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China: Xinjiang, bilingualism to reduce ethnic tensions
26 Maggio 2016 Asia @en di
The peak of ethnic tension in Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China, was reached in July 2009, when in the capital of Urumqi thousands of Uyghurs clashed with Han ethnic groups. The police forces, sent to suppress clashes, were soon to face both sides and responded harshly. According to official figures released by the Chinese authorities the riots ended with 197 dead and 1721 injured. Other sources close to the Uyghurs, claimed that the victims were actually a few hundred. Human Rights Watch testified that there were police raids in the days following the clashes, with the subsequent disappearance of dozens of Uighur militants.
The tension between Uyghurs and Han has gone on for many decades, in fact since 1949, when the People's Liberation Army took control of what was called the Second Republic of Eastern Turkestan, annexing it to the nascent Republic of China. That it was an imperialistic invasion or a peaceful annexation with the consent of the inhabitants has since then be subject of discussion and confrontation. Certainly, the strong independence movement that claims to represent 45% of the Uighur Muslim population against social and demographic invasion of the China of the Han, the main group of the whole country, has always fought to preserve the cultural specificity of Xinjiang minorities, coming several times to open conflict with the central state authorities.
Since 2009 there no other episodes of similar severity has happened, but accidents are not missed and tensions remain. The Han, which account for 41% of the region population compared to 45% of the Uyghurs, complain of discrimination on various fronts, including the workplace. Uyghurs and other minorities of the largest administrative division of the People's Republic, continue instead to oppose what they see as China's cultural imperialism, whose main instrument is identified in the imposition of Mandarin as the official language at the expense of the indigenous languages of Turkmen origin.
To ease tensions and try to start an ethnic peace process, the central authorities have decided to promote a campaign for the dissemination of bilingualism in preschool education, as to allow the younger generations to master both Mandarin and indigenous languages. Xinjiang will thus be allowed to use central government funds to take from two to three years the period of bilingual preschool education provided to rural areas in the next four years, from 2016 to 2020. The aim is to bring 85% of children in the region, by 2020, to have access to these programs.
Funds budgeted for the first year is 154 million dollars and will be used for the construction of 552 bilingual kindergartens in the autonomous region, starting from the rural areas of the south.
Luca Marchesini
China, Maitra: "Xinjiang is not a religious, but an economical issue"
European Affairs interviewed Ramtanu Maitra (analyst with the US-based Eir magazine. He contributes regularly in three Indian defense quarterlies: Aakrosh, Agni and the Indian Defence Review. He used to write on South Asia in the Asia Times online) to speak about Beijing "will have to move westward in order to bring over land oil and gas from Central Asia and Arabia". And Xinjiang where Islam that "is surely not a major issue for the Uyghurs".
For the Uyghurs, do the issues of independence and religion go hand in hand?
"Religion is surely not a major issue for the Uyghurs. They do not seem to be ready to lay down their lives to protect their religion. But when a number of other factors that disturb them come into play against a powerful front, such as the Han-led Beijing, religious identity is displayed. Particularly since adherents of Islam, many of whom are victims of colonial West in the past, have begun to assert themselves in recent years, to display religion on their shirtsleeves is surely considered an effective weapon. Beijing has shown little competence in dealing with the Muslims and does not seem to realize that to dishonor Muslims, even in China where Muslims are a very small minority, it could mean localized trouble that Beijing may have to curb by using state's authority, which often overlooks compassion and legality. Not allowing the Uyghurs, even to a handful of them who are in the workforce, not to fast during the Ramadan is a policy which could bring together the more assertive Uyghurs and get them in direct contact with more aggressive Muslims who are in the lookout to declare Jihad against any non-Islamic country".
"I think most Uyghurs are not interested in seeking independence. There could be a few who do so, but majority of the Uyghurs just do not want to get swamped by the Hans. Since Beijing has adopted the policy of developing at least a minimal infrastructure in the western China ( read: Xinjiang) in order to gain an access to Central Asia, South Asia and Southwest Asia, it has brought in , and will be bringing in more in the future, many Hans from east of Xinjiang. These Hans are skilled, better paid and have come to settle down in Xinjiang to raise their families".
"All these are issues with the Uyghurs, who really want to be left alone. However, that is not going to happen. While many Uyghurs will take it lying down this demographic change, undermining their absolute majority in Xinjiang ( not that different from what happened or what is happening in Tibet) over the years, some will stand up indignantly declaring it as a state policy to obliterate their identity, culture, their way of life and impose upon them the culture to be obedient to the Hans. The latter group of Uyghurs may talk about independence, but they cannot, like the Tibetans, can build up a case to justify their independence from China, a massive power. At the same time, many Uyghurs, who, and whose forefathers, had lived a hard life, welcome the developments that Beijing is bringing into Xinjiang. There is no way the rebellious Uyghurs can bring under one umbrella the entire community on a very abstract cause such as independence from China".
Has the repopulation of Xinjiang, through the shifting of the Han there in the last 15 years, had a contrary effect with respect to Beijing's aim to suppress the Uyghurs requests?
"Beijing's policy to bring in Hans into Xinjiang during the last 15 years is not to undermine the Uyghurs. As I have pointed out earlier, China needs to develop an infrastructure to gain access to its West where seas of oil and gas exists that Beijing could use effectively to sustain and grow its economy. The process has unleashed migration of many Hans to Xinjiang, the Uyghur land, one may call it. The process has also modernized ,and will continue to modernize further, strips of Xinjiang. Uyghurs will draw benefit from all that, but they will also have to come into a daily contact with the Hans, many of whom have little understanding of Islamic do's and don't's, their culture and the isolationist attitude of the Uyghurs. Some Hans may even go as far as trying to prove a phony Han superiority over the Uyghurs. These differences may result in clashes and conflicts from time to time, but there is no reason to believe that over many years, these two ethnic groups will not be able to live side by side".
"Going back to answering your question, I believe Beijing's policy is not to suppress the Uyghurs but loaded with non-compassion, Beijing saw no reason to make real social efforts to integrate the Uyghurs with the rest of China. On the other hand, if China wanted to suppress the Uyghurs, why didn't Beijing bring in the Hans into Xinjiang between 1950 and 2000? They did not bring in the Hans into Xinjiang, because China was not involved then in its newly-adopted Silk Road economic policy".
Does the fact that over 200 Chinese have gone to combat in Syria since 2012 make China one of the most at-risk countries as regards the Jihadi threat?
"No. This is ridiculous. If thousands of Islamic radicals have not posed a serious threat to 64 million Brits, why 200 radicals would pose any sort of problem to a nation of 1.2 billion? It will not. But what China does not want is being forced to use his hammer to deal with the Uyghurs. China wants a "peaceful rise", that is its constant refrain. Violent acts to curb the Uyghur uprisings, however small those could be, would be played up by the western media in bold headlines and will be seized upon by the powers-that-be in the West to showcase that China, in essence, is ruthless, intolerant to other religious groups and will readily exercise force when it cannot get its way".
The passage of the new Silk Road and the presence of oil and gas resources. Is economics the real driver behind Beijing's anti-Islam policy in Xinjiang?
"A yes-and-no is my answer to that question. China will have to move westward in order to bring over land oil and gas from Central Asia and Arabia. But China will also need to bring in many mineral reserves in order to keep its factories churning out varieties of products. But it is not going to be an one-way road. China, with its very broad and capable production base, will actively seek markets in Central Asia, Southwest Asia, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Crimea Europe et al. Already in Kyrgyzstan almost every item that is sold in the market carries the label: "Made in China". That is the "yes" part of my answer".
"The "no" part of the answer is that China is not doing this as an anti-Islam policy in Xinjiang. All the countries in China's west who are expected to provide China an access to their valuable energy sources and many mineral reserves, with the exception of Russia and Georgia, are all Muslim nations. The "Stan" nations, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey and the entire Arabia are Islam-dominated nations. Beijing has so far been less than sensitive to the Uyghurs, at least as of now, but it is not foolish. It knows which side of the bread is buttered and who provides and butters it".
China, anti terrorism campaign: a quiet repression
1 Aprile 2015 Asia @en di
Xinjiang is the scene of a bloody repression of Beijing the minority Uighurs, a Muslim, has always defended the autonomy of its territory. Bejing decided to tighten anti terror campaign because of the Islamic terrorism and the economic reasons
Jihadism does not concern only Arabic States and Western. September 11 attack, attempts in European capital cities, Al Qaeda attention-seeking behaviour in the beginning of 21st century, Islamic State propaganda. All these elements are misleading because not only United States and Europe must fight fondamentalism.
Sure enough anti-terrorism legislation became a prime interest for China. It's especially adopted in Xinjiang, which borders on Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, and where lives Uighurs, Sunnis of Turkish origin.
This area is very important from economic persepctive. Here new Silk Road will live again and will connect China to Europe by land and sea. Moreover, Xinjiang containes oil and gas resources. But all these grown factors are contrasting with jihadist threat. Furthermore, nationalist reason has been always present here because of Uighurs fights from 1911 to 1949 and Eastern Turkestan foundation for short times. So patriotic and religious sentiments are at the bottom of fights against government.
Bejing has to want to battle it. The "ethnic submergence" in Xinjiang began after September 11 attack and consists in Han, the great majority of Chineses, relocation in this territory. This political program is running as Uighurs has decreased from 80% to 45% of population.
This battle got worse since April 2014, when anti terrorism campaign became more aggressive. First of all because at least 200 Chineses went to Syria to enlist in Islamic State from 2012 to this year. Moreover, Uighurs attacks in Xinjiang was over 800 since 2013. So Bejing extended anti terrorism campaign to the end of 2015 and increased its brutality against population. Sure enough, over 2000 people was killed in July 2014. A forgotten slaughter, but on the same degree of Tien An Men Square or Tibet.
Furthermore, over 27000 suspected terrorists captured in 2014. 55 estimated jihadists are taken to trial up against 7000 people. While criminal acts regarding Uighurs increased of 45%. Moreover government forbade the burqa, the full beard and the Ramadan for public empolyees.This can stop to imperious economic development is therefore basic in Bejing action. Which is battling the problem in a different way than the West. Indeed, the government's attitude is different towards the Hui, the other ethnic group of Islamic faith in China. This because the Hui have not hardly ever take position against Popular Republic, unlike the Uighur.
Xinjiang matter is becoming more and more considerable. This matter could propose again in Africa, where China owns several economical profits, and could turn in global problem. So Bejing could be an important geopolitical part of Internation Community against Islamic Fundamentalist.


