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Scholarships for International Summer School in Irish Studies
Institute for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution (IIMCR)
Summer Institute in Peacebuilding & Conflict Resolution (ICPR)
Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts (PARC) Institute for Creative Conflict Resolution
Summer Institute on Peacebuilding & Conflict Resolution
Humanity In Action
NGO Abroad International Opportunities in Peace Building and Conflict Transformation
Genocide Intervention Network (GI-NET) is now accepting applications for the 2010 class of Carl Wilkens Fellows.
The Carl Wilkens Fellowship is a selective, 12-month program that provides emerging citizen leaders with the tools and training to shape US policy on genocide. Seeking to bridge the gap between thought and action in the anti-genocide movement, the Carl Wilkens Fellowship program works to develop effective leaders in communities across the United States. At the conclusion of the program, individuals are equipped with the skills and relationships necessary to influence and affect US policies on genocide. Carl Wilkens Fellows are making an impact
GI-NET's 2009 CWF class brought together individuals from Los Angeles, CA, Terre Haute, IN, Ramsey, NJ, Miami, FL and more cities nationwide. From corporate lawyers to IT specialists, professors to museum-based educators, filmmakers to heath professionals, the fellows represent a diverse set of individuals from all walks of life.
Over the course of one year, Carl Wilkens Fellows receive training in advocacy, media relations, fundraising, community organizing, and personal leadership, as well as access to GI-NET's staff, experts and academics, and organizing funds. Ready to take your activism to the next level?
For more information, please contact the Genocide Intervention Network, located at 1333 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20005 (712) 432-1601
In previous years, applications have been due on November 1.
18 July - 5 August 2005
This three-week program is now in its fifth year and attracts students from the US, Canada, Europe and South America, Australia and Japan.
The program offers a unique opportunity to examine Irish history, politics, anthropology, literature, drama, film, archeology and art. Teaching is combined with field trips to sites of historic, political,
scientific and cultural interest in Northern Ireland. Aspects of the conflict are also explored through meetings and dialog with community group leaders, local think-tank organizations, politicians and the Police Service. The closing date is 31 May .
There are two scholarships available for this program: the Estyn Evans and John Fairleigh Scholarships (closing date 31 March ).
Full details of this program and application forms
Dr Dominic Bryan, Director
Catherine Boone, Administrator
Institute of Irish Studies
Belfast BT7 1NN
Tel: 44 (0) 28 9097 3386
Email: irish.studies@qub.ac.uk
Website: www.qub.ac.uk/iis
IIMCR believes that young people can play an important role in undertaking actions to establish peace and security in their communities, countries and in the world. While we believe that young people are uniquely positioned to learn and utilize the principles of conflict resolution, our experience also teaches that they frequently lack the basic analytical frameworks and practical skills necessary to understand, analyze and manage conflict. Each year, IIMCR, in cooperation with George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs and local universities, runs a series of month-long Student Symposia on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution.
More information about the Symposium, and other programs around the world, can be found on the IIMCR website, or students can contact the office at (202) 347-2042.
The Alliance for Conflict Transformation (ACT)
ICPR is an intensive summer 3-week residential program intended to build the capacity of current and future professionals in a variety of fields to make a critical difference in furthering peaceful relations in the world.
We are accepting applications for English speaking professionals, graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in peace and conflict resolution, international affairs, political science, Latin American studies, anthropology, development and related fields.
Details on location, dates, and registration
Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts (PARC) - Institute for Creative Conflict Resolution
The Institute for Creative Conflict Resolution is affiliated with Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs through its Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts (PARC). The Institute draws heavily on the highly regarded faculty of the Maxwell School, a faculty that specializes in state-of-the-art theory, research, and practice in the processes of constructively managing disputes. Institute faculty members offer experiential courses that enable participants to be creative and successful in problem solving, facilitation, decision making, mediation, negotiation, and conflict resolution.
For details, visit the summer institute website
In the summer, full-time and visiting students register for courses at SU through University College. Make summer studies at Syracuse work for you! For a list of classes, times, and course descriptions, as well as any other information you need, visit the UC web site at http://www.yesu.syr.edu/summer
Jill Tanner
Marketing Communications - UC
326 700 University Avenue
Email: jstanner@uc.syr.edu
URL: http://www.YeSU.syr.edu
The Alliance for Conflict Transformation
Summer Institute on Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution (IPCR)
The Alliance for Conflict Transformation (ACT) is pleased to announce that we are currently accepting applications for English speaking professionals, graduate and upper-level undergraduate students to participate in an intensive 3-week, 4-credit summer institute on peacebuilding and conflict resolution in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
IPCR offers a stimulating integration of theory and practice, bringing together innovative academic analysis with practical, hands-on training and skills development, combined with personal and professional development.
IPCR will help participants achieve the following objectives:
To understand conflict theories and conceptual frameworks in order to develop analytical skills for effective intervention
To develop practical skills for dealing with conflict constructively and promoting peacebuilding
To develop capacities for integrating conflict resolution into related fields, such as development, humanitarian relief, etc.
To provide participants with access to the best practices in the field and to well known and highly respected practitioners
To help participants create action plans to develop their careers in the peacebuilding and conflict transformation field
To develop ongoing networks between participants, program staff, and guest speakers to support personal and professional advancement
Summary Of Course Topics
The course will provide an overview of the theory and practice of conflict resolution and peacebuilding with a focus on providing concrete skills participants can use in the field. The course includes the following topics:
Conflict theory, analysis and assessment
Conflict resolution and peacebuilding practices
Culture and conflict resolution
Conflict resolution and development
Skills development in negotiation, mediation, and dialog facilitation
Conflict prevention and crisis response
Post-conflict transition and reconciliation
Case studies - community, intra-state and international conflict
Ethical leadership and practice
Careers in peacebuilding and conflict resolution
For more information, please visit our website: http://www.conflicttransformation.org
Nike Carstarphen, Ph.D.
Alliance for Conflict Transformation, Inc.
Email: ipcr@conflicttransformation.org
http://www.conflicttransformation.org
Application Deadline: (approx. early February; see the organizations website for details)
Eligibility: Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors from US Colleges/Universities
Website (to download applications & learn more): http://www.humanityinaction.org
Humanity in Action sponsors six summer programs on minority issues in Europe and the United States. This year we will select a total of 70 students from U.S. colleges and universities to participate in the 2006 programs. We are looking for applicants from all majors with a commitment to human rights and minority issues. The 2006 summer programs will take place in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, New York, Paris, and Warsaw. Because we are seeking to recruit the best of the best, we pay virtually all of the costs of participation.
Humanity in Action (HIA) is a New York-based not-for-profit organization that seeks to engage, inspire, and empower future human rights leaders by giving them the opportunity to meet current human rights leaders in the context of transnational educational programs. In each program, American students work with an equal number of university students in the host countries. (Note: European students from HIA host countries can also find applications for the program on the website). Although each program focuses on current minority and human rights issues in the host country, in all programs students study histories and theories of resistance to the abuse of human rights and the development of international human rights doctrines and institutions in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust. HIA engages Fellows in an ongoing trans-Atlantic dialogue about the challenges that democratic societies encounter as they experience new degrees and forms of diversity.
Upon completion of the summer program, HIA seeks to further the personal and professional growth of participants by offering a network of Senior Fellows (graduates of the program) in the U.S. and Europe, periodic lectures and conferences, and eligibility for a variety of prestigious internships (currently including the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Interpol, the U.S. House of Representatives, the European Parliament, and others). Complete information about HIA and the full range of our programs can be found on our website: http://www.humanityinaction.org
NGO Abroad
International Volunteer Opportunities in Peace Building & Conflict Transformation
NEPAL: Peace Building after Civil War
From 1996 to 2006, Maoist rebels pushed to usurp the feudal monarchy that had ruled for 2018. If you listen to Maoist ex-combatants their goal was to help Nepal out of abject poverty. While their primary targets were police outposts that maintained that monarchy, 13,000 people were killed. Come help conduct workshops in non-violent communication, restorative dialogue and conflict transformation as ex-combatants and people who lost loved ones listen to each other and heal.
ISRAEL/ PALESTINE: Peace Building in one of world's most intractable conflicts
This excellent organization has, for years, worked to inform and shape public opinion both nationally and internationally. Made up of both Israelis and Palestinians, the goal is to defang stereotypes that perpetuate misunderstandings and conflict. Come help them research, interview and write about what is going on in the world's most intractable conflict. You would be based in Jerusalem not far from the Old City (an important site to Muslims, Jews & Christians), and could spend time at the beach in Tel Aviv or exploring the West Bank. This program has limited space so apply early!
KENYA: Peace & Democracy Building
This organization was born after the election violence in 2007. The director's family farm was destroyed in western Kenya and he went to Italy to get a Master's in Peace Building. He came back and gave peace building workshops all over the country. They now also do workshops on democracy building and civic education. Why is this so important? Most Kenyan human rights activists were jailed and tortured under Moi. When they got out, they worked to change Kenya's constitution so such abuses could never happen again. In Kenya, as in many parts of Africa, the country melts down at election time. So peace building, human rights and democracy building are inextricably linked. Come help in their cutting edge work and teach Kenyans about how to forge a durable peace.
JORDAN: Peace Building in the Schools
Jordan hosts and is a refuge for Syrian, Iraqi and Palestinian refugees. Jordan sees itself as a peace broker in a complicated region. Come teach peace building to students; fostering this attitude in youth and at the grassroots.
In the same way that you would not work in South America unless you are fluent in Spanish, in Jordan, it is important to be able to understand & speak Arabic.
(In Israel/ Palestine placement, almost all your writing is in English so critical to be fluent in English.)
CAMEROON: Alternatives to Violence - Conflict Resolution & Non Violent Communication
This program reflects the evolution of our domestic violence program. When the first Canadian social worker came and asked 50 men how many beat their wives; 48 hands went up. Likewise for the number of mothers who beat their children. The men & mothers said "How else do you get them to mind?" We have had a series of social workers & psychologists teach about positive reinforcement. We are now adding new angles: negotiation, non-violent communication, and they asked for training in peaceful resolution of conflicts. We need your help! You would work both in the capital, Yaounde, and the remote rural villages giving you a window into The Real Africa. (The director can translate your English to French.)
LEBANON: Conflict Resolution & Non-Violent Communication
Lebanon suffered a brutal civil war from 1975 to 1990. They forged a peace that established a government made up of a balance of Shite, Sunni & Christian. Now 1 out 4 people in Lebanon is a Syrian refugee (Sunni). Will this upset their delicate balance? Beirut has earned the title "The Paris of the Middle East." It is sophisticated; its many balconies look out to the sea. Lebanon is a small country. Most borders are a 2 hour drive from Beirut. The well respected organization that you would work with works all over the country, with about 600 staff. They have asked for people that can do staff trainings on conflict resolution & non-violent communication.
Please visit the NGOabroad website and then briefly answer the Questionnaire and send with your resume to: info@NGOabroad.com
These are all volunteer opportunities.
Seasoned professionals and students both welcome.
Applications accepted on a rolling basis.


