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CCAJ has been in operation since 1995 allowing groups of young people between the ages of 6 and 18 across the world to take part in a unique cinematic experience, combining the discovery of cinema with a rigorous approach to filmmaking focused around a diferent question of cinema chosen every year. This original programme is delivered by an international network of cultural partners who take part in the development of the project and its delivery in their countries or regions.
An Educational Adventure
Nathalie Bourgeois
Head of Cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse
Created in 1995, Cinéma, Cent Ans De Jeunesse offers an educational experiment of cinema which conciliates the sharpening of perception with the creative experience. Each year it sets up training groups in schools and extracurricular environments where young people get the chance to work with cinema practitioners on a regular basis.
Cinema Workshops
The project takes place throughout the whole school year. Workshops take place in schools, middle schools and high schools and are lead jointly by a teacher, or teaching team and a filmmaker.
Throughout the course of the year the sessions mix the watching of film excerpts in class with practical exercises, culminating in the making of a short film created by the group itself.
A Question of Cinema, Rules of the Game
The project's originality lies in its definition of a framework of approach to a specific 'question of cinema' and the formulation of rules of the game to address this 'question', developed in consultation with its international partners. Regardless of age or location all the participants work on the same question, unifying their investigations, leading to a discovery of cinema. Previous topics for investigation have included: Colour; point of view; hidden/shown and camera movement, etc. Paying specific attention to one detail of cinematic dimension, such as those mentioned above, and being mindful of the interplay of the related elements of cinema, we invite the participants to enlarge their approach to cinema. After viewing films in cinemas and having analysed pre-prepared clips on the topic the participants perform individual filmmaking exercises. It is only when everyone in the group has worked their way through the challenges the exercises proposed that the whole group begins to work towards its collective film, following the simple story areas outlined in the final exercise.
Exchanges and Meetings
Training for Adults
The adults involved in the workshops - the teachers and filmmakers - come together at three times during the course of the year:
September/October: 2 days of training and reflection at Ciné 104 in Pantin to address and refine that year's topic, which will establish the narrative thread running through the work of all the groups, by viewing and comparing film clips from across the history of cinema with its different cinematographic approaches.
March-April: Midterms screenings, in partner organisations in regions or countries.
June: Public screening of the films from all the groups which have taken part in the project, in front of the participants, brought together at Ciné 104 and in other cultural organisations from all over the world. Screenings in partners' organisation then take place in their own country or region.
All the teachers, filmmakers and cultural partners involved in the project form a strong community, which reflect on the project, sharing their teaching perspectives, exercises and methodologies with each other.
An international blog for students to share their experiences
Throughout the course of the year, the project blog allows the participants to correspond with each other and share their experiences of the project. For more information, please see the blog page of the current year.
Screenings for all participants in June
In June, Ciné 104 in Pantin plays host to the project's participants, both adult and young people, roughly 900 people in total, for three days of screenings. Participants of all ages from all across the world gather to discuss and debate the cinematographic choices in the work that they are presenting and have just seen. Discussing their experiences is made easier by the fact that they all have worked around the same theme. Their films bare witness to the world in all its diversity of climates, light, rhythms and ways of being.
A Project That Speaks to Everyone
One of the points of interest with this project is the great diversity of its participants. They come from a range of ages, from 7 to 18 years old, and a wide variety of different locations and languages. We have groups in a dozen different countries, in tiny villages, in great metropolises, in suburbs and on islands. Our participants have a variety of ages, from primary schools all the way up the school system, to vocational schools.
An Avant Garde Approach
Teacher, critic and filmmaker
Artistic Advisor - Cinéma, Cent Ans De Jeunesse
The teaching of cinema in France has a long and rich history. This exceptional tradition is due to a series of specific and unique political and historical reasons. It has grown and developed through various cultural movements in the post war period, such as the People & Culture and Work and Culture initiatives, the very successful Ciné-clubs during the glorious Thirties and, through popular demand, from the 1970's when cinema made its first steps in to the school and extracurricular system, even if it has experienced its highs and lows.
The Cinémathèque Française, as a repository of cinematic memories, which also celebrates cinematic culture, has become the contemporary torchbearer for this long tradition. Born inside and, indeed, outside the walls of the Cinémathèque française in 1995, Cinéma, Cent Ans De Jeunesse was intended, from the outset, to be a focused and exemplary progressive research project into cinema. The aim of the project is to explore a generalized cinematic teaching model, which has been refined from year to year over the last fifteen years. It is now growing from strength to strength in countries that have an expressed desire to explore cinema in a school context, including: Catalonia, Portugal, Brazil, Italy, Germany, and others.
My own involvement in this project, since its inception, has been my principal touchstone of reference when thinking about new models of cinema education in line with the Arts in Schools initiative, launched by Jack Lang, as Minister for Education in the early 2000's. The project operates as a self-motivated study group, with an ongoing exchange of perspectives between its participants - teachers and cinema professionals - who have developed specific and rigorous working approaches. The rigour proposed by the project is more necessary than ever, as cinema education has suffered from a sharp decline in National Education's inclinations, as it has come under threat from the over reliance on 'gadgetry', and poor or wasteful practices, allowing people to play at making films, with no real sense of rigour. With today's digital cameras we can easily film anything in any way we please. Just because a film is made using such equipment, with such immediacy, doesn't mean that the young people who may make such a film will have had a true experience of the power of cinema. The experience of making cinema and the impression it leaves on young minds is what counts the most.
The process of exposing young people to cinema requires careful thought, lead by adults who actively engage with, and are passionate about, cinema. The strength of Cinéma, Cent Ans De Jeunesse lies in a joint conception of cinema, the acknowledgement of the importance of passing it on, and in carefully scrutinised and developed methods of work which are then distilled in to a readily accessible approach for others to use. It is this approach that has allowed people from other countries, passionate about spreading the craft and appreciation of cinema, to feel supported in their desire, sufficiently reassured by our framework of approach and methodology to allow them to plunge headlong into the adventurous nature of the project.
If I had to choose only one of the points that make Cinéma, Cent Ans De Jeunesse an exemplary project, it would have to be the act of 'making' (making something as a practical form of cinema, a conception of cinema) and the equally important use, throughout the course of the year, of film clips from across every era of world cinema. The screening of these film clips is a cornerstone of the approach to the project, allowing us to think about the questions that we ask and are asked, the problems that we encounter, much like the filmmakers may have encountered themselves in the making of their own films. This is the best way to resist the ongoing rise of gadgetry in film making. Seeing the films that our participants have made at the end of the year, makes you realize the incredible appetite and intelligence with which the students have assimilated some of the film clips. The clips allow them to question their own taste and engagement with what they are seeing, whilst prompting them to think about their own practice. We are miles away from the cold, thoughtless replication of a model. We are, in reality, at the heart of an act of creation.


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War & combat
Admiral Hornblower
Flying Colours, The Commodore, Lord Hornblower, Hornblower in the West Indies
An omnibus edition compromising of four C S Forester's classic seafaring tales about Horatio Hornblower, namely: Flying Colours, The Commodore, Lord Hornblower and Hornblower in the West Indies.
C. S. Forester was born in Cairo in 1899, where his father was stationed as a government official. He studied medicine at Guy's Hospital and, after leaving Guy's without a degree, he turned to writing as a career.
His first success was Payment Deferred, a novel written at the age of twenty-four and later dramatized and filmed with Charles Laughton in the leading role. In 1932 Forester was offered a Hollywood contract, and from then until 1939 he spent thirteen weeks of every year in America.
On the outbreak of war he entered the Ministry of Information and later he sailed with the Royal Navy to collect the material for The Ship. He made a voyage to the Bering Sea to gather material for a similar book on the United States Navy, and it was during this trip that he was stricken with arteriosclerosis, a disease which left him crippled. However, he continued to write and in the Hornblower novels created the most renowned sailor in contemporary fiction. He died in 1966.
Also by C. S. Forester
The Giver of Stars
The Autumn of the Ace
Louis de Bernieres
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Geirmund's Saga
Matthew Kirby
Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition
Deacon King Kong
James McBride
Homegoing
1Q84: Books 1, 2 and 3
The Drover's Wife
Leah Purcell
The Longest Memory
Fred D'aguiar
The Prisoner's Wife
Maggie Brookes
Vasily Grossman
The Cold Millions
The Godmothers
Monica McInerney
Richard Osman

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From what I read earlier this year, I thought and was under the impression that the new name for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was officially being changed to ME-CFS. But according to this article on ImmuneSupport, a voting survey will be available over the next several weeks for patients a chance to choose the new name.
The opinion poll will be placed on the websites of many United States based CFS & Fibromyalgia organizations.
We did not get to choose the name for this illness almost 20 years ago, but now we do have a say and we do have a chance to voice our opinion. Please take advantage of this right that we are being given and vote!
Thank you for the tip off!
This got me thinking yesterday what name I would be comfortable with. I'm inclined – because there's still such mixed opinion about cause and diagnostic criteria – to support the lobby for naming it after someone.
There was a suggestion (in Britain) of naming after the British doctor and researcher who did so much to raise awareness in this country and advance understanding of the condition. Argh – I can't remember his name! Brain fog strikes!
PS: I tried searching for the name without success but am shocked at how long this debate to change the name has been going on for without agreement.
This collection of name change proposals is interesting – but dates back to 1998!
Hi! Thanks for reading here. I have been to your blog too! I think it is going to be difficult to find a name that truly fits because we don't know what causes CFS for sure. If there was a better understanding, I think a name change would be easier. I do agree though that the name needs to be changed.


