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Orville Goldner, of "King Kong" fame, visited Ajijic in the 1970s
Orville Charles Goldner (1906-1985) was an art director, puppeteer and special-effects artist who visited Ajijic with his wife Dorothy Goldner in the early 1970s.
Goldner was born in Toledo, Ohio, on 18 May 1906 and died on 28 February 1985. He studied at the Toledo Museum School of Design in his native town before moving to Oakland, California, to study at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Berkeley (now California College of the Arts). Here, he met Dorothy ("Dot") Thompson Goldner (1906-2005); the couple married in October 1925 and had two children.
Soon after their marriage, the young couple moved to Hollywood. In the late-1920s, they were members of a traveling Shakespeare Theater Group and peripatetic marionette show (1926-1930). Goldner's long and varied career in the movie business began in 1927 when he worked at Kinex Studio in Hollywood as a technical director, designer, and creator of animated films and special effects.
In the early 1930s, Goldner worked for RKO Studios on such films as The Most Dangerous Game (1932) and King Kong (1933). Orville Goldner later co-authored (with George E. Turner) The Making of King Kong: The Story Behind A Film Classic (1975).
In the late 1930s, Goldner and his wife made many educational films for the state of California. One of his lasting legacies is an astonishingly powerful collection of photographs of migrant farm workers in California and their children. He spent the first few months of 1940 documenting families on behalf of the California Department of Education and later also photographed Hupa Indian students and their lifestyles on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation in Humboldt County. See Picturing California's Migrant Children: Orville Goldner's Photographic Trek of 1940 for more details.
In 1935, Goldner had worked as an art director at the California-Pacific International Expo and he was given a similar role at the Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939-1940.
A series of four short, silent, color movies taken at the Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island in San Francisco (1939/40), by Orville Goldner, can be viewed online via this web page. The movies comprise the "Dorothy Goldner Collection", now housed in the San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive.
From our perspective, the most interesting by far is that relating to the "Art in Action" exhibition which includes footage showing Diego Rivera painting the Pan American Unity Mural at that event. It also portrays several other artists demonstrating their techniques in sculpture, mosaics, printing, doll making, weaving, pottery and axe carving. The Mexican pavilion at the Golden Gate International Exposition is shown in the film entitled "Pavilions, parades & soap box derby at Golden Gate Exposition".
Other artists associated with both Lake Chapala and the Golden Gate International Exposition include John Langley Howard (1902-1999), Louis Ernest Lenshaw (1892-1988), Robert Pearson McChesney (1913-2008), Ann Sonia Medalie (1896-1991), Max Pollak (1886-1970) and Charles Frederick Surendorf (1906-1979)..
When the U.S. entered the second world war, Goldner joined the U.S. Navy, where he headed the U.S. Navy's Training Films and Motion Picture branch from 1942 to 1946. His work in this position won him a Commendation Ribbon from the Secretary of the Navy, as well as the award of the Order of the British Empire from the U.K. government for his work with the British Armed Forces.
After the second world war, the Goldners went to Europe and lived for several years in France before returning to San Francisco. For the remainder of his career, Goldner focused on the production of documentary films and visual material for educational purposes. He was Director of Production (1946-49) and later an overseas film producer (1949-52) for Curriculum Films in New York.
Goldner then directed the Audio-Visual Center at San Francisco State University from 1954 to 1960, before returning to commercial film making as Director of Audio-Visual Services for the Panorama colorslide program at Columbia Record Club. Panorama series included "Guided Tours of the World," "Adventures in Nature and Science" and "Guided Tours of the World's Great Museums."
Orville Goldner worked with his wife on numerous documentary film strips including A Colorslide Tour of Mexico Land of Sun and Laughter South of the Border (1961). This publication, with 32 color slides and a 33 1/3rpm record narrated by Cesar Romero, was edited by Darlene Geis and published by Columbia Record Club, New York in 1961.
The Goldners also made Doña Rosa: Potter of Coyotepec, a 10-minute color film released in 1959, which shows Doña Rosa de Nieto, from San Bartolo Coyotepec in Oaxaca making a pot (olla) and firing her creations in an underground kiln.
From 1967 to 1971, Goldner was a professor of Mass Communications and Director of the Audio-Visual Center at Chico State College.
In 1968, Orville and Dorothy Goldner formed the film production company Visual Americana. Their best-known collaboration from this time was on the award-winning ethnographic film Three Stone Blades, for which Ira Latour was cinematographer and Valerie L. Smith was anthropology consultant. The film was awarded a bronze medal at the New York Film Festival. It recreates a folktale of the Inupiat (Eskimo) people of Point Hope, Alaska, the farthest northwest village in North America, about the fate of a widow and her children in the Arctic. The Port Hope area has now been abandoned because of flooding by melting ice.
[Ira Latour, a student of legendary photographers Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, was, coincidentally, also at the Golden Gate International Exposition. He had been commissioned by the National Railways of Mexico to paint an 18-foot mural for the Mexican Pavilion at the 1939–1940 Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island in the Bay Area.]
It was very shortly after completing Three Stone Blades that the Goldners visited Chapala:
"Goldner, head of Visual Americana, is visiting friends here prior to putting the finishing touches on his latest film, a study of an Eskimo legend filmed in Alaska. After preparing the film for distribution, Goldner and his wife, Dorothy, will go to Chapala, Mexico, for an extended stay." (Amarillo Globe-Times, 12 November 1970).
Documents relating to Orville Goldner's career can be found in two university archives. Parks Library at Iowa State University houses a collection of his papers from 1926-1982 while California State University, Chico, has materials relating to the period between 1935 and 1957 (mainly related to his photographic study of migrant farm workers in California and their children).
Amarillo Globe-Times, Amarillo, Texas, 12 November 1970, p 43
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Alfredo Bolongaro-Crevenna (1914-1996) visited Ajijic in about 1945
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Film director and writer Alfredo ("Fredy") Bolongaro-Crevenna (1914-1996) visited Ajijic in about 1945 with movie producer Francisco Cabrera. Their visit was noted by Neill James in her 1945 account of the village.
Bolongaro-Crevenna and Cabrera played very significant roles in the golden age of Mexican cinema. Bolongaro-Crevenna directed about 140 films between 1945 and 1995, in genres ranging from melodramas to comedy, horror and science fiction.
Bolongaro-Crevenna was born in Frankfurt, Germany, on 22 April 1914 and was more commonly known as Alfredo B. Crevenna. He studied chemical engineering at Oxford University in the U.K. before returning to Germany to take a position at the UFA film studios in Berlin.
Crevenna married his high school sweetheart Renate Horney (1916-2009), the youngest daughter of German-American psychoanalyst Karen Horney (who also visited Ajijic, in 1945).
In 1938, at age 24, Crevenna left the UFA film studios and moved to New York City, with the intention of finding work eventually in Hollywood. After several wasted months trying to obtain a work visa, he accepted an invitation from an old school friend to go to Mexico City.
At a welcome party, he was introduced to the film producer Francisco de P. Cabrera. Cabrera was about to start shooting La noche de los mayas (1939) and asked Crevenna to take a look at the script. Crevenna did not at that time speak Spanish, so he translated the script into English overnight and then made various suggestions to tighten up the structure. Thus began the lengthy and exceedingly fruitful working relationship between the two men. Crevenna never did return to live in New York, and eventually became a naturalized Mexican citizen.
Crevenna and Renate Horney settled into family life in Mexico City and Cuernavaca. The couple had at least two children: Angela Karen Bolongaro-Crevenna (1936-1999) and Pedro Bolongaro-Crevenna (ca 1940-1988). In 1960, Renate Crevenna exhibited in a group show of German artists in the Galerias Chapultepec in Mexico City. The show also featured a work by Otto Butterlin.
In 1943, Cabrera suggested that Crevenna begin his career as a director in Mexico with the movie Santa in a version starring Esther Fernández and Ricardo Montalbán. Unfortunately, at that time the U.S. completely controlled the supply of film stock. When the U.S.-based Office of the Coordinator for Inter-American Affairs objected to the use of a German-born director, Cabrera was forced to work with Hollywood director Norman Foster, even though Foster did not speak a word of Spanish.
His films included Neither Blood Nor Sand (1941), Muchachas de uniforme (1950), Mi esposa y la otra (1951), Una mujer en la calle (1955), Orquídeas para mi esposa (1954), Talpa (1956), Where the Circle Ends (1956), Yambaó (1957), Adventure at the Center of the Earth (1965), La venus maldita (1967), La Satánica (1973). He collaborated on many projects with the legendary Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel.
Many of Crevenna's movies won awards. For instance, Talpa received several "Ariel" awards and was nominated for Best Picture in 1957.
Alfredo Bolongaro-Crevenna, described by those who knew him as tall, polite, and with a wonderful sense of humor, died in Mexico City on 30 August 1996, leaving a legacy that included some of the finest Mexican movies of all time.
Angela Karen Bolongaro-Crevenna, the German-born daughter of Alfred Bolongaro-Crevenna and Renate Horney, and grand-daughter of Karen Horney, had an additional close link to the Lake Chapala area.
After the family moved to Mexico, Angela become a naturalized Mexican citizen. She met German-born otolaringologist Dr. Carl "Hannes" Lohmann in 1955 and married him three years later. They spent most of their time in the U.S. but were frequent visitors to Mexico and had a winter home in Quintana Roo. From 1993, they began to spend winters at Lake Chapala. They bought a home in Chapala Haciendas and, in 1995, moved permanently to the area.
Even after Angela Lohman (née Bolongaro-Crevenna) died in 1999, her husband Carl continued to reside in Chapala until his own death in a Guadalajara hospital a decade later.
Rogelio Agrasánchez, Jr. Undated. "From the UFA to the Mexican Studios: Alfredo B. Crevenna."
Cinema Reporter. "Crevenna, Alfredo Bolongaro", Cinema Reporter. No. 482, 11 October 1947, p. 16.
José Luis Gallegos C. "Alfredo B. Crevenna colaboró con Luis Buñuel." Excélsior. Espectáculos. 30 November 1990, p2.
Guadalajara Reporter. "Longtime Lakeside resident Dr. Carl Lohmann died in a Guadalajara hospital on June 14 at the age of 84. 19 June 2009." Guadalajara Reporter, 19 June 2009
Jaime Hernández.. "Alfredo B. Crevenna. Sólo en México no protegen al cine." Novedades, 10 August 1984, p 1-2.
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Movie producer Francisco Cabrera spent some time in Ajijic in the mid-1940s.
Francisco Cabrera was beginning his career as a film writer and producer when he visited Ajijic in about 1944 with fellow producer Alfredo Bolongaro-Crevenna. Their visit was noted by Neill James in her 1945 account of the village.
Poster for Doña perfecta (1950)
Cabrera, whose birth name was Francisco P. de la Cabrera, had an acting role in the 1932 movie Carceleras, directed by José Buchs, which was the first Spanish film with direct sound recording.
In 1938, Cabrera began working in the then nascent Mexican movie industry. His first title as producer was Refugiados de Madrid (1938), followed by Noche de los mayas (1939), Ni sangre ni arena (1941) and Santa (1943), which he wrote.
In 1944, at about the time he visited Ajijic, Cabrera wrote and produced Adán, Eva y el diablo, which was directed by Alfredo Bolongaro-Crevenna.
In 1946 Cabrera was one of the founding members of Mexico's film academy: the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias y Artes Cinematográficas, founded on 3 July of that year. The following year, the academy launched its Ariel awards, Mexico's equivalent of the Oscars. This was the golden age of Mexican movies, with as many as 85 movies being made each year. The Ariel awards were held annually until 1958 and, after a lapse of 14 years, were re-initiated in 1972.
Other Cabrera productions included La malquerida (1949), Un día de vida (1950); Doña Perfecta (1950), which won three Ariel awards in 1952, He matado a un hombre (1963) and Amor de adolescente (1965). He also both wrote and produced the movies ¿A dónde van nuestros hijos? (1956) and Los hijos que yo soñé (1964).
Cabrera died in Mexico City on 3 July 1965, coincidentally, the 19th anniversary of the founding of the Mexican film academy.
Among Cabrera's many claims to fame in the history of cinema in Mexicoy is the fact that he introduced the artist Gunther Gerzso to movie-making, when he contracted him to work on Santa (1943). The film was directed by U.S. actor Norman Foster and starred Esther Fernández and Ricardo Montalbán. Gerzso was initially reluctant to try his hand at set designing, but the success of Santa was the start of a lengthy and highly successful career in cinema. Gerzso, who was a good friend of Otto Butterlin (a German-Mexican artist with strong ties to Ajijic), went on to work in more than 150 movies between 1941 and 1963. Octavio Paz considered Gerzso to be one of Latin America's greatest ever painters, on account of the fact that he, Carlos Mérida and Rufino Tamayo had opposed the "ideologist aesthetic movement into which muralism had degenerated."
Richard Zdenko Moravec, chemist and film-maker
Author and filmmaker Richard Zdenko Moravec is known to have visited Ajijic in about 1945, where he met Barbara Keppel-Compton who later wrote To The Isthmus, a novel which includes fact-based passages about their time there. The pair, both of whom had previous marriages, became husband and wife in 1951.
Artist Sylvia Fein remembers Moravec as a friendly, interesting "darling man", who walked up and down the beach with her when she was revisiting Ajijic with her husband Bill, who had just returned from military service. Fein recalls that Moravec was a friend of Salvador Dali, and talked a lot about Dali's piano.
Richard Zdenko Moravec was born 24 November 1894 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia. He appears to have lived in Paris during the first world war and shortly after the war ended, wrote a short book about Italian-Yugoslav relations. The 47-page work, published by Lang, Blanchong et Cie. in 1919, was entitled L'Italie et les Yougoslaves, avec un exposé des relations italo-yougoslaves pendant la guerre et des documents à l'appui texte imprimé ("Italy and the Yugoslavs, with a statement of the Italian-Yugoslav relations during the war and documents to support the printed text").
Moravec left France in 1919 and emigrated to the U.S., arriving there on the SS Chicago from Bordeaux, France, on 29 July. Moravec's first wife, Selma, was born in Dallas, Texas on 26 February 1906. They were already married by the time Selma gained her A.B. degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1929. The couple remained in the San Francisco area, and are recorded as living in Oakland, California in 1934. In 1940 the couple was still definitely together since they are listed as disembarking on U.S. soil (in New York on 18 July), having crossed the Atlantic aboard the SS Manhattan.
Moravec appears to have been a chemical engineer and is credited or co-credited for several U.S. patents, most in the 1930s on behalf of the Shell Development Company of San Francisco.
On 17 October 1951, Moravec, described as an "engineer" and "divorced", married Barbara Joan Keppel-Compton ("writer") in Charlottesville, Virginia. They left almost immediately for Mexico, to make a motion picture film about Paricutin Volcano. The Story of A Volcano, relating the Tarascan Indian legend of Paricutin Volcano and the volcanic activity since its birth in 1943, was copyrighted in 1952. The credits include:
Producer and director: Richard Z Moravec
Narration: Anita Brenner
Narrator: Homer Gayne
Music: Tarascan Indian band and ballad singers
Film Editor: Alberto E Valenzuela
In 1955, Richard Moravec and Barbara Moravec, both of Yellow Springs, Ohio, filed for joint copyright of the motion picture With Malice Toward None.


