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14th Annual Hells Half Mile Film & Music Festival Overview
Posted In: Culture, , From Issue 885 By: Robert E Martin
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INTRODUCTION & OVERVIEW
The 14th year of independent film and music returns with Bay City's annual Hell's Half Mile Film & Music Festival, which thanks to the focused vision of its organizers has successfully screened a broad array of cutting-edge independent films and showcased a divergent collection of innovative musicians since its inception.
This year's festival will run from September 26 - 29th and will feature a total of 23 feature films, 5 'Shorts' programs with 45 short films, and a healthy sampling of engaging music and workshops.
According to festival director and co-founder Alan LaFave, "There are some great films this year with some recognizable faces, but they're all great independent films. Our opening night film, Safe Spaces, stars Justin Long ("Live Free or Die Hard"), Fran Drescher (The Nanny) and Richard Schiff (The West Wing"), as well as Michael Godere ("The Affair") who will be attending the festival. There's also "Teen Spirit" with Elle Fanning, and Sword of Trust with Marc Maron.
LaFave says, "The festival is at a turning point. This should be the year that those who have attended before will likely spend the entire weekend in Downtown Bay City, and those who have never attended will finally see what they've been missing."
"A lot of people love movies and spend hours digging through Netflix or Amazon searching for something fresh or inspiring, but they have never attended a film festival. Film festivals are all about discovery and community. You discover great independent film and get to share the experience with others as well as a lot of the directors, actors, producers and writers who actually make the films. It's an experience like no other. We invite everyone to come out and join in the experience."
LaFave mentioned that the festival is continuing its support of homegrown, Michigan-made films with an entire program of all Michigan shorts, plus two Michigan produced narrative feature films. Sexual Animals will have its world premiere at HHM. Shot in West Michigan, the film is a Rom-Com that explores "what's next" for a couple about to graduate college who decide to take a break from each other before deciding to commit to a life together.
My Soul To Keep is a slick and scary film with an original take on the haunted house genre. A mix of "Home Alone" and "Stranger Things" with a plot that will leave you guessing until the very end.
"And then of course, we have quirky comedies, emotional dramas and some really great thrillers," continues LaFave. "And short films!!!!! So many amazing short films grouped into five separate programs. We'll have over 50 filmmakers present at the festival available for questions about their films."
"Last but not least, we wish to thank Jolt Credit Union for being our Presenting Sponsor this year."
Here are some other highlights of this year's festival.
SEED & SPARK WORKSHOP • THE DISTRIBUTION DOWNLOW
Distribution is one of the most mysterious and misunderstood topics for independent creators. Join us as we break down the current landscape of distribution for independent film and TV, including the economics of different avenues to take, the right questions to ask potential partners, and what needs to be done from pre-production through post-production to set yourself up for successful distribution.
Christina Raia is a New York City-based Writer/Director and the Founder of Congested Cat Productions. Her work, consisting of over a dozen short films, a web series, and two feature films, has screened at film festivals around the world. Through a desire to support other filmmakers, she works for Seed & Spark as the Head of Education, teaching and empowering creators to build their audience and crowdfund their work. This presentation will be taking place at Delta College Planetarium at 4:30 PM on Friday, September 27th.
MICHIGAN FILM AND DIGITAL MEDIA OFFICE PARTICIPATION
The Michigan Film & Digital Media Office continues to support our unique filmmaker crowdfunding efforts at our 5th annual Crowdfunding Rally. This event is an opportunity to make the move from filmgoer to film contributor by supporting and contributing to the making of the next great independent films. Hear the live pitch, follow the campaign online, and then choose the project(s) you feel deserve your support. Our audience can help "greenlight" a film project with any size contribution, from $10 to as many digits as they want! This takes place during our Saturday Reception, which will be held on September 29th at The Davidson Building at 5:30 PM.
FESTIVAL PASS & TICKET INFORMATION
For ticket information, passes, and detailed film schedules & locations of all events please visit www.hellshalfmile.com.
All Access Passes • $65 until Sept. 22nd, includes access to all films, Friday and Saturday music at
The Warehouse, Opening Night Reception, Friday Filmmaker Reception, and the Saturday Festival
Happy Hour/Crowdfunding Rally. All Access Pass cost increases to $75 on Sept.23rd.
Film Passes • $40 until Sept. 16th, includes access to all films at all locations. Film Pass cost increases to $50 on Sept. 17th.
Individual Film Tickets • $7; Opening Night Film $10; Opening Night Reception, Film & Music $15.
Friday Music • $10 (all ages). Located at The Warehouse, 311 Third St. Doors open at 9:30 PM.
Saturday Music • $15 (all ages). Located at The Warehouse, 311 Third St. Doors open at 8:30 PM.
Film venues include the State Theatre (913 Washington Ave.), Delta College Planetarium (100 Center Ave.) and the Historical Museum of Bay County (321 Washington Ave.). Visit www. hellshalfmile.com for complete info and updates.


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By Ed Sommerville
Back in the twenties, the great Christian Industrialist, Henry Ford, after writing his four-volume book, The International Jew, said at that time there wasn't a Christian seminary in the country that had not been penetrated by the Zionists. I am sure that what you're about to read is not an isolated case as these erroneous and new doctrines are taught in all the fundamental and Evangelical churches today.
The following information was given to me by my son Dan who is a professor at Wheaton College. This was told to me about fifteen years ago and I have been able to remember it as it was told to me at that time.
Dan, while attending a church at Wheaton met a man that told him about what happened to him and two of his friends that attended Dallas at the same time. They all graduated and did not go into the ministry or Christian work. They all had separate careers and I think one of them became a dentist.
While they attended Dallas Theological Seminary they all sat under a professor, Dr. John Walvoord (BA, DD, AM, ThB, ThM, Thd, LittD) promotor of the pre-trib Rapture teaching, author of over 30 books, 1910-2002, who headed the studies on eschatology and prophesy. Even after moving to different cities, they kept in touch with each other while studying the Bible and comparing notes and found out by themselves that what they had been told in Dallas was in conflict with the Scriptures.
As time went on it bothered them so much that they decided to go to Dallas and confront their former professor who was at that time, President of Dallas Seminary. They then called him and he agreed to set a time and meet with them. They all flew into Dallas the day before to take the time to go over all their notes, ideas and the presentation.
The meeting started out well with them going over the years spent there. They then go into the reason they were there and they all had a chance to present their case. He said he listened very intently for almost two hours without interrupting them. They were very apprehensive to say the least waiting for him to reply. They were all dumbfounded and blindsided when he leaned back in his plush chair and with a smile on his face said, "So now you know."
Jeremiah 23:22: "But if they had stood in my council, and had caused My people to hear MY words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings."
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The Lyon Biennale announced today that Emma Lavigne, the director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz, will curate the biennial's 2017 edition. Lavigne has already given her biennale a title—"Printemps cosmique," or "Cosmic Spring." It will focus on "a subversive, chaotic, and 'non-natural' garden," a release says.
Though Lavigne's name may not be well known in America, she is currently one of Europe's most important curators. Before she became director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz, in 2014, she was a curator at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, where she notably staged a number of shows of art by women. In 2009, she staged one of the French museum's most significant shows, "Elles@centrepompidou," a rehang of the Pompidou's permanent collection that featured solely work by women.
Lavigne has also put together a number of retrospectives that have struck a chord with international audiences. Among them are the Pompdiou's Pierre Huyghe show, which traveled to LACMA in 2014; Cité de la Musique's Christian Marclay survey; and the Pompidou's Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster retrospective, which will travel to the K20 Düsseldorf, Germany, in April. More recently, Lavigne curated a show about Warhol's connections to the New York underground scene and a one-person Kimsooja exhibition for the Centre Pompidou-Metz, and organized the 2015 Venice Biennale's French Pavilion, which featured work by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot.


