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You couldn't meet a kinder woman than Venera Sujashvili.
The owner of a simple homestay high in the Caucasus Mountains, she fusses about her guests from first light until late at night, making sure they are warm, well-fed and instructed in backgammon. So what's a portrait of one of the world's greatest mass-murderers doing on her dining room wall?
"Da, he was bad," she answers in Russian.
"But he was part of my life, and I want my children to understand."
A 17m statue of Stalin towers over Gori's main square.
Like many people in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, a country of five million sandwiched between Turkey and Russia, Venera has a complicated relationship with Stalin.
Few deny his brutality – his victims are said to number in the tens of millions – but many Georgians still take an odd pride in their most famous son.
"Sure, he was an evil brute," their reasoning seems to go, "but he was our evil brute, a Georgian who changed the world."
Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in 1879, in the central Georgian town of Gori. He adopted the name Stalin – "man of steel" – only in his thirties.
His mother was a pious woman who took in washing to pay his way through the orthodox seminary in Tbilisi, Georgia's capital. Years later, when her son wielded more power than any other human being, she still scolded him for being expelled and failing to become a priest.
His cobbler father, on the other hand, was a violent drunk who beat his family and died in an alcohol-fuelled brawl. As a child Stalin's face was ravaged by smallpox, and an accident with a horse-drawn cart left one arm shorter than the other.
None of these obstacles – not even Lenin's warnings about the "brutish bully" – stopped Stalin taking complete control of the Soviet Union. Historians are still arguing about how many millions of people died as a result.
An estimated ten million peasant farmers starved to death, including five million in the Ukraine alone, during his forced collectivisation of agriculture in the early 1930s. Millions served long sentences in Siberian labour camps and entire nations were deported from their homelands.
However, he transformed a backward, feudal state into a superpower and – despite a spectacularly incompetent start – turned the tide of World War Two against the Nazis.
A marble-columned building encloses the shack where Stalin was born.
Stalin's personality cult was quietly dismantled after his death in 1953, but the party waited until the 1960s to go public with his crimes. Monuments to the Great Leader vanished by the thousands – including the world's largest, a 17,000-tonne statue in Prague which took a month and 800kg of explosives to demolish. Each jacket button measured half a metre across.
But there are still a few places where Stalin never went out of fashion. His birthplace is one of them, perhaps because Gori without Stalin would amount to little more than a crumbling fortress, Soviet-era factories and unemployed young men reeking of chacha, the local spirit.
The bus to Gori – helpfully identified by a portrait of Stalin on the destination board – dropped me in the centre of town, where a 17-metre Stalin statue loomed over grand stone buildings and a deserted Stalin Square. In the distance, at the far end of Stalin Avenue, a scaled-down classical temple appeared to shelter a precious relic.
On closer inspection, the relic turned out to be a two-room hovel. An entire district was razed and rebuilt to make this shack, Stalin's birthplace, the town's centrepiece. And the building behind it, with carved stone ornaments and an Italian-style bell tower, was Gori's premier tourist attraction: The Stalin Museum.
The museum was eerily quiet. I headed upstairs, past dozing security guards and a life-size marble Stalin. Light filtered through church-like coloured glass onto a parquet floor.
Inside Gori's slightly surreal Stalin Museum. Photo: Peter de Graaf
The school groups and hectoring guides have gone but otherwise little seemed to have changed since Brezhnev. Glass cases held rows of documents, grainy photos and clippings from Pravda, along with maps of Stalin's exiles in Siberia and subsequent escapes, his disguises and police mug shots, and an exaggerated account of his role in the October Revolution.
Then a guide appeared and ushered me into a room crowded with gifts from foreign dignitaries: Red clogs from the Dutch communist party, a faded peace dove dedicated to "Giuseppe Stalin", and a vase bearing one of the young Joseph's poems: "Bloom, my nice country/Be glad Georgians homeland". At least that's what the translation said.
She also pointed out Stalin's desk and a piano on which his children played at the family's Black Sea dacha. She opened the lid to stroke the yellowed keys, then suddenly buckled at the knees and sighed heavily. At first I thought she had been overcome by emotion. But no.
"To speak English makes me very tired," she said.
The creepiest room of the museum was empty except for Stalin's bronze death mask, resting on a marble pillow and illuminated by a single dim spotlight. I was surprised the head of a man who had terrorised millions could be so small and wizened. And I'd had enough of the whole surreal experience.
Fortunately, an antidote to the museum's one-eyed take on history is close at hand. When the guards aren't looking, you can sneak into the train carriage displayed outside and plant your buttocks on Stalin's private toilet.
A sign on a Gori-bound bus depicts the town's most famous son.
At the nearby Museum of Military Glory I asked the curator what the citizens of Gori make of Stalin these days.
"They love him, but only the old people," she answered.
"I don't know why… maybe he had many mistakes, but he was strong."
And after the bloodshed and economic freefall since the demise of the Soviet Union, you could forgive Georgians for admiring a leader who brought stability, kept a lid on ethnic tensions and made them feel they were part of a superpower.
When Georgia regained its independence in 1991, it spiralled into a series of chaotic civil wars involving nationalists, separatists, paramilitary groups, ethnic minorities and a dose of machismo.
