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'Utter nonsense': Trump's excuse mocked
by Sam Clench
22nd Jun 2020 8:36 PM
Former US national security adviser John Bolton has ripped into his one-time boss Donald Trump in an explosive TV interview, calling him "erratic" and "stunningly uninformed".
Mr Bolton served in the White House for 17 months before leaving in contentious circumstances last September.
The President said he had fired Mr Bolton, citing "strong" disagreements with much of his advice. Mr Bolton claimed he had offered to resign.
Either way, the pair did not part on good terms.
Now Mr Bolton has written a book describing his time working for Mr Trump. It contains a series of troubling allegations about the President's temperament and behaviour.
Mr Trump says it is "a compilation of lies and made up stories". He has labelled Mr Bolton a "wacko" and a "sick puppy".
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Today ABC News in the United States aired a much-hyped interview with Mr Bolton, during which he justified several of the more shocking accusations in his book.
Most significantly, perhaps, he rubbished a key excuse Mr Trump's legal team used to profess his innocence during the impeachment trial earlier this year.
Democrats in Congress tried to kick the President out of office for holding up military aid to Ukraine in an attempt to pressure it into announcing an investigation of his opponent in the upcoming election, former vice president Joe Biden.
Mr Trump's team argued he was merely concerned about corruption in Ukraine, and wanted the country to clean up its act.
Mr Bolton told ABC News that excuse was "utter nonsense", and Mr Trump had actually been driven by his belief in a conspiracy theory.
"There is no question in my mind that the President felt that the prior Ukrainian government had been part of a conspiracy to take him down. He said that on any number of occasions," said Mr Bolton.
"He wanted a probe of Joe Biden in exchange for delivering the security assistance that was part of the congressional legislation that had been passed several years before. So that, in his mind, he was bargaining to get the investigation using the resources of the federal government, which I found very disturbing.
"Now, in the course of the impeachment affair, the defence of the President was he cares about the general corruption in the Ukraine, and that was on his mind. That is utter nonsense.
"There's corruption all over the world. The corruption he was concerned about in Ukraine was that they tried to take him down. And that, to me, was something that I found very disturbing.
"So did a lot of other people in very senior levels in the government. I describe that in the book. And our objective was to find a way to get the President to approve the security assistance, the military aid, and get it delivered, and not tie it to an investigation of his political opponents."
The Democrats have criticised Mr Bolton for not coming forward to say what he knew during the impeachment investigation. Today Mr Bolton bluntly rejected that criticism.
"I was fully prepared (to testify), if I got a subpoena, like everybody else who testified got a subpoena. I think the way the House advocates of impeachment proceeded was badly wrong. Like, I think it was impeachment malpractice."
In short, he believed the Democrats moved too quickly and focused their investigation too narrowly because they were concerned about the proceedings impacting badly on the contest for their party's presidential nomination.
In this image from video, House impeachment manager Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., pauses as he speaks during the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020. (Senate Television via AP)
Other parts of the interview focused on the President's handling of foreign policy beyond the affair with Ukraine.
Mr Bolton - who has worked for multiple presidents - claimed Mr Trump rarely read his intelligence briefings, and received far fewer briefings than his predecessors.
"My experience was he very rarely read much. The intelligence briefings took place perhaps once or twice a week," he said.
"Is that unusual?" interviewer Martha Raddatz asked.
"It's very unusual. They should take place every day," said Mr Bolton.
"The President should read extensively the material he's given. It is not clear to me that he read much of anything."
He said that lack of reading made it difficult to have "sustained conversations" about foreign policy with Mr Trump, and made the President prone to sudden changes of opinion.
"I think it emphasised the way the President normally works, which is on any given day, he's capable of making almost any given decision. And that is not, in my view, the way you should do national security policy," Mr Bolton argued.
In the book, the former national security adviser claims Mr Trump once asked - among other gobsmacking questions - whether Finland (an independent country) was part of Russia. During the interview with Raddatz, he doubled down.
"He said those things, absolutely. And this is when people talk about the - what the policy making process was, when you're dealing with somebody who asks questions like that. It's very hard to know how to proceed. And this sort of incident occurred time and time again," he said.
"There was just an unwillingness on the part of the President, I think, to do systematic learning so that he could make the most informed decisions.
"Now it's one thing to be erratic and impulsive and episodic and anecdotal on day-to-day stuff. It's when you get into crisis situations or very high stakes circumstances where it becomes not only important but potentially dangerous if the President doesn't maintain the focus on what's in front of him."
"Describe to me - sum up Donald Trump's foreign policy," Raddatz said.
"Well I don't think you can do that. I don't think there is a policy," said Mr Bolton.
"My point is that policy is derived from careful thinking, analysis, building up evidence, the critical strategic task of matching resources with priorities. He just doesn't do that.
"That's not how decision-making proceeds in the Trump administration. And it's one reason why there seems to be a lot of zigging and zagging. There is a lot of zigging and zagging, sometimes during the same meeting, sometimes during the same day."
He said a number of foreign leaders, and particularly dictators, had "mastered the art of ringing (Trump's) bells", or in other words, of manipulating him.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump attend a meeting in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018. Picture: AFP
"I think Putin thinks he can play him like a fiddle. I think Putin is smart, tough. He plays a bad hand extremely well. And I think he sees that he's not faced with a serious adversary here. And he works on him, and he works on him, and he works on him," Mr Bolton said.
"Chancellor (Angela) Merkel of Germany had no success. I don't think she tried. I think she just tried to say what her position was, like a normal leader would do, and expect a response. Didn't get it.
"But the dictators seem to be better at it than the leaders of the democracies. And I just hope that pattern is not going to persist if he's re-elected."
Mr Bolton said he would vote for neither Mr Trump nor Mr Biden in November's election, instead writing in someone else's name.
"I hope history will remember him as a one-term president who didn't plunge the country irretrievably into a downward spiral we can't recall from," he said.
"We can get over one term (of Trump). Two terms, I'm more troubled about."
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Can Vilomara és una obra del municipi de Castellfollit del Boix (Bages) inclosa en l'Inventari del Patrimoni Arquitectònic de Catalunya.

Descripció
Es tracta d'una masia formada per dos cossos, un de principal i un de lateral. L'entrada queda tancada per un pati. L'edifici té planta baixa, semisoterrani amb celler de volta de maó i un antic forn de pa. La planta baixa ha estat reformada i al primer pis hi ha una gran sala central. A les golfes s'obren petites finestres a la façana principal. En el  les obertures del primer pis foren transformades en balcons. Les llindes de totes les obertures són de pedra, i els murs havien estat arrebossats fins al 1980. la porta principal és adovellada. És remarcable la volta de pallissa i la bassa.

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There are predictable times when leadership and change become difficult. It is after the vision and the commitment to action but before successful implementation. The energy of optimism can drive many initiatives early on. Storms come along on any long journey. They are inevitable. The same is true of any real change effort. It will meet resistance and it will get hard. Without total leadership commitment, many will attempt to get off the boat during the storm.
We should be open with every crew member when we start the journey. The storms are not a surprise…they are known not just by leaders but by those who are part of the trip. Letting people know that the ship will be committed to the journey, and that the captain is going nowhere, is not only fair but it is the only way to have the trust and engagement of the people in the organization. Storm clouds are a natural part of the process and to try to convince the crew that all will be smooth sailing is not only counterproductive, but misleading.


