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Warning after dog nearly dies swallowing a fish hook
"He got closer and we noticed a long orange wire sticking out of his mouth"
Tristan CorkSenior Reporter
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Dog owners across Bristol are being warned to look out for their pets near water after a greyhound called Sean had to undergo an emergency operation because he swallowed a discarded fish hook.
Angela Reed-Fox was walking Sean with her husband on an evening stroll down at Portishead Marina when she realised her normally lively and inquisitive pooch was not acting quite right.
The 40-year-old nurse said when Sean returned to them, they realised something was seriously wrong.
"As Sean returned to us, he was making a strange gulping noise," she said.
"He got closer and we noticed a long orange wire sticking out of his mouth. My husband jumped up to take a closer look, then we drove to the vets immediately," she added.
By the time they got to the vets, the orange wire coming out of his mouth had got shorter - which meant whatever was on the end of it had gone further down.
And their worst fears were confirmed when an X-ray revealed the thing he'd swallowed was a big crabbing hook.
Police issue eight tips to keep your dog safe after spate of thefts in South West
He was whisked into surgery to get it out of his stomach, and the operation was declared a 'tremendous success', and Sean was back home to recover the next day.
"I'm so relieved that everything aligned and it all went well,' said Angela, who added she was well aware of how much worse the situation could have been.
"The hook could have caused fatal internal bleeding. Not only that – had we not known what had happened at the time, the hook could have caused sepsis, which could have killed Sean," she added.
After the incident, the vets concerned, Vale Vets in Portishead, near Bristol, issued a warning on their Facebook page, urging dog owners to be mindful of litter when out walking with their pets.
Angela said Sean was subdued for the first few days but has now begun a gradual return to his usual self, and been enjoying rice and scrambled eggs as his tummy gets used to things that are not spiky and metal again.
"He's a very special dog who just trusts people," she said.
"Despite being nervous and in shock throughout the ordeal, he seemed to know that what the humans were doing, they were doing for his own good," she added.