Anyone who has traveled across timezones knows the discombobulation of getting off an airplane and feeling like you were tossed from a merry-go-round back into reality. I wake in the night, jetlagged, and wonder where I am and sometimes even who I am and where did that chair across the room come from. After 24 hours or so, the letdown of re-entry begins. Get up (hours early), walk the dog, buy groceries, dive back into work projects, go to bed, repeat. I try to embrace being back when all I really want is to hit the road again. I'm grateful for my life in California where so much natural beauty and culture are right outside my door, but if I could get on a plane or in our VW van immediately after finishing one trip to start another? I would.
Our recent trip to Italy and Paris still plays like a slideshow when I close my eyes. The temperatures were in the high 90's (and even over 100 occasionally) during our trip and it didn't matter. We just slowed our pace and absorbed where we were at any given time.
sitting in front of a fan in the window of our (sweltering) paris apartment and taking it all in….
Once we returned home, recovered from jetlag, and reconnected with our regular life, it wasn't long (two weeks!) before we hitched up the horses (our VW van) and headed for the hills again. Literally.
Because sometimes we like to change up the view and our own perspective so that real life – both at home and on the road – feels doubly blessed. And it makes re-entry feel just a little gentler.
Happy summer, all ('cause there's still some left to go)!
Goodness, these are so good and full of summer happiness! Yes to more summer!
I have loved seeing some of my summer destinations through your lens. It still kills me how close we were to meeting so far from home, but I have been dying to see more photos of your trip and our near miss.
And how wonderful to be full up on wanderlust, and be able to hit the road again – if only for a brief stint. Very jealous of that!


LOS ANGELES, Mar. 15 — Bruce McGregor Davis, 28-year-old follower of hippie cult leader Charles Manson, was found guilty Tuesday of murdering Malibu musician Gary Hinman and ranch hand Donald (Shorty) Shea.
The guilty verdicts on the two homicide counts and a separate conspiracy charge were returned on the 12th day of deliberation; by the eight-man, four-women jury.
A few hours before they found him guilty, jury foreman Hugh Gould had informed Superior Judge Raymond Choate that the jurors were deadlocked at 11-1 on all three counts.
Coprosecutors Stephen Kay and Anthony Manzella presented evidence during the four-month trial that tied Davis in with the two-day torture slaying of Hinman in late July, 1969, at his Topanga Canyon home.
They also convinced the jurors that Davis participated in the killing of Shea sometime between Aug. 16 and Sept. 1, 1969 on the Spahn movie ranch near Chatsworth. Shea's body was never found.
Manson, 37, previously was convicted for both the Hinman and Shea murders in addition to the seven Tate-LaBianca slayings in August of 1969.
Steve Grogan, 19, another member of the Manson "family," has been found guilty of the Shea murder. Evidence presented during Grogan's trial indicated that he beheaded Shea with a machete.
A conviction for Hinman's murder also has' been returned against still another Manson follower, 23-year-old Robert Beausoleil.


