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The Military-Literary Complex
Poetry cannot serve as an emotional bandage for the blood and guts of warfare; such an industry is doomed to dishonor the dead as well as the living. — Yusef Komunyakaa
Not so long ago, American corporate media willingly accepted a set of new conditions and limitations in exchange for the privilege of reporting on the frontlines of Iraq, such as they existed. The military bed was a place of censorship, where reports underwent military review prior to publication. But more importantly, the failures of the bed were ones of sympathy and lack: by focusing on one story—the story of an all-volunteer American army—embedded journalism failed to report on the experiences of the vast majority of people—unarmed Iraqi civilians—conscripted by American policy into a life of violent war and brutal occupation.
The military bed is not a thing of the past, but its home has changed. Over the last few years, the practice of embedding has been moved from the chambers of journalism into those of literature. The story of how it moved involves an unlikely array of governmental, commercial, educational and grass-roots organizations—including the Department of Defense, the Veterans Administration, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Boeing Corporation, grassroots veterans support groups, MFA programs, publishers and professional and amateur literary associations—that have come together to extend embedded writing into the heart of American letters.
During the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the embedded model invited civilian journalists into military units and in the process produced a dubiously framed story about humanity and violence. The embedded model of literature works conversely. Now, a network of military-literary partnerships invites ex-soldiers into civilian publishing through a system of training, mentoring and special access. As Sinan Antoon has argued, the arrangement reproduces the same kind of story we read a decade ago, though now with serious literary credentials. In the new war canon, the Iraq invasion and occupation again appear as almost exclusively American events. Again, Iraqis are largely absent from the frame. Again, torment and pain—and humanity—belong to US soldiers rather than Iraqi civilians. Again, the war and its rationale may be available for critique, but only in a very limited way. Like the failure of embedded journalism before it, the failure of embedded literature is one of imagination and research.
Combatant Privilege
One cannot tell the story of our nation without also telling the story of our wars. And these often harrowing tales are best told by the men and women who lived them. Today's American military is the best trained and best educated in our nation's history. These men and women offer unique and important voices that enlarge our understanding of the American experience. Looking at the great literary legacy of soldier writers from antiquity to the present, I cannot help but expect that important new writers will emerge from the ranks of our latest veterans.
—Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, A Guide for Writers, 5.
War experience has long been a rite of passage for some young (male) writers. To see how large war literature looms within American letters, we only have to recall the careers of Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, Tim O'Brien, Tobias Wolff, and others. There is, of course, no necessary link between war and writing, and the vast majority of veterans never make a concerted effort to record—let alone compose, craft, and publish—their stories. Nonetheless, a special link between guns and pens has long been assumed, and that is what allows former NEA director Dana Gioia, quoted above, to refer so easily to a "great literary legacy of soldier writers from antiquity to the present." The extremeness of armed conflict is presented as if it were the ultimate test for writers, and as if the truth of war experience could be expressed by no one other than armed combatants. Or, as the editor of the much-lauded volume of wartime prose, Operation Homecoming, put it, "You get not just what the combat correspondent beside them observes… This is the internal feeling of warfare." The lesson is clear: combatants know war from within and feel it, while non-combatants only ever watch from the sidelines.
What this account leaves out is, of course, the fact that the vast majority of participants in wars are not armed combatants, but rather civilians attempting to survive the havoc created by armed combatants. Even so, the fetish of the warrior writer is well established. The word "crucible" is a cliché in the reception of this kind of writing, as if no other human experience could produce writing so pure or hard. It is not just that combatants are granted a unique purchase on war experience, but war experience is granted a privileged place in writing itself.
Such privilege is not a given. For it to exist, it needs to be constructed and maintained. It needs a support system. And, over the last decade, champions of the new war writing have mobilized an unprecedented amount of support for their cause, at times with careful, strategic planning and underwritten by tax-payer dollars and corporate largesse.
Operation Homecoming and its Critics
The celebrated example of Operation Homecoming, illustrates how elaborate state and private subsidies for war writing can be. The National Endowment for the Arts—"in coordination with all four branches of the Armed Forces and the Department of Defense," the Veterans Administration, the Library of Congress, the Southern Arts Federation, The Writer's Center, Random House Books, and the Boeing Corporation—assembled a massive writing, publishing and archiving project dedicated to fostering the writing talents of soldiers and their families. With a large contribution from Boeing, the NEA:
sponsored writing workshops for returning troops and their families at military installations from Alaska to Florida, New York to California… The workshops also were held at overseas installations from the USS Carl Vinson in the Persian Gulf to Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. Taught by some of America's most distinguished novelists, poets, historians, and journalists, these workshops provided servicemen and women with the opportunity to write about their wartime experiences in a variety of forms—from fiction, verse, and letters to essay, memoir, and personal journa." (Operation Homecoming Handbook, 4)
Over fifty workshops were held, and participation was sizeable—six thousand vets and family members, according to organizers. Many of the teachers and mentors who participated in the workshops were eminent writers in their own right, including the novelist and short-story author Tobias Wolff, himself a Vietnam vet, as well as the former Poet Laureate of Connecticut, Marilyn Nelson, who grew up on military bases as the daughter of a Tuskegee airman. Best-selling authors like Jeff Shaara and Tom Clancy were paid upwards of three thousand dollars for their participation. At a workshop at the Norfolk Naval Station in September 2004, Clancy supposedly jangled his car keys at the audience while joking, "Mercedes Benz. All you have to do is tell your stories, and you can have one, too."
Thousands of pages of prose were produced under the aegis of the Operation Homecoming project, covering an impressive range of wartime life in and around the US military. The corpus was collected and archived in the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress. War historian Andrew Carroll then edited a small portion of the writing generated in the workshops, which were then published in an anthology by Random House and The University of Chicago Press, complete with a high-profile book launch and publicity campaign. The 2007 film, Muse of Fire—featuring Kevin Costner and directed by Lawrence Bridges—documented the history of the project.
Operation Homecoming was roundly criticized even before it got off the ground. Vietnam vet and poet Kevin Bowen called it a "pre-emptive move" to create "an official literature coming through the military and Pentagon." Elsewhere, he argued, "Operation Homecoming threatens to move the NEA into the business of supporting the generation of propaganda… [it is] a wartime exercise that is not part of its mission, and does writers, veterans, and the public a great disservice." Pulitzer Prize winning poet and Vietnam vet Yusef Komunyakaa described it in similar terms, "Operation Homecoming reminds me that we had our soldier poets in Vietnam also; and for the most part, they penned what I call "the boondock doggerel of blood and guts" which was printed by the Stars and Stripes."
In a 2004 essay, the poet Eleanor Wilner questioned the wisdom of creating a public-private, military-industrial-literary synergy with the Boeing Corporation, "a major recipient of our tax dollars and a corporation that profits from war." Wilner went on to note that the mere act of questioning military experience, rights, and privileges is to invite severe criticism and controversy:
What we have here is a program that seems designed to be proof against all criticism, as if to raise any questions about it is to seem to target those deserving soldiers and the writers who have signed on. But what if we look behind these unassailable shields? Are these returning troops once again being used as a shield against the scrutiny of the very policy which put them in harm`s way in the first place? Will Operation Homecoming serve them? Will it serve poetry? Or is it designed to serve quite another purpose?
Some, including Wilner and Komunyakaa, wondered whether the money being spent on writing workshops would not have been better spent on bringing the arts to underserved communities or sending vets to college.
Organizers of Operation Homecoming were quick to defend the project—and sure enough, attempted to assert that it was beyond the pale to ask questions about combatant experience. The director of the project, Jon Parrish Peede, leveled charges of elitism:
The National Endowment for the Arts created Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience to reach out to an entire stratum of our society often excluded and even ignored by the literary establishment—military men and women and their families. Because they have lived through something the rest of us can barely imagine, the NEA believes it is important to offer an opportunity to use literature, specifically writing, to begin to clarify these life experiences. Those who teach at universities certainly understand the value of writing. But they also can be blind to life outside those same privileged circles.
Peede's framing echoes the familiar exclusionary strategy we saw above: since only soldiers can speak about war from the inside, and since they "have lived through something the rest of us can barely imagine," it behooves civilians to listen rather than ask questions.