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Author of "How United States Shot Humanity", Senior Journalist, TV Presenter
Inbound nephews and nieces of Joe Biden: A return to killing fields
Posted on December 1, 2020 by Ashish Shukla
(This is a reprint from NewsBred).
It's as good a moment to laugh at or mourn for the Americans and verify this utterance four years down the line in 2024.
For men like me, it's a moment of chuckle since the US media is having an orgasm on Good Old Joe and his team even though Georgia, Wisconscin, Arizona and Nevada and 79 critical electoral votes are being challenged.
But then the US media, in the presidential campaign, never raised the little matter of "war and peace" while pitching for Joe Biden and now wouldn't like the Americans to peek at the dossier of his inbound nieces and nephews.
So, we have Tony Blinken as Secretary of the State who was disappointed that the United States didn't apply enough force in Syria and advocated that Saudi Arabia be sided with in their bombings in Yemen. He had chortled along with Biden for military action in Libya. Those polite call him Biden's "alter ego." Those blunt prefer the phrase of "war-mongering psycho."
Somehow, this essential on the man misses the US media completely as they harp on his experience, having been a deputy both in the offices of the National Security Advisor (2013-2015) and Secretary of State (2015-2017).
This once aspiring film producer couldn't have found a better script than his own journey: Jewish parents, father who dominated the world of venture capital, mother a patron of arts, a stepfather who survived the holocaust and became one of the most influential lawyer on the global stage.
Blinken's access in the ante-chambers of White House was visible as back as on May 1, 2011, peering behind Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton while the Operation Abbottabad against Osama bin Laden was on ( Blinken in red circle in image below).
Then you have Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor, who once wrote to her boss Hillary Clinton that "Al Qaeda is on our side" in Syria. He also was a key player in hyping up the fake allegations of Trump-Russia collusion. He too is all for "American exceptionalism" which is America-in-the-palm-of-military-industrial-complex-again in the post-Trump world.
Then there are nieces. Michele Flournoy who is most likely to be the Secretary of Defense. Janet Yellen, treasury secretary, who is an inflation hawk, unlikely to support large spending on social welfare, and generally means that the rigged US financial system, a private monetary system, is ruling the roost again.
If still unconvinced, they say, follow the money and truth would reveal itself to you.
The two most-common link between most of these nephews and nieces is CNAS (Centre for New American Security) and CSIS (Centre for Strategic and International Studies)—the 2nd and 6th highest recipient of US government and defense-contractor funding.
Who are the top donors to CNAS? Northrop, Grumman, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and the Department of Defense. Now Michele Flournoy is co-founder of CNAS. One of her well-documented sleight of hand was in getting the UAE to pay CNAS $250,000 to draft just a report that it must buy American drones. These pilotless birds, US-made, have never stopped ending up in Gulf theocracies, never mind their human rights record or brutal bombings in neighbourhood such as Yemen.
Tony Blinken has been with CSIS, Jake Sullivan with Macro Advisory Partners, run by British spy chiefs, not to say with Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, funded by 10 military agencies and defence contractors. Watch out for the names of Avril Haines (top contender for CIA director) and Kathleen Hicks (CSIS) in case their names pop up in your New York Times of Washington Post tomorrow morning.
There is this moral from Aesop's fable: "A man is known by the company he keeps." To me, it means the return of GIs boots in the far-flung corners of the world. The US media would never mention that this set cost the United States humiliating defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan, just as in Vietnam. Some three million service members spent time in Iraq and Afghanistan for no gain in the last 19 years. Some $6 trillion dollars of the taxpayers have gone down the drain. Some 515,000 people have been killed, including 260,000 civilians.
So the sacred cow of foreign policy and the golden calves of defence establishment would again be venerated. Those who found Donald Trump an evil incarnate in the last four years, a Hitler reborn, would sing peace hymns in the background to genocides. Meanwhile, you could carry on with your clowns in NYT and Washington Post.
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What does China really gain by fighting its neighbours? A lot it seems
Posted on November 23, 2020 by Ashish Shukla
No country has more land or maritime borders than China has. It has 14 neighbours around its' 22,000 km land borders. In South China Sea, there are six (Vietnam, Philippines, Taiwan, Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia). And if you thought it had good relations with at least one, even Russia and North Korea could disappoint you. (You could click here and know all why China is so prickly).
It doesn't add up.
President Xi Jinping once said there's "no gene for invasion in the Chinese people's blood." But then you have its media organs emitting more fire in a day than a Dragon would in its' lifetime.
China claims its military preparedness—the monsters it showcases in its military parades—is defensive in nature. Its embedded media in foreign journals, its implanted professors in your OpEds all harangue how the peaceful rise of a nation—which shares its wealth with all comers, be it Africa, Latin America or Europe—is being resented by a fading superpower in the United States. That China is beefing up just in case the United States tries out its hand before the balance shifts irrevocably. But what threat China has from Myanmar, Bhutan, Singapore or Brunei? I mean Nepal?
As I fiddle with my scrapbook, I find President Xi uttering: "A far-off relative is not as good as a close neighbour." Really? Then why lay trap for them as housewives do for nibbling rats on the kitchen floors. You want your Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to reach Ushuaia, the end of the world, and yet you want trouble on its very first mile. The only harmony you have is with your "far-off relatives" in Africa and Latin America.
The funny thing is China hasn't added an inch to its territory for all this muscle-flexing. I mean ignore Rahul Gandhi for a moment who believes China is already inside our drawing rooms. Or Aksai Chin whose every stone and pebble is worth in gold for the Beijing. But at least for a decade, the only capture China has managed is headlines. It would appear China doesn't want peace but it doesn't want war either. Who exactly is sitting inside the Foreign office building of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)?
CCP is different; Chinese people are different
My theory is, to begin with, we must not confuse China with Chinese people. Before Communists took over, China had a civilisation. It had its own tradition, culture and rituals. Now to the outside world, all they have is factory labours whose backs have inclined forward an extra millimetre even as I write this. It's not a happy society where voices are shackled and your family numbers, your working hours and daily wages are dictated by the Big Brother.
How do you make sure that it remains that way without a challenge to your authority? Well, one of course is the way of Tiananmen Square. The other is to constantly remind them that the decades of Colonial slavery is returning. That West again has a barrel pointing its nozzle towards the peaceful China. That we must make sacrifices—Ah, that essential Communist ideology of eternal struggle—for the glory of the motherland.
Secondly, Beijing has seen the benefits of flexing muscle with its neighbours. Most cower. Like Myanmar who has admitted that they are afraid of China. That if the big neighbour was to shutdown projects, it would strengthen the embedded Communist insurgents who owe their existence to Beijing. Nepal wonders why China is on its tail when it did its bidding against India? That what does Beijing really mean when it constructs 11 buildings inside their territory and then leave them unoccupied? To what end?
Well, the end is to have a still more strangulating effect on the world which already owes hundreds of trillion dollars to Beijing. To make the poor neighbours at its borders to keep prostrating. Very few react the way Modi's India did. That move has backfired. If the intention was to weaken Modi internally, and its stooges to take over New Delhi, the recent poll wins convey a different outcome. But this exception doesn't bend the rule of holding neighbours by throat.
When everyone is talking about how to defend the Diaoyu Islands, how to crack whip on the Philippines, how to fix the upstart Vietnam, how to pull India's ears which is nurturing the Quad and stood up to in Doklam, the society falls in line. What appears a belligerent Beijing to the outside world is projected as besieged Beijing to its people. A handful of people who control the destiny of a billion and a half citizens are probably doing it for selves and not for the future of the motherland. What if China burns and the humanity is doomed.
Posted in Blog Tagged Aksai Chin, Beiing, Belt and Road Initiative, Bhutan, Brunei, China, Chinese Communist Party, Doklam, Europe, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Philippines, Rahul Gandhi, Russia, Singapore, South China Sea, Taiwan, Tiananmen Square, United States, Ushuaia, Vietnam, Xi Jinping Leave a comment
Could India be attacked both by China and Pakistan together?
Posted on July 25, 2020 by Ashish Shukla
If India is attacked, it would have not just China but Pakistan also to take care of on multiple fronts.
The two enemy allies would bear down on India together, not just from the west and north but also on the north-eastern theatre encompassing Arunachal Pradesh.
There is no denying the threat as multiple talks between India and China, even involving our foreign minister and national security adviser, isn't making Beijing see reason in Ladakh. As for Pakistan, this year alone it has made 800 ceasefire violations in Jammu and Kashmir.
Indians are acutely aware of the situation. In January itself, army chief General MM Naravane had admitted of a collusion between China and Pakistan which would push India into a two-front war. The general had pinpointed Siachen and Shaksgam Valley (see image below) where the "threat of collusion is maximum."
India can't wait till July 29 when it would receive the first set of five Rafale jets from France and in all likelihood would deploy them on the Ladakh theatre without much delay.
The first Rafale set would land into the 17 Squadron "Golden Arrows" in Ambala next week, taking off from Istres in France, touch the French airbase in Al Dhafra near Abu Dhabi in the UAE and after a night's halt, Indian pilots would bring them home with at least two rounds of mid-air refuelling during its entire journey. (Midair-fuelling in itself is a spectacle you mustn't miss watching).
Rafale, a 4.5-generation fighter jet, with its Meteor missiles could end China's presence in Ladakh in minutes. China admittedly have 600 fourth and fourth-generation-plus jets yet Rafale is said to be a league apart than both the F-16s and JF-17s in terms of range, armaments and electronic warfare capability. Most jets in Pakistan's inventory are US-made F-16s besides JF-17s which are China-made.
But India is hampered by a lack of central command and after decommissioning of the MiG-21 Bison, it's down to just over 30 squadrons, far less than at least 42 required to take on China and Pakistan in air in a two-front war.
India has rushed Rafale-maker Dassault co. to make several India-specific changes in the jets which were not part of the initial agreement.
India-specific enhancements include cold-engine start in high-altitude bases; radar-warning receivers, low-band jammers, infra-red search etc but the clincher is air-to-air missile Meteor and 5.1-meter-long cruise missile SCALP which could hit targets with precision as far as 120km and 600km. India, literally, won't have to leave its airspace to hit the target it wants to smoke out across the border.
Manufactured by European firm MBDA, the Meteor leaves no escape zone once the pilot looks at his radar and pulls the kill switch. The analysts believe there is no air missile presently which is better than Meteor.
The unthinkable Nuclear slide
Rafale jets, critically, could also deliver nuclear weapons. While India hasn't bought a nuclear warhead delivery missile along with the jets, it could do so at a short notice. The Mirages, presently, are the aircraft for nuclear weapons with India.
Sure, we are not walking down the nuclear-war path yet. It would pop humanity out of existence. There is no point in discussing who has more nuclear weapons as Pakistan and China, put together, are way above India's N-stockpiles. Analysts expect a conventional war, if god forbids it indeed breaks out, as a nuclear war would leave no winners.
Sure, India is pulling out all the stops. Its defence allocation for the 2020-21 fiscal year stood at Rs 471,378 crores (US$65.86 billion). The latest we hear is that defence ministry has approved the purchase of 21 Russian MiG-29 and 12 Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter aircraft, costing $2.43 billion. In the pipeline is incomparable S400 missiles, a $5.2 billion deal with Russia. And then there of course is Rafale jets, a deal worth Rs 59,000 crore (US$7.9 billion).
While on Rafale, how do they perform in real situation? Well, in 2011, Rafale operated over Benghazi and Tripoli in Libya and carried out a flawless mission. It has also taken part in operations in Mali and destroyed the enemy infrastructure without a fuss. Then it was Chad in Africa where four Rafale jets hit 21 targets after remaining airborne for nearly 10 hours, starting from their base in Saint-Dizier in eastern France. India would be the third country, besides Egypt and Qatar, to induct Rafale in its squadrons.
All this spend is to improve India's deterrence which of course act to reduce the threat of conflicts. It hasn't stopped Indian prime minister Narendra Modi from declaring that India could take care of Pakistan in 7-10 days. His time frame is not too off the mark: The 1971 War lasted a mere 13 days. The one against China, which we lost, all put together was a fortnight's affair.
As for China, gone are the days when bigger countries could gulp down another nation like you would do a spoonful of honey. Saudi Arabia hasn't been able to bring Yemen to its knees yet; Americans failed in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Soviet Union couldn't keep Afghanistan in its palm and instead it hastened the demise of the Communist regime. India won't be a cakewalk too if China and Pakistan were to mire it down on multiple fronts. It could only be a Looneys' mission. But then who would've thought before June 15 that things would come to such a sorry pass between India and China?
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Why China is fighting the world? What's the method behind this madness?
(This is a reprint from the NewsBred).
Why is China so reckless, why it doesn't mind that the world is beginning to array itself against Beijing politically, economically and militarily?
It has pushed India to a point where India is doing navy drills with the United States in Andaman and Nicobar, right at the mouth of Malacca Strait which, if it was to be blocked, would finish China. Eighty-percent of China's energy and trade is conducted through these waters. This is the strait which joins Indian Ocean with Pacific Ocean.
China has torched the informal summits between its leader Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi, all those moments at swing in Ahmedabad, those hugs at BRICS and SCOs, after it killed 20 Indian soldiers and buried billions of Chinese investments now, and for decades, in India. It has created an enemy in India when an enduring friendship was in the front lawns.
It has angered the United States, The European Union and a host of other democratic nations with its revamped security laws on Hong Kong to the extent that Washington would offload its officials at airports; England is offering citizenship to Hong Kong residents, tearing the extradition treaty and EU is vowing to stand by the "citizens of Hong Kong."
It has annoyed most of its neighbours in Indo-Pacific–Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan etc—with its aggressive claims on reefs and islands; patrolling and sinking their assets with impunity. Most of them it shares seats with in ASEAN and RCEP. Besides, nations such as Vietnam, Japan and Indonesia—and many others—are de facto NATO bases which could cripple the supply lines of China.
It has spat on one of its largest partners, Australia, by raising a prohibitive 80% tariffs on exports by Canberra. All this for Australia voicing their concern on Hong Kong.
Leave aside Tibet or Taiwan, China is also making partners such as Kazakhstan fume with claims on its sovereignty. They recently had a report in its servile media where Kazakhstan was said to belong to China since ages and that Kazakhs would have no problem if they were to merge with China.
Isn't China mindful that Hong Kong, as a global financial hub, is their interface with the capitalist world?
This is a country which has a debt that is 300 percent of its GDP. Its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is staring at a financial catastrophe in the Covid-19 world. It has lent $1.5 trillion to more than 150 countries. Several of these countries would soon be defaulting on loans.
Most of us know that China is world's largest exporter. Very few realize that it's also world's second largest importer. It imports minerals and oil to run its industries which feed its exports. Why is it endangering these imports?
It's telecom giant Huawei, with over $100 billion of revenue every year, has gone on a "survival mode" as said by its own president, Guo Ping since US has shut its door. So would do India, England and the Western world.
Isn't China mindful that the world is seething in anger against them? That actions against Beijing are already shifting gears? Why is it shooting itself in the foot? Why is it willing to lose in seconds all that it had gained in decades?
An incident during the lockdown perhaps holds an answer to China's present recklessness. People of Hubei and Ziangxi clashed with the police as they were refrained from crossing the bridge over the Yangtze River. All they wanted was to get back to work. China's big firms, which engage 30 crore migrants, were opening up. Millions today need work to survive.
It's all about population
China has always worried about its population. Even way back in 1820, every third person in the world was Chinese. It could feed its people due to its fertile floodlands around two major rivers: the Yellow river and Yangtze River. That of course was the agricultural era. But food is food in any era. That was the reason it annexed Tibet since both these rivers originated there. What if India, a neighbour, poisons those rivers? What if a puny like Tibet, without any army, could choke it to its death? China thus staked its claim on Tibet and cooked up historical evidence when Tibetans are no Han Chinese.
It's thus inevitable that people's anger would burst forth if world begins to pull out its manufacturing units out of mainland. The population is already ageing, Covid-19 hasn't been a help in an already falling birth rate. What happens if "Tiananmen Square" erupts in every province?
This is the reason why China is taking on the world. It wants to stoke the feeling of nationalism in its 1.40 billion population. It has insurmountable problems since the world is hostile and views them as villain of this Coronavirus catastrophe. Their best bet is to tell its people that they need to get behind since Capitalist forces of the world want to break them up like they did during the Opium Wars of the 19th century.
It would give Communist Party of China (CCP) the handle to retain its control over the people and even over its own comrades. It could further tighten its surveillance over its own citizens in the name of national security. In China, a mobile SIM subscription links a person to his health, finances and recognition details. In the name of controlling health, Beijing is making it mandatory for all its citizens to register to its Apps now.
There is no getting away that more its "sheep"—a term for its citizens—try to breakaway from the fold, more are the chances that China would indulge in some reckless political or military gamble. It explains why the Dragon is more like a mad elephant gone berserk these days.
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Who are these blessed people in our Coronavirus world?
Thailand hasn't reported a new Coronavirus case for seven weeks now. Nobody has died in the Indo-China countries of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia to the pandemic which has tormented our world with millions of cases besides 600,000 dead and counting. Are we talking of two different planets here?
This only gets intriguing if you remember that Thailand was the first country outside China to report the first Coronavirus positive patient. That it's one the most visited place for people from Wuhan, the villain of this tragic outbreak. That Bangkok for five years now is the most visited city of the world, with 22 million visitors last year. That Thailand was the worst-effected country with HIV/AIDS outside East and Southern Africa. In 2018 alone, 18,000 people died to AIDS-related illness. That around half of those infected are young people between 15-24 years.
Big cities and slums are said to be most susceptible to Coronavirus outbreaks. Experts cite New York, London, Mumbai and Delhi as proof, as they do the instance of slums of Brazil which would soon have 100,000 dead from the pandemic. Both Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh account for 20 million living lives. The cities of these countries also abound in slums. We aren't even counting the visitors. Yet there are no community outbreaks.
Scientists would love to nail down the reason why Coronavirus stands defeated at the doors of these countries. Has it anything to do with the mighty Mekong River, 12th biggest in the world, which passes through all these four countries through its length of 4,350 kms? Another country which is home to Mekong River is Myanmar which too has only six deaths to show thus far. Yunnan, the southwestern Chinese province through which Mekong also flows through, has less than 190 cases. All have recovered.
