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Neither patria nor muerte. Will Russian emigration repeat the fate of Cuban emigrants?
Denis Bilunov
For sixty years, all new generations of Cuban immigrants have fled the communist regime to the United States. They have not dissolved into American society, yet they have become a visible force inside it. All these years Cuban immigrants have dreamed of returning home to build a new Cuba, but so far it has been impossible.
Escape from Castro
Faces of the Diaspora
Sixty Years of Waiting
About half a century ago the American economist Albert Hirschman wrote a book called "Exit, Voice, and Loyalty", but its meaning is more accurately translated as "exit, protest and loyalty." Hirschman's triad is often referred to when it comes to emigration for political reasons. As one can easily guess, in this model, "departure" contrasts with "protest," which is extremely relevant today when Russians are actively "voting with their feet" against the Kremlin regime and the war. It is not uncommon for participants in today's online polemics to feel that something exceptional is happening to all of us. Meanwhile, there are many examples of such "exoduses" in history, and one of the most obvious for Hirschman when he wrote his book was the flight of Cubans from the Castro regime.
Between 1.5 million and 2 million Cubans (i.e. 15-17% of their total number in the world) live in the United States, well over half of them in Florida, where they are the largest ethnic group in some of the cities, most notably Miami. Many of them are second or even third generation U.S. citizens. The Cuban community is very influential and plays an independent role in U.S. domestic politics, not to mention its star representatives, such as Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.
Although some Cubans moved to the US in search of a better life long before the 1959 revolution, the diaspora in Florida grew to its current size and prominence after Fidel Castro came to power. Some of the emigrants of the first post-revolutionary wave were wealthy people, who managed to partially monetize their assets before nationalization, and open businesses in the new place. But the bulk of them had to start almost from scratch. For example, Jorge Mas Canosa, later a millionaire and chief lobbyist for the U.S. hardline vis-à-vis Castro regime, made his living washing dishes and delivering milk in the first months after leaving Cuba. Moreover, racial discrimination was still rife in Miami, as it was in other Southern cities, and it was common to see signs that said "no blacks or Cubans".
On the other hand, U.S. authorities were accommodating from the beginning: Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson had successively passed several laws that allowed Cubans to legalize themselves relatively quickly. Later in the history there were many dramatic twists and turns: Castro almost blocked departures, then made attempts to send criminals and the mentally ill to the United States, and the Americans tightened the entry rules - but somehow, after 1959, compared to other Latin Americans, Cubans always had more opportunities to emigrate to the United States. The flow never waned, as reflected, for example, in such iconic novels as Wendy Guerra's "Everybody Leaves" and Zoe Valdes' "Café Nostalgia."
In the early years, Florida Cubans seriously hoped for a quick return - and although the chances of toppling Fidel plummeted after the failed counterrevolutionary landing in Cochinos Bay (1961), the phrase "next year in Havana" entered the lexicon of emigrants firmly and permanently. Most of them have friends and relatives in Cuba, keep in touch with them, send them money, medicine, etc., help them travel abroad - and still expect to return to Cuba and restore democracy sooner or later.
After the revolution, former Castro associates, who for various reasons had become disillusioned with their leader, began joining the emigrants. The most famous episode of this exodus was the 1987 escape of Brigadier General Rafael del Pino, the hero of the Battle of Playa Girón and famed commander of the Cuban Air Force during the Angola War. Del Pino brought his family to a military airfield, put them in a Cessna plane, got behind the wheel and flew toward the United States, where he landed safely in Key West.
Less fortunate was Pedro Fuentes-Cid, a revolutionary who actively supported Fidel against the pro-American dictator Batista, but did not forgive his turn toward communism and the USSR. In early 1961, he and his associates began to prepare for an armed attack against Castro, but their plan was exposed. Fuentes was arrested and sentenced to 60 years in prison. As he himself told The Insider, it was a great relief because he expected to be shot.
Weapons seized by the authorities from Fuentes-Cid's group (photo from his personal archive)
It was a miracle that Fuentes survived the Cuban camps, spending 16 years in hard labor, but then he was paroled and after some time, with great difficulty, made his way through Venezuela to the United States, where his wife and son, whom he had not seen until then, were waiting for him. In Florida, Fuentes received a law degree and opened a private practice. He now has many grandchildren and great-grandchildren fully integrated into American life, but all of them, he said, have not given up hope of returning to Cuba.
At 83, Pedro Fuentes-Cid is socially active, active on social media, and has supported the Ukrainian struggle since the first days of the invasion
With a high level of politicization, the Cuban diaspora does not have one leading organization or unquestioned opinion leaders. The first-wave emigrants and their children are relatively influential: usually they are successful economically and historically affiliated with the U.S. Republican Party. In the 1980s, the Cuban-American National Foundation (CANF), created by the aforementioned Mas Canosa, played a significant role, but since his death in 1997, Fuentes believes the organization has significantly lost ground. In his opinion, the new leader of the nation will be the nominee of the protesting people in Cuba itself. In recent years, however, Rosa Maria Paya, 33, daughter of famed Cuban dissident Osvaldo Paya, who died in what may have been a staged car accident in 2012, has come to the fore. After her father's death, Rosa Maria and her mother moved to the United States, though Paya still visits Cuba from time to time. She is now one of the most prominent speakers in the Cuban diaspora, her organization Cuba Decide ("Cuba Decides") advocating for a national referendum on the restoration of a multi-party system and the rule of law.
Rosa Maria Paya in exile continues the cause of her dissident father who died in 2012
So far, the Communist regime has managed to show amazing resilience. Castro was able to manage a major crisis after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of Soviet aid. In 2008 he handed the reins over to his brother Raul because of illness. After Fidel's death in 2016, many hoped for change, especially after Miguel Diaz-Canel, a relatively young successor to the Castro brothers, became president in 2019. But Diaz-Canel continued the old policies with all the charms of an administrative communist economy - shortages of goods, poverty, and repression. In July 2021, a wave of mass protests swept across Cuba, triggered by food and medicine shortages caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Nothing like that had happened on the island for years, but the authorities brutally suppressed the riots, killing several people. The protesters' slogan Patria y Vida ("Homeland and Life"), symbolically opposed to the famous revolutionary Patria o Muerte ("Homeland or Death"), has gone viral among the Cuban diaspora - and especially among young people. An interviewee from Canada told The Insider that her daughter, who has never been to Cuba, enthusiastically participated in solidarity actions, got a Patria y Vida tattoo, and dreams of changes in her historical homeland no less than her parents.
At the same time, some Cuban immigrants - especially in Europe and Latin America - are wary of the United States. For example, The Insider's respondent in Mexico, while eagerly describing the various problems and flaws of current life in communist Cuba, expressed considerable doubt that the diaspora in Florida could influence the country's future. In his opinion, the historical guilt of the US "imperialists" towards Cuba (as towards many other Latin American countries) was too great. And now, official Washington - and therefore the Cubans who are associated with it - does not care about the problems of their southern neighbors, but only about their own interests. Of course, the regime is fueling and exploiting this anti-immigrant sentiment in every way possible.
Many people around the world, especially those who grew up in the Soviet system, are still under the charm of the romantic revolutionary images of Fidel, Che Guevara, and their associates, which is why comparisons between the Cuban dictatorship and the current Kremlin clique seem a little bit stretched to some. Meanwhile, the Cuban military intervention in Angola alone is impressive in its scope: over 13 years (1975-1988), some 370,000 Cuban soldiers and officers were there (the total strength of the Cuban army is now 50,000 men). The bloody civil war, in which Castro supported the pro-Soviet leaders Neto and Dos Santos, took the lives of many tens of thousands of Angolans. The "revolutionary aid" of Havana's Comandante left its mark also in Ethiopia and, of course, in several Latin American countries. In Cuba itself, the regime annihilated between 11,000 and 14,000 "contras," according to various estimates.
The story of the Cuban exodus to the United States is made up of the tragedies of tens of thousands of separated families, dramatic escapes with grave risks to life, the longing of the departed for a mangled homeland - a longing paradoxically replicated in new generations of emigrants - and the impressive strength of people who managed not only to preserve their collective identity in a new place, but to make it valuable to their host country. Cuban Americans have made, and continue to make, significant contributions to the economy, politics, and culture of the United States – without losing their ties to, and influence over, their historic homeland, in contrast with the Hirschman model.
Cuban Americans have made significant contributions to U.S. economics, politics, and culture
Clearly, for people who have recently left Russia, the example of 60 years of Cuban exile looks daunting. However, the likelihood of such a long-term prospect is well above zero, and even the Kremlin regime's heavy defeat in the Ukrainian war may not guarantee a return. It is worth noting that Saddam Hussein, after his complete defeat in the first Gulf War in 1991, managed to stay in power for 12 long years. Given this fact, the experience of Cuban exile, at the very least, deserves close study - and it might be a worthy model for the Russians who have left their country.
For now, however, the majority of the opposition's main speakers in the Russian segment of the Internet are consciously or intuitively focused on "Russian" politics as opposed to the "emigrant" politics that is viewed as something secondary and petty by definition. The mirage of "next year in Moscow" will not give Russian emigrants any peace for a long time to come.