Most disastrous of all was the war in Abkhazia, a breakaway region on the country's northern Black Sea coast. Apart from the human cost – 10,000 dead and 200,000 refugees – Georgia lost its best beaches, its tourist industry, its only rail link to Russia and most of its exports. The result was a drop in living standards that was drastic even by post-Soviet standards. Once the richest republic in the Soviet Union, in the mid-1990s Georgia ranked among the world's poorest countries.
Perhaps the most bizarre stop on Georgia's Stalin trail is a back yard in the bucolic village of Akhal Sopeli, where one man has spent decades creating a garden worthy of the Generalissimo.
Temuri Kunelauri has spent decades creating a tribute to Stalin.
Temuri Kunelauri is a quiet-spoken, self-effacing man with dark hair tied back in a ponytail, streaks of silver in his beard and a fondness for loud shirts. His garden is an odd place, a Stalinworld amusement park complete with swings, fairytale characters and a rusting Ferris wheel.
But the atmosphere as I tagged along with a group of visiting pensioners was one of reverence. I felt I was entering a holy site.
The group shuffled through a maze of courtyards, with Soviet busts scowling from the vegetation, tinkling fountains and red stars planted in the flowerbeds. A missile had all but disappeared under ivy, and a sheepskin portrait of Stalin was rotting away. Dampness and decay hung in the air.
I ran into Temuri in a large, corrugated-iron hall, where he was showing a stream of elderly visitors his collection of paintings, photographs and news clippings. We saw Stalin in oils at the Kremlin, Stalin posing with Lenin, Stalin's likeness drawn entirely with words in the curling Georgian script. There were photos with Churchill and Roosevelt, Stalin pensive in the library, Stalin lighting his pipe. Between a stuffed deer and an electric guitar, a bookshelf was sagging under Stalin's complete works.
Vegetation reclaims a Stalin statue in Temuri Kunelauri's garden. Photo: Peter de Graaf
Then Temuri led me outside and flicked a switch on a control panel. With a grinding of gears and clanking of metal, a golden statue rose from the greenery. It was – surprise, surprise – Stalin, one hand tucked under his jacket, a beatific smile under his moustache and a halo of light bulbs around his head.
One of the admirers turned to me and said, "He was a very great man. There was no one else like him."
"Stalin took us from this," said another, miming a peasant digging a field, "and left us with atomic weapons," pointing to the overgrown missile.
The final stop on our tour was a vine-covered shed where, behind a black curtain in a velvet-lined room, a wax model of Stalin lay in a coffin, half buried in red plastic roses. An elderly gent whispered, "It took him eight months to make this. He even sewed the uniform himself."
When I asked Temuri why he had spent half his life turning his garden into a Stalin shrine, he answered without a second's hesitation: "Because I love him."
I waited for the smile, the crinkling of the eyes, some sign of irony. There was none.
"I love him for the same reason you are here," Kunelauri continued. "Because he was a genius."
I opted for a diplomatic response: "Sure, he was a genius. But an evil genius."
Temuri smiled and turned back to the faithful gathered around the coffin.
"An amateur from New Zealand," he said.
A stallholder known as Tarzan offered me a Stalin plaque for 50 lari (NZ$30).
Down at Tbilisi's weekend flea market, a stallholder who went by the name of Tarzan – a reference to the trees overhanging his stall rather than his physique – had the city's best selection of socialist memorabilia. Soviet uniforms, badges, banners and, of course, mementos of Joseph Stalin.
A plaster bust, only slightly chipped, for five lari (NZ$3). Or how about a bronze relief of the Generalissimo on an imitation marble plaque for 50 lari? Instead, I bought several packets of cigarettes sporting a wartime portrait of Stalin studying a map, at 25 tetri (15 cents) each.
As Tarzan counted out my change, I asked his opinion of the world's most infamous Georgian.
"Every era has its heroes and villains," he shrugged, pointing to the branches shedding autumn leaves around his stall.
"The leaves come and go, but they are always the same. And so it is with people."
First published in The New Zealand Listener in 2006. In mid-2010 the statue of Stalin was removed from Gori's Stalin Square. Town authorities were planning to replace it with a memorial to the disastrous 2008 war with Russia, in which Gori was especially hard hit.
Where in the world is Georgia?
The Republic of Georgia is located at the eastern end of the Black Sea, sandwiched between Turkey, Russia and Azerbaijan. It has an area of 70,000sq km – making it a quarter the size of New Zealand, or roughly the size of Ireland – and a population close to 5 million.
Its people speak Georgian, which has a unique 2500-year-old alphabet, and trace their ancestry back to Noah. It is one of the world's oldest Christian countries, and its most famous – or infamous – son is Joseph Stalin.
Georgia gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and plunged almost immediately into civil war. Once the most prosperous part of the USSR, state wages fell as low as US$5 a month in the nation's post-independence chaos.
In recent years, apart from a disastrous conflict with Russia in 2008, stability has returned and living standards have improved markedly. The Georgian government has worked to promote tourism, dropped most visa requirements and switched from Russian to English as its second language, making the country more accessible to foreign visitors.
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Yes, another pop song mixed with "Toxic." And yes, it bangs.
"Into You" by Ariana Grande vs. "2 On" by Tinashe.
I'm shook…at how this works so well.
I found this one a few years ago…still so good.
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Justia › US Law › Case Law › Federal Courts › Courts of Appeals › Eighth Circuit › 1968 › Robert E. Hanson, Appellant, v. Hunt Oil Company, a Foreign Corporation, Appellee
