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36th-ish* Annual Smithfield Ham & Yam Festival Set for May 7
By Ashby Brame on Apr. 14, 2022
After three long years, this beloved community event that features tasty ham and yam foods, entertainment on three stages, a variety of vendors, kids' activities, and fun for the entire family will make its return. The Downtown Smithfield Development Corporation will host that the 36th-ish* annual Ham & Yam Festival presented by Stevens Sausage and Agri Supply will be held on Saturday, May 7.
"We are excited to bring the Ham & Yam Festival back this year! It's a beloved Smithfield tradition, and we have heard how much people have missed it," stated Sarah Edwards, festival organizer and Executive Director of the Downtown Smithfield Development Corporation. "Festivalgoers' first Ham & Yam memories are often of things like having fun in the children's area, enjoying a country ham biscuit, getting their faces painted, entering their artistic sweet potato creations in the What's That Yam Thing? contest, or performing as part of a school group on one of the stages."
In addition to the Ham & Yam traditions, the committee has added some new components to the festival. New this year is the "Best of Ham & Yam" contest, which will recognize one food vendor or Downtown Smithfield restaurant for having the best ham and yam food after a popular vote and a judges' vote. Information about the entrants and their offerings will be available soon on the festival website: www.hamandyam.com.
The festival will be headlined by performances from Paige King Johnson at 2:30pm and The Original Rhondels at 4:30pm on the Got to Be NC Stage at the Agri Supply – Stevens Sausage Pavilion on Front Street. Country music singer-songwriter Paige King Johnson is a newcomer to the country charts, where she had a Top 30 single with "Water Down the Whiskey." The 23-year-old is a three-time Carolina Music Awards winner, and has opened for James Otto, Neal McCoy, and Scotty McCreery; she is also the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' Musical Ambassador for their "Got to Be NC" campaign.
The Original Rhondels are a beach music tradition that has been entertaining since 1969. With three Top 10 hits in "May I," "I've Been Hurt," and "What Kind of Fool Do You Think I Am," the band delights audiences that sing and dance along to some of the best party and dance songs from the past fifty years. To learn more about the Ham & Yam Festival, including sponsorship and vendor opportunities, please visit www.hamandyam.com, or call Sarah Edwards at 919-934-0887.
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"It's not an easy thing for me," says the filmmaker and Indigenous activist. "Not only am I saying to myself, 'My god, have I got a voice?' What I sing about is not easy."
"I'm going through a lot of things, for sure," Alanis Obomsawin said.
Sitting in her small, wonderfully cluttered office in the depths of the National Film Board's Montreal headquarters on Côte-de-Liesse Blvd., the 86-year-old Abenaki filmmaker attempted to put into words the feeling of rekindling her singing career, which never really was in the first place.
Obomsawin has made 51 documentaries over her 51-year tenure at the NFB. She is working on her 52nd. Two of her films — No Address (1988), shining a light on the struggles of Indigenous women coming to Montreal in the 1980s in search of opportunity, and Mother of Many Children (1977), exploring the place of women and mothers in Indigenous cultures — screen Thursday, Sept. 27 at Cinéma Moderne as part of POP Montreal's Film POP component, followed by a Q&A with the director.
The next night, Obomsawin takes the stage of Monument National to perform her second concert in the past year, and in the past 30 years, also as part of POP Montreal. The first was in Utrecht, Netherlands, where she sang her 1988 album Bush Lady in its entirety as part of Le Guess Who? festival last November.
The sequence of events leading to Obomsawin's musical comeback began in this very office, a couple years back. NFB employee Fred Savard came across a vinyl copy of Bush Lady and, intrigued, asked Obomsawin if he could buy one.
"I said, 'Buy one? I'll give you one,' " Obomsawin recalled.
Soon Savard was dusting off and selling the remaining copies of her album to employees at the NFB. He passed one along to Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, co-owner of Montreal's fabled indie recording studio Hotel2Tango and guest programmer of last year's Le Guess Who?, who loved the album and lured Obomsawin's voice out of retirement.
Months later, Obomsawin found herself standing before a hall of 800 people cheering her on.
She has received many invitations since, agreeing only to the POP Montreal performance, for the moment.
Bush Lady is a beautiful, haunting album. Re-released this year by Montreal's Constellation Records (home to Godspeed You! Black Emperor), it features seven songs over 34 minutes, combining traditional material with Obomsawin's own compositions.
The two-part title track finds her cooing, chirping and chanting, accompanied only by mournful violin and an insistent drumbeat. Mixing sarcasm and chilling faux-exuberance, she entreats the titular "bush lady" to come to the city.
Then things get more serious.
Decades later, faced with the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women, Obomsawin is saddened to see that her lyrics have lost little in the way of pertinence.
"I wrote that song in the '60s, probably '61 or '62," she said, "because of the way (Indigenous) women were treated. A lot of them on the street were being raped, beaten and killed. It was awful. Bush Lady is about … the innocence of these ladies who end up in very bad situations.
On Theo Pt. I and Pt. II, Obomsawin sings and speaks, in French, of her "tante Alanis" and her uncle Théophile Panadis, who told her of a massacre of the Abenakis in the fall of 1759, in which their village was attacked by the British while the men were off fighting alongside Montcalm.
In the early '60s, before she was a filmmaker, Obomsawin toured schools, residential schools and prisons across the country, singing and telling stories. She saw music — as she would later see cinema — as an inherently political tool.
Obomsawin had experienced the effects of that hatred first-hand. As a child growing up on the Odanak reserve, she would get beaten up going to and from school in the neighbouring town, which she prefers not to name.
She first came into contact with the NFB in the mid-'60s, while spearheading a campaign to build a swimming pool for the children on her reserve. She was later hired as a consultant by the NFB before being offered her own projects. Her film career eventually took off, leaving less and less space for singing.
Looking back, 51 years and 51 films later, Obomsawin has no regrets.
And while her documentaries have kept her all too aware of the monumental challenges facing First Nations, she is heartened by positive changes she sees happening on various fronts.
That said, she doesn't kid herself: "Women are still disappearing and being badly treated. … It's horrifying that this way of thinking on the part of the outside world is not totally gone.
Alanis Obomsawin's films No Address and Mother of Many Children screen Thursday, Sept. 27 at 6 p.m. at Cinéma Moderne, 5150 St-Laurent Blvd., as part of Film POP; tickets cost $12. Obomsawin performs a concert Friday, Sept. 28 at 8:30 p.m. at Monument-National, 1182 St-Laurent Blvd. Ansley Simpson opens. Tickets cost $35, available at popmontreal.com.


