All India Shri Shivaji Memorial Society's (AISSMS) College of Hotel Management and Catering Technology Pune is organising its annual three-day international intercollegiate hospitality competition event — Atithya 2019.
All India Shri Shivaji Memorial Society's (AISSMS) College of Hotel Management and Catering Technology Pune is organising its annual three-day international intercollegiate hospitality competition event — Atithya 2019. In its 11th year now, the festival is scheduled to take place between February 6 and 8. More than 30 hospitality schools from India and abroad will participate in 12 competitions in core hotel operation areas.
This event enjoys a huge support from Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) as well as Pune Hoteliers Association. This year's theme is 'Global Desi', which is all about giving a local twist to the global cuisine. Malojiraje Chhatrapati, honorable secretary of AISSMS, firmly believes that such activities are better than classroom teaching to hone the talent in students.
As part of the event, the Awards Night witnesses hoteliers interacting with the student community every year. It is an evening of fun and a page-turner after three days of intense work. The hospitality industry appreciates the efforts taken by the college in creating such a huge platform for budding hospitality professionals. The jury panel features some of the industry professionals.
This year, AISSMS College of Hotel Management and Catering Technology Pune has organised an international seminar on 'Emerging Careers in Niche Hospitality' where eminent speakers like Tarun Thakral, Amy Shroff, Sajjani Nair, Aniruddha Patil, Umesh Iyar and John Killen will share their valuable knowledge.


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Private Eye again...and a Brown Nose Award, First Class, with updates
Update 1st May;
The Council's Director of Regeneration and Policy, Wendy Walters has been promoted and appointed as the new chief executive. No surprise there.
Ms Walters was formerly one of two £100k pa Assistant Chief Executives, when one of the posts was axed in a restructuring exercise in 2017, Mr James decided to create a new Directorship, Regeneration and Policy. The £120k job was advertised as it had to be by law, but the ad disappeared a couple of days later and Ms Walters was appointed to the post.
Regime change? I think not.
Update 28th April;
And from this week's Carmarthenshire Herald.....:-)
Click to read. Link to Companies House here.
The Rotten Boroughs column in the current issue of Private Eye features Mark James of Carmarthenshire Council fame yet again. It follows an oozing 'tribute' to the departing Mr James, penned by his former press officer and which featured recently in a local publication.
It clearly amused the Eye:-)
The 'tribute' was, as the Eye website explains, "...so cloying it will make Eye readers reach for the sick bucket".
Here's the Rotten Boroughs piece;
With the forthcoming retirement, I thought a brief summary of some previous mentions in the esteemed Rotten Boroughs column would be appropriate, and to serve as a reminder of just how thoroughly Mark James has, in the words of the Eye, "trashed Carmarthenshire Council's reputation".
All recorded for posterity on this blog;
After featuring the '#daftarrest' incident in Rotten Boroughs in June 2011, the council's notoriety was beginning to grow and by December they were awarded the runner up prize for Legal Bullies of the Year. In January 2012 the Eye covered, with some amusement, the CBE awarded to Mark James.
In 2011, with 'Devil's Work' and again in 2012 with 'Let us Pray' the council had again caught the attention of the Eye with their generosity towards some local evangelicals with some dodgy connections. In August 2012, the shocking blackmail of a local paper saw the council back in the column and in October the council press office again featured in the Eye after failing to carry out a simple check on google.
This all led to more Rotten Borough honours at the end of the year, with the PR Plonkers and the Hellfire Awards, no less, and with our own chief executive apparently a devout evangelical christian himself, the latter must have been especially touching.
The Wales Audit Office and the unlawful payments were closely followed by the Eye and naturally made the Rotten Borough columns in 2013 and 2014 with the libel indemnity and the pension tax avoidance. The latter was the scam our devout Mr James also shared with the former CEO of Pembs.
The highest accolade came in 2016 with Mark James scooping the coveted Rotten Borough's Shit of the Year Award, closely followed in March 2017, after the order for sale court hearing, with the equally memorable 'In the Gutter' piece.
Emlyn Dole made his first appearance in March 2017 with his barns and was back, as second fiddle to Mr James, in 'Shit storm', over the secretive nonsense over the libel indemnity CRWG meeting held last July.
The Wellness scandal and Mr James' retirement hasn't been missed by the Eye either, featuring in the Rotten Boroughs column in December, 'Tender spot', January 'Down the pan' and 'Shit happens' in February.
And, as above, in April.
Whilst searching google for the purposes of this post, I landed on this parliamentary record from Hansard from March 2014. It was a scathing and indeed, a truthful attack by Plaid MP Jonathan Edwards on the "ruling cabal of senior officials" and their "political wing", the then Labour/Ind Executive Board.
He also says, "Given the number of mentions that Carmarthenshire has had in the Private Eye "Rotten Boroughs" column, one might think that the executive board members would have got the message."
Unfortunately, the Plaid 'run' Exec Board, hasn't got the message either.
As this blog has reported, Emlyn Dole has made sure that he and the Board have remained the chief executive's dutiful rubber stamp. And as I have said, Mr James will leave a toxic legacy when he retires, one which will be difficult to break, particularly if the next incumbent is a carefully prepared clone....
This most highly contraversial and now infamous council under a despots seventeen year rule has deserved it's bad reputation and has been proven to be everything a corrupt organisation to be;
undemocratic, dysfunctional, secretive, closed, where officers and councillors alike are controlled to the point of being unable to carry out their own statutory requirements/duties, where codes of conduct should be mandatory but treated with utter contempt by the now disgraced Mark James.
The inhouse candidates on the shortlist for the now vacant CEOs position have all adopted this shameful culture created by Mark James, which suggests they didn't disagree with it. They have allowed this regime to flourish and go unchecked for years. In the real world they should never be considered for this post if a culture change is desired by all those who believe one is needed. God knows it is! It should go to a complete outsider who has had no connections with this now disgraced council, but of course we all know that the other two disgraceful individuals, the oh so pious Rev Dole and Legal Linda, who have much to lose if there was a culture change won't want that, will they?
I anticipated yet another appearance. I wonder if Private Eye will do a pull out 'Souvenir Special Supplement' when 'Himself' departs? I think they should. Let's face it,they have more than enough material on CCC et al to do one now.
Adam Price Plaid Cymru is ambitious for wales - greater prosperity etc.
If you look however through the telescope the wrong way you can see what a dominant Plaid Cymru might look like and thats in Carmarthenshire where all levels are controlled by Plaid Cymru at MP, Am and Council control
At Council level is not a very appetising scene with what is going on regarding Mark James and the shambles around regeneration and the Swansea City deal
If the Council under Plaid vote in one of the internal candidates into the CEO position after all what has gone on before there is no hope for envisaging how Plaid would run Wales as they will be shown as being weak and not up to making big decisions
I see, from Companies House that Mr James has lost no time in carving a path to the lucrative world of consultancy, along with Mrs James. I wonder how long it'll be before the council employ the services of Ffynnon Consulting Ltd !
The company description is "Management consultancy activities other than financial management" and its probably just as well it excludes the latter...The Brighton address, by the way, is that of a fellow director, a firm of accountants, from one of his undeclared Cardiff business interests .
I would have thought he could have got himself an honorary economics degree from UWTSD and by now be applying for the governor of the Bank of England job as sideline.
Once one of his lackeys gets appointed as the new CEO he will be handed contracts to consult on the management of the Council and get paid for it
Perhaps he will also offer his services to the new Director to be appointed for the Swansea City deal
The trouble with councils run under despots is that "ruling" councillors are damaged and broken and likely to choose the same kind of person again. Not unlike battered or abused children later marrying battering or abusing spouses - it's what they know. And they live in hope that, this time, they can make it right. The decision should be taken out of councillors' hands - maybe a People's Vote!