A Perkins Restaurant and Bakery has opened its doors near a Southern Tier Expressway exit in Tioga County.
Perkins fans have been waiting for decades for the well-known brand to return to the Binghamton area.
Beth Ann Smith, president of Rajumaanar Enterprises, on Monday morning said she was pleased the Apalachin restaurant has officially started operations.
The business welcomed some special guests, including Perkins corporate representatives, on Sunday.
The restaurant is the first Perkins site to utilize a new design, which will be used at future locations in the United States and Canada.
More than 100 people have been hired to staff the Tioga County business, which will be open around-the-clock seven days a week.
The new restaurant was built next door to a Comfort Inn, which opened nearly four years ago.
When she announced plans for the restaurant last July, Smith had hoped the restaurant could open by early this year. But weather and other issues delayed the start of construction.
Smith said her company eventually may consider opening other Perkins restaurants in the region.


AN AMAZING aerial photo has confirmed Ex-HMAS Tobruk has landed on her side.
The ship was flooded with water and submerged in about 30 minutes, settling on the bottom of the ocean at a depth of approximately 28 metres on Friday.
Organisers claim the scuttling was successful in waters off Bundaberg and will become a world-class dive site in the coming months.
Divers inspected the site once it was safe to do so and advised that the ship has settled on her starboard side, as was apparent as it began to roll in the final stages.
Department of Environment and Science's Project Manager Steve Hoseck explained that while this was not the planned outcome, it is always a possibility in a scuttling process, and will not impact the intended use of the site as a unique and exciting dive wreck.
"Divers are going to be able to swim through the unique tank deck that spans nearly the entire length of the ship," Mr Hoseck said.
"There are lots of nooks and crannies for divers to explore, and the contractors have left behind as many historic items as possible to make this an authentic dive experience."
Mr Hoseck said planned safety inspections of the site were currently being carried out.
The Department of Environment and Science are also having discussions with the contractor.
"Divers are currently undertaking safety assessment checks at the site, and this will determine what further works may be required to ensure the safe accessibility of the site."


This site contains photographs of Singapore. Some were taken when we lived there as a family back in the early 1960's and some were taken on my last visit in November 2005. Portsdown Road, one of the remaining areas that was untouched for almost 40 years has undergone a significant transformation in the last 12 months. Slim Barracks is now gone and the bio park is expanding into the area. However, there are still parts of Portsdown Road that you can stand on and be transported back to 1960. The married quarters and the flats are still there. Some are being renovated. They are now referred to as "Black and Whites" and are still all over the island. The ones close to Changi Village remain almost unchanged, but I cannot remember them as well as the ones in Portsdown Road. In the main, Wessex Estate is still there in all its splendour. All of the "new" pictures have been taken using a Nikon D70s. The older ones have been scanned in from coloured slides or still captures from video.
Follow the links below to view the pictures.