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M11293 wrote: He had these grips in stock. It took 2 weeks for them to arrive. I really like them. The fit is fantastic, as is the finish. I really dig the stippling.
Just an update for you folks, my order has been added to the "order status" section of his website. I have received no reply still.
He has a set of P64 grips in stock ready for order. Just FYI. That is what I did to get mine in 2 weeks or so. The ones he has look very nice.
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Jeopardy! just bid a final farewell to late host Alex Trebek, who died at age 80 pursuing a 12 months-extensive fight with pancreatic most cancers in November 2020.
On Jan. 8, the formal Youtube channel for the match show posted a tribute video clip of some of Trebek's funniest and most heartwarming moments, established to the tune of Peter Allen's "Once In advance of I Go." The video contains clips from several decades of Trebek's time on the clearly show, which he initially began hosting in 1984.
"Simply just the very best," the video's caption reads. "Thank you, Alex."
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Death of a popular British soprano
Friends report the death last weekend of Catherine Wilson, a busy operatic soprano at Sadlers Wells, Opera North, Aldeburgh and Scottish Opera.
A versatile performer, she created the title role in Thea Musgrave's opera Mary Queen of Scots and she was much in demand for Britten roles: Governess in Turn of the Screw, Helena in Midsummer Night's Dream, Nancy in Albert Herring and Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes. A full list of her roles with Scottish Opera, where she sang from 1960 to 1987, can be read here.
A strikingly beautiful woman, Catherine turned 80 this year.
She was married to the conductor Leonard Hancock, who died in 1999.
Theodore McGuiver says:
I loved Catherine Wilson, she was a delightful lady and as talented as she was beautiful. Despite being less than half her age, many of my fellow students would often say 'Lucky old Lenny…'
Knew them.both from Scottish Opera. Sad news for sure …
Lovely to hear Catherine Wilson singing in Fledermaus, the first production I saw as a child. Those voices flood back, that imperious czardas, and see her tall and red-haired. Is this recording availible to buy? Such happy kemories
Just for information, excerpts from Catherine's Scottish Opera Merry Widow are available on a double CD (the other opera excerpts are from Ballo with Charles Craig and Christina Deutekom – both conducted by Alexander Gibson) on the CFP Silver Double label.
Johannes Bos-Beijer says:
A dear colleague at the Santa Fe Opera and a humourous correspondent. I shall miss her.
I knew dear Catherine for more than 40 years. Visiting Glasgow during Scottish Opera's glory days, the opportunity of seeing her in some of her many roles was always such a joy. Being privileged to enjoy one of the beautifully arranged dinner parties that Leonard and Catherine frequently hosted in their lovely Glasgow flat was equally special. She was very much a company artiste working in a company with colleagues whom she held dear and who always held her in the highest regard.
Her last few years were marked by ill health which she bore with her usual dignity and fortitude. One of my fondest memories is of a telephone conversation some five or so years ago. She had been asked to appear in the film version of the play "Quartet" with Maggie Smith, Billy Connolly (with whom she had appeared on stage 35 years earlier – she as Rosalinde and he as Frosch in David Pountney's production of Fledermaus), Michael Gambon and Dame Gwynneth Jones. Suddenly she apologized for having to stop the call. "The studio car has just arrived!" Although her part was what would in earlier years been called a cough and a spit, she was tickled pink to be asked to appear in her first film as she approached her 80s!
RIP dear Catherine.
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Catherine was my first teacher at the RNCM before she retired. Her detail to acting thru song got me into finals of Freddie Cox competition even though i was competing with far more developed singers and I continued to study with her on and off throughout my career whilst in Germany. I visited her often in her late years and stayed at her home often when visiting from Germany and we shared many an amendillo sherry and talked about love life ! My regret was not visiting her these last few years due to work commitments. Catherine you were sometimes like a mother to me or an older sister and I shall remember you fondly. Love and kisses. Kate Radmilovic (Milner Evans)
Iain Scott says:
I was astonished twice reading the roles Catherine Wilson sang-most of which I heard. Firstly the sheer diversity of her voice and acting and then the sheer diversity of operas performed by Scottish Opera. Wow. Thank you to both Catherine and Scottish Opera for enriching my musical life.
Eileen Allwood says:
I was in digs with a Catherine Wilson in Didsbury in 1947 She was studying Opera in Manchester with her friend Ann. Their homes were in Yorkshire She was a lovely hard working girl with striking auburn hair in a plait round her head. I thought she married a doctor. Sadly we lost touch with each other Is this the same person do you think ?


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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee's bankruptcy laws encourage risky lending practices and contribute to the state's high bankruptcy rate, a University of Tennessee economist said Thursday.
Dr. Matt Murray, director of UT-Knoxville's Center for Business and Economic Research, said state law forces debtors to pay themselves out of bankruptcy, allowing creditors to "garnish" or collect money from a debtor's employer or other income.
This gives lenders security and incentive to provide high-risk loans, especially to low-income debtors, Murray said.
"Lenders can make loans to marginal customers, and if those individuals default on their loans, the creditor can really go after them," Murray said. "That is effectively what is happening in Tennessee — they are loaning to people who perhaps should not be given credit, then going after them in a big way."
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Tennessee has the nation's highest bankruptcy rate at 25.1 per 1,000 households, compared to the U.S. rate of 13.6 per 1,000, and 16.75 for the Southeast.
States that do not allow garnishment, such as Texas, Pennsylvania, and North and South Carolina, have the lowest rates.
However, bankruptcy rates do not indicate a state's overall economic strength or weakness, Murray said.
Tennessee's high bankruptcy rate is driven by legal structures, not overall economic health, he said.
"It would be a terrible mistake to compare bankruptcy in Tennessee to bankruptcies in other states because there are fundamental legal differences that make the numbers meaningless," Murray said. "We must be very careful when using bankruptcy rates to draw inferences about economic activity and health because it is influenced by a state's legal structure as much as it is by a state's economy."
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Exterior of the Convention Hall that housed the 1928 National Republican Convention in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. This hall was once located on the north side of 13th Street between Wyandotte Street and Central Street. It was razed after the completion of the Municipal Auditorium in 1935. This vantage point faces northeast on Central Street, just south of 13th Street.
Main Street Decorations for 1928 Republican National Convention
The intersection of Main Street and 12th Street decorated with patriotic banners and flags for the 1928 Republican National Convention at Convention Hall in Kansas City, Missouri. This elevated vantage point faces south on Main Street towards the intersection of 12th and Main from just south of 11th Street. Pictured are the Kresge Building (left), The Jones Store Company (center), and Liberty Theater (right).
1928 Republican National Convention at Convention Hall
Exterior of the Convention Hall that housed the 1928 National Republican Convention in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. This hall was once located on the north side of 13th Street between Wyandotte Street and Central Street. It was razed after the completion of the Municipal Auditorium in 1935. This elevated vantage point faces northeast on Central Street, just south of 13th Street.
Exterior of the Convention Hall that housed the 1928 National Republican Convention in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. This hall was once located on the north side of 13th Street between Wyandotte Street and Central Street. It was razed after the completion of the Municipal Auditorium in 1935. This vantage point faces northeast on Central Street, just south of 13th Street. The caption reads, "Scene of the Republican national convention at Kansas City. A huge spread eagle design on a sunburst jewel was suspended before Convention hall just before the opening of the convention.
Aerial View of Downtown Kansas City Before the 1928 Republican National Convention
Downtown Kansas City as shown from an aerial view before the 1928 Republican National Convention begins on June 12 at Convention Hall. This elevated vantage point faces northeast and shows the Convention Hall in the right-center foreground. The Missouri River is pictured in the far right background.


