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Keywords for Being Nikkei in a Moment of Racial Reckoning
by Tamiko Nimura
"I recognized that the heartbeat, historically, of racism, has been denial."
— Ibram Kendi
There are times to write normality and there are times to write brokenness. Feeling the need for something as it was—"normal"—the essay I wanted to write used a straightforward reporting style, journalism, objectivity, neutrality. This style is what we're accustomed to as "normal." It's mid-2020. These times are both normal and broken, and some ways were always broken. This essay objected to the idea of objectivity and neutrality in writing. This essay insisted that it be written instead.
Here are some of my keywords for being Nikkei in a moment of racial reckoning.
It's 2020. I am registering my daughter for an online summer program. Though the program usually serves Black and Latinx kids in Florida, I ask if my daughter would still be qualified for the program. They welcome her "with open arms." The form asks my racial background, and then my daughter's. The choices are: A) Black; B) White; C) Biracial. I choose C, and explain in the Comments section. "I am Asian American."
Hierarchy.
In third grade, my White friend Celeste throws an arm around my shoulder. "At least you're not Mexican," she declares, proudly.
Horizontal.
In seventh grade, I am walking alone over to my locker after school. On my way, I see two White boys are sitting near a wall, as if waiting for me in an alley. One of them stretches his eyelids horizontal with his fingers. "Ching Chong, Ching Chong," he laughs. I flip them off. I keep walking.
Mistaken.
My Filipina grandmother, wife of a Filipino soldier in the US Army, only spoke briefly about coming to the United States. "I was mistaken for being Black," she says. Like other immigrants, she learned quickly that distancing herself from Blackness granted her some mobility. I wonder if she was able to drink from the White drinking fountains instead. She's talking about a family friend: "He's from Puerto Rico?" She lowers her voice, whispers: "I think he's part Black."
In 2001, I was in Knoxville, Tennessee—one of my first times as a West Coast Asian American woman in the South. I was a graduate student presenting a paper at the MELUS conference, an academic gathering devoted to studying the multi-ethnic literatures of the United States. I always tried to escape conferences and visit cities, so I decided to visit the Knoxville Museum, where an exhibit of African American quilts was on display. I paid for my ticket, and asked if I needed to check my backpack. The old bearded White man in his red museum uniform smiled, and handed me my claim ticket: "No tickee, no laundry," he smiled. Unfortunately—and I regret this still—I was shocked into silence. The exhibit was called Roots of Racism: Ignorance and Fear.
Lynching.
In graduate school—and not until then—I learn about the courage of Ida B. Wells. I learn something about what lynching really means, just how much intentional brutality it involves. It doesn't just mean images of mutilated Black bodies. It also means the White women and children eager to attend the spectacle as if for a picnic. As a nation, we continue to see and not see lynchings of Black men and Black women. After hearing about the latest incidents in 2020, my youngest daughter says that she can't stop thinking about the man who can't breathe.
Anti-Blackness.
In graduate school—and not until then—I begin to unlearn some of the anti-Black racism I have internalized, just by growing up in America. Toni Morrison's short story Recitatif insists that the reader wrestle with the social construction of race, based on physical and cultural stereotypes, cultural insider knowledge, historical positionality. I learn that my anti-Blackness relies on phenotype, classist, racist ideas. These ideas are hardly better than the phrenologists who used to read character based on skull shape. I'm embarrassed, horrified even, but I don't stay there. I let the discomfort move me into learning more, and the learning becomes transformative. I'm still learning.
Challenge.
In graduate school—and not until then—I learn about African American studies, African American culture, African American history. The more I learn about these subjects, the more I know how much I have to unlearn. I learn how much I owe to African American teachings and practices of solidarity, coalition. I learn from the words and the lives of Audre Lorde, Bernice Reagon, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, Toni Cade Bambara, Angela Davis.
I reread Audre Lorde's essay "Learning from the 60s" for comfort and challenge: "You do not have to be me in order for us to fight alongside each other. I do not have to be you to recognize that our wars are the same. What we must do is commit ourselves to some future that can include each other and to work toward that future with the particular strength of our individual identities."
Reparations.
At a conference, I hear legal scholar Eric Yamamoto speak about the legal impact of reparations for Japanese Americans and the connections to reparations for African Americans. "I suggested," Yamamoto wrote in a 1998 paper for the Boston Law Review, "that the key to the legacy of redress was how Japanese Americans acted when faced with continuing racial subordination of African Americans, Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, Latinas/os and Asian Americans. Would we draw upon the lessons of the reparations movement and work to end all forms of societal oppression, or would we close up shop because we got ours?"
Reparations means one thing for Japanese Americans, another for African Americans. It is a milestone for Japanese Americans, an unfulfilled centuries-long struggle for African Americans.
Tsuru.
In February 2018, a call goes out to fold 10,000 cranes to bring to Dilley, Texas and Fort Sill, Oklahoma. With the help of an educator friend, I organize two fold-ins at one of the high schools. I talk about the direct connections between what my Nikkei family experienced: family separation and indefinite detention.
Screenshot of Tsuru for Solidarity event Tsuru Rising As part of the weekend long event Buddhist leaders across the country chanted names of lives lost to state sanctioned violence
In 2020, I continue to learn from the Tsuru for Solidarity organizers, including Satsuki Ina, Stan Shikuma, and Mike Ishii. Together with many others they organized a national online conference and pivoted quickly from their original opening program to one which focused on Black Lives Matter and other organizers of color across the country. I continue to learn from groups like Japanese Americans for Justice, which organized and televised a direct action as part of the Tsuru for Solidarity conference.
As anyone who has folded a crane will tell you, making tsuru is not easy. It takes a lot of patience and practice. Mistakes will be made. I am probably making mistakes even now, as I learn to write and to take action. But I am learning.
Abolition.
In February 2020, I am at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma for an unforgettable Day of Remembrance. I am hearing survivors of the camps and their descendants speak for prison abolition. "We [in Tsuru for Solidarity] are members of the Detention Action Network," declares Mike Ishii, one of the organizers of the protest, to cheers from the mostly Nikkei crowd. I'm not sure if I have ever heard anyone Nikkei working on prison abolition before, and while I don't claim to know the whole Nikkei community and its history, it gives me pause. I am the direct descendant of people imprisoned in American concentration camps. Why had I not thought about prison abolition as a "Nikkei cause" before?
Solidarity.
When I say "Asian American," it is as a bridge, and as a claiming, and as an act of solidarity across a number of ethnic groups. As a Filipina Nikkei, it is a term that helps me claim all of my heritage. I read Sun Yeon Choimorrow's words about working in solidarity, not allyship. "We will be able to show solidarity without shame or guilt, themes that I often hear from AAPI activists when we talk about how our own community is grappling with anti-Blackness. When we deeply understand our own oppression and its source, we are able to say "Black Lives Matter" without feeling the scarcity that somehow our communities' concerns and needs are being made invisible."
I continue to learn from Carl Takei, attorney for the ACLU, in his recent article for the Nichibei Weekly: "A Call for Solidarity with Black-Led Fights for Liberation."
"As Japanese Americans living in this historical moment," he says, "we have a choice: We can stand quietly on the sidelines—as so many other communities did when we were targeted during World War II. Or, we can join in solidarity with these Black-led calls for action."
I think about the questions to ask, as Hyejin Shim posed in her excellent 2017 essay, "On the Limits and Effects of Asian American Allyship": "What are the legacies we've inherited, which ones will we choose to protect, and which will we dismantle?"
Ongaeshi.
It is 2020. I write in praise of Black Lives, knowing that as a Nikkei, an Asian American, an American, I owe them so much. There are the larger legacies: the laws which African Americans have fought for have also directly affected my life as an American citizen. There are the personal legacies to the Black women in my life. My writer mentor friends here in Tacoma: Renee Simms and Rosalind Bell. My graduate school advisor, Johnnella Butler. The subject of my first book, who chose me to be her biographer: Senator Rosa Franklin. I hope that reckoning includes a full recognition of the debt of gratitude, the ongaeshi, that we can repay to Black Lives.
Tamiko Nimura is a Sansei/Pinay writer, originally from northern California, now living in the Pacific Northwest. Her writing has appeared or will appear in The San Francisco Chronicle, Kartika Review, The Seattle Star (seattlest.com), the International Examiner (Seattle), and The Rafu Shimpo. She blogs at Kikugirl.net, and is working on a book that responds to her father's unpublished manuscript about his Tule Lake incarceration during World War II.
Editor's note. This article was originally published in Discover Nikkei (www.discovernikkei.org), which is managed by the Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles.
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The Seasonal Forecast Thread
Here's some background information on El Nino and CET values that I reviewed as part of my winter forecast preparation. Using the SOI index 1876-2015 on the Australian (bom.au) site, I noted 25 previous El Nino events with a period of 5.5 years, and this would be the 26th one. If you wanted to say 1992 and 1994 were two separate peaks then this makes 26 previous, and this the 27th, period then drops to 5.3 years. Most of the El Nino events peak in the northern hemisphere winter months but a few peaked in the southern hemisphere winter. These I assigned to whichever northern hemisphere winter had the lower average regardless of which side of July 1st the peak occurred. There may be more frequent El Ninos if you counted some weak secondary cases, but as we tend to think of El Nino as a "seven year cycle" I erred on the side of longer intervals where cases seemed marginal. Then I analyzed CET temperatures for each year starting with n-2 (two years before the selected El Nino winter Jan 1), and ran the series for seven years although the 6th and 7th years would include some renewed El Nino peaks as the periodicity varies from 4 to 8 years (5,6,7 about equally likely). What I found was not overly compelling in terms of showing any real correlation between the SOI and the CET. However, the mean for the defined El Nino peak winter (this winter evidently, unless this one turns into something extreme over two years) shows temperatures slightly below normal in both December and January. There are relative minima of 3.2 on 10th Dec and 2.7 on 30th Jan. In between there is a bit of a mild spike just before New Years with daily means near 5.5 for three days. Otherwise, the data look very close to long-term normals much of the time. That is not meant to be a prediction for this particular winter, just the observation that SOI is not much of a predictor of temperatures. I had a look at all years in the six-year cycle generated before the data became so scattered by the variable SOI period that they had no further predictive potential. Not very much shows up at all, really. Each year has a few subtle warm and cold spells relative to CET normals, but there are very few days in the whole data set more than 1.0 deg away from the long-term averages. What this tells me is that events in the tropical Pacific, while no doubt very significant as predictors of climate around the western hemisphere and far eastern hemisphere, may "peter out" by the time they begin to interact with circulations over Europe and the eastern Atlantic. I also note that the colder turns in the defined peak winter contain one of the weakest El Nino candidates, 1946-47 in the data set. If you eliminate that case, the colder periods that I mentioned lose a bit of their already subtle distinctions. However, a big caveat emptor at the end -- I have yet to tackle the problem of different types of El Nino and trying to assess which other cases (besides 2009-10) are "Modoki" types. That might yield a different story, but here's the full list of peak El Nino (Jan) years in the data set -- do you see very many cold winters here? I don't, but at the same time, not that many very mild ones either. 1878,1883,1889,1896,1900,1905,1912,1915,1919,1926,1931,1937,1941,1947,1953,1958,1966,1973,1977, 1983,1987,1992 (1994) 1998,2005,2010 (I did not insert 2013-14 data into the file as I wanted to have the numbers available for predictive evaluation of years 1 and 2 of the series). If anyone has any questions about temperatures in any part of the derived series, fire away.
Snow And Ice In The Northern Hemisphere Autumn/Winter 2015/16
however this winter turns out, we have a very good positive anomaly of eurasian snow cover-
MIA - I really can't understand what you are on about - take the report of hedge fund managers standing to make millions in the event of a Britex - this is quite feasible - it is quite likely that this people will speculate against a devaluing of the GBP in such an event just as George Soros did in September 1992 when the UK exited the ERM, pushing interest rates momentarily up to 15%, causing the Chancellor of the Exchequer to use up a proportion our currency reserves in a vain attempt to prop the pound up, caused a mini recession and a number of businesses to fold. The raison d'etre of speculators is first and foremost to make money, first and foremost and little regard to the short and long term effects of their actions - as far as they are concerned this is for somebody else to worry about. So as far as I can see the hedge fund managers will view a Britex as an opportunity for them to make money very likely at the expense of our own economy which is highly likely to lead to a devaluation* - where there are winners there has to be losers in this game. I do not see that pointing this out is as a negative campaign. *In my experience devaluations have never worked in this country because although they give the opportunity for greater exports the imports cost more as well meaning that there is no overall gain of any significance. I take it that when you are referring the 'baddies' you are referring to the shenanigans involving the selling of sub prime mortgages then selling these on in worthless parcels by people in the US causing eventually the global recession from which we are now only just emerging. As far as I am aware nobody has been convicted of offences in connection with these yet I consider their actions fraudulent, though I am not sure which people are in jail as a result of these actions. Not sure what you mean by 'EEC directives' but Juncker is intending for EU 'red tape' to be cut and takes the view that it is up to the individual states to control these matters with the EU only concerning themselves with matters which affect the EU as a whole. He also says that a Britex will damage both the EU and the UK (Yesterday's Times). I don't know of anything which supports what you have said in your 5th para and why shouldn't us pro EU people find things to disturb the march towards a Britex - we do not support this action and we is variously, it seems around 50%, of our population and they are not all left wing comments. In my view the agitation caused by those wanting to leave the EU has done nothing but harm to our country and will continue to do so. For a start it is causing a divide in the country and that was not really necessary. It causes uncertainty which is not good for investment, trade and business. I would argue that the energies of these people would have ben far better spent in an effort to reform the EU. We all know that it is not perfect and that there are many areas where work is needed to improve it. Lastly I would say that the EEC transformed into the EU quite some time ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVL7gLwzct0
Australian Weather