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St. Thomas Student Organizations Registration-Sept. 15; Orientation-Sept. 16
Wednesday, Sept. 15, is the deadline for student organizations active during the 2004-2005 academic year to register with the UVI Student Activities Office on the St. Thomas campus. A registration form is available in the UVI Student Activities Handbook which is available at the St. Thomas campus Student Activities Office. A leadership orientation session for executive officers of student organizations is scheduled for noon to 2 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 16, in Chase Auditorium (Business Education Room B-110). Organizations are expected to submit tentative schedules of activities and meetings for the Fall 2004 semester as well as any budgetary requests to support these. For more information call 693-1111.
UVI Human Resources Announcement
The UVI Human Resources Office has issued the following announcement for employees on the St. Thomas and St. Croix campuses.
GERS Workshops: The Government Employees Retirement System (GERS) will host workshops on both UVI campuses next week for members who are considering retiring or who wish to learn more about their benefits.
St. Thomas: Thursday, Sept. 16 — 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; in Teacher Education Room 101
St. Croix: Friday, Sept. 17 — 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.; in Evans Center Room 713
Employees are asked to confirm attendance by sending e-mail to dsmith2@uvi.edu or calling extension 1426. Refreshments will be served.
UVI's Roy Watlington to Present VI-EPSCoR Science Seminar Sept. 17
UVI Professor Roy Watlington will present the next in the VI-EPSCoR Seminar Series of science lectures at the University of the Virgin Islands. Watlington's presentation will focus on Caribbean oceanography. It is scheduled from 1 to 2 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 17. The seminar is free and open to the public. It will originate in Room 101 of the Teacher Education Building on UVI's St. Thomas campus and be videoconferenced to Evans Center Room 401 on the St. Croix campus.
The series will continue each Friday through Nov. 19. The series is hosted by UVI's Center for Marine and Environmental Studies, the Division of Science and Mathematics and the VI-Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program. For more information, call 693-1380.
Highfield to Lecture on 'St. Croix's Place in the 18th Century World'
The Social Sciences Division of the University of the Virgin Islands and the St. Croix Landmarks Society will present a lecture by Dr. Arnold Highfield on the "World as Cosmos rather than Continent: St. Croix's Place in and Contribution to a Changing 18th Century World." The focus will be on the intellectual climate of St. Croix at the time of Alexander Hamilton, from the focus of missionaries, naturalists and travelers. This is a follow-up to the Alexander Hamilton Symposium held at Government House in July. Dr. Highfield was a full professor of linguistics and social sciences on the St. Croix campus of UVI and is internationally known for his research on Virgin Islands history. The presentation will be in the UVI St. Croix campus Cafetorium in the Student Center starting at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 21. The lecture is free and the public is invited. For further information, contact Dr. Aletha Baumann at 692-4117.
'180 Degree Theory' Author to Speak at UVI's Little Theater Sept. 24
Devin "Dutchie" Robinson, Sr., creator of the 180 Degree Theory, will make a presentation from 12:30 to 2 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 24, at the University of the Virgin Islands Little Theater in the CA Building on the St. Thomas campus. Robinson, who was born and raised on St. Thomas, is the author of "The 180 Day Theory . . . Change Through Empowerment." His theory is designed to help people who want to elevate their lives and reshape the way they live, think and approach situations. In addition to being an author, Robinson is also a columnist and entrepreneur. UVI students and the general public are invited to this free presentation. For more information call the St. Thomas campus Associate Chancellor's office at 693-1120.
UVI Fall Research Symposium Set Sept. 25 in Sports and Fitness Center
The fourth annual University of the Virgin Islands Fall Research Symposium will take place at the Sports and Fitness Center on the St. Thomas campus from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 25. Approximately 30 UVI science, mathematics, engineering and technology students will use posters to showcase research they completed during the past academic year or during summer research programs on St. Croix, St. Thomas and the U.S. mainland. The UVI community and the general public are invited. For information contact Dr. Camille McKayle at 693-1329.
Saturday Science Academies to Open Sept. 25; Application Deadline is Sept. 19
The University of the Virgin Islands will begin its fall semester Saturday Science Awareness Academies for junior and senior high school students from throughout the territory on Saturday, Sept. 25. Academies will be conducted on both the St. Thomas and St. Croix campuses. There are a total of 120 positions for students, half on St. Thomas and half on St. Croix. The academies, which are free, are designed for students with a serious interest in science or mathematics. Application forms have been distributed to all schools in the territory. The application deadline is Sept. 19. For more information contact Judy Roland at 693-1232 on St. Thomas or Jacqueline Kawloski at 692-4076 on St. Croix.
Little Theatre Sets Sept. 20-21 Auditions for Fall Production of 'The Mousetrap'
The University of the Virgin Islands' Little Theatre has announced plans to stage Agatha Christy's "The Mousetrap" in November. The Little Theatre, located in the second floor of the CA Building on the St. Thomas campus, has scheduled auditions for 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 20 and 21. Projected production dates for the popular "who-done-it" are Nov. 19, 20, 21 and 22. For more information contact Prof. Rosary Harper at 693-1354.
President Ragster Scheduled on 'Face to Face' Sept. 29
UVI President Dr. LaVerne E. Ragster is scheduled to be a guest on the television program "Face to Face" at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 29, on WTJX Channel 12.
Student Activities Fair-Voter's Registration Set Sept. 30 on St. Thomas
A student activities fair and voter registration event on the St. Thomas campus is scheduled in two sessions on Thursday, Sept. 30. Session one will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Session two is scheduled from 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. Both will be in the Sports and Fitness Center. All students, including part-time and graduate students who now pay Student Activities Fees, are encouraged to participate.
Participants Sought for Planning Committee of Caribbean Debating Competition
The Student Activities Office on the St. Thomas campus is seeking faculty, staff and students interested in serving on the planning committee for the 15th Caribbean Intercollegiate Debating Competition scheduled for the St. Thomas campus in March of 2005. Call 693-1111 for more information.
Guest Lecturers Sought by St. Thomas Campus Business Division
Members of the Virgin Islands business community are invited to submit requests to participate in the on-going Fall Guest Lecturer Series sponsored by the Business Division of the University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas campus. Guest speakers are being sought to lecture students in various business classes on a wide range of topics, including issues in personnel management, market research, Total Quality Management practices, investment strategies, and mergers and acquisitions.
The goals of the Guest Lecture Series include providing a forum through which members of the V.I. business community can play a developmental role with tomorrow's leaders and enhancing the student learning experience by bridging the gap between the real world and
the classroom. For a list of lecture topics or for more information contact Prof. Sharon Simmons at ssimmon@uvi.edu or call 693-1314.
Queen's Committee Seeks Performers for Miss UVI Competition
The University of the Virgin Islands Queen's Committee is seeking performers for the upcoming Miss UVI competition. Individuals or groups that can perform short skits, dancing, singing, poetry reading, stand-up comedy, stepping and instrumental performances are invited to audition. An open audition will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 19, in the Dining Pavilion on UVI's St. Thomas campus. Individuals or groups may register for the auditions by calling 693-1056 or 693-1553.
UVI-CELL Partners with GIA to Offer Accredited Jewelry Professional Course
UVI's Community Engagement and Lifelong Learning (CELL) Center has announced it will partner with the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) to offer the Accredited Jewelry Professional diploma program in St. Thomas on Oct. 25 through 29. This is a first for the Virgin Islands. UVI Cell Director Ilene Garner said the program is designed to "greatly benefit one of our major industry sectors." Participants will receive a free one-year membership in the GIA Alumni Association's newly formed Caribbean Islands Chapter. For more information about GIA, visit www.gia.edu. To signup for the course, call UVICELL at 693-1100, send e-mail to cell@uvi.edu, or visit http://cell.uvi.edu.
For more information, contact UVICELL at 693-1100 or cell@uvi.edu.
CELL Course Offerings on St. Thomas
The following courses will be offered on UVI's St. Thomas campus. For more information, contact UVICELL at 693-1100 or cell@uvi.edu.
Tour Guide Training Program
Young adults between the ages of 16-26 are encouraged to enroll in a free, six-week tour guide training program co-sponsored by the University of the Virgin Islands-Community Engagement and Lifelong Learning (UVICELL) Center and the Hassel Island Preservation Trust. Classes will be held 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. every Saturday beginning Sept. 18, at UVI's St. Thomas campus. The course provides training and work experience in interpreting the cultural and natural resources of Hassel Island, one of St. Thomas' hidden treasures. Classroom training will be provided by skilled lecturers in the fields of historic preservation, eco-tourism, interpretative skills and public speaking. The application deadline is Sept. 16. For information, call Wanda Mills at 998-3040.
QuickBooks (Basic)
Learn the basic features of this full-featured, small business accounting software. Find out how to manage accounts receivable and payable, set up income and expense reports, design invoices and statements, reconcile bank accounts and much more.
Dates: Sept. 22 to Oct. 30, 2004; Time: Wednesdays 6 to 9 p.m. and Saturdays 10 a.m. to noon; Fee: $350.
QuickBooks (Advanced)
Obtain the tools needed to effectively manage home or business finances. Learn to manage payroll features, job cost estimating and tracking, recording assets, creating reports and much more. Dates: Nov. 3 to Dec. 18, 2004; Time: Wednesdays 6 to 9 p.m. and Saturdays 10 a.m. to noon; Fee: $400*
* A $50 discount is available for individuals registering for both QuickBooks Basic and Advanced courses.
Human Resource Management Certification
Designed for human resource professional who want to obtain the nationally recognized and prestigious Professional in Human Resource (PHR) or Senior Professional in Human Resource (SPHR) certification from the national Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Further develop human resource knowledge while preparing for these exams utilizing the SHRM Learning System. Dates: Oct. 1 to Nov. 6, 2004; Time: Fridays 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. and Saturdays 1 to 4 pm; Fee: $995; Location: Teacher's Education Building Room 116.
UVI Sports Notes…
Coed Volleyball League Scheduled on St. Croix Campus
UVI students, staff and faculty are invited to participate in a coed volleyball league scheduled to begin the third week of September on the St. Croix campus. Games will be played on the campus' outdoor sports facilities two nights each week. The days and times are yet to be decided. Teams must include at least three men and three women. They are limited to 10 players. Interested individuals should contact Bruce Wray at 692-4139.
Coed Volleyball League Scheduled on St. Thomas Campus
UVI students, staff and faculty on the St. Thomas campus still have time to form volleyball teams and join in a coed volleyball league scheduled to begin on Thursday, Sept. 16. Games will be held in the Sports and Fitness Center between 6 and 8 p.m., with each team playing two or three times per week. Teams must include at least three men and three women. They are limited to 10 players. Interested individuals should contact Erik Heikkila at 693-1213.
UVI to Host ODI Tennis Championships on St. Croix; Student Participants Sought
UVI has announced it will host the ODI Tennis Championships on St. Croix on October 1 through 3. Men's and women's team championships as well as singles and doubles events are scheduled. Any interested full-time students who wish to tryout for UVI should contact Coach Bruce Wray on St. Croix at 693-4139 or Coach Erik Heikkilla at 693-1213 on St. Thomas.
UVI Seeking Cross Country Team Participants
UVI will participate in the ODI Cross Country Championships that will be held this fall in Puerto Rico. Events will include the men's 10K run and the women's 5K run. Any full-time students interested in participating should contact Coach Bruce Wray on St. Croix at 692-1439 or Coach Erik Heikkilla at 693-1213 on St. Thomas.
For more about the University of the Virgin Islands, visit the Web site: www.uvi.edu.
The Virgin Islands Now Under a Storm Warning
Ivan Sends 5 Extra Cruise Ships to St. Thomas