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"The long-awaited memoir from the beloved author of the bestselling Tales of the City series. 'Sooner or later, no matter where in the world we live, we have to venture beyond our biological family to find our logical one, the one that actually makes sense for us. We have to, if we are to live without squandering our lives.'--from Logical Family. Born in the mid-twentieth century and raised in the heart of conservative North Carolina, Armistead Maupin lost his virginity to another man 'on the very spot where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.' Realizing that the South was too small for him, this son of a traditional lawyer packed his earthly belongings into his Opel GT (including a beloved portrait of a Confederate ancestor) and took to the road in search of adventure. It was a journey that would lead him from a homoerotic navy initiation ceremony in the jungles of Vietnam to that strangest of strange lands: San Francisco in the early 1970s. Over the course of the next forty years Maupin would weave his impressions of the city into an epic urban saga: Tales of the City would provide him with a very public coming-out platform and forever transform both his politics and his heart. With humor and unflinching honesty, Maupin brings to life flesh-and-blood characters every bit as endearing and indelible as the vivid men and women who populate his novels. Logical Family offers an unforgettable portrait of the man who chronicled the liberation and evolution of America's queer community over the last four decades with honesty and compassion and inspired millions to claim their own lives."--Jacket
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David Beckham Predicts World Cup Finalists In Russia
Owing to a positive start with a 2-1 win over Tunisia, former captain David Beckham has predicted that England will lock horns with Lionel Messi's Argentina in the World Cup 2018 final that will be played on July 15 at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia. Speaking at a promotional event in China, Beckham said that the Three Lions have boosted their chances of reaching the knockout rounds by winning their opening encounter. England last reached the World Cup quarter-finals in 2006, when Beckham was captain and their only World Cup final was way back in 1966, when they beat Germany at Wembley. "I believe Argentina will play against England in the final," Beckham predicted at an event to promote China's largest collegiate football league. "I think obviously my choice would be England to win the competition, but that's me being biased and passionate about my country," he added.
But the former Manchester United and Real Madrid midfielder, a veteran of three World Cups, warned that the road ahead looked hard for Gareth Southgate's team.
"I'm very happy that we won the first game in the group," he said. "England is a very young team, they don't have a lot of experience yet and the journey of the World Cup will become harder and harder because there are many good teams in the tournament."
Beckham's assessment may also have been influenced by the struggles of some of the top teams in the early games, including Mexico's defeat of defending champions Germany.
Argentina, who could meet England in the semi-finals or final, drew 1-1 with Iceland in their first game as Messi, their talisman, missed a penalty.
The South American giants will play their crucial Group D clash against Croatia on Thursday, while England will take on Panama on Sunday.
(With AFP Inputs)
Owing to a positive start with a 2-1 win over Tunisia, former captain David Beckham has predicted that England will lock horns with Lionel Messi's Argentina in the World Cup 2018 final
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SOCRATES at THE PUBLIC THEATER
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Lecture, exhortation, dissertation, harangue. These are all synonyms for "talking", which is what the subject of actor/director/playwright Tim Blake Nelson's new play Socrates --- now playing at The Public Theater extended through June 2nd as the anchor of Onassis USA Festival 2019: Democracy is Coming --- is best known for. In fact, he made a life, death and immortality out of being a relentless orator, so much so that a man born in 470 B.C.E. is still a topic of modern tongues and his tradition of thought, theories and philosophies are taught as required curriculum at any liberal arts school
The Ferryman: Broadway Opening October 22nd – The Carney Family Is Ready For A Fight!!
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Photo Credit: Joan Marcus When individuals talk about key commodities in life several needs come to mind. Food, water, procreation, love, money, binge watching "The Walking Dead". All of these utensils of life will come up, but more times than not a soul will say, "the love of family". To assist in propelling something larger than one self forward is in my opinion the definition of family. Websters Dictionary defines family as, "a group of people who share common ancestors". Family is your representation when you are gone. There is no opposite of heritage. To be from nowhere? There is no such
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One Thousand Nights and One Day at A.R.T/New York Theatres presented by Prospect Theater Company
Humankind is made up of stories: the stories we tell others, those we tell ourselves, our version of the story, and even history is only a series of stories stamped with a seal of approval to be considered by the ruling power as "the truth," though it is no more than yet another observation or opinion on what transpired. Stories have the ability to make us -- for they are the foundation where legends and heroes are born. But they also have the power and capacity to break us and tear us apart from our own kind, to separate us


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Q: How do I call an ArrayAdapter object's function from my main activity? I have an object called Score that I'm using in an ArrayAdapter. How do I call the functions that are defined within it? Below is my main activity including the line I'm trying to fix.
public class ScoreList extends Activity {

    private ListView listViewScore;
    private Context ctx;

    ArrayList<Integer> allScoreChange = new ArrayList<Integer>();
    ArrayList<Integer> allScore = new ArrayList<Integer>();

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.score_list);
        ctx = this;
        final List<Score> listScore = new ArrayList<Score>();
        listScore.add(new Score("Player A", "0", "0"));
        listScore.add(new Score("Player B", "0", "0"));
        listScore.add(new Score("Player C", "0", "0"));

        for(int i = 0; i < listScore.size(); i++)
        {
            allScoreChange.set(i,0);
            allScore.set(i,listScore.getScoreTotal(i)); // this is the line I'm working on
        }
    }

}

Below is the Score object itself with the function.
public class Score {

    private String name;
    private String scoreChange;
    private String scoreTotal;

    public Score(String name, String scoreChange, String scoreTotal) {
        super();
        this.name = name;
        this.scoreChange = scoreChange;
        this.scoreTotal = scoreTotal;
    }

    public String getScoreTotal() {
        return scoreTotal;
    }

}

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allScore.set(i,listScore.getScoreTotal(i)); // this is the line I'm working on

Use the List's get() method:
allScore.set(i, listScore.get(i).getScoreTotal());

(To be technical, listScore is a List not an ArrayAdapter.)