Now this is one squally thunderstorm. Impact town: Fernvale, just 40 miles from central Brisbane, yesterday. Several houses lost their roofs. This is usually an active time for severe storms in the subtropics. Australia highly likely to record it's hottest October on record for mean maximum temperature. Presently, hundreds of weather sites across most states are registering a record. If realised this will beat the previous record set only last year. The anomaly in Victoria in particular this month has been staggering.
UK Politics May 2015 Onward
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/who-won-prime-ministers-questions-6720217#ICID=sharebar_twitter Who won Prime Minister's Questions? Evasive Cameron slips up on tax credits	Jeremy Corbyn used all six of his questions at PMQs to tackle David Cameron on tax credits. The PM came off second best
Oh, for God's sake! I'm sure that Nostradamus saw it all, many years before that! Anything from Doris Stokes?
Amazing how a graph can be interpreted in different ways.!! It looks to me as if whatever was causing the deficit to reduce, was released in every case before the country was ready. To be more specific it was released - 1) Too soon 2) with too much of a release of the forcing correcting the deficit. Out of the 4 cases depicted it shows how the Torys on 1990 went for growth and how this caused the deficit problem. But note that they rapidly turned it around until Labour took over and Brown gradually screwed it for the next 10 years ending with the catastrophic dustup in 2008!. Note that the Tories had already proved it was possible to turn it around quickly when they thought they needed too. Brown had his chance in 2004 to put it back correctly, but instead chose to 'invest' in social services inspite of his calls for prudence. - His downfall. . Compare this with Labour's other efforts - 1) in the early 1950's had to wait for the Tories to reverse the trend. 2) In the early 70's had to do the same. 3) as mentioned above the Brown era fell into the same trap. So no - it is not inevitable... It is not the same as the moon automatically follows the sun. Policy is what is causing these effects. What is required is a prolonged period of government which is prepared to tighten for as long as necessary and then when the brake is lifted it is done at a pace that the economy can support! Much the same a Germany did in the 1970 to 90 period. I am afraid it is not possible to have social benefits driving our economy as many on here seem to think. The other point of the graph which has been ignored is that each minima is lower than the previous. This indicates to me a basic negative forcing is also taking place. How about trying the loss of our industrial base as this forcing?. It is important because each time it will take longer and longer to claw our way back up to balance. As I say - it is amazing what an be inferred from graphs! MIA
Hi Roger Far more indepth than the 'test' I ran myself a couple of years ago but the end result very similar. What I saw through the 20th century was that there was no weighting for any winter type. It broke even for cold, mild and average over the 100 years so for me it wasn't a predictor for UK winter BFTP
Circumzenithal arc ....... apparently
I saw this and snapped it through a car sunroof which made it much more visible than with the naked eye. Didn't realise it was that unusual but was on BBC news site today! Glad I saw it.
The changing daylight hours thread
Back to that age old question that I've never been able to find a convincing answer to - why in Europe (including the UK) do we insist on waiting until the end of March to put our clocks forward when we're happy not putting them back before the end of October when it's darker in the mornings? Does anyone understand the logic?
So a few days ago we had a heated debate on the taxation of sanitary products. Well.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34638831 A move to debate the issue with other EU members was blocked by MPs by 305 votes to 287. This to be honest highlights a big factor in my view about the EU referendum. Politics is broken on all fronts. Sort our domestic politics first!!!
I agree that our brains cannot understand nothingness; but, neither can they understand infinity...Not because neither exist but, rather, because evolution hasn't wired animal brains in that way? Why would it?
The Middle East...where Are Events Taking Us?
You know, if an all out war materialises in the ME through this incessant obsession by Graham and McCain to get rid of Assad by military means only and not even attempting to resolve the issue by the use of dialogue and negotiation, then I hope that these two geriatric, warmongering fools are strapped to the first two missiles that America fires! http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/10/28/graham-to-military-leaders-syria-strategy-half-assed-at-best/?singlepage=true
oh dear ,will send another van with some tea total Christian happy clappers then ....0
80 Years Ago Edgar Cayce Predicted Putin's Role in Stopping WW3. http://www.wakingtimes.com/2015/10/16/80-years-ago-edgar-cayce-predicted-putins-role-in-stopping-ww3/
ESTONIAN MAFIOSI BRIBED WITH WATERED DOWN GORDON"S GIN NET WEATHER MEMBER NOW HAS A FREE VAN AND BOOZE
Cafe chill out - aka Banter - The 2nd Edition
11 pound whisky :0 ,I used to run heavy plant on that !!.
Sainsbury's has 11 pound whiskey and 18 pound gin
Although, with current domestic omnishambles in full flow, I wouldn't be too hopeful?
So we should forever increase our debt?
That was me probably around age 15 Party at your place
I'm sending a van and two Estonian Mafiosi to collect .....:0..
thats because it's mine ....can I have it back please......
Got 20 bottles of whiskey and 10 bottles of red wine in the house, but none of it is mine. Oh and a box of Bud and 15 Becks, but none of it is mine Oh and some brandy and gin, but none of it is mine.
Remind me who's voting for unrestricted TTIP again? UKIP might be more right wing socially, but Tories are out on their own in the far right side of economic ideology.
People do horrible things for a variety of reasons, some simply because they can. I think it is wishful thinking that there has to be a reason behind it. A lot of the things we do to eachother can also be seen in the animal world. Ever seen that footage of gorillas hunting down a monkey, sexually molesting it and then killing it for fun? I mean it all seems so hopeless to tell a family of someone who was brutally murdered for no good reason because the murderer simply could.
Which does mean the Tories have got/had a lot of racists.
More negative campaigning.!! How many of these people have been brought to court as a result of the EEC directives.? How many have been heavily fined by British (and more particular USA calling out the baddies)! Net impact of the EC directives - Zero, but people are in jail as a result of British and American actions. I've noticed that our French connection are the only people contributing on here at the moment. France is the only place that seem to be worried that there will be a BRexit in Europe (as evidenced by you guys). Nobody in Strasburg or other EEC countries are worried about it according to the latest press releases and yet our French connection are spending their efforts and time in finding anything to disturb the march to BRexit. Perhaps you should be addressing the European parliament and officials that the threat is a real one! Apparently no-one believes it is a real threat on the other side of the channel. That is the greatest threat of all! For gawds sake persuade them to negotiate and stop making stupid left wing comments all the time. It does not go down very well over here outside of blog forums! MIA
The darkness never bothers me - I find it quite cosy. Anyway, we have had these wonderful things called light bulbs for the past 100 years. I know some people suffer from SAD which is a shame but in the modern world in which we live a bit of darkness for a few months of the year is hardly the worst thing in the world. If we were a tribe of hunter gatherers then I would be miffed - but we ain't.
you are arguing the toss over a week before and two/three after, really worth a shift change?
Caught one where I live in south London this afternoon too
An interesting article from the Independent. Billionaire hedge fund managers who are backing the campaign to take Britain out of Europe stand to bank millions more pounds a year in the event of a so-called "Brexitâ€. Two of the five richest hedge fund billionaires in Britain are already linked to EU exit campaigns, and The Independent understands that other fund managers are planning to throw their weight behind the Out campaign in the coming months. Tough European rules made in the wake of the 2007 financial crisis would be under threat if hedge fund bosses helped to force the UK's exit from the EU. Without the restrictions, hedge funds – which specialise in high-risk, short-term investments – would save about £250m a year, an analysis by this newspaper has calculated. Bonus rules which force hedge fund bosses to reduce the amount of cash they pocket and are designed to stamp out reckless trading would also be at risk if the UK left the EU.
Weather in the general media (Newspaper features etc)
I am so upset,really thought 300ft snowdrifts were a dead cert. C.S Is that picture of Steve Murr on his winter vacation LOL C.S
Greenland - What Do We Know, What Is The Long Term Future And Is There Any Evidence Of A Melt Out?
Greenland Is Melting Away ( nice article) http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/27/world/greenland-is-melting-away.html
Good post knocker. Personally I agree with you on the history of Islamic extremism but I do think the actions of western governments in the last 20 years have contributed to geo-political instability that has enabled the likes of Isis to flourish and grow.
It seems that owing your property and leaving it to loved ones once you've passed away is big no no for some. As for Nicks post on poverty I have to laugh because it's such a cliched word that's banded about by the liberal left as some sort of badge of honour. We simply don't have poverty per say in this country, yes we have poor people who struggle to pay their bills, I'm one of them by the way but poverty no. The whole debate on increasing taxes is the old labour chestnut of sharing someone else's wealth, it simply doesn't work and the majority of UK voters will vote out any political party who imposes such draconian measures, hence why no one trust the Labour Party more so with Comrade Corbyn at the helm.
Good on the Lords! The House of Lords may be bloated, expensive and completely undemocratic - but it's done good here.
Sorry that's irrelevant, at a time of so called austerity you don't dish out tax cuts for people that are inheriting over £325,000. I'm sure a lot of people would be happy to get anything close to inheriting that much money. Do you not see the moral vacuum in giving those a tax cut whilst at the same time plunging more people and especially children into poverty. Let me put this another way would you rather save 50,000 children from falling into poverty or give a tax cut to someone inheriting over £325,000? Because that's exactly the issue at hand and frankly I'd hope most Brits would vote to save those children. If not then really I just despair at whats happening in the UK.
Stratosphere Temperature Watch 2015/2016
Very striking difference this year generally in the stratosphere compared to the same period last year,which shows up nicely at 30mb. 2014.. 2015.. PV looks to be late to the party this year.
Falling Oil Price
Asda is bringing its petrol down to 103.7 and diesel down to 106.7 they are also demanding George Osborne freezes fuel duty its understood Osborne wants a 1ppl rise on diesel in the wake of the VW emissions scandal
As you say Fergie, regarding OLR. The 4th Kelvin wave has begun down welling in region ENSO 1.2. Hence the opening for a westerly wind burst pushing MJO into phase 2. MJO will most likely return to COD and emerge back into phases 5 or 6. El Niño is king driver until it's demise. The levels of thermal energy stored in the Pacific sink just shows how much it dictates global weather patterns.
Caution with MJO assessment currently however... as UKMO note: "...MJO not having much predictive value at present. Models had been suggesting that it should be emerging into Phase 1 by now (and into Phase 2 subsequently), however confidence in this was always low due to contamination from tropical storms messing up the OLR assimilation."
I don't think you could have anything more going on in the Pacific right now, this Nino winter is less than boring. Nor is it without many sub-plots. Re GWO now on downward tendency as MJO initiates. Studies show MJO waves to travel more quickly in ENSO years,, not without there impacts. Decent amplitude visible on the VP anomalies however, the speed of travel / degrade is of interest. Bonfire night sees progression move to circle of doom time will tell for it's depart and then re-appearance time frame, also the impacts much further up in the atmosphere provide intrigue. 2 tests of academia now - the MJO coupling and effects on Vortex Formation / Intensificaton , further to that the impact of the Strat Trop pathway vs the qQBO, lots to look out for this season...
I think that judgement on the current IO MJO wave amplification and how far east this travels need to be watched carefully. We may see some over enthusiastic forecasts regarding stage 3, but the risk is that these may get dampened down as we get closer in timeframe - much like FI strat forecasts. If, and this is a big if, we see the MJO reach phase 3 in some kind of amplified state during November, then there is the possibility that this decoupling with the El Nino may have some ramifications regarding early December - an increase in wave 2 activity could occur leading to a greater meridional flow affecting the Atlantic sector. If the MJO wave gets overwhelmed by the strong EN, then a more traditional EN winter pattern may ensue. Certainly, an interesting few weeks watching the MJO coming up.
Thank you - as always - for your thoughts Tamara. It's a shame solar activity has been so feeble over the past 6 months or so as high activity would have in theory mitigated the possible impact of the westerly QBO. I'll put the Indian Ocean SST forcing to one side for the time being (though I'm still going to check out those warm IO + El Nino analogues out of interest). I'm fascinated by the nature of this basin-wide El Nino and it's potential implications. The U.S. to Hawaii band of +ve SST anomalies is also setting my mind whirring. A basin-wide super El Nino with benefits? Alas, there's a particularly terrible side-effect of this event due to slam into the western coast of Mexico today; Category 5 hurricane Patricia with top sustained winds of 200 mph gusting to 245 mph. Yes, you read that right! Thoughts go out to those in the firing line - the NHC are making good use of the word 'catastrophic' this morning.
prefer bacon and egg myself ...
No. And even if a God does exist, he/she's a nasty, vindictive, spiteful piece of work.
I know JB is a believer in a return to the fifties analogues where tropical forecasting is concerned - he's obviously giving 57/58 triple weighting in this analogue. I'm not sure I would even use it once, given it was the absolute maximum of the strongest solar cycle in our records.
Antarctic Ice Discussion
I think it shows sea ice variability can change rapidly from year to year. Antarctic sea ice is more seasonal then the Arctic however to a degree as the min extents rise year on year in the Antarctic that's becoming less marked. Perhaps 'finding' a human explanation on 10 year scales is pointless ?
Here's a preliminary forecast for the winter, but I am continuing to look at some leads on a final forecast that I hope to publish around mid-November. It may be similar to this. I can also mention that I discussed this with "Blast from the Past" and he is of a similar opinion but also wanting to give things a later assessment. This post will simply give the forecast as we see it now, reasoning will be added to any final version. First of all, we expect November to be variable and average near normal for temperatures and precipitation. Expect a wide variety of weather types and one or two rather windy days but also a lot of anticylonic weather. December and some part of January (at least the first half) will probably be mild more often than cold, but with spells of anticyclonic weather bringing quiet perhaps foggy conditions, and somewhat colder temperatures interspersed with milder southwesterly flows and possibly one or two stormy periods. If these storms develop, they would likely be followed by several days of northerly flow, local hill snow and gradually moderating temperatures. Later in January and for some part of February, more significant blocking appears likely, and we think there may be a spell of significant and perhaps extreme cold. Snow would be more likely in the south and central counties with this set-up. This colder pattern is not likely to reverse itself quickly and it may just fade out through March. We will revisit this forecast in November and give a final version with some of the reasoning added. At this point, would just say that we feel the El Nino will not overwhelm the closer and therefore more significant cold Atlantic signal. However, we don't think that it will completely fail to interact with the Atlantic and European patterns, which is the main reason for thinking there could be perhaps one or even two significant windstorms as there were in Dec 1997. Watch for an update in mid-November.