I don't know much about Ramona Gonzalez, the woman behind the sort of solo act/sort of band called Nite Jewel, and I kind of like it that way. The most appealing thing about her music is the mystery of it. Nite Jewel songs are kind of like looking into a foggy window: There's clearly something worth seeing but, as an outsider, you're never privy to the full picture, thanks to a seductively muffled sound which keeps the listener at a distance even as it reels you in with catchy grooves and gorgeous singing. Gonzalez is not coy or secretive in this interview — she's not too cool for school — but she doesn't give too much away, either. Perfect.
Where are you from? Introduce yourself to our readers.
I'm Nite Jewel. I was born in Oakland, CA.
You make your own beats mostly on keyboards, right?
My music making process has changed drastically over the past two years. For my first album I recorded everything on 8-track cassette and shared beat making duties with Cole M. Greif-Neill, though most everything was written and recorded on my own. On that album, I used old drum machines, samples, one microphone, a few old synths, and an SP404. It sounds pretty degraded because I also shared production duties with Cole. Now I have more equipment and am recording in a professional yet unconventional studio in Berkeley, CA on 2-inch tape. On the current recordings, Cole and I are writing and performing in tandem.
And you also do sound and visual type art? Talk about that a bit. Do you incorporate that into your live shows? I don't do visual art regularly but I have done 3 sound installations and 2 video installations since moving to Los Angeles. The most cohesive piece was called "The Question Concerning Technology" and involves an old typewriter and an 8-track recording.
What about 8-track recording do you think works with what you do?
I just like tape. I like the process. I really would like 5 reels of 2 inch. Right now I'm splitting one reel and I only get 12 tracks per song.
How did that "Weak For Me" 7" come about? Why a 45? Are you into vinyl?
PB Wolf told me he needed two songs from the album for his 7″ sets. I said he could have whatever he wanted and he chose those. I am into vinyl. I'm also into downloading stuff too though. You have so much at your fingertips. I'm not separatist. I like to DJ with mp3s and vinyl.
How was your recent tour of Europe? What was the reaction overall? How is it different from American reactions?
The tour in Europe was pretty nice. Great turnouts and support in the larger cities. Very sweet people everywhere we went. We haven't had a headlining slot on an American tour yet so it's hard to compare.
Talk about the role(s) your band members play.
Emily plays keys and sampler. Corey plays bass. They are my live support system. They are starting to contribute little by little to the recordings, which up until this point have been mainly Cole and I.
Much of your lyrics aren't discernable. What are your lyrics usually about? Do you care much about lyrics or is it more an addition to the soundscape?
I care a lot about language. My lyrics are about a lot of different things: personal experiences, stories about others, plays on words, philosophical dilemmas. Sooner or later you'll be able to hear them more clearly, but never entirely. I'm not into vocals sitting on top of a mix. At least not mine, maybe Patrice Rushen's.
How did you hook up with PB Wolf and Stones Throw?
Dam Funk introduced us after he heard "Good Evening". PB Wolf and I became fast friends.
What's your favorite track or tracks off that podcast you put together?
They're all amazing, but must say I've been waiting to put Ed N Sted and Jeff Phelps on a mix for the public to hear for a long time.
Who you currently listening to?
Past week I've been listening to Roy Montgomery, Stellar OM Source, Royal House, and Regional Garland.
Have you heard that Chandra record?
That Chandra record is so good. She sounds real mature for her age. I like all the new wave females. Recently got turned onto Anna Domino. That stuff speaks to me more because it's more elegant but still playful.
You releases have a real minimalist sound to the recording as well as the arrangements. Do you see yourself taking your music in a different, more layered direction?
I think that minimalism will become more of a choice in the future, the better I get at songwriting. I appreciate making a statement with a few elements, but I also like arrangements to be developed and not just a careless loop. I appreciate the insistent loop that created the paradigm shift for pop music (i.e. hip hop), but the current loop-dee-loop nature of indie rock is just lazy to me.
A lot of hip-hops heads are listening to your stuff and many are, in general, starting to dig for no-wave records. What do you think it is about this aesthetic that is gripping rap fans?
It's funny, I was just discussing this because of the minimal wave obsession going on right now among my record collector friends. I can't say for sure, but the music is beat driven, electronic and can be pretty funky at times. It has dark humor. It is often recorded with a DIY sensibility. That's my guess.
What are some recent tracks / records our readers should check out?
I really like the song "Fortune" by Little Dragon. Pearl Harbor is killing it with all their new recordings.
Talk a bit about that upcoming Nite Funk album? How did you link up with Dam Funk? How's the process for that album coming along?
Well, we just set a deadline over margaritas, but that's all I'll say for now!
She has her own style and is very funny (Check her video interviews.
Dope interview, and I look fowrrad to the live performance footage, T-Squre is a beast! I really gotta get me one of those J. Cole hoodies though.. yall can hook me up??


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Ashley Moody: OSP Secured Funds for Victims of a Florida Timeshare Scam
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody announced last week that the Office of Statewide Prosecution (OSP) is securing thousands of dollars in restitution for victims of a Florida timeshare scam.
Through action by the OSP, Brandon Walsh, owner of Premier Rental Solutions and Paramount Property Professionals, entered a guilty plea to charges related to a timeshare resale scam operating out of Orlando. At least 50 Floridians lost money to the deceptive actions of Walsh, PRS and PPP that targeted timeshare owners with the promise of the quick sale of property.
"Many people struggle to sell their timeshare contracts and it is reprehensible that someone would take advantage of their desire to sell in order to steal their hard-earned money—turning the possibility of light at the end of the tunnel into financial loss. I am proud of my Statewide Prosecutors for securing restitution for Florida victims of this fraud," Moody said on Thursday.
According to an investigation by the Orlando Police Department, from late 2015 through mid-2017, Walsh used PRS and PPP to mislead timeshare owners into believing that there was a strong market of potential buyers for timeshares, in an effort to coerce owners into signing contracts and paying a marketing fee.
Detective Hillary Gueldner and partner Detective Michael Stevens with the Orlando Police Department worked the case for a year.
"This company knowingly defrauded victims in Orlando and statewide, most of whom were elderly, using a scheme to sell or rent their timeshares," said Gueldner. "I'm happy that we were able to give some of the victims the satisfaction of getting their money back and knowing this individual will be spending some time in jail."
The investigation also revealed that Walsh made exaggerated claims about marketing efforts being made on behalf of the owners and distributed false guarantees of full refunds in the event a unit did not sell. Solicitors for PRS and PPP used non-approved scripts when communicating with the public and often utilized stalling techniques when victims sought refunds.
Walsh will pay $87,000 in restitution to Florida victims of the scam—an average of approximately $1,750 per victim. Walsh pled guilty to grand theft, a second-degree felony. Walsh will serve 11 months in the Orange County Jail, followed by four years of probation. Chief Assistant Statewide Prosecutor Robert Finkbeiner prosecuted the case.
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Evolution Health MD Ben McHarg at our recent Probiota Asia summit.
The company's Life-Space products saw over 78,000 units sold — more than three times the brand's record sales in 2016.
This marks a productive month for the firm, which also moved from seventh to fourth in The Australian Financial Review's Fastest 100 list, achieving the second highest revenue figure of $71.85 million among the top 10.
Evolution Health MD Ben McHarg was a keynote speaker at our recent Probiota Asia summit in Singapore, where he outlined how the company had achieved market leadership in Australian retail pharmacy and Chinese e-commerce channels.
He said there were two main concerns in the China market: whether the products and their benefits are real, and whether they have been successful in their market of origin.
"We also benefited from early entry to the market, but we'c had a long history of success in Australia, which really helped," he said.
He said today that the compnay had made two new appointments to build on its recent sales success.
Matt Holmes is now its global sales director, following his most recent stint as North American general manager for Swisse Wellness after six years with the company in marketing, sales and general management roles.
Meanwhile, Naomi Smith was appointed head of marketing. Her experience includes over seven years in the UK with international brand and advertising agencies, managing growth, marketing and brand strategies for global companies in electronics, cosmetics and beverages.
"Both new appointments provide combined experience in establishing all necessary operational requirements for identification and entry into new health supplement markets, with the associated strategic marketing and branding expertise," McHarg said.
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Michael Dreher, né à Ostfildern en 1974, est un réalisateur et scénariste allemand. Il exerce sa profession depuis 1996.

Biographie

Michael Dreher est né à Ostfildern en Bade-Wurtemberg en Allemagne.

En 1996, il commence à travailler en tant que directeur de production et ensuite, en 1997, il étudie la réalisation à l'université de film et de télévision de Munich. Il termine ses études en 2006, obtient un excellent diplôme et réalise un court-métrage Fair Trade qu'il produit lui-même avec Karim Debbagh. Le film est nominé au Student Academy Wards.

