While Google has yet to respond to the letter, or remove the app, it recently joined Apple in "promising to investigate a Saudi app that lets men control women's travel," according to a recent report. Google should treat Smart Pakem with the same degree of scrutiny.
The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) has relocated its Washington, D.C. office to the heart of Capitol Hill. The new address is 316 Pennsylvania Ave, SE, Suite 501, Washington, D.C. 20003.
The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) welcomes the U.S. Department of State's recent announcement that it will host a second consecutive Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom July 16-18, 2019.
"We are grateful for Secretary Pompeo's commitment to advancing religious freedom around the world," said Thomas Farr, President of RFI and founding Director of the State Department's Office of International Religious Freedom.
January 25, 2018 Washington, D.C. (Religious Freedom Institute) — The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) commends the U.S. Senate for confirming Governor Sam Brownback as the new U.S Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom.
Religious Freedom Institute President Thomas Farr welcomed the Senate's decision: "Ambassador Brownback's deep experience, and his commitment to religious freedom for all people, will help ensure American leadership in the vital work of reducing global religious persecution. We believe he will make U.S. religious freedom policy an integral part of America's national security strategy."
Ambassador Brownback will confront a host of daunting challenges and threats to stability and security. Rising levels of global religious persecution are being fueled by violent religious extremism, oppressive government policies, and aggressively anti-religious forms of secularism. Millions are suffering terrible depredations as a result. Nations and economies are being destabilized by the absence of religious freedom.
Ambassador Brownback is the right choice to lead U.S. policy in addressing this global crisis. In his 16 years as a Congressman and U.S. Senator, Brownback built a reputation as a steadfast advocate for religious freedom. He was one of the key supporters of the landmark International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, which established in law the promotion of religious freedom as an element of U.S. foreign policy. The Act also created the ambassadorship Brownback now holds. In the Senate, Brownback played an integral role in increasing and improving the U.S. response to the genocide in Darfur by introducing the legislation that became the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act of 2006.
A policy brief released in early 2017 by the Religious Freedom Institute and the Institute for Global Engagement offers recommendations on international religious freedom policy to the Trump administration and Congress. The brief stresses the importance of integrating religious freedom into U.S. foreign policy and national security thinking.
The brief notes that by placing religious freedom at the core of our foreign policy "the Trump administration has a remarkable opportunity, at low cost, to make a major contribution to international justice and stability, fundamental human rights, economic growth, and U.S. national security." RFI President Thomas Farr said that "Ambassador Brownback can make this vision a reality and deserves the support of all Americans in achieving it."
On Wednesday, December 6, Thomas Farr, President, Religious Freedom Institute, testified before Congress on the ways in which U.S. International Religious Freedom diplomacy can improve our nation's ability to combat Islamist terror.
In short: more religious freedom abroad can help prevent the rise of terrorism and protect Americans here at home.
Full testimony: Employing Religious Freedom Diplomacy to Combat Extremism, Thomas F. Farr and hearing video is below.
In marking World Human Rights Day (which takes place on December 10th, 2017), the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations of the House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing examining the strategic contribution of human rights to addressing issues of extremism.
Other Speakers included: John Lenczowski, Ph.D. (Founder and President, The Institute of World Politics), Sayyid Syeed, Ph.D., (Senior Advisor, Office of Interfaith and Community Alliances Islamic Society of North America), and Mr. Neil Hicks (Director, Human Rights Promotion, Human Rights First).
The briefing opened with remarks from Ambassador Michael Kozak, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Department of State. It was then followed by a second panel of experts, including, Dr. Daniel Mark, Chairman, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Dr. Kathleen Collins, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota, and Philip Brumley, General Counsel, Jehovah's Witnesses, Nathaniel Hurd, Policy Advisor, U.S. Helsinki Commission, moderated the event. The full event video is available below.
Dr. Collins, a scholar of the Under Caesar's Sword Project, highlighted many of the findings of her research on Christian responses to persecution in Central Asia.
Dr. Collins concentrated her time on the evolving situation in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. She suggested that governments in the region are looking towards each other and Russia to justify extremism laws that are really just another form of religious persecution.
Based on her research, the recent actions in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan have taken steps similar to Soviet-era tactics of repression and control of all groups not approved by the government. Societal discrimination continues to be high across the region and remains worth addressing.
The Under Caesar's Sword project studied response where Christians face persecution. Predominant strategies in Central Asia represent decades of Soviet-style repression. Primarily they hide and seek to merely survive. For those who seek public engagement they do so with enormous risk. Positive steps have been seen through engagement in humanitarian and social services, filling gaps that government has often overlooked.
Ambassador Kozak highlighted the important connections between enhanced security and religious freedom and efforts currently underway at the State Department to advance religious freedom.
Dr. Daniel Mark, Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, expressed that trends in the region are not encouraging. He said that, "Unfortunately, we at USCIRF are not optimistic with regard to the outlook for religious freedom in the OSCE countries we monitor. Generally speaking, the trend has been toward authoritarian governments imposing more written and unwritten restrictions on expressions of religion."
Phillip Brumley, General Counsel, Jehovah's Witnesses, highlighted particular challenges his community has faced across the region due to government restrictions that have limited their ability to practice their faith.
Although federal law has long prohibited unjust coercion of healthcare professionals, current law restricts a healthcare professional's ability to protect his or her conscience rights.
For example, employers have pressured nurses to participate in abortions or risk losing their jobs. The federal Weldon amendment prohibits discrimination against individual or organizational healthcare providers who do not participate in abortions but fails to include a method for them to vindicate this non-discrimination right in federal court.
Currently, if a healthcare professional or other healthcare provider is threatened or otherwise suffers discrimination for not participating in an abortion, the only recourse under the Weldon amendment is to file a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
In Roe v. Wade (1973) itself, the Supreme Court cited with approval a policy that "neither physician, hospital, nor hospital personnel shall be required to perform any act violative of personally-held moral principles." The same year, Congress enacted protections for health care professionals' conscience rights in circumstances involving abortion.
In 2004, the Weldon amendment provided additional protections for physicians and nurses – as well as hospitals and other healthcare entities – against discrimination for not performing or participating in abortions. Congresses and Presidents of both parties have approved the Weldon amendment every year since 2004.
Congress should act immediately to ensure that nurses and other healthcare professionals are free to vindicate their rights promptly through our justice system.
The Religious Freedom Institute urges Congress to protect the religion freedom that enables professionals of all faiths to contribute to our society their much-needed healthcare skills and expertise.
October 27, 2017, Washington, D.C. (Religious Freedom Institute) — In recent years considerable confusion has emerged on American college campuses about the meaning and value of religious freedom. Religious belief and expression by Muslim, Jewish, Christian and other religious students have been declared hateful or bigoted.
This week the Georgetown University Student Activities Commission announced its intent to examine charges against Love Saxa, a Georgetown student organization that holds and promotes Catholic teachings on marriage and sexuality. A hearing is scheduled for October 30 to determine whether Love Saxa should be defunded and removed as a sanctioned student group at Georgetown.
Students at the University have charged that Love Saxa's promotion of Catholic teachings violates Georgetown Student Organization Standards by sanctioning hatred and intolerance.
The Religious Freedom Institute stands for the right of all college students in America, and all student groups on college campuses, to make religion-based arguments about the common good. This right is protected by the First Amendment's guarantee of the "free exercise" of religion, and is at the core of American democracy.
"This is an opportunity for students at Georgetown to break out of the toxic paradigms that increasingly plague our public discourse, and to demonstrate that holding differing views or beliefs must not be viewed as fostering hatred or intolerance," said Abigail Galván, Director of Development for the Religious Freedom Institute, a Georgetown alumna, and a founding member of Love Saxa.
"I encourage Georgetown students, as the future leaders of our nation, to promote a full exchange of ideas and do so in an environment where religious freedom is fully embraced and flourishes," said Galván.
The United States was founded on the proposition that religious freedom for all its citizens, protected in law and valued in culture, is necessary for the success of democracy. There are many reasons for its value, including its role in protecting equality and ensuring unity.
The Religious Freedom Institute urges all college students, and all Americans, to consider the value of religious freedom in combatting the abandonment of civil discourse in our colleges and universities. Our Constitutional guarantee of the free exercise of religion ensures that all voices, including those grounded in religion, are welcome in America.
The Institute also notes that the Constitution guarantees the right of free exercise for religion-based universities, such as Georgetown, which is a Catholic University in the Jesuit tradition. Among other things, this means that such institutions have the right to defend the teachings of the religion which defines their identity, and to offer those teachings to their students. This right extends to all faith-based colleges and universities.
While the U.S. has strong principles of religious freedom, and a great diversity of religions have flourished, there have always been struggles in putting principle into practice.
Timothy Shah, Senior Director of the Religious Freedom Institute's South and Southeast Asia Action Team, on September 12 delivered a keynote address discussing America's long tradition of religious freedom and religious pluralism with a delegation of senior officials from the Republic of Georgia.
The delegation was part of a State-Department funded program which brought senior Georgian religious and military officials to the United States to explore Human Rights and Religious Pluralism in the United States. The goal of the program was to examine best practices in promoting interfaith dialogue, as well as to look into how governments, non-governmental organizations, and faith-based groups promote diverse, tolerant, peaceful communities.
In the discussion, Dr. Shah examined the formulation of religious freedom principles such as those enshrined in the First Amendment or expressed in President Washington's letter to the Newport Hebrew Congregation in 1790. He also considered recent trends that demonstrate both growing religious diversity and tensions that have emerged such as anti-Muslim attacks on mosques or hateful rhetoric or anti-Semitic hate crimes.
The Religious Freedom Institute in its work, both domestically in the United States and in countries around the world, seeks to bridge the gap between principle and practice to promote religious freedom that leads to the flourishing of all.
The National Security Subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing to review the U.S. Government's role in advancing International Religious Freedom.
The hearing looked back at the impact of international religious freedom policy since the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act, through to the amendment in the 2016 Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act, and recommendations for how to improve the policy to meet current challenges.
RFI President Thomas Farr testified both of the strategic value and moral imperative for promoting religious freedom. It is intimately connected with American national security interests, along with being a vital humanitarian right.
In his testimony (full text), Dr. Farr highlighted the need for developing arguments and action plans to effectively engage governments and societies to demonstrate that religious freedom is a strategic good not only for the United States but for every country. Religious freedom has direct links to undermining religion-related terrorism, boosting stability and economic growth, and protecting vulnerable communities.
Full Testimony - Dr. Thomas F. Farr: "Religious Freedom and American National Security"
Opening Statement by RFI President Thomas Farr in testimony before the National Security Subcommittee of the House Oversight Committee on October 11, 2017.
Kristina Arriaga, Co-Chair, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, testified of the need for increased resources to implement the tools that exist to target violators of religious freedom. She also highlighted the unjust imprisonment of American Pastor Andrew Brunson who has been held in a Turkish jail for over a year on false charges.
Thomas Farr, Religious Freedom Institute, highlighted the connection between effective religious freedom policy and national security concerns and the need for an all-of-government strategy.
Kristina Arriaga, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, highlighted the case of American Pastor Andrew Brunson imprisoned in Turkey along with the situation of Bahai in Iran and other targeted communities.