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Robert E. Hanson, Appellant, v. Hunt Oil Company, a Foreign Corporation, Appellee, 398 F.2d 578 (8th Cir. 1968)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit - 398 F.2d 578 (8th Cir. 1968) August 7, 1968
Morris Chertkov, Washington, D. C., for appellant; Worth Rowley, Washington, D. C., and E. F. Engebretson (of Pearce, Engebretson, Anderson & Schmidt), Bismarck, N. D., on the brief.
Russell R. Mather (of Fleck, Smith, Mather, Strutz & Mayer), Bismarck, N. D., for appellee; Ernest R. Fleck of the same firm, Bismarck, N. D., on the brief.
Before VAN OOSTERHOUT, Chief Judge, BLACKMUN, Circuit Judge, and VAN PELT, District Judge.
VAN OOSTERHOUT, Chief Judge.
Plaintiff Hanson has taken this timely appeal from final judgment of the District Court dismissing his complaint and awarding defendant, Hunt Oil Company (Hunt), judgment for $79,577.35 on its counterclaim. Jurisdiction exists by reason of diversity of citizenship and the requisite amount.
A rather extensive statement of background facts is essential to present the issues in proper perspective. Hanson shared with William Walters a working interest in three producing oil wells in North Dakota, which normally yielded 84-84-54 barrels per day. Hunt, which owned a substantial working interest in the area, was vigorously pushing a unitization project known as the Tioga-Madison Unit. It was necessary to obtain the participation of 95% of the owners of working interest in the field to create the unitization and plaintiff's participation was necessary to reach such percentage. Hunt persistently sought plaintiff's participation. Plaintiff repeatedly refused to participate, stating as grounds therefor (1) he did not believe the predicted yields under the unitized unit would produce as much income for him as his existing operation and he needed the income because of heavy mortgage obligations, (2) he did not have funds to pay the cost of joining the unit, and (3) he did not believe the participation allotted to him in the unit was sufficiently high as his wells were among the best producers in the entire field.
Hanson was ultimately persuaded by Hunt's representative to sign the unit agreement on the basis of a letter agreement prepared by Hunt's counsel and signed by Latimer, an authorized representative, with written acceptance endorsed thereon by Hanson. The letter agreement provides that Hunt will make certain advances required of Hanson by the unit agreement. Then follows the portion here in controversy, reading:
"4. All sums so advanced for your account, plus interest thereon at six per cent (6%) per annum, shall be repaid by you to Hunt Oil Company from and out of the following:
"A. From month to month out of production or proceeds therefrom with respect to certain wells, as follows:
All production of Unitized Substances from the North Tioga-Madison Unit accruing to your account that is in excess of your normal share of total oil production from Investors-State Nos. 1 and 2 Wells and from the Hunt-Johnson State No. 1 Well. For purposes hereof, `normal share of total oil production' from Investor-State Nos. 1 and 2 Wells means your share of total oil production from said wells under production allowables (up to a maximum of 84 barrels per day per well) which would be assigned to said wells if they had not been included in the Unit. `Normal share of total oil production' for the Hunt-Johnson State No. 1 Well shall be your share of total oil production from that well up to a maximum of 54 barrels per day total oil production from the well.
"B. All your share of income from said gasoline plant, including income from sales of extracted liquids and other plant products, and sales of gas and residue gas."
Plaintiff's basic contention in this litigation, asserted in paragraph VI of his amended complaint filed May 31, 1966, is:
"That in entering said agreement of August 24, 1961, it was the intent of the parties that the plaintiff was not obligated to repay any part of such advance until the defendant had paid plaintiff for 84 barrels of oil per day in connection with wells F22 and F24, and had paid plaintiff for 54 barrels of oil per day in connection with well D28, after which time plaintiff's share of production over such stated amounts was to be applied against the money so advanced by defendant to plaintiff. * * *"
Plaintiff in his prayer among other things prayed:
"(2) That if the Court finds that the agreement of August 24, 1961 is ambiguous that the Court reform said agreement to conform with the intentions of the parties as set forth in this complaint."
Additionally, Hanson asked that defendant be required to account to him for all sums applied to advances made in violation of the agreement as pleaded.
The trial court by letter opinion filed August 29, 1966, determined the letter agreement was not ambiguous and that hence the intention of the parties must be gathered solely from the language used in the letter agreement and that parol evidence would not be admissible.
The case was set for and reached for trial on September 12, 1966. At the opening of the trial, plaintiff tendered an amendment to the complaint which amended the prayer for reformation to read:
"(2) That if the Court finds that the agreement of August 24, 1961, does not conform with the intentions of the parties at the time of making the agreement, that there be held to be a mutual mistake in reducing said agreement to writing, and that the Court reform said agreement to conform with the intention of the parties as set forth in this complaint."
Plaintiff's counsel, in seeking leave to amend, stated: " [W]hile we pled for reformation in the original Complaint and in the Amended Complaint perhaps the language wasn't quite as good as it should have been, and we have introduced a little clarifying language in the reformation portion of it."
Defendant objected to the amendment on the ground that it asserted a new cause of action. The court sustained defendant's objection and would not permit the amendment. Plaintiff's offer and tender of oral evidence in proof of his reformation claim was rejected. Subsequently final judgment was entered dismissing plaintiff's claim and awarding judgment on defendant's counterclaim. The judgment is based on the court's interpretation of the letter agreement as written.