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How Trump's Inaugural Pastor Misread the Bible
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It is the custom in our country, notwithstanding the enshrined principle of separation of church and state, for a clergy member to offer words of encouragement and moral guidance to the President-elect on the morning of the inauguration. On the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly interviewed the designated minister, Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, TX and asked what words he planned to deliver.
"Words of encouragement," Jeffries replied.
What words?
The minister, who Trump once said he "loved," explained he planned to compare President Trump to Nehemiah, a leader of the post-exilic Jewish community. Apparently referring to the first four chapters of The Book of Nehemiah, Pastor Jeffress said that Nehemiah was a "regular guy," "a builder" chosen by God to build a defensive wall around Jerusalem to protect the people from foreign invaders. Furthermore, Nehemiah faced the taunts of naysayers, malingers and rumor-spreading critics (the ancient equivalent of the mainstream media, Jeffress chortled).
The comparison undoubtedly flattered Trump. A biblical leader! A divinely-chosen builder! Clearly God ordained this presidency—not to mention the "big, beautiful" defensive wall he built his campaign on.
Mr. Trump would have been better served had Pastor Jeffress also turned to the fifth chapter of Nehemiah while preparing his sermon.
Here, Nehemiah addresses the outcry of the common people who had lost their homes, their fields and their livelihoods because of debts owed to the wealthy of the land. "We must pawn our fields, our vineyards and our homes to get grain and stave off hunger," they cry. "We have borrowed money against our fields and vineyards to pay the king's tax. Now we are as good as our brothers, and our children as good as theirs; yet here we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery — some of our daughters are already subjected — and we are powerless, while our fields and vineyards belong to others." (Neh. 5:3-5)
Their cries pained Nehemiah, and he called out the creditors, the king's officials and others who had taken advantage of the people and profited at their expense.
Perhaps, had Jeffress focused on that part of the biblical text, Mr. Trump would rethink his nomination of Steven Mnuchin, whose investments in sub-prime mortgage lender IndyMac, contributed to the financial crisis of 2008 and whose practices have often been described as a "foreclosure machine."
Perhaps, then Mr. Trump would rethink his nomination of Andrew Puzder for Secretary of Labor, whose fast food restaurants are accused of violating labor laws, including safety protections and anti-discrimination laws, and who opposes any increase in the minimum wage. Puzder even trumpets the notion of human-free workplaces, telling Business Insider that robot employees are "always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, there's never a slip-and-fall or an age, sex or race discrimination case." Perhaps, the President would have sought out a Labor Secretary who understands that minimum wage jobs should support families.
President Trump's cabinet choices for education, housing and urban development, energy, and the EPA similarly privilege creditors like those denounced in Neh 5.
Nehemiah was an important leader at a critical time. He understood political and military power. But he also showed compassion and a keen sense of justice. It's a shame that Pastor Jeffress squandered an opportunity to use the richness of Scripture in his words intended to encourage Trump.
Barat Ellman is a rabbi and an adjunct professor of Bible and Theology at Fordham University and for the Bard Prison Initiative. An alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, she was ordained and earned her PhD from the Jewish Theological Seminary. She lives in Park Slope. She is a member of T'ruah: the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice.
Barat Ellman