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Re-read: Lewis Dunne murder: Police say Vauxhall murder victim was shot in the back
Police say they were unaware of prearranged fight on night of Lewis' death
Ben Turner-LEBreaking News Editor
Luke TraynorChief Reporter
Joshua Taylor
What we know so far 17:55
Teenager killed named locally as Lewis Dunne 13:15
Divers video 12:47
Forensics video 10:32
What we know so far
Police said they were called to reports of a shooting near Burrows Court just before 11.10pm on Sunday, November 15.
Police launched a murder investigation after the 16-year-old, named as Lewis Dunne from Vauxhall was shot in the back.
Forensic examinations were being carried out today and a mobile police station was set up near to the crime scene.
A press conference was held this afternoon at the Merseyside Police headquarters.
Tributes were today being paid to Lewis as the hunt for his killers was stepped up.
You can read our full round up on everything we know so far here.
Lewis Dunne murder: What we know so far
17:29 Francesca Fitzsimmons
Today, Assistant Chief Constable Ian Pilling said there were "extra police resources" out on the streets.
He also said that Eldonian Village is not normally an area where there is gun crime.
Find out more about the area where the shooting happened here.
'He didn't deserve to die'
Latest from Laura:
Wrong place at the wrong time
ECHO reporter Laura Tacey is Vauxhall:
Neighbours' shock
Earlier today, neighbours spoke of their shock over the shooting and tributes were today being paid to the young victim, Lewis Dunne.
Some of the key points so far:
* A teenager shot dead by a canal path in Vauxhall was today named as Lewis Dunne.
* The 16-year-old was shot in the back on Sunday night in the Eldonian Village.
* Tributes have been paid to Lewis, who was understood to have been a former pupil at Alsop High in Walton.
* Police were called to a towpath of the canal near Burrows Court around 11pm yesterday after a member of the public found the injured 16-year-old.
* The teenager was taken to the Royal hospital where he died a short while later.
* Lewis is the third teenager to be murdered in Liverpool this year, and police have stepped up the hunt for his killers.
* Forensic examinations were being carried out this morning and house-to-house enquiries remained underway in the area.
'Brave efforts'
ACC Ian Pilling said the members of the public who found Lewis made "brave efforts" to save him, but he was pronounced dead at hospital.
Lewis has one sister.
Murder victim Lewis Dunne, 16, shot in the back in Eldonian Village, Vauxhall at 11pm on Sunday November 15 2015.
Earlier today police divers recovered evidence from the Leeds-Liverpool canal.
Black coat and other items were pulled from the water after Lewis Dunne was gunned down.
Assistant Chief Constable Ian Pilling answering questions
Another video from the Merseyside Police press conference of ACC Ian Pilling answering questions on the death of Lewis Dunne.
Press Conference video
A video from the Merseyside Police press conference which was held this afternoon, detailing information regarding the death of Lewis Dunne.
Press conference recap
RECAP from the Merseyside Police Press conference:
*16-year-old Lewis Dunne received a gunshot wound to the back.
*It is the first firearms discharge in the Eldonian Village for a number of years.
*Assistant Chief Constable Ian Pilling called the shooting an "absolute tragedy".
*This is the third fatal shooting of a teenager across the Merseyside area.
*A post mortem into Lewis's death is due to take place later today.
Assistant Chief Constable Ian Pilling said: "No mother or father expects to bury their child at 16-years-old.
"Someone, somewhere knows who has done this and I urge them to come forward and speak to us."
Area is a safe place
The area is a very safe place. We have a very good relationship with the Eldonian Village tenants association. There has been absolutely no issues with gun crime in that area." - Chief Supt Mark Harrison
ACC Ian Pilling said prior to the shooting, Merseyside Police didn't receive any reports of quad bikes in the area or fights between gangs.
The press conference at Merseyside Police HQ has finished.
'Absolute tragedy'
Assistant Chief Constable Ian Pilling says police had no information about a pre-arranged fight in the area.
It is an absolute tragedy. This is a 16-year-old boy who had many years ahead of him.
"Any victim of gun crime is one too many." - Assistant Chief Constable Ian Pilling
He hopes Lewis's young age will help encourage people to come forward with information.
And if anybody saw anything on the tow path area, either last night or in the nights leading to it, to let police know as it may be the "vital clue" that leads to an arrest.
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Merseyside Police confirm the post mortem into Lewis's death is due to take place later today.
Extra police on the streets
This is the third fatal shooting of a teenager across the Merseyside area. Police say overall position of the number of firearms discharges is down by 29%.
Message is to those who are carrying firearms, to think twice about it. There is always a consequence to this, please don't do it. - Assistant Chief Constable Ian Pilling
He said it is the first firearms discharge in the Eldonian Village for a number of years and the police need the community to come forward and tell them what they know.
I've got extra police resource out on the streets. This is not normally an area where we have gun crime.
Assistant Chief Constable Ian Pilling said he won't speculate on questions about whether Lewis was running away at the time he was shot and it would be wrong to speculate at this early stage in the investigation.
'No mother or father expects to bury their child at 16'
No mother or father expects to bury their child at 16-years-old. Someone, somewhere knows who has done this and I urge them to come forward and speak to us. Your information, no matter how insignificant you think it is, could help us make significant progress in this inquiry. - Assistant Chief Constable Ian Pilling
Gunshot wound to the back
Assistant Chief Constable Ian Pilling said that 16-year-old Lewis Dunne received a gunshot wound to the back.
Police are in the process of retrieving and examining CCTV footage from the area.
There is no places for firearms or those who use them to bring fear to our communities. We need members of the public to come forward with information.
"You may not think your information is significant, but it could be the piece that helps us solve this crime.
"We are particularly interested in speaking to anyone who saw the incident." - Assistant Chief Constable Ian Pilling
A 'tragic, fatal shooting'
Assistant Chief Constable Ian Pilling is speaking at the press conference.
He has described the killing as a "tragic, fatal shooting".
He said Lewis had initially been found by members of the public who administered first aid until paramedics arrived.
Police press conference
Merseyside Police are holding a press conference at Police headquarters at 2.30pm, where Assistant Chief Constable Ian Pilling and Chief Superintendent Mark Harrison will speak.
Updates from the press conference to follow.
14:03 Ben Turner-LE
Video update from Joshua Taylor
Some of the key points.
Lewis Dunne, 16, named as Vauxhall canal murder victim
* The 16-year-old was gunned down on Sunday night in the Eldonian Village.
The teenager was taken to the Royal hospital where he died a short while later.
* It was claimed this morning that the shooting took place when two gangs met up for an arranged "straightener" on the estate.
* A mobile police station was set up near to the crime scene and police divers were spotted preparing to enter the canal to search for evidence.
Divers search the canal
Merseyside Police divers and forensics team look at the area where a 16 year old boy was shot near Burrows Court, Eldonian Village, in the Vauxhall area of Liverpool last night, as a murder inquiry is underway
Canal search
Latest on the canal search
Teenager killed named locally as Lewis Dunne
A teenager shot dead by a canal path in Vauxhall was today named as Lewis Dunne.
The 16-year-old was gunned down on Sunday night in the Eldonian Village.
Lewis Dunne who was murdered in Vauxhall
The 16-year-old shot in Vauxhall has been named as Lewis Dunne
Tributes were today paid to Lewis, who was understood to have been a former pupil at Alsop High in Walton.
One family member posted on social media: "I love you so much."
His cousin also posted: "Omg! No lew my gorgeous cousin I can't believe this is u sleep tight my fave boy.
"U was such a nice lad u were only telling me how much I've grew up the other day wow."
Video of divers
Here's a video capturing the moment divers entered the canal
A jacket appears to have been retrieved
Latest on the divers' search for clues. Appears a jacket has been brought out.
Divers video
Video footage of the divers
Diver now in the canal
The first diver has entered the canal

