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Samir came to Switzerland from Iraq at the age of six. That was in 1961. He is today one of Switzerland's best-known film directors. Around ten years ago he began conducting research into the life stories of his Iraqi relatives, exploring the destinies of siblings, uncles, aunts and cousins who fled their native country and live dispersed all over the world. "Iraqi Odyssey" is the title of the resultant documentary.
Samir contrasts the images we have of Iraq today – of destroyed, dusty areas of land, bearded fighters, bomb terror and women in black chadors – with those of his recollections. These are images of Iraq from the 1950s to the 1970s, images of a vibrant city with women dressed in western clothing, who studied at university and enjoyed the company of gallant men. Samir himself takes us through his film, which is both a family epic and a history lesson, from the off. The eastern flair for narration and the sense of humour displayed by Samir and his uncle Jamal from London produce an uplifting film despite the often hard lives of the exiles.
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The film will be in cinemas in Germany and Italy from July 2015 and in the former Yugoslavia in early autumn 2015. Screenings in other countries have not yet been scheduled. It will be available on DVD and VOD from February 2016.
A project is being carried out on the www.iraqiodyssey.ch website enabling other Iraqis to recount their stories.
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Acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio INQUIRER FILE PHOTO
Losing the West Philippine Sea to nuclear-armed China may just be the "gravest external threat" to the Philippines since the second World War, acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio said on Friday.
In his commencement speech at University of San Carlos in Cebu City, Justice Carpio warned that if Filipinos lose the huge resource-rich waters to Asia's superpower, they would lose it "forever."
"If we lose this huge maritime area, we lose it forever. This generation, and future generations of Filipinos, will never be able to recover this vast area with all its rich natural resources," the magistrate said.
"I call this the gravest external threat to the Philippines since World War II, bar none," he lamented.
Carpio stressed that it is President Rodrigo Duterte and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) who is "tasked by the Constitution to lead the way in defending our national territory and maritime zones."
The magistrate, likewise, said that Filipinos should also defend the country against China's "unlawful and unjust aggression" by turning to the 1987 Constitution, and spreading the message to the world.
"Let it not be said by future generations of Filipinos that today's generation of Filipinos slept while China seized the West Philippine Sea. We, the Filipino people, can defend today the West Philippine Sea," Carpio said.
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Atika (grško Αττική, Attikḗ ali Attikī́; starogrško [atːikɛ̌ː] ali sodobno [atiˈci]) je zgodovinska območje, ki vključuje glavno mesto mesto Grčije, Atene. Leži na Atiškem polotoku, ki sega v Egejsko morje. Sodobna upravna regija Atika je obsežnejša od zgodovinske in vključuje Saronske otoke, otok Kitero in občino Trojzinija na peloponeškem polotoku. Zgodovina Atike je tesno povezana z zgodovino v Atenah, ki so bile v klasičnem obdobju najpomembnejše mesto v antičnem svetu.

Geografija

Atika je trikotni polotok v Egejskem morju. Na severu jo od Beocije deli 16 km dolgo pogorje Kitajron. Na zahodu je meja na morju in Korintskem prekopu. Saronski zaliv leži na jugu, otok Evboja pa proč od severne in vzhodne obale. Gore delijo polotok v ravnine Pedias, Mesogaja in Triazion. Gore so: Himet, vzhodni del Geraneje,  Parnita (najvišja gora v Atiki), Ajgalej in Penteli. Ajgalej, Parnita, Penteli in Himet (v smeri urnega kazalca od jugozahoda) delijo gričevnato ravnino, na kateri se zdaj širi metropolitansko mesto Atene - Pirej. Ravnina Mesogaja, ki se zdaj imenuje Mesogeja, leži vzhodno od Himeta in je na severu povezana z vznožjem gore Penteli, na vzhodu je zaliv Evboja in gora Mirkin (sodobno Merenta), na južni strani so gore Lavrij (sodobni Lavrio). Atensko jezero Maraton je bilo leta 1920 umetno zajezeno. Borovi in jelkovi gozdovi pokrivajo območje okoli Parnite. Himet, Penteli, Mirhinous in Lavrij pokrivajo gozdovi z borovci, medtem ko je na preostalem območju  grmičevje.

Kefiz je najdaljša reka v Atiki.

Po Platonu so bili stare meje Atike določene na eni strani z ožino, proti celini pa so segale do višine Kitajrona in Parnesa. Mejna črta je segala do morja, kjer je mejila na okrožje Orop na desni in ob reki Azop na levi strani.

Zgodovina

Antična zgodovina

V antiki so se Atenci hvalili, da so "avtohtoni", kar pomeni, da so bili prvotni prebivalci Atike in ne priseljeni od drugod. Tradicionalno velja, da je bila Atika v klasičnem obdobju, v grškem mračnem obdobju (okoli 1100–750 pr. n. št.), zatočišče Joncev, ki so pripadali plemenom s severnega Peloponeza. Menda so bili Jonci prisiljeni zapustiti svojo domovino zaradi Ahajcev, ki so morali zapustiti svojo domovino po vdoru Dorcev.  Jonci naj bi se združili s starodavnimi Atičani, ki so se pozneje sami imeli za del jonskega plemena in so govorili jonsko narečje. Veliko Joncev je pozneje zapustilo Atiko. Načrtno so naselili egejsko obalo Male Azije in ustanovili 12 mest Jonije.

V [Mikenska civilizacija|mikenskem obdobju]] so Atičani živeli v avtonomnih kmetijskih družbah. Glavni kraji, v katerih so bili najdeni prazgodovinski ostanki, so Maraton, Rafina, Nea Makri, Bravron, Torik, Agios Kozmas, Elevzina, Aharnjani (Menidi), Markopulo, Spati, Afidna in Atene. Vsa ta naselja so cvetela v mikenskem obdobju.

Atiko je sestavljalo 12 majhnih skupnosti v času vladavine  Kekropsa II., legendarnega jonskega kralja Atike. Strabon jih je imenoval Cecropia, Tetrapolis, Exacria, Decelea, Eleusis, Aphidna, Thoricus, Bravron, Cytheris, Sphettus, Cephissia in Phalems. V času vladavine Tezeja, mitološkega kralja v Atenah, so bile pozneje vključene v atensko državo. Sodobni zgodovinarji menijo, da je verjetnejše, da so bile skupnosti postopno vključene v atensko državo med 8. in 7. stoletjem pred našim štetjem.