Peede went on to assert that ideology did not steer the project, "nor biased toward a pro-war or anti-war stance… Literary excellence, historical importance, and the desire to present a diversity of opinions and genres will be the guiding selection factors." The NEA Chairman, poet Dana Gioia, a George W. Bush appointee, underscored the autonomy of the NEA, "the Boeing money comes without restrictions and that submissions will be based on artistic merit, not on whether they are pro- or anti-war." Elsewhere, Gioia asserted that Operation Homecoming was completely free from the control of military censors: "We do not tell the writers what to teach. We do not tell the troops what to write. Freedom of artistic expression is the sine qua non of all NEA programs."
Nonetheless, as Bowen pointed out, it is difficult to understand how critical and independent "active-duty personnel" could be when they were still under the chain of command—and in any case, "military public affairs officers" would still have to "review submissions" to the Operation Homecoming project, if only to protect classified information. As Bowen put it finally, "Beyond the language of self-help and 'therapeutic' aspects of writing, beyond the back-patting, it is not difficult to see in the project an effort to establish an official canon of writing from the century's first wars, neatly packaged, ready for mass distribution and classroom use."
Therapy, Recording, Teaching, Canon Making
In contrast to military writing programs like Operation Homecoming, the programs and institutions serving combat veterans are far less official. There are many such programs, including: a creative writing program (NYU's Veterans Writing Workshop); a writers society (The Military Writers Society of America); Veteran support groups that specifically promote creative writing (Words After War, War Writers Campaign, Warrior Writers, Veterans Writing Project, Syracuse Veterans' Writing Group, Military Experience and the Arts); literary venues and journals that promote war writing (Dispatches, War Literature & the Arts, The Journal of Military Experience, Blue Streak: Journal of Military Poetry, and Blue Falcon: Journal of Military Fiction). Additionally, there are programs within the Veterans Administration (such as the Healing Arts Partnership at the Walter Reed Medical Center) that have used writing as a tool of medical therapy. Related also are countless reading groups at military bases and within local Veterans groups which, through purchases and discussions, make writing and reading war literature an inextricable part of contemporary military and veteran culture.
These different organizations do not share the same goals or founding principles. In terms of ideological orientation, these writing activities and organizations are vibrantly eclectic as is the mass of writing they are producing. Some institutions and groups promote creative writing primarily or solely as healing practice, whereas others stress the imperative of soldiers to record their accounts for posterity. Most Veterans writing groups, unlike Operation Homecoming, are grass-rooted, community-minded, and independent. Some use writing to generate more effective public advocacy for Veterans rights, activism against US foreign policy, and military culture.
Most of the vets participating in these workshops will not go on to publish best-sellers. Most are not, and will never, be embraced by the literary establishment. Nonetheless, many of the titles, including self-published books, have respectable sales. Again, it is hard to make generalizations about the writing itself, since it spans genres and styles—and includes Iraqi dog rescue stories, evangelical Christian battle accounts, platoon tales, and legends of snipers. Despite the many differences between official projects (like Operation Homecoming) and grass-roots efforts, these war writing activities and projects share five main themes, whether or not intended for publication: healing, teaching, history, craft, and canon.
Arts therapy has emerged in the last decade as effective for treating vets with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and this aspect composes the lion's share of VA investment in war writing. Here, rather than publication or performance, the goal is the reflective aspect of the writing process in itself. As Ron Capps, a veteran Army officer and founder of the Veterans Writing Project, put it : "Writing [allows you] to take a memory that might be stuck in the back of your mind, make it physical and shape it. ... Eventually you understand it's a memory and it can't hurt you anymore."
This same aspect dominated Operation Homecoming:
When asked why they decided to participate in the writing workshops and submit material to the NEA, the troops and their family members consistently gave the same answers. First, they found the writing process itself cathartic. It enabled them to gain a measure of control over their feelings and unravel tangled knots of emotions. Second, they shared their private journals, e-mails, and letters––many of which reveal very raw and honest accounts of drinking binges, depression, and nightmares––to let other veterans suffering from similar problems know that they aren't alone. (Operation Homecoming Handbook, 7)
A desire to record the facts of combat experience and to teach civilian audiences about that experience colors military and vet literature. According to Andrew Carroll, "many participants lamented how little civilians seemed to know about the armed forces, and they wanted their writings to foster a greater understanding of the military." Most striking in this regard is the way a hyper-investment in realism colors this writing. Detail matters, as does getting everything right. In this writing, there is a deep commitment to an anachronistic rhetoric of presence, a literary sense that might be called "he-must-have-been-thereness." If Amazon reader reviews are any indication, the audience for these works shares this sensibility.
But this writing aspires to literary values that go beyond therapy or the creation of historical documents. Indeed, the sponsors of these projects consistently describe the writing in terms of crafted narrative and beautiful expression:
Good writing also depends on originality and ingenuity, and service members are trained to improvise and think creatively to solve seemingly insurmountable problems. And troops certainly aren't lacking in material needed to fire up the imagination; many have accumulated a lifetime of riveting stories from a single deployment. Above all, first-rate writers believe emphatically that language matters, that words are almost sacred. For members of the armed forces, words are more than marks on a page or spoken utterances. They are one's honor. They are orders and missions. They are life and death. (Operation Homecoming Handbook, 6)
And they describe them in terms of timeless human questions and universal concerns:
In addition to revealing the heroic actions of US service members, the submissions illuminate how thoughtful and intelligent these troups [sic] are. The literary works they have crafted are valuable not only for their lessons about history and combat, but for their insights into human nature itself. Their writings transcend the subject of war and teach us about grief, hope, violence, compassion, empathy, resilience, and the precariousness of life. Without question there is intrigue, humor, suspense, and drama in these stories of men and women who have endured the crucible of battle. But as with all great literature, there is also hard-earned wisdom about the human condition from which all of us can learn. (Operation Homecoming Handbook, 7)
And it is here that we can begin to see the outlines of a very intentional project of canon formation. Poet Dana Gioia, patron of Operation Homecoming, repeatedly grounded the legitimacy of the new military-literary project, by reference to a Western corpus of combatant writing, stretching from the ancients to the present:
Many great authors have been soldiers. The Greek playwright Sophocles, creator of Oedipus Rex, served as an Athenian general in the Peloponnesian War. The Roman poet Horace fought at the Battle of Philippi. Shakespeare's friend and fellow playwright Ben Jonson served in the infantry in the Flemish Wars. The two Renaissance poets who first brought the sonnet to English — Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey — both were soldiers. Other great writers have continued this tradition from Spain's Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, to Russia's Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace. (Operation Homecoming Handbook, 5)
Here it needs to be admitted that the string of names I mentioned above—Crane, Hemingway, Mailer, Vonnegut, Heller, O'Brien, Wolff—is itself a cliché of this canon formation project. Like embedded journalism, the war canon project highlights combatant experiences and voices over non-combatant ones. But unlike embedded journalists, the canonizers of the new war writing argue that combatant writers and texts not only have a unique voice and experience, but that these exemplify the very best of Western thought and expression.
The canonization project needs to be understood for what it is: an attempt to forget the many other stories that could be told about war; and an attempt to recreate in letters the very privileges and power that armed soldiers always have in relation to unarmed civilians.
Despite its heterogeneity, these various writing activities and organizations constitute a sizeable and active audience and network shaping the production and reception of contemporary war writing. Moreover, it needs to be noted that veterans buy books and talk about books like no other community in the country. Similarly, national veterans groups—and the US armed forces—are in themselves collective buyers and distributers of books. Altogether, this motley network of official and unofficial actors have created what is perhaps the most cohesive, self-aware and mobilized sector of readers and writers across the country, with the capacity to propel titles into the limelight, to manage the parameters of war writing, and to ensure that other stories are not discussed.
Admittedly, it may be an overstatement to call the new model of embedded literature a "military-literary complex," since much of the activity—especially vet activity—is independent, uncoordinated, and even dissident. Yet, there is evidence—such as Operation Homecoming—of a strategy to make sure military stories have a privileged place on bookshelves. Commercial publishers not passive actors in this story, for they are publishing and promoting military titles with regularity while consistently marginalizing war literature by Iraqi authors. Book reviewers have engaged enthusiastically in this project as well, writing profusely and positively about combatant literature, but again, mostly ignoring published literary accounts (especially those by Iraqi authors) that challenge the combatant model.