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Why Aboriginal politics fail
Politicians are quick to propose 'solutions' or spend money, but to solve social and political issues they have to get out to Aboriginal communities and listen to the affected people. At present, most initiatives fail and Aboriginal people are tired of politicians who just keep promising.
Last updated: 18 November 2020 • 19 min read
Selected statistics
Number of Aboriginal programmes and activities within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in 2013-14. [1]
Total funding of these programmes.
Federal and state spending on Aboriginal people in 2015-16. [2]
Number of programmes that target some remote Aboriginal communities. [3]
Why government initiatives fail
After 10 years, and despite closing the gap being a national bipartisan priority, it is clear that Australian governments at all levels are, in key respects, failing Australia's First Peoples.
— Closing the Gap report 2017 [4]
There are many reasons why government projects and initiatives fail.
Blanket solutions don't work
Government programmes often propose one solution that is then applied in many cases. But such blanket solutions rarely work in Aboriginal affairs. What might work in a community in Western Australia's Kimberley region might not succeed in Central Australia.
"We have the bizarre situation where programmes are provided simply because someone thinks they are a good idea," says policy analyst, Sara Hudson. [5] With no evidence of what works and no targeted resources government programmes are nothing but "wishful thinking", Hudson says.
It's not that there is a lack of evidence. Policy makers know very well that evidence is critical for good policies. But, as a report of the independent Productivity Commission in 2020 found, "many admit that in practice they do not rely heavily on evidence, or past experience, when formulating or modifying policies and programs". [6]
Rob McPhee, deputy chief executive of the Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services, also rejects one-size-fits-all programs. "There is a lot of mainstream services that are trying to impose a particular model on the needs of the community," he says. "What we really need to do is work with community to understand what their needs are and then design the services to respond to those needs." [7]
Labor Senator Pat Dodson puts responsibility on governments to develop solutions in conjunction with Aboriginal communities. "Really the onus is on the government to follow through with the co-design processes, involving local and regional leadership to find solutions and to act on those solutions." [7]
Instead of designing blanket solutions, study the unique context of the communities you are targeting and find their strengths. [3]
I see communities on a regular basis where there's frustration with the bureaucracy not listening.
— Pat Dodson, Labor Senator [7]
Despite over 200 years of white intervention, enormous amounts of money plied into white man's programmes that haven't worked – Anangu are still being subjected to this same soul destroying regime and their children are paying the price.
— George Kenmore [8]
Story: Why a toothless senior beat a beautiful model
During the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 it was vital to inform Aboriginal communities fast and efficiently because Aboriginal people and their many Elders were among the most vulnerable.
Rather than wait for government advice, Aboriginal communities started spreading the news. Goorie woman and author Melissa Lucashenko remembers why this campaign succeeded:
"'Sunshine doesn't kill the virus,' one Aboriginal health video advised, 'and rain won't wash it away.' A near-toothless aunty with silver hair was roped in to deliver the message that COVID-19 was really, really serious, you mob. Materials were rapidly produced in multiple Indigenous languages for those with limited or no English. The faces in all these videos had to be blackfellas, and they had to be grassroots faces, because most Aboriginal people have very little reason to trust white authority." [9]
Too many services
In some communities too many service suppliers try to achieve the same thing.
Roebourne in Western Australia has a population of 1,150, but there are around 67 local service providers and over 400 programmes funded by both Commonwealth and state governments. Toomelah in New South Wales, with only 300 people, has 70 service providers. [1] Remote Aboriginal communities of fewer than 1,000 people contend with up to 80 programmes. [3]
Because they were never ended, old programmes have built up over the years, many of which are no longer relevant, while new programmes have been introduced. Too many times new programmes erase previous solutions, organisations, jobs, people and long-term relationships. [3]
"I would like to see adjustments made rather than throw it all out and start from scratch again," says Mick Gooda who co-founded the government's Closing the Gap campaign. "We have had too many day-one's of strategies in Indigenous affairs." [10]
Such oversupply and duplication happens because the Commonwealth government duplicates state government programs in the areas of greatest need (education and community safety). But it looks as if there is no coordination or pooling of resources. No surprise that areas of shared responsibility have caused confusion and created many difficulties.
Tracking progress is almost impossible as you cannot control for the effects of other programmes.
You need to stabilise the environment you operate in first. Ensure solutions stick around for longer. Build on existing solutions and achievements. [3]
There is currently a substantial degree of overlap and duplication between the Commonwealth and States in Indigenous affairs as well as excessively bureaucratic processes and administrative arrangements.
— National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) [1]
Collaborating: A gap too wide?
It is common among Australian politicians (and many experts and professionals) to assume Aboriginal people need to be 'helped' and 'advised' to find solutions for their 'problems'.
The Australian government's Closing the Gap program, adopted after the apology to the Stolen Generations in 2008, has not been successful in decades, by its own admission. This is mainly because bureaucrats defined the program's targets and not Aboriginal organisations.
"Despite the best intentions, investments in new programs and bipartisan goodwill, Closing the Gap has never really been a partnership with Indigenous people," said prime minister Scott Morrison in 2020. "We perpetuated an ingrained way of thinking passed down over two centuries and more, and it was the belief that we knew better than our Indigenous peoples. We don't. We also thought we understood their problems better than they did. We don't. They live them. We must see the gap we wish to close, not from our viewpoints, but from the viewpoint of Indigenous Australians." [11]
In July 2020 the government finally abandoned its previous program and replaced it with a new set of 16 goals, accountability mechanisms to keep governments on track, a commitment to address structural racism and, importantly, a promise of far greater Aboriginal involvement for implementation and measuring progress.
By perpetuating programs which constantly fail their targets, such as Closing the Gap or the Northern Territory Intervention, the government also perpetuates a view in the population that Aboriginal issues are 'too hard' and destined to fail. The gap might, after all, be on the government's side.
Educate visitors
Much effort goes into training local Aboriginal people and organisations, but visiting outsiders (for example consultants) are often overlooked.
It is important to upskill these professionals. Half of the universities in Australia offer tertiary education to prepare students to work in international development, but there is no equivalent for remote Aboriginal communities, despite often more complex and confronting scenarios. [3]
Instead of creating a brand new solution from scratch and patch it, coordinate with others to achieve collective learning and build long-term working relationships. [3]
Educate visiting professionals and prepare them for big challenges. Use cultural awareness programmes and one-on-one chats with Aboriginal community representatives.
High administration costs
Secondly, every programme has to be administered by a government entity. In the health sector, some funding arrangements are so complex that up to 42 different sources provide funding [5].
Administration can consume a significant portion of the funds allocated as the following example shows [12].
"Of $1.3 million allocated to another COAG [Council of Australian Governments] trial in the Far-East Kimberley region of Western Australia, only $327,000 was spent on Aboriginal people and programs over two-and-a-half years.
"The rest of the money was spent on salaries, travel and other related administrative expenses of the Department of Transport and Regional Services, which administers the program."
This equates to 75% of administrative costs.
If you somehow follow the Aboriginal money trail, you'll quickly find that it bypasses the shanty towns, the camp dogs and diabetes row [and ends up with] white consultants and white contractors and white public servants. It ends up in the deep pockets of the Aboriginal industry.