Mekong River, there is little doubt, is the water-road in this part of the world. It's a safety net during times of crisis. When lockdowns are enforced and economy begins to pinch, a whole lot of unprivileged people—informal workers, labourers, taxi drivers, little traders—go from their rural habitats to cities and back. In times of crisis, it's nature's supermarket: the forests, rivers and wetlands which provide food and sustenance to the teeming poor. Then there are fisheries which ensure nobody sleeps hungry.
All this is okay but it doesn't explain why Coronavirus has stayed away? Should we offer the silly logic that there might be something in the features and physical make-up of these people who look similar and could pass off as locals? I mean if you spot a Vietnamese in Thailand what chances are that you would know he is a foreigner?
The AFP recently ran a story in which it threw wild darts in the darkness to guess the phenomenon. Could be the Thai habit of greeting others with a Wai, another name for Namaste really, which is social distancing by habit? Should one put it to Thailand's robust health care system? The outdoor lifestyle of many Thais? Is there a genetic component one is missing here?
Thais have a mask-wearing culture. Heavy vehicular traffic and the resultant air pollution, not to forget the emissions from industries and farmers burning fields for plantations, has made masks a way of life over the years. A study informs that during the pandemic, 95 percent of Thais have been wearing masks in public.
Experts are also wondering if this has to do with the immune system. It's the part of the world where malaria, dengue, cholera etc break out frequently. Has it imbued these people with some sort of immunity in their genetic make-up?
Is Thailand doing things differently than others? Let's look at the timeline: China reported its outbreak on December 31, 2019. Three days later, Thai airports were screening the visitors. A day later, an emergency operation centre had been set up by the public health ministry. By January 8, the first suspected Coronavirus case had been identified. Within days, people arriving at airports were monitored and quarantined, if necessary. Eventually all visitors from abroad were quarantined.
There was a moment of disquiet for sure. Transmissions had begun to jump by March in Bangkok. A cluster of infected patients developed around nightclubs and a boxing stadium. On March 21, schools and non-essential businesses had been shut. On March 26, public gatherings were banned. International flights had stopped by April 4. Red-light districts were closed. Sex workers rushed back home. Tourists fled.
But at least 58 people have died in Thailand due to the pandemic. What explains the "miracle" of Indo-China? The incredulous immunity of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos?
Besides the routine measures—we all know, masks, social-distancing, sanitizing hands etc—Vietnam has adopted a stringent screening procedure. Thus, be it banks, restaurants, airports or even apartment complexes, all need to have themselves screened at virtually every point of interaction, so to say. In Cambodia, thanks to overwhelming medical aid from around the world, the corona-testing kits are cheap and readily available. No less is said to be the reason that most of Cambodia is rural, as is Laos, and the pandemic has been easy on the village folks so far.
It's this success against the Corona, that all these countries are now open to foreign visitors. They are not back to normal, for they never went off the rails in the first instance. I know you would bring up economic fallout–there are plenty of whiners in India for me to know their type–but that, some other day, some other time.
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Hail India's war against poverty but don't overlook the dangers ahead
Posted on October 20, 2019 by Ashish Shukla
Every coin has two sides but let's first flip the one which is justifiably being feted across the globe: In mere 10 years, India has halved its poverty from 55 to 28 percent, i.e 369 out 640 million people are out of its vicious grip. The World Bank estimates that if India doesn't lift its foot from the pedal, extreme poverty would belong to past in 2030.
Extreme poverty isn't about the money you have in your pockets which incidentally is less than US$1.90 per day in monetary terms. The global standards follow Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) which focuses on health, education and living standards and measures them through the 10 indicators of nutrition, child mortality, schooling years, school attendance, sanitation, cooking fuel, drinking water, electricity, housing and assets. Those who lack in one-third of these parameters are extremely poor.
It's no-brainer to most Indians to identify the areas in which India has managed giant leaps: 93% of India now has access to electricity; almost 100 percent houses now have household toilets; 94% have access to cooking gas and housing-for-all could be a reality by 2022. However nutrition (India's in 100th out of 118 in Global Hunger Index); child mortality (at 1.2 million a year the highest in the world); education (one in six Indians is out of its bounds) and drinking water (100 million Indians have almost zero-access) are gaping holes and forces us to look at the other side of the coin.
Urban and rural divide for instance. An urban worker earns eight times an average of agriculture worker even though two-third of India's 1.3 billion people live in its villages. This disparity partially explains why 34 farmers commit suicide per day in India. Indian farmers are smallest landholding class on the planet and can't bargain in open market for their little produce. It tells us about the inequality in consumption and physical and social infrastructure. If forewarns us about the violence which is heaving below the urban-rural divide.
India's political elites do paper it over with doles such as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (MGNREG) programme which assures 100 days of guaranteed wages for unskilled manual labour. But what about the other 265 days? Why waste India'a incomparable human resources – every second Indian is less than 25 years—on digging wells and laying roads when they could be trained to use technology? Is there even a comparison between manual and skilled labour? What stops Indian farmers to adopt technology?
Gender and caste are two other areas which continue to hold India back. Jobs for women indeed have fallen off from a high of 36 percent in 2005 to 26 percent in 2018. Nearly 200 million women either don't get paid or are in the unorganized sector. Poverty and restrictive social or family mores still keep them out of the basic education loop, forget about the digitized education which has overtaken the world.
Muslims and Scheduled Tribes/Scheduled Castes continue to be India's poorest living groups. Sure there is a huge reduction in their rates of poverty between 2006 and 2016, still every second person among Scheduled Tribe and every third among Muslims is poor. Admittedly, there is a reason for it since Muslims still prefer Madarasa (seminary) where religious initiation is the preferred mode to grounding in science and mathematics. Tribals face the issue of assimilation in mainstream India.
At a macro-level, 364 million Indians are still extremely poor, which is more than the population of United States. At a micro-scale, just four states—Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh—account for 196 million of these extremely poor. Some are as poor as Sierra Leone in Sub-Saharan Africa, like Alirajpur district in Madhya Pradesh, the poorest in India, where 77 per cent of people aren't sure if they would live to see another day.
It's not to deny India's eye-catching gains in war against poverty. The average life-expectancy of an Indian has increased by 11 years since 1990. Still it remains one of the 10 poorest countries in the globe alongside Bangladesh, Peru, Vietnam, Pakistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Combodia, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Haiti. It's a war which is not over till it's over.
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Who is Donald Trump fooling on Iran?
Posted on June 23, 2019 by Ashish Shukla
I am not a stockbroker but if I was I would bet big against Donald Trump unleashing a war against Iran.
I mean he heads a country which needed half a million of its servicemen to tame a small Kuwait and prepared six months to arrange for its logistics. How would do you do against a large territory like Iran?
His country United States can't fight two medium-sized wars and can it really afford to free up Far East and China who would strangulate Taiwan the moment it's off-radar?
And please don't give me this Nuclear-muscle nonsense. It works best before you use it. You can nuke a Hiroshima or Nagasaki but you can't nuke the whole of Iran.
It's also as if Trump doesn't know that Pentagon would give a damn to his command for war. US can only declare war if its army wants so—as was the case with Vietnam and Iraq. The military generals of the US have already rejected the notion of abiding with the President's order for an illegal war.
We know the US, the adolescent that it is of only 200-odd years, makes some silly mistakes (Remember the hostage crisis of the 70s: Jimmy Carter's helicopters couldn't fly over Iran at a low height because its filters got clogged with sand). But a war with Iran would be worth an Oscar of the Absurd.
For one, if you don't allow oil out of Iran to the world; Iran would stop any oil to go out of the Middle East (see picture). Shias are everywhere: 60% of Iraq is Shia; 80% of Bahrain is Shia; the majority in Kuwait is Shia; the oil in Saudi Arabia is controlled by Shia. Iran would damage tankers and make sure the blame doesn't come its' way. In the last one month itself, four tankers anchored near Fujairah in UAE were damaged. Two tankers with petrochemical products were attacked in Gulf of Oman this week. No traces were left. It would become a routine. Saudi refineries could go up in smoke. Iran has strategic partners in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen and even Afghanistan.
We also know that the US' Iran policy is based on a single agenda: Change of Islamic revolutionary regime in Iran. This agenda is unfulfilled even after 40 years. This is a country which unlike a France or England could survive on half a bread. Threat of a war, doesn't open up the factional feuds in the country. Instead it draws them together—as Western-oriented parties and hardliners are hugging each other at the moment.
It's also as if the US doesn't know that its' tough stance would probably make Iran a nuclear-powered regime in six months. Iran announced on June 17 that it would start withdrawing from compliance with the 2015 nuclear agreement. But if the US pulls out of the deal unilaterally and the other signatories of the pact—China, Russia, France, Britain and Germany—hold their silence, what options Iran is really left with but to press on the raw nerve which inked the pact in the first place?
In this week itself, Iran would exceed the limit on enriched uranium which the 2015 deal had stipulated—only 300kg of uranium hexafluoride enriched to 3.67 per cent, or it's equivalent, for 15 years. If Iran adds a few thousand extras of centrifuges, it would reduce the time Iran needs to arm itself with a nuclear weapon.
And how do you think Iran's opponents would face up to the Persians? Saudi Arabia is so pathetic it can't even bring tiny Yemen to submission. They can't do anything to Houthi. A war would only make Turkey stronger. Iran is already being wooed by Russia and China. A common bank is being set up by Syria, Iraq and Iran to facilitate trade between these countries.
If anything a war would break up the United States. By mid-2020, oil prices would hit the roof. Insurance premiums on tankers would be prohibitive. Consumer prices of oil products would multiply. If oil prices exceed $100 per barrel, it would hit China, Europe and the US. If the oil prices are doubled, the US would be in ruins. It is the biggest consumer of electric power. It doesn't matter where it gets its energy from, be it Texas, Siberia or Saudi Arabia: if it's 150% per barrel, US is destroyed.
Then why the hell is the US tightening its screws on Iran? And Donald Trump is increasingly sounding like John Wayne with holster unbuckled?
The short and sweet answer is: Trump wants to stoke up fears in the Middle East so that it could sell its military hardware to Iran's opponents and fatten up its GDP. It never wanted a war, it never would. If the US wanted a war, it wouldn't be looking the other way as Iran continues to sell 300 million cubic feet of gas to Iraq. Iran's sale of oil in the region could go up to two million barrels of oil daily.
The trouble is, Iran knows the game and is upping the ante: It has given an ultimatum to remaining signatories of the 2015 Pact either fall in line by July 7 and help preserve the nuclear deal or face the music. It's a classic case of the hunter becoming the hunted. Trump has climbed up a tree but doesn't know how to get down.
Fun, I say.
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You must doff your hat to Times of India
Posted on March 5, 2016 March 5, 2016 by Ashish Shukla
Today, Times of India (March 5, 2016) has three stories on its front page:
Government says no to visit by US Panel: US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has been denied Indian visas to "discuss and assess religious freedom." (NewsBred had an insightful take on it at least four months backwhich you must read if India concerns you).
India takes US to WTO over visa: India has hauled US in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over their controversial new visa rules.
India rules out joint naval patrol in South China Sea: India refuses to join US in joint patrolling in South China Sea (all you read on South China Sea is hogwash. Read this and you won't need to read anything else on South China Sea ever).
INDIAN EXPRESS HAS NONE OF THESE STORIES. FROM ITS FRONT PAGE TO ITS LAST– FROM ITS MASTHEAD TO IMPRINT LINE.
May be Express, busy as it is with all its resources on Kanhaiya affair (just count on the stories in today's editions—I gave up after 1-2 dozens), just couldn't free its reporters on other India issues (but that's ok, they didn't have time and space to discuss Indian budget).
May be, Express thinks other India issues are not important. (Remember they didn't have time for India's win over Pakistan in cricket on its front page; instead writing a fictional "mahaul" story for which got an official rap).
May be, they genuinely missed the 3 stories since all international news agencies AP, AFP, Reuters blocked these stories too from reaching newspapers offices (I couldn't find one in google search). Never mind if these same agencies cried themselves hoarse on India's promised joint patrol with US in South China Sea.
The only Express story on US in today's edition was on its business page, Pg 19: "Monsanto threatens to exit India."
So the facts established: Issues that India take up with United States didn't find space in Express. Issues that United States takes up with India (like Monsanto) is a screaming headline.
What is Monsanto? Well it's been dubbed as the "most evil corporation on earth." We won't waste time here on Monsanto. Readers can take their own sweet time to find about it.
Is Express of today a one-off thing? Or has there been a pattern?
The pro-US role in Indian Express is increasingly getting established. It publishes US envoy Richard Verma, president Barack Obama, Moody's, Ford Foundation (which had infiltrated Nehru government to the core) and Greenpeace etc on issues where these divine voices question India's freedom of speech, tolerance etc. (Even though the world knows that US has quarter of world's all prisoners; its horrific track record against blacks; it snooping and spying on its citizens; the Patriot Law etc probably qualifies it as a "deep state." today).
I won't get so far as to question how Express runs without advertisements on its pages. There must be godly-souls in this world who would do anything for "tolerance" and "freedom of speech" issues. Or for that matter the allegations of "foreign funds' to Kejriwal's AAP for which, it must be told to readers, got a clean chit from none other than the Modi government last year!!! (can't help taking a potshot: Kejriwal talks of "freedom of speech" but let's not forget what he did to Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan—it wasn't the best case of "freedom of speech, was it?).
Just as the JNU issue was hotting up, Modi addressing farmers in Bargarh, Odisha had said that NGOs with foreign funds were "conspiring" to destabilize his government and defame him.
Let me connect all the dots: A resurgent India would never be "allowed" by the United States. They don't allow sovereign nations to functions: they only allow vassal—such as Europe, Japan or Gulf kingdoms to exist. Look at what it does to China, Iran, Russia, North Korea and Venezuela. Or what they did to Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya and Syria and countless Latin American and African countries. You would be naïve to believe that imperialism and colonialism just disappeared after World War II. They only turned more sophisticated and scientific with modern technological tools.
Vajpayee broke the pattern with Nuclear explosion; Modi now is pursing a dollar-free BRICS agenda. The empire would strike back and strike back hard.
What are the tools of those seeking world hegemony? Corporate and bought media for one; NGOs and funded foundations for another; intellectuals such as Amartya Sen (who is married into the Rothschild family); film celebrities (you know whom); superbly controlled academic institutions etc.
These intellectuals, writers and elites conveniently forget that tens of millions of Asians were murdered in Tokyo and Osaka firebombing (I am not evening mentioning Hiroshima and Nagasaki), horrific liquidation of Korean civilians or killing of millions in Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, East Timor and Philippines. Or what's happening in Middle East where wars have been waged on lies of WMD and Benghazi or Syrian chemical use. So Indian elites, this is the future you have in mind for you and your children?
So a word from a neutral Indian citizen like me to the rest of the countrymen, more importantly to media: "Don't support BJP or Congress or vice versa if that's what you are convinced about. You support Kanhaiya–do it. You don't want to support JNU–don't do it. But don't play into such destabilizing forces.
Remember there are forces who don't want a strong, resurgent India. Those who are blocking Muslims in their own country; who won't allow a Muslim women to wear "hijaab" but can allow cartoons against the Prophet while taking a legal action against those having anti-Semitic views–these are not the ideal countries that you think they are. Don't be a tool in their hands.
All they want is a polarized India. Want to test it? I can even predict a headline you would see in paid media next week/month (Ok, watch this space for my prediction in next 48 hours—my wife tells me they won't leave you alive. Who cares).
If you have interest and safety of your children in your heart, please don't allow such polarization forces to gather wind. A polarized society would be an ideal breeding ground for ISIS/Al-Qaeda to find its recruiters and wreak havoc on our buses, trains, monuments etc. India would become a living hell. I can foresee such a scenario if you are not alert to this agenda of foreign forces/Indian media/NGOs/academic institutions.
There are people who are after the life of me, you and our children—and they are not Hindu or Muslim
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Decoding Hyderabad polls: And the meaning it carries for Indian politics
Farmers have already lost this game: The only option left is violence
Malviya is just a start; even Modi would be muzzled on days next: Unless this road is pursued
If Modi's Centre agrees on MSP, it would be betrayal of India & its farmers
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Home » Yuletide: NSCDC assures Anambra residents of adequate security, deploys 1931 officers
Yuletide: NSCDC assures Anambra residents of adequate security, deploys 1931 officers
Ahmed Abubakar Audi, Commandant General of NSCDC
Lawrence Nwimo, Awka
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Anambra State Command has assured Nigerians especially those resident in Anambra State of adequate security in the celebration of the 2022 Christmas season.
In a statement signed by DSC Okadigbo Edwin, the Public Relations Officer, on behalf of the State Commandant, Isdiore C. Chikere, the command said it has put plans in place to ensure adequate security measures to Nigerians who would be traveling home to meet their loved ones.
The statement read: "In view of the expected increase in economic activity, movement of people as well as several church and social activities which may attract large crowds during the forthcoming festive season, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Anambra State Command, under the leadership of Commandant Isdiore C. Chikere wishes to assure the good people of the State of its readiness to perform its statutory responsibility of protection of lives and property of innocent citizens, coupled with all the Critical National Assets and Infrastructure in the State during the celebration.
"The Command has put in place adequate security measures in collaboration with sister security agencies and all critical stakeholders to ensure a peaceful and orderly celebration of the Yuletide season.
"Consequently, the State Commandant has ordered the deployment of one thousand, nine hundred and thirty one (1931) officers and men drawn from Tactical Squad, Operations Department, the Anti-Vandal Unit, the Agro-Rangers, Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU), the Rapid Respond Unit ( RRS), Special Female Squad, Chemical, Biological Radioactive Nuclear Energy Unit (CBRNE), Critical National Assets and Infrastructure Protection Department and the Department of Intelligence and Investigation for both foot and mobile patrols as well as fixed – point presence and increased – led operations across churches, event/recreational centres, motor parks, markets identified routes and flash points among others.
"Personnel deployed for this critical assignment are under strict instruction of the State Commandant to be civil but firm in the discharge of their duties. Furthermore, the Command is prepared to deal with hoodlums, political thugs and other disgruntled elements that may attempt to cause break down of law and order before during and after the festive period."


