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There is something unspeakably terrifying about letting go. Without deliberateness, words flowing on a page -or paint on a canvas- results in a vulnerable and wild thing. An imperfect beast that reveals too much. When every line, color, and stitch is precise, there is safety. When you rule the canvas, you control what everyone sees, even if it lacks rawness. In the process of creating, this artistic cognitive dissonance transforms into a stagnating block.
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The $*&% Went Down! | Oil, Synthetic Polymer, Embroidered Thread on Silk Organza over Wood
The $*&% Went Down!, as with many of Kellner's pieces, juxtaposes geometric and organic layers. In this particular piece, the surface is a wild element, with its bright colors and unique patterns. It almost looks like a lively coral reef. From up close, the shapes and colors are meticulously painted and stitched, which Kellner says mimic the stems under a hydrangea flower that she had cut from her own yard. The bottom layer of the piece is the antithesis to the front- colorless and behaved. As light hits the piece, the wild entangled shapes of the front cast a shadow on the panels. Although the two layers seem individuated, the shadow becomes a part of the piece as it forces the two layers to interact with one another. Similarly, the surface never fully hides the panels or the whiteness. These two seemingly incompatible parts create a well-balanced whole in which both the untamed and tamed coexist.
Embrace Me | Pigment, Acrylic, Oil, Plaster, Resin, Ink, Silk, Copper, Metal, Paper
Kellner breathes life into Embrace Me by creating a likeness to lungs inside of a ribcage. The bony white structure protects but it can also constrict, becoming an overbearing cage for whatever it holds. Hollow and airy, the beautiful silk represents the more chaotic side of this piece. The silk manifests its own duality- freedom versus a complete loss of control. Some parts of the silk are inhaling beyond the bones, protruding outside the boundaries. However, the white and more solid structure keeps the silk in check, literally embracing it. There is a push and pull, or rather an inhale and exhale encased in this particular piece. Kellner achieves equilibrium by balancing freedom and protection.
Slick Willie | Spray paint, Oil, Acrylic, Embroidered Thread on Silk over Wood with recessed Wood Structures
Kellner indicated that Slick Willie is one of her more experimental pieces. She describes playing around with spray paint on silkscreen, enjoying the paint's opacity in different lighting. In contrast, the black acrylic paint is completely covering the bottom of the piece. While the spraypaint is more fluid, the black almost resembles solid rocks- strong, heavy, and bold. Kellner's use of transparency plays into the idea of the surface being consumed. When what's below is covered, there seems to be superficiality and inauthenticity. Again, the white panels are still only partially covered, therefore inseparable from its organic counterpart. Perhaps Slick Willie explores the boldness of the surface and how it can never fully get rid of the reality underneath. Or the surface's wild behavior and how it's kept in check by the simplicity inside.
Disperse | Silk, Synthetic Polymer, Enamel on Wood
Thematically, Disperse keeps the white panels but changes the context of their existence. Instead of being combined with the silkscreen, they have become disparate components. There is no longer unity in the sense of a physically connected piece, but perhaps their separation brings a different kind of unity. If both parts are on the surface, then nothing is being hidden and superficiality dissolves. The wooden panels have embraced the wild, relaxed and unevenly spaced leaning against the wall. The silkscreen has embraced the colors of the panels while still maintaining a pink aspect and unruly shapes. Maybe their division has lead to compensation or even understanding of one another. Either way, chaos and control must always exist together- neither can be hidden.
Cognitive dissonance and the fear of lacking control is something Kellner herself grapples with as an artist. There is an urge for perfection in her art that she finds restrictive. In Surface Consumption, she embraces both her wild and precise side, turning opposites into partners in creation.
Surface Consumption will be held at Gallery 263 until November 10, 2018. (And I strongly urge you to visit and explore these wonderful works of art for yourself!
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With just a week until Christmas, isn't it time that you have a foolproof sugar cookie recipe? This recipe makes fantastic cutout sugar cookies that hold their shape and don't need to chill first – a huge bonus if you've got impatient kids, or if you're just busy. 'Tis the season of busy, after all. Read on for a fantastic Christmas cookie recipe that we hear Santa loves! We're also going to link you to some of our favorite cookie baking and decorating tips from around the web. Huge bonus – even if you've got ZERO time to go Christmas shopping, everyone loves a box (or Kilner jar) of cookies. And these are not only super easy to make and highly delicious, but they're inexpensive – a great way to save some money during this expensive time.
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But enough talk. Let's bake instead! What makes these cookies extra special? You don't have to chill the dough before baking. You can freeze the cookies OR the dough. They hold their shape without being too hard. They bake quickly. But most importantly, they're super-tasty.
In a bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda and salt until thoroughly combined. Set aside.
In the bowl of a mixer (or with a hand mixer if you want) cream together the butter, lemon zest, tangerine zest and sugar until the mixture is well combined.
Add the egg, scrape the bowl, and then add the vanilla extract.
Add flour mixture and beat until just combined. Don't over mix or you'll ruin the texture, but scrape bowl to make sure everything is incorporated.
Once dough is barely incorporated (It'll still be crumbly, turn it out onto a lightly floured work surface. Knead it lightly with your hands to combine, then roll to about 1/4 inch thick.
Cut into shapes and put on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
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Here at Pacific Merchants we love the holidays, and we're pretty equal opportunity when it comes to celebrating. Why? Because we're a pretty diverse group and learning about each others' customs is a blast. So we figured, before we dig in on Christmas-mania, early December would be a good time to share our favorite Hanukkah recipe: a simple recipe for latkes that is beyond delicious. Plus, we've scoured the net for some other delicious variations on potato pancakes. Because nothing says good times like fried carbs, fascinating traditions, bright lights, miraculously efficient oil lamps, and great friends.
I'm sure you know that latkes are traditionally served at Hanukkah, but I've served them at parties all year long. When made on the smaller side and topped with a bit of sour cream and a slice of smoked salmon, you've got a beautiful, and totally crowd-pleasing appetizer. Some other favorite toppings include: Traditional sour cream and applesauce, brie and cranberry sauce, sour cream and bacon (clearly not for those who keep kosher,) fried eggs and chives, and even peanut butter and jelly. I've occasionally even used hem in place of an English muffin in eggs Benedict. SO good. But suppose you want to keep it traditional and serve latkes for Hanukkah? Well, first, when is Hannukah? Unlike Christmas, it changes every year. Hanukkah 2014 is December 16-December 24. Now that you know the dates, it's as easy as whipping up a batch of these tasty treats.
Oil, chicken fat, or butter for frying. I'd suggest bacon fat, but that's not kosher.
Peel your potatoes and your onion. Either in a food processor or by hand with a box grater, grate your potatoes. If you're using a box grater, be wary of your knuckles. I wasn't, and I regretted it.
Line a wire mesh strainer with cheesecloth or a clean dishtowel. Put all your potato and onion mixture into the dishtowel.
Twist the cloth to squeeze moisture from the potato mixture, and let sit for 15 minutes to drain.
Latkes are best when eaten fresh, so about 14 mintues before you're ready to eat, pre-heat your oven to 200 degrees, and heat a large skillet over medium high heat. Add about 1/4 inch of oil to your skillet.
Drop heaping spoonfuls of the mixture into the oil. It should spread out, so leave room between latkes.
Cook the potato pancakes 3-4 minutes on each side. Both sides should be golden and crisp.
Eat right away or keep warm in the oven.
There you have it – a delicious treat for the eight nights of Hanukkah in eight easy steps. Now that you know how to make potato pancakes from scratch, something tells me you're going to be doing it all year. It's super-easy, after all, and incredibly delicious. But let's just say you wanna try a different recipe. . .
These sweet potato latkes are from our blog – we posted them last year when looking for a sweet potato recipe for Thanksgiving, which just happened to fall on the first night of Hanukkah.
These rainbow latkes from What Jew Wanna Eat – Not only are they incredibly fun to look at, but they're a great way to get an extra serving of veggies in. Each one is made from different produce, and is naturally colorful.
These Gluten Free Carrot Scallion Latkes from Elana's Pantry. We love that Elana thought to make a paleo-friendly version of a latke, and we love the way the scallions and carrots taste together. A perfect combination!
These super-flavorful Zucchini and Green Garlic Latkes from Sassy Radish – I'm a little obsessed with green garlic, and I always seem to have a surplus of zucchini, so to me, this is the perfect latke recipe.
If you want to make it sweet, these Apple Latkes from Smitten Kitchen are AMAZING, especially with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. What a nice way to end a meal.
Have a happy Hannukah, Friends. I hope you enjoy it!


