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Podcast: An Interview With Katherine Ellison on ADHD
David Van Nuys, Ph.D. Updated: Feb 28th 2011
Ms. Ellison, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, is an adult with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD, and the mother of a son who also is diagnosed with ADHD. She has written a book, Buzz, about her experiences living with and coming to terms with ADHD in herself and her son. Ms. Ellison reports she has always been a restless and easily bored person. She gravitated towards journalism in part because it offered her an opportunity to work in a highly stimulating, rapidly changing environment which fit her need for constant novelty. Though decorated for the quality of her work (for her 1980s era coverage of the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines) she was also prone to make mistakes and several times was nearly sued for inaccurate reportage. As a younger person she was skeptical about the validity of ADHD and critical of parents who allowed their children to be medicated for ADHD. However, as she became a parent of a child with ADHD symptoms and grappled with parenting issues made more difficult by her own tendency towards distraction she came around. Her son was medicated for a period of one year and showed dramatic improvement in terms of his ability to concentrate and to make friends and a decrease in oppositional behaviors. After being diagnosed herself she came to understand and appreciate the role this condition has played in the lives of multiple generations of her family.
David Van Nuys: Welcome to Wise Counsel, a podcast interview series sponsored by Mentalhelp.net, covering topics in mental health, wellness, and psychotherapy. My name is Dr. David Van Nuys. I'm a clinical psychologist and your host.
On today's show, we'll be talking with Pulitzer-Prize winning author Katherine Ellison about ADHD. Katherine Ellison is a Pulitzer-Prize winning former foreign correspondent, the mother of two boys, and the author of four books. She spent a total of 15 years covering Asia and Latin America for Knight Ridder newspapers. Her books include most recently The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes You Smarter, and the even more recently released Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention
Now, here's the interview.
Katherine Ellison, welcome to Wise Counsel.
Katherine Ellison: Thank you very much.
David: Well, it's great to have this opportunity to speak with you. I discovered you as a result of an article that you wrote for The Washington Post that got reprinted in my local paper. And in that article, you wrote about your family's struggle with ADD or attention deficit disorder, and then I discovered that there was actually a book behind the article: Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention
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Interview With Kumar Hassan
in Arts/Literature — by Vidya Bhushan Rawat — March 22, 2018
Kumar Hassan
KUMAR HASSAN,1962 is a well decorated poet, born in Samblpur Town and grew upin paternal hamlet on the bank of Hirakud Dam Reservoir,Bichchedgarh in Jharsuguda Dist. in Orissa. His father late Moulana Mustakim Khan Gountia was an eminent local amateur vocalist, instrumental music artist, astrologist and mother Late JubeidaBai a housewife. He has so far more than forty books both in Oria and Hindi to his credit. His works have been translated into many national languages such as Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Assamese, Punjabi, Marathi, Telugu and foreign languages such asEnglish, Russian, German, French. He has received numerous national and international awards for his poetry and has also been felicitated by many cultural and literary organisations all over the country. Mr Kumar Hasan has been associated with left democratic movement in Odisha. A journalist by profession while a poet activist by heart, he was in various movements and wrote extensively against the exploitation of Odisha's natural resources by the various government who sold them to corporate. We are sharing this important conversation of Mr Kumar Hassan with Mr Vidya Bhushan Rawat who met him Odisha during his visit and followed it up further through email.
VB:You have been a very senior journalist in Odisha, who has reported about the corporate attempts to take over tribal land, forest, and mining resources. Is media silent about these issues or supporting them?
KH: The role of media in said subject is pitiable and apathetic atlarge. Media is not so silent as it cleverly wants to protect its face. It merely reports and ends its responsibility. The reporting is just favourable to corporate houses, and the government is therefore under-reporting the problems of the people. It is neither compassionate to tribal, nor does it recognise their legitimate land rights, forest or mining resources. Political parties or frontal organisations or NGOs seldom raise voice for the people, but whenever they raise it, it is basicallyto increase their funds. In worst case, it is safe reporting of the matter to mould peoples' view to cooperate on developmental issues for their unknown betterment and that of the nation. Media never crosses its self-imposed limits, as it has to get advertisements. It never thinks to rouse mass consciousness or to protect or protest or guide in peoples' cause. This type of attitude is more dangerous than silence itself.
VB: What is the situation inside the newsrooms? How powerful are the editors? Are they still concerned about people or corporate pressure is too much on them?
KH: To be very frank, situation inside the newsroomsis dark and very gloomy. After the press became an industry, editors have lost their power, and have just become paid servants of the management. And the management, especially the business executives, are on prime lead. They decide the fate of news. Let people or their plight go to hell, only the turnout should be outstanding.
VB: You have exposed many illegal deals in Odisha. How strong is the politician-media-corporate nexus in hiding the information from the people?
KH: I am suffering for my revelations for the ordinary people. The politician-media-corporate house nexus is very strong in shape of cash or kind or power. Many threats, false criminal case and intimidations have been used to suppress the information from reporters and the people. Everyone is out to yield their harvest out of impure waters.
VB: It is said that media must reflect the ethnic and communal diversity in the newsrooms, but studies shows that the presence of Dalits, aadivasis, Muslims, women etc in Indian media is the lowest. What is the situation in Odisha related to this? Are there journalists, columnists, editors from these sections of society?
KH: You have rightly observed the situation. Regarding Odisha, there are several reasons, as are elsewhere, due to which the educational status of Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims, Women etc. in Odisha is very poor. Especially the presence of these groups in print media is less than the electronic media, where presence of some talented youngsters in entry-level positionscan be observed. But things are changing these days because youngsters from such strata are showing their talent and activities and competing with the privileged class. But if I am not mistaken, there is not a single Muslim woman in the print or electronic media in Odisha so far.
VB: What is the political situation in Odisha right now? The Naveen Patnaik government cannot be said to be pro-Dalits, aadivasis or OBCs, as it has been opposing reservation against themat all cost. Odisha has invited foreign investments and displaced tribal population in the name of development. Now, the Hindutva sympathisers are trying to capture the imagination of the people in the name of alternative. With no forces of left, Dalit Bahujans and Congress, do you think BJP chances to come to power in Odisha are possible?
KH: The political situation in Odisha is gruesome. Biju Janata Dal's Naveen government is not pro-people. Though Odisha is the stronghold of Naveen, BJP is playing all its trump cards with monetary and physicalstrength, appeasing to have-nots with mounting dreams for a bright future, dolingPadmashrees and other recognitions, building temples, clubs, so-called cultural and sport hubs, mainly in remote rural areas to attract Dalits, SC, STS etc. Hence it is ridiculous to assess the future of the state. Naveenji is a silent killer, or, say, a slow poison in politics, playing his own game confidently and silently. On the contrary BJP is a nationwide party ruling in alliance with likeminded parties in the country with all corporate and multinational houses, and with huge funds, with a number of arrogant caste goons masquerading as leaders. Hence the competition is neck to neck. Still the Naveen magic may work. Vote has become a ridiculous franchise in India. The conscious people are reluctant to go out for vote for fear and thus it has become a one day earning trade for poor for their survival. They are least concerned about country. Hunger is their country. They do not go beyond that and their innocence is an annoyance.
VB: There is wide spread untouchability in Odisha. Caste system operates here with brahmanical order remaining intact due to cultural practices and temple politics. Why has Odisha, which was the land of Ashoka and Buddhism, today become the main land of brahmanism?