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Backers of a Federal Ban on 'Gun Silencers' Claim Only Murderers Use Them
The bill would turn law-abiding gun owners into felons for possessing a product that is almost never used in violent crimes.
Yesterday Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) introduced a bill that would ban the importation, sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession of "gun silencers," which he blames for helping the perpetrator of last month's mass shooting in Virginia Beach murder 12 people. "The sound of gunshots is what tells you that your life is [in] danger, and that it's time to run, hide, take cover, call the police and help others save themselves," Menendez says. "At the end of the day if you can hear a weapon you might just save a life."
Contrary to the impression left by TV shows and movies, so-called silencers, a.k.a. suppressors, do not eliminate "the sound of gunshots." On average, they reduce the noise generated by a .45 ACP pistol, the kind used in the Virginia Beach attack, from around 157 decibels to something like 127 decibels, which is still louder than a siren or a thunderclap. It's not surprising, then, that "most law enforcement experts say" the Virginia Beach shooter's suppressor "likely had no bearing on his ability to kill so many people in so little time," as the Associated Press noted.
But Menendez thinks he knows better. "What first sounded like a nail-gun ended up being gunfire," he says, suggesting that some victims might have lived if the sound had been louder. Never mind that there is no evidence to support that supposition, or that people have been known to confuse the sound of unsuppressed gunfire with noises generated by nonthreatening sources such as firecrackers or a car backfiring.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), who is cosponsoring Menendez's bill, insists there is no legitimate reason to own a suppressor. "The only people who could reasonably oppose a ban on gun silencers are criminals trying to avoid detection by law enforcement or mass murderers trying to hurt as many people as possible," he says. "Whether a firearm is being used in a mugging or a massacre, the sound of a gunshot is a warning that helps bystanders get to safety and allows law enforcement to track and apprehend the shooter."
Americans legally own about 1.5 million suppressors, which means they live in one of the 42 states where the devices are legal, have paid a $200 transfer tax, and have passed a federal background check that typically takes eight to 10 months. Based on data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, The Washington Free Beacon's Stephen Gutowski calculates that "roughly .003 percent of silencers are used in crimes each year." Yet according to Blumenthal, every single American who owns a silencer is a criminal.
Why might law-abiding Americans find suppressors useful? As anyone who has visited a gun range can testify, guns are really loud, even when you're wearing ear plugs or muffs. Suppressors provide extra hearing protection, which may be worth the cost and trouble of legally buying them if you shoot frequently, especially if you shoot large-caliber guns. Blumenthal seems to think that explanation is just a cover for criminal activity, which defies logic and math.
Menendez's bill, the Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act, would ban not just new sales of suppressors but current possession. Like Donald Trump's extralegal ban on bump stocks, it would transform law-abiding gun owners into felons because they legally acquired a politically disfavored product that is rarely used to commit violent crimes. The text of the bill does not seem to be available yet, but Menendez's summary says it would "authorize a buyback program" and "provide individuals with a 90-day grace period after the date of enactment for individuals to comply with the ban."
Update: The bill is here. People who continue to possess suppressors after the 90-day grace period could be fined up to $250,000 and/or go to prison for up to five years.
Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason.
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Saturday, 8 August 2015
The Aryan Wanderings.
We are told that the art of acupuncture originated in China, most giving the date of around 2000 years ago with a few claiming some 4000 years ago. The Chinese, unlike our ancestors, recorded everything in writing so that it would be available to those to come - our forebears passed on their knowledge through the spoken word mainly, especially in very early times. The Chinese still use acupuncture today, and this practice is sometimes frowned upon by our medical profession.
In 1991 the body of a European Man was found in the mountainous region between Austria and Italy; this man had brown eyes and was of Blood Group 'O' which suggests a Mediterranean origin. He is affectionately known as Otzi the Iceman since he was found frozen in Ice, which preserved the body for posterity. What is interesting is that he had 61 tattoos on his body, nothing unusual except that many can be seen to be placed upon various acupuncture points. He is dated as 5,300 years old, which is at least 1500 years before the Chinese are supposed to have invented acupuncture.
What suggests that these points were acupuncture or 'pressure' points used to relieve pain (as they can be used today) is that some of the tattoos were placed on the lower back and joints where he suffered from joint and spinal degeneration.
'The tattoos may have demarcated the locations for acupuncture treatment, or perhaps the tattoos were the treatment.'
'The Man in the Ice' - Conrad Spindler.
The above shows the type of tattoo marks on the body of the Iceman. They are clearly not there just for design as they are simple lines rather than drawings.
The Chinese have long tried to maintain that they had no contact with Europeans in the very early ages, but it is coming to light that this is not so. The bodies of many mummies of Caucasian origin (Western European is likely by the looks of the mummies) were found in the Tarim Basin and these may have been the Tocharians of history and legend. These mummies were heavily tattooed with strange mythical animals, and they wore the 'pointy-hats' which are Scythian-Germanic. (Of course, these are the usual 'Celtic' origin since they wear Tartan, despite the fact that the Scots do not claim Celtic descent but Scythian, and despite the fact that similar tartan designs were used in the Iron Age in Jutland and other areas of Germania.)
The above photo shows one of the fair-haired mummies, obviously of Northern European origin - the hair is even plaited in the Germanic way.
This photo shows the tattoos on the upper body of another mummy, extremely well preserved for the age.
The importance of these finds, some around 4000 years old, is that there were Aryans in this region in ancient times. This gives credence to the occult legend that when Atlantis sank the Manu of the Aryans led them into the Gobi Desert where a vast and mighty civilisation was built. This was eventually destroyed by a catastrophe, and is long before these later peoples existed.
There are legends of a long-lost tribe in ancient times known by the Chinese as the Wusun/Usun - a name which means 'Descendants of the Raven' for in Wusun Legend their ancestors were the Raven and the Wolf. These people had blue/green eyes and red/gold hair and some say that from their name was derived the title Sacae-Sun - from Saka-Usuni. The Chinese sometimes referred to the Scythians (Saka) as the Se Nation. There is a possibility that the mummies could be linked with these people, but we cannot be sure.
Ptolomey mentions a Scythian people sprung from the Sakai, and he uses the title 'Saxones' for these people. We do know that a section of the Skythian Nation entered India, and another settled in Armenia, the latter being the Saccasani.
The above shows what is sometimes known as 'Doggerland' which was the landmass in the North Sea, of which these islands were a part. We can see clearly how these islands would have been made up of both a Southern European Race and a Northern European Race, both part of the White Race, of course. The Eastern part of these lands would have been more Germanic-Nordic, linked to Northern Europe thus. What we need to ask is - 'What happened to the peoples of these lands when the catastrophic changes took place?'
We can assume a mass migration southwards, since some of this time coincided with the last Ice Age and the frozen North. This would have displaced other peoples in Europe who would be pushed further south, pushing others even further, and maybe into China, India and Tibet since these lands also have legends of ancient White Men - as does South and Central America.
Since this catastrophic change happened around these islands then the movement of peoples must have included the peoples of these islands. The catastrophes happened over a period of thousands of years, though such changes would have meant instant catastrophes, the evidence of which we have in volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis - all of which cause great destruction and death, as well as the problems that come after these events.
From the above (conjectured) map we can see no evidence of England being shaped like a diamond, which is how two Roman historians described it. However, that does not negate their ideas since at one time it could, through the results of these catastrophic changes, been diamond-shaped, thus giving it the name Ing-Land (through the diamond-shaped rune named Ingwas.)
In certain Aryan Indian texts the most ancient 'White Island' was actually referred to as Atala whose root is At-al (-a) meaning 'race' or family'. This is a coincidence when we find the earlier name Albion ('white') used for England. Although we refer to the White Island as being Thule-Hyperborea originally, which 'sank' (into another dimension) in the most ancient times at the end of the Golden Age, the same concept was later used of other Germanic Lands and Cultures that arose, including that of the much later Atalland. The name of the original Ur-Lands was used long after its memory had faded, but also remained in the Blood Memory that can be awoken.
If we look at it this way then the Golden Age still exists but in a different world than ours; it 'sank' into the Blood Memory which means that it can be awoken again through certain spiritual exercises. This is where the legend of the new arising of Atlantis comes into play since although this may be a physical happening, it is also symbolic of the awakening of the Blood Memory.
The Aryan Wanderings are held in legend where a Race of Giants appears in various parts of the world, bringing culture and civilisation, the lore of the stars and advanced Aryan Science to many different peoples. In some cases these 'giants' were slaughtered by the native peoples, even though the tales tell only of their aid and help to these peoples. But there have always been those who hate that which holds beauty and high intelligence, and those less well gifted who become jealous and hold only hatred within their hearts. This Race of Giants no longer exists but it once did, and the memory of these advanced beings, god like Shining-Ones, exists within the Blood of our Folk, to be awakened in order that the new Golden Age may come into being.
runebinder 9 August 2015 at 07:20
this tradition of tattooing continued into present day. The dot tattoos between the knuckles (the so called prison tattoos which are often done by the wearer themselves) have their origins in the trenches of the first world war, when French soldiers started tattooing pressure points to control bleeding in case of shrapnel wounds.
Joe Sevnson 11 August 2015 at 15:43
Excellent article - very informative. Hermann Wirth claimed that jewish origins could be traced back to slaves of the ancient Sun Kings of the Gobi desert and after that catastrophe the survivors would worm their way to the already established Hyperborean Kingdoms of the Middle East. What a mess that would turn out to be by the time of a later Aryan migration wave, such as the early Greeks and Persians - both descendants of Perseus. We shall watch the meteor shower this week as we contemplate that great Ancestor. Thanks Wulf.
runebinder 24 August 2015 at 10:44
you will find this link interesting on the subject
http://atlanteangardens.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/ancient-tattooed-aryan-mummies-of-asia.html
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Fear City (1984) ***
