GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEER – PERMANENT – SURREY Our Client, a Major international Oil and Gas, design and construction contractor is seeking a Geotechnical Engineer to work in their offices in Surrey.
•	The Successful candidate should be Degree qualified with some years' experience working on Pipeline/Subsea projects as a Geotechnical engineer.
•	As you will see from the 'Job Specification' your experience needs to include finite element analysis to perform Geotechnical detailed analysis on the seismic effect of the soil properties etc. Briefly, previous experience must include all aspects of the work to be carried out as described by our Client.
Our Client, a Major international Oil and Gas, design and construction contractor is seeking a Geotechnical Engineer to work in their offices in Surrey.
•	Performance of geotechnical analysis tasks and preparation of analysis documents.
•	Undertaking preliminary and/or conceptual geotechnical analysis and special studies for tenders / capability and innovative concept assessment as part of training under supervision.
•	Assess geotechnical subsea fields survey reports and conduct a conclusion report with the soil parameters to be used in the project.
•	Calculate the seismic effect on the soil properties.
•	Support finite element analyst to perform geotechnical detailed analysis.
•	Maintaining records in accordance with Department procedures.
•	To become familiar with and to maintain awareness of the Company's current requirements and where applicable, the latest Industry Codes and Standards including statutory rules and regulations.
•	To ensure that all activities are carried out in a manner consistent with Company policy on health, safety, quality and environmental matters in accordance with Company specific procedures.
SALARY:	Negotiable. Please quote the salary you would be looking for when applying.
The successful candidate will have: •	Masters or Ph.D. degree in Geophysics, Physics, Math or Geology is preferred or demonstrable equivalent experience. •	Minimum of 10 years' in processing or related geophysical R&D background essential. •	Ability to provide advanced technical leadership and guidance in all aspects of seismic data processing and acquisition essential. •	Some experience in time and depth imaging desired. •	Proven experience with processing software, processing production and workstations highly desired. •	Experience of writing and presenting papers is highly sought after. •	Proven experience in giving technical presentations essential. •	Deep knowledge of geophysics, an understanding of petroleum systems and oil exploration essential. •	Experience in processing data from a wide variety of geographical areas highly desired. •	Strong commercial acumen - knowledge of the business side of processing and dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of clients. •	Strong leadership qualities – can engage across peers and management, gain trust, support and commitment to deliver technical excellence. •	Effective in and supportive of working in a dynamic and collaborative team environment. •	Highly articulate and confident – can present coherent and engaging propositions to both large and small audiences. •	Advanced problem solving and multi-tasking skills. •	Proven ability to communicate effectively at all levels within and outside the company •	Strong interpersonal skills - with the ability to develop good working relationships with clients •	Passion for technology advancement – proactive in understanding current technology trends in the geophysical market and external market that may have an impact. •	Enthusiasm and drive to share knowledge for the technical advancement of all across the company. •	Proactive, flexible and enthusiastic. •	A strong strategic player – can see the big picture. •	Strong understanding of the market – the technologies, players, trends, challenges and the ability to engage knowledgably with clients. •	Strong stakeholder relationship management – ability to keep all stakeholders engaged and informed essential – both internally and externally with clients and partners.
Location:	UK - Surrey Job Status:	Permanent Open To:	EU Nationals or UK Work Permit Holders Job Overview: A global provider of multi-client geoscience data and integrated services to the oil and gas industry seeks a Chief Geophysicist to provide geophysical technical leadership and guidance to all Multi-Client projects across the region of Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. You will keep abreast of technological advancements in the industry and drive geophysical excellence ensuring imaging quality is at its highest. You will be the go-to-person for technical geophysical advice and guidance. Applicants invited with a minimum of 10 years geophysical industry experience combined with a strong understanding of seismic processing techniques and a passion for geophysical related technologies. This is an exciting new job combining both technical and commercial activities. It provides great scope to drive new geophysical products The Company provides multi-client geoscience data to the global oil and gas industry. In addition to extensive data libraries that includes: seismic data, magnetic and gravity data, digital well logs, production data and directional surveys, they also offer advanced processing and imaging services, interpretation products and data integration solutions. Their interpretative products are well established and respected amongst their client base. They cover all four stages of the oil field exploration cycle and help clients make informed decisions at each stage. They provide in-depth geological analysis of basins, interpretations of depositional environments and facies that help to identify risk and provide an effective petroleum play for more informed prospectivity analysis. In this senior role, you will provide geophysical technical leadership and guidance, ensuring the effective implementation of new technology and best practice into the multi-client projects. Proactively, liaising with major clients, you will promote the Company's high quality imaging services, the technologies used and help to secure proprietary processing opportunities in the region. In addition, you work with internal and external acquisition and processing centers to ensure top quality products are delivered on multi-client projects. Together with Processing Center Chief Geophysicists, you will keep abreast of new technological advancements and work trends, and provide this knowledge; clients' feedback; and guidance to R&D to assist in developing new leading edge processing technology. Responsibilities:	Reporting to SVP New Ventures this role encompasses many functions including: •	Overall responsibility for the geophysical technical aspects of all Multi-Client (MC) projects with the objective of delivering high-quality data products. •	Overall responsibility for driving geophysical technical excellence across the region. •	Become the go-to-person for geophysical advice and guidance. •	As such, duties will include: •	Promoting and presenting technology to clients in the region building technical and quality reputation. •	Acting as the Business Unit (BU) main resource in ensuring imaging quality. a) Review final and critical stage processing products and providing feedback and advice to management, sales, marketing and processing teams. b) Formulate and give R&D input to Imaging on behalf of BU. •	Proactively promote proprietary processing capabilities and help in identifying new business opportunities for processing across the region. •	Participating in the development of multi-client projects together with Project Developers and Sales through: a) Deep knowledge of the existing MC library b) Understanding and insight into the geologic plays and oil company focus areas in the region c) Initiating MC reprocessing opportunities d) Acting as technical resource and mentor to Project Developers and Sales team •	Attending industrial and international geophysical conferences to monitor technology trends and practices and competitor development. Reporting back to Imaging R&D and the Business Unit. •	Presentation of technical papers at geophysical conventions and meetings, interaction with key clients and building relationships with client key technical decision makers. •	Liaise closely with the other regional Chief Geophysicists – drive technical excellence across the whole company. •	Promote a culture of knowledge sharing – drive technical excellence across all involved. This is an exciting and challenging role for an inpidual with a strong geophysical background, a passion for technical excellence and a keen interest in keeping abreast of new technologies both within the industry and externally that may impact excellence. Package:	This is a senior level role and an attractive Salary and package is on offer dependent on skills and experience.
Type: Staff / OfficeSalary: This is a senior level role and an attractive Salary and package is on offer dependent on skills and experience.


Viečča artihkkala: Mo mánát oččodit biehttaleami? Giellaoččodeami álgogeahčastat (pdf).
Giela oččodeapmi lea unnán dutkojuvvon fáddá sámegielas. Artihkal gieđahallá davvisámegiela biehttaleami oččodeami vuollel skuvlaahkásaš mánáid gielas. Davvisámegiela biehttalanvearba lea veahkkevearba. Eará gielaid mánáidgiela dutkamušat čájehit ahte veahkkevearbbaid oččodeapmi sáhttá leat hástalus unna mánážiidda. Biehttalanvearba lea erenomáš eará vearbbaid ja veahkkevearbbaid ektui go das ilbmá persovdna ja lohku, muhto áigi ja modus eai boađe ovdan biehttalanvearbbas. DASAGO-prošeavtta mánáidgiela teakstačoakkáldaga vuođul čájehan makkár ovdamearkkaid lean gávdnan davvisámegielat mánáid gielas. Ovdamearkkaid lean válljen čoakkáldaga nuoramus máná Bikká (2;0.27) gielas ja boarrásamos máná Nigá (3;4.13) gielas. Álgogeahčastat mánáid giellamateriálii čájeha ahte guktot mánát leaba oččodišgoahtán biehttalancealkagiid. Dán artihkkalis lean hábmen golbma hypotesa dan birra mo davvisámegielat mánát oččodit biehttalancealkagiid: 1. Biehttalanvearba lea vuosttaš veahkkevearba, mii davvisámegielat mánáid gillii ilbmá. 2. Biehttalanvearbba indikatiivva ovttaidlogu goalmmát persovnna hápmi ii doaibmá vuolggahápmin mánáid gielas. 3. Davvisámegiela oččodeaddji mánáidgielas sáhttá leat muddu, mas mánát guđđet biehttalanvearbba jietnatkeahttá.
The acquisition of language has, hitherto, received relatively little attention in the field of Saami language research. This paper deals with the acquisition of negation in the North Saami language in children of pre-school age. The negation verb in North Saami is an auxiliary verb. Studies of child language in other languages show that the acquisition of auxiliaries can prove problematic for small children. The negation verb differs from other verbs and auxiliary verbs, in that it shows agreement in person and number, but has no indicator of tense or mood.
Using the DASAGO-corpus, I present examples on negation from the longitudinal language material of two pre-school North Saami acquiring children, Biggá (2;0.27) and Nigá (3;4.13).
A preliminary appraisal of the material reveals that both children have begun to acquire negative sentences. As part of the conclusion of this paper, I put forward three hypothesese to explain how North Saami speaking children acquire standard negative construction of the language: 1. The negation verb is the first auxilliary that appears in North Saami speaking child language, 2. The third person singular indicative form of the negation verb, ii, functions as a default form in child language, 3. There might be a stage in North Saami children's language acquisition in which the negation verb is omitted.