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IOC Executive Board launches Implementation Plan for Olympic Agenda 2020 – announces progress on a number of recommendations
The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) concluded three days of meetings today in Rio de Janeiro by adopting an Implementation Plan for Olympic Agenda 2020, the strategic roadmap for the future of the Olympic Movement.
The Executive Board went through each of the 40 recommendations that make up Olympic Agenda 2020 and discussed their implementation, including timelines, costs, and the impact on human resources and the structure of the IOC.
The Implementation Plan focuses on timelines for 2015 but also gives some milestones beyond 2015.
Implementation of a significant number of recommendations began immediately after their adoption at the 127th IOC Session in Monaco eight weeks ago, with the first meetings taking place in December.
For the bidding process, the new Invitation Phase for the 2024 Games is already in place, starting on 15 January. This gives interested cities the chance to see how the Olympic Games best fit into their long-term social, sporting, environmental and economic environment. The EB heard today that a number of interested potential bidders had already taken advantage of the new phase.
Today, some new allocations have been made of the USD 20 million fund to protect the clean athletes. Decisions have been taken to fund better research in the fight against doping by having a fresh look at the testing procedures and sample taking. USD 2.5 million has been allocated to set up workshops, already beginning in April, for the prevention of match fixing, manipulation and related corruption in collaboration with INTERPOL.
The Executive Board established today the position of an ethics and compliance officer in the IOC administration.
Work on the organisational structure of the Olympic Channel is well advanced. The management structure of the company was agreed today. It will have a share capital of one million CHF. Hiring of key management positions on the channel will now go ahead.
The EB discussed the procedure and timeline regarding the composition of the Olympic sports programme. Specifically regarding the addition of an extra event(s) to the programme of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 from a Recognised International Federation, the IOC EB will approve a set of criteria at its next meeting in June. Tokyo 2020 will subsequently submit its proposal to the IOC in September 2015. The IOC Programme Commission will then study the proposal(s) and make a recommendation to the IOC EB. A final decision is expected to be made at the IOC Session in Rio in 2016.
In the context of Olympic Agenda 2020 the EB agreed to three venue changes to the master plan for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. The excellent collaboration between the IOC and Tokyo 2020 to incorporate the spirit of Olympic Agenda 2020 into its plans for the Games has already resulted in savings of USD 1 billion for the Organising Committee from the revised construction budget.
In its commitment to strengthen the support to athletes, the EB agreed to have a mourning place within the Olympic Village during the period of the Games in order to allow athletes to gather and pay tribute to people who passed away. It was also decided to devote a moment during the Closing Ceremony to remember the ones who died in the context of the Games.
"Participants at past Olympic Games have been affected by casualties and incidents back in their home counties," said President Bach. "We want to give the athletes the opportunity to express their mourning in a dignified way and environment in the Olympic Village where representatives of the whole world are living peacefully under the same roof. At the Closing Ceremony, the Games come to an end and many people feel that it is a moment to remember people who have died at the Olympic Games."
Going forward, each Executive Board meeting will now devote part of its agenda to the Olympic Agenda 2020 Implementation Plan to ensure proper follow-up and delivery.
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Denial of flood aid to the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Pakistan
Atif M. Malik
Health and Human Rights 13/1
During the catastrophic floods of 2010 in Pakistan, approximately 500 internally displaced families belonging to the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam were denied humanitarian relief. The failure of international agencies and Pakistan's government to protect basic human rights in the context of disaster relief raises profound questions. If all humanitarian work associated with natural disasters must be governed by canons of human rights, how should international agencies deal with legally empowered official discrimination? A review of the history of the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan reveals decades of state-sanctioned persecution, particularly through its anti-blasphemy laws, and poses a serious challenge to the international community. When effective intervention is predicated on cooperation with state institutions, how can international relief agencies avoid becoming implicated in official discrimination? The denial of flood aid to Pakistan's Ahmadiyya community highlights the need for concerted action in disaster settings to prevent discrimination against vulnerable groups. Discriminatory legislation is not only a violation of basic norms enshrined in international compacts, it is a key problem for disaster relief.
During the 2010 monsoon season, heavy rainfall and record flooding created one of the worst natural disasters in Pakistan's history. The floods affected more than 18 million people, including over 10 million children. One fifth of Pakistan's total land area was flooded, 2.2 million hectares of crops were destroyed, 1,980 people lost their lives, and 1.7 million homes were damaged or destroyed.1
In the aftermath of the disaster, millions of internally displaced flood victims flocked to temporary camps. Their survival required immediate assistance: clean drinking water and food, secure housing, and medical care. However, hundreds of members of the Ahmadi minority religious group, were denied aid and turned away from shelters by local officials in Dera Ghazi Khan, Muzaffargarh, and Rajanpur districts.2
The problem seems to have been that most relief from international sources was coordinated through local institutions. As described in news reports:
40 Ahmadi families who took shelter in a state run school at Jhakar Iman Shah did not receive any relief because "relief packages are being distributed through local lawmakers who have been told by the district administration that the Ahmadis are not eligible for any support."3
"At least 100 members of the [Ahmadi]community from Hussainwala and Masroorabad were trapped at Shahjamal … they [the Ahmadis] asked the district police officer and the district coordinator officer to provide a boat or to rescue the trapped people but they did not take notice" due to local clerics issuing an edict to not help Ahmadis.4
"500 community members from the areas of Basti Lashari, Basti Allahdad Dareeshak and from Basti Azizabad were displaced. Their houses were washed away and the government and local clerics ignored them … they were not allowed to stay in state-run schools or in camps, therefore the majority of them were living on the rooftops of their inundated houses" [until rescued by other members of the Ahmadi Muslim Community].5
"40 other [Ahmadi] community members rented a house but after two days their landlord was forced by local clerics to evict them."6
"200 families, who have been displaced from Basti Rindan and Basti Sohrani by flooding, took shelter in a state-run school at Jhok Utra but within days the local administration forced them to leave the school … local administration later told them that people from surrounding areas did not want the Ahmadis in the relief camp. And that the administration could not allow them to stay at the camp as it could create a law and order situation."7
"The local mullahs [religious clerics] told the civil administration [by direct threat] not to give them [the Ahmadis] any help."8
"[E]xpulsion of displaced Ahmedis from a government school in Dera Ghazi Khan and from rented lodgings in south Punjab following cleric's pressure as well as the issuance of edicts by clerics that the affected Ahmedis must not be provided help."9
"[M]embers of Pakistan's Ahmadiyya community, who were caught up in the raging floods around the Central Punjab town of Muzaffargarh, were not rescued from their homes because rescuers felt that Muslims must be given priority."10
Other minority groups in Pakistan also reported government apathy and discrimination. Members of the Sikh community in Pakistan, according to one report, were abandoned in Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa and had to arrange their own rescue.11 Additionally, Christians in Punjab reported discrimination during flood relief efforts.12 However, the case of the Ahmadiyya community stands out since their long-standing persecution is wholly legalized and even encouraged by the government of Pakistan.13
Humanitarian assistance has traditionally been the primary focus of disaster relief. Less attention has been given to the protection of human rights during disaster relief efforts.14 When human rights are not sufficiently accounted for, the consequences in disaster relief include unequal access to assistance, and discrimination in which aid agencies can become unintentionally complicit.
In Section I of this study, I review the relationship between human rights and humanitarian work associated with natural disasters. In Section II, I summarize the longstanding history of persecution of the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan. In Section III. I describe the specific health-related obligations pertaining to Ahmadis displaced during the 2010 Pakistan floods. Section IV concludes with a critical analysis of human rights violations of Ahmadis in Pakistan during that period.
I. Disaster Relief in International Treaty Law
Humanitarian relief in natural disasters touches on two categories of human rights: foundational civil liberties that uphold human dignity and non-discrimination, and specific economic, social, and cultural freedoms that underlie the right to health.15
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) recognized the "inherent dignity" and "the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family" without "distinction of any kind" as the foundation for peace, and "disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind."16 Dignity and non-discrimination are core civil rights that establish, promote, and protect other rights. Having dignity means being entitled to rights and freedoms that require treatment with respect. Upholding dignity protects the individual from potential physical and mental harm and other abusive practices. To ensure dignity is to erase discrimination.