KH: In Odisha, it is true; the caste discrimination is beyond imagination. Untouchability still exists. Caste system is in full operation. Some of the major religious doctrines of India, Jainism and Buddhism,wereprevalent in Odisha, along with tribal religious beliefs. Jainism was in its highest order in the first century BC. Vaishnavism in the 11th century was established on the pyre of Jainism, before the advent of Brahmanism. But with the advent of Brahmanism in Odisha the tribal village deities were co-opted in Hindu religion. The tribal god Neelamadhav from interior tribal hinterland of Koraput, was snatched away to Puri tactfully, the capital of Brahmanism, and Jagannathised, and the three idols erected therein were then regarded as the symbol of Jainism, Buddhism, Vaishnavism, Shaivaism and Shaktism imbued totally to Brahmanism, just to stay away from protest. Brahmanism became very popular and King AnangaBheemDev ofPuri, the capital of Jagannath cult, made Jagannath the presiding deity of his vast kingdom, while other religious orders were thrown away or ignored. Thus, Odisha became mainland of Brahmanism. Brahmins with royal patronage became advisors to the state, having all religious rights to bestow Heaven and Hell in their hands. Brahmanism is deeply rooted in the Chaturvarna system, erected by the Brahmanical scripture and the communal policy of the government, with the sky rocketing rising of BJP and strong backing of RSS and its allies for throne and to Hindutva-ise India. Lack of pro-people education system in the country, multiple communal schools as SaraswatiVidyaMandir etc., high percentage of uppercastes in government and offices are some main reasons. Besides, the personnel from lower castes enjoying high official rank are neo-brahmanising themselves and they forget, ignore and hate the roots they are from. This is analarming phenomenonall over India.
VB: When and why did Buddhism decline in Odisha?
KH: The decline of Buddhism in the Indian subcontinent has been attributed to various factors, especially the regionalization of ancient India after the end of the Gupta empire (320-650 CE), which led to a competition with Hinduism and Jainism and the loss of patronage and donations; and the conquest and subsequent persecutions by the Huns, then Muslim Turks and Persians particularly from the 10th century onwards. Buddhism largely disappeared from most of India with the Muslim conquests of the Indian subcontinent. After the end of the Gupta Empire (c. 320– 650 CE), power became decentralised in India, and Buddhism started to lose financial support from the seventh century onward. The disintegration of central power also led to regionalisation of religiosity, and religious rivalry.This fragmentation of power into feudal kingdoms was detrimental for Buddhism, with royal support shifting toward Hindu and Jain communities. Buddhism's distinctiveness got diminished with the rise of Hindu sects. Though Mahayana writers were quite critical of Hinduism, the devotional cults of Mahayana Buddhism and Hinduism likely seemed quite like laity, and the developing Tantrism of both religions were also similar. Buddhist ideas, and even the Buddha himself, were absorbed and adapted into orthodox Hindu thought. With the growing support for Hindusim and Jainism, Buddhist monasteries also gradually lost control of land revenue. The Muslim conquest of the Indian subcontinent was the first great iconoclastic invasion into the Gangetic plains, Orissa, north-east and the southern regions of India, Buddhism survived through the early centuries of the 2nd millennium CE. Hundreds of Buddhist monasteries and shrines were destroyed; Buddhist texts were burnt by the Muslim armies, monks and nuns killed during the 12th and 13th centuries in the Gangetic plains region.
VB: What is the status of Dalits and Adivasis in Odisha? I mean they are in substantial number yet Odisha's mainstream politics of Congress, BJD and now the Left have never really appreciated the issue of reservation. Even today, the funds under SCSPs and TSP are being used for other purposes. There is no independent leadership from these sections. In the forests too, it is alleged, no independent leadership of Adivasis is allowed to lead as the dominant forces from Andhra-Telangana lead the movement. What is your view?
KH: Definitelythe status of Dalits and Adivasis in Odisha is very grim. Mainstream political parties headed by upper castes, mostly Brahmins, have no interest for the cause of these people. They try to use them somewhat as their Vote Bank, alluring them with various cash and kind offers for their immediate needs such as money, clothes, liquor. Furthermore, government has their legalised bribery through Mid-Day Meal in schools, Anganvadis, one-rupee per kilo subsidised rice, five-rupee meals and funding SHGs etc. SCSP/TSP funds are definitely diverted. No independent leadership of the Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes is groomed or developedfor politics. The leadership in mainstream is governed by upper class and obviously such stray leaders from Dalits and OBCs become their spoon and indulge in anti-people work. Some former ministers, MPs, MLAs, Opposition leaders have emerged but they are mostly from the privileged classes of Dalits and OBCs and not from the Tribal groups. But as soon as they are on the top they begin turning themselves into Christianizedupper-class strata and ignore their roots. This Neo-Brahmanism is most dangerous than Brahmanism itself. They let their ethnic identity and their community languish in deprivation, exploitation, political by virtue of state apathy, and underdevelopment, lack of education, poor healthcare becomes the reality. One can see some independent and natural leadership among tribal groups in conflict zones and in their movements such as in NiyamgirimorKashipur, Kalinganagar and anti-Posco movements. Except Niyamgiri, most of other movements were leaded by either outside NGO activists or Left front parties leaded by the Brahmins and Brahmanism. But ultimately such militant leaders of one time fell prey to company and state agencies. Andhra-Telengana lead confined to some specific area in border Odisha. They do not bar independent leadership of tribal groups, they rather encourage them to stand for their genuine cause and rights. But it is a matter of sadness that most of them after having state intimidation, constant threat, encounter, false criminal cases, abduction, rape and many more alluring rewards, freehand facilities, economic benefit etc. suppressive measure by state are broken becoming police informers, or are abducted or killed by state by way of accusations of Maoism. But the illustration of hired and paid media makes the situation disheartening for the people atlarge. Due to heavy vigilance, the jungle militants do not get any free and frequent opportunity to make the matter clear, and don't get timely help. To make the matter more clear, I would rather say that the average percentage of Dalits and Adivasis in Odisha are respectively 27% and 29%. Overall percentage of these two groups including OBCs is 40% in Odisha. STs are not included in OBC. Tribal groups are the most underdeveloped class in Odisha, having no any facilities like education, healthcare, electricity, drinking water etc. They are the poorest among poor, having no land for them. The ratio of landless tribal and Dalits is 90 in Odisha. Tribal groups always depend upon nature for their survival and when their source of survival is attacked by means of mining, deforestation, their forest and forest land plundered, their river and rivulets dried, indigenous medicinal herbs and their deities destroyed by state and displaced, for the benefit of the company-multinational nexus, then they rise for their lives. They areready to sacrifice their lives for the cause, and to save their coming generations. It is a struggle for their life and the bounty of nature. India is heading towards a developed capitalist country, thereby destroying every norm of law and constitution, killing and destroying its own people and environment in the name of development. Extraction of mineral wealth of tribal area in disguise of developmental policy is murderous for the tribal, the son of nature. The so-called economic liberalization has hurt India and its interior jungle folk the most. Likewise, reservation policy has become uselessfor tribals. Where there is no education, the reservation policy is meaningless. Only the Dalits and OBCs are privileged by such alluring policy to some extent in clerical opportunities.
VB: You mentioned that 1857 was not the first war of independence but much before it was the revolt in Odisha by the Adivasis and other people. What was it and when did it happen? What was the ultimate result? Could you please explain about it in detail?