More Chances to Catch Rova – Barking Legs Theater • Chattanooga, Tenn.
Rova's performance was everything we'd hoped for and more. Absolutely exquisite. And the worst of the storm held off until after the show, but of course it kept folks away in droves. If you're going to Big Ears, be sure to catch one of their two performances. If you're not going to Big Ears, catch them tonight in Athens (GA) or tomorrow in Atlanta. If none of the above… well, maybe it won't be 20 years until they get back this way again.


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Mondo magazines
Tibor Kalman
Some of the sharpest and most influential graphic design ideas come from the new magazines. Eye thumbs the pages of the international press and takes a close look at three of the most consistently creative titles: i-D, Interview, and Beach Culture
'Magazines today are timid. They have no self-confidence.'
'I think that art directors today have too much impact … Editors are relying on design to sell lame ideas.'
'I feel like an old fuddy-duddy talking this way, but nevertheless, there were once basic aesthetic standards for magazine design that do not exist today.'
These remarks were made by the late Cipe Pineles, Sam Antupit and Will Hopkins at a symposium organised by the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 1985. The 'golden age' of mid-century American design was long over – a victim of television, the 1970s recession, editorial caution and the publishing houses' loss of nerve – and the self-confident generalist magazine appeared to be in terminal decline. It was hardly surprising that the golden-agers should yearn for the days when the editorial well was sacrosanct and the covers provided a monthly canvas for their surrealistic rebus pictures. But if they were looking for evidence of revival at their old companies – at Hearst and Condé Nast – they were certainly looking in the wrong place. For even as they voiced their misgivings it was becoming apparent that magazine design was not in fact dying at all. It was flourishing in a different area – in the small-scale publications which were the primary forum for the youth culture interests of music, fashion, art and sport.
In the 1980s, at least four magazines developed a vision of editorial content and design sufficiently cohesive to justify the description 'great': The Face, i-D, Spy and the Italian edition of Vogue (of which only the last came from an established publishing house). At the same time, culture tabloids such as Fetish, Hard Werken and Emigre helped to introduce a much freer typographic mentality. The decade saw the revival of the mens' general interest / fashion magazine: Arena in the UK, Edge, X-Men and the exquisite Piacere Rakan in Japan, Globe in France, and El Europeo in Spain. There were some bright new pictorial / feature magazines dedicated to reporting the dark, the bizarre and eccentric: Actuel in France, Tempo and Wiener in Germany, and King in Italy. The last of these, designed by Studio Sergio Sartori, was the most selfconsiously decorative. With its ornate headlines and patterned borders, King was an abrasive European example of the ostentatious post-modern styling that dominated American magazines such as Esquire, Metropolitan Home and Egg.
But these were yuppie successes: what of the increasingly austere 1990s? With the publishing industry once again in crisis, this might seem a perverse moment to celebrate magazine design. The UK and US are in recession, and in Europe and Japan growth has come to a stop (in 1990, for the first time in six years, the number of new launches in the US fell to only 536). Meanwhile, advertising revenues are plummeting, editorial budgets have been cut and paper formats have shrunk. Already the designers' magazine of 1991, Beach Culture has in only its sixth issue been reduced in size.
The result is that at the major publishing houses there is once again a moratorium on creativity. Where they cannot produce new publishing ideas, corporate publishers buy into formerly independent titles such as Details and Arena. Where there is a 'new' idea, it manifests itself in second-rate products such as Allure (US) or the British version of Mirabella. Allure, the 'beauty' magazine from Condé Nast, has an editorial and design format that appears to have been cobbled together from Looks, Actuel, Best and Prima, creating a typographic pick-and-mix of ornate serifs, gothic and typewriter faces. Mirabella has already folded, an unmourned victim of the recession. But the situation as a whole is far from depressing. A glance above or below the newsstands' prime-site shelf space reveals a wealth of imaginative magazine design created by individuals rather than committees, editors and designers rather than advertising executives and marketing departments. There are many independent publications in the fields of art, music and sport which continue to exploit the ephemeral qualities of the magazine medium to create adventurous, experimental design.
Few designers, thankfully, are listening to such critics as Joseph Giovannini, who claims in an essay against current magazine design practice that 'The style and aesthetics of a page are surreptitiously usurping the meaning traditionally posited in words and images.' According to Giovanni, magazine design 'is simply a way to structure and clarify content', but this is a much too simplistic a view of magazines as a medium. At its best, magazine design not only orders and amplifies editorial ideas, but creates them in a considered fusion of image and text.
It is already clear that different ideas about structure and style are emerging, driven by technology and by the intellectual and economic climate. Desktop publishing systems have changed not only the design of magazines, but also their economics, enabling small-circulation titles like Wire and Straight No Chaser (both about jazz) to thrive because production costs have fallen so low. Magazines like Road, Lime Lizard, Beach Culture and i-D (not new but still ahead of its time) typify the new approach to magazine design and publishing which has evolved from increased editorial specialisation.
A fondness for the oblique over the direct, for the artful reference rather than the obvious graphic pun is typical of the new magazines. Few designers are as wilful and extreme as David Carson, art director of Beach Culture, but intuition is generally preferred to the rationalism of the golden age. Typography is given rounded, biomorphic shapes, partly inspired by the revival of interest in the 1960s, partly a measure of the influence of popular culture on self-conscious, educated graphic design. Type is used semantically and figuratively as an expression of content: this is particularly evident in Tibor Kalman's designs for Interview and in Stephen Male's work for i-D.
Page structures, too, are built with great fluidity, with radical departures from the sequential three-column grid and the pyramidal hierarchy of type. The parallel page structures used by Rudy VanderLans at Emigre are finding their way into commercial publications. Lime Lizard, a British music magazine designed by Kevin Grady, takes the reader along a complex mesh of columns. At Wire in the late 1980s, Paul Elliman's refined typographic constructions contracted headline and standfirst into a single block of type, or two interlocking panels reading in parallel. These are journalistic approaches and sophisticated methods of leading the reader into an article. In a newspaper, the function is traditionally handled by the banner headline and magazines have tended to follow suit. The new magazine designers are showing that it is possible to create more subtle transitions and linkages between image, headline and story.
These aspects of the new magazines are, in general, in keeping with trends apparent in other printed media. Where magazine work differs is in the time allowed relative to the amount of design required. Magazine art directors, as a result, are less concerned with finish than with shouting out the message, and this is the great strength of the medium. The magazine business continues to exist on the edge of mainstream design – much is self-taught, there are fewer academic restraints, less concern with the superficial (sometimes, at least) and a greater openness to popular culture. This is a very good recipe for progress and invention.
Tibor Kalman's art direction of Interview is a measure of the degree to which the designer with wit can become an active participant in the editorial process, creating a visual journalism which not only projects, but also determines the content of the magazine. This process includes both the 'packaging' of otherwise routine editorial material and the production of thematic issues in which text and image are united in formal and conceptual execution. In Interview, the personality of the interviewee is expressed – critically – in the construction of pull quotes and opening spread, while visual unity is achieved by constantly repeating the shape of images in concrete typographic form. The carefully considered commentary provided by the design is achieved with a minimum of typographic variation, the maxim being that it's not the typeface you use – it's the way that you use it. Nevertheless, there are similarities between Kalman's literary approach to editorial design and that of his predecessor, Fabien Baron. Both adopted a certain theatricality played out within a sparing design system. But where Kalman attacks the reader primarily with language, Baron treated headline letterforms as an opportunity for abstract type constructions. Every article was developed as a succession of glamorous visual dramas, and was divided with extreme formalism into headline, stand-first and text spreads. The beautiful simplicity which Baron had developed in the Italian edition of Vogue was well suited to Interview's commissioned art features, and also provided the magazine with a powerful thematic glue.
i-D has always prided itself on staying one step ahead of its readers and this attitude extends to its design. 'To know what's right now you need to know what was right last week,' says Stephen Male, art editor / director since 1987. While The Face, after Brody, experienced a long spiral of decline in editorial conception and graphic impact, i-D has recreated itself with utmost unprecedented regularity, to become one of the most accomplished magazines of the last ten years. Page sizes and formats have varied and the magazine's treatment of typography, photography and page layout – based on the try-anything 'instant design' aesthetic of its founder, first designer and editor in chief Terry Jones – has mutated in accordance with its apprehension of the prevailing mood. Throughout the acid house party / Ecstasy era, i-D's identity was dominated by colour-saturated trash graphics and a set of typefaces, such as Eurostyle, that had not seen reputable service for years, if ever. Its current shattered-typewriter look is monochromatic and austere, restoring a sense of flatness to the page and reality to the reader. i-D's design strength stems from its conceptual clarity. Editorially, the magazine has never abandoned its initial desire to document the mores and styles of youth culture, whatever form they might take. Far from acting as constraints, simple ideas like the use of the winking cover-girl and the insistence on an issue theme ('The life and soul of an issue', 'The dangerous issue') have created a framework for creativity, while ensuring a consistent identity, whatever innovations the magazine's designers attempt.
Beach Culture
Beach Culture, designed by David Carson, documents the lifestyle and outlook of a precise demographic group located culturally across America, rather than geographically along a strip of coastline. To judge by its letters page, its biggest readership would appear to be in the Midwest, 1500 miles from the nearest wave. Knowing that it isn't so much the subject matter that counts as the editorial attitude, the magazine's content skitters erratically between avant-garde art and surfing. What matters above all is the intimacy of the relationship between the title and its readers; the confidence that this closeness engenders allows Beach Culture's editor and designer to take risks and leader their audience into new and uncharted territory. Carson has largely dispensed with page numbers, the contents page is indecipherable and headlines are dismembered with deconstructive abandon. Such an approach would be commercial suicide outside the narrow subculture enclave inhibited by Beach Culture and similarly intentioned magazines, but to Carson's readers impenetrability would seem to be a source of satisfaction: presumably because it helps to keep outsiders out. Sceptics say the magazine has been rendered unreadable because it wasn't worth reading in the first place, but is this a matter for the designer to decide? Beach Culture demands a critical response because it applies typographic ideas more familiar from Cranbrook Academy of Art student projects with a limited circulation to an internationally distributed magazine. Carson achieves a kind of scrambled coherence, but Beach Culture's legacy is unlikely to be positive, as its mannerisms are copied and applied in situations where they clearly do not belong.
William Owen, design writer, London
First published in Eye no. 4 vol. 1 in 1991.