Rob Berschinski, Human Rights First, reflected on the critical role of advancing religious freedom as part of global diplomatic efforts to address instability.
Ambassador Michael G. Kozak, Senior Advisor, Department of State highlighted existing efforts to advance religious freedom and previewed new tools that allow greater targeting of non-state actors like the Taliban and ISIS for religious freedom violations.
Kent Hill, Executive Director, joined VOA News host Carol Castiel on the Encounter program to discuss the release of the U.S. State Department's 2016 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom and the global challenges to religious freedom around the world.
Dr. Hill was joined on the program by Katayoun Kishi, research associate at Pew Research Center, where she oversees the Center's annual study on global restrictions on religion.
The conversation not only looked at the conclusions drawn from the report, but also critical issues related to religious freedom breaking down globally.
Religious freedom violations and religion-related violence are at the root of many global crises. Many of the more than 65 million people who have been displaced as refugees or internally displaced persons have fled from religion related conflicts.
Timothy Shah, Senior Director of the Religious Freedom Institute's South and Southeast Asia Action Team, delivered a private briefing for military leaders from the Near East and South Asia region on the critical role religious freedom plays in addressing the rising challenges posed by religion-related violence and terrorism.
The Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at National Defense University convened a seminar September 11-22, 2017 looking at the need to move beyond a "whole of government" approach to security and consider a "whole of society" approach.
As Dr. Shah made clear in his presentation, drawing on a growing body of research, it is evident that religion-related violence is an increasing source of security concerns. There are two common approaches to this: 1) Greater restrictions on religion or 2) Greater religious freedom. The evidence makes clear that greater restrictions lead to an increase in religion-related violence both domestically and transnationally.
"The best environment for preventing and reducing violent extremism (both secular and religious) is an environment of real religious freedom and tolerance.
Tom Farr will join Kristina Arriaga, Commissioner at U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Judge Ken Starr, former Solicitor General, and Elyse Anderson, Congressional-Executive commission on China, for a conversation on international religious freedom and its critical role in protecting human dignity across the globe at American Enterprise Institute's 2017 Values & Capitalism Fall Summit.
This unique gathering brings together leading voices from the Christian community for a one-day series of conversations on faith, public policy, and society. This year's Summit will focus on the theme of human dignity and its implications for public policy and institutions of civil society, including conversations on the state of American communities, challenges in today's workforce, international religious liberty, and Christian character and leadership.
On October 4, Governor Sam Brownback of Kansas testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as nominee to serve as Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom.
RFI President Thomas Farr spoke with Travis Wussow, Vice President for Public Policy of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, outside the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing room about Governor Brownback and the position of Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom.
On June 26, the Supreme Court held 7-2 that the Missouri Department of Natural Resources violated the First Amendment's free-exercise guarantee when it deemed Trinity Lutheran Church categorically ineligible to receive a grant under Missouri's Scrap Tire Program simply because it is a church.
Trinity Lutheran's Child Learning Center ranked fifth among 44 competing applicants for grants to purchase playground surfaces made from recycled tires, improving playground safety and increasing recycling. Seven grants were awarded, but Trinity Lutheran's application was denied.
The Department of Natural Resources asserted this denial was required by a provision of the Missouri constitution directing that "no money shall ever be taken from the public treasury, directly or indirectly, in aid of any church, sect or denomination of religion." This and similar provisions in 37 other states are known as Blaine Amendments.
Is this likely to impact other religious entities, including those that are not strictly speaking a "church, sect or denomination of religion" such as faith-based hospitals, schools, or social-service providers (homeless shelters, elder-care homes, adoption providers, etc.)? What are the broader implications, if any, for American democracy, the free exercise of religion, and the constitutional ban on establishments of religion?
By in large, the decision was hailed as a victory for religious liberty by proponents of accomodationist views of the religion clauses, and criticized as a further crumbling of the wall between church and state by those of the separationist school.
Thus, the elephant in the room remains – whether these state law provisions are a legitimate basis for denying religious schools the right to participate in state educational voucher programs.
Chief Justice Roberts was on pretty solid ground when he observed, in his opinion for the Court in the recent Trinity Lutheran case, that "[y]oungsters . . . often fall on the playground or tumble from the equipment. And when they do, the gravel can be unforgiving." And, the foundation is no less firm for the Court's conclusion that the First Amendment does not permit governments to discriminate against religious believers and organizations when distributing public benefits.
September 15, 2017, Washington, D.C. (Religious Freedom Institute) — The Religious Freedom Institute calls on the United States and the international community to take immediate steps to stop the outrageous injustices the Burmese military is committing against the Muslim Rohingya and to ensure they are accorded their basic human rights, including their right to religious freedom. A brutal campaign of ethnic and religious cleansing carried out by the Burmese Army has victimized some 300,000 people from the predominantly Muslim Rohingya ethnic community in western Burma (Myanmar). In particular, the RFI calls on the UN Security Council to pass a resolution imposing a global arms embargo on Burma and calls on relevant countries to consider targeted sanctions against the Burmese military.
In the past three weeks, hundreds have been killed by the Burmese Army, and the testimonies of refugees point to horrific crimes against humanity, including the burning of villages and shooting of women and children. The current crisis was precipitated by attacks on Burmese police posts by a small militant armed Rohingya group known as the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA). The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) unequivocally condemns these attacks.
However, "the Burma Army's response to the attacks by ARSA has been grotesquely disproportionate," observes Ambassador Bennett. While ARSA's attacks cannot be justified, they were a predictable response to decades of persecution of the Rohingya. Research by RFI Senior Fellow Dr. Nilay Saiya, demonstrates that severe religious repression is the leading global cause of religion-related terrorism. Without an immediate end to the persecution of the Rohingya, a worsening cycle of religious militancy, Burmese military reprisals, and political instability may well occur and spread to neighboring countries.
In 1982, Burma stripped the Rohingya of their citizenship, rendering them stateless and vulnerable to increasingly severe restrictions on their basic human rights. In 2012, major outbreaks of violence against the Rohingya began to occur, with the latest military campaign being the most severe and widespread.
The Religious Freedom Institute urges the international community, particularly the United States, the United Kingdom, and their allies, the UN, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to act to stop further crimes against humanity. It also calls on the Government of Burma to open all parts of Rakhine State, where the atrocities are being committed, to unrestricted access by international humanitarian aid agencies, human rights monitors, and the media.
At the same time, the Religious Freedom Institute calls on Pope Francis to use his visit to Burma in November to advocate forcefully for religious freedom, human dignity, and peace and reconciliation for all the peoples of Burma.
"Under Caesar's Sword" is a three-year, global research project that investigates how minority Christian communities respond to religious persecution. A team of scholars conducted in-depth field research into more than 25 countries where Christians suffer oppression and persecution because of their religious beliefs.
Visit the Under Caesar's Sword website to find more information about the project and other resources including the report of findings: In Response to Persecution and documentary film: Under Caesar's Sword.
August 15, 2017, Washington, D.C. (Religious Freedom Institute) — The Religious Freedom Institute welcomes the State Department's 19th Annual Report on International Religious Freedom and applauds Secretary Tillerson and the Office of International Religious Freedom responsible for producing it.
The Annual Report, required by the International Religious Freedom Act that President Bill Clinton signed into law, is sobering and disturbing. It catalogs the growing crisis of religious persecution that is causing immense human suffering.
The report emphasizes that governments violently repress religious groups through blasphemy and apostasy laws, destruction and seizure of property, or imprisonment of religious leaders. The worst offenders include North Korea, Russia, Cuba, Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. Religious freedom should be central to our relations with these countries, and even with allies such as Turkey, where an American pastor, Andrew Brunson, remains in prison.
Increasingly the most violent persecution has come from terrorist groups. The most visible threat has been the proliferation of ISIS and affiliated groups across the Middle East – and increasingly into Southeast Asia, Africa, and even into Europe and North America.
"I am encouraged to see Secretary Tillerson reemphasize that ISIS is responsible for genocide against Yazidis, Christians, and Shia Muslims and that the Trump administration seeks to assist and protect them," said Kent Hill, Executive Director of the Religious Freedom Institute.
"The U.S. must ensure that humanitarian assistance is in fact reaching these genocide survivors. Beyond that, we must help them rebuild their homelands and create the religious and ethnic pluralism that can forestall the return of violent religious extremism," said Hill.
July 27, 2017, Washington, D.C. (Religious Freedom Institute) — The Religious Freedom Institute applauds the nomination of Governor and former U.S. Senator Sam Brownback as U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, and calls upon the Senate to confirm him quickly.
Governor Brownback's wealth of experience, influence, and passion for religious liberty make him an outstanding choice to elevate international religious freedom to the front ranks of U.S. foreign policy, and to involve all U.S. foreign affairs agencies in that process.
"With 16 years in Congress – including 14 in the U.S. Senate – Governor Brownback is well-known throughout Washington for his staunch commitment to religious freedom for people of all faiths around the globe," said Tom Farr, president of the Washington-based Religious Freedom Institute. "He merits bipartisan support and swift confirmation from his former colleagues in the U.S. Senate." Farr also directs Georgetown University's Religious Freedom Research Project and served as the founding Director of the State Department's Office of International Religious Freedom.
"A growing body of social science research demonstrates that robust protections for religious freedom promote economic growth, increase political and social stability, and undermine violent religious extremism and terrorism," said Religious Freedom Institute Senior Advisor Byron Johnson.
"Under Governor Brownback's leadership, U.S. international religious freedom policy can advance human rights and, at the same time, make substantial contributions to the national security of the United States at very low cost." Johnson is Director of Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion. He also directs RFI's United States Action Team.
The Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom coordinates international religious freedom policies across all U.S. agencies, is to report directly to the Secretary of State, and oversees the Office of International Religious Freedom at the U.S. State Department. Governor Brownback will be the fifth person to hold the position, succeeding Rabbi David Saperstein who vacated the position in January 2017.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops celebrates its annual "Fortnight of Freedom" from June 21-July 4. The annual event highlights the importance of defending religious freedom.
In this short film, RFI President Thomas Farr joins other experts and church leaders to explain how the understanding of religious freedom for everyone is grounded in the dignity of every human being.
June 07, 2017, Washington, D.C.— In response to ISIS genocide against Christians, Yazidis and other minorities, the House of Representatives yesterday passed unanimously the Iraq and Syria Relief and Accountability Act (H.R. 390), co-authored by Republican Chris Smith and Democrat Anna Eshoo.
The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) urges the Senate to move this bill, and the President to sign it, immediately. It will ensure that humanitarian assistance reaches the victims of genocide whose very survival is at risk.
Sustaining these minority communities is a critical first step in enabling them to remain in their homelands. If Christians, Yazidis, Shabak, Kakai, Turkomen, Shi'a Muslims and other communities are not preserved in Iraq and Syria, the possibility that pluralism and stability might emerge in the future will be eliminated. A second critical step will be holding accountable those who have sought to destroy these communities.
Last year both the U.S. Congress and the Department of State labeled as "genocide" the actions of ISIS. But U.S. aid has not gone systematically to genocide victims. H.R. 390 directs that humanitarian assistance be provided to those in greatest need, especially genocide survivors. It requires the U.S. to work with the most effective relief organizations, including faith-based entities. It supports criminal investigation into perpetrators of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Iraq.