Still, it is possible that there is no such thing as a military-literary complex, and no coordinated plan involving military censors or the collusion of writers, publishers and book reviewers. It is far likelier that habit and taste—not policy and plan—are what dictate the kinds of literature Americans publish, read and discuss.
If this is the case, Americans need to face a likelihood far more disturbing than the existence of any military-industrial conspiracy, namely that we accept embedded literature because we prefer stories about "us" and not "them." We accept tales of combatant privilege because we would rather imagine ourselves being the ones holding the guns than those who are not. This may be more plausible than the existence of a military-literary complex, but it is also far more troubling.
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ESG – Top Trends in Foodservice: Macroeconomic trends
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For instance, consumers are now attentive to all aspects of the production process, from the sustainable and ethical sourcing of raw ingredients to the carbon footprint associated with the processes and the environmental credentials of the packaging. As a result, their purchasing decisions are significantly driven by companies' ethical and environmental practices.
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Colin Jost has won four Writers Guild Awards, a Peabody Award and has been nominated for multiple Emmy Awards for his writing on "SNL." He also wrote and starred in the Paramount/Netflix film "Staten Island Summer," based on his days as a lifeguard growing up in New York. Jost co-hosted special editions of "Weekend Update" on MSNBC during the 2016 Republican and Democratic national conventions as well as the primetime "Weekend Update Summer Edition" in 2017.
Jost joined the cast as "Weekend Update" co-anchor in 2014. He has been a writer at "SNL" since 2005 and served as co-head writer from 2012-2015. He has returned for his fifth season of "SNL" as co-anchor of "Weekend Update," alongside fellow cast member Michael Che. In December Jost was re-named one of four co-head writers.


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Police Commissioner admits he "suggested" suspects in assassination plot be placed on bail
By News Source Guyana on July 31, 2017
"I was making a suggestion, I was giving an opinion […] my intention wasn't to ensure he [Nizam Khan] go on bail. I had a concern with how the policy of the Force was being implemented," he told the ongoing Commission of Inquiry.
Testifying before a packed room, Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud on Monday denied allegations that he gave instructions to have Nizam Khan, who faces allegations of plotting to kill President David Granger, released from police custody less than 12 hours after being arrested by police.
Several senior police ranks who testified before Persaud, had claimed that he was the one who gave the instructions to release Khan and his brother, Imran Khan from custody.
But the Police Commissioner would not accept responsibility for that decision.
He said he made a suggestion to the investigating rank but would not consider it to be the same as giving an instruction.
Persaud admitted that Imran Khan is a personal friend and admitted that he instructed that Khan, who was detained for disorderly behaviour, be sent on his own recognizance.
He said his opinion was that Nazim Khan should not have been detained as there were "serious credibility issues" with the report, as indicated by the investigating rank.
"My judgment was sound then and is still sound now," he added.
The Police Commissioner said he was first made aware of the allegations of the plot to assassinate the President on March 29th while he was on annual vacation leave, when he received a call from Imran Khan and later made inquiries from Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum.
Persaud said he became involved in the matter when he returned a missed call to Imran Khan later that night and was told that he was on bail for disorderly behavior and hadn't money to pay.
Attorney Glen Hanoman
Persaud's evidence was that two individual calls to Blanhum and Head of the Major Crimes Unit, Mitchell Caesar went unanswered, which led him to then call the investigating rank, Inspector Narine.
It was during that call that he admitted, he instructed that Imran Khan be sent on his own recognizance and a suggestion offered that Nazim Khan be placed on bail.
Persaud said he made that suggestion after Inspector Narine told him that his opinion was that the complainant Andriff Gillard, was lying.
"I told him it is wrong to put someone in custody who hasn't committed any breach of the law, but when a senior rank makes a suggestion, it is the culture of the Force to carry it out. If he takes that as instructions I wouldn't be surprised but the expectation was that he would factor that into his own judgement."
Speaking directly to his friendship with Imran Khan, Persaud said his friendship does not extend into any business relations. "It's not unlike any of the other friendships I have. I've known him since 2004 when I was appointed the Divisional Detective Officer in A Division."
Persaud later admitted that as Police Commissioner he approved a gun license upgrade for Khan from a 9mm handgun to .45 pistol. He also said that he approved a gun license for Imran Khan's brother, Nazim Khan.
When it was time for Persaud to be crossed examined, Senior Counsel Ian Chang declined to ask any questions. Chang was hired by Persaud to represent the interest of the Guyana Police Force.
He was also crossed examined by Attorney Selwyn Pieters, who's representing the interest of Journalist, Travis Chase.
During that cross examination, he denied again that he gave the instructions to grant Nazim Khan bail but supported the judgment to do so.
Narine had told the Commission previously that had it not been for Persaud's intervention, he would not have sent the Khan brothers away but Persaud said had that course of action been taken he would have been breaching a policy of the Force and he would have been disciplined.
"I would have put him on bail," he admitted while referencing Standing Order #74 of the Guyana Police Force.
Persaud was personally represented by Attorney, Glen Hanoman.
He said he still holds the opinion that Gillard made a false allegation against Nizam Khan and was basically lying. The Commissioner said notwithstanding that, he relies on the advice of the Police Legal Adviser.
Persaud summed up his testimony by agreeing that the matter was treasonous but said it was his opinion that a proper investigation was conducted by the force which goes against the testimony given by Assistant Commissioner, David Ramnarine.
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What to do about Doha
Anne Krueger 28 April 2011
The Doha Round is in peril. This essay argues that if the impasse is intractable, world leaders face three choices: to quickly finish the low-ambition package on the table, to explicitly terminate the Doha Round, or to let it die a slow death. It says the last option would be by far the worst – even if it is the most likely.
In an ideal world, the Doha Round would have been completed by now.
Since it has not been, the best outcome now would be to have a strong agreement that could quickly be negotiated, especially enhancing the agreements on the liberalisation of services and agriculture.
The importance of the trade system
The sharp drop in trade at the beginning of the 2008-2009 Great Recession was a vivid reminder to all of how important international trade has become in the global economy. Trade has been a major contributor to the growth of all economies, and has enabled growth rates heretofore unheard of among the emerging markets that avail themselves of the open international trading system.
Although the financial systems of most emerging markets were not greatly affected, the sharp drops in exports led to serious decreases in real GDP in many emerging markets. Even among other countries, the importance of trade has been vividly demonstrated.
Interdependence makes the rules-based system more important
As interdependence has increased, the importance of a rules-based open trading system has been magnified. In addition, new issues have arisen and existing issues have become increasingly important as new technology has bound the world more closely together.
Many of these are centred on services because of the advances enabled by the internet and information technology. The potential gains for the international economy in the 21st century through open trade in services may well be similar to the gains from liberalising trade in goods in the last century. As some low-income countries have discovered, access to world-class low-cost services is often a necessary condition for their ability to increase exports.
Trade in food in an era of shortages
In agriculture, concern is increasing about shortages of agricultural commodities. Liberalising trade in agricultural commodities, including eschewing export prohibitions, would greatly increase global agricultural efficiency. If some countries choose to use export prohibitions in times of high prices, other countries will decide to resort to "food self-sufficiency" with attendant losses to both the exporting countries (losing their markets in "normal" times) and importing countries (facing higher costs of agricultural goods). Without international agreement among both exporters and importers, the risks of further inefficiencies in world agriculture are great.
Doing "Doha Lite" is better than letting Doha drift
However, if it is not possible to reach a credible plan for moving forward, it would be much better to complete a "Doha lite" than to let the Doha Round drift and die a slow death (or delay for a few more years with no evident signs of progress).
Failing to complete the Doha Round after all this time would not only forego the gains that would arise from implementing what has already agreed upon, but it would further seriously damage the already-wounded WTO.
Letting more time pass with the Doha Round still "alive" with no signs of significant progress would increase the damage and reduce the WTO's stature still further.
If the reality is that little or nothing more can be agreed in further negotiations, there are three choices:
Complete a Doha lite quickly with what has been agreed;
Declare defeat explicitly and terminate the round; or
Let the Doha Round die a slow death by continued inaction.
Of these, letting the Doha Round drift is by far the worst option.