Filmographie partielle

Comme producteur
 2006 : Fair Trade de Michael Dreher
 en post-production : The Way of the Wind de Terrence Malick

Comme réalisateur
 2006 : Fair Trade de Michael Dreher
 2009 :  La Double Vie de Daniel Shore de Michael Dreher

Comme scénariste
 2006 : Fair Trade de Michael Dreher
 2009 :  La Double Vie de Daniel Shore de Michael Dreher

Récompenses et distinctions
 Fair Trade (2006)
 AFI Audience Award pour Meilleur film (2006)
 German Short Film Award - Short Film Award dans Gold (2006)
 Shnit international shortfilmfestival pour Jury Award pour Meilleur LONG JOHN (2007)
 Aspen Shorts Fest - Jury Award pour Meilleur drame (2007)
 Student Academy Awards - nomination pour Meilleur film étranger (2007)

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Crédit d'auteurs

Naissance à Ostfildern
Producteur allemand de cinéma
Réalisateur allemand de cinéma
Scénariste allemand de cinéma
Naissance en 1974

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» Events » Freilich Lecture in bigotry and tolerance: Sharon Nepstad on 'Beyond Enmity: Finding Hope in a Time of High Conflict'
Freilich Lecture in bigotry and tolerance: Sharon Nepstad on 'Beyond Enmity: Finding Hope in a Time of High Conflict'
Presented by ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences
The Freilich Project for the Study of bigotry is very pleased to invite you to the Freilich Lecture in bigotry and tolerance for 2021. Our esteemed lecturer this year is Professor Sharon Nepstad (University of New Mexico, USA).
We are living in a moment of high conflict and toxic polarization, with tensions exploding over immigration, the global economy, fundamentalist religion and politics, Covid, racial injustice, and other issues. While conflict is an inevitable part of social life, hatred and enmity are not. In this presentation, Dr Nepstad describes the factors that can cause conflicts to become toxic and destructive. She also discusses how we can find hope in such conditions. Through a comparative analysis of notable peacebuilders - including Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thich Nhat Hanh, Desmond Tutu and others - she highlights the beliefs and practices that have enabled these individuals to respond to conflict in a way that was transformative and humanizing. Reflecting on these peacebuilders' views of truth, religion and ideology, and the nature of good and evil, Nepstad shows how this enabled them to break the cycle of historical hatred and chart a different path that moves beyond enmity.
Sharon Erickson Nepstad is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico, USA. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University's Center for the Study of Religion and at Notre Dame University's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. She is the author and co-author of six books and dozens of articles that focus on social movements, nonviolence and civil resistance, peace studies, and the sociology of religion. She is the 2021 recipient of the Robin M. Williams Jr. Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association's section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict.
This lecture is free and open to the public. It it also a keynote address for the upcoming Australian Association for the Study of Religion (AASR) Conference.
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Gaspard Gourgaud
French historian
Gaspard Gourgaud, (born Nov. 4, 1783, Versailles, Fr.—died July 25, 1852, Paris), French soldier and historian who accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte into exile at St. Helena and wrote important historical and biographical works about Napoleon.
Gourgaud rose through the ranks of the French imperial army, was wounded a number of times, and apparently saved Napoleon from a pistol wound at the Battle of Brienne (January 1814). After a brief flirtation with royalist forces following Napoleon's abdication in 1814, he rejoined the emperor during his "Hundred Days" and then voluntarily accompanied him into exile at St. Helena. Gourgaud's two-volume Sainte-Hélène; Journal inédit de 1815 à 1818 (1899; The St. Helena Journal of General Baron Gourgaud) remains one of the basic accounts of Napoleon's last years.
Gourgaud returned to France in 1821, reentered the army, and continued to rise in rank. He wrote a number of valuable historical works, including Campagne de dix-huit cent quinze (1818; "The Campaign of 1815"), Napoléon et la grande armée en Russie (1824; Napoleon and the Grand Army in Russia), and Réfutation de la vie de Napoléon par Sir Walter Scott (1827; "Refutation of Sir Walter Scott's Life of Napoleon"). In 1849 Gourgaud, by then a baron and a peer of France, was elected to the Legislative Assembly, where he became an influential supporter of Louis-Napoléon (later Napoleon III).
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Undergraduate students from Carleton's Sprott School of Business, School of Industrial Design, and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering worked together this past term on an exciting course project to develop sustainable water harvesting technologies in Tanzania.
Avery Price, a fourth year Bachelor of Commerce student with a concentration in Marketing, saw the course BUSI 3117: Developing Creative Thinking promoted in Sprott's student e-newsletter and applied for the opportunity to travel abroad with a group of students working for a purpose.
In Tanzania, students made the trek to collect water for the village, as done by the Maasai women and children.
The students were tasked to develop water harvesting solutions using locally-available materials that also would create a source of income and support the local economy. While engineering and industrial design students focused on the technology, business students focused their efforts on developing a business model and calculating the social return on investment.
In January, the students travelled to Tanzania where they spent 10 days meeting with residents of several villages in the Longido District, testing and proposing solutions. They worked in collaboration with Project Tembo, a non-profit organization that provides educational, micro-finance and micro-business opportunities in Tanzania.
For the Maasai people living in the Longido District, access to water is a critical issue due to an extreme climate and limited means to collect and store water. Located in northern Tanzania to the west of Mt. Kilimanjaro, the region experiences long periods of severe drought with alternating seasons of heavy rain and flooding.
The villages do not have mechanisms in place to capture and store the excess rainwater from the wet season for use in the dry season, resulting in chronic water shortages, an unstable food supply, and a number of health risks. The village women and children, who are responsible for collecting water for the village, often walk over a kilometer to access water from stagnant pools.
The challenge was to find solutions that the local people could adopt and sustain on their own. One village the group visited had been gifted a well. Eighteen months after it was installed, the pump broke and there were no means to fix it.
When testing their prototypes in the real environment, many of the students found their initial designs were not suitable for Longido's climate and economy.
Cultural perspectives also presented challenges in finding viable solutions.
During their time in Tanzania, a lot of the projects changed significantly. The students spent the rest of the Winter term developing their designs, prototypes and business models.
While in Tanzania, the students had the opportunity to test out their initial designs for a water harvesting solution.
In June, the student teams of a few selected projects will return to Tanzania to build and implement the water harvesting solutions. A crowd-funding campaign has launched to help offset travel costs, purchase local materials, as well as cover costs for translators and meetings with villagers. To support these students and help make a difference in Tanzania, visit futurefunder.carleton.ca.