Plaintiff urges that the court erred in denying him the right to offer evidence in support of his claim for reformation upon the ground of mutual mistake. His position is that he adequately pleaded reformation in the complaint filed on May 31, 1966, and that if such not be the situation, the court in any event erred in refusing to receive the tendered amendment. We agree with both of such contentions.
While the amended complaint filed May 31, 1966, could have stated the claim for reformation more clearly than it did, a prayer for reformation was made. Paragraph VI of the complaint, hereinabove quoted, sets forth the claimed mutual intent of the parties. We believe that such pleading gives the defendant fair notice that plaintiff is seeking reformation based upon mutual mistake. Additional information, if desired, was available by means of pretrial and discovery procedure. All that is required by Rule 8, Fed. R. Civ. P., by way of pleading a claim is "a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief." Rule 8 is to be liberally construed. A pleading which gives defendant fair notice of what plaintiff's claim is and the grounds upon which it rests complies with the rule. Conley v. Gibson, 355 U.S. 41, 47-48, 78 S. Ct. 99, 2 L. Ed. 2d 80; Schaedler v. Reading Eagle Publication, Inc., 3 Cir., 370 F.2d 795, 798; See 2A Moore's Federal Practice ¶ 8.13.
In any event, the amendment tendered on the day of trial clears up any existing deficiency in the pleading of reformation. While defendant objected to the reception of the amendment, it made no showing of surprise or prejudice. It was established that the parties who had acted for Hunt in the transaction were in the courtroom. The provisions of Rule 15, Fed. R. Civ. P., are to be liberally construed. The Supreme Court in Foman v. Davis, 371 U.S. 178, 182, 83 S. Ct. 227, 9 L. Ed. 2d 222 holds:
"Rule 15(a) declares that leave to amend `shall be freely given when justice so requires'; this mandate is to be heeded. See generally, 3 Moore, Federal Practice (2d ed. 1948) ¶¶ 15.08, 15.10. If the underlying facts or circumstances relied upon by a plaintiff may be a proper subject of relief, he ought to be afforded an opportunity to test his claim on the merits. In the absence of any apparent or declared reason — such as undue delay, bad faith or dilatory motive on the part of the movant, repeated failure to cure deficiencies by amendments previously allowed, undue prejudice to the opposing party by virtue of allowance of the amendment, futility of amendment, etc. — the leave sought should, as the rules require, be `freely given.' Of course, the grant or denial of an opportunity to amend is within the discretion of the District Court, but outright refusal to grant the leave without any justifying reason appearing for the denial is not an exercise of discretion; it is merely abuse of that discretion and inconsistent with the spirit of the Federal Rules." Ordinarily, delay alone is an insufficient basis for denying leave to amend. Prejudice must be shown. 3 Moore Federal Practice ¶ 15.08(4). Additional support for allowing the amendment may be found in the last two sentences of Rule 15(b).
In our present case, the trial court sets forth no valid basis for the denial of leave to file the amendment. Under the holding of Foman v. Davis, supra, the refusal to grant leave to amend on the record here presented amounts to an abuse of discretion.
It is generally recognized that parol evidence is admissible to support a claim for reformation. Oliver-Mercer Elec. Coop., Inc. v. Fisher, N.D., 146 N.W.2d 346, 355; Cokins v. Frandsen, N.D., 141 N.W.2d 796, 800; see 76 C.J. S. Reformation of Instruments § 83b. It is our view that the court erred in refusing to receive parol evidence on the reformation issue.
We do not reach the issue presented of whether the court erred in determining the letter agreement was unambiguous, nor do we pass upon the correctness of the trial court's interpretation of the contract as written. Such issues would not be material if plaintiff prevails on his reformation claim. While some offers of proof were made in connection with the reformation issue, we hold that the plaintiff is entitled to an evidentiary hearing upon such issue and express no view on whether the evidence which may ultimately be introduced will support plaintiff's right to reformation. We merely hold that plaintiff is entitled to make his record upon such issue.
The judgment entered must be vacated by reason of the court's failure to permit the amendment tendered and its refusal to receive parol evidence in support of the reformation issue.
The judgment is reversed and this case is remanded to the trial court for further proceedings not inconsistent with views herein expressed.
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Tucson schools bans books by Chicano and Native American authors
Posted by Brenda Norrell - January 14, 2012 at 11:53 pm
Banned books fuels calls for revolution in Tucson
Native authors in banned book include Leslie Marmon Silko, Buffy Sainte Marie and Winona LaDuke
By Brenda Norrell
Breaking news: Updated Sunday with response from banned author Roberto Rodriguez
TUCSON -- Outrage was the response to the news that Tucson schools has banned books, including "Rethinking Columbus," with an essay by award-winning Pueblo author Leslie Marmon Silko, who lives in Tucson, and works by Buffy Sainte Marie, Winona LaDuke, Leonard Peltier and Rigoberta Menchu.
The decision to ban books follows the 4 to 1 vote on Tuesday by the Tucson Unified School District board to succumb to the State of Arizona, and forbid Mexican American Studies, rather than fight the state decision.
Students said the banned books were seized from their classrooms and out of their hands, after Tucson schools banned Mexican American Studies, including a book of photos of Mexico. Crying, students said it was like Nazi Germany, and they were unable to sleep since it happened.
