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1. In soup. Swirl it into almost any soup (like bland chicken-noodle) to add instant flavor.
2. In salsa. Spike any salsa, like this fresh tomato pico de gallo from chef Michael Psilakis, which he serves over crab tacos.
3. On fries. Squirt it over cheese fries, or if you're feeling ambitious, make insanely delicious fries topped with bulgogi beef and a Sriracha mayonnaise.
4. In grilled cheese. Squirt Sriracha on any grilled cheese to make it instantly fiery.
5. In a cocktail. Add Sriracha to your Bloody Mary to make it extra fiery.
6. With eggs. Blend Sriracha mayonnaise, mustard and hard-cooked egg yolks for a spicy take-on deviled eggs.
Or try chef Joanne Chang's slightly-more-complicated-but-that-much-more-delicious recipe.
Adding the sauce to hollandaise makes an especially hangover-busting version of this eggs benedict.
7. On greens. Star chef Laurent Tourondel uses Sriracha in his peanutty Asian style slaw, but you can add it to any slaw dressing.
Spike your bottled Ranch dressing or make your own with Sriracha, like star chef Richard Blais. (You can make this recipe with or without the siphon).
Or replace some of the ketchup in thousand island or Russian dressing with Sriracha in any homemade version of these creamy pink dressings.
8. With fish. Blend it with mayonnaise and mirin (sweet Japanese rice wine) to make a glaze for fish.
Use it in place of fresh chiles in the citrus dressing for ceviche. Or to create a layered heat, use both, like chef Sang Yoon.
9. On chicken. For an Asian take on chicken wings, mix Sriracha with butter, like star chef Michael Symon.
Or use it in Dale Talde's Asian-inspired gravy to top chicken-fried steak.
10. On pork. Rub it all over pork shoulder before slow-roasting it, like star chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten. The Sriracha gives his pineapple-basted roast a spicy crust.


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Ryan Ritter led off both games with solo home runs, his first of the season, and Kentucky swept a Friday doubleheader at Kentucky Proud Park to move to 13-3 on the season. It is the best start to a season since the 2018 club opened 14-2.
Ritter had a double, triple and two homers as part of a five-hit afternoon, has reached safely in 19 consecutive games and now has eight multi-hit efforts this season. Chase Estep had two home runs in the doubleheader and four in the past five games and now owns a 14-game hit streak as the reigning Southeastern Conference Player of the Week.
Ten different Wildcats had hits on the day, as they hit six home runs, six doubles and a triple while drawing 17 bases on balls. The two teams will finish their series on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET.
Kentucky now is 104-33 vs. non-conference opponents during coach Nick Mingione's tenure, including 81-16 at home and 90-13 vs. non-Power Five opponents.
The UK pitchers have struck out 174 in 16 games.
Junior IF Chase Estep hit his sixth and seventh home runs of the season.
He has a career-long and team-best 14-game hit streak.
He has a 15-game reached base safely streak.
He is the first Cat to homer in three straight games since Coltyn Kessler in April 2021.
Senior IF Jacob Plastiak is currently riding a career-long 19-game reached safely streak.
He has seven multi-RBI games this season and 11 for his career.
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He went 5-for-10 with four extra-base hits, four runs and five RBI.
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Nurses working tirelessly to defeat COVID-19, says PHCC
Nursing staff act as a protective and preventive shield against the transmission of any infection, including COVID-19, says Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC) Head Nurse at the Leabaib Health Center, Ebtisam Abdullah.
"Our nurses help protect the medical staff and all Health Center visitors from possible contraction of coronavirus on a daily basis. This is achieved through a set of precautionary measures taken by the nursing staff before patients walk into any Health Centers," said Mrs Abdullah.
Among these measures include a quick desk test, checking of body temperatures, asking COVID-19-relevant questions, and taking note of any respiratory symptoms or symptoms similar to COVID-19, such as coughing, sore throat and fever.
According to Mrs Abdullah, visitors at all the Health Centers are treated as suspected COVID-19 cases. "In the event any of the above symptoms are detected, the patient will be treated as a suspected COVID-19 case and asked to sanitize his or her hands and to wear a surgical mask. They will then be admitted into the isolation room immediately," she explained.
Following admission, nurses will carry out further precautionary measures by checking vital signs and performing the COVID-19 swabbing test. After the test, the nursing staff will explain further steps that the patient will need to take, including the quarantine procedure. Nurses will also ensure that patients complete the Undertaking Form, based on which he or she will be given a standard booklet from the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), containing important guidelines which are to be used as a reference during the quarantine period.
Once a suspected case is discharged from the isolation room, the nursing staff supervises the disinfection process as part of PHCC's efforts in combating the spread of COVID-19.
According to Mrs Abdullah, nurses also make sure to follow up with home-quarantined patients.
She said: "Calls are made daily to offer patients support and to monitor their health condition, while answering any queries they might have with regards to their current health status."
Another significant role played by nurses is that of creating and spreading awareness about COVID-19 among patients. These include reminders on the importance of practising social distancing, as well as the need for regular hand sanitization and the benefits of wearing a face mask.
"If a positive COVID-19 case is detected, we adopt all the measures outlined by MoPH," said Mrs Abdullah. "First, a doctor will contact the patient and inform him or her of the test results. Then, a request for further tests are made using the patient's database. Following this, the nursing staff will coordinate with the four Centers that are allocated as COVID-19 quarantine facilities (Muaither, Rawdat Al Khail, Al Gharafah and Umm Slal) in order to carry out the required tests. Based on that, the patient will be transferred to a suitable quarantine facility," she explained.
To cover the global shortage of nurses and to meet the needs of health sectors worldwide after the COVID-19 outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) said there was an urgent need for an estimated 5.9 million nurses to help cope with the pandemic.
Like all other countries, Qatar faced a shortage of medical staff and in particular, nurses. Many were unable to return to work at the end of their annual leave due to the temporary suspension of flights. Additionally, PHCC's Health Centers experienced a shortage of existing nurses when 30 per cent of its nursing staff were allocated to MoPH in support of the COVID-19 crisis plan.
"In an effort to overcome these challenges, PHCC was able to acquire skilled nurses on a temporary, urgent basis," said Mrs Abdullah.
"Our nurses also had to put in long hours at the Health Centers in an effort to battle this pandemic. It has not been easy, but our sense of duty and responsibility towards our patients and the nation of Qatar, along with the support of many other groups and service providers, has helped us face these obstacles head-on. We managed to contribute towards accomplishing the desired outcomes in confronting this pandemic, which we hope will soon come to an end."
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The Safaricom Jazz Lounge is proud to bring you the Roberto Fonseca Quartet, with special guest Fatoumata Diawara.
Fresh off the release of his latest album ABUC, Roberto has been described by The New York Times as a "charismatic spark plug of a pianist from Cuba," and made his debut at the Havana International Jazz Festival in 1990 when he was just15.
He is known by jazz lovers worldwide as an ingenious composer, and has made international appearances at jazz festivals all over the globe.
Taking the stage with him will be the golden voiced Fatoumata Diawara from Mali, who has collaborated with Roberto on the album At Home (Live in Marciac).
Fatoumata is a fast-rising singer and guitarist celebrated for her rich voice and intoxicating sound, and is billed as one of the next giants of jazz music.Opening for the two international stars will be one of the most prolific Kenyan instrumental afro-jazz fusion bands – Shamsi Music.
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"People are appalled at Amnesty's stance, especially those who previously supported the organisation" - Niamh Ui Bhriain of the Rally for Life Committee.
Thousands who attend a major pro-life rally this weekend in Dublin will hear a call to 'Abandon Amnesty' because of the organisation's strong push for legalised abortion in Ireland.
Amnesty International have launched a global campaign demanding Ireland legalise abortion, a move pro-life activists say has motivated many to attend the Rally for Life on Saturday.
"More than 10,000 people are expected at the Rally for Life on Saturday, and, in part, the numbers will be boosted as pro-life people respond to the pro-abortion campaigns orchestrated by Amnesty and the United Nations in recent weeks," said Niamh Ui Bhriain of the Rally for Life Committee.
"People are appalled at Amnesty's stance, especially those who previously supported the organisation" she said.
She said that it was particularly disturbing to see Amnesty and the UN join other abortion campaigners in cynically targeting unborn babies with a profound disability and attempting to dehumanise babies with conditions such as anencephaly in order to justify abortion.
Speakers at the Rally for Life will include people with disabilities and their families who are supporting the 'Every Life Matters' theme of this year's Rally.
"The Rally for Life is always a major celebration of Life, and this year's theme emphasises that legalising abortion for any kind of a disability leads to the horrific situation we're seeing in many other countries, such as Britain, where 90% of children with Down's Syndrome are aborted before birth," said Ms Ui Bhriain.
Kevin Trainer, who has Down's Syndrome, will travel from Louth to be at the Rally on Saturday with his family.
His mother Anne says that Kevin "goes to school every day with a massive smile on his face. He lights up every room he walks into. His father says Down's Syndrome should be called Up Syndrome".
"It breaks my heart to read that more than 90% of babies with Down's Syndrome are aborted in Britain," she said.
"Why are Amnesty International calling for Ireland's abortions laws to be changed and calling abortion "a human right?" What is humane about aborting a baby simply because they have an extra set of chromosomes?" said Ms Trainer.
The Rally for Life is Ireland's premier pro-life event which brings thousands onto the street every year.
"It's a huge celebration of life, with face-painting and balloons and music and there's a great festive atmosphere, but the Rally also sends a powerful pro-life message to the city, to the public, and to the government – and this year's message is that Ireland should continue to protect the right to life of unborn children with disabilities," said Niamh Ui Bhriain.
"We're seeing the number of women travelling for abortion to Britain fall, we're seeing more and more young people join the pro-life movement, and we're seeing that there is always a better answer than abortion," she said.
The Rally for Life is organised by Youth Defence, the Life Institute and Precious Life. It begins at 2pm this Saturday on Parnell Square before marching to the Dáil.