All people are part of a global community that has a responsibility to care for planet Earth. This important title introduces environmental stewardship to young readers. Relatable examples show readers how to care for the environment in their own communities, and how even small changes can help address issues in the global community.


Thanks to my background and my work in the field of helping people recover from narcissistic abuse in relationships, I get plenty of questions every day from readers and clients alike.
Today, I thought it would be helpful to share the top 12 most-often asked questions in regard to narcissism in relationships and narcissistic abuse recovery. Each question below is answered in detail – you'll see the full answers when you click through.
What are the top 10 warning signs of being gaslighted by a narcissist?
How far will a narcissist go to get what he/she wants?
How do you control a narcissist?
How do you know if you're married to a narcissist?
How is toxic narcissism different than healthy narcissism?
How do you begin to heal from dissociation after narcissistic abuse?
What is narcissistic rage? What about narcissistic injury? What else do I need to know?
Why can't I just leave my narcissist already?
How Did Self-Proclaimed Narcissist Sam Vaknin Gaslight You on Facebook?
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Those with hearing loss don't have to reserve themselves to a life without enjoyable listening experiences. On the contrary, there are a number of auditory training measures we can take to help our brains actually hear better.
Auditory training seeks to improve listening skills and improve speech comprehension for hearing aid wearers. Formal listening activities are utilized to improve speech perception by "training" the brain processes that aid the listening process.
Physicians Hearing Center in Dothan, Alabama reminds you that these exercises have been shown to help hearing aid wearers' speech understanding, even in noisy surroundings.
Formal listening programs are for hearing aid wearers who have adjusted to hearing sounds with their devices and have reached a plateau in their listening skills. Training is often utilized by those who have recently experienced a change in hearing abilities.
1. Cochlear Implant (CI): The first generation of CI users needed help adjusting to the new sound sensations they were experiencing – similar to patients who received physical therapy after surgery on a hip, knee or shoulder.
2. Brain: Research on the malleable nature of the brain increasingly shows that auditory stimuli can create change in the central nervous system.
3. Internet: Technology has made it more practical for clinicians to offer auditory training, with most people to do some of their sessions at home to save time and money. A combination of clinical and home training sessions is the most effective, with the experts available to interact and provide assistance to clients when necessary.
Research shows auditory training is most effective when sessions are conducted in an intensive manner (the more time put into it, the better). Home-based programs are also receiving high marks for their results.


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California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR) recently released a report on the growing problem of nursing homes and assisted living facilities falsely imprisoning elderly residents they deem incapable of making their own decisions. The rationale is that the residents must be kept safe from harm - even though a federal court ruled more than 40 years ago that nursing homes have no special right to keep people locked up against their will.
The report concludes: "All adults have the right not to be locked in long term care facilities. That includes people with disabilities and those with dementia. Only a court of law can deprive an adult of the right to move freely about the world."
The Santa Clara County allegations demonstrate that even those legally empowered to keep an elderly resident confined can abuse that power.
If a loved one is being prevented from leaving a long-term care facility against his or her will, you should consult an elder law attorney to discuss your options.
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Bobby Wagner reacts to early retirement of linebacker Luke Kuechly
By drbyosIn SportsPosted January 16, 2020 0 Comment(s)
Since joining the league in 2012, linebackers Bobby Wagner and Luke Kuechly have been compared to each other, and it's not hard to see why.
Kuechly joined the Panthers as the ninth general team and immediately set to work as an average elite linebacker, finally making seven Pro Bowls and five All-Pro nodding in his illustrious career. However, that race came to an end on Tuesday, when he announced in an emotional Twitter video that he was retiring.
Kuechly was widely considered among the two best linebackers in the NFL during his career, often alongside Seahawks linebacker Bobby Wagner, who has made six appearances in the Pro Bowl and is five times All-Pro. He began his career the same season after being selected by Seattle 38 selections later in the 2012 NFL Draft.
Wagner delivered a sincere message on Twitter to Kuechly, saying: "The game is losing an excellent one."
Much respect to one of the great LB to play football. You have given a lot to this game and you were a special player to watch. The game is losing a great one. Nothing but respect ✊🏾 https://t.co/Ja76illgi5
– Bobby Wagner (@Bwagz) January 15, 2020
While fans may be happy that they can no longer continue discussions between Kuechly and Wagner in the coming seasons, the league is losing one of its best intermediate linebackers, and is another reminder of the physical and mental burden this game charges. . players
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State Floras
Kentucky Flora
Dynamic Tools
Crataegus phaenopyrum	(L. f.) Medik.
Washington Hawthorn
[Mespilus cordata Mill., moreMespilus phaenopyrum L. f.]
Indiana Flora
Gleason & Cronquist
From Flora of Indiana (1940) by Charles C. Deam
Leaves ovate to deltoid in outline, sometimes appearing 3-lobed, mostly 2-6 cm long, 2-5 cm wide, acute or acuminate at the apex, rounded, truncate or cordate at the base, serrate with broad, shallow teeth, usually with 1-3 pairs of lateral lobes, the lowest pair often enlarged and with spreading, acuminate points, firm at maturity, glabrous, glossy on the upper surface; petioles very slender, a third to two thirds the length of the blades; flowers small, 10-12 mm in diameter, in glabrous, compound, mostly 10-30-flowered corymbs; stamens about 20; anthers pale yellow; fruit subglobose, 5-7 mm in diameter, long persistent, in many-fruited clusters, bright scarlet, becoming succulent at maturity; calyx relatively large, often entirely deciduous leaving the tops of the nutlets exposed; nutlets usually 5. A tree up to 10 m high, with brown gray, scaly bark, numerous ascending or spreading branches, forming a low, conical crown, and slender branchlets usually abundantly armed with slender thorns. Known in Indiana only from Wayne County, where it has possibly escaped, but it should be sought as a native plant in the southern counties. This species is highly ornamental and desirable for planting on account of its abundant flowers and the brilliant color of the fruit which is produced in large, pendulous clusters, remaining on the tree until late in the season.
Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Tree to 12 m; lvs mostly ovate or cordate, acuminate, dark green and glossy above, glabrous or nearly so, 2-6 נ2-5 cm, coarsely and irregularly serrate and with 1-4 pairs of lateral lobes, the basal pair of lobes the largest, the others very shallow, the veins running to the sinuses as well as to the points of the lobes; petiole 1-2 cm, eglandular; fls 1-1.3 cm wide, in compound glabrous cymes; sep short-deltoid, acute or apiculate, tending to fall from the fr; fr 4-5 mm thick, bright scarlet; nutlets 3-5. Both native and as an escape from cult.; Pa. to n. Fla., w. to Ill. and Mo.
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Christus Epheta ist eine römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche im nordhessischen Homberg (Efze). Die Gemeinde gehört zum Bistum Fulda. Epheta stammt von dem aramäischen Jesuswort Effata für  Öffne dich!

Das Kirchengebäude mit westlich angrenzendem Pfarrhaus und Pfarrzentrum steht auf dem Grundstück Kasseler Straße 4-6 zwischen dem Adolph-Kolping-Weg und der Parkstraße am alten Friedhof.

Geschichte
Nach der Reformation gab es 375 Jahre in Homberg keine katholische Gemeinde mehr. Erst 1899 wurde für die zugezogenen Katholiken das Missionshaus mit einer Kapelle auf dem Grundstück Ziegenhainer Straße 20 gebaut. Durch den Zuzug von vielen Heimatvertriebenen und Flüchtlingen in der Nachkriegszeit des Zweiten Weltkriegs wuchs die katholische Gemeinde in Homberg wieder stark an und die Kapelle wurde vergrößert, in den 1950er Jahren wurde der Bau einer neuen Kirche geplant. Für diese konnte ein Grundstück auf der Westseite des alten Friedhofs an der Kasseler Straße erworben werden. Das bisherige Missionshaus wurde 1958 in das katholische Altersheim St. Marien umgebaut.

Kirchengebäude
Die Kirche wurde in den Jahren 1956 und 1957 nach den Plänen des Kasseler Architekten Josef Bieling errichtet. Der Erste Spatenstich erfolgte am 15. August 1956. Die Grundsteinlegung nahm am 23. September 1956 Dechant Heinrich Becker aus Fritzlar vor. Die Konsekration von Kirche und Altar fand am 25. August 1957 durch den Fuldaer Weihbischof Adolf Bolte statt.