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5397433A few days after leaked e-mail messages appeared on the Internet, the U.S. Congress may probe whether prominent scientists who are advocates of global warming theories misrepresented the truth about climate change.
Sen. James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, said on Monday the leaked correspondence suggested researchers "cooked the science to make this thing look as if the science was settled, when all the time of course we knew it was not," according to a transcript of a radio interview posted on his Web site. Aides for Rep. Darrell Issa, a California Republican, are also looking into the disclosure.
The leaked documents (see our previous coverage) come from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in eastern England. In global warming circles, the CRU wields outsize influence: it claims the world's largest temperature data set, and its work and mathematical models were incorporated into the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report. That report, in turn, is what the Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged it "relies on most heavily" when concluding that carbon dioxide emissions endanger public health and should be regulated.
Last week's leaked e-mails range from innocuous to embarrassing and, critics believe, scandalous. They show that some of the field's most prominent scientists were so wedded to theories of man-made global warming that they ridiculed dissenters who asked for copies of their data ("have to respond to more crap criticisms from the idiots"), cheered the deaths of skeptical journalists, and plotted how to keep researchers who reached different conclusions from publishing in peer-reviewed journals.
One e-mail message, apparently from CRU director Phil Jones, references the U.K.'s Freedom of Information Act when asking another researcher to delete correspondence that might be disclosed in response to public records law: "Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4? Keith will do likewise." Another, also apparently from Jones: global warming skeptics "have been after the CRU station data for years. If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I'll delete the file rather than send to anyone." (Jones was a contributing author to the chapter of the U.N.'s IPCC report titled "Detection of Climate Change and Attribution of Causes.")
In addition to e-mail messages, the roughly 3,600 leaked documents posted on sites including Wikileaks.org and EastAngliaEmails.com include computer code and a description of how an unfortunate programmer named "Harry" -- possibly the CRU's Ian "Harry" Harris -- was tasked with resuscitating and updating a key temperature database that proved to be problematic. Some excerpts from what appear to be his notes, emphasis added:
I am seriously worried that our flagship gridded data product is produced by Delaunay triangulation - apparently linear as well. As far as I can see, this renders the station counts totally meaningless. It also means that we cannot say exactly how the gridded data is arrived at from a statistical perspective - since we're using an off-the-shelf product that isn't documented sufficiently to say that. Why this wasn't coded up in Fortran I don't know - time pressures perhaps? Was too much effort expended on homogenisation, that there wasn't enough time to write a gridding procedure? Of course, it's too late for me to fix it too. Meh.
I am very sorry to report that the rest of the databases seem to be in nearly as poor a state as Australia was. There are hundreds if not thousands of pairs of dummy stations, one with no WMO and one with, usually overlapping and with the same station name and very similar coordinates. I know it could be old and new stations, but why such large overlaps if that's the case? Aarrggghhh! There truly is no end in sight... So, we can have a proper result, but only by including a load of garbage!
One thing that's unsettling is that many of the assigned WMo codes for Canadian stations do not return any hits with a web search. Usually the country's met office, or at least the Weather Underground, show up – but for these stations, nothing at all. Makes me wonder if these are long-discontinued, or were even invented somewhere other than Canada!
Knowing how long it takes to debug this suite - the experiment endeth here. The option (like all the anomdtb options) is totally undocumented so we'll never know what we lost. 22. Right, time to stop pussyfooting around the niceties of Tim's labyrinthine software suites - let's have a go at producing CRU TS 3.0! since failing to do that will be the definitive failure of the entire project.
Ulp! I am seriously close to giving up, again. The history of this is so complex that I can't get far enough into it before by head hurts and I have to stop. Each parameter has a tortuous history of manual and semi-automated interventions that I simply cannot just go back to early versions and run the update prog. I could be throwing away all kinds of corrections - to lat/lons, to WMOs (yes!), and more. So what the hell can I do about all these duplicate stations?...
As the leaked messages, and especially the HARRY_READ_ME.txt file, found their way around technical circles, two things happened: first, programmers unaffiliated with East Anglia started taking a close look at the quality of the CRU's code, and second, they began to feel sympathetic for anyone who had to spend three years (including working weekends) trying to make sense of code that appeared to be undocumented and buggy, while representing the core of CRU's climate model.
One programmer highlighted the error of relying on computer code that, if it generates an error message, continues as if nothing untoward ever occurred. Another debugged the code by pointing out why the output of a calculation that should always generate a positive number was incorrectly generating a negative one. A third concluded: "I feel for this guy. He's obviously spent years trying to get data from undocumented and completely messy sources."
Programmer-written comments inserted into CRU's Fortran code have drawn fire as well. The file briffa_sep98_d.pro says: "Apply a VERY ARTIFICAL correction for decline!!" and "APPLY ARTIFICIAL CORRECTION." Another, quantify_tsdcal.pro, says: "Low pass filtering at century and longer time scales never gets rid of the trend - so eventually I start to scale down the 120-yr low pass time series to mimic the effect of removing/adding longer time scales!"
It's not clear how the files were leaked. One theory says that a malicious hacker slipped into East Anglia's network and snatched thousands of documents. Another says that the files had already been assembled in response to a Freedom of Information request and, immediately after it was denied, a whistleblower decided to disclose them. (Lending credence to that theory is the fact that no personal e-mail messages unrelated to climate change appear to have been leaked.)
For its part, the University of East Anglia has posted a statement calling the disclosure "mischievous" and saying it is aiding the police in an investigation.
The statement also quotes Jones, CRU's director, explaining his November 1999 e-mail,?which said: "I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline." Jones said that the word trick was used "colloquially as in a clever thing to do" and that it "is ludicrous to suggest that it refers to anything untoward."
Also unclear is the ultimate impact of the leak, which came before next month's Copenhagen summit and Democratic plans for cap and trade legislation.
On one hand, over at RealClimate.org, Gavin Schmidt, a modeler for the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has been downplaying the leak. Schmidt wrote: "There is no evidence of any worldwide conspiracy, no mention of George Soros nefariously funding climate research ... no admission that global warming is a hoax, no evidence of the falsifying of data, and no 'marching orders' from our socialist/communist/vegetarian overlords."
On the other, groups like the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute, the target of repeated derision in the leaked e-mails, have said: "We have argued for many years that much of the scientific case for global warming alarmism was weak and some of it was phony. It now looks like a lot of it may be phony."
ScienceMag.org published an article noting that deleting e-mail messages to hide them from a FOI request is a crime in the United Kingdom. George Monbiot, a U.K. activist and journalist who previously called for dramatic action to deal with global warming, wrote: "It's no use pretending that this isn't a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging."
Complicating matters for congressional Republicans who'd like to hold hearings is that East Anglia, of course, is a U.K. university. The GOP may intend to press the Obama administration for details on how the EPA came to rely on the CRU's predictions, and whether the recent disclosure will change the agency's position. Another approach lies in e-mail messages discussing grants from the U.S. Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to East Anglia; one says: "We need to show some left to cover the costs of the trip Roger didn't make and also the fees/equipment/computer money we haven't spent otherwise NOAA will be suspicious."
The irony of this situation is that most of us expect science to be conducted in the open, without unpublished secret data, hidden agendas, and computer programs of dubious reliability. East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit might have avoided this snafu by publicly disclosing as much as possible at every step of the way.
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willardzz says:
The ONLY Inconvenient truth, Is that Al Gore is the world's first carbon credit trading tycoon.
jimmyc1955 says:
What is not mentioned is that the original data is GONE!! There is no raw data but in fact it is data based on a number of bad massages, poor algorithms, miscacluations and just stupidity.
In the 1980s CRU actually dumped the raw data to save space and costs and since in the 80s nobody really thought this data was important who cared??
Now the badly massaged data is what is used to calculate global warming which is kind of like planning a flight by using a compass you found in a box of cracker jacks.