KH: The 1857 war was not the First War of Independence of India, as popularly defined by Karl Marx. Due to lack of proper information on that time, he could not have information about the continuous armed struggle by tribal heads of Sambalpur region against the British as much as three decades prior to 1857. The flame to throw away British subjugation was set alight and fought in various fronts in this highland of western Odisha. However, it was not so organised and comprised of many stray incidents. But the tribal armed protest in such pockets against the British and their allies wereprevalent in the area. The Gond Zamindar of the then Bisheikela, present Bheden under Bargarh district, led an armed struggle with his native troop and indigenous weaponry on July 23, 1830, against the Sambalpur royal army and Britishers. He attacked the state godown of Ratnakumari, the then queen of Sambalpur, at Padmapur and for granting a lease of hundred acres land to a British man for cotton cultivation. The 'Khamar' was smashed to dust and set fire. Britishers killed. King of the then Khariar state KrushnaRaiactively took part with his men in the attack. In retaliation in this attack, as per the order of Capt. Wilkinson an enriched British troop came to Sambalpur to assist Sambalpur troop on Dec 16, 1830, to avenge ZamindarAbdhut Singh. Tribal men with their traditional armoury were confronted at Papanga Hills with united British force Of Sambalpur. Hundreds of soldiers were killed and fled away notwithstanding the tribal army. But due to modern guns and canons it was difficult for tribal army to stay standing for a long time. But after a fierce struggle some of the supporters of the Abdhut Singh were killed, and some surrendered,however he managed to fly to Debrigarh Hill Fort of the rebel tribal ZamindarBalabhadra Singh Dao of Lakhanpur. Abdhut Singh was being chased by SubedarGurdayalTewari of Ramgarh Battalion and Dewan Jaya Bohidar of royal army of Sambalpur. But they were fiercely attacked by tribal guerrilla troops of Lakhanpur in Barapahar Ranges. BargarhZamindar Thakur Ajit Singh, KolabiraZamindarGovind Singh also assisted Abdhut Singh in combat against the united force of Sambalpur. But the united force failed miserably to trace Abdhut Singh and hopelessly returned. Later, the Queen tried to allure him with many rewards but Abdhut Singh refused such stuff and his resistance became fierce ever after. On Jan 8,1831,Abdhut Singh, along with Balabhadra Singh Dao, attacked Ramgarh Battalion and set fire to their camp while in a village. KharmundaZamindarMediniBariha, PahadSrigidaZamindarTrilochan Rai and almost all tribal chieftains of the region fought against the British at Barapahad Hills, Papanga Hills, Dhama etc. This resistance was widely supported by the oppressed people and tenants of the region. The tribal Kondh chieftain Baba MituKunwar of Kudopali, Brajrajnagar under present-dayJharsugurah dist. fought bravely againstBritish troops protestingexcessiveincreases in land revenue and curbing their land-holding rights and ultimately became a martyr. KolabiraZamindarGovind Singh attacked Sambalpur, which was under the British as per doctrine of lapse, being a legitimate successor of the throne. KhindaZamindarBalaramSai, the uncle of Veer Surendra Sai, the unbeatable hero of 1857, attacked Rampur fort protesting the removal of a tribal Zamindar and being replaced by one higher caste Zamindar from U.P. He killed the Zamindar's family along with their British protectors and torched his fort and houses to ash. In 1857 the GhessZamindarMadho Singh was publicly hanged at Sambalpur without any trial. There after his son Kunjal Singh, Hatte Singh, Bairi Singh and friend Shaligram Singh Bariha continued the resistance struggle upto 1860 and lateron they were pardoned. Furthermore,Hatte Singh was arrested and deported to Andaman, where he died in cellular jail, becoming the first Odia martyr. Ghesswas the only hamlet and tribal ZamindarMadho Singh is the only rebel in historywhose entire family including his five sons, and a daughter and his husband [Zamindar of Sonakhan, presently in Chhatisgarh] had been sacrificed to anti-British struggle. Likewise, the British who claim of crushing down the Indian rebellion upto December 1857 had proved to be futile in Sambalpur and adjoining areas. After the so-called suppression of the sepoy mutiny in December1857, and surrender and arrest of Surendra Sai, the hero of 1857 movement in the areas and his leading friends theZamindars and Gountias, it was the Sambalpur whose two brave sons tribal Zamindar of Lakhanpur and Chief Commander of native guerrilla troop of Surendra Sai, Kamal Singh Dao and the GondZamindar of GhessKunjal Singh, carried on their mission of independence and fought against the British and all their allies in jungles, wherever they got a chance with all oddities and difficulties of life upto two decades more, until they were beheaded by some local traitor near Bargarh. This is the very unknown fact of our history and details could be found in my Odia book 'SambalpurarcSwadhinataSangram'[Freedom movement of Sambalpur] published by Sambalpur University.
VB: Several months ago an Adivasi poet HemantDalapati was suspended from his job as a teacher in a school. What could have been the reason for this? Why there is not much hue and cry over this in the Odisha media?
KH: The only reason behind the illegal suspension is that he is a tribal, thinks for the tribal, writes for the tribal and also works for the tribal and Dalits at large, against caste discrimination, illegal mining, deforestation, land acquisition for business houses, displacement and other socio-economic-political causes related to underdevelopment of the have-nots. Hence he was under governmental surveillance since long. Police was collecting reports on his activities and the suspension was based on police report furnished to education dept. under which ShriDalapati is an employee. But the procedure of suspension is illegal, viz. when he got the show-cause notice through post, the same day he got his order for suspension from his office DIET. This was to curb the voice of a young poet-activist at the beginning. But as he is a Dalit, from lower strata, and a leading voice in Odia poetry, the so called mainliners are in envy. That's the very reason that there was no so much hue and cry in Odisha, and media except some progressive, Janabadi, Dalit organisations.
VB: I heard about your own struggle, personal boycott and lots more. As a Muslim, you must have come across discrimination at various places, but what is more painful is about your boycott from your village community. Please explain in detail as what were the reasons and what is the situation now?