Das Gebäude befindet sich in hoher Hanglage nahe der Altstadt am Stadtpark, einem aufgelassenen Friedhof. Die architektonische Gesamtanlage der Kirche steht unter Denkmalschutz. Von der Straße aus führt eine breite Freitreppe zunächst zum freistehenden Glockenturm mit Kreuz; breit hingelagert tritt die Kirchenfassade von der Straße zurück. Ein geschwungener Laubengang mit Eisenpfeilern und Flachdach verbindet Turm und Kirche. Ein krönender Posaunenengel aus Stahl auf der Chorkuppel über dem Altar ziert das Gotteshaus und ist nur von Ferne sichtbar.

Den Grundriss der Kirche bildet ein schmaler Kreissektor mit der erhöhten Apsis im nördlichen Zentrum, die von einem steinernen Altar unter einem Bronzekreuz dominiert wird. Nahe dem gleichfalls steinernen Ambo steht eine Marienstatue. Über der Apsis spendet eine dreistufige Kuppel Licht. Die Kirchenbänke mit 290 Sitzplätzen sind kreisförmig auf den Altar ausgerichtet. Das zwölfteilige Bleiglasfenster in der südlichen Schauseite steht für die zwölf Apostel und stellt das Apostolische Glaubensbekenntnis in Farbe und Licht dar. Darunter befindet sich die über die gesamte Breite reichende Orgelempore, unter der mittig das Taufbecken zwischen den beiden Eingangsportalen steht.

Mosaik an der Außenfassade
Die Südfassade zur Straße ist rechts mit einem Mosaik dekoriert, das den Namen der Kirche nach dem Effata-Abschnitt 7,31-37 des Markusevangeliums aus dem Heilungsbericht eines Taubstummen illustriert. Es zeigt zwei gehörlose Kinder ohne Mund und Ohren, die von der Hand Gottes berührt werden. Gestaltet wurde das Mosaik von Gerhard Dechant in Homberg. Am Schlossberg befindet sich unweit die Hermann-Schafft-Schule für Hör- und Sehbehinderte.

Glockenturm
Der 30 Meter hohe Campanile links vor der Kirche bildet einen sichtbaren Akzent am westlichen Stadteingang. und beherbergt ein vierteiliges Geläut. Das Geläut ist mit dem Geläut der evangelischen Marienkirche abgestimmt. Hierfür wurden vom Heidelberger Glockengießer Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling am 29. November 1961 vier Bronze-Glocken gegossen und am 14. Januar 1962 geweiht. Die Glocken im Einzelnen:

Weblinks

 Homepage der Pfarreien Christkönig Borken (Hessen) und Christus Epheta Homberg (Efze)

