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Women in Peace Politics
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Paula Banerjee
Publisher: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Series: South Asian Peace Studies
Online pub date: December 20, 2013
Discipline: Politics & International Relations
Subject: Peace Studies / Conflict Resolution, Women's Studies
Bangladesh, conflict prevention, fronts, Pakistan, peace, women, women's movement
Print ISBN:9780761935704
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Women in Peace Politics explores the role of women as agents and visionaries of peace in South Asia. Peace is redefined to include in its fold the attempt by women to be a part of the peace making process, reworking the structural inequalities faced by them and their struggle against all forms of oppression.
This volume, the third in the series of the South Asia Peace Studies, deals with the myriad dimensions of peace as practised by South Asian women over a period of time. It chronicles the lives of "ordinary" women—their transformative role in peace and an attempt to create a space of their own. Their peace activism is examined in the historical context of their participation in national liberation movements since the early twentieth century. The articles in the collection adopt a new approach to understanding peace—as a desire to end repression that cuts across caste, class, race and gender and an effort on the part of women to transform their position in society.
This compilation would interest a wide readership besides students and scholars of human rights, peace and security studies, politics and international relations.
South Asian Peace Studies
Section I: Ideas and Ideologies
Chapter 1: Shefali
Chapter 2: Security, Gender and Conflict Prevention: Perceptions from South Asia
Chapter 3: Ethnicity and Democracy Meet When Mothers Protest
Chapter 4: Afterword
Chapter 5: Islam, Feminism and the Women's Movement in Pakistan: 1981–1991
Chapter 6: Women, Nationalism and War: "Make Love not War"
Section II: Movements
Chapter 7: Women in Sri Lankan Peace Politics
Chapter 8: Motherhood as a Space of Protest: Women's Political Participation in Contemporary Sri Lanka
Chapter 9: Negotiating Peace: Feminist Reflections
Chapter 10: The Space between: Women's Negotiations with Democracy
Chapter 11: Minorities, Women and Peace: A South Asian Perspective
Section III: Voices
Chapter 12: Shed No More Blood: Mothers for Peace
Chapter 13: WAF to Continue Protest against Discriminatory Laws
Chapter 14: The Way of the World
Chapter 15: Chadur aur Diwari
Chapter 16: Drawing Lines, Erasing Lines: Feminism as a Resource in Opposing Xenophobia and Separatism
Chapter 17: In Conversation with Dr Hanan Ashrawi
Further Readings on Themes in Peace Studies
About the Editor and Contributors
Banerjee, P. (Ed.) (2008). Women in peace politics. (Vols. 1-3). SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9788178299686
Banerjee, Paula, ed. Women in Peace Politics. 3 vols. South Asian Peace Studies. New Delhi: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2008. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9788178299686.
Banerjee, P. ed., 2008. Women in Peace Politics. South Asian Peace Studies. Vol. 3. New Delhi: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd. Available at: <https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9788178299686> [Accessed 28 Jan 2023].
Banerjee, Paula, editor. Women in Peace Politics. 3 vols. New Delhi: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2008. SAGE Knowledge, South Asian Peace Studies, 28 Jan 2023, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9788178299686.
Banerjee, Paula. Women in Peace Politics Vol. 3. New Delhi: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd; 2008. doi:10.4135/9788178299686
https://sk.sagepub.com/books/women-in-peace-politics


How many times have you found yourself wishing that you could just stay on vacation and not return to "real life?" Unless you are fabulously wealthy, the possibility of and endless vacation is well out of reach. The word vacation itself carries connotations of getting away, relaxation, doing and experiencing things that you wouldn't normally. Often while visiting a faraway land, it is all to easy to fall in love with the romance of the location; waves lapping at a lush coastline, rolling green hills spotted with livestock and colorful outbreaks of flowers, ancient winding streets lined with narrow houses and small shops, a crisp and modern skyline, forests and mountains so plentiful they seem to have consumed all surrounding landscape; the list goes on forever.
Something about visiting a new location draws our eyes only to the magnificent and beautiful, blocking out the "real life" that exists in all places, regardless how romantic the backdrop. Consciously or subconsciously, we look past the people out sweeping the streets, hanging out laundry, commuting to and from work and, in general, just going about day-today existence. Stepping out of the role of visitor and into that of resident involves more than just a change of visa, but a complete shift in paradigm.
Within our own cities and towns, we are often remiss to take advantage of attractions that draw others from out of town. Whether this oversight is related to lack of time or interest or the feeling that it is already familiar, it is often we who are missing out on the jewels that rest at our fingertips. This malaise is also found in the residents of the locations that we so covet and flock to.
As far as "great explorations" go, I would have to say that I am not much of a traveler. The number of stamps I have in my passport is less than the number of states that I have visited in the past decade, hardly breaking double digits. Despite this fact, I have spent three of the last five years living outside of the US. For most of the three years, I lived on the remote archipelago of Cape Verde in West Africa working as an English teacher for both youth and adults and, during the third year, traveling around the country to research and write a travel guide for Other Places Publishing.
The diversity of the small country of Cape Verde often surprised me as I traveled from island to island, rocky coastline village to isolated plantations nestled away in the mountains. The thing that surprised me most, however, was how differently I viewed the same landscapes and locations from the many tourists that I met along the way. While we were all delighted by the physical beauty of the islands, by speaking the language, listening into conversations and looking beyond the strips of businesses set up to catch the wave of tourism, I saw an entirely different Cape Verde.
Perhaps the moral of the story here is that there is always more depth to our circumstances than we are able to perceive. The idea of "home" and "away" is as much our own paradigm as it is location. Though I had lived in Cape Verde for almost three years, established myself in the community and was able to communicate and get around with ease, it was only my perspective that made me "less" of a foreigner than the tourists I encountered. We avoid being tourists in our own towns because that is what outsiders do and often we avoid the commonplace while away as an "escape," but perhaps we would all do good to incorporate a bit more of both in all locations. After all, appreciating bits of beauty while mucking in the mundane is what makes us all human, regardless of where we are.