And a strong understanding of your strengths and weaknesses.
Of course there are other things that you will need to think about. One of the ideas that I try to make sure others are aware of is what I call "Preservation Plus." This idea means that you have something other than preservation in your background. One of my Pluses is computers. Its also experience in housing, planning, and community activism. You have to find your Plus. Maybe its education, maybe its planning, maybe its business, maybe its as small as conference coordination. But whatever it is, develop it while you are in school so you have something to build upon before you get out there. Its easy to develop other Pluses out in the work world, but you need one to get in the door.
Below are a few links to follow for advice. If you have more, please e-mail me!
Organizations to contact about jobs in preservation and public history. Cold calling, as this is sometimes referred to, can be difficult, but it may provide you with a few contacts, as well as finding about other opportunities in the preservation world. Preservation and public history are small enough fields that everyone knows everyone (mostly). By contacting someone in, say the NJ Trust, you can often find out whats going on in the rest of the Mid Atlantic--if not other regions.
Special Thanks to the National Trust for creating this list of Statewide Organizations.


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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/contributors/c/photographer-robert-clark.html
Photograph by Robert Clark
Based in New York City, Robert Clark is a freelance photographer known for his innovation. He works with some of the world's leading magazines and publishing houses and on cutting-edge advertising campaigns.
Early in his career, Clark left the comfort and familiarity of newspapers to join H. G. "Buzz" Bissenger, author of Friday Night Lights, in documenting the lives of high-school football players and devotion to the game in Odessa, Texas. Bissenger's best-selling book was later made into a major motion picture as well as an NBC television series.
In 2003, an assignment with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, took Clark back to Texas to capture the first year of a new NFL team, the Houston Texans. The documentary and portraiture project resulted in one of the museum's most popular exhibits and the publication of a collectable, black-and-white photo book, First Down Houston: Birth of an NFL Franchise.
Clark was commissioned by Sony Ericsson to travel the United States for 50 days to document the beauty and diversity of America with only a cell-phone camera. This unique ad campaign, which was Clark's brainchild, generated a tremendous amount of coverage in major newspapers and on TV news programs. American Photo also featured each leg of his trip on the Web. His book about the assignment, Image America, developed into a gallery exhibit in New York City and became the first ever published photography book using cell-phone camera images.
Clark's work has won numerous awards. His coverage of the attack on the World Trade Center, witnessed from his rooftop in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, was recognized at the World Press Photo awards in Amsterdam. He also received a National Magazine Award for "Best Essay" for his National Geographic cover article, "Was Darwin Wrong?"
His photographs have graced some 40 book covers and more than a dozen National Geographic covers. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Time, Sports Illustrated, GEO, Vanity Fair, Stern, and Der Spiegel.
Currently involved in a variety of projects, Clark continues his association with National Geographic and is working on a book documenting the birth of the science of evolution. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, Lai Ling.
www.robertclarkphoto.com