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115 lb female "Fire Fighter"
There was a reddit thread in /r/fitness in which a 115 lb woman somehow qualified to undergo fire fighter training. Here is her original post(archive):
Hey Reddit!
So I accomplished a huge dream and kicked ass at my PAT today for fire school. I'm pretty short at 5'2 and 115lbs. I was the third person to finish out of a group of mostly guys on a 2 mile walk with an SCBA on in under 30 minutes which was brutal. As well as an obstacle course per se right after (climbing 5 story w high pack, raising 2.5 hose up, keiser sled, charged hose drag, dummy drag) that I completed in under four minutes with a 7 min time limit.
I am just wondering what exactly can I do to improve on my endurance and still be able to build strength? Should I run for a certain time and do weights after? Or maybe just do weights one day and run the next? I'd like to put on some muscle but not sure if cardio will make that difficult..
I was doing crossfit for a couple months before training with a fire dept who helped set up a course for me such as dummy drags and tire drags with a hose.
Fire school doesn't start for another month so I just want to prepare while at home over xmas and can't go to a crossfit gym or train with the fire dept where I'm at.
Thank you for any advice!!
EDIT: [this was added sometime after I interacted with the thread]
Thank you to those who actually gave sound advice!! There are some great replies on here I'll definitely be trying out workouts suggested to help prepare myself even more!
I blew by men over twice my size who struggled immensely by not being prepared. It's about heart and who's willing to do the work to get themselves to that level.
I, of course, responded to this insane nonsense.
You are too small to carry someone out of a burning building. Your presence in a job you aren't suited for risks the lives of people in very dangerous situations. The other fire fighters will not be able to depend on you to carry 100s of pounds with either the strength or endurance necessary, so it also puts their lives in danger.
Get out before someone dies because you aren't up to the physical demands that are required. It isn't your fault you aren't suitable to be a fire fighter, you weren't built for it. But it will be your fault for knowingly endangering your community and fellow fire fighters because of whatever stupid "girl power" propaganda you have been fed.
Many commenters responded to this common sense to inform me that I was an "asshole" and an "idiot" for pointing out the realities of human nature. For example:
It's assholes like you that beat down the dreams of women willing to try that piss me off the most. Just because there are physical and mental differences between men and women doesn't mean we don't have a part to play. The ones willing to put up with your sort of shit and try are way more motivated than some guy who's had this whole process made a lot easier by societal expectations.
Industries need to change and that includes professions like firefighting. It may be that she couldn't ever carry your conceited ego down flights of stairs, but being small and feisty is certainly a trait that is worth a hell of a lot! Especially if she's brace enough to enter buildings most of us would run from.
Stop letting your 'facts' about the differences between men and women blind you to the fact that we are tough, we care more, and we fight the status quo.
The only part you play is slowing down the men doing the actual work and making them work harder than they otherwise would have to. They have to pick up the slack for everything you can't do because they are basically down a man. "Small and feisty" translates to tiny, shrill and obnoxious bitch. I am not sure in what circumstances or by whom such traits are valued, but it isn't in fire fighting. And not in wives for that matter. Lastly, I am advised to stop letting facts get in the way of the righteous fight for social justice because tiny women "care more". Care more about larping as men than the potential victims of house fires is what I guess she meant. When past elites came up with the idea of negative eugenics, it is people like this they had in mind.
This comment thread generated quite a large amount of controversy as hyper-triggered SJWs fought tooth and nail with semi-motivated realists. I had a couple more comments, and there were a large number of other comments by other users both for and against my hate-fact mean-truth. Probably a 35/65 percent split (sigh, but it is better than it used to be in my experience). Unfortunately, thought-crime is illegal in weimerica and all of these comments were nuked, I was banned from /r/fitness (lol), and the entire comment thread was locked. There is no way for me to directly link to these comments since they have been removed, but if you go to the original thread and follow the instructions at "ceddit" you can restore them for your viewing pleasure. You will have to scan for them though.
One enterprising user posted the following video, which demonstrates male vs. female ability in situations mimicking that of a fire fighter on the job using an actual female "fire fighter" alongside amateur males (this was also removed):
I was banned so quickly I didn't have a chance to cite additional research. I fully intended to once I triggered enough people. In my book, Smart and Sexy: The Evolutionary Origins and Biological Underpinnings of Cognitive Differences Between the Sexes I actually devoted a chapter to physical differences because those too are actively denied in our culture with great negative consequences. And this is despite how much more obvious these differences are compared to the admittedly much more subtle mental differences. Our culture refuses to believe our lying eyes. I also didn't even get into the financial waste of spending millions of dollars installing female bathrooms into fire stations in a major city such as Los Angeles. There were only 27 Female "fire fighters" in LA at the time this money was spent. Anyway, here are some excerpts from "Smart and Sexy" on female strength, endurance, and proneness to injury (all studies used are listed at the end of this post):
Differences in physical strength, endurance, and athletic proficiency are an order of magnitude more striking [than mental differences]. The average woman has only 52% of the upper body strength and only 66% of the lower body strength of the average man. Similar numbers are found when comparing muscular endurance. Another way to consider this difference is to look at the overlap in strength distributions between genders. When such a comparison is made, it turns out that only the strongest 2.5-5% of the female distribution overlaps with the male mean strength. Mirroring this, only the weakest 2.5-5% of male distribution overlaps with the mean female strength. One study which measured hand grip strength found that 90% of females had less hand grip strength than 95% of male group. The strongest control group female was surpassed by 2/3rds of the male control group. In the same study, female athletes who specially trained for sports they played were also considered. Even these athletically elite females only managed to reach the 25th percentile of untrained males on average. Seemingly though, cognitive dissonance knows no bounds because there are feminists who would deny this reality in the face of unambiguous and overwhelming evidence; not to mention plain common sense.
Percentage of Males and Female with a Given Handgrip Strength or More
The graph above compares maximum male and female grip strengths. At any given strength level the percentage of males or females who were able, when exerting maximally, to reach at least that minimum level of force or greater is shown. For example, all volunteers could exert more than 150 Newtons worth of force so 100% of males and females could exert that level of force or more. As the minimum required force increases, progressively fewer people have the strength to exert that force. Dotted lines are used to compare the strongest 5% of females (shaded area) to the male curve. It can be seen from this comparison that just over 90% of males are stronger than 95% of females. In other words, the strength differences between males and females are so large that their distributions barely overlap even at the tales. Neither males nor females in this group engaged in special athletic training.
Comparison of the Hand Grip Strength Distribution between Typical Males, Typical Females, and Elite Females
Above is a graph comparing the distribution of hand grip strength between typical males, typical females, and highly athletic females (i.e., elite females). Each distribution is divided into quartiles and each quartile is bounded by a horizontal black line. The grey area denotes 50% of the overall population (25th percentile to the 75th percentile). As can be seen from the graph, the strongest typical female is weaker than the male mean. Among the athletically trained female population, only the far tale of the distribution overlaps with the male mean. This indicates that even with training few women are able to attain a strength comparable with the untrained male population. This comparison does not include an athletically trained male population, but it can be expected that there would be little to no overlap with the female cohort if such a population was included. The shape of the curves were added as a qualitative representation of the relative population density at a given maximum strength where greater width indicates more of the population has that strength.
Data from Leyk, D., Gorges, W., Ridder, D., Wunderlich, M., Ruther, T., Sievert, A., Essfeld, D. (2007) Hand-grip strength of young men, women and highly trained female athletes. Eur J Appl Physiol (2007) 99:415–421
… [lack of physical aptitude in military recruitment, non-italics are a direct quote from a study listed at the end of this post]
At the time of enlistment, a seventeen-year-old female is expected to do thirteen push-ups, compared to thirty-five for males, while for forty-one-year-olds, the numbers are six and twenty-four, respectively. A seventeen year-old girl is expected to run two miles in nineteen minutes, forty-two seconds or less, which is twelve seconds more than a forty-one year old man gets. A forty-one-year-old woman has to "run" two miles in twenty-four minutes and six seconds, almost five minutes more than a man receives.
More than 50% of female trainees in the marines are unable to do even three pull-ups. Instead they are required to do a "flexed arm hang" for a minimum 15 seconds; a much less stringent requirement. Over all age ranges, women can only do about one third the number of pushups compared to men; 30 vs. 10. Men average 2-4 fewer minutes per mile on long distance running tasks (7 vs. 10 minutes for a 1 mile run and 16 vs. 20 on a 2 mile run). Women can only do 40 sit ups on average compared to the male mean of 60. Female recruits also tend to be less physically fit on average (i.e., they are fatter). One of the most remarkable reductions in standards is the lowered minimum throwing radius expected of women throwing grenades. Women are only expected to be able to throw a grenade 25 meters compared to 35 meters expected of males and many can't even throw it that far. What happens if a female combat troop muffs her throw and gets everyone around her killed? That incurring this level of increased danger to troops is accepted is incomprehensible, and yet that is how things are actually done today.
…[female proneness to injury in the military]
Beyond simply having less physical strength, the female body also appears much less suited to strenuous physical exertion. Multiple studies have all found similar results: Women are consistently and significantly more likely to be injured. During basic training, it can be expected that 50% of female recruits will develop some sort of injury compared to 27% of men (i.e., they are 1.8 times more likely to be injured). Women are 2.5 times more likely to develop injuries that lead to significant time loss from training. More than 50% of women are prevented from ever completing their training because of some sort of injury. This pattern has been stable since the 1970s.
Women are several orders of magnitude more likely to incur some specific injuries. For example, 1 in 367 female military personnel can be expected to suffer a pelvic stress fracture compared to only 1 in 40,000 men. This is unsurprising given that the female pelvis has evolved to accommodate childbirth, not heavy load bearing or other stresses. More generally, stress fractures occur about 10 times as often in women than men in the military. Depending on the study, ACL ruptures are between 2.4 and 9.7 more likely in women than in men. Overuse injuries, defined as an injury that results from extended, repetitive use of a specific body part, occur in 68% of women compared to 48% of men. The cumulative result of all of these injuries is that women must go to the doctor and seek medical care at 9.2 times the rate of men.