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Christus
Pfarrkirche des Bistums Fulda
Christuskirche
Hephatakirche
Kirchengebäude der Moderne
Erbaut in den 1950er Jahren
Kirchengebäude in Europa
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The 2nd problem that will arise in offshoring an online design task, is the language barrier. For anyone who is able to come up with your own personal your website development requirements, the next challenge can be dealing with a website development project administrator for which English is a second language. Regardless if your Project Supervisor seems to be doing a good job, there are still many levels below her / him to which your project will be went by. Those people own even less understanding of the English words than building your shed Manager really does. In fact , building will probably be approved off 2 or 3 more intervals to various people in various departments. With all that handing off and the conversation issues, the opportunity of problems teemumble, void, well forth. You could conclude spending countless hours of your own period doing quality assurance and still not really know what you are end up with.
When contemplating who to select, think about set up person most likely talking to, really understands you. If you're having trouble communicating with the web design project manager, it's only going to get worse at the next level.
You will have to find the best organization solution — An overseas designer/developer will not likely act as a consultant.
You will have to do the own groundwork and produce the best business solution yourself.
You will need to produce your have web design requirements – You will need to plan your web design project thoroughly and communicate your plans in greater detail. An overseas designer/developer is only going to give you everything you specifically ask for.
You need to plan more hours to ensure that building your project is done appropriately. Ongoing conversation as well as job completion will be delayed because of the time dissimilarities and words barriers.
Conversation and ethnical differences – Your stylish may not figure out your goods and services the way you believe they do. For instance , if that they don't have privately owned health insurance in their country, will they build a top quality website that may help you sell insurance?
American laws just isn't going to protect you if you are unsatisfied with your webpage. If you are going to use over $1, 000. 00 on your web site design project, then you might not want to risk choosing an just offshore designer/developer.
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We Still Don't Know How To Fight Fascism
It's no longer accurate to say the "rise" of the far-right — fascism is already here. After Trump's election, a group of prominent analysts gathered to discuss how the left could fight back. Six years later, their insights are more urgent and insightful than ever.
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MADRID — There were very few who'd ventured to predict that he would win. That night, Nov. 8, 2016, we in Europe went to sleep watching the United States, and woke up in the middle of a nightmare. Donald Trump, whom both the Republican and Democratic establishments and opinion makers had dismissed, had become real. He had won.
Far-right leaders scattered around the world began to send congratulations while protests began to take place in North American cities. The pundits couldn't understand why their brilliant analyses had failed.
Six years later, fascism continues to triumph, for the simple reason that people continue to vote for it. In Italy, it won last Sunday with Giorgia Meloni. The Vox party arrived in Spain a long time ago.
But no one can say that we were not warned. In December 2016, with the arrival of Trump to power,weat La Marea organized a debate to collect the responses the left was devising in the face of this wave that threatens the basic principles of a democracy. They were interesting then, but perhaps they are even more relevant now because they were never implemented.
So what next? With the election of Meloni in Italy, we are at a critical juncture to look back and rethink how the left can fight the far-right.
Hard right in an Armani tie
José Chamizo, an Andalusian politician, spoke with his characteristic bluntness: "[What we have] is almost completely obsolete, our demonstrations are obsolete ... Almost all of us are obsolete here."
Javier Couso, who was then a United Left MEP, pointed out the origins of the rise of the far-right: "When there is no future on the horizon for you and your children, when the industrial and productive structure switches to outsourcing, people are afraid and look for security."
Trump's success was not an isolated victory.
Couso continued, "Someone who speaks clearly, even if he lies, who points out easy culprits, who proposes to recover the scope of national action against these diffuse powers and who has a connection with his people has media appeal."
Trump's success was not the isolated victory of an eccentric, misogynistic, xenophobic and homophobic billionaire who empowers misogynists, xenophobes and homophobes. According to our leaders and analysts gathered back in 2016, Trump's victory was the failure of neoliberal policies, of hyper-globalization, of fear of the "other," which has led to a weakening of democracies — and the response from a left is disorganized, disunited, disconnected from the people it claims to represent.
Prominent Spanish politician Pablo Iglesias, who has since retired from politics, explained that "it is very difficult to reduce the extreme right to unity. What Marine Le Pen represents in France is different from the British UKIP or Donald Trump. That said, the fundamental thing is to understand that a collapse of the political systems of the Western world is taking place as a consequence of the financial crisis that we experienced in 2007."
Back in 2016, Chamizo also predicted the rise of fascism: "After analyzing the behavior of some European governments with refugees, only one question remains: Are we so far from fascism? Fascism is going to be a reality in the whole of Europe in less than five years. And it is a complicated fascism because it is much more subtle. It does not have a face as familiar and it's harder to distinguish when it's coming."
This is what the Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago called "Fascism dressed in a Armani tie", which he was already warning about in 1999 in reference to then Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen at a political rally in France
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Contagion in Europe
In France, the Le Pen saga is no longer a surprise. The rise of the National Front owed much to Islamophobia fueled by terrorist attacks. The then socialist president François Hollande, and his prime minister, Manuel Valls, tried to contain Marine Le Pen through increasingly harsh speech. And yet, in the presidential elections held this 2022, Le Pen, the first of the far-right leaders who congratulated Trump via Twitter in 2016, reached the second round against Macron, which happened in 2002 with her father against Jacques Chirac.
Zaida Cantera pointed out the enemies of the far-right: "The demons of the extreme right are other humans identifiable by their differences — immigrants, Muslims in one case, Jews in another — or any person of religion identified as suppressible: empowered women (those feminazi witches), the LGTBI collective ... all of them, without exception, are the problem."
Analysts also blamed the role played by social democracy and the so-called Third Way, whose fundamental error had been trying to combine a progressive political agenda in the social sphere with a neoliberal agenda in the economic sphere. For the then socialist deputy Eduardo Madina, the biggest problem of social democracy, he said in an interview, was that he did not know how to interpret which were the productive forces to which he should appeal.
You don't live on pedagogy.
This was the analysis of Yolanda Díaz, who is now Second Deputy Prime Minister of Spain: "The problem we have is that social democracy is in crisis. It's dead." She mentioned Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek's book, The Road to Serfdom. "He wrote about the existence of a superior theory that was the economy and that democratic decision-making was going to be expropriated from the citizenry. What was crazy then is real today ... Does the left have a clear project in the face of the crisis of civilization that we are experiencing? I have my doubts."
She added: "We have to do pedagogy, yes, but you don't live on pedagogy. We have to be useful. Fascism in the 1930s — this is harsh to say — turned the hardest-hit neighborhoods into a useful network. It solved their problems, in a real way. We still need to go much further in that direction: in all neighborhoods, the different lefts have to be a present alternative way of life for the people. A real alternative. Create networks of popular solidarity. We are a long way from this."
The left strikes back
Two important challenges emerged. First, to move from the discursive model to taking action, which the extreme right has done. Political scientist Pablo Simón pointed out: "The losers must be compensated with ambitious public policies that shake that abandoned [sectors] of society. If they are the ones who vote for the extreme right, they will consider the left again.
Simón offered some solutions: "Shame the xenophobic vote, forget about data and present human stories of immigration, normalizing diversity on all fronts."
The second essential challenge was to overcome the historical division and fracture in the left to begin to take action. This is something that, six years later, has not occurred.
Chamizo warned six years ago: "Without unity, we can't do anything. I am not saying absolute ideological unity, but in some basic points, yes. We are witnessing a permanent fight."
European Parliament member Marie-Christine Vergiat said: "The left must confront issues, even those that are most difficult, such as migration or the European Union . It must start from what gives it common sense: the rejection of austerity policies, a real and more equitable distribution of wealth, a project with a sense of solidarity, respect for others... We must build a new political project, a new path."
The socialist Ignacio Urquizu spoke about seeking a higher-quality public debate that would not simplify either the problems or the possible solutions: "In other words, not only do you have to tell the truth to the people, which is that the world has changed, but it also has to be said with powerful arguments... To say that the economic programs of the left are utopian is supreme stupidity. When they are explained with the data in hand, people understand."
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Azahara Palomeque
It's Neoliberalism, Stupid: A Millennial's Plea To Break The Status Quo
I am part of a generation whose quality of life will be worse than those who came before us. This should encourage society to realize that the idea of infinite growth is a myth, and that time is of the essence when it comes to saving the environment.
Millennials (those aged roughly between 25 and 38) and others born after us will never be able to live better than our parents (or grandparents). There are those who will blame Netflix subscriptions or avocado toast as a pattern of expenses that, if avoided, would allow us in theory to buy a house. But the economic data is there and it doesn't lie.
Economic growth has slowed down in a good part of the globe and, along with this, there has been a weakening of the welfare states in most Western countries. This has been coupled with a reduction in taxes for those who are the wealthiest, resulting in unprecedented wealth inequality.
Demonizing the leisure activities of the most precarious sectors not only demonstrates a conservative and prejudiced position but also a shameless ignorance in the face of a problem that has been studied by many experts.
When sociologist and Pulitzer Prize winner Matthew Desmond recounts in his book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American Cityhow a man who receives government food stamps to alleviate hunger decides to spend them all on a lobster feast one day, he does not take a judgmental approach. On the contrary, he uses the example as a way to demonstrate that, without those small pleasurable gestures, life would have no meaning at all.
The growth dilemma
In other words, what may seem wrong from a nutritional or economic point of view can be logical emotionally. That man who bought lobster needed to feel like a full citizen. He wanted to feel like a member of a society, which is one that values the rich, their whims and luxurious wastefulness while criminalizing those born in poverty for practically everything they do.
So the anger of those 30-somethings and younger is legitimate. They are facing injustice with seemingly no end in sight. However, sometimes that visceral drive is channeled into the form of inter-generational resentment (against our elders), instead of directing it to a better target: the neoliberal puppet masters.
And this is where the issue becomes thorny, because some call for more neoliberal capitalism in order to maintain a certain lifestyle. But this would involve more plundering of the Global South. If there is one dilemma we are facing most strongly it is the complex balance between the longing for the exponential growth of the past and the realization growth cannot be infinite.
Left-wing demonstration against the German government's energy and social policies in Leipzig
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We are in an era that calls for frugality, energy savings and an urgent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, but austerity has strongly negative connotations (bailouts of banks with public money, dismantling of basic services, unemployment). Against this backdrop are climate and social justice goals. Climate and social justice goals call for "more wealth for all".
Those on the bottom do not want to hear about cuts. They are already paid a fraction of their wealthy boomer boss.
Then there are conflicts of interest. If some environmentalists propose reduction, they are criticized. If the government rightly intervenes in a war situation, the argument is someone else should make sacrifices, I have made enough already. The nations of the Global South use similar arguments: The environment should be protected by the rich. We want to "develop."
Our survival depends on how we handle this situation.
Perhaps what all these complaints and demands have in common is that they are born from the same capitalist status quo, which determines what is imaginable. At this point there are no miracle solutions: There are those who denounce the proliferation of fast fashion manufactured by child labor with huge amounts of fossil fuels. However, those few polyester rags in the closet of the most disadvantaged Western citizens bring satisfaction and a false perception of great purchasing power.
The climate question
Going back to the man who bought a tasty lobster, who would dare tell him that bottom trawling is killing marine life, disrupting entire ecosystems, and that he should go vegan?
I don't have definitive answers for the massive crossroads this century puts before us. Sometimes, it is even difficult for me to understand the details of the contemporary maelstrom. But, as a millennial, I am clear on two things: that financial crises have rained down upon me, leaving significant damage, and that we have little time left to try to make amends for the climate catastrophe.