Although not a legally binding document, the UDHR forms the basis of customary international law and has shaped two key 1966 documents that now form the core of international human rights law: The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).17,18 The principles of dignity and nondiscrimination are also enshrined in the ICCPR and the ICECSR.
The right to health
In 1946, the international community recognized the "highest attainable standard of health" as "one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religions, political belief, economic or social condition."19 This clause of the World Health Organization's constitution was echoed in numerous international human rights declarations and treaties, including UDHR, ICESCR, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Furthermore, the right to non-discrimination in access to health care on the basis of racial, national, ethnic, or gender identity has been specifically forbidden by international treaty law.20-24
The provision of health as a right in international human rights law is most comprehensively provided by Article 12 of the ICESCR. In General Comment 14 by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), the scope of "highest attainable standard of health" was defined to encompass the provision of health care including underlying determinants of health such as safe drinking water, adequate sanitation, appropriate nutrition, and stable housing.25 Providing appropriate healthcare requires three elements. First, availability of medical and public health infrastructure that accounts for prevention and treatment. Here, treatment in the context of natural disasters includes emergency medical and humanitarian disaster relief. Second is accessibility to equitable and culturally sensitive health care services, and third, scientifically sound medical practice.26
II. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Ahmadiyyat is an Islamic religious movement founded in India near the end of the 19th century, originating with the life and teachings of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908).27 Approximately three to four million Ahmadis live in Pakistan.28 The religious orthodoxy in Pakistan, particularly the Sunni majority, considers Ahmadiyyat a heretical sect leading to considerable anti-Ahmadi sentiment and state-sanctioned discrimination.
While founded as a Muslim state in 1947, Pakistan was to be secular, and accommodating to other faiths. In an address to the Constituent Assembly, Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah declared: "You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place (of) worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed that has nothing to do with the business of the State."29 Pakistan's original 1956 Constitution reflects the promotion of the universal human right of each citizen to profess, practice, and propagate his religion.30 But anti-Ahmadi sentiment in Pakistan, spurred on by religious clerics, has since resulted in state-sanctioned religious persecution.
In 1974, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto enacted the Second Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan declaring Ahmadis to be non-Muslims. In 1984, President Zia ul-Haq issued Ordinance XX, which amended the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) by adding sections 298-B and 298-C, both of which are Ahmadi specific anti-blasphemy laws to restrict freedom of religion and expression. Section 298-C prohibits Ahmadis from calling themselves Muslims, posing as Muslims, calling their faith Islam, preaching or propagating their faith and from insulting the religious feelings of Muslims. Under Ordinance XX, Ahmadis cannot greet their fellow Muslims in the customary Islamic manner, declare their faith publicly, build places of worship, make the call to prayer, recite their holy book (the Quran) aloud, or even offer funeral prayers.31
Anti-blasphemy laws (Table 1) have been repeatedly criticized by international observers for their constriction of freedom of expression and religion and their harsh penalties, including fines, life imprisonment, and even execution of individuals convicted of vaguely defined offenses.32 According to the government of Pakistan, Ahmadis can commit blasphemy by professing to be Muslims; and the Ahmadi belief in the prophethood of the founder of the Ahmadiyya community, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, is blasphemous because it is said to be derogatory to the Prophet Muhammad, a crime punishable by death.33
Table 1: Pakistan's anti-blasphemy laws
298-A
Remarks derogatory to holy personages
3 years imprisonment, fine, or both
Misuse by Ahmadis of epithets, descriptions, and titles reserved for certain holy personages
3 years imprisonment and fine
An Ahmadi calling himself a Muslim, preaching or propagating his faith, outraging the religious feeling of Muslims, or posing as a Muslim
Injuring of defiling places of worship, with intent to insult the religion of any class
Up to 2 years imprisonment, fine, or both
Deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feeling of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs
Up to 10 years imprisonment, fine, or both
Defiling the Quran
Remarks derogatory to the Prophet Mohammed
Death and fine
In its 2009 annual report, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom declared that blasphemy allegations in Pakistan are often false, promote violence against Ahmadis, Christians, and Hindus, and are commonly used to intimidate religious minorities because the laws require no evidence to be presented after making allegations, and carry no penalty for leveling false allegations.35 Human Rights Watch has condemned these laws.36 Amnesty International has called for their abolishment.37 A 2007 Report of the Parliamentary Human Rights Group catalogued thousands of prosecutions of Ahmadis in Pakistan during the last two decades under the anti-blasphemy laws including hundreds of cases for displaying the Kalima (the Muslim profession of faith), preaching, "posing as Muslims," using Islamic epithets such as the greeting "Salam," offering Islamic prayers, or uttering the call to prayer.38 In one notorious 1989 case, 45,000 Ahmadis (the entire population of the Ahmadi center of Rabwah, Pakistan) was arrested and charged under anti-blasphemy laws.39
Table 2: Pakistan's treaty status34
International Human Rights Instruments
Pakistan Status
International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD)
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment (CAT)
Ratified June 23, 2010
III. Disaster Relief in Discriminatory Legal Settings
Protecting persons displaced from their homes by natural disasters is an overwhelming task and requires special attention by the state. The health impact of certain human rights violations, such as the denial to Ahmadis of rescue, and provision of water, food, and shelter is obvious: injury, malnutrition, and life-threatening disease.40
The denial of flood relief to members of the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan contravenes international human rights law as codified in treaties and declarations. Based upon the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights General Comment 14 pursuant to the right to health, international human rights treaties obligate state parties to respect, protect, and fulfill human rights.41 Pakistan has failed in each of its obligations under this tripartite framework despite being party to international human rights law (Table 2).
States are obliged to respect the right to health by combating official discrimination. The treatment of Ahmadis in Pakistan during the flood of 2010 illustrates the interdependence of different human rights. The failure to comply by international norms of non-discrimination directly undermines the right to health. Pakistan's anti-blasphemy laws are a barrier to this obligation.42 Although it ratified the ICCPR on June 23, 2010, the government registered numerous reservations to the Covenant which undermine the application of the ICCPR by making its obligations subject to Pakistani law, and neglected to sign the Optional Protocols for both the ICCPR and ICESCR.43
State obligations to protect include adopting measures to ensure equal access to health care provided by third parties.44 Official bodies in Pakistan not only tolerated but supported the demands of public figures (particularly religious clerics) to deny flood aid to Ahmadis.
During the floods of 2010, the emergency phase of disaster relief in Pakistan intersected with a long history of state supported discrimination and blatant disregard for civil, economic, social and cultural rights of Ahmadis. This was not simply the outcome of inadequate disaster aid planning or random acts of violence, but revealed a longstanding pattern of discriminatory national legislation and policies.
This legislation is constitutional as well as statutory, and contravenes all three levels of state obligations as defined by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights General Comment 14.45 The Second Amendment to Pakistan's Constitution, which strips Ahmadis of their ability to call themselves Muslims, belies the obligation to uphold the right to human dignity, freedom of thought and freedom of religion. The anti-blasphemy laws criminalize basic social, cultural and religious activities of Ahmadis, in direct contravention of multiple standards set in international human rights treaties, particularly civil rights contained in the ICCPR.
Meanwhile, by denying flood aid to Ahmadi families, Pakistan violated its obligations under Article 12 of the ICESCR to respect the right to health for all citizens and also to refrain from, deny, or avert the promotion of third parties to limited or unequal access to health care services, including emergency aid of basic life necessities. Additionally, Pakistan has failed to fulfill its obligations by not repealing discriminatory legislative and judicial measures which obstruct the full realization of the right to health.
The denial of emergency aid to Ahmadis in Pakistan during the 2010 floods highlights the way in which entrenched legal discrimination can undermine fair and humane treatment of victims in disaster situations. Not only does it illustrate the complex interrelation of health and foundational human rights, but it suggests that effective intervention may be predicated on a broader commitment to enforcing the international human rights obligations of state parties. Without such a commitment, aid may actually serve as an instrument of rights violations.
I am grateful to Mrs. Maria A. Malik and Mr. Amjad Mahmood Khan, Esq.
Atif M. Malik, M.D., is an Attending Physician affiliated with Chandler Regional Medical Center and Mercy Gilbert Medical Center in Arizona, USA. He is a consultant for HealthRight International.
Please address correspondence to Dr. Atif M. Malik at drmalik.atif@gmail.com.
1. United Nations, General Assembly. "Strengthening emergency relief, rehabilitation, reconstruction and prevention in the wake of devastating floods in Pakistan." Document A/65/77. March 7, 2011. Available at http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Full_Report_37.pdf.