Ffynnon Consulting Ltd – specialist advisors to Sicilian cartels.
I don't understand - the office for this consultancy company seems to be in a small house in a rather ordinary street - surely there is a gold-plated (or even gold) mansion somewhere?
@Redhead With an interest in a residential site for the Local Development Plan, Mr James' gold mansion could be on its way....! Meanwhile, the registered office appears to be a large firm of accountants in Brighton...see also my comment 24th April...
God help us all if one of the present employees of CCC is appointed - it will be "out of the fire and into the furnace" as they weill, no doubt, follow "his master's voice" I suppose we ought to be thankful that "Loopy Linda" hasn't thrown her hat into the ring!
Out of the frying pan and into the fire for us all - and our useless,spineless and useless gutless councillors are so stupid and blind they will fall for it.
@Redhead
Thanks for your comment this evening. The business you've mentioned, with the registered office in a house in Llandybie has a very similar name, but appears to be unconnected. Check out the link I put in my comment on the 24th to Companies House, which should take you to the right one.
Well, we should find out who the lucky candidate is tomorrow afternoon. Full council meets at 2pm.
DDD said...
So what is this Wendy woman going to do to sort out the mess and corruption of CCC?
m1books said...
Very little probably. She has been schooled and guided into the same mould. Were there really no external candidates? - probably not. Who would want to inherit such a toxic culture to sort out. As a local councillor I despair and am bitterly disappointed. Hoping for a more dynamic, innovative approach to local politics. Sadly it would appear probably now not to be.
MJ must be cock-a-hoop with joy at this appointment which has been in the offering for many years
WW cannot clear up the mess of Carmarthenshire and the Swansea city deal as she is part of the problem
MJ will have a few weeks now to put in a plan for WW to follow for the next few years
There will be no change in direction and WW will now have to come out of the shadows as the CEO is a prominent role no more hiding behind MJ
At least Plaid will be happy as WW writes, reads and speaks Welsh - thats a positive I suppose
Watch this space its going to be a rough ride
Wendy Walters has been groomed for this position over the past few years. Mentored by her previous Director, Dave Gilbert and given the seal of approval by Mark James. This deal was done and dusted a long time ago. The other three, including poor Jake Morgan (did he ever think he was in the running) were only there to make it look like a competition in the first place.
I'm ashamed of this County and it's shoddy Councillors. But most of all, having been a Plaid Cymru voter in the past, I'm almost ashamed of being Welsh.
Well done CCC.
the shambles of the management of the Swansea city deal by MJ and WW will give you a clear indication of their style of control or lack of it
because of this Carmarthenshire will be isolated from the other councils for the near future especially as WW will now be CEO and is seen as the problem
there is no trust as you can see by the comments made by the CEO's of Swansea and NPT - they will not be impressed by this appointment
same old same old - shambles as has been the watch word for the regeneration function of Carmarthenshire for years started as mentioned above by Dave Gilbert - lets hope he does now appear on the scene
when are the next local elections cannot wait !
Some like to stay close to the nest. As for deputy CEO Dave Gilbert, he retired immediately before the Pembrey Country Park scandal and the accusations of officer cover-up erupted...then became an adviser to the City Deal board, then a director of the council owned Cwm Environmental and is now also a director of the new council's arms-length housing company, Cartrefi Croeso.
This was the Carmarthenshire Herald's comment on the crowning of the heir apparent:
'The appointment of an internal candidate, particularly one who has worked so closely with her predecessor, suggests there will be no change in administrative direction for the authority. It will, however, take Ms Walters some time to detoxify the Council's brand following the calamitous last few years of Mr James' period in charge, during which it lurched from one public relations disaster to another. In addition, there will be significant pressure to move forward swiftly with ensuring the Council moves towards fulfilling the promise to be the most open and transparent in Wales.
In selecting a 'continuity candidate', councillors appear to have indicated that what they most want is, however, more of the same.'
As they say - plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose ... How long is this nightmare going to last?
With the dream team Meryl Gravell Mark James and Dave Gilbert moving on for various reasons such as avoiding scandals or cashing in on pensions and looking for nice earners in retirement such as directorships
It must be nice to have a safe pair of hands appointed to be the next CEO one that you have nurtured over the years to keep you in directorships and watch your back
A new outsider CEO would have no such commitment and might easily have ended these positions
I think they call it succession planning - does not help us the taxpayer though
Don't worry. There was no 'outsider' anyway, and in more sense than one. I'm reliably informed that the external candidate is a former employee.
Cover all bases boys!
This was mentioned today on the bbc Radio Cymru bulletin, we won't hear anymore about it now as we BBC cymru Wales does not have a credible current affairs or news dept anymore
Private Eye again...and a Brown Nose Award, First ...
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Meeting of the Communications & Technology Committee for the 2019-2020 election cycle.
For more info, email communications_chair@1stlddems.org.
Discussion of upcoming speakers, resolutions and general business. Food and drinks at 6 PM in the public room with the general meeting starting at 7 PM.
The 1st LD Membership Committee meets the second Thursday of each month.
Potluck meal starts at 6pm and the meeting follows at 7pm.


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Obscure Barry thriller score gets unexpected CD release after 25 years
Music composed by
UNNAMED ORCHESTRA
DAN WALLIN
CLIF KOHLWECH
JOHN LA SALANDRA
FORD A. THAXTON
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Album cover copyright (c) 1984 Warner Bros.; review copyright (c) 2009 James Southall.
One of the more obscure entries in the John Barry filmography, Mike's Murder was a 1984 vehicle for Debra Winger in the wake of her success in An Officer and a Gentleman, but disastrous previews led to the film being completely re-edited and the original score, by Joe Jackson, being replaced by Barry. But Jackson's music had already been released on LP by the time Barry came along - and so none of his music saw the light of day. Anything's possible in soundtrack releasing these days, and this title was surprisingly unleashed by Prometheus Records after months of teasing in 2009.
Winger plays a woman in love with a shady character by the name of Mike. It doesn't take too much detective work from the viewer to begin to suspect that Mike might not last the length of the film, and in fact (BIG SPOILER!) he is murdered early on. Winger spends the rest of the film trying to find out what happened to him. It did very little business at the box office (though reviews were actually not bad) - and so even though it's only 25 years old, many fans of Barry will never have heard a note of the music, even in the context of the film.
Barry's score begins in a most unexpected way, with simple repeating piano scales. Having never seen the film, I don't have a clue what the significance is - but after a minute or so, the lush main theme begins. It's not typical of this particular score (indeed, it doesn't appear again until the end) but is very typical of Barry - a beautiful melody for strings, then the introduction of a sax. It's a very different animal from the composer's seminal Body Heat, but in its more understated way is very pleasant.
The score proper begins in "Cautious", with an endlessly-repeating motif for strings and flutes forming the backbone of much which follows. Its insistent nature is highly effective - it's not the kind of beautiful music so often associated with this composer, but of course that would have been very wrong for this film - instead Barry painting a portrait of impending doom. As with many devices he has used over the year, it is so simple from a musical perspective - and yet does its dramatic job far better than most others would have managed with more complex composition. Barry has always been an expert at that - sometimes the simple ideas are by far the most effective.
An accusation sometimes unfairly levelled against Barry is that he spreads his material too thinly, repeating themes and motifs with little variation throughout a score - but in fact Mike's Murders is one of the few where that accusation would not be unfair. This is not an album which features a great deal of variation - in terms of the music's primary function, supporting the film, it's probably not a problem at all (and indeed the incessant repetition is probably the whole point of it) - but on an album, it is. Fortunately, the score is punctuated by a few individual set-pieces (such as the explosive "Coke") which mean it isn't a huge problem, but if the album has a drawback, it's that.
This is not a major Barry score by any means, and especially considering the unusually high price-tag of the album, that means its appeal is likely to be limited to his die-hard fans - and it certainly contains more than enough quality to satisfy that audience.