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Aden + anais are my go to for any muslin-based products.
I have faithfully used the musy squares for absolutely everything (think along the lines of sick, snot, dribble, swaddle, breastfeeding cover-up) with all three of my children, and continue to buy the products for friends and family as they make beautifully practical gifts.
The main thing you need to know is that the full range is made from a unique layered 100% cotton muslin that is super soft (and gets softer with each wash) and they look absolutely stunning.
It's so nice to whip out colourful, attractive print muslins from your change bag rather than an off-white/borderline grey one that just looks tatty!
Last year aden + anais launched a brand new Disney collection.
Disney, for me, is the epitome of family entertainment and following a family trip to DisneyWorld last year it holds some amazing current memories for me too.
The nice thing is that for the 30-something generation, the aden + anais collection is a beautiful way to relive some of those Disney classics and share them with your next generation.
Earlier this year they extended their gorgeous Disney collection with the introduction of three new themes - the Lion King, 101 Dalmatians and The Aristocrats.
The collection is available in all of aden + anais' most-loved products including musy squares, sleeping bags, bibs, dream blanket, swaddles and burpy bibs.
The designs are all fairly unisex, although The Aristocrats is probably more traditional girly with a heavier pop of pink and purple, but generally I'd say they are all lovely for boys or girls.
If I had to choose between the three new designs, I have to admit that the 101 Dalmatians is my favourite, not because it's my favourite film, but because the print is not overly repeated in design so you can look at it for ages and see different illustrations of the montage of dogs.
It's also great for newborns who are more easily able to identify black and white colours so it's lovely to lay out the 101 Dalmations dream blanket for babies to lie on and enjoy some tummy time while keeping them amused.
I have a sneaky suspicion this isn't the end of the Disney range, surely with so many fantastic stories and films to choose from, we will soon be seeing even more!