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0.75% of the U.S. population (2010)[1]
Regions with significant populations
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Los Angeles[5]
Washington, D.C.[6]
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Philadelphia[8]
Detroit[9]
Miami[10]
Tampa[11]
Atlanta[12]
Predominantly Greek Orthodox
Greek Americans (Greek: Ελληνοαμερικανοί, Ellinoamerikanoi) are Americans of full or partial Greek ancestry. Over 2.5 million Americans are of Greek descent.[1] 350,000 people older than five spoke Greek at home in 2010.[13]
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Total Ancestry Reported". United States Census Bureau. 2010. Archived from the original on January 18, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
↑ "Selected Population Profile in the United States 2010-2012 American Community Survey 3-Year Estimates". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
↑ "Greek: Source: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, Public Use Microdata Sample, 2006–2010". Modern Language Association. Retrieved March 24, 2017.
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Turkish state lender Halkbank charged in US federal court for Iran sanctions evasion
Zarrab (C) is seen as he is escorted by police after a medical screening in İstanbul in this Dec. 17, 2013 file photo.
US federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have indicted Turkish state lender Halkbank (Türkiye Halk Bankası A.Ş.) on six counts including fraud, money laundering and sanctions offenses related to the bank's participation in a multibillion dollar scheme to evade US sanctions on Iran.
The indictment was announced on Tuesday by Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Demers, the assistant attorney general for National Security, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the assistant director in charge of the New York field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
According to the indictment Halkbank is charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), bank fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
The case is assigned to US District Judge Richard M. Berman and is being handled by the US Attorney's Office's Terrorism and International Narcotics Unit and Money Laundering and Transnational Criminal Enterprises Unit. Assistant US Attorneys Michael D. Lockard, Sidhardha Kamaraju, David W. Denton, Jr., Jonathan Rebold and Kiersten Fletcher are in charge of the prosecution.
Between 2012 and 2016, prosecutors alleged that Halkbank and its officers, agents and co-conspirators directly and indirectly used money service businesses and front companies in Iran, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and elsewhere to violate and to evade and avoid prohibitions against Iran's access to the US financial system, restrictions on the use of proceeds of Iranian oil and gas sales and restrictions on the supply of gold to the government of Iran and to Iranian entities and persons.
Halkbank knowingly facilitated the scheme, participated in the design of fraudulent transactions intended to deceive US regulators and foreign banks and lied to US regulators about Halkbank's involvement, the indictment states.
Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab (L), a major figure from a graft scandal, was in police custody on Dec.17, 2017.
High-ranking government officials in Iran and Turkey participated in and protected this scheme. Some officials received bribes worth tens of millions of dollars paid from the proceeds of the scheme so that they would promote the scheme, protect the participants and help to shield the scheme from the scrutiny of US regulators.
The proceeds of Iran's sale of oil and gas to Turkey's national oil company and gas company, among others, were deposited at Halkbank, in accounts in the names of the Central Bank of Iran, the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) and the National Iranian Gas Company. During the relevant time period Halkbank was the sole repository of proceeds from the sale of Iranian oil by NIOC to Turkey.
Because of US sanctions against Iran and the anti-money laundering policies of US banks, it was difficult for Iran to access these funds in order to transfer them back to Iran or to use them for international financial transfers for the benefit of Iranian government agencies and banks. As of in or about 2012, billions of dollars' worth of funds had accumulated in NIOC and the Central Bank of Iran's accounts at Halkbank.
Halkbank participated in several types of illicit transactions for the benefit of Iran that, if discovered, would have exposed the bank to sanctions under US law, including (i) allowing the proceeds of sales of Iranian oil and gas deposited at Halkbank to be used to buy gold for the benefit of the government of Iran; (ii) allowing the proceeds of sales of Iranian oil and gas deposited at Halkbank to be used to buy gold that was not exported to Iran, in violation of the so-called "bilateral trade" rule; and (iii) facilitating transactions fraudulently designed to appear to be purchases of food and medicine by Iranian customers in order to appear to fall within the so-called "humanitarian exception" to certain sanctions against the Iranian government, when in fact no purchases of food or medicine actually occurred.
Through these methods, Halkbank illicitly transferred approximately $20 billion worth of otherwise restricted Iranian funds, federal prosecutors allege.
The 45-page indictment is posted below:
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Senior Halkbank officers, acting within the scope of their employment and for the benefit of Halkbank, concealed the true nature of these transactions from officials with the US Department of the Treasury so that Halkbank could supply billions of dollars' worth of services to Iran without risking being sanctioned by the United States and losing its ability to hold correspondent accounts with US financial institutions.
The purpose and effect of the scheme in which Halkbank participated was to create a pool of Iranian oil funds in Turkey and the United Arab Emirates held in the names of front companies, which concealed the funds' Iranian nexus. From there, the funds were used to make international payments on behalf of Iran and Iranian banks, including transfers in US dollars that passed through the US financial system in violation of US sanctions laws.
According to the press release, US Attorney Berman said, "The facts that emerged at the full, fair, and public trial of Halkbank's deputy general manager, which culminated in a jury's January 2018 guilty verdict against him, illustrated senior Halkbank management's participation in this brazen scheme to circumvent our nation's Iran sanctions regime."
"As alleged in today's indictment, Halkbank's systemic participation in the illicit movement of billions of dollars' worth of Iranian oil revenue was designed and executed by senior bank officials. The bank's audacious conduct was supported and protected by high-ranking Turkish government officials, some of whom received millions of dollars in bribes to promote and protect the scheme. Halkbank will now have to answer for its conduct in an American court," he added.
Police found a large amount of money in the house of former Interior Minister Muammer Güler's son, Barış Güler, during the operations on Dec. 17, 2013. They were bribed by Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab.
"This is one of the most serious Iran sanctions violations we have seen, and no business should profit from evading our laws or risking our national security," Assistant Attorney General for National Security Demers stated, adding that Halkbank allegedly conspired to undermine the US Iran sanctions regime by illegally giving Iran access to billions of dollars' worth of funds, all while deceiving US regulators about the scheme.
According to FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Sweeney, Jr., Halkbank willfully engaged in deceptive activities designed to evade US sanctions against Iran. "Halkbank illegally facilitated the illicit transfer of billions of dollars to benefit Iran, and for far too long the bank and its leaders willfully deceived the United States to shield their actions from scrutiny. That deception ends today. The FBI will aggressively pursue those who intentionally violate US sanctions laws and attempt to undercut our national security," he added.
The US federal prosecutors previously charged nine individual defendants, including bank employees, the former Turkish economy minister and other participants in the same scheme. On October 26, 2017, Reza Zarrab, the key suspect in the scheme, pled guilty to the seven counts with which he was charged. He became a government witness who confessed he had bribed Turkish government officials.
On January 3, 2018, a jury convicted former Halkbank deputy general manager Mehmet Hakan Atilla of five of the six counts with which he was charged, following a five-week jury trial. The remaining individual defendants are fugitives.
On December 17, 2013 Turkish prosecutors made a graft investigation public in which Zarrab and the inner circle of then-Prime Minister and current President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan including government ministers were incriminated. Government officials and Halkbank managers were accused of accepting bribes from Zarrab in a sanctions-busting scheme run through Halkbank to circumvent US sanctions on Iran.
Four Turkish Ministers had to resign in the corruption scandals but Erdogan hushed up the probes and saved them from criminal prosecutions.
Erdoğan dismissed the corruption allegations, sacked the prosecutors and police chiefs and hushed up the graft probes. He also described the investigations as "a plot by the Gülen movement to topple the government" and launched a crackdown on the group. The movement, led by US-based Turkish Muslim scholar Fethullah Gülen, has long been critical of the Erdoğan government due to its corruption and Ankara's aiding and abetting of radical jihadist groups in Syria and Libya.
In Turkey, then-European Affairs Minister Egemen Bağış and other officials were cleared of any crime in a parliamentary vote in 2014. Everything went well for him until Zarrab, the Iranian national and sanctions buster, was arrested by the FBI in Miami on March 19, 2016. The US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York indicted Zarrab on charges similar to those filed by Turkish investigators in the December 2013 investigation. As part of their case the US attorneys used Turkish evidence to build a case against Zarrab. In his testimony Zarrab, turned into a government witness after cutting a plea deal, confessed that he had bribed Bağış and other ministers, set up a money laundering scheme, opened fake accounts in Turkish state banks and established front companies.
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The Ghana Catholic Community of the Diocese of Arlington, VA is a vibrant community of Ghanaian Catholics who celebrate mass the Ghanaian way, led by our Spiritual Director Rev. Fr. Anthony Appiah.
Our church community is part of the Queen of Apostles Catholic Church, located in Alexandria, Virginia. Queen of Apostles is within the Diocese of Arlington, which is under the direction of Most Reverend Michael Francis Burbidge.
We invite all Ghanaian Catholics in the Arlington Diocese to join our community as we celebrate our faith and worship the Ghanaian way.
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Rev. Fr. Anthony Appiah is the Spiritual Director of the Ghana Catholic Community of Arlington Diocese, since February 2012.
Rev. Fr. Appiah was ordained as a priest in 1992 and served several positions including his first pastoral assignment at Nyinahin, the Kumasi Archdiocesan Youth Chaplain and Vocations Director for two terms, the Rector of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, Kwadaso, in charge of the Liturgy Office and the Master of Ceremony to the Archbishop of Kumasi and the Pastor of St. Francis Xavier Parish at Asokore Mampong, Kumasi.
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I remember seeing on Adam West's Facebook page that he was sitting in a dressing room waiting to film a promo for the Price is Right iPhone game back in February.
Here's the result of filming that promo. Looks like he and the Price is Right announcer, Rich Fields had a great time driving around the CBS back lot in the Batmobile.
Check out Rich in that Robin costume. Too bad Adam didn't wear his Batman cowl or even his Batman costume. Anyway it's still pretty cool. Check it out.