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This Is "us": A Review of columbinus at The Yard and Steppenwolf Theatre Company
May 7, 2018 at 4:00 pm by Kevin Greene
by Kevin Greene
The cast of "columbinus"/Photo: Evan Hanover
It's been hard to shake the feeling that the narratives of American exceptionalism have quickly and conspicuously unraveled. To be fair, a hard look always took a coat of the glean off these stories. Yet despite the underlying and defining national characteristics of racism, economic exploitation and increasingly illusory democracy, it still felt like some of the basic promises of freedom and liberty still held true. The idea was that the bad stuff was the price we all had to pay. And most of the time that bad stuff was happening to other people anyway. Or so we believed.
No longer, it seems.
Created by the United States Theatre Project and written by Stephen Karam and the late PJ Paparelli, "columbinus" has the feeling of an American origin story. Blending documentary realism with evocative forays into adolescent psychology, the play is haunting, difficult and disturbing. What must have been an extraordinary glimpse into the trauma of teenage years when the play premiered in the early aughts is now, additionally, a bellwether for what came in the wake of Columbine: a culture of mass murder so commonplace that processing its meaning almost invariably leads to troubling questions about the values of the country where this violence occurs.
The central paradox of theater made by young people is that the art frequently has little direct relation to the experiences of the artists performing it. If the work even has age-appropriate roles, the concerns of the young characters are almost always secondary to those of the adults. The Yard, in collaboration with some of our city's most generous theatrical institutions, has made it their mission to demonstrably address the biases and barriers toward youth-oriented theater. In "columbinus" they have located a work that cries out for their artistic daring and social commitment. With an ensemble of fourteen students and two adults, fearlessly led by The Yard co-artistic director Mechelle Moe (with additional movement direction from Dana Murphy), "columbinus" is The Yard's most audacious work to date, a statement of some significance given the company's record of excellence.
A demanding work in its own right, The Yard's production of "columbinus" pulls no punches from its amalgamation of angsty turn-of-the-century jams (one could write volumes on the connection between Radiohead and the young male intellectual ego) and attentive sound design (both courtesy of Aaron James Stephenson), demanding fight choreography (with violence design by Max Fabian), characteristically versatile props (Dina Klahn), and mood-attune lighting (Brandon Wardell), which shift between efficient overheads and dreamlike hues. One could argue that this production chases too many ideas. Perhaps. And yet, maybe it is my faith in youth-centered art or my natural affection for this particular company, but I see the value in encouraging young artists to overachieve, even at the risk of emphasizing the "over."
And achieve is what these artists do. Moving fluidly and stirringly as a unit, the young people here lend their roles—a shifting landscape of high-school archetypes—an innate truth. Confronting the difficult subjects of bullying, peer pressure, social ostracizing, and rejection is not an easy task for artists of any age (we as adults still experience these things though not with the same staggering regularity as young people do), but there is something so impressively streamlined about this process for these actors. A less authentically realized production may have felt uncanny, a performance of the performance of adolescence, a la televised melodramas like "The O. C." and "Riverdale." Not the case here, as each actor gamely clamors over this demanding work with precision and unflagging energy.
While the first half of the play is largely ensemble-driven, the second half focuses on Dylan (Brian Baren) and Eric (Ervin Tobar), characters who are based on the real-life Columbine shooters. Enough cannot be said for Baren and Tobar's willingness to dive into the conscious and subconscious motivations of these two young men, pulling out anger, desire, entitlement and fear. They can and should be commended for such radically courageous work. Taken from interviews and recordings, Karam and Paparelli let the killers speak for themselves, their reasoning a jumbled mess of juvenile philosophizing and encumbered rage. The play does not search for excuses for them nor does it present a pat explanation for their actions.
Ironically, what has complicated the narrative of mass shootings is a desire for a singular, institutional blame: gun manufacturers, video games, family, school, pop culture, politics. What "columbinus" identifies instead, largely through these two characters though also through the social hierarchy of high school, is a patchwork source though one that extends largely from the now-open secret of supremacist belief structures and their relation to race, gender, sexual-orientation and religion. The alarming consistency of type when it comes to the identities of mass shooters offers a clarity that some are not willing to face: white men are killing people. In its quest for understanding, "columbinus" suggests, tactfully, that this is a wide-reaching social problem. White men have been told, time and time again, that they deserve everything; when they don't get what they want, everyone pays for the slight.
The events of this play take place nearly twenty years ago and there is an uncomfortable realization that occurs partway through that, in our fixation on Columbine as the inciting incident of the twenty-first century (perhaps even more so than 9/11), Dylan and Eric got exactly what they wanted: notoriety. To the credit of The Yard, the company has affixed a contemporaneous urgency to this piece of historical theater in both their casting and the insistent, activist bent of the production's supplementary materials. The Yard is a part of a growing body of Chicago artists that do not separate art from politics. After the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, company members openly participated in rallies and protests at their home base of Nicholas Senn High School.
It's both impossible to understate and also adequately explain the power of witnessing young people grapple with their realities through art. Not only does it encourage their impulses toward investigation but it allows the artists to see themselves as equals in the art-making process. It is so incredibly vital to create spaces of access and equality for young people, especially at time when their own lives are being devalued by the inaction of adults. We cannot right the wrongs of the past. But we can still assist in making a hospitable future. (Kevin Greene)
The Yard at Steppenwolf Theatre Company's 1700 Theatre, 1700 North Halsted, (312)335-1650, the-yard.org or steppenwolf.org, $12-$25. Through May 26.
Growing In: A Review of You Got Older at Steppenwolf Theatre Company Steppenwolf's Chicago premiere of Clare Barron's play doesn't so much tread water as sink to the bottom of the shallow end.
I Believe You, Bruce: A Review of Downstate at Steppenwolf Theatre Company In this world premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Bruce Norris attempts to redress the power imbalance between the disenfranchised and those who wield influence over their livelihood, though not in the direction you might expect.
Tragedy in Blue: A Review of Lindiwe at Steppenwolf Theatre Company In showcasing black and African culture stripped of any specificity, the question posed by this production becomes: who is this really for?
Tender and Sweet: A Review of The Rembrandt at Steppenwolf Theatre Company Steppenwolf's season opener sends unclear signals of the road ahead while offering memorable performances from two of its most celebrated ensemble members.
The Little Things That Keep Her Alive: A Review of La Ruta at Steppenwolf Theatre Company This Steppenwolf Theatre Company world premiere from local playwright Isaac Gomez serves as a promise to keep alive the true stories upon which this play is based.
Live and Belong: A Review of BLKS at Steppenwolf Theatre Company Aziza Barnes' world premiere is the play that black audiences deserve and white audiences need.
Aaron James Stephenson
Brandon Wardell
Dana Murphy
Dina Klahn
Max Fabian
Mechelle Moe
PJ Paparelli
Stephen Karam
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
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A new ABC book WELL WORTH it ...for ALL AGES ..."A is for MUSK OX"
The name Mohawk was given to the tribe by the Algonquin and was later adopted by the Europeans who had difficulty pronouncing Kanien'kehake. "Mohawk" means man-eaters, although many believe this name was just a figure of speech to depict their fierce nature.
The Mohawks are the true Native New Yorkers. At the time of the formation of the Iroquois League, the five tribes occupied territory from the East to the West, the Mohawk being the "keepers of the eastern door." Today, while some still live in New York, most retreated to Canada in the 1700's.
People of Iroquoian linguistic stock were sedentary tribes who were accustomed to life in the harsher climates of the North-East. In addition to hunting, the Mohawk practiced agriculture, cultivating corn, squash and beans (the three sisters). They were also excellent trappers; when the European settlers came, the Mohawk exchanged furs for rifles, an arrangement which kept the colonists warm, and the conquering Mohawk strong.
They were sometimes referred to as the Haudenosaunee, which meant "People of the Longhouse" because of their long, rectangular communal dwellings.
Despite the freezing temperatures, a scarcity of trustworthy guides, maps, and scarce food, HM Van den Bogaert and his friends set out on their journey. Throughout this journey, Van den Bogaert kept a journal recording the fears, obstacles, successes and hardships faced on his journey.
This graphic novel, almost four centuries later is presented here in Bogaert's own words and accompanied by George O'Connor's illustrations. Readers will experience what harsh winters were like for traders and explorers and see early detente at its best.They even partake in a true "Thanksgiving" dinner.
This graphic novel also contains a forward (describing the role of trade and the Dutch West India Company, the topography and names of the region and time), an afterward, and a glossary.
Compare this story (1st-person journal entry) to that of The Last Mohicans. Discuss the different formats and stories. Discuss non-fiction vs. fictional depictions of story.
Discuss this journal and its story to the history of early native Americans, to the role of trade, and to the relationships the Mohawks had with the French, Dutch and Swedes.
Discuss the role of symbols (see below as well as throughout the book) across cultures.
Discuss the impact of 'thanksgiving' dinners and detente Colonial/Dutch/French/Indian relations.
Discuss the different models of governance between the cultures.
Discuss the role the Longhouse played in Mohawk culture.
Theyebdabegea a.k.a. Joseph Brant - was a Mohawk leader who sided with the British during the Revolutionary War, was educated in white schools, was a protoge of Sir William Johnson and learned Latin and Greek. He translated the new Testament into his native language and is a fascinating figure - well worth a diversion - at least to this site.
Turtle Island which represents Earth and whose carapace features thirteen plates, each of which represent one of the thirteen moons that make up an entire year. [You may want to discuss the different cultures whose calendars follow the moon vs. the sun. Older students when learning about the Earth resting on a giant turtle may want to read the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett].
The Underworld represented by snakes and a horned panther with a long serpentine tail which lives underwater in eth great lakes.
The Mohicans were the victims of several attacks and were eventually conquered by the Mohawks (who were their neighbors to the south of the Hudson River Valley).
The Mohican surrendered to the Iroquois Nations, and became the first members of the "Covenant Chain" - a protective trade alliance between the Iroquois, the European settlers (primarily Dutch and Swedes), and the tribes they had conquered.
While James Fenimore Cooper led his readers to believe the tribe ceased to exist, there are (as of 2003) over 1,500 descendants of the Mohicans (The Stockbrige Indians) currently living in Wisconsin.
Discworld series - pure, fun fiction for older readers (high school) depicting fictional worlds surviving on the back of a turtle. It serves as an interesting 'folk-lore' comparison. Discuss any other cultures where the world is depicted as riding on the back of a turtle. Why a turtle?
On October 16th, Roaring Book Press will be introducing a new picture book "a if for musk ox"written by Erin Cabatingan and illustrated byMatthew Myers.
This is an AWESOME book about a wily musk ox who eats the apple for "a'" and angers a cool zebra because the zebra thinks the musk ox ruined his ABC book. The musk ox argues that he is actually saving the book because alphabet books are so boring - everyone knows "a" stands for "apple" but few knew - until now that "a" also stands for musk ox because... they're so...AWESOME! The books goes on, and our wily musk ox highjacks most of the other letters as well as he romps through the alphabet and the zebra learns more than he ever wanted to know about musk ox.
This books IS AWESOME and my whole family enjoyed it (and we're way past ABC books!). You will too!!!!
Thanks once again, for your visit. Please leave your ideas on how you might teach/integrate Native American culture and Thanksgiving this year... OR... your opinions of A IS FOR MUSK OX...OR...any other fun facts you may have of the Mohawk Nation.
My grandma believed she was part Iroquois, and from her look, it quite likely. But I never have verified it.
PS. It would be good if I proofread too!!
Interesting book. Thanks for this wonderful post.
Thank you for this post. So your country has a lot of indigenous traditions and a history full of interesting facts, like in Australia.
Thanks. Have a great week.
That was a very fascinating post.
Perfect time of year for this theme :) Thanks for linking up and Happy WW!
I loved this post for today. I need to look up some of these books.
wow...fantastic! I love randomly clicking on a blog (ABC Wednesday) and finding out some things I didn't know before I got here - and artfully done, at that! I grew up in NY, and have read some of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, so I was familiar with some of this material - but thanks for the rest of it, and my son is just about the right age for that graphic novel. sounds like a great way to read together this winter!
Awesome and in-depth look on mohawk!
Fascinating history lesson on the Mohawk tribe!
Musk ox, have not heard of this book.
I love learning about Thanksgiving related things. Thanks for sharing at Trivium Tuesdays!
Just a superb review!! Really deep research of the topic, so easy to read and very informative. Outstanding job, with no doubt!!


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Play to your audience: emotional arcs and making people feel like assholes
February 17, 2016 by Nate Prosser
In December last year this site was circulating through my Facebook circle. I didn't think too much about it at the time, for reasons I'll get to below, but it's stuck with me since. I think this is mainly because it's indicative of a problem I've been struggling with in my own work, and one I see crop up in campaigns frequently; it doesn't know who it's for.
Now before I get started I just want to say that maybe this criticism isn't fair. I don't know what the creator intended so I could be judging it as something it's not trying to be. Nevertheless, I think still serves as a good example of not having a clear audience and what that can mean for your user experience.
The site starts with a simple instruction; click here to save the world. As you click forward - though by my best count 173 clicks - it gets into a fairly straightforward admonishment of slacktivism and people who won't put their money where their mouth when supporting a cause. It calls out people who walk past chuggers, people who buy smoothies instead of donating to charities, and so on. It ends by telling you to go do something.
That description really doesn't do it justice. Take a minute to click through and get a proper sense of it.
Knowing your audience is key for everything you do. The audience you are aiming for will inform your goals (or vice versa) and your process design. If you're confused at the beginning you're confused all the way through.
Who is this for? It addresses the general masses but seems to be written for people who know the inside baseball of working in nonprofits. This creates problems and manifests itself in the tone, which is passive aggressive, smug, and frankly more than a little sanctimonious. When it asks you how many smoothies you would give up to help those in need there's no answer that doesn't result in the site saying it isn't enough. That may be true, but it isn't helpful.
They say you attract more flies with honey than vinegar. I'm not a fan of that saying. There's a role of negative emotions in campaigning. Negative emotions are powerful and can be great motivators. Negative emotions can't be the end point though.
If we look at designing an effective process for motivating action then negative emotions can be part of that process. They're a step or a launching point but never the destination. Good campaigns tell a story. Not just the story of the campaign but the story of the audience as part of the campaign. You engage them and bring them into the fold making them invest in it. It's an emotional arc, a character arc, that you take them through. You can't just make people feel shitty and abandon them. You need to give them an out; an opportunity to feel good about themselves when they walk away.
The first example that pops into my head, and it isn't the best, is this Sarah McLachlan ad for the SPCA. It is depressing as shit; showing you images of abused and abandoned animals. The commercials don't just fade to black there though. That would be horrific. They tell you about how you can help and then they show you the impact of that help when you get to see animals that are now healthy and in happy homes. There's an emotional journey to it.
Click to Save the World fades to black after calling you an asshole.
That's not constructive. If you want me - as a member of the public who you accuse of being apathetic and unwilling to contribute in any significant way to charity - to take action then you need to guide me to that action. If you want me to do something then you need to at least hint at what that something is. Let me know how I can make an impact.
This is a question of motivation. Where the site aims to motivate it instead alienates. I don't think the site is wrong in that most people lack the motivation to take substantial action whether that be volunteering their time or their money. People have different priorities and shit to deal with in their lives. There's two ways to go about addressing this; you either a) raise their motivation over that barrier of inaction to the point where they'll take action, or b) you lower the barrier to match their current motivation. Realistically, you're probably going to want to do both.
Because the site doesn't know who it's talking to it fails to accomplish anything. Joe Schmoe off the street is left feeling down and confused and Jan Charity Worker gets to briefly feel smug before feeling depressed that the public doesn't care. A challenge is issued but the rules aren't set out. It's like taking someone who has never seen a basketball in their life, walking them to the court and then telling them to score some points. The people on the sidelines who know how to play can have a good chuckle at the person floundering to understand what they're supposed to do but in the end is anything really being accomplished?
February 17, 2016 /Nate Prosser
#longreads, arcs, emotions, process design, telling stories, Am I an asshole?


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> almost never use it as a adjective except in that sense.
when I wrote it, but certainly "engage" as a verb is completely normal.
Although, as an imperative, it makes you sound like Jean-Luc Picard.
And, of course, there's the military use mentioned by Roger Mills.
"being in the state between proposal and marriage".


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Esther Victoria Cooper Jackson (August 21, 1917 – August 23, 2022) was an American civil rights activist and social worker. She worked with Shirley Graham Du Bois, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edward Strong, and Louis E. Burnham, and was one of the founding editors of the magazine Freedomways, a theoretical, political and literary journal published from 1961 to 1985. She also served as organizational and executive secretary at the Southern Negro Youth Congress.

Early life and career
Jackson was born on August 21, 1917, in Arlington, Virginia, to George Posea Cooper and Esther Georgia Irving Cooper, who served as president of the Arlington branch of the NAACP. She attended segregated schools as a child. She earned a bachelor's degree at Oberlin College in 1938 and a master's degree in sociology from Fisk University in 1940. Her 1940 thesis was "The Negro Woman Domestic Worker in Relation to Trade Unionism". Upon graduation, she received a Rosenwald Fellowship to support a study on the attitudes of black youth toward World War II. She had been planning to conduct the study as part of her studies for a Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Chicago.

Of her upbringing and family, Jackson recounted:

In 1945 she was a delegate to the World Youth Congress in London and served as the chairman of the American Subcommittee on Problems of Dependent Peoples.

After graduate school, Jackson became a member of the staff of the Voting Project in Birmingham, Alabama, for the Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC). While working with SNYC she met her future husband James E. Jackson, a Marxist theoretician who would work as a labor organizer and an official in the Communist Party USA. In a 2004 interview, she explained that her husband and the SNYC had in 1937 helped tobacco workers in Virginia successfully agitate for an eight-hour day and pay increases. The tobacco workers held the first strike in Virginia since 1905, and their gains, according to C. Alvin Hughes, "helped SNYC earn a following among the black working class in the South".

Originally intending only to stay for one summer, Jackson remained in Alabama for seven years, engaged in the struggle to bring down Jim Crow segregation. For seven years as a prominent leader of SNYC, Esther Cooper Jackson worked with her husband, Louis and Dorothy Burnham, Ed Strong, Sallye and Frank Davis—parents of the Davis sisters, Angela and Fania—and numerous others, conducting many campaigns promoting the rights of blacks and poor whites. SNYC's agitation for the integration of the public transportation systems important in preparation for the struggles later on in the 1950s and 1960s.

Freedomways
In New York of  1961, Jackson became managing editor of Freedomways, created by Esther Jackson, along with Louis Burnham, Jack O'Dell from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and writer Lorraine Hansberry. Freedomways was the central theoretical journal of the 20th century black arts and intellectual movement in the United States. From its launch in 1961, it attracted historians, sociologists, economists, artists, workers, and students to write on black history, heritage, and culture. Jackson would call it "a tool for the liberation of our people". Freedomways was a globally influential political, arts and intellectual journal that published international poets such as Pablo Neruda and Derek Walcott, articles by African leaders including Kwame Nkrumah, Julius K. Nyerere, Agostinho Neto, and Jomo Kenyatta and Caribbean leftist C. L. R. James, as well as African-American authors such as James Baldwin, Alice Walker, Paul Robeson, Nikki Giovanni, and Lorraine Hansberry. The most prominent African-American artists like Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, and Elizabeth Catlett contributed cover art gratis to support the magazine, which was read worldwide. Uniting the Southern and Northern US civil rights struggles of the 1960s with an international viewpoint taking in Pan-Africanism and other cultural and political currents, the magazine is often viewed as a precursor of the Black Arts Movement.

Personal life
Jackson and her husband, James E. Jackson, married in 1941, and had two children. They moved to Brooklyn in 1951, and remained married until his death in 2007. In 2015, Jackson moved to a retirement facility in Boston, where she died on August 23, 2022, two days after her 105th birthday.

Works
 The Negro Woman Domestic Worker in Relation to Trade Unionism, M.A. thesis, Fisk University, 1940, excerpts reprinted in Viewpoint Magazine 5 (October 2015). .

 Esther Cooper Jackson and Constance Pohl (2000). Freedomways Reader: Prophets in Their Own Country: Interventions—Theory and Contemporary Politics. Boulder: Westview Press.

References

Further reading

External links
 Esther Cooper Jackson at 96: "Still in the Struggle"

 James E. Jackson and Esther Cooper Jackson Papers at Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University
 Southern Negro Youth Congress Forum 3—Audio recording: Cooper Jackson lectures on conditions in the South; she is introduced around 7:30 into the tape.
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Chuck Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier, dead at 97
Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. pilot Chuck Yeager, who was the first to break the sound barrier and later inspired "The Right Stuff" book and movie adaptation, died Monday evening at the age of 97. Victoria Yeager announced his passing on Twitter.
"It is w/ profound sorrow, I must tell you that my life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before 9pm ET. An incredible life well lived, America's greatest Pilot, & a legacy of strength, adventure, & patriotism will be remembered forever," the late Yeager's spouse posted using his official Twitter account.
Yeager is known for his achievement of being the first to break the sound barrier in 1947 when he flew the Bell X-1 rocket 700 mph at 43,000 feet, marking an extraordinary accomplishment in aviation.
His achievements were written about in Tom Wolfe's book "The Right Stuff," and later inspired the 1983 film.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine released a statement, calling Yeager's death "a tremendous loss to our nation."
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A pilot with over 60 years of aviation experience, Yeager is regarded as one of America's best airmen over his accomplished record-breaking feats.
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The year was 1964 and horse racing fans in Florida rushed passed the turnstiles into the new Pompano Park. It was quite an exciting time. The land that the new racetrack occupied was once a failed track from the Great Depression era. That night at Pompano Park was more than simply a new horse racing track opening up – it was the signal of a new era about to being in Florida and the country itself. Pompano Park had to overcome many hurdles, but on February 4, 1964 the last hurdle was jumped and horse betting racing at Pompano Park would never look back.
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Candace Owens Slams Meghan Markle and Oprah Winfrey Interview: 'Meghan Will Want Us to Believe That She is a Wounded Bird'
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Responding to the furor over the Oprah Winfrey interview with Great Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle, who was formerly worked as an actress in Hollywood, Candace Owens stated that she knew the couple would wind up in Hollywood, writing about Markle, "For someone who has spent a lifetime trying to 'make it', Los Angeles was always going to be the final destination."
Owens, who recently became a mother for the first time, added of the interview, due to be released Sunday night, "If Meghan is who I believe her to be, she will not-so-absentmindedly stroke her burgeoning belly throughout because there is nothing which inspires more sympathy than an expectant mother under duress. With gentle coaxing, viewers will come to believe how difficult it was for her to come forward with 'her truth' while carrying child."
Owens' column in The Daily Mail on Saturday was preceded by actress Chrissy Tiegen, the wife of pop-star John Legend and a friend of Markle's, tweeting on Friday, "'This meghan markle s*** is hitting too close to home for me. these people won't stop until she miscarries. f***ing stop it."
Owens wrote that she had predicted Harry and Meghan would leave their home in Canada and make their way to Los Angeles, noting that after the couple moved out of Kensington Palace and into Frogmore Cottage, Owens turned to her then-fiance (later her husband) and asserted, "Those two will wind up in Los Angeles. I give it three years."
"I was confident that Meghan, a relatively unknown B-list actress, would somehow find a route back to Los Angeles," Owens stated. "Because there is nothing more traditional, and therefore more repugnant to a Liberal than the concept of a monarchy and all of the 'broken' traditions that come with it."
"If peace and quiet really were the Sussexes' goal, then the woods and lakes of Canada were perfect," Owens surmised. "But Canada is not Hollywood. And for someone who has spent a lifetime trying to 'make it', Los Angeles was always going to be the final destination. Mingling amongst A-list actors and calling A-list actresses her best friends – that was the sort of dream she recognized. And what better companion to have by her side than a genuine Prince, helping secure admission to the sort of social circle she's unlikely to have entered through her own talent alone."
"Meghan never cared to be a Royal," Owens opined. "The purpose is to justify the amount of publicity she and Harry will pursue on a go-forward basis. Meghan will want us to believe that she is a wounded bird, just finding her voice. Hollywood-types will praise her and Harry as 'brave' and 'inspiring' for having the courage to speak out against such a powerful institution. People will come to understand that Meghan and Harry are pursuing a Hollywood existence – not because she had planned for them to do so all along – but because women, black women in particular, need to find their voice in this important historical moment."


Steeping in Christ's uplifting presence is always fulfilling.
Faith comforts in a time of wait.
Faith comes as a warrior when fear rumbles in like thunder.
Faith wins battles that are impossible.
Faith led Jesus to the tree that crossed out sin for man.
Fatih rose Him up to fulfill God's plan.
Faith is our mustard seed that grows tall as a tree over the years.
Faith hears the silence of the Lord's love beyond our ears.
Faith is our strength that takes in our next breath to go on.
Faith carries us into eternity with Jesus when we release our last breath.
May you be filled with the joy of Jesus Christ as you steep in His Word.
He will brew new life in you when you do.
I love the teacup (violets remind me of my grandmother's house) and your declaration of faith is inspiring!


Maybe I am over-romanticising it a bit, I will concede that much, but to me one of the best things a child can do is to sit under a fruit tree and eat fruit straight off the tree.
One of my fondest memories is sitting under my aunt's grapevine, with a cluster of grapes in my hand, filling my mouth with the syrupy pellets, biting down and allowing the skins to rupture causing the sweet juice to fill my mouth and trickle down my throat, leaving a delightful taste in my mouth.
I was speaking to a friend recently and she suggested that maybe the attraction was simply the fact that the fruit was free. I don't know so much; free does not always translate into good, and there is a wide, wide gap between getting a bargain and buying cheap.
In fact, just the other day I leapt with elation in a store because I found a can of shaving foam for under R40 – and this was a chunky, massive 400ml can!
Usually a 200ml aerosol can can set you back R60 or more. However, I learned the difference between "bargain" and "cheap" when I tried to shave using this foam and the razor blade made squeaking sounds on my cheeks and head.
I now still have 395ml of it left, which I estimate means another three months of squeaky cheap shaves. Lesson learned again!
Look, the way I see it is, if I am craving for a peach, for example, I will buy a peach from someone that I know sells quality peaches, and if it costs a bit more I buy fewer but I enjoy them. It is one of the most disheartening experiences to buy a box of cheap peaches, only to discover that the box has more flavour than the fruit that's when "cheap" turns into waste!
I am prepared to pay a bit more to enjoy and get more out of what I purchase with my hard-earned money.
On the other hand, expensive does not always mean the best. I say so because there is a supermarket chain that has a tray of free fruit for children right at the entrance to their stores. When I look at the fruit I wish I was still a child, because this is not cheap, old shrivelled discards.
The fruit in the basket is fresh, tempting and it's free!
If I were still a child, I would have sent my parents shopping while I sat under the basket stuffing fruit into my face.
I was tempted to go to the store's management and demand that they have a "sample" basket for the parents, just so that the adults could taste for themselves if the fruit was as good as it looks.
I am sneaky that way.
However, to those seniors who are tempted to go and see for yourselves how good this fruit is, I'd advise you to be cautious.
Malls are dangerous places for the slow, the aged and the frail.
In almost every store I have visited I have seen supermarket employees bustling around the store, pushing carts of stock to the shelves, and senior citizens having to take evasive measures or else.
Even worse is the young men who recover supermarket carts from the parking lots. They push long trains of carts at alarming speeds through the malls without regard for those who may struggle to give way.
I always wonder how these young people are equipped and trained by the people whose brands they sport on their shirts.
Are they simply told, as if they were brute beasts, to go fetch shopping carts and bring them to the store, or pack shelves?
Because if so, the employer is running the very real risk that one of their under-trained employees will "unintentionally" hurt someone who will not be satisfied with a "sorry ouma" as compensation.
And sitting under a lawsuit – simply because you have not properly briefed or trained your workers, will not be free, neither cheap, and it will leave a very, very unpleasant taste in the mouth.


Mediation - Fulwiler Law, P.C.
In my decades of being an attorney, I have met many, many people who wish they had not gone to trial, either because the outcome was not what they wished, or because it was so expensive. But I have rarely, if ever, met anyone who wishes they had not settled.
The role of a good mediator is, first, to accurately understand the case from all sides, and then, secondly, to help each party see their side, and the other side, from an objective standpoint, so that they can realistically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each side, and the possible range of outcomes, and the likely expense of going to trial. The hope is that this sort of analysis of the case can yield a "ZOPA" or Zone of Possible Agreement.
When I serve as mediator for a case, I try to approach it as a learning experience. It really is fun! It is almost like a detective's work, or a scientist's explorations. In my experience, when people are litigating, it is usually due to a failure of communication, or an unwillingness to acknowledge the truth. Throughout the day, as we peel back the layers and get to the heart of the conflict, it feels like a voyage of discovery. Sometimes, even when the conflict is presented squarely, and reasonable alternative settlement options discussed, the parties just can't agree. But, usually they can. And the process of mediation can assist greatly.
The mediation process also provides a forum whereby the parties can be heard, and can feel that they have had their "day in court" so to speak. Often, the mere process of telling their story can have a calming effect and can help the parties let go of the grievance to some extent, and settle.


Australia has not had a comprehensive review of its retirement income policies in nearly 30 years.
Superannuation and the age pension have grown alongside each other, but separately. Policy changes have been piecemeal and usually related to budget imperatives.
While government has commissioned reviews in the last two years into the financial system, taxation and income stream regulation, we still need to think about a holistic approach that takes into account all of the elements of retirement saving and income.
In this brief excerpt from her presentation at the inaugural leadership forum, CSRI founder and executive director Patricia Pascuzzo looks at a possible way forward.


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Home ▸ Engagement ▸ Re-purpose Your Packing with the Move Out Drive!
The annual Move Out Drive returned in full force in 2022. Between May 9 and May 23, the Georgetown University community was able to donate gently used furniture, clothing, books, non-perishable food, and other household goods at one of 7 collection sites between noon and 4 pm daily. Additionally, scheduled pick-ups were available eight days between May 11 and June 2.
In total, the Move Out Drive diverted 67,560 pounds of materials valued at $247,000. Donations were provided to KEYS for the Homeless (primary partner), Bread for the City, Community Forklift, La Cocina, The Family Place, Turning the Page, and more.
When and Where to Donate in 2022
On-Campus Community Members
Five collection sites will be conveniently located available across main campus May 9 through 19 and again on May 23 opened noon to 4 pm daily. Acceptable items for donation include gently used clothing, books, sports equipment, bedding (not pillows), electronics, and unopened toiletries and nonperishable food items.
Off-Campus Community Members
Off-campus pickups are managed by the Office of Neighborhood Life. Please visit the Off-campus Move Out Drive page for more information on how to donate if you live off-campus.
About the Move Out Drive
The annual Move Out Drive is Georgetown's end-of-the-school-year contribution to our community and the environment, inviting members of our campus community to "re-purpose their packing" at the end of the semester by donating gently used household items to local charities.
Each May, over 250,000 pounds of unwanted materials are discarded during move out, which can end up in local landfills, harming the local environment and the communities around them. Many students, faculty and staff have realized that there is a better way to re-purpose their packing and help care for our common home.
The Move Out Drive addresses the environmental challenge of the (literally) tons of unwanted clothing, books, school supplies and household goods that Georgetown students discard each year as they move out of their school-year residences. Applying the university's social justice mission to this challenge, Georgetown partners with local charity KEYS for the Homeless (new window) to collect and donate these unwanted items, providing every-day basic household goods to meet real life needs of those living in poverty in the DC region.
Through the years, the Move Out Drive has grown to involve the entire Georgetown community, on- and off-campus, to become emblematic of the university's quadruple bottom line approach to sustainability, serving people, the planet, and promoting prosperity for the common good. The annual Move Out Drive is a collaboration of the Office of Sustainability, Office of Neighborhood Life, KEYS for the Homeless, Office of Residential Living, and Department of Planning & Facilities Management. We would also like to thank our generous corporate sponsors, whose support helps make the Drive possible: Coca Cola and Mobile Mini Solutions.
In addition to serving some of the most vulnerable members of our community, the Move Out Drive helps to conserve natural resources and protect our region's air, water, and land by repurposing materials that would otherwise end up in local landfills and incinerators.
Each year, thanks to the work of dozens of university staff, Move Out Drive volunteers, and local charity partners, the Move Out Drive has been able to divert an increasing quantity and quality of goods from the waste stream. In 2022, the Drive diverted 67,560 pounds of materials valued at $247,000, which made it into the hands of local individuals experiencing or transitioning out of homelessness through the help of KEYS for the Homeless.
We are excited to once again work with KEYS for the Homeless Foundation, Inc., a local nonprofit organization that has been working to provide everyday basic household goods to meet the real life needs of those living in poverty for the past two decades. KEYS for the Homeless is a key partner in connecting the Move Out Drive with the dozens of organizations throughout the Greater Washington region who use the goods donated by Georgetown University Community. Your donations will reach those families and individuals served by our community non-profit organization partners.


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Gwenhaël de Gouvello, né le  à Cannes, est un acteur, professeur de théâtre et metteur en scène français. Il est le fondateur de La Compagnie du Catogan.

Biographie
Lancé dans l'aventure théâtrale depuis sa jeunesse en terre bretonne, Gwenhaël de Gouvello est passé par plusieurs étapes.
Tout d'abord, il fait son apprentissage au Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique de Rennes avec pour professeurs Robert Angebaud, Guy Parigot, Pierre Debauche, Madeleine Marion, …
Il fait ensuite l'expérience du jeu de l'acteur et de la vie de troupe au Théâtre National de Bretagne pendant quatre ans.
En 1991 il crée sa propre compagnie au sein de laquelle il met en scène une dizaine de spectacles dont Hes tes it Kantor, Tailleurs pour dames de Georges Feydeau, Fracasse de Théophile Gautier, Mordius de Gwenhaël de Gouvello, …
En 1999, il met l'association en sommeil et participe aux créations de François Kergourlay au Théâtre Firmin Gémier d'Antony.
De 2003 à 2005, il incarne Gerry dans Danser à Lughnasa de Brian Friel puis Don Carlos dans Don Juan avec le Théâtre du Frêne de Guy Freixe.
En 2006, il reprend les rênes de sa compagnie et met en scène Edgard et sa bonne d'Eugène de Labiche et Léonie est en avance de Georges Feydeau. En 2008, il obtient un franc succès avec son Timide au Palais de Tirso de Molina au Théâtre 13 puis Mr Mockinpott de Peter Weiss tous deux présentés au festival d'Avignon 2010.
Aujourd'hui, la plupart de ses spectacles ont été présentés dans des lieux prestigieux comme le Théâtre d'Évreux Scène Nationale, le Théâtre National de Bretagne, le Théâtre Firmin Gémier d'Antony Scène Conventionnée, le Théâtre Montansier de Versailles, L'espace Louis Jouvet de Rethel Scène Conventionnée des Ardennes, les Trois Pierrots à Saint-Cloud, les festivals d'Anjou, des Nuits de la Mayenne, du Château de Bonaguil, de Sarlat ou d'Avignon …. Il obtient une mention spéciale pour la mise en scène de Comment Mr Mockinpott fut libéré de ses tourments de Peter Weiss par le club de la presse du festival Off Avignon 2010.
Les années 2011/ 2012 seront celles de « La nuit européenne des musées » avec un parcours artistique à travers la maison de Chateaubriand à Chatenay-Malabry et de Zadig de Voltaire création au Théâtre 13 (6 semaines de succès) et 42 dates en tournées soit environ 25000 spectateurs. En 2013 création d'Antigone de Sophocle au Mois Molière et au Théâtre Alexandre Dumas de Saint germain en Laye, en 2014 il est en résidence de création à Versailles monte  deux spectacles : Love de Murray Schisgal, puis un diptyque  Ariane à Naxos et Médée mélodrame de Juri Benda (un opéra baroque avec 8 comédiens et 31 musiciens). Il est nommé directeur artistique de la « Fête à voltaire » en 2015 et monte avec succès Ondine de Jean Giraudoux actuellement en diffusion. 2016/ 2017 création de Matilda d'après Roald Dahl. 2018 aura pour création des Fourberies de Scapin de Molière… Il est le fondateur du festival « Les Parenthèses de Pornic ».

Professeur d'art dramatique
Au Théâtre d'Evreux scène nationale, au Théâtre Firmin Gémier/la piscine à Chatenay Malabry, Chargé de formation, par le Ministère de l'éducation, à la Mission de l'éducation artistique et Culturelle (sous-commission théâtre.) de 2000 à 2002 professeur d'Art Dramatique au Cours Florent 2013, membre du jury au concours d'entrée au Conservatoire National de Région de Versailles, membre du jury au concours des jeunes metteur en scène du Théâtre 13.

Théâtre

Comédien
 " Les Fourberies de Scapin" de Molière mise en scène de Gwenhaël de Gouvello
 "Matilda" d'après Roald Dahl mise en scène de Gwenhaël de Gouvello
 Ondine de Jean Giraudoux mise en scène de Gwenhaël de Gouvello
 Love de Murray Schisgal mise en scène de Gwenhaël de Gouvello
 Ariane et Médée de Juri Benda mise en scène de l'opéra Baroque Gwenhaël de Gouvello
 Antigone de Sophocle mise en scène et adaptation de Gwenhaël de Gouvello
 Zadig de Voltaire mise en scène et adaptation de Gwenhaël de Gouvello
 Comment Mr Mockinpott fut libéré de ses tourments de Peter Weiss mise en scène de Gwenhaël de Gouvello
 Edgard et sa bonne et Léonie est en avance d'E.Labiche et G.Feydeau mise en scène de Gwenhaël de Gouvello
 Gerry : Danser à Lughnasa, de Brian Friel, mise en scène Guy Freixe
 Don Carlos : Don Juan, de Tirso de Molina, mise en scène Guy Freixe Le tour du monde en 80 jours de Pavel Kohout mise en scène de François Kergourlay
 Le Fil à la Patte de  Georges Feydeau mise en scène Denis Berner  Tailleurs pour dames de Georges Feydeau mise en scène de Gwenhaël de Gouvello
 Le Capitaine Fracasse de Théophile Gautier mise en scène de Gwenhaël de Gouvello
 Mordius de Gwenhaël de Gouvello  La Fabuleuse Invention de Doc Chronolock de Gwenhaël de Gouvello pour le Futuroscope
 Monsieur Chasse de Georges Feydeau mise en scène Robert Angebaud
 Le Timide au Palais de Tirso de Molina mise en scène Robert Angebaud  Le Secret de la grande horloge d'Olivier Bourbeillon  Antigone de Sophocle mise en scène de Pierre Débauche

Mise en Scène
 Tailleurs pour dames de Georges Feydeau  Le Capitaine Fracasse de Théophile Gautier   Mordius de Gwenhaël de Gouvello  La Fabuleuse Invention de Doc Chronolock de Gwenhaël de Gouvello pour le Futuroscope  La très mérifique épopée Rabelais de françois Bourgeat et Marcel Maréchal  La maison Tellier de Guy de Maupassant  Certains l'aiment chaud de Billy Wilder  Arlequin deux poids deux mesures de Rémy Schatz  la station Chambaudet d'Eugéne Labiche   Chantecler d'Edmond Rostand  Turbulence et petit détail de Denise Bonal  Barouf à Chioggia de Goldoni
 2006-2007 Edgard et sa bonne et Léonie est en avance d'E.Labiche et G.Feydeau
 2008 : Le Timide au palais de Tirso de Molina, Théâtre 13, Théâtre Firmin Gémier Antony, Théâtre Montansier
 2010 : Comment monsieur Mockinpott fut libéré de ses tourments de Peter Weiss, Théâtre la Luna
 2011 : Zadig de Voltaire Théatre 13
 2011 Piazolla Tando Urbano de Astor Piazzolla, Horacio Ferrer et Eladia Blazquez
 2012 Antigone de Sophocle
 2014 Love de Murray Schisgal
 2014 Ariane et Médée de Juri Benda
 2014-2016 Ondine de Jean Giraudoux
 2015 Direction de "La fête à Voltaire"
 2017 création de Matilda de Roald Dahl
 2018 les Fourberies de scapin de Molière
 2019 "les contes de Guingois" . G.de Gouvello
Et "le tour du monde en 80 jours", Jules Verne
2020 "une demande en mariage" Tchekhov

Filmographie

Cinéma
Quand maman sera partie de Christophe Monier

Soleil de Roger Hanin

Merci la vie de Bertrand Blier

Dingo Dog de Rolf de Heer

Chouans de Philippe de Broca

Télévision
Julie Lescaut, épisode 6 saison 6, Question de confiance d'Alain Wermus : garçon de café

Grand Manège Claude Chabrol Olivier Bourbeillon

Joséphine ange gardien de patrick Malakian

Joséphine ange gardien de David Delrieux

Le grand patron de Claudio Donnati

Fibre Mortelle de Jaques Malataire

La famille formidable de Joël Santoni

Julie Lescaut d'Alain Wermus

Highlander d'Adrian Paul

Navarro de Patrick Jamin

Le gang des Tractions de Josée Dayan

Professeur d'art dramatique
Au Théâtre d'Evreux scène nationale, Au Théâtre Firmin Gémier/la piscine à Chatenay Malabry, Chargé de formation, par le Ministère de l'éducation, à la Mission de l'éducation artistique et Culturelle (sous-commission théâtre.)

Membre du jury au concours des jeunes metteur en scène du Théâtre 13

Membre de l'ANRAT

Liens externes

 Site officiel de La Compagnie Catogan
 Atelier du Théâtre Firmin Gemier-la Piscine

Acteur français de cinéma
Metteur en scène français
Naissance en décembre 1964
Naissance à Cannes
Élève du conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Rennes
Famille de Gouvello
Professeur d'art dramatique


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Epidemic of sexual violence in South Sudan leaves thousands in mental distress
July 25, 2017 Africa , HUMAN RIGHTS , News , OPINION/NEWS
Thousands of South Sudanese people have been raped in ethnically-charged sexual attacks in the ongoing conflict, and are now battling mental distress and stigma with nowhere to turn for help, human rights NGO Amnesty International can reveal in new research published.
Amnesty's report, "Do not remain silent": Survivors of Sexual violence in South Sudan call for justice and reparations, reveals how government and opposition forces have committed horrific acts of sexual violence against thousands of people across the country since hostilities began in December 2013. It also documents the devastating physical and mental implications this is having on communities across the country.
Amnesty's researchers interviewed 168 victims of sexual violence – including 16 men – across four states in South Sudan, as well as in three refugee settlements in northern Uganda. To collect this testimony, Amnesty worked with ten South Sudanese human rights defenders, who cannot be named due to fear of reprisals from the government of South Sudan.
In some cases, the attackers killed the women after they had raped them. In one incident, the assailants mutilated a woman's vagina with a knife after raping her because she had tried to resist. She died from her injuries four days later.
Civilian men and boys have also been attacked, and are particularly at risk of sexual violence while in custody. Some have been raped, others castrated or had their testicles pierced with needles. In one case, four government soldiers inserted grass in a young man's anal passage, set it on fire and watched him burn to death.
Muthoni Wanyeki, Amnesty International's Regional Director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes, said:
"This is pre-meditated sexual violence on a massive scale. Women have been gang-raped, sexually assaulted with sticks and mutilated with knives.
"These indefensible acts have left the victims with debilitating and life-changing consequences, including physical injuries and psychological distress. Many survivors have also been shunned by their husbands and in-laws and stigmatised by the wider community.
"Some of the attacks appear designed to terrorise, degrade and shame the victims, and in some cases to stop men from rival political groups from procreating."
One survivor, Gatluok, who could not escape with others when government soldiers raided his village in Unity State in May 2015, told Amnesty:
"Because of my blindness, I couldn't run with the young men and so I was caught. They told me to choose if I wanted to be raped or be killed. I said I didn't want to be killed and so they decided to rape me."
Amnesty found that perpetrators are from both sides of the conflict, pitting the government forces of President Salva Kiir, a Dinka, against opposition forces of Riek Machar, a Nuer, and their respective allied armed groups.
Amnesty is calling on the South Sudanese government to take urgent action to halt the widespread sexual violence, to make sure those responsible are held to account, and to ensure survivors receive the medical and psychological support and justice they deserve.
Unending suffering
One of the women Amnesty spoke to is now HIV positive. Others are suffering from fistula and bowel incontinence. Some men have been rendered impotent.
In addition to the long-term physical effects of sexual violence, the psychological burden borne by survivors is enormous, and can persist for years. Many victims said they were experiencing nightmares, loss of memory, lack of concentration, and had thought of revenge or suicide – all common symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Jokudu, a 19-year-old woman, was brutally raped by five government soldiers near Yei town in December 2016. She is now unable to control her urine and bleeds frequently.
Nyabake, 24, was gang-raped by government soldiers at a checkpoint in Juba in July 2016. She said she can no longer sleep for more than three hours a night because of nightmares. She said she always feels the soldiers are coming back.
Sukeji was gang-raped by three government soldiers in Kajo Keji in August 2016 in front of her two children. She said, "I do not want to remember but sometimes it just comes in my mind and I cry. Sometimes I wonder whether my children have this in their memory. When they grow up, what will they think of their mother?"
Nyagai, who was gang-raped by government soldiers in Juba in July 2016, lost her religious faith after her assault. She said she stopped going to church after she was raped and does not pray anymore. "Satan went through me the day I was raped," she said.
Jacob, whose wife Aluel, was raped in front of him by fighters of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement – In Opposition (SPLM-IO) – in Juba in July 2016, says he has contemplated suicide.
Failure to hold perpetrators to account and support survivors
South Sudanese authorities have repeatedly failed to conduct thorough and impartial investigations into crimes of sexual violence, or to hold those responsible to account in fair trials.
Additionally, South Sudan's weak criminal justice system and its inaccessibility create challenges for victims to report sexual violence. Survivors interviewed by Amnesty said that they felt unsafe reporting their experiences of sexual violence, especially if they were accusing a government official.
There is also a severe lack of physical and psychological support services available in South Sudan for survivors of sexual violence. Many people, particularly in rural areas, have no access to medical services, especially given the collapse of the healthcare systems in numerous communities. And specialised mental health services are almost entirely absent in the country, leaving thousands suffering the long-term effects of abuse and violence with no support.
Muthoni Wanyeki said:
"The South Sudanese government must take deliberate measures to halt this epidemic of sexual violence, starting by sending a clear message of zero tolerance, immediately ordering an independent and effective investigation into the attacks that have taken place, and ensuring that those responsible are held to account in fair trials.
"It must also deter sexual violence, including through removing suspects from the armed forces until allegations against them are independently verified or dismissed. Victims must be provided with justice, medical care and reparations.
"Opposition forces must prohibit sexual violence in their ranks, put in place robust mechanisms to monitor the conduct of their fighters, and cooperate with all investigations and prosecutions of their members under international law."
Politically and ethnically targeted
Many of the victims were targeted because of their ethnicity, which is increasingly conflated with political allegiance to either the government or the opposition.
In most of the cases Amnesty documented, Dinka men attacked Nuer women and Nuer men attacked Dinka women. But there are also cases, as in Unity State, where pro-government Nuer men have raped Nuer women they consider pro-opposition. In other cases, government forces have targeted women from non-Nuer communities.
Nyachah, 36, who was raped by seven government soldiers in the capital Juba said: "They [government soldiers] were telling me that I should blame God for creating me a Nuer." Nyachah's attackers were dressed in Presidential Guard uniforms and spoke Dinka.
Nyaluit, who was raped by five government soldiers in December 2013, said: "They raped me because I am a Nuer woman… They were talking about what happened in Bor – that Dinka women and girls were raped and killed by Riek Machar's ethnic group, the Nuer."
James, a Dinka, was forced to watch as nine Nuer opposition fighters broke into his home and took turns gang-raping his wife, Acham, before killing her. "Don't you know that Dinka and Nuer are fighting and that many Nuer were killed by Dinka in Juba?" the attackers told him.
The interviews in this report were gathered in cities, towns and villages across four states in South Sudan – Central Equatoria, Jonglei, Upper Nile and Unity- and in three refugee settlements in northern Uganda.
South Sudan's legislative framework fails to define or criminalise torture, crimes against humanity and genocide, and therefore sexual violence cannot be prosecuted within South Sudan as any of these crimes. The acts of sexual violence described in this report, however, do constitute crimes under South Sudan's Penal Code. Despite this, South Sudanese authorities have repeatedly failed to conduct thorough and impartial investigations into crimes of sexual violence.
Amnesty International is a non-governmental organisation focused on human rights with over 7 million members and supporters around the world. The stated objective of the organisation is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated.
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Andrew Aamot, president and co-founder of Strava Craft Coffee adding the hemp oil preparation to that will make a blend of CBD-rich hemp oil-infused coffee. on April 24, 2018 in Denver, Colo.
Colorado law now stipulates that hemp products will be regulated like food ingredients.
Gov. John Hickenlooper on Wednesday signed House Bill 1295, which formalizes an 11-month-old state policy that applies existing food manufacturing guidelines to products such as hemp oil-infused coffees and hemp-derived extracts rich in the non-psychoactive compound cannabidiol.
Beyond codifying existing policy, the "Hemp Products Deemed Not Adulterated or Misbranded" bill was viewed as a novel move to protect the state's emerging industrial hemp industry as the plant's legality is debated federally.


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Home Business Agribusiness Crop Doctor contributes GH45,000 to the 38th National Farmers' Day
Crop Doctor contributes GH45,000 to the 38th National Farmers' Day
Crop Doctor Ghana Limited (CDGL), the leading agribusiness company and a subsidiary of ECOM Ghana, has donated farm implements worth GH45,000 through its mechanisation unit 'MICROMEC' to the various districts, regional and municipal directorates of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) in support of the 38th National Framers' Day celebration.
Crop Doctor donated 10 motorised sprayers, 10 fertiliser applicators and souvenirs to support the directorates in honouring our gallant beneficiaries.
National Farmers' Day is observed on the first Friday of December annually to honour farmers and fishermen who put their hearts and souls into the soil and sea to provide food for the nation. This year's event was held on December 2, 2022 at the various regional and district levels, with the national event observed at Jubilee Park in Koforidua, the Eastern Regional Capital under the theme 'Accelerating Agriculture Development through Value Addition'.
The Head of Business Development for MICROMEC, Mr. Felix Sarfo Fosu, after leading the team to donate the items on behalf of Business Head Mr. Sudhir Kumar said that: "Agriculture continues to be the backbone of the nation, and Crop Doctor is happy to partner with and support farmers during this occasion as we have done every year. We will continue to provide solutions to farmers and modernise the Ghanaian agricultural space to promote prosperity in our farming communities".
After receiving the items, the beneficiaries commended the Crop Doctor team for their generosity. "A special thank you to Crop Doctor Ghana Limited for supporting Farmers' Day each year. Indeed, the company has demonstrated its ability to revolutionise agriculture in Ghana.''
As part of the donation exercise, Crop Doctor Ghana Limited made a donation in support of recognizing the best regional farmer in the Greater Accra region, in addition to setting up exhibition stations to showcase its extensive inventory of agricultural goods and farm equipment.
The Best Regional Farmer in the Greater Accra Region, upon receiving the items, thanked the team and expressed interest in the warehouse engagements the company offers, as well as all the lessons and resources it is using to develop one-stop shopping options for farmers. He also said he is looking forward to another year full of engagements and valuable insights to learn.
The Greater Accra Regional Directorate awarded Crop Doctor with a citation in appreciation of its thoughtful act and recognition of its expertise in agricultural innovation, and encouraged the team to carry on the good work it has already started in the area. The Regional Director said: "Crop Doctor's Micromec solutions are not just machines; they're business ideas for our young entrepreneurs to enter the agricultural space through harvest, post-harvest and food processing".
Crop Doctor Ghana Limited (CDGL) is one of Ghana's most renowned agricultural input companies and respected brands. CDGL is a one-stop shop for all farming needs and collaborates with over 500,000 Ghanaian farmers to understand their needs and provide innovative, environmentally friendly and cost-effective solutions through its agrochemicals, fertiliser, seeds, farm advisory and equipment, etc.
The firm imports and distributes agrochemicals, fertiliser, seeds, spraying machines and other farm tools and equipment. With products like Sharp Power 4T slasher and pruner, Rock Star, Agradaa, Nicotop, Commander, Swift and others becoming household names, Ghanaian farmers have reaped the benefit of increased yields and improved farm health.
Crop Doctor's business model has been designed with the goal of "serving farmers to create prosperity in rural communities". CDGL is committed to providing a complete service for the farmer – not only providing inputs to protect the crops from disease but also equipping them with knowledge about farming, disease control and the identification of infestations.
Crop Doctor also enables convenient payment options to ensure the farmer makes timely applications without having to worry about his cash flow. Crop Doctor is able to offer this facility to farmers at a much cheaper price. Crop Doctor supports government's vision of increasing farmer-yields and net disposable income by providing innovative farm implements, knowledge and quality agro-inputs at affordable prices.
As an organisation, CDGL aims to be a reference point in the agribusiness value chain by committing to bettering the lives of Ghanaian farmers, allowing the country to grow and the economy to improve. It intends to remain the pacesetter by expanding its product offering and service delivery, as well as continuing its incredible work with farmers to promote ECOM, Ghana's rural prosperity agenda in support of rural producers and entrepreneurs.
Crop Doctor Ghana Limited (CDGL)
Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA)
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