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FoodLit's Feel-Good Food : Up the South Gippy Highway. Day 4, 88 To Go..
It was a big day today after a weekend road trip up to the hills of the South Gippy Highway, always topped off by a stop at Paddlewheel, a great produce store in Koonwarra. They source their stuff as locally as possible and are as nuts about good local food as me. While they have a bunch of great stuff, another store at Prahran market and better photos (above) than mine (below), they also often have organic produce at feel-good prices.
While I'm not necessarily suggesting you drive 142 kilometres for your organic avos (I might be nuts but feel-good food obsession comes in degrees), I am suggesting you can get top produce, often organic, at really good prices if you've got your feel-good food radar on - and if you remember great finds at great stores.
These avos were firm so five work just fine if you ripen them in stages, ie, some near bananas (for faster ripening), others not (for slower ripening) and then fridge-ing them when they're ripe. Fridge then unripe and they go black.
Avo tip for spring zing: Slice some good avocado onto bread, cracker, toast, whatever and throw on a few mint leaves. The combo sends your taste buds silly. Avo & mint really is mint.
What's your favourite produce store in the country?


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Gusztáv Szepesi (Miskolc, 17 de julho de 1939 - 5 de junho de 1987) foi um futebolista húngaro que foi campeão olímpico.

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Gusztáv Szepesi fez parte do elenco que foi medalha de ouro nos Jogos Olímpicos de 1964. Ele também participou da Copa do Mundo de 1966.