The stature of the WTO diminishes as time passes with no visible momentum. Yet all participants agree that the WTO is important for what it has already achieved, in particular its role in continuing the ideal of an open multilateral trading system (admittedly not always adhered to), in dispute settlement, and in enabling a rules-based international trading system.
Better a quick death than a lingering illness that undermines the WTO
As the WTO's standing diminishes, these existing commitments are gradually eroded. Far better to pronounce the Doha Round ended and to move on to a work programme where progress is possible than to be paralysed by an unbreakable Doha impasse.
Termination, if it is all that can be achieved, could be made less injurious if accompanied by a work programme going forward, such as developing protocols on free trade agreements.
Concluding the Doha Round with that which has already been agreed ('Doha lite") would be vastly preferable to an end to the round with no agreement. Although there would still be criticisms of the WTO, the agreements to date would enable progress, albeit more slowly than most would like.
Best of all, however, would be to make sufficient progress to be able to facilitate a very positive and credible communiqué and a timetable. There are large gains to be had in services and agriculture, in addition to those attainable from that which has already been agreed.
Topics: International trade
Tags: US, China, Doha Round, India, global governance, Brazil
Anne Krueger
Professor of International Economics at Johns Hopkins University


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← Lacrosse Notes: Part 8
Girls Lacrosse: Shore, defending SCT champ, advances to semis →
Girls Lacrosse: Manasquan reaches new heights under coach Eldridge
Posted on May 7, 2010 by Sherlon Christie
By SHERLON CHRISTIE
SEA GIRT – The Manasquan girls lacrosse team has reached a new plateau under
eight-year coach Maria Eldridge.
With Friday's 12-8 Shore Conference Tournament quarterfinal round victory over Class
A Central rival St. John Vianney, the Warriors are in the SCT semifinals for the first
time under Eldridge.
""This is also the highest that we've ever been seeded since I've been the coach
too," Eldridge said.
The third-seeded Warriors (11-3) never trailed in the game and quickly took a 2-0
lead as Sarah Mahon (five goals, one assist) got the first and second goals at 22:29 and
21:50, respectively.
""Our girls are really good shooters and I was pleased that we were getting the ball
in the back of the net," Eldridge said. ""And our shots were actually really easy shots
today and they weren't forced like some of our shots in the past (games)."
The Warriors built their lead to 8-4 at halftime as Mahon scored four of her five
goals in the first half. Mahon also had her one assist on Erin Healy's goal with 10:37
left in the first half that gave Manasquan a 5-3 lead.
Olivia McCarthy also contributed to the offense as she scored her two goals in the
first half. Her first goal made it 6-3 with 6:28 left and her second goal made it 8-4
with 2:00 left.
""It was a fun game offensively but a frustrating game defensively," Eldridge said.
""They (St. John Vianney) are a team that never gives up and they really fight to the
end and they fight hard. This was a good game for us to get ready for Shore."
With Friday's victory, the Warriors will play at second-seeded Shore on Monday. It
will be the third meeting between the schools this season and the teams split the
regular season series.
St. John Vianney (8-7) made its best run early in the second half after Mahon scored
again to make it a 9-4 lead with 23:48 left.
The Lancers scored the next three goals of the second half to cut Manasquan's lead to
9-7. Nicole Honovich (four goals) had two of those goals with 22:24 and 14:54 left and
then Katie Zielaznicki (one goal) had the other goal with 7:20 left to make it a
two-goal game.
""Honestly, we had a few turnovers that I definitely think we could have fixed," St.
John Vianney coach Angela Fuoco said. ""We could have connected better (on the field).
We could have played more of our game."
This game belonged to Manasquan from start to finish. The closest the Lancers got to
Manasquan was 2-1, 3-2 and 4-3. The Lancers never tied the game and Manasquan's largest
lead was 12-7 before Honovich scored again with 1:07 left to make the final score.
""At 10-7, we wanted to use the clock a little bit," Eldridge said. ""We definitely
wanted to keep the ball on offense as much as possible."
The Warriors accomplished their goal by increasing their lead to 12-7 as Gretchen Fay
(two goals) scored consecutive goals with 4:56 and 3:48 left. While Mahon led the team
in scoring, Shea Gegan and Lauren Smith each added one goal and one assist while
McCarthy and Fay each had two goals.
St. John Vianney's Honovich had a team-high four goals while Clare Kerrisk added one
goal and one assist.
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It was a treat to see so many people out and about on the Bexhill prom over the Christmas holiday. Unfortunately the pleasure was marred by so many irresponsible dog owners allowing their pooches to foul the seafront and failing to remove it.
I am not criticising responsible dog owners, the most of whom pick it up and deposit it in the many available receptacles.
I worry about the children coming into contact with the excrement and the catastrophe it can cause i.e. disease and even blindness.
The situation is becoming worse and it needs to be addressed.
There are many signs threatening fines, if these were implemented perhaps it would make these mindless individuals think twice.


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A legal malpractice suit against Pratt & Tobin P.C. has been semi-halted until the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Committee of the Supreme Court of Illinois (ARDC) resolves its own investigation into the plaintiff's complaint against members of the firm.
Madison County Circuit Judge Andreas Matoesian heard arguments on the motion to stay Thursday morning.
Matoesian took up the motion to stay first instead of motions for sanctions filed by plaintiff Jesse Berry.
Berry is suing attorney Gregory Tobin and the Tobin firm for damages in excess of $400,000 and other relief.
He claims that the Tobin firm never filed a Federal Employers Liability Act lawsuit as promised and that the firm's alleged negligence led to the dismissal of the suit despite attempts by other attorneys to re-file and litigate it.
The ARDC is currently investigating the matter as well.
The defendants asked Matoesian to stay the case pending the outcome of the investigation and until a case management order could be hammered out.
Defense counsel Robert Shultz also pointed to the roles that witnesses the plaintiff wished to depose played in the ARDC investigation.
Matoesian questioned attorneys at points in the Thursday hearing about the ARDC investigation and its impact on the civil suit.
Matoesian told the attorneys present that he would stay the depositions in the case but that they were to confer and "hammer out" a discovery schedule for other production.
Shultz and others represent the defendants.
The case is Madison case number 09-L-422.


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Historic charm meets an exclusive atmosphere in the Radisson Blu Badischer Hof Hotel in Baden-Baden. The four-star hotel, which is considered Europe's first Grand Hotel, was fully renovated in 2016. FRÄNKISCHE Rohrwerke was in on it: With the alpex system by the building technology expert, the installation company Sanitherm modernised the heating and plumbing installations in the hotel rooms in the old building.


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Mother accused of burning 1-year-old daughter with hot bathtub water, biting her
'Please shut up. Are you going to shut up yet?' the woman allegedly said while holding the girl's face underwater
Police began investigating after a nurse reported suspected physical abuse when the mother took the 1-year-old to the hospital for treatment of second-degree burns.
By Kali O'Rourke | February 5, 2019 at 5:54 AM CST - Updated February 5 at 5:54 AM
YORK COUNTY, PA (Gray News) - The mother of a 1-year-old girl is charged with assault after allegedly telling police she had been rough with the child multiple times, including burning the girl with hot water and biting her.
Brandy Gentzler, 22, is charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and endangering the welfare of a child.
The mother was questioned by police Jan. 28 after officers were notified of suspected physical abuse, according to an affidavit obtained by the York Daily Record.
A nurse reported the possible abuse after Gentzler took the girl to a hospital Jan. 1 for treatment of second-degree burns. The 1-year-old also had healed fractures on a rib, her right elbow and her collarbone in addition to a bite mark on her hand, according to the nurse.
In the interview, Gentzler allegedly admitted she had been rough with the 1-year-old and described several incidents.
The girl sustained the burns after Genztler held her face under hot water, according to charging documents obtained by WHTM. The mother said the 1-year-old was screaming in the bathtub because she hates the feel of water, so she allegedly forced her under the faucet multiple times.
"Please shut up. Are you going to shut up yet?" she allegedly said.
According to the complaint, Gentzler removed her daughter from the water when she realized the girl's face was turning red. When the mother held the girl against her chest, a piece of skin from her face peeled off onto Gentzler's sweatshirt, WHTM reports.
Genztler also allegedly said that on another occasion, she bit the 1-year-old after the girl bit her finger in order to teach her that biting hurts.