The Willamette Valley is sure to bustling with music, kites, family activities and food this weekend, June 21-24.
It's official: summer is here.
What: Part of the Science Night for Adults series, this event features a presentation on brewing by Gilgamesh Brewing's Sean Martin, live music by Matthew Price Band, beverages and food from The Kitchen on Court Street.
What: A day of family fun and activities such as water main repair clamp demonstrations and getting up close to Bobcats, dump trucks and other Public Works equipment.
What: Hosted by North Santiam Youth, a potluck in celebration of Pride month, bring food to share and enjoy music and games.
What: Watch colorful, inflatable kites shaped like Chinese zodiac creatures fly through the sky, other activities include kite making for children, professional kite demonstrations and a footrace across the beach where participants are harnessed to parachute kites.


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This year Sarah and I timed our autumn trip into the Missouri Ozarks perfectly. The autumn colors were near their peak and more spectacular than I can ever remember. As is one of our favorite customs, we reserved one of the cabins at Big Spring State Park, located within the Ozark National Scenic Waterways. Built in the 1930s by the CCC, rustic is the perfect description for these cabins and the nearby lodge. We were a week or so earlier than normal this year and the cabins were a bit more full than usual, so we were not able to get a choice cabin that does not have a long flight of stairs. Once I got all the unnecessary equipment and supplies we carry up these stairs and inside the cabin, we were ready to have some fun.
Located a few miles from the town of Van Buren, Big Spring is in contention for one of the largest springs on the continent, pouring an average of 286 million gallons (13 cubic meter/sec) a day into the Current River. I have never visited the spring without being mesmerized by the beauty and sense of peace that the spring presents as it flows from the base of the limestone bluff. Autumn and spring time are by far the best times to make a visit. The cool blue waters that seem to come from nowhere contrast nicely with the warm autumn colors displayed by sycamores and other trees that take hold along the bluff. The image below showcases the watercress that is found here and in most of the large springs of the Missouri Ozarks. Although watercress is an exotic species, it is now naturalized across most of the country, and does not seem to present much of a problem with the delicate ecosystems that these springs create.
Placed nearby the spring is this early Ozark settlement period structure. These maples frame it nicely.
The morning this image was made was definitely memorable. I actually carried my bird/wildlife lens along with my landscape gear. Just past the confluence of the spring effluent, where those crystal-blue waters flow into the lazy Current River I eagerly watch the eastern sky. Will this finally be the morning I see some color? Yes indeed! However, just after setting up the gear and getting ready to capture this scene, an Eastern Screech Owl starts vocalizing maybe 20-30 yards up the wooded slope directly behind me. What to do!? Go after the owl in attempts to finally get a photo of that bird or take the sure thing of a quickly changing landscape? I decided to be satisfied with leaving the bird alone and concentrated on the sunrise while listening to one of the most beautiful songs imaginable. There was no real fog, but what a morning!
So, there is a bit of detail and a few of my favorite images from this autumn's Big Spring visit. It is surprising that so many people in the StL area have never even heard of Big Spring. But I'm not complaining. Let them take their expensive vacation to the popular destinations. If I can have this place to myself, as I almost always do on these morning hikes, I'll be satisfied and want for nothing. Until the next time, I'll be pining for my next visit home.
How relieved are we that this place is protected? "Current River Sunrise" would otherwise be aglow with golden arches, along with a hundred other unmentionables.
Beautiful work, Bill. Thank you.
No kidding. There were likely plenty of opportunities for a variety of unthinkable "developments" during the past century. Fortunate indeed!