The (theoretically) happiest dog in Hollywoo learns some important lessons in this clip.
"What is this, a college episode?" That is a line not uttered during "BoJack Horseman" Season 4, but it's quite appropo to the below exclusive clip from the upcoming season, which premieres Friday, September 8 on Netflix.
In the clip below, Mr. Peanutbutter (series regular Paul F. Tompkins) has been signed up for the sort of collegiate experience we remember from classic 1980s films about college life, while also invoking the sort of mentor-mentee relationship we remember from other classic 1980s films (this time, the ones about training for victory in some sort of competition).
Why does Mr. Peanutbutter need to learn to ski? It's an important question that gets answered in Season 4, along with a lot of other unresolved issues left hanging at the end of Season 3, such as Princess Carolyn's (Amy Sedaris) decision to become a manager instead of an agent, Diane's (Alison Brie) new blogging job, and, oh yeah, what happened to the titular Mr. Horseman (Will Arnett) after he left L.A.?
"BoJack Horseman" is Emmy-nominated this year for Best Character Voice-Acting, thanks to Kristen Schaal's heartbreaking work in last season's "That's Too Much, Man!" Fingers crossed, one of the best shows currently being made gets more awards attention next year. Check out the clip below, as we all get ready to continue the journey with these characters on Friday.
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Based on landings information and projections, Department of Fish and Game (DFG) biologists expected that the season's harvest limit of 118,000 short tons of market squid would be reached by Friday, December 17. The squid fishing season runs from April through the following March of each year, and the fishery closure will remain in effect through March 31, 2011. This is the first season the harvest limit has been attained since it was implemented by the Fish and Game Commission in 2004 as part of the California Market Squid Fishery Management Plan.
Squid fishermen and processors have assisted DFG in tracking daily catches this fall, as record squid abundance signaled the likelihood of reaching the harvest limit, established to ensure the squid fishery does not expand beyond levels experienced in the 1990s. "The wetfish industry and California Wetfish Producers Association (CWPA) are very pleased to partner with DFG to ensure a sustainable market squid resource and fishery," says California Wetfish Producers Association Executive Director Diane Pleschner-Steele.
Under the supervision of Dr. Doyle Hanan, retired DFG senior marine biologist supervisor formerly responsible for market squid and coastal pelagic fisheries, squid fishermen have learned how to tow scientific bongo nets to collect squid hatchlings, called paralarvae. They time these field surveys to coincide with quarterly California Cooperative Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) oceanic research cruises. Dr. Hanan has observed a correlation between increased paralarvae abundance and a productive fishery six- to nine months later.
The presence of market squid is strongly correlated with environmental factors, such as water temperature and nutrient availability. In warm water years, such as during El Niño events, squid abundance drops sharply and landings decline. However, when water temperatures cool, even after severe warm water events, market squid numbers can rebound dramatically.
According to the DFG News Release, market squid is by far California's largest and most valuable commercial fishery. In 2009, just over 100,000 tons were landed with an ex-vessel value of $56.5 million. California market squid is used domestically for food – often identified as "calamari" in restaurants – and is an important international commodity. Last year, California fish businesses exported market squid to 36 countries with China the leading importer of California market squid.
The harvest limit is one of many provisions governing the squid fishery, which has been managed under the state's Market Squid Fishery Management Plan (MSFMP) since 2005. The goals of the MSFMP are to ensure long-term conservation and sustainability of the market squid resource, reduce the potential for overfishing and provide a framework for management. In addition to the harvest limit, weekend closures were implemented to allow for periods of uninterrupted spawning each week.
The MSFMP was developed under the provisions set forth by California's Marine Life Management Act (MLMA), which became law in 1999. The MLMA created state policies, goals and objectives to govern the conservation, sustainable use and restoration of California's living marine resources.