Africa has changed my life.
It was only a year ago, that Dave and I joined several other friends from Bellingham to visit a small Kingdom in Southern Africa, called Lesotho. During that trip, I met children, mothers and grandmothers whose courage, strength and faith amazed me as they fought the greatest tragedy of our times -- the HIV/Aids Pandemic. I saw with my own eyes hundreds of children, who are doing what they can to survive in a world so different from our own. I also saw the hope that comes when people put their faith into action. That's why I am so committed to Action for Africa -- a grassroots group of Whatcom County people who have chosen to walk alongside the children, mothers and grandmothers of Lesotho, Africa.
After my return, I learned that there is one family (and only one) from Lesotho living in my hometown, Bellingham. And, I have since come to know Michael and Selloane Breeding and their daughter Michelle Retselisitsoe. You can read more about their story here, but Michael and Selloane have decided to legally adopt these four precious children (their neice and nephews) and bring them into their 2-bedroom home in Bellingham. They know that if left alone, these four precious children are vulnerable. It is a real possibility that without adult protection, they may end up in the streets of the capital city, Maseru – fending for themselves. This is simply not an acceptable option!
The good news is Khethollo Phillip, Karabo Patricia, Boitumelo David, and Rethabile Alex, DO have living relatives in Michael and Selloane who are willing to adopt them. But Michael and Selloane will not be able to do this alone. While they both have jobs, they simply do not have the financial resources to cover the legal work, application fees, medical costs and transportation expenses required to get these kids out of danger and back into a loving family. We estimate that the total costs to exceed $20,000. We have determined to walk alongside Michael and Sellonae and their daughter Michelle – to bring their four orphan relatives to Bellingham.
We need your help. We are asking you to make a tax-deductible donation to bring these children to their new home.
Tax-deductible checks can be made out to "Action For Africa" and sent to: Action For Africa - PO Box 28696 - Bellingham, WA 98226. Memo your check with "Whatcom / Lesotho Orphan Fund". Tax receipts for 2009 will be sent out by January 15, 2010.
Thank you for helping bring these vulnerable children to their new home.


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Mit dem internen Kürzel G20 (G21 – Touring) bezeichnet BMW die siebte Generation der 3er-Reihe und deckt das Mittelklassesegment des Automobilherstellers ab. Er wird seit 2019 angeboten und ist der Nachfolger vom F30.

Das Coupé G22 und das Cabriolet G23 werden wieder als BMW 4er vermarktet, um eine höhere Positionierung im Vergleich zu Limousine und Touring darzustellen.

Modellgeschichte

Allgemeines
Am  stellte BMW den G20 auf dem Pariser Autosalon offiziell vor und am  startete der Verkauf mit den drei Ausstattungsvarianten  "Sport Line", "Luxury Line" und "M Sport". Produktionsorte sind das Stammwerk in München, für das Modell mit verlängertem Radstand (G28), die formal erstmals öffentlich auf der Auto Shanghai 2019 gezeigt wurde, das Werk Tiexi im chinesischen Shenyang und das neue Werk San Luis Potosí in Mexiko. Die Touring-Variante wurde am  vorgestellt und kam Ende  auf den Markt.

Der M3 (G80) wurde am  vorgestellt. Schon einen Monat davor kündigte BMW an, dass es ebenfalls eine Variante als Touring (G81) geben werde. Die Limousine wird in München hergestellt und kam im  auf den Markt. Die Allrad-Variante des M3 folgte im Sommer 2021 und der Touring im Sommer 2022. Im Gegensatz zu den normalen 3er-Modellen hat der G80 die aus dem 4er bekannte große BMW-Niere an der Front, weil er den gleichen Vorderwagen verwendet, da er später als der zivile 3er zugelassen wurde und strengeren Crashvorschriften genügen musste, die der 4er bereits erfüllte. Im Januar 2023 wurde der limitierte M3 CS vorgestellt. Er übernimmt einige Teile vom 2022 gebauten M4 CSL, hat im Gegensatz zu diesem aber Allradantrieb.

Sondermodelle außerhalb Europas
Im Oktober 2020 präsentierte BMW das auf 230 Exemplare limitierte Sondermodell 330is. Es wird ausschließlich in Südafrika angeboten. Der 330is soll an den 325is ("Gusheshe") der Baureihe E30, der sich in Südafrika großer Beliebtheit im Motorsport erfreut, erinnern.

Für Australien wurde im Februar 2021 das auf 200 Exemplare limitierte Sondermodell 330i Iconic Edition vorgestellt. Es ist in zwei Farben verfügbar und verwendet zudem Teile von BMW M. Außerdem lässt sich wie beim BMW X6 die BMW-Niere beleuchten.

Am  wurde die chinesische Langversion auch als vollelektrischer BMW i3 eDrive35L vorgestellt. die Systemleistung wird mit 210 kW (286 PS) angegeben. Die Produktion erfolgt in Shenyang bei BMW Brilliance Automotive ausschließlich für den chinesischen Markt.

Modellpflege
Eine überarbeitete Version (LCI) der Baureihe wurde am  vorgestellt. Sie kam im Juli 2022 in den Handel. Die Modelle haben neu gestaltete LED-Scheinwerfer und eine umfangreichere Serienausstattung (Einparkhilfe (PDC) vorn und hinten, 3-Zonen-Klimaautomatik, anklappbare Außenspiegel). Größte Neuerung ist die Integration des BMW-Betriebssystems OS 8 mit dem Curved Display (Widescreen), das alle analogen Instrumente ersetzt. Es gibt nur noch die Basisvariante und eine weitere Ausstattungslinie "M Sportpaket". Letztere bietet mit dem "M Sportpaket Pro" weitere Möglichkeiten bei den Leuchten und rote Bremssättel, die bisher eigenständig gewählt werden konnten.