KH: I belong to such a remote village far away from communication and education, situated in the periphery area of Hirakud Reservoir. Our village is a tribal village headed by a Muslim Gountia [Landlord]. The village lacked proper education system. All village Muslimsexcept one land-lord family, were not educated either in Urdu or Odia. There was only one MoulviSahab stationed in a Masjid, a blind one both in physical and knowledge, removed from so many places, teaching some primary Urdu alphabets to some reluctant Muslim children. The masjid was our ancient house donated by my father Late Mustakim Khan for Muslims as he had constructed a new house and hamlet Bichhedgarh near the village and had shifted. Before that there was no masjid. The Moulvi tried to teach some religious taboos and wanted to spread hatred towards Hindu community and others taking advantage of their ignorance. I was the young boy in my teens, a voracious reader, protesting these things when I was a high school student. I had gone through The Gita and The Quran by PanditSundarlal and Tarzumanul Quran by MaulanaAbulKalam Azad, which influenced me a lot, along with the books on communism and Kahlil Gibran. I tried to translate some portion of Maulana Azad's book into Odia to eradicate the wrong positions of Hinduclerics on Islam. I wrote to Dr. H. K. Mahtab, the then Governor of Bombay and Editor of the dailiesPrajatantra and Jhankarwhich were published from Cuttack. Dr.Mahtab was so pleased with my letter that he published it as an article in his daily which gained large response from the readers. Dr.Mahtab also wrote me a letter with request to send the translation, which was serialised weekly in the newspaper for more than a year. The said Maulviconvinced the local Muslim community that I was engrossed in anti-Islamic and blasphemous activities translating the pious Quran into Odia, the language of Kafirs, those who urinate while standing, eat pigs etc. The community became apathetic towards me having no any fair knowledge about Quran and Islam. The utterings of the cleric was regarded as Quran and Islam by them, and I was thought as a great sinner and anti-religious Kafir, trying to destroy Islam and disregarding the Holy Quran. Meanwhile, one more incident enraged the village Hindu community against me and two of my young friends namely ChaitanyaKanta and AkruraDhurua, a Dalit and tribal,Gond. We had demanded that Dalits could not be barred to fetch drinking water from a governmentdug well in the village. We disregarded untouchability. But the high caste Hindus were reluctant to give them the right to draw water and the community, especially women folk, were suffering a lot of scarcity of drinking water, and they had to walkmiles to a stream or a pond in that arid area, suffering a lot in blazing summer and rainy days. The hatred of the both communities fell upon us in the village Chariot Festival Day and we three were attacked and thrashed publicly. I was thrown unconscious in the fields. As I was deemed the leader, I was locked in a dilapidated hut outside the village and the plan was to set fire to it, but an elderly man rescued me and then I was thrown to fields in the evening. I was rescued by my widowed mother along with an old servant in the prime of the night. Situation was so tense and grave that on the very same night all three of us were shifted to police station by police for our safety. The next morning thousands of villagers gheraoed the Police Station to release us unconditionally and immediately branding us the innocent sons of the village. While they had threatened in the village that whosoever dare to reveal the truth about the attacks, the houses of such person would be set ablaze along with their family. Later, after a case for 10 long years made all 20 persons arrested and bail free. These were some basic reasons behind my ostracisation. However, we succeeded in our mission and the dugwell was open for all. But I was a victim of purportedly anti-Islamviews with a tacit support of the upper-caste Hindus as the Muslim Landlord was the former ruling head of the village and he was against me. So, I did not get any support from them though the headman was a communist. I was excommunicated from the Muslim community without any support of the Hindu villagers, and all shops, bazars were closed for me. There was nobody to work in our field so our field remained uncultivated and barren for years, leading us to starve, and I was forced to move away from my village to earn something for survival. I have seen the dreadful days of hunger, poverty, helplessness and despair. I was even unable to treat my ailing old mother properly. Meanwhile, I moved to Kantabanji and workedodd jobs in an oil mill, gudakhu factory, cinema hall, hide collection etc. I came forward to save one of my seriously ill sister-in-law, who was a divorcee and her only child was dead and she was maltreated by her family and was thrown by some neighbours in government hospital Sambalpur without any attendant. When I got the news that she wanted to see me before her death, I rushed to Sambalpur with pursuance of my mother and saw her in coma stage since last fortnight. Doctors were unable to detect the disease and some speculated it was some form of depression. I managed to stay there and attended to her with much difficulty with debts from friends for medicine and food, and facing protests from her family members. After some days of my attendance and with special care of some kind-hearted and sympathetic Doctors, she came to her senses and cried for whom she would live, as nobody cares for her. It was the crucial point for me to take a bold decisionto make her survive at any cost. I made her believe that she has to live whatever be, at least for me. After a good deal of reluctance and advise of Doctors, she agreed and we got married in Kantabanji masjid with opposition from her family, as she was older than me. When I came back after many years to my native village with a new born baby, my mother and the same Muslims raised questions on the legitimacy of my marriage. My challenge for verification of marriage certificate from Kantabanji Masjid on my own cost was not granted and I stayedadamant on my stand. I was denied to doKafan and Dafani.e. the last rights of my mother, which was later done by some older men as my mother was not a culprit but her crime was that she was related to me. With my late elder brother's intervention and helpless request we were forced to remarry on the third day of my mother's death with a one year girl child in lap and our excommunication was lifted after long 8 years. My late mother was my strength. She asked repeatedly to not bow down before injustice, let whatever be the consequence.
VB: How did you get influenced by Marxism or Communism? Was there a crisis in the family related to this? What about your parents? What were they doing? Did they try to stop you from joining the left politics?
KH: In school days, I was deeply moved by history of French Revolution and October Revolution. These impressed me deeply and I was in a thirst to know more about communism. My elder step-brother was an active member of CPI and I got a chance to get books on the subject from him. Besides our constituency was led by eminent CPI MLA late Prasanna Kumar Panda for more than six terms. He was a veteran and a dedicated mass leader even who had protested the establishment of a seed farm in the Hirakud Periphery area which was going to be established with collaboration of the then USSR. He fought lifelong for the displaced of the Hirakud Dam, for their proper compensation and rehabilitation. He left his bright career as an artist and sculptor for service of the people of theunderprivileged remote rural areas far from development. He was a true friend for poor people irrespective of parties and class, whose door was open day and night both in his village nearer to us and also in capital. He was such a man of principle that he never criticized any rival candidates personally in electoral campaign. His criticism was based on policy of the rival Party. Even the rival candidates were had high regard for them. His influence was such that the whole constituency was imbued in communism atlarge and had become a stronghold of Party and organisation. I was deeply influenced by him from my childhood and became a member of CPI later age and directly worked under him in my village Branch and District. I collected many books on Marxism, Leninism, Maoism and on Vietnam, Cambodia, Chile, El Salvador, South Africa, Latin America etc from him, Party office, embassy of the USSR and from various Publishing Houses. Though my father was a staunch Gandhian still he did not discourage me. He was a former village landlord with magisterial power and my mother loved me and she always encouraged me to do whatever I can to serve the poor and go against all injustice, oppression, exploitation and so on.
VB: What has been your experience with the Left today? Why has it become a non-entity in Odisha? Has it failed to raise the issue of Dalits, marginalised and Adivasis? Why is there not much interest among these segments towards the left perspective? Is it because left never nurtured leadership from these communities and was always dominated by the powerful Brahmanical interest groups?
KH: The experience with the Lefttoday has been bitter as I was deeply influenced by Marxism and Leninism. I saw the opposite of what I had learned. When I became the Dist. Council Member of undivided Sambalpur, Zonal Secretary, Secy. Brajraj Nagar Coal Mines Union and subsequently Chair Person of the Sub-Control Commission. Odisha, I saw the organisational fluctuations under our so-called veteran old members especially from upper-class and castes. They are neitherfor the regional development nor for the cause of Tribal, Dalit or OBCs. They pretend to be with the people, because they have no ground to fight with Feudalism and opened to direct capitalists.The organisational set up was going parallel like other self-interested Parties, and was beyond control. There was also some type of those who built the personality cult destroying the norm of the party. I opted for a total change in organisational set up, organised and strongly stressed on party classes, expelled some octogenarian members indulged in malpractice in the name of party, changed the Party office setup, membership drive pattern etc. for which I was severely attacked and brandished with many false allegations. I challenged to prove any of them in open public meeting in concerned areas. But it was not done and many tricks were played upon me to make me look guilty. This made me distressed and I filed an ultimatum for total restructuring of the Party, failing which I would hand my resignation from primary membership. But no step was taken by Higher Council. It was against my ideal and therefore I kept myself awayfrom the Party until now. Ultimately for such reasons the party has lost its base in Odisha. Now the party exist in some meetings, demonstrations, press releases, press conferences and on some paper work far from people, a non-entity in Odisha. It has failed to raise the issue of Dalits, marginalised and Adivasis. It is hard to be a true communist and it is easier to show as a communist for some personal gain. So, obviously there is not much interest among these segments towards the left perspective. Party never nurtured leadership from downtrodden communities and was always dominated by the powerful Brahmanical interest groups. It is also true in the fields of CPIM and other such parties being headed by upper caste persons.
VB: Have you ever got threat of intimidation for the work you are doing as a journalist? Please share with us.