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Council ends legal fight over permission for 133-home retirement village
South Oxfordshire District Council last month confirmed it has dropped any further legal challenges to a planning inspector's approval of a 133-homes retirement village in Sonning Common, which the council had rejected as it would be in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
The council leader argued that planning inspectors' discretion is too wide in deciding appeals in such cases.
South Oxfordshire said it made two unsuccessful attempts to challenge the planning appeal decision, and following legal advice decided not to pursue the matter.
Council leader David Rouane said: "We were disappointed in the judge's decision at the latest hearing, and it highlights the problematic nature of planning legislation in that a huge amount of discretion and judgement is made available to planning inspectors – they have much more discretion than sits with locally democratically elected councillors in planning matters.
"In this case the protection of the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty has been at a single planning inspector's discretion. We're disheartened that our ability to challenge this effectively has come to an end, and feel we have done everything in our power to prevent an unsuitable development in the AONB."
Last June, the inspector granted permission on appeal for a continuing care retirement community village proposal from developer Inspired Villages, which is part of the Legal & General.
DLP planning consultants, which worked with the developer, admitted the scheme compromised major development in the AONB, and Inspired Villages had also to demonstrate that the proposal satisfied both the 'exceptional circumstances' and 'public interest' tests in paragraph 172 of the National Planning Policy Framework.
It said the inspector had noted; "Planning policy and statute give equal protection to all parts of the AONB" but went on to observe: "I saw that the AONB in this location already contains a significant amount of built development. That contrasts significantly with the deep, rural area of countryside within the AONB."
DLP said: "The appeal decision is important not only because it allowed major development in the AONB, but also because of its findings on the weight that should be given to the need/provision of specialist housing for the elderly, and its contribution towards five-year land supply."
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Gasparo Duiffopruggar (Füssen en principauté épiscopale d'Augsbourg, vers 1514 - Lyon, ) est le nom donné au luthier allemand Kaspar Tieffenbrucker.

Originaire de la famille connue de luthiers Tieffenbrucker, Gasparo Duiffopruggar a travaillé principalement à Lyon. Füssen était l'un des centres précoces et l'un des plus importants pour le luth et la lutherie en Allemagne. À partir de 1539, Tieffenbrucker est allé en Italie pendant quelques années comme compagnon, probablement avec un parent, avant de revenir en 1544 à Füssen et en avril de la même année, en est devenu citoyen grâce à un mariage. À partir de , les documents le signalent à Lyon. Tieffenbrucker est considéré comme le fondateur de la lutherie française. Il était probablement l'un des premiers luthier qui a fixé le violon dans sa forme et ses dimensions actuelles. En 1558, il est devenu bourgeois de Lyon.

Les violons de Gasparo Duiffopruggar sont aujourd'hui rares. La plupart des instruments connus sont considérés comme des répliques du  faites par Honoré Derazey (1794–1883) pour le luthier parisien Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume afin de pouvoir répondre à la demande d'instruments anciens. Ces instruments peuvent cependant être distingués des originaux par des anomalies dans les étiquettes du violon, et plus important encore, par les techniques de fabrication.

Comme aucun violon n'a jamais été réellement authentifié de la main de Duiffopruggar, certains pensent que "Duiffopruggar" n'a jamais réellement fait tous ces violons, mais plutôt qu'il a fait presque exclusivement des luths et a vendu différents instruments d'autres fabricants. Son nom aurait été utilisé afin de vendre des instruments construits pour Vuillaume.

Son fils Caspar II. Tieffenbrucker a travaillé après la mort de son père à Paris, dans la rue Pot-de-Fer.

Bibliographie
 Farga, Franz, Violins & Violinists. Trans. Egon Larson with Bruno Raikin. New York: Frederick A. Prager, 1969.
 Pio, Stefano, The Tieffenbrucker family and its collaborators, ch. XVI in Viol and Lute Makers of Venice 1490–1630,  (2012), Ed. Venice Research, . Abstract and index

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Liens externes

Encyclopedia Smithsonian, Gaspard Duiffopruggar
Tieffenbrucker dans BMLO.
 Portrait de Tieffenbrucker par Pierre Woeiriots en 1548 in Lautenbuch de  (© Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel)