The banned book, "Rethinking Columbus," includes work by many Native Americans, as Debbie Reese reports, the book includes:
Suzan Shown Harjo's "We Have No Reason to Celebrate"
Buffy Sainte-Marie's "My Country, 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying"
Joseph Bruchac's "A Friend of the Indians"
Cornel Pewewardy's "A Barbie-Doll Pocahontas"
N. Scott Momaday's "The Delight Song of Tsoai-Talee"
Michael Dorris's "Why I'm Not Thankful for Thanksgiving"
Leslie Marmon's "Ceremony"
Wendy Rose's "Three Thousand Dollar Death Song"
Winona LaDuke's "To the Women of the World: Our Future, Our Responsibility"
The now banned reading list of the Tucson schools' Mexican American Studies includes two books by Native American author Sherman Alexie and a book of poetry by O'odham poet Ofelia Zepeda.
Jeff Biggers writes in Salon:
The list of removed books includes the 20-year-old textbook "Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years," which features an essay by Tucson author Leslie Silko. Recipient of a Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award and a MacArthur Foundation genius grant, Silko has been an outspoken supporter of the ethnic studies program.
Biggers said Shakespeare's play "The Tempest," was also banned during the meeting this week. Administrators told Mexican-American studies teachers to stay away from any class units where "race, ethnicity and oppression are central themes."
Other banned books include "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by famed Brazilian educator Paolo Freire and "Occupied America: A History of Chicanos" by Rodolfo Acuña, two books often singled out by Arizona state superintendent of public instruction John Huppenthal, who campaigned in 2010 on the promise to "stop la raza." Huppenthal, who once lectured state educators that he based his own school principles for children on corporate management schemes of the Fortune 500, compared Mexican-American studies to Hitler Jugend indoctrination last fall.
http://www.salon.com/2012/01/13/whos_afraid_of_the_tempest/singleton/
Bill Bigelow, co-author of Rethinking Columbus, writes:
Imagine our surprise.
Rethinking Schools learned today that for the first time in its more-than-20-year history, our book Rethinking Columbus was banned by a school district: Tucson, Arizona ...
As I mentioned to Biggers when we spoke, the last time a book of mine was outlawed was during the state of emergency in apartheid South Africa in 1986, when the regime there banned the curriculum I'd written, Strangers in Their Own Country, likely because it included excerpts from a speech by then-imprisoned Nelson Mandela. Confronting massive opposition at home and abroad, the white minority government feared for its life in 1986. It's worth asking what the school authorities in Arizona fear today.
http://rethinkingschoolsblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/rethinking-columbus-banned-in-tucson
Roberto Rodriguez, professor at University of Arizona, is also among the nation's top Chicano and Latino authors on the Mexican American Studies reading list. Rodriguez' column about this week's school board decision, posted at Censored News, is titled: "Tucson school officials caught on tape 'urinating' on Mexican students."http://drcintli.blogspot.com/
Rodriguez responded to Narco New about the ban on Sunday.
"The attacks in Arizona are mind-boggling. To ban the teaching of a discipline is draconian in and of itself. However, there is also now a banned books list that accompanies the ban. I believe 2 of my books are on the list, which includes: Justice: A Question of Race and The X in La Raza. Two others may also be on the list," Rodriguez said.
"That in itself is jarring, but we need to remember the proper context. This is not simply a book-banning; according to Tom Horne, the former state scools' superintendent who designed HB 2281, this is part of a civilizational war. He determined that Mexican American Studies is not based on Greco-Roman knowledge and thus, lies outside of Western Civilization.
"In a sense, he is correct. The philosophical foundation for MAS is a maiz-based philosophy that is both, thousands of years old and Indigenous to this continent. What has just happened is akin to an Auto de Fe -- akin to the 1562 book-burning of Maya books in 1562 at Mani, Yucatan. At TUSD, the list of banned books will total perhaps 50 books, including artwork and posters.
"For us here in Tucson, this is not over. If anything, the banning of books will let the world know precisely what kind of mindset is operating here; in that previous era, this would be referred to as a reduccion (cultural genocide) of all things Indigenous. In this era, it can too also be seen as a reduccion."
The reading list includes world acclaimed Chicano and Latino authors, along with Native American authors. The list includes books by Corky Gonzales, along with Sandra Cisneros' "The House on Mango Street;" Jimmy Santiago Baca's "Black Mesa Poems," and L.A. Urreas' "The Devil's Highway." The authors include Henry David Thoreau and the popular book "Like Water for Chocolate."
On the reading list are Native American author Sherman Alexie's books, "Ten Little Indians," and "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven." O'odham poet and professor Ofelia Zepeda's "Ocean Power, Poems from the Desert" is also on the list.
DA Morales writes in Three Sonorans, at Tucson Citizen, about the role of state schools chief John Huppenthal. "Big Brother Huppenthal has taken his TEA Party vows to take back Arizona… take it back a few centuries with official book bans that include Shakespeare!"
http://tucsoncitizen.com/three-sonorans/2012/01/13/did-you-know-even-shakespeare-got-banned-from-tusd-with-mas-ruling/
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Q: I want to sort the Mongodb data based on Array size I'm having student (String) and instructor (List of String).I want to fetch the record based on the instructor count in Descending order. instructor as below
Sample:   [a,b,c] -3, [e,f] -2, [g,h,i,j] -4.
I want in the order of 4 and 3 and then 2.
That is based on the field instructor array's size.How to query this using mongoTemplate or custom mongodb query or aggregation??