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Quietly elegant and exclusive the real home facilitates solutions like front desk, parking, washing, help of medical practitioner on request and so many more for the stay that is comfortable of. The rooms are very well furnished with exclusive interiors with a feel of an home that is upscale comfy beds and linens being comfortable. Evoking the grandeur and opulence, all rooms are finely appointed along with room that is necessary like space solution and a lot that is whole. The professional and staff that is attentive of hotel is always ready to help visitors to make their stay a wonderful one. All rooms have actually connected bathrooms well loaded with crucial washroom amenities and toiletries along side hot/cold water supply.
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Who are the 8 members of Yemen's new Presidential Council?
Yemen's Abdrabu Mansur Hadi had handed all executive powers to a newly formed Presidential Council
Gen Rashad Al Alimi, pictured at Sanaa airport on June 13, 2012. AFP
Nada AlTaher
After intense negotiations in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, where Yemeni-Yemeni talks have just wrapped up, a major announcement broke in the early hours of Thursday.
Yemen's President Abdrabu Mansur Hadi had handed all executive powers to a newly formed Presidential Council after removing his vice president from office.
The eight-member council includes powerful figures in the military and political scenes – some with boots on the ground in the ongoing civil war.
Members of Yemen's civil society, political parties, civilians and the international community have welcomed the show of unity represented within the council.
The announcement by Mr Hadi said Gen Rashad Al Alimi would head the presidential council. Gen Al Alimi has been up and down the ranks of Yemen's government since the 1990s, serving as Yemen's former interior minister and deputy prime minister for security and defence.
He was born in Taez, in 1954 and received his first years of education by his father, a judge. Since then, he was educated in Sanaa, Kuwait and Egypt before returning to Yemen where he enrolled into the police academy of Sanaa.
In 2001, Gen Al Alimi became Minister of Interior and went on to become a member of the dominant General People's Congress in 2013 before taking on the role of presidential advisor to Mr Hadi a year later.
Other members of the council include Sultan Al Aradah, who has been governor of Marib since 2012.
He comes from one of the governorate's main tribes — and has been considered an effective leader in resolving tribal disputes. Born in 1958, Mr Al Aradah has been involved in politics since the late 70s, local media has reported.
He is also known for his strong anti-Houthi sentiments and has positive relations with Yemen's neighbouring countries and members of the Saudi-led coalition. He also became a member of the General People's Congress in 1982 and a member of parliament later on.
More is known about Brig Aidrous Al Zubaidi than some of Presidential Council's other members owing to his prominence on the battlefield.
Born in 1967 in Dale' province, Brig Al Zubaidi graduated from Aden's aviation academy and went on to join the air force.
When former president Ali Abdullah Saleh announced a battle into the country's south, Brig Al Zubaidi fought in the civil war which ended with Saleh's forces entering Aden.
Upon his defeat, Brig Al Zubaidi was self-exiled to Djibouti and returned to the country two years after the 1994 war ended.
Since then he has been fighting for the independence of Yemen's south and leads the Southern Transitional Council, which was formed in 2017. He served as governor of Aden from 2015 to 2017 by presidential appointment and dismissal.
Ali Abdullah Saleh's nephew, Maj Gen Tariq Saleh, is also a member on the Presidential Council. He formed a non-state armed group called the National Resistance Forces, also known as the Guards of the Republic, in 2017. A military man, Maj Gen Saleh's involvement in battle included engagements in Hodeidah and Taez.
Another military figure is commander of the Giants Brigades, Abdurahman Al Muharrami Abu Zaraa who helped liberate hundreds of kilometres of Yemen's south from Houthi control. The Giants Brigades are a part of the wider National Resistance Forces, led by Maj Gen Saleh and have worked closely with the UAE's armed forces in the past.
The brigades were created in 2015, and are made up of more than 15,000 men including members of the former army of Yemen.
Abdullah Al Alimi Bawazeer is a government official and head of president Hadi's office.
Othman Mujali is another Yemeni politician and parliamentarian. Born in 1970, Mr Mujali is also a member of the General People's Congress. His biggest role in government was minister of state for parliamentary affairs and the Shura Council. He holds a bachelor's degree in Sharia.
Gen Faraj Salmain Al Bahsani is a military commander and has been the governor of Hadramawt province since 2017.
Updated: April 08, 2022, 4:11 AM