Our survival depends on how we handle this situation. For me, it would definitely begin with a massive redistribution of wealth and, once the pyramid top has been cut off, perhaps the way would be paved for the huge cultural changes that urgently need to be adopted.
Cristina García Casado
Who Will Be Left? A Message From The "Inextinguishable" Fires Of Zamora
The droughts and extreme temperatures due to climate change, together with the abandonment of the countryside, have caused fierce fires in Spain that have devastate the livelihoods of the few people who still live there.
TÁBARA — Francisco Vicente and Delia spent two days inside a tractor. In their town, Tábara, in the northwestern Spanish province of Zamora, the flames tried to enter from all fronts for hours without mercy or truce.
Many neighbors, like them, disregarded the Civil Guard's eviction order and stayed behind to defend their houses, their crops and their animals. This is all they have. The official fire extinguishing techniques are not designed for the massive fires of the 21st century.
"If the people hadn't stayed behind, the fire would have reached the town and burned it," says Francisco Vicente Casado Fresno, a farmer, just like his father, grandparents, uncles and those who preceded them.
Tábara's population doesn't even reach 800 inhabitants. In its mountains, where traditionally cattle was raised, there is no one to pick rockrose and heather, which now grow freely.
Brutal drought, unstoppable flames
All the farmers, ranchers, forestry technicians, emergency personnel, mayors and neighbors interviewed to write this reportage agree on one point: fires like the ones that have devastated 5% of the province of Zamora this summer can't be stopped, not even by multiplying exponentially the tools at hand. The operatives can improve so that the response is more agile, but these unusual fires are only contained beforehand: with a new model of territorial management.
"I often come home crying because I don't have the tools to deal with something like this," says José Luis Gutiérrez, firefighting technician for the governing body of the autonomous community of Castile and León. This is his first hour off after three days working on the fire that forced the evacuation of almost 6,000 people from 34 towns. The province of Zamora, one of the most depopulated areas in Europe, has 168,725 inhabitants.
"There is a brutal drought, it seems to transform everything in gasoline. A dry storm comes, lightning strikes, it catches on and the wind turns the fire into a hurricane," says Casado.
"The situation of the vegetation converts it into fuel and fires start that are beyond extinguishing capacity. In these conditions, fire releases such great energy that it feeds on itself. Not even if we put in 100 times more firefighters, 200 million firefighters, it wouldn't matter, we wouldn't be able to do it," says Gutiérrez.
Around half of the forest area burned in Spain in 2022 is located in Zamora, and it burned down in just over a month. Some 24,000 hectares in the June fire in the Sierra de la Culebra, a protected area of great environmental and wildlife value, and more than 20,000 in July in the Losacio fire that surrounded Tábara and Los Valles. Some estimates indicate a record surface of 60,000 hectares was burned in July.
An exhausted firefighter in Losacio, Zamora
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Defend their properties
Gutiérrez has been putting out fires in Zamora and other provinces for 22 years and what he has seen these days is only compared in virulence with the Navalacruz de Ávila fire in 2021.
"In the past, the biggest fire of the summer would cover 2,000 or 3,000 hectares. Now we hardly talk about those because we are facing fires of 20,000, 25,000, 30,000 hectares. It's unthinkable," he says.
Many hid from the guards who went door to door evacuating the town
The fire in Tábara reached speed and multiplied on so many fronts that those who were trying to stop it could only defend the villages one by one.
"The fire jumped the firebreaks as if they were nothing, even the national highway," says a farm worker from the area who prefers not to be identified. He stayed behind to defend his home with taps and hoses because his property touches vegetation. "I am not going to leave my house, as they asked us, and the next day come and lie down in the ashes," he says. Many, like him, hid from the guards who went door to door evacuating the town.
Ángel Martín, the man whom half the world saw come out of the flames in a viral video, did not leave either. With a backhoe, he was trying to keep the fire from reaching the town's gas station when it engulfed him. He is hospitalized with burns on 80% of his body and his family has asked that the images of the horror stop being published.
"I was by his side creating firebreaks in the morning. He didn't go into the fire, it's the fire that ate him. A ball of fire that did nothing but run at a frightening speed," recalls Francisco Vicente Casado Fresno.
Everything reduced to ashes
He and his wife, Delia Hernández, who owns a hair salon, did not get off the tractor until the fire moved away from Tábara. They protected neighboring plantations while they couldn't do anything for their own crops: they've lost it all.
Only a couple of farmers had started harvesting the rye, oats and wheat that grow in the area.
The cattle that have survived the fire have nothing to eat, everything is burned. Some shepherds have already begun moving their sheep to other villages, where ranchers will share their pasture with them.
Some families have lost the legacy of generations of hard work in the fields. It was all they had.
Two people lost their lives: Daniel Gullón, a 62-year-old hose worker, and 69-year-old pastor Victoriano Antón, who was found burned to death along with his herd.
The children of farmers who live in the villages know that perhaps no one will continue with their legacy. In 10 or 20 years, who will be left to defend the towns when the mountain burns?
Fiore Longo
Plight Of Maasai Reveals Racism Of Africa's Conservation Policy
Thousands of Maasai people in Tanzania met brutal police repression when they demonstrated against being expelled from their land, laying bare both how ineffective and inhumane the conservationist movement can be.
LOLIONDO — "Loliondo is bleeding..."
An SMS woke me up on the morning of June 10. Scrolling through my phone were dozens of horrifying images of Maasai men and women with wounds on their legs, their backs and their heads. Lots of blood. And then, videos of Maasai running away from the Tanzanian police, who were shooting at them.
The pictures looked like war images. Like so many other people in the Global North, I was shocked. How could the idyllic images of zebras, giraffes and lions that the Serengeti ecosystem evokes in Western minds be transformed into this scene of brutal violence?
The Maasai, an ethnic group inhabiting Kenya and northern Tanzania, have always known what war is. They generally live close to the many game parks around the African Great Lakes, and as they put it to me: "Your conservation areas are a war zone for us."
They have known for a long time that this moment would come. The government has tried to confiscate 1,500 km2 of their ancestral land for years in order to use the land for trophy hunting, elite tourism and conservation. Behind these attempts has always been the Otterlo Business Company (OBC), a company based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that organizes hunting expeditions for the royal family and their guests and that apparently will control commercial hunting in the area.
Maasai people perform the traditional adumu or "jumping dance" in Maasai Mara, Kenya.
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Myth of unspoiled nature
However, the UAE royals are not the only ones interested in the area around the famous Serengeti National Park. The Maasai were expelled from those lands before by British colonialists in 1959. Conservationists operating in Tanzania, such as the German Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS), advocate for a racist and colonial conservation model.
The FZS claims that the local population and their livestock constitute one of the crucial threats to the survival of the ecosystem, thus promoting the myth of a "wild flora and fauna" without human presence, which has been the philosophy behind the evictions of Maasai since the beginning.
Just as dangerous for the Maasai are the tourists, who feed upon media images, documentaries and textbooks that sell the idea of "nature without people" and who expect to find only wild animals on their safaris. Indeed, the Maasai not only face the myth of wildlife without humans, but also a deeply entrenched racism. In April, a famous U.S. journalist, Peter Greenberg of CBS News, called the Maasai "primitive" when he was taking a walk with the Tanzanian president.
Just as dangerous for the Maasai are the tourists.
As one Maasai man said: "The Tanzanian government doesn't like the Maasai because the people who come don't want to see the Maasai. Before we didn't think much (or too badly) about tourism, but now we understand that tourism is people who come with money, which makes the government think that 'if we displace the Maasai, more people with money will come'."
Raids on villages
In early June, the Tanzanian government announced its plan to "elevate" the Loliondo Game Controlled Area in northern Tanzania to the status of a Game Reserve, which in practice means that Maasai dwellings and grazing will be prohibited. On June 8, dozens of police vehicles and some 700 agents arrived in Loliondo to demarcate this new area. On June 10 they opened fire on a group of Maasai who were protesting against this attempt to expel them.
At least 18 men and 13 women suffered gunshot wounds and many more from machetes. Two people have been confirmed dead. In the following days, police raided Maasai villages from house to house, beating and arresting those they believe have distributed images of the violence or participated in the protests. A 90-year-old man was beaten by the police because his son was accused of having filmed the attack. Thousands of Maasai, including children, are said to have fled into the forest. A dozen people are detained.
The Maasai people face confiscation of their lands for trophy hunting, elite tourism and conservation.
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Brutal violence in the name of conservation
It will seem absurd to many that such a well-known indigenous community is victim of such brutal violence in the name of conservation. The Maasai are a herding society, closely linked to the land.
An old Maasai told me: "I love this place and I am not ready to leave because it is my home. I have lived here since we were expelled from the Serengeti. It is an excellent land with sufficient water. It is the only place where I can proudly say to my descendants: this will be yours."
However, for those who know the history of conservation, this will not surprise them. The brutality in Loliondo shows the true face of conservation: daily violations of the human rights of indigenous people and local communities so that wealthy tourists can hunt or go on "safari" in so-called "Protected Areas". These abuses are systemic and are an intrinsic part of the racist and colonial conservation model that prevails in Africa and Asia.
Protecting the land
Just as the Tanzanian government pushes the Maasai out of their homes, the Indian government is illegally dispossessing the Adivasis ("indigenous peoples") of the lands they have always lived on, and always protected, to make way for tiger reserves where tourists are welcome. And this is despite the fact that Indian law specifically protects the right of Adivasis to remain on their ancestral lands. They accuse indigenous peoples such as the Jenu Kurubas or the Baiga tribe of harming wildlife.
The Loliondo events should be a lesson to everyone.
However, far from killing tigers, many tribes worship them as gods and take care of their environment better than anyone else. Where the right of indigenous people to remain within a tiger reserve has been recognized, the number of tigers has increased.
The Loliondo events should be a lesson to everyone. Indigenous peoples have inhabited the most biodiverse places on the planet for generations: these territories are now considered important nature conservation areas precisely because the original inhabitants have cared for their land and wild flora and fauna.
We cannot continue to tolerate human rights abuses committed in the name of conservation. This conservationist model is profoundly inhumane and ineffective and needs to change now. Protected Areas do not save biodiversity and alienate the local population, which is best suited to protect their land. As a Maasai leader told me: "Without us, the animals will be slaughtered. We are the real conservationists. This is our land and we will not leave."
* Fiore Longo is a researcher for Survival International, the global movement for indigenous peoples. She is also the director of Survival International Spain. She coordinates Survival's Decolonize Conservation campaign and has visited many communities in Africa and Asia that experience brutal human rights abuses in the name of nature conservation.
Real Fear, Fake Politics: How U.S. Gun Culture Looks To A Foreigner Living There
U.S. politics around gun control can be confusing to Americans but outright bewildering to foreigners living there. For Azahara Palomeque, a Spaniard who just left the U.S. after 12 years, the country is governed by a "necropolitics" that doesn't value life.
MADRID — On the day of the massacre in Uvalde, Texas, where an 18-year-old boy gunned down 19 children and two of their teachers, I was at the Philadelphia airport, ready to leave the country that had been my home for more than 12 years. As I read the news from the boarding gate, I murmured "again, another f*cking time the same thing."
I prayed that the plane would take off as soon as possible and that the journey would make me forget not only that massacre but all the deaths that happen gratuitously in the United States on a daily basis, preventable were it not for the greed of its politicians, almost all sold to the big lobbies that finance their careers.
Obviously, I was not able to get that carnage out of my head, nor do I think I will ever be able to despite living in Spain. That's simply because that culture of weapons is already part of me. It has shaped my personality, molding me through fear and desolation (also in criticism), which has happened to many in the "land of freedom." There is damage in that daily violence that pierces you inside and it takes a lot to heal; I speak from that damage, the one that still eats me from inside as I write.
Not even two weeks had passed since Uvalde when the media announced yet another massacre, this time in an Oklahoma hospital: five dead, including the presumed murderer. Minutes later, some newspapers spoke of a "triple simultaneous shooting." Since, similar incidents were added: one in a school in California and the other in a supermarket in Pennsylvania. The headline, as spectacular as it is worrying, was, however, false, since some of us know perfectly well that shootings are daily events and not an extraordinary event.
Living with fear