All these extra injuries constitute a huge additional immediate cost to military operations and can be expected to increase with additional female involvement in the military. However, the extra costs do not end in immediate medical costs. Injuries which cause sufficient damage result in physical disability discharges. Such discharges entitle the person who receives it to financial benefits for the rest of their lives. Consistent with their higher rate of injuries generally, women are 64% more likely to receive a physical disability discharge. And this was without them ever being intentionally exposed to combat situations at the time these studies were done. One year saw female disability discharge be as high as 140 per 10,000 female military personnel. In the same year, male disability discharge was only 80 per 10,000 male military personnel, despite the fact that they are more commonly exposed to dangerous and/or physically demanding tasks. Disability costs take up an absolutely staggering amount of the military budget. In 2001, 21 billion dollars was paid out in compensation to disabled military service personnel when all services are considered. 25% of this disability compensation budget is made as direct cash payments and this was the level of payments before the recent Iraq and Afghanistan wars even took place.
As a side note, I also summarized an anecdote recounted in Jared Taylor's book "Face to Face with Race " [highly recommended] which digressed long enough to talk about a specific female fire fighter:
Strength isn't the only problem, either. Gender differences in bravery and risk-taking also matter. Jared Taylor, in his book Face to Face with Race, digresses from the general focus of the book to discuss the story of a female fire lieutenant who was hired and then promoted, in complete disregard for any sensible, merit-based physical standards. The hiring and promotion of this woman, like most female fire fighters, was done by the fire department to meet politically inspired quotas. When her crew arrived to a fire, instead of doing the standard procedure of dragging the heavy hose into the house, breaking down the door to the room on fire, and putting it out, she became afraid and reminded the crew that she was in command and ordered them not to enter. They were to try to put it out from the outside. Of course this didn't work and it wasn't until a male chief from a different crew showed up, relieved the cowardly woman of command, and ordered the firefighters to do the correct thing that the fire was put out. Later, the female fire fighter had a nervous break down as a result of her now widely known incompetence among the other fire fighters. She was reported to have started hitting herself repeatedly as part of this. She also became enraged at the fire department and sued them for "discrimination."
Its funny how anyone who spends genuine effort and time trying to learn about the realities of a situation like female fire fighters or military personnel, they automatically become an asshole, an idiot, and a moron. And then they get banned from polite society (and reddit sub-forums).
Bonus, the dutch version of survivor where the give men and women different islands with completely expected results:
Studies used in the sections quoted from the book:
Miller, A. E., MacDougall, J. D., Tarnopolsky, M. A., Sale, D. G. (1993) Gender differences in strength and muscle fiber characteristics. Eur J Appl Physiol Occup Physiol. 1993;66(3):254-62.
Meyer, L. G., Pokorski, T. L., Ortel, B. E., Saxton, J. L., Collyer, P. D. Muscular Strength and Anthropometric Characteristics of Male and Female Naval Aviation Candidates. Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory.
Leyk, D., Gorges, W., Ridder, D., Wunderlich, M., Ruther, T., Sievert, A., Essfeld, D. (2007) Hand-grip strength of young men, women and highly trained female athletes. Eur J Appl Physiol (2007) 99:415–421
Browne, K. (2007) Co-ed Combat: The New Evidence That Women Shouldn't Fight the Nation's Wars. Sentinel. ASIN: B000W94H5I
(2014) Marines delay female fitness plan after half fail pull-up test. Associated press.
Jones, B., Bovee, M., Knapik, J. (1992) Associations among body composition, physical fitness, and injury in men and women army trainees. National Academies Press. Body Composition and Physical Performance: Applications For the Military Services.
Frum, D. (2013) The Truth About Women in Combat. Daily Beast. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/01/the-truth-about-women-in-combat.html
Jordan, B. (2014) Data Predict Spike in Female Troop Injuries. Military.com. http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/01/13/data-predicts-spike-in-female-troop-injuries.html
Springer, B.A., Ross, A. (2011) Musculoskeletal injuries in military women. Borden Institute.
Bell, N.S., Mangione, T. W., Hemenway, D., Amoroso, P. J., Jones, B. H. (2000) High injury rates among female army trainees: a function of gender? Am J Prev Med. 2000 Apr;18(3 Suppl):141-6.
Department of the Army (2011) Prevention and Control of Musculoskeletal Injuries associated with Physical Training. Department of the Army.
Women's Olympic Soccer Team loses 0-7 playing teenage boys 14 years old (or younger)
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One thing you are missing is that the SJW/lefist order allows for an infinite headcount because everyone deserves a job: a fire department can easily become 50% female by simply doubling the number of positions, with 99% of the productive labor performed by men. This is the unspoken ideal, though of course females are likely to get in the way as well as cause all sorts of personnel and administrative problems, but ultimately there is no price too high to pay for social justice
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Zambia's new president Edgar Lungu has a minority mandate. Less than half of the registered voters made their mark, and he faces new polls in 2016.
Zambia's sixth president Edgar Lungu rose from obscurity to Justice and Home Affairs Minister then to President in the space of just over three months, winning by one of the narrowest margin ever in Zambian politics.
At his inauguration, Lungu the candidate of the incumbent Patriotic Front (PF) party, he pledged to continue the legacy and vision of his late mentor, President Michael Sata.
But Lungu has a minority mandate. Less than half of the 5 million registered voters turned out on the day of the polls. Also, the time available to him to fulfil his rather ambitious and numerous promises is limited. The constitution allows him to only complete the remaining 18 months of the late Sata's term of office. He has to face fresh elections by the end of 2016.
Lungu, like third president Levy Mwanawasa is a lawyer. Mwanawasa is famous for having clamped down on corruption including arraigning his predecessor late Frederick Chiluba before a London court for alleged corrupt practices. Mwanawasa is also fondly remembered as a defender of the judiciary.
Lungu has not promised to follow Mwanawasa's path. Instead, he glossed over corruption at his many rallies. All he said was that he was a servant of the people and that politicians were driven by personal motives.
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Another issue that Lungu will have to deal with is the rising crescendo among civil society groups for a new and more democratic national constitution. During the campaign though, Lungu said he would not make that a priority of his presidency in the midst of high poverty levels, poor communication and road infrastructure, and low educational standards.
He was one of only two candidates, out of the eleven (11), who refused to commit in writing to the Grand Coalition for a People Driven Constitution by the end of 2016.
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He also promised to protect media freedom and to continue outlawing homosexuality.
Lungu has no conceivable competencies in economics or business management. This has raised concerns about his abilities to ably turn the Zambians economy around. Zambia is listed among the 48 poorest countries in the world in spite of its rich mineral and other natural resources. Its foreign debt burden is reputed to have reached billion from about .5 billion three years ago.
However, Lungu's lack of economics' knowledge or expertise has not stopped him from promising tough action on mining taxes. A few months ago, Zambia reformed the mining tax regime, forcing the mining companies to calculate tax based on production rather than sales. One large mining firm has declared a dispute against the government.
"In case some people do not understand this, they should know so," he said as he departing from the prepared speech.
Lungu also wore the hat of populism made famous by his mentor, Sata. He claimed he would not drop criminal charges against former republican president Rupiah Banda. But then, he also profusely lauded Banda as having "delivered' him the presidency when Banda campaigned for him instead of Banda's party the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) candidate Nevers Mumba.
Critics however suggest that Lungu entered into a secret deal with Banda. In exchange for Banda's support, Lungu is expected to drop criminal charges against Banda, restore Banda's immunity from prosecution and reinstate Banda's pension and other benefits which were blocked when Banda challenged Lungu in the early days of the campaign.
Zambia's former presidents are paid 80 percent of the reigning president's salary for the rest of their lives. They are also provided with security, office space and equipment, cars, air tickets for holidays anywhere in the world and mansions built in variety of places, anywhere in Zambia. All these are at the state's expense.
Lungu like his competitors promised to end tribalism and nepotism in government. He is expected to fire Sata's relatives who have bloated Zambia's diplomatic missions abroad.
He has also claimed that he will act against tax dodgers and those who have failed to pay debts owed to government-aligned banks. This is in direct reference to the privately owned Post Newspapers which has allegedly failed to pay an USD13m debt owed to the Development Bank of Zambia (DBZ). The South African development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) owns shares in the DBZ.
Most importantly, Lungu has promised to honour all his campaign promises.
But that might be difficult. Delivering where his predecessors have failed would need creating new and difference competencies. There is not much room for manoeuvre. He has inherited members of parliament, ministers, senior civil servants and party officials chosen by his predecessor and whose loyalties lie elsewhere.
He announced a cabinet reshuffle on his first day in office. However, critics say moving around the same faces will not get the job done.
Having had two sick presidents die in office within a space of eight years, Zambians pay special attention to Lungu's health. During the campaigns there were loud calls for medical examinations for all candidates. This is to stem the high public costs for presidential health care and resultant state funerals.
In 2012, Lungu collapsed at State House during a swearing in ceremony. Speculation has remained since that he is diabetic and has kidney problems. He has publicly denied this.
A Zambian journalist rejoined: "I hope we have not put a Boris Yeltsin into State House." This was in reference to the Russian leader who was at the helm of the superpower from 1991 and 1999. Yeltsin was known to have a drinking problem.
Lungu does not have any conceivable oratory or people skills. He is accused of having no vision of his own for Zambia. These accusations were compounded when Lungu boycotted two consecutive television presidential candidates' debates. His handlers claimed he was "too busy campaigning" on both occasions. Critics argue that that he cannot articulate issues unaided.
However at his inauguration, Lungu promised to improve his engagement with the public. As president, he would be the "man of the people'', regularly holding " Katwambas," or weekly meetings, with the media and government officials.
The media in particular are quite expectant of these regular meetings as Sata never held any press conference or meeting in three years, up to his death.
Feminist and political activist Sara Longwe doubts whether Lungu could minimally deliver on his promises. She says however, that he would be forgiven somewhat if he can deliver on just the constitution.