A: Query1

*

*add a new field with the $size of the instructor array

*sort descending by that field

*unset that field

*sort doesn't accept an expression we couldn't do it in 1 stage without adding a new field.
Test code here
aggregate(
[{"$set":{"nInstructors":{"$size":"$instructor"}}},
 {"$sort":{"nInstructors":-1}},
 {"$unset":["nInstructors"]}])

Query2

*

*same as above but checks if array first, to avoid errors if field has other type or missing.

Test code here
aggregate(
[{"$set":
  {"nInstructors":
   {"$cond":
    [{"$isArray":["$instructor"]}, {"$size":"$instructor"}, 0]}}},
 {"$sort":{"nInstructors":-1}},
 {"$unset":["nInstructors"]}])

A: I have found a way to sort by array size from mongodb.
Aggregation for the above is:
newAggregation(addFields().addField("nInstructors")
.withValue(new Document ("$size, "nInstructors")).build(),
sort(DESC, "nInstructors"),
limit(limitCount)
);

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Are we talking about the same type of standing waves? Are the following formulas applicable:
$$\lambda=\frac{2L}{m}~?$$
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8th February 2019 by Arun Kakar
Arun Kakar visits London's latest fusion offering, and finds plenty of merit in meppon
There's reason to be sceptical of 'fusion cuisine'. Diners are now wary of perfectly good dishes, confusingly combined – or 'fused' – to reveal a rogue's gallery of cronuts, sushi burgers and Yorkshire pudding burritos.
It's a trap that fine dining can also be caught in – mistaking geographic combinations for culinary innovations, resulting in dishes that resemble cobbled together table scraps from the neighbouring outlets.
So here we are at Zela, in the capable hands of Enrique Iglesias, Christiano Ronaldo and Rafael Nadal, who have joined forces in Aldwych with a fusion combination to test even London's culinary open-mindedness. They together present 'Meppon', a concept that originated in Ibiza and fuses together Japanese cuisine with Mediterranean.
Spear's scepticism suitably spiked, would we be eating tapas teppanyaki style? Gratin gyoza?
When we arrive, it's clear that if this is a gimmick, it's a very expensive one. Tucked around the corner from the Strand in the ME hotel – Zela is putting money where its mouth is.
It's clear Iglesias, Ronaldo and Nadal are looking to bring some serious heat to the West End with Zela, despite the adversarial weather outside. The interior could double up as sprawling rainforest-style nightclub if the tables were removed. There's a DJ booth, a pretty formidable soundsystem, and a lot of plants. What could have felt like an oversized Jungle Gyms is actually an oddly calming respite from the Central London bustle outside. Even the air feels a little lighter.
We open proceedings with cool cocktails enjoyed under chill house music. These are delicious, at first confusing to the taste but, ultimately, totally coherent and very moreish. The Matilda, for instance, brings together Italicus gin, yuzu juice, shiso syrup, and lime together with in a syrupy, not-too-sweet balance. The proof, so far is in the concept.
With over 20 items on the cocktail menu alone, it's easy to get carried away, but we resist. The menu reads like a challenge, with elements of each item inviting an element of surprise.
Zela's menu is confusing to those who, like us, are unaware of the Meppon concept (as far as I can tell, it's a concept pioneered exclusively by Zela).
We browse confusedly through gnocchi with miso, Sunomono with calamari. Initiated with salmorejo and edamame, we're grateful that our waitress is a deft touch at guiding us through its nuances. We settle on the sashimi platter to start with. We're told it has everything, and when it arrives, as a grand platter served on a bed of ice, lit by neon and presented around a décor of plants and yes, bamboo, we're not in any position to doubt.
There's tuna, three pieces each in order of fattiness, scallops, and sushi moriawase. The former two items are sashimi at its direct and uncomplicated best; the latter is the most intriguing. There's a lot going on with the three we're each given, featuring brown sugar and white fish, caviar and pastrami. Here the feel of sushi is present, but the taste doesn't match the texture. It's most evident in the pastrami that's hardened meat is at odds with the typically supple fish that you're likely to find atop the rice. It sticks out as a bit of an anomaly on an otherwise outstanding platter, but that's not to say it doesn't work. It's a brilliantly salty, tantalisingly small, but is it sushi?
As endless lively music accompanies us throughout the evening, it's all too easy to draw an analogy between Meppon cuisine and one of the soul remixes the DJ continues to serve up. Japanese cuisine appears to be the 'original' where, whereas the Mediterranean cuisine is doing the 'remixing'. The essence of the original is there, but it's been reworked, rearranged in ways that are often totally original. This is a thesis that comes to a head with the arrival of our mains, which are outstanding.
There's the Waygu Teryiyakai, so tender that the slab of meat can be eaten with chopsticks. It's everything waygu should be – juicy, flavourful and moreish. There's the Duck Zela too, served with bao, rich, gooey and soft. Both dishes – which we share – are recommended for those with doubts about Meppon as a concept and Zela as a premise. Both feel traditional yet new, like being introduced to a new person with whom a familiarity is immediately shared.
When we finish the last of our Sauvignon – the crisp Cloudy Bay, from New Zealand – over macadamia nuts brownies and white chocolate cremoso, Zela has converted us. We're full, merry and feel both as though we've learnt a thing or two. Zela is a totally different ball game.
Arun Kakar writes for Spear's
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Neighborhood Man Arrested in School Machete Attack
July 10, 1996 GMT
WOLVERHAMPTON, England (AP) _ A neighborhood man has been arrested for a machete attack at an elementary school that injured three toddlers and four adults.
Horrett Campbell, 32, was taken into custody after police found him hiding in a closet at his 10-story apartment building late Tuesday.
Police had identified Campbell as a suspect in Monday's attack at the St. Luke's Church of England school. A man armed with a machete jumped two fences at the school, and slashed adults and children at a tea outside for preschoolers.
The attack left four adults and three children, ages 3 and 4, with face, arm and head wounds.
Lisa Potts, a 21-year-old nurse at the school who was badly injured Monday, said the attacker laughed as he swung the machete.
``I saw a woman lying on the ground, and there was suddenly screaming and this man came rushing towards me,″ she said. ``He was laughing and I didn't really know what was going on. But I snatched up a child under each arm and rushed them into the nursery.″
``But he pulled me back and hit me on the head,″ she said, in comments relayed by Jock Gallagher, spokesman at New Cross Hospital here.
Police took Campbell away from the apartment building under a blue blanket.
Residents said they were surprised that Campbell was a suspect.
``He's a bit slow but he was quite popular because he always said hello,″ Marcia Ballantine said.
``He never had any trouble with anybody, but he seemed to be a loner,″ Sarah Ferguson said.
Doctors said it was too early to tell whether Ahmed Pervez, 3, whose skull was fractured in the knife attack, would suffer permanent brain damage.
Rhena Chopra, 4, who suffered deep cuts to her face, and Francesca Quintyne, 4, whose jaw was fractured and her face slashed, were both in stable condition.
The Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council said Tuesday that it would spend $15,000 to buy personal alarms for all school workers.