Personnalité de la Renaissance
Personnalité allemande du XVIe siècle
Luthier
Date de naissance non renseignée (XVIe siècle)
Naissance à Füssen
Naissance dans la principauté épiscopale d'Augsbourg
Décès en décembre 1571
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Satyagraha in Manhattan and the Americas
The MET is staging Satyagraha in New York City. Philip Glass's 1979 opera about Gandhi's life and philosophy of "holding on to truth" is a spectacle which makes me wish I were in Manhattan for a matinee. Julian Crouch, one of the artistic directors of Improbable Theater Company of London, stated that the giant puppets of this opera were chosen because "…we wanted to use very humble materials in the making of the opera…We wanted similarly to take these materials, maybe associated with poverty, and see if we could do a kind of alchemy with that, turn them into something beautiful" (NYT). This opera shows Mohandis Gandhi meeting with his philosophical mentor Leo Tolstoy and with his inspired follower Martin Luther King, Jr. In the meantime, newspapers are transformed into puppets, wadded pages represent rocks, and other texts are molded to resemble Hindu goddesses in a transformation of the mundane into the sacred, the profane into the divine.
I wish the Improbable Theater Company could travel to Brownsville, Texas, bringing with it the ideas of nonviolence and civil disobedience to a border region currently preparing to oppose an unjust border wall through its homes and backyards. If Satyagraha could be staged in Dean Porter Park, perhaps the poorest city in the United States would see that it does not need money or political power in order to stand for the Truth. The Truth is compelling, and when men and women refuse to resort to violence but instead seek reconciliation in the face of injustice, we have to believe that the spark of the divine will be ignited in our fellow Man when he is confronted with the morality of our plea. A border wall, above and beyond beyond environmentally unsound, politically backwards, and environmentally devastating, is morally reprehensible.
On April 1, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff used the REAL ID Act to waive 39 laws in an effort to speed up the construction of the border wall. All 100 Senators voted for this act, a piece of legislation predominantly concerned with driver's licenses but with a rider granting unprecedented powers to waive all laws in constructing border barriers. In traditional Jewish law, a law which was passed unanimously was thrown out – something must have been amiss. In Gandhi's book, Satyagraha, he writes, ""It is a superstition and ungodly thing to believe that an act of a majority binds a minority…all reforms owe their origin to the initiation of minorities in opposition to majorities" (18). The overwhelming vote for the REAL ID Act must not dissuade us from speaking truth and campaigning for the overturning of these waivers.
Valley residents are not alone, however. The minority in opposition to a wall is growing, and we have the moral power of knowing we are right. Thank you, Rep. Thompson, for your courageous stand along with 14 other Congressman. We pray your Amicus Curiae brief will persuade the Supreme Court to take case with Homeland Security's ability to waive unlimited legislation to expedite the Secure Fence Act of 2006. It is encouraging to know that the unanimous vote in the Senate is not the entire story.
It is also encouraging to note that the European Union is currently considering the introduction of a decade of nonviolence, a year after dissolving the last of its countries' borders. It is heartening to know that the E.U. recognizes, "Gandhian non-violence to be the most appropriate means of ensuring that fundamental human rights are enjoyed, upheld, promoted and respected" (http://www.unpo.org/content/view/7980/83/). It is encouraging to know that the spirit of nonviolence was not killed along with Gandhi and King, that it survives even though the United States has already started clearing brush from its levees in South Texas, fully intending to build a border wall between itself and its neighbors to the South. Nonviolence, that soul-force which King preached and which is parading in New York's MET right now, still walks the streets and marches on, despite the fact that the Secure Fence Act of 2006 still stands as a blight upon our nation, culture, and all immigrants, a symbol of division in a time when we need unity.
We, the people of the Valley, call for the prayers and support of all concerned citizens at this crucial time in American history. The people of the Valley are already fighting the legal battle and will continue to campaign for Justice through the courts. In addition, we are readying for civil disobedience, should it come to that. Groups such as Fellowship of Reconciliation and Christian Peacemakers, as well as individuals like the American Gandhi, have already expressed interest in training a group of concerned citizens in proper, positive civil disobedience. We welcome any and all support in our efforts of reconciliation as opposed to division. We join with Christian thought in recognizing that we inevitably reap what we sow, and we seek to keep the United States from sowing a seed of dissension and division rather than working on communication and mutually beneficial relations with brothers and sisters of the world.
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The Difference between the Dalai Lama and a Satyagrahi
After 68 years of leading the Tibetan people from his place of exile, the Dalai Lama is the "most seasoned ruler on the planet." A recent article in Time magazine entitled "A Monk's Struggle" details the Dalai Lama's life and his current struggles to free his government from Chinese rule. Though he he has campaigned the world over and is a popular dignitary at universities, capitols, conferences, and celebrations, he hasn't managed to make significant progress in the past 50 years – "98% of Tibetans have no access to their leader and are denied the most basic of freedoms."
To analyze the Dalai Lama's philosophy and strategy is to explore the fundamental difference between pacifism and nonviolence. Both pacifism and nonviolence are based on the same idea of interconnectedness. "China and Tibet will long be geographic neighbors," the Dalai Lama intimates, "so for Tibetans to think of the Chinese as their enemies – or vice versa – is to say they will long be surrounded by enemies. Better by far to expunge the notion of "enmities" that the mind has created" (Iyer, Pico. "A Monk's Struggle, p. 48). A Hindu leader in the country which now protects the Dalai Lama once phrased this same idea by saying, "In the dictionary of the non-violent there is no such word as an external enemy. But even for the supposed enemy he will have nothing but compassion in his heart" [Gandhi, Mohandas. Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha)]. An ocean away from both these men, a young pastor was preaching much the same idea around 1959, the year the Dalai Lama was first exiled. He said, "We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly" (King, Martin Luther. Why We Can't Wait).
Although based on the same idea of life's interconnectedness, there is a world of difference between a Satyagrahi and a pacifist. A pacifist looks at the idea of human interconnectedness and concludes that nothing he/she can do could better the situation. The choice of a pacifist is to withdraw support from such a system, hoping that their single vote will eventually cause the aggressor or oppressor to yield to reason. However, the pacifists' viewpoint does not take life's "network of mutuality" to its natural conclusion. If all life is connected, then "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere;" the oppressor is living in an unjust world every bit as much as the oppressed. Gandhi maintains that a victory for Justice is a victory for everyone involved, though at first the oppressor might not view it as such. A pacifist, then, sees the interconnectedness of life and asserts that he/she must remove themselves from the circle of action; the nonviolent Satyagrahi sees the interconnectedness and realizes that he/she must impact Justice for the good of the world.
Pacifism has long been attacked as "passivism," and too often nonviolence has been lumped in as well because of its similar aversion to violence. Nonviolence, however, is a pro-active response rather than an acquiescence. Nonviolence is diametrically difference than "not violence" – it chooses pro-active methods such as boycotts, sit-ins, marches, freedom rides, etc, to prick the conscience of its oppressor and anyone watching. There is nothing passive about nonviolence.
As Dr. King wrote in Why We Can't Wait, "Fortunately, history does not pose problems without eventually producing solutions….Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement – not replace – the process of change through legal recourse. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force…" (36) The beauty of nonviolence is that it offers a a third way; instead of self-defeating violence or an acquiescence condoning evil and injustice, nonviolence offers a way to save the oppressed from cynicism or inaction and provides a means for redemption for the oppressor. I pray, indeed the whole world prays, that Tibetans and other oppressed peoples throughout the world will be able to bring about Justice through positive, nonviolent means; the Justice of us all depends on their choice today.
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Unjust Laws Create Both Criminals and Victims
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the words of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality." (Why We Can't Wait 82)
Martin Luther King's differentiation of just and unjust laws was used in the civil rights movement to condone the breaking of Jim Crow laws which were perpetuating immoral segregation. Our nation's current immigration laws, which themselves hinder real integration for at least 4% of our resident population. Just as in the civil rights movement and today's unresponsive immigration laws, unjust legislation creates criminals out of moral men and women.