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Naturais de Miskolc
Futebolistas da Hungria
Futebolistas olímpicos da Hungria
Futebolistas nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 1964
Medalhistas nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 1964
Campeões olímpicos da Hungria
Medalhistas olímpicos da Hungria
Jogadores da Seleção Húngara de Futebol
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Hubble captures photo of asteroid worth 70,000 times the global economy
January 5, 2021 by Phil 0 Comments
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Hubble has taken quite a lot of stunning images over its three-decade-long existence. And recently, it took managed to capture a photo of the asteroid 16 Psyche in the most detailed image so far. What's special about it? Well, one of the things that make it special is that it contains iron and nickel worth around $10,000 quadrillion. For comparison, that's 70,000 times the global economy.
16 Psyche was discovered a long time ago: Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis first spotted it on 17 March 1852. It hasn't been explored from up close so far, but NASA plans to send a spacecraft to explore it in 2022. According to NASA, its size is 173 miles (279km) by 144 miles (232,) by 117 (189) miles. It's one of the most massive objects in the main asteroid belt orbiting between Mars and Jupiter.
Southwest Research Institute planetary scientist Dr. Tracy Becker recently discussed the first ultraviolet observations of 16 Psyche. This asteroid could be interesting for astronomers for a variety of reasons. First, it's made almost entirely from metal instead of rock and ice. "We've seen meteorites that are mostly metal, but Psyche could be unique in that it might be an asteroid that is totally made of iron and nickel," said Dr. Becker.
According to Robb Report, the asteroid's worth is $10,000,000,000,000,000,000. That's a lot of zeros, right? If NASA miraculously managed to bring the asteroid back, sell it, and split the earnings between all people on Earth, each of 7.5 million us would get approximately $1.3 billion. I must admit that this made little dollar signs appear in my eyes, but of course, we can only fantasize.
Other than the "cost" of this huge mass of iron and nickel, they indicate that the 16 Psyche could be the leftover core of a planet. "Earth has a metal core, a mantle and crust," Dr. Becker explained. "It's possible that as a Psyche protoplanet was forming, it was struck by another object in our solar system and lost its mantle and crust."
In August 2022, NASA plans to send a spacecraft to examine the asteroid further. If everything goes as planned, the Psyche spacecraft should arrive at the asteroid in early 2026 and spend 21 months in orbit. During this time, the spacecraft is planned to map and study 16 Psyche's properties and determine whether it's indeed the core of a planet. If it is, it could perhaps give us more insight into the core of our own home planet, too.
[via Robb Report]
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Infrastructure Freezes Texas in its Tracks
February 24, 2021 Airlines, Economy, Evironment, natural disaster, oil, Science
Dallas hit 81 degrees yesterday, but the Polar Vortex froze Texas stiff last week. President Trump met with union bosses 84 degrees ago to talk infrastructure.
We are so far behind the curve in terms of infrastructure, everything from canals to highways to airports, to everything we can do and we need to do to make ourselves competitive in the 21st century.
President Biden discussing his "Build Back Better agenda with union bosses
And then there's the Keystone XL Pipeline.
In revoking this permit, the Biden Administration has chosen to listen to the voices of fringe activists instead of union members and the American consumer on Day 1
Mark McManus, general president of the United Association of Union Plumbers and Pipefitters after the same meeting.
No word on jet engine maintenance.
Texas Battle Cry: Remember the Windmills
February 19, 2021 carbon, climate change, Economy, Evironment, global warming, oil
Texas gets 23% of its energy from windmills. J.R. Ewing must be spinning in his grave. He's probably trying to generate some heat. The windmills don't. They're frozen.
Texans are freezing without power, but remember the Alamo! Texans will stay and fight to the end. All except Senator Ted Cruz that is. He lit out for Cancun.
Rick Perry is not a Ham Sandwich
August 19, 2014 2016 presidential campaign, 2016 presidential campaign, democrats, Government, Law, President
If you can indict a ham sandwich I guess you can indict Rick Perry.
The indictment by a special prosecutor criminalizes the intent of a political act. The act in question is the Texas governor's use of his veto power as a threat against a political opponent.
That's what governors do. They veto stuff. And it's usually stuff their political enemies want. In this case that would be Rosemary Lehmberg's job. She runs the Public Integrity Unit and Perry wants her to step down since she was convicted of drunk driving. As a prod he vetoed her $7.5 million budget.
The indictment is being mocked by some people who are unlikely to vote for Perry if he runs for president. Alan Dershowitz , Johnathan Chait, and the New York Times editorial page, all make that list.
Perry on Rye
One holdout, Jeffrey Toobin in The New Yorker, says prosecutors have broad discretion and Perry may just be out of luck. Mustard or mayo?
Beer Billiards Border
July 10, 2014 Congress, Foreign, Government, Law, mexico, Obama, Politics, President, States
Moving on from broncos, beer and billiards in Denver, the president attended more fundraisers in Texas. But still no run for the Border Crises. He did propose that Congress throw $4 billion at the problem. When Governor Perry suggested he use his executive power to solve the problem he demurred, saying that when he acts on his own he gets sued.


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RIDE singer and guitarist ANDY BELL announces new single 'Cherry Cola'
November 18, 2020 XS Noize New Music, News
RIDE singer and guitarist Andy Bell has announced a second solo single, 'Cherry Cola', taken from his debut album The View From Halfway Down which was released last month to great acclaim.
Out on November 27, 'Cherry Cola' mixes folky guitar with an almost funky backing, which sounds not a million miles from The Beta Band, but was actually inspired by Andy's love of Sault and their track 'Living In America'. The single adds an acoustic version, which is more like the original iteration of the song, plus a new remix by Pye Corner Audio which adds a slow and subtle acid fizz to proceedings.
Listen to 'Cherry Cola' – BELOW:
According to Andy, 'Cherry Cola' is the oldest song on The View From Halfway Down, and he first wrote it almost 20 years ago when he was living in Sweden. "It's gone through many changes and rewrites since then," he explains, "but it's a very special song to me. It gives me a lovely sense of déjà vu. It's not musical, it's not a memory, it's something in between and it's very dreamlike."
The remix came about after Andy met Pye Corner Audio, aka Martin Jenkins, at the Sonic Cathedral 15th birthday party in 2019.
Andy takes up the story: "Around this time last year (which seems like about 10 years ago now) I had a very excellent night out at The Social, where Sonic Cathedral were throwing a party for their 15th birthday. Music came from bdrmm (best new band around), a short appearance from myself, playing my debut single which had been released that day, and the excellent Pye Corner Audio, who I hadn't heard before, along with a DJ set from Primal Scream's Simone Marie Butler. Although it was all musically great, my highlight of the evening was the PCA set. At the aftershow, myself and Martin had a great chat over a few beers and decided to work together at some point. I couldn't be happier that he has remixed 'Cherry Cola' and given it the full PCA treatment. I hope it's the first of many collaborations…"
Andy has made a pastoral video for the remix which he describes as "a simple slice of monolithic visual psychedelia featuring lots of grass, some stones and – for the real shoegazers – a pair of Adidas Spezial ZX 350".
Watch the video for 'Cherry Cola' (Pye Corner Audio Remix) – BELOW:
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Pye Corner Audio Remix
The View From Halfway Down
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ALBUM REVIEW: Liam Gallagher – Why Me? Why Not
September 13, 2019 Ben P Scott Reviews, Album Reviews
We all know the story so far. Well, you should do, unless you've been living under a rock since the mid-90s. A decade ago, the biggest band of our generation breaks up after a blazing […]
LIAM GALLAGHER will premiere documentary AS IT WAS with live performance – Watch Trailer
May 2, 2019 XS Noize Gigs, New Music, News
Liam Gallagher's new documentary film 'As It Was' will receive its world premiere at London's Alexandra Palace on Thursday, June 6 and the singer will give an "exclusive performance" on the night. Liam Gallagher is […]
ANDY BELL of Erasure, releases his third solo album as alter-ego Torsten – Listen to 'Twenty Years'
Torsten In Queereteria is the third solo album by Andy Bell (Erasure) performing as alter-ego Torsten, a semi-immortal polysexual who is destined to love many, lose many and be haunted by bittersweet memories, due to […]


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The fundamental premise of Blyth's teaching is that you need to be able to canter. Sounds simple enough, right? In practise, he's fairly demanding in what he means by that. Have you got an independent seat and can you stay up and out of the saddle with your legs working to keep the horse going while your arms, complete with soft elbows, quietly allow the horse to get on with his job? He wants to see you ride forward into your hands and create and manage a endless rhythm. "These aren't jumping exercises", he'd say, "they're canter exercises that happen to have some jumps in the way!" So, through a series of progressive exercises he proved to us all, at every level, that if you properly own your canter, the jumps will happen.
Starting simply with some trotting poles and several strides to an X, the job was to create canter before the X. Once perfected we came the other way, in canter, and created trot before the poles.
Basic control established, we then moved on to two very small verticals on the lowest setting of blocks. They were arranged approximately on a 20m circle, but we looped around and back before and/or after to create some turning questions. Can we maintain rhythm through the turns? No speeding up before, during or after allowed. Just create the right rhythm, ride every stride and allow the jumps to happen.
Of course there are several types of canter that need to be perfected as we move onto gymnastic exercises. The "ordinary canter" sometimes needs to expand into a "going places" canter when approaching a grid of oxers with generous distances; other times it needs contained power without speed, in a "sneaky canter", like approaching skinnies or tight upright distances. So of course we practiced big oxer to skinny and in reverse. Can you move through the gears whil maintaining the canter flow? Can you get the right gear at the right time? Can you use the space you've got to do the right preparation so you don't interfere with the horse's job?
"You might think I'm obsessed with counting strides", he said, "I'm not. The number of strides you get tells me where you are in your training". So if it's supposed to be 5 and you got 6, you know you needed a more forward canter, and vice versa. The idea is to be able to flow, as the designer intended, and to know what you need to do to create the right flow for the horse you're riding today.
So on day two, when we moved out onto XC, with our perfectly organised canters, we spent less time thinking about the jumps and more time riding the inbetween bits to create what we needed. There was a lot of mini-course exercises so we could practise a lot of inbetween time. Before each exercise we talked through the whole route, agreeing what we needed to create by when. This is not quite the same as some teaching, which provides precise speeds at which to negotiate certain obstacles. This is about how to create a continuous flowing round that injects the right amount of what's needed based on each moment. We used the feedback (from our horse, the going, and of course, Blyth) from each practise trip to perfect our ride.
At home, Blyth recommends setting up low jumping exercises until you've perfected the flow, then put it straight up to competition height and come away feeling amazing. And we did! Thanks Blyth for an eye-opening two days. your insight and advice is, as always, greatly appreciated. we can't wait for next year!!


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Ро́дни Глен Кинг (; 2 апреля 1965 — 17 июня 2012) — чернокожий гражданин США, преступник, задержание которого полицейскими спровоцировало массовые беспорядки в Лос-Анджелесе.