Do 6. stoletja pred našim štetjem so plemiške družine živele samostojno življenje v predmestju. Šele po tiraniji Pejzistrata in reformah, ki jih je izvedel Klejsten, so lokalne skupnosti izgubile svojo neodvisnost in podlegle osrednji vladi v Atenah. Po teh reformah je bila Atika razdeljena na približno 100 občin, dem, in tudi tri velika območja: mesto (ἄστυ), ki je obsegalo središče Aten, Himets, Ajgalej in vznožje gore Parnes, obala (παράλια), ki je vključevala območje med Elevzino in rtom Sounion in okolica mesta (ἐσωτερικό-μεσογαία), naseljena z ljudmi, ki so živeli na severu v gorah Parnita, Pentelik in območju vzhodno od gore Himet. Načeloma naj bi vsaka enota vključevala enake dele meščanov, mornarjev in kmetov. "Tritis" ("tretji") je v vsakem območju pomenil pleme. Zato je Atika imela 10 plemen.

Utrdbe

V klasičnem obdobju so bile Atene utrjene na severu s trdnjavo Elevtera, ki je dobro ohranjena. Druge utrdbe so še Ojnoa, Dekeleja in Afidna. Za zaščito rudnika na Lavriju, na obali, so Atene zgradile obzidje na Ramnuntu, Toriku, Sounionu, Anavizu, Pireju in Elevzeni.

Kraji čaščenja

Čeprav arheološke ruševine najdemo na skoraj celotnem območju Atike, so najpomembnejše v Elevzini. Čaščenje boginj Demetre in Perzefone, ki se je začelo v mikenskem obdobju, se je nadaljevalo še dolgo v antiki.

V prazgodovini lahko zasledimo mnoge druge vrste čaščenja, na primer Pana in Nimf je bilo pogosto na mnogih območjih Atike, kot so Maraton, Parnes in Himit. Boga vina, Dioniza, so častili predvsem na območju Ikarije, zdaj predmestje Dioniza. Ifigenijo in Artemido so častili v Bravronu, Artemido v Rafini, Ateno na Sounionu, Afrodito na Ieri Odos in Apolona v Dafni.

Festival Halceja so v Atiki praznovali vsako jesen v čast Atene in Hefajsta.

Srednji vek

Po obdobju antike je bila Atika pod rimsko, bizantinsko, beneško in otomansko vladavino. V bizantinskem obdobju so leta 396 Atene napadli Goti pod poveljstvom Alarika. Prebivalstvo Atike se je zmanjšalo v primerjavi s sosednjo Beocijo.

Zgodovinsko pomembno obdobje za mesto je bilo 11. in 12. stoletje, ko je bila Atika pod oblastjo Frankov. Velik samostan Dafne, ki ga je zgradil Justinijan I., je osamljen primer iz bizantinskega obdobja in ne pomeni širokega razvoja Atike. Na drugi strani pa objekti, zgrajeni v 11. in 12. stoletju, kažejo večji razvoj, ki se je nadaljeval med vlado Frankov, ki niso bili strogi vladarji.

Med otomansko vladavino so Atene imele nekaj pravic, kar pa ni veljalo za atiške vasi. Velika območja so zasedli Turki, ki so ustrahovali prebivalstvo s pomočjo spahij (član fevdalne otomanske oklepne konjenice). Samostani v Atiki so igrali ključno vlogo pri ohranjanju grških značilnosti vasi.

Kljub osvajalcem je Atiki uspelo ohraniti tradicionalne lastnosti. To je dokazano z ohranjanjem starih toponimov, kot so Oropos, Dioniz, Elevzina in Maraton. Med grško vojno za neodvisnost so se atiški kmetje prvi uprli (aprila 1821), zasedli Atene in zasegli Akropolo, ki je bila predana Grkom junija 1822.

Atika po 1829

Atika je pripadala neodvisni grški državi. Od leta 1834 so bile v Atenah določene za novo grško glavno mesto (prestavljeno iz Navplija v Argolidi), ljudje iz drugih delov Grčije so začeli postopoma naseljevati Atiko. Največ grških beguncev je bilo iz Anatolije zaradi izmenjave prebivalstva med Grčijo in Turčijo na podlagi Lozanske pogodbe. Danes je velik del Atike mestno območje Aten.  Moderna grška regija Atika vključuje Antično Atiko in tudi Saronske otoke, majhen del Peloponeza okrog Triaziona in jonski otok Kitajron.

Podnebje
Atika ima sredozemsko podnebje. V poletnih mesecih je izrazito, dolgo, suho obdobje, pozimi pa kratko, mokro obdobje. Največ padavin je pozimi. Južni del polotoka ima vroče, polsušno podnebje.

Evropski temperaturni rekord
Po podatkih Svetovne meteorološke organizacije je bil uradni evropski rekord z najvišjo temperaturo 48,0 °C izmerjen v Elevzeni in Tatoi leta 1977.