Main Title (2:37)
Cautious (:56)
Hide Out (:48)
Up Top (:49)
Welcome Again (1:04)
Bedroom (1:18)
Waiting for Phone (:47)
Coke (1:34)
Smoke or Not (:52)
Mike Is Dead (1:34)
Betty and Sam (:37)
Driving (1:00)
More Driving (1:43)
Bloody Room (2:42)
Mirror (:34)
Betty and Pete (2:07)
Pete and Knife (4:05)
Home Again / Mike's Murder / End Credits (3:09)
Outtake Suite (18:40)
Sushi Bar Muzak (3:01)
Rock Source Cue #1 (1:49)


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Infrastructure bill could give a big boost to…
Infrastructure bill could give a big boost to region
The $1.2 trillion legislation is the largest single investment of federal resources into infrastructure projects in more than a decade.
President Joe Biden signs the "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act" during an event on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday. (The Associated Press)
By Karen Shuey | kshuey@readingeagle.com | The Delaware County Daily Times
PUBLISHED: November 16, 2021 at 6:21 a.m. | UPDATED: November 16, 2021 at 8:40 a.m.
It could mean major improvements to highways. It could mean bridges get rebuilt.
It could mean upgrades to wastewater treatment plants or improved access to broadband in rural areas. It could even mean new commuter rail lines.
When President Joe Biden put pen to paper, signing his name to the recently passed $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, he opened the floodgates of federal funding for all sorts of projects in communities across the country.
"My message to the American people is this: America is moving again and your life is going to change for the better," Biden said during the signing ceremony.
While it's not yet quite clear how all the dollars from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will be doled out, some will undoubtedly find their way to Southeastern Pennsylvania. It could have a very big, very noticeable impact.
While the details of what, exactly, the impact of the new infrastructure bill will be in Pennsylvania won't be revealed for some time, there are some things that are known today.
Pennsylvania will benefit
The Keystone State will receive tens of billions of dollars in new funds over 10 years to improve and build new roads, bridges, public transportation, rail service, broadband and safe water systems. The landmark legislation is the largest investment in infrastructure in a generation.
Gov. Tom Wolf said the comprehensive package will provide critical federal funding to infrastructure, support economic growth throughout the commonwealth and provide good-paying jobs for Pennsylvanians.
"Restoring the commonwealth's infrastructure has been a priority throughout my administration, and I am grateful for President Biden's and our Democratic congressional delegation's shared vision and leadership on this important issue," he said. "These critical investments, along with state level solutions, will help close Pennsylvania's growing transportation funding gap, connect Pennsylvanians to opportunities and each other and move our commonwealth forward."
The money coming into Pennsylvania will support particular aspects of infrastructure.
$12.9 billion for roads and bridges
For the past several decades, the roads and bridges in Pennsylvania have suffered from a systemic lack of investment. The money in the legislation is intended to restore 7,540 miles of highways and roads throughout the commonwealth and improve the condition of 3,353 bridges that are in poor condition.
$66 billion for railroads
Investing in Amtrak's maintenance is a major priority of the legislation. The money will be used primarily for the Northeast corridor and some other routes. Though the final figure is short of the president's initially proposed investment of $80 billion, it is the largest investment in the system since it was founded 50 years ago.
As part of the investment, Amtrak unveiled its plan to add 30 routes, including a passenger route from Reading to Philadelphia.
$100 million for Internet access
Pennsylvania will receive a minimum allocation of $100 million to help provide broadband coverage across the state, including providing access to at least 394,000 Pennsylvanians who currently lack it. And about 23% of people in Pennsylvania will be eligible for the Affordability Connectivity Benefit — helping low-income families afford internet access.
$1.4 billion for water treatment
The Keystone State will receive $1.4 billion over five years to improve water infrastructure. Replacing pipes made with lead will cost $15 billion, and cleaning water of polluting chemicals will cost another $10 billion.
$2.8 billion for public transportation
Pennsylvania will receive $2.8 billion over five years under the plan. This money will be used to improve access to the public transportation system for people with disabilities. In addition, at least 24,000 buses, 5,000 rail cars and 200 stations will be repaired.
$355 million for airports
The money will go to upgrade air terminals and update aging control towers.
$171 million in electric vehicles
The Keystone State will get $171 million to build charging stations, which are key to expanding the use of electric vehicles.
$75 million for wildfire and cyberattack protections
Pennsylvania will receive $49 million over five years to protect against wildfires and $26 million to protect against cyberattacks.
Getting the bill passed
In a late-night vote, the House passed the infrastructure measure 228-206, with 13 Republicans crossing the aisle and joining nearly all Democrats in support. Its passage was viewed as a vindication of sorts for Biden who sought bipartisanship on an issue that both parties regarded as a key priority.
The members of Congress who represent the region voted along party lines, with Democratic Reps. Chrissy Houlahan and Madeleine Dean supporting the bill and Republican Rep. Dan Meuser voting against.
Dean, a Montgomery County Democrat, said last week in a conference call with reporters that the bill will be an economic engine for the nation. She pointed out that the money Pennsylvania can expect to receive represents the largest infusion of cash since state lawmakers approved a more than $2 billion transportation funding package under former Gov. Tom Corbett in 2013.
"That was my proudest vote in the Pennsylvania House," she said. "This will go down as one of my proudest votes in all of public service."
Houlahan, a Chester County Democrat, called the legislation historic. She said the long-overdue investments in Pennsylvania's roads, bridges, broadband and clean water are a big deal.
"These investments will create good-paying jobs for our talented workers right here in Chester and Berks counties," she said. "It's no secret: Our infrastructure is aging. And as one of the oldest commonwealths in the country, we stand to benefit a great deal. It's time to rebuild."
Meuser said he ultimately could not support a deal cut by congressional Democrats to link the infrastructure bill to the Build Back Better Act — a plan that invests heavily in child care, preschool education, paid parental leave, elder care and other social infrastructure programs.
In the final hours before the vote, progressive Democrats who had threatened to sink the infrastructure measure agreed to support it after extracting a promise from moderate Democrats that they would ultimately back the Build Back Better Act.
"I have strongly supported a standalone transportation, infrastructure and revitalization bill for months, and I worked hard with my colleagues on a bill that would benefit Pennsylvanians and the American people," said Meuser, a Luzerne County Republican. "I could not, however, support spending $5 trillion of taxpayer dollars when I support only the 20% dedicated to hard infrastructure and I believe most of the other 80% would be detrimental to our economy, national security and global competitiveness.
"The American people don't want us to make the government bigger, they want us to make our country better."
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Fired candidate talks exclusively to IBTimes UK.
The Apprentice 2016 reached the dreaded interview stage tonight (15 December), and things got a little intense for the 12 season's resident lovable ditz, Jessica Cunningham.
The fashion entrepreneur and former pole dancer fell at the last hurdle as she got the boot alongside fellow female hopefuls Grainne McCoy and Frances Bishop after failing to impress during the interview stage.
The 29-year-old striking brunette from Derbyshire – and one of the key entertainers of the series thus far – fought right until the end to bag Lord Sugar's £250,000 business investment. She ran for the top spot against now-finalists Alana Spencer, Courtney Wood.
It's become an Apprentice tradition for the penultimate episode to include the scary interviews, whereby the remaining candidates get a grilling from four of Lord Sugar's most trusted advisors; Claude Littner (who spoke exclusively to IBTimes UK today), Claudine Collins, Mike Soutar and Linda Plant.
The following day, business plans in hands, the budding entrepreneurs head off to one of London's highest offices – the spectacular Leadenhall Building in the Square Mile.
Cunningham returned from her interview with Plant and stated: "She ripped me to absolute shreds; I've left my dignity on the 42nd floor."