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the_clangers
Location: St. Louis, MO was St Prex, VD
Re: Swiss Firearms Vote Feb 13, 2011
OldFox
This is not a matter of opinion. I am stating a fact. Britain bans guns. "gun crime" goes up 89% If that is the kind of "progress" you seek for your country, then I guess perhaps we do have a difference of opinion.
Of course I respect the right to freedom of speech, I respect all human and natural rights.
This is the problem with statistics and people who are desperate to prove their point at all costs.
I see two alleged facts. You are trying to imply a causal relationship when there is a possibilty that none may exist. At best you have shown that a correlation can exist.
Did you ever stop to think that during this time policing numbers have gone down. The Bobby on the beat is less frequently seen. Even twenty years ago they were more common than they are now. Believe it or not it has been shown that Officer Plod has a huge affect on crime. Unfortunately people think that reducing staffing levels is a cost effective way of cutting government spending. I'd be curious as to how this works out in the long run once the true cost of crime is factored into the overall equation. BTW, those police constables didn't carry guns and most of the time they didn't need them.
PS- In the US, where we have the strictest gun bans in place, we also have the highest crime and murder rates- obviously - Wash DC, Detroit, NYC. " But for some reason, "everyone has a gun" Vermont, Swiss-like low low crime rates, safest place in America. Can't figure how that could be with everyone having all those dangerous guns around??
Again you have given examples of two observed events that have occurred in dissimilar subsets. If you want to imply a causal relationship, the best that you can do in this case is to observe that in areas of high gun crime it is more likely that there will be bans on firearms. If your premise was correct then you should be able to find isolated rural settings where guns were banned and then gun crime went up. In your examples, the densely populated urban areas are where crime is likely to fluctuate based on other social factors like drug use, unemployment, etc. Taking away guns doesn't cause these things to worsen and yet these things do cause crime to worsen. I'm betting that when crime goes up that gun crime will go up as well.
Please, we don't mind intelligent discourse, but this hyper radical, borderline mindless rhetoric needs to be brought under control. As much as your prose flows nicely, it is painful to read as you do not seem to actually think through what you are saying most of the time. Do you actually read your posts for content before you click on the submit button?
Oh, and not everyone who disagrees with you is an imbecile or a traitor. Most of the arguments I have seen proposed to you in response to your posts have been fairly reasonable and respectful. Why can't you return the favour? Usually this kind of bullying behaviour indicates a certain level of distrust in ones own argument or grasp of the situation. Bludgeoning other people verbally won't make you right and it doesn't necessarily make them wrong.
I've said it before and I will say it again,
Many men, of course, became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural, and nothing to be ashamed of, because no one was really poor -- at least no one worth speaking of. - Douglas Adams
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Obviously this guy is supposed to be a gun criminal, he's wearing a hoody and a baseball hat. How do I tell him apart from a law abiding registered gun owner with a hoody?
Probably responsible gun owners wouldn't be seen with a hoody, so here's a picture for a law abiding gun user.
See, now we have some balance.
You can also tell that hoodie guy is a baddie because he is out of focus and therefor more of an unknown. We are supposed to fear the unknown.
A responsible owner wouldn't be caught dead being so out of focus. Just like the second guy above. He is just intimidating but obviously not a baddie.
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Location: Kanton Luzern
Additionally, whilst the hoodie is pointing his gun at you, the other chap is pointing his gun over your shoulder at someone (no doubt another hoodie) behind you.
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Location: St Elsewhere
weejeem
Enough of the vote perhaps, but I suspect this thread will stagger on for quite some time like someone shot in a Peckinpah movie...
Regret you are probably right. Is there a lock-down vote button?
Otherwise this will degenerate...
Maybe not. But still irresponsible. Needs to learn better 'muzzle control'.
Location: Somewhere special far away
It's not even a question of contacting the dead. William Tell is a fictional character who never existed...
Are you sure about that? I think most of the literature suggests that Bill was a real person who lived in the Middle Ages (14th Century). What isn't, and can never be, substantiated is whether he actually performed all the deeds that are attributed to him (...)
Now did he or didn't he shoot an arrow through a bright red apple ?
The vote's over y'all.. the Rösti Graben has spoken, nothing more to be added.. Good Evening
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Wollishofener
Location: Glattbrugg
BE, SH, etc. were all heavily AGAINST!
Why would they change so quickly?
Quickly ? Things in the past often have changed within less than 5 years, and so you can expect them to change this time as well.
Suisse2008
You mean that Fribourg and Valais were part of the Sonderbund? Well, I guess I should be more specific about the trendsetting then (i.e., I meant Geneva or Geneva/Vaud).
But I admit Zürich City is also very advanced. I always love the graphics on the Tagesanzeiger website where you can switch from cantonal results to district level. Zürich is always there, a little red spot sitting in a sea of green (or vice versa).
The graphics are misleading as done by Districts. Quite many towns and villages like Uster, Fällanden, Greifensee and Schwerzenbach voted YES and here I just took the Bezirk Uster. So that the real picture rather is different.
I did not find the looked for statistics, but think that places like Bülach, Regensdorf, Opfikon-Glattbrugg, Kloten and so on also voted Yes. And do not forget that many towns in No-voting Cantons also voted Yes.
To say it clearly, those who launched the initiative were fools. Had they spared the shooting clubs and given them a role in their plan, they might have won. But with some details of the initiative targetting the shooting clubs, they created an opposition, powerful in rural areas throughout the country.
what on earth are the benefits of keeping the guns at home in the house in a domestic situation instead of in a local armoury that is monitored and supervised?
It might have been tradition but everything moves on in the light of changing circumnstances - can't the Swiss do that?
I read some quote from someone high up in the army who said that it was a matter of trust between the public and the army, and that the army was the backbone of the country................
What shit is that?
Perhaps though there are some benefits in having them available for easy suicide or family financial squabbles...............?
Moi:Funny that's exactly what the Turks told the Armenians, right before they took their guns and killed them. How many million Armenian Christians were disarmed by the Turks and killed? As Europeans you were closer to it than Americans, so you should know more about the mass-killings of the disarmed Armenians than I do.
http://www.davekopel.com/2a/LawRev/lethal.htm
http://www.truth-it.net/guns_and_genocide.html
I would expect anyone to try to assassinate some tyrant who was carrying out a genocide against their small group so good on them for trying. As I said I am sure you know more about European matters than I. I also know the Swiss are the smartest people in the world. I am just a dumb American and a fan from afar. But surely you could check my links and read the part how the Turks went village to village, collecting arms and disarming the Armenians before they killed them. Could you please check that and come back and correct your post? The one small group of Armenians they kept their arms and put up a spirited fight I should go back and re-read that part I forget if some them lived or not.
The assassination-attempts came BEFORE the anti-Armenian actions. The "Genocide" you mention grew out of a police-action to find the wannabe-assassins. Enver Pasha and Talaat Pasha and Djemal Pasha were the leaders of a reform-movement actually.
To disarm locals at gun-point and then shoot them is a tactic followed by many (among them indeed the army of the Turkish Empire). But you mentioned this as if there was a "disarmament" in one year and that Genocide in another. What you now present is completely different from your original statement.
Rodica's children
Location: Lausanne
"Hey you can't shoot me with that - it's banned!! "
BANG BANG BANG!
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I did not find the looked for statistics, but think that places like Bülach, Regensdorf, Opfikon-Glattbrugg, Kloten and so on also voted Yes.
Bülach: 53.41% No
Regensdorf: 59.71% No
Opfikon: 56.56% No
Kloten: 57.09% No
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Thanks, even if I am really very surprised !
I admittedly tend to forget that the Opfikon half of Opfikon-Glattbrugg is a rather conservative village, while a majority in Glattbrugg cannot vote as not being CH-citizens
But please tell me your source ! I was tracing but did not find it the WEBsite of the Zürcher Oberländer only covered the Oberland of course !
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nickatbasel
Mod, Chips and Mushy Peas
Location: Albisrieden
Weapons don't kill people. It's the people who use the weapons.
In the wrong (or right) hands, anything can be improvised a weapon.
Guns don't kill people.
It's the bullets.
But please tell me your source ! I was tracing but did not find it
Strange... the link is supposed to go right to the canton's website. I'll try again:
http://www.wahlen.zh.ch/abstimmungen.../gemeinden.php
or the full link as text:
http://www.wahlen.zh.ch/abstimmungen/2011_02_13/resultate/gemeinden.php
Thanks ! Now, let's have a look to the Yes-towns :
Aeugst am Albis -- a real surprise !
Bonstetten -- a surprise as well
Rifferswil
Wettswil am Albis
Kilchberg -- usually righist, but of course very urban
Oberrieden
Thalwil -- to be expected in view of its Stadtzürcher people
Männedorf
Zollikon -- all three conservative but modern
Fällanden
Schwerzenbach
Winterthur Altstadt
Winterthur Oberwinterthur
Winterthur Töss
Winterthur Veltheim
Winterthur Wülflingen
Winterthur Mattenbach
Zürich, all "Kreise" / 4+5 78% Yes
but even middle-of-the-road Kreis 2 63% Yes
all in all quite a clear result for the Canton,
and possibly a basis for some Cantonal laws
to become fact in the future !
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I take some comfort in knowing that amidst Winterthur's sea of "Yes-towns," Seen (where my relations live) was a "No" Gemeinde.
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A debate is raging among postal workers about a deal brokered between their CWU union and Royal Mail to end the dispute over pay, pensions and conditions.
This is over whether the deal is good enough to end a fight that saw 130,000 workers take eight days of official strike action.
The union's executive voted to accept the offer and recommend it to the membership.
But five out of 14 executive members voted to reject it.
Now in workplaces and branches the deal is being analysed in great detail. A ballot of CWU members in Royal Mail is expected to start next week.
"This deal comes nowhere near what we set out for," says Watford CWU branch secretary Alan Walsh.
"It does not meet our demands for decent pay and pensions—and we will still be threatened by Royal Mail's demand for 'total flexibility'.
"On pay, the deal will mean a below-inflation settlement. On pensions, we are told that the pension age will be raised from 60 to 65, unless you want to accept a loss of benefits.
"Critically, on flexibility, the deal relies on the idea that our managers are honourable people who would not force workers to do extra hours, or change shift patterns without agreement. But our managers are not honourable people.
"Our members fought brilliantly during the strike. This deal does not repay the sacrifices that they have made.
Many other union activists are angry that their leadership appears to have settled for so little.
"We had the employers on the ropes," says Paul McIrivine, unit rep indoor at the East London PCO.
"People in my area were up for the fight. We stayed solid, even through three days of unofficial strikes.
"We are all angry, but despite that some people here are going to vote for the deal. Even people who are determined need leadership in a fight, and our leaders are telling us to accept this deal.
Despite the pressure coming from the union's postal executive to accept the deal, some branches have joined Watford in rejecting it.
This week Bristol voted down the deal, as did all the reps in north London. Many other branches were to meet this week to discuss their position.
Even in areas where branches have voted to endorse the deal, there can be resistance from the shopfloor. Many postal workers have been given very little information about what the deal really represents.
It is crucial, therefore, that CWU activists who are against accepting it publicise their case as widely as possible.