2. M. Hasan, "HRCP Condemns Denial of Relief to Ahamdis." Asian Human Rights Commission. August 20, 2010. Available at http://www.hrcp-web.org/showprel.asp?id=158
3. Manan, Abdul. "The politics of relief: Aliens in their own land." The Express Tribune. August 18, 2010. http://tribune.com.pk/story/40435/the-politics-of-relief-aliens-in-their-own-land/.
8. Waraich, Omar. "Religious Minorities Suffering Worst in Pakistan Floods." Time. September 3, 2010. Available at http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2015849,00.html#comments.
9. Hasan (see note 2).
10. Ahmad, Imtiaz. "Minorities Denied Flood Relief in Pakistan." Hindustan Times. August 18, 2010. Available at http://www.hindustantimes.com/Minorities-denied-flood-relief-in-Pakistan/article1-588673.aspx.
12. Manan (see note 3).
13. Human Rights Watch. "Pakistan: Pandering to Extremists Fuels Persecution of Ahmadis." May 6, 2007. http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2007/05/05/pakistan-pandering-exremists-fuels-persecution-ahmadis.
14. Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, Human Rights and Natural Disasters. Operational Guidelines and Field Manual on Human Rights Protection in Situations of Natural Disaster. March 2008. Available at http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/49a2b8f72.html.
15. V. Leary, "The Right to Health in International Human Rights Law," Health and Human Rights: An International Journal 1/1 (1994): pp. 25-56.
16. Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). G.A. Res. 217A (III), UN GAOR, Res. 71, UN Doc. A/810. New York: United Nations, 1948.
17. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), G.A. Res. 2200A (XXI) (1966). Available at http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/ccpr.htm.
18. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), G.A. Res. 2200A (XXI) (1966). Available at http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/cescr.htm.
19. WHO. Constitution of the World Health Organization, adopted by the International Health Conference, New York, June 19 – July 22, 1946.
20. UDHR (see note 16), Article 25.
21. ICESCR (see note 18), Article 12.
22. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), G.A. Res. 2106A (XX) (1965). Available at http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/ratification/2.htm.
23. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), G.A. Res. 34/180 (1979). Available at http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/cedaw.htm.
24. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), G.A. Res. 44/25 (1989). Available at http://ww2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/ratification/15.htm.
25. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR). The right to the highest attainable standard of health: August 11, 2000. E/C.12/2000/4, CESCR General Comment 14.
27. Siddiq, M. Nadeem Ahmad, "Enforced Apostasy: Zaheeruddin v. State and the Official Persecution of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan." Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice. 16/1 (1995), pp. 275-338.
28. United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. International Religious Freedom Report 2007: Pakistan. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. Available at http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2007/90233.htm
29. Jinnah, Muhammad Ali. Constituent Assembly of Pakistan Address. August 11, 1947. Available at http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/legislation/costituent_address_11aus1947.html.
30. Khan, Amjad Mahmood. "Persecution of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan: An Analysis Under International Law and International Relations." Harvard Human Rights Journal 16 (2004): 217-244.
31. Siddiq (see note 27).
32. Ensor, Jonathan, ed. Rabwah: A Place for Martyrs? Report of the Parlimentary Human Rights Group mission to Pakistan into Internal Flight of Ahmadis. Parliamentary Human Rights Group. January 2007. Available at http://www.thepersecution.org/dl/rabwah_report.pdf.
34. United Nations Treaty Collection: Chapter IV: Human Rights. Available at http://treaties.un.org/Pages/Treaties.aspx?id=4&subid=A&lang=en.
35. United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (see note 28).
36. Human Rights Watch. "Pakistan: Pandering to Extremists Fuels Persecution of Ahmadis." May 5, 2007. Available at http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2007/05/05/pakistan-pandering-exremists-fuels-persecution-ahmadis .
37. Amnesty International. "Pakistan: Blasphemy Laws Should Be Abolished." August 21, 2001. Available at http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA33/023/2001/en/6bd5700e-d8f5-11dd-ad8c-f3d4445c118e/asa330232001en.html.
38. Ensor (see note 32).
40. Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, Handbook for Applying the Guiding Principles of Internal Displacement, 1999. Available at http://www.the-ecentre.net/resources/e_library/doc/HanbookIDP.pdf.
41. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 14 (see note 25)
42. J. Mann, L. Gostin, S. Gruskin, T. Brennan, Z. Lazzarini, and H. Fineberg, "Health and Human Rights," Health and Human Rights: An International Journal 1/1 (1994): pp.7-23.
43. "Pakistan's Reservations to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights." Democracy Reporting International. Briefing Paper. July 2010.
44. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 14 (see note 25).
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FTX collapse has undone years of progress, says crypto insider
CEO says a lot of work is needed to rebuild trust among regulators and investing public
By Leo Almazora
A few days after the collapse of FTX and the public humbling of its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, the world is still sorting through the rubble.
The fuse was lit last week with a story from cryptocurrency news outlet CoinDesk based on a leaked balance sheet from Alameda Research, a sister firm of FTX, showing how deeply entangled the two companies were.
Among other findings, CoinDesk reported that FTX was lending cash to Alameda in exchange for large quantities of its token, FTT, which some have likened to borrowing money from a bank using its own shares as collateral. That sparked a stampede of withdrawals, plunging FTX into a liquidity crisis.
Rival exchange Binance offered a lifeline through a non-binding acquisition offer, which it quickly withdrew after discovering more serious problems with the doomed exchange. On Friday, Bankman-Fried – popularly known as SBF – filed for bankruptcy protection, and he now faces possible civil or criminal charges.
In the wake of further revelations and reports over the weekend, many now see FTX, once a bastion of trust in the embattled crypto industry, as a blow-up that was just waiting to happen.
"It's hard to tell what are facts and what are rumours," Brian Mosoff, CEO of Ether Capital, told Wealth Professional. "Some things are more concrete that we can lean on."
'All that trust is gone'
Based on reliable news reports, Mosoff says some crypto assets held by FTX were moved without the correct permissions after SBF's bankruptcy filing. Who's responsible and how those assets can be clawed back is still unclear, but another U.S. crypto exchange Kraken claims a number of accounts it hosts had interacted with the wallets concerned.
"Once FTX filed for bankruptcy, everything should have been frozen," he says. "Users aren't allowed to withdraw from their accounts on the exchange, even though the assets are technically theirs."
The maelstrom of coverage around the exchange since Friday paints a picture of behind-the-scenes fraud and mismanagement, rather than systemic or structural issues with crypto, blockchain, or decentralized finance. But Mosoff is concerned the still-unfolding tragedy has eroded years of progress in crypto's acceptance as an asset class of the future.
"FTX was engaging with regulators everywhere, and all that trust is gone," he says. "SBF represents an entire industry. Will those regulators trust other genuinely good actors? I'm hopeful, but I can also respect that they've been burned multiple times."
The affair also casts a wide shadow because of all the relationships FTX had. Aside from being a trading or holding venue for numerous companies, Mosoff says it was expected to invest or participate in funding raises over the next 12 to 18 months for many other firms that are fighting to survive the harsh crypto winter.
"We're very lucky [at Ether Capital] because we have no counterparty risk here," he says. "My heart goes out to a lot of businesses that are bleeding cash during this bear market."
Questions ahead for the crypto space
Over the past few years, Canada's securities regulators have taken steps to protect retail cryptocurrency investors. The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) and the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) have issued guidance several times on how existing legislation should apply to crypto platforms.
In 2021, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) warned it would launch enforcement actions against crypto exchange platforms that fail to start registration discussions with it by April 19 that year. It has since sanctioned multiple entities including Kucoin, a global online crypto trading platform, which has been banned permanently from Ontario's capital markets and ordered to pay a $2-million administrative penalty.
But Mosoff argues that by supporting a more competitive local crypto industry, Canada could be in an even better position to protect investors.
"The key thing is that if Canadian crypto platforms – which have more accountability in our jurisdiction – could be more competitive with their product offerings, Canadians shouldn't have to seek out foreign unregistered exchanges," Mosoff says. "That's a loop that we still need to close."
While he expects investors will continue to engage with crypto, Mosoff believes says businesses in the digital assets space will face more questions from their customers. Already, he's seeing demands for proof of reserves, segregated accounts, and more transparency around governance, among other items.
"This situation should also remind investors that crypto assets were not intended to be locked up in these centralized exchanges," he says. "I think a lot of newcomers to the space have forgotten that self-custody and transparency are the driving principles behind this asset class."
While he agrees guardrails are vital, Mosoff stresses that the cryptocurrency space is continually evolving, with a long and growing list of nuances that need to be considered. Rather than implementing fine-point rules that might have unintended consequences, he believes the industry and regulators have to work toward ensuring proper education and disclosures for the investing public.
"It's going to be painful for a lot of retail and institutional investors who bought into FTX, and it will set a lot of things back," Mosoff says. "But it's important that people don't lose the plot of why this industry exists and what it's trying to achieve."