Another important distinction, however, is that unjust laws create victims and victimizers. With more than 12 million people currently living on the other side of our nation's immigration laws, more than half of whom have just overstayed visas, corruption and victimization are rampant. A New York Times article which ran yesterday detailed the sad story of several women who have been subjected to rape and sexual assault in hopes of procuring the ever-elusive Green Card. Nina Bernstein writes, "..it raises broader questions about the system's vulnerability to corruption at a time when millions of noncitizens live in a kind of legal no-man's land, increasingly fearful of seeking the law's protection." (Bernstein, Nina "An Agent, A Green Card, and a Demand for Sex" New York Times: Mar. 21, 2008. ) The chilling reality is that these sobering tales of corruption in low-level immigration positions belie the thousands and potentially millions of similar stories where people without rights, recourse, and protection of the law are taken advantage of by citizens, most of whom are legal through no merit beyond their birthplace.
Gone unchecked, this long victimization of immigrants has been below the national radar. With nativists calling for massive deportation, which would run upwards of $94 billion and shock jocks emphasizing the few extralegal residents who break other laws, the American public has been unaware of the power game going on in immigration agencies, businesses which hire undocumented workers, and in the hearts of normal people who are tempted to profit from the precarious position of these extralegal residents. Bernstein notes that,
Money, not sex, is the more common currency of corruption in immigration, but according to Congressional testimony in 2006 by Michael Maxwell, former director of the agency's internal investigations, more than 3,000 backlogged complaints of employee misconduct had gone uninvestigated for lack of staff, including 528 involving criminal allegations. (Bernstein, Nina "An Agent, A Green Card, and a Demand for Sex" New York Times: Mar. 21, 2008. )
Because unjust laws fly in the face of a higher law, they make a mockery of the Justice which laws are designed to approximate. As a result, the "criminals" created by unjust laws become helpless victims and law-abiding citizens are tempted to use the law to their advantage. Victimized and victim become dehumanized because, as Dr. King stated, unjust laws degrade human personality and make us tend toward the worst in human potential.
At the risk of alienating some of my Christian brothers and sisters, the parallels between abortion legislation and immigration legislation are haunting and worthy of note. There are two reasons why many Christians, like the revered evangelical author Jim Wallis, are opposed to absolutely overturning Roe v. Wade: 1.) because when abortion becomes illegal, unsafe, makeshift clinics would instantly pop up and endanger the lives of thousands of women; 2.) to ban abortion while not simultaneously increasing welfare and child-care programs would be to sentence these children and their mothers to a bleak future. The main problem with overturning Roe v. Wade, then, would be the resulting victims and victimizers. Jim Wallis, along with many Christians, advocate a pro-life instead of pro-birth stance, by trying to rid the underlying causes of abortion. A simple scan of countries where abortion is illegal, such as Mexico, shows that instead of ending abortion these laws simply mar human rights by making the practice more dangerous and lethal.
In much the same way, unjust immigration laws like a quota system based on national origin and a lottery system based on mere chance create victims and victimizers. Our country must strive for comprehensive immigration reform so that our laws uplift human personality by granting immigrants and their native neighbors every opportunity to realize their full potential.
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A Strange Saint Patrick's Day
This St. Patrick's Day is markedly different than all others past. I came to school today not clad in traditional green, but wearing overalls and a plain white t-shirt. Ringing in my ears were not the Gaelic jigs and Celtic reels but rather the worker chants and the pro-immigrant songs we sang over the past nine days' march from Roma to Brownsville. I thought less today about the military Molly Maguire's and their violent fight for worker's rights and instead meditated on Cesar Chavez's fasts for his people and Martin Luther King's words of empowerment and hope. Today was less about nationalism and more about opposing nativism, less about drinking beer and more about living in such a way as to forward the cause of the immigrant, wherever he or she may originate.
My great-great grandparents came from County Mayo, Sligo, and County Cork. They came to escape the ravages of the potato blight and the resulting famines. They came seeking a better life, and they found it buried deep in the coal mines of Pennsylvania. Towns like Carbondale and Mauch Chunk welcomed them and buried them in their strip-mined hillsides. But, as is always the case with immigrants, they managed to survive and hew out a life for themselves in this America they helped create.
It was their backs that fed coal into the iron-horses which shrank this vast country into a two-day trip. It was their leadership and collective bargaining powers which scared groups like the Know-Nothings, the first political party formed with the aim of opposing a specific immigrant group. They were able to overcome religious persecution, employer discrimination, and widespread xenophobia to become rightful heirs of the American dream.
This past week, walking alongside many Mexicans and Mexican-Americans, I was reminded of the Batalia de San Patricio, the group of Irish soldiers who defected to the Mexican Army during the Mexican-American War. There was and is so many similarities between those Irish immigrants of yesteryear and the immigrants of today. Both groups rely heavily on their faith in a God who champions the cause of the poor and the sojourner. Both of these immigrants focus on family values and a strong work ethic. Both the Irish of the late 1800s and the Mexicans of the early 21st century are immigrant groups which are being slandered for their desire to come to this land for a better life. News about both of these groups has centered on an "invasion" or any number of natural disaster metaphors such as "flood of immigrants," "drain on the economy," and "wave after wave of workers." None of these nativist metaphors are new – no, they have been around since people first started emigrating to new lands. It is this brand of hateful rhetoric that spurred the command in Leviticus 19:34, "The stranger who sojourns with you shall be as the native among you, and you shall love the stranger as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt."
As I teach my class today, I am standing in front of them not as a college graduate, a son of Pennsylvania, a Texas-certified teacher, or a social activist. I stand before them in overalls and my walking shoes as the son of immigrants. There is a solidarity here which we must not deny. I do not believe in otherness; if we believe that every man, woman, and child bears the indelible image of God and the spark of the divine, we can never separate ourselves from one another. We are inextricably caught up in an "inescapable network of mutuality, tied up in a single garment of destiny," and that means that "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." As King also stated, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter;" this happens for the sheer fact that in not speaking up for the rights of others we are not speaking up for the rights of ourselves and future generations.
To all those immigrants, past, present and future, I impart this traditional Irish blessing: "Céad míle fáilte romhat!" or "A hundred thousand welcomes to you."
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Jurgen Klopp delivers his verdict as Liverpool continue Premier League charge
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Jurgen Klopp admitted his side found it hard at Selhurst Park but was delighted as the Reds earned a hard-fought victory against Crystal Palace.
The Reds maintained an eight-point lead at the top of the Premier League table after scoring late to secure a 2-1 win against Roy Hodgson's side.
Sadio Mane gave Liverpool the lead early in the second half before Wilfried Zaha equalised for the hosts inside the closing ten minutes.
However, the Reds responded - as they have done on numerous occasions - to earn all three points as Roberto Firmino fired home from close-range to give Liverpool the lead.
Klopp admitted it was a difficult afternoon for the Reds, but insisted his side will have games like these in the race for the Premier League title.
"Do I wish it was slightly easier for us? Yes. But we have to fight for these things," Klopp told the BBC after the game.
"The start was good and then not so good. We weren't compact so we couldn't win balls back which we usually win.
"Everyone had to run a lot to win these balls slightly deeper back, so that's how Crystal Palace got the momentum from around the 20th minute. We were in the game but there weren't too many chances, except for Bobby in the second half.
"Sadio scored and then they got their equaliser, which they didn't deserve, but then we bundled it over and scored another so it's all good.
"It was an interesting game from a tactical point of view. In the end, we won it and it's okay if isn't [it wasn't convincing].
"The rhythm wasn't there, we had seven or eight different ideas ahead of the game and then had to fit it all in during one training session."
"You can't have a run like the boys have if you only win with brilliant performances."
Liverpool face Napoli in the Champions League on Wednesday night as they look to consolidate their position in Group E.
Explore: Crystal Palace | Jurgen Klopp | Napoli | Roberto Firmino | Sadio Mane