I find it alarming that many speak of the 'agenda' in these comments as if it is some great enigma, and I find it alarming that out of 244 comments there's no mention of the planned global carbon tax or the planned cap and trade derivatives fraud. There's CSPAN footage of a back-and-forth between Hillary Clinton and Al Gore(very poorly acted I might add) where Clinton asks Gore if there should be a global GDP tax or a cap and trade system, and Gore responds that it could be either or but that he would prefer both.
This IS the agenda, and it's been known by mainstream media blacklisted whistleblowers for some time now. They intend to use a global carbon tax and cap & trade system to fund the global government. The global government will seem like a natural evolution caused by the global carbon tax - that it's obvious a global governing body must be created and some portion of all our national sovereignties must be handed over if there is to be a global carbon tax to begin with.. BUT it's actually the other way around, the global government was planned first, and the global carbon tax/cap and trade is how they not only intend to fund the global government, but also eventually creating an international currency that will far out-shadow the control the US dollar had at the height of its glory, and this time there will not be any public oversight, at least for all its faults and sins, the US Government has had to answer directly to its people and an elected legislature. Indeed, dark storm clouds are now looming on the horizon that will make the American Empire seem like Julie Andrews under blue skies in The Sound of Music. Erasure of borders, an avowed mission to end nationhood globally, etc.. I realize for some of you this might be a lot to take in but by ALL MEANS PLEASE PLEASE do your own research and don't trust everything the mainstream media throws at you, use a free and mostly uncensored Internet while you have the opportunity, for that opportunity will not be around forever.
noloyalisti says:
What are you using to mark that pier, a yardstick? Try using a micrometer and then taking tens of thousands of measurements. The plug them into the computer model based on measurements from tens of thousands of locations. I figured you were kidding anyway.
How can it be cold in the winter? How can it be hot in the Sahara while it is snowing in the Alps? Yes, the theory of global warming is a hoax, just like the theory of gravity. Man God really fooled a whole lot of scientists this time. Way to go God!
truman green says:
To doenload1: Thanks for asking for the address of my blog. It is:
http://trugreenmyblog.wordpress.com/
I always suggest to people that if they really believe the oceans are rising to go down to their local pier--if they live near an ocean--and put a mark on a pier post, then check it yearly. So far the sea level at White Rock near where I live is the same as it was in the 60s when I live near the beach.
Hope you'll comment on my blog.
Truman Green
MekhongKurt replies:
Mr. Green, I *do* live near the sea, in Bangkok. Over the past 20 years, along one stretch of the coastline on the outskirts of the greater metropolitan area, the gigh-tide mark has moved over half a kilometer inland. I don't know how much deeper it is, and yes, this is a low-lying, and pretty level area. There's a temple that used to sit back from shore; now, the monks had to build a false floor about a meter above the former floor (the ground) and outbuildings were raised up on stilts.
This is not a one-off instance; it's occurring in numerous places in this part of the world.
NowBeWithThat says:
First of all, manmade global warming is a THEORY.
Second, the so-called preponderance of evidence to support that theory comes from a U.K. group who tortured statistics, cooked data and misappropriated U.S. research funding.
Notice global warming became 'climate change' now that the earth's temps are going down, not up.
Al Gore and his chorus of environmental alarmists are scrambling to save face and caboose right about now. That's the real inconvenient truth.
This argument of the deniers is really stupid and it does not change ANYTHING about the theory of global climate change. CO2 is a pollutant since there is a DIRECT correlation between CO2 concentration and global temperature rise. The levels of CO2 have risen 35% in 150 years since the start of the industrial revolution. The RATE of CO2 rise and global temperature rise in UNPRECEDENTED, based on evaluation of ice cores which record climate data for the last 420,000 years.
paine1964 replies:
If we are the deniers, the other side are the brainwashed following the global warming religion. I have opened my eyes to all data. Solar flares, volcanoes, etc. many other sources make up the majority of the problem. In fact, humans can only go so far back in time in their measurements. 420,000 years is a drop in the bucket. Don't forget that the climate WAS all swamp before and life thrived then, so quit all the worrying. If global warming is the problem it sure beats the ice ages.
I love this earth and all life on it, but this is a power play to control people. The constructors of these summits and legislation do not practice what they preach.
rvail136 says:
Here here!
deepsea5101 says:
This is really unfortunate...the reality is that pumping CO2 into the atmopsphere is going to have, and is having, a disasterous effect on the plantet. What is unfortunate is that melting polar caps, shinking glaciers, dying coral reefs along with all the other obvious effects of global warming is not enough for the skeptics...so Scientist have to come up with the data that prooves global warming is happening. We need a "Gobal Common Sense Commission"...just like we found out that dumping toxins into our water ways during the first half of the 20th century was bad for the environment -- why can't we just all agree that burning fossil fuels at the current increasing rate is going to have a cataclysmic effect if we don't convert our energy production away from fossils fuels -- in addition to saving the environment, from simply an American Patriot stand point -- why not rally behind stopping global warming simply to end our dependance on foreign oil...??
jssmi765 replies:
That's really interesting deepsea. Where are you getting your information? From the IPCC? I suggest you read a paper signed by 31,000 scientists, it will open your eyes: http://www.oism.org/pproject/GWReview_OISM600.pdf It certainly opened mine. First) CO2 IS NOT having a "disastrous" effect. All forms of vegetation and corresponding animal life, save those actively hunted/destroyed by mankind, are flourishing. Forests are UP 40% in the U.S. since 1950 and "Amazonian rain forests are increasing their vegetation by about 900 lbs. of carbon per acre per year." You see, CO2 is plant food. Second) The North Pole ice cap has shrunk but the South Pole recorded RECORD LEVELS of ice last January, effectively creating an equilibrium between the two. Third) Glacial shortening began in 1850 as well as the overall current warming trend, LONG BEFORE the six-fold increase in carbon emissions produced by mankind since 1940. Fifth) We know, with out a doubt that CO2 levels have been several times higher in the past. Finally) There is ZERO evidence that anything mankind is doing is contributing the global warming. In fact, all the available data, as reviewed by 31,000 scientists, suggests NOTHING we do warms the planet, however we DO have the power to cool it. (See the paper)
ubrew12 replies:
jssmi765 said: "I suggest you read a paper signed by 31,000 scientists, it will open your eyes: http://www.oism.org/pproject/GWReview_OISM600.pdf It certainly opened mine. First) CO2 IS NOT having a "disastrous" effect. All forms of vegetation and corresponding animal life... are flourishing."
You need to know that the article you read was formatted in the form of a National Academy of Sciences Article, and was forwarded by a former head of the NAS, yet was NOT an official peer-reviewed NAS offering. In effect: its a FAKE. The NAS had to take the rare step of formally REBUKING a former head for lending his name to a FAKE article.
The fact that the article you read was NOT endorsed by NAS, was NOT published in ANY peer-reviewed publication that cares about its name, yet was FORMATTED to look like a NAS official publication, should tell you all you need to know about the people who produced it.
As for the 31,000 'scientists' who have signed the Oregon Petition, did you maybe only 1% of them are climate scientists? 10% of them are either human or animal DOCTORS.
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robertg222 says:
Clearly, global warming is anthropogenic (man-made). It exists mainly in the human mind and is manufactured from two sources ? careless data acquisition and dubious data processing.
The climategate e-mails (and don't forget the computer code) didn't expose the global warming scam. That was already a well know fact because nothing that was forecasted in the computer models ever came true. The e-mails just confirmed the scam and made it more obvious who was behind it. It will become very obvious what media organizations are supporting the scam. The scam supports will give this story as little air time as possible. Fortunately we now have the internet. Not giving people the truth is why the major media outlets are going down the tubs.
jpd01 replies:
What is the incentive for this scam? Do you really think it's possible that scientists and media organizations around the world all colluded to show something that was false, and were able to sustain the hoax all this time?
Steven_Douglas replies:
"Do you really think it's possible that scientists and media organizations around the world all colluded to show something that was false, and were able to sustain the hoax all this time?"
No, literally thousands of scientists could (like lay people) could have taken the word of a handful of elite scientists who published foundational conclusions, and without transparency - refusing to disclose their data, codes, methods, etc., -- and signed their names to it. Voila - consensus reached, no collusion by thousands, or even a motive for any of them, necessary.
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Q: Defining an interface as a property of an interface in kotlin and providing a concrete implemententation in interface implementation does not work I have interface A which has interface B as a field. When I do an implementation of A, let's say concreteA, and instead of providing interface B, I provide an implementation of B, the compiler throws me an error. I don't understand why, because since there is inheritance in Kotlin, I think this should work. I tried this with data classes by the way.