Speaking exclusively to IBTimes UK about her experience on the show, Cunningham revealed why she didn't make the final. She said: "I think it's because my business plan wasn't rock solid and I believe that let me down."
She continued: "Lord Sugar is an amazing business person and if I wasn't the right partner for him, it wouldn't have been a perfect fit: so yes I do think he made the right call."
"I gave it my all and there is nothing more I could have given," she continued.
On her opinion of business mogul Lord Sugar, she said: "I think Lord Sugar is great, you can tell he wants each one of us to do well. He is very witty and has a great presence in the room."
Cunningham, who is the owner of an online fashion company as well as a successful operations director for a PR and marketing agency, offered her ultimate business tip to future Apprentice candidates.
She said: "You have to dream and dream big. The bigger you dream the higher you get. It's so important to Keep positive, stay driven and have self-belief. If you believe you can do it, you will."
And the potential winner in her eyes? "I'd love Courtney to win, although Alana is absolutely fantastic and great at business."
Tune into The Apprentice final this Sunday (18 December) at 9pm on BBC1.
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Four eRanger Education units and two eRanger Ambulances have been deployed in Kabul, Afghanistan to assist in the work No Strings International is doing in land mine awareness and HIV education and particularly (but not exclusively) aimed at children.
The Education Units are modified versions of the standard Ranger model and have been working since 2006 be arriving on location later this year. The other two units are standard Ambulance vechicles.


For our first circle, we will use "story medicine" to dive into the energies of the first quarter moon and the end of Venus in retrograde. Energetically, this is a time of overcoming challenges, obstacles, and gaining confidence to move in the direction of our intentions and desires. Venus retrograde was a time that shined a light on our past patterns in relationships, love, and money - and now we clear that which no longer serves us an move ahead anew.
What are the stories and obstacles that hold you back from realizing your potential and dreams? In this circle, we'll support each other as we rewrite those stories. Through guided visualization and open and supportive sharing, we will start to collectively heal the group and ourselves. We'll have tea and light refreshments after the healing circle to continue our connection.
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Currently many complex, biologically-derived materials have extremely useful properties (think wood or silk), but are unsuitable for space-related applications due to production, manufacturing, or processing limitations.
Cells in nature are already highly specialized for making complex biological materials on a micro scale. Researchers envision combining these strengths with the recently emergent technologies of synthetic biology and additive manufacturing to create 3D-structured arrays of cells that are bioengineered to secrete different materials in a specified three-dimensional pattern.
Imagine being able to print anything from tools and composite building materials to food and human tissues. Imagine being on Mars with the ability to replace any broken part, whether it's a part of your spacesuit, your habitat, or your own body. We propose a technique that would allow just that.
By printing 3D arrays of cells engineered to secrete the necessary materials, the abundant in situ resources of atmosphere and regolith become organic, inorganic, or organic-inorganic composite materials.
Such materials include novel, biologically derived materials not previously possible to fabricate.


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I bought some chicken keema(minced chicken) from market, but this time I didn't want to make the usual keema curry with this. Then I remembered, I wanted to make this Shammi kababs at home for long time, after I tasted this kababs in a restaurant, I just loved this. So decided to give it a try.
Shami Kebabs are a delicious combination of mince meat, gram lentil and spices. It is very popular in India and Pakistan. Shammi kababs are traditionally made with minced lamb meat, but one can substitute it with chicken. It is perfect to serve as side dish, appetizer or evening snack or you can also use these kebabs to make burger. Usually, shammi kababs are shallow fried on pan but I decided to make it more healthy, so baked them with almost no-oil. I skipped the lentil, as I decided at the very last minute, but without the lentil also I tasted totally yummy, So i can't name it as Shammi kabab. For this kabab, you need no preperation but within very less time you can serve some mouth-watering and very addictive appetizer or side dish.
Minced Chicken(keema) : 300 gm.
Ginger paste : 1 tblsp.
Ina bowl, take the minced meat first, in there add all the other ingredients one by one except breadcrumbs. then give a good mix with your hand. After mixing, if the mix feels and looks little watery, add little breadcrumbs to the mix and mix again till all the water are absorbed and you can make a round ball out of the mixture. Then flatten the round ball into round shaped patty/disc.
Pre-heat your oven to 180 degreeC or 375 degreeF. Line your baking tray with some parchment paper or aluminium foil. Brush a little oil on the foil and place the kababs on the foil leaving little space in between kababs. When one side turns brown, revert to teh other side, brush little oil on top. Bake them for 20-25 minutes on each side.
Loved the idea of baking the kebabs...shall try your healthy take on it.


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IMD News · Sustainability - Global Business - Competitiveness - Supply Chain
New IMD index helps leaders better understand the 'massive trade offs between globalization and sustainability'
A collaboration with the Hinrich Foundation, the Sustainable Trade Index (STI), showcases the different ways 30 global economies are harnessing the positive elements of trade while mitigating the negative.
IMD's World Competitiveness Center (WCC) has added sustainable trade to the various facets of competitiveness it measures with a new ranking: the Hinrich-IMD Sustainable Trade Index.
"There is a massive trade off between globalization and sustainability," said Professor Arturo Bris, Director of the WCC. "On the one hand, there is a social and environmental cost to being at the centre of trade; on the other, if you really want to play the sustainability card, you need to shut down your borders. In this sense, sustainability is creating huge dilemmas which we absolutely have to recognize."
In the publicly available index – the fruit of a new partnership with the Singapore-based Hinrich Foundation – New Zealand ranks first, the UK second and Hong Kong third.
New Zealand tops the measure for political stability, ranks third in labor standards, and strongly upholds freedom of association and assembly. The UK ranks second partly because it keeps its energy intensity low, just as it does its percentage of wastewater treated, CO2 emission transfers and carbon management.
Hong Kong excels in attracting capital from foreign investors and maintaining a well-developed technological infrastructure.
The content of the index will appeal to regulators, businesses, and communities alike in helping to shape policies that integrate sustainably conducted trade into the prosperity of economies.
Supporting national economies while preserving global ESG objectives
Commonalities among high-performing economies were as wide-ranging as: a tendency to encourage technological innovation, low trade barriers, high life expectancy, good (prolonged) school attendance rates, impressive energy conservation at home, and a fervent respect for climate goals.
However, New Zealand, the UK, and Japan (which ranked fourth) all share a major weakness: their ecological footprint. Renewable energy is also a significant shortcoming in the performances of the UK and Japan.
Christos Cabolis, Chief Economist at the WCC, said: "International trade is a fundamental component of value creation, and therefore of the economic growth of countries that participate in it. Even though business leaders have shifted their focus to more company-specific operational challenges, the interdependency and interconnectedness of economies with respect to the flow of goods, services, people, capital, and ideas continues to be strong – and, therefore, the importance of sustainability in its widest sense remains high.
"Sustainable trade must be a focus of public decision makers navigating their countries' strategies while striving to reach the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030."
However, with inflation increasing and growth slowing, the index also partially reflects the relatively high tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade and their effects on the world's biggest economies, including China (13th) and the US (ninth).
"The findings are a sobering indication of how the appetite of developed economies is driving forced labor, often more than we imagine. We hope they rally our wider policy, business, and academic communities to discuss solutions. We need to know more about our supply chains," said Chuin Wei Yap, Program Director, International Trade Research at the Hinrich Foundation.
Previous editions of the STI covered 19 Asian economies and used the US as a benchmark.
The 2022 remodeling includes the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) members Canada, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Russia, and the US, but also applicants for membership of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) – Ecuador and the UK. Four more economies are included due to their large regional presence: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Apart from widening the pool of economies studied, the WCC has drawn upon its expertise in identifying and handling a wide range of external data to revamp the methodology and increase the number of data points studied. The index is structured around three key pillars – economic, social and environmental – which are designed to correspond to the most salient effects of global trade.