Kitchen counter tops are definitely important piece of furniture of the kitchen, right? Of course it is! Without them, I do not know how a kitchen can work properly. Counter tops are not only pieces of furniture that serve as decorations for the kitchen, but it also has a role of being the haven for those who wants to cut things up during their cooking section in the kitchen. Where would the residents cut their vegetables if there are no counter tops? For this reason, I am going to give some short mentions about the kinds of counter tops in this world and their designs that make each counter top different.
The kitchen counter tops' many kinds out there are, surprisingly, not little in size. The most common one is definitely the counter top that is made of concrete. This counter top is usually wrapped in white with black marble or stone for its surface. For those who want something unique, they should definitely use butcher block because of its square design with a dent in the middle of the wooden surface. There is also the reclaimed wood used for some counter tops, meaning that the counter tops are made with second-hand woods. They definitely have rustic and classical ambiances in it their own. Last but not least counter top made of wood is the cork that is light in design and weight.
There are, of course, some counter tops made of different materials other than woods. There are counter tops that are made with stainless steel, with the rest of the kitchen usually follows the lead of the counter top. Soapstone is also an option for a granite-like material that can be decked in black and white gorgeously. Slace, quartz, pewter are other materials that can make up a counter top, having the three of them in the warm colors such as light brown or light gray most of the time. For a friendly counter top, go for the recycled glass that can be created out of any second-hand wood or cork. There are many kinds of counter tops out there, but these are the common ones.
As it can be seen, the variety of the counter tops is not little. This is where the resident comes into play though. He should pick the best counter top he is most comfortable with, not to mention that the counter top should match the kitchen theme's style. This way, kitchen counter tops' many kinds serve as the gate that leads people to a comfy and stylish kitchen.