interface B {
   ....
}

data class concreteB : B {
   .....
}

interface A {
   var someField: B
}

data class concreteA : A {
   //The error happens here, compiler says it's not type of overridden
   override var someField: concreteB
}

A: The fact that you inherited something from your dad doesn't mean that you're your dad.
The usage of data classes here is a bit confusing, since your code won't compile with them.
That's the correct way for your code to work:
interface B

class ConcreteB : B

interface A {
    var someField: B
}

class ConcreteA : A {
    override var someField: B = // That's the interface
        ConcreteB()             // That's the implementation
}

A: The definition of A says that every implementation must have a field storing an instance of something implementing B.  This field is var, meaning that other code can change it.
In your ConcreteA, you're overriding that to restrict the field to hold only your ConcreteB.
Now, that's fine for code calling the getter, as it will always get something of type B.
But it's a problem for code calling the setter.  What if they try to set some other implementation of B?  The interface says they can, but your concrete implementation can't.  That's why the compiler won't allow your implementation.  (That's the Liskov Substitution Principle in action, as the Kotlin guys said.)
There are several approaches you could take to make it compile:

*

*You could use a val instead of a var in A, and not allow anyone else to change the value.  (Simple, but probably not what you want.)

*You could parameterise A with the type of value, giving B as an upper bound.  That would let implementations (and subinterfaces) restrict the type to ConcreteB if they wanted to.  (That's a bit more complex, but is very flexible and may be best suited to your needs.)

*You could keep the type of the field as B, and just initialise it to your ConcreteB (as per Alexey's answer).  (However, your ConcreteB would have to allow for the possibility of other B implementations being set later on.)


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Думітрень, Думітрені () — село у повіті Муреш в Румунії. Входить до складу комуни Белеушері.

Село розташоване на відстані 242 км на північний захід від Бухареста, 22 км на південний схід від Тиргу-Муреша, 97 км на південний схід від Клуж-Напоки, 105 км на північний захід від Брашова.

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Galianora  è un genere di ragni appartenente alla famiglia Salticidae.

Etimologia
Il genere è stato così denominato in onore dell'aracnologa María Elena Galiano ( ? - 2000).

Caratteristiche
Le specie finora descritte hanno aspetto esteriore del corpo differente: la G. sacha ha forma allungata e colore pallido, con zampe anteriori raptatorie, mentre G. bryicola ha il corpo più compatto e di colore marrone. Esemplari non ancora descritti, provenienti dal Venezuela, sembrano avere caratteri intermedi.

Distribuzione
Le due specie oggi note di questo genere sono state rinvenute in Ecuador.

Tassonomia
A giugno 2011, si compone di due specie:
 Galianora bryicola Maddison, 2006 — Ecuador
 Galianora sacha Maddison, 2006 — Ecuador

Note

Bibliografia
 Maddison, Wayne P., 2006 - New lapsiine jumping spiders from Ecuador (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa, vol.1255, p. 17-28. Articolo in PDF