Due to their frequency, only the most serious "incidents" are reported. It depends on the number of deaths, age, race, area: life value keeps its hierarchies. However, only in Philadelphia, the city where I lived until a few days ago, the historical record for homicides was broken last year: 562, most by firearms.
Together with the increase in other types of crimes, this is why I recently changed my habits completely: not going to festivals or concerts, generally avoiding crowds. If I met someone in a bar, I immediately located the emergency exit; sometimes, I would ask my companions "do you also think about it?," and the answer was always yes.
Given the numerous notices I received from the university, warning of some danger on campus, like "robbery with a pistol on X street, police in the area," I increased the hours of teleworking. In the end, I was confined to my house more often than I wanted to, breathing a kind of a ubiquitous alarm, close to panic but not there yet every time I crossed the threshold and ventured out into the street. That was a daily occurrence, and I'm not exaggerating. The perception of inhabiting a constant tension, like the rubber band of a slingshot that is about to be released. A war. And still, I strived to build a minimal sense of normality.
Rule by 'necropolitics'
The United States, with some 330 million inhabitants, has 400 million weapons in the hands of civilians alone, a figure that has increased greatly since the pandemic began. This is a phenomenon exclusive to this country, as is its dubious honor of having the biggest incarcerated population and the fact that it has the most expensive healthcare system in the world.
To understand the permissiveness when it comes to carrying and using weapons — military weapons in many cases — it is necessary to take into account how crime contributes to the lucrative work of private prisons, and how the health business conglomerate benefits from the destruction of bodies. In fact, it is not uncommon to find online campaigns of those injured in these "incidents" begging for donations that allow them to pay their medical bills.
This systemic problem, from which it follows that death is a big business, is inherent to the socio-political functioning of the United States. In other countries, life is worth something, and even money: A state that has to bear the health costs of its sick population will invest in disease prevention, but the United States is governed by "necropolitics," where a ruling class gets to decide who lives and dies. An example of this is also the more than 100,000 fatalities in 2021 caused by the opioid crisis, from which Purdue Pharma has particularly benefited.
If these causes explain the underlying scenario, it is necessary to resort to the omnipresence of the National Rifle Association (NRA) in the financing of the different electoral campaigns to understand the aberrant statements of many politicians who advocate these days for arming even more the population, including teachers. Supposedly, with the objective of defending themselves from the "bad guys," as Trump claimed.
That former president has received almost 16 million dollars out of the total of 148 that, according to an investigation by The Boston Globe, has been disbursed by this powerful lobby since 2010 almost exclusively in favor of Republican representatives. It goes without saying that nothing will change while Congress still needs a large majority to pass any legislation restricting gun ownership and one of the two parties is bought by the NRA.
A view on the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, where 19 children and two teachers were killed
Kin Man Hui/San Antonio Express-News/ZUMA
Finally, over the decades, the Supreme Court has updated the collective right to bear arms in the context of a militia that protects the states, included in the Second Amendment of the Constitution, until it has become an individual right.
In the miraculous case that some federal regulation was implemented to put limits on the ease to acquire weapons, the highest judicial authority would knock it down. Hence the absurdity of speaking of the "weapons debate." (The latest decision on Thursday established the Constitutional right to carry weapons in public.)
There is no such debate; there are, though, offerings and laments, putrid flowers that lie on the altars dedicated to avoidable victims, disjointed prayers and a lot of sensationalism, attempts at political profitability and a rise in arms sales with each massacre, but there is not a debate.
Life only acquires value the closer it comes to death — it's the market, my friends! Out of fear of a bullet, I grabbed my things and escaped from that nightmare. I, who can still tell the tale. I, who can still say that in Spain children are not taught how to deal with bullet shots, to seek refuge from the constant threat. As in a nursery in the U.S., where not so long ago these words could be read on the blackboard:
Alert, alert!
Close the door.
Turn off the light,
don't say a word.
Under the desk,
to your hiding place!
Open the door.
There's no danger now,
you can go play!*
*Translation of a song used in a shooting drill in a nursery school in the United States. It is included in my book "Año 9. Crónicas catastróficas en la era Trump" (Year 9: Chronicles of Disaster in the Trump Era).
Manuel Ligero
Orhan Pamuk On Pandemics, Press Freedom And An Eye On Erdogan's Defeat
Nights of Plague is the latest book by the Turkish Nobel Prize winner, a fictional rendering based on historical reality that draws parallels (political and health-wise) between the past and the present.
MADRID — Orhan Pamuk is a kind of Bosphorus Bridge of literature: He unites two continents, two cultures, two philosophical and religious visions that have, over the centuries, tenaciously turned their backs on each other.
In his country, as the authoritarian drift of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has deepened, the author and public intellectual has progressively become a thorn in the side of the government. However, his run-ins with the Islamo-nationalist regime have not made a dent in his cheerful and optimistic personality.
Pamuk does well to hide his Hüzün, that particularly Turkish feeling of melancholy that infuses his autobiographical book "Istanbul," which is a version of the Portuguese Saudade, mixing local doses of fatalism and dark humor.
Fiction meets reality
Translated into more than 80 languages and deeply in love with the craft of writing, Pamuk does not hesitate to describe himself as "a lucky man" and offers glimpses at what no one else in our world marked by war, pandemic and the rise of the extreme right might be able to see: a better future.
In his latest novel, Nights of Plague, he mixes real and fictional characters to tell a story of politics, crime-solving, and healthcare crises. The action takes place in 1901, in Minguer, an imaginary island in the Mediterranean — "inspired by Crete", he reveals — in which the bubonic plague breaks out. The Ottoman Empire tries to contain the disease so that it does not spread across the continent, and is forced to impose strict sanitary measures that upset part of the population and provoke a government crisis.
I was a little jealous of reality.
Sounds familiar? Pamuk began writing it in 2016 and, when the coronavirus pandemic broke out, he was forced to change some passages so as not to appear opportunistic, he explained during a recent press conference with journalists from Spain and Latin America.
"The same thing happened to me when I was finishing writing Snow: A few months before its publication, the attack on the Twin Towers took place. In the novel, there were two mentions of Osama bin Laden and I deleted them," he recalled. "In this novel, I have had to shorten the passages in which I describe the quarantine because everyone already knows the details. I have to admit I was a little jealous of reality. All my investigative work fell apart."
Vaccinated five times
In Snow, Pamuk was trying to get inside the head of a terrorist to see his motivations. That he believes is the main mission of literature, to put himself in the shoes of others to understand:
"Obviously, I do not understand a fundamentalist murderer, but I give it a try. That is a paradox inherent in the novelist's craft. For example, I would love to be able to write a really insightful novel about people who are not stupid and who, despite all the information they have, refuse to get vaccinated. In the United States I have met people like that. Respected, intelligent, cultured doctors, who understand the importance of confinement and vaccination, but who voted for Donald Trump and who, as they consider themselves defenders of freedom, were against health measures."
Those contradictions are a fascinating mystery for Pamuk, who anticipates what would be said of him if he were to faithfully recreate such a character: "Well, business as usual. They'd say I'm defending him! That I am one of them!", he exclaims between laughs. "I would have to promote the book by showing my vaccination certificates. And I have five! Because in Turkey they gave us Sinovac, the Chinese vaccine, but it was not valid to travel to the United States and they gave me three others from BioNTech. And I am very happy with them!"
Orhan Pamuk's books have been translated into more than 60 languages, making him one of the most famous Turkish writers in the world.
Laboratorio Enmovimiento
Female perspective
In his eagerness to set himself literary challenges, Pamuk confesses that he wants to capture the female perspective, "I would like to write a 600-page novel narrated in a first-person feminine voice and that nobody would realize that I, a man, have written it." And why? "Well, it is an ethical decision that I impose on myself. I'm getting older and I increasingly want to see the world through the eyes of women. I am a man from the East and I know all the stupidity of this world. I've had enough. I want to hear that female voice in my novels. And this goes beyond political correctness, which, on the other hand, I completely agree with."
In fact, that pretension has already been exercised in novels such as My Name is Red or this latest work, Nights of Plague, which is told from the point of view of Princess Pakize Sultan, the wife of the doctor who tries to control the plague in Minguer Island.
Still, Pamuk says he has not yet reached that level of perfect transmutation to which he aspires. "I am a great admirer of Rousseau and he said one thing with which I have always agreed: Any grown man who fights with his mother is wrong. [Laughs] And I would add: Any Middle Eastern writer who picks a fight with his female critics is wrong."
Enemy of the motherland
Pamuk was always a great supporter of Turkey's entry into the European Union. That cosmopolitan and secular dream, which was close to materializing in the first decade of the 21st century, is today a chimera.
He was not going to have an easy time in Erdogan's Turkey.
In the intervening years, the Erdogan government has closed itself more and more vigorously around a nostalgia for the greatness of the Ottoman Empire. This retrograde vision has been ratified and consolidated in different elections thanks to the support of the Islamists. A writer like Pamuk, who has come to speak publicly about the Armenian genocide, the great taboo, was not going to have an easy time in Erdogan's Turkey. Somehow, his international prestige protects him, but he receives continuous threats, both physical — "I have to move with protection on the street" — and procedural.
The last of them attributed to him insults to the flag and to the father of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, from Nights of Plague. "And it wasn't true," he explains.
"The only certain thing is that this novel is a kind of allegory of the rise of nations after the disintegration of great empires. I talk about Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, Egypt or Turkey, of all those countries that were born after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, but without any connection with Kemal Atatürk. I went to the prosecutor's office with the book under my arm and asked him to point me to the exact page where those alleged insults were found. Of course, he couldn't. My knowledge of the law prevented this case from dragging on in the bureaucratic labyrinths of Ankara and turning into a kind of Kafkaesque trial. Let us not forget that this judicial drift is an important part of the political struggle in Turkey. I was lucky and I don't want to present myself as a victim either." Others are actually worse off.
"People who have problems are not fiction writers like me," adds Pamuk. They are brave journalists, many of them friends of mine, who write, spend two years in jail, come out, write something brave again, and go back to jail."
To illustrate the political situation in his country, the writer turns to a member of Erdogan's government cabinet: "We have a Minister of Justice [Bekir Bozdag] who proudly announces that they are building new prisons. With pride! As if they were hospitals!"
Pamuk laments the Erdogan government's attacks on freedom of expression. "Without freedom of expression, there is no democracy. This has happened in the last six or seven years, before the eyes of all humanity," he says.
But true to his unwavering optimism, he sees a light at the end of the tunnel: "The latest polls are showing a clear decline in Erdogan's popularity. The economy has plummeted and people may not care too much that there are journalists in jail, but they do care about eating. And that's what we're talking about now, poverty. Even his Islamist supporters are turning their backs on him. If the next elections are fair, Erdogan will fall. Believe me."
Patricia Simón
Traitor, Spy, Pro-Russian: Ukrainians Who Question Kyiv Face Grave Accusations
In Ukraine, those who do not want to fight on the front or who want negotiations cannot say so publicly for fear of accusations of being traitors.
"I don't want to fight. They are sending the soldiers to almost certain death because they have far less means than the Russians. Also, I don't think that (President Volodomyr) Zelensky, Europe or the United States have negotiated enough to try to stop this war. But, of course, you can't say that publicly, nor do we have a way to escape."
The young man speaking wants to preserve his anonymity. For uttering statements like this, he can be accused of desertion, collaboration with Russia, or being a traitor or a spy. He could also end up being sentenced to more than ten years in prison. Dimitry, a pseudonym to protect him, no longer even dares to talk about these issues by online chat with his friends.
The day before, one of Dmitry's friends had been taking photos on a Dnipro street with his cell phone. He was followed home by two men from the "Secret Services", as these plainclothes officers are referred to by everyone in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, in the east of the country neighboring the Donbas region. Once there, they checked his computer, hard drives, mobile phone, his content on social media; and they asked him why he took photos and if he worked for the Russians. It is also common that at the checkpoints on most streets and highways of the country, passengers are asked to show the photo folder of their mobile phones if they are considered suspicious.
Control does not seem democratic
"They say that this war is between authoritarianism and democracy, but all this control does not seem very democratic, right?" asks Dimitry, both nervous that someone is watching us and relieved to be able to share his bitterness over a war that, for him, began in 2014.