KH: When one of my article criticising the corrupt status of law education and helplessness of judiciary system was published in a prominent newspaper the Prajatantra in late eighties, I was threatened to be killed by some corrupt member of the Sambalpur Bar. Even the then CM late J. B. Pattanaik directed SP to provide me and my family Police protection, which I denied. The RDC provided me with an armed escort without my knowledge. Later when the issue turned to be Bar versus Press, and there were state-wide protest by all section of progressive people, the issue was solved in the session's court. Further, for my uncompromising literature I have several times been threatened by AnandMargis and the RSS. Severe scolding and show cause notices are the regular price which I have paid and now made seat without any responsive work in office.
VB: How do you propose to bring various marginalised sections of Odisha together to fight against the brahmanical dominance?
KH: It is very hard but not impossible to bring various marginalised sections bring together to fight against the brahmanical dominance. It depends on many complicated factors. There are many ethnic, cultural, religious, political differences among the sections,exacerbated by party politics. The people of these sections are not aware of their political rights and are easily swayed by alluring cash and kind offered byself-interestedpoliticians. To make them aware and to unite them with fraternal love, amity and peaceful coexistence, we first need proper education. Repeated counselling through their educated persons is also a must. They have to be taught to preserve their self-dignity and self-reverence and to stick to their ethnic identity and community.
Vidya Bhushan Rawat is a social and human rights activist. He blogs at www.manukhsi.blogspot.com twitter @freetohumanity Email: vbrawat@gmail.com
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If there is ever a time to start a diet, it is right after the doctor tells you that you have type II diabetes. Staying healthy as a diabetic is all about controlling your food and sugar intake. The better you are at keeping your sugar level down and stable, the healthier you will be. It is a very simple equation and diets can help you keep a leash on your food consumption.
There is a multitude of diets on the internet, most of which claim to produce the best results for your health and your fitness. However, there are only a select few diets that work well for Type II diabetes patients. These options are evidently healthier and safer for diabetics. Let us take a look at the top 3 among them.
This is a diet that is very well known for helping people who have high blood pressure. That being said, it is also great for those who want to reduce the ill effects of type II diabetes. If you are adhering to this diet, then you need to befriend your veggies. This diet is rich in fruit, vegetables, nuts and legumes as it is a plant focused diet. However, you can consume small portions of lean meat, low-fat dairy, fish and poultry. In other words, once you start this diet, you need to let go of the big, juicy and luscious steaks that people desperately crave for.
This diet is very easy to follow and often helps people lose a significant amount of weight. The fact that it lowers blood pressure is an added bonus since two thirds of all people with diabetes tend to suffer from hypertension.
Mediterranean food is unbelievably delicious. Hence, most diabetics would not hesitate to start on a Mediterranean diet. Once you go on this diet, you would have to rely on fresh produce, season fruit and vegetables and heart-healthy olive oil for sustenance. Not only does this diet help reduce the blood sugar level, but it also lowers the risk of heart disease in accordance to research conducted by the American Diabetes Association. You might need the assistance of a professional dietician to make the most of this diet.
This is a diet that you have probably never heard of. Unlike its name, the nature of this diet is very uncomplicated and simplistic. It is a diet based on water-rich foods that include fruits, vegetables and broths. Whole grains are also an important part of this diet due to their high fiber content. It is a highly nutritious and filling diet that will not let you down.
Sticking to diets and particular eating habits that are suitable for diabetics can be extremely difficult. To make your task a lot easier, get the Diabetes 60 System Guide and Protocol. The bonus recipe collection in the Diabetes 60 System will provide you with more than 500 delicious and nutritious diabetic appropriate recipes for meals that can be consumed all day long.
Being diagnosed with type II diabetes can be very unsettling for most individuals. The news of this medical condition takes a toll on the mind and the body of a diabetic. A lot of people feel anxious and fearful about the instantaneous changes that have to be made in their lives to cope with the effects of diabetes. Becoming stressful or slipping into depression is not a good option during such a time.
Just because you have been diagnosed with type II diabetes does not mean that you have to give up on your favourite sugary treats and carbohydrate rich meals altogether. Moderation and consistency are what you should be aiming for from the get go. If you go on a crash diet, your body will have a tough time dealing with the sudden changes. Managing diabetes will become even tougher under the circumstances.
If you start to panic, then the challenge of coping with type II diabetes will become even tougher. You need to clear your mind from anxiety and negativity. Do not be horrified or confused by the technical medical terms that you will have to become acquainted to during your diabetes treatment.
Choosing a particular treatment option is like choosing a strategy that you are banking on to save your body and improve your health. Hence, it is important that you make room for a certain degree of flexibility with your treatment options. You may feel that oral medication or insulin is not the right method of treatment for you. However, you cannot completely rule this treatment out in order to blindly rely on another treatment method. Do whatever it takes to lower your blood sugar level.
Do not beat yourself up about all the poor dietary or lifestyle choices that you have made in the past which may or may not have lead to you becoming a diabetic. Lamenting your past decisions will not help you overcome the challenges of type II diabetes. You need to live in the present and think about what lies ahead in the future. Move on and learn to live with your diabetes.
What better way to combat diabetes than using a detailed, comprehensive and perfectly crafted guide that equips you will all the tools you need to reverse the effects of type II diabetes. The Diabetes 60 System Guide and Protocol is essentially a lifesaver. It provides you with the guidance of a qualified instructor who will lead you through all the 60 second diabetes reversing movements you need to perform to stay healthy and happy.
Controlling the blood sugar level in the body is perhaps the biggest challenge in the life of a diabetic. It is a struggle that every patient suffering from Type II diabetes must endure in order to ensure the wellbeing of his or her health. Every person more or less has an affinity towards sweet, delicious and delectable treats. As a diabetic, it becomes extremely difficult to prevent yourself from indulging in your favourite desserts. If plucking out the figurative sweet tooth was not bad enough, you have to limit your consumption of carbohydrates as well.
Regardless of your age, light session of physical movement can almost always be beneficial to your health and your fitness. In the case of diabetics, light exercise can lower blood sugar level in a matter of minutes. Make the time for a brisk walk or a bicycle ride every single day or every other day.
Diabetics have come to hate the word "beverage" as most drinks tend to increase the blood sugar level drastically. Instead of being tempted towards grabbing a sugary, unhealthy and carbonated soft drink, you should concentrate on making yourself a wonderful cup of unsweetened tea every day. Unsweetened black, white and green tea are all known to lower blood sugar level in a very short period of time.
Some supplements come in handy when trying to control blood sugar. Among them, cinnamon pills are known to be the most effective. Unless you are a woman who is going through her post menopause phase, cinnamon pills will help you curb down your body's sugar content.
Apple cider vinegar may not sound like the most appetizing thing in the world, but it certainly is great for pre-diabetics and Type II diabetics. You can either drink a couple of tablespoons of it or have the extract. It is more of a preventive measure than a reactive one.
Studies suggest that stressful situations lead to the release of hormones that increases the blood sugar level. The more stressful you are, the less healthy you will be. Scale back on stress and take your time to relax. This is a great long term measure to keep your blood sugar level in control.
The abovementioned 5 ways are not the only solutions to increased blood sugar level. There are numerous other methods in which diabetics can improve their health and you can learn all about them by getting your version of the Diabetes 60 System Guide. This guide provides an easy to follow, step by step system for reversing pre-diabetes as well as Type II diabetes. If you want to destroy the hellacious diabetes, then this pioneering system is what you really need.
Munching on bedtime snacks can become a habit for many people. Even when afflicted with diabetes, people have a difficult time letting go of their unhealthy midnight eating routine. There are some diabetics who will tell you that they are incapable of falling asleep in bed without having a taste of their favorite snacks.