The mother reportedly admitted to having been rough with the girl because she often cries and "wants attention all the time," according to WPMT.
Genztler was arraigned on charges Monday and placed in jail on a $100,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Feb. 26.
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Baby boy rescued after falling 8 feet down heating vent in Oregon home
Police officers crawled under the house and pried up the floorboards to find the 10-month-old in the duct work.
Suspect in custody after stand-off near Caraway


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You lie in wait for me day after day, like a pantherian predator purring perfection while stoking the dual fires of my illness and dependence.
You dare call me unfaithful ?
Me, my sin daily displayed and debated for your approval?
Me with life torn open exposing my worthlessness?
Me trying to reassemble the shattered shards while you time my progress.
You nightly receding taking the affection I need and locking it in the vault of "lacking satisfactory performance".
I just decided I would no longer whore my soul for your approval.
Judas kissed for a price and lost his life.


It is difficult to reconcile Johnson's stunning early work with his mature collages. One explanation for the textile-like design of his first paintings lies in his interest in weaving, particularly the work of the textile artist, Anni Albers. Although Albers is never listed as one of Johnson's mentors, their shared interests and the visual connections between their works suggest the likelihood of a close relationship. Thus, by delineating her passion for Pre-Columbian cultures, their shared interest in indecipherable language, and the visual similarities between their work, this paper considers Albers influence on Johnson's works.
Black Mountain College students and teachers alike were inspired by Pre-Columbian languages, particularly Maya hieroglyphs, which, at that time, were an unsolved puzzle—a secret message thousands of years old. Major progress in deciphering the glyphs was not made until the 1950s, after Johnson had left the College.
The fascination with Maya glyphs and Pre-Columbian cultures began in the early 1930s with Josef and Anni Albers's first trip to Mexico. For two decades, the Alberses traveled to Latin America to take part in what Helen Delpar has called the "enormous vogue of things Mexican." With the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1920, the US had begun to strengthen its ties with its Southern neighbor and Mexico sought to emphasize its pre-conquest identity. Archaeologists made great strides in the 1940s and 1950s, uncovering thousands of burials and presenting their findings to the eager public through publications and exhibitions.
The Alberses shared their preoccupation with Pre-Columbian art with the Black Mountain community through a collection of textiles that Anni assembled for the College and a collection of miniature figures they collected. Josef employed countless photographs of their trips to Latin America in his classes and lectures. Additionally, he requested copies of significant exhibition catalogues of Pre-Columbian art for the College library. On several occasions Josef arranged for traveling exhibitions to visit Black Mountain, including an exhibition of Maya art in 1937. Discouraging students from the traditional study period in Europe, Josef recommended that they instead travel to Mexico to learn from both the ancient and contemporary arts found there. He believed that the ancient Americans were "THE representatives of abstract art," and used their example to lend authority to his own work and ideas.
Both Josef and Anni took what they admired in Pre-Columbian art and incorporated it into their own work. Among other things, Josef was attracted to the mixing of sculpture and architecture, figure-ground fluctuations, the interplay of solids and voids, and the use of serial imagery. Brenda Danilowitz has suggested a connection between Josef's Homage to the Square series and his observations of "Mexico's pre-Hispanic stepped temples." Certainly the abstract, geometric simplicity of much Pre-Columbian art resonated with Josef's own art. For Anni, it was the technical superiority of the Andean weavers that enticed her. In a 1945 article Anni lauded ancient Peruvians as the "greatest culture in the history of textiles." She later dedicated her book On Weaving to "[her] great teachers, the weavers of ancient Peru." Virginia Gardner Troy has remarked that because so many Peruvian textiles ended up in Berlin museums in the late 19th and early 20th century rather than in North or South America, Anni had a deeper knowledge of Andean textiles by the 1930s than her American counterparts. Troy therefore credits Anni as being one of the greatest early promoters of these works.
Given Ray Johnson's love for secret or undeciphered languages, it is likely that this was an aspect that drew him to the Pre-Columbian cultures he was exposed to at Black Mountain. Johnson was part of a generation of cryptographers. Children in the 1930s and 40s gathered around the radio to listen to the adventures of sleuths including Little Orphan Annie and Captain Midnight who used their decoding devices to solve puzzles and communicate with their faithful listeners. In college, Johnson addressed text visually, beginning to experiment with graphic design and the interplay of text with image. Johnson indulged his love of codes in his mature collages, all of which are meant to communicate—but communicate without necessarily revealing one precise meaning. Each element of the composition relates to those around it just as the parts of a glyph or the letters in a word combine to express a concept. Poaching from magazines, newspapers, and books, Johnson invested images with new life—enhancing or altering their meaning entirely by arranging them in novel ways. Within Johnson's oeuvre the same images appear in multiple contexts, taking on slightly different meanings. The collages communicate by first drawing us in with a few recognizable words or a familiar image. Johnson gives us plenty to spark our curiosity—to make us confident that there is a message to decipher.
Without actually representing particular glyphs or pictures, she evoked the idea of a visual language by grouping differently textured and patterned squares together like words or glyphs, and locking this "text" within an underlying grid… [and] set within margins….
illustrate her understanding of textiles as forms of communication. Like Johnson, Anni stressed the idea of communication over the message itself. She collected examples of all sorts of texts in non-Latin alphabets, both translated and indecipherable. Her archives contain examples of Sumerian, Japanese, Cuneiform, Arabic, and Maya writing among others. The common thread shared by all of these texts is the goal to communicate. Did Anni attempt to translate these fragments and the possible messages embedded in the Maya and Inca textiles she collected? Considering Anni's preoccupation with the visual character of language it is more likely that she, like Johnson, was drawn to the ancient languages' indecipherability.
Most sources on Johnson emphasize Josef Albers as Johnson's primary influence, yet one can also see Anni's influence in Johnson's early paintings. Of the few works that survive from shortly after Johnson's time at Black Mountain, many have a textile-like quality. The intricate weaving together of blocks of color and the perpendicular pattern of warp and weft are undeniable. But where did this style come from?
Josef Albers discouraged students from saving the studies they did and even went as far as suggesting students not sign their creations. Johnson followed these instructions closely, burning most of his student work and early paintings in the 1950s. Fortunately we do have a few examples of Johnson's work that reflect Josef's example. Johnson's Three appears to be one Josef's design or color assignments. Yet this work with its pure, geometric simplicity is a far cry from Untitled or Calm Center, with their intricate patterns of overlapping and intersecting stripes.
While the Alberses were on sabbatical from Black Mountain in 1947, Johnson enrolled in weaving classes with Anni's substitutes Trude Guermonprez and Franziska Mayer. It seems plausible that Johnson combined the lessons he learned in Josef's color and design courses with those he garnered from the weaving classes to develop his abstract striped style.
Though Johnson never took Anni's class, the pervasive learning environment that made the College such a hotbed of innovation encourages me to imagine interactions between Johnson and Anni outside of the classroom—in the dining hall, on the grounds, during exhibitions of the textile collection that Anni assembled for the College, etc. Anni and Johnson's shared interest in the visual qualities of communication supports this theory.
The importance of weaving in Johnson's education becomes clearer in light of the astonishing resemblance between Johnson's early painting, Calm Center, and a specific Andean royal tunic. Both works consist of a grid with each square filled with a slightly different configuration (the larger tunic does have some repetition). Dark squares quell the busy pattern around them. Is this just a coincidence, or could Johnson have seen the tunic in person or (more likely) in reproduction?
Robert Woods Bliss purchased this tunic, which is now in the Dumbarton Oaks collection, sometime between 1947 and 51. The periodical Américas published a black-and-white detail of it in 1951; it is likely that the Alberses saw the tunic in the National Gallery of Art where Bliss' growing collection was on display from 1947-62. Unfortunately, the records surrounding this tunic are limited. A similar tunic in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History in New York appeared in Lehmann's 1924 book on ancient Peruvian art, which several sources corroborate was in the Black Mountain College library. Johnson may have also visited the Museum of Natural History during his hiatus from college in 1945 during which time he lived in New York or after the fall of 1948 when he moved there permanently. Though it may be impossible to prove that Johnson saw the Dumbarton Oaks textile, the visual similarities between it and Calm Center are remarkable.