HELSINKI (AP) — Winters in Finland are often frigid but meteorologists say the Nordic nation's Lapland region has produced Europe's coldest temperature this winter at minus 38.7 degrees Celsius (minus 37.7 degrees Fahrenheit).
Meteorologist Ari-Juhani Punkka from the Finnish Meteorological Institute told Finnish public broadcaster YLE on Sunday that Finland and northeastern Europe were now hosting the continent's coldest air masses, ones that "are Arctic in nature."
This winter's coldest temperature in Europe outside of Russia was measured early Sunday in the Sodankyla municipality, 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of the Arctic Circle.
Frigid temperatures are common in Lapland, the northernmost part of Finland, which covers one-third of the nation's land mass and is a popular tourist destination.


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Private parties hosted in back yards.
In taverns to an audience of ski buffs.
The festival gathering in Glouster when the resturant and bar, Latitude 43, sponsored a tent for the Saint Peter's Fiesta.
Early Thursday night at Latitude 43, for the St. Peter's Fiesta.


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package com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.json;

import com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.AbstractDriver;
import com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.HierarchicalStreamReader;
import com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.HierarchicalStreamWriter;
import com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.StreamException;
import com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.naming.NameCoder;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.io.Writer;
import java.net.URL;

/**
 * A driver for JSON that writes optimized JSON format, but is not able to deserialize the result.
 *
 * @author Paul Hammant
 * @since 1.2
 */
public class JsonHierarchicalStreamDriver extends AbstractDriver {

    /**
     * Construct a JsonHierarchicalStreamDriver.
     */
    public JsonHierarchicalStreamDriver() {
        super();
    }

    /**
     * Construct a JsonHierarchicalStreamDriver with name coding.
     *
     * @param nameCoder the coder to encode and decode the JSON labels.
     * @since 1.4.2
     */
    public JsonHierarchicalStreamDriver(NameCoder nameCoder) {
        super(nameCoder);
    }

    public HierarchicalStreamReader createReader(Reader in) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("The JsonHierarchicalStreamDriver can only write JSON");
    }

    public HierarchicalStreamReader createReader(InputStream in) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("The JsonHierarchicalStreamDriver can only write JSON");
    }

    public HierarchicalStreamReader createReader(URL in) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("The JsonHierarchicalStreamDriver can only write JSON");
    }

    public HierarchicalStreamReader createReader(File in) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("The JsonHierarchicalStreamDriver can only write JSON");
    }

    /**
     * Create a HierarchicalStreamWriter that writes JSON.
     */
    public HierarchicalStreamWriter createWriter(Writer out) {
        return new JsonWriter(out);
    }

    public HierarchicalStreamWriter createWriter(OutputStream out) {
        try {
            // JSON spec requires UTF-8
            return createWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(out, "UTF-8"));
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            throw new StreamException(e);
        }
    }

}


Welcome back – and good luck both of you with GFBTS!
Thanks Alex, I hope you are well!
Best wishes to you both. What is it they say; two heads and all that. Glad to see GFBTS back on the horizon!
Thanks David, hope all is well with you. I miss eating your lovely bread at The Galley!
Great to read your latest post and catch up on your news.
Since leaving Plymouth over two years ago and moving to Bristol things on the restaurant scene there certainly seem to have improved. Bristol is also great and eating out is nothing like the problem it was when I was first diagnosed as being Coeliac approx 12 years ago. We have travelled quite a bit this year and have found it so much easier to dine out safely in France, Italy, Spain and Greece.
Good luck with blog and hope job continues to go well.
Welcome back! Glad you're settled in to the new job ok and I look forward to reading (both of) your posts on this blog!
Thanks Sian. Good to hear from you, hope you are well!


The IV Workshop Digital Design Processes is associated with the seminar Formal and Semi-Formal Methods in Architecture, that will be held in Oporto in May.
The workshop by X-Ref and OPO'Lab will be held during the Easter holidays. In this edition, the challenge is to rethink a recurrent topic of debate in Oporto, the connection between the two margins of the Douro River. The workshop Parametric Bridge will explore parametric digital techniques and digital fabrication, using Rhino and Grasshopper to design an architectural solution for a pedestrian bridge.


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Q: Jquery get url for "href", from an external file I want to load an url from an external file, for an attribute "href". My code :
var url = $("file.php div#data").html()

$("a#myLink").attr('href',url);

This doesn't work. Why ? Should I use ".load" ? ".ajax" ? Thanks.

A: You can do it with several AJAX functions, like:
$.ajax('file.php').done(function(e) {
    $('a#myLink').attr('href', e);
});

A: You need to use AJAX to load the file. However, it might be easier to use PHP to output the JS for the link, seeing as JavaScript without AJAX can't access files (due to the JS engine's security settings).
var txtFile = new XMLHttpRequest();
txtFile.open("GET", "http://my.remote.url/myremotefile.txt", true);
txtFile.onreadystatechange = function() {
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    if (txtFile.status === 200) {  // Makes sure it's found the file.
      allText = txtFile.responseText;
      lines = txtFile.responseText.split("\n"); // Will separate each line into an array
    }
  }
}
txtFile.send(null);
Answer reproduced from https://stackoverflow.com/a/5437603/2225787

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# Cloud Debug for Compute Engine sample
### cloud-debugger-gce-java-sample
This sample shows how to add the ability to debug your Java application running on [Google Compute Engine](https://cloud.google.com/compute/).  It is based on the [Spark Java](http://sparkjava.com/) - a tiny Sinatra inspired framework for creating web applications in Java 8.

This application just listens on port 8080 for requests and says "hello world" with a counter.  You can ask that a [Cloud Debugger](cloud.google.com/tools/cloud-debugger) snapshot be generated on any line.

### Preperation

1. Download & install the [Cloud SDK](https://cloud.google.com/sdk/)

1. Create a project (if you don't have one already) using the [Developers Console](https://cloud.google.com/console).
1. If you haven't already, use:

    `$ gcloud init`

1. Create a bucket (**Storage** > **Cloud Storage** > **Browser** > **Create bucket**)
or using the command line:

    `$ gsutil mb <bucketName>`

1. Connect with your [Cloud Source Repository](https://cloud.google.com/tools/cloud-repositories/docs/) using:

    `$ gcloud beta source repos clone default <directoryName>`

1. Copy this project, skiping any .git files by using:

    `rsync -av --exclude=".*" <src> <directoryName>`
1. go into your directory:

    `$ cd <directoryName>`

## Deploying

1. Commit and push the project to the Source Repository:

    `$ git add *`

    `$ git commit -m 'Initial Commit'`

    `$ git push origin master`

1. Build the project

    `$ mvn package -Dbucket=<bucketName>`

In addition to the normal compiling of classes and building of jars, we add to the **process-resources** phase the following:

`gcloud app gen-repo-info-file -\-output-file=target/project-1.0-SNAPSHOT/WEB-INF/classes/source-context.json`

Which helps tell the Cloud Debugger which version of your source code to associate with this execution as you can have many.