Technik
Wie für den 7er (BMW G11) und den neuesten Z4 nutzt BMW für den G20 die aktuelle BMW-CLAR-Plattform (Cluster Architecture). Die Karosserie ist etwas größer, und der Wagen hat einen geringeren Luftwiderstandsbeiwert (cw) von 0,26 bis zu 0,23 beim 320d. Dazu dient unter anderem eine aktive Luftklappensteuerung. Der Schwerpunkt wurde um 10 mm gesenkt. Die Torsionssteifigkeit konnte gegenüber dem Vorgängermodell um 20 Prozent gesteigert werden. Motorhaube, Heckklappe und Kotflügel bestehen aus Aluminium, was trotz der größeren Abmessungen zu 55 kg weniger Masse führt;
sie ist bei den Vierzylinder-Modellen exakt gleichmäßig auf Vorder- und Hinterachse verteilt. Zur besseren Geräuschdämpfung wird in allen Modellvarianten eine Frontscheibe mit geräuschdämmender Folie ("Akustikglas") verwendet. Das Modell M Sport erhält eine eigene Frontschürze. Der M3 verfügt über einige Versteifungen, unter anderem eine Strebe im Motorraum. Alle Modellvarianten haben LED-Scheinwerfer, optional gibt es Fernlicht mit Laser-Modul.

Das Fahrzeug hat eine MacPherson-Federbein-Vorderachse mit getrennt angelenkten Querlenkern und Zugstreben und eine Fünflenker-Hinterachse. Dabei werden neuartige Dämpfer mit hubabhängiger Reibung und einem zusätzlichen Kolben für einen größeren Energieabbau eingesetzt. Das "M Sportfahrwerk" hat ein elektronisch geregeltes Sportdifferenzial mit variabler Sperrwirkung im Hinterachsgetriebe sowie eine "M Sportbremsanlage".

Ein Spurverlassensassistent sowie die Auffahr- und Personenwarnung mit City-Bremsfunktion gehören zur Grundausstattung. Weitere Assistenten, darunter Heckkollisions- und Querverkehrswarnung, gibt es optional;
auch einen Parkassistenten, der beim Ein- und Ausparken das Lenken, Beschleunigen und Bremsen samt Gangwahl des Automatikgetriebes übernimmt und das Auto beim Zurücksetzen auf einer Strecke von bis zu 50 Metern exakt auf dem zuvor vorwärts befahrenen Kurs halten kann.

Für das Infotainment ist neben der Gestensteuerung auch eine Sprachsteuerung verfügbar, es kann aber auch über iDrive oder Touchscreen bedient werden. Die Sprachsteuerung verfügt über eine lernfähige Software, so dass sie sich über längere Zeit auf den Fahrer einstellt. In Verbindung mit dem BMW Live Cockpit Professional sind drahtlose Softwareupdates möglich.

Der M3 bietet auch einen M Drift Analyser, mit dem sich die in Kurven ermittelten Fahrzeugdaten aufzeichnen und auswerten lassen sowie eine Rundenzeitenuhr (Laptimer).

Antrieb
Zum Verkaufsstart waren Vierzylinder-Otto- und Dieselmotoren sowie ein Reihen-Sechszylinder-Dieselmotor verfügbar. Ihr maximales Drehmoment beträgt zwischen 300 und 580 Nm. Die Vierzylinder-Dieselmodelle haben ein 6-Gang-Schaltgetriebe, alle anderen Varianten ein 8-Gang-Automatikgetriebe von ZF. Die Dieselmotorvariante 320d ist auch mit dem variablen Allradantrieb xDrive erhältlich. Nach den vorläufigen Angaben liegt der CO2-Ausstoß je nach Motor zwischen 108 g/km und 139 g/km.

Im Sommer 2019 folgten mit dem M340i ein neues Topmodell, mit dem 330e eine Version mit einem Plug-in-Hybridantrieb, deren rein elektrische Reichweite 60 km beträgt und Versionen der Limousine mit Allradantrieb für die Motorisierungsstufen 320i, 330i bzw. 330d. Der M340i hat die neueste Generation des BMW B58-Motors mit verringerter Reibung, geringerem Gewicht und neuestem Wärmemanagement. Letzteres hat zwei voneinander getrennte Kühlkreisläufe für Zylinderkopf und Kurbelgehäuse ("Split-Cooling-Ansatz"), was bei nicht voll gefordertem Motor eine bessere Verbrennung ermöglicht. Das Hybridmodell hat eine Systemleistung von 185 kW (252 PS) die im Modus "XTraBoost" auf 215 kW (292 PS) erhöht wird; der kombinierte Kraftstoff-Normverbrauch beträgt 1,6–1,9 l/100 km und der kombinierte Strom-Normverbrauch 14,8–15,4 kWh/100 km. Seit Sommer 2020 ist der 330e auch als Touring und mit Allradantrieb erhältlich.

Seit März 2020 ist der 318i mit einem 115 kW (156 PS)-Motor als Einstiegsmodell lieferbar.

Ab März 2021 ist auch der schwächere 320e verfügbar. Im Touring ist für ihn auch Allradantrieb verfügbar. Zum selben Termin lag der Marktstart für den M3 mit dem Sportmotor BMW S58; er hat ein handgeschaltetes 6-Gang-Getriebe.

Mit der Modellpflege 2022 erhalten die 4-Zylinder-Ottomotoren den im Zylinderkopf eingebauten Krümmer, und alle Motoren werden ausschließlich mit Automatikgetriebe geliefert, Gangwechsel erfolgen über Schaltwippen am Lenkrad. Auf Wunsch ist die Automatik mit kürzeren Schaltzeiten und Launch Control erhältlich.

i3 eDrive35L

Seit Ende März 2022 gibt es in China die Langversion vollelektrisch als BMW i3 eDrive35L. Sein Antrieb stammt aus dem BMW iX3 und wird von einem netto 66,1 kWh großen Akku gespeist, der im Unterboden platziert ist; letzterer ermöglicht nach dem chinesischen, etwas großzügigeren Testzyklus CLTC (China Light-Duty Vehicles Test Cycle) eine Reichweite von 526 km.

Technische Daten

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Hybrid

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Wise Men Against the Grain
June 9, 2011 Issue
Through the History of the Cold War: The Correspondence of George F. Kennan and John Lukacs
edited by John Lukacs
University of Pennsylvania Press, 276 pp., $39.95
George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment, 1944–1946: The Kennan–Lukacs Correspondence
with an introduction by John Lukacs
University of Missouri Press, 85 pp., $24.95; $14.95 (paper)
One's relations with one's country, like the relations among intimates, are always complicated; but I conceive myself to have loved my own…. I am now inclined to see my country much the way that I see Russia (in the historical sense): namely, as a politically unsuccessful and tragic country, but one capable of producing out of its midst, from time to time, remarkable literary, artistic, and musical intelligence, politically helpless and always vulnerable to abuse and harassment at the hands of the dominant forces of the moment.
—George Kennan, letter to John Lukacs, July 8, 1984
Dominique Nabokov
George Kennan at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, 1981
The diplomat and historian George Frost Kennan (1904–2005) and the historian and historical philosopher John Lukacs (born Lukács János Adalbert in 1924) are American contemporaries who shared a tradition of humane thought and scholarship that in the late twentieth century has exercised diminishing influence on the political discourse and policy of the United States. The unlikely friendship between the two, initiated by what amounted to a fan letter, continued for almost fifty-two years, in a learned correspondence of observation and commentary on the international and national affairs of the cold war, but increasingly on the condition of men and women, above all Americans, in what Lukacs, the historian, characterized as the final stage in a modern age that began in the West during the Renaissance.
John Lukacs was born in Hungary and lived there until after World War II, except for the year 1938–1939, when his divorced and Anglophile mother ("very beautiful, intelligent, impulsive and chic") sent him to school in England, where his term ended just before war was declared. His mother's origins were responsible for his assignment to a special labor battalion for "converted Jews" when, late in the war, he was called up for military service in Hungary. She had been born to a Jewish family long converted to Catholicism (she survived the war). His physician father and his stepfather ("who did not like me very much") were Catholics too.1
During the war, Hungary's right-wing government of Admiral Miklós Horthy imprudently joined Italy and Germany in invading Yugoslavia, aiming to recover territories lost in the World War I settlements; it found itself committed to its sequel, the invasion of the Soviet Union. The Horthy government, having second thoughts, entered into secret peace negotiations as early as 1942–1943 with the US and Britain, causing Germany to occupy Hungary and place the quasi-fascist Arrow Cross movement in power. After an attempt at an armistice with the USSR also proved abortive, the Russian army invaded Hungary, whose troops fell back toward Germany as part of the Wehrmacht's retreat. Lukacs, by then serving in an antiaircraft unit, deserted. He and members of his family survived the nearly three-month Russian siege of Budapest, taking shelter…
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Storm Over Syria
Malise Ruthven
Stieg Larsson, Moralist
The Charms of Eleanor Roosevelt
Russell Baker
The Genius of Buster Keaton
Jana Prikryl
Kissinger and China
Jonathan D. Spence
Ghana's Handmade Movie Poster Boom
Anakwa Dwamena