The dietary liberty of a diabetic is restricted in numerous ways. As a diabetic, you cannot go around eating whatever you want, especially during the late hours of the night. Diabetics must be ultra cautious about what they consume just before hitting the bed for a good night's sleep. If they are not careful about their late night eating habits, they might wind up with more health complications that they can handle.
If you do not want to be a critically ill diabetic patient, then simply avoid the following three bedtime snacks.
Just because the label of the food says fat free, it does not mean that the food is healthy. This is particularly true for people suffering from diabetes. Fat free flavoured yogurt seems like the perfect bedtime treat that will mellow you down before a night of good sleep. However, you must avoid them at all cost. They may not contain fat, but they are loaded with sugar (approximately 15 gm in 6oz) which is a little too much for a diabetic to consume before falling asleep. Even the ones that are naturally flavoured with fruit are not healthy for you.
Dried fruit is the kind of light snack that keeps your taste buds busy when you are watching late night movies that will eventually put you to sleep. Given their size and natural ingredients, they seem relatively harmless. However, diabetics need to avoid them as much as possible, especially during the night. The dehydration process that is used to manufacture this particular snack item leads to the fruit's natural sugars to become concentrated.
Snacking on raisins or dried apricot is not worse than having a glass of sweetened milk with cookie. However, the consumption of dried fruit will spike up your blood's sugar level. If you really want fruit before you sleep, go for fresh options such as strawberries, cantaloupe or grapefruit.
By the time it is midnight, people become a little too tired and sleepy to conjure a quick, light and fresh bite in the kitchen. This is why frozen meals become the perfect choice for a bedtime snack. They require minimal effort to be prepared and are always readily available. However, the high fat, sodium and carbohydrate content make pot pies and other frozen treats an unhealthy option for diabetics.
Staying away from all these delicious treats mentioned above is a nightly struggle. Such struggles can make the life of a diabetic very miserable. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel. With the Diabetes 60 System Guide and Protocol, you can normalize your blood sugar and make drastic improvements in your health. Taking 60 seconds off to go through the week by week instruction charts will lead to a lifetime of dividends.
When you become a patient of type II diabetes, it is important for you to become a semi-expert on food. Your knowledge of food must be better than that of the common man. This is essential because the more you know about foods and their effects, the better you will be equipped to abstain from food which is not good for you.
There are plenty of foods in the world that look perfectly harmless and completely healthy, but are very harmful for diabetics. Foods that are generally considered to be healthy or are perceived to be healthy by common people can sometimes be the root cause of drastic increases in the blood sugar level of diabetics.
To make sure that you do not end up making the same mistake as millions of other diabetics in the world, here are three "healthy foods" that you need to avoid on a daily basis.
White rice looks so pure, naive and innocent that no one could ever believe that this beautiful grainy food can put diabetics in a world of difficulty. People with type II diabetes are better off without any consumption of white rice. According to studies conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health, people who consume five or more servings of white rice in a week have increased risk of developing type II diabetes. The better alternative is brown rice which can actually lower your sugar level by 16 percent. Brown rice has much more fiber than white rice. The presence of fiber ensures that blood sugar levels remain stable.
Anything with the word salad in it does not necessarily have to be healthy. Bottled salad dressings are the perfect example of this. Most bottled dressings are jam packed with calories coming from added sugars, colouring agents, flavour enhancers and other additives. Instead of buying deceptively unhealthy salad dressings, you can easily make one at home by combining simple vinaigrettes.
What are the first things that come to your mind when you think of saturated fat? Your answer probably contains the words butter and red meat. However, these are not the only kinds of saturated fat that you consume on a regular basis. Whole milk and whole milk dairy products are packed with saturated fats. The results of many studies have suggested that an increase in the consumption of whole milk and whole milk dairy products enhances insulin resistance in the body due to increased intake of saturated fat. Whole milk can be easily replaced by no fat milk or 1 percent milk.
Are you not sure of what to avoid and what to devour when struggling with your type II diabetes? Then look for the answers to all your questions and queries in the Diabetes 60 System Guide and Protocol which comes with a bonus recipe collection. The recipes here help you develop a clear idea of which foods are healthy for diabetics and which ones are off bounds.
Unlike other diseases, diabetes is a collection of metabolic disorders, which makes it hard to cure it. The energy that fuels your body comes from your blood sugar, but the blood sugar has to be reacted to another chemical called "insulin" which then turns blood sugar into energy that's consumable by your living body cells. But, the metabolic disorders in a diabetic, restricts the conversion of blood sugar to energy, which increases the levels of blood sugar in the body significantly, which leads to a lot of severe problems. Also, the cell growth and life will be seriously affected as the cells wouldn't be provided with enough energy.
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The Hon. Mr. Justice Frank Clarke, Chief Justice (Chairperson)
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Q: Opencart set Store preferences In Opencart we have the following type of products.
Printed Books (hard copies) which will be shipped to customer.
For the same we have Digital Downloads.
We want an option set at the store level whether user wants to see Downloads or Printed Copies.
When the user chooses downloads option, it should display only downloadable products in all the categories.
When user chooses Printed Copies, it should display only printed products in each of the categories.
Any suggestions to achieve this functionality are welcome.
Thanks

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"Any suggestions to achieve this functionality"

From my point of view (which may not be optimal) we need:

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*Permanent storage for the user preference [5 % done]
add a column to the table <DB_PREFIX>customer with a type of INT and a value of 0 if the user is interested in all products, 1 for digital downloads and so on..., if there is a possibility that you will add new preferences later, then it's better to store a serialized version of all the user preferences in a column of type TEXT

*A way to retrieve user preference [25 % done]
you can just retrieve it from the database every time you need it, a better way is to keep it in the session at the same way the user data (like address, telephone)in the class User is kept

*A way to change the user preference [40 % done]
some check box in the user settings page, it's also preferable (UX wise) that the user preference is shown in the header next to his name and can be edited directly from there

*And finally, displaying products based on that preference [100 % done :D]
you will need to change some code in the controller of the category page, best seller module, latest products .... (any module that involves displaying products)

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*Simple, naive and ugly solution:you will notice that there is a code segment that copies products data to the view data, it looks like
$data['products'][] = array( in OC 2.X and $this->data['products'][] = array( for versions prior to OC 2, a simple if condition here will be enough, just check for the user preference and decide accordingly whether to copy the product to the view data or not

*Better solution: filter products based on the user preference from the very beginning in the model functions, add an extra optional parameter to all model functions that retrieves products (don't forget those functions that retrieves products count) that indicates the user preference, check inside model functions if the parameter is set then do you work in the query

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The Tony B. Academic Travel Award honors Tony Beugelsdijk, Los Alamos National Laboratory, an Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) co-founder who passed away in August, 2009. Tony played a very inspirational and instrumental role in laboratory robotics and made significant contributions to ALA, the former LabAutomation conference and exhibition, and the scientific community as a whole. We are honored to remember him through a program that recognizes up-and-coming researchers who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in laboratory science and technology.
SLAS2017 Tony B. Award Recipients
62 Students will Travel to SLAS2017 through the SLAS Tony B. Academic Travel Awards Program
SLAS honors 62 undergraduate students, graduate students, post-doctoral researchers and junior faculty members with SLAS Tony B. Academic Travel Awards for SLAS2017.
The winners from 15 different countries earned invitations to present their scientific achievements at SLAS2017. Winners were determined by a panel of judges who conducted comprehensive evaluations of student abstract proposals and made selections based on scientific merit. Click here for complete details on this program.