RBI: DAY, A.; SAXTON, T.
E: DAY, A.; DORSEY, M.; MCCRADY, M.
TURNER grounded out to 2b (2-2 BBSK).
FENICHEL singled to left field (0-0).
HIGGINS fouled out to 3b (1-0 B).
DEVAULT struck out looking (3-2 KKBBFBK).
DAY, A. struck out swinging (0-2 KFFFFS).
ENGLANT, A. struck out swinging (0-2 KFS).
COOPER, M. struck out looking (3-2 SKBBBK).
FORTEL grounded out to 1b unassisted (2-2 BSBK).
PLOCHECK singled to center field (1-2 SBFFFF).
YEAGER reached on a fielder's choice (1-2 FBF); PLOCHECK out at second 3b to 2b.
WARD struck out swinging (3-2 BBKBKS).
GENO, M. popped up to 2b (0-1 K).
YUN, K. reached on an error by ss (0-2 KS).
YUN, K. out at second c to ss, caught stealing.
BRUNSWICK, M flied out to cf (2-1 KBB).
TURNER struck out swinging (2-2 KBBFS).
FENICHEL struck out swinging (0-2 SFS).
HIGGINS popped up to ss (3-2 BBKSB).
DORSEY, M. struck out looking (3-2 KSBBBFK).
RICE, B. flied out to cf (0-1 K).
SAXTON, T. grounded out to ss (0-1 K).
DEVAULT flied out to lf (1-2 KBSF).
FORTEL flied out to cf (0-0).
DAY, A. popped up to 1b (0-1 S).
ENGLANT, A. struck out swinging (1-2 SBKS).
COOPER, M. grounded out to 3b (0-0).
YEAGER out at first p to 2b to 1b (1-0 B).
WARD struck out swinging (1-2 KBFFS).
GREEN popped up to 3b (3-2 BFBFB).
GENO, M. flied out to cf (1-1 FB).
YUN, K. fouled out to 1b (0-1 K).
BRUNSWICK, M flied out to rf (0-0).
TURNER struck out swinging (2-2 BBKFS).
FENICHEL fouled out to 3b (0-0).
HIGGINS reached on an error by rf, advanced to second (0-0).
GLADDEN pinch ran for HIGGINS.
DEVAULT flied out to rf (0-1 S).
DORSEY, M. flied out to cf (0-1 K).
RICE, B. flied out to cf (3-2 KBBFFB).
SAXTON, T. struck out swinging (2-2 KBSBFS).
FORTEL flied out to lf (0-1 K).
PLOCHECK doubled to center field (1-1 FB).
YEAGER singled to right field (0-2 KK); PLOCHECK advanced to third.
ENDRIS pinch ran for YEAGER.
WARD singled to pitcher, bunt, RBI (0-0); ENDRIS advanced to second; PLOCHECK scored.
GREEN popped up to p (0-1 K).
TURNER reached on a fielder's choice (2-2 FBFBF); WARD out at second 2b to ss.
DAY, A. fouled out to 1b (1-2 KBF).
ENGLANT, A. reached on an error by 3b (2-2 BKBF).
COOPER, M. walked (3-0 BBBB); ENGLANT, A. advanced to second.
COLE, D. pinch ran for COOPER, M..
1 - 1 GENO, M. reached on an error by ss (3-2 BBBKK); COLE, D. advanced to second; ENGLANT, A. scored, unearned.
GENO, M. reached on an error by ss (3-2 BBBKK); COLE, D. advanced to second; ENGLANT, A. scored, unearned.
HOLLAND, A. pinch ran for GENO, M..
YUN, K. flied out to lf (1-0 B).
BRUNSWICK, M struck out swinging (0-2 KFS).
COOPER, M. to 1b for COLE, D..
FENICHEL hit by pitch (1-2 FFFBF).
FENICHEL advanced to second; TURNER stole third.
HIGGINS singled to center field, advanced to second on the throw, RBI (1-2 KFB); FENICHEL advanced to third, out at home cf to p to c; TURNER scored.
DEVAULT fouled out to 3b (1-2 FSFBF).
FORTEL homered, 2 RBI (2-2 BFBFF); HIGGINS.
PLOCHECK fouled out to rf (0-1 F).
BRUNSWICK, M placed on second.
DORSEY, M. singled to left field, advanced to second on the throw (2-2 BFSB); BRUNSWICK, M advanced to third, out at home lf to c.
RICE, B. singled to center field, advanced to second on the throw (1-0 B); DORSEY, M. advanced to third.
4 - 3 SAXTON, T. reached on an error by 1b, RBI (3-2 KKBBFFFB); RICE, B. scored; DORSEY, M. scored.
SAXTON, T. reached on an error by 1b, RBI (3-2 KKBBFFFB); RICE, B. scored; DORSEY, M. scored.
4 - 4 DAY, A. doubled to left field, RBI (0-1 K); SAXTON, T. scored, unearned.
DAY, A. doubled to left field, RBI (0-1 K); SAXTON, T. scored, unearned.
ENGLANT, A. grounded out to ss (1-0 B); DAY, A. advanced to third.
GENO, M. to dp for HOLLAND, A..
COOPER, M. flied out to cf (2-0 BB).
MCCRADY, M. to p for STIENE, D..
WARD reached on an error by 3b (0-0); ENDRIS advanced to second; PLOCHECK advanced to third.
GREEN walked, RBI (3-2 KBKBFBB); WARD advanced to second; ENDRIS advanced to third; PLOCHECK scored.
TURNER singled to left field, RBI (3-2 KBFBBF); GREEN advanced to second; WARD advanced to third; ENDRIS scored.
FENICHEL reached on a fielder's choice, advanced to second on the throw, RBI (1-1 BF); TURNER advanced to third; GREEN scored; WARD scored on an error by p.
HIGGINS singled to left field, RBI; FENICHEL advanced to third; TURNER scored.
HIGGINS advanced to second on a passed ball; FENICHEL scored on a passed ball.
VILLANUEVA to p for MCCRADY, M..
DEVAULT advanced to second on a wild pitch; HIGGINS advanced to third.
FORTEL advanced to second; DEVAULT advanced to third; HIGGINS scored on a wild pitch.
FORTEL advanced to third on a wild pitch; DEVAULT out at home c to p.
MEEKS, K. to p for VILLANUEVA.
ENDRIS singled to left field, RBI (0-1 F); PLOCHECK advanced to second; FORTEL scored.
WARD struck out looking (0-2 KKK).
GREEN reached on a fielder's choice (2-1 BKB); ENDRIS advanced to second; PLOCHECK out at third 3b unassisted.
COOPER, M. placed on second.
GENO, M. flied out to cf (3-1 BBKB).
YUN, K. flied out to cf (1-0 B); COOPER, M. out at third cf to 3b.


My friends had a baby. Wow. Not that this is anything new, really. ALL OF MY FRIENDS have kids. But these two? I knew Matt before he ever met Amanda. And I've documented their entire relationship through my photography. From their marriage Proposal, Engagement, Wedding, Baby Gender Reveal Party, and now their DAUGHTER! Wow! I was honored they asked me to document this special time in their lives! And I just love this little munchkin and all of her hair!


Seestadt Aspern is very well known for its futuristic, diverse and open design – and exactly there – at the nearby lake – STUWO will open their brand-new student residence at the "Sonnenallee 24,1220 Wien", only a 3 minutes foot march away from the Subway line 2 station Aspern.
The premises is separated into 6 floors, offering a total of 295 new dwelling places – primarily single rooms in two-room apartments – conforming to the eminent high STUWO-Standard. The fully furnished facilities, including an integrated kitchen unit in the anteroom, bathroom with a shower and lavatory offer extensive highly modern equipment. As a matter of course, the rooms also comprise warm water/heating and electricity, cable-TV, internet as well as steady cleaning. All of these features are included in the price.
We grant you freely usable sauna facilities, a gym, two music practice rooms and a very special party room. Any cooking wishes may be quenched using the communal kitchens spread around the building.
The new student residence is situated in a traffic-favourably position due to the near vicinity of the city core of Aspern. By foot, it will take you only 3 minutes to reach the subway station "Seestadt" from where you can reach the city centre of Vienna as well as the various study institutions in no time. To put this into perspective, the Vienna University of Economic Sciences can directly be reached via the U2 subway line within 15 to 20 minutes.
In immediate proximity of the dormitory is the residential area complemented by the Aspern lake and the corresponding lakeside park. Additionally, the area has to offer a vast amount of shopping facilities for daily needs as well as numerous restaurants and cafes.
Monday, Wednesday - Friday from 09:00 to 12:00 a.m.
and on Tuesday from 12:00 a.m. to 03:00 p.m.