— Ray Martin, broadcaster and journalist [13]
Government wastes money for political reasons
Documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws show that governments waste thousands of dollars towards the end of a financial year "to reduce the department's surplus" [8]. It's a way departments use to avoid a reduced budget in the next financial year.
The documents exposed the South Australian governments had spent $360,000 on motorbikes for a program that could have been a positive empowerment and suicide prevention program for young Aboriginal men and boys. But the program was scrapped, and the motorbikes never made their way into communities. They were eventually sold off.
The history of Commonwealth policy for Indigenous Australians over the past 40 years is largely a story of good intentions, flawed policies, unrealistic assumptions, poor implementation, unintended consequences and dashed hopes.
— Department of Finance's Strategic Review of Aboriginal expenditure in 2010 [1]
No accountability
"I will honour that commitment [to do things with, and not to, Aboriginal people] not by delivering to Indigenous Australians, but by working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders and their communities across Australia..."
These were the prime minister's words at his first Closing the Gap report to Parliament in early 2016. Yet, a year later, the Australian National Audit Office which reviewed the Indigenous Advancement Strategy, found that across nearly every government-funded program, initiative or portfolio responsibility it continued to deliver imposed, unengaged and often rushed service delivery. [4]
Gracelyn Smallwood, a James Cook University academic who has worked for 45 years in Aboriginal affairs, says there's still a failure to hold bureaucrats to account for failed multi-million-dollar policies. [14]
And a 2020 report of the Productivity Commission found that there was "currently no government‑wide approach to evaluating policies and programs affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people". Neither was there much Aboriginal consultation for how to evaluate success. [6][15]
Installing satellite dishes for local television channels in remote communities might look like a good idea, but what if they need maintenance? At $2.50 per kilometre, a technician might charge $2,500 to drive to the community—each way. [8]
Setting ambitious targets for the government's Closing the Gap campaign (which aims to reduce Aboriginal disadvantage) might look good on paper but is pointless if they are not monitored regularly. 10 years after the campaign's launch just one target – to halve the gap in year 12 attainment – was on track. [16]
Aboriginal affairs: Where are the billions spent?
Australian governments pump billions of dollars into Aboriginal policies, health and assistance, trying to improve the lives of Aboriginal peoples.
The Australian Productivity Commission (the government's independent research and advisory body) estimated the total direct government expenditure on Aboriginal people to be A$27 billion in 2008‑09, A$33.4 billion in 2015-16 [2] and A$35 billion in 2020. [15]
Despite these huge expenses the government still knows "very little" about whether any of the programs are working, a 2020 report of the Productivity Commission found. [6] In 2011 the Commission said the returns on this investment to be "dismally poor" while the Finance Department thought them to be "disappointing at best and appalling at worst". [17]
Around 2008 the Western Australian government spent $1.2 billion each year on improving the living conditions of Aboriginal people, [18] but the government's approach was "seriously flawed" because funds were allocated to 22 different agencies with no single person or organisation responsible for improving outcomes. There was "an almost complete lack of leadership in the response by government to the disaster of Aboriginal living conditions", a report by WA coroner Alastair Hope found. [18].
An investigation by online magazine New Matilda in 2015 found that 65% of the Indigenous Advancement Strategy (IAS) funding for South Australia went to for-profit and commercial sectors and less than 21% to Aboriginal-led not-for-profits.
More than 60% of the IAS funding was directed to 'Jobs, Land and Economy', subsidising businesses to employ Aboriginal people. 65% of the these subsidies went to commercial or for-profit operations, 22% to the SA government itself. Aboriginal-led not-for-profits received subsidy funding for a grand total of 6 jobs across the state. [19]
The reality is that evidence about what works and why remains thin.
— Finding of the Productivity Commission [6]
Politics, politics, politics. Policy, policy, policy. Changes, changes, and more changes. What's next?
— Yalmay Yunupingu, Aboriginal artist and teacher [20]
Case study: "There was all this inefficiency"
NSW Aboriginal Affairs Minister, Victor Dominello, recounts a visit to a small town that he wouldn't identify. He met about 20 of the town's service providers.
''In domestic violence, there were three or four of them doing exactly the same thing, but getting pools of money from different governments and different agencies within governments.
"And guess what? They all had a front office; they were all paying rent. There was all this inefficiency. This was for a population of 2500.
"They only needed one good working unit for domestic violence. The money they saved on the rent could have gone to drug and alcohol services.''
Dominello's answer was to give more power, not less, to local communities. They know what they need, he argues, and they can best see the duplications. Give them more flexibility on spending, he says, but also demand greater accountability. [21]
Aboriginal views of Australian politics
I clearly recollect the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr Gough Whitlam, standing before 60 of us Aboriginal people and asking that we tell him what we wanted from his government rather than 'what we think is best for you'. No other Prime Minister had ever made that statement and nobody since, including Kevin Rudd.
— Chicka Dixon, Aboriginal activist and humanitarian [22]
Those words by the late Chicka Dixon give voice to the concerns of many Aboriginal people. They are sick and tired of politicians who seem to be unable to address Aboriginal issues and achieve tangible beneficial outcomes.
Following is an edited extract of Galarrwuy Yunupingu's opinion [23] on politicians and Aboriginal affairs. Galarrwuy is a long-serving former chairman of the Northern Land Council.
National EmbarrassMints were handed out during the 2007 federal election campaign, the year then-Prime Minister John Howard was voted out of office. Many Aboriginal people were sick of his notorious refusal to say 'sorry' to the Stolen Generations.
"Every minister I have known—Labor or Liberal—was no different from any other in this sense [of—often unsuccessfully—trying to find answers within their three-year period in office], even though some of them were my friends. They almost always request the same things and repeat the same things, then consult about the same things; then, by the time they finally have to do something, they leave, get moved or are thrown out of office.
"Aborigines too often forget that a politician's full-time responsibility is to themselves and their government. That's their first commitment. Whatever portfolio they receive is just for show. Very few can break the mould and certainly not in Aboriginal affairs.
"Aboriginal affairs ministers get a lot of scrutiny, so they are always busy trying to justify their decisions to the rest of their party members in parliament—to keep their reputations intact in the hope of a better appointment—or ducking for cover, worried sick about their jobs and whether they will be re-elected. That's the real situation.
"Meanwhile, back in the bush, Aborigines have been sitting in their communities for the past 60 to 70 years waiting for service delivery and the deliverer has never arrived. I see this today with housing, health, education and infrastructure. Everything that has been said and promised in the past few years is still hanging in the wind, floating in the distance like a mirage."
Galarrwuy Yunupingu echoes these feelings. In 2008, shortly after the election of Prime Minister John Howard, he voiced his frustration about the lack of progress in Aboriginal politics: [24]
"I am seeing now that too much of the past is for nothing. I have walked the corridors of power; I have negotiated and cajoled and praised and begged prime ministers and ministers, travelled the world and been feted; I have opened the doors to men of power and prestige; I have had a place at the table of the best and the brightest in the Australian nation - and at times success has seemed so close, yet it always slips away. And behind me, in the world of my father, the Yolngu world is always under threat, being swallowed up by whitefellas."
Definition: Pet Aborigines
Sometimes, in critical texts about Australian and Aboriginal politics, you come across "pet Aborigines".
This term is used for Aboriginal people who are employed or consulted by non-Aboriginal institutions or companies, but who are not very aggressive or critical when consulted about issues that affect Aboriginal people. "Pet Aborigines" are telling white politicians and bureaucrats what they want to hear.
