hand crafted sodas as well as locally produced wine and hard cider.
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Members of the cast of "Twilight," including Peter Facinelli, Rachelle Lefevre, Edi Gathegi, Michael Welch and Christian Serratos–as well as Alex Meraz and Kiowa Gordon of "New Moon"–made a great showing today at PGE Park in Portland for the Twilight FanTrips Vampire Baseball Event, benefiting Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Guests also included members of the local cast, including Solomon Trimble, Ayanna Berkshire, Trish Egan, Sean McGrath, Gavin Bristol, Catherine Grimme, Logan Welch and Tyler Nordby; crew members such as Bruce Lawson, Chris "Chalky" Chalk, Dan Gorczyca and others.
And let's not forget the biggest star: Honey, Rachelle's dog!
Here are some highlights. Enjoy!
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Board index Chem 14B *Names and Structures of Organic Molecules *Aldehydes
aldehyde must end
Tasnim Sazzad 4B
Postby Tasnim Sazzad 4B » Mon Feb 29, 2016 12:00 am
Why must an aldehyde be at the end of a carbon chain?
Nitin Joseph
Re: aldehyde must end
Postby Nitin Joseph » Mon Feb 29, 2016 3:46 am
This is because an Aldehyde functional group looks like this: CHO, where carbon is double bonded to oxygen, and single bonded to hydrogen. This carbon is also connected to another carbon atom, like this: C-C-C-CHO. So it's got all 4 valences filled (1 by carbon, 1 by hydrogen, 2 by oxygen), so it has no more room for any more carbons, so it has to be at the end of a chain.
If it was in the middle of a chain, two of its valences would be occupied by carbon atoms on either side, so it has only 2 valences left to accommodate an oxygen double bond and a hydrogen single bond, which it cannot do.
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Postby Chem_Mod » Tue Mar 01, 2016 12:05 pm
Specifically, an aldehyde is a carbonyl attached to both a carbon and a hydrogen, and the hydrogen on one side is what makes it at the end of the chain. If the carbonyl is between two carbons, it is then a ketone. If it is between a carbon and oxygen, it is then a carboxylate. What is on either side of the ketone is what dictates its name.
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#ifndef _TCLLED_H
#define _TCLLED_H
#include <stdint.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

/* This header file contains a bit of information about each function and
 * data structure in the library. More information can be found in the
 * README.txt file which accompanies this library.
 */

/* The tcl_color structure consists of 4 bytes (32 bits) in the order in which
 * the p9813 chip expects them (flag byte, followed by blue, green, and red).
 * You can modify the colors directly, however the functions write_color and
 * write_gamma_color are designed to write to the appropriate data to memory
 * with a properly calculated flag byte.
 */
typedef struct _tcl_color {
  uint8_t flag;
  uint8_t blue;
  uint8_t green;
  uint8_t red;
} tcl_color;

/* The tcl_buffer structure is a buffer in which pixel data is stored in
 * in memory prior to being written out to the SPI device for transmission
 * to the pixels. A buffer can be allocated with the tcl_init function and
 * deallocated with the tcl_free function. The buffer contains a pointer to
 * an array of tcl_color structures representing the array of colors you will
 * send to the leds using the send_buffer function. The "pixels" element of
 * this structure points to the array of pixels.
 */
typedef struct _tcl_buffer {
  int leds; /* number of LEDS */
  size_t size; /* size of buffer */
  tcl_color *buffer; /* pointer to buffer memory */
  tcl_color *pixels; /* pointer to start of pixels */
} tcl_buffer;

/* The tcl_init function allocates memory for the pixels in an order that
 * allows for efficient transfer by the send_buffer command. The function
 * takes two arguments:
 *
 * tcl_buffer *buf - A pointer to a tcl_buffer structure.
 * int leds - The number of LEDs for which memory is to be allocated.
 *
 * The function returns 0 if successful or a negative number if it cannot
 * allocate sufficient memory.
 */
int tcl_init(tcl_buffer *buf, int leds);

/* The spi_init function initializes the SPI device for use by the TCL
 * LED strands. It takes one argument:
 *
 * int filedes - An open file descriptor to an spidev device.
 *
 * The function returns a negative number if the initialization fails.
 */
int spi_init(int filedes);

/* The write_color function writes the tcl_color structure corresponding to
 * a color to a location in memory. Typically this location is part of the
 * tcl_buffer's allocated memory. The function takes four arguments:
 *
 * tcl_color *p - A pointer to a tcl_color structure to write to.
 * uint8_t red - The red value between 0 (off) and 255 (full on).
 * uint8_t green - The green value between 0 (off) and 255 (full on).
 * uint8_t blue - The blue value between 0 (off) and 255 (full on).
 */
void write_color(tcl_color *p, uint8_t red, uint8_t green, uint8_t blue);

/* The send_buffer function writes the contents of the tcl_buffer structure to
 * the spi device. It takes two arguments:
 *
 * int filedes - The open and initialized file descriptor for the spi device.
 * tcl_buffer *buf - A pointer to a tcl_buffer which will be transferred to spi.
 *
 * This function returns the number of bytes written if successful or a
 * negative number if it fails. This function will always block while writing
 * and ensure all data is transferred out to the SPI bus.
 */
int send_buffer(int filedes, tcl_buffer *buf);