Anabel van Toledo is a Dutch model that was a contender in the Elite Model Look in the Netherlands in 2008.
She first walked on the runway in 2011 for the spring collections and she walked for the likes of Vivienne Westwood, Burberry and Topshop.
She has also appeared in editorials for Elle France, Harper's Bazaar and Glamour UK.
Anabel van Toledo is signed with Viva Model Management London, Why Not Model Management Milan and Viva Model Management Paris.
In 2011 Anabel van Toledo was on the covers of Marie Claire Italy in February and October, Aishti Magazine and Elle Netherlands, she appeared in editorials for Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire Italy and Teen Vogue, she was in an ad campaign for Alexander Berardi, she walked the spring shows for Burberry Prorsum, Peter Pilotto, Daks, Julien Macdonald, Clements Riberiro, Topshop Unique, Loewe, Vivienne Westwood Gold Label, Marios Schwab, Leonard, Issa and Kinder Aggugini and she walked the fall shows for Antonio Berardi, Rebecca Taylor, John Rocha, Dennis Basso, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Doo.Ri, Les Copains, Peter Pilotto, Margaret Howell, Elie Tahari and Kinder Aggugini.
In 2012 she appeared in ad campaigns for AnnaRita and Fay, she was in editorials for Elle Italia and Vogue Greece, she was on the covers of Vogue Greece and Spur Japan.


The audio team on Dancing with the Stars has updated its live sound system with dual Avid Venue S6L consoles.
J. Mark King with one of the Avid Venue | S6Ls used on Dancing With The Stars.
Burlington, MA (May 9, 2018)—J. Mark King, freelance audio mixer and co-owner of KMK Audio, and his business partner, Butch McKarge, have used Avid Venue live sound systems to mix the music for ABC's Dancing with the Stars for eight years. Now they've chosen dual Avid Venue | S6Ls for the 26th season of the show, which premiered on April 30.
While they were happy with their Avid Venue | Profile system, they needed to upgrade to support the increasing channel counts required by the show and decided to invest in two Avid Venue | S6L systems, purchasing them through Jan Landy at SoundBroker.com.
"Mark and Butch were originally just looking to upgrade their main broadcast console, but once they took delivery of the system and had a chance to dive into the workflows and hear the difference in sound quality, it was a no-brainer to upgrade the monitor position as well," explained Landy.
"I have a lot of show files and snapshots from the Profile and I knew that I could save a lot of time and trouble transferring EQs, gain structure and other settings to the S6L, as opposed to starting from scratch," said King.
King mixes all the on-stage instruments for Dancing with the Stars from a customized trailer outside the studio and feeds his mix into the network's broadcast mix. King also uses Pro Tools extensively for recording and Virtual Soundcheck. He records and mixes the band rehearsals, providing the resulting mix to the show's producers for sign off, and to the dancers to rehearse with before their final performance. King also plays the multi-track Pro Tools recordings back through the Avid Venue | S6L in Virtual Soundcheck mode and refines their mixes offline.


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LARKSPUR AND DELPHINIUM
Consolida ajacis; Delphinium elatum
kon-SOH-lih-dah ah-JAY-sis; del-FIH-nee-um eh-LAY-tu
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These botanical cousins personify the cheer and charm of a storybook cottage garden. Both bear dozens of ruffled, bright ½ - 1" (1.3 - 2.5cm) blossoms on racemes (stalks) from 16" - 6 ' (0.4 - 2m) tall, and either can achieve the same look in a floral design.
The flowers of both are trumpet-shaped with a front collar of five single or double sepals ("petals" that are really extensions of the flower's calyx or base), and a long, tapered funnel in the back. This tail-like appendage inspired both their common names: larkspur because the flower resembles a lark's foot with its long, curving back spur; and delphinium from the Greek delphis or "dolphin," for the flower bud's resemblance to a leaping dolphin. Both have large, deeply sectioned leaves which cluster at the base of the plants.
Despite being frequently mislabeled and confused for each other—even by experts—the two plants do have differences; enough difference that Larkspur was recently reclassified out of the delphinium family into its own species. The most important difference for floral designers is that larkspur comes in a wider array of colors, while delphinium's palette is largely confined to blues and whites. Larkspur is also an annual while delphinium is a perennial, and though they look nearly the same, delphinium has separated sepals while larkspur has some conjoined ones.
There are about 40 species of larkspur and 300 of delphinium, but most of the cultivars in the floral trade are hybridized from about half a dozen of them.
Both can be dried (larkspur more easily than delphinium), and both shrivel at the merest whisper of ethylene. Some cultivars have a light fragrance.
Colors: Both species bloom in whites, blues, purples and pinks; larkspur also has yellows, oranges, reds and maroons. Some of the only large flowers with a natural true blue color.
Purchase larkspur and delphiniums only from sources that reliably pre-treat to protect them from ethylene. Choose stems with a third or more of the flowers in bloom. Recut the stems and put them in a floral with a preservative, anti-ethylene agent and sugar. Researchers have discovered that mannitol is the sugar that keeps delphiniums perky and fortified against ethylene longest, though they will benefit from standard sugar solutions too. Don't forget to add a bacteriacide, to keep microbial growth from sliming the stems and contaminating the water.
The plants and their sap are toxic, so take care when handling and be sure to wash up afterward.
Even with the best floral hygiene these flowers are short-lived, so keep them cold (37 - 41°F / 3 - 5°C) and don't store them for more than a day or two. They are geotropic and will bend toward the light, so store them upright to keep them from twisting.
Don't eat them! These flowers belong to the infamously toxic buttercup family. They secrete delphinine, an alkaloid similar to monkshood's aconitine, "the queen of poisons." Ingestion causes the whole digestive tract to go into panic-and-purge mode, and it can slow or stop lungs and heart. Fortunately, history shows that larkspur and delphinium almost never appeal to humans for consumption, even in folk remedies…though every so often some unlucky cows come across a patch of them in a pasture and munch their unintended last meal.
Larkspur's big, frondy leaves and fibrous stalks were once used as a wound dressing, which inspired the genus' name, Consolida, from the Latin word meaning "consolidate," or "make firm."
Native Americans and European settlers made dye and ink from the blue delphinium blossoms.
The flowers decorated mummies in ancient Egypt.
Delphinium is the birth month flower for July.
Larkspur and delphinium are among the top selling florist flowers worldwide.
A member of the gorgeous-but-deadly Ranunculaceae (buttercup) family, related to columbine, goldenseal, wolfsbane (monkshood), and buttercups as well.
larkspur, rocket larkspur; delphinium
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Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners, William T. Stearn, paperback, © 1996, 2002, Timber Press


Muddy Paws & Inky Fingers: I'm guest designing for Sweet Stamps! Starting with a Silhouette!
Congratulations! I saw your lovely creation across at SweetStamps.com it is so lovely. Love all the colours!
I love this pretty card- What a fun way to get color- will have to give my Gelato's a try! Fun to meet you as a Guest DT at Sweet Stamps!
Beautiful card Julie!! Love the watercolors behind this beautiful image!
Pretty card with some nice colors and one of my favorite silhouette image. Nice to have you as part of the SS team this month.