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RET Americas
RET. Bridging the Gaps in Africa. The Americas. Asia. Europe. The Middle East
RET Alliance
RET's Approaches
Young People & Women
Economic Growth & Development
Protection (Youth, Women & Child)
Gender Equality & Social Inclusion
Peace Stability & Transition
Europe/Turkey
The Middle East & North Africa
COVID-19: Violencia de Género contra Mujeres y Niñas, la segunda emergencia que crece
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La pandemia por COVID-19 ha puesto a prueba la capacidad de los sistemas de salud en diversos países y ha provocado desafíos sin precedentes. Mientras los gobiernos están trabajando en medidas de protección, otra emergencia creció a la sombra, provocando efectos adversos, especialmente en mujeres y niñas: la violencia de género.
A nivel mundial, 1 de cada 3 mujeres ha experimentado alguna vez violencia física o sexual por parte de su pareja. La pandemia por COVID-19, junto con las desigualdades de género existentes, incrementó los riesgos de violencia de género contra mujeres y niñas, especialmente durante el confinamiento, lo que provocó un aumento global significativo de la violencia doméstica en los últimos meses.
Según ONU Mujeres, los nuevos datos indican que las llamadas a las líneas de atención en casos de violencia han aumentado desde que comenzó la pandemia, mientras las mujeres , adolescentes y niñas se encontraban encerradas con sus perpetradores. En situaciones más complejas en las que los sistemas de salud están colapsando, los albergues especializados y las líneas de atención alcanzaron su máxima capacidad y las mujeres, adolescentes y niñas quedaron desconectadas de sus redes de apoyo; el aislamiento aumentó su vulnerabilidad.
Desde que comenzó la pandemia, RET aseguró que los servicios de protección y los recursos disponibles para mujeres en situación de vulnerabilidad sean accesibles y no sean interrumpidos. Asumió el papel de facilitar el acceso a redes de seguridad social y protección a través de la tecnología para asistir y acompañar a mujeres jóvenes, adolescentes, adultas y niñas, refugiadas, desplazadas, migrantes y de las comunidades de acogida, particularmente vulnerables a la pandemia.
Participamos activamente en la promoción de los derechos de las mujeres en su diversidad a través de campañas de sensibilización, sesiones de atención en salud sexual y reproductiva y apoyo psicosocial. Además, se reactivaron redes de protección en más de 25 países para responder oportunamente a sobrevivientes, mujeres, adolescentes y niñas en riesgo de violencia de género de manera integral. Para tal fin, se generaron grupos de apoyo virtual, se fortalecieron y desarrollaron rutas de atención, derivación y mecanismos de seguimiento para no dejar a nadie atrás.
Colaboramos con actores locales en la incidencia para el establecimiento de mecanismos de prevención y de respuesta integral ante casos de violencia de género, adaptados a las diferentes medidas de contingencia establecidas en cada país, en conjunto con el fortalecimiento de mecanismos comunitarios para la prevención y respuesta de violencia de género y derivación de casos a las diferentes instituciones responsables de la atención.
A la fecha, hemos alcanzado directamente a más de 61.000 personas a través de actividades de sensibilización sobre la prevención de COVID-19 y más de 6.500 personas recibieron atención en Salud Mental y Apoyo Psicosocial, durante la pandemia.
En el Día Internacional para la Eliminación de la Violencia contra la Mujer, reafirmamos nuestro compromiso a continuar apoyando a las mujeres, niñas y adolescentes en mayor vulnerabilidad entre los refugiados, solicitantes de asilo, migrantes y poblaciones de acogida, para prevenir y poner fin a la violencia en todas sus formas.
Durante los 16 días de Activismo contra la Violencia de Género, RET está lanzando una serie de actividades en el marco de un movimiento global para crear conciencia sobre la violencia de género y los riesgos asociados con la pandemia, especialmente para mujeres, niñas y adolescentes migrantes, refugiadas y en desplazamiento.
Estén atentos entre el 25 de noviembre y el 10 de diciembre para conocer más sobre las intervenciones de RET en más de 25 países.
COVID-19: A second emergency arose, Gender-based Violence against women and girls
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women #16DAYS
Even before the #COVID19 pandemic,
1 in 3 👩🏻🧕 around the world, experienced physical or sexual violence, mostly by an intimate partner.#END violence against #Women & #Girls#ORANGETHEWORLD pic.twitter.com/BCX3Qo7ysr
— RET International (@theRETorg) November 25, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has stretched the healthcare systems and caused unprecedented challenges. While governments are working on protective measures, another emergency arose, causing adverse effects, especially on women and girls: Gender-based Violence.
Even before the pandemic, globally, 1 in 3 women experienced physical or sexual violence, mostly by an intimate partner. The COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with existing gender inequalities, increased the risks of gender-based violence against women and girls, especially during confinement and lockdown, leading to a significant global increase in Domestic Violence in the past couple of months. According to UN Women, new data indicates that calls to domestic violence hotlines have increased in many countries since the pandemic started, and vulnerable women and or girls are locked with their perpetrators. In more complex situations where health systems are collapsing, specialized shelters and hotlines reached their capacity, and women and girls are left disconnected from their support networks. Isolation is increasing the vulnerability of women and girls.
Since the pandemic started, RET ensured the protection services and the resources available to vulnerable women are accessible and not interrupted. RET assumed its role in facilitating access to Social Safety Nets and Protection through technology to protect and assist refugees, internally displaced, migrants, and host community women and girls, particularly vulnerable to the pandemic. RET has been actively taking part in the plight to protect women and girls, and promote their rights and safety through awareness campaigns, sexual and reproductive health care sessions, and psychosocial support. Moreover, RET re-activated its protective networks in more than 25 countries to respond timely to survivors and women and girls at risk of gender-based violence through a comprehensive response mechanism. RET has established virtual support groups, strengthened and developed its care routes, referral, and follow-up mechanisms to leave no one behind.
RET has been taking part in advocacy with local actors for the establishment of prevention mechanisms and comprehensive response mechanisms to cases of gender-based violence adapted to the different contingency measures established in each country, in tandem with strengthening community mechanisms for the prevention and response of gender-based violence, and referral of GBV cases at the community levels to the different care routes. RET has been assisting women and girls through the establishment of virtual support groups with psychosocial support follow-up. To date, more than 61,000 people were directly reached through messaging and awareness-raising activities on COVID-19 prevention and more than 6,500 people were provided with Mental Health and Psychosocial Support MHPSS, during the pandemic.
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we re-commit to continue supporting the most underserved and disadvantaged women and girls amongst the refugees, asylum-seekers, migrants, and host populations, to prevent and end violence in all its forms. During the 16 days of Activism against Gender-based Violence, RET is launching a series of activities in a global movement to raise awareness about gender-based violence and risks associated with the pandemic, especially on migrants, refugees, and women in displacement.
Stay tuned between the 25th of November and the 10th of December to learn more about RET's interventions in more than 25 countries of operation.
Call for Support to Lebanon
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As all of you know, the massive explosion on Tuesday in Beirut, was the third largest in the world after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with more than 5000 people injured, thousands more missing, and 137casualties. More than 300,000 people have been internally displaced (IDP's) due to the loss of their homes.
Lebanon, an already fragile state, had been suffering since its civil war from 1975-1990, from 5 decades of insecurities, social instability, and most recently from economic and financial collapse.
Think about this – Lebanon has a population of 6.8 million plus an additional 1 million Syrian and Iraqi refugees. Approximately half the population are in dire need of food assistance, as unemployment was already approaching 40% before Tuesday's blast.
Today, I urgently ask for your donation to RET, ourindependent, neutral, non-profit, based in Switzerland, Washington DC, Berlin, which I have been heading for the last 17 years.
Our team is already on the ground working in Lebanon providing and ready to provide urgent assistance and lifesaving basic needs such as psychological first aid, food, water, shelter to those in need.
So many of you have already written to me. I cannot thank you enough for your generous support during these tragic times. Your donations are much needed NOW to help feed and keep alive hundreds of thousands of people. Thank you, again, and again!!!
Please follow the below link to GoGetFunding & Donate Urgently!
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Zeynep Gülgün Gündüz
President & CEO of RET
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RET's COVID-19 Regional Response in Latin America and the Caribbean
RET has been present in the Latin America and the Caribbean region, since 2004, and has directly supported more than 717,000 direct project participants, and indirectly benefitted 3.6 Mio beneficiaries throughout 179 projects implemented predominantly in Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, and Peru. The COVID-19 pandemic is overstretching healthcare systems and restricting access to basic needs, education, and livelihoods. Countries with pre-existing humanitarian needs, in fragile contexts, and protracted crises are the most affected, including the refugees, migrants and the vulnerable host communities. Due to restricted mobility, the poor living & working conditions where many vulnerable people depend on insufficient daily wages to cover basic needs such as shelter, food, and health care, refugee and migrants especially are becoming more susceptible to the deteriorating impact of COVID-19 and are also at risk of being stigmatized. This pandemic is aggravating the socio-economic unrest, leading to additional violence, conflicts, and the weakening of already fragile environments.
How is RET Staying & Delivering
RET has been conducting multiple needs assessment to understand the impact of this crisis on the most vulnerable in every country of operation, including the deteriorating effects on refugees and migrants. RET has been gathering information and timely data to adapt and respond through innovative urgent actions to mitigate the existing and additional protection risks of vulnerable people assisted through ongoing operations. RET's response in LAC prioritized refugees' and migrants' particular needs in the areas of Protection, Shelter, WASH, Food Security, Livelihoods and, Social Integration through targeted and tailor-made interventions to complement the national authorities' response.
RET has been coordinating its responses with grassroots organizations, Civil Society Organizations (CSO's), and international partners to prioritize essential protection and pre-existing life-saving needs to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on the most affected communities, and has been taking part in promoting the inclusion of refugees and migrants in national programs.
Awareness & Prevention