They are token black faces of institutions or companies that remain firmly controlled by non-Aboriginal people.
One contemptuous epithet some use for them is "coconut: brown on the outside, white on the inside".
Prof Patrick Dodson, inaugural and long-time chair of the former Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, shares similar views [25].
"It's not that we haven't had a discussion on matters that concerns us," he says. "We've had plenty of those, we've had marches in the streets, plenty of reports. [But] what we haven't had is a strategic conversation that is facilitated around rules that have got some international application in order to help us all get past the anger and frustration, because we've had all of those reports that have seemed to go nowhere."
Reading or doing?—A politician's challenge
New South Wales politician Victor Dominello who took over the state's Aboriginal affairs portfolio in 2011 gives some insight into how Aboriginal politics look on the other side.
"As soon as I got into the portfolio, I was being absolutely inundated by people saying 'here's a solution, read this book, here's a journal, what about this' and so on," he told an Aboriginal newspaper [26]. "Within a couple of weeks, I thought 'this is crazy, it's going take me years just to read all of this material'. And I think that's part of the problem. Decision makers—people like myself who have to show political leadership—are in their offices reading, reading, reading but not out there and listening to the grassroots."
Under the Indigenous Advancement Strategy, introduced by the government in July 2014, a minister had to check a 60-page document before signing off a grant application. [27]
Many know that solutions have to come from Aboriginal people themselves and not bureaucrats.
"People react differently when they travel around Indigenous Australia," says Lauren Ganley [28]. "Some just see problems; others see opportunity; and most have questions. The ones you need to watch are those who have solutions."
Of all politicians former Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating set what is considered the "high water mark in political honesty" [26] with his speech in Redfern in 1992, where he bluntly admitted that "we committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice".
There are also voices critical of the Aboriginal attitude. A reader of the Koori Mail Aboriginal newspaper wrote [29]:
"Stop giving up, stop being frustrated. Why don't you strengthen your hearts, get a backbone and gather in council and form an Aboriginal government. One with the courage of its convictions to stand up and say enough is enough."
There is no friendship in politics.
— Ali Cobby Eckermann, Aboriginal poet [30]
It has to be understood by observers of Aboriginal politics in Australia that all governments' primary objectives on the surface is to deal with the bricks and mortar issues while beneath the covers social engineering is going on.
— Michael Ghillar Anderson, Aboriginal leader [31]
Life is getting harder for our people. We are still being stigmatised, demoralised and disempowered even more. The government needs to work with our people and not dictate to us.
— Barbara Shaw, town camp resident in Alice Springs [32]
Homework: Imagine you could decide policy
Imagine you are a politician who has to decide on Aboriginal politics. Carefully read these two views that opine on how to help Aboriginal communities:
"Administrators [assigned to every community] who could withhold welfare would have real power over their charges to get them to do things such as sending kids to school. That would be the stick; the carrot would be the power to spend and employ on local projects to increase Aboriginal capacity to look after themselves: on repairing houses, keeping the place clean, maintaining the 4WDs properly. All to be done without grant applications.
"We would be upset by such a powerful figure — where is the accountability? — but Aborigines were not upset by it in the past and would not be now. It is quite traditional. It is personal and knowable. The accountability would lie in administrators reporting what they were doing and the settlements being inspected." [27]
"Premises [that Aboriginal people are incapable of running their own affairs] are important because they presuppose an external influence to 'correct' what is seen an internal incapability. It has been dangerous suppositions of peoples that get made that they are incapable of successfully managing their own affairs. This premise... is what is causal to the ongoing malaise many are entrapped within. People are trapped in the belief systems of others, that they are incapable and that they are their own problem. These judgments [sic] become powerful because they are held by the majority, by Governments, and the judgements have an avalanche like effect." [33]
Write a one-sentence statement, summarising each view.
Who do you think is the speaker for each view? What could be their background?
Think of actions government could take following View 1. How well would they support Aboriginal self-determination?
Which major event affecting Aboriginal communities was influenced by the premise mentioned in View 2?
What would the "avalanche effect" look like that is proposed in View 2?
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[1] [1a] [1b] [1c] 'NACCHO breaking news: Federal government Commission of Audit Indigenous programmes', nacchocommunique.com, 1/5/2014
[2] [2a] 'Indigenous Expenditure Report 2017', Australian Government, Productivity Commission, retrieved 11/12/2017
[3] [3a] [3b] [3c] [3d] [3e] [3f] 'When solutions became the problem in Indigenous affairs', SMH 5/2/2016
[4] [4a] 'Close the Gap - Progress & Priorities report 2017', Executive summary, Australian Human Rights Commission, 2017
[5] [5a] 'Call for more accountability', Koori Mail 466 p.11
[6] [6a] [6b] [6c] 'Australian government knows 'very little' about whether money spent on Aboriginal programs works', The Guardian 30/10/2020
[7] [7a] [7b] 'Cluster of Kimberley child suicides blamed by coroner on 'tragic intergenerational trauma', ABC News 8/2/2019
[8] [8a] [8b] 'APY lands wasted funds', The Stringer 23/4/2013, thestringer.com.au/apy-lands-wasted-funds/, retrieved 29/4/2013
[9] 'It's no accident that Blak Australia has survived the pandemic so well. Survival is what we do', The Guardian 23/7/2020
[10] 'Are we really closing the gap? Seven brutal realities facing Indigenous Australians', SMH 29/8/2015
[11] 'Missing the target: goodwill fails to overcome entrenched inequalities', SMH 15/2/2020
[12] 'Inside Australia's third world', The Age, 15/9/2005
[13] 'Leaders 'must be smarter'', Koori Mail 478 p.29
[14] 'Funding still not reaching communities: Smallwood', National Indigenous Radio Service, 4/3/2013
[15] [15a] ''Ad hoc': Wyatt to review call for major overhaul on Indigenous funding', Brisbane Times 30/10/2020
[16] 'Closing the Gap 'refresh': Coalition accused of ignoring Indigenous Australians', The Guardian Australia 2/1/2018
[17] 'Billions spent but Aborigines little better off, says report', SMH 8/8/2011
[18] [18a] 'Action plan for the Kimberley', Koori Mail 421 p.4
[19] 'Aboriginal Funding In South Australia: You're Not Going To Believe Where It's Going', New Matilda 24/6/2015
[20] 'A Keynote Speaker: Human Rights and Social Justice Award', Yalmay Yunupingu 24/6/2014
[21] 'Give us a chance and success will follow', SMH 6/4/2013
[22] 'Looking back', Koori Mail 454 p.21
[23] 'We need mould-breakers in place of do-nothing Aboriginal affairs ministers', The Australian 25/7/2009
[24] 'Tradition, Truth & Tomorrow', The Monthly, 12/2008, www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2008/december/1268179150/galarrwuy-yunupingu/tradition-truth-tomorrow, retrieved 10/10/2016
[25] 'Dodson in call for 'brave new world'', Koori Mail 490 p.9
[26] [26a] 'Keating speaks out again', Koori Mail 503 p.16
[27] [27a] 'Broken indigenous communities can't be healed by Canberra bureaucrats', The Australian 12/2/2015
[28] 'Connect, Innovate and Support: the keys to digital inclusion for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples', Lauren Ganley, in: Making The Connection - Essays on Indigenous Digital Excellence, Telstra Foundation 2014, p.11
[29] 'Assimilation has taken heavy toll', readers letter, Koori Mail 492 p.23
[30] 'Deadly Voices: An Intervention', Sydney Writers Festival, event 240, 23/5/2010
[31] 'Australia gets bad rap to UN rapporteur over Aborigines', media statement, 17/8/2009
[32] 'Town camps deal', Koori Mail 465 p.7
[33] 'Nicolas Rothwell and Alan Tudge miss the basic human right – self-determination', The Stringer 7/2/2015
Korff, J 2020, Why Aboriginal politics fail, <https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/politics/why-aboriginal-politics-fail>, retrieved 9 February 2023
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Q: Using tbl_regression with imputed data/pooled regression models I've had great success using the gtsummary::tbl_regression function to display regression model results. I can't see how to use tbl_regression with pooled regression models from imputed data sets, however, and I'd really like to.
I don't have a reproducible example handy, I just wanted to see if anyone else has found a way to work with, say, mids objects created by the mice package in tbl_regression.