I remember reading once, on the Classic Horror Film Board, one of the commentators there sniffing that he didn't consider slasher movies to be horror films at all. So far as he was concerned, they were just some weird, unpleasant strain of crime melodrama. I disagree with the gist of his position, obviously, but that guy really was on to something that doesn't get the acknowledgement it should. Horror and crime stories share a few miles, so to speak, of frontier over near the vast, lawless swamp where they both overlap with the suspense genre, and that frontier is as porous in places as any other inter-genre boundary. For example, back in the 50's, EC's crime comics could be every bit as gruesome as the publisher's more famous horror titles, and they were condemned just as strongly by Frederic Wertham and his allies because of it. Later on, in the 80's, there was a small but noteworthy crop of films that pitted Dirty Harry-like police detectives against slasher-like serial killers, with results that defy easy categorization. And then there's Fear City, the last of Abel Ferrara's early movies dramatizing the urban blight of 70's and 80's New York. Fear City takes yet a third approach to blending the crime and horror genres, focusing less on its ineffectual cops than on the conflict between a group of vice-trading mobsters and a psychopath with an agenda preying on the dancers at mafia-controlled strip clubs. It's a bit like a Hellhole New York update of M.
I suppose you could think of Matt Rossi (Tom Berenger, from Eye See You and Sliver) and his junior partner, Nicky Parzeno (Jack Scalia, of Endless Descent and Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep), as talent agents, although at first glance, they both look more like pimps. The stable of girls who work for them are not prostitutes but strippers, hired out on a nightly basis to the various go-go bars in and around Times Square. Naturally Rossi, Parzeno, and most of their clients are all mobbed up, but Matt tries to keep his mafia connections in the background, and to eschew the business practices of organized crime. It's kind of a funny story how he got into this position. Like a lot of Italian kids who grew up in his neighborhood in the 50's and 60's, Matt was just sort of assumed to be mafia-bound, but he wanted nothing to do with that world. He was better than that, he thought— smarter than that— and he knew he had a marketable skill that could be exploited outside it. Rossi's intended bypass route around gangsterism led through the boxing ring. He was good enough to go pro easily, and he made a name for himself early on as an honest fighter— no rigged matches for Matt Rossi, no sir. But one night a few years ago, Rossi got put up against a boxer with more heart than sense by the name of Kid Rio. Rio wouldn't stay down no matter what Matt did to him, and the ref was content to let the fight go on so long as the obviously beaten man was still able to drag his battered carcass up off the canvass. When Rio finally did stay down, early in the tenth round, it was because Rossi had put him into a coma. He died a week later without ever regaining consciousness, and Matt hung up his gloves after that. Killing people was exactly the thing he was trying to avoid by going into boxing, you know? In the aftermath, Rossi just sort of drifted into mob employment in a state of total psychic defeat. Matt got so messed up inside that his girlfriend, Loretta (Melanie Griffith, from Cherry 2000 and Body Double), couldn't deal with him anymore. First she took up heroin, and when even that didn't numb the pain of their failing relationship, she had the good sense to walk out. She's off the junk now, though, and dating another woman by the name of Leila (Rae Dawn Chong, of Quest for Fire and Tales from the Darkside: The Movie), which is the ultimate kick in the ass for Matt on a bunch of levels. You see, Loretta and Leila both work for him as dancers.
So basically, Rossi's got plenty of problems even before somebody (an uncredited John Foster) ambushes Honey Washington (Ola Ray, from 10 to Midnight and The Night Stalker)— another of Matt's girls— and puts her in the hospital with a plethora of superficial but vicious knife and scissor wounds. The worst of it is Honey's fingers; her attacker cut a few of them off before he was finished with her. Several more of Rossi's strippers, Leila included, are savaged over the coming week or so, too, plunging his entire life into disarray. Of his remaining high-earners, only Nicky's girlfriend, Ruby (Janet Julian, of Humongous and Ghost Warrior), has the nerve to keep up her regular work schedule. A grief-stricken Loretta returns to her old dope habit after Leila succumbs to her injuries, transforming overnight from the agency's star performer into a completely unreliable mess. Club owners like Frank (Joe Santos, of Flesh and Lace and Shaft's Big Score) start complaining about broken contracts and lost earnings. Carmine (Rossano Brazzi, from The Final Conflict and Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks), Matt's mafia patron, starts pushing him to adopt a war footing, offering him armed goons to patrol his territory and visibly disapproving when Rossi prefers to keep things non-lethal at his end. And a homicide detective called Wheeler (Billy Dee Williams, from The Final Comedown and The Empire Strikes Back) begins making a pest of himself in Times Square, operating under the assumption that the attacks on strippers are part of an incipient mob war between Rossi's masters and the Jewish gangs led by Carmine's old enemy, Goldstein (Jan Murray).
Wheeler has it all wrong, of course. The man who's been cutting up strippers in Times Square doesn't give a shit about any mafia rivalry, and indeed isn't consciously preying on Rossi at all. It's just that Matt's agency has something approaching a local monopoly on nude and topless dancers, so pretty much any such girl the slasher hits in the neighborhood is apt to be one of his. The best way to conceptualize Rossi's de facto nemesis might be to imagine a cross between Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle and Seven's John Doe. He believes that he is cleansing a city all too obviously in need of a good scrub-down, and he would be thrilled to learn that his activities have virtually shut down all the titty bars in Times Square. Wheeler's myopic commitment to his mob-strife theory, meanwhile, effective ensures that the killer will be free to keep scrubbing for a long time. Unless, that is, Rossi can overcome his aversion to serious violence and take care of the problem like Carmine wants him to.
The thing you have to remember about the filthy, rotten, crime-ridden New York City of the 70's and 80's is that a lot of people loved it, and were sorry to see it go. Not infrequently, they were the same people who hated it, and wanted to see it burn. For many, it was almost a badge of honor to live in a city of nearly post-apocalyptic social breakdown; like the song says, if you could make it there, you could make it anywhere. That tension runs through practically all contemporary New York-centric art actually made by New Yorkers, and it grows noticeably stronger toward the end of the era, when efforts to clean up the city began to gain traction. Old Dirty New York still had a few years left in it in 1984, but Fear City is an excellent example of the phenomenon nevertheless. Ferrara's loyalties are plainly divided, and that division is visible wherever you look in the film.
Let's start with Matt Rossi; he is, after all, the protagonist. As a mobbed-up agent for an army of strippers, Matt is very much a part of the city's rampant vice trade, but he's extremely ambivalent about his position. At times, he seems to relate to the mafia almost as one of the ethnic clubs that sprang up in most major American cities during the Ellis Island era. Just the same, though, he has no illusions about organized crime, and he resisted becoming a part of it for as long as he thought he had any other options. In some ways, he continues to resist even now, like when he refuses to let Nicky rough up Frank over a past-due payment, or when he rebuffs Carmine's offer to lend him some leg-breakers to patrol his turf. Matt has no patience for Loretta's drug habit, either. So that makes him an "Honor and Humanity" sort of gangster, right? Even though that specific formulation is a yakuza thing instead of a mafia thing? Maybe. But notice how Ferrara consistently portrays Rossi's commitment to nonviolence as a symptom of lost manhood, or at the very least as a situational weakness that his girls and his business can ill afford just now. Notice that the showdown between Matt and the killer is intercut with clips of the Kid Rio fight, so that we're invited to read the return of Rossi's killer instinct as a long-awaited personal triumph. And yet notice too that Matt emerges from that battle vaguely but visibly disgusted with himself for doing what the whole film has been assuring us he had to do.
The killer also embodies a complicated attitude toward the changes beginning to come over New York. Remarkably, Ferrara lets us see his face clearly from his very first appearance, and he's not at all what you expect from either a mad slasher or a vigilante. His most conspicuous outward characteristic is his sheer ordinariness, but he's ordinary in a socially and culturally significant way. Young, white, handsome, of no identifiable specific ethnicity, casually yet fashionably dressed, and apparently both affluent and college-educated (if we may judge from his enviably large loft apartment and the awareness of human anatomy with which he's credited by the doctors who treat his victims), he's like a nightmare vision of yuppie gentrification. Even his methods of attack are trendy, emphasizing as they do Japanese weapons and martial arts at a time when American pop culture was all agog over ninjas. By pursuing his bloody personal war against the vice business, he does in a more direct and brutal way what his demographic cohort was doing on the macro level, driving out the people who had flourished during Manhattan's period of social unraveling. And obviously his attitude toward crime and vice is positively Giulianian. He's the ideal villain, in other words, for New Yorkers who aren't sure they really want the streets cleaned up, however tired they might be of getting mugged in the subway.
Detective Wheeler is the most instructive figure, however, fitting into the picture in all sorts of complicated ways. First, his giallo-flavored uselessness reflects both the real-world inability of the police to enforce the law in America's largest city during this period, and the increasingly prevalent reactionary opinion that the best way to deal with a criminal was to shoot him yourself. However, the specific form his uselessness takes marks him as a creature of the same ecosystem as his enemies on the other side of the law. It's no accident that Wheeler spends most of the film chasing after the imaginary participants in a mob war that isn't actually happening. For one thing, that explanation for the rash of stripper-slashings fits very neatly into the worldview he's developed over fifteen or twenty years on an increasingly outmatched police force. The detective sees Manhattan's crime problem as a both a chronic, endemic condition— an incurable disease that can be treated only by managing the symptoms— and as the basically predictable end result of human venality. For him, it's all about making money and settling personal scores, and there undeniably is an awful lot of that going on outside the law in his city. What's more, that kind of crime has become for Wheeler something familiar and even comfortable. He's become as desensitized to lawlessness as the citizens he and his department can't seem to protect, and that's made him complacent about how he approaches his job. He expects all police work to be a matter of finding the right mob boss to lean on or the right lowlife to sock upside the head. Also, if you look closely, there's a clear element of racial and class resentment visible at the back of Wheeler's "one size fits all" style of policing. On the one hand, he's sick to death of seeing the fucking Italians get away with shit that would get a black perp locked up forever, and on the other, he's filled with the classic working class hatred of freeloaders and parasites. On a certain level, he's wedded to his mob-war theory because he wants the culprit to be some sleazy dago greaseball who'd rather skim his living off the top of a stripper's tips than do an honest day's work himself.
Ultimately, though, Wheeler won't let himself see the slasher case for what it is because what it is threatens his complacency. Vigilantism isn't just against the law, after all. It's also a rebuke to legitimate law enforcement, a verdict from its perpetrators that the cops and courts aren't doing their jobs— and it would have been hard to look around New York City in 1984 and conclude that they were. By admitting that he's looking for a vigilante, Wheeler would be admitting in a sense that he and his whole department had failed. It would also place Wheeler in the uncomfortable position of recognizing that he and the slasher are, in an important sense, on the same side. And although Wheeler naturally has no way of knowing this, actually catching the slasher would put him in an even more uncomfortable spot, in that he'd see that the killer is exactly the sort of upwardly mobile narcissist that was soon to seize political control of the city, turning cops like Wheeler into the functional equivalent of their own private security force. Even Wheeler knows that he's going to lose something in the transition when the new, clean New York finally arrives.