Sklici

Zunanje povezave

Official Travel website of Attica

Zgodovina Grčije
Bivše mestne države

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The same IRS "special treatment" was used against pro-Israel groups and against Billy Graham's organization to block or delay their applications, too. How mean-spirited can you get? While one report has shown that hundreds of non-profit applications were affected in total, it's still far too early to know the full extent of this practice.
Even more despicable (yes, it's possible), we've also learned the IRS has insisted that a pro-life group must talk about pro-choice options to receive 501c3 status. Unbelievable. Truly Machiavellian. "1984" has arrived in 2013.
Furthermore, we have learned that letters were written to the IRS from a group of Democrat Senators (Charles Schumer, Michael Bennet, Sheldon Whitehouse, Jeff Merkley, Tom Udall, Jeanne Shaheen and Al Franken) demanding that actions to "tighten the screws" be taken against conservative groups. At this moment there is no visible connection from the White House to the IRS or the Treasury Department on this matter. But given the tactics used by Democrats for many years for various kinds of political benefit, one can easily envision a Valerie Jarrett or a Jim Axelrod picking up the phone and making a few calls to well-placed "friends" at Treasury to discuss "a few ideas". No, a direct link to the White House has not been proven, but this IRS fraud has been going on for too long, and was obviously too beneficial to the reelection of Democrats in 2012 for them not to be at least aware, if not involved.
Applications for 501c3 status that should have taken 3-10 months to complete have been taking 2-3 years for these "chosen few", and some tax exemptions have never been granted.
It's certainly despicable for the IRS to demand answers to inappropriate, convoluted and lengthy questions. But we have also learned that they passed some of these answers (containing private, organizational information) to a liberal journalism group, ProPublica. God only knows who they gave it to, or how it was abused.
Interestingly, a George Will article of this week reminds us of the striking parallels to Senate Watergate hearings which began exactly 40 years ago. For a lighter touch, Jon Stewart gives us his take on the IRS scandal, plus other Obama administration scandals also in the news (Benghazi, AP phone records).
The FBI has begun an investigation of this IRS thuggery, and Congress has already scheduled hearings. While these actions are both necessary and proper, they will not fix the underlying problem. This kind of abuse should have every American screaming bloody murder, and demanding serious and lasting reform.
So, how should we fix a mammoth, arrogant, out-of-control bureaucracy? No federal thugs responsible for taxation should ever be loosed on private citizens or groups to limit their free exercise of First Amendment rights. Simply telling the IRS "don't do that" is patently insufficient. Laws already exist for exactly that purpose, and they were ignored. No, whatever we do must be permanent. Firings are necessary, but insufficient.
The FairTax guarantees that no out-of-control government ever again tries to use the IRS for attacking opposition political organizations (e.g. the Tea Party) at the behest of Congress or the White House. And FairTax also ensures that FedGov bureaucrats cannot be used for enforcing national policy mandates unrelated to basic tax collection (e.g. ObamaCare).
How can we be sure of this outcome? Smartly, the FairTax Act closes the IRS, and it transfers tax collection to the States. It's a simple consumption tax, similar to the sales tax most states already levy. So, most states are in a good position to provide this service as contractors to the Feds. With a consumption tax there is no need for an income tax, and therefore no need for an IRS.
The FairTax applies a 23% (inclusive) tax to all retail sales of new goods and services. No, it's not a VAT, which applies a tax on goods at each stage of multi-level manufacture, and requires a huge bureaucracy for administration. Tax collection under the FairTax only occurs at point of sale to the consumer. This ensures that all illegal aliens, hookers, Mafiosi, drug-runners, and all other cash-economy people will pay federal taxes while leading their daily lives. If you buy a hot dog or a Cadillac Escalade you'll pay FairTax on the purchase. If you're a Japanese tourist in Orlando, and you buy Mickey Mouse ears for your kids, you'll also pay FairTax. This mechanism creates "skin in the game" for every American resident, legal or illegal.
FairTax will motivate the return of $12-$13 trillion currently offshore back to the US for investment, and will eliminate K Street lobbyist influences on taxation. That in itself is reason enough to expect support from 99% of all Americans. And FairTax ensures everyone gets a full paycheck- withholding is eliminated. If nothing else, trading 74,000 pages of existing tax code for 130 pages of FairTax code will save our economy hundreds of billions of dollars in annual compliance costs. All of us can surely put that time and money to better use.
How do we get the FairTax? It's like any other bill- WE THE PEOPLE must demand it. We must elect Senators and Congressmen who support it, and push on the Congress until it's passed. At this moment, our greatest roadblock is Barack Obama. He's a Marxist, and Marxists always want a highly-progressive income tax structure, not a single-rate consumption tax like the FairTax. Obama's constant "tax the rich" mantra is proof enough of his interests. So, we'll need a Tea Party Republican in the White House in 2017 to make this happen.
Is all this becoming clear? Think of it this way: The very folks that the IRS targets for "special treatment" are the same Tea Party folks who support a tax plan to eliminate the IRS! Is it any wonder, then, that socialist Democrats would encourage the IRS to attack Tea Party (and similar) groups?
And just think- if we get a Congress and a President who will enact the FairTax, we should also demand that they kill, cut, privatize, or reform other FedGov legislation and departments: EPA, Dept of Energy, Dept of Education, Dept of Commerce, Dept of Interior, ObamaCare, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, TSA, GSA, USPS, USDA, FEMA, BIA, Amtrak, Fannie, Freddie, HUD, VA, Dodd-Frank, Sarbanes-Oxley, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, the list goes on and on, around the curvature of the earth. Bottom line: If it's not covered by Article 1 Section 8 of the US Constitution, whack it.
We need to demand support from every incumbent Congressman and Senator- NOW. Then, before the election of 2014 we need to confirm that same support before we vote to sustain any incumbent. The same is true for the election of 2016- support the incumbents who support the FairTax, or support a candidate who does. By 2017 we must get a controlling Republican majority in both houses of Congress, and a Republican in the White House.
But if we elect too many Democrats and RINOs, we're probably stuck with the status quo for decades. And that includes being stuck with an IRS that has outlived its welcome.


A bright white streak that appeared about 60 degrees above the horizon, and seemed to drop straight down. It looked like a white rain drop with a long straight tail attached. Brightest falling object I have ever observed.