FRAMINGHAM, MA – NOVEMBER 1, 2005 – IDG's CIO magazine today names the 11 recipients of the 14th annual CIO Enterprise Value Awards. Underscoring the collaboration between information technology (IT) and business management, this prestigious honor is bestowed upon a select group of organizations that clearly demonstrate how they leverage IT to achieve business objectives and produce ROI (return on investment).
Insurance: The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.
Retail/Wholesale and Distribution: Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc.
"In the 14 years we've been producing the CIO Enterprise Value Awards, we've seen a growing sophistication in the value of our winners' IT initiatives," says Abbie Lundberg, editor in chief, CIO magazine. "This year's winners hit more often and more deeply on multiple pillars of the different types of value we look at: the strategic, financial, operational, customer and even social impact of what they've achieved."
The Enterprise Value Awards are bestowed on organizations that have created information technology (IT) systems that demonstrate business value and return on investment (ROI) across the enterprise. The IT system must be active for at least a year and is judged on strategic value, customer impact, financial return, operational efficiency and social impact. This year's CIO Enterprise Value Award winners will attend an invitation-only awards ceremony at the upcoming CIO|06 conference in Phoenix (www.cio.com/conferences).
•	Gregor Bailar, CIO, Capital One Financial Corp.
•	John Glaser, CIO, Partners HealthCare System Inc.
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One of my favorite foods that I learned to make myself in my early twenties was scrambled eggs. I loved to eat them with all kinds of ingredients including vegetables. As a vegan now, I had to create a version of the former scrambled eggs that I so loved, so I have fashioned an easy tofu scramble that is healthier, delicious and cruelty-free! Here is my recipe for tofu scramble with a Spanish flare.
Prepare ingredients that need to be chopped or sliced.
Remove tofu from package and cut into bite-sized pieces. Place into a large bowl. Add ketchup, tamari, spaghetti and nutritional yeast and smash until tofu looks like brains. Set aside.
In a large skillet, in a small amount of water, cook onions and peppers for about 10 min or until done. Add tofu mix and sliced olives. Cook for an additional 5 minutes, stirring and mixing everything together. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Serve with hash browns or vegan pancakes.
There is nothing like hot soup on a cold day! Here is one of my favorite recipes for a hearty and healthy vegan soup. I found an organic blend of quinoa, amaranth and millet at the grocery store that I added to this soup. Any of the three grains can be used, or you may use a combination of the three (as I do here). This delicious soup can be served with freshly-made gluten-free bread.
In a large soup pot, cook carrots, onions and peppers in a small amount of water for about 10 minutes on medium high. Add water if the mix becomes too dry. Add celery and cook another 5 minutes.
Add 12 cups of water and all the vegetables except kale. Bring to a boil and reduce heat to medium low.
Add cilantro, garlic, rosemary, spices, and bouillon cubes. Bring to a boil. Cook for 10 minutes. Add quinoa or quinoa blend and cook another 35-40 minutes or until the quinoa or quinoa blend is done.
Add the kale. Stir and cook for 10 minutes longer. Serve!
This makes a large batch for about 8-10 people. You can freeze this and reheat later or take some for lunch at work.
I am lover of delicious, warm and hearty meals during the winter months! I used to eat lots of chili before I went vegan, so I had to try my hand at making a vegan version of one of my favorite meals. Try this healthy vegan chili on a cold day. It is fantastic over fries or can be eaten by itself. It will surely warm you up! As an advocate of health, I have discovered that cooking with water instead of oil does not diminish the taste of this meal, so here is low-fat, oil-free vegan recipe for yummy chili.
Process: In a medium sauce pan on medium heat, cook carrots and celery for 10 minutes in a small amount of water. Add onions and peppers. Cook for 5-10 minutes or until done. Be sure to add more water, in small increments if mixture becomes dry.
Add tomatoes or tomato puree and all spices. Mash the tomatoes until they become liquid. Add more water for a thinner consistency. Cover and cook for 30 minutes on low heat.
Add beans and stir. Heat for 5 minutes. Serve over French fries or serve with French bread.
Looking for some healthy and vegan recipes for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday? Here is a great resource and website for a variety of options! I am going to try some of these recipes myself this year.
Here's to a cruelty-free and healthy vegan holiday with your friends and family! Click on the photograph below for mouth-watering recipes by chef Ricki Heller.
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There is nothing like a healthy and hot bowl of soup on a cold winter's day! On a snowy day here last week, I decided to make one my favorite soups, Vegan Indian Red Lentil Vegetable! I made a very large pot so I could have plenty of left-overs. Here is my recipe, below, that will feed a family of four and then some!
Boil water and add rice and onions. Cook for about 10 minutes on high heat.
Add all vegetables and all spices except potatoes and chard. Turn down to medium or medium low heat. Cook for 25 minutes.
Add lentils and potatoes and cook for 15 minutes on medium heat or until both are done.
Add chard and cook for 5 minutes longer or until chard is soft.
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Yin Yoga, will help you close chapters and start afresh this coming New Year. Spend the month of December relaxing and tying all the loose ends.
Coming from the Taoist principle of Yin and Yang, this yoga benefits your body in a holistic sense, mind and body, inside out. The movements that you do using your lower body focus on your intestines and the releases will help revitalize your connective tissues... The yin being steady and composed and yang being hot and active. You move your lower body and stay passive in your torso relaxing your mind and releasing toxins from your body.
Yin Yoga relaxes your muscles and releases those tangled knots in your body. The process of holding the asana for long periods of time helps with the relaxation and serenity. Yin Yoga is the least painful and the most comforting style of yoga. This will give you time to think with a clear head and tackle challenges. You will become more resilient to the stress caused by your fast paced life.
Spa can always be such an activity that you have to take your time out for, but for yin yoga, you can do it anywhere. It's portable and it's just like stretching. It's so much more than just untangling those knots. You feel rejuvenated mentally and physically. No sore muscles after a good morning of yoga, it will teach you're to slow down, take a break and really appreciate your body. Take charge this December and give your mind and body a well-deserved massage.
Pro Tip: Early mornings in the chilly weather is the ideal time to detangle and feel that extra oomph to take on the day!
Yin yoga will help with the changes inside your body. With the right diet, it will do wonders for your metabolism. Yin Yoga is the least painful and the most comforting style of yoga. Practising Yin Yoga is a form of self-care- without having to go out to treat yourself. It's something that you can do it from the comfort of your home and find mind-blowing results!
Yoga is known to have a great effect on your mind and body, but a tangible change you will start seeing, is glowing skin. Releasing the toxins and all said negativity from your life, your skin will be shining. And by the end of it, you still haven't broken a sweat? Isn't that the best? Exercise without the aftermath of pain, become one with your inner self Give this a shot and see the difference, why don't you?