1. Deploy your application using:

    `$ mvn deploy -Dbucket=<bucketName>`

Deploy will first copy the startup script and the jar to the bucket using `gsutil`.  Then it will create a new instance using:

`gcloud compute instances create cdb --image debian-8 --metadata startup-script-url=gs://bucket/start.sh,my-bucket=gs://bucket  --scopes cloud-platform`

For this application, it is important that we use debian-8 (Jessie) as it will allow us to use Java 8 easily.

The startup script installs the Java 8 open jdk, uses update-alternatives to tell the system to default to Java 8 and gets a copy of the jar from the bucket.

The next steps are to setup the Cloud Debugger.  The first two lines get the latest version of the debugger bootstrap script and make it executable.

`wget -q https://storage.googleapis.com/cloud-debugger/compute-java/format_env_gce.sh`
`chmod +x format_env_gce.sh`

This next line executes that script passing a copy of the jar, and the return Java command line arguments

    CDBG_ARGS="$( sudo ./format_env_gce.sh --app_class_path=hellosparky-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar )"

Finally we startup the code using, it will listen on port 8080:

    java ${CDBG_ARGS} -cp sparky/hellosparky-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar com.example.hellosparky.App

## Run Locally

    java -cp target/hellosparky-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar com.example.hellosparky.App

1. Visit the application at [http://localhost:8080](http://localhost:8080).

## Contributing changes

* See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)

## Licensing

* See [LICENSE](LICENSE)


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Home Art & Culture An American Season at Maison Européenne de la Photographie
An American Season at Maison Européenne de la Photographie
Andres Serrano, Harry Callahan, Diana Michener and other American photographers
Runs through January 29, 2017
Urban Mishmash
France, 1958 © The Estate of Harry Callahan / Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York Collection Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris - Don de l'auteur
It happens to be An American Season at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (MEP) this winter. With four photo exhibitions centred around the work of American photographers, here are some excellent reasons to visit MEP this January:
Family Pictures from the MEP's Collections
Exploring the themes of family, genealogy and identity in American photography, this collective exhibition presents intimate works by some of the finest American photographers – Richard Avedon, Harry Callahan, Elliot Erwitt, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Emmet Gowin, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Nicholas Nixon and W Eugene Smith. The photographs selected for the exhibition do not fit the traditional definition of 'family pictures'. Rather, these are aesthetic representations of the complex interactions between the photographers and those close to them.
Nicholas Nixon, The Brown Sisters, 1986. © Nicholas Nixon, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Collection Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
For instance, Harry Callahan photographed his wife, Eleanor, for 50 years, in the intimacy of their home and in public, dressed and naked, in a manner that is at the same time distant and personal. Nicholas Nixon is fascinated by the bonds that unite his wife Bebe and her three younger sisters, Heather, Mimi and Laurie. Each summer since 1975, he photographs them side by side but always in the same order, creating a remarkable series of deeply personal portraits.
Harry Callahan: French Archives, Aix-en-Provence 1957-1958
Harry Callahan lived in Aix-en-Provence between September 1957-1958, having come to France on a sabbatical from his position as the head of photography at Chicago's Institute of Design. MEP's exhibition French Archives follows a recent donation of 130 original prints from this period as selected by the artist under the same title. His photographs are experimental, particularly those of his wife Eleanor double exposed upon scenes of a field. His other photographs explore light and shadow and details in everyday design are mesmerising. This one is a beautiful exhibition, and Callahan's photo archive is whimsical poetry.
Eleanor, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1958. © The Estate of Harry Callahan / Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York. Collection Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris – Don de l'auteur
Compared to Henry Callahan's serene work, Andres Serrano's portraits are unsettling and at times, shocking. The exhibition at Maison Européenne de la Photographie presents an overview of his work over the last two decades. First in the show is a selection of photographs from his America series which he conceptualised in the aftermath of the 9/11 tragedy. The series consists of some 100 portraits of Americans from all walks of life – firefighters, policemen, soldiers, doctors, clowns, migrant workers, and celebrities like Yoko Ono, Alec Baldwin, Snoop Dogg and Anna Nicole Smith to name a few. Next is The Klan – a series of striking portraits of Ku Klux Klan members, followed by selected works from The Interpretation of Dreams, portraits from Native Americans and the beautiful photographs from the Cuba series.
Juana Rios Rios, "Juana de Cubana", Fortune Teller (Cuba), 2012. © Andres Serrano, courtesy Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris/Bruxelles
The second part of the Andres Serrano exhibition is built around his work with homeless people in New York and Brussels – Signs of the Times, Residents of New York and Denizens of Brussels – some of them presented here for the first time.
Diana Michener: Anima, Animals
The fourth exhibition, Anima, Animals by Diana Michener is a study of animals in captivity. Michener first photographed rhinos, elephants and antelopes kept in a local zoo during a trip to India. She followed it with photographs in the Jardin des Plantes of Paris, then in various other towns in Europe and the United States. Even though the artist photographs these animals with a certain dignity and subtlety, their photographs and their fate as captive prisoners for human satiation remain heart-breaking.
© Diana Michener
An American Season, on view until January 29, 2017 at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, 5/7 Rue de Fourcy – 75004 Paris – Admission €8 – €4.5 or free under certain conditions)
November 9, 2016 to January 29, 2017
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An American Season
With An American Season, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris presents the grand portraits by Andres Serrano, the French Archives of Harry Callahan, the unsettling photographs of captive animals by Diana Michener, as well as a collective exhibition of legendary American photographers, Family Pictures, exploring the themes of family, identity and genealogy.
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The truth of the catastrophe was buried just like this. The history textbook that often talked about the catastrophe of the middle of last century would start to wantonly praise the doomsday heroes while completely ignoring the cause of the catastrophe.
The seven ancient Wu aristocratic families of China was established by the seven greatest heroes of China of that time. Because of this catastrophe, the juniors of the ancient Wu aristocratic families all seeped into integral parts of the country, playing more and more important roles.
Actually, besides the cause of the catastrophe, there's another question. How was the catastrophe ended?
The history book argued that the doomsday heroes led humanity through 20 years of fighting before finally holding on to their position and defeating the catastrophe and saving mankind.
But if one thought carefully, even if this group of doomsday heroes was formidable like Spiderman, could they play such a big role in the catastrophe?
Facing the various biological variants, even the army was helpless against them. Just take the small mosquito for example. To go against this mosquito, even if you're Spiderman then so what, can you really be like a spider and spin the web to catch mosquito?
Then when the so-called doomsday heroes leading humanity to defeat the catastrophe, how was the process of saving it? How big was the role of ancient Wu?
What's the background of the seven big ancient Wu aristocratic families? What role did they exactly played in the catastrophe? Why did they gain fame and fortune after the catastrophe?
Everything was a mystery to Zhou Jian.
"It's my brother." Wen Ren Hui Yin's voice was somewhat low. There's a little sobbing there.
Zhou Jian was slightly surprised for a moment. Did she cry? "What's the matter? Did anything happened?" He thought back to several days ago in the game when Wen Ren Ze unexpectedly received a call and hurriedly logged off the game. Perhaps, his matter of procuring the variant anaconda's gallbladder was related to the phone call.
"My aunt was infected with spotted heat sores……" Wen Ren Hui Yin said this and tears began piling up in her eyes. She grew up with her aunt since childhood. This aunt was just like her own mother.
Wen Ren Hui Yin's mother died early, and her father, Wen Ren Xiao Long rebelled from the family. Hence, Wen Ren Hui Yin was placed under the care of her uncle, Wen Ren Bo Da's family. That's why her relationship with her aunt was quite deep.
"Spotted heat sores….." Zhou Jian didn't know what disease this was. On one side he was talking on the phone, and on the other he was making a search on the web. After seeing the introduction to this disease and the few pictures of this sickness, Zhou Jian sucked in a breath of cold air.
If could be described in four words, then it's too horrible to look at.
The spotted heat sore was caused by the spotted heat sore virus infection. This virus was something that came out of the last century catastrophe. Its characteristic was to invade the protein, and the human immune system was helpless against this virus.
The patient who was infected with this spotted heat sores would initially be covered over the whole body with red sores. In two months, those red spots would swell and broke, causing the skin to fester. If an effective treatment couldn't be obtained, then within three months, the patient would become a pool of rotten flesh and blood. Really tragic.
The patient would generally choose to have euthanasia within two months. After which, the body would be completely burned in the incinerator to completely destroy it. Up till now, the spotted heat sores was already quite rare, and only one small part of the virus survived in the form of virus crystal in the soil and water. Those who were infected with this could only blame it on bad luck.
The spotted heat sore was classified as heat poison. (tl: how to describe this, it's more prevalent in Chinese medicine. Like the yin and yang concept. Too much heat or cold in the body is bad. Here, it's too much heat.) The treatment for it was to have the cold biological variant blood transfused into the body, and relied on the variant's antibodies to kill off the virus. There're some side effects from this treatment but of course, this was better than having the whole body rotted away.
Those variants with this type of cold antibody were only discovered in three types at present. The anaconda variant and purple dragon lizard in the Brazilian rainforest and the blue shark variant in the Atlantic Ocean.
There's no need to think about the blue shark variant, it vanished when the catastrophe ended. And there're not many anaconda variants and purple dragon lizards remaining. Furthermore, when these two variants died, their blood would quickly congeal and expired. If one wanted to inject the blood, then it must be done within 20 minutes for it to be alright. But these two lived in the South American jungle. Let alone transporting to China, even if it's shipped out of the South American jungle to the nearest hospital, it would take more than 20 minutes. Therefore, it's basically impossible.
Finally, there's only one method left, and that was to have the anaconda variant's gallbladder. This thing had a similar effect as the blood of the anaconda variant. Furthermore, the most important thing was that it's a bit looser in terms of the time limit. It's still effective to use the gallbladder within seven days once it's taken out. Therefore, using the anaconda variant's gallbladder was the spotted heat sore only effective medicine.
Currently, the hunters in the jungles of Brazil and Africa depended on capturing and killing these variant monsters. They obtained the active ingredients in the body for a living. Basically, the bounty hunters in this line had their heads on their belt. Living from birth to death was just but a blink of an eye.
"Already posted. Brother put out 1 million dollars as a reward and had sent it out to every Bounty Hunter Association and other mercenary associations. But those who would take the mission weren't much." Wen Ren Hui Yin's voice was full of anxiety.
Actually, the market price for this anaconda variant's gallbladder was very hard to put at because the last time this thing appeared on record was very many years ago.
As the catastrophe ended, the large variants also got fewer and fewer. Furthermore, they're hidden deep within the jungle. To penetrate the Amazon forest would need to fight tooth and nail. Generally, the jungle hunters weren't willing to take this risk. Perhaps those jungle hunters who took on the mission also held a mentality of testing their luck. To expect the chances of them to kill the anaconda variant was really slim.
"He'd inform brother to not to have too much hope. Three years ago, the grandson of the Italian Mafia suffered from the star spot disease and needed the venom of the variant monitor lizard in Amazon. The result was a failure." Wen Ren Hui Yin sighed. Although their family was huge but compared to the Italian Mafia, it's still a little worse off. Furthermore, the Italian Mafia itself had its own armed forces, but her own family just had money, and couldn't use any armed forces.