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The spatial and temporal behaviours of farm variability are key to defining amendment strategies that could be defined for farm use within a farm management plan. Precision agriculture (PA) has also been enabled by technologies like crop yield monitors mounted on GPS equipped machinery that assists in productivity improvement (see fact sheet 28).
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I knelt right up against the rail of the transept loft, on level with the baldacchino, my back heated by the sun streaming through the rose window with the Sacred Heart. The people pressing close on either side of me stood as the nuns, walking two by two, entered the nave below. I stayed on my knees; at that angle, I could better see the door from which they came. The nuns took their places in their stalls, somehow juxtaposing the precision of soldiers manning the turrets of a fortress and the grace of birds fluttering into a dovecote. They waited in breathless silence with dancing eyes and little flickering smiles.
Then the organist struck up a mellow processional. I craned my neck a little more towards the door, my heart pounding, my hands gripping the rail before me. After a minute or two, my ears detected, singing high above the organ's warm timbre, the cool, silvery sound of satin gliding over hardwood. First, I saw two white slippers and the white hem of a gown, then hands holding a lighted candle adorned with wild flowers and ribbons, and then the shoulders, face, and frothy white veil of the first bride. There were four of them to be invested with the habit, and my little sister came third.
I'll never forget my first glimpse of her. To this day, I have not seen a more beautiful bride. Her gown was simple enough, but its soft ivory tulle suited her. The lace veil affixed just above the bun on the back of her head flowed down over her shoulders and framed her steady little face. Resting on her forehead and encircling her hair was a delicate crown of Baby's Breath.
It was that crown that really undid me—at once a tender surprise and an utterly perfect expression of her creativity, the simplicity born of her youth, and that candid playfulness of hers that was itself profound. Materially, the crown was all loveliness, but it was this expression of the intangible, of the very heart of her who wore it, and the splendid fittingness of the beloved baby of the family wearing Baby's Breath that made me gasp and press my hands to my mouth like a silly girl on a reality television show. How well she wore her finery! Neither vanity nor shyness tainted her gracious ease. She was regal, but indifferent, like Murillo's young Virgin Mary who stands studiously by St. Anne's knee in yard upon yard of lustrous satin as hovering angels hold a rose crown above her head.
My sister, Julia, was young when she entered the monastery, just recently turned seventeen. She loved to read novels, had tried to write one of her own, sang with real talent, became a decent cook, and even did a little hunting. We were the "go-getter" type of homeschoolers. She worked her summer jobs with alacrity, pocketed the expected A+ grade in Advanced Placement Algebra, and achieved a very respectable score on her ACT. Yet, it struck me that it was none of those accomplishments that she drew from on that day of days, but rather, only the old childhood proficiency at playing dress-up. And even that proficiency, she told me later, had not gone without aid. She had cajoled an older sister who worked in the sewing room into helping her sew the flower sprigs together, just as she used to cajole me into helping her with her dress-up play finery of old.
I wanted to laugh and cry with delight at God's ways. It was His little joke on us, and she, the baby, was party to it. It was as if she and her Bridegroom had conspired together like children seeking to surprise the grownups. What a redemption of those purposeless play crowns and headdresses we used to make for ourselves down in our unfinished basement when we might have been upstairs studying or out and about racking up impressive extracurricular feats for our résumés! What vindication for those hours we seemed to have wasted!
Indeed, the more I fall in love with tradition, the more I notice the funny ways the "purposeless" and the "wasteful" have of showing up in the most solemn and climactic moments. Harkening back to childhood and beckoning on to Eternity, they tend to transcend things like Advanced Placement classes, ACTs, and that altogether dreary place people like to call the "Real World." Of course, I don't mean to say we should take this observation as a license to abandon our responsibilities—at least not entirely; only, let's never abandon play entirely.
When my sister and the other brides came back from a brief disappearance in which they had exchanged their festal gowns for the somber black habits of the Benedictine order, I saw they were playing more than ever. Their smiling wimple-framed faces betrayed them as they took up once again their flower-bedecked candles. They knew the Cross and death were their lot on Earth, but they also knew that at midnight, the Bridegroom would surely come. Should we not follow them whose very lives cry out the "Hosannas!" of the Gospel children? (Matthew 21:15) Let's die to the world more and more until, our exile spent and midnight come, we may finally, like children tripping off to play, leave the world with all its cares behind, don our heavenly finery, and go with lighted lamps to meet Our Lord.
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From the artless bone-colored walls to the lack of furniture throughout, it looks more like a photo set than a place where humans — let alone a family of five, and soon six — reside. The Axel Vervoordt–designed house doesn't have many places to sit, but all of the ones it does have — the dining room, the eat-in kitchen, and a bleached grand piano — adhere to a whitewashed palette. As for Kardashian and West's bedroom, their interview offers the biggest look at it yet and, spoiler alert, it doesn't have much furniture either. Instead there is a giant bed, which Kardashian and West and their three children, North, Saint and Chicago, gather around, and a bathroom that is the size of some apartments.
You would never be able to tell that the bathroom is actually a bathroom, save for the giant concrete tub in the middle of the room. The bathroom, which is full of natural light thanks to a giant wall that shows off tropical landscaping outside, also consists of an oversized walk-in shower with controls so minimal you can barely see them in the video.
The kitchen, meanwhile, looks like a kitchen — and one that you'd find in the neo-Californian section of Pinterest. It's minimalism at its finest, with a bleached wood and beige palette. For decor, there are two sections of shelves containing tea ware: one in black and one in, you guessed it, white. It's also decorated with sparse plants and crystal rocks.
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Child mortality is our human rights failure of the 21st century
Child mortality and stunting is the modern face of poverty and inequality today. If you knew how to save the 18,000 children who die every day, would you? In 2000, the global community made a promise to children: to reduce by two-thirds the risk that a child will not live to see his or her fifth birthday. The deadline for this promise is 2015.
A new UNICEF report shows that, despite impressive progress, we are way behind schedule. It is a human rights and political failure. This is the reason for "A Promise Renewed," a global movement to end preventable child deaths. I fully support this goal.
In fact we need to galvanise the political will to ensure no child dies of causes that can be prevented. This means aiming for an under-five mortality rate of 20 or fewer child deaths per 1,000 live births. Right now, some countries have under-five mortality rates of close to 200 deaths per 1,000.
Most of these countries are in sub-Saharan Africa, which now accounts for 50% of all child deaths in the world. At 45 deaths per 1,000, SA's ranking sits at 57th in the world, a considerable improvement to devastating toll of the lunatic HIV/Aids denial debacle era. But nearly 1 in 4 children suffer from malnutrition today. In a country so rich, that is an indictment on us. It is not money but the lack of political will that cause the deaths of our children.
The UN meetings here in New York boast of progress. We have saved nearly 90 million lives over the past two decades. That's nearly double the population of South Africa.
But right now, we are 13 years behind schedule. That means we won't meet MDG 4 until 2028. And 35 million more children will die – children whose lives could have been saved had we kept our promise in 2015.
Over the past year, more than 175 governments signed a pledge, renewing their promise to accelerate progress on child survival. Each pledge is an important commitment to give every single child the best possible start in life.
We know it's going to take more than political promises to get the job done. It's going take every one of us to take action, and hold governments to their promise.
I sit on the UN Lead Committee on Nutrition set up by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and chaired by Tony Lake, the Executive Director of UNICEF. Alongside global leaders we are building a campaign against malnutrition. Today we know that nearly half of all preventable child deaths are as a result of malnutrition and one in four children are stunted. That's 8,000 children a day dying and 165 million stunted.
What we need is a comprehensive integrated set of actions that provide solutions, not more speeches and resolutions.
We know what works! We know what we need to do to save children's lives. It's a quality health system that delivers vaccines and antibiotics. That prioritises healthy nutrition and maternal and newborn care. It ensures all our children receive quality education and that girls are kept in school and we prevent teenage pregnancies. It's about an efficient state that delivers clean water and sanitation so that our children do not have water borne diseases like diarrhea.
The first 1,000 days from pregnancy to two years is the crucial window of opportunity. Promoting exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months of a child's life and ensuring that the child has access to high quality complementary foods or vitamin supplementation from 6-24 months builds the foundation of nutrition for life. We need to ensure the right of healthy affordable food either on the marketplace or through the public delivery systems.
Science is now proven that failing to address under nutrition in the first 1,000 days is linked to the growing epidemic of obesity, cardiovascular and cone disease, diabetes and hypertension later in life. We are able to measure the economic cost which equates to 11 % of GDP growth being lost in Africa or the equivalent of 10% of the potential earnings of an individual over a lifetime. We cannot afford to ignore this reality anymore.
At the core of our strategy has to be the principle of nutrition and gender justice.
All evidence is that improving women`s rights, empowerment and incomes as key to solving child deaths and malnutrition. As President Kikwete of Tanzania said, "In my country women who are pregnant are told not to eat eggs. It is a superstition that we need to change through education. We must be able to challenge harmful cultural practices."
He goes on, "When I was young we ate a lot of fish. But my mother, who cooked it for us, did not eat it because of its taste. She ended up with goiter. We must encourage our people to eat a healthy diet and to exercise."
In Africa we need leadership from the top like this. So many Heads of State make promises here in New York at the UN General Assembly that they have no intention of implementing at home.
As we scale up action it will be important to recognise the critical role of organised small-hold farmers; local fishermen; indigenous groups; family, faith-based, women's and community-based organisations. Government must open up to these voices even if it is uncomfortable. If we are to stop junk food being dumped on the market we need to include business. Governments rarely make the food the poor eat. It is private entrepreneurs. They have expertise, logistics management and technology that can be harnessed to ensure access to nutritious and affordable foods.
Our goal is to build participation and accountability from the bottom. We do not need gatekeepers – our overriding goal to save lives of our children who die of preventable causes.
Citizens will always know more than their leaders what the solutions to their problems are. We have to have the courage to place our people at the centre of policy making and implementation of programmes.
Too much of our discussions are focused on bureaucratic processes. I look at our experience over the Eastern Cape health crisis. Ultimately it was an organised active citizenry led by fearless social movements, unions and NGOs that exposed the dereliction and thieving of a provincial predatory elite which led to babies and our people dying. And they were given a voice but courageous independent journalists. It was an empathetic national minister who acknowledged the report and acted decisively to guarantee the right of people to their constitutional right to quality health care.
But we know that change will die a stillbirth if we do not remain organised and vigilant. Lest we forget the old adage – that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. DM
Jay Naidoo is a member of the Lead Committee on Nutrition set up by the UNSG. He is attending meetings around the UN General Assembly.He is also the Chair of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition. www.gainhealth.org
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Q: Handling KeyError in conditional statement python when reading json file So I am reading through two json files to check if the keys file name and file size exist. In one of the files i only have the key filename and not file size. When running my script it keeps through a KeyError , i would like to instead make it print out the file name/names that do not have the key file size.
The error i get is :
if data_current['File Size'] not in data_current:
KeyError: 'File Size'