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Line a three-pound loaf pan with plastic wrap, making sure that the wrap hangs over the sides of the pan. Place mango sorbet into the loaf pan and spread into an even layer. Freeze until very firm.
Place six ice cream sandwiches over the mango sorbet layer, in three rows of two ice cream sandwiches each—the narrower part of the ice cream sandwich should be facing the front of the trifle. Freeze until very firm.
Spread softened berry sorbet evenly over the ice cream sandwich layer. Freeze until firm.


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UMOJA Programs & Services
UMOJA / AASP
Multicultural Retention Services Department
Multicultural Retention Services
These programs and services were initially designed to assist African American students; however, because of the richness of the program, UMOJA/AASP now assists a diverse student population. If you're interested in becoming a member of the Umoja Community, you can join by completing the Umoja Enrollment Application.
Historically Black Colleges & Universities Transfer Program
Peer Mentoring program
The HBCU Transfer Program is designed to provide CCSF students the opportunity to attend and graduate from CCSF, then transfer as a junior to a HBCU of their choice. CCSF/HBCU transfer students will participate in a collaborative learning environment while earning a General Education Associate Degree and completing transfer requirements. The program provides a variety of support services that include individual and group counseling and student mentoring.
Our TRANSFER / INFORMATION DAY may have been postponed due to budgetary crisis. Call us for information.
The Program provides peer mentoring for high school and CCSF Students enrolled in African American Scholastic Programs. Students enrolled in the CCSF/High School program are mentored by City College making a successful transition from high school to college.
Concurrent/Dual Enrollment Programs
High School Outreach Programs
Transfer Counseling Department
UMOJA/AASP provides academic, career and personal counseling to all students who utilize UMOJA/AASP programs and services. Students meet with academic counselors on a regular basis to create educational and career plans and monitor their progress. Counselors are available by appointment or drop-in sessions. Counselors' schedules are available in Rosenberg Library R209. Call us at 415-452-5315.
The UMOJA/AASP computer lab is located in Rosenberg Library R209. Students may utilize the computer lab to complete homework assignments or perform internet research for various courses. The computer lab is available for student use during hours of operation.


A horse is a living embodiment of grace and refinement. This painting with a horse will appeal to lovers of these unique animals and connoisseurs who dream to complement their interior with something beautiful. A proud look, strength of muscles and flying mane will always be in your sight.
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Get the right clean for your dishes with this stainless steel dishwasher. Choose the Sensor cycle and let your stainless steel dishwasher pick the right cycle for you, or clean dishes in half the time with the 1-hour wash cycle. Top things off with cabinet-dry dishes thanks to fan dry that uses a fan to pull in fresh, dry air.
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The 1958 C-130 shootdown incident was the shooting down of an American Lockheed C-130A-II-LM reconnaissance aircraft which had intruded into Soviet airspace during a reconnaissance mission along the Turkish-Armenian border.