Through the SLAS Tony B. Academic Travel Awards program, each will receive roundtrip travel (coach airfare or mileage reimbursement), shared hotel accommodations and full conference registration (which includes access to 140 podium presentations and hundreds of posters, 21 short courses, 300+ exhibitors and scores of other workshops, meetings and special events).
The Tony B. Academic Travel Award winners for SLAS2017 are:
Federico Figueredo, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
Timothy Blackmore, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Alice Bong, University of Queensland
Carrie Lovitt, Griffith University
Kym Lowes, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Melissa	Sykes, Griffith University
Bilal Zulfiqar, Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University
Lucas Duarte, Federal University of Goiás
Jair Marques, Federal University of Goiás
Engy Shokry, Federal University of Goiás
Samantha Grist, The University of British Columbia
Sayyed Soroush Nasseri, University of British Columbia
Jingyu Zhang, East China University Of Science And Technology
Ying Wang, Fudan university
Sri Teja Mullapudi, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research
Michael	Klinger, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA
Marc Daxer, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA
Durgesh Tripathi, Banaras Hindu University
Abidemi Junaid, Leiden University
Maja Haczyk, Warsaw University of Technology
Hyun Yong Jeong, Seoul National University
Dong Eun Suh, Myeongji University
Tan Boon Toh, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore
Uxia Nogueira-Recalde, The Biomedical Research Institute of A Coruña (INIBIC)
Andrea Gasser-Weiss, Swiss Federale Institute of Technology (EPFL)
Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, The University of Geneva
David Sykes, Nottingham University
Kristy Davidson, University of Dundee
Vibhuti	Agrahari, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Martin	Brennan, University of Illinois at Chicago
Kevin Cash, Colorado School of Mines
Eun Ji Chung, University of Southern California
Ashley Fancher, University of Pittsburgh
Mike Garcia, University of California Santa Barbara
Shamal Gunawardhana Durayalage, University of Kansas
Stephanie Ham, The University of Akron
Nina Hua, University of Texas at Austin
Olive Jung, National Institute of Health
Reem Khojah, UCLA
Stanton Kochanek, University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy
Inae Lee, University of Hawaii
Andrea	Mazzocchi, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Sudip Mondal, University of Texas at Austin
Coleman Murray, University of California, Los Angeles
Misagh	Naderi, Louisiana State University
Samila Nasrollahi, Washington University in St. Louis
Pradip Shahi Thakuri, The University of Akron
Robin Sweeney, The University of Arizona
Lana Thaljeh, Louisiana State University
Peter Torab, Penn State University
Andrew	Urick, University of Minnesota
Samuel Vilchez, The Pennsylvania State University
Lisa Walter, University of Southern California
Brenton Ware, Colorado State University
Qingfu Zhu, Department of Chemistry, Wichita State University
Chueh-Yu Wu, University of California, Los Angeles
Ivan Pushkarsky, University of California, Los Angeles
Alejandro Chavez, Wyss Institute of Harvard
Manjima Dhar, University of California, Los Angeles
Shurong Hou, The Scripps Research Institute, Florida
Michael	Floren, University of Colorado
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THE MAGICAL LANGUAGE OF OTHERS A Memoir
by E.J. Koh | Read by E.J. Koh
Biography & Memoir • 5 hrs. • Unabridged • © 2020
Author E.J. Koh's solemn narration of this poignant story captures the language of mother-daughter relationships. Eun Ji is 15 when her parents go to South Korea for her father's job, leaving her in California with her older brother for five years. As she recounts her memories of this period, sparked by the letters that her mother wrote during their separation, Koh's fragile-sounding voice powerfully expresses Eun Ji's pain and her mother's guilt at leaving her young daughter. Koh's deliberate pace reflects the personal tragedies in the lives of family members, including the grandmother, along with Eun Ji's battle with depression. But the slowness of Koh's delivery can make the listener feel a bit dragged down, too. Overall, though, Koh's narration of this lyrical dance of language and emotion is haunting and deeply moving. M.F. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine [Published: FEBRUARY 2020]
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417 Magazine Blog Confederate Railroad Performs at Rock'n Ribs BBQ Festival
Confederate Railroad Performs at Rock'n Ribs BBQ Festival
We spoke with the founder of Confederate Railroad about their upcoming show at Rock'n Ribs BBQ Festival in Springfield, MO this weekend.
By Caiti Sloman
Apr 24 2019 at 1:27 p.m.
Photo courtesy Confederate RailroadConfederate Railroad brings its mixture of rowdy and sentimental country music to the Rock'n Ribs BBQ Festival on April 26.
Confederate Railroad hits the stage at Rock'n Ribs BBQ Festival on Friday, April 26. Since the band debuted in the country music scene in the early '90s, they've released six studio albums and entered the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart with 20 songs. You might recognize hits like "Jesus and Mama," "Trashy Women" and "Daddy Never Was the Cadillac Kind." Get your tickets to see them live this weekend where you'll hear a mixture of classics and newer songs. We spoke with the founder and frontman, Danny Shirley, about the upcoming show.
417 Magazine: Tell us a little bit about the band.
Danny Shirley: The drummer and I have been together since 1981 and worked with David Allan Coe and Johnny Paycheck for a while. 1992 was the first [Confederate Railroad] album. Since then we've had 20 chart records. We signed a record deal with Sony and put out the album Lucky to Be Alive. We've spent about 43 years on the road.
417: Describe Confederate Railroad's musical style.
D.S.: Our first number one record was called "Jesus and Mama," and that won a few Christian awards. Then there's "Trashy Women," which got us a Grammy nomination and sold over 3 million copies. It can be scattered and we like to have a lot of fun with a little humor. The ballads tend to stay away from love songs and relate more to family situations, which has worked well for us.
417: Do you have a specific career highlight that stands out?
D.S.: In my hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee, we have a big annual festival called Riverbend and it goes for 10 days with all types and genres of music. We got to headline that one night back in 1995. It had 138,000 people which was the record at the time. The stage is actually a barge on the river and when you play your hometown it's more nerve wracking. The local DJ asked me on the way to the barge what the biggest crowd we had played was and it was about 80,000. The announcer comes on and says they have the all time record of 138,000... that really shook me up… I got a standing ovation in my hometown. Headline in the paper was 'Hometown Heroes Conquer Riverbend.'
"Once we get on stage, I tell the band what the first song is and then we wing it. No two shows are the same."
— DANNY SHIRLEY, CONFEDERATE RAILROAD FRONTMAN
417: Why did you want to perform at Rock'n Ribs?
D.S.: I spent some time in Springfield in the mid-to-late '80s. We played Springfield a few times as Confederate Railroad.
417: What are some of your favorite memories in Springfield?
D.S.: The first time in Springfield there was an old nightclub called Wild Bills—spent a lot of time in the '80s there, made friends and then came back a couple times to the theater and a couple other venues.
417: Do you have a favorite song to perform?
D.S.: A hit from '90s, "When You Leave That Way You Can Never Go Back," but there isn't a set list for any show.
417: No set list?
D.S.: Once we get on stage, I tell the band what the first song is and then we wing it. No two shows are the same. It makes each show unique.
417: Switching gears, what's your favorite type of barbecue?
D.S.: I like barbeque pork sandwiches with Carolina sweet sauce. My barbecue has to be mild.
417: What's the best barbecue you've ever eaten?
D.S.: Gridley's in Memphis, Tennessee. I had that years ago and still remember it as some of the best barbecue I ever had.
417: Rate your barbecue skills on a scale of 1 to 10.
D.S.: One—I'm not much of a cook. I will say our drummer makes some great barbecue, though.