This covers the Barraves valley in the Ribagorca region situated in the central part of the Pyrenees. The map includes the Besiberri Massif whose highest point is called Comalooforno (3,029), and Tuc de Molieres Mountain (3,011m). The map comes with a hiking guide booklet with details of tourist attractions, hiking and sporting activities as well as transport information.
Published in October 2000 this map is GPS compatible.


This Square wooden box comes in shades of golden and white with an intricate work all around. It has 4 compartments to store things like dry fruits, sweets, namkeens, mouth fresheners, cookies etc. and can be kept on the dining table or center coffee table for guests or house members. It is also widely used to store small jewelry. A budget box, this can even be used in gifts at the time of festivals like Diwali, Holi, birthdays, weddings etc.


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1TB free Flickr storage
Gigaom reports:
"We want to make Flickr awesome again," Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said.
Flickr is getting three big updates. All users will get 1 terabyte of photo storage for free. The site's s interface is also being redesigned to focus on full-resolution photos — both in photo browsing and in search — rather than words and links. Users will be able to share the full-resolution photos by email, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr.
This sounds amazing! Also:
Flickr Pro, which had allowed users to pay for more storage space, is going away. "There's no such thing as Flickr Pro today because [with so many people taking photographs] there's really no such thing as professional photographers anymore," Mayer said (though she acknowledged that there are "different skill levels"). There are still a couple of paid options: Users can pay $49.99 a year for an ad-free interface, and can add a second terabyte of data for $499.99 per year. It's unclear what will happen with existing Flickr Pro memberships that users have already paid for.
I've been a paying customer of Flickr for years. It was worth every penny. But, at the same time, it was difficult to convince my friends to use it as there were some severe limitations for free accounts. It's nice to see them gone now.
The only weird bit of the blog post is this:
And, in addition to the iOS app Flickr launched last December, Yahoo is launching an Android app.
Flickr already has an Android app. So I'm assuming they will just revamp that as well.
Posted on May 21, 2013 May 21, 2013 Author Leonid MamchenkovCategories All, Photography, Technology, Web workTags announcements, Flickr, Marissa Mayer, web services, yahoo1 Comment on 1TB free Flickr storage
Marissa Mayer Has a Secret Weapon
For the past decade, she has been the doyen of a collection of some of the most talented young engineers and product managers in all of technology. These are the hand-selected prime talents of an accelerated leadership program at Google called Associate Product Manager (APM).
Mayer invented this program, led it and never gave it up. It was a key part of her tenure at Google. And now she may reap some benefits.
Don't be fooled by the modest title, prefixed by that timid word "associate." The most coveted entry post at Google is spelled APM. This is an incubation system for tech rock stars. "The APM program is one of our core values — I'd like to think of one of them as the eventual CEO of the company," Google's Executive Chair Eric Schmidt once told me.
Consider the first APM, a fresh Stanford grad named Brian Rakowski. He became a key leader of the team that built the Chrome browser and now is the VP of the Chrome operation. The second was Wesley Chan, who made Google Toolbar a success, then launched Google Analytics and Google Voice. He's now picking winners for Google Ventures. Another early APM was Bret Taylor, who earned his bones by launching Google Maps. He left Google and co-founded Friendfeed, then become the Chief Technical Officer of Facebook.
Though not all APMs achieve such glory, they are generally recognized as elite. At any given time at Google, there are over 40 APMs active in the two-year program. And since Google has been hiring them since the early 2000s there are over 300 who have been through the program.
And the glue to the whole shebang was Marissa Mayer, who was the APM boss, mentor, den mother and role model.
Mayer thought up the program in early 2002. Google had been struggling to find PMs who could work within the peculiar company culture — team leaders who would not be bosses but work consensually with the wizards who produce code. Ideally, a Google product manger would understand the technical issues and sway the team to his or her viewpoint by strong data-backed arguments, and more than a bit of canny psychology. But experienced PMs from places like Microsoft, or those with MBAs, didn't understand the Google way, and tried to force their views on teams.
So Mayer came up with an idea: Google would hire computer science majors who just graduated or had been in the workplace fewer than 18 months. The ideal applicants must have technical talent, but not be total programming geeks — APMs had to have social finesse and business sense. Essentially they would be in-house entrepreneurs. They would undergo a multi-interview hiring process that made the Harvard admissions regimen look like community college. The chosen ones were thrown into deep water, heading real, important product teams.
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In 2005 James Bloice Smith of Headington Action gave a presentation at the North-East Area Committee about Headington's cycle lanes. This highlighted both the inadequacy and downright uselessness of many of the existing cycle lanes, and helped motorists appreciate just how difficult life can be for cyclists.
Headington's cycle lanes often come to an abrupt end (sometimes in the middle of a bus queue); they can be ridiculously short; they are used for parking; and they can tip cyclists from the safety of a pavement cycle lane straight in front of a bus.
See London Road North below and follow London Road South and Contra-Flow Cycle-Lanes for other examples of bad lane organization. Marston is no better.
Pavement cycle lanes are unpopular with pedestrians, but they are disliked by most cyclists as well. Although the county council would like them to be one-way and have painted cycles on them to suggest the way that cyclists should ride, these pavement lanes are outside the scope of the Highway Code and nothing can be done to stop cyclists from cycling in both directions on them.
The next picture shows the continuation of the twin lanes after the bus-stop. Note that this section of the cycle lane commences with a stop line, for the benefit of those cycling the wrong way.
When you finally reach the Green Road roundabout, the signs show that you are allowed to cycle under the subways. This is a time-honoured concession originally granted to Cowley car-workers cycling from Barton. There are no markings, however, and cyclists and pedestrians have a dangerous free-for-all, with broken glass usually adding extra excitement.


Elizabeth Perrigo lived with an incarcerated hiatal hernia for years. It was first diagnosed as acid reflux when she was living in Florida. Doctors there prescribed medicine. After the correct hernia diagnosis, Elizabeth stayed with the medication to treat the symptoms. That worked for a while. Then something changed.
When she landed in the Emergency Department at Glens Falls Hospital, it became clear that she'd need surgery.
The 75-year-old opted for the hospital's advanced surgical robotics program. She had surgery on a Monday afternoon and was home by Thursday.