A: In the current development version of gtsummary, it's possible to summarize models estimated on imputed data from the mice package.  Here's an example
# install dev version of gtsummary
remotes::install_github("ddsjoberg/gtsummary")
library(gtsummary)
packageVersion("gtsummary")
#> [1] '1.3.5.9012'

# impute the data
df_imputed <- mice::mice(trial, m = 2)

# build the model
imputed_model <- with(df_imputed, lm(age ~ marker + grade))

# present beautiful table with gtsummary
tbl_regression(imputed_model)
#> pool_and_tidy_mice: Tidying mice model with
#> `mice::pool(x) %>% mice::tidy(exponentiate = FALSE, conf.int = TRUE, conf.level = 0.95)`

Created on 2020-12-16 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)
It's important to note that you pass the mice model object to tbl_regression() BEFORE you pool the results. The tbl_regression() function needs access to the individual models in order to correctly identify the reference row and variable labels (among other things). Internally, the tidying function used on the mice model will first pool the results, then tidy the results.  The code used for this process is printed to the console for transparency (as seen in the example above).


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1-й батальон лёгких танков () — подразделение армии Польши в период Второй мировой войны. Сформирован 24 — 26 августа 1939 года. Находился в подчинении армии «Пруссы». Участвовал в боях с немецкими войсками. Сложил оружие 20 сентября 1939 года.

Боевой и численный состав
Батальон имел 49 экипажей, сформированных в три роты по 16 танков 7ТР в каждой. В ротах по три взвода по 5 экипажей и один командирский экипаж на танке 7ТР. В технической роте один взвод технического обслуживания. Экипаж командира батальона также на танке 7ТР.

Командный состав батальона
 командир батальона: майор Адам Кубин ()
 офицер по операциям и разведке: капитан Казимеж Розен-Завадский ()
 командир 1-й роты: капитан Антон Сикорский ()
 командир 2-й роты: капитан Мариан Горский ()
 командир 3-ей роты: капитан Стефан Кособуцкий ()
 командир технической роты: капитан Вацлав Меч ()