file1.json

{"File Name": "personDetails.json Exists", "File Size": "7484"}
{"File Name": "agent.json Not Exists"}

file2.json

{"File Name": "personDetails.json Exists", "File Size": "7484"}
{"File Name": "agent.json Not Exists",  "File Size": "9484"}

My code is as follows :
with open('file1.json', 'r') as f, open('file2.json', 'r') as g:

    for cd, pd in zip(f, g):

        data_current = json.loads(cd)
        data_previous = json.loads(pd)
        if data_current['File Size'] not in data_current:
            data_current['File Size'] = 0

        if data_current['File Name'] != data_previous['File Name']:  # If file names do not match
            print " File names do not match"
        elif data_current['File Name'] == data_previous['File Name']:  # If file names match
            print " File names match"
        elif data_current['File Size'] == data_previous['File Size']:  # If file sizes match
            print "File sizes match"
        elif data_current['File Size'] != data_previous['File Size']: #

            print "File size is missing"
        else:
            print ("Everything is fine")

A: You can check if a key exists in dictionary by doing if 'File Size' not in data_current:
>>> data = {"File Size": 200} # Dictionary of one value with key "File Size"
>>> "File Size" in data # Check if key "File Size" exists in dictionary
True
>>> "File Name" in data # Check if key "File Name" exists in dictionary
False
>>>

A: The if key in dict approach is likely right for you, but it's worth also knowing about the get() method of dict objects.
You can use this to attempt to retrieve a key's value from the dictionary and if it's not present it'll return a default value instead - None by default or you can specify your own value:
data = {"foo": "bar"}
fname= data.get("file_name")  # fname will be None
default_fname = data.get("file_name", "file not found")  # default_fname will be "file not found"

This can be convenient in some situations. You can also write this long hand as:
defalut_fname = data["file_name"] if "file_name" in data else "file not found"

But I don't like having to write the key that many times!

A: Use if 'File Size' not in data_current:
When using in against a dict, python looks at keys, not at the values.

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