While maintaining physical distancing measures, RET is implementing many prevention and response activities in countries of operation where refugees and migrants from Venezuela are hosted. These activities include providing access to reliable information on preventive measures, combatting misinformation and stigmatization, provision of hygiene kits, and soap, strengthening of community preventive health mechanisms through virtual workshops for key people at the community levels on preventive measures, response, and isolation mechanisms; access to safety equipment for health personnel; strengthening referral and follow-up mechanisms for COVID-19 cases in health centers at the local level and the delivery of sexual and reproductive health kits (condoms, flashlight, prevention information) and of PEP kits to health centers.
Protection (Women and Child)
RET is ensuring the protection services provided to the affected people are not interrupted, and assuming its current role in providing access to social safety nets and basic assistance to women and children through the use of technology to protect and assist refugees, internally displaced people, migrants and host communities particularly vulnerable to the pandemic. Key protection activities, such as individual protection assistance, case management, legal counseling, and individual psychosocial support, continue to be delivered via phone and WhatsApp chats, ensuring the well-being and mental health of the most vulnerable.
RET is actively taking part in the protection of women and girls and in promoting their rights and safety through awareness campaigns and protective networks to provide sexual and reproductive health care and gender-based violence assistance. RET has established virtual support groups and a follow-up mechanism to assist vulnerable women at risk of Gender-based violence and survivors of #GBV.
Food Security -Shelter – Cash Assistance
RET has reviewed all evaluation tools to characterize new families affected by COVID 19 and applied means of verification to assist the most vulnerable. To bridge the food security gap, RET has been providing "Food Baskets" and "multi-purpose vouchers" to the most vulnerable people registered within our programs in coordination with local supermarkets. Also, RET has been providing multi-purpose cash transfers for the most vulnerable families whose livelihoods have been affected by COVID-19 and enabling all-cash voucher programs available in each country (conditional and multi-purpose cash) for the purchase of food, shelter and hygiene products (including gloves and soap). RET has been supporting food entrepreneurs and small marked oriented businesses with the purchase of food and its distribution in line with the regulations per country in coordination with relief entities and volunteers. RET has also been identifying shelters and coordinating with international and local partners to support people in shelters.
RET has been providing the most vulnerable refugees and migrants with hygiene kits (soap, anti-bacterial gel, gloves, mask, alcohol) as well as providing cleaning kits and safety equipment for workers at health centers and hospitals. In addition to providing traditional water filters in communities with weak infrastructure, and conducting virtual training on handwashing, use of security equipment and on hygiene recommendations in work, home, and school environments. RET has been conducting assessments of water systems, and subsequent definition of a plan of action for the corrective maintenance of hygiene facilities (in communities and schools).
RET has been redesigning ad re-orienting its efforts in line with local needs and in coordination with host government's policies at the local level to provide innovative solutions to remote learning through redesigning all its formal and informal education programs to provide access to alternative distance learning programs. With 20 years of experience in education, particularly in "Education in Emergencies (EiE)," RET is providing tailor-made solutions at the local level to bridge the educational gaps, in the broadest sense of vulnerable people. RET has been revising its entire education toolbox and is currently implementing actions to allow the continuity of the teaching-learning processes, also, strengthening of capacities on distance education models to facilitate the return to classes and maintain quality education.
RET's latest actions in education focused on supporting the host governments with their COVID19 prevention campaigns, addressing children, parents, and caregivers and promoting non-formal digital education programs and virtual educational platforms established by the host governments; strengthening of alternative virtual education spaces; developing guides for caregivers with activities and educational processes; launching plans for the inclusion of migrant and refugee children in the educational system; supporting the access of students to connectivity, computers, laptops, tablets or smart-phones; in addition to supporting vulnerable students with internet data fees and or access.
Social integration and Livelihoods.
The social impact of the COVID 19 outbreak can already be visible in many countries in LAC with a high number of refugees, migrants, and displaced people through the decrease of cohesion, a greater potential for conflict, and deepening inequalities.
RET's responses are being oriented to address the indirect effect of COVID-19 on social cohesion and integration in Latin America and the Caribbean; including addressing the risks of violence, discrimination, marginalization, and xenophobia towards the most vulnerable, especially the Venezuelan refugees through virtual tools such as webinars, Social networks, virtual social cohesion activities and interactive sessions at the community level. As part of its livelihood programs, RET is providing online support to increase the employability profiles of vulnerable people. (CV & job applications), along with tackling youth protection and mental health through social media awareness campaigns about health, education, housing, and work, in times of COVID-19.
During these challenging COVID19 times and in only three months, RET provided assistance and support to almost 18,000 refugees, migrants, and vulnerable people from the host community in Latin America and the Caribbean region alone. This is how the RET team is #Staying&Delivering.
RET is adopting an inclusive, multi-sectoral approach to alleviate the suffering and develop the resilience of the most affected, with particular attention to children, youth, and young women. RET will continue to provide its existing humanitarian, peace, development assistance while expanding its existent multi-sectoral response to address the new vulnerabilities in terms of COVID-19. While RET hires 100% local staff, in most countries, and can, therefore, stay on the ground, and continue its programs uninterrupted during any crises. RET's international management team are usually based in regional and headquarters office, and travel for technical capacity-building purposes, which during COVID-19, is happening online and through videoconferencing.
The battle is not yet over; we appeal to all governments, donors, and partners to maintain their support to RET programs around the world and to foster our multi-sectoral response to assist the most vulnerable. With international solidarity, we will mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on the most affected, during, and following this emergency.
Three months into the pandemic – COVID19 Update
[English] & [Español]
During these challenging COVID19 times and since March 2020, RET provided assistance and support to almost 18,000 refugees, migrants, and vulnerable people from the host community in Latin America and the Caribbean region alone.
This is how the RET team is #Staying&Delivering.
As part of RET's COVID-19 regional emergency response, an evaluation of the particular COVID-19-related needs and priorities of host governments in eight countries in which RET is present, have been made (Belize, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Venezuela.)
RET's response in LAC prioritized refugees' and migrants' particular needs in the areas of Protection, Shelter, WASH, Food Security, Livelihoods and, Social Integration, through targeted and tailor-made interventions to complement the national authorities' response, in coordination with IOM, UNHCR, UNICEF, and other organizations.
RET has been providing Psychosocial Support #PSS through hotline numbers available in all countries, in addition to providing virtual support for groups of women, with particular emphasis on the prevention of Gender-based Violence (GBV.)
As part of its livelihood programs, RET is providing online support to increase the employability profiles of vulnerable people. (CV & job applications), along with tackling Youth protection and mental health through social media awareness campaigns and raising awareness about health, education, housing and work, in times of COVID-19.
RET has been supporting vulnerable people through multi-purpose cash assistance and distribution of health cards and hygiene kits to educational & health centers, along with vulnerable people in transit, to limit the spread of the disease.
Finally, RET's latest actions in Education focused on supporting the host governments with their COVID19 prevention campaigns, addressing children, parents, and caregivers and promoting non-formal digital education programs and virtual educational platforms established by the host governments; in addition to supporting vulnerable students with internet data fees and or access.
Durante estos desafiantes # COVID19 veces y desde marzo de 2020, RET brindó asistencia y apoyo a casi 18,000 refugiados, migrantes y personas vulnerables de la comunidad de acogida solo en la región de América Latina y el Caribe. ¡Así es como el equipo RET está # Permaneciendo y entregando en #LAC!
Como parte de la respuesta de emergencia ante la pandemia del COVID-19, RET Américas, hizo una evaluación de las necesidades y prioridades particulares relacionadas con el COVID-19 de los gobiernos de acogida en ocho países en los que nuestra organización tiene presencia: Belice, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, México, Panamá, Perú y Venezuela.
De este modo, nuestra respuesta dio prioridad a las necesidades particulares de los refugiados y migrantes en las áreas de protección, alojamiento, WASH, alimentación, medios de vida e integración, mediante intervenciones segmentadas y adaptadas al contexto (por ejemplo, mediante una mayor asistencia en efectivo) para complementar la capacidad de respuesta de las autoridades nacionales y en cooperación con OIM, ACNUR, UNICEF y otras organizaciones.
Apoyo psicosocial a través de líneas de atención telefónica de urgencia puestas en marcha en todos los países, grupos de apoyo virtuales para mujeres con especial énfasis en la prevención de la violencia de género.
Medios de vida: asesoramiento virtual para la preparación de currículos y solicitudes de empleo, identificación y remisión de perfiles médicos solicitados por ACNUR para el programa de empleo de emergencia COVID-19 en países como México.
Protección de jóvenes mediante campañas en redes sociales.
Difusión de paquetes de información y folletos sobre salud, educación, vivienda y trabajo, incluyendo información sobre el COVID-19.
Asistencia a través de tarjetas sanitarias multipropósito para los participantes.
Entrega de kits de higiene al personal de los centros educativos y de salud, como migrantes y refugiados en tránsito, niños, niñas, adolescentes y familias que participan en nuestros proyectos para prevenir la propagación prolongada del COVID-19.
Implementación de nuevos proyectos para responder al brote de COVID-19, por ejemplo, en Perú, un nuevo proyecto específico financiado por el fondo Education Cannot Wait que tiene por objetivo mantener la educación accesible para migrantes y refugiados venezolanos en tiempos de COVID-19.
Todas las oficinas nacionales de América Latina y el Caribe han elaborado planes de contingencia para cada proyecto a fin de garantizar su ejecución, pese a los problemas que plantea la pandemia del COVID-19 y las medidas adoptadas por los países para reducir la propagación del virus. En coordinación con los diversos donantes, se han actualizado incluso los componentes de algunos proyectos para asegurar que se satisfagan las necesidades más urgentes de sus beneficiarios.
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Der HC Thurgau ist ein Schweizer Eishockeyclub aus Weinfelden im Kanton Thurgau, der zurzeit in der zweitklassigen Swiss League spielt. Der Klub trägt seine Heimspiele in der Eishalle Güttingersreuti in Weinfelden aus.