Примечания

Танковые батальоны

Батальон лёгких танков во Второй мировой войне
Батальоны Польши

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The Squad in review – 2012-2013
In less than 24 hours, the great cull of our squad will have begun. So, just before two-thirds of the squad become ex-players, let's look back on a wretched 9 months and see how the squad has fared.
It's time to pack our metaphorical bucket and spade and head for the metaphorical beach, the season is over.
It's customary at this time of year to pick through the bones of the squad. That seems a bit of waste of time this year as half the squad look set to leave and the other half seemed unable to string together more than half-a-dozen games before heading for the treatment room with a grazed knee.
Jake Wright was majestic throughout the season, and therefore becomes the first player to win Oxblogger Player of the Year along with Player's Player of the Year and Supporters' Player of the Year. I'm sure he'd be delighted if he ever found out about that. One day, I'll buy a trophy or something to mark the honour.
Thankfully, I think we'll see Wright playing at the Kassam next year. He's intimated a desire to 'play at a higher level' (i.e. leave) with the normal safety caveats of loving the club and all that jazz. He's still under contract so would command a fee. Even though he's only 27, I still think he's too old for a Championship club to take him on, even if they were looking to a League 2 team with a negative goal difference to solve their defensive issues. Few in League 1 or 2 are likely to spend the required amount to bring him in.
To my mind, there were really only two other contenders for the title of player of the year. Sean Rigg got the games in and was solid and reliable throughout; although his end product was lacking. It's somewhat ironic that his last contributions to our season were the lung busting run down the flank for Alfie Potter's goal against Rochdale followed by his tap in against Accrington, that is, plenty of end product. Darn that man.
Potter probably had his best season in a yellow shirt, but his form and confidence faded in the bog of our pitch mid-season. Both Potter and Rigg suffer from that thing with wingers; that their job – providing goals – means that they're always likely to fail more than they succeed. So, on a game by game basis they can be frustrating, it's only when considered over a period of time, when you've had the chance to edit out the frustrating times, that you realise the contribution they make. For this read: Joey Beauchamp.
Of the rest, Andy Whing seemed to be the difference between the team being in and out of form; he just didn't play enough, James Constable had a solid but unspectacular season; the prospects of him racking up 20+ goals in a season seem increasingly remote, but his presence for the fans is important. Damian Batt was similarly solid, Ryan Clarke, when fit, seemed to lack something of the sparkle of previous seasons; perhaps a sign that he was carrying his shoulder injury for some time before he jacked it in for the year.
Age seemed to catch up with Michael Duberry though he let nobody down when he did play. Peter Leven didn't seem fit at any point and only really contributed from deadballs and set pieces. I have a soft spot for Michael Raynes who never lacked in endeavour.
Others' performances were fleeting in the main, Liam Davis and John Paul Pitman played reasonably in between bouts of injury and Scott Davies' brief flurry of appearances demonstrated a robustness which was a virtue others weren't able to offer. Tom Craddock had sublime moments accetuated with periods of almost other-worldly distinerest and Simon Heslop looked like he wanted to be anywhere but a football pitch.
Jake Wright aside, the squad was ridden with injuries and patchy form. Both Chris Wilder and Ian Lenagan have talked about a squad of youth and robustness, it's fair to say there wasn't much of either on show over the last nine months.
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Phnom Penh Post - PM: Do not defile Tonle Sap swamp forest or else
PM: Do not defile Tonle Sap swamp forest or else
Long Kimmarita and Orm Bunthoeurn | Publication date 28 November 2021 | 21:09 ICT
Prime Minister Hun Sen speaking from his office. SPM
Long Kimmarita and Orm Bunthoeurn
Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered police to arrest anyone – including government officials – involved with the deforestation of the flooded forests surrounding the Tonle Sap Lake because it is an area important to the spawning of many species of fish, among other reasons.
Speaking in a special audio address to the nation on November 28, Hun Sen said large-scale deforestation had occurred anarchically in the provinces adjacent to the Tonle Sap Lake, especially in Kampong Chhnang province.
"Anarchic deforestation is unacceptable and unforgivable for those officials who have exercised their territorial authority to facilitate it at the provincial or district levels or any other officials who are involved in encroachment upon flooded forests to occupy the land," he said. "The same goes for the general public. We cannot accept any encroachment upon the flooded forests in the Tonle Sap area."
He said he had received information on this matter from Royal Academy of Cambodia (RAC) president Sok Touch who had researched and investigated criminal encroachment in the area surrounding the lake and determined that thousands of hectares of flooded forests have already been destroyed.
Hun Sen ordered that the areas that have already been deforested be reclaimed as state property and that the provincial governors act in cooperation with the police and military forces to crack down on these crimes.
"I use the words 'crack down' not 'educate'. We don't have time for education anymore," he said.
He ordered Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction Chea Sophara to lead an urgent meeting with other relevant ministries as well as the Tonle Sap Authority and National Military Police Commander Sao Sokha.
"For Kampong Chhnang, I've just heard that the former provincial governor who just left his position had deforested more than 2,000ha of flooded forests in recent months. I don't care if the land actually belongs to the former provincial governor – who is currently an undersecretary of state at the Ministry of Interior – or whoever it is [that owns it] at whatever level. All of the land must be confiscated and reclaimed as state property," he said.
"[Commander] Sao Sokha has to take action immediately and lead forces into these areas using the waterways and by helicopter to solve this problem and protect these flooded forest areas. Soon, the water levels will decrease and the [perpetrators] will start growing crops or resume their destruction of the forest. We won't allow any planting of crops on the land and it will all be confiscated," he said.
He ordered the police to arrest anyone involved and also instructed Anti-Corruption Unit chief Om Yentieng to investigate any officials involved in these crimes, build cases against them to refer to court and have all of them arrested.
"The government is so exhausted. We don't have time to educate offenders again and again on the same problems that they are causing. You must keep it in the forefront of your minds that we don't have time for education any longer. Only full enforcement of the law can solve this issue," he said.
He instructed Sokha to take the lead in the operation followed by the joint forces from relevant ministries and institutions.
"By all means and at any cost we must take the land back. The land must be reforested and protected as habitat for the spawning of fish in the Tonle Sap Lake like in the past. The perpetrators must be held accountable before the law without any excuses," he said.
Hun Sen urged any officials who were involved in the deforestation or encroachment to come forward and make their confessions now before the authorities take action by confiscating their properties and arresting them. He said he could not forgive any opportunist officials who had taken advantage of Covid-19 to grab state land.
"These people do not deserve to be officials anymore. They should be spending the night in prison rather than even one more night as a government official," he said, adding that he apologised to the public for not having gotten this issue under control sooner, begged their forgiveness and fully accepted any public criticism for the situation.
Reached by The Post on Sunday, RAC president Touch declined to give further details about the crimes.
"This is a huge issue that I cannot explain at this time because it is related to my security. If they decide to shoot me, I can easily be killed," he said.
However, Touch had posted many images of himself and his investigating team working in Kampong Chhnang province.
"Real researchers need to find the truth and they don't make up useless stories. We need to go where the problem is in order to solve the problem," he said in a Facebook post on November 27.
Reached for comment on Sunday, former Kampong Chhnang governor Chhuor Chandoeun – who was singled out for blame in Hun Sen's speech – said he did not own any land adjacent to the lake.
He said that in the past, encroachments upon flooded forests had happened in the villages and communes and as the provincial governor at the time he had worked with those local authorities to prevent these crimes and had not issued ownership titles to any individuals.
"Speaking for myself, I don't have land near the Lake. Let's wait and see what the intervention group that [Hun Sen] sent out to investigate finds. I for one am looking forward to it," he said.
National Military Police commander Sokha told The Post on November 28 that he began implementing the prime minister's orders immediately after receiving them and that he would lead a meeting before going down to the areas in question.
"We have the means and our forces are ready to go. If our forces at the provincial and district levels are not enough, we have additional intervention forces that can respond if necessary," he said.
Contact authors: Long Kimmarita and Orm Bunthoeurn
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"How do you receive information?" Someone asked me this in a mediumship practice circle recently. I tried to explain it, but I'm not always sure. Sometimes I can connect to people who are deceased and how the information comes to me can be all over the place. If I am really in the flow, I'm not necessarily paying attention to the where or how of it. *In the context of this post, Mediumship is connecting to those who have passed or the universal consciousness.
I found myself at a Mediumship practice circle over a year ago and wasn't completely sure why I'd gone. I'd had psychic connections of one sort or another my whole life. You know, weird dreams, premonitions, etc. I'd never tried talking to dead people, but here I was. And it turned out, I could. Somehow they came to me and whispered or relayed information to me that I could pass to the person sitting across from me.
The messages I receive for the living have always been heartfelt. The girl who had been strangled, she wanted her childhood friend to know it wouldn't have mattered if she had gone to her house after school. To let her parents know that, yes it was scary when it happened, but she was ok now and they shouldn't blame themselves. An aunt who had taken her own life wanted her niece to know she was sorry and hoped she hadn't disappointed her. A father who might have been a bit stoic in this life, wanted his adult son to know how proud he was of him.
Something I really enjoy, when the connection is clear and the link is strong, is feeling the person's personality. Were they stoic? Did they have a sense of humor? Being able to relay that to the loved one is like an emotional high. I had to ask someone if their relative looked or acted like Grandpa Munster once. That was both funny and a complete leap of faith! Turns out that he did. PHEW! That's when it's the best. When I completely give myself over to the connection and trust spirit. What can come through can be so amazing and beautiful.
So how do I receive the information? Sometimes I just know something. I can feel things, like I mentioned earlier. I don't have the kind of clairvoyance where dead folks are as visible in the physical space to me as my own living friends and family. However, I do sometimes "see" things in my mind's projector, as I like to call it. If I am remembering something, it shows up in one part of my brain. These spirit images are different, and the only way I can explain it is that it's sort of projected to the right side. I don't usually hear external sounds via spirit, but I can "hear" things in a similarly way as hearing a song you think of, or remembering a conversation you had earlier. When I get started linking with a spirit, I'm trying to find out if they are male or female and what sort of relationship they are to the person seated in front of me. I think all my playing on Ancestry dot com plays out here in my vocabulary. To the left or right, higher or to the side…works for me like a family tree. A brother would "feel" to the side, an uncle up a bit above, and a grandfather is above.
I do what I call Card Flip Friday on my FB page and Instagram feed every week. It started out as a way to practice my psychic card reading. However, it recently became clear to me that it's more like channeling Universal messages. When I sit with the stones and the cards, I start writing and what comes to me gets written down. Often I'm thinking at the time "geez that was kinda meh." Then I get great feedback from the followers and think ok, it was better than I thought. Or I look back later and think "I don't even remember writing that!" I do believe these messages are coming from a higher place and are messages that need to be heard by those who find them.
All of this is a gift I am working to strengthen and grow all the time. I've attended workshops with Tony Stockwell and Lauren Rainbow, practice circles with Lauren Rainbow and Danielle Dionne, and read a great book by Janet Nohavec. I look for images in the clouds, meditate daily, and work with tarot & oracle decks.
If you're interested in a session, message or email me and I'll see what we can sort out.