История известности
Ночью 2 марта 1991 года Кинг (за рулём) и ещё двое, Бриант Аллен и Фредди Хелмс, ехали по Foothill Freeway (Interstate 210) в долине Сан-Фернандо в автомобиле Hyundai Excel. Мужчины возвращались от своих друзей в Лос-Анджелесе, где они смотрели баскетбольный матч и распивали алкоголь. Позже в госпитале, примерно через пять часов после задержания Кинга, уровень алкоголя в его крови был выше нормы, что означало, что во время езды его уровень алкоголя был 0,19 %. Это в два раза выше разрешённой нормы в Калифорнии. В 0:30 патрульные полицейские муж и жена Тим и Мелани Сингер зафиксировали превышение скорости машины, которую вёл Кинг. Они последовали за ним и приказали остановиться, но Кинг проигнорировал приказ. Вместо этого он увеличил скорость. Позже Кинг признался, что надеялся оторваться от полицейской погони, так как в случае задержания обвинение (вождение в нетрезвом состоянии) усугубило бы его положение, как недавно освобождённого по УДО за грабёж.

Кинг выехал с шоссе и поехал по жилой зоне на большой скорости (от 88 до 129 км/ч ≈ от 55 до 80 миль в час). К этому моменту его преследовали несколько полицейских машин и вертолёт. Примерно через восемь миль полицейские остановили Кинга, въехав в бок его автомобиля. Первые пять полицейских Лос-Анджелеса, приехавших на место, были Стейси Кун, Лоуренс Пауэлл, Тимоти Винд, Теодор Бризено и Роландо Солано.

Задержание Кинга
Полицейский Тим Сингер приказал всем выйти из машины и лечь на землю лицом вниз. Мужчины (кроме Кинга) подчинились и были отвезены в участок без происшествий. Кинг не выходил из машины. Когда он вышел, он схватил себя за ягодицы, полицейская Мелани Сингер расценила это как попытку достать оружие. Она вытащила свой пистолет и направила на Кинга, приказав ему лечь на землю. Через некоторое время Кинг подчинился. Сингер приблизилась к нему, держа пистолет направленным на него, чтобы произвести арест.

Один из полицейских посоветовал ей убрать пистолет в кобуру, так как по инструкции есть вероятность, что подозреваемый может завладеть оружием, когда полицейский находится очень близко. После этого сержант Кун приказал остальным четырём полицейским применить метод «толпа», чтобы подчинить Кинга и надеть на него наручники. Суть этого метода состоит в том, что группа полицейских хватает руками нарушителя и держит его, не давая сопротивляться. Однако Кинг стал оказывать сопротивление, не давая схватить себя сзади. Полицейские отошли назад. Позже они заявили, что посчитали, что Кинг был под воздействием препарата фенциклидина, хотя лабораторные анализы это не подтвердили.

Поскольку Кинг продолжал оказывать неподчинение (не реагировал на команды прекратить сопротивление), полицейские выстрелили в него из электрошокера в спину. Кинг немедленно упал на колени, потом поднялся и ещё примерно пять секунд кричал.

В общей сложности Родни получил 55 ударов резиновой палкой, шесть ударов руками и два выстрела из электрошокера марки «Тазер».

Съёмка на видеокамеру
Примерно с этого момента Кинга и полицейских стал снимать на видеокамеру Джордж Холлидей. На видео видно, как Кинг встаёт и идёт к Пауэллу. Видны провода, которые торчат из него. В этот момент Пауэлл бьёт его резиновой палкой по голове. Бризено останавливает Пауэлла от ещё одного удара. Пауэлл отходит назад. После этого Кинг встаёт на колени, и Пауэлл и Винд бьют его дубинками.

Позже Кун признался, что приказал наносить Кингу «сильные удары». Согласно его показаниям, Пауэлл и Винд нанесли серию ударов и отошли. На видео видно, как Кинг пытается встать снова. Кун приказывает полицейским «бить по суставам, запястьям, коленкам и икрам». Нанеся Кингу 56 ударов дубинкой и шесть ударов ногой, полицейские снова применили метод «толпы», надели на Кинга наручники, повязали верёвкой, зафиксировав руки и ноги. После этого они проволокли задержанного (лицом вниз) к дороге, куда должна была приехать скорая помощь.

Джордж Холлидей снимал видео из своей квартиры недалеко от перекрёстка бульвара Foothill и улицы Osborne на Lake View Terrace. Позже Холлидей выступил на местном телевидении (KTLA) со своим видео, которое немедленно «взорвало» средства массовой информации. Они часто показывали некоторые части этого видео, которое превратилось в одно из самых известных и широко обсуждаемых происшествий подобного рода.

Видео Холлидея подвигло других граждан использовать средства видеозаписи, чтобы бороться с полицейским произволом и насилием. В США появились организации «copwatch» (наблюдатели за полицейскими), такие как, например, группа защиты граждан — October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality (Коалиция «За прекращение полицейской жестокости»).

Кинга отвезли в госпиталь Pacifica Hospital сразу после задержания. Там было установлено, что у него треснула лицевая кость, сломано правое колено, зафиксированы синяки и раны. Подавая на городские власти в суд, Кинг заявил об «11 трещинах черепа, сотрясении мозга, сломанных костях и зубах, повреждённой почке и об эмоциональной и физической травме».

Полицейские засвидетельствовали, что он находился под влиянием алкоголя и марихуаны (26 нг/мл), но следов других наркотических веществ не было обнаружено. Медсёстры госпиталя Pacifica заявили, что полицейские, которые доставили Кинга (включая Винда), открыто шутили и хвастались о количестве ударов, нанесённых Кингу. Кинг подал в суд на муниципалитет, потребовав $3,8 миллионов долларов США.
9 марта 1993 года на последнем судебном заседании присяжные вынесли вердикт. Полицейские Лоуренс Пауэлл и Стейси Кун были признаны виновными и приговорены к 32 месяцам тюрьмы. Тимоти Винд и Теодор Бризено были оправданы. С них были сняты все обвинения.

Оправдание судом присяжных трёх из четырёх белых полицейских (четвёртый получил символическое взыскание), избивших Родни Кинга, спровоцировало массовые беспорядки в Лос-Анджелесе в 1992 году.

На известных киносайтах IMDb и Кинопоиск.ru Родни Кинг указан как актёр, сыгравший сам себя в нескольких фильмах. Отрывки хроники событий 1991—1992 годов были использованы в таких фильмах, как «Bastards of the Party», «Тупак: Воскрешение», «Проклятый сезон», «Twilight: Los Angeles», «Малкольм Икс», «Эквилибриум», «Голос улиц» и сериале «Американское правосудие», «Американская история Икс».

17 июня 2012 года тело 43-летнего Кинга было найдено в бассейне. По данным полиции, он утонул в результате несчастного случая, вызванного одновременным употреблением алкоголя, кокаина, марихуаны и «ангельской пыли» (фенциклидина). Вскоре порталом Filmz было объявлено, что известному режиссёру Джастину Лину, автору «Форсажа 5» предложили снять фильм, основанный на жизни Кинга.

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Can this be simplified using hook; on pressing select it just open window to browse file as it is there in html, as currently functionality is confusing to client. And even file upload work automatically for guest users.
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Crete raising pay 2c per mile for owner-ops, company drivers
Crete Carrier Corp. announced March 12 that it would be raising pay 2 cents a mile for all national over-the-road drivers and owner-operators. The pay raise applies to drivers at Crete Carrier, Shaffer Trucking and Hunt Transportation and will take effect April 1.
The starting pay for Crete, Shaffer and Hunt drivers will now be 43 cents to 47 cents a mile, 44 cents to 48 cents a mile and 42 cents to 46 cents a mile, respectively.
The carrier says it has been recognized by the National Transportation Institute as a Top Pay Certified Carrier and meets three of the NTI's "critical categories:" top tier pay, benefits and carrier stability, the company says.
Crete says its benefit package includes health, dental, vision and life insurance. Its typical insurance package costs about $35 a week, the company says.
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Clarification of ANZAC Day holiday and day to observe Tongan Public Holidays.
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The other holidays such as Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Boxing Day, Good Friday and Easter Monday follow the same rule.
The main standard Tongan Public Holidays observed every year include: Emancipation Day (June 4); Constitution Day (November 4) and King Tupou I Day (December 4). The actual days on which these days are to be observed will align with the provisions of the amended Public Holidays Act of 2010.
Similarly, the amended Public Holidays Act of 2013 stated that Official birthdays of the Sovereign, His Majesty Tupou VI (July 4) and the Crown Prince of Tonga (September 17) are to be observed on the day it occurs, unless these birthdays fall on Sunday, then the observance of the Public Holiday will be on the Monday after.
An ANZAC Day Dawn Service will commence at 6:00am at the Cenotaph, Pangai Si'i, Nuku'alofa on Saturday 25th April 2015 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings in Turkey during the WWI.
ANZAC Day commemorates the landing of joint troops of Australian and New Zealand army personnel at Gallipoli and is a national remembrance day for those who served and sacrificed in war, global conflicts and peacekeeping operations.


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