Gründung
Der HC Thurgau entstand aus den Vereinen EHC Frauenfeld und EHC Weinfelden (übergab die NL Lizenz, seither SC Weinfelden). Die besten Spieler dieser sich beide im Kanton Thurgau befindlichen Eishockeyvereine sollten in einem einzigen Klub, dem HC Thurgau, spielen. Hintergrund war, den Eishockeyfans eine gute regionale Eishockeymannschaft bieten zu können, welche in der Nationalliga spielt. Der Verein wurde im Jahr 1989 gegründet. Im Dezember 1993 schloss sich der EHC Kreuzlingen (seit 2000 EHC Kreuzlingen-Konstanz) dem Konzept HC Thurgau an.

Geschichte
Der Verein startete in seiner ersten Spielzeit 1989/90 in der 1. Liga, der dritthöchsten Eishockeyliga der Schweiz. Zwei Jahre später erreichte der HCT mit einem 8:7 gegen den SC Langnau in der Ilfishalle den erstmaligen Amateurtitel und somit den Aufstieg in die NLB. Dort verblieb er meist in der vorderen Tabellenhälfte und nahm in den Jahren 1994 bis 1998 stets an den Playoffs teil. 1996/97 belegte der HCT in der Qualifikation sogar den ersten Platz, 2003/04 auf Rang zwei. Als schlechtestes Vereinsjahr gilt die Saison 2004/05, als der Klub in die Amateurliga abstieg, jedoch bereits in der nächsten Saison den Wiederaufstieg schaffte. Gegen den SC Weinfelden, EC Wil und den EHC Dübendorf errang man erneut den Titel 1.-Liga-Meister und stieg wieder in die zweithöchste Spielklasse auf.

Seit dem 14. Februar 2008 gehört der HC Thurgau einer Investorengruppe rund um den ZSC-Verwaltungsrat und Unternehmer Peter Spuhler. Am 26. Juni 2014 wurde der HC Thurgau in Hockey Thurgau umbenannt, zu diesem Anlass wurde auch ein neues Vereinslogo entworfen. Am 24. Juni 2017 wurde diese Änderung rückgängig gemacht. Der Verein heisst nun wieder HC Thurgau.

Die Saison 2015/16 beendete die Mannschaft auf dem achten Qualifikationsrang und schied im siebten Spiel des Playoff-Viertelfinals gegen die SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers aus. In der Saison 2016/17 schied der HCT wieder im Viertelfinal aus (0:4 gegen SC Langenthal). In der Saison 2017/18 belegten die Ostschweizer den sechsten Qualifikationsrang und schieden nach sechs Spielen gegen den EHC Olten im Viertelfinale aus.

Im März 2019 gelang dem HC Thurgau mit dem 2:1-Sieg im siebten Spiel im Playoff-Viertelfinale gegen den zweitplatzierten HC Ajoie die erstmalige Qualifikation für das Halbfinale seit 21 Jahren.

Stadion

Zwischen 1989 und 2000 trug der HC Thurgau seine Heimspiele in der Güttingersreuti in Weinfelden aus. 1997 wurde die Bodensee-Arena in Kreuzlingen nach umfangreichen Ausbaumassnahmen neu eröffnet, in die der HC Thurgau 2000 umzog. Die Bodensee-Arena hat eine Kapazität von 4000 Zuschauern. Am 1. November 2009 kehrte der HC Thurgau in die sanierte Eishalle Güttingersreuti in Weinfelden zurück. Die Güttingersreuti hat eine Kapazität von 3100 Zuschauern.