The Hinrich Foundation is a philanthropic organization that works to advance mutually beneficial and sustainable global trade. It supports original research and education programs that build understanding and leadership in global trade. A combination of the Foundation and the WCC's complimentary skills and heritage, the Hinrich-IMD Sustainable Trade Index will now be released annually.
The WCC's final ranking of 2022 will be its Talent Ranking, out on 8 December.
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Anita Hugi • Director, Solothurn Film Festival
"You don't need to be conventional to succeed"
by Muriel Del Don
13/01/2020 - We chatted with the director of the Solothurn Film Festival, Anita Hugi, about the strengths of a gathering which is so crucial to Swiss film
With not long to go until the opening of the Solothurn Film Festival (22-29 January), its charismatic director Anita Hugi spoke to us about her first year helming the event, her dreams for the future and the power wielded by new Swiss film talent.
Cineuropa: How are you approaching your first year at the helm of the Solothurn Film Festival?
Anita Hugi: I didn't want to change everything just so that everyone would know there's a new director on board. What's important, in my mind, is to have a thorough understanding of the whole festival in order to help it evolve. That said, one "strength" which I wanted to highlight relates to the audience. It's important that people come together, that different generations, linguistic regions, approaches and genres cross paths. One of the reasons I applied for this post was the fact that the festival showcases all types of cinematic genres: fiction films, documentaries, animations, music videos, new narratives... It was in that same spirit that we decided to organise the first ever celebration of Swiss film schools, a celebration aimed at new talent hailing from The Geneva School of Art and Design HEAD, ECAL University (Lausanne), the Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts HSLU. I wanted to invite people who perhaps hadn't been to Solothurn before, young people from regions all over Switzerland, to come together and enjoy themselves, to attend screenings, to meet up. The place of women in all that is also very important to me. I'm very pleased that we're talking more and more about the lack of equality in current film creation. I also believe that some great unknown women have left their mark on the history of film, including that of Swiss film. That's why we're organising a tribute to three pioneering women from French-speaking Switzerland: Patricia Moraz, Christine Pascal and Paule Muret. We want to shine a light on their wonderful story of collaboration between women. In addition to that, we're calling people to action by way of a workshop where we'll work together to create Wikipedia pages dedicated to female film directors. Generally speaking, 80% of Wikipedia entries are dedicated to men and the domain of filmmaking is no exception to this rule. It's encouraging to note that in terms of the films lasting 59 minutes or less screening at Solothurn, there's an equal number of male and female directors.
"First films" are at the heart of this 55th edition. What space are you allowing this new generation?
It's true that I'm a fan of daring films which place an emphasis on formal research. You often find this type of commitment in first films; these directors are fully immersed in their creation, they want to say something, to try new things. First films must be given the same chances and the same visibility in competition sections as any other film. There are 21 first films amongst the selected feature films - it's a wonderful thing. In the Upcoming lab, which offers personalised coaching, of sorts, we select projects which have been sent to us beforehand. These are very innovative, surprising and poetic projects. I don't know much about Swiss film clichés, but I've always hoped that our cinema would be seen as slightly crazy, different, offbeat. Solothurn fights to ensure that male and female directors enjoy conditions which are favourable to making films of various genres. I believe Solothurn is a meeting place, but also space in which to fight for Swiss film and for healthy working conditions which favour research. It's all a question of time and, by extension, money.
How do you see the future of Swiss cinema unfolding? What are its strengths and weaknesses?
Today, Swiss film doesn't really have the capacity to travel. It's become difficult ever since Switzerland left the MEDIA programme. This year, I wanted to invite international guests. I wanted them to come to see Swiss films so that our films could travel, in some way, whilst remaining at Solothurn. Switzerland is now a third-party country; we're no longer part of many exchanges and so we need to develop new strategies. French-speaking Switzerland's strategies, for example, are based on co-production. Co-production also allows films to travel. Opening ourselves up to partnerships is also a good idea. As for our strengths, I'd say artistic innovation. I think we're a little bit quirky, unconventional. Swiss people aren't only interested in making box-office pleasers. I've noticed that there's a new wave of young directors - men and women - which gives me a lot of hope. They're passionate filmmakers who want to make films in a highly original, unique and personal manner. You don't need to be conventional to succeed. At present, the Solothurn Film Festival is home to a great many creative minds.
(Translated from French)
Harald Bergmann • Director of Vorzeit – In Praise of Greece
"I had the urge to sketch a positive portrait of Greece and the Greeks"
Juan Rodrigáñez • Director of Rights-of-Man
"We're living in extremely conservative times"
Daniela Elstner • Managing director, UniFrance
"The variety of our films is wider than almost anywhere else in the world"
Dr Huw Jones • Lecturer in Film, University of Southampton
"There's a danger that documentaries will lose value in the eyes of audiences if they are only available on streaming platforms"
Jonas Holmberg • Artistic director, Göteborg Film Festival
"Finding amazing films directed by women has actually been the easiest bit"


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Let's Talk About What To Look Forward To In 2022
by Anna Bastos
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As 2021 comes to a close, we have a lot to look back on but also so much to look forward to. That's true for both the real world and also our beloved fictional worlds from movies and TV shows. And as a little beginning-of-the-year treat, we'll be listing some new shows and movies to look forward to in 2022.
Disney never disappoints when it comes to their shows, and Bunk'd has been no exception. Since it began in 2015, the series has been one of Disney's most successful; and even through changes in the main cast, going from the Ross children from Jessie to characters like Lou and, Parker, Noah, and Destiny, Bunk'd remained funny, well-written and just great in general.
So you can imagine how happy we were when Disney announced a new season titled BUNK'D: Learning the Ropes. Lou, Parker, Noah, and Destiny will return along with some new faces, like Shiloh Verrico as Winnie, Luke Busey as Jake, and Alfred Lewis as Bill. Oh, and this time, they're all going to a ranch in the Wild West. We can't wait!
The Witchverse
Ok, we're pretty sure we've made it clear by now how much we love animation, right? So when Disney also announced a new animated anthology series celebrating a certain group that has been fascinating the world for ages: witches. But you know, without all the stereotypes and misconceptions we all know and hate. Each episode will explore the lore surrounding witches in different parts of the world.
The idea for this show came from Baobab Studios' acclaimed, award-winning interactive experience Baba Yaga. The short film was such a success that it caught the eye of the world's biggest entertainment company and now will serve as a starting point for the first episode of The Witchverse. Eric Darnell, who wrote and produced Baba Yaga will serve as executive producer for The Witchverse, and we're sure that if the short was a success in his hands, the show will be too.
A reclusive author gets kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire who wants her to lead him to the lost treasure she talks about in her latest book. That's the general story of The Lost City. And if the sense of adventure wasn't enough to convince you to go to the theater on March 25, let us tell you a bit more about the movie. Firstly, the three main characters are played by Sandra Bullock — the reclusive author, Channing Tatum — the model who appears in all her book covers, and Daniel Radcliffe — the crazy rich man who kidnaps her. Together, they set off to find the treasure before it disappears forever.
After being a huge success in theaters in 2021, Marvel's newest group of heroes will be joining Shang-Chi, the Avengers, and others on Disney+ on January 12! We're counting down the days to see these new heroes on our TV screens (and possibly rewatch the movie many, many times until we know the whole script.) And getting to watch it many times over also gives us the opportunity to think about how the Eternals will affect the rest of the MCU in future projects. We can feel the theories forming.
Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness
Still on the topic of Marvel, we have to talk about Multiverse of Madness. Doctor Strange's second movie will deal with the consequences of the multiverse being opened for good. After the events of Loki, What If…?, and Spider-Man: No Way Home, the multiverse is open, and since every action has consequences, Doctor Strange now needs to deal with them. And based on the trailer, he'll seek the help of the Scarlet Witch herself, Wanda Maximoff. We missed you, Wanda! Also in the trailer, we see another variant of Strange who clearly got a little too drunk on power. Excuse us while we start counting down the days until it hits theaters.