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What's on Netflix > Netflix News > Maniac on Netflix: Everything We Know
Maniac on Netflix: Everything We Know
by Cheryl Greenway @seagreenway on September 9, 2018, 5:24 pm EST
Maniac. Photo: Michele K. Short / Netflix
Netflix has a new dark, mind-bending miniseries on the way.
Maniac is an upcoming, star-studded Netflix series. Set in a world somewhat like our world, in a time quite similar to our time, it tells the stories of two strangers drawn to the late stages of a mysterious pharmaceutical trial, each for their own reasons.
Annie is disaffected and aimless, fixated on broken relationships with her mother and her sister; Owen, the fifth son of wealthy New York industrialists, has struggled his whole life with a disputed diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Neither of their lives have turned out quite right, and the promise of a new, radical kind of pharmaceutical treatment draws them and ten other strangers to the facilities of Neberdine Pharmaceutical and Biotech for a three-day drug trial that will, they're assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently.
Things do not go as planned.
Emma Stone in Maniac. Image: Michele K. Short / Netflix
Based on a Norwegian show of the same name, Cary Fukunaga directs the new limited series. Fukunaga has directed many successful movies, but he became a household name for directing Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in the first season of True Detective. Fukunaga won an Emmy for his work on the series.
Novelist and short story writer Patrick Somerville wrote all 10 episodes of the new series.
Jonah Hill, Emma Stone, and Fukunaga are all serving as executive producers on the series.
The original series is a dark comedy starring comedian Espen Lervaag as a man in a mental hospital who has an exciting life of adventure and romance-in his head. He may be crazy or he may just be having a good time.
All episodes of the original 2015 series are currently streaming on Netflix.
Maniac, 2015.
Maniac has an impressive, award-winning cast. Led by Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, they play the two strangers brought together by the experiment.
The supporting cast includes:
Justin Theroux as the treatment inventor, Dr. James K. Mantleray
Girls star Jemima Kirke
Two-time Oscar winner Sally Field
Sonoya Mizuno, best known for playing the robot Kyoko in Ex Machina
Indie star Julia Garner
Justin Theroux and Sonoya Mizuno in Maniac. Image: Michele K. Short / Netflix
All episodes of Maniac will be available Friday, September 21st.
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Mr. Vincent L. DiVito is Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of the Company. Since April 2010, Mr. DiVito has served as the owner and chief executive officer of Vincent L. DiVito, Inc., a financial and management consulting firm. From January 2008 to April 2010, Mr. DiVito served as president of Lonza America, Inc., a global life sciences chemical business headquartered in Allendale, New Jersey, and also served as chief financial officer and treasurer of Lonza America, Inc. from September 2000 to April 2010. Lonza America, Inc. is part of Lonza Group, whose stock is traded on the Swiss Stock Exchange. From 1990 to September 2000, Mr. DiVito was employed by Algroup Wheaton, a global pharmaceutical and cosmetics packaging company, first as its director of business development and later as its vice president and chief financial officer. Mr. DiVito is a certified public accountant and certified management accountant and is a National Association of Corporate Directors Board Leadership Fellow. He has served on the board of directors and chairman of the audit committee of Entertainment Gaming Asia Inc., a Nasdaq listed company gaming company, since October 2005 and also served as a member of the board of directors of Riviera Holdings Corporation, formerly an AMEX listed gaming and resort company, from July 2002 until the consummation of a change in control of the corporation in March 2011. Mr. DiVito has extensive knowledge of accounting and corporate governance issues from his experience serving on various corporate boards of directors and has extensive operational knowledge as a result of his experience as a senior executive officer of major corporations. As a result of these and other professional experiences, our board of directors has concluded that Mr. DiVito is qualified to serve as a director.
Mr. Stephen Cotton is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of the company. He has served as Chief Commercial Officer of the Company from January 2015 to June 9, 2017. Previously, Mr. Cotton co-founded Canara, Inc. in December 2001 and served as its chief executive officer through the sale of the company to a private equity firm in June 2012, after which he served as executive chairman until April 2014. Canara is a global provider of stationary battery systems with integrated monitoring systems and cloud-based monitoring services to many of the largest data center operators. From April 2014 to January 2015 and June 9, 2017 to the present, Mr. Cotton managed his private investments.
Mr. Judd B. Merrill is Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Merrill joins Aqua Metals from Klondex Mines Ltd., a Nevada based international mining company where he was Director of Finance/Accounting. Before its acquisition earlier this year by Hecla, Klondex was a $500 million dollar company traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange. Prior to joining Klondex, Merrill spent five years as Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary of Comstock Mining Inc., a publicly traded gold company in Nevada where he was instrumental in establishing financial modeling and analytics, driving efficiencies, and negotiating with vendors to conserve funds and manage liquidity. He worked directly with bankers, lenders, investment funds and major shareholders related to the company's fund raising and capital management activities. Merrill also worked as a controller at Fronteer Gold Inc. and as an assistant controller at Newmont Mining Corp., where he developed strong financial planning, treasury and cash management experience in the mining sector. Merrill began his career at Deloitte & Touche LLP and spent six years working in broader financial accounting, reporting and internal controls while managing corporate financial activities.
Dr. Feng Han is Vice President of Licensing and Pricing of the Company. Han brings to Aqua Metals over 30 years of experience executing global business strategies inclusive of business development, market and opportunity assessment, licensing, product valuations and delivery to achieve sustainable business growth and create long term value. Feng joins Aqua Metals from X-Cutag Therapeutics, Inc. where he was Chief Business Officer driving global business strategy and licensing. Prior to that, he spent over 10 years at DuPont building the framework for China's first biofuels business development plan resulting in a strategic partnership with a leading Chinese refinery partner. He relocated to Chicago, IL to define and lead DuPont's global licensing packages for cellulosic ethanol then moved to Dupont's headquarters in Wilmington, DE to negotiate and sign DuPont's initial process licenses and biocatalyst supply agreements, representing hundreds of millions of dollars of capital investment across multiple licensees. Han earned a Ph.D. from Washington State University and has an MBA from the University of Iowa.
Ms. Susanne L. Meline is Director of the Company. Meline brings to Aqua Metals more than 20 years of experience advising corporate clients and their boards as well as working in the investment community. She is a co-founder of Francis Capital Management, a value-based investment advisor focusing on small cap stocks, where she has worked since 2003. She was previously employed as an investment banker with Houlihan Lokey, a global investment bank serving corporations, institutions, and governments worldwide. She also practiced law in the corporate group of Jones Day, an international law firm that provides legal advisory services across multiple disciplines and jurisdictions. Meline is a Certified Director through the UCLA Anderson School of Management, a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and holds a CERT Certificate in CyberSecurity Oversight for corporate directors from the NACD and Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute. She is Audit Chair and Lead Independent Director of the clean technology company ClearSign Combustion Corporation (NASDAQ: CLIR) and a board member of Finomial Corporation, a private financial technology company. Ms. Meline received a B.A. in political science from UCLA, and a J.D. from the UC Hastings College of the Law. She is an endowment committee member for the Blue Ribbon philanthropy group of the Los Angeles Music Center and former Trustee of the Contemporary Craft Museum in Los Angeles.
Ms. Gayle J. Gibson is Independent Director of the Company. Ms. Gibson served in several executive positions with E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company during a 34-year career with DuPont, and retired from DuPont in November 2017 as the head of central engineering. Most recently, Ms. Gibson served as Director, Engineering at DuPont from January 2016 to October 2017 and as Director, Engineering Technology from January 2014 to December 2015. Ms. Gibson was instrumental in the engineering organizational planning for the merged DowDuPont, Inc. and future planned spin-off companies. Prior to her leadership roles in engineering, she was chief of staff to the Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of DuPont from 2008 to 2013 where she led operating processes for the top three levels of leadership. During her tenure, she supported a CEO succession, major acquisitions and divestitures, reorganization and company restructuring. Ms. Gibson serves on the Heritage Council of the Science History Institute and on the Engineering Advisory Council for Texas A&M University. She received the Management Division Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2018 where she is a Fellow. Ms. Gibson served on the Board of Directors of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering from 2016 to 2017. She was on two project committees for the National Academy of Engineering. Ms. Gibson is a certified Six Sigma Champion with an International M.B.A. from European University and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University.
Mr. Sushil K. ("Sam") Kapoor is Independent Director of the company. He was the Chief Global Operations Officer of Equinix, Inc., a multinational company that specializes in internet connection and related services, since January 2008 until March 2018. As the Chief Operations executive at Equinix, Inc. since early 2001, Mr. Kapoor played a major role in steering the company from near bankruptcy to its current industry leading position. During this period Equinix, Inc. grew from 7 data centers in 6 markets in one country with annual revenue of less than $20 million to more than 180 data centers in 44 metros across 25 major countries spread over 4 continents with annual revenues exceeding $5 Billion. During the same period, the stock price grew from a split adjusted low of around $5 to its current price of more than $400. Mr. Kapoor served as Vice President of Operations of Equinix, Inc., from March 2001 to December 2006 and also served as its Senior Vice President of IBX Operations from December 2006 to January 2008. Prior to joining Equinix, Mr. Kapoor served as Vice President of hosting operations at UUNET Technologies, Inc., the Internet division of MCI (formerly known as WorldCom) from November 1999 to February 2001. He was responsible for the build-out and day-to-day operations of six hosting centers. From May 1995 to November 1999, he served as Vice President, Global Network Technology for Compuserve Network Services, an Internet access provider. Mr. Kapoor served as Senior Director of Telecommunications for over 10 years at Lexis-Nexis in Miamisburg. Mr. Kapoor holds an M.B.A. (Operations Research) from Miami University of Ohio and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati.
Mr. Mark Slade is an Independent Director of the Company. Mr. Slade was the chief executive officer and founder of Marex Financial Ltd, one of Europe's leading independent commodity brokers, from January 2006 to January 2011. Marex was a member of the London Metal Exchange, Intercontinental Exchange, The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange and Eurex Exchange, with offices in London, Geneva and New York. Since leaving Marex Financial, Mr. Slade has held a number of advisory and executive roles. From December 2011 to December 2012, he was an advisor on international business development to the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange. From January 2013 to July 2013, Mr. Slade was chief executive officer of London Capital Group. Since January 2015, Mr. Slade has served as an advisor on strategy and business development to Tower Trading Group Ltd. In addition to his corporate roles, Mr. Slade also held a number of board and committee appointments within the commodity futures industry, including being a board member of the London Metal Exchange (1999 – 2006) and the Futures and Options Association (2005-2008). Mr. Slade has extensive knowledge of the metals and other commodity markets from his experience serving as a senior executive officer and consultant to commodity trading and brokerage firms. As a result of these and other professional experiences, our board of directors has concluded that Mr. Slade is qualified to serve as a director.
Mr. S. Shariq Yosufzai is Independent Director of the company. He was most recently the Vice President, Global Diversity for the Chevron Corporation ("Chevron")(CVX), a multinational energy corporation, from 2013 to March 2018. He held a number of positions at Chevron and its various affiliates, including Vice President (from 2010 to 2013); President of Chevron Global Marketing, a business unit within Chevron (from 2004 to 2010); Co-President of Chevron Products Company, North America, Chevron's North America Refining & Marketing operations (from 2003 to 2004); and President of Chevron Texaco Global Lubricants (from 2001 to 2003). Prior to that, he worked at Caltex Corporation, a joint venture between Chevron and Texaco, Inc., as the Corporate Vice President, Caltex Corporation & President, Caltex Lubricants & New Business Development (from 2000 to 2001) and held a number of other senior level management positions at Caltex Corporation from 1998 to 2000. From 1991 to 1998, he worked at Texaco Inc., a subsidiary of Chevron, and served as the President of Texaco Lubricants Company from 1994 to 1998. As part of a joint enterprise between Texaco, Inc. and Saudi Aramco, Mr. Yosufzai was employed at Star Enterprise from 1988 to 1991 where he held a number of positions and prior to that began his career at Texaco, Inc., from 1975 to 1983. His past board memberships include Chairman of the Board of Directors of Caltex Lubricants Lanka Ltd.; Member of the Board of Directors of Caltex Australia Limited; and Member of the Management Committee of Star Enterprise. Mr. Yosufzai currently serves as Chair of the AIChE Foundation (The American Institute of Chemical Engineers) since November 2017, Chair of the Board of Directors of the California Chamber of Commerce and is an Executive Committee Member of the San Francisco Opera's Board of Directors. He previously served as Chair of the Board of the Association of Former Students of Texas A&M.
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I've been a bit remiss in posting about some amazing mail I've received recently !
I've received three blocks in the Star of Africa bee ... this is a bee with participants around the world and we're making country based blocks - for my month I asked for postcard blocks !
this one is from Fiona over at CelticThistle who made the most amazing postcard block of a bridge - seriously if it wasn't for the size and the fabric I'd think it was the actual postcard - I'm just blown away by this block - even the colour is an amazing match ! and when I saw it I was thinking it looked a bit like the Sydney Harbour bridge and as Fiona explained our Sydney Harbour bridge was based on this actual bridge - lost for words really !
Fiona also made an absolutely cutie needlecase with adorable ladybugs fabric - its just so darn cute !
my friend Nicky who blogs at Mrs Sew and Sow made me a gorgeous nessie block - Nicky had made this block for another bee member and I asked her to make one for me for my month too - isn't it just so sweet - love the tartan tam ! I was also in a swap with Nicky last year - Wonky Houses - and Nicky sent me a couple of extra tree blocks too - they are such fun :) along with some english money tissues just to make me feel rich !!
I posted earlier this week about Lucy's Quilt - my one finish in the third quarter finish-a-long however I'm still pretty happy that I've got some near finishes this quarter.
My 3rd quarter list wasn't that big but its the quilting that has let me down again !!
I was hoping to quilt my Mod Pop quilt but after trying to fight my way turning it around in the machine a couple of times using the walking foot I decided that the quilt design I had in my head would only work with free motion quilting! I had decided to do echo quilting in the "U" shapes and do a spiral in the centre circles - but after having issues with the curves in the U shape I knew I wouldn't be able to do a nice spiral.
I did manage to get one side of my two sided mosaic top done - I'm putting this on my 4th quarter list and hoping for a finish !
and after thinking about this quilt for the last few days I'm now thinking I might just make two quilts rather than a double sided quilt !
I also sewed the hexagon quilt together - while I was sewing it together I decided to use a solid at the end of each row and so I got the rows sewn together while I was waiting for the fabric to arrive - I finished sewing the top just before the end of the third quarter - I was going to try to have it finished but it wasn't to be!
I'm doing the Sugar Block Club with Amy Gibson of Stitchery Dickory Dock this year and I'm pleased to say its one thing that I'm up to date with.
Back in March I posted my January, February and March blocks so I thought it was about time I did an update.
I also signed my mum up to the BOM as part of her Christmas present last year - I thought it would be fun to do a BOM together - she sent me a photo of her January block which I posted in March but I've got a sneeky suspicion that she hasn't done any of the other blocks !
I'm using the fabric I received in the January Blogger's Choice fat quarter bundle from Fat Quarter Shop which includes some cute fabrics from Pam Kitty Morning and also Hill Farm by Brenda Riddle - they seem to suit the theme !
then I read the instructions again and discovered that it was a play on the granny block - oh well - its now a granny block !!
There are two more months to go in this BOM so I'll have another cute top to get my quilting practice on next year !