Incident

On September 2, 1958, a Lockheed C-130A-II-LM (s/n 56-0528), from  the 7406th Support Squadron, departed Incirlik Airbase in Turkey on a reconnaissance mission along the Turkish-Armenian border. It was to fly a course parallel to the Soviet frontier, but not approach the border closer than . The crew reported passing over Trabzon in Turkey at  and then acknowledged a weather report from Trabzon, but that was the last communication received from the flight. It was later intercepted and shot down by four Soviet MiG-17s  north-west of Yerevan. The six flight crew were confirmed dead when their remains were repatriated to the United States, but the 11 intelligence-gathering personnel on board have never been acknowledged by Soviet / Russian authorities. After the fall of the Soviet Union a US excavation team found hundreds of skeletal fragments; two remains were identified. A group burial of the 17 crew remains was held at Arlington National Cemetery.

Reasons for entering Soviet airspace
The exact cause of why the aircraft strayed into Soviet airspace is unknown, but according to the Aviation Safety Network, the crew may have confused a radio beacon in the USSR with similar frequencies to the Turkish beacons they were briefed to use, or it may have been a deliberate maneuver to obtain better data.

When NSA cryptologists William Hamilton Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell defected to the Soviet Union in 1960, they listed the C-130 flight as one of their reasons. They contended that it was designed to gain an understanding of Soviet defenses, and that it therefore represented an American interest in attacking the Soviets rather than defending against them. James Bamford agrees with their analysis.

Memorial

In 1993, Armenian sculptor Martin Kakosian unveiled a khachkar, a traditional Armenian cross stone, at the site of the aircraft's crash in the village of Nerkin Sasnashen. Kakosian had witnessed the crash as a college student on a field trip in 1958. This khachkar later fell over and cracked, and a joint US-Armenian memorial was built to commemorate the site. In 2011, the US Army Office of Defense Cooperation renovated the village kindergarten in appreciation of the villagers' commemoration of the downed airmen.

References

External links
 NSA website of C-130 shootdown
 Crew Of A United States Air Force at ArlingtonCemetery.net, an unofficial website

Violations of Soviet airspace
Soviet Union–United States relations
Aviation accidents and incidents in the Soviet Union
Cold War military history of the United States
1958 in the Soviet Union
1958 in Turkey
September 1958 events in Europe
Accidents and incidents involving the Lockheed C-130 Hercules
20th-century aircraft shootdown incidents


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Luxury goods brands enter a brave new world
November 20, 2014 by James Henderson
As luxury brands reach new markets globally, they must not lose sight of the unique comms hurdles ahead.
James Henderson: chief executive of Bell Pottinger
I have personally watched the progress of the luxury goods industry for the past 15 years, and this burgeoning market is finally getting the recognition that it deserves.
The European Commission has heralded it the driver of the 'European industrial renaissance' and a model for many other industries – hardly surprising with a predicted valuation of £12.2bn by 2017 in the UK alone, and worth some £107bn globally next year.
The British luxury industry has flourished where others have floundered during tough economic times, with volumes growing and prices outpacing inflation, as demand rises within new and emerging markets.
Now, more than ever, brands need to invest in seamless, global marcoms strategies to continue to succeed – both in the UK and abroad. It's one reason that Bell Pottinger recently launched a bespoke luxury division – to meet those communication needs and build on the rich heritage of work we have undertaken for luxury brands.
As brands enter emerging markets, their communications approaches must be spot on. They need to work with agencies that understand the nuances of new markets and their consumers.
With expansion into Asia and the Middle East, luxury companies need to hit the right note so that they can tap into new wealth, as we have seen with Mulberry, which has opened several new stores in prime locations using marketing and PR initiatives that highlight the brand's heritage and craftsmanship.
Unsurprisingly, with the allure of these untapped markets, merger and acquisition activity is strong. Therefore brands also need agile PR to navigate through the change and potential conflicts that acquisitions can unearth.
The industry faces other unique communication challenges, such as counterfeiting and cheap labour. China is the leading luxury spender worldwide. But it is also reportedly the leading producer and supplier of fake goods.
With expansion into Asia and the Middle East, luxury companies need to hit the right note so that they can tap into new wealth
When a knock-off handbag can be sold at a snip of the price of the luxury version, then the threat to intellectual property is clear. It is up to comms experts to help protect a brand when its integrity and exclusivity are at stake.
At home, the Made in Britain stamp is gathering pace. However, in a competitive industry and global marketplace, it is hard for some brands to manufacture cheaply at home using British materials, while keeping their prices realistic.
But if they can, promoting our heritage represents a golden PR opportunity and one that should be relished. Above all, one of the most complicated hurdles for the industry is how to deal with the digital age. Mobile and online shopping have changed the entire landscape.
Brands have historically been good at their own PR but now that online words and content can drive commercial success, this requires a holistic strategy that embraces every channel of communication.
Brands must also be bold and dare to be different with their digital comms, embracing high-end content to emotionally connect with direct customers who have so much choice at their fingertips.
With 330 million consumers worldwide already in its grasp and ten million new shoppers entering this lucrative market every year, there are exciting times ahead for the luxury goods industry.
It is a sector that will continue as an economic frontrunner, as long as brands have the right expertise to help them survive, thrive and stand out from the crowd in a global marketplace.
James Henderson is chief executive of Bell Pottinger
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The LG Watch Urbane LTE is remarkably similar to the original Watch Urbane, except for the 4G LTE mobile connectivity. It has a 1.38-inch P-OLED display, stainless steel body with a brushed metal finish, and 4GB of internal storage. The 570mAh battery is quite substantial for a smartwatch, and offers 1 to 2 days of use. It�s powered by Android Wear so the experience is the same as other Android Wear watches.


Speakers at a Pyongyang event marking World No-Tobacco Day stressed the increasing social concern over the practice, the official news agency reported.
The agency, in a separate report, noted that a non-smoking campaign has intensified, with smoking banned in theatres, cinemas, schools, hospitals, sidewalks and other public places.
Violators in the hardline state "are exposed to legal sanctions," it said without elaborating.
The country's best-known convert is leader Kim Jong-Il, a former heavy smoker who was reportedly advised by his doctors in 2007 to quit because of heart problems. A smoking ban was imposed at all the venues he visits.
An official photo taken in 2009 during a visit to a cigarette factory showed the leader with a cigarette in his mouth, but it was unclear whether he had lapsed or was posing for the camera.
South Korea and other states accuse the North of killing 46 young sailors with a torpedo attack on a South Korean warship in March. It denies responsibility.
See the photo of Kim Jong-il smoking at the Marmot.
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Should I Memorize the 99 Names of Allah
Channel: Faith IQ
Shaykh Ammar AlShukry answers
Should I memorize 99 names a lot.
And the last lesson are similar. So there's the famous Hadeeth of audience reporting behind a Muslim that Allah has 99 names 100, except for one, whoever encompasses them will enter into paradise. So then the word encompass needs to be defined. And the scholars have said about encompassing men, I saw this word slot, that it involves a number of different levels, because you have to remember again, this reward is so great that whoever encompasses these names will receive what at the end gender. And so it's something incredibly valuable, it's got to be something that's significant. Number one, they said so the first level of Islam is to ascertain the names what are the names of a
lot is a mood one of the names of Allah isn't hiding one of the names of Allah figuring out what the names of a lot are. And I would encourage you to check out the very extensive series that I have on the names of Allah on the innovative Institute channel with Bill adhaan. That's number one, to ascertain the names of Allah number two, it's to know the meanings of these names. So what does the man mean? What does this mean? What are these names even mean? So that's number two. Number three is to memorize them to learn them. And number four is to live in accordance with these names and to ask a lot by those names. And so these levels all together, make up this concept of encompassing the
names of Allah and if a person does so inshallah, they will enter into paradise