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TASSAGHT
TASSAGHT promotes conflict prevention and management, and sustainable development in Mali.
TASSAGHT, which means "link" in the Tamasheq language, is a Malian peacebuilding organization founded in 1985. The first national organization based in Gao, its vision is that of a caring and responsible society based on the principles of freedom and justice. Apolitical and non-profit, TASSAGHT works from rural communities for sustainable development in Gao, Bourem and Ansongo.
Since 1985, TASSAGHT has cultivated transversal implementation of its projects and development programs, behavior and practices, especially in conflict management and prevention. The strategies developed for this purpose take into account the sensitivity of the conflict, emphasizing preventive measures and strengthening the gains of peace. TASSAGHT is one of the main organizations where civil dialogue can take place in the Gao region, working to build peaceful interaction between nomadic and sedentary communities and has achieved remarkable successes in this field.
Since May 2012 TASSAGHT has also invested in projects for victims of the community crisis in northern Mali, including internally displaced persons, refugees and returnees in the Gao region.
A five-year integrated food security programme in the five municipalities of Bourem, in partnership with Save the Children US, focusing on agriculture, health, nutrition, micro-finance, governance and local capacity building.
Shared project governance in the Gao region.
A food security project in Gao and Ansongo.
A livelihood security program in Gao.
A school canteen programme in the nomadic areas of northern Mali.
A support project for women's units processing animal by-products in the nomadic area of northern Mali.
An integrated water-health-education programme in the Bourem region of Gao.
An emergency programme for poor and very poor households affected by the 2010 crisis in Gao and Ansongo.
Mitigation of the effects of climate change in the rural commune of Intillit.
Free distribution and nutrition for women and children from poor families in Gao, affected by the war in northern Mali.
Improving food security in three municipalities in the region of Bourem and Gao.
Emergency actions for war and drought-affected populations in Gao, including domestic projects and working with refugees and displaced persons.
Project to set up a pastoral monitoring mechanism in Gao and Ansongo.
Strengthening the livelihoods of vulnerable households affected by the food crisis and pastoral 2010 in the Sahel region of Gao.
Pastoral Plan in the cercle of Gao and Ansongo.
Development and integration of agro-ecology to strengthen the organizational and technical capacities of women and youth associations.
Conflict prevention and early warning Development Transitional justice and reconciliation Dialogue and mediation
http://www.autreterre.org/fr/projects/27-tassaght/84-synthese-du-projet.aspx
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Apple Bolsters Video Team With Hires From Hulu and Legendary Entertainment
Tuesday December 12, 2017 2:33 PM PST by Juli Clover
Apple's original content video team continues to grow with the addition of two recently hired TV veterans who will handle business affairs for the division, reports Variety.
Philip Matthys, who previously worked for Hulu, and Jennifer Wang Grazier, who was with Legendary Entertainment, have both joined Apple. Matthys was hired last month, and Wang Grazier, who will report to Matthys, will start in January.
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Prior to joining Apple, Matthys was Hulu's head of business affairs, the same role he has now taken at Apple. At Hulu, where he handled dealmaking and policy, Matthys worked on "The Handmaid's Tale," "Marvel's Runaways," "The Looming Tower," "The First," and "Castle Rock."
Wang Grazier served as EVP, Business and Legal Affairs at Legendary, overseeing business and legal aspects related to TV and digital studios development. Wang Grazier worked on shows that include USA's "Colony," Netflix's "Love and Lost in Space," Hulu's "The Looming Tower," and Amazon's "Carnival Row."
Apple began building its new video division in June of 2017 with the hiring of Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg, two former Sony executives who now report to Apple senior vice president of internet software and services Eddy Cue. Erlicht and Van Amburg helped produce shows like "Breaking Bad," "Better Caul Saul," "The Crown," and more.
Erlicht and Amburg have made several hires since then, bringing on Matt Cherniss in August and former Amazon Studios executive Morgan Wandell in October, Michelle Lee just this month, and several other experienced TV execs over the last few months.
Apple's video team is has so far inked deals for two shows, including a reboot of Steven Spielberg's sci-fi series "Amazing Stories" and an untitled "morning show drama" that will star Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston.
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Eventually everybody will have their own "service" aka "channels" and then another company will come in and offer them in a combined package for a certain monthly fee. Why hasn't anybody thought of this before? Billion dollar idea right there....
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SIUE Black Faculty and Staff Association draws attention to Juneteenth
Published 5:08 pm CDT, Friday, June 19, 2020
Dating back to June 19,1865, Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in Texas, making it one of the last states in the country to be free.
EDWARDSVILLE — In a time where there are race-related protests, scrutiny of culturally sanctioned racism and a resurgence in cries for black equality, the observance of Juneteenth (June 19) in America is getting a wider audience than ever before. Multiple companies, including Nike and Target, have announced that they will either honor or recognize Friday, June 19 as a paid holiday for their employees this year, as a sign of support for the Black community. In Texas, Juneteenth has been a state holiday since 1980.
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Black Faculty and Staff Association (BFSA) is celebrating the day and wants to shine light on the oldest national commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.
It was on June 19, 1865 that Texas slaves heard that they were free. Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed in Galveston with news of the end of the war and their liberation. President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which was official Jan. 1, 1863, had little impact on Texans because of the small amount of Union troops to enforce the executive order. However, when General Robert E. Lee surrendered in April 1865, Granger's regiment was strong enough to overcome the resistance. Texas was one of the last states to liberate its slaves.
"Today, Juneteenth commemorates African American freedom and emphasizes education and achievement. It is a day, a week, and in some areas a month marked with celebrations, guest speakers, picnics and family gatherings," according to juneteenth.com.
"Juneteenth is our Independence Day as Black Americans, not July 4th," said BFSA President Lakesha Butler, PharmD, BCPS, clinical professor in the School of Pharmacy's Department of Pharmacy Practice. "My ancestors were not free in 1776 when July 4th was first observed to celebrate the 'birth of American independence.'"
"Juneteenth is a great historical observance," said Anthony Cheeseboro, PhD, associate professor in the Department of History. "This significant event meant that African Americans knew that slavery was over, and that they would now have power over their own lives."
"I am from Texas, so I have known about Juneteenth since birth," said School of Education, Health and Human Behavior Dean Robin Hughes, PhD.
"As a native Texan, Juneteenth has always been a bittersweet holiday for me," said J.T. Snipes, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and BFSA president-elect. "While it is unrealistic that Texas, a state that succeeded from the Union, would enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, it's sad to think that for more than two years enslaved Black people had a legal claim to freedom, that they were either unaware of or unable to exercise without the threat of death or retribution."
The facts of Juneteenth are still not widely known throughout the country.
"I am sad to say that I did not learn about Juneteenth until I took an African-American studies elective as a college student," said Butler. "The falsification of American history is a blatant example of systemic racism. In grade school, slavery was never discussed due to the ideology of white supremacy."