Nearly time to prime all the prepared parts, but lots of dimpling to be done first. Some people advocate dimpling after priming, but I've decided to get all the preparation of the parts done first, hence disturbing the primed parts as little as possible.
Vans suggest dimpling the J stiffeners with a reduced diameter female die. I used one, but to be honest I think the standard one from Cleaveland would be just fine. There was plenty of clearance before the die would distort the J bend. I suspect other dies are available which are larger diameter than the standard ones from Cleaveland, hence Van's comment?
The edges of the bottom skin needed deburring of course. Not so easy to finish on the Scotchbrite Wheel!
So I clamped it to the edge of the workbench and gently removed the little jagged saw teeth with the vixen file, as I always start the deburring process.
Then I removed the edge burr with the Edge Deburring Tool.
Finally smoothing off the edge with fine (320 – 600 grit) emery cloth on a rubber sanding block. Seemed to work well, producing a smooth edge equivalent to that produced by a run on the Scotchbrite wheel.
The DRDT-2 once again is proving its worth. Makes dimpling an easy and quick job.
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WASHINGTON – The Illinois man who allegedly wounded Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., and several others at a baseball practice early Wednesday in Alexandria, Virginia, apparently was a fan of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which nearly five years ago was linked to a domestic terror attack at the Washington office of the Family Research Council.
Get the Whistleblower Magazine's revelations about the SPLC, in its March 2015 edition of "The Hate Racket," the complete story of how one group fools government into equating Christians and conservatives with Klansmen and Nazis – and rakes in millions doing it.
Corkins later was sentenced to prison for domestic terrorism. It was during an interview with FBI officers that Corkins named SPLC as his source of information.
SPLC also exhibited behavior so egregious that it was reprimanded by the far-left administration of Barack Obama.
"[It] involves the SPLC's atrocious behavior during immigration court proceedings. Two groups that oppose illegal immigration, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), were the target of personal, baseless and below-the-belt attacks from SPLC attorneys during official immigration court proceedings. The SPLC filed a motion attacking and defaming the two respected nonprofits by describing them as 'white supremacist,' 'eugenicist,' 'anti-Semitic,' and 'anti-Catholic.' In its reprimand the DOJ says it is troubled by the conduct of SPLC lawyer Christopher Strawn and that his conduct 'overstepped the bounds of zealous advocacy and was unprofessional.' Furthermore, SPLC made 'uncivil comments that disparaged FAIR and its staff,' the rebuke states, adding that the language constitutes frivolous behavior and doesn't aid in the administration of justice," Judicial Watch explained.
"The Obama administration kept the reprimand confidential and asked FAIR and IRLI to keep it under wraps. In the meantime, SPLC continues to publicly trash the groups and escalate attacks against them by putting them on the official hate list. The executive director and general counsel of IRLI, Dale Wilcox, says his nonprofit and FAIR will keep fighting for immigration policies that put America first. 'The SPLC's latest tactic in its never-ending witch-hunt and the federal government's resulting reprimand should send the following message to the mainstream media,' Wilcox said: 'Stop using the SPLC as a legitimate hate-watch source in your news coverage. That a cabal of biased list-keepers can play such an important role in distorting the immigration debate in this country is testament to the utter failure of much of the mainstream media which frequently publishes their inflammatory commentary and refuses to question their baseless methods or financial motivations,'" Judicial Watch said.
The letter explained the DOJ stopped short of "formal disciplinary proceeding[s]," instead opting for the rebuke in the letter.
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High walls and razor wire surround a facility in the city of Turpan in China's Xinjiang region that Western researchers say is a political indoctrination centre for Muslim Uyghurs.
Across the westernmost stretches of China where Islam has flourished for centuries, the signs of a government effort to engineer a society of model citizens loyal to the Communist Party stand in plain sight.
In the sun-scorched lowlands of Turpan, a city in the Xinjiang region, cranes tend a construction site where high walls surround both completed buildings and concrete shells. This site, part of an expanding network of centres for forced political indoctrination and skills training, will soon hold additional people who authorities say need to be scrubbed of what they deem to be extremist thoughts. Western scholars estimate hundreds of thousands of people are already detained in such centres, many of whom are Uyghurs, a largely Muslim ethnic group.
In the regional capital of Urumqi, past the scanners that register each person entering a residential compound, stickers affixed to apartment doors ask residents to report for an "in-home interview." At a prominent mosque in the city, the prayer hall sits empty behind locked doors. A security guard says it's under renovation.
But it's not clear any work is being carried out. Three weeks earlier, a young man working nearby caught a glimpse inside when he was asked to move furniture. It looked "the same as before," he says, with one exception: "a big camera" pointed at anyone who might enter.
Chinese authorities and academics say Xinjiang is besieged by religious radicals bent on national upheaval. After years of a militarized attempt to combat what authorities say is terrorism, China is declaring success in stamping out violence in the region.
Now the state has shifted to an educational effort, a sweeping "de-extremization" campaign to instill patriotism and Chinese socialist values while excising what authorities say is cancerous thinking that has endangered social stability.
In late October, The Globe and Mail travelled to Xinjiang to better understand what is taking place. For nearly 1,600 kilometres, The Globe was followed and tracked by people who would not provide their names, some of whom drove vehicles without licence plates and followed The Globe on foot.
Some of the cars that followed The Globe in Xinjiang had no licence plates, driven by men who refused to give their name or say who they worked for.
The heavy surveillance made independent reporting difficult since, according to many accounts from residents who have left Xinjiang, local authorities are suspicious of contact with foreigners. Uyghurs living outside China say relatives in Xinjiang have cut communication to avoid falling under suspicion.
As a result, The Globe spoke with only a few Muslims in Xinjiang, a group that includes ethnic Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and Hui, and is withholding their identities out of concern for their safety.
Those who did answer questions described fear of practising their religion both in public and in private. State surveillance and the threat of detention in centres for political indoctrination and skills training keeps them away from mosques, even the ones that remain open.
"I don't go," one restaurant owner said. "We can't go," said a woman in a village in eastern Xinjiang, before declining any further questions. The situation, her son said, has grown too "intense." A few minutes later, six police entered the village on motorcycles, some of them bearing large black metal shields.
Throughout the region, authorities equipped mosques with cameras to watch entrances and ID scanners with facial-recognition systems to document each person who walks inside.
As far as the young man in Urumqi can tell, almost no one is taking that risk.
A police officer stands behind a large metal shield in Turpan, in China's Xinjiang, where security forces have a very visible presence.
The United Nations Human Rights Council is expected to scrutinize the Chinese government's actions in Xinjiang on Tuesday as part of a periodic review of the country. In the lead-up, authorities and state media have emphasized that the government acted to quell a rising tide of extremism, safeguarding the well-being of all residents by ensuring their security.
A Chinese delegation in August told the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination that China "pays special attention to respecting the religious beliefs of ethnic minorities and to protecting their cultural heritage" and "invests a great amount of capital in the maintenance of temples and religious sites." Supportive government policies brought almost 1.85 million people in the region out of poverty between 2014 and 2017, state media reported in October.