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Первый дивизион Королевской испанской футбольной федерации (), также известный как Первый дивизион RFEF — третий по значимости дивизион в системе футбольных лиг Испании после Примеры и Сегунды.

Первый дивизион Королевской испанской футбольной федерации был основан в 2021 году. Он управляется Королевской испанской футбольной федерацией.

История
В 2020 году Королевская федерация футбола Испании объявила о создании трех новых дивизионов, двух полупрофессиональных и одного любительского: Первый дивизион RFEF как новый третий уровень испанской футбольной системы; Второй дивизион RFEF как новый четвёртый уровень (при проведении соревнования используется тот же принцип, что использовался в Сегунде Б); и Третий дивизион RFEF как новый пятый уровень (так же, как и в Терсере, в соответствии с правилами проведения которого образуются группы, которые ограничены каким-либо автономным сообществом и управляются местными органами управления).

30 июня 2022 года дивизион был переименован в Primera Federación.

Формат проведения
Первый дивизион Королевской испанской футбольной федерации состоит из 40 команд, которые разделены на две группы по 20 в каждой. На первый сезон розыгрыша турнира список участников распределился следующим образом: 4 команды, которые покинули Сегунду по итогам прошлого сезона, и 36 команд-участниц Сегунды Б.

По итогам чемпионата команда-победитель каждой группы автоматически получает повышение в классе, поднимаясь на один уровень лиг выше (в Сегунду), а команды, занявшие вторые-пятые места в своих группах, сыграют в плей-офф на повышение. Десять команд покинут этот дивизион и вылетят во второй.

Обзорная таблица участников

Третьи дивизионы в системе футбольных лиг Испании
 1929 — Сегунда (группа В)
 С 1929/30 по 1976/77 — Терсера
 С 1977/78 по 2020/21 — Сегунда B

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Футбольные лиги Испании
Испания