"Juneteenth reminds me of economic inopportunity, and why Black people in Texas and other places in the U.S. have to struggle to gain an inch, fiscally speaking," added Hughes. "Juneteenth reminds me that systemic racism plays a huge role in generational wealth. It also shows me that institutions are still working as if it is normal to discriminate, because of their many rules and policies that were framed around white supremacy."
"Juneteenth is an important marker in U.S. history," interjected Snipes. "It's the day that the country moved closer to becoming a more perfect union by emancipating the formerly enslaved. Also, I draw on the Sankofa bird that paradoxically moves forward while looking back. If we do not remember our collective racial past, we cannot move forward as a country."
"Juneteenth should be a holiday," said Butler. "If we say that Black lives matter here, the celebration of my freedom should not be an afterthought."
"Juneteenth as a holiday would complement July 4, as they both focus on citizenship and freedom," added Cheeseboro.
While Hughes agrees that Juneteenth should be a holiday, she stresses that there is still work to be done.
"An attempt to end any form of oppression should be more than symbolic gestures. When systems continue to operate nuanced and imbedded in white supremacy and racism, then there is really no end to the mental trauma inflicted on Black individuals and people of color," she said. "Ceremoniously we marked an end to the legal institution of slavery, but we are still in spaces that reek of white supremacy. Sometimes holidays become well-meaning gestures that make some folks feel good. These gestures often times become pomp and circumstance only."
"I would encourage all of the SIUE community to educate yourselves on the history of Juneteenth," encouraged Butler, "and ensure that this history is not lost by sharing it with at least your children and family. I would also urge people to advocate for the historical narrative in schools to change by facing the gruesome history of this country and teaching the truth."
"If there is commitment from all of humanity to do better—to do what is right and equitable and end systemic racism—that should be the goal," noted Hughes. "This takes lots of time and effort. I think that's what we are doing at SIUE. It will be difficult, but if we are serious about equity, and specifically making changes to systemic policies and procedures that sustain white supremacy, then we will truly bring liberty and justice to all."
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'They wanted a king, what they got was bread' — some preliminary thoughts on the feeding of 5,000 and the Eucharist
Benedictine Church of the Multiplication at Tabgha in Galilee. John 6 [NRSV]. [...] 10 Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." Now there was a great deal of grass in the place; so they[c] sat down, about five thousand in all. 11 Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who … Continue reading 'They wanted a king, what they got was bread' — some preliminary thoughts on the feeding of 5,000 and the Eucharist
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What can Rabbi Kushner and a bawdy church camp song tell us about John the Baptist and the kingdom of God?
Herold's Banquet, Fra Filippo Lippi, Fresco Duomo, Prato (Wikimedia) Mark 6 (NRSV) 22 When his daughter Herodias[e] came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests; and the king said to the girl, "Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it." 23 And he solemnly swore to her, "Whatever you ask me, I will give … Continue reading What can Rabbi Kushner and a bawdy church camp song tell us about John the Baptist and the kingdom of God?
June 30, 2021 August 27, 2021 zenlutheran faith, historical Jesus, lectionary, music, Old Testament
How shall we know a prophet has been among us? Listening for the good news in Nazareth, Babylon — to a reggae beat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXf1j8Hz2bU Ezekiel 2 (NRSV). He said to me: O mortal,[a] stand up on your feet, and I will speak with you. 2 And when he spoke to me, a spirit entered into me and set me on my feet; and I heard him speaking to me. 3 He said to me, Mortal, I am sending you to the people of … Continue reading How shall we know a prophet has been among us? Listening for the good news in Nazareth, Babylon — to a reggae beat
June 23, 2021 July 10, 2021 zenlutheran faith, historical Jesus, lectionary, Matthew
'Do not fear, only believe': Unpacking the good news in a the miracle of healing a synagogue elder's daughter in Capernum
Resurrection of Jairus' daughter, Albert von Keller, 1886 (Wikimedia Commons) Mark 5 (NRSV). 35 While he was still speaking, some people came from the leader's house to say, "Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the teacher any further?" 36 But overhearing[b] what they said, Jesus said to the leader of the synagogue, "Do not fear, only believe." 37 Sunday's gospel … Continue reading 'Do not fear, only believe': Unpacking the good news in a the miracle of healing a synagogue elder's daughter in Capernum
June 13, 2021 June 16, 2021 zenlutheran historical Jesus, Holy Land, Ignatian contemplation, incarnation, lectionary, Mark, New Testament, parables
The parable of the mustard seed, the historical Jesus, the kingdom of God and a couple of kudzu jokes (Pentecost III)
Mustard plants in Galilee (I think the sign says 'no trespassing' in Hebrew) Mark 4 (NSRV). 26 [Jesus] also said, "The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, 27 and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. 28 The earth produces of … Continue reading The parable of the mustard seed, the historical Jesus, the kingdom of God and a couple of kudzu jokes (Pentecost III)
May 26, 2021 May 28, 2021 zenlutheran church year, Episcopalians, incarnation, Ireland, John, journal, lectionary, personal God
God's presence in an 11th-century Irish poem and a gust of wind on a nice spring afternoon — for Trinity Sunday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lx-iI-kFDA St. Patrick's Breastplate, Church of the Redeemer, Kenmore, Wash. John 3:1-17 (NRSV). 4 Nicodemus said to him, "How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother's womb and be born?" 5 Jesus answered, "Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being … Continue reading God's presence in an 11th-century Irish poem and a gust of wind on a nice spring afternoon — for Trinity Sunday
April 28, 2021 May 3, 2021 zenlutheran faith, journal, lectionary, SCI/Benedictine
Climbing up out of an English teacher-y rabbit hole with a little help from the Ursuline sisters and St. Philip the Deacon
St. Philip baptizes a eunuch, attributed to Jan Brueghel the Younger (Wikipedia) Acts 8 (NRSV) 35 Then Philip began to speak, and starting with this scripture, he proclaimed to him the good news about Jesus. 36 As they were going along the road, they came to some water; and the eunuch said, "Look, here is water! What is to … Continue reading Climbing up out of an English teacher-y rabbit hole with a little help from the Ursuline sisters and St. Philip the Deacon
March 11, 2021 March 14, 2021 zenlutheran church year, culture wars, John, lectionary
Coming to terms with John 3:16 with the help of Johnny Cash, the Carter family and the gospel according to Wikipedia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98jzQ478VNs 'Where the soul of man never dies' - Johnny Cash with June, Helen and Anita Carter John 3 [NRSV] 14 And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.[i]16 "For God so loved the world that he gave … Continue reading Coming to terms with John 3:16 with the help of Johnny Cash, the Carter family and the gospel according to Wikipedia
March 4, 2021 March 7, 2021 zenlutheran church year, Holy Land, John, lectionary, pandemic
Connecting the dots for Lent III on covenants, the destruction of the temple and the Church of the Nativity
Editor's (admin's) Note. Third of ___* Lenten meditations based on lectionary readings on the covenants of Noah, Abraham and Moses. This one riffs on the Ten Commandments and the passage in the Gospel of St. John where Jesus speaks of the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem. 'My father's house' -- Church of the Nativity, … Continue reading Connecting the dots for Lent III on covenants, the destruction of the temple and the Church of the Nativity
February 26, 2021 March 4, 2021 zenlutheran church year, Holy Land, lectionary, Mark, Old Testament
Noah's rainbow sign: Good news for the 53rd Sunday in Lent in a pandemic?
Editor's (admin's) Note. First of ___ Lenten meditations based on lectionary readings on the covenants of Noah, Abraham and Moses. This one riffs on Noah the the sign of the rainbow. Rainbow (at lower right center of picture) outside Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem Genesis 9 [NRSV]: 8 Then God said to Noah and to his … Continue reading Noah's rainbow sign: Good news for the 53rd Sunday in Lent in a pandemic?