Bekannte ehemalige Spieler

Weblinks
 Offizielle Website des HC Thurgau
 Infos zum Klub (Klassierungen, Logo. Stadion etc.)
 Factsheet auf der Website der Swiss Ice Hockey Federation

Einzelnachweise

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Somalia guerrilla artists dare to paint reality
By Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times
Sept. 19, 2012 12 AM PT
MOGADISHU, Somalia — The guerrilla artists come out in the darkness of the Mogadishu night. Three of them are old hands with a brush, but they've never been out on such a crazy mission at a time when sensible people stay indoors.
They gather for work in a converted garage, with a wildly paved floor and clutter of paint pots dribbling gaudy colors. Muhiyidin Sharif Ibrahim, 62, uses an old car seat as a chair, reflectively sharpening a pencil with a razor, then honing it to a perfect point by scraping it on the stone floor. He delicately sketches out his next work on a scrap of cardboard with his long, thin fingers.
The artists paint by daylight, then load the canvases on a big truck and, with the help of students they've taken under their wing, plant them around the city.
No one here has seen anything like it. The political paintings that pop up every few days are like brave flags, cheeky and revolutionary.
They take potshots at the most dangerous people, like Somalia's blood-sodden clan warlords and its ever-present Islamic militants, who still maintain a shadowy presence here.
The men have lived their lives in a country with no tradition of artistic freedom or democracy. When a tiny window of freedom cracked open in recent months in Mogadishu, it seemed like a last chance to be who they really wanted to be.
Ibrahim, who once was among Somalia's most famous artists, claims to have painted the first official portrait of the country's first president. Adan Farah Affey, 50, started out as a young artist in the propaganda department of the ruling party but resigned because he wasn't allowed to depict the truth. As for Mohamed Ali Tohow, 57, his real passion was portraits, but he enjoyed his day job, painting advertising billboards, until the day the Islamists threatened to kill him.
The walls of their garage studio are decked out with giant canvases, ready to hang in the streets of the capital. One depicts a crowded city street with men on bicycles or pushing wheelbarrows, women in traditional Somali dress, buildings free of bullet holes and destruction, and a giant yellow sun like a beach ball. Its message is peace.
Another depicts a rural woman with a generous basket of fruit, a pretty red necklace and a wisp of hair straying idly from under her head scarf. There's an undercurrent of socialist realism in its idyllic vision of rural womanhood and agricultural bounty. But the woman's lush beauty would be enough to get an artist killed if it was displayed in an area controlled by the Shabab, the Al Qaeda-linked militia that until recently imposed a reign of terror on Mogadishu and still controls much of the country's south. The Shabab believes women must be fully covered in billowing garments.
As Mogadishu slowly staggered back onto its feet, a nongovernmental organization, the Center for Research and Dialogue, developed a plan to commission its artists to paint posters promoting peace, and provide support for their work.
Ahmed Adde, 45, was given the task of tracking down the well-known artists from the old days. Adde, an artist himself, didn't know whether they were alive, dead or had fled. When he got in touch with them, they tried to brush him off.
"The old man was afraid," Adde says, referring to Ibrahim. "Actually, we were all afraid. We were reluctant."
"I've seen their trouble, how they're harassing people and killing people," Ibrahim breaks in, referring to the Shabab, which still carries out regular suicide bombings and political assassinations in Mogadishu, even though it has fled the city.
Still, Ibrahim says he is optimistic. "I want to return to my career," he says, offering his shy, gap-toothed smile like a gift. "I want to show the people how bad the troubles were and how bad the wars were and how bad it is when everything's destroyed. That's the message we're going to send to people."
Ibrahim never finished high school, but was plucked from obscurity as a talented artist, given a post in the government's Information Ministry and promoted because of his abilities.
He was 19 when Maj. Gen. Mohamed Siad Barre, or Comrade Siad, as he was known, seized power. The dictator's cult of personality meant there was plenty of work for artists, who would paint him in Stalinist poses, looking serious and stately, or laughing, or holding children and looking paternal. But artistic freedom was a mirage.
"I painted Barre hundreds of times. There had to be a portrait of him in every office. People were constantly coming saying, 'I want a portrait of the president,'" Ibrahim says. "You had to be careful. You had to try to make him as handsome as possible. You had to paint him looking elegant. You could not show any signs of age.
"You'd attempt it many times. Before you showed people, you had to check it again and again."
After Barre was ousted in 1991, all semblance of governance disappeared, clan warlords held sway, and the only way to make a living was to paint shop-front signs and advertisements. A transition government controlled little territory. Then came the Shabab, which won control of most of the country in 2009 and banned the depiction of the living form as un-Islamic.
Ibrahim went into hiding, but in secret he kept painting his favorite subject, camels, which in Somali's oral poetic tradition have always represented nationhood: tough, independent and willful. He worked in a little room at home, hiding his art, which he covertly sent to friends overseas.
"I had to do it. I had a will and a passion to draw. It's something that comes from the heart," he says.
Affey practiced and practiced drawing as a boy. It was only when people began praising his work that he realized he was an artist. He got a job as a political cartoonist in the propaganda department of Barre's Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party, but didn't last long. When he tried to lampoon the problems of clanism and nepotism, he was ordered to stop. He resigned and tried farming for a while.
After the collapse of the state in 1991, he barely eked out a living drawing political cartoons for magazines, and says his marriage failed because there was never any money.
From then on, artists worked on a knife edge.
"We were free to do posters and draw cartoons, but you had to be very careful not to insult somebody," says his colleague, Tohow. "I had to consider what I was doing."
After years of war, famine and plunder by warlords, radical Islamists began to emerge around 2000, including groups that later morphed into the Shabab. In some cases, the Islamic leaders improved security. But after a while, their harsh punishments and rigid social control made them unpopular.
"When the Shabab came, I had to shut my door and work in secret because they were killing people," Affrey says. "I was so scared. At the time, staying alive was all that mattered. The Shabab was against artists and intellectuals."
Roadblocks around the city were manned by trigger-happy militias, mostly teenagers. Under the warlords and later the Shabab, youths were associated with sudden, unpredictable violence.
"If you saw a youth, you'd feel frightened," Affey says. "A young guy who you'd never believe could kill you, could just come and assassinate you."
In 1997 in the central town of Galkayo, an artist painting a billboard was dragged down and beheaded because his work gave offense to a religious sheik. The man had been Tohow's teacher.
In 2000, Tohow narrowly escaped the same fate. He and others had depicted a woman on a billboard clad in the traditional rural Somali style, her shoulders and neck showing. A group of religious men ordered him to take it down.
"They came to me and said, 'If we see this hanging again we'll arrest you,' so we decided to turn the billboard over. It scared me so much because I knew these people were against artists and poetry. It showed me how easily they could come and kill me."
When the Shabab abandoned Mogadishu a year ago, the artists cautiously emerged, looking for jobs painting advertising murals on small shops and businesses.
"I came out of hiding … but people didn't know me anymore," Ibrahim says. "They'd forgotten me."
Despite the risks they take with their guerrilla art, the three men have more freedom than they have ever known.
"We can paint. We can draw. If you go into the street you can see what we did," Tohow says. "Of course, something could easily happen to us. We heard some assassinations are taking place. But it's better than it was."
"It's like you've been dead and you're back to life again," Affey says.
The artists know they won't be around forever. So they are training a new generation, apprentices who also provide a lot of the muscle power to put up the canvases at night. The older men find themselves sharing paint pots with the kind of young men who once terrified them, like Suleyman Yusuf, 20, who never went to school, but is one of their best students.
Yusuf was paid $2 a day as a member of a militia in Mogadishu from 2009 to 2011 and manned a checkpoint.
"Everyone was afraid of people at the checkpoint because we had guns and we could shoot at them at any time. It made you feel powerful. At the time, I believed I was the most powerful man in the city. It felt good to have that kind of power."
Now that Mogadishu is more peaceful, Yusuf is hoping to work as a commercial artist after training with Ibrahim, Affey and Tohow.
"I feel great when I'm with them and they're showing me what to do. We learn how they mix paint and how human beings' faces are shaped. We're improving and later we will be able to do what they do."
Affey believes he can help change Yusuf, and others like him, by teaching him.
"For art, you have to focus. Art teaches you about life. You're drawing life, so you can't just go and kill someone. If you want to be an artist, you have to learn to be gentle and wise."
The teachers, Yusuf says, have taught him respect.
"If I didn't admire them, I wouldn't bother to turn up. These are the only guys I have ever really admired."
robyn.dixon@latimes.com
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2) If so did version 1.5 fix this so that if you manually put in your DNS servers and they will override that is sent by the ISP?