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This is why American celebrities are bullish on Ethereum NFTs – FXStreet
HomeAll Posts...This is why American celebrities are bullish...
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Ethereum NFTs are the latest trend among celebrities and actors like Bill Murray. After Madonna and Bella Hadid, the popular actor has jumped on the metaverse trend and is dropping an Ethereum NFT collection in July 2022.
Also read: Ethereum price close to confirming fakeout pattern ahead of Powell testimony
Bill Murray, an actor with a five-decade long entertainment career, has decided to drop an Ethereum NFT collection that covers his life stories. The release is slated to occur in July 2022.
Murray's NFT collection includes digital artwork and collectibles that cover the stories of his life and career, access to events and a community on Discord. Some of the stories covered through digital collectibles include his stint at Saturday Night Live, seasons 2-5, his appearance in the movie Ghostbusters and Caddyshack.
Murray is known for his perfect comedic timing and the 71-year old comedian's life stories will be available for fans to purchase, as an NFT on the Ethereum blockchain. On July 15, the collection of 1,000 pieces of digital collectibles and art will be up for sale. The collection is titled,
"Bill Murray 1,000," an Ethereum project powered by comedy and entertainment website "The Chive" and blockchain startup "Project Venkman".
A hundred stories have been chosen from Bill Murray's life, and offered as 1,000 NFTs for fans to purchase. Each NFT is based on a single original painting of the actor by artist David Grizzle. The Ethereum NFTs have unique backgrounds and flourishes, setting them apart from one another and the story is communicated through text and imagery.
NFTs from Bill Murray 1,000 collection on Ethereum
Bill Murray's son Jackson told Decrypt that the idea of creating NFTs didn't initially stick with his dad, however, the potential of immutable items piqued his interest. Ethereum NFTs from the Bill Murray 1,000 collection can be used to verify urban legend-like tales, and confirm whether they occurred.
Each buyer of the Ethereum NFTs will receive an engraved silver coin that lists the edition number. This coin would serve as an access pass to The Chive's annual Gold, Silver and Black dinner in Austin, Texas. NFT buyers can sell NFTs via secondary markets, however coins can be retained by original buyers. There are separate and ongoing benefits of holding the Ethereum digital assets and the coins.
Buyers can sell the NFTs via secondary markets but keep the coin, if they please, as the token and coin provide separate ongoing benefits.
The Ethereum NFT collection will launch on Coinbase NFT on July 15, 2022. Each NFT will sell for 1.5 ETH, which is about $1,620 at present. The first 100 NFTs will roll out on July 15 and then the rest will be released in tranches. The collections creators believe the Murray project and the 1,000 NFTs are all about entertainment and community.
Bella Hadid, a leading American model and celebrity, recently announced the launch of her NFT platform CY-B3LLA. Hadid collaborated with reBASE, a social metaverse site, and launched a massive collection of 11,111 NFTs of online art pieces, all based on her image.
Hadid's NFT collection consists of souvenirs and collectibles. Buyers receive a digital record, a certificate of authenticity and a serial number to prove ownership. Hadid addressed the general mistrust around celebrity NFT collections and digital collectibles that are endorsed by influencers.
Hadid was quoted as saying,
Where that skepticism comes from is the people who just want to have a money grab. To me, it's so much bigger than that. I want it to be a collective. It's not a one-stop shop—this is a real passion. I want to be used as a vessel for communication and respect and love.
Scammers in the crypto ecosystem are now leveraging celebrity influence to target investors. BrandShield, a cybersecurity company specializing in detecting and removing online threats, observed that actor Matt Damon, celebrity and influencer Kim Kardashian, celebrity Paris Hilton and American football quarterback Tom Brady are among the most impersonated personalities across social media.
Projects have falsely advertised their NFT collections, posing as impersonators and affiliating their Ethereum NFT collections with celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Tom Brady.
Yoav Keren, BrandShield CEO told Yahoo Finance,
It's a wild west, this is a problem of the crypto industry and the online community at large.
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Sally Milbourne is the latest member in the strong team of candidates the Nationals are putting forward in Tasmania.
Her background in education and small business will make a valuable contribution in the National party room in Canberra.
Sally is a councillor, a former teacher, a small business owner and a mum of two great kids who is passionate about the future of regional Tasmania.
Ms Milbourne said that with her education background, business in media production and as a restaurateur with husband Ben, she has a passion to support local producers and agriculture, small to medium business owners and a drive to improve education outcomes for Braddon.
"Braddon has it all; it's ruggedly beautiful making it an attractive tourist destination, there's a strong mining and manufacturing community, excellent educational facilities, fertile farmland for agriculture and burgeoning food entrepreneurialism; with the right support Braddon is situated perfectly to lead the rest of the country in innovation across a number of industries," Ms Milbourne said.
Sally grew up on Tasmanian's north west hinterland riding horses and loving the outdoors. Being involved in sport it was a natural progression to study Human Movement at University before specialising in middle school teaching. After 11 years teaching in northern Tasmania and lecturing educational pedagogy at the University of Tasmania, she returned to her hometown of Burnie to take up a teaching post in 2011. It was here where she met her husband Ben with whom she now runs the CharlotteJack restaurant (named after their children) in Devonport.
She was elected to Devonport City Council in 2018.


At last, that yellow ball in the sky known as the sun has peeked through the clouds to show its face. I grabbed the opportunity and headed off outdoors.
Sunny weather and flowers just seem to go together. I hope soon there might be some real ones in the garden but I'll make do with this old thrifty book with its gorgeous colour plates for now.
I wonder if any eagle-eyed readers spotted something familiar in the background? Because when the sun shines after months of gloom, you know it's time to pull your finger out and get snapping all those quilts you've worked on throughout the Winter.
First up, is this ripple quilt, inspired of course, by the gorgeous crocheted ripple blanket of recent times. If it can be made in wool, why not fabric, I thought?
I started it way back, here I was working on the hand quilting in the park, with the Munchkin. It has been finished a while, just waiting its moment on the washing line of glory!
I love this quilt. It's only small, as I don't like hand quilting large quilts but I do enjoy big-stitch quilting with perle cottons on something of this size. The fabrics are many of my favourites, mainly 1930's reproduction in style, and I LOVE the Liberty backing.
I didn't get the rippley thing out of my system and some while later, I pondered that it would be possible to achieve the same chevron effect through a different method, rather than the half-square triangles I had used to make my "Rainbow Ripple" quilt.
What about simple blocks made of two stripes of fabric but then set on point in the quilt to achieve the rippley look? And so its friend was born.
This time, I went for the addition of a stripe of white, too. I like the fresh modern look this gives the quilt. It also has many of the same gorgeous 1930's inspired cottons in yummy shades. This design is a bit quicker to make than the half-square triangles, so I made a bigger quilt, but there is a fair bit of conscious keeping track required when it comes to sewing the blocks together as they're set on point (like a diamond).
I machine quilted this one and was so pleased with it that I felt it deserved me letting go of some of my hoarded Cath Kidston rosebud fabric for the backing.
What an idyllic afternoon it was yesterday, reclining on the garden bench surrounded by pretty cushions and quilts, finishing off the new Cath Kidston book, listening to the birds. I hope we can look forward to many more days like that in the coming months.
The Rainbow Chevron quilt is currently waiting patiently for a new loving owner in my blogshop should you fancy a spot of pretty garden relaxing yourself.
Hello Hen I did send some comments on your last post but they seems to have disappeared into the ether somewhere - maybe there is a planet with lost comments on!!! Anyway just a message to say I am so glad that you are back, have really missed you. Absolutely adore the quilts, you are so talented! I said in the last message how lovely you looked in your blouse, it really suits you. I do hope that this message gets through to you Hen.
Those quilts are fantastic Hen! Quite stunning!
I have a copy of that wildflower book, picked it up for 50p very recently complete with paper flycover that the local cats protection coffee morning.
both really lovely hen.....am contemplating a chevron today myself....if i can shift from the computer!
Beautiful quilts and what a lovely bench! I wish I could relax there.
Love your beautiful quilts. I was in the garden yesterday too. planting seeds and flowers.
Wow! Amazing quilts again...and lovely setting to show them off!
Beautiful quilts, Hen, and quite right to use your special fabrics - it's all too easy to start cherishing them too much and then they never get used.(Can you tell I'm a fabric hoarder??) I've been using a heavier thread and bigger stitch for hand quilting for a while now - started because I needed to get a quilt done for a deadline. I use one strand of 4 ply cotton, the variegated kind by 21st Century Yarns, beautiful to sew with, looks lovely and isn't as expensive to use as perle.
Love your quilts they are so pretty!!
Yep spring is in full flow here, I think the birds are singing louder this year, I guess they are as happy as we are!
On further garden inspection, definitely no lupin activity!!
Hen,the quilts are lovely and the knitted pillow? I love. I always enjoy your posts.
oh I love these summery colours...just loking at the quilts has made me go all ice-creamy!
I love both your quilts, they are beautiful.
Your quilts are just beautiful. I wish I had the patience to make another, but I always mess the binding up. I absolutely love the way you've imitated the infamous crochet ripple. Thank you for sharing your spot of sunshine with us.
How lovely that first photo is, a reminder of past days chilling out in the peace of the garden. The quilts are beautiful as always, I love the chevron pattern and you've got it just the right balance of fabrics to compliment each other. Thank you for my Hen House fix or his week lol.
Your quilts are gorgeous. I love the whole setup on the bench, it really does look completely idyllic.
You do take beautiful pictures. Both of the quilts are gorgeous, the book looks good too.
Great quilts- loving the perle quilting...my new favourite for hand quilting big chunky style is puppets eldorado cotton crochet thread from coats- the name sounds hilarious, but it is lovely for stitching with, sharper than a shashiko, but softer than perle.
How good is it to see some SUN?
Beautiful quilts as always. And how lovely to be sitting in the garden in the sun. Bliss.
Very pretty & spring-like Hen!
Both quilts are just beautiful! Love that Cath Kidson back! Good job!!!
LOVE the floral fabric cushion on the bench.
Your blog is always warm and sunny Hen...just like the weather today.
Beautiful quilts! I love your colors.
I've just made a ripple in the second method - such fun! Love your quilts. Enjoy the sunshine; ours has been delightful Autumn sunshine, the last before Winte arrives.
Oh my goodness! I love those! I have a ripply afghan my great grandma made me, and I have always loved that motif. Lovely work, Hen!
Looks lovely in your garden Hen. Glad to see you are getting some sunbeams. The quilts are grand.
Your quilts are fantastic, love them!!
The fabrics that you have used are so pretty.
Loving this sunny weather, what better way to spend the day than in the garden!!
I think this may actually be my absolute favorite!
Lovely quilts, my favorite is the one with the white zig zag stripes in it.