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Candice Bergen Shares First Photo Of 'Murphy Brown' Revival
Published on April 9, 2018.
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Candice Bergen and the Murphy Brown cast are gearing up for their big return!
The 71-year-old actress took to her Instagram on Thursday, April 5 to share the first cast photo from the set of the upcoming Murphy Brown revival. "MURPHY BROWN…together again. Coming to your neighborhood TV in the fall. Just in time…," she captioned the group shot which included Bergen, Faith Ford, Joe Regalbuto and Grant Shaud, along with new star Nik Dodani and writer/executive-producer Diane English.
Not included in the photo is Jake McDorman who portrays Murphy Brown's son Avery in the new series.
Among all of the reboots and revivals of late, CBS announced Murphy Brown's return back in January and confirmed that they had ordered 13 episodes for a revival, saying that Brown will "return to a world of cable news, social media, fake news and a very different political and cultural climate.
The popular sitcom ran for 10 seasons from 1988-1998 and in that received 18 Emmys, three Golden Globes and three Screen Actors Guild awards.
Although there has been no confirmed premiere date for the revival, the hope is that the series is ready for the Fall 2018-2019 TV season.
Back in September of 2017, Bergen opened up about the possibility of returning to her iconic character, "Diane and I haven't really gotten together to talk about it … but I don't know that that's a possibility," Bergen told Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live. She did add that the show would have a lot to work with considering the current political and social climate. "To squander this moment in time, to try to make anything good out of it, would be nice," she said.
MURPHY BROWN…together again. Coming to your neighborhood TV in the fall. Just in time…
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Q: Display posts separated by Category in Author's page I created an author's page using:
 <?php
  if(isset($_GET['author_name'])) :
  $curauth = get_userdatabylogin($author_name);
  else :
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and then a standard loop, which displays all posts' titles published by that author. I'm trying to separate the display of the posts, according to the category they belong to (1, 2 or 3), so I tried using
<?php query_posts('cat=1'); ?>

but then all my blog posts are displayed, not just that author's. Something is certainly wrong.
I know I have to use a custom query when there is more than one loop per post, but given that just using a single standard query, with the "cat" filter isn't working, I'm a bit lost.