That impulsive duck-face kissy photo you took of yourself and your friend at the Apple store to test out the new iPad's camera may be destined for an art gallery wall. That is if you happened to snap it at any of the Apple stores visited by Irby Pace.
"On a daily basis people are leaving their portraits behind on iPhones, iPads and iPods," says Pace who in late 2010 retrieved over 1,000 images from Apple products in stores across Texas and New York City. "Customers disregard discretion and abandon these photographs."
Pace, who is coming to the end of his photo MFA at the University of North Texas in Denton, began lifting the images by e-mailing and texting them to himself from Apple stores. "Later, I discovered a device to directly download massive groups of images straight to my own iPad," he says. From the huge cache of images, he has edited down a series of portraits and enlarged them for gallery exhibition. The project is titled Unintended Consequences.
Last year a similar art project by Kyle McDonald called People Staring At Computers used software that McDonald installed on Apple store computers to detect faces and capture an image every minute. Over 1,000 captures were automatically uploaded to McDonald's computer and then posted to a (now shuttered) Tumblr account.
But where McDonald's stunt garnered him a home visit from the FBI and got his laptop and flash drives confiscated, the only question hanging over Pace seems to be whether the images he extracted are the legal property of Apple. Pace said Apple store staff were not particularly vigilant: "None of them seemed interested at all in what I was doing. One employee in New York questioned what I was doing but I told him that I was merely comparing the products."
The distinction between these two projects is provocative. Aside from the fact McDonald installed "spyware" on property he didn't own, he also implicated members of the public without their stated permission. Without his subjects choosing to click the shutter, McDonald's People Staring At Computers was ethically dubious; a great stunt but truly a violation of privacy.
Pace argues that the people in his reclaimed images "represent themselves however they chose, and without scrutiny." His is a project less about the images and more about what it means to redistribute them. To reuse the anonymous portraits is hardly seditious but no doubt Unintended Consequences will make some people uncomfortable.
"Unintended Consequences explores changes in behavior for those people who have not considered how these images may be used," says Pace.
Pace feels justified in his actions and believes he broke no ethical rule. "The people [in the images] consciously left the images behind for anyone to see, or to take."
Inasmuch that Pace's "subjects" posed and captured the image themselves, the individuals in Unintended Consequences could be said to be willing participants. In the majority of cases, it seems they snapped their portrait in a performative manner and Pace has created an exhibition of them.
The project gives these abandoned images more prominence than they probably deserve, but there is wit and illusion to Unintended Consequences too. Just because these people go up on a gallery wall doesn't make them significant in any way; Pace plays with the aggrandizing that can often go along with white cube galleries.
It's a clever project, but what might Pace's subjects think?
"It would be interesting to know what their reaction would be to see themselves in a gallery and represented this way," says Pace.
Unintended Consequences (Feb 5th–10th) will be on show at the Cora Stafford Gallery, 1120 W. Oak St, Denton, TX 76201. The reception is on Thursday, February 9th, between 5-7 pm.
Photos courtesy of Irby Pace.


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Q: Import csv file into sqlite3 table - ERROR "Insert failed: datatype mismatch" I am using sqlite3 and I am writing my scripts in two files. The first one is called "Books.sql"
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS Books;

CREATE TABLE Books (
    books_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
    title TEXT,
    author TEXT,
);

The second one is called "Import_books.sql "
.mode csv Books
.import C:/Users/Jim/books_data.csv Books

My goal is to import in "Import_books.sql", the csv file "books_data.csv" that contains a list of books into the table Books that I created in "Books.sql"
I made sure the csv matches exactly the structure of the table but I get this error
INSERT failed: datatype mismatch. How can I solve this?

A: I tried to import using your csv format
    CREATE TABLE Books1 (
    books_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
    title TEXT,
    author TEXT
    );
    sqlite> .mode csv
    sqlite> .separator "-"
    sqlite> .import books1.csv books1
    books1.csv:1: unescaped " character
    books1.csv:2: unescaped " character
    books1.csv:2: unescaped " character
    books1.csv:3: unescaped " character
    books1.csv:1: expected 3 columns but found 1 - filling the rest with NULL
    books1.csv:1: INSERT failed: datatype mismatch

I fixed csv removing quotes for each record and comma that separates records

sqlite> .import books1.csv books1
sqlite> select * from books1;
337864-" Pride and Prejudice "-" Jane Austen"
783356-" Ivanhoe "-" Walter Scott"
987786-" Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire "-" J.K. Rowling"

Did you notice hyphens after first two columns not neat.
I fixed csv file to correct format and this is the result
sqlite> select * from books;
337864,"Pride and Prejudice","Jane Austen"
783356," Ivanhoe","Walter Scott"
987786," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire","J.K. Rowling"

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Located in Prince WIlliam County, Bristow is considered a suburb of Washington DC. The attractive community has plenty of amenities for adults and kids, making it a great place to raise a family or retire. Here is what every Bristow home buyer needs to know about relocating to this historic town.
When you buy Bristow real estate, you are purchasing a piece of history. Much of the town once belonged to the Linton family, owners of Linton's Ford Plantation. A member of the family donated the property for the creation of local schools. Eventually, much of the original land was sold to developers. Bristow is now home to several planned communities and two locations on the National Register of Historic Places: Davis-Beard House and the Brentsville Historic District.
Purchasing Bristow VA real estate puts you in close proximity to Bristoe Station Battlefield Heritage Park. The park has nearly 3 miles of trails for horseback riding and walking. Park employees also conduct free tours of the historic battlefield.
There are 100 parks within 25 miles of Bristow, making Bristow VA homes a great investment. The Manassas National Battlefield and the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority are all within a 10-mile drive of the community. Owners of Bristow properties are also within driving distance of Shenandoah National Park.
If you buy real estate in Bristow, you will have plenty of places to play golf. The community is home to Bristow Manor Golf Club and Broad Run Golf and Practice Facility, giving residents plenty of opportunities to spend time on the links. If you enjoy live entertainment, talk to your Bristow real estate agent about relocating. Bristow is home to Jiffy Lube Live at Stone Ridge, an entertainment venue that hosts national touring acts such as Chicago, Styx, Jimmy Buffet, and Kid Rock.
Bristow also has a lot of historic attractions. In addition to the battlefields, the town serves as home to the Freedom Museum, Old Prince William County Courthouse, and Cannon Branch Earthworks Fort.
One of the most popular activities around Bristow is watching re-enactments of Civil War events. The merchants of Bristow Center also host an annual Halloween event to make the holiday safer for trick-or-treaters. Participating merchants give out free candy to all the children dressed in costumes, and there is also fun to be had for adults. Bristow Manor Golf Club often hosts fundraising events for community groups.
If you want to move to an area with a strong community vibe, good schools, and quiet neighborhoods, Bristow is the place for you. Talk to Amy Stanley to find out if any of the homes for sale in Bristow are a good match for your needs.