You've probably heard your parents talk about the original Zorro series. And now guess what? We'll get a new version of it to tell our kids about. The masked vigilante comes back to the screens in 2022, this time with Wilmer Valderrama as the title character and as executive producer of the show. This is especially exciting because Wilmer grew up with Zorro, and we all know that no one can do a better job than a fan when the subject is doing justice to a beloved icon.
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So, if you were a child or teen during the early 2000s in Latin America, you remember the original Rebelde. The Mexican teen telenovela took over the world and the six protagonists even became a band in real life like their characters did in the show. Now, we're looking at a new version of the show brought to us by Netflix!
And just a heads up, this isn't a reboot. We're talking about new characters and new storylines, but they will mention some of the original characters throughout the show, acknowledging that both stories take place in the same universe (and the same school so the nostalgia will be hitting hard for those of us who watched the original.)
So, which of these new movies and shows are you looking forward to the most? Tell us in the comments or tweet us @TheHoneyPOP!
Featured Image Source: Courtesy of Netflix.
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How to resolve SQL Loader skipping records and it says the column is too long?
Please specify the max size of what the data could be, like char(2000) otherwise the default is 255.
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German grocer, ALDI, will be operational early 2019 in Mount Pleasant, TX. The company will be moving into 20,832 SF across from Walmart Supercenter. The facility under retrofit (construction) was formerly occupied by Hastings & is next to Hibbett Sports. ALDI, a 2018 Retailer of the Year awardee, is currently blocked off to the public for safety reasons but we wanted to give y'all a peak inside the hard hat zone. Enjoy! Welcome, ALDI USA!!
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New AD drug from Yale!
Hi Laurie, thank you. Yes I am asking about Silicade. Yes you are correct that the Zero Water would filter silica, but what if the silica is added *after* the filtration?
That's great Laurie! Can you ask your husband if a ZeroWater filter would work?
ZeroWater removes ALL minerals from water (post filtration TDS is 0). Then pure sodium silicate can be added after the filtration?
Laurie, I saw your husband's great video about adding silica to water, then filtering it through Britta filter. Very clear video. Why a Britta filter specifically and not another filter?
Interesting dissertation study on Ubisol-Q10 in PD and AD!
I am a New Yorker also!


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Killing cities
Posted on January 8, 2018 by Derek Gregory
In a perceptive commentary on the ground-breaking investigation by Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal into civilian casualties caused by the US air campaign against Islamic State (Daesh) in Iraq – see also my posts here and here – Robert Malley and Stephen Pomper write:
The Trump administration has celebrated a no-holds-barred approach to the fight against ISIS, given greater deference to ground commanders, loosened restrictions imposed by its predecessor, and expanded the fight to an ever-growing number of Middle Eastern and African theaters. This adds up to a quasi-automatic recipe for greater civilian casualties. Independent monitoring organizations have tracked the numbers, and invariably they point to a serious uptick in civilian deaths in Iraq and Syria since January 2017. The explanation lies partly in the transition in Iraq and Syria toward the final, more urban phase of the conflict in the heavily populated cities of Mosul and Raqqa. But partly only. It also lies in policy guidance, as well as in matters such as tone, attitude, and priorities set at the very top—including by the commander in chief. These have a way of trickling down and affecting performance on the battlefield.
And yet. Those dead civilians that The New York Times found not to have been counted were not counted by the Obama administration. They were not counted by people who were intent on limiting civilian casualties and ensuring transparency. That those safeguards proved inadequate even in the hands of an administration that considered them a priority raises particularly vexing questions.
Part of the problem, as they note, is the nature of the campaign itself. This is not the sort of counterinsurgency campaign that emerged in Afghanistan and Iraq in which air power was used in support of US and allied ground troops (although we know that also produced more than its share of civilian casualties); neither is it a counterterrorism campaign directed against so-called High Value Targets who supposedly 'present a direct and imminent threat to the United States' (ditto; and as I discuss in 'Dirty dancing' – DOWNLOADS tab – 'imminence' turned out to be remarkably elastic, a deadly process of time-space expansion).
Ultimately, though, their anxieties turn on what they call the 'over-militarization' of the US response to al Qaeda and its affiliates and to IS. They explain, succinctly, what has encouraged this militarized response (not least the lowering of the threshold for military violence allowed by remote operations):
[U]ntil this changes, an increasing number of innocent lives will suffer the consequence. Some will be counted. Others, not. All will have paid a terrible price.
In December the Bureau of Investigative Journalism confirmed an escalation in US air strikes across multiple theatres in Trump's first year in office:
President Donald Trump inherited the framework allowing US aircraft to hit suspected terrorists outside of declared battlefields from his predecessor, Barack Obama. Bar some tinkering, his administration has largely stuck within the framework set by the previous one.
However, the quantity of operations has shot up under President Trump. Strikes doubled in Somalia and tripled in Yemen [in 2017].
In Afghanistan, where the Bureau has been monitoring US airstrikes since it was officially declared a noncombat mission at the end of 2014, the number of weapons dropped is now approaching levels last seen during the 2009-2012 surge.
Meanwhile, there are signs that the drone war may be returning to Pakistan, where attacks were also up, compared with 2016.
Much remains unclear about these actions, apart from Trump's signature combination of machismo and ignorance, but we do know that Obama's restrictions on the use of military force outside Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria have been loosened:
In 2013, Obama introduced measures that meant that strikes in areas of countries that were not active war-zones, such as Pakistan and Yemen, had to go through an elaborate sign-off process with the White House.
The Trump administration effectively side-stepped the restrictions by declaring parts of Somalia and Yemen to be areas of "active hostilities".
In September NBC reported that the Trump administration was planning to allow the CIA to take a more aggressive role and to give the agency more authority to conduct (para)military operations. In consequence a comprehensive revision of Obama's guidelines was in prospect:
The drone playbook, known as the Presidential Policy Guidance, or PPG, includes a provision that no strike should go forward unless analysts determine that there is a near-certainty that no civilians will be harmed. And it includes a provision forbidding the addition of new detainees to the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Trump administration is contemplating removing both of those restrictions.
Pakistan remains a nominally covert area of operations. US drone strikes in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas resumed in March after a nine-month hiatus – though Trump's latest spat with Islamabad raises questions about the sporadic but systematic co-operation that had characterised so much of the campaign – and (provocatively: again, see 'Dirty Dancing' for an explanation) one strike took place outside the FATA in June 2017. The Bureau's detailed list is here: five strikes are listed, killing 15-22 people.
In Afghanistan the Bureau noted that air strikes had doubled and that this escalation has been accompanied by a corresponding decrease in transparency (Chris Woods told me the same story for Iraq and Syria when we met in Utrecht).
All of this confirms the report released today by Action on Armed Violence.
At least 15,399 civilians were killed in the first 11 months of 2017 according to Action on Armed Violence's (AOAV) recording of English language media explosive violence events. This devastating toll – up to the end of November – strongly suggests that 2017 was the worst year for civilian deathsfrom explosive weapons since AOAV's records began in 2011.
This sharp rise, constituting a 42% increase from the same period in 2016, when 10,877 civilians were killed, is largely down to a massive increase in deadly airstrikes.
Compared to 2011, the first year of AOAV's recording, the rise in civilians killed by explosive violence in the first 11 months of 2017 constitutes an 175% increase (5,597 died in the same period seven years ago).
On average, our records to November show that there were 42 civilian deaths per day caused by explosive violence in 2017.