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When: Friday, April 26 at 7:30 PM
Where: Ozark Empire Fairgrounds Corwin Arena
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Coming down from a holiday-filled sugar high can be tough (or at least it has been for me!), so here are some calorie-free painted delights by Oriana Ingber to satisfy that sweet tooth this Monday. What do you fancy – a cupcake, some ice cream, or chocolate? She's got it all and then some.


The NiagaraFurniture version of an Inlaid Shield Back Arm Chair. Taller than many traditional shield back design chairs this one has everything; a sweeping crest rail, wheat sheaf carving at the top of the back splat, hand inlaid oval motif midway down the back splat as well as simple, classic design elements in the remainder of the chair. Finished in rich, warm, brown tones like the antique originals the chair also has a drop in seat which is easily removed with four screws to make fabric changes simple. The Inlaid Shield Back Arm Chair also features an H stretcher which connects the front and back legs making the chair extra sturdy and durable.


New week, new blog. This time about Clonabreany House!
Following on from last weeks blog of the Millhouse, we've come to Clonabreany House. I'm a big, big fan of Clonbreany. It's warm, inviting and really cosy. There's a lot of amazing potential spots for photos, both inside and out! As another private venue, you'll have the place to yourselves which is always a big plus!
I've been lucky to shoot there several times in a range of seasons and it's always been a pleasure! From the heaviest rain to the brightest shine of the sun, Clonabreany will always look magical!
So, if you are interested or know anyone who is getting married in Clonabreany House in 2018/2019 and need a photographer, get in touch!


The Phil Taylor Power 9Five Generation 4 from Target Darts. The next Generation in Dart technology has been developed for Phil 'The Power' Taylor – 16 times Champion of the World. Target has been working closely with Phil Taylor to perfect this next generation dart. Phil sought an improved, subtle grip on the rear of the barrel to alter the feel and comfort in his dart. Target have delivered this by hand sandblasting the rear section of the barrel only, using extremely fine particles to create a distinct matt texture. The whole barrel is then overlaid by an ultra-hard black titanium nitride coating to provide a long lasting barrel protection. This provides a contrast in look and feel between the precision sandblasted section and the rest of the barrel and shaft. Target have made a major upgrade to Phil's point, now including a Titanium Coated Black Diamond Pro point to minimize board fall-outs.The Diamond Pro also provides a grip area for players who rest a finger on the point during their throw. The Phil Taylor Power-9Five Generation 4 features a new Black Titanium coated Titanium Shaft with enhanced grooves at the base of the shaft for added grip. The dart you order should match with the Barrel pictured. All other components of the dart (flights, shafts and tips) may vary in color and length upon receipt.


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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Bunny – A Beginner's Guide To Usagi Yojimbo
Usagi Yojimbo may not quite be a household name over here, but the sabre-swinging series featuring the rabbit ronin (or 'samurai bodyguard') is hugely popular worldwide; considered key in the world of comics, and an important link between the manga comics of Japan and the superhero comics of the U.S. The series' creator, Stan Sakai, first started drawing Usagi in the early eighties. Roaming an anthropomorphic version of feudal Japan, the rabbit samurai has no master, but takes on tasks from any aggrieved animals he encounters – always ensuring he sticks to the noble way of the samurai.
Sakai originally intended to use Usagi as a support character in another series, but he grew so fond of the warrior bunny that he began to draw him exclulsively; Usagi's first appearance came in the anthology Albedo Anthropomorphics in 1984, before he was given his own series in 1987.
Since then Usagi has not looked back, receiving four Eisner awards and being voted among IGN's Top 100 Comic Book Heroes. He has appeared on film with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (who returned the favour by appearing in his comics), and was the subject of a 2011 Los Angeles exhibition in Little Tokyo named 'Year of the Rabbit'. Most recently he has been the star of his own android game, and his popularity shows no sign of dwindling as he reaches his 30th birthday this year.
To celebrate this landmark anniversary, Usagi will be hopping on to the London stage this Christmas in an audacious new production at the Southwark Playhouse. It's the perfect production for kids of all ages with plenty of action and a strong anti-bullying message that will leave parents happy too! Turnaround stocks the entire Usagi range, so you shouldn't need a carrot or a stick to be tempted to dip into this seminal series.
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Morton manager Dougie Imrie is among 14 people to be charged with alleged historical betting offences by the Scottish FA.
Imrie is accused of gambling on football during his time as a player, dating from 2011 to 2019.
Others cited include Cove Rangers coach Gordon Young and experienced Arbroath midfielder Gavin Swankie.
The SFA has a blanket ban on footballers, coaches and staff betting on any matches.
Inverness Caley Thistle striker Shane Sutherland is listed, along with six current Elgin City players in Aiden Sopel, Conor O'Keefe, Darryl McHardy, Matthew Cooper, Thomas McHale and Rabin Omar.
All 14 have been issued with notices of complaint from the governing body's compliance officer and face hearings on 11 and 18 February.
BBC Scotland understands there are no suspicions of match fixing within the charges and the 14 cases, which were published at once on Friday, are not part of a coordinated investigation.
A Morton statement reads: "Greenock Morton can confirm that it has received a notice of complaint from the Scottish FA Compliance Officer relating to alleged historic breaches of it's gambling rules by our first team manager, Dougie Imrie.
"The notice relates to incidents between 2011 and 2019 while Dougie was a player.
"The club and Dougie have cooperated fully with the SFA throughout the investigation and will continue to do so. Dougie will be providing written submissions in response to the notice in the coming days.
"Dougie will have the full backing and support of the Greenock Morton board during this process."
An Elgin City statement added: "We will speak to our players, our lawyers and the SFA in order to determine the most appropriate way to proceed, and if necessary we will issue a further statement in due course."
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Ivor Reginald Guild, respected lawyer and arts patron known as the Duke of Princes Street, has died, aged 90.
Born in Dundee on April 2, 1924, Ivor Guild was the second son of a stockbroker with a distinguished First World War record.
He went to prep school at Cargilfield, Cramond, and then to Rugby.
In 1942, having been medically failed for call-up service, he went to New College, Oxford, and then Edinburgh University to study law.
He became a Writer to the Signet and was a partner in the well-known legal firm of Shepherd and Wedderburn, for 43 years.
Through that he became a director of several investment trusts and was honoured with a CBE in 1985.
His interests outside business were manifold. He became a member of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers in 1954.
He was a devoted supporter of Edinburgh's St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral and served as Registrar of the Episcopal Synod of the Episcopal Church in Scotland and Chancellor of the Dioceses of Edinburgh and St Andrews.
He became a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1991 and attended the Speculative Society of Edinburgh, one of the oldest debating clubs in the world, and edited a bicentenary history in 1968.
He was a Baillie of Holyrood House with responsibility for Queen's House for 15 years until the opening of the Queen's Gallery.
He was also involved with the Lyon Court of Arms and served as chairman of the Museum of Antiquities for four years before it was brought into the National Museum. He was also a patron of the Royal Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
A bachelor, he was a permanent resident of the New Club for more than 50 years, which led to him being dubbed the 'Duke of Princes Street'. He had his own suite at the club and rarely left it except for its holiday closures and his occasional travels and visits.
He was so much a feature of the club that he was immortalised in watercolour for the wall on the occasion of its bicentenary in 1987.
He never drove, but walked everywhere with a brisk, fast step.
Ivor's siblings, Nigel and Valerie, both settled abroad, Nigel in Kenya and Valerie in South Africa. Nigel died many years ago; Valerie lives on in Cape Town and Ivor travelled out several times to visit her.
He died on January 3 while visiting Berlin, but had instructions there should be no funeral.