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Q: I get the error "Unrecognized extension value in extension set ([object Object])." setting highlighting language using @codemirror/lang-javascript? I'm trying to set a highlighting language for JavaScript in CodeMirror by importing @codemirror/lang-javascript and adding it to the extensions array, but I keep getting the error "Uncaught (in promise) Error: Unrecognized extension value in extension set ([object Object])."
I realize there is a question with a similar title here but I think the cause and solution is a different one, hence, a different question.
Here is the code that is causing the error: (Code is inspired by the docs)
CodeMirror(
      `console.log('hello');
    1+2`,
      {
        extensions: [myDefaultTheme,/*javascript() //error*/]
      }
    );

So because I really want to make this problem reproducible, this is a snippet that works, that can be used to reproduce the problem. This is the working code. I just want to enable syntax highlighting.

CODEMIRROR_VERSION = "^6.0.1";
esmImport = pkg => import(`https://cdn.skypack.dev/${pkg}`);
esmCodeMirror = (mod) =>
  esmImport(
    "@codemirror/" +
    (mod.indexOf("@") >= 0 ?
      mod : `${mod}@${CODEMIRROR_VERSION}`)
  );
loadCodeMirrorModules = async entries => {
  const repo = Object.create(null)
  const loadToRepo = async key => {
    const module = await esmCodeMirror(key)
    repo[key] = module
  }
  await Promise.all(entries.map(loadToRepo))
  return repo
}

loadCodeMirrorModules([
  "view",
  "state",
  "language",
  "commands",
  "search",
  "autocomplete",
  "lang-javascript"
]).then(async cmImports => {
  let myDefaultTheme = cmImports.view.EditorView.theme({
    '&': {
      fontFamily: 'Consolas, "Roboto Mono", monospace',
      fontSize: '14px',
      height: '200px',
      border: '1px solid #ddd',
    },
  })
  let CodeMirror = async (doc = "", config = {}) => {
    const extensions = config.extensions ?? [];
    const keymaps = config.keymaps ?? [];

    const {
      highlightSpecialChars,
      keymap,
      drawSelection,
      highlightActiveLine
    } =
    cmImports.view;
    const {
      Prec
    } = cmImports.state;
    let state = cmImports.state.EditorState.create({
      doc,
      extensions: [
        cmImports.view.lineNumbers(),
        highlightSpecialChars(),
        drawSelection(),
        highlightActiveLine(),
        keymap.of([
          ...cmImports.commands.defaultKeymap,
          ...cmImports.search.searchKeymap,
          ...keymaps
        ]),
        ...extensions
      ]
    });
    const view = new cmImports.view.EditorView({
      state
    });
    const el = view.dom;
    el.value = view.state.doc.toString();
    return el;
  };
  let javascript = cmImports['lang-javascript'].javascript;
  let d = await CodeMirror(
    `console.log('hello');
1+2`, {
      extensions: [myDefaultTheme]
    }
  );
  document.body.insertBefore(d, document.body.firstChild);
})

Is there something I'm missing or doing wrong in my implementation? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Our Digital Leaders were very excited to receive their badges and 5 ipads from the club's sponsors Inspire Technology Limited. A huge thank you to Wendan and Steve for their support towards our children, inspiring them to pass on vital messages about online safety and technology recycling.
Today the digital leaders met for lunch, discussion and starting to make their resources for their presentation. Each year group will be teaching their class during PSHE about online safety. First to make a powerpoint presentation. Lots to do!
We needed more DL's from Year 3 so our application process was open. We now have new additions to our group. Congratulations to you all.
Today we met to select our President and Vice President. After everyone spoke about why they thought they would make a good President, we took a democratic vote. It was nerve wracking during the count! Finally Imogen received the most votes and Florence was next. Congratulations to you both on your new position.
Great to see so many children attend the information session today. I am looking forward to reading your application forms on Monday!


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Jose Canseco Injured After Accidentally Shooting Himself In The Hand
By Ed Mazza
Former Major League Baseball slugger Jose Canseco was injured in an accidental shooting on Tuesday at his home in the Las Vegas Valley.
KLAS-TV said Canseco, 50, was cleaning a gun when he accidentally shot himself in the left hand.
Canseco's fiancee, model Leila Knight, told the Los Angeles Times that he was cleaning his gun in the kitchen when it fired.
"I heard the gun go off and saw his middle finger hanging by a string," she told the newspaper. "It will either have to be amputated or have full reconstruction surgery."
She told the Times that doctors said he will never regain full use of the hand. She also sent out an update on Twitter via Canseco's account:
This is Leila . Thank you all for the kind words and prayers . Jose is in still surgery and will be ok. Please pray for his finger !! 🙏🙏🙏🙏
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) October 29, 2014
After winning baseball's Rookie of the Year award in 1986, Canseco went on to hit 462 home runs during a 17-year career that included playing for the Oakland A's, Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays, Tampa Bay Rays (then known as the Devil Rays), New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox.
He also became the face of the game's Steroid Era, writing a tell-all book called "Juiced" that helped lead to congressional hearings as well as the Mitchell Report and tougher new rules on performance-enhancing drugs.
Canseco has since been involved in reality TV and boxing ventures, and has a highly active Twitter account.
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Shootings In America
Ed Mazza
Overnight Editor, HuffPost
Sports MLB Jose Canseco
Swat team members secure the scene near Sparks Middle School in Sparks, Nev., after a shooting there on Monday, Oct. 21, 2013. Authorities are reporting that two people were killed and two wounded at the Nevada middle school. (AP Photo/Kevin Clifford)


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Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz (* 22. Oktober 1881 in Mergelstetten; † 20. Juli 1908 in Göttingen) war ein deutscher Geowissenschaftler und Seismologe.