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Movie Review: SAN ANDREAS Blu-ray+DVD+Digital HD Combo Pack
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SAN ANDREAS was directed by Brad Peyton, from a screenplay by Carlton Cuse and produced by Beau Flynn. The film stars Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, Ioan Gruffudd, Archie Panjabi, Hugo Johnstone-Burt, Art Parkinson, Colton Haynes, Todd Williams and Paul Giamatti.
The infamous San Andreas Fault gives in this west coast disaster thriller that follows Ray (Dwayne Johnson), a search and rescue helicopter pilot who is tasked at tracking down and saving his estranged wife Emma (Carla Gugino) and their missing daughter Blake (Alexandra Daddario) when a magnitude 9-plus earthquake in California is triggered. Ray and Emma quickly find each other and have to make their way from Los Angeles to San Francisco to save their daughter. There's also Dr. Lawrence (Paul Giamatti) who has been warning everyone for some time that something like this was going to happen and he finally gets the opportunity to tell people that the worse is yet to come.
Once Ray and Emma reunite, the two begin their journey to try and locate their daughter. The journey begins in a helicopter and they end up crashing it into a department store, then they "borrow" someone else's truck and end up trading it for a small plane where they bail out of it and parachute to "safety" and land right on second base on a baseball field. I know, right? Ray plays hero for a few minutes and saves a number of others and then the two board a boat and take on a tsunami that's headed inland. Once the giant tsunami strikes, the two take the boat downtown where they end up locating their daughter but saving her ends up becoming the difficult part for this disastrous family reunion.
Okay, this was an absolute blast to watch. Sure it got a little cheesy and totally unbelievable at times but this wild ride – roller coaster – disaster thriller keeps you on the edge of your seat for the entire ride. The story was fun even though it reminded me of a few other disaster thrillers but San Andreas takes everything to the next level when it comes to the jaw dropping action and special effects. Even though a lot of it is unrealistic, the story does makes you think about if something of this magnitude could ever happen. Or maybe when it'll happen! Everything is literally destroyed around this fault line and it all looks so real while you watch this family make their way to find each other while dodging some crazy obstacles. The entire cast was so amazing to watch. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson shows once again why he's the man when it comes to action movies like this and he really does get to show off in San Andreas.
The packaging comes with a slipcover. The front features the artwork as you can see up top and the back includes movie details, some images and the impressive list of extras. Both discs are painted black with no artwork. Inserting the disc, the menu screen was simple and easy to navigate. The picture and sound quality for the high-definition disc were crisp and clear. The picture and sound quality for the standard-definition disc were really good.
Bottom line is, San Andreas was an absolute, fast-paced thrill ride from start to finish. The story was insane and all of the characters were interesting and fun to follow. Brad Peyton and his talented team captured and created everything they needed to make this disaster thriller the roller coaster that it is and honestly one of the best action movies of 2015. To me the best parts about the movie were the amazing cast and the crazy special effects that created this disaster zone. Strap in when this Blu-ray+DVD+Digital HD Combo Pack arrives on October 13th because it's an insane and wild ride.
Distributor: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Blu-ray Video: 1080p High-Definition 16×9 Widescreen (2.40:1) Region 1
Blu-ray Audio: Dolby Atmos / Dolby Digital French 5.1 / Dolby Digital Spanish 5.1
DVD Video: 16×9 Widescreen Region 1
DVD Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 / Dolby Digital French 5.1 / Dolby Digital Spanish 5.1
Subtitles: English SDH, French and Spanish
Special Features: Good Stuff! This release includes commentary, three featurettes, some deleted scenes, a gag reel and stunt reel. You can see the impressive list below.
Commentary by Director Brad Peyton
San Andreas: The Real Fault Line
Dwayne Johnson to the Rescue
Scoring the Quake
Deleted Scenes with Commentary by Director Brad Peyton
Stunt Reel
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The way Brecht is dealt with in countries of the Third World strangely contrasts with the culinary reception of Brecht on German stages. While he was at first publicly boycotted and secretely venerated as a socialist author, Brecht's plays became gradually socially acceptable in the course of the liberalization of the literary and art world. By now [i.e. in 1989], they form part of the repertory of all publicly financed theaters.* At the moment, they enjoy an above average success with the public, as is shown for example by box office sales in the case of the stagings of the Three Penny Opera (Dreigroschenoper) and Man is Man (Mann ist Mann) in Frankfurt. A bit of revolution coveted as entainment in the evening? Max Frisch once referred to the ''sweeping ineffectiveness of the classical author'' Brecht; the public, wearing suits and ties respectively a black evening dress thoroughly enjoy the racket and take it for a farce. In the slums of the Third World, however, others are enjoying Brecht's plays, and they enjoy them in another way. Against the resistance of the powerful, they are performed again, adapted, and made productive. It suffices here to refer to the planned publication of the Brecht Yearbook [Brecht Jahrbook] dedicated to the subject ''Brecht and the Third World.'' Brecht is dead? ''Write that I was inconvenient [unbequem, i.e. an embarassment to the mighty], and that I entend to stay so after my death. Even then, certain possiblities exist." ["Schreiben Sie, daß ich unbequem war und es auch nach meinem Tod zu bleiben gedenke. Es gibt auch dann noch gewisse Möglichkeiten." (Brecht, quoted by the Berliner Zeitung, August 16, 1956).
In February, I was in Karachi, the largest city of Pakistan with seven million inhabitants – at the turn of the century it was still a village of fisher folk. The Exception and the Rule (Die Ausnahme und die Regel) was to be performed on the premises of the Municipal Art's Council in the context of a cultural festival. On the day before the planned staging, the performance was cancelled. The troupe could not obtain the permission to perform it. Karachi is subject to a state of emergency since the massacres in the suburbs that occurred in December of last year between Pathans and Mohajirs – a consequence of the new wave of ''newcomers'' from the regions of social unrest in the North of the country, with all of its socio-cultural and economic effects of an impaired balance : an informal economic sector based on the drug trade and arms trade, and the traditional corruption of the administration, which has by now taken on the quality of a farce, when the town mayor heads a demonstration against the provincial administration, is thrown into prison and triggers a strike of the municipal administration, which in turn fosters public disorder, etc. At any rate, the general prohibition of public gathering is still in force and seems to prove a reliable, multifaceted instrument of control. Those in power in this country obviously are not interested in Brecht's play The Exception and the Rule. Brecht is no unknown author even in Pakistan.
The performance did not come about anymore during my stay in Pakistan. But the group expressed its readiness to have a conversation with me, as a Brecht student from Germany, in the afternoon after their weekly rehearsal in the apartment of the director, Aslam Azhar.
Dastak, the name of the group, means as much as to knock, to give a push in Urdu. It was founded in 1982, during a phase of increasing islamization, by six people who began to study Brecht's theory of the theater and his plays. By now it consists of 65 members, men and women belonging to every age group, from all social strata and the most diverse professions. All of them belong to the Left in a broader sense, and politically they see themselves as a part of the democratization movement, an oppositional front against the ruling military dictatorship. Why are they attracted exactly to Brecht, I wanted to know; why don't they perform plays from their own culture? Aslam, who is a bit like a Pakistani Galileo, married to a feminist woman, and who has lost one job after the other in his profession, in the cultural sphere, due to his active commitment to socialism, comprehends all great art as a metaphor for social conditions, stating that its durability is proved by its many-sided applicability. While Brecht had made his subject matter appear strange in order to show structures of problems of his time, it was easily possible to transfer these structures to today's ''developing societies'' and their contradictions exactly because of the device of ''enstrangement.'' Brecht's theater originated in a phase of radical societal shifts, of the kind experienced today by all developing countries, but it belonged to the tradition of European enlightement, which was without equivalent here, where independent cultures had been suppressed respectively colonized for hundreds of years. Brecht's ''theater of the scientific age" could be an effective antidote to the re-installation of Islam in its present use as a quasi-feudal, rule-stabilizing ideology. ''Everything is changeable'' [Alles ist veränderlich], he quoted [Brecht] with apparent pleasure.
I asked the members of the group the question why they perform as actors in addition to their professions and obligations of everyday life. A young man who presented himself selfconfidently as a steelworker (but in fact wasn't anymore, as some people of the group objected) saw the process of becoming more conscious in the course of his trade union activity confirmed by his theater-related work – and simultanously made fruitful for others. A university student who is operating, together with likeminded others, an evening school for children and adults in a slum and who has initiated a children's theater group that is performing plays of the Grips Theater in Urdu, sees in this theater work a possible starting point to effect change regarding the way people think. The success of their work was related to the fact that for the first time plays were performed for workers that 'talked' to them about their own matters. Theater is also a form of social communication about oneself, opined a young doctor who works in a psychiatric clinic and who wants to show especially the exceptions as symptoms of society. The liveliness and sense of commitment that this group revealed is perhaps owed to the fact that all of them are amateurs of the theater, with the exception of the two mentors, Aslam and Mansoor who does the translations. For traditionally trained Pakistani actors, it would certainly be very difficult to relate to Brecht. Perhaps it is also owed to the present situation of social fermentation which could be balanced by a saturated satisfaction.
The first play by Brecht that the group performed was The Exception and the Rule (Die Ausnahme und die Regel), followed by The Yeah-Sayer and the Nay-Sayer [Der Jasager und der Neinsager] and Life of Galilei (Leben des Galilei). Saint Joan of the Stockyards [Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthofe] as the most recent Brecht production was performed in the street in front of 5,000 industrial workers on last year's May Day Centennial of the trade union. The success of the performance was stunning, according to reports by members of the group. Repeatedly, slogans of the democratization movement were voiced. When there was a power failure during a performance ten minutes before the play's end, the audience replied with a storm of ''yes'' shouts when asked whether they wanted to see the remaining part nonetheless. Spontaneously the headlights of a few cars were turmed towards the stage, and thus at least the problem of lighting was taken care of. During a demonstration on the following day that the troupe took part in, the slogan ''All workers are brothers'' was expanded by adding ''... and sisters.'' Nusrat, who performed the role of Saint Joan, saw in this an effect of the play. Woman as a comrade-in-arms, this is no longer selfunderstood, now that the beginnings of the emancipation of women from their traditional role have fallen prey to re-islamization. Somebody else, who had performed the role of a worker in the play, was identified on the following day with his role despite his bourgeois habitus and asked by workers to accompany them and drink tea with them.
Although only Saint Joan of the Stockyards has been performed so far as street theater, the group takes this form to be more effective, despite many realization problems in the case of more complex plays like Galilei: theater is brought to those not accustomed to visit theater houses, more people are reached, there originates more spontanous communication between actors and the audience. Street theater is furthermore a form that corresponds to the possibilities of the group. The members work for free. Box office intake, with nominal ticket prices for an audience of workers and from sold programmes, are needed to pay for the rent of auditoriums, technical requirements, and ads. Only the Goethe Institute supports Brecht and Grips performances. Thus it is especially regrettable that a project to realize, via Deutsche Welle, a version of Galilei for the radio in Urdu, was aborted by the steep license fees demanded by the Suhrkamp publishing house, as Aslam mentioned. Of Galilei, a Sindhi version has already been published, but the Urdu translation used so far is still unpublished, and so is a translation of poems by Brecht into Punjabi. The group has by now accomplished its own translation into Urdu, based on Desmond Vesey's English version of 1960, and it is said to be closer to the German original than the English text, according to some who are proficient in all three languages. Aslam speculated about the linguistic connections between German and Urdu and quoted again with much pleasure a few sentences from the text in Urdu. Dastak sees itself as part and catalyst of a theater movement. Since it was founded, many similar groups have formed in other cities; even in Karachi there are now a few others, former members create branches, such as the group Ajooka (Today) in Lahore, which is going to perform Galilei in that city. For them, to perform is a form of social commitment in so far as theater work, based on the model of Brecht's Didactic Plays (Lehrstücke), has an enhancing effect on one's consciousness, and every performance is – also – a political event. Even though every play must be approved by two censorship authorities before it may be performed, members of the group are never completely assured that they will not be arrested all of a sudden. Permits for a performance can be revoked under some pretext, as in the case of the planned performance of The Exception and the Rule. What Brecht would have liked to hear people say about his verse, is true here with regard to his plays: ''The evil ones fear your claw/The good ones enjoy [take pleasure in] your grace.'' ("Die Schlechten fürchten deine Klaue/Die Guten freuen sich deiner Grazie.") The conflicts between ethnic groups and the massacre in December have motivated the group to project, as their next production, a Pakistani version of The Roundheads and the Vortexheads (Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe), in order to enlighten about the usefulness of racial hatred for the rulers (those in power, the dominant class, die Herrschenden). The fact that the experience of the Third Reich has not averted the present relationship of Germany with ''asylum seekers'' from the Third World, despite ''rectification of past damage done'' (''Wiedergutmachung'') and officially bended knees, cannot make Aslam give up his optimism. The dramatic acerbation [Verschärfung, worsening] of the present situation in Pakistan contained the possibility of a qualitative reversal [qualitative Umschlag], the burgeoning [Keim] of amelioration, pressure and counterpressure, in good materialist terms. In contrast to Germany.
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At the end of the Spectra () is a 2006 Colombian horror film written, produced and directed by Juan Felipe Orozco.