Besides its stunning visual beauty and excellent condition, Anni could have been drawn to the Dumbarton Oaks tunic for the same reason it enticed later scholars. In the 1960s and 70s, several researchers argued that the patterns on Inca tunics like this one were a form of language. Peruvian scholar Victoria de la Jara and Thomas Barthel, a German epigrapher, claimed to have deciphered part of the royal tunic. Like other scholars, they tried to find a pattern in the grid and worked out various complicated mathematical schemes in order to decode it. Unfortunately, as Rebecca Stone points out, "We cannot expect Inca viewers to have made the king stand still while they diagram such an elaborate system, especially since they were not allowed to look at him directly." It is therefore unlikely that the pattern was intended to be a legible message.
While readings such as de la Jara's and Barthel's were quickly refuted, it is possible that Anni Albers's understanding of Andean textiles as language followed a similar argument. But, in contrast to the scholars who tried to establish a pattern in the tunic, Troy suggests that Anni Albers and Johnson may have appreciated the variability of the grid. She writes: "I think that both Albers and Johnson appreciated the notion that these grid-based codified patterns could be arranged and rearranged by folding, flipping, and turning, thereby changing the meaning." Analogously, Johnson once described his own works similar to playing cards, reshuffled into a different story every time they are shown. Regardless whether we're interpreting the tunic as a text or not, both it and Johnson's painting encourage the viewer to try to puzzle them out, to locate a pattern, as if there were a hidden meaning to unlock.
In conclusion, Johnson and Anni shared a fascination with the mysteries of communication. Both viewed their art as a form of communication and called viewers' attention to this act of exchange. They relished the formal qualities of language and emphasized these in their work. Even a cursory study of Johnson's early paintings suggests the important role that weaving played in his artistic development. Johnson's apparent adaptation of an Andean textile in his painting, Calm Center, may reflect the influence of Anni's admiration for the Andean weavers and, therefore, epitomizes the influence of weaving in Johnson's early paintings. While Johnson soon moved away from his initial abstract paintings to his mature collages, the principles of weaving and communicating remain. He weaves together disparate elements, relating back and forth to form a cohesive whole like the threads in a textile or the letters of a word.
Thank you to Frederick Horowitz for his insightful comments on my paper and to Brenda Danilowitz at the Albers Foundation for her assistance with my research.
Marie Tavroges Stilkind, email to the author, September 2009. Maya hieroglyphs were definitely an interest shared by many at the College in the early 1950s when Charles Olson was rector. See Mary Emma Harris, Starting at Zero: Black Mountain College, 1933-57 (Bristol: Arnolfini Gallery; Cambridge: Kettle's Yard Gallery, 2005).
For the history of decipherment of the glyphs see Michael Coe, Breaking the Maya Code (London: Thames and Hudson, 1992).
On this topic see Helen Delpar, The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican: Cultural Relations Between the United States and Mexico, 1920-1935 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1992).
Virginia Gardner Troy. "Anni Albers: The Significance of Ancient American Art for Her Woven and Pedgogical Work" (PhD diss., Emory University, 1997), 126.
Coe, 177; Karl Taube, The Albers Collection of Pre-Columbian Art (New York: Hudson Hill Press, 1988), 19, 135.
Joseph Albers, unpublished lecture 1940, quoted in Mary Emma Harris, "Joseph Albers: Art Education at BMC," in Josef Albers: A Retrospective (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1988), 51.
Mary Emma Harris, The Arts at Black Mountain College (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1987), 13, from a letter by Joseph Albers to Willard Beatty, 29 Aug. 1940, Vol. VI, Box 4, Black Mountain College Papers.
Brenda Danilowitz, "Josef Albers 1936-46: A Decade of Abstract Painting," in Brenda Danilowitz and Heinz Liesbrock, eds. Anni and Josef Albers: Latin American Journeys (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz; New York: 2007), 93.
Anni Albers, "Constructing Textiles," in Anni Albers, On Designing (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press 1962, c1961), 12.
Anni Albers, On Weaving. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1965.
Anni Albers interview by Richard Polsky, 1985, for the Columbia University American Craftspeople Project, "The Reminiscences of Anni Albers," Oral History Research Office, Columbia University, 1988, transcript at the Albers Foundation, Bethany, CT., 43; cited in Virginia Gardner Troy, Anni Albers and Ancient American Textiles: From Bauhaus to Black Mountain (Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2002), 119.
Mary Emma Harris, "Joseph Albers: Art Education at Black Mountain College" in Nicholas Fox Weber, ed., Josef Albers: A Retrospective (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1988), 56.
Muffet Jones, "Selected biographical chronology and exhibition history," in Ray Johnson: Correspondences Donna DeSalvo, ed. (Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, 1999), 203.
Mary Emma Harris, "Ray Johnson at Black Mountain College," in Black Mountain College Dossiers, Ray Johnson Issue, 1997 (No. 4), 67.
Elizabeth P. Benson, "The Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art: A Memoir," in Collecting the Pre-Columbian Past A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, October 1990. Elizabeth Hill Boone, ed. (Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1993), 20-21.
"All-T'Oqapu Tunic," in Andean Art At Dumbarton Oaks, Vol. 2 Elizabeth Hill Boone, ed. (Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1996), 463.
Rebecca R. Stone, ""And All Theirs Different From His": The Dumbarton Oaks Royal Inca Tunic in Context," in Variations in the Expression of Inca Power: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, October 1997. Richard L. Burger, Craig Morris and Ramiro Matos Mendieta, eds., Joanne Pillsbury and Jeffrey Guilter, general eds. (Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 2007), 397.
Troy, email to the author, September 2010.


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China launches mapping satellites
April 30, 2019 Stephen Clark
A Long March 4B rocket lifts off Tuesday from the Taiyuan space center in northeastern China. Credit: Xinhua
A Chinese Long March 4B rocket successfully launched two Tianhui satellites Monday to conduct land surveys, mapping and scientific experiments in space, according to reports from state-run media.
The satellites lifted off aboard the Long March 4B launcher at 2252 GMT (6:52 p.m. EDT) Monday, China's government-run Xinhua news agency reported.
The launch occurred at 6:52 a.m. Beijing time Tuesday, a little more than an hour after sunrise at the Taiyuan space base in northern China's Shanxi province.
The three-stage Long March 4B rocket, standing nearly 15 stories tall, turned south from Taiyuan, dropping its spent rocket bodies on Chinese territory. The Long March 4B's upper stage delivered the two Tianhui mapping satellites to an orbit more than 310 miles (500 kilometers) high, with an inclination of 97.5 degrees to the equator, according to U.S. military tracking data.
Monday's mission was not announced in advance by Chinese officials, and warning notices to pilots typically released ahead of space missions were not available before the launch.
Social media users posted videos they claimed show the rocket's first stage falling near a town downrange from Taiyuan. Additional videos and photos showed part of a rocket engine and structural components near a highway.
The satellite pair launched Monday is designated Tianhui 2-01, according to Xinhua. Chinese state media said the satellites will be used for scientific experiments, land resource surveys, geographic surveys and mapping.
No additional details about the spacecraft were released.
China launched three Tianhui 1 mapping satellites in 2010, 2012 and 2015 into the same type of orbit targeted on Monday's launch with the two Tianhui 2-01 spacecraft.
Monday's mission was the seventh orbital launch attempt from China this year. All have been successful except for the inaugural flight of a new commercial satellite launcher developed by a Chinese startup company named OneSpace.
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Sovereign and LiveWest recently secured a Strategic Partnership with Homes England, to build 2,275 new homes across the South West of England by 2024 with £111.5m of grant funding.
Sovereign and LiveWest have ambitions to deliver half of these extra homes in the West of England area, which will be in addition to their existing investment and development programmes.
The two housing associations will also seek to build more of the homes themselves instead of relying on private developers and Section 106 planning agreements.
This will give them more control over developments, including types of occupancy, and pace of delivery. The new homes will be a mix of social or affordable rent, as well as shared ownership, a more affordable way to home-ownership.


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The bizhub Highveld Lions crowned CSA T20 Challenge winners for 2019
A maiden career century by captain Temba Bavuma upstaged that of counterpart Jon-Jon Smuts as the bizhub Highveld Lions won a thrilling CSA T20 Challenge final, beating the Warriors by 11 runs in Johannesburg on Sunday evening....