Familie
Der Geowissenschaftler war der Sohn des Fabrikanten Otto Stefan Friedrich Zoeppritz (1853–1922) und dessen Frau Anna Maria Wilhelmina (1851–1925). Sein Großvater war der Politiker und Unternehmer Karl Zöppritz (1812–1900). Zoeppritz war der Neffe des Geographen und Physikers Karl Zöppritz (1838–1885).

Karl Zoeppritz war ab 1907 mit Elisabeth Ganz (1886–1964) verheiratet. Das Paar hatte eine Tochter.

Leben

Karl Zoeppritz studierte Geologie und weitere naturwissenschaftliche Disziplinen in München und in Freiburg. Hier promovierte er 1905 mit einem rein geologischen Thema. Ein Jahr später legte er in Karlsruhe das Oberlehrerexamen ab. Während seines Studiums fand er Interesse an der Physik und speziell an der Geophysik, einem Forschungszweig, der sich Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts gerade erst zu entwickeln begann und zu jener Zeit einzig von Emil Wiechert in Göttingen gelehrt wurde.

Zoeppritz gelang es, unter Wiechert eine Assistentenstelle zu bekommen und wechselte nach Göttingen. Dort befasste er sich mit den Aufzeichnungen größerer Erdbeben der damaligen Zeit, darunter das bekannte San-Francisco-Erdbeben von 1906. Auf der Grundlage der theoretischen Arbeiten von Wiechert erstellte er Laufzeitkurven, die beide gemeinsam 1907 veröffentlichten, und die künftig der besseren Identifizierung von verschiedenen Seismogramm-Einsätzen von Fernbeben dienen sollten.

Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz starb 1908 im Alter von 26 Jahren an einer Infektionskrankheit, die er sich im vorangegangenen Winter zugezogen hatte. Viele seiner Forschungsergebnisse waren noch nicht veröffentlicht. Dies übernahmen neben Wiechert die Göttinger Kollegen Ludwig Geiger und Beno Gutenberg. Die überragende Weitsicht und Auffassungsgabe des jungen Karl Zoeppritz war für die Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft (DGG) ausschlaggebend, nach ihm den 2003 zum ersten Mal verliehenen Karl-Zoeppritz-Preis zu benennen, mit dem junge Nachwuchswissenschaftler für besondere Leistungen in der Geophysik ausgezeichnet werden sollen.

Wirken

Ein wesentlicher Fortschritt in der Interpretation seismischer Wellenphasen war die Beobachtung von (mehrfachen) Reflexionen an der Erdoberfläche sowie konvertierter Wellenzüge. Zoeppritz arbeitete intensiv an dem Amplitudenverhalten seismischer Wellen an Grenzflächen in Abhängigkeit vom Einfallswinkel und entwickelte daraus die nach ihm benannten Zoeppritz-Gleichungen zur Berechnung der Amplituden. In seinen letzten Forschungsarbeiten leitete Zoeppritz die Reflexions- und Transmissionskoeffizienten für reflektierte bzw. refraktierte seismische Wellen ab.

Veröffentlichungen

 Geologische Untersuchungen im Oberengadin zwischen Albulapass und Livigno. Inaugural-Dissertation, Universität Freiburg, 68pp, 1906.
 Über Erdbebenwellen II. Laufzeitkurven. Nachrichten der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse, 529–549, 1907.
 mit Geiger, Ludwig: Über Erdbebenwellen III. Berechnung von Weg und Geschwindigkeit der Vorläufer. Die Poissonsche Konstante im Erdinnern. Nachrichten der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse, 400–428, 1909.
 mit Geiger, Ludwig und Gutenberg, Beno: Über Erdbebenwellen V. Konstitution des Erdinnern, erschlossen aus dem Bodenverrückungsverhalten der einmal reflektierten zu den direkten longitudinalen Erdbebenwellen, und einige andere Beobachtungen über Erdbebenwellen. Nachrichten der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse, 121–206, 1912.
 Erdbebenwellen VII. Über Reflexion und Durchgang seismischer Wellen durch Unstetigkeitsflächen. Nachrichten der Königlichen Gesellschaft, 1919.

Literatur
 Joachim R. R. Ritter, Andreas Barth, Johannes Schweitzer: Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz (1881–1908). In: DGG Mitteilungen. Nr. 1, 2009, , S. 18–26. (Artikel, PDF-Datei)

Weblinks
 Karl-Zoeppritz–Preis - Neuer Preis der DGG für Nachwuchswissenschaftler, biographische Darstellung auf der Seite der Deutschen Geophysikalischen Gesellschaft

Einzelnachweise

Deutscher
Geologe (20. Jahrhundert)
Geophysiker
Geboren 1881
Gestorben 1908
Mann

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Q: Setting size for Plasma::PushButton? I'm trying to implement a simple KDE plasma plugin , which contains two PushButtons and a KLineEdit ,
But it seems KLineEdit and the PushButton has a minimum size , if the panel doesn't have enough height , some parts will disappear on the panel , it doens't shrink as the panel shrinks.
Since i already set the QSizePolicy to minimum , i don't understand why it's now resizing as user drag the panel ?
Thanks , and here's the primary class file:
#include <Plasma/Theme>
#include <Plasma/Corona>
#include <Plasma/Containment>
#include <Plasma/ToolTipManager>

K_EXPORT_PLASMA_APPLET(runcommand, RunCommandApplet)

RunCommandApplet:: RunCommandApplet(QObject *parent, const QVariantList &args) : Plasma::Applet(parent, args)
{
        paste_button = new Plasma::PushButton (this);
        paste_button->setText (tr("Pa"));

        m_button = new Plasma::PushButton (this);
        m_button->setText (tr("Ki"));

        m_lineEdit = new Plasma::LineEdit (this);

        QGraphicsLinearLayout *layout = new QGraphicsLinearLayout ();
        layout->addItem (m_button);
        layout->addItem (paste_button);
        layout->addItem (m_lineEdit);
            setLayout(layout);

        constraintsEvent(Plasma::FormFactorConstraint | Plasma::ImmutableConstraint);

        Plasma::ToolTipManager::self()->setContent(this, Plasma::ToolTipContent(i18n("Client"), i18n("Some Client"), KIcon("system-run").pixmap(IconSize(KIconLoader::Desktop))));

}

void RunCommandApplet::constraintsEvent(Plasma::Constraints constraints)
{
        m_button->setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy(QSizePolicy::Minimum, QSizePolicy::Minimum));
        paste_button->setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy(QSizePolicy::Minimum, QSizePolicy::Minimum));
        m_lineEdit->setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy(QSizePolicy::Minimum, QSizePolicy::Minimum));
}

A: Plasm::PushButtons QSizePolicy is Minimum by default. Try setting QSizePolicy::ShrinkFlag flag.


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Vikram Bawa to talk 'Fashion Films' at LIFW 2014
Published by Hemant Sanganee on Mar 11, 2014
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Ace photographer Vikram Bawa will be showcasing a special film on 12th March, Day 1 of the biggest annual fashion week of India,Lakme India Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2014.
The fashion film, shot by Vikram with Queenie Singh as the model, for her jewellery brand 'Jewels by Queenie', will be the latest in the line of glamorously unique videos created by Vikram.
Vikram Bawa says, "I firmly believe that fashion films are an impressive art form in themselves. I am one of the few lensmen in India aggressively pushing this form of expression, and I am happy that it is gaining momentum."
Chaired by Anaita Shroff, Fashion Director of Vogue, and renowned jewellery designer Queenie Singh, the event will have Vikram talking about his special film, along with few more, of his own and others, which will also be showcased.
The event will be aimed at creating awareness about Fashion films as a lesser explored expression of creativity, a hidden gem.
Specializing in advertising and fashion photography, one of Vikram's earlier films had been nominated for the Phalke award at the Dada Saheb Phalke film festival 2012.
In fact, he has even been named among the Best Advertising photographers worldwide by the esteemed international publication, Lurzer's Archive (2010-2011).
Jewellery designer, Queenie, celebrated a decade of her brand 'Jewels by Queenie', last year. Anaita Shroff, who dons many hats, is also a fashion stylist and costume designer for Bollywood films.
Lakmé Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2014 is scheduled to be held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Mumbai from 12th-16th March, 2014.


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