Actor Irrfan Khan is now back on the set with Dinesh Vijan's latest venture 'Angrezi Medium'.
And the makers have revealed their one more cast from the film. According to reports, Pankaj Tripthi has also been brought on the board for a cameo in Irrfan's film.
This will be for the first time Irrfan and Pankaj will be seen sharing screen space with each other. Though, it's a third time Pankaj is collaborating with producer Dinesh Vijan after 'Stree' and 'Luka Chuppi'.
Confirming the news of bagging a role in Irrfan starrer 'Angrezi Medium' Pankaj stated that his role is a cameo. It's his love and respect for Irrfan and his friendship with Dinu (Dinesh Vijan) that made him say 'yes' for the film.
Irrfan recently started shooting for 'Angrezi Medium' in Udaipur and his pictures from the sets has gone viral on social media. This is Irrfan's first project after coming back from London, since the actor was there for his treatment for Neuro-Endocrine tumor.
Interestingly, the power-packed performer duos are alumni of National School of Drama. 'Angrezi Medium' is a sequel of Irrfan's 2017 hit movie 'Hindi Medium' with a new twist. The film also stars Kareena Kapoor Khan and Radhika Madan in key roles.


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As I have mentioned a few times recently, I am in my final year at university up here in St Andrews. This fact kind of hit my friends and I recently and so we decided we have to spend our last few months in St Andrews sampling local delights. As we all love our food, The Peat Inn was a natural place to go to!
The Peat Inn is less from 10 miles from St Andrews and has a reputation for incredible food as it holds a Michelin Star.
You might think this means it would be an expensive place to eat, but you can do it on a budget! There is a set lunch menu for £19, which is what we went for (we are students after all).
Upon arrival you sit in a comfy sitting room to browse the menu, order and have a drink until your table is ready. The dining rooms are decorated in a modern and contemporary way and we were sat next to a big window to look out onto the countryside.
Then it was time for the main event, the food! (I'm afraid I forgot to take a picture of the menu so I don't know the fancy names of the food).
We started with an entree of ham hock, which was lovely. I could have had a whole dish based around this!
The first dish was a sort of seafood cannoli, as a seafood fiend I loved the different fish in the dish.
The second dish was pork with some seasonal vegetables and the most delicious little cube of pork crackling. Every different element in the dish was really nice and worked well together.
We finished with a pear mouse and a mango sorbet. I'm not normally a mouse person but this dish worked well because of the different, fruity and slightly chocolately components and textures, especially the sorbet!
Overall I really enjoyed my Peat Inn lunch experience and would definitely recommend it and would return once a new batch of seasonal dishes are on the menu to try out! The set lunch meal is such good value - think about how much a takeaway pizza is!
We are really enjoying our new mission to explore Fife, do you have any recommendations for local places to see and eat? Leave them down below!
oh my! what pretty food! looks so tasty and delicious!
It was so good Kelsey, and such a good price for a michelin star!


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Q: Is jQuery considered to be outdated? This may be an open and close case but may open some debate. I was speaking with my friend recently who said to me "jQuery is so 2008" Now while I don't pretend to know a whole lot about this language (Or JavaScript for that matter), I have used both for projects that I have done in the past. So my question is, is this framework still widely used? Are there newer more "2011" frameworks?
I see that this may be a daft question, as different frameworks have different uses but I have seen a lot of large companies have used jQuery on their site which leads me to believe that of course it has its uses (as does any other language).
What's the general consensus among designers/developers? Is it outdated? Is it still widely used in industry?
EDIT: The reason I ask this is because all the time I've searched for things jQuery related the articles that come up first seem to be dated back a few years...
Another EDIT: Thanks for your points, I think his reason for thinking it was outdated was maybe because the company he worked for didn't use it. Maybe THEY were outdated?!