True, sometimes it feels like we have already been down this path, but for life of me I cannot prove it. But if they would acknowledge that they've 'fixed' certain things and as a result we have to endure people like Mr tRump, then we would know that they cocked it all up and they're trying their best to fix things. So, if he's a result of 'what if' fix, we are doomed and the future is going to be really crazy one. But that what if also brings up the question of what it was like before the TT alteration/paradox fix?
Can a paradox be really fixed? With this series we got a Disney ending with a possible opening for continuing the series. In the traditional way of thinking we can apply the fix and it works, but before that happens, there is going to be a number of failures. As important as the time is, how many failures you can endure before something catastrophic happens?
For some reason I cannot imagine what a catastropic TT incident would look like. I only know that it would be hazardous to travel in the zone that has been altered, as there would be a high chance that you would get trapped inside. You would be very certain that you wouldn't get back in the same time unless you can anchor yourself to the outside reality.
Maybe you would have to be like the aliens from the Nightflyers.
This might have been the record for consecutive "Spoiler" posts.
since they had already brought back Rufus from the dead, they were unlikely to kill off anyone else. In fact, I was expecting them to somehow rescue Flynn too.
Was that "apparently for each significant character saved, another must be sacrificed" a time-travel rule that was mentioned explicitly by someone, or is that just what you surmise? I didn't catch anyone saying that. In fact, the few rules that they did set for us in this show's bible, they have ultimately broken and torn up.
The other thing is, what happened to all the Rittenhouse tough guys in the present, and sleeper agents in the past. In previous episodes we were shown the organisation to be huge and now, one single last base was all that was left. Surely, removing Jessica from the timeline could not have achieved that much change?
On the plus side, they did reference that Jiya had experienced three years of hardship, and that the Lucy and Wyatt relationship would be strained. They didn't explain the "forbidden colours" that Stanley had been raving mad about last episode. I guess he was just crazy after all.
They didn't had time to give explanations. I like that they didn't tried to cram in everything. It was a Disney ending, and it did tie down the narrative nicely. It also worked well as an American Christmas Special.
but have we really proved the ixistence of parallel universes?
No, just a personal observation. When it comes to time travel, anyone can set the rules -- including fans.
Apologies for going back quite a way in the series. I'm only just catching up, and have only just got to 1.08. Space race.
But I've just noticed something very strange in this episode.
Both Anthony and Rufus are seen to mount a tape on a tape drive in the computer room, and in both cases they mount them with the yellow "write enable rings" on the spool showing which is the wrong way round.
Hardly rocket science after all. So why have they made it.
Has anyone else seen any apparently deliberate mistakes in the series.
I wouldn't have called it "hard sf" or "historical" any more than The Time Tunnel was. It is a little better than TV shows like Dr Who but The Ministry of Time is a much more accurate portrayal of history, if from a very Spanish perspective. Mistakes? Can't think of any that made me suspend my disbelief, but there must have been. Even big films like Apollo 13 had loads.
I quite agree. And the fact that most of the kit in the computer room wasn't about until nearly 10 years later didn't bother me at all.
So why mount a tape the wrong way round, when it was so easy to mount it the right way round? It doesn't make it look any better. It just seems odd.
So why mount a tape the wrong way round, when it was so easy to mount it the right way round?
The answer is Hollywood. They don't care and the production team doesn't always see. You also have to also add in the actors and the chance of them doing something goofy. Like Dave says, don't worry about it. Mistakes happen and you are not supposed to spot them.
Timeless does a wonderful job on making their best to make the historical settings to look accurate. But we are living this day and they only had so little time to produce the episodes, when they're shooting that mistakes will filter in and there is no point to try to correct them in the post-production process.
Thing that Timeless does best is to make the settings accurate enough to pass as real. We don't know for sure, because we didn't live in those times. Later on you will notice that the TimeTravel has consequences and something's that should be, aren't and it adds up even more to the pile of "mistakes."
I recommend reading the comments. 11 pages isn't a lot.
You're right, of course, ctg.
All in all it's pretty well done.