This war has increased anti-Russian sentiment even among those who speak Russian
"Many of us were not in favor of the war in Donbas. Many people there feel Russian. We ourselves have many relatives in Russia. And we didn't think it was right that they attacked them. And we couldn't say that publicly either because it was considered treason and being pro-Russian. But then the dead and wounded soldiers began to arrive. So a lot of people changed their mentality and started to feel more Ukrainian and nationalistic," he adds.
Bohdan Chuma, a Hispanic professor at the Catholic University of Lviv, says: "This war has increased anti-Russian sentiment even among those who speak Russian, are of other ethnic groups, or had a stronger local identity like those from Odessa, who now feel more Ukrainian than from Odessa. Putin has been the best creator of a Ukrainian national identity. He has achieved, according to the polls, that 97% of Ukrainians recognize Zelensky as the national president."
Homes affected by Russian bombardment in Dnipro
Accusations of espionage
"Our relatives in Russia used to send us money to help us. Now, when we tell them that their army has bombed us, they don't understand what is happening, but they can't complain," explains the owner of a shop next to the factory and nursery that were bombed by the Russian Army at the end of February.
A majority of the college-educated working-class youth does not want to go to the front lines.
She also prefers to preserve her anonymity. She is afraid that her words may be misunderstood and the "Secret Services" will accuse her of being a traitor. Or that this journalist is a Russian spy. Or that something happens with her statements that she cannot understand, but that ends up harming her or her family. People in this part of the country are always trying to prevent possible accusations of espionage.
Mentioning the idea of a deserter causes contemptuous faces in most conversations I have. There are even those who deny the possibility that a Ukrainian man may want to evade the honor of defending his people by fighting in the army. But according to Dimitry, among his friends — college-educated working-class youth — a majority do not want to go to the front lines. According to a report by Israel Merino, those who have managed to cross into countries like Poland to avoid it face insults and rejection by other refugees.
"If I could, I would go to another country where there really was a democracy and I could say all these things without fear of ending up in prison for being disloyal. I love my country and everything that Russia is doing to us hurts me a lot. But it is not going to be solved by means of weapons," he concludes before saying goodbye.
Up Close With Ukraine's Elderly, Left-Behind Victims Of The War
There are few children left in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, but there are many elderly people, trapped by their health in their homes. Their fate is a mirror of the tragic fate of a nation that was already aging before the war.
KYIV— "When I hear the bombs I get under the table and I cry like when I was a child during World War II," laments Eiludgarda Miroshnychenko.
To get to her house in the heart of the old center of Kyiv, just ten minutes by car from Maidan Square in normal circumstances, we had to pass through 15 checkpoints.
But Eiludgarda doesn't know this because since the Russian invasion began, more than a month ago, she has only left home to go down to the neighborhood grocer a handful of times. She is 85 years old, has heart problems and is terrified that something will happen to her and that it will take her daughters hours to realize that something is wrong.
So, a small red suitcase and a cloth bag have been prepared in her bedroom for weeks. In them, she only carries a change of clothes, her documents and medicines.
Almost everybody else has left
Due to her health problems and her age, Eiludgarda is afraid of getting on a train with hundreds of people crammed into a wagon, standing for hours, with no one to pick her up at the destination and accompany her to an airport in Poland. From there, she could finally fly to Barcelona, where one of her two daughters lives.
"When we lived in the Soviet Union, we went to Moscow or other cities and no one asked us where we were from, we all got along. I don't understand how they can be doing this to us," she explains, sitting next to two blooming orchids that she offers to give to the journalist.
Watching the news raises her blood pressure.
She doesn't think she'll ever see this apartment again, where she raised her daughters, retired from her job as a physicist-mathematician at the Automatic Engineering Institute, and where she became a widow.
"I once heard that ten years of negotiations are better than one day of war," she says, sitting in her worn pale leather chair, with a glass window behind her whose possible shattering is itself a daily risk of war.
It's been days since Miroshnychenko stopped turning on the TV to protect her health: watching the news raises her blood pressure and since the war began she needs to take more medicines to lower it. She is outraged that she is not young enough to stay to "defend her country as a volunteer", explains this woman who used to coordinate a rolled aluminum program in a factory of more than 3,000 workers.
"My daughter studied in Moscow, my husband was a Soviet soldier. And now the whole family relationship that we had with our neighbors has been broken," she explains, surrounded by the photographs that define the milestones of her life: her grandmother, a young woman with a round face and crystalline eyes looking at the future from Estonia, where the name Eliudgarda comes from; her parents, daughters, grandchildren smiling at the camera … A family tree of faces that look at us from the walls and that will stay here when she finally changes her house slippers for padded ankle boots and locks the two doors that the houses of the old Soviet buildings still have.
About 80% of her neighbors have left. Only she and a man are left in this building. And in the one next door, a couple of families. "It hurts me that my neighbors didn't ask me if I wanted to go with them," she adds. "They left without a word."
Photo of an elderly resident at a care center, waiting to be evacuated from Toretsk, Ukraine, on April 13.
Daniel Carde/ZUMA
Those who stay
Helen Kuchma's mother had been battling neck and bone cancer for four years when Russia invaded Ukraine. And then not only her life but also that of her daughter became much more complicated. "We couldn't take her down to the basements when the alarms sounded because she was bedridden, there was no way to transport her, nor to be able to keep her in decent conditions for hours in a shelter. Also, there isn't anyone in our building so we would have had to go to the buildings across the street. So we stayed on the eighth floor of her apartment, my father, her, and I, not knowing if they were going to bomb us at any moment," explains this secondary school teacher in the Ukrainian capital.
Specialized medical clinics closed in the first days of the invasion, and Helen spent hours running from one pharmacy to another to get the morphine that would ease her mother's pain. Most of them suffered shortages and the queues were endless, though she finally ended up getting it. Still, her mother died shortly after.
Since then, she has been a volunteer in a support network that has been created in the center of Kyiv, dedicated to collecting medicine and buying food for the elderly who are trapped in their flats due to mobility problems or, also, for fear of something happening to them.
Hardly anyone wants to speak out these days, for fear of ending up in jail.
One of the couples she visits daily is Dimitrii and Lera. They live in a rusty four-story building that the Soviet regime earmarked for geologists. When Helen informs them that she is with a journalist, Lera goes back inside her house and asks her husband not to speak. Fear grips everything these days in Ukraine: that someone could be a Russian agent, or an agent of the Ukrainian state who could end up accusing them of being a Russian agent, or that their words will one day end up as evidence to imprison them. Hardly anyone wants to speak out these days in this country for fear of ending up in jail in the middle of a war.
Yet Dimitrii insists on speaking. Even from the doorstep. "How can our older brothers do this to us? Well, because they weren't our brothers. That is what we have discovered with this war. They accuse us of being Nazis and they kill us like the real German Nazis did," he says.
As Dimitrii shares his anguish, his wife yells at him from the living room to shut up, to go have some tea, to close the door on us. Helen seems surprised by Lera's reaction: like so many other people in the neighborhood, she brings her food and medicine every day that she gets after standing for hours in line.
She is surprised how she yells at her that the volunteers are not doing enough and that she shouldn't bring foreigners into her building again. A month of war has exacerbated the nerves and mistrust of Ukraine's elderly.
An elderly woman with her dogs walk past a damaged residential building by a Russian airstrike in Borodyanka, Ukraine.
Daniel Ceng Shou-Yi/ZUMA
The unexpected caregivers
The Ukrainian government's ban on men between the ages of 18 and 60 leaving the country has, on the one hand, accentuated gender roles by causing a mass exodus from the country of women who are left in charge of caring for minors and of dependent elderly people. But it has also caused many men to be left in charge of their fathers and mothers, as well as their in-laws.
This is the case of Anastasia Zavalo, who left with her two children to live in the southwest, near Mukachevo, two weeks after the war began. Her mother and her husband stayed in the capital, who thus became the caretaker of her mother-in-law, who was dependent due to mobility problems.
"If she felt better, she would have come with us. But she didn't want to because she can only move from her room to the kitchen, by holding on to the wall, "explains her daughter on the telephone. "Our apartment is in an area that is not being bombed, but she watches the news and it upsets her a lot. And we don't want to leave the country. We don't know what's going to happen," explains Dilo, an information technology worker.
On Feb. 13, Olena Chekushyna's father was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Getting the treatment he needed from the public health system would have taken him months. So she decided to wait until she received her March salary from the Israeli occupational risk prevention company she works for and then spend the 300 euros that would cost her the cheapest pack of pills for the following quarter.
But nine days later the invasion began, and Chekushyna realized then that she had to get the medicine right away if she didn't want things to get more complicated in the days to come. Without her own car, she had to go through various neighborhoods of the capital while the sirens sounded, until she found the medicines.
A woman rests before being transported to a train station in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, on April 13, 2022.
A dying public health service
The Ukrainian public health system was already in dire straits before the war. In fact, in 2021 there was a children's outbreak of polio, a disease that had been eradicated, and against which a massive vaccination campaign was launched. In fact, Ukraine is at the bottom of the countries for health spending: 7.42% of its GDP in 2017, the last year for which figures have been made public. This investment places it at 122 of the 192 published.
They live in their parallel reality, being in Kyiv.
But with the invasion, the situation of the health system has become critical. The World Health Organization (WHO) has verified 16 Russian attacks on health care attention and has warned that essential medicines such as oxygen and insulin, surgical supplies, anesthetics and personal protective equipment are in short supply.
And then there is confusion among the aging generation. Chekushyna's father continues to watch Russian television, as he had done all his life. And when his daughter goes to visit him, he tells her that what she was telling him were lies.
"All their lives they have been informed only by the Russian media. So they live in their parallel reality being in Kyiv," she explains. "He thinks that me and my brother were abducted by Ukrainian nationalists."
Yes, these are some of the voices left in Kyiv, where it is rarer and rarer to see children. Instead, you see plenty of elderly women walking alone through empty neighborhoods, carrying a plastic bag, their head covered with a scarf.
Ukraine was already an aging nations because of the massive emigration of the youth to countries of the European Union since the collapse of the Soviet Union. But until the war, the precarious conditions in which many elderly people lived in Ukraine was largely hidden.
That has all changed when the bombs started striking: elderly people forced to stay are plain to see everywhere, left behind with a fate that seemed to say that this was how it all ends, as if it doesn't matter if death comes to them from disease, or basic medicines they can't find, or from the war itself.
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Most of us have been there. We've attended clinics or we've ridden with other riders who were completely out of shape. I've been one of those out-of-shape riders. Perhaps you have too.
SaddleUpAgain is focused on helping riders get on better with their horses — on the ground and in the saddle. And it's targeted to riders who perhaps have been injured riding their horses or are returning to riding after a layoff. Even if you were physically fit before the layoff, the odds are that the passing years and a sedentary lifestyle may have changed your level of fitness and perhaps your ability to ride a horse.
This isn't me but it could have been at times. Rider fitness makes riding safer and easier on your horse.
Your level of riding fitness also affects your ability to walk away from a fall without serious injury. When I resumed riding as an adult after decades away from it, I was in excellent physical shape since I was a US Navy pilot who had to pass twice-yearly physical fitness tests and an annual flight physical.
After I left the Navy and went through the experience of years of law school, my commitment to exercise and the time available for exercise diminished. I believe that lack of fitness contributed to my being bucked off a horse and the six broken ribs I suffered as a result.
I've been bucked off several times since and each time I've bruised ribs, which kept me off the horse for a substantial period of time. Part of my program to get back in the saddle again, is to improve my level of fitness and my nutrition. So some of the information we'll be exploring through this website will be on the topics of physical fitness and nutrition.
Another aspect of riding fitness is mental. You'll ride better if your mind is focused on what you're doing and what your horse is doing. If you're distracted or upset, your horse will know it and it will affect your horse's feel of you (in other words the vibes your horse is getting from you). We'll be talking about the importance of mental fitness and mental focus and ways that you can improve your mental approach to your groundwork and your riding.