/* The tcl_free function will free memory allocated by the tcl_init function.
 * It wakes one argument:
 *
 * tcl_buffer *buf - A pointer to a tcl_buffer that has been allocated by
 *      tcl_init.
 */
void tcl_free(tcl_buffer *buf);

/* The set_gamma function creates lookup tables which are used to apply the
 * gamma correction in the write_gamma_color function. Separate gamma
 * correction factors are chosen for each color. This function must be called
 * prior to using the write_gamma_color function. It takes three arguments:
 *
 * double gamma_red - The gamma correction for the red LEDs.
 * double gamma_green - The gamma correction for the green LEDs.
 * double gamma_blue - The gamma correction for the blue LEDs.
 *
 * Values between 2.2 and 3.0 appear to work well.
 */
void set_gamma(double gamma_red, double gamma_green, double gamma_blue);

/* The write_gamma_color function writes a gamma corrected pixel color to a
 * tcl_pixel structure in memory. It behaves the same way as the write_color
 * function except that a gamma correction is applied to each color. It takes
 * four arguments:
 *
 * tcl_color *p - A pointer to the location in which to write the pixel data.
 * uint8_t red - The red value between 0 (off) and 255 (full on).
 * uint8_t green - The green value between 0 (off) and 255 (full on).
 * uint8_t blue - The blue value between 0 (off) and 255 (full on).
 */
void write_gamma_color(tcl_color *p, uint8_t red, uint8_t green, uint8_t blue);

#endif /*!_TCLLED_H*/

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Wolfpack star Smith presents major challenge for Berry, UNC
Wednesdays triple double underscores the challenge Joel Berry and his Tar Heel teammates will have in trying to stop -- or at least limit -- rival NC State and its freshman star Dennis Smith Jr.
January 7, 2017 Brett Friedlander Sports
CHAPEL HILL — Star guards Dennis Smith Jr., of NC State and North Carolina's Joel Berry will be the center of attention when, weather permitting, their teams meet for the first of two regular season showdowns on Saturday. And yet according to Berry, it would be a major mistake to get caught paying too much attention to that one marquee individual battle. "It's going to be a great game," the Tar Heels' point guard said. "But I'm not going to make it into a one-on-one matchup. It's about North Carolina going against NC State. It's going to be a fun game, a fun matchup. But at the end of the day it's about our team going up against them, not just me going against him." Berry is right about the abundance of talent that will be on the court at the Smith Center. But even with several other All-ACC caliber players dotting both rosters, Smith and Berry are the catalysts that make both teams go. That was never more evident than in their most recent games. Berry made 7 of 10 3-pointers on his way to a career-high 31 points to help rally the Tar Heels to an overtime win at Clemson on Tuesday. A day later, Smith recorded only the second triple double in Wolfpack history while hitting for 27 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists in a 104-78 dismantling of 21st-ranked Virginia Tech. That well-rounded performance underscores the challenge Berry and his teammates will have in trying to stop — or at least limit — Smith's effectiveness as they look to extend their recent dominance over their neighboring rival UNC has won 25 of 28 meetings since coach Roy Williams returned to his alma mater to coach the Tar Heels in 2003. "Dennis doesn't really have any weaknesses at point guard," Williams said. "He can shoot it, he can drive it to the basket and finish with his tremendous leaping ability. He can pass the ball, he can defend, he can take the ball away from you. He's got the whole package. He's one of the premier point guards in our country already." The biggest problem in trying to defend Smith is that he has so many different ways to beat you. "I think you've got to defend the total game because that's what he does," Williams said. "He's not just a shooter, he's not just a penetrator, so you can't say, 'okay we've got to stop his penetration,' because if we back up he can shoot it in. I think you've got to play the total defensive game and you've got to try to do everything." Although guarding Smith will likely be a team effort, including a contribution by junior Theo Pinson in his first game back from a preseason foot injury, the bulk of the responsibility will fall on Berry's shoulders. The 6-foot junior is UNC's best perimeter defender. But he's also second on the team in scoring while leading the Tar Heels in assists, so he'll have to be careful not to expend too much energy on one end of the court. "You just have to balance it," Berry said. "I know last game against Clemson, I kind of had it to where I was playing a lot of offense and my defensive grade wasn't that good. So I have to make sure I'm balancing it out and be able to know when to exert more energy on one play than the other." The biggest thing Berry may have going for him is that Smith will have to work just as hard in dealing with him as the he will in facing the young Wolfpack star. "I think Joel Berry is one of the best point guards in the country," State coach Mark Gottfried said earlier this week. "I've watched him since high school. I have great respect for Joel and his game. He's playing at a high level, shooting the ball at a high level right now. " He's kind of the glue that holds everything together for their team.(Going up against him) will be a great opportunity for Dennis and for our team."
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Former UNC Wilmington basketball player Martin Jarmond was named Thursday as the new athletic director at Boston College. Jarmond joins the Eagles from Ohio State, where he served as the chief of staff to AD […]
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