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I had a long weekend killing aliens and eating BBQ, but that is useless information. It is also almost as useless as this post! What's here today? I'm glad you asked: Yuria's cooking, more of Miki's face, Mion & Sasaki's legs.
I sometimes wonder about gravure shoots. The sets mostly, and what a girl is thinking when she is sitting around posing.
So many questions. So little time. I don't cook half-naked very often, but each time I always worried about splatter**.
Yukari's kicking action is very… strong?
We have come full circle with Kizaki Yuria. While she is not cooking and studying half-naked, she is apparently touching other girls legs!
Omg, those kicks… i really like see her dance, is so energetic, thats why yukarun is one of my favourites members.
I think that the girl with Mukaichi is Mogi Shinobu and not Kizaki.
You are right about it being Mogi with Mion.
I didn't know Yukarun is so energetic. I don't watch theater's so often — is she always like that?
Sorry, it's updated :))) Someone showed me the photo, and the face is cut off, but I thought its Yuria. My mistake!
Damn, that collage of Miki faces is the stuff of nightmares.
The kicking is the best! that last meme could be enough to convince a martial arts movie director to hire Yukarun! Daaang!
Also, Mion looks really great in that pic where Mogi is moles…I mean touching her lol.
And who cooks naked? Or half-naked? Too much chance to get burned! Gravure shoots are truly fantasies, ne?