A: Solved in a much much much simpler way
I have one loop per each category I need to display, and the query is built using:
<?php query_posts('cat=1&author='.$curauth->ID;); ?>

A: If you're using an author template there's absolutely no need to setup(set) the author query parameters, they'll be setup ready in the query object present on the author page..
You could additionally avoid the need to create numerous queries(one per category currently), by iterating over the query you have, extracting the categories, and storing post IDs associated with given categories inside an array. First iteration you use to build the array of IDs divided by category name/ID(whatever you like), then rewind the query, iterate over the posts, continuing(skipping) results that don't match the first category in your newly built array of category IDs(or names). Again you follow by rewinding the loop, then iterating over it again for each category you have in the new array, continuing(skipping) posts when they don't match the current category iteration.
It's not something that will really make much sense until you see it, and gets a little more complex if you categorize your posts into multiple categories(where the categories can intersect across posts), but it will work(without any additional queries) for the current page(it obviously won't sort the full result set, so whilst a given page will sort, that overall sort won't carry across the sum of all pages for the result set).
If you think the above method sounds useful and you're not fussed about the aforementioned problem i don't mind providing an example.

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"Skye is a Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia, or JMML pediatric cancer survivor," reveals Talia Savren-McCormick, mother to four-year-old Skye Savren-McCormick.
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Father and Daughter Shared Cancer Journey Ends at Dodger Stadium
When Luis Diaz was diagnosed with leukemia at age 16, he never imagined that his daughter would face a similar battle more than a decade later.
Luis' daughter, Jazmine, then age 2, was diagnosed with Ewing Sarcoma, a rare type of cancer that occurs in bones or in the soft tissue around the bones. [...]
By Jane Murcia with Photos from Nick Carranza • December 7, 2019
Pediatric Nurse Uses Her Own Cancer Experience to Forge Connection with Patient
When 11-year-old Debbie Flores arrived for her first appointment at UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, she searched the room for a friendly face. Meeting for the first time, her eyes landed on Amy Bell, a pediatric oncology and hematology nurse.
Debbie, who was to undergo her first chemotherapy treatment for the pre acute lymphoblastic leukemia [...]
UCLA Physician Scientists Awarded $500,000 for Pediatric Cancer Research
Two UCLA doctors have received grants totaling $500,000 to fund research into treatments for pediatric cancer from Hyundai Hope On Wheels.
Coping with Childhood Cancer
It can be difficult to know what to do next when your child receives a cancer diagnosis. Gathering information and asking questions is usually the first step to feeling more confident and in control. These tips can help you cope. Information is key to helping kids with cancer [...]
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Kenny's Story
Kenny Thomas is a one of our long-standing Dribble heroes! For someone so young, he has been a spokesperson for UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital and a vocal one at that! As a National Ambassador for Hyundai Hope On [...]
By uclahealth • October 15, 2018
Leone's Story
Leone is four years old and loves to watch sports on TV with grandpa, when watching basketball or baseball, he will bounce a ball or swing the bat as the players do. Leone was diagnosed with Leukemia one year ago and had set backs, like six weeks at the UCLA [...]
Skye's Story
Skye is a three year old-whose life has already been well-documented because of the amazing way her life has touched so many people! Skye was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer called juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia when she was an infant and received the first of three By uclahealth • September 17, 2018
Pedro's Story
On January 22nd, Pedro was diagnosed with t-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and immediately started chemotherapy. Pedro is 5 years old and loves sports but one of his favorite sports are soccer and basketball. Since he was diagnosed, he hasn't joined a team, but is hoping that he [...]


>>  Your statement is inaccurate.  Cingular bought AT&T Wireless.
>> the AT&T name and adopted it.
RJ> store to an AT&T store. It did not change from an SBC store.
wagging the dog.  Cingular didn't have any autonomy in the matter.


Kimberlee Conway Ireton reads from The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year.; Julia Duin reads from Quitting Church: Why the Faithful are Fleeing and What to Do About It.; Richard Dahlstrom reads from O2: Breathing New Life into Faith.; Tom Sine reads from The New Conspirators.
Tom Sine is currently considered a "single author." If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author.
Tom Sine is composed of 1 name.


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The last interview which Om Puri gave just after finishing the dubbing for Lashtam Pashtam is out.
Iconic Bollywood actor Om Puri, who earned critical reviews for his performance in commercial as well as art films, passed away on 6th January 2017. However, his last release Lashtam Pashtam is all set to hit theaters on 10th of August. The movie directed by Manav Bhalla also features Ishita Dutta, Tisca Chopra and others in pivotal roles.
How was your experience of working on Lashtam Pashtam?
I play a Pakistani taxi driver. An Indian who is lost in Pakistan and wishes to go to Islamabad, which is burning due to bomb blasts, asks my character to take him there. The taxi driver (Om Puri) refuses him but the youngster is so desperate that anyhow he has to go to Islamabad. Though that youngster is an Indian, the taxi driver decides to help him despite knowing that there is a lot of risk. They halt in between and he makes the youngster eat but youngster starts doubting the driver's loyalty that he might have an evil plan at the back of his mind. Eventually, in the end, the young Indian fellow is so grateful to this taxi driver, as he opens his eyes by making him understand the importance of a relationship.
What message would you want to give to the audience through your character in the film?
My character itself is giving out a message. Manav has written it in such a way that tells people that hatred should end as it has no specific reason and we are fighting forcefully. We are all humans and we have stayed together for years. Mughal rulers stayed here for almost 600 years. Before independence, we all stayed together, we have learned from all etiquettes (tehzeeb). Yes, there have been some issues but like there is a dialogue in the film that issues happen at home also, amongst Hindu brothers also and also amongst the relatives.
There is another line in the film where this driver says that my father is been buried in your Lucknow and I wish to go there and aur mai unki kabar ke sajde pe baithu. This is actually true, I have been to Pakistan 6 times and people come to me and say that their fathers are been buried in various states in India. It's the biggest tragedy that in a short span of time, more than 10 lakh people died (during Partition). When the Partition happened, brothers thought that let one brother stay this side and other on the other side and this won't change much as they can anytime come on each other's side. But they never thought the situation would become so bad. So this partition was the partition of relationships, emotions and feelings and it's a really painful thing.
I pray to God that this film releases smoothly and that people watch it so that they get an understanding through this film because unfortunately, people have to reminded of this again and again- that we must live and let live as we have sacrificed a lot during the Partition.
How was your experience of working with a completely new team, with a debutant director and new actors?
Well, I didn't know that it's a new team, if I would have been aware of it, then I might not have taken up the project (laughed). I never felt that it's a new team. You guys studied well, learned everything before starting the film; aisehi thodi aakar camera pakde aur chal diye!
Any advice for new filmmaker as its very difficult to get in and survive in the industry?
For small films, there are more difficulties because in today's time the rules for publicity have been made in such a way that a small film cannot afford it. So I request people who will see this interview that whenever you read something about small films or hear about them, please go and watch because they can't make noises from three months before the release date, neither can they have a lot of advertisements on TV. Nor can afford big hoardings. In the case of a big film with big stars as per current trends, they get a release in 5000 - 6000 screens collectively because buzz is created through a lot of publicity, and the film remains houseful for at least 4 days. After that, if the film does well then it's like cherry on the cake and if people don't like the film then at least the film manage to extract its expenses in those 4 days, which is difficult for a small film. So it's very important for a small film to convince people to come and watch it by making them understand that it's a good film, a good story. Lastly, I would say, you (Manav) shouldn't stop making films. I don't mean to say that other directors don't make good films with big actors, but I believe showing realistic films is also important.


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Confirmation of Venue for Carlow County Council Meetings
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Press Release for Immediate Release – 25th May 2020
Carlow County Council will hold its June Meetings in the George Bernard Shaw Theatre in Visual to allow all elected members, officials and members of the media to attend while maintaining social distancing guidelines.
The AGM and June Meeting will be held on 8th June 2020 with councillors gathering to vote in a new Cathaoirleach and Leas-Cathaoireach for the year ahead.
Outgoing Cathaoirleach of Carlow County Council , Cllr. John Pender said "today we held a quorum meeting in County Buildings to allow for the amendment of standing orders to change the venue for Council Meetings to George Bernard Shaw Theatre in Visual" , Pender continued to