Organizations can easily try or purchase Deep Security through the Azure marketplace (as a BYOL or Virtual Appliance). And automating security deployment across the hybrid cloud is simple with Quickstart Templates, Powershell Scripts and leading orchestration tools like Chef and Puppet. In addition, Deep Security is a data source that enriches Microsoft OMS (operations management suite) log analytics capabilities.


I own a Ruger Super Red Hawk Alaskan in caliber 454 Casull / 45 Colt. This is my primary self defense/home defense weapon. I regulated the sights for the Cor Bon load - the 200 gr. JHP load. I also use the 225 gr. all copper HP load. Both pretty much shoot to the same point of aim and print around 4 inch groups at 20 yards. Anyone know of any other "hot" 45 Colt loads suitable for self defense? On the Cor Bon boxes it says the 200 gr. stuff has a muzzle velocity of 1100 fps., while the 225 gr. stuff goes 1200 fps. I wonder how much velocity is lost in the short barrel of the Alaskan.
It's nice to know that if I ever need to walk in bear country I can load it up with 454's and feel safe.
You may want to check out "Buffalo Bore", they have some pretty hot stuff.
It is about your very gun and the ballistics loss with the shorter barrel over say a 5 inch barrel. Looks to be about 14-20% loss in FPS and FT lbs energy. I want the Alaskan myself, it is on my short list!
Yes... Buffalo Bore has some hot 45 Colt loads but they seem to be hunting loads. Not really appropriate for self defense use. Thanks for the heads up though, Bill.


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The PixoPoint Theme Integrator has now been launched as a stable release.
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WASHINGTON, DC – The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, through its Startup@BerkeleyLaw initiative, and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) are delighted to announce their partnership and launch of VC University, an educational program providing practical training on venture finance for entrepreneurs, investors, attorneys and others interested in emerging company finance. Participants can access VC University through the online certificate program or by attending one of the in-person programs held in emerging venture ecosystems across the United States, called VC University LIVE. In 2019, VC University will partner with the Center for Venture Capital and Private Equity Finance at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University to bring VC University LIVE to the Midwest and South.
VC University incorporates lectures and interviews with faculty from the University of California, Berkeley, executives from NVCA, leading U.S. venture investors, and faculty from local universities. The VC University online program democratizes access to the nuts and bolts of venture finance, while the VC University LIVE events build on this by convening emerging ecosystems to bring together interested VCs from coast-to-coast and provide educational and networking opportunities. Participants who complete either component of the program receive a certificate.
Enrollment in the online course is now open through March 22, 2019. The course will commence on April 1, 2019, and enrollment includes a one-year subscription to over 20 hours of materials. Content for the online course will be updated annually. The inaugural VC University LIVE events will be held in the Midwest on May 15-17, 2019 at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business in Ann Arbor, Michigan and then in the South on September 19-21, 2019 with the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. VC University will also be partnering with PitchBook, the premier data provider for the private and public equity markets, to provide VC University students with limited access to PitchBook's private market data and resources.
Learn more about VC University and see how you can get involved by visiting the VC University website at www.venturecapitaluniversity.com.
The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) empowers the next generation of American companies that will fuel the economy of tomorrow. As the voice of the U.S. venture capital and startup community, NVCA advocates for public policy that supports the American entrepreneurial ecosystem. Serving the venture community as the preeminent trade association, NVCA arms the venture community for success, serving as the leading resource for venture capital data, practical education, peer-led initiatives, and networking. For more information about NVCA, please visit www.nvca.org.
Launched in 2015 with the support of a generous gift from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Startup@BerkeleyLaw is a collaboration between the Berkeley Center for Law and Business (BCLB) and the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology (BCLT). Startup@BerkeleyLaw delivers dynamic programming for law students, entrepreneurs, and investors on current and emerging issues facing early stage companies – delivering cutting-edge legal training for aspiring startup lawyers while enabling entrepreneurs at Berkeley and beyond. For more information about Startup@BerkeleyLaw, please visit https://www.law.berkeley.edu/startup.


Compatible to connect Amazon Echo, Google Home, TmallGenie etc smart devices, turn ON/OFF your appliance's trough voice-control.
Remote control the devices: Control home appliances when in the office.
Set timers to turn ON/OFF appliances, like what time to turn ON/OFF.
Available to share devices to family members, multi-phones can control devices through app simultaneously.
Saving decoration costs: The use of traditional switches in decoration will generate cost of wiring, labours and wires, and it will easily cause damage to the wall and produce waste, which is not environmental-friendly.
Zero-crossing triggering patented technology. The zero starting of AC power will completely eliminate sparks, which brings good protection of your lamps and effectively extends the service life of your lamps.
One master switch control. Press the left button to turn on and press the right button to turn off.
Two single buttons control 2 receiving controllers and so on.
Package Contents: Depends on the products you chose.
3. Open King Smart APP, login your account.
5. Open King Smart APP, login your account.
Press and hold receiver button for 2s, loosen your grip when LED indicator blinks in red, press a switch to pair, Switch open and learning success.
Press and hold paired switch for around 20s LED indicator blinks rapidly, then loosen your grip, press a new one to pair, Switch open or close and learning success.
or close and delete success.
codes learned from the receiver will be deleted.
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Confederate Treasure Coverup: Duty, honor, and Deceit
Description: An 1885 booklet published in Lynchburg told of treasure buried in Virginia by Thomas J. Beale, with the location defined by cipher cryptograms. Millions of TV viewers know of the mystery from special programs on Fox TV, History Channel, Travel Channel, BBC and even Seoul Broadcasting. But the puzzle has defied solution. Is the treasure real? Where did it come from? Where is it now? This novel is the untold story of who put it there, how they did it, what became of it, and what became of them.


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Two classes a month quickly grew to between five and seven a month, with 40 to 60 people attending each one.
MANATEE, Fla. -- The Manatee County Sheriff's Office started offering active shooter training classes to civilians in October after the Las Vegas shooting, and they were immediately popular.
"We can't put classes in fast enough to account for the demand," said Lt. Rob Andrews, who heads the Crime Prevention Department for the sheriff's office.
Why the interest in the classes?
"I think as events happen as with Parkland, we see people are concern want to become educated of what to do," Andrews said.
He told the group most active shooters are white males between somewhere in their 20s or 30s.
Barbara Boyce is licensed to carry, and she signed up for the training.
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Frank Coseglia, a retired police officer went to the class, representing his church.
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The next class for April 5 is nearly full. The sheriff's office is requiring all of its civilian employees to take the course next month.
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Christian Loidl (* 17. September 1957 in Linz; † 16. Dezember 2001 in Wien) war ein österreichischer Schriftsteller und Performer.