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The Pitfalls of the China-Iran Agreement
China Power | Diplomacy
The reported agreement, already receiving a backlash in Iran, is not likely to achieve what Tehran hopes it will.
By Nima Khorrami for The Diplomat
In this Jan. 23, 2016 photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Tehran, Iran.
Credit: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP
Over the past week, news of a long-term strategic pact between China and Iran has caused an uproar among the Iranian public and politicians alike, with both supporters and opponents voicing strong opinions on social media. Iran's former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, rang alarm bells when he warned of a public backlash totally rejecting the deal should the government fail to consult lawmakers before signing the agreement. In response, government officials were quick to denounce his proclamation as fake news, claiming that there is nothing secretive about the deal. On the contrary, Iran's government has held the agreement up as a major diplomatic achievement for the country at a time of increasing international isolation.
News of the pact first emerged in the immediate aftermath of the Chinese president's visit to Tehran, where Xi Jinping met Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who has reportedly approved the deal. Under the agreement, titled "Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between I.R. Iran and P.R. China," China is supposed to receive preferential access to various sectors of the Iranian economy. However, according to the recently leaked documents, the pact, once enforced, is set to go further than economic cooperation and instead include unprecedented collaborations in transport and logistics in Iran's southern ports and islands, as well as the country's defense and security sectors.
How accurate these details are is hard to tell. What is indisputable, however, is that a number of official meetings have already been held and that a pact of some sort is in the making. This, and the ensuing public reaction to the prospect of a deal, in turn, offers important insights into both Iran's current strategic thinking as well as the evolving nature of China-Iran relations. It also entails an important lesson for Beijing as it pushes through its Belt and Road Initiative.
Beginning toward the end of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's presidency in the late 1990s, Tehran has been steadily turning toward Asia as part of its Look East strategy. Embattled by its eight-year war with Iraq and dismayed at the slim prospect of improved relations with the West, there has been a general agreement among top officials that Tehran has much to gain and learn from the rising powers of Asia. For instance, Iran not only could implement a modified version of South Korea's chaebol model to drive industrialization, but it could also find reliable economic partners and energy consumers among the major economies of the continent.
With regard to China in particular, Iran has been drumbeating the importance of the Beijing- Tehran axis as a counterweight to the U.S.-led global order as early as 1995. So far, the expert consensus on the nature of their bilateral ties has centered on the categorization of the two countries as grieved states who, as a consequence, have shown a common desire to engage in aggressive, revisionist regional moves without wanting to start a large-scale war. As such, relations between the two have lacked a sustained degree of coordination and instead have been limited to occasional and opportunistic support for each other's positions on certain issues.
The agreement would reverse this and thus signals the start of a new strategic partnership between the two whereby, according to the Iranian interpretation at least, they work in concert in order to counter the United States' dominance in the Middle East. This goal is clearly captured in a recent editorial in the conservative daily Javan titled "The Lion and Dragon Pact." In it, the author claims that the strategic partnership would enable Iran not only to avoid isolation but also to mount a serious challenge to U.S. supremacy in the Middle East. However, what the author fails to mention is that the deal would increase Iran's reliance on China in its conduct of foreign affairs; a bitter reality that showcases yet another painful turnaround from the country's revolutionary ideals.
Inherent in the revolutionary slogan of "neither West nor East" was a desire for independent foreign policymaking and a departure from being a client state. It is not at all clear if Tehran can do so once it is in a partnership with China. Instead, its ability to conduct an independent regional policy would slowly fade away as it must take into account the priorities of its more powerful patron. In other words, Beijing is unlikely to allow Iran to implement policies that are deemed detrimental to China's own interests and/or reputation in the region. Its angry reaction to Iran's Health Ministry spokesperson complaining about China's initial handling of COVID-19, which led to the issuance of multiple formal apologies from Tehran, is a clear indication of the Chinese government's likely attitude toward its partners: total obedience first, mutual respect second.
Looking at it from the perspective of Iran's regional foes, however, this might be a welcome development. Given China's strategic objective of cementing diversified relations, remaining neutral on regional issues, and strengthening its relations with Saudi Arabia and Israel as reliable energy and technology partners, respectively, Beijing might be better positioned to trim Iran's regional behavior. Once again, Iranian officials are in for a bad surprise if they think that a strategic partnership with Beijing would enable them to expand their influence and agenda in the region. As most recently stated by its foreign minister, China neither has the will nor the capabilities to become another United States, and Beijing is not going to make the same mistake as Washington has by taking sides in regional disputes.
For its part, Beijing is best advised to pay close attention to the Iranian public's largely negative and highly nationalistic reaction to the prospect of a long-term strategic pact with China. In countries like Iran, where social capital and public trust in the government are in short supply, Chinese investments run the danger of being perceived and/or portrayed as propping up unpopular governments who tend to sacrifice national interests in order to safeguard their own survival. Not only would this tarnish Beijing's image, but it could also jeopardize its ability to do business with these countries should there be a change of guards at the top of the political echelon.
Nima Khorrami is a Research Associate at The Arctic Institute.
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Yezidis (ezdi) - are ethno-confessional group. Their number reaches 1 million. Most are living in their historic homeland in Iraq (region Sheikhan, neighborhoods Dohuk, and in the Sinjar mountains) There is also the community in Syria (governorate Hassaka, Qamishli, Afrin). There are few Yezidis which had remained in Turkey (near Siirt, Mardin, Nisibin, Verashehir ). One of the largest Yezidi community was in the Soviet Union (Armenia and Georgia), after collapsing of which some of them migrated to Russia and Ukraine. Today, the large Yezidi community has also been found in Western Europe.
The native language for the Yezidis is Kurmanji (groupe of Iranian language), on which there is a rich religious poetry that is sacred texts (Kawls and beits), which are the source for the study of religion. Despite the fact that the Yezidis speak Kurmanji, they have formed a separate identity for centuries based on religion. They have developed stereotypical behavior , which differs from the rest of the Kurds, and became a closed community, caste theocratic device, that was historically due to the persecution of followers of radical Yezidism representatives of the dominant religion in the region.
Yezidis manifest their religion, which is called Yezidism, in the scientific literature. The roots of this religion go back to the ancient cults of the Middle East, which were intertwined with the ideas of dervishes, and religion has adopted the final form in the XII century. Yezidis believe in one God (The Khude) and three of his hypostasis Tausi Malak, Ezid, Shikhadi. According to the Yezidi sacred texts, in the XII century, God revealed himself in the face Shikhadi (known preacher Sheikh Adi Musafir).
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Exclusive Q&A With Joel Plaskett!
May 4, 2015 blog postWilliam Muir
Canada has produced some of the world's most enduring songwriters and Joel Plaskett is hailed as one of the best. With countless awards to his credit, thousands of tour dates, and numerous recording and producing projects under his belt, Plaskett remains one of the most innovative and prolific artists on the scene today. We had a quick chat with him about the inspiration behind his newest album and much more.
Q: What was the inspiration behind The Park Avenue Sobriety Test?
A: The song itself was inspired by a comment. I was walking my son from daycare in my neighbourhood a few years ago when I spotted a smashed up guardrail. There's a hard right at the bottom of this hill that leads on to this street Park Avenue. I ran in to my neighbour later and I said "Hey, did you see that smashed up guard rail?" He said, "Yea, it's a Park Avenue sobriety test" and I thought it was a great name for a song.
The song just started as a title because it was such a great quip. That also became the name of the record because there were some miracle themes running through the song, and that made sense in the whole context of the record. I realised as we were putting the artwork of the album together that the acronym for the phrase was P.A.S.T, which suddenly made more sense.
Q: Tell me a little more about the album.
A: The Park Avenue Sobriety Test got a bit of variety for people who know my material. The songs can be on any one of my records but I also feel like it holds up like a new record – like thematically it's a little different than anything I've done before.
Musically, it's dance record with folk influences, like the fiddle and acoustic guitars. It also has a lot of rock and roll songs, but in some places there's some new themes cropping up lyrically. Normally, I don't write with any political agenda, but there's a little more observation about some of things happening in the world, like the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. I'm 40 now, and I'm starting to worry about the world and about leaving something behind for my son.
Q: How does your new album differ from your previous record, Scrappy Happiness?
A: Scrappy Happiness was made with just me and The Emergency, and it was definitely a rock record. The Park Avenue Sobriety Test has about 20 different people playing on this album and is much more collaborative.
Usually, a record is built layer by layer and you record each instrument and vocals separately. In this one, we just put 7 people on the floor and we all play at once and cut the vocals at the same time. It brings a kind of liveliness in the album that I think is different from the rest of my catalog.
Q: What is it like performing with The Emergency?
A: They are the guys who have played in my band for a long time. My drummer Dave and I have been making music since 1999. Chris, who plays bass and joined the band in 2006, and I go back a long way and its fun. They're a huge part of my live show and it's collaborative even though it's all my tunes. There's a lot of spontaneity to the stage and we improvise a lot.
Q: What can we expect at the show?
A: It's going to be a fun, celebratory show. I'm there to tell some fun stories and it's loose. It's very much about the band playing and our connection with the audience. The audience is a large part of it and they bring a great energy to the show.
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