A: Your friend is speaking out of total ignorance, and probably just uses whatever was invented within the past 6 months in order to feel "hip" and "cool".
jQuery is still widely used. jQuery is still frequently updated (in fact there was a major release just last month). jQuery is not "outdated".
(In 2008, jQuery was on 1.2.x, which is outdated.)

A: Is the development team active?
Is it widely used?
Does it adapt to best practices as they are discovered? Is it bringing new functionality that is making it more valuable to developers?
If you can answer yes to these then there's a good chance it isn't outdated because it is constantly being enhanced.
Your friend sounds like a diva.

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Man City defender Benjamin Mendy charged with seventh count of rape
December 23, 2021 9News Nigeria Hot News, Sports 0
Manchester City and France international footballer Benjamin Mendy has been charged with a further count of rape, bringing the number of charges the defender faces to seven allegations of rape and one of sexual assault against five different women.
Mendy was charged last week for the latest count of rape but was subject to reporting restrictions.
The latest charge, announced on Wednesday, relates to a woman and is alleged to have taken place in July this year.
Earlier charges are said to have happened between October 2020 and August 2021.
The 27-year-old defender appeared alongside his co-defendant, Louis Saha Matturie, who is also accused of serious sexual offences against women.
Both the defendants' legal teams have applied to have the charges dismissed.
Mendy was refused bail and has been held in a prison in Liverpool since his arrest last August.
He was suspended by Manchester City when he was charged last summer.
The football player joined City from Monaco in 2017 and has won the Premier League three times. He has made a total of ten appearances for the French national team.
Benjamin Mendy is due to go on trial next year.
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A new (to me at least) Luna track
Posted by Andy on 15 August 2008
Radio Free Steve poster
OK, so it's probably a bit arrogant but I really had an idea that this site (and therefore I) pretty much knew all there was to know about Luna and their published work (or at least from 1994/5 onwards) so when I came across a track I knew nothing about this morning I felt a bizarre mix of excitement and shame.
One of my Google alerts threw up this cool post on Candybar about Tell Me Do You Miss Me - at the bottom of which the poster, Frank, had linked to a mixwit introduction to Luna mix. I idly clicked the button and started listening and went on with my other business. Then on came "Westbound and Down" - it was definitely Dean singing but I had never heard, or heard of, this track.
A bit of poking around the Internet revealed that the track was recorded for the film Radio Free Steve (official site), the film had been (mostly) made in 1984 and released in 2000 (available on DVD from here). Westbound and Down is a cover of a Jerry Reed track from the "comedy" film Smokey & the Bandit (you can hear the original over here - youtube). The lyrics for Luna's version have been changed to suit its new use.
Audio: Westbound & Down - Luna
Sean explained in an email to me about how Westbound and Down came about
[It] was something i agreed to do for a friend in Austin Texas, who came to Luna shows and threw some good parties. His brother had made a low-budget movie called "Radio Free Steve", and they wanted a cover of this song with lyrics slightly changed for the last scene of the film. I was given $800 for the recording cost and Lee, Dean and I did it in an afternoon for about $400. The other $400 remaining was used to fund the video for "Superfreaky Memories" done by my friend Christian Moore. I play the bass and all guitars on the tune, Lee's on drums, and of course Dean is singing.</p>
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In some versions of the myth, Satis is said to be the consort, or wife, of Khnum. One of Anukis's titles was "Goddess of the Cataracts [rapids] of the Southern Nile," and her temples were at Sehel Island (south of Aswan) and Elephantine Island (Abu Island). Although her name means "to embrace," Anukis, like many Egyptian goddesses, has a dual nature—both sweet and fierce. It was said that her embrace could also become a chokehold. As "Goddess of the Hunt," her sacred animal is the gazelle. " Most often Anukis is portrayed as a woman holding a papyrus scepter and an ankh and wearing a tall headdress made of ostrich feathers or reeds.
When first light appears upon the horizon, the sun god is reborn and will make his daily journey across the sky. A complete version of the Book of Caverns can be seen in the tomb of Ramses VI in the Valley of the Kings. ), the Book of Gates refers to the 12 gates separating the hours of the night. It is a vast body of writings, spells, and incantations collected from the religious literature stored in temple libraries. The gates divide the 12 hours of the night and separate the enemies that the sun god will encounter.
At times it was a part of the soul of the deceased—the person's spirit—and at other times it seemed to be the entire soul or the essence of the deceased. " It was able to fly from place to place and is often shown hovering over the mummy or resting on a shrine. Most commonly it is represented as a bird with a human head and arms. Supposedly it could assume any form it chose, and the Book of the Dead has many spells to assist the ba in its transformation. One of the most important functions of the ba was to unite with the ka so the deceased could reach the heavens and become an akh spirit.
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Motz has been building fields and building futures in Ohio and surrounding states for 43 years. As a result, the team is committed to creating an atmosphere where athletes and communities can grow and thrive – on and off the field. "As an employee owned organization, The Motz Corporation takes immense pride in being a place where people matter. To be recognized as a Top Place to Work in Cincinnati consecutive years is a great honor, as we continuously strive to maintain an atmosphere that encourages innovation and thrives on inclusiveness. Our people are our foundation for success and the heart of our organization", said Valerie Webster, Chief Strategy Officer of The Motz Corporation.
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Built in 1924; Last Classes in 1996; Closed in 2011; Sold in 2014
This elementary school was built in 1924 for $26,559 at 16th and Keeler. In 1929 $26,570 was spent to expand the building and $8,061 worth of land was added. The building was expanded in 1938 for $20,019, in 1952 for $30,552 and a fourth addition in 1956 cost $27,019.
The school was known for pet, hobby, and band parades. Student safety patrols assisted crossing guards and patrolled the halls during recess. A student newsletter was produced several times each year with reports from each grade, local business ads, movie critiques, and student drawings. The elementary school was closed in 1985 and its students moved to Richard Kane Elementary, which still has an annual pet parade.
The Alternative High School, Adult Basic Education, and Operation Eagle services moved to the building the next year. The Alternative High School was moved to the high school site at 17th and Hillcrest in 1996. The state Regional Education Services Center (which provided psychometrists and other services to districts in the area) moved to this facility during the 96-97 school year but closed in the summer of 2003.
Until it finally closed in summer 2011 to reduce costs, McKinley was still home to a wide variety of district services, most of which were relocated to the Will Rogers Complex. The building was sold in January 2014 to Vertical Church of Bartlesville, which began leasing the property in February and was to formally purchase the property by March.
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UK switches on nation's largest community-owned solar array
The 636 kW rooftop PV array at the headquarters of Prodrive in Oxfordshire was completed by social enterprise Low Carbon Hub and is the largest such installation in the country.
September 28, 2016 pv magazine
Markets & Policy
The U.K.'s largest community-owned rooftop solar array has now been connected to the grid in Banbury, Oxfordshire.
At 636 kW, it is by no means one of the U.K.'s largest rooftop array, but fits the criteria of biggest owned by the local community, having been funded and fitted by Oxford-based social enterprise Low Carbon Hub.
It is estimated that the array, which sits atop the headquarters of British motorsport and engineering group Prodrive, will inject more than £240,000 ($311,000) per annum into the Low Carbon Hub's community benefit fund by feeding solar energy into the grid at 2015 FIT rates.
The Low Carbon Hub has a community energy manifesto that aims to generate £3.5 million ($4.55 million) in funds over 20 years, investing monies raised into community-backed and community-beneficial clean energy projects in Oxfordshire.
"We worked very hard during the 2015 clean energy dash to beat the FITs accreditation deadline for all of the projects in our 2016 Low Carbon Hub Solar PV share offer," said Low Carbon Hub CEO Barbara Hammond. "Now we want to invite local people who believe in a better energy system for Oxfordshire to invest in this portfolio of solar projects and earn themselves a bank-beating return."
Solar power is a good fit for Prodrive, which is currently developing electric and hybrid vehicles at the site. "It was very obvious that we should use our roof space to generate clean energy for the building," said Prodrive chairman David Richards. "The scheme is an excellent way to reduce our carbon footprint, lower our energy bills, while also generating significant funds to reinvest in further schemes within the local community."