Welcome to the Michigan Foundation for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
Our purpose is to help maximize the independence of individuals who are blind or visually impaired. We provide personal services to individuals and families in Kalamazoo County, Michigan. We also oversee low vision support groups in a variety of settings in the Kalamazoo area.
The information on this site is intended to help persons with blindness or low vision as well as family members and friends. If you know someone who is experiencing vision loss, please feel free to contact us.


Icons Sport had the opportunity to travel over to Atlanta, Ga over the weekend to check out On the Radar's Junior Elite Top 100 Camp. There was over 60 of the top kids in the southeast in attendance and the guys got great instruction and got the opportunity to compete 5 on 5 in front of national media. On the Radar is one of the top media outlets in the country, they host several big name events over the spring and summer.
Ja'Mari Arnold 2023 (AL) – Crafty lead guard that has extreme play making abilities along with a high IQ one of the things that stands out in his game is his patience and how he picks his spots when attacking.
Jaylen Sanford 2023 (GA) – Combo guard that can play with or without the ball. With his athleticism and ability to handle the ball its hard stopping him from getting to the rack and finishing.
John Green 2023 (AL) – Green more so displayed his scoring abilities this weekend. Dominating the 1 on 1 drills as well as in 5 on 5 getting to the basket and finishing well.
Kymell Willimas 2023 (GA) – Williams is a tough hard nose player. What he lacks in size he makes up with toughness. Williams is coming off a big performance at the Under Armour Best of the Best and he continued that play at the Junior Elite Top 100 Camp.
Xavier Bell 2023 (GA) – Athletic high energy forward that has a high motor. Bell finished a few dunks in transition.
Aaron Jones 2023 (GA) – 6'8 long rangy forward that has soft hands and a soft touch. Jones will be an interesting prospect to watch over the next few years.
Avante Nichols 2023 (GA) – Nichols played hard over the course of the camp and was out to prove a point. I love the energy that he brought and look forward to seeing him this spring/summer.
Quamond Dennis 2024 (GA) – Dennis was one of the younger campers that stood out. Great IQ for the game as well as size for position.


Gum is an open-source, general purpose UI tool. While it has been developed primarily for creating video game UI, it can be used in any context given its open XML file format and plugin system.
Gum is written using C#, Windows Forms (aka winforms), and XNA. It uses Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) to support a plugin system allowing customization without adding project-specific code to the core repository.