Chinese state television have aired interviews with detainees in what officials called a centre for "vocational education and training." Such centres are part of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of facilities built in the past 18 months where Western scholars say authorities detained as many as a million people and subjected them to forced political indoctrination. Former detainees have told The Globe they were ordered to recite lines expressing loyalty to Chinese President Xi Jinping and faith in the Communist Party rather than religion.
That description stands in striking contrast to what current and former residents of the region told The Globe and Mail.
Because of the difficulty of reporting inside Xinjiang, The Globe interviewed overseas Uyghurs and foreign researchers who have visited the region in recent months. Their accounts, like that of the young man near the mosque, describe a place where, both inside and outside centres for political indoctrination and skills training, authorities have so profoundly interfered with normal religious observance that some people believe the real target is Islam itself.
Guard towers, high walls and razor wire surround a facility in Turpan, China, that locals say is used for "education" and western researchers say is a centre for political indoctrination and skills training.
The authorities created complex human and digital monitoring systems that can detect even private religious observance. This includes a system of mutual reporting that makes people responsible for each other, and a "homestay" policy in which a million local Chinese people – most of them members of the dominant Han ethnicity – have been recruited to regularly sleep inside the homes of Muslim ethnic minorities.
In one Urumqi apartment building visited by The Globe, several doors were sealed with a sticker from a "household cadre" telling the resident to call a number to receive an "in-home interview." Such inspections have made Muslims wary of even praying at home.
The Chinese government "wants to change the religion" in Xinjiang, said Erhan Arip, a Uyghur linguistic historian living outside China who visited Xinjiang three times this year. Authorities want to shift allegiances to "Marxism, or Chinese government ideas," he said.
Government pressure on the Uyghur community is long-standing, with scholars pointing to the Soviet Union's dissolution – which had some of its former territory fracture into the independent countries bordering western China – as when Beijing began to worry that the people of Xinjiang, too, could one day push for secession.
"This is what kicked off the really awful excesses that are happening now," said Prof. Smith Finley, who started researching China's Uyghurs 27 years ago. She spent three weeks in Xinjiang this summer, splitting her time between Urumqi, the capital, and Kashgar, which has long been the region's most vibrant centre of Islamic life.
"They have desanctified most of the mosques in Kashgar," she said, in part by removing the crescents that once stood atop their minarets (crescents were briefly removed in Urumqi, but have since been reinstalled).
Other mosques have been changed from their religious function. Official statistics still show more than 24,000 mosques in Xinjiang. But in Kashgar, "the only mosque I saw that was open was the one that was converted to a café," Prof. Smith Finley said.
"So religion is absolutely enemy number one," Prof. Smith Finley said. Arabic calligraphy that adorned the front entrance to the mosque "has been ripped off," she said, leaving broken masonry in its place. In years past, 10,000 worshipers might crowd Id Kah on Fridays. When Mr. Arip visited a few months ago, he saw only a few elderly people praying. Other mosques in the area have "already been destroyed," he says.
Although mosque attendance remains allowed in Xinjiang, those entering a place of worship are identified, registered and, Prof. Smith Finley said, can face severe consequences. State employees can lose jobs; retirees can lose pensions; owners of independent businesses can be sent away for political indoctrination and training.
The doors of a mosque are padlocked in Turpan, in China's Xinjiang region, where Muslims say they fear the consequences of worshipping in public.
The animosity toward the Muslim population extends beyond government officials. Charles, a Uyghur Canadian whose full name The Globe is not using for fear of reprisal against his family in Xinjiang, described an encounter he found disturbing from a recent trip back to the region.
It is reminiscent, Prof. Smith Finley said, of the Cultural Revolution, the tumultuous period in the 1960s and 1970s that included a national campaign against the "four olds," one of which was religion.
In Xinjiang, authorities have strengthened bans on religious observance by Communist Party members, government workers and students.
During Ramadan this year, teachers prevented exchange students at Xinjiang University from leaving their dormitory building in the morning until they had something to eat and drink, one former student told The Globe.
Muslims interviewed by The Globe said their own homes have also effectively become illegal places for religious observance.
Uyghur poet and filmmaker Tahir Hamut recalled the day last year he and his wife placed their religious books in a pot and set them on fire inside their kitchen. Because matches have largely been banned, they lit the books using the flame from their gas stove. Watching them burn left his wife afflicted. She felt "as if she had betrayed her own faith," said Mr. Hamut, who left for the United States last August with his wife and daughters.
The Dui Hua Foundation, a U.S. non-profit that focuses on the Chinese legal system, found court records that show authorities enforcing a ban on Islamic clothing inside private homes. Men in Xinjiang have also been dissuaded from wearing traditional ethnic square-sided "dopa" hats, three people said.
Local party officials, meanwhile, have published academic articles citing "secularization" as a goal for government policy.
Even the most intimate areas of life have received state attention. In 2014, one area in Xinjiang offered a 10,000 yuan bounty – worth $1,890 today – to Uyghurs who married someone from the dominant Han Chinese ethnicity, Chinese media reported at the time.
Those efforts continue: On Oct. 12, the state-run Hotan Daily published an article about three such weddings celebrated inside the gates of the No. 14 special police detachment, in the city of Kurumkash, whose name in Chinese is Kunyu.
Called "I love Kunyu, I'm doing my part for security," the festivities promoted "a more stable and harmonious society," and also allowed female guests to interact "intimately with police, and as a result, the distance between them was greatly diminished," the Hotan Daily reported.
Meanwhile, the definition of "extremism" has expanded. When Charles was in Xinjiang earlier this year, he tried to visit a former colleague, only to be told the woman had been taken away for donating money to help poor Uyghur students with university tuition.
High walls and razor wire surround a facility in Turpan, China, that locals say is used for "education" and western researchers say is a centre for political indoctrination and skills training. Cranes are being used to construct additional buildings at the site.
The Chinese anti-extremism effort is augmented by large centres for political indoctrination and skills training, where authorities say they are working to foster a new sense of citizenship and responsibility. For detainees, the first step is to "break their lineage, break their roots, break their connections, and break their origins," according to a government document uncovered by Agence France-Presse.
Across Xinjiang, work is under way to expand those centres. In the city of Turpan, several cranes were active at one such centre when The Globe visited. Police deleted pictures of the construction activity taken by The Globe, but satellite imagery shows the location is roughly doubling in size.
Because authorities can send people away for indoctrination and training without a formal trial, that system has also given officials leverage in shaping the conduct of people who have not been detained. Many Muslims in Xinjiang now reject even simple expressions such as "As-salaam-alaikum" – the Arabic-language greeting that means "peace be unto you" – out of fear it will be seen as a sign of religious extremism.
"Nobody dares to say it, because once you are caught speaking it you will be arrested and sent to indoctrination right away," a Uyghur businesswoman told The Globe.
The young man near the mosque, too, knows the consequences of being seen as too fervent. Three months ago, his grandfather, 87, was taken away to a centre for political indoctrination and skills training. "His guilt is he can read the Koran," a skill he had learned nearly 40 years ago, the young man said.
Fifteen days after entering the centre, his grandfather was dead. The young man believes the conditions were too harsh and the food too poor. He worries authorities will one day take him away, too. So like his peers, he abstains from religious observance.