Leben

Der gebürtige Linzer studierte zunächst Germanistik und Psychologie an der Universität Wien. Zu dieser Zeit beschäftigte er sich auch mit fernöstlichen Meditationspraktiken und Philosophien, insbesondere dem tibetischen Buddhismus. Er promovierte 1984 mit einer Arbeit über Doris Mühringer zum Doktor der Philosophie.

Danach verdiente er sich sein Brot als freiberuflicher Schriftsteller und mit journalistischen Beiträgen für Radiosendungen und Feuilletons. Sie erschienen u. a. in der Diagonal, im Spectrum (Wochenendbeilage der Presse) und in Ö1. Zudem veröffentlichten Literaturzeitschriften erste Gedichte von ihm, erste Lesungen vor Publikum fanden statt.

Nachhaltigen Einfluss auf sein Werk übte die Literatur der Beat-Generation mit ihren Protagonisten wie William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac und Anne Waldman aus. Während eines Aufenthalts an der Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics im US-amerikanischen Boulder in den späten 1980er und frühen 1990er Jahren lernte Loidl einige dieser Schriftsteller kennen. Vor allem der Dichter Harry Smith (1936–2012) begeisterte ihn.

Von Erfahrungen mit der Vermittelbarkeit der Dichtkunst angeregt, hob er 1992 gemeinsam mit anderen Autoren, darunter Christian Ide Hintze, die "Schule für Dichtung" aus der Taufe. In den nächsten Jahren war Loidl ein gerngesehener Gast auf Lyrikveranstaltungen, beispielsweise 1992 im makedonischen Struga und auf dem Poetischen Frühling Litauen in Vilnius, auf dem MilanoPoesia 1993, dem New Rage Festival Amsterdam 1995, dem Festival de Poesía Medellín 1999, den Austrian Psycho Nites in Berlin 2000, dem Herbstfestival Litauen im selben Jahr und dem Internationalen Poesiefestival in Rosario 2001.

Am 16. Dezember 2001 starb er an den Folgen eines Sturzes aus dem Fenster seiner Wohnung.

Werk

Schwerpunktmäßig beschäftigte sich Loidl mit dem Schreiben und Vortragen von Lyrik. Er war ein "literarischer Weltreisender", der an den verschiedensten Orten auftrat, um mit ausdrucksstarken Vorträgen der Öffentlichkeit seine Werke näher zu bringen.

glaub den irrgärtnern
ihre heuchelei und habgier

glaub ihnen
das tote im blick wenn sie
kerker für ideen bauen
(aus "glaub den irrgärtnern")

Er arbeitete auch mit Musikern wie Marwan Abado, Martina Cizek, Beat Furrer, Bernhard Lang, Otto Lechner und Wolfgang Musil zusammen.

Bücher:

 weiße rede. Gedichte. (edition umbruch, Mödling 1990)
 falsche prophezeiungen. gedichte. (edition selene, Wien 1994)
 Wiener Mysterien. Prosa. Vorwort von Andreas Okopenko. (edition selene, Wien 1995)
 farnblüte. gedichte. (edition selene, Wien 1996)
 pupille. gedichte. (edition selene, Wien 1998)
 icht. (somnambule rasanzen) (edition selene, Wien 1999)
 niemandsspiegel / oglinda nimanui. Gedichte, zweisprachig. Buch & Kassette. (Verlag kriterion, Bukarest o. J.)
 kleinstkompetenzen. erinnerungen aus einer geheimen kindheit. Buch und CD (mit Otto Lechner). (edition selene, Wien 2000)
 schwarzer rotz. gedichte und messerschnitte für h. c. artmann, Jo Kuehn (gem. mit Joseph Kühn). (edition selene, Wien 2002)

Tonträger:

 wir müssen leise sein wie pfirsiche. sprechgedichte. (edition umbruch, Mödling 1990)
 falsche prophezeiungen. CD. (edition selene, Wien 1994)
 bei uns dahoam. zaubersprüche und -lieder. CD. (edition selene, Wien 1998)
 kleinstkompetenzen. erinnerungen aus einer geheimen kindheit. CD (mit Otto Lechner). (edition selene, Wien 2000)

Übersetzungen:

 Hakim Bey, Radio Sermonettes (mit Jack Hauser und David Ender). (edition selene, Wien 1996.)
 Peter Lamborn Wilson, Skandal! Essays zur islamischen Häresie.  (edition selene, Wien 1997)
 William Levy, Unser Freund Otto Mühl. (Werner Pieper's MedienXperimente, Löhrbach 1998)
 Lidija Simkute, White Shadows / Weiße Schatten. (edition selene, Wien 2000)
 Ruth Weiss, Ein Kreis vollendet sich / Full circle. (edition exil, Wien 2001)

Weblinks

 Christian Loidl
 Das hörbare Erbe - Christian Loidl spricht eine Auswahl seiner Gedichte auf lyrikline.org
 Eintrag zu Christian Loidl von Leopold Federmair für die OÖ Literaturgeschichte des StifterHauses
 Archivaufnahmen mit Christian Loidl im Onlinearchiv der Österreichischen Mediathek