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Easter Weekend Events Kick Off Open Event Season for 2009
Here are some highlights from the three AJGA Open events being hosted across the country this weekend. The Chateau Elan Junior All-Star presented by Fellowship of Christian Athletes is also taking place, with juniors ages 12-15 looking to make a great impression.
Mizuno Junior at Innisbrook
- Patrick Winther, a native of Denmark, looks to continue his streak of impressive finishes. A year ago, Winther was ranked No. 171 in the Polo Golf Rankings. Now, he currently sits at No. 2 after victories at the Polo Golf Junior Classic in November and the HP Boys Championship at Carlton Woods in February.
- 2008 Rolex Junior Player of the Year Victoria Tanco will look for another strong year in 2009, her second year competing in the United States. Tanco, a native of Argentina but currently living in Bradenton, Fla., took home victories in 2008 at the Rolex Girls Junior Championship, The PING Invitational, the Scott Robertson Memorial and at the Orange Bowl International Golf Championship.
- Twenty-seven players have signed a National Letter of Intent, including six junior golfers who plan to attend Florida schools: Andrew Colvin and Valentina Fontaine (Central Florida), Michael Hebert and George Letson (Florida State), Maria Piccio (University of Florida), and Jaime Ritter (University of Miami).
Heather Farr Classic presented by Longbow Golf Club
- With 20 Rolex Junior All-Americans in the field at the Heather Farr Classic presented by Longbow Golf Club, the competition will be fierce in Mesa, Ariz., this weekend.
- Defending champions Kyung Kim of Chandler, Ariz., and Trey Kaahanui of Tempe, Ariz., will both return hoping for back-to-back victories.
- Also of note is Andrew Yun of Chandler, Ariz., a four-time Rolex Junior All-American with four AJGA victories under his belt. In the Girls Division, keep an eye out for Kimberly Kim of Pahoa, Hawaii. Kim is a five-time Rolex Junior All-American with three career AJGA victories to her name.
Laredo Energy Junior at Traditions
-Three future Texas A&M Aggies will be playing at the Traditions Club at Texas A&M this week: Ryan Blair (Center Valley, Pa.), Ryan Kelley (The Woodlands, Texas) and Sarah Beth Davis (Victoria, Texas).
- Both of the 2008 champions return to Texas A&M hoping to successfully defend their titles. Jordan Spieth is coming off a runner-up finish at the HP Boys Championship at Carlton Woods in February, while Alexis Thompson finished T21 and was the low amateur at the LPGA's Kraft Nabisco Championship last week.
- The Boys Division has been won by a Texas native in 10 of the last 11 years, including 2008's champion, Jordan Spieth of Dallas. This year's Boys Division field includes 41 players from Texas.


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Kate McKinnon and Mila Kunis are teaming up for a spy movie, and this is our new everything
Hold up! We just got the best news ever. Two of the most hilarious women in the world are teaming up for a spy movie. Yep! Kate McKinnon and Mila Kunis are going to star together in a comedy action film. Praise the movie gods.
Last year, Kate and Mila both shined — in Ghostbusters and Bad Moms, respectively — so it's exciting to see them exhibiting their comedy chops in another film, especially since they'll be together! According to Variety, the film will be called The Spy Who Dumped Me, an obvious play off the Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me spy-comedy film, which itself was a play off of the James Bond movie, The Spy Who Loved Me.
Dan MacMedan / Contributor / Getty Images, Gary Gershoff / Contributor / Getty Images
So what's the premise of what's sure to be our new favorite film? According to Deadline Hollywood, The Spy Who Dumped Me will be about:
"Best friends who unwittingly become entangled in an international conspiracy when one of the women discovers the boyfriend who dumped her was actually a spy."
Secret spy business and revenge on an ex? Could this BE a more perfect formula for these two?! After all, Kate could surely use her action experience from fighting all of those ghosts, and Mila was a pretty epic stunt driver in Bad Moms.
So could we see a car chase in the new film? We'll have to wait a while to find out. The film will likely shoot this summer when the two in-demand stars both have a break in their schedules. In the meantime, you can catch Kate McKinnon on Saturday Night Live and Mila Kunis in Bad Moms Christmas this December.
By Heather Mason
Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon make awful spies in the "Spy Who Dumped Me" trailer
Ariana Grande just joined Ryan Murphy's The Prom, and now it might have the most famous people in one movie ever
Everything we know about those two Captain Marvel end-credit scenes
Anne Hathaway is officially starring in a Sesame Street movie, and our inner child is stoked
The Spy Who Dumped Me is the most accurate portrayal of female friendship you've ever seen at the movies