CSA T20 Challenge Lions vs Warriors Final Match Preview
Lions will host the 2019 CSA T20 Challenge final at the Wanderers, where they will take on Warriors after the two teams finished first and second in the league table and won through their respective semi-finals. The...
CSA T20 Challenge Knights vs Titans Match Preview
The Titans will face-off against the Knights in this twelfth game of the CSA T20 Challenge 2019. The match is scheduled to be played on April 14 at the Diamond Oval in Kimberley. Live action will begin...
CSA T20 Challenge Warriors vs Lions Match Preview
The Warriors are set to clash against the Lions in what will be the eleventh game of the ongoing CSA T20 Challenge 2019. The Buffalo Park in East London will be the venue for this match which...
CSA T20 Challenge Cape Cobras vs Dolphins Match Preview
The tenth fixture of the CSA T20 Challenge 2019 will see Cape Cobras take on the Dolphins. Scheduled to be played on April 14, the match will be hosted by the Newlands in Cape Town. Live action...
CSA T20 Challenge Lions vs Knights Match Preview
The Lions are set to take on the Knights in this eighth game of the CSA T20 Challenge 2019. The Senwes Park in Potchefstroom will be hosting this match which is scheduled to be played on April 12....
CSA T20 Challenge Titans vs Dolphins Match Preview
The Titans will be aiming for their second win in a row when they face-off against the Dolphins in this 9th fixture of the CSA T20 Challenge 2019. The match will be played on April 12 at...
CSA T20 Challenge Cape Cobras vs Warriors Match Preview
The seventh game of the CSA T20 Challenge 2019 will see Cape Cobras face-off against the Warriors. The match will be played on April 12 at the Boland Park in Paarl. Live telecast is scheduled to begin...
CSA T20 Challenge Titans vs Cape Cobras Preview
The sixth fixture of the CSA T20 Challenge 2019 will see the Titans face-off against Cape Cobras. The match is scheduled to be played on April 10 at the Willowmoore Park in Benoni. Live action will begin...
CSA T20 Challenge Dolphins vs Lions Preview
The Dolphins will look to secure their second home win of the season when they take on the Lions. This fifth game of the CSA T20 Challenge 2019 will be played on April 10 at the Kingsmead...


Adhruth is now making lots, lots & lots of loud sounds. These are some casual clicks of Adhruth this week. Adhruth plays a lot sitting in the Chair. He decides to pick up items kept in the basket instead of taking from us now. He decides his toy :-)….starting to be choice maker.
Video of Adhruth playing in his Chair. This is close to 3 mins video (will take sometime to load). Adhruth enjoys putting things down from the tray to keep it clean.


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Okay, Computer: A Roundup of the Best Men's Digital Watches
If you're a digital soul in an analog world or prefer to glance at blinking numbers over sweeping watch hands, here's a lineup of digital watches that keep it simple, sporty, stylish, and retro-cool.
By Nana Caragay | Dec 3, 2019
IMAGE CASIO/SEIKO/TIMEX/SUUNTO/BRAUN
Watch snobs might turn their noses up at digital watches, but hear us out: Every well-rounded collection deserves that so-called "beater watch." We're talking about the one you wear on days when you're doing manual labor or errands, the one that can take a literal beating, the one you want on your wrist when you're running a Spartan Race or an Ironman, that won't weigh you down with its preciousness or heritage or price tag, or that, frankly, you won't really care too much about if it one day inevitably just conks out and gives up on you or gets a well-earned scratch or two.
And when you're on the hunt for that watch, might we suggest you look toward the digital watches on this list—as just because you'll pick it up on a day when you don't want to think too much about the watch that you're wearing, you'll still want it to stand up to the heat and look unabashedly cool.
A digital watch would be the ideal companion for all of the above-mentioned circumstances, but of course, we're still going to recommend the best of the best. Here, a list of digital watches with features and history that even your snobbiest watch friend can respect.
1| Casio CA53W-1
With the ultra-rugged G-Shock and classic Illuminator in its roster, Casio is an all-time great in the digital watch world. But if we had to pick just one for this list, we'll go with this watch from the Databank line. A surefire conversation-starter, it also offers dual timekeeping, a stopwatch, a calendar, and an alarm. Oh, and of course, there's the calculator, which its website helpfully suggests you turn to if you are "ever unsure just how much to tip your server at a restaurant." Here's our other suggested use: Wear it on a first date to see if she appreciates it, and if she does, she's cool.
Photo by CASIO.COM.
2| Seiko Prospex SBEP003
Since introducing Japan's first dive watch in 1965, Seiko has been changing the game with its Prospex sport watches—and this digital edition, popularly known as the Digi-Tuna, caused a stir when it was launched last year. Created by Yuki Kajiwara of Tokyo design firm Lowercase, it has Japanese efficiency written all over functions that include a timer, calendar, dual time, rotating bezel, and water resistance of up to 200m. It's solar-powered, too, which takes the hassle out of having to change batteries, an unfortunate inconvenience of digital watches. It's also available in no-nonsense all-black, but why not pick the blue and red "Pepsi" bezel for kicks?
Photo by SEIKO.
3| Timex Expedition WS4
For the adventurous outdoorsman, the Expedition does pretty much everything you could hope for: equipped with an altimeter, barometer, compass, thermometer, stopwatch, alarm, timer, calendar, dual time zones, and an Indiglo night light, it's water-resistant up to 50m, and yes, it tells time, too. With a case size that's 50mm wide, it's built for maximum visibility, the closest you can get to a widescreen watch. And with all the data it offers at a glance (it was developed with the help of renowned mountaineer Conrad Anker, who insisted on maximum information without having to shuffle between multiple screens), that's a good thing.
Photo by TIMEX.
4| Suunto Core
There's something almost alien-like and futuristic about this all-black timekeeper, with its monochrome look and flexible elastomer strap. But the Finnish brand with outdoorsy roots—the name translates to the Finnish word for "direction" and was founded by engineer Tuomas Vohlonen, the inventor of a production method for the liquid-filled compass—delivers more than just looks and durability. It also offers a compass, barometer, weather trend analyzer, and is preset with the sunrise and sunset times of over 400 global locations. It's pretty much the Swiss army knife of watches and lives up to its title as a military watch.
Photo by SUUNTO.
5| Braun Prestige Digital BN0106
Whoever says a digital watch can't be stylish or elegant, we present this for your consideration. A winner of the iF and Red Dot Design Awards upon its launch in 2012, the clean, minimalist, Bauhaus-inspired look of this timepiece from the German brand belies all the other things it is also capable of. It's a chronograph, countdown timer, and has a 100-year perpetual calendar in five languages—multiple functions that are exactly the draw of digital watches. But this one doesn't compromise on quality or beauty, which pretty much makes it perfect, really.
Photo by BRAUN.
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I was gutted about not being able to get coverage on the Afro Hair and Beauty Show and Curlvolution this year. In the first instance I couldn't go and in the second instance miss Laila Jean [Fusion of Cultures] had my SD card so I couldn't upload my pics.*Sigh* Anyway I refused to let the JCS 360 event slip! I had my younger sister help out with hair stalking and photo taking… Here are our recollections of the amazing turn out, amazing people and all in all fantastic day!
For those of you who weren't able to attend there will definitely be a UK Blogger Collective part 2. Will keep you posted!
Why hello Beautifuls and happy Monday!


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Obituary for Frances Moretti
Frances Moretti, 97, passed away at her home on October 27, 2022, lovingly attended by her family. She was predeceased by her husband of 65 years, Whitfield (2012) and her son John (2020). Born in Greenfield, MA, she married Whitfield, of Millers Falls, MA, in 1947. Fran and Whit, and their 6 children, lived on Long Island, NY for 22 years before moving to Acton, MA in 1969.
Fran treasured her family and regarded them as her life's greatest achievement. She is survived by her children: Michael and his long-time companion Ann, Martha (husband Art is deceased), Diane (wife of John), Peter and wife Bonnie, Elizabeth and husband Keith, and Paul and wife Lola. Fran was proud of her 12 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren, sending all of them annual birthday cards and keeping their up-to-date framed photos where she could look at them daily.