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Literatur (21. Jahrhundert)
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Geboren 1957
Gestorben 2001
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Mental stress is an unspoken part of the game for esports athletes
Brad 'Scar' Vaughn takes time away from gaming for better work-life balance
Brad "Scar" Vaughn is a professional fighting game player. Mashable.com
By Brando Simeo Starkey	@BrandoStarkey
Pinned to the top of his Twitter page, Brad "Scar" Vaughn, a professional Mortal Kombat 11 player, sends a pertinent message to his followers: "Mental health > Everything else."
Some might conclude that professional gamers live a dream, getting paid to play video games. But Vaughn, who most recently finished 9-12th place at the Final Kombat 2020 competition in Chicago, has dealt with depression as a gamer.
He warns against the idea that the dream comes with no costs.
"Basically, for me, gaming before the esports thing was something that I did as a hobby," Vaughn said, "and something that I fell in love with ever since I got a Super Nintendo in '96. But it's different once you start doing it as a job. Like anything, it becomes too repetitive. It can kind of mess with you mentally, and I think that's what happened to me."
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— END| Scar (@khscar12) April 23, 2020
Gamers like Vaughn, no matter the type of games they play, grind for hours, perfecting their skills. "You have to do that because you're always in competition with hundreds of other people," Vaughn said. "And when you're taking a break, the other guy might not be taking a break. You can't take a break away from the game too long because one, you can get rusty and two, while you're taking a break, the other guy is working twice as hard."
This constant grind can take a toll, and the mental health of gamers is top of the mind in May, which is Mental Health Awareness Month.
Gamers have to play games that will make them money. Sometimes they don't like those games, and, unlike a normal job that has both gratifying and aggravating aspects, playing unenjoyable games can feel wholly unrewarding.
"Injustice 2 was a game that I didn't like," Vaughn said, referring to the fighting game that features characters from the DC Universe. Like the Mortal Kombat franchise, Injustice 2 was developed by NetherRealm Studios. "I felt like that's really like my home," Vaughn continued, referring to NetherRealm Studios, "even though it might not be a Mortal Kombat title, my peers are playing the game, so I stuck it out with the game even though I didn't like it. And I think that took a huge toll on me as well. And my passion for grinding and playing professionally.
"Injustice 2 was the worst I've been in my life," Vaughn said of playing the game, which came out in May 2017. "I was in a relationship at the time and it suffered because of that. Things went downhill." Around this time, he lost both of his parents.
"I fell into a deep depression. My real life clashed with the gaming side. The gaming then becomes a reminder of what went wrong in your personal life, or a reminder of the bad things," said Vaughn.
"From my experience, gamers aren't dealing with their mental health at all. Many of them are young people who have taken on very rigorous schedules without guidance from peers who might have advice to offer because the industry is so new." — Azeem Khan, former president of Unanimous Games
"You're used to having gaming as a place to go to get your mind away, but when the gaming gets wrapped up in those bad things, then you become lost. … Leading into MK11 from Injustice 2, it just really messed with me. For a long period of time, I didn't view competing the same. And I just got worn out. Even like right now, I'm trying to get that energy back to compete, but you have to find balance in life, and I feel like that's what I'm trying to do right now. Because everything can't revolve around a game, and if it does revolve around a game, you start falling into a deep depression because everything seems so repetitive."
Azeem Khan, the director of growth at Aglet and former president of Unanimous Games, said, "From my experience, gamers aren't dealing with their mental health at all. Many of them are young people who have taken on very rigorous schedules without guidance from peers who might have advice to offer because the industry is so new.
"What you see is a generation of young people who will be making the mistakes while figuring out how to navigate spending hours on end in front of a screen streaming games, while doing the best they can to entertain their audiences. Young people don't typically have the best mental health care to begin with, so to add these extra factors puts them at a variety of risks," said Khan.
Vaughn, once an example of this phenomenon, now finds ways to cope. "I take more time away from games because I feel like it's important to my mental health. Because I feel if I do it too much, I'm going to fall back into a deep depression. Nowadays, I try to balance my life of being out the game and doing stuff away from the game, and then playing the game, but not doing it too long to where I get burnt out."
Doug Gardner, a performance coach who works with esports competitors, said that "you're starting to see that the player evolution to self-care be player-driven and continue to be player-driven."
With esports being such a new industry, the current players are acting as guinea pigs on the dangers within the industry regarding mental health. CBS News produced a documentary, Esports: The Price of the Grind, that recounts a familiar story of professional gamers: hours of play that lead to physical impairment and burnout.
Indy Halpern
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Richard Lewis, an esports journalist, said in the documentary, "a 12-, 14-hour day is not uncommon. And they do this at least six days a week, very often seven, which is why we have all these terrible issues with burnout and players getting ground up by 24."
Indy Halpern, a professional Overwatch player, echoed Vaughn's sentiments in the documentary, describing the mental toll of professional gaming: "Back when I used to play in middle school or in high school, there wasn't that much stress 'cause we're not competing that hard. But when I went to esports, it's a whole new level of stress when you're playing against professionals. It's always in the back of your mind, basically, you always have the pressure on shoulders. You have to do really well so that you can win and take everything home."
Further complicating the issue for gamers, according to Gardner, is "that a lot of these players come into the professional level not having gone through the traditional process that athletes do in traditional sports." Baseball players, for instance, go through little league to high school ball to sometimes college and the minor leagues. Professional gamers typically come from their bedrooms directly to professional teams. They don't go through anything "that progresses them to a process that acculturates them into professional sports," Gardner observed. Vaughn certainly didn't.
Success heightens the stress
The highlight of competition in Vaughn's career occurred in May 2019, when he won the Combo Breaker Mortal Kombat 11 tournament and the $9,000 prize. Nothing beats, he said, "the feeling of finishing on top." But the stress of flying to tournaments across the globe, with the heavy pressure to win, can exhaust competitors.
"Either you win and get money, or you lose and you walk away with nothing. If you come up short, it's a huge blow because it's like, 'S—, I put in all this time, all this work and then I go to this tournament and I come up short.' You start pressing like, 'What was it all for?'
"It's stressful."
Rodney Conyers Jr., a writer and on-air esports commentator, struck a similar chord: "Most of these players' financial livelihoods are wrapped into how well they place, and for some that can be a hard burden to bear traveling week in and week out. Imagine playing knowing that if you place incorrectly over a series of events, you could be back at home working a job you really hate again."
According to esportsearnings.com, 25,557 esports players competed for the more than $223 million in prize money allocated in 2019. The median earnings per player was a paltry $688 per tournament. But winning a tournament multiplies that figure. And sometimes, players can win millions of dollars in a single tournament.
Many players, Conyers said, "wrap a good amount of their self-worth into where and how they place at tournaments."
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Vaughn is fortunate — being sponsored by an esports team, in his case Endemic, allows him to go to tournaments across the globe without having to pay. These teams also help players get corporate sponsorships to supplement their incomes. And most professional gamers have Twitch streams as well to make extra money.
The esports teams, because they employ them and should care about their well-being, should offer a safe place for players. But these teams, Vaughn believes, sometimes fail their players.
"I think another important topic we have to address is teams being more connected with their players in terms of having that deep relationship where a player will feel comfortable going and speaking with their team," Vaughn said.
"I would love to see teams take their players more seriously to see if they are OK in terms of [mental health]."
Vaughn didn't turn to his former team, Echo Fox, or professionals to aid him in climbing out of a depressive hole, although he has had success reaching out to Endemic. One can detect a tinge of regret in his voice when he notes how he might feel turning to his team for aid. "What helped me," he said, "is talking to close friends about how I was feeling."
Brad Vaughn after winning the Combo Breaker 2019 tournament.
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Khan notices the same problem, saying, "This is something I have not seen anyone in the industry tackle well, especially corporate teams. As with all corporations, especially in such a capitalistic society, companies are most focused on making sure they can maximize their profits, even if it's at the detriment of their talent. It's simply not in the corporation's short-term self-interest to give the time of day to making sure the mental health needs of their esports athletes are taken care of, because it could encroach on already shaky profits.
"The real problem is there are people who are more interested in using these athletes to serve their own interests and see them as expendable pieces instead of humans who deserve to be treated as such," said Khan. "Because there's a gold rush of sorts going on in esports right now, it's much worse than it would be if the industry was mature. Until there are more acceptable standard practices, this will continue to occur."
Gardner, who worked for the Boston Red Sox as a sport psychology consultant and for the Los Angeles Valiant in the Overwatch League, said, "I think that those organizations that are still owned by [noncorporate entities] are doing more for their players, are doing more than organizations that are now owned by corporate entities."
Having worked behind the scenes with esports leagues and teams, Gardner said, "As we have seen this corporate takeover of esports and the buying of franchises that it's a business, and it's too myopic in terms of trying to turn a profit." And that these entities "get rid of individuals and resources that would promote player and personal development. I question whether they truly care about winning and being competitive and doing the best for their players."
Brando Simeo Starkey is an associate editor at The Undefeated and the author of In Defense of Uncle Tom: Why Blacks Must Police Racial Loyalty. He crawled through a river of books and came out brilliant on the other side.
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