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Vulnerability as Witness: To be of Service in a Foreign Land
This is the message I shared with the Friends World Committee for Consultation- Europe and Middle East section gathering in Budapest, Hungary- May 3, 2019:
We were asked last night to stand if we considered ourselves a part of various identities present at this annual gathering: yearly meeting representations, Friends under 35, and first time time attenders to an FWCC annual gathering to name a few. I began to stand for this last category, and then remembered that in fact I attended the FWCC Americas gathering in Oregon, near my hometown, in the Spring of 2009. I joined and spoke at that meeting on behalf of the Ramallah Friends School, reporting on my recent visit to Palestine a few months before and encouraging Friends in the Americas to support Palestinian education. It feels very fitting to stand before you all exactly 10 years later and still reflect on how much that trip to Palestine changed my life, spiritually, emotionally, and indeed practically because it was there on that trip that I met my future wife Federica who you've now all met with our two young sons at this gathering. I felt particularly touched by our discussion yesterday about how Friends from the Middle East are not present at this gathering, and how they very often do not enjoy the opportunities and access to travel in the way many of us do. I ask each of us to continue to hold them in our hearts in the coming days.
Visiting Palestine was a particularly pivotal moment in my life, and indeed is also a very fitting place to begin considering our theme of "Living in a Foreign Land." The Holy Land is indeed the place where cultures of welcome and hospitality still live today, just as they did in the biblical passages we read which challenge us to welcome the stranger and also understand how our prophetic witness may make us strangers in our own lands. As we are aware especially in the politics of Israel and Palestine, power and privilege also can make us strangers in our own lands and so I want us to consider this as we sit with this theme.
Our theme for this gathering brought up many personal thoughts, prayers and reflections for me. As an adopted European originally born in the United States with a gateway to this section through the Middle East, I admit the most obvious definition of "living in a foreign land" relates to my nationality. At the same time, while it is certainly important that I am an adopted Italian with a strong place in my heart for Palestine, I'd like to reflect on the theme in a somewhat less conventional way, challenging each of us to look at ourselves slightly differently. Indeed, the vulnerability of "living in a foreign land," which I will return to, provokes an approach to service, leadership and community organization that I would like us to consider in our gathering and beyond. I will take the opportunity, as a foreigner, to offer some reflections coming from sources and perspectives that may be somewhat unconventional in Friends circles, and my hope is that this will challenge each of us to look beyond our common norms and approaches.
What inspires me to consider this approach? This question of leadership and relative privilege came up strongly for me when considering the theme of this meeting, "Living in a Foreign Land." The Bible frequently considers the question of living in foreign land, as a challenge to unappreciated prophets or ungrateful hosts. As hosts, we are commanded to accept and welcome the other, but as visitors we are pushed to speak our truth and lead the people who have gone astray. I thought about the many instances in which I was either a visitor or a host in my life, and what that really has meant for my approach to life and to leadership. I think that we as Friends often imagine ourselves as the prophetic visitors, the foreigners in foreign lands speaking out in the darkness, when in reality we most often bring our privilege, power and influence with us when we travel and we would do well to recognize it. I considered my own story and tried to think of the key moments I'd seen past my own privilege and what that meant to me.
Perhaps because many of you do not know me well, I should start as many of us do as Friends with myself and some description of my own personal journey on these themes. While I am choosing not to focus on individual leaders or particularly glorious moments in Quaker history, it seems still appropriate to recognize these norms by sharing with you some of my story.
I was born into a Quaker family in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, a third generation Friend in the Beanite tradition of that area. Since many of the workings of the US branches of Friends may be unfamiliar to you (indeed also for me growing up), I will just briefly describe them here. Perhaps many of you do know that as Quakers left England for the United States to escape persecution, within a few generations theological and cultural differences grew up among their membership which eventually devolved into major "schisms" or splits within the religious society. These splits were bitter, painful divisions that often began with what seem today as minor differences in theological interpretation of Quaker faith and practice. However, once divided, new branches of Quakerism grew further and further apart from each other, especially culturally, and in time they established formal bodies or "conferences" that served to codify their new approaches and set themselves distinctly apart. Well into this new era of schisms, a Friend by the name of Joel Bean found himself at odds with the interpretation of Quakerism professed by the yearly meetings in his area of the midwest US so he headed out West to California. Despite trying to escape the divisiveness of conferences and theological rigidity, Western Friends in the unprogrammed tradition eventually became a kind of "nonconference" in their own right, known for their disassociative approach. In time Beanite meetings spread up and down the Western part of the United States. Other Friends from the evangelical branch of Quakerism also established yearly meetings on the West coast as well. Similar to what we see in Hungary, in my part of the United States there are therefore parallel branches of Quakerism with different styles of worship, theological approaches and history worshipping more or less side by side.
In my family,, I really didn't learn much about this variety of Quaker thought growing up at all. I didn't really need to. My grandfather was convinced to Quakerism after his participation in World War II here in Europe, finding Friends through rebuilding efforts organized by the American Friends Service Committee in Germany. My mother was raised as a Quaker in a style that would be familiar to most European Friends: silent worship, theologically post-modern with an emphasis on personal discernment and social justice at times set directly at odds with Christian faith and practice. We didn't know much about other Quakers worshipping around us, since our communities had grown so far apart.
Most Friends in Beanite meetings in the area where I grew up are white, middle class, theologically and culturally left of center. I am no exception. Growing up, going to meeting meant worshipping with a group of people very much like myself, frequently contrasting our approach to faith with other churches and cultural groups around us but almost never discussing the other Evangelical Friends just down the road who were ostensibly our brothers and sisters in the Church. They might as well have lived in a different world because of their different historical path to Quakerism. Ashley, who many of you have met, is visiting us from Northwest Yearly Meeting ("the other yearly meeting") and while I don't want to put her on the spot I suggest that she could better represent her community and Quaker experience than I can.
Because of the unique approach to Quakerism in the Beanite tradition, that downplayed affiliation with wider Quaker bodies and strongly emphasized personal spiritual discernment, I believe I was especially unaware of aspects of privilege and culture in my meeting growing up. Because we were largely white, our discussions about race were often two-dimensional and considered with a certain distance, even though many of us had come to Quakerism through projects the AFSC eventually organized in communities of color in the United States. Because we were largely middle class, we took things like college education or ownership of property as norms within our meeting, even though there were certainly meeting members who did not have access to these privileges. Because we were, as a whole, generally progressive and liberal in our approaches to political and social issues, certain rare instances when differences of opinion came up about same-sex marriage or tactics of political dissent created significant conflict in our meeting. As I grew into adolescence, I found it harder to connect with my Quaker community because I saw so few people my age active in Friends.
I studied abroad in my junior year of highschool and experienced one of the first very extreme examples of being a foreigner, in the most literal way, and it began to set in motion the path that's brought me here today. My family has a long connection with Turkey and so when the opportunity to study abroad there came up, I was happy to go. I moved in with a Turkish family in Istanbul in August of 2001, and within my first weeks of arriving the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 took place back in the United States. I was quite overwhelmed by a whole range of emotions and experiences at that time, but I remember very clearly being told by so many Turks that it was obvious why the attacks had taken place: unconditional US support for Israel. As a young, NPR-nursed white progressive liberal, I had been willing to imagine that US foreign policy in general could have been blamed for 9/11, but I was completely unprepared for this direct line drawn between US support for Israel and terror attacks. I felt like I was suddenly seeing the world in a completely different way. My whole time in Turkey was very challenging for many reasons, but upon returning home this particular insight stuck with me.
When choosing where to attend university a few years later, I felt a leading to attend to Quaker college in order to reach beyond my current Quaker experience and perhaps meet other young people in the faith. I enrolled in the Quaker Leadership Scholars Program at Guilford College in North Carolina, the entirely opposite corner of the United States with a completely different Quaker history. North Carolina is actually home to the largest number of Quakers in the US, and its history goes back to a visit by George Fox before the foundation of the state of Pennsylvania. Quakers of all branches of US Quakerism live even closer together in North Carolina and especially in Greensboro, and through my studies I was encouraged to learn from and about them on a much deeper level. I studied Quaker history and practice while following an established yearly program with my classmates to learn the forms of Quaker worship, business and discernment. I also studied anthropology and sociology, taking courses that explored historical roots of oppression while interning at our school's community service office that worked with service sites in local prisons, homeless shelters and refugee placement agencies. Some of my Quaker classmates came not only from different branches of the Quaker faith in the US, but also Palestine and Kenya and their sense of what Quakerism meant as a community and culture where completely different than anything I'd known before.
Between my second and third years of college, I took a pilgrimage up and down the East Coast of the United States with the rather grandiose mission to find ways that geography and culture had influenced the development of Quakerism in various areas. This trip was my first great disillusionment with Quakerism. While I met many kind and loving and inspired people between Florida and New York on my trip, in meeting after meeting along the way I was introduced to communities with just a handful of members, individual members who held enormous responsibility for the spiritual and practical aspects of their meetings without formal recognition as elders or pastors (I ironically called them "überQuakers"), and a great deal of what I considered to be unrecognized privilege in the 30 some meetings I visited. It was very discouraging. It also inspired in me for the first time some of the same questions I bring to you today about leadership, privilege and community organization within Friends which I have still not resolved almost 15 years later. In some ways this may be the difference between the enthusiasm and excitement we feel at gatherings such as this as compared to the relatively normal workings of our daily routines, but I challenge each of us to be honest about the real state of our society in many parts of the global North. I wrote about this experience and received quiet but pointed criticism for my "negative" outlook on the state of the society, even though I'd tried to put an overall positive spin on my disappointment.
Shortly after I returned from this trip in my latter time at Guilford, trouble began to brew between some of the Palestinian students on campus who were graduates of the Friends School in Ramallah and other students. I had gotten to know some of the Palestinian students during my time at Guilford, and felt a particular solidarity with them. There were occasionally misunderstandings or even minor confrontations between the US students and Palestinian students, and I was reminded just how different the contexts around these two private Quaker schools could be. The Palestinian students who'd come to my school had just gone through the years of the Second Intifada, beginning even before I had my eyes opened about the US role in Israel in 2001. US students at Guilford had come of age as we started two new wars on Muslim countries and consumed non-stop messages of Islamophobia and crusade. As a member of Guilford's student Judicial Board, I'd reached out to students and tried to mediate some of these difficulties, especially sensitive to the fact there were huge cultural differences to conflict that I felt needed to be addressed at our Quaker school.
I was completely unprepared for when, in my last semester at Guilford, a large group of students affiliated with the athletics program attacked three Palestinian students with chains and brass knuckles in a public space while openly yelling racial epithets. The school's handling of the situation was appalling, especially with an insider's view on the Judicial Board, as basically every effort was made to sweep the situation under the rug or farm it out to legal authorities off campus (who from a first gathering they took credit for never fully investigated the incident as the hate crime it was.) We tried to organize student forums to address the huge wound on campus, but the administration essentially just waited us out so that folks would graduate and people would move on. I asked myself what it mean to be at a Quaker school, that literally had banners of the Quaker testimonies running across our quad, if we could not hold our community account in the face of a hate crime.
So these three progressive events of going abroad, learning about and visiting many different Quakers on my pilgrimage and then eventually watching my Quaker school turn its back on its principles just as I graduated left me feeling terribly hopeless. In short, growing up in relative privilege, isolated from a broad view of Quaker experience, I suddenly was confronted by a society both in and outside of Quakerism that felt incredibly unjust yet self assured, that spoke of confronting evil in the world but that did not actually seem to believe evil existed, that professed to model a new kind of leadership but indeed seemed fractured and rudderless. It suddenly seemed like I saw and understood the society and its history better than I ever had before, and yet I could not see a clear place for myself in it. I was tremendously disillusioned.
As I then completed college and struck out on my own, this perspective made navigating my way extremely difficult on a personal level. After getting educated and feeling like I'd learned a lot about my privilege and my inherited place in society and Quakerism, I suddenly felt like the house I thought I'd built (or that had been built for me) on a foundation of rock was actually a house built on sand, buffeted now by rains and floods. The sense of directionlessness I'd projected on Quakerism came right home to me, and my personal faith and identity I'd set out to understand better suddenly seemed hypocritical, flawed, and dysfunctional.
While I had always been a social user of drugs and alcohol, suddenly I began to use them more and more to self-medicate. Quakerism historically was a teetotalling faith and indeed served a key role in the prohibition movement in the United States, but perhaps unlike British Friends my perception is that few Quakers in the US associated Quakerism now with abstaining. My college experience was certainly no exception. After college and lacking a social scene around to temper my intake, I began to drink and smoke marijuana as often as I could to dull my sense of emptiness. Perhaps you have heard this kind of story before, perhaps you even know it yourself, but even if you have never heard of a Quaker addict I sand before you as one.
I felt incredibly alone and isolated, but at the same time I still enjoyed incredible access and so many social opportunities as a white, male, able-bodied, heterosexual, middle-class college graduate. Because I so rarely had experienced being vulnerable or out of my element, when the house of cards began to fall it fell completely. I couldn't stop using drugs and alcohol when I knew I needed to, and I slowly cut off my friends so they would not see what so ashamed me. I even criticized others for their use, projecting my own failing externally.
The very common experience of 20-somethings trying to find their way in the world was complicated by questions of how my faith felt unable to respond to the most important needs of the day, made that much more painful by the fact it was a faith that frequently spoke about changing the world. I take much more responsibility now for how my own misconceptions or false narratives were projected onto Quakerism, but at the time I felt like Quakerism had handed me a burden of perpetual subjectivity. Because we as Friends so often spoke of not relying on doctrine or "divisive" approaches to social justice, we were indeed struggling to honestly appraise our own norms and conventions. Even though now at school I'd learn much more about my place in society, suddenly I felt like I was that much more stymied in my path to action. I also certainly did not learn about how to moderate my drinking. Despite and perhaps in part because of all my privileges, I suddenly had one more reason not to draw a line and say "this is right and this is wrong" because my Truth could not be imposed on anyone else in classic Quaker fashion. I tried to draw the line on my chemical abuse and found I could not. I wrote an article about this for Friends Journal, a US Quaker magazine, and agreed to record an interview about it with their staff which still comes up as one of the top hits when you Google my name. I struggle with this to this day, putting this less than flattering, unpolished sense of myself online out there for the world to see.
So what does this mean for us? How could I take my personal experience and offer it up as something for this gathering?
The answer came to me in the form of a tweet. Recently Friends enjoyed two instances of rather strangle publicity as characters in two popular British TV comedies visited Quaker meetings for laughs. While I don't own a television or keep close tabs on goings on in that area of popular culture, I was impressed to learn about Friends' appearances in these shows through the social media promotion of Quakers in Britain itself.
Upon actually going to watch the episodes in question, I was surprised to find them somewhat bawdy, definitely irreverent, and entirely unromantic in their portrayal of contemporary English Quakerism. And yet I appreciate that Friends House saw fit to share them, in my eyes challenging the usual Quaker norm of how to "live in the world but not be of it." Sometimes we take ourselves entirely too seriously, and in celebration of British Friends' unconventional choice to promote their relatively unflattering portrayal I'd like to take up their example and run with it.
One of the episodes, from a show called "Catastrophe," stars an American businessman living in London on a path of self-discovery. Quakerism's brief moment in the limelight begins when he is encouraged to attend worship while seeking to "improve himself" after being convicted of driving drunk. While at first he is very enthusiastic about Friends' acceptance and "not even having to believe in God," he eventually becomes frustrated with what he considers Quakers lack of answers for the "chaos of the world." Friends tell him they are "looking to overcome hatred in the long term," but he becomes impatient with their "vague" answers and says he intends to quit. As he gets up to leave, he says those that stay better have a plan in case they ever "get into power."
I (strangely) identify with several superficial qualities of this character (impatient, American, alcoholic) but I was particularly impressed that his challenge to Friends struck a chord with me. Why, when giving up on Quakerism, he challenge us to think about what would happen if we all "came into power," or in essence suddenly have the opportunity to put our principles in practice on a grand scale?
Many of us may find ourselves isolated from the norms of popular culture at the moment, despairing that climate change, war, even disease and famine. We were shocked about Trump or Brexit, and so we downplay or struggle to accept the millions of people we don't really know who voted for them. We see ourselves as underdogs still crying out for justice in wilderness, since indeed things still seem desperate despite everything we know. But we often also rarely acknowledge our own vulnerabilities and weaknesses in ourselves and our society as we struggle with the issues in front of us. If we are indeed called to hope for change in the long term (as the TV show suggests) as relative foreigners in foreign lands or if are we are challenged to prepare ourselves for "what would happen if we ever got into power", what can we honestly say about times we indeed have or have had significant spiritual and material power?
This is a key question I'd like to illustrate better by turning to real examples from Quaker history we rarely think about, moments were we as Friends came together which significant power and long-term influence with unforeseen and quite negative results. My suggestion is that these results came from continuing to consistently think of ourselves as outsiders, victims, and even foreigners when in fact we had the upper hand. I also think that this mentality actually served to obscure rather than help us grow and be of service through our vulnerability in foreign lands. All the the examples I will offer come from North America Quaker history, which I know best, but on areas that even I know only a little about.
The first is Quakers key role in the industrialization of whaling. When Quakers moved to New England, many became involved in the booming whaling trade. Indeed places like Nantucket Island in Massachusetts became Quaker-run whaling communities, sending regular excursions out to hunt whales with major whale oil processing facilities onshore. Friends were known for fair dealings in business, and even allowed black sailors on their whaling ships, but in the end this was a business of killing en masse. Quakers became so rich and influential in this trade that some Friends, ancestors of those who'd escaped from England due to persecution, actually returned to Europe to bring whaling technologies improved in the US back to the Old World. Who today could imagine the average Friend, adamant about animal rights and the environment, accepting our role in this mass slaughter? Peterson Toscano, a US friend who writes about climate change, speaks about how in that time as now, money talked and the discussion of whales centered entirely on the markets at that time. We can now more easily accept the vulnerability of our planet and even our market system, but how did our own role in this bloody chapter of the Industrial Revolution speak to the adage of "coming to do good and doing well?"
Another important example from the early days of United States history is in prison reform in the Quaker state of Pennsylvania. Because Quakers had spent so much time in jail in England, often under horrible conditions, it was natural that as they set up their own state that they were keen to improve on questions of law and order. Under Quaker administration, Pennsylvania rolled out many changes to the prison system designed to make it more humane but also more "reformative", with cleaner, more humane and more isolated conditions. Though not inspired solely by Quakers, ideas like prison labor and solitary confinement were adopted early on by states like Pennsylvania, eventually finding their way now into all corners of the current US corrections system. The U.S. now holds more people in solitary confinement for longer periods than other other prison system in the world. How did our past hurt and trauma in prisons perhaps make us blind to the new and terrible damage we were adopting through the new torture of solitary confinement?
Finally, Quakers were also actively involved in the practice of separating Native American children from the families and sending them to religious boarding schools to "reform" them. Using the phrase "kill the Indian, save the child," Christian indoctrination schools around the US were legally entitled to removed Native children from their families and force them to speak only English, cut their hair and wear Western clothing. The policy of separating Native children from their families lasted until the 1970s. Paula Palmer, a Friend from Colorado, has put significant research into Quakers' role in running and in fact even imaging the idea of handing over "Indian problems" to religious bodies who would convert and thereby integrate Native peoples into White settler society. Many are shocked to learn how long this practice lasted, and perhaps are even more shocked that many Friends' attitudes were so complicit to the colonial mindsets of the time. We struggle to see the privilege we enjoy today, let alone that which we've misused to oppress other peoples for generations before.
As a faith that was born under significant persecution and oppression in its early years, we must also acknowledge our leadership failings when the tables turned and we found ourselves in relative privilege and influence. When we really think about it, aren't we really still living in that place of influence today? Rather than looking at individual Quaker leaders, whose positions of influence may or may not have been affected by their Quaker values, perhaps we would do well to look at Quakerism's work as a collective body both positive and negative. Not only that, perhaps rather than focusing on our frequently celebrated roles in movements as challengers of social norms, for example in the anti-slavery or suffrage moments, what have we done when we ourselves held the reins rather than taking the moral high ground as civil dissenters? As individuals and as a society, I challenge us to accept the vulnerability of our missteps and mistakes, sometimes only obvious many years after the fact, in order to more clearly see ourselves and our leadership in a true and clear light. I make this challenge particularly considering our Christian tradition's approach to being foreign or welcoming the foreigner. If we are the foreigners, we must accept our vulnerability in our mission to bear witness. If we are welcoming foreigners, we must remember our own vulnerabilities to be of service and solidarity with those we lead and serve.
Queries:
What would we do if we truly lived in the full power of this world? What would we do if we truly lived in the full power of the Gospel Order?
How can we be of service through bearing witness to our vulnerabilities?
As strangers in foreign lands or those welcoming strangers, what in our own experiences can we draw from to build the Kingdom of God?
May 17, 2019 May 17, 2019 by Evan Categories: Israel Palestine, Italy, QuakerTags: #white privilege, @catastrophe_tv, Community, Immigration, Indian Boarding Schools, Islam, Israel/palestine, Italy, North Carolina, prison reform, Quakerism, Turkey, Whaling	1 Comment