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There are some people who just light up the lives of those around them. They always seem to be thinking about what they can do to make everyone else's life just a little bit better, and when you know someone like that, it's an easy thing to cherish their friendship.
It's usually by doing the little things, small acts of kindness, that those wonderful people enrich the lives of others. But every now and then, someone sees the need for something big to be done and steps up to make it happen.
When you think of India, some of the first things that spring to mind are its rich culture, ancient architecture, or its many religious faiths. All of those compelling aspects of the world's second most populous country have one thing in common: they are generally looking towards India's past.
Perhaps the most defining thing about India's present and future is its rapid development. The country has been focused on technological and infrastructure development for decades and it boasts the fastest growing economy in the world.
The city of Gurugram in northern India is a perfect example of that development. Beginning in the 1970s, it's rapid economic growth started when the leading Indian car maker established a manufacturing plant there. In the decades since, it's transformed into a financial and technological hub, the sort of city that young professionals tend to flock to round the world.
One of those young professionals was a 33-year-old woman named Swati, who lived on the fifth floor of one of Gurugram's many high-rise apartments with her husband Girish and their four-year-old daughter, as well as Swati's mother Vaishali.
Swati was the sort of person who was always interested in making things beautiful and making the people around her happy, which led her to a career in interior design. "Swati was of a helping nature," said Lalita, one of her neighbors.
"She was the kind of person who would be ready to help anybody, anytime," Lalita continued. With her eye for aesthetics and her kind and generous nature, she brought joy into the lives of all the people around her.
But her desire to help others went far beyond the superficial, as she would demonstrate through acts that were as heroic as they were tragic. It all began late one evening when Swati was awakened around 2 a.m. by something dreadful: heavy smoke.
Wasting no time, she immediately woke up her family, telling her husband that they needed to get her mother and their daughter to safety as quickly as possible. And true to her nature, Swati didn't just get her family and run. She went to the door of each person on her floor, waking them all up, making sure they were safe and gathering them together.
"Around 2:10 a.m., Swati knocked on my door and said there's a fire," said Swati's friend and next door neighbor Lalita Soni. "When we first got out of the flat, there was smoke all around," said Girish. "We first tried to go downstairs but could not go beyond the third floor." There was a serious problem: the building only had a single stairwell for a fire exit and that was filled with choking smoke and at the third floor, was blocked entirely by flames.
The frightened residents rushed back up to Swati and Girish's flat where they wrapped themselves in wet towels before heading back out into the stairwell, this time moving to upper floors. "By the time we reached the eighth floor, I was struggling to breathe," Garish said. "The door of one of the flats there was open and I got in with my daughter." But somewhere along the way, he lost track of Swati and his mother in law.
"She was ahead of us," Lalita said. While the others had gone into the eighth floor flat, "she was too far ahead and had reached the 9th floor terrace, I guess." But rather than escaping the smokey hallway to the relative safety of the outdoor terrace, Swati had found the gate to the outside locked.
Swati was trapped in the stairwell with the rapidly thickening smoke. She had no idea that there had been an open apartment that was relatively safe from the flames or she likely would have tried to make it back down. If she cried out for help, no one could hear her.
Swati Garg spent her last moments choking on thick smoke in the overwhelming heat of the fire raging floors below, struggling to open a locked gate, beyond which lay fresh air and the hope of rescue. Firefighters would later find her hand prints on the walls on and around the gate, telling the tragic story.
It would take those firefighters nearly 45 minutes to reach the tower. The astoundingly long response time was due in part to the same rapid development that made Gurugram so attractive. Their high-rise, called Tulip Orange, was built in one of the newer sectors of the city where the government had yet to build a fire station, meaning firefighters had to come from nearly ten miles away.
Though Swati had passed away in the fire, she hadn't died in vain. Because of her efforts to get her neighbors out of their apartments and to safety, they all survived until the firefighters were able to get the blaze under control. She was the only person who died that night.
"We cannot compensate for it in any manner," Annu continued. "Her child is so young, she doesn't even understand what death is." To add to the misfortune, Swati's mother Vaishali had some serious health problems.
The 61-year-old Vaishali suffered from a number of burns which probably wouldn't have been life-threatening on their own. But the woman, who suffered from asthma, inhaled a significant amount of smoke and after spending several days in the hospital, she eventually succumbed to her injuries.
The second death as a result of the fire stoked the anger of the residents, who had found out that the fire was caused by a short circuit in an electricity meter on the first floor. The flames rose all the way to the tenth floor within minutes, though they remained contained to the power shaft of the stairwell.
Had there been a second stairwell or some sort of fire escape system on the outside of the building, residents of the high-rise likely would have been able to escape the building without any trouble, and Swati and Vaishali would still be alive.
The residents were also mad that Swati's heroics were even necessary, since the fire alarms located in the building apparently didn't work at all. On top of that, the building's fire extinguishers were also inoperative.