18 June 2008 - A good day!
Three set out in the boat at three o'clock.
which you have now caught.
The best catch in a long time.
We shall go into the house of the Lord.
plead for all women consecrated to God.
all who are celebrating Thy holy feast.
Celebrated by Father Anthony Mary, F.SS.R.
on his 19th anniversary of Ordination.
for our own salvation and for that of the whole world.
ye shall do them in remembrance of Me.
Although we have now returned from our pilgrimage, we were not able to post our last photos since we had no internet access, so here they are now.
We visited several churches. First on the list was St.Peter in chains.
The chains of St.Peter with which he was bound while in Rome.
We were able to say mass on the altar before the chains. St. John Chrysostom's words on St. Paul's chains apply equally to St.Peter's: "No glittering diadem so adorns the head as a chain borne for Christ. Were the choice offered me either of heaven or of this chain suffered for Christ, I would take the chain. If I might have stood with the angels above, near the throne of God, or have been bound with Paul, I should have preferred the dungeon. Had you rather been the angel loosing Peter or Peter in chains? I would rather have been Peter. The gift of chains is something greater than power to stop the sun, to move the world, or to command the devils." In the crypt behind the chains there is an altar with the relics of the 7 Machabees brothers, martyrs.
…and venerated the relics of our Lord's crib which are kept there. The wood from the crib can be seen through the glass in the silver reliquary.
We next visited the church of St. Alphonsus, and prayed before the original icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Succour.
From there we visited the Basilica of St. John Lateran.
The table of the Last supper. The wood of the table can be seen through the transparent part of the reliquary.
Santa Maria in Aracoeli, built on the site of the ancient Roman capital, rises above the ruins of a temple to Juno Moneta. According to legend, the Emperor Augustus, disturbed by rumors that the Senate was about to honor him as a God, consulted the Tiburtine Sibyl, who prophesied the descent from the skies of "the King of the ages." As she spoke, the Emperor beheld a marvelous vision - the Virgin standing on an altar in a dazzling light and holding the baby Jesus in her arms - and heard a voice which said: "This is the altar of the Son of God." The Emperor immediately raised an altar on the site, the Ara Coeli, or altar of the heavens. The original altar now stands in the transept chapel in which St. Helena is buried and bears an inscription: Struxit Octavianus hanc aram coeli sacra proles dum patet ei. (Octavian built this altar when the offspring of heaven appeared to him.) The richly gilded ceiling was presented by the Roman senate in 1571, in thanksgiving to Our lady for the Victory over the Moslems at the Battle of Lepanto.
Father Anthony saying mass in the side chapel of St. Gregory in the Ara Coeli.
The body of the Franciscan Martyr St. John of Triora, martyred in China in 1816 lies below the altar.
There are 124 steps that one needs to climb in order to reach the Ara Coeli, which was once the highest point in Rome, until Mussolini built his monument to Victor Emmanuel. We were however told that the distinction of being the highest point in Rome now belongs to the Vatican Radio tower.
Professor Luc Perrin of the Strasbourg University.
Thank you for your kind email and your hope that our community will flower in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Thank you too for your concern and fraternal charity. Please thank Professor PERRIN on our behalf for his insights and expertise on these matters.
To Whom alone be Glory, Praise and Thanksgiving for ever.
P.S. I will post this also on our blog.
Help Bishop Coutts fight a Pakistani - Islamic law that permitted a 5 year old child to be burned to death for blasphemy.
Bishop Coutts has received death threats.
"We will not let ourselves be terrified by intimidation."
The French section of Aid to the Church in Need is urging people worldwide to sign a petition denouncing a "blasphemy law" that allows for grave injustices in Pakistan.
The aid agency explained on its Web site that 1,000 Pakistanis have been condemned because of their faith due to this law, such as a 5-year-old child who was burned alive for being a Christian, and is calling for support and worldwide prayer for the victims of this law as well as their families.
The petition, which was launched June 7, gathered more than 4,600 signatures in the first week. Supporters can add their signatures to the appeal against the blasphemy law and send messages of support, prayers and donations to the Catholic Church in Pakistan through the Web site.
The petition states: "We appeal to the government of Pakistan to repeal immediately the law on blasphemy, in particular paragraph 295 C of the criminal code, which establishes the death penalty for the offenders; we appeal to the government to guarantee the rights of all religious minorities of the country."
Bishop Joseph Coutts of Faisalabad, Pakistan, said that this law "has been used for some time to oppress and persecute the religious minorities in Pakistan, including Christians," who represent 1.6% of the population.
The prelate, president of the Pakistani bishops' conference Justice and Peace Commission, is calling for the withdrawal of the anti-blasphemy law.
According to the bishop, the problem of the law against blasphemy worsened dramatically in 2001, when anti-Western feeling increased in Pakistan, reaching its peak with recent American interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The law on blasphemy, which is included in Pakistan's criminal code, allows for imprisonment and even capital punishment for those who are seen as insulting or profaning the name of the prophet Muhammad or the Qur'an.
In 1927, paragraph 295 was added to the criminal code to address "deliberate and malicious acts with the intention to offend the religious sentiments of any group by insulting their religion or their religious belief."
However, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistani president from 1977 to 1988, introduced several amendments to the code, including life imprisonment for anyone who profanes the Qur'an and the death penalty for anyone who insults the prophet.
Since then, many Christians have suffered humiliations and persecutions as a result of false accusations of violating this law.
Marc Fromager, director of the French section of Aid to the Church in Need, said that this law is not precise in its formulation as it does not differentiate between a deliberate and a non-deliberate action.
Moreover, he said, according to this law, a person can be accused without proofs and the claimant has a status of impunity.
He noted that there have been an increasing number of sham trials and greater harshness in the punishments.
Arrests, murders and massacres have increased since the promulgation of these laws, Fromager said, and hundreds of places of worship have been destroyed.
The bishops' conference Justice and Peace Commission estimated that there have been 993 innocent victims of this law between 1986 and 2010, 120 of whom were Christians.
Leaving Rome for two days, we have extended our pilgrimage to Loreto.
After a 5 hour train ride we reached Loreto at around 2 p.m. and climbed the hill with Mass kit and luggage, all this with the temperature at 35 degrees centigrade and dressed in our "Orkney weather proof" woollen habits.
Quite an exhausting climb overall in order to reach this "city on the top of a hill".
The square in front of the Basilica of Loreto that holds the flying Holy House of Loreto, transported by angels first from Nazareth to Croatia and then to the top of the hill of Loreto.
The holy House of Loreto is encased in a beautifully carved marble structure that acts as a sort of giant reliquary for the Holy House.
The interior of the Holy House of Loreto. The stones on the walls are smooth from the touch of hundreds of thousands of pilgrims over the centuries. The darkness of the chapel and the prohibition of flash photography make it hard to get a clear picture.
In this picture it can be seen that the Holy House has remained standing for centuries without any foundations. The dimensions of the Holy House correspond exactly to that of the foundations of the House that remain in Nazareth.
In the evening there is a candlelit procession for the sick around the square with the statue of Our Lady of Loreto borne in procession. The procession may have lacked the numbers of the processions in Lourdes and Fatima, but certainly not the enthusiasm and devotion.
The next morning we were woken up around 5 a.m. to the sound of the Litany of the Saints over blaring loud speakers and the enthusiastic singing of 40,000 marching pilgrims! They had walked all night from Macerata to Loreto ,a distance of around 30 miles. The Macerata – Loreto pilgrimage is an annual event that takes place every year on the 2nd Sunday of June and attracts a crowd of 40,000 to 60,000 pilgrims.
The square in front of the basilica and the basilica itself were packed with pilgrims for the next 2 hours.
It is quite fitting that Our Lady of the flying House of Loreto is the patron of aviators. Here She is borne on the shoulders of pilots with great solemnity through the streets of Loreto at the end of the procession.
Father Anthony said Mass in the chapel of the Sacred Heart which is right next to the Holy House.
We were privileged to join the long list of pilgrims and saints (including St. Alphonsus, St. Clement and St. John Neuman) who carved these deep ridges in the marble floor around the holy house with their knees.
Some more photos from our pilgrimage for the closing of the year of the priest.
A view of St Peter's prayer vigil before adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and benediction.
The exterior of the church of St. Cecilia run by Benedictine nuns.
Thanksgiving after Mass. We were very blessed to be able to say Mass in the beautiful crypt before the tomb of St. Cecilia on the feast day of the Sacred Heart. Directly behind the altar are the incorrupt relics of St Cecilia. Also found there are the relics of her chaste husband, St. Valerian as well as several other saints including St. Valerian's brother.
Some of the confreres in prayer before the tomb of St. Cecilia. The altar at which we said Mass is directly below, with the relics situated under the statue.
Today's gruelling afternoon walk in the relentless Roman sun started off with a visit to the Basilica of St. Bartholomew situated on the Isola Tiberina, an island in the Tiber. The church is run by Franciscans and the body of St. Bartholomew, Apostle and martyr lies in the main Altar.
We visited several other churches, one of which was the Church of S. Maria dei Monti.
The side altar to the left had the body of St. Benedict Joseph Labre.
The Basilica of St.s Cosmas and Damian.
We have been visiting a number of chuches in Rome during our pilgrimage. Here are some photos.
The church of St Nicholas in Carcere. For more information see this previous post.
The exterior of S. Maria in Cosmedin. It is a composite monument which has been greatly transformed through the centuries, and was built on the foundation of temples dedicated to Hercules and Ceres.
The interior of the same church.
S. Maria in Cosmedin houses the relics of St. Valentine.
Mass in the church of San Benedetto in Piscinula.
The little room which can be seen at the back in the picture is the room St. Benedict lived in while in Rome. This is where he lived his life of prayer and penance and was inspired to leave the world and become a monk. This tiny room, then, was the place which gave birth to the rise of Western monasticism.
The Transalpine Redemptorist confreres with the Heralds of the Gospel who look after the church of San Benedetto in Piscinula.