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Bengaluru, October 31: The titles just keep rolling in. Advani had won his first international title in China in 2003. Fast forward to 2018, and fifteen years later Advani has won another title on the Chinese soil. Pankaj Advani made it look like just another day in the office as he stormed to a comfortable 6-1 win over Ju Reti in the finals of the Asian Snooker Tour's second leg event at Jinan, China on Wednesday. The first leg had been played in September.
The Bengaluru cueist had notched up impressive wins in the knockout stages to march into the final. The world champion bettered his own performance after he defeated Pakistan's Mohammed Bilal to enter the final. In the first leg of the tournament, which was held in Doha last month, Advani had settled for a bronze, and this time the champion made short work of the experienced Chinese opponent as he clinched gold.
The final, played for best of 11 frames, saw the 19-time world champion wrap up the final, dropping just one frame against the Chinese cueist. The Bengaluru lad took the opening frame 48-35, to set the ball rolling. The 33-year-old won the second frame with ease as he crafted a break a 40 which saw him clinch the frame 67-23.
With two games in the pocket, Advani faced a fightback from the Chinese, a former APTC winner, in the third frame. Reti gave the seasoned Advani a scare as he crafted a break of 60 to bounce back into the game, pocketing the third frame 69-24. But that was all that the Chinese cueist managed against the world champion.
From thereon, it was a one-sided affair as Advani seemed to be in a hurry to finish off the game. Advani won the next four frames on the trot to walk away with the Gold medal in Jinan. En route to his win, India's Golden Boy crafted breaks of 49 and 51 in the fifth frame and a straight break of 94 in the final to ease to victory and all yet another title to his name. Moreover, Advani will now head into the World Billiards and Snooker Championship on a strong note and will hope to defend both the titles.


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Oppose EPA Efforts to Weaken Washington State's Water Quality Standards
By Glen Spain, NW Regional Director, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations (PCFFA)
More methylmercury. More arsenic. More polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). If we value human health, why on Earth would EPA significantly increase the allowed amounts of three of the most dangerous and persistent chemicals known – along with more lead and various industrial chemicals – in the water we drink, the lakes in which we swim, the rivers from which we fish and the fish we eat?
Letter of Reversal
The Trump Administration has now revealed its next target in an ongoing, nationwide assault on environmental regulations: Washington State waters. At the specific request of major industrial polluters, EPA signaled its intentions to radically undermine Washington's recently improved new water quality standards in a "Letter of Reversal" dated May 10, 2019. The letter officially withdraws support of high water quality and seafood safety standards from the Obama EPA, approved on Nov. 15, 2016. If this happens, then Washington's hard-won, effective and science-based toxic water exposure standards will be lost, and the amounts of dozens of toxic chemicals allowed in Washington's waters will increase by many times over.
Gov. Inslee, who has acted against Trump's other environmental rollbacks, was quick to release a statement with Attorney General Bob Ferguson opposing the EPA rollback. Their continued leadership is urgently needed to protect Washington's waterways from irreversible degradation.
While this proposed reversal raises environmental alarms, it will also make the food we eat and the water we drink far less safe. In dismantling an environmental standard known as "the fish consumption rule," the agency would allow for 40 times more PCBs than currently allowed, greatly increasing cancer risk rate. In the case of arsenic, it would allow a 555-fold increase in concentrations of the dangerous chemical in our waters. This move doesn't merely raise questions about the Administration's concern for public health. It signals a blatant disregard for it.
Who is most vulnerable?
Tribal and coastal communities, for whom fishing is critical not only for subsistence, but for cultural and commercial purposes will be most effected. Sharing and eating fish is an integral part of Tribal culture, religion and social fabric here in the Northwest, and it's well-documented that Tribal communities consume fish at a higher-than-average rate. Coastal fishing families also consume a lot more fish than average, and deliver harvested seafood to local restaurants and markets. The whole Pacific Northwest is a high-seafood consuming region. But seafoods will be less safe and less healthy in Washington State if the Trump Administration has its way in its efforts to roll back these science-based food safety standards.
Prior to floating these terrible water-quality rollbacks, the EPA stated its intent to protect people from cancer and other harmful effects that can arise from consuming polluted fish, shellfish and drinking water. As recently as March 20, 2019, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler spoke of global water issues ahead of the U.N.-sanctioned World Water Day, telling CBS News in an interview: "Right now, up to 2.5 billion people around the world lack access to safe drinking water, and, as a result, proper sanitation. This fact leads to anywhere from one to three million deaths every year." Wheeler's comments are ironic, considering they were delivered just as his agency seems poised to backtrack on decades of its own scientific findings and weaken water quality standards that effectively prevent a higher risk of disease.
Access to clean water is a global health issue – and a local issue. Pollutants in Puget Sound waters are already impacting the ailing southern resident orca population, contributing to threats to their survival. Transient and southern resident orcas are considered to be among the most PCB-contaminated mammals on the planet. Gov. Inslee has been very vocal about protecting orcas, and opposing EPA rollbacks to the fish-consumption rule is yet another way he can act to protect these beloved marine mammals.
And EPA's reversal, if successful, is not likely to stop there. Washington's toxic exposure standards that the Trump Administration is seeking to roll back – against the Washington Governor's wishes – are nearly the same as those of Oregon, which would likely be targeted next.
This water quality issue is critical to people and communities throughout the Pacific Northwest. The Trump Administration is poised to turn its back on human health in order to line the pockets of corporate interests. We must oppose this new EPA push to repeal effective state water-quality safeguards. Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, and many others, will be challenging this effort in court.
EPA's next necessary step is a formal rule-making process, which gives the public a right to comment on and oppose these rollbacks. NCAP will help get the word out when this comment period opens, sometime in the next few weeks. Stay tuned and encourage others to comment when the time comes.