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Differential suppression of damping-off caused by Pythium aphanidermatum, P. irregulare, and P. myriotylum in Composts at different temperatures
בן-יפת, יפת
Ben-Yephet, Y., Department of Plant Pathology, Volcani Ctr. Inst. of Plant Protect., Bet-Dagan, Israel
Nelson, E.B., Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
The suppressiveness of compost amendments to pre-emergence damping-off of cucumber incited by isolates of Pythium aphanidermatum, P. myriotylum, and P. irregulare was studied. Growth chamber experiments were designed to examine the effects of temperature (20, 24, 28, and 32°C), compost type (municipal biosolids [MC] and leaves [LC]), and compost dose (40, 80, 160, and 320 mg/cm3) on suppression of damping-off (i.e., increase in seedling stands) caused by different Pythium isolates obtained from different hosts. In dose-response experiments, LC was suppressive at dosage rates ≥80 mg compost/cm3 of sand, whereas MC was suppressive at rates ≥40 mg/cm3. Damping-off severity induced by each of the three Pythium spp. was temperature-dependent. For example, P. aphanidermatum and P. myriotylum caused damping-off at each of the four temperatures tested, whereas P. irregulare caused disease only at 20 and 24°C. MC was suppressive to P. aphanidermatum at 20 and 24°C, whereas LC was suppressive at 28 and 32°C. Both composts significantly suppressed damping-off caused by P. irregulare at 20°C (85% suppression in MC and 60% suppression in LC) and at 24°C (approximately 60% suppression in both composts), and by P. myriotylum at all temperatures tested. In experiments with a variable temperature cycle (32°C for 14 h, day and 22°C for 10 h, night), only P. aphanidermatum and P. myriotylum caused damping-off of cucumber seedlings. Under these conditions, LC significantly suppressed damping-off caused by P. aphanidermatum (20% suppression) or P. myriotylum (37% suppression) but MC was not suppressive. In experiments where the two composts were mixed, a significant negative interaction between the two composts was observed for the suppression of P. myriotylum and P. irregulare at 20°C and of P. irregulare at 24°C, but not for P. aphanidermatum at any of the tested temperatures. There was no difference in aggressiveness among isolates within each of the three Pythium spp., regardless of their host origin. However, a significant variation in suppressiveness of LC was observed among isolates of P. aphanidermatum (11 isolates) derived from the same host, but not for P. irregulare (9 isolates) or P. myriotylum (7 isolates).
Disease suppression
Pythium aphanidermatum
Pythium irregulare
Suppression of Pythium aphanidermatum damping-off in container media containing composted liquorice roots
Composting of agricultural wastes for their use as container media: effect of heat treatments on suppression of Pythium aphanidermatum and microbial activities in substrates containing compost
Methods for determining Pythium suppression in container media
Biological control effects of a new isolate of Trichoderma harzianum on Pythium aphanidermatum
Possible role of competition for nutrients in biocontrol of Pythium damping-off by bacteria
Biochar as a management tool for soilborne diseases affecting early stage nursery seedling production


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