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Q: Hottest news on 'why does Deep Learning work so well' At the beginning of last year I was trying to study some papers which were tackling the question "Why does deep learning work so well", but I had to stop due to overwhelming work problems.
I'd love to start again now, but I'm noticing that there are thousand of new papers out there, so I have no idea where to start. That's why I'm looking for suggestions from you, which means, what are the most interesting papers you have read about deep learning theory recently?
I'm looking both for theoretical papers (such as https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.08225.pdf and  https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.03530.pdf). Furthermore, I have a solid theoretical background, especially in mathematics, so don't be afraid to suggest highly theoretical papers.
The topic I'm most interested in is pattern recognition
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One person in custody related to double murder at Del City business
Posted 4:55 pm, January 27, 2017, by KFOR-TV and K. Querry, Updated at 05:29PM, January 27, 2017
Double-homicide at Del City laundromat
DEL CITY, Okla. – Authorities say they have one person in custody related to the murders of two people inside a Del City business.
On Jan. 23, officers with the Del City Police Department were called to the Laundry Station after a customer stumbled upon a gruesome scene.
"It looks like a robbery. Two victims on the floor. I just walked in," the witness told dispatchers.
When authorities arrived at the business, they discovered the bodies of 60-year-old Russ Roberts and Nekia Jackson.
Investigators said Nekia was working as the day manager at the Laundry Station when the suspect likely tried to rob her.
"I always was uneasy with her, because she opens, and it would be dark, and it would be like six and she was punctual. And, she had a couple of times she would come to work and stuff would be broken and windows cracked, and they don't keep money in here," Horace Jackson, Nekia's father, told NewsChannel 4.
Police said she was being robbed at gunpoint when Roberts, who was a customer at the business, tried to help her.
"Altercation occurred inside the drop office there. The customer that was inside attempted to assist her to help her out, and both of them were shot in the process," said Captain Ted Kleber, with the Del City Police Department.
Authorities poured over surveillance video from the business in order to find a link to the suspect.
On Friday evening, officials announced that one person is in custody related to the case.
Maj. Jody Suit, with the Del City Police Department, says that the investigation is ongoing in the case.
Around 2:50 p.m., Del City detectives, along with members of the U.S. Marshals and the Midwest City Police Department, arrested 33-year-old Roshaun Bernard Jones.
Jones was taken into custody near N.E. 15th St. and Sooner Rd.
Suit says that evidence led them to Jones, but the investigation is ongoing. At this point, they still believe that the murders were a result of a robbery.
Jones has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder.
This is an old mugshot of Jones. Officials say his appearance has changed.
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IEEFA: Chinese regulators urged to tighten rules for carbon neutral bonds
1 June 2021 (IEEFA): China's carbon neutral bonds fail to restrict the use of funds to green projects and are adding to the working capital of coal-dominated state-owned enterprises (SOEs), according to a new briefing note from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) which calls for deeper reforms to green finance standards to mobilise investment to fund President Xi Jinping's carbon neutrality pledge.
IEEFA's note highlights the risk for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investors who might inadvertently be buying green bonds that are helping to fund fossil fuels.
"Chinese financial market regulators need to take a serious look at how the country's state-owned enterprises are using the proceeds of their green bonds," says author Christina Ng, IEEFA's Research and Stakeholder Engagement Leader, Debt Markets.
There's a risk for ESG investors
In February 2021 some of the largest state-owned power companies, such as China Energy Investment Corporation, China Huaneng Group and State Power Investment Corporation, issued the first batch of Yuan-denominated carbon neutral bonds, a green debt instrument to raise finance for carbon emissions reduction projects.
According to the bond offering documents examined by IEEFA, 30% of proceeds from these carbon neutral bonds were to be allocated to the working capital of the issuers. In other words, the proceeds are to fund their day-to-day (and not necessarily green) operations.
This carve-out matters because two of China's leading fossil fuel energy and power SOEs, China Energy Investment Corporation and China Huaneng Group, used this green bond structure to raise CNY 7 billion (USD 1 billion), but ultimately IEEFA estimates that a total of CNY 2.1 billion (USD 326 million) was assigned on an unrestricted basis for working capital.
The bond offering documents stated that both SOEs' current coal-fired capacity makes up around 75% of their total power assets and that the coal power segment will remain a core part of their businesses. There was limited information about the SOEs' future energy capacity or plans to phase out fossil fuel energy sources.
How green are China's SOE carbon neutral bonds?
"The promise of green bonds is that they can help channel capital to energy transition investments," says Ng. "But potentially the proceeds raised by the SOEs from these bond deals could be spent on maintaining a steady – or growing – coal business, particularly as they have new coal assets in the pipeline."
'Clean coal' has officially been removed from the definition of 'eligible green project'
The note highlights that Yi Gang, governor of China's central bank, the People's Bank of China (PBOC), is taking action to improve green finance standards and climate-related disclosure rules as part of an effort to encourage foreign investors to enter the domestic green bond market to help fund the country's carbon neutrality goals.
While the issue with China's carbon neutral bonds doesn't send the right signal to investors, Ng notes that an important step in the right direction was the release in April of the 2021 Green Bond Endorsed Project Catalogue which officially removed all fossil fuel-related projects, including 'clean coal', from the definition of 'eligible green project'.
But she adds that further critical reforms of green bond market practices are needed, especially for SOE issuers.
"Regulators urgently need to look at tightening the rules on how high carbon SOEs use the proceeds from their green bonds.
"Even with the recent enhancement to the Green Bond Endorsed Project Catalogue, up to 50% of SOE green bond proceeds can still be allocated to working capital.
100% of green bond proceeds should be going to green projects
"100% of green bond proceeds should be going to green projects. We also recommend that standardised reporting of green bond offering documents is introduced to improve transparency of the SOEs' governance, particularly in relation to the structure and processes for decision-making, controls and accountability of the proceeds and the projects."
Ng says leading foreign ESG investors are reluctant to fund issuers that lack transparency and that continue to be fossil-fuel focused.
"Increasing market discipline for SOEs will be critical to Governor Yi's efforts to build confidence in China's green bond market."
Read the briefing note: Carbon Neutral Bonds: Has China Set the Bar Too Low?
In Mandarin: 碳中和债券:中国是否把门槛设的 过低?
Media contact: Kate Finlayson ([email protected]) +61 418 254 237
Author contact: Christina Ng ([email protected])
About IEEFA: The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) examines issues related to energy markets, trends and policies. The Institute's mission is to accelerate the transition to a diverse, sustainable and profitable energy economy. (www.ieefa.org)
Christina Ng
Christina Ng oversees a team of financial analysts that provide debt market analysis covering Asia Pacific. She also represents IEEFA at stakeholder forums. Her research of interest includes trends and issues in green and transition finance, policies and regulations, with a focus on the energy sector.
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WHO and health partners develop regional plan to improve Ebola readiness measures
Cairo, Egypt, 18 January 2015 – The third regional stakeholders' meeting to review implementation of the International Health Regulations IHR (2005) concluded in Cairo, Egypt, on 13 January after over 130 participants from 17 countries in the Region collectively reviewed the progress countries are making in achieving the core capacities required under the IHR. The meeting also took into consideration recent findings of WHO assessment of countries' preparedness and readiness measures for prevention and detection of importation of Ebola virus disease (EVD).
The WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean along with national health authorities, recently concluded, between November and December 2014, a rapid assessment of national health sector preparedness and readiness measures for EVD in 18 out of 22 countries in the Region. The assessments were conducted in the six areas of: leadership and coordination; capacities to detect and isolate suspected cases at points of entry such as airport and sea ports; disease surveillance; infection prevention and control; laboratory; and risk communication. The findings were presented in the meeting and practical actions were proposed and suggested by countries on how gaps could be addressed in each of these functional areas.
"It is clear from the assessment that considerable work is required to improve the level of preparedness in the six areas. Countries have our full commitment of support to ensure that each country in the Region is prepared and operationally ready for the detection, prevention and control of Ebola and any other emerging diseases," commented Dr Ala Alwan, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean.
A short-term operational plan addressing the six major areas was drafted and key activities for the next 90 days were identified in the meeting. These activities are to: develop/update national Ebola virus response plans; conduct a simulation drill to test the effectiveness of the national coordination, an event-based disease surveillance system; urgently procure and stockpile Ebola-specific personal protective equipment; establish and train an Ebola rapid response team improve safe collection, transportation and rapid shipment of samples for testing and diagnostic purpose; develop and drill a public health contingency plan for the designated points of entry; develop risk communications/social mobilization training curricula; and conduct training for stakeholders, journalists, community health workers, as well as volunteers.
The plan also highlighted the urgency of promoting awareness and ensuring high political commitment from countries for implementation of IHR core capacities in accordance with identified gaps, the strengthening of IHR national focal point capacity, and promoting cross-border collaboration for the sharing of best practices in the areas of managing and responding to acute and emerging health threats.
"Now that we have identified the important gaps in surveillance and response to the threat of Ebola, as well as in the core capacities required under the IHR, let us urgently move forward and rapidly address these gaps within the next 3 months. It is our collective and shared responsibility to prevent any threat to our health security," said Dr Ala Alwan. The WHO Regional Director emphasized during the concluding session that implementation of the IHR should not be considered a health issue only. A comprehensive multisectoral approach is highly needed to strengthen linkages and tap synergies within and between countries to ensure preparedness for any possible importation of Ebola case in the Region.
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