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Dezmond Crockett, also known as Dezmundo, is a visual artist from Los Angeles who works in multiple painting mediums. Born in Inglewood in 1994, his artistic interest began at an early age, most notably at the introduction of Japanese animation like Pokémon and DragonBall. These would serve a source of inspiration to approach art as something achievable. He would go on to practice, imitating those styles of work. He took art classes at West L.A. college and created art with the non-profit, PIECES, where he started painting more frequently and ambitiously. Dezmond continued to refine his craft and explore new techniques and mediums such as integrating his work into augmented reality animations. In 2020, while working through the pandemic at his day job as an IBEW electrician, Dezmond resolved to save up enough money to build a studio where he would be able to work and collaborate more freely with other artists. With that completed in 2021, Dezmond now continues his work at a larger scale with organizations and groups such as LA Commons, Metro, PIECES, The Most Famous Artist Community and more, in preparation to begin a new series of projects.
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Israel "Ezra" Cervantes is an accomplished mural/street artist. His career as a street artist began in 1995, and he later graduated from The Art Center of California. His unique style of traditional fine art, surrealism and impressionistic style complimented with street art influence, has landed him in the pages of such publications as The Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly and Juxtapoze Magazine. He has worked internationally as well as in around the U.S., including several community-based projects in New York and Los Angeles. Ezra has also been instrumental in non-profit campaigns, heading and instructing mural designs for various organizations' youth programs. In addition to his community work, Ezra's cutting-edge brand of street art marketing has been commissioned by a number of Fortune 500 companies. He's also dabbled in Hollywood, with backdrop design in TV/music videos leading to celebrities commissioning him for personalized portraits and custom artwork.
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Want to sing and play rhythm guitar in a top Beatles Tribute Band? The band tour around the world and country, with over 80 shows a year.
Auditions for the role of John Lennon will be filmed for a new television series.
Auditions will be held in London sometime in June. You will need to be available from July 2018.
absolutely gutted that Adam Hasting is leaving. Must be the best around, certainly seeing the BB over the years I have to say this was probably the most perfect line up they ever had. Big Beatle Boots to fill for the lucky replacement. Off to Guildford tonight and again at the RAH next week.