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Hostage to Murder
Spraining an ankle is rarely a stroke of luck, but for Lindsay Gordon, jobless in Glasgow, the injury is her introduction to young freelance journalist Rory McLaren and the opening of a new chapter in her life. Rory's invitation to team up with her is irresistible. From there it is just a short step to political corruption and other juicy stories – all welcome distractions from Lindsay's problems at home. But when a local car-dealer's stepson is kidnapped, Lindsay and Rory trade journalism for detection. The trail leads them to St Petersburg and a dangerous snatch-back operation that will test Lindsay to her absolute limits.
Hostage to Murder, the long-awaited sixth Lindsay Gordon mystery, is a lightning-paced story spliced with crackling action and an intense emotional dimension. Best-selling crime writer V.L. McDermid, winner of numerous awards including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger, is writing at the top of her form.
Publisher: W.F. Howes
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Rights: UK Large print
Publisher: ISIS
Publisher: Argument
Publisher: Alfabeta Bokforlag AB
"This is the Val McDermid we know and love … without doubt, this is the book the long-time fans have been waiting for… vintage McDermid in Lindsay Gordon mode." Diva


If you have luggage on top of your car, you're more of a target for theft.
Driving is an inherently dangerous activity, but when on a road trip you may pass through areas where hazards also include bad weather and crime. Weather can be especially scary for, say, a Southerner surprised by a snowstorm or anyone unknowingly in the path of a severe thunderstorm, so it's important that you stay aware of the forecast. Bring along a weather radio and tune in for watches and warnings if bad weather is looming. Consider pulling over for a little while if conditions look especially perilous.
When it comes to crime, most areas of the country are very safe, but it only takes one burglary to put a damper on your road trip. While traveling, pretend like you know where you're going and what you're doing, even if you don't. Criminals sometimes target cars with travel materials like roadmaps in the front seat and tourists who look confused. At hotels and restaurants, try to park your car where you can keep an eye on it, especially if you have luggage in or on top of your vehicle. If you need to stop for a food or bathroom break, choose rest areas, gas stations, or restaurants that are busy and well lit.