For the first time since our recording of all English language media reports of explosive weapon attacks began, the majority of civilian deaths were by air-launched weapons. Of the total civilian deaths recorded (15,399), 58% were caused by airstrikes, mainly in Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
Civilian deaths from airstrikes in this 11-month period was 8,932 – an increase of 82% compared to the same period in 2016 when 4,902 civilians were killed, or 1,169% compared to 2011, when 704 died.
Significantly, as airstrikes are almost always used by State actors, rather than non-State groups, States were responsible for the majority of civilian deaths from explosive weapons for the first time since our records began.
Iain Overton, Executive Director of AOAV commented:
These are stark figures that expose the lie that precision-guided missiles as used by State airforces do not lead to massive civilian harm. When explosive weapons are used in towns and cities, the results are inevitable: innocent children, women and men will die.
In the same vein, Karen McVeigh's summary for the Guardian quotes Chris Woods from Airwars:
This is about urban warfare and that's why we are getting crazy numbers… War is moving into cities. It doesn't matter whether it's Russia or the US-led coalition or ground forces leading the assault, the outcome for civilians under attack is always dire…. We're becoming too complacent about urban warfare, and militaries and governments are downplaying the effects.
I think that's right, though I also think war is moving back into the cities (if it ever left them); the serial military operations in Mosul and Raqqa are vivid examples of what Chris means, but they also recall the assaults on Fallujah and other cities documented in Steve Graham's still utterly indispensable Cities under siege.
The point is sharpened even further if we widen the angle of vision to take in air campaigns conducted by other air forces: the Syrian Arab Air Force and the Russian Air Force in Syria, or the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.
Yet again, killing cities to save them. As a spokesperson for Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently put it last summer, 'This is very similar to the Vietnam war, where entire cities were destroyed… What is happening in Raqqa is like dropping a nuclear bomb in stages.'
Steve's work should also remind us that these dead cities are not produced by air strikes alone. Once reduced to rubble they have often been disembowelled (I can think of no better word) by ground forces; it's as though these now barely human landscapes compel or at any rate license the continued degradation of both the living and the dead: see, for example, Kenneth Rosen on 'The Devil's Henchmen' here or Ghaith Abdul-Ahad's chillingly detailed report on the aftermath of the liberation of Mosul here.
I'm still astonished that all those high-minded theoretical debates on planetary urbanism somehow ignore the contemporary intensification of urbicide and urban warfare (see 'Mumford and sons' here).
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The latest issue of Critical Inquiry (44/2) (2018) has a special section on Israel/Palestine: The Occupied and the Occupier: that has its origins in the International Critical Geography Conference at Ramallah in 2015:
In the life of a scholarly journal there sometimes occur moments when radically different perspectives converge on a theme or argument. That is the case with the following group of essays. The first is written by Saree Makdisi, a Palestinian scholar who has studied the occupation of his country for many years and has attempted to analyze the institutions, languages, and political forces that sustain that occupation. The subsequent essays constitute a dossier of reflections by Israeli scholars writing from the standpoint of the occupiers, seeking to understand the history of the occupation and to reflect on the moral and political issues that accompany it. Organized by Ariel Handel and Ruthie Ginsburg, "Israelis Studying the Occupation" originated in the desire of a group of Israeli scholars to engage with Palestinians and international experts at a conference on Critical Geography that took place in Ramallah in 2015. As with so many attempts to find common ground in Israel/Palestine, this desire was frustrated. The present forum, therefore, is basically an attempt to name and locate that common ground as the occupation itself and to engage in reflection from the standpoints of both the occupied and the occupiers.
Critical Inquiry has a long history of engagement with the question of Israel/Palestine; a complete list of articles on this topic is available on our website [here] and includes work by Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said, Ariella Azoulay, Robert Griffin, Frank Gehry, Oren Yiftachel, and John Berger.
Here is the Contents list:
Saree Makdisi, Apartheid/Apartheid
Ariel Handel, Ruthie Ginsberg, Israelis studying the Occupation: an introduction
Hagar Kotef, Fragments
Hilla Dayan, For Occupation Studies, to cultivate hope
Amira Hass, Writing about the Occupation
Maya Rosenfeld, The transformation around the corner
Amal Jamal, Bypassing 1948: a critique of critical Israeli studies of occupatio
Irus Braverman, Renouncing citizehsip as protest: reflections by a Jewish Israeli ethnographer
Apart from its intrinsic importance, the forum bears directly on discussions around situated knowledges and positionality, so it's perhaps appropriate that the issue as a whole starts with an essay by Bruno Latour, 'On a possible triangulation of some present political positions' (hence the cover image, reproduced above).
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New books on the radar:
Gary Fields, Enclosure: Palestinian landscapes in a historical mirror (California, September 2017):
Enclosure marshals bold new arguments about the nature of the conflict in Israel/Palestine. Gary Fields examines the dispossession of Palestinians from their land—and Israel's rationale for seizing control of Palestinian land—in the contexts of a broad historical analysis of power and space and of an enduring discourse about land improvement. Focusing on the English enclosures (which eradicated access to common land across the English countryside), Amerindian dispossession in colonial America, and Palestinian land loss, Fields shows how exclusionary landscapes have emerged across time and geography. Evidence that the same moral, legal, and cartographic arguments were used by enclosers of land in very different historical environments challenges Israel's current claim that it is uniquely beleaguered. This comparative framework also helps readers in the United States and the United Kingdom understand the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in the context of their own histories.
There is an excellent review essay by the inimitable Raja Shehadeh over at the New York Review of Books for 18 January; you can read the opening chapter ('The contours of enclosure') here; and there's a brief, illustrated blog post by Gary on 'the will to resist' here.
Caren Kaplan, Aerial aftermaths: wartime from above (Duke, January 2018):
From the first vistas provided by flight in balloons in the eighteenth century to the most recent sensing operations performed by military drones, the history of aerial imagery has marked the transformation of how people perceived their world, better understood their past, and imagined their future. In Aerial Aftermaths Caren Kaplan traces this cultural history, showing how aerial views operate as a form of world-making tied to the times and places of war. Kaplan's investigation of the aerial arts of war—painting, photography, and digital imaging—range from England's surveys of Scotland following the defeat of the 1746 Jacobite rebellion and early twentieth-century photographic mapping of Iraq to images taken in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Throughout, Kaplan foregrounds aerial imagery's importance to modern visual culture and its ability to enforce colonial power, demonstrating both the destructive force and the potential for political connection that come with viewing from above.
Introduction. Aerial Aftermaths
1. Surveying Wartime Aftermaths: The First Military Survey of Scotland
2. Balloon Geography: The Emotion of Motion in Aerostatic Wartime
3. La Nature à Coup d'Oeil: "Seeing All" in Early Panoramas
4. Mapping "Mesopotamia": Aerial Photography in Early Twentieth-Century Iraq
5. The Politics of the Sensible: Aerial Photography's Wartme Aftermaths
Afterword. Sensing Distance
Anna Feigenbaum, Tear Gas: from the battlefields of World War I to the streets of today (Verso, November 2017):
One hundred years ago, French troops fired tear gas grenades into German trenches. Designed to force people out from behind barricades and trenches, tear gas causes burning of the eyes and skin, tearing, and gagging. Chemical weapons are now banned from war zones. But today, tear gas has become the most commonly used form of "less-lethal" police force. In 2011, the year that protests exploded from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street, tear gas sales tripled. Most tear gas is produced in the United States, and many images of protestors in Tahrir Square showed tear gas canisters with "Made in USA" printed on them, while Britain continues to sell tear gas to countries on its own human rights blacklist.
An engrossing century-spanning narrative, Tear Gas is the first history of this weapon, and takes us from military labs and chemical weapons expos to union assemblies and protest camps, drawing on declassified reports and witness testimonies to show how policing with poison came to be.
I've trailed this before, but now it's out; there's an engaging and detailed review by Peter Mitchell at Review 31 here.