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Q: Scanf storing value too long, and the second value it reads it stores twice Okay, so I have a program that reads contact information from user input. Here is the function which gets the names of the contact.
// getName:
void getName(struct Name* name)
{
    // First name
    printf("Please enter the contact's first name: ");
    scanf("%[^\n]31s", name->firstName);

    clearKeyboard();

    // Middle Name
    printf("Do you want to enter a middle initial(s)? (y or n): ");
    if (yes()) {
        printf("Please enter the contact's middle initial(s): ");
        scanf("%[^\n]7s", name->middleInitial);
    }

    clearKeyboard();

    // Last Name
    printf("Please enter the contact's last name: ");
    scanf("%[^\n]36s", name->lastName);

    clearKeyboard();
}

After the contact information is grabbed I display the information and something doesn't seem right.
What is expected:
Name: Tom See John|How Wo|Song Sing

What is outputted:
Name: Tom See John|How Won|Song Sing Song Sing

And here's the declarations for this name struct also:
// Structure type Name declaration
struct Name {
    char firstName[31];
    char middleInitial[7];
    char lastName[36];
};

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Lepaki Wielkie (niem. Groß Lepacken (1938-45: Ramecksfelde)) – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie warmińsko-mazurskim, w powiecie ełckim, w gminie Ełk.

W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość administracyjnie należała do województwa suwalskiego.

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Lepaki Wielkie

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