Golden Goose's 'Hi Star' sneakers are supposed to look love-worn - they've been hand-distressed by artisans at the label's Venetian atelier and scribbled along the chunky soles with the label's moniker. Made from supple leather, this pair is detailed with a suede grey star and grey laces to complement the silver heel tab. Wear yours with tailored pants, jeans or dresses.


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Huge Explosion Rocks Ashrafiyeh, Killing 1, Wounding 12
Retrieved from Naharnet on May 21, 2007
A huge explosion near the busy ABC shopping mall in Beirut's Ashrafiyeh neighborhood shortly before midnight killed an elderly woman and wounded 11 other people, police said.
The 11:50 p.m. blast shook thousands of sleeping Ashrafiyeh residents out of bed, many hurrying down the street to take stock of the damage.
Police said the bomb, which weighed about 15 kilograms, was believed to have been placed underneath a car in a parking lot adjacent to ABC, which also has restaurants and movie theaters that operated late, particularly on Sunday.
They identified the woman as Leila Moqbel, 63. She was killed when the wall in her apartment collapsed on her from the impact of the blast which was heard across the city and surrounding hills.
Thick black smoke billowed from the scene of the bombing as firefighters battled the blaze.
Police and army troops cordoned off the area as ambulances and civil defense volunteers rushed to evacuate the casualties.
Beirut and surrounding suburbs have seen a series of explosions in the last two years, particularly targeting Christian areas in which the pro-government majority coalition has blamed on Syria.
The bomb caused a crater 1.5 meters deep and 3 meters wide in the road, and police officials said the explosives.
The blast started fires in parked vehicles and shattered car, shop and apartment windows. Other vehicles were collapsed from the impact of the explosion.
TV footage showed Red Cross workers helping an elderly man, whose head was wrapped in blood -soaked bandages. A woman in her night gown was being carried by a companion, in his pajamas.
ABC owner, Robert Abu Fadel, said he was expecting "this kind of thing," pointing to extra security measures the mall and other businesses have taken in recent months.
"For sure this will affect us in part, but we've been through more difficult times," he told LBC as he examined the blast site overnight. "But God is the Almighty. We will rebuild."
The most prominent recent deadly attack in Beirut was the near simultaneously bombings of commuter buses in the Christian heartland that killed three people on Feb. 13.
The same militant group in Sunday's Tripoli clashes, Fatah al-Islam, was blamed by authorities for the bus bombings, an accusation they have denied.
Sunday's explosion, the fourth in Ashrafiyeh in the last two years, also came as the U.N. Security Council is considering a draft resolution to impose the international tribunal in the assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri after the pro-Syrian opposition led by Hizbullah failed to agree on approving it in Beirut.
A U.N. investigation into the 2005 assassination also has been expanded to include the series of bombings anti-Syrian groups blame on Syria.
Syria has denied involvement in Hariri's death and the other explosions, but Damascus was forced to withdraw its army from Lebanon after a 29-year presence two months after the assassination.
Cabinet minister Pierre Pharaon, whose constituency includes Ashrafiyeh, said the explosion aimed at showing that the approval of the international court would coincide with attempts to undermine
Lebanon's security.(Naharnet-AP)
Heavy Gunbattles Between Army, Fatah al-Islam Shake Northern Lebanon
Relative calm returned to Tripoli's streets Sunday evening following deadly clashes between the Lebanese army and Fatah al-Islam militants in the northern port city and the adjacent Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared. LBCI TV station said the Lebanese army brought the situation under control in Tripoli after heavy fighting in several neighborhoods, including Zahriyeh and Miatain, although tension remained high there.
The army said 23 soldiers and 14 gunmen were killed in the fighting in the city and the camp, which involved tank and grenade fire. Nineteen soldiers and 14 police officers were also wounded, security officials said.
LBCI said several fighters were killed in Zahriyeh area. It also said a militant blew himself up and a fourth surrendered following day-long clashes with the army.
Two Lebanese youths, who were held captive by the fighters, were released as well after the fighting came to an end there.
The TV station said three of the fighters were killed when Lebanese soldiers launched an assault at noon on Abdo building in Tripoli's Miatain street where the militants were hiding. It said a fighter was arrested during the clashes.
At least seven vehicles were also burned and many more damaged in the building's surroundings, the LBCI added.
"We are now in control of the situation in Tripoli," Internal Security Forces chief Gen. Ashraf Rifi said, after 12 hours of fighting.
Information Minister Ghazi Aridi said Sunday evening after a ministerial-security meeting at the Grand Serail that only the Lebanese army and security forces should carry weapons. He also said "we are determined to confront conspiracy."
Aridi said that Education Minister Khaled Qabbani decided to suspend Monday's classes in private and public schools and universities in the northern province following the clashes.
The Lebanese media also reported that Syria temporarily closed its border with northern Lebanon following the heavy battles.
The fighting between army troops surrounding Nahr al-Bared and gunmen from the terrorist group began at dawn after a gunbattle raged in a Tripoli neighborhood.
Witnesses said Fatah al-Islam militants seized Lebanese army positions at the entrance to the camp. They also opened fire on roads leading to the city and ambushed a military unit, security officials said.
The army brought reinforcements and was firing on Fatah al-Islam positions. Black and white smoke billowed from the camp.
LBCI said more than 17 injured people, including children, were trapped inside the camp.
In Beirut, legislator Saad Hariri issued an appeal for calm and called for the population of Tripoli to cooperate with the Lebanese army.
Premier Fouad Saniora described the assault on the army as a crime against national stability and the spiritual leader of the Sunnis in Lebanon Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani urged the Lebanese not to get involved in attempts to sow civil strife.
But a Fatah al-Islam spokesman said the group only fought to defend itself.
"We acted in self-defense after brothers of ours in Tripoli were subjected to arrests," Abu Salim, identified as a spokesman for the group, told the Associated Press by phone from inside Nahr el-Bared.
He claimed the Sunnis were under attacks and "we rose to defend our people."
During the fighting, Tripoli was shuttered and roads were deserted. Scores of troops armed with automatic rifles and rocket launchers had taken positions on city streets and the army was bringing reinforcements from other regions.
The clashes in Nahr al-Bared started shortly after police raided a militant-occupied apartment in Tripoli.
The police were looking for suspects in a bank robbery a day earlier in Amioun in which gunmen made off with $125,000 in cash.
A security source told Naharnet on Saturday that the escape car of four gunmen, who had robbed the Mediterranean Bank branch, has been identified as one of the vehicles used by Fatah al-Islam.
The source noted that members of the group had robbed two banks in Tripoli and the southern coastal village of Gaziyeh earlier this year to finance terrorist attacks in Lebanon.
It was the worst fighting in Lebanon's second-largest city in more than two decades, security officials.
At one point, TV footage showed an army helicopter pursuing a militant vehicle in north Lebanon's Balamand area. LBCI said the region was completely deserted.
In April, a Lebanese soldier was killed in a shootout with Fatah al-Islam gunmen at the edge of Nahr al -Bared, a camp of 30,000 refugees.
Police had also arrested a number of Fatah al-Islam members in connection with the twin bus bombings in the town of Ein Alaq on Feb. 13 which killed and wounded at least 20 people.(Naharnet-AP-AFP)
Battles Rage Between Army, Fatah al-Islam in North Lebanon
The Lebanese army engaged in deadly fighting with Fatah al-Islam militants in the northern port city of Tripoli and the adjacent Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared Sunday, officials said.
Seven Lebanese soldiers and four Fatah al-Islam militants were killed in the fierce fighting, which involved tank and grenade fire, Internal Security Forces chief Gen. Ashraf Rifi told Agence France Presse.
The fighting between army troops surrounding the camp and fighters from the terrorist group began at dawn after a gunbattle raged in a Tripoli neighborhood.
Witnesses said Fatah al-Islam gunmen seized Lebanese army positions at the entrance to the camp.
The gunmen also opened fire on roads leading to the city and ambushed a military unit, the security officials said.
The northern city was shuttered and roads were deserted.
On Sunday, troops in Tripoli's Zahriyeh neighborhood could be seen besieging a building where militants had taken refuge and were demanding they surrender. They occasionally exchanged fire with the gunmen.
Both sides clashed in the Miatain neighborhood too.
At one point, TV footage showed an army helicopter pursuing a militant vehicle in north Lebanon's Balamand area. The LBCI TV station said the region was completely deserted.
Police had also arrested a number of Fatah al-Islam members in connection with the twin bus bombings in the town of Ein Alaq on Feb. 13 which killed and wounded at least 20 people.(AP-AFP-Naharnet)
Explosion Shakes Verdun, Wounding 10, Causing Extensive Damage
A massive blast ripped through Beirut's stylish Verdun district overnight, wounding 10 people, including two boys, and gutting several apartments and cars.
The explosion, which went off at 11:50 p.m. on Monday, also started fire in cars and caused extensive damage to one of the Lebanese capital's posh districts.
Police said the injured boys aged 7 and 11. They said the others were all men.
Verdun is home to senior public personalities, including Information Minister Ghazi Aridi and former cabinet minister Najib Mikati. It also houses the renowned Dunes shopping center and the Russian Cultural Center, in addition to restaurants, schools and banks.
It was not clear whether the bomb was placed inside or under a parked four-wheel-drive vehicle, but police estimated the bomb was made up of 15 kilograms of explosives.
Television footage showed a car burning near a building as a fire engine doused the flames with water.
Several nearby cars had their windows blown out from the blast, and a high-floor apartment in a nearby building was in flames. Pieces of wood and glass littered the streets and hung from balconies, as security forces and civilians crowded the scene.
The daily Al Liwaa on Tuesday said a suspect in the Verdun bombing was now in police custody.
It said security sources identified him as Hussein Ahmad.
Al Liwaa said Ahmad confessed that another person, only identified as M.M., was also involved in the bombing, which came less than a day after a bomb near the ABC shopping mall in Ashrafiyeh killed a woman and wounded 12 others.
The violence came as Lebanese troops fought heavy battles with the Fatah al-Islam extremist group in northern Lebanon's Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr el-Bared, in which more than 50 people were killed in the last two days.
Beirut and surrounding suburbs have been hit by a series of explosions in the last two years, particularly targeting Christian areas in which the pro-government majority coalition has blamed on Syria.
The explosions also come as the U.N. Security Council is considering whether to impose an international tribunal in the assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri after the government and the Hizbullah-led opposition failed to agree on approving it.
A U.N. investigation into the Hariri assassination has been expanded to include the series of bombings some blame on Syria. A U.N. probe has linked senior Syrian security officials and allies in the Lebanese security services to Hariri's 2005 truck bombing murder while Syria controlled Lebanon.
Damascus has denied involvement in Hariri's death and the other explosions, but Syria was forced to withdraw its army from Lebanon two months after the assassination, ending a 29-year presence.
(Naharnet-AP)