I can confirm that those command is not working on 1.5rc1, the name server address is still hijacked by the ISP's DHCP settings after apply those command and reboot.
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Posted on March 13, 2017 July 3, 2017 by Taylor Stoermer
Letting Go: Decommissioning with Dignity?
The threat facing the Queen Mary is a serious issue with which, ultimately, every museum or other site with major physical resources has to grapple. Maritime museums of all sorts — from the Queen Mary to Fall River's Battleship Cove or Mystic Seaport — are like zoos in that way: the first responsibility is to the care and preservation of the reason(s) they exist at all (check out the AASLH's guide to Interpreting Naval History at Museums and Historic Sites). That alone is a tremendously expensive effort, and while certain things can be deferred, they cannot be avoided and will only become more expensive to fix. As someone who once ran a site with a few dozen historic buildings, some dating to the 1600s, maintaining them (to the point of spending winter mornings shoveling snow off 18th-century roofs), let alone interpreting them, was a daunting task. How can you completely fulfill every site's implicit core mission — not just to protect, but to project — when you can't let anyone experience the space because it's dangerous to the structure and to the guests, and you simply don't have the money?
As funding sources decline, and schemes to find more become more wild and ineffectual in their desperation, when does the answer become "let it go"? More and more sites will face the question that the Queen Mary — a unique, immersive site that has a special place in my heart and where my Disney connection began — now must answer. Communities have done, and are doing to do, what they can, but the need is quickly outstripping their capacity. The differences among Long Beach to Fall River to smaller towns are in degree, not in kind. In the end, while we talk a great deal about succession plans in museum and public history leadership, and sustainability of programming and human capital, must we now include a new discussion about decommissioning with dignity, responsibly and thoughtfully turning experience into memory and history?
And, keep in mind, this has already begun. Does anyone remember Johnsonville, an Old Sturbridge-type (meaning totally fictional but with period buildings shipped in from other areas) Victorian "living history" village in Connecticut that closed more than 15 years ago? They have already been decommissioned, the site is abandoned, and its caretakers are selling historic resources to anyone with cash. Other sites are taking different tacks, but are no less transformational. Old Sturbridge itself, for a site that is losing $1 million a year per its last 990, is shifting its scarce resources to creating a charter school. Colonial Williamsburg, now hemorrhaging guests, has dropped all pretensions to the history education vision that created the place, and inspired Walt Disney himself, to embrace "theme-based interpretation" that promotes, as the Wall Street Journal just promoted, hotels, golf, fine dining, and craft beer (the new motto, according to the WSJ, should be "Give me luxury or give me death!"): Its idea of a Women's History Month program is a group of patriot men, talking about women, which basically happens every day ending in a "y". As for many of the rest, the unique stories they can tell are being buried underneath an increasingly anodyne and banal series of cookie-cutter programming. Bold, original programming, except at places like Plimoth Plantation, appears to have largely evaporated. Perhaps, as has been suggested elsewhere, it is simply that an era in the history of heritage tourism — that of the large-scale living history museum — is over, a relic of post-World War II prosperity, highways, and a love-affair with car trips. At least some places, such as Historic Deerfield, seem to be resolutely holding on to their integrity, keeping within their financial compass to focus intently on mission-related efforts, to their credit. But for many others, is there a pandemic of the same sort of "mission rot" that the Queen Mary more seriously and directly faces in its hull deterioration, but leads, nevertheless, to the same metaphorical end: a sinking ship that can never sail again?
In any case, it's a situation that's certainly calls for a new chapter for my upcoming book, and might require a serious re-read of The Anarchists' Guide.
Posted on March 1, 2017 March 1, 2017 by Taylor Stoermer
The Past is Never Dead, Only Deadly Boring: A View of the Field from the Newport 'Radicals'
Several weeks ago, a group of admittedly self-proclaimed radical public historians, led by NHS Executive Director Ruth Taylor, descended upon the Colony House in Newport to dispel a rumor that is growing like a pernicious weed through certain quarters of the field: History is dead and the heritage sites that depend on it are dying. It's a rationale being deployed by some of the largest and oldest living history sites in America to justify dramatic changes in their programming to chase revenue from other, hopefully younger, sources, such as the coveted, yet elusive, Millennials whom, the thinking goes, are searching high and low for the next unique background for a strikingly similar, and similarly anodyne, series of ghost tours, craft beer tastings, modern art installations, and weddings (lots and lots of weddings). Millennials want leisure experiences, they say, like spa treatments and wine pairings, not challenging engagement with the people, events, and ideas that continue to shape our collective lives. They want resolution, not conflict. History is dead, these wishful trailblazers declare, and the only way to save heritage spaces is to kill them and their archaic missions.
It's a topic that our panel of radicals — Old Salem's Frank Vagnone (co-author of The Anarchists' Guide to Historic House Museums), the American Association of State and Local History's Bob Beatty, the Rhode Island Historical Society's Morgan Grefe, History Communicator extraordinaire Kevin Levin, and myself, with a special appearance by Plimoth Plantation's Tom Begley — were eager to tackle, perhaps because, for all of our claims to radicalism, and record of causing trouble in the museum world in several time zones, we were uniform, even resolute, in response: to channel Faulkner's fictional attorney Gavin Stevens in Requiem for a Nun, "The past is never dead. It isn't even past." In other words, history — especially a public history that actively seeks to connect the past to the present in ways that shape the future, and a preservation ethos that rehabilitates stories as much as buildings — is alive and well, even amongst Millennials. As one of the panelists pointed out, just follow the money. Lin-Manuel Miranda and his Hamilton: The Musical wouldn't have reached their current astronomical heights of popularity if history is dead. "Hidden Figures" and "Hacksaw Ridge" wouldn't have been nominated for Best Picture Academy Awards, and grossed a combined $219 million at the box office, if history is dead.
More to the point is the evidence provided by the institutions that appear to be at greatest risk if history was headed to the morgue. Closer to home, the mansions managed by the Preservation Society of Newport County reported welcoming an astonishing one million guests last year. Plimoth Plantation — a prime candidate for extreme unction if there was one, with its dozens of costumed interpreters, a complex narrative that blends religion, Native Americans, and a core of Protestant extremists, and a 90-minute drive from the nearest metro area — is not only holding onto its historical audiences, it's growing new ones, while maintaining a respectable balance sheet for donors and trustees.
So what's the deal? Why are some sites losing guests and dollars, jettisoning boatloads of human capital in the process, while seemingly similarly situated ones are looking forward to a sustainable future? In the end, we concluded that the issue isn't about history being dead, it's about history being deadly boring. From Hamilton to Plimoth, success clearly appears to lie in a consistently strong yet diverse helping of mission-driven historical programming designed to educate and entertain, connecting audiences — even Millennials — in ways that are natural, that taste and feel real because they are. But that requires a level of deep immersion in a historical past that draws heavily on academic resources of all kinds in order to get the details right, even the ones guests don't see. The important thing is the scope and nature of a 360-degree guest experience, one that's not bland or artificial, and than can carry the serious ideas and conflicts that are going on in the heads of Americans and other visitors, regardless of marketing demographic, if for no other reason than because that is the only way through them. Immersive public history doesn't work unless the past we present gets at the big stuff. As my experience from Disney to Colonial Williamsburg consistently reminds me, engagement doesn't work unless it gets at the core of a human condition that wrestles with the challenges we continue to face, whether over race, religion, gender identity, or other distinctions that artificially divide history into one that's yours and one that's mine.
But it can't be fantasy. That line can't be crossed, even if, in the end, all we are really trying to do is tell a story and draw others into its pages. Do that and, as we radicals discussed during and beyond the panel, your site will not just lose money, it will lose much more — it will lose credibility, which, for a heritage site, is the ball game. Entertaining, provocative programming will convince your guests to come back to your site, but your reputation is what will get them there in the first place.
So Faulkner's over-quoted phrase can continue to have real meaning for us as public historians, who see the past as vibrant and alive, with an important role to play in our daily lives, as it swirls all around us. Because, in the final analysis of the Newport radicals, people don't hate history, they just hate history done badly by people who don't seem to care much about it.
Dr. Taylor Stoermer, Visiting Curator of Public History at the Newport Historical Society, Faculty Fellow and Adjunct Professor at Roger Williams University, and author of the forthcoming Public History: A Field Guide (Rowman and Littlefield).