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The Exclusive Brethren sect, an ultra-conservative Christian separatist group, praised as pillars of the community by the previous right-wing Australian government (with which they had some kinds of dealings), and which, incidentally, also gave the world Aleister Crowley, is facing allegations of high-level criminal activity, including kidnapping, money laundering, fraud and bribery, in Australia, New Zealand and India.
Three sisters, from India, who say they are on the run from the sect, allege they can link it to numerous crimes.
"We've got 3000 pages of evidence … and now we're going to expose this whole thing," one of the sisters told reporters in Canberra.
Of course, at this stage, these are merely allegations, and may well be without substance, though it will be interesting to see what emerges in the Australian High Court.
¶ australia crime cults exclusive brethren fundamentalists religiots rightwingers skulduggery 1
It has emerged that L. Ron Hubbard may have lifted parts of Scientology (or at least its title) from a 1934 text. Scientologie: Wissenschaft von der Beschaffenheit und der Tauglichkeit des Wissens ("Science of the Constitution and Usefulness of Knowledge and Knowing"), written by a Dr. A Nordenholz in 1934. Alas, Dr. Nordenholz didn't have the vision to start a religion or establish celebrity centres, and thus vanished into obscurity.
(via Boing Boing) ¶ bizarre cults plagiarism pseudoscience psychoceramics scientology 0
The Age has obtained letters between the ultraconservative Exclusive Brethren sect and former Prime Minister John Howard, revealing more about the closeness of the Brethren's relationship to the reins of power, and the Howard government's collusion with them:
The letters show Mr Howard met two Brethren leaders in his Sydney office on the day New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark referred sect members to police because they hired private detectives to tail her and her husband, and spread rumours that her husband was gay.
"The attention of the public needs to be diverted from matters such as the Iraq war, the supposed ill-treatment of Iraq prisoners and other contentious issues," they wrote. They also suggested a massive project to transport water via aqueducts using funding from the sale of Telstra and the issue of bonds.
The Brethren runs a lucrative network of pump supply companies but spokesman Tony McCorkell said yesterday this was irrelevant to the water proposal. Brethren members were "concerned about good environmental policy", he said.
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After Italy saw a spate of gruesome murders carried out by self-professed Satanists (who, apparently, indulge in "a lethal blend of black magic, hard drugs, sex and heavy metal"), the Italian police are planning to set up a "Satan squad". The special task force will include psychologists and a priest and will investigate "potentially dangerous religious movements". Some are concerned, though, that such a squad would become a hammer of Catholic majoritarianism and persecute harmless minority religions.
¶ catholic crime cults inquisition italy religion satanism society 0
The BBC News has a piece on the Exclusive Brethren, who, aside from their love-in with te Tories in Australia, have been trying to get into bed with New Zealand's conservative National Party:
The group was then accused of seeking to influence post-election negotiations by aggressively lobbying minor political parties to form a coalition with Mr Brash's centre-right National party.
Most disturbingly, private detectives claimed they were hired by the group to dig up dirt on the private lives of senior politicians in the Labour party, including the Prime Minister Helen Clark and her husband.
Apparently their political allegiances arise not just from the theocratic hard line they take (after all, if they isolate themselves from sinful worldly society, what's the point of electing governments to punish and straighten this sinfulness among the nonbelievers? It'd be like, say, an Orthodox Jewish group lobbying to ban pork or something.) as from their business interests:
Like all small business people, they need a world of de-regulation and lower taxes, he says, adding that their interests in the agricultural sector would naturally pit them against the Greens.
Ominously enough, Australia's right-wing Prime Minister John Howard is on record as saying that he has no problems with the Exclusive Brethren's values, and that they're a lot more in line with mainstream Australia than a lot of other groups (by which, I'm guessing, he means those latte-sipping SBS-watching inner-city socialist cosmopolitanists).
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As the Victorian state election approaches, shadowy extreme-right-wing religious group The Exclusive Brethren (whose religion prohibits them from voting, though apparently says nothing about exerting influence in favour of conservative parties) have beem taking out newspaper ads attacking the Greens.
A few interesting facts about the Exclusive Brethren: other than being staunch supporters of socially right-wing parties in various countries (though, seemingly, not in Britain, where they originated) and having a penchant for anonymous whispering campaigns against progressive politicians, the Exclusive Brethren are the sect into which the occultist Aleister Crowley was born.
¶ australia cults culture war politics religion theocrats 0
An Australian branch of the Ordo Templi Orientis, a pagan/occult group founded in the early 20th century by (in)famous occultist Aleister "the Great Beast" Crowley, has been accused of participating in child abuse and human sacrifice:
According to OTO's statement of complaint, Dr Michaelson said it was not a religion but a child pornography and pedophile ring, that its members practised trauma-based mind control, sexual abuse and satanic rituals to discourage its victims from complaining to the authorities, and that it condoned kidnapping street children and babies and children from orphanages for sex and sacrifice in religious rituals.
The article, still accessible on a website run from NSW, suggests senior politicians and television celebrities are part of a top-level pedophile ring and have been protected by some police. It says some members of the ring pretended to support Dr Michaelson's campaign and became board members of her group to subvert it from within.
The OTO is suing the Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program under Victoria's religious-vilification laws.
¶ australia crowley cults culture magick paedophilia religion 1
In January 1998, two teenage death-metal fans in Milan disappeared after drinking at a pub popular with the local metalheads. The father of one of them started making inquiries at concerts and festivals, and uncovers a Satanist death cult in the metal scene, one which has been linked to a number of murders (mostly of other teenage headbangers, by the sound of it):
One of Fabio's school friends, Mario Maccione, confessed to having beaten Fabio to death with a hammer. He also revealed that the boys had been part of a wider satanic sect called the Beasts of Satan. It was revealed Andrea Bontade, a drummer, had been terrorised into committing suicide. Soon, other mysterious deaths were being linked to the Beasts.
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A magazine named Radar has the start of a potentially interesting series on Kabbalah (not the Mediæval branch of esoteric Judaism, but the red-string-and-sacred-bottled-water one that's the hottest new celebrity cult in Hollywood):
In December the Guardian of London published a 10-month investigation that revealed the dubious nature of the Rav's qualifications as a religious leader, as well as the Centre's avaricious ways. Then, in January 2005, a BBC documentary caught high-ranking Kabbalah Centre officer Rabbi Eliyahu Yardeni on undercover camera saying that the Jews who died in the Holocaust perished because they weren't studying Kabbalah. The same documentary showed an employee at the Centre's London office selling a man with cancer more than $1,500 worth of merchandise, including Aramaic books he could not read and bottled water with no proven health benefits.
The article promises more details on findings, including:
The false claims the Centre has made about its distinguished origins.
The Centre's use of cultlike techniques to control members, including sleep deprivation, alienation from friends and family, and Kabbalah-dictated matchmaking.
The bizarre scientific claims made by the Centre's leaders on behalf of Kabbalah Water, ranging from its ability to cleanse the lakes of Chernobyl of radiation to its power to cure cancer, AIDS, and SARS.
The Centre's sponsorship of the Oroz Research Centre, a "23rd century" scientific institution that markets a "liquid compound for the treatment of nuclear waste" that also cures gynecological problems in cows, sheep, and other farm animals.
The Bergs' explicit strategy of steering Kabbalah away from its Jewish roots in order to appeal to a wider global market, and their plans to brand both the Centre and family members for maximum popular appeal.
As for steering Kabbalah away from its Jewish roots, isn't that old news, though? There have been non-Jewish self-professed Cabbalists since the time of Aleister Crowley if not John Dee. Though, granted, they weren't peddling overpriced bottled water to celebrities.
(via bOING bOING) ¶ cults hollywood judaism kabbalah madonna scams 0
According to a report by the American Institute of Religions, the Church of Scientology is steadily losing members to Fictionology, a new religion created in 2003 by Bud Don Ellroy, author of Imaginetics: The New Pipe-Dream Of Modern Mental Make-Believe.:
"Unlike Scientology, which is based on empirically verifiable scientific tenets, Fictionology's central principles are essentially fairy tales with no connection to reality," the AIR report read. "In short, Fictionology offers its followers a mythical belief system free from the cumbersome scientific method to which Scientology is hidebound."
Fictionology's central belief, that any imaginary construct can be incorporated into the church's ever-growing set of official doctrines, continues to gain popularity. Believers in Santa Claus, his elves, or the Tooth Fairy are permittedeven encouragedto view them as deities. Even corporate mascots like the Kool-Aid Man are valid objects of Fictionological worship.
Ah, so Fictionology is like the entire set of Discordian/SubGenius-inspired "churches" formed on the net over the past decade then? (I'm not sure whether there was a Church of the Kool-Aid Man, but there could well have been.)
(via reddragdiva) ¶ cults religion science scientology the onion 1
Paul Schaefer was a Nazi officer during World War 2; after the war, he fled to Chile, where he established a religious cult named "Colonia Dignidad". Surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers with searchlights, inside it resembled one of those German pastoral scenes the Nazis were so fond of, where the men wore lederhosen and the women wore their hair in pigtails, except for the bit about young boys receiving electric shocks to their genitals to condition them against sexual desires, and secret tunnels under the compound where Schaefer's friend, Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, had dissidents tortured to the strains of Wagner. Schaefer, who fled to Argentina in 1997, is now facing trial for sexually abusing young boys. (thanks to Conrad for bringing this to my attention)