In June, Fran attended her 75th college reunion at Middlebury (VT) College, where she graduated Pre-Med in 1947. She married soon after graduating and, after raising her family, returned to academia to earn her master's in Library Science. She was the Reference Librarian in the Acton Public Library for 20 years. After retiring, she was elected a Library Trustee. Her support of the library continued an additional 20 years as she volunteered to work at the library's annual book sale.
As a couple, Fran and Whit shared a commitment to community. Together, they volunteered at the Acton Historical Society and Household Goods. For many years, they were bell-ringers for the Salvation Army. They also participated fully in the life of the Acton Congregational Church. For the past ten years, Fran volunteered at the Thrift Shop run by the Acton Congregational Church.
Fran had a great curiosity about everything in the world around her. She stayed abreast of current events and politics, and was very observant of changes in nature in her environment. She enjoyed flowers and caring for the rose bushes in her yard. She loved language and habitually looked up the etymology of words. She completed at least one, and often two, New York Times crossword puzzles every day.
Fran traveled extensively with Whit, enjoying trips across the US, and to Canada, Belize, England, France and several trips to Italy. However her greatest delight was spending summer days at the family Camp in Leyden, MA, and seeing her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren there, enjoying the outdoors and each other's company. She said that Camp was better with lots of children and several family dogs running around.
She was known to many because of her daily walk around her Acton neighborhood where she lived independently until her passing. On her strolls, which she continued until the week she passed away, she especially enjoyed stopping to pet the neighbor's dogs, and knew many of them by name.
Fran was, as one neighbor said, "a gem" -- one of those rare people who was loved and admired by her family, friends and neighbors. She was known for her kindness, her intellect, and her indomitable spirit. Her loved ones regard Fran as a model of how to live one's life: treasure your family, stop to smell the roses, have fortitude in the face of life's struggles, keep learning new things, be mentally fit and physically active, pay attention to the world around you, serve others, and always put others at ease through kindness. Although we are bereft, she assured us that she had a very good life.
There will be a memorial service at Acton Congregational Church, 12 Concord Rd, Acton, MA on Saturday, November 12, 2022 at 11:00 am with a reception/calling hours immediately following the service. Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery in Acton will be private.
Gifts in memory of Fran may be made to the Groton Hill Music Center, 122 Old Ayer Rd, Groton, MA 01450 or to the Acton Congregational Church, 12 Concord Rd, Acton, MA 01720.
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As newly built homes become more airtight, proper ventilation becomes more important, due to the potential for combustion spillage. The current Ontario building code allows for the independent operation of the exhaust-only ventilation system (EOV) and the furnace circulation fan. A recent survey of new homes shows that three-quarters have the EOV system, and of those, only some 13% of owners use the system properly. Future Ontario codes should require the interlock of the ventilation fan and the circulating fan.


 Best Price on Classique International in Dominica in Marigot + Reviews!
Featuring rooms with mountain views, Classique International in Dominica features a Caribbean restaurant with a terrace. Located in Marigot, it is less than 0.6 mi from the beaches at Sand Bay and Middle Bay. Each spacious, air-conditioned room at Classique International in Dominica has modern décor. All rooms have a balcony, free Wi-Fi and a flat-screen TV. The property is handicap accessible and most rooms include a small refrigerator. The hotel is less than 3.1 mi from the Northern Forest Reserve. Guests enjoy garden and mountain views from their rooms. Laundry service is available for an extra charge, and the property can also arrange individual and group tours. Restaurants, bars, shops and banks are available in the town center, a short 2-minute walk away. Classique is very convenient to guests who are traveling on the early morning flights and want be closer to the airport. Classique is about 0.6 mi from sections 6, 7 and 8 of the Waitukubuli National Trail, while Melville Hall Airfield is a 5-minute drive away.
Please note that Classique guest house is a 2-minute walk from the public transportation bus stop that going into town. We arrange individual tours and group tours, upon request.


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I have selected foods to feature that are synonymous with the culture of Manhattan, either invented in the city or sourced from somewhere local known for that item. They are a celebration of what we currently perceive as "New York City" while playing off themes of preservation, encasing each food in varying stages of frozen ice chunks. This series was created in response to the rapidly changing food scene in the face of the city's never-ending commercial gentrification. Read the full story here.
There's nothing more New York than washing down a salty hot dog with a fresh tropical fruit juice, all thanks to Papaya King in the Upper East Side. Initially just a juice stand, Papaya King added hot dogs to its menu in the 1930s to better cater to the German and Polish residents of the neighborhood. Today, a considerable amount of hot dog and fruit juice spots can be found all around Manhattan, but Papaya King still stands strong as the proud original on the corner of 86th & Lexington.
While some might argue that the most authentic dim sum can be found over in Flushing, the diverse offerings that Manhattan's own Chinatown brings to the table is impressive nonetheless. What is traditionally served as a brunch food has become in demand at all hours of the day. Though rapidly expanding, the history of Nom Wah Tea Parlor cannot be denied. Open for nearly a century, it has withstood the test of time on the curve of Doyers St., surviving as one of the most notable restaurants on one of the most history-laden streets of Manhattan.
The history of the black & white cookie can be traced back to the recently shut down Glaser's Bake Shop in Yorkville, which opened its doors in 1902. With a cake base covered in half vanilla and half chocolate icing, these decadent cookies can now be found all over New York City, in both old and new places alike. William Greenberg Desserts on 82nd and Madison is perhaps the most well known for this treat. They have been supplying the city with a variety of kosher baked goods since the 1940s.
Thought to have originated in Poland, bagels were brought over by Eastern European Jewish immigrants in the late 1800s. While there is no shortage of top quality bagels all around Manhattan, there is no denying H&H's importance. Before the original two stores shutdown in 2012, they were the largest bagel manufacturer in New York City. The H&H legacy lives on (under new ownership) at their third shop on 80th and 2nd. In 2016, H&H opened another outpost on the Upper West Side.
Either too hard, too chewy, too bland, or too salty, the unspoken secret of this street food is that, culinarily, it isn't actually all that great. However, the cheap prices (especially compared to other city snacks) and availability on almost any corner—touristy or not—has made soft pretzels into a New York City classic that has managed to stay relatively unchanged for almost two centuries.
While the details of its origin story are heavily debated, egg creams were born in New York City in the late nineteenth century, quickly becoming a staple drink in soda shops thereafter. Funnily enough, egg creams don't contain actual egg or cream in them. They are composed of chocolate syrup, seltzer, and milk. Today, you can find this classic at places like Eisenberg's Sandwich Shop, a neighborhood favorite since 1929 known for this drink (and many other deli standards) on 22nd and 5th.
This infamous design known as Anthora was introduced in the 1963 to appeal to the city's many Greek-owned coffee shops. Clearly, this worked—these cups quickly became a symbol of daily life, and could be found everywhere from street vendors to corner delis. With coffee culture today favoring more upscale, boutique shops, these cups are harder to come by. In 2006, the design was discontinued. The Solo Cup Company acquired the trademark and brought them back into circulation in 2015.
Pastrami was invented in the nineteenth as a way to preserve meat before refrigeration. Practiced and perfected by Jewish immigrants, it became a natural part of deli menus across New York City, and has remained a crowd favorite ever since. Pastrami is perhaps most familiarly served in sandwich form, traditionally between two slices of rye bread covered in yellow mustard (and with pickles on the side). Places like Katz's Delicatessen have upheld this classic, becoming famous for their pastrami alone. Katz's has been satisfying customers' cravings at the corner of Ludlow and Houston since 1888.
Cream cheese was invented in New York in 1872, making it no surprise that cheesecakes have become one of the most synonymous desserts to New York City. Not all cheesecakes require cream cheese, but a classic New York style cheesecake does (along with eggs, vanilla, sugar, and heavy or sour cream, all on a graham cracker crust). Eileen's Special Cheesecake has been serving their infamous cakes at their shop on Cleveland Place down in SoHo since 1975.
Pizza trends may come and go, but the traditional New York thin crust style remains king when it comes to one of the most lauded foods in town. Patsy's Pizzeria in East Harlem has been serving up their infamous pies since 1933, where they even consider themselves the inventors of this style. Patsy's is an indisputable food landmark that is still running strong today.
"Manhattan Meltdown" has been featured on designboom, 6sqft, and Adobe.