The trade union UASA is prepared to work hard alongside South African Airways to ensure that all SAA employees receive a fair and reasonable remuneration and conditions of service dispensation and we must work hard to ensure that SAA breaks even and remains the flagship of South Africa, says Mr. Koos Bezuidenhout, UASA CEO.
Bezuidenhout, accompanied by a UASA senior team, met with Mr. Vuyisile Kona, newly appointed chairperson of SAA, yesterday. Kona indicated that SAA is facing numerous challenges but wanted all the parties to understand that he would need their support to turn SAA around into a profit-making entity.
UASA welcomes this turn-around focus but cautioned that it would only be possible if the principle of an all inclusive consultation-with-all-stakeholders approach was adhered to. SAA management needed the support of the labour unions and their members to make a success of the envisaged turn-around. UASA committed itself to provide positive and constructive input into the proposed 10-year turn-around strategic plan.
We would like to make SAA a "happy" airline to fly with and work for, said Bezuidenhout.
UASA raised certain issues in respect of the proper functioning of the bargaining forum, including that collective bargaining issues needed addressing and concluding more speedily.
We remain committed to the all inclusive collective bargaining process and caution against the negative consequences of reaching impasses in the negotiating process.


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Kent State Tuscarawas gets commit from Louisiana baseball player
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Kent State University at Tuscarawas is announcing the signing of a 2020 Northlake Christian (LA) High School senior to their baseball team.
On Friday, Bret Clements, Jr. signed a National Letter of Intent to play for the Golden Eagles.
Clements, a second baseman/outfielder, was a four-year letter winner in baseball and played three seasons for Pearl River High School before moving on to Northlake Christian High School for his senior year. He is known as an excellent fielder and had a 1.000 fielding percentage in his sophomore year for The Colonel, and batted .563 with an on-base-percentage of .600 in his senior season for the Wolverines.
He graduated with a 3.4 GPA, made the honor roll his senior year, was a member of the Machine Design Club and accumulated 72 hours of community service throughout high school. He will major in management and information systems at KSU Tuscarawas.
"Bret has a great work ethic and has the opportunity to fill a much needed infield position for us," said Josh Jarvis, Head Baseball Coach for Kent State Tuscarawas. "His family came up to Ohio over a weekend to check out our campus and the local area and was as impressed with us as we are with him. Since his senior season was shortened, he has been working all spring to maintain his edge. There's no doubt that he will be able to come right in and help out."
Kent State Tuscarawas is a member of the United States Collegiate Athletic Association.


Solarforce now presents our latest model of the Series – L2B.
New elements are incorporated into the design of it with all of the above-mentioned features preserved.
Mil-spec type III hard-anodized finish for anti-wearing and anti-corrosion features.
This allows users to mount the flashlight securely on the bicycle frame.
The flashlight can be easily taken apart from the bicycle mount by simply pressing on the button.


The event began with a presentation by M&T for President Hurley and the Canisius faculty and staff. M&T employees, including Mike Todaro, executive vice president and Canisus College Board of Trustees member, spoke about the qualities for potential employees during the recruitment process. The presentation was followed by a tour of the historic branch. More than 100 Canisius alumni employed at M&T heard from Denise Rotondo, dean of the Richard J. Wehle School of Business, and President Hurley as they provided updates on the Wehle School of Business and Canisius College. The program wrapped up with a cocktail reception.
Beginning today, Monday, March 18, the ITS Help Desk will be open Monday – Friday from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. These hours will be in effect through Friday, March 22.
If you have any questions, please contact the Help Desk at helpdesk@canisius.edu, Ext. 8340 or Horan O'Donnell Room 016.
Nick Corcoran, director of application development at Rich Products, will discuss how data analytics is used in the food industry in a presentation entitled "Using Analytics to Drive Success in the Food Manufacturing Industry." The event will take place on Wednesday, March 27 at 5:00 p.m. in Science Hall 1028.
Corcoran will examine the types of analytics used at Rich Products and keys to success when engaging end users. The presentation will show real world examples of how data and analytics are used to drive labor efficiencies, production output, and sales engagement.
The Griff Center's annual job and internship fair will take place on Thursday, March 28 from 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. in Science Hall. Students may register for the Griff Fair on Handshake.
If you purchased basket raffle tickets to support the RAISE Benefit, one of the winning baskets is still unclaimed. The winning ticket number was 230143.
If this was your ticket, please contact Kaitlyn Buehlmann, associate campus minister for campus ministry, at buehlmak@canisius.edu or Ext. 2422 to claim your prize by Friday, March 22.


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