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More details have emerged about the recent coronation of Sun Myung Moon in the US Senate. It appears that the politicians involved were duped into taking part, believing the bizarre ritual to be a banquet where Moon would give out awards to people from their constituencies, without any mention of him being crowned as the King of Peace with the posthumous blessings of numerous US Presidents, not to mention the reformed spirits of Marx, Lenin, Hitler and Stalin.
¶ coronation cults moonies psychoceramics religion rightwingers sun myung moon usa 0
The h2g2 entry on cargo cults is fascinating, detailing this phenomenon's history, from its roots in the "big man" gift economies of Polynesia through to encounters with Christianity, WW2, the US military and disapproving Australian authorities in Papua New Guinea. (via MeFi)
In the native view, the Christians worshipped the god Anus. He created Adam and Eve and gave them cargo of canned meat, steel tools, rice in bags and matches. He took it all away when they discovered sex and he sent a flood to destroy them, but he gave Noah a big wooden steamboat and made him the captain so he would survive. When Ham disobeyed his father his cargo was taken away and he was sent to New Guinea. Now his descendants were being given a chance to reform and regain their cargo. All through the twenties the natives patiently worked hard, sang hymns and prayed to Anus. But by the thirties it became clear that the missionaries were lying; they had been good Christians and worked hard, but it was the foreign bosses who did no work that got all the cargo.
While in Brisbane, Yali made another startling discovery: the Australians kept hundreds of animals in the Brisbane Zoo, which they carefully fed and tended. He also noticed the large number of dogs and cats kept as pets in homes. It wasn't until a conference in Port Moresby5 that he was able to solve this puzzling behaviour. The solution came when he witnessed a book which showed a succession from monkeys into humans. It became clear the depth to which the missionaries had lied: they had claimed Adam and Eve were men's ancestors when they clearly believed that their ancestors were animals who needed to be treated with respect. It was obvious the missionaries had made up such lies in order to hide this truth from the New Guineans, who had held such beliefs before their arrival. Upon returning home, Yali was convinced by the prophet Gurek that the Queensland Museum was actually Rome, that the gods had been taken captive there, and that in order to lure them back the natives had to stop their foolish acceptance of the lies of Christianity.
When radically different cultures and belief systems intersect, the interference patterns can be quite strange.
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Two villages in the South Pacific islands of Vanuatu are the scene for a war between a Christian sect and a cargo cult.
The John Frum movement first emerged in Vanuatu in the 1930s when the islands were jointly ruled by Britain and France as the New Hebrides. Rebelling against the aggressive proselytising of Presbyterian missionaries, dozens of villages on the island of Tanna put their faith in a mysterious outsider called John Frum. They believed he would drive out their colonial masters and re-establish their traditional ways.
On Tanna, islanders became convinced that John Frum was an American. They have spent the past 60 years dressing up in home-made US army uniforms, drilling with bamboo rifles and parading beneath the Stars and Stripes in the hope of enticing a delivery of "cargo" again.
"In the past we believed in John Frum, but now we believe in Jesus," said Alfred Wako, 49. "The John Frum people don't go to church and they don't send their children to school. They believe in the old rituals. They are heathens."
¶ cargo cults cults culture postcolonialism religion vanuatu 0
Right-wing religious crackpot/media magnate Rev. Sun Myung Moon crowned as king/messiah in US Congress. At the ceremony were Moon's tame representatives of various religions (Catholics, Protestants, Jews and Muslims); a rabbi blew a shofar, and a congressman presented Moon with his golden crown; Moon then allegedly announced that it was time for him to be recognised as the Messiah. Apparently Moon has a thing about all religions coming together under him. (via substitute)
Chances are the coronation was a boon extracted by Moon from conservatives he has helped put in power, and a publicity stunt for his Korean constituency, and probably doesn't make the US a monarchy. Still, it's quite a leap from renting out the Lincoln Bedroom to campaign donors.
Queensland is a sort of Australian equivalent of Texas or Arkansas or Mississippi or some such place; a state renowned for its rednecks, corrupt police and religious sects too far gone for any other state. And this story brings together the last two elements.
A "devious and perverted" police officer has been gaoled for conning members of a Christian sect into bizarre sexual acts. After telling the group that they would become undercover operatives, he instructed them to cut off their pubic hair and take photographs of themselves naked, saying that such actions were mandatory before becoming police informants. (He also attempted to extort $5000 from a young couple with a false confession of underaged sex, though that may well be standard Queensland police operating procedure). (via Anthony)
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Intriguing rumour of the day: The Church of Scientology's alleged mini-Echelon facility hooked into US ISP Earthlink, for keeping an eye out for Clams gone bad. Or so a Slashdot poster alleges.
¶ cults earthlink scientology surveillance 0
Did Tom and Nicole split over which evil cult (Scientology or the Catholic Church) to raise their kids in? (via Plastic)
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The Moonies apparently have bought United Press International. (The Register)
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Visit Bentonville New Hires
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Visit Bentonville Announces New Communications Positions
Aaron Mullins has joined the team as Director of Communications and Marketing, with Baylea Birchfield promoted to Communications Coordinator
BENTONVILLE, Ark., April 2, 2019 - Visit Bentonville announced that Aaron Mullins would become the organization's new director of communications and marketing. Mullins will coordinate and oversee all the marketing, public relations, and branding, as well as leading social media and digital communications.
Aaron Mullins has over 20 years of experience as a public affairs and communications professional, in both the public and the private sector. He began his career on Capitol Hill in the U.S. Senate, working on legislative affairs for both Senator Don Nickles and Senator Elizabeth Dole. Later he served in the Department of Health and Human Services agency in Raleigh, North Carolina leading communications and marketing. Most recently, Mullins worked in corporate communications for Walmart, developing community reputation campaigns, handling crisis communications and assisting various areas of the business in communication strategies. He is a film school graduate and has owned a business writing and producing marketing and advertising video content. Mullins is a graduate of Liberty University and lives in the Bentonville area.
Also, Visit Bentonville also announced the promotion of Baylea Birchfield as the organization's new Communications Coordinator, supporting event, creative, digital and social media efforts. Birchfield is a native to Bentonville and enjoys sharing her passion for her community with locals and travelers alike. She has been with Visit Bentonville since August of 2014 and has worked in a variety of roles. Baylea is a recent graduate of The University of Arkansas and received her degree in Marketing with a minor in finance.
"Aaron is the right leader for our communications team, his background in public relations and marketing will strengthen our organization. We believe his experience will elevate the Bentonville story," said Kalene Griffith, president and CEO of Visit Bentonville. "Also, Baylea will be a great addition with her marketing knowledge and love of our community which will deepen our tourism narrative. She brings organization, efficiency, and passion for our work. We envision both of them making a huge impact on our team in promoting our city."
For more information, please visit www.visitbentonville.com.
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Visit Bentonville is funded by the Bentonville Advertising and Promotion Commission which was established in 1996. The Commission is supported by a 2% tax on lodging and meeting space and a 1% tax on restaurant and dining establishments. The organization's mission is to brand, promote and sell Bentonville as a tourism destination; stimulating economic development. Visit Bentonville leads the planning of sports, meetings and group tours while also marketing leisure experiences that include arts, cycling, culinary, film, music, and aviation. Visit Bentonville also collaborates with tourism offices throughout the state of Arkansas to create positive economic impact while increasing tourism amenities for both visitors and residents.
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We are often taught that the way to enlightenment is beyond the body, but there is a seedbed of magnificence, wisdom, and illumination sitting in the joints, tissues, and organs of your body. The space in the knee holds the wisdom of joy and self-compassion; the bend in the elbow holds the forward bursts of creativity that allow you to bring your heart's art (whatever that be for you) into the world. The shoulders carry messages of what we are endeavoring through or what is sitting as burdens in our life.
This body wisdom map is like a three dimensional topographical map that shares the wisdoms sitting just inside the contours of your physical body.
May this wisdom map inspire you to re-claim and re-remember the enlightened inner teachers of your sacred anatomy.
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#Screenshots is a group on Facebook is in whom the numerous artists are connected and share screenshots take snuff in the air on the Internet. #Screenshots is more exactly an invisible secret group for the most part of the Internet users is more exactly a public, accessible to everyone. Erica Lapadat-Janzen published in 2012 an experimental book in 10 copies with images extracted from this community. The intention of the artist is to dematerialize the group Facebook in artistic object to illustrate the almost photographic practice of the screen shot. We find the esthetics low-def (low definition) there and pixelized which characterizes these images.