Victor Davis Hanson, The Second World Wars: how the first global conflict was fought and won (Basic Books, October 2017):
World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma to armor strikes in Libya.
The Second World Wars examines how combat unfolded in the air, at sea, and on land to show how distinct conflicts among disparate combatants coalesced into one interconnected global war. Drawing on 3,000 years of military history, Victor Davis Hanson argues that despite its novel industrial barbarity, neither the war's origins nor its geography were unusual. Nor was its ultimate outcome surprising. The Axis powers were well prepared to win limited border conflicts, but once they blundered into global war, they had no hope of victory.
An authoritative new history of astonishing breadth, The Second World Wars offers a stunning reinterpretation of history's deadliest conflict.
I was alerted to this by Joshua Rothman's thoughtful review in the New Yorker just before Christmas.
Tim Lenoir and Luke Caldwell, The Military-Entertainment Complex (Harvard, February 2018)
With the rise of drones and computer-controlled weapons, the line between war and video games continues to blur. In this book, the authors trace how the realities of war are deeply inflected by their representation in popular entertainment. War games and other media, in turn, feature an increasing number of weapons, tactics, and threat scenarios from the War on Terror.
While past analyses have emphasized top-down circulation of pro-military ideologies through government public relations efforts and a cooperative media industry, The Military-Entertainment Complex argues for a nonlinear relationship, defined largely by market and institutional pressures. Tim Lenoir and Luke Caldwell explore the history of the early days of the video game industry, when personnel and expertise flowed from military contractors to game companies; to a middle period when the military drew on the booming game industry to train troops; to a present in which media corporations and the military influence one another cyclically to predict the future of warfare.
In addition to obvious military-entertainment titles like America's Army, Lenoir and Caldwell investigate the rise of best-selling franchise games such as Call of Duty, Battlefield, Medal of Honor, and Ghost Recon. The narratives and aesthetics of these video games permeate other media, including films and television programs. This commodification and marketing of the future of combat has shaped the public's imagination of war in the post-9/11 era and naturalized the U.S. Pentagon's vision of a new way of war.
Induction: The Military–Entertainment Complex and the Contemporary War Imaginary
1. From Battlezone to America's Army: The Defense Department and the Game Industry
2. Creating Repeat Consumers: Epic Realism and the Birth of the Wargame FranchiseWindows
2.1. The Ludic Affordances of Special Forces
2.2. Franchise Game Business Models
2.3. The RMA in Contemporary Wargaming
3. Coming to a Screen Near You: The RMA and Affective Entertainment
4. Press X to Hack: Cyberwar and VideogamesWindows
4.1. The Narrative Affordances of Hackers and Cyberwarfare
Discharge: Counter-Wargaming in Spec Ops: The Line
This is part of what James Der Derian famously called the Military-Industry-Media-Entertainment complex (MIME), and what I've called the Military-Academic-Industrial-Media complex (MAIM). Here is Colin Milburn on the book:
"Locked and loaded, this astonishing account of the 'military-entertainment complex' exposes the links between military technologies and popular media, the alignments and affinities among defense agencies, video game companies, and Hollywood studios. With tactical precision, Tim Lenoir and Luke Caldwell show how the militarization of contemporary society is driven less by political interests than by economic interests, revealing the ways in which the entertainment industry and its commercial practices shape the imagination of postmodern warfare. This is a provocative, high-octane book about the war games of everyday life and the future of digital culture. Epic pwn."
Maja Zehfuss, War and the politics of ethics (Oxford, March 2018):
Contemporary Western war is represented as enacting the West's ability and responsibility to help make the world a better place for others, in particular to protect them from oppression and serious human rights abuses. That is, war has become permissible again, indeed even required, as ethical war. At the same time, however, Western war kills and destroys. This creates a paradox: Western war risks killing those it proposes to protect.
This book examines how we have responded to this dilemma and challenges the vision of ethical war itself, exploring how the commitment to ethics shapes the practice of war and indeed how practices come, in turn, to shape what is considered ethical in war. The book closely examines particular practices of warfare, such as targeting, the use of cultural knowledge, and ethics training for soldiers. What emerges is that instead of constraining violence, the commitment to ethics enables and enhances it. The book argues that the production of ethical war relies on an impossible but obscured separation between ethics and politics, that is, the problematic politics of ethics, and reflects on the need to make decisions at the limit of ethics.
1: Introduction
2: The Paradox of Ethical War and the Politics of Ethics
3: Targeting: Precision Bombing and the Production of Ethics
4: Culture: Knowledge of the People as Technology of Ethics
5: Ethics Education: Ethics as Ethos and the Impossibly Good Soldier
6: The Politics of War at the Limits of Ethics
Laura Auslander and Tara Zahra (eds), Objects of War: the material culture of conflict and displacement (Cornell, May 2018)
Historians have become increasingly interested in material culture as both a category of analysis and as a teaching tool. And yet the profession tends to be suspicious of things; words are its stock-in-trade. What new insights can historians gain about the past by thinking about things? A central object (and consequence) of modern warfare is the radical destruction and transformation of the material world. And yet we know little about the role of material culture in the history of war and forced displacement: objects carried in flight; objects stolen on battlefields; objects expropriated, reappropriated, and remembered.
Objects of War illuminates the ways in which people have used things to grapple with the social, cultural, and psychological upheavals wrought by war and forced displacement. Chapters consider theft and pillaging as strategies of conquest; soldiers' relationships with their weapons; and the use of clothing and domestic goods by prisoners of war, extermination camp inmates, freed people and refugees to make claims and to create a kind of normalcy.
While studies of migration and material culture have proliferated in recent years, as have histories of the Napoleonic, colonial, World Wars, and postcolonial wars, few have focused on the movement of people and things in times of war across two centuries. This focus, in combination with a broad temporal canvas, serves historians and others well as they seek to push beyond the written word.
Eli Berman, Joseph H. Felter and Jacob N. Shapiro, Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict (Princeton, June 2018):
The way wars are fought has changed starkly over the past sixty years. International military campaigns used to play out between large armies at central fronts. Today's conflicts find major powers facing rebel insurgencies that deploy elusive methods, from improvised explosives to terrorist attacks. Small Wars, Big Data presents a transformative understanding of these contemporary confrontations and how they should be fought. The authors show that a revolution in the study of conflict–enabled by vast data, rich qualitative evidence, and modern methods―yields new insights into terrorism, civil wars, and foreign interventions. Modern warfare is not about struggles over territory but over people; civilians―and the information they might choose to provide―can turn the tide at critical junctures.
The authors draw practical lessons from the past two decades of conflict in locations ranging from Latin America and the Middle East to Central and Southeast Asia. Building an information-centric understanding of insurgencies, the authors examine the relationships between rebels, the government, and civilians. This approach serves as a springboard for exploring other aspects of modern conflict, including the suppression of rebel activity, the role of mobile communications networks, the links between aid and violence, and why conventional military methods might provide short-term success but undermine lasting peace. Ultimately the authors show how the stronger side can almost always win the villages, but why that does not guarantee winning the war.
Small Wars, Big Data provides groundbreaking perspectives for how small wars can be better strategized and favorably won to the benefit of the local population.
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READING have reached the final of England Hockey's Boys Under 18 Tier 3 Championship – and will be playing on their home pitch.
The young Blues booked their ticket by defeating Chesterfield 3-1 in their semi-final.
After a goalless first half, they went a goal down, but their swift counter-attacks eventually paid dividends and they won quite comfortably in the end.
The final against Kent side Marden Russets will be played at Sonning Lane on May 11 (3pm).
Reading will also be hosting other national junior finals over the same weekend.
The U18s, who finished top of their league, are also through to the Mercian Finals Day being held at Southgate HC on April 28, having booked their place with a 4-2 win over Spencer in the quarter-finals.
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Reading U18s Girls finished runners-up to Southgate in the final of the Premier League Trophy.
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