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Taliban's Mullah Omar. Source: Wikipedia Commons.
Mullah Omar's Death: Will It Spell The End For Taliban? – Analysis
September 5, 2015 South Asia Monitor 0 Comments
By South Asia Monitor
By Waheed Rahimi*
The death of Mullah Omar, who was the supreme commander and spiritual leader of the Taliban, is a major issue for both the Afghan government and Taliban militants. Omar was the 11th head of state from 1996 until his regime was toppled by US-led military intervention in 2001. The fallout of his death has added uncertainty to Kabul's fledgling peace efforts. The Taliban leaders are faced with a legitimacy crisis as no one has the outright legendary unifying force to fill Omar's vacuum.
The death of an elusive one-eyed leader left the Taliban mired in a leadership struggle and opened new ground for the Afghan government to create further factionalism among the Taliban and intensify their military campaign to push them for peace talks. The dispute among the Taliban is not only due to tribal divisions but also due to ideological rifts, which adds to the dissension and also creates new opportunities for the Afghan government to force the Taliban movement to the edge of dissolution.
Mullah Akhtar Mansour, who named himself as leader of the Afghan Taliban on July 30, 2015 faces disapproval from different groups of Taliban. Omar's younger brother and son, Mullah Abdul Manan and Mohammad Yaqoob, did not endorse Mansour as the new emir and appealed that a successor should be from Omar's clan. Even the Taliban political chief in Qatar, Tayyeb Agha, resigned due to tensions over Omar's successor. These internal disagreements have raised concerns over the likely dissolution of the Taliban as a powerful insurgent group.
The national unity government of Afghanistan should seize the opportunity, before any possible reunification of Taliban and their collective agreement on a successor of Mullah Omar, and push for peace talks with the opposition group of Akhtar Mansour, who is a close ally and subservient of the Pakistani intelligence. The tussle over election of a new emir should not be allowed to halt the Afghan-led promising peace efforts, but it should be taken advantage of to take forward the process quickly; and the break should be used intelligently.
Neglect in exploiting this opportunity will have two possible consequences. Either the reunion of Taliban, or the factions separated from Akhtar Mansour will pledge loyalty to the Islamic State, which is a concern for Taliban as well. The reunification would help Taliban to resurge and continue their existence with the support of their host-country, Pakistan. If they swear allegiance to IS or there is a rift through the middle, this would not only signal the end for Taliban, but will also decrease significantly the ISI's (Inter-Services Intelligence) aggressive influence and their proxy war in Afghanistan.
On the other hand, Taliban fighters in the battlefield accuse their senior leaders of keeping them in the dark about the death of their long-standing leader. At the same time, Afghan intelligence said that Mullah Omar was poisoned and died in a Karachi hospital. Later, a former key member of Taliban who is now leading, Fidai Mahaz, claimed that Mullah Omar was murdered by his deputy – Akhtar Mansour – after a dispute over his election to succeed Omar as emir ul-Momineen – commander of the Faithful. Deceiving the Taliban fighters (by concealing news about the death) and the mysterious death of Omar in Pakistan would not only add to the tension and division among the Taliban but also lessen Pakistan's sway on the Taliban leadership.
In the wake of the deep tribal divisions among the Taliban, the Afghan government should change its medieval gambit of beginning peace talks involving Pakistan since it did not pay off. As an alternative, the government should focus on Afghan-led peace talks with the Afghan militants who are not under Pakistan's intelligence influence and those who are in favor of resuming peace talks. In addition, the government must put intense pressure on the insurgents and Pakistan through regional and international stakeholders to end the ISI's undeclared prolonging of the proxy war and to change its approach towards Afghanistan. If Pakistan does not change its behaviour, it will be an alarming situation for the entire region.
Another alternative for Afghanistan could be tit-for-tat diplomacy in order to survive in this war. In doing so, Afghanistan should be allying with great powers such as India; just as Pakistan chose China – its enemy's rival – to strengthen its existence and sway in the region.
In any case, it's a critical juncture for the Taliban to survive as a movement due to its internal fragmentation, leadership crisis and ideological rift. Such challenges will either lead it to join peace talks or the factions will separate. Splitting through the middle will also encourage some militants to pledge allegiance to the Islamic state, the emir of Al-Qaeda, and spell the end of the Taliban movement, and probably the beginnig of another nightmare under Islamic State and Al-Qaeda leaderships.
*Waheed Rahimi writes on current political, security and social affairs of Afghanistan. He holds a Masters in International Relations and Diplomacy from ADA University, Azerbaijan. He is based in Kabul and tweets at @wrafg. He can be reached at [email protected]
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Togo D. West Jr., Clinton appointee who led Veterans Affairs and investigated Army abuses, dies at 75
President Clinton with Veterans Affairs Secretary Togo D. West Jr. in 2000.
(Ron Edmonds / Associated Press)
By Washington Post
Togo D. West Jr., a government lawyer and high-ranking Clinton administration official who oversaw Army investigations into sexual harassment, served two rocky years as secretary of veterans affairs and later directed investigations into the mistreatment of veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the roots of the 2009 mass shooting at Ft. Hood, died Thursday on a Silversea cruise ship traveling between Barbados and Puerto Rico. He was 75.
The cause was a heart attack, his daughter Hilary Carter West said.
The son of North Carolina schoolteachers, West served as an Army lawyer in the Judge Advocate General's Corps and worked as the top lawyer in the Department of the Navy and Defense Department under President Carter.
He became the second African American to serve as Army secretary when President Clinton nominated him to the post in September 1993 after the acting secretary, John W. Shannon, was charged with shoplifting a $30 blouse and skirt from the base store at Ft. Myer in Virginia.
The incident marked the beginning of an unusually eventful tenure for West, who was tasked with shepherding a Cold War Army into peacetime and implementing the Clinton administration's "don't ask, don't tell" policy toward gay troops.
"He assumed office at a particularly sensitive time," Richard Kohn, a military historian at the University of North Carolina, wrote in an email. "He seemed undercut in accomplishing a great deal by the gays controversy, an Army leadership focused on dealing with [Defense Secretary Les Aspin's] 'bottom-up review,' budget cuts, controversies over interventions abroad, and changes in threat planning resulting from the end of the Cold War."
As the Army's senior civilian official, West oversaw a drawdown that reduced the branch from 18 to 10 active divisions, reorganized its reserve wings and battled criticism that the Clinton administration was using political patronage to determine who would be honored with burial at Arlington National Cemetery.
West also orchestrated a rise in the number of opportunities for women in the military, said Joe R. Reeder, former undersecretary of the Army. "We opened I think more posts for women than had ever been done before, and any time you have changes like that it's a big challenge," Reeder said.
In perhaps his most prominent action as Army secretary, West ordered an investigation into senior officers' responsibility for sexual abuse at Aberdeen Proving Ground in northern Maryland, where in 1996 three male instructors were charged with rape and other sex crimes against female recruits. More than 50 recruits eventually came forward with allegations of sexual abuse at the base.
He went on to launch an investigation into each Army base that trains female soldiers and appointed a nine-member civilian-military panel that proposed changes in Army training and sexual harassment policies.
While West's handling of the sexual assault investigations drew praise from many on Capitol Hill, his tenure at the Department of Veterans Affairs was marked by accusations of mismanagement, as well as long-standing complaints that the department was doing too little to ensure proper healthcare for veterans.
Appointed department chief in January 1998, West inherited a sprawling system of 172 hospitals, 132 nursing homes and more than 650 clinics.
Behind the scenes, he soon began battling a White House spending plan that would have decreased VA funding when accounting for inflation.
In an internal memo, West wrote that the proposal for the 2001 fiscal year would have limited veterans' access to emergency care, turning them into "second-class citizens" and "would raise significant doubts about the administration's commitment to veterans."
An additional $3 billion was eventually added to the bill, but West received scant credit. He was by then mired in separate controversies over his travel practices — he sometimes used rented limousines and chartered military airplanes, a violation of government rules — and over what an inspector general's report described as an atmosphere of "total chaos" at the VA's Office of Congressional Affairs.
He resigned in 2000.
"Under his leadership," Clinton said at the time, "the VA has begun to confront some long-neglected problems head on, reaching out to more than 400,000 veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange, pressing for answers to the Gulf War syndrome and proper care for those who suffer from it, beginning the process of building five new national cemeteries . . . and making a special effort to bring homeless veterans back into the society they did so much to defend."
Togo Dennis West Jr. was born in Winston-Salem, N.C., on June 21, 1942. He and his father, a math teacher who became a high school principal, were named after the Japanese naval hero Togo Heihachiro, whose leadership during the Russo-Japanese War dominated newspaper headlines at the time of Togo Sr.'s birth.
West initially worked as an electrical engineer, but after receiving his bachelor's degree from Howard University in 1965 he switched to law, graduating from Howard's law school in 1968.
He joined the Army one year later at the suggestion of his father, and received military honors including the Legion of Merit and the Meritorious Service Medal before embarking on a career in government.
West was a senior vice president and top lobbyist at Northrop before joining the Clinton administration, where he briefly held dual posts as Army secretary and chairman of the Panama Canal Commission.
An Eagle Scout, West served on the Boy Scouts of America's national executive board and was president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a self-described "black think tank," after leaving the Clinton administration.
But he seemed to find a return to government hard to resist. He joined former Army Secretary John O. Marsh Jr. in leading a 2007 investigation into red tape and decaying facilities that hampered care at Walter Reed.
A few years later, he and Adm. Vern Clark, former chief of naval operations, oversaw a Pentagon review into the 2009 shootings at Ft. Hood, in which an Army psychiatrist killed 13 people. The shooter was Muslim, leading West to warn against proposals to spy on troops, particularly on the basis of religion.
"Do we want commanders in the mosque? No," West said. "What we want is commanders' awareness of what's going on in their unit. . . . Sometimes there are warning signs that need to be paid attention to and passed along the chain of command."
Survivors include his wife of 51 years, Gail Berry West of Washington, a lawyer who served as deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force under Carter; two daughters, Tiffany West Smink of Denver and Hilary Carter West of Washington; and two grandchildren.


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