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Sarah Eleazar and Sher Ali Khan
Himal Southasian Magazine, Sri Lanka, 2018-06-15
Federally administered tribal areas of Pakistan are simmering with resistance, and Sarah and Sher take the most dangerous mine-ridden risks in the rugged terrains of the country to give us a detailed report of how the tribes strive to end human rights' violations and bat for removal of landmines in the tribal areas. The authors' cohesive and lucid writing style helps us understand the dynamics of tribal conflict in Pakistan and the inner workings of its military agencies and state police. It's is something we have never read before.
Anatomy of a Political Moment
How a democratic movement is challenging Pakistan's status quo.
What kind of freedom is this?
You are deaf to our voices.
Our young men keep getting killed.
– 'Da Sang Azadi Da' by Shaukat Aziz
The entrance of Manzoor Pashteen into the historic Mochi Gate Park in Lahore evoked memories of the political struggles of the 1960s when politicians raised slogans for azadi. On the evening of 22 April 2018, the narrow streets around Mochi Gate, or Speaker's Corner as it was called during the movement for Independence, rang with the Urdu slogan of "Ye jo dehashatgardi hai, iss ke peechay wardi hai!" (The ones responsible for terrorism are the ones in uniform), and the Pashto "Da Sang Azadi Da?" (What kind of freedom is this?), a phrase from a poem written by Shaukat Aziz, a Wazir tribesman, in protest against the Army's military operations in their area. The line of Pashto poetry has become a rallying cry for the students mobilising under the banner of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (Movement for the Protection of Pashtuns), and the poem, their anthem.
Through a side gate of the park, surrounded by admiring supporters, the figure of Manzoor Pashteen appeared to be gliding past flowing sewage water and towards the stage. Later, activists would swap anecdotes of the entrance: how Manzoor's supporters had carried him to the stage, and his feet did not even touch the ground. The tone of admiration and awe is reflective of the hopes the embattled population of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) has pinned on this 26-year-old graduate in veterinary sciences from Gomal University in Dera Ismail Khan(DI Khan). The previous gatherings in Quetta and Peshawar had seen thousands of men and women clutching posters of their family members, many of whom have been missing for as long as 15 years.
The charged environment at the rally was preceded by a few tense days as it was unclear whether the local administration would allow a protest of this nature to take place in Lahore. On 12 April, the Chief of Army Staff Qamar Javed Bajwa delivered a speech spelling out the official line regarding the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM): "No anti-state agenda in the garb of engineered protests, etc., aimed at reversing the gains achieved at heavy cost in blood and national exchequer succeeds." Though the rally was not banned, the state pulled out all stops in its attempts to slow down preparations for the event, as was evident from the crackdown that ensued. From the day after Bajwa's remarks, reports of harassment and threatening phone calls from intelligence agencies and policemen to activists, journalists, professors, Pashtun university students, traders and even labourers in Lahore's Walled City flooded social media.
"This is really the first time that there has been a movement that challenges actual centres of power in Pakistan", says Ali Arqam, a Karachi-based journalist. "For political parties they [the PTM] present a mirror and asks them where they stand. More important has been how they have been able to raise the question regarding constitutional rights, specifically about the overarching role of the security-establishment," says Arqam.
From a Hostel Room in DI Khan
The origins of the PTM lie in the Mehsud Tahafuz Movement, (MTM) started in May 2014 by eight students of the Mehsud tribe staying at the Gomal University Hostel to campaign for the rights of the Mehsud community impacted by military operations. The 'War on Terror', ostensibly marking Pakistan's participation in the American 'Global War on Terror', has taken a heavy toll of civilian lives, especially in northwestern Pakistan. Journalists working on the city pages of national dailies in Pakistan speak of the steady stream of stories of extrajudicial killings, termed 'encounters' and 'shootouts'. Usually reduced to a single column, the script of these stories is always the same; it is only the names that change.
It was the killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud, owner of a clothes shop and an aspiring model, in a police encounter with four alleged Taliban militants on 13 January 2018 that opened the floodgates of anger in the Pashtun community. Soon after the killings, pictures of Naqeebullah holding his child and posing for photographs flooded social media. "Manzoor and I were planning to hold a campaign around landmines in South Waziristan at that time," PTM leader Ali Wazir told us in an interview, "but Naqeeb's murder became the event that launched the movement."
Pashteen had announced a Pashtun Long March from Dera Ismail Khan, by a small group of members from the MTM.They were to walk through Pashtun-majority areas along FATA and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, all the way to Islamabad. Despite a lack of media coverage, the march grew and grew as families of the 'disappeared' joined them in the thousands, said Wazir. Ismat Shahjahan, a central leader of the PTM and president of the Women's Democratic Front, described the Peshawar meeting: women, who had never been to a public gathering before because of the conservative society they lived in, threw up their burqas and held up pictures of their missing fathers, brothers, husbands and sons to the cameras. "I watched them beg the people holding up cameras to make a video of them or shoot a picture of them, hoping that maybe someone would recognise their loved one and bring them back" Shahjahan said.
Wazir is a dominating and jovial figure with a large thick moustache and wavy hair flowing down to his shoulders. When he spoke to us, he had been on constant tour since the end of January when the movement began to expand, and had hardly slept in weeks. A manager of a transport company, Wazir was born into a family that was part of the anti-colonial struggle. Later, his father became the chief of the Ahmedzai Wazir tribe. Wazir completed his early education in Wana – the largest town in South Waziristan – and studied law at Gomal University, where, influenced by the International Marxist Tendency group he became an activist.
Wazir describes how, with the War on Terror, his hometown and its surrounding areas underwent a transformation – first with the entrance of al-Qaeda and the Taliban, and later the army. His brother Farooq Khan Wazir was killed in 2003, among the first victims of targeted assassinations in South Waziristan. In 2005, Wazir's father, another brother, uncle and cousins were killed as well. None of these murders were investigated, despite several complaints and pleas. Wazir contested the 2008 general elections unsuccessfully from the NA-41 parliamentary constituency, which includes Wana, along with the districts of Tiaraza, Birmal and Trikhel. He contested the 2013 elections as well, but lost with a margin of over 300 votes.
At the protest in Islamabad, which continued till February, politicians from various political parties vied for a chance to address the mammoth gathering. Leaders from the Pashtun nationalist Awami National Party, Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, and mainstream political parties such as Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf were there, as were civil society activists such as Asma Jehangir, a few days before her premature death. The Awami Workers Party announced complete support for the movement.. The MTM also welcomed religious groups, inviting them demonstrate their support for the movement. Soon, the planned ten-day sit-in by the Mehsud Tahafuz Movement would be transformed into a broader Pashtun Tahafuz Movement and encompass a wider set of demands, all within the ambit of the Constitution.
The PTM is fighting the military establishment in a way that no one has ever done before, says Wazir. "We are talking about using Constitutional means to achieve meaningful representation of marginalised people and an end to their miseries".
It has been important for Pashteen to stress the constitutionality of these demands because the state has been treating him as a persona non grata and an enemy. He has demanded a commission for truth and reconciliation in FATA, the return of missing persons to their families or for them to be produced before court, the handing over of checkpoints to local policemen, removal of landmines in FATA, an end to extrajudicial killings, and for Senior Superintendent of Police, Rao Anwar, the man behind the operation that killed of Naqeebullah Mehsud Anwar, to be tried for murder and given the death penalty. While several politicians and journalists have urged the state to take the PTM's demands seriously, the state appears to have intensified its crackdown against anyone who supports the PTM. Manzoor Pashteen's Twitter account was blocked the day after the gathering in Lahore, and #ManzoorNamanzoor (We do not accept Manzoor) was trending for most of the day. Activists were arrested in Karachi and Hyderabad for protesting against the state's high-handedness against PTM leaders in Lahore.
War on Terror and the Terror of War
In 2001, under the military regime of General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan joined the US-led War on Terror. The tribal areas of Pakistan increasingly came under the influence of al-Qaeda militants but both conservative and liberal mainstream political parties were against sending the military into the tribal areas.
Arqam says that the Taliban, which had taken hold of vast areas in FATA at one point, targeted progressive activists, who were either silenced or killed. The inaction of the army against Taliban attacks was attributed to the fact that they were seen as allies against the real threats: progressive and democratic voices.
In 2009, the Pakistan People's Party-led government brokered a peace deal in Swat district, passing legislation recognising Sharia in the Malakand division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. This was a hugely controversial bill, which gave powers to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan(TTP) to virtually run their own state in the area. When the agreement collapsed, a large-scale military operation was launched in the area. The operation was condemned not only because of how it was conducted, as it displaced entire communities, but the manner in which it made Pashtun synonymous with terrorists. This image was further reinforced by the negative depiction of Pashtuns in movies and telefilms – mostly those sponsored by the Army's media wing – to shape the national discourse on the War on Terror. Arqam says that the War on Terror or what he likes to refer to as the 'Terror of War' after the Swat operation, was celebrated by the hyper-nationalist mainstream media which ignored stories from local people, including those who lost their relatives. Protests by locals against the operations were presented as support for the Taliban based on tribal loyalties, rather than what they were – a protest against the armed forces for their inaction against terrorists while targeting the entire Pashtun community.
In 2014, following a gruesome attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar, in which 144 students and teachers were shot dead by TTP assailants, Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif informed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that they would launch a retaliatory military operation in North Waziristan. There was a de facto media blackout. The operation marked the end to an era of supporting the 'good Taliban' versus the 'bad Taliban', and a regime of enforced disappearances, custodial killings and torture was instituted. One million people were displaced, some of whom settled in IDP camps while others ended up moving to Karachi and other cities.
In 2015, repatriation began and as the displaced families started to return, many came home to razed villages, empty shops and homes bombed to rubble. No one had removed landmines from the area and several people ended up getting killed or maimed from stepping on them. Killing of civilians continued. It is this context that Pashteen has given voice to the local population, bringing their stories to the cities of Peshawar, Lahore, Karachi and the capital Islamabad.
The Threat of a Broad Alliance
The impact of the PTM movement is reflected in how it has triggered a wider debate surrounding the role of the military in politics and citizen rights, and also the state-policy of tacitly supporting non-state actors. Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who was disqualified from office, has also been leading a campaign calling for civilian autonomy. "Manzoor is a manifestation of these scattered voices and now more and more people are coming forward together in the form of a major movement," says Arqam. In a political landscape where questioning the state and its policies is punished and labeled anti-state, the PTM has emerged drawing its legitimacy from constitutional demands for accountability. And therein lies the perceived threat and the reason for the crackdown by the government.
"We have twice been refused permission to hold a gathering at Mochi Gate," announced Ali Wazir, at a meeting in Lahore a day before the 22 April rally, where he was joined by other leaders from areas where the military operations have taken place. There was serious concern that the rally would not take place and a sense of fear that they were up against forces much more powerful than the small group of people gathered on the lush green grounds of Lahore's Lawrence Garden. There was also anger at the fact that the Pakistan Zindabad Movement, an establishment-backed anti-PTM group, was given permission to stage a protest in front of the Lahore Press Club and hold a rally at Nasser Bagh on the same day.
At the press conference following the Lawrence Garden meeting, there was barely any 'press' to speak of, but within minutes, dozens of people had started live streaming the conference on Facebook. The use of social media has been crucial for the movement to provide an alternative to television channels which have by and large followed the line of the army, terming the PTM 'anti-Pakistan' and part of some conspiracy against the army. While there has been some favourable coverage in international media, and a little support from Pakistan's English-language newspapers and independent magazines, for the most part, each meeting, rally or activity is covered and disseminated on social media.
"We have held rallies and gatherings all over Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA, and have not seen as much fear of state repression as here in Lahore… Many of our supporters here have been picked up…They say to us, you will do your jalsa[gathering] and leave, what will become of us?" Wazir told the social media activists on Saturday.
A week before this press conference a lecturer of the sociology, Ammar Ali Jan was dismissed from the Punjab University on allegations that he was anti-state because he supported the Pashtun movement. A few days later, a student activist from Lahore received an envelope with a bullet, and a Post-it carrying the warning that the bullet would be used on him the next time. On 20 April, two days before the gathering, Shahjahan said she was attacked in the Garhi Shahu area and the rally posters in her hand were snatched. The press hired to print banners and flyers for the rally was attacked the same day, and thousands of posters were seized. Most media houses followed unwritten directives for a blackout, while providing full coverage to counter-movement groups. The administration of Forman Christian College sent its students on campus the following sms alert: "Dear Residents, there is some issue going and people from Pashtun community are being arrested by the Punjab Police; all FCC student residents, specifically residents from KP and Baluchistan, must travel by bus to Ewing Hall and avoid any unnecessary travel."
Within hours of the press conference vans of the Counter Terrorism Department of the Punjab Police surrounded a hotel on Davis Road where PTM leaders and activists were staying. Armed policemen and security officers in plain clothes barged into their rooms and took them into custody without presenting arrest warrants. "If you don't have warrants, you are abducting us," Shahjahan told them. "I don't believe any woman should speak among us men," one of the policemen told her.
The video shows a policeman on the phone, counting the number of people in the room and saying: "We have Ali Wazir and ten other Pathans [Pashtun people].
"Pathan hain?" cry the activists in the room, "Pakistani hain!" (Are we Pashtun? We are Pakistanis). "Aik ladies bhi hain," the cop continues. "Wohbhi Pathan hi hain." (There is a lady. She, too, is Pashtun).
As the policemen led away Wazir, Shahjehan, Fanoos Gujjar (president of the Awami Workers Party, or AWP], Nisar Shah of the AWP, Muzammil Khan (a student and leader of the Pashtun Education and Development Movement, PEDM), and other leaders, more vans made their way across the city to homes and offices of civil-society activists suspected of supporting the PTM. Activist Diep Syeda said that she got away only because she wasn't home when the police arrived.
Pashteen announced his response to the crackdown through Facebook and YouTube: "Tomorrow there will be a PTM rally at Mochi Gate in Lahore. Punjab Police I'm also coming. If you want to arrest me do it on the road. And if you don't see me anywhere come to Mochi Gate at 4. I will be there. I too wish to see the jail cells where you have tortured Pashtuns in the past."
Rallying in Lahore
Activists and supporters of the PTM in Lahore and especially the city's Pashtun community spent a fitful night on Saturday, waiting for news of the release of their leaders. PTM supporters in the provincial capital cities of Peshawar and Quetta had held protests and many took to Twitter to condemn the arrests. #ReleasePTMLeaders remained trending throughout the country that night. Other reports of harassment, recorded by activists, were coming in as well. When a bus full of Pashtun students from the Bahauddin Zakariya University in Multan was stopped from leaving the city, a student broadcast the police intimidation they were subjected to on Facebook. Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's daughter Maryam Nawaz posted a tweet demanding that the PTM leaders be released. Under pressure, the police released the activists who immediately announced that the rally would continue as planned – on 22 April 22, 4 pm, at Mochi Gate, Lahore.
The next morning, the area in front of the stage was flooded with foul-smelling sludge after a sewage drain had been directed to the rally site overnight. "We have been visiting the ground for so many days and there was no sign of sewage then, this was done on purpose," said Saleem, one of the volunteers. Within half an hour, the first volunteers to arrive rolled up their sleeves and cleaned the area after redirecting the sewage.
By 2 pm, the area had dried up and several other groups of PTM supporters had arrived. As 4 pm drew nearer, the gathering began to take a more organised shape. On the stage sat the main leaders of the movement, along with several prominent faces from local left groups. Posters carrying information and details of those who had gone missing were hung around the stage. In the front stood two young boys, between the ages of 8 and 12, holding posters of their father who was picked up some years ago. Many of the placards held up in the sea of people depicted a silhouette of Raza Khan, an activist for cross-border peace, who was abducted from Lahore in December last year. On 2 December 2017, Raza Mahmood Khan, who worked for an initiative named Aaghaz-e-Dosti, that aims to foster better ties between the youth of India and Pakistan, was taken from his single-bedroom apartment in Lahore. When his friends alerted the police and they broke into his house, his desktop computer was missing. Civil society groups and friends of Khan have been protesting, demanding his release since then. The rally rang with slogans demanding an end to landmines, humiliation at checkpoints, racial profiling and extrajudicial killings.
Pashteen went on to tell the story of Mohammed Noor of North Waziristan, who was educating his daughters Waja Hassan and Wajiha Hassan to become doctors. "The girls were very smart and they applied themselves to their studies dutifully… One late evening, at their home, Noor was sitting in a corner dozing off, and the two girls were busy studying when the sound of heavy bombardment from a nearby village rent the calm sleepy night. Their house was hit all of a sudden, and the two girls died. You think we are lying? Go to Darpakhel village and ask anyone about Waja Hassan and Wajiha Hassan, you will find out. The day after the tragedy, newspapers carried the headlines: terrorists killed in operation on Darpakhel village", said Pashteen as the crowd cried "Shame!"
Raza Wazir, an MPhil student at Punjab University, who wrote the widely-shared article, 'To Be Young and Pashtun in Pakistan',in March for the New York Times, says Pashteen has provided hope to many youths in the FATA and wider Pashtun-majority areas. Raza, who was born in the 1990s, grew up close to the Durand Line under the shadow of war, with his father working in Dubai, part of the large migrant labour force that leaves for the Gulf because of a lack of job opportunities in the area. Raza says the charismatic Pashteen has been able to communicate with people with very diverse backgrounds.
The crackdown on the PTM has continued despite civil-society voices in support of the movement, which has remained peaceful. PTM workers were harassed in the days leading up to the Karachi rally in May with many detained in prisons. Pashteen, who was supposed to fly in from Islamabad a day before the rally, was refused air tickets by every single airline at the Islamabad Airport. He eventually travelled over 900 miles to Karachi by road, and was stopped and harassed at multiple checkpoints in every city on the way.
What Pashteen offers is a pill that may be too bitter for the state to swallow. Any meaningful engagement with the PTM would require the state to admit to its shortcomings and flawed policies implemented in FATA; acknowledge that there needs to be a complete overhaul of the oppressive state structures operational in the area; and make a serious attempt to ensure representation of these marginalised voices and provide reparation. While many believe that the movement will only grow from here, others are more cautious in celebrating.
Arqam says the PTM has been successful in creating broad alliances, welcoming all political parties, and expressing solidarity with other movements such as the Hazara Sit-In led by Jalila Haider. While the movement is not organized enough to contest elections, its influence in steering the national debate on the role of the security-establishment has been central. However, the support from nationalist and mainstream olitical parties, who are looking at the Pashtun vote, may not last beyond the elections scheduled in July 2018. What the state is fearful of, says Arqam, is that the movement could become more powerful, broadening into a universal call against the military. Such fears could lead to an intensified government crackdown against the PTM or attacks by the Taliban against PTM workers which might not be resisted by state agencies. On 3 June, two PTM workers were killed and a dozen were injured after militants attacked a gathering.
"After a very long time, we are getting to hear voices that are political, but non-partisan, and entirely in favour of human rights – regardless of whether those oppressed are Pashtuns, Punjabis, Hazara or Baloch – the PTM is a voice for all," said advocate and human-rights activist Hina Jillani, commenting on Sunday's rally. "This is why the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan is visibly and vocally supporting the PTM."
However, she cautioned, that those responsible for the oppression were just starting to realise that these voices were not going to be silenced, and now that people are listening to them, the state is panicking. "The recent raid on the home of the editor of HRCP's [Human Rights Commission of Pakistan] annual report was suspicious to say the least. But our job is to expose those behind such cowardly acts, and we will continue to expose them in the future," she said.
https://himalmag.com/pasteen-tahafuz-protection-movement-rally-manzoor-pashteen-pakistan-rights/


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There seems to be a dramatic shift in terrible events and awful occurrences in the last few months which strongly indicate that Satan is very active and that we are closer to the return of Christ than some may perceive or suspect.
For example, a disturbed individual sent pipe bombs by mail to political figures and news outlets. We observed the largest massacre of Jews at their synagogue in U.S. history, worshipping on the Sabbath, with eleven people brutally murdered by a mentally deranged hateful individual. Then, a former veteran killed twelve people at a bar in California, before he cowardly killed himself.
As mentioned, we can see the hand of Satan in these events which indicate his time is short, since he is so active. A few weeks ago, Mr. Norbert Link asked us to fast in the following week. How many took that admonition to heart and put it into practice? We trust, all of you did. Fasting is a crucial part of maintaining a close relationship with God; especially, as we get closer to the great tribulation, which appears to be not too far ahead of us even though we do not set dates.
If you think of your own family out for a walk and your son walking next to you, it is not likely that he will get helplessly into any kind of trouble or threat by your side. If your son is walking one hundred feet ahead of you, your reaction time of helping him is greatly decreased if something threatening occurs to him and you may not reach him in time to prevent injury or harm. When we are close to God, He may react to our needs and calls for help more readily than if we neglected the tools He has given us to stay close to Him, and He may allow us to face some trials and troubles to teach us a lesson, which we would not necessarily face otherwise if our relationship to Him was close and intimate.
As the great tribulation is drawing nearer and as time marches on towards the return of Christ, it is crucially important for us not to neglect prayer, Bible study, meditation and occasional FASTING.
It appears from all indications that we have reached the "beginning of sorrows." The next major prophesied event would be the beginning of the great tribulation, which means we have to be close to God in order to persevere to the end, praying always to be worthy to escape the sore trials facing this world and having the determination to endure to the end of our lives or Christ's return. We cannot put a price tag on the reward we will be given for remaining faithful to the end.
Being part of God's Kingdom is being part of the royal Family of God. We will be ruling under Christ as Kings and Priests (compare Revelation 5:10). We shall rule mankind on the earth during the Millennium and the Great White Throne Judgment period since that is where man's problems are which have to be resolved. We will oversee and bring about, under Christ, the spiritual rejuvenation of the nations to lead them to the Truth and the Knowledge of the one true God Family. We will teach mankind the necessity of observing the Sabbath as the ONLY day of worship during the week, as well as God's annual Holy Days, while abolishing pagan worldly weekdays and holidays, such as Sunday, Christmas, Easter or Halloween, which turn man away from the true God to Satan, the current god and ruler of this world.
We will also oversee the rebuilding of destroyed cities and the providing of housing, clothing and physical things required to have a rich fulfilling life; the reclamation of the land to make it productive for food; and the cleaning up of the polluted oceans, rivers and lakes. Can we imagine the challenges and joy we will have when we accomplish all of what God has in store for mankind? It is beyond imagination how some could just walk away from such a challenging and glorious future to enjoy some passing pleasures of sin.
It really behooves us not to look back once we have put our hand to the plow, as we have been admonished time and again in sermon after sermon. Sadly, some do not seem to listen or care. But now is not the time to quit or drop the ball seeing we are so near to the end. We must push forward, staying close to God and keeping our eyes firmly on the crown which God patiently awaits to give to all who faithfully endure to the end. We must not neglect the tools given to us by God to achieve our wonderful goal.


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These are the latest additions to a robust lineup of new projects already announced for the park.
The dark ride will break new ground with its integration of live performers and high-octane stunts .
Walt Disney Studios Park will add three new areas that are based on Marvel, Frozen and Star Wars.


@redbird Recon crypticly suggesting Cook is on a visit this weekend with Reeves.
We ever find out if there was anyone else on campus?
Welcome! I wasn't sure if there was a 3rd I needed to be looking for out there Haha.
What are the odds that is Ike's actual uniform? I'd find it surprising if they just had blank one's sitting around. Remember when Abdou committed and they put him in David's jersey?
Don't a lot of recruits get their photo taken with a uniform on? I've seen it with football and women's basketball.
Yes, but those sports don't have last names on. Like football and women's basketball have closets full of left over "generic" jerseys that recruits can put on. I just have a feeling if they showed the back it would say, "Gassman." Nothing wrong with it, but an observation.
I hope you're right. We're in desperate need of a starting PG.
HS: 18 pts./6 rebs/7 assists/2 steals per game.
Juco: 13.7 pts./6.6 rebs/4.0 assists per game. Team leader had 5.1 and another 6-4 guard also had 4.0 per game, seemed to share the assist duties. The numbers can be looked at in a variety of ways and also would reflect team personnel and coaching philosophy, but there at least appears to be a history of that skill set vs. not and DM hoping he and the coaches can add that to his game.
Really wanting to get him signed. Everything I have heard about him says he is a pass first defensive minded point guard.
I'd be a little surprised if we didn't get him. As I said a few days ago, I just have a feeling about this one. I'm not a fan of how its all playing out with the top 3 and everything, but that is todays recruitment game. Human natures says he probably knows where he is going already, and is just doing the top 3 for the theatrics. All just personal preference there.
One of his JUCO teammates has been offered by Eastern Michigan too.
2 Adidas schools and a Nike School. No shoe allegiance with this kid apparently.


Think of it. Twelve legions of angels, ready to be unleashed instantly at a single word from the Father. Roughly sixty thousand angels or more, every one of them eager, wishing, hoping to be allowed to intervene … grieving, indignant as they saw what was being done to Jesus … but all fully obedient to God's will, as difficult as it must have been to stand by.
It must be hard to be an angel. To know that you have the power to help, and yet have to stand by because God's will is being carried out in a slower, more terrible, and more glorious way than you could ever have imagined. To refrain from meddling, from taking over the life of someone else, even to make it better. To respect God-given free will, just as the Lord who made it does.
You may know this conflict if you are a parent, a teacher, a pastor or educator of any kind. Even for those of us who are not, there can be a terrible urge to rearrange our friends' lives for them—to "fix things for them"—because we "know better." And yet, without an invitation from the people themselves, or a command from God, we cannot. We end up making things worse for the very people we love. How difficult it is!
Thank God that He is not under the same constraints. When He reaches into our lives to help and heal us, He does it right. He doesn't make things worse with His meddling. He knows when to respect the free will He created, and He knows when to respond to our cries for mercy. As He did in His best blessing to us—Jesus' life, suffering, death, and resurrection.
Thank You, Father, for caring for us in Your wisdom and mercy. Please keep us when we go through difficult times. Amen.
Have you ever been glad later that you didn't intervene—and if so, in what situation and why?
Has there been a time in your own life when you wanted God to intervene—and were later glad He didn't do what you wanted?


When people mention Disneyland, everyone begins naming their favorite rides--Pirates, Splash Mountain, Indiana Jones. Dumbo has become so popular that entire guide books are based around it. In fact, most guide books are based exclusively around the rides--how to beat the lines, effectively using fastpass, sequence of the rides, etc.
Now don't get me wrong. Rides are important, very important. But some of our favorite parts of Disneyland were not rides at all. If you are planning a trip to the happiest place on Earth, you will not want to miss these 5 non-ride attractions.
#5--Jedi Training (or Fantasy Faire) Our boys still brag about fighting Darth Vader and Darth Maul to all their friends. Their training certificates proudly hang on their bedroom wall. We have even caught them practicing their lightsaber moves. Friends have told me the princess equivalent is just as magical for little girls. Be sure to skip a few rides and participate in the show--when else are you going to be trained by a Jedi Master and defeat the world's greatest villain.
#4--Redwood Creek Challenge Trail (Disney California Adventure) After standing in lines and going on rides, children welcome a break at a playground and this is far more than a playground. Older children can complete a set of challenges including a zipline, rock wall climb, rope net climbs, and more with a prize at the end for completing all the challenges. Younger guests can enjoy exploring and going on the slides. Our three-year-old kept asking when he could stop going on rides and go back to the slides.
#3--Fantasmic--Disneyland's nighttime show is all the magic of Disney with modern special effects. Several scenes from Disney classics are depicted on giant floats with music, fireworks, and animatronics bringing them to life. Watch Pan and Hook fly through the rigging as they battle on a life-size pirate ship; see the lake become a fountain show as pink elephants dance across a screen of water; gasp as a gigantic snake floats along the water's surface and twists among the Jungle Book characters; delight in the firework finale. The show is almost 30 minutes long and rivals a Broadway play.
#2--Meeting Mickey--What Disney vacation would be complete without getting a picture and a hug from the big mouse. Many little children refuse to go on a ride until they have seen their beloved Mickey come to life. Our three-year-old preferred seeing Mickey in his house. He was delighted to explore every room of "Mickey's house" and touch all of "Mickey's things." Then when he got to give Mickey at a hug at the end, it was amazing.
#1--Character Dining--This was one of our favorite parts of the trip and well worth the extra money. Because of our schedule, we chose to eat dinner at Goofy's Kitchen. We were there for almost 3 hours and saw 7 characters. Our seven-year-old came to life. He bought an autograph book (I highly recommend this) and then drew a picture of each character after they signed. He also plans on adding pictures we took of him with each character. The actors were amazing and very friendly. Minnie started a dance party and our seven-year-old proudly showed off his break dancing moves. The buffet dinner was good with several choices for children like pb&j pizza as well as adult food like fresh salmon. Highly memorable, relaxing, indoors, and fun.
So when you plan your schedule, make sure you save plenty of room for no-riding times and take advantage of the shows, characters, and experiences that Disneyland offers.
Hi, not to nit pick but Fantasmic has been around since 1993. We used to watch it all the time in High School. But I would say it's probably number 1 in my list. I even worked guest control shifts on it occasionally even though I was a ride operator and enjoyed it because I could watch it again and again.
Fantasmic was amazing. I did not realize it had been around that long. Thanks for the correction.
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Posted by cathannabel in Michel Butor, W G Sebald on August 29, 2016
Since the announcement of Michel Butor's death a few days ago, obituaries, hommages, appreciations and recollections have appeared in the quality press across Europe . But not here in the UK. Not a word.
It wasn't always thus. In 1956, Butor's second novel, L'Emploi du temps, was published, with an English translation appearing in 1960 (Passing Time). The setting was immediately recognisable to British readers – a northern English city, rain drenched and fog bound, grimy and sooty, where you can't get a drink until evening, and you can't get a decent meal anywhere, at any time.
This was Manchester, where Butor, fresh from teaching in Egypt and 'inundated with sun', came for a two-year stint as a lecteur at the University. Manchester, masquerading as Bleston, where Revel, a young Frenchman, came for a one year contract translating documents for a shipping company.
It's not the city's landmarks that make it so recognisable. Butor keeps some features but plays fast and loose with their relative positions, adds a second Cathedral, and configures the railway stations in a kind of noose around the city centre. He transforms Belle Vue into Plaisance Gardens. His street names mingle the authentically Mancunian (Chorley) and the generic (New Bridge, Birch Street) with odd-sounding names such as Continents, Mountains or Geology.
Anyone trying to use the frontispiece map as a guide to Manchester would very soon get as lost as Revel did – quite apart from the liberties Butor has taken with the real city, the map shows only those streets and landmarks which play a part in the narrative. Manchester's Strangeways prison does, however, retain its distinctive shape and is a brooding presence at the heart of the novel.
Manchester's rain and fog, the smoke from its chimneys, the days without daylight, the sprawl of the city in which one could walk for hours and not reach the countryside, the black water of the canal – these are both the reality of 1950s Manchester and its myth.
And the novel draws you in with its opening chapter, which blends poetry
Suddenly there were a lot of lights. … I gradually struggled free of drowsiness, sitting there alone in the corner of the compartment, facing the engine, beside the dark window-pane covered on the outside with raindrops, a myriad tiny mirrors each reflecting a quivering particle of the feeble light that drizzled down from the grimy ceiling
with the mundane miseries of travel
this was not the fast through train which I ought to have taken and on which I was to have been met; I had missed that by a few minutes at Euston, which was why I'd had to wait indefinitely at some junction for this mail-train
and foreshadowing, of the mundane miseries still to come, and of the darker and deeper threat to be faced:
I remember standing up and smoothing out the creases in my raincoat, which was then still sand-coloured. ….For my vision was still like clear water; since then, every day has clouded it further with a sprinkling of ash
It's reasonably clear at this stage that the narrator is writing in May about the events of the previous October. As the time scheme for the novel becomes more complex, the darker undertones become more prominent, and the reader will either be mesmerised, as caught up in the threads as the narrator himself, or merely mystified and frustrated.
Poet Allen Fisher was in the former category, and that tantalising opening section inspired his own poem, 'Butor. Passing Time again':
window-pane covered on the
rainside
litdrops, a myriad
restring parcel of
feeble light
drizzled down from the grimy
sealing a thin blanket of noises
enfold me begin to thin
Philosopher Richard Wollheim's 1969 novel A Family Romance uses a diary format to chronicle a man's plans to poison his wife. The protagonist is reading L'Emploi du temps and ruminates on the notion of murder and argues – seemingly with Butor but more accurately with Revel – about the way in which the diary records events, looping backwards and looking ahead – but ultimately coming to a realisation that 'a man might change his mind'.
the hero, a young Frenchman, … picks up a crime story called 'The Murder of Bleston', Le Meurtre de Bleston. … He wants to murder Bleston and wishes someone actually would. (p. 15) … The author of the book I'm reading attributes to an author within the book an interesting theory about the book he's writing. He – the author within the book – is a writer of detective stories, and his theory is that every detective story is constructed around, we might say is a string stretched between two murders: the murder committed by the assassin upon the victim, and the murder committed by the detective … upon the assassin (p. 55)
As against the author of L'Emploi du temps I invoke a notion of completeness which insists, not that everything is in, nothing out, but rather that any signle thing that is in should bear upon it the marks of every other thing, in or out. … If my criticism of Butor is justified, what he ignores – namely, that addition alters what is added to – is something that is not a necessary feature of all writing but is a feature of, and a defect in, his writing (p. 122)
I have argued … that the later entries [in Revel's diary] are either disruptive or superfluous. Disruptive, that needs no explanation: superflueous, in that if the later entries do not nollify the earlier ones, then they have been anticipated by them, everythng that they have to say is buried in the earlier ones if only we dig deep enough. Alternatively, if Butor really felt he still had something to say, why did he not rewrite the diary as a totality? (pp. 161-2)
It gave better than any other book I've ever read the feeling of how where one is affects who or how one is. … perhaps it's not so much a matter of what a place does to one as what one does to the place or rather what one can't do to the place, 'the intractability of Bleston'(p. 229)
In criticising L'Emploi du temps, what I never appreciated is that a man might change his mind (p. 236)
For artist Steve Hawley the novel seemed to anticipate interative fiction, and it inspired his film, Yarn:
a "recombinant narrative" or generative cinema DVD video installation, using archive footage of Manchester of the 1950s, and a voiceover spoken by a computer programme, which uses the capacity of the DVD medium to present different scenes and spoken text so that the narrative never repeats itself.
The experience is like the 1001 nights, in that the story has no beginning and no end, but rather an immersion in a narrative world where fact and fiction are blended.
I have explored elsewhere the response of W G Sebald, who came to Manchester 15 years after Butor, to L'Emploi du temps. This is evidenced in his long poem, 'Bleston: a Mancunian Cantical', published in English translation in 2011. The darkness of Bleston fed into his state of melancholy, his alienation from his birthplace and his preoccupation with the landscape of trauma.
So, different readers will find different ways of reading this complex novel. In doing so they echo Revel's own efforts to make sense of what is happening to him, of what Bleston is doing to him, or what he can or can't do to it. As he reads the detective novel Le Meurtre de Bleston he extrapolates from the hints and clues in the text and conversations with friends, coming to believe that the novel is a fictionalised exposé of a real murder and thus that his revelation of the pseudonymous author's real identity threatens his safety, and ultimately that a road accident which befalls him is an attempted murder. He casts himself as the detective, just as he casts himself as Theseus once he discovers the series of tapestries telling that story. He casts the city as a sorcerer, as a Hydra, as the Minotaur within the labyrinth of its streets, and himself as embattled, attempting to resist its power.
There are so many threads that one can follow through the labyrinth of the text. But given its capacity to draw in British readers in particular through the fascination of seeing ourselves through others' eyes, and through the dry humour of the portrayal of a 1950s northern city, it is sad that Jean Stewart's English translation is currently only available at prices that would deter all but the most dedicated readers. Perhaps, when the British press gets around to noticing Butor's passing and commemorating it appropriately, some enterprising publisher will take a punt on reissuing it, and giving a new generation of readers the chance to explore those rainy streets and lose themselves in Bleston.
Meantime, his Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ape can be found in translation at quite a reasonable price, if you feel inclined to explore its Gothic mysteries…
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Allen Fisher, 'Butor. Passing Time Again', in Gravity (Salt, 2004)
Steve Hawley, 'Locative Narrative and an IPhone App: Manchester as a Mythical City' http://www.stevehawley.info/writing.html
W G Sebald, 'Bleston: A Mancunian Cantical', in Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001, translated by Iain Galbraith (Hamish Hamilton, 2011)
Richard Wollheim, A Family Romance (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1969)
L'Emploi du Temps, Manchester, Michel Butor, W G Sebald
Michel Butor, 14 September 1926-24 August 2016
Posted by cathannabel in Michel Butor on August 25, 2016
A writer more written about than read, perhaps. A demanding writer, 'difficile et crypté', yes. And impossible to sum up, as obituarists are doubtless realising right now, as the news of his death crosses the globe.
All the tributes will make the obligatory reference to the 'nouveau roman', despite Butor's insistence that he was never really a part of this group, despite the fact that it was never really a group anyway. All the tributes will mention La Modification (though the French Minister of Culture has apparently referred to it today as La Consolidation…), his best known work. But a glance along the shelves of even a modest Butor collection such as mine will show the diversity of his oeuvre.
Four novels, all from the 1950s, including the aforementioned La Modification, as well as the novel which has obsessed me for the last 10+ years, L'Emploi du temps. Mobile, an 'étude' on the US, a sort of road movie in poetic form.
Portrait de l'artiste en jeune singe (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ape), which plays with autobiographical elements and Gothic horror tropes: 'history, fact, illusion, myth, dreams, legends, black magic and memory become indistinguishable'. The series Genie du lieu (Spirit of Place), meditations on the places he lived, worked in and visited, from Egypt to Australia, and back (again and again) to Paris with whom he had a love-hate relationship throughout his life. Another series of meditations, on dreams, Matière de rêves, as well as Histoire extraordinaire: Essai sur un rêve de Baudelaire. Essays on literature, and Illustrations, texts to accompany imaginary images. Dialogues with Beethoven's Diabelli Variations and with Stravinsky's Concerto for Two Pianos. And collaborations – with composers such as Henri Pousseur, and with visual artists with whom he produced 'artists' books', where his text worked with/alongside/as part of the piece. Poems by the hundred, some few collected in the Anthologie Nomade.
Butor was born in a suburb of Lille, third in a family of seven children. His father worked for the railways, but was also an artist. They moved to Paris in 1929, where they remained apart from a spell in Evreux during the 'phony war'. After studying at Lycée Louis le Grand and the Sorbonne, Michel taught in Egypt, then took up a two-year post as lecteur at Manchester University ('a difficult change of climate'). He published his four novels with Editions de Minuit, and they gained considerable critical acclaim, winning prestigious literary prizes. He married Marie-Jo, had four daughters, travelled and taught around the world, his last academic post being at the University of Geneva. Retired since 1991, he continued to write, particularly in collaboration with other writers and artists, but the loss of Marie-Jo in 2010 meant that 'the powerful creative spirit, the enthusiasm for reaching new frontiers of understanding and knowledge, and the appetite for travelling, all were less intense'.
Attempting to sum him up might be a lost cause. His Complete Works (which was acknowledged to be far from complete) ran to 12 hefty volumes. A 'perpetual innovator', he was preoccupied with crossing and blurring borders and boundaries, between countries, between people, between creative genres. He was a poet, a philosopher, an academic, a specialist in music, painting and literature, and a great traveller, and he built a body of work that was unclassifiable and complex.
He saw art in its broadest sense as a ' gigantic weaving, with a profusion of individual strands and threads', to which all the arts and all artists contribute. There is no such thing as an individual work, no such thing as a completed work. The boundaries between text and music and painting are not fixed, they are 'three faces of the same enterprise', this 'immense cultural weaving'.
And while readers and critics acknowledge that his works make strenuous demands upon them, what is also acknowledged is that he was a man with ambition but without arrogance or ego. He believed in the importance of his own work as part of this cultural fabric, but not in his personal importance. He was no austere ascetic, but loved wine, and jazz, and detective novels. He was generous and warm, as his many interviewers have invariably noted.
He was also idealistic. He believed that art could change the world, that it was vital. Poets to him were the researchers and the technicians of language, and it was through working on and with language that they could change the world. His adolescence in Paris during the Occupation, when violence and the thread of violence were ever present, when words were dangerous and silence could be resistance or collaboration, when knowledge was rationed and ideas a clandestine currency, haunted his work and fired his beliefs in art and freedom. He didn't write to sell books, he wrote to find a unity in his life, writing was a 'spinal column'.
Butor's writing does not lend itself generally to uplifting quotations. But today one does spring to mind.
Every word written is a victory over death.
He wins.
Bibliography (incomplete…)
Passage de Milan (Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1954)
L'Emploi du temps (Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1956), translated as Passing Time, by Jean Stewart (London: Faber, 1965)
La Modification (Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1957)
Le Génie du lieu (Paris: Grasset, 1958)
Essais sur les modernes (Paris: Gallimard, 1960)
Histoire extraordinaire: Essai sur un rêve de Baudelaire (Paris: NRF Gallimard, 1961)
Mobile: Etude pour une représentation des États-Unis (Paris: Gallimard, 1962)
Description de San Marco (Paris: Gallimard, 1963)
6 810 000 litres d'eau par seconde: Etude stéréophonique (Paris: Gallimard, 1966)
Portrait de l'artiste en jeune singe: Capriccio (Paris: Gallimard, 1967)
Dialogue avec 33 variations de Ludwig van Beethoven sur une valse de Diabelli (Paris: Gallimard, 1971)
Où: Le Génie du lieu II (Paris: Gallimard, 1971)
Matière de rêves (Paris: Gallimard, 1975)
Boomerang: Le Génie du lieu III (Paris: Gallimard, 1978)
Improvisations sur Michel Butor: L'Ecriture en transformation (Paris: La Différence, 1993)
Stravinsky au piano (Paris: Actes Sud, 1995)
L'Utilité poétique (Saulxures: Circé, 1995)
Anthologie nomade, ed. Frederic-Yves Jeannet (Paris: Gallimard, 2004)
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It is happening right here…
Posted by cathannabel in Politics on August 19, 2016
A week after the Brexit vote, I attempted to corral my thoughts, rein in my emotions and say something about what had happened, and what it might mean. I talked in particular about what was already being reported as a spike in racist abuse and attacks, just in those first few days, often explicitly linked to Brexit – 'we won, why are you still here?' and so on.
At that point, this was something I was reading about in the press. But as I've talked to friends and colleagues since then, it's become apparent that it's happening right here. Of course, why wouldn't it? How could we imagine that we would be immune? That's what prompted this sign, in the window of the Hicks Building, home to the Physics & Astronomy department at the University of Sheffield, a place which celebrates the global nature of science and academic study.
This is just one incident. It happened to someone I know, someone who spoke with passionate articulacy about what it meant, personally and for his colleagues and fellow citizens. It happened yards away from the sign pictured above, it happened whilst I was revelling in music at the start of Tramlines, which seems to me to sum up everything I love about this city, it happened close at hand, in my city, at my University.
Matthew Malek had a near miss with a driver going at an unsafe speed. There were minor remonstrations, as one might expect. But when the driver shouted '"Learn how we walk in this country, immigrant bastard!", the nature of the encounter changed radically. Matthew is a British citizen – irrelevant, apparently, because he has a New York accent, and his features show his Egyptian (Coptic) heritage. What struck Matthew most was the use of the word 'immigrant' as an unequivocal term of abuse. 'He spat the word in precisely the same tone that I have heard others use the slurs "nigger", "faggot" and, on occasion, "Jew". It is a tone adopted for the express purpose of degrading and demeaning.'
The driver seemed ready to translate verbal abuse into a physical attack. Had this happened in a less public place, at a less busy time, with fewer CCTV cameras to record the encounter, he might well have done so.
Matthew has lived in the UK for over a decade and this is the first time anything of the sort has happened to him. He shared his account because he felt it was important that people know that 'the rising tide of racism' is on our doorstep:
We have all seen the news reports of a rise in racial violence over the past month… but it is not just happening somewhere "out there". It is happening right here, in Sheffield, in a Northern city that celebrates its friendliness and its strong ties to community. It is happening right here, on our university campus.
We celebrate our internationalism, we draw students and staff from all over the world. And having welcomed them here we want them to be safe, we want them not to feel afraid, not to feel alone. We can and must be witnesses, we can and must speak out, we can and must stand with each other. We have far more in common than that which divides us.
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http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n15/john-lanchester/brexit-blues
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/27/no-one-told-me-to-go-home-for-16-years-then-we-voted-for-brexit
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-racism-uk-post-referendum-racism-hate-crime-eu-referendum-racism-unleashed-poland-racist-a7160786.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/racism-brexit-immigration-eu-referendum-post-referendum-boston-least-integrated-town-a7150541.html
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The Office of NDC Leader, Professor John Evans Atta Mills, is not too surprised at the attempt by CPP flagbearer, Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom, per a publication in today?s edition of The Chronicle Newspaper, to use the NDC and its Leader as convenient punching bags.
For a person who spent 6+ years going against the collective will of the CPP, and serving in the Kufuor led NPP government that has worsened the living conditions of Ghanaians, we are not surprised that in wanting to make himself relevant in the political equation, Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom chooses to expose his gross ignorance of the development path of the Central Region, and taking an uninformed swipe at Professor John Evans Atta Mills.
As it is very clear that Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum is unaware of it, the Office of the NDC Leader wishes to bring it to his attention that when Professor Atta Mills took the oath of office as Vice President, he swore to be Vice President of Ghana, and not Vice President of the Central Region.
As such, as Head of the Economic Management Team, Vice President Atta Mills focused on an equitable distribution of the nation?s resources and was not interested in a tunnel-vision style of leadership pivoted around a concept of nepotism that could have created unnecessary tension and in an extreme case, led to civil strife.
However, the Office of the NDC Leader takes this opportunity to educate Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum on the extent to which, inter alia, Professor John Evans Atta Mills, as Vice President, made sure that the Central Region had its fair share of the national cake.
It is a fact, which cannot be disputed by the ignorance of Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum, that, during the period that Professor Atta Mills served as Vice President, Cape Coast, like some other regional capitals, got a Regional Hospital.
It is a fact, which cannot be disputed by the ignorance of Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum, that, during the period that Professor Atta Mills served as Vice President, and out of the Atta Mills sponsored GETFUND, the Cape Coast University got two new halls of residence.
It is a fact, which cannot be disputed by the ignorance of Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum, that, the Atta Mills sponsored GETFUND gave the Cape Coast Polytechnic, two new halls of residence, a new administration block, constructed roads within the polytechnic, and was in the process of putting up a four story lecture hall before the NPP took over the reins of government.
It is a fact, which cannot be disputed by the ignorance of Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum, that, the Brimsu Water Expansion project was undertaken during the period that Professor Atta Mills served as Vice President of Ghana.
It is a fact, which cannot be disputed by the ignorance of Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum, that, the Ekumfi electrification project was undertaken during the period that Professor Atta Mills served as Vice President of Ghana.
It is a fact, which cannot be disputed by the ignorance of Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum, that, the whole of the KEEA (where Ndoum is the current MP) Traditional Area?s electrification project was undertaken during the period that Professor Atta Mills served as Vice President of Ghana.
It is a fact, which cannot be disputed by the ignorance of Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum, that, the Breman Essikuma electrification project was undertaken during the period that Professor Atta Mills served as Vice President of Ghana.
It is a fact, which cannot be disputed by the ignorance of Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum, that, the Elmina market project was undertaken during the time of Dr. Ato Quarshie, NDC MP, and during the time that Professor Atta Mills served as Vice President of Ghana.
It is fact, which cannot be disputed by the ignorance of Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum, that, the Elmina Beach Hotel, a four star hotel, was built during the time that Professor Atta Mills served as Vice President of Ghana.
It is a fact, which cannot be disputed by the ignorance of Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum, that during the time of Professor Atta Mills as Vice President, a modern bridge was constructed over the River Prah at Twifo Praso.
It is a fact, which cannot be disputed by the ignorance of Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum, that, the Mankesim market was constructed under the watch of Professor Atta Mills as Vice President of Ghana.
It is fact, which cannot be disputed by the ignorance of Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum, that, under the watch of Professor Atta Mills as Vice President, Construction Pioneers (CP), asphalted major roads in Cape Coat, including, Aggrey Junction to Petro Roundabout; Pedu Junction to Bakano Roundabout; 3rd Ridge Junction to Nkamfua; and the Anafo/Idan/Amanful/Brofoyedu road, which after colonial times, had never seen any rehabilitation.
It is a fact, which cannot be disputed by the ignorance of Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum, that, the Winneba water system was overhauled during the period of the NDC and that today, it is one of the best in the country.
It is a fact, which cannot be disputed by the ignorance of Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum, that, the major roads in the Winneba township were tarred during the period of the NDC, and are still in good shape.
It is a fact, which cannot be disputed by the ignorance of Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum, that, the Winneba Telephone Exchange system was set up by the NDC.
It is a fact, which cannot be disputed by the ignorance of Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum, that, the Winneba University was established during the time of the NDC.
For a fact, Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum knows very little about the history of his home region, Central Region, and knows very little about the history of his KEEA constituency, hence the mockery he is making of his ignorance.
We are not surprised that Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum, having been part of the NPP government that has turned the clock of progress backwards and worsened the living standards of the ordinary Ghanaian to the extent that eradicated diseases like the guinea worm disease and yaws are rearing their ugly heads, would be clinging on to straws as part of his unnoticeable achievements.
What happened to Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum?s promise, as Energy Minister, to add 300 megawatts of power to the country?s energy stock?
We find it amusing that the restoration of the Osagyefo Barge at Effaso, without it adding a single kilowatt of power to the country?s energy stock, is something that Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum will be touting as one of his achievements.
Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum, for reasons best known to him, conveniently forgets that the Osagyefo Barge was the result of the thinking of the NDC and its operatives.
It is not surprising that with the likes of Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum having been put in charge of the Energy Ministry, Ghana went through a torrid energy crisis lasting more than a year.
Indeed, we are still not out of the crisis as Ghanaians continue to live with countless power outages even when we are being told that the crisis is over.
If it is Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom?s desire to be given the mandate to be a Leader of only a section of this country, his narrow mindset has been exposed and it will not be surprising, after the declaration of results in December, to notice that not too many Ghanaians would have looked in his direction.
The Office of Professor John Evans Atta Mills hopes that with what we have put out, Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum will endeavour to school himself on issues regarding the stewardship of Professor Atta Mills as Vice President of Ghana before making public his thoughts, so as not make a mockery of himself via his gross ignorance of such matters.
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RE: Official Atta Mills responds to Nduom It is a fact, which cannot be disputed by the ignorance of Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum...... Nduom had called for it and has been flattened in the process. For more on Prof Mills' campaign, check out his website...... www.attamills
RE: Official Atta Mills Head of Eco Mgt Wow, good job Prof Mills. You preside over the free fall of the cedi from 650 cedis to 7900 cedis as against the USA dollras in two years. You have one credit called " Free fall of the Cedi - Atta Mills Story". Read below.
RE: Official Atta Mills Head of Eco Mgt .....and what has a loud mouth like you done for your country ? EMPTY BARRELS !
RE: Official Atta Mills Head of Eco Mgt Ghanaba, what have you also done for Ghana? EMPTY TINAPA CANS!
RE: Official Atta Mills Head of Eco Mgt Are you comparing yourself to me ? LOL I will not descend into gutter with you.
RE: Official Atta Mills Head of Eco Mgt You already did; how deep do you want to go? http://sil.ghanaweb.com/r.php?id=3630488&thread=3630447
RE: Official Atta Mills responds to Nduom Well spoken, Prof Mills, you have a foresight, unlike, "Dr" Nduom.
RE: Official Atta Mills responds to Nduom Send this to fools like Azar.
Deeley
RE: Official Atta Mills responds to Nduom Deeley, Let us diagree with respect to "our" oponents. Do you have to call Azar "a fool" because you disagree with him? There are times when even the "best" of us do foolish things, that does not make the one a fool. For
RE: Official Atta Mills responds to Nduom Divine, has Azar ever insulted any NDC member on SIL? Just asking.
RE: Official Atta Mills responds to Nduom Eye for an eye is not my game. If he did then he is wrong and I would say so when I have knowledge of it. Are two or more wrongs amount to good?
RE: Official Atta Mills responds to Nduom Divine, "Se Brebre aama, anka Amane3 nnso aama"
RE: Official Atta Mills responds to Nduom Oh mouth, Why have you chosen to "punish" me? Please make life a little easier for me. :-)
RE: Official Atta Mills responds to Nduom Divine, I don't mean no harm. Have a pleasant day.
RE: Official Atta Mills responds to Nduom I know you mean no harm; have a pleasant day too.
RE: Official Atta Mills responds to Nduom Please
NiiAddotey1
RE: Official Atta Mills responds to Nduom You may please yourself; civility may mean nothing to you.
Official Atta Mills responds to Nduom Sorry, Educated but dumb! The Educated Dumb and Unitary Politics of Ghana Oh, Oman Ghana! Who is the only lord that makes policies in Ghana? It should be noted that; the lord who makes Ghana?s policies is to be blamed
Old FUFU Food Processing Grads
Mr. Mills NOT ready for PrimeTime Folks, Now U know why I keep saying the Honorable Prof Mills is not ready for Primetime, he only goes to the extreme to defend his record only when Nduom lit a fire on his behind. He should be pro-active not re-active.
Na-Sei
RE: Mr. Mills NOT ready for PrimeTime Stick to fufuo pounding machines and leave such things to the more sensible ones.
RE: Mr. Mills NOT ready for PrimeTime U too, u be loud mouth too much , haba !
RE: Mr. Mills NOT ready for PrimeTime Na-Sei, you hate it when others make their point, right? Welcome to the prime-time!
RE: Mr. Mills NOT ready for PrimeTime what point, sir ?
RE: Mr. Mills NOT ready for PrimeTime Where proactive in this sense means...... You guys will have something to say even if the man is right on the money. It Atta Mills should walk through fire, you'd still be saying it was because he could not douse the fire.
RE: Mr. Mills NOT ready for PrimeTime massa, The man is in the middle of a political campaign he should be telling anyone who will listen about his accomplishments, he waits until someone confornts him and then all of a sudden he's parrot.... BFN
RE: Mr. Mills NOT ready for PrimeTime The BIG question is what has Nana Addo achieved as MP, as cabinet minister for huge outfits such as foreign ministry and justice ministry? yaaa mutu
RE: Mr. Mills NOT ready for PrimeTime Sometimes its best to let your opponents make a mockery of themselves with their own ignorant statements. The credibility of Nduom is now in the gutters
RE: Official Atta Mills responds to Nduom A great and swift response!
Kofi Ameko
RE: Official Atta Mills responds to Nduom What a load of bull crap.............. come to think about it that these jokers and numskulls want to rule Ghana.
K. Komen
RE: Official Atta Mills responds to Nduom Tell us what Nana cocahene Addo have achieved ofui
RE: Official Atta Mills responds to Nduom Very powerful. Nduom is a disaster already happening.
Lebene
RE: Official Atta Mills responds to Nduom The statement from Egya Ta begs the question, was anything built or developed in Central region before he ascended to the vice presidency? Based on Egya Ta incoherent mumbling, it seems nothing was built in Central region an
Man-O-War
RE: Official Atta Mills responds to Nduom stupid fool. Cant you read? or u just dumb
RE: Official Atta Mills responds to Nduom This is absolutely uncalled for. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Joshua Osei
RE: Official Atta Mills responds to Nduom Hua HUA HUA HUA. da man bring im sef
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