Plot
After a traumatic situation that turns Vega into an agoraphobe, she decides to live like a hermit in an apartment at her father's suggestion. Her life changes radically as she begins to see the inexplicable and hear the unignorable. As her horrific visions intensify, Vega begins to piece together a dark jigsaw puzzle illuminating evil's malign power. A series of explosive situations: a sinister presence in the apartment, her neighbor's bizarre obsession, and a dark forgotten past, bring the story to a chilling, claustrophobic and tense spiral.

Cast
Noëlle Schonwald as Vega
Julieth Restrepo as Tulipán
Silvia de Dios as Tulipán's Mother
Manuel José Chavez as Jairo
Carlos Serrato as Neighbour
Kepa Amuchastegui as Vega's father

Production

The apartment where Vega lived was originally an abandoned gym. The darkness of the place is similar to that of old apartments in downtown Bogotá.

Release
The film was released on December 15, 2006 and had a successful opening week. At the End of the Spectra was in the first position of the Colombian Box office.

Remakes
During 2007 news broke out that Roy Lee was planning to do an English remake with Nicole Kidman as the lead, targeting a 2010 release date. No information about this remake has appear ever since.

In 2013 a Mexican remake was released, called Demon Inside, directed by Alfonso Pineda Ulloa and starring Paz Vega in the lead.

References

External links

2006 films
2006 horror films
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2000s Spanish-language films

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Elizabeth Jennings Graham, activist and educator was born free in New York City to Thomas and Elizabeth Jennings in either 1826 (according to her Death Certificate) or 1830 (according to an 1850 census). The specific day and month of her birth are unknown. Her parents were both prominent members of New York City's small black middle class and her father was the first African American to hold a patent in the United States. He was also involved in many social and religious organizations and was one of the founders of New York's Abyssinian Baptist Church.
Like her father, Elizabeth Jennings Graham was involved in many social and religious organizations, most prominently as a church organist. She was on her way to church to play the organ on July 16, 1854 when she tried to board a streetcar of the Third Avenue Railway Company which at the time did not allow African Americans as passengers. At first she was given permission to ride the streetcar as long as none of the other passengers complained, but was forcibly evicted as soon as the conductor found a policeman to help him throw her off the conveyance.
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After the trial, Graham continued her career as a church organist and her career as a teacher. In the late 1850s she married Charles Graham. In 1862 the couple had a son named Thomas who died of "convulsions" one year after his birth. Her husband died four years later in 1867.
Later in life, Graham opened a kindergarten for African American children in her home. The kindergarten operated from 1895 until her death on June 5, 1901. Elizabeth Jennings Graham was buried in Brooklyn's Cypress Hills Cemetery, along with her son and her husband.


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UW-Eau Claire (6-2-2, 0-0-0 WIAC) 1 1 0 2
Marian (Wis.) (4-3-3, 2-3-1 NCHA) 2 1 2 5
1st - 13:07 - Jake Howie (Marian (Wis.))
1st - 15:32 - Warren Carter (Marian (Wis.))
1st - 19:51 - PP - Ethan Nauman (UW-Eau Claire)
2nd - 10:54 - Devin Stuermer (Marian (Wis.))
2nd - 11:09 - T.J. Stuntz (UW-Eau Claire)
3rd - 06:02 - Jake Howie (Marian (Wis.))
3rd - 19:16 - EN - Devin Stuermer (Marian (Wis.))
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Sh: 3 Players (#15, #21, #23) - 4
Sv: Jay Deo - 25
A: Ben Morgan - 3
Sh: Gianni Mangone - 5
Sv: Mike Gudmandson - 29
By Justin Dade, UWEC Sports Information
FON DU LAC, Wis. (Blugolds.com) – The No. 10 University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire men's hockey team fell to the Marian Sabres 5-2 on Saturday night recording just their second loss of the season.
UW-Eau Claire led in shots on goal and faceoffs for the game in their comeback bid, but fell short allowing a goal in the third period and then a late empty net goal to concede their most goals in a game this season.
The Sabres opened up the scoring with 6:53 left in the first period on a goal from freshman forward Jack Howie and then added to their lead 2 minutes and 25 seconds later on a goal from senior forward Warren Carter.
With just nine seconds left in the period, the Blugolds found life with a huge goal scored on the power-play by Ethan Nauman (Sr. – Mosinee, WI) assisted by Jake Hopfner (So. – Eastpointe, MI) and Preston Hodge (Jr. Normal, IL) to cut the Sabre lead in half and take momentum into the locker room.
The first half of the period came without scoring, but the Sabres added to their lead 10:54 into the frame on a goal from Devin Stuermer.
The Blugolds roared back again this time just 15 seconds later on a goal from T.J. Stuntz (So. – Austin, TX) assisted by David Henry (Jr. – Foster City, CA) and Jesse Tredinnick (So. – Onalaska, WI) to reduce the deficit back to only one.
UW-Eau Claire fought hard and put 23 shots on Marian goaltender Mike Gudmandson in the second and third periods alone to create chances but were unable to add any more goals to complete the comeback.
The Sabres added another goal in the third period from Jack Howie, and then tacked on a final empty-net goal to seal the 5-2 victory.
The Blugolds won big in the face-off department winning 44 of the 69 draws led by Colton Wolter (So. – Fairbanks, AK) who won 10 of 15.
UW-Eau Claire's penalty kill continued to be dominant denying the four Sabre power plays to improve their season penalty kill percentage to 95.1 percent.
Goaltender Jay Deo (Jr. – Langley, British Columbia) recorded his loss of the season Saturday night saving 25 of the 29 Sabres' shots on goal. Deo's record will fall to 3-1-1 on the season.
The Blugolds will be back in action to open conference play next Thursday at UW-Stout at 7:30 p.m. before returning to Hobbs Ice Arena for a Saturday matchup at home with UW-River Falls at 7 p.m.
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LUDHIANA - A shoe hurled at Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal by an unemployed youth in a village near here Aug 15 during an Independence Day function got political overtones with the ruling Akali Dal blaming the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for the incident. The shoe missed Badal at the "Shaheedi Divas" function organized at Issru village, 20 km from here. The police took the youth into custody.
In a statement released later, the Akali Dal warned the AAP to desist from making attempts to disturb peace in Punjab through such incidents. Akali Dal general secretary Maheshinder Singh Grewal said if such incident of shoe hurling happened again, "it would be difficult to stop the Akali cadre from reacting to the incendiary actions of AAP members".
Grewal said while democratic means to protest are welcome, "no civilized society could allow such attempts to disturb the law and order situation in Punjab to succeed". He said the AAP member had not only tried to disturb law and order but also shown disrespect to martyrs on the Independence Day. Punjab Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa also condemned the incident.
"This incident should be condemned by all as it is not part of political culture of this state," he said, adding, however, that it did reflect the growing frustration against the Badal government.


KAHTA, Turkey (Reuters) - Seated in front of a huge image of Islam's holiest shrine, Ahmet Turanli, an elder of the Resvan tribe, is just the sort of man whose support Turkey's ruling AK Party might want in a parliamentary election on Sunday.
Tribes like Turanli's, mostly of Kurdish, Turkmen and Arab origin and concentrated in Turkey's southeast, were a powerful force in past elections, in some cases voting in blocs of tens of thousands, often in favour of the Islamist-rooted AKP.
This time, some may rally behind a pro-Kurdish opposition party and potentially cost President Tayyip Erdogan the AKP majority he wants to help guarantee him executive powers.
Sunday's vote could see the AKP's majority shrink for the first time since it entered parliament in 2002, particularly if the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) can cross the 10 per cent threshold needed to win representation.
Turanli sees an almost existential battle for Kurdish political identity, with the HDP, its roots in Kurdish nationalism, contesting the election as a party for the first time.
"Against these people in power, against these dictators, the HDP must be in parliament," the 65-year-old said, sipping tea in his living room, one of its walls adorned with an image of the Kaaba, the black-clad cube in the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
"They must overcome this threshold obstacle, it is more important than ever."
Kurdish opposition candidates have run as independents in the past. Now, in an all or nothing gamble, the HDP will be left unrepresented if it fails to meet the threshold.
"Many members of my family have voted for AKP in the past, but I know that in this election they won't," Turanli said in the province of Adiyaman, religiously conservative and mostly Kurdish.
His cousin Dengir Mir Mehmet Firat, a former AKP lawmaker who is now a candidate for the HDP, said that while tribal influence over voters had declined in recent decades, extended family ties and loyalties still ran deep.
"To say that the tribal system of the past is intact would be dreaming. But I have been a politician for 42 years. There is nobody in Adiyaman that I don't know, and no place that I haven't been," Firat said. "It is an emotional connection that we are relying on."
Erdogan wants the AKP to win at least two thirds of the seats in parliament, enough to allow the ruling party to change the constitution unopposed and introduce the executive presidential system he has long coveted.
Opinion polls show that as unlikely, particularly with the HDP polling near the 10 per cent mark. Should it enter parliament, it could deprive the AKP of a super-majority and potentially force it into coalition with another party, scuppering Erdogan's plans.
At the last parliamentary election in 2011, independent Kurdish opposition candidates won around 6.5 per cent of the overall vote.
But the HDP has sought to widen its net, casting itself as the party of the left and a champion of equal rights for all, not just Kurds. Its leader, Selahattin Demirtas, took 9.8 per cent of the vote in a presidential bid last August.
Adnan Boynukara, an AKP parliamentary candidate for Adiyaman, said the extent of support for the party, particularly among tribal elders, was exaggerated.
"It's true that the HDP has found a tide in favour of it,"said Boynukara, 50, drinking tea with residents of the small town of Besni while out on the campaign trail. "But I know that some of those people HDP counts on in Adiyaman will not vote for them."
Some religiously conservative Kurds are uneasy with the HDP's leftist agenda. The party is promoting a progressive platform of equal rights for women, protection of the environment and respect for the LGBT community.
Erdogan has courted the Kurds, who account for a fifth of Turkey's population, in recent years, doing more than any previous leader to try to end a three-decade insurgency by Kurdish militants and extending Kurdish rights.
The AKP has typically attracted at least half of the Kurdish vote.
But the conflict in neighbouring Syria, now in its fifth year, has complicated Turkey's relations with its Kurds.
About 130 km south of Adiyaman in the border town of Suruc, sentiment towards the AKP remains sour.
Dozens of people were killed last October in protests in the region triggered by Kurdish anger at Turkey's perceived inaction as Islamic State in Iraq and Syria militants besieged the Kurdish town of Kobani just across the border in Syria.
"People saw the true face of Erdogan when he said Kobani was about to fall (to ISIS)," said Recep Kalkan, 56, who has voted for the AKP in the past three general elections. "Those comments were poisonous for us all."
Ankara refrained from intervening militarily in Kobani, even though the siege took place within sight of Turkish military positions, and has been wary of supporting Kurdish fighters in Syria amid concern about a push for Kurdish autonomy there.
"I voted for Erdogan," said Gulizar Ucar, a housewife in the village of Kara, just outside Suruc, vowing not to support him or the AKP again. "Now he no longer acknowledges us," she said, sitting in the shadow of a black mulberry tree in her garden.


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Positive results for SIVECO Romania in 2005
Bucharest 12th of January 2006 – Following its excellent growth during the last few years SIVECO Romania continued to have during 2005 outstanding results
Outstanding financial results:
SIVECO Romania's turnover reached 37.6 million USD in 2005, keeping up with the previous years in terms of increase. For 2006, we estimate an increase of 20 percent compared to last year.
Consolidating the position on the local market:
The market studies made by IDC place SIVECO Romania in the top EAS and IT services suppliers. It is the only Romanian software company that manages to climb tops dominated by multinational system integrators.
SIVECO Romania controls 18.7 percent of the local EAS market, being the leader of Romanian software solution providers, and 9.2 percent of the local IT services market. The company is number one on Custom Application Development market with a 28,4% market share and also ranked first in the Applications Consulting and Customization foundation market with a 22,7% market share.
Investments attracted:
Coming as a confirmation of our performance, the shareholders of SIVECO Romania includes the strategic investment funds Intel Capital and Enterprise Investors, starting with 2005. This was the biggest investment made in an IT company in Romania, supporting the company's intention to act as a regional leader in the future.
Enriching the clients' portfolio:
SIVECO Romania's portfolio was enriched with new clients, most of them from the private sector, confirming the value of the commercial strategy we applied both domestically and internationally.
Among the new clients there are: URBAN, COM AUTO MERIDIAN (five companies), ECOFISH JURILOVCA, DANUBIU RO 2002 BUCURESTI - JURILOVCA, URSUS BREWERIES – BRASOV BRANCH, METACOM GRUP 9 (14 companies), THE NATIONAL COMPANIES FOR ROADS AND MOTORWAYS, THE MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT, CONSTRUCTIONS AND TOURISM, COMVEX CONSTANTA, ULTEX TANDTREI, EXCLUSIV ENB ALIMENT, FEA, CITY HALL OF DISTRICT 3, CFCU -WEB RAMIS, THE TIMISOARA AIRPORT, TRANSILVANIA BANK, SSPR, CONGAZ, UMB COMERCIAL SA BACAU, CELCO CONSTANTA, AVICOLA CALARASI, INTER-METACO DEVA, AVERSA SA, RAFO ONESTI, MOBIFON.
The number of contracts signed was much higher, as a lot of the existing projects were extended, SIVECO Romania' customer satisfaction survey proving that most of them consider working with us simple and profitable.
In 2006, the company intends to attract 120 new clients.
Highlights of 2005:
Coming to meet the need for training expressed by the Romanian business environment, SIVECO Romania launched at the beginning of the year an educational platform designed for the corporate environment – AeL Enterprise.
The denomination of the leu was also a challenge for developers and implementers of SIVECO Romania. The denomination process started in October 2004, and all the components of SIVECO Applications were successfully installed to all our clients. For the financial – banking sector, the offer was completed with the SIVECO Applications package and with software development and customization services for the treasury and risk management applications
In 2005, SIVECO Romania continued to work at national projects, started in the previous years: The National House for Health Insurance, Petrom and MEdC. We also successfully continued the implementations at Uztel Ploiesti, Romvag, Carpatair, Dobrogea Biscuit and CFR and finished projects like: NTCS, Anticorosiv, Romanceram and the Bucharest City Hall.
Developing partnership relations:
SIVECO Romania signed a series of partnerships with Romanian companies from different regions, companies from Cluj-Napoca, Targu Mures, Neamt, Calarasi, Vrancea, Arges, Brasov and Timisoara. Also, we consolidated our partnership with Microsoft Romania and extended the partnerships with IBM, HP, Bull and Oracle.
For 2006, we intend to increase activity and incomes by establishing efficient relationships with our partners
Increasing the number and quality of the team:
As the business developed, SIVECO Romania's team increased to almost 450 specialists, supported by an increase in quality also.
SIVECO Romania's continuous care for improving the employees' competence through adequate training, creating a pleasant work environment, recognizing the contribution of each of the employee, placed the company on an important 9 position in the top 50 of the "Best companies to work for", issued by Capital.
Improving the business model:
In 2005, SIVECO Romania proved the values of its business model and was recognized for it at international level, receiving the prestigious "International Gold Star Award" for quality.
National and international recognition:
SIVECO Romania won the World Summit Award for the multimedia content developed on the AeL platform and was a nominee at the eAwards for eGovernment for the It-Based Educational System(SEI), which took place in Manchester.
At national level, SEI received the "Best Bridge over the Digital Divide" Award from PC World Magazine, and the Excellency Award from IDG at the eleventh edition of the Romanian Computer Show.
The business magazine "Saptamana Financiara" awarded the company for internationally expanding the business, and Comunicatii Mobile gave another Excellency Award, for the most prestigious presentation of a Romanian IT solution at the international level.
Also, the readers of Bucharest Business Week designated SIVECO Romania as the "Fastest Growing IT Company in 2005."
Expanding the corporate social responsibility:
SIVECO Virtual Center for Excellency, started in 2003, is contributing to promoting the creativity in education, through its series of initiatives like the SIVECO CUP, .Campion and SIVECO Summer School competitions. Also, it financially supports actions like the Olympiad in Computer Science, the Balkan competitions, the Virtual Learning National Conference and SIVECO Academy.
The company is also supporting cultural projects, by facilitating the participation of young artists to international competitions and awarding young artists with exceptional results or well-known names in the Romanian cultural environment.
Considering the difficult moments when Romanians needed solidarity more than ever before, SIVECO Romania initiated and supported help campaigns for the victims of the floods from Moldova, either on its own or together with its business partners. SIVECO Romania supported with money and construction materials the victims from Bacau, Galati and Onesti.
Last but not least, SIVECO Romania actively supports the national and international initiatives meant to increase the transparency and credibility level of the Romanian business environment, to eliminate the corruption and consolidate the work ethics.
"For 2006, we plan to consolidate and to successfully expand our projects, to further invest in R&D projects, identify the local and international business opportunities, especially as a turn key projects provider" said Irina Socol. "We will continue to expand our business on those verticals with great potential. Also, we will continue to promote a responsible, ethical bussiness environment, while consolidating our position as a company involved in civic, social, cultural and educational activities" said Irina Socol, General Manager of SIVECO Romania.


I'm always looking out for fun and interesting new teaware, especially for use in the office. Before I left for World Tea Expo this year I received two travel sets by Zens Lifestyle to review. I didn't have a chance to try them out before I left for Expo, but it turned out that they had a booth there, and I was able to see them up close. I have to admit, I fell in love with many of their teaware sets- they are beautifully made with a sleek, minimal design. Today I will be reviewing the Pi Travel Cup. I've been using it in the office for a few weeks now, and I've gotten to know it very well. Read on for a full rundown of the pros and cons, and a discount code if you decide you'd like one for yourself.
The appearance of the Pi Travel Cup is sleek, petite, and intriguing. It's small, which is great for a desk or travel. Since it is designed for travel, it also comes with a perfectly sized travel case. There are three main parts to the brewer: The steeping vessel, the drinking cup, and the silicone middle, connecting the two pieces. The steeping vessel and cup are made of double-walled borosilicate glass. There is a stainless steel filter for steeping and small stainless steel ball that assists with the pouring. There are two pieces of plastic in this set- the cap that goes on the top of the glass brewing vessel, and a small lever to allow the tea to pour out.
Assemble the pieces together, add your tea and you're ready to go. The cup holds a little over 6 ounces of water, so measure out your tea accordingly. Pour your water into the steeping vessel and add the plastic top to retain heat. When you are ready to pour out the tea, press the little square button on the front of the brewer. You'll need to hold the button down until all the water flows out into the cup below. Then remove the top parts of the set to reveal your tea cup, ready to be sipped.
Once assembled this set is easy to use, and very portable. It's easy to clean- simply remove the leaves and give everything a rinse. The pieces all come apart which makes a thorough cleaning easy to do as well. The carrying case is sleek, and everything fits inside securely. It's compact enough to take on a trip.
My main criticism of this travel brewer is the plastic. I guess it makes sense to have a plastic top so it won't break, but I prefer not having any plastic around my hot water. To be fair, the top doesn't come into contact with any of the water at all, but the small plastic lever that releases the brewed tea from the top chamber does. This is a very small amount of plastic however. If I'm really going to nit-pick, the cup is also a bit small at about 6 ounces. But I've been using it like a gaiwan, adding a bit more leaf, and cutting down on the brewing time. I've been able to get multiple steeps this way without an issue.
As I mentioned I like to use this similar to a gaiwan, so I'll add more leaves than if it were a traditional teapot. I've been able to get multiple steeps this way without an issue. Another tip is to make sure the little stainless steel ball on the underside of the silicone is centered properly before each use. I've had it shift to the side slightly after it's washed, which will cause the water to flow through the steeping cup before you're ready to drink. It's easy to fix as long as you're mindful of it.
This little brewer works really well, and it's fun to use. It looks elegant sitting on my desk, and I'm constantly getting compliments on it from coworkers. The travel case is very sleek, and is the perfect way to take it on the go. To see a few videos I've made, visit my instagram page and look for the 'Zens Pi Brewer' stories icon in my profile. If you are interested in getting a Pi Travel Cup for yourself, I have a 10% off discount code to use if you purchase it through the Zens website! Use the coupon code teahappiness10 during checkout. On the checkout page above the billing details there is a prompt to click on to add your coupon code. You can also visit the website to find more photos of the travel set and the carrying case. If you have any questions about the set, please leave a comment or email me!
Thank you to Zens Lifestyle for providing this travel set for review.


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Камар ад-Дін (*д/н — бл. 1192) — улусбег (головний емір) та фактичний правитель Східного Чагатайського улусу (Могулістану) в 1368—1392 роках.

Життєпис
Походив з монгольського племені дуглат. Про батьків нічого невідомо. разом з братом Пуладчі (Буладжі) був одним з військовиків хана Туглуг-Тимура. Втім Камар ад-Дін погиркався з останнім, оскільки після смерті брата Пуладчі хан призначив улусбегом не його, а небожа Худайдаду.

У 1368 році влаштував змову проти нового хана Ільяс-Ходжи, якого разом з 18 членами родини було вбито. Камар ад-Дін оголосив себе улугбегом, а свого брата Шамс ад-Діна призначив правителем Могулістану. Проте ці дії Камар ад-Діна не визнало більшість племен, а Худадйдада надав притулок Хизр-Ходже, братові Ільяс-Ходже, що отаборився в Бадахшані. Втім протягом 1368—1369 років Камар ад-Дін вдалося прибокарти більшість повсталих місцевих правителем.

За цим він спробував знову підкорити західний Чагатайський улус, розраховуючи на послаблення тамтешнього правителя Тимуру, який нещодавно завершив війну проти еміра Хусейна. У 1370 році війська вдерлися до східних областей Мавераннахру, що було пограбовано. у відповідь Тимур сплюндрував південь Могулістану. З цього моменту починаються постійні війни з державою Тимура. У 1375 році останній вдруге вдерся до Могулістану, завдавши Камар ад-Дін поразки у місцині Баркай-і Гуріян. Камарад-Дін втік до гір Тянь-Шаня.

У 1376 році Камар ад-Дін зібравши нові сили сплюндрував частину ферганської долини, дійшов до Узгенда й повернувся до Могулістану. Втім війська Тимур рушили за ним й у місцині Арп-Язи Камар ад-Дін зазнав поразки. ще однупоразки зазнав у Семиріччі, відступившидалі на схід. після повернення Тимура до Мавераннахру, Камар ад-Дін відновиввладу. Проте постійні поразки знизили потугу й авторитет улусбега, в результаті чого від Могулістану відкололисяплемена аркенут, баарин, булгачи, меркіт.

У 1387 роціспрямував посольство до Тохтамиша, хана Золотої орди, пропонуючи спільні дії проти Тимура (Тамерлана). У 1387—1389 роках декілька разів зазнав поразок від останнього, який сплюндрував Семиріччя. Водночас у 1389 роціКашгар та усю область захоплено Хизр-Ходжою з Чингізидів.

У 1390 році Камар ад-Дін зазнав поразки від військ Тамерлана, що захопили Семиріччя, столицю Алмалик. після цього Камар ад-Діна атаковано племенем каучін, що завдано улусбегу значної шкоди. Потім він відступив за Іртиш, сховавшись в Моногольському Алтаї. У 1392 році Камар ад-Дін зберігав деяківолодіння у східному Могулістані. Проте напевне невдовзі помер від водянки.

Джерела
 Grousset, René. The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia. Trans. Naomi Walford. New Jersey: Rutgers, 1970. ISBN 0-8135-1304-9
 Караев О. Чагатайский улус. Государство Хайду. Могулистан. — Бишкек, 1995
 Marozzi, Justin (2006). Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World. Da Capo Press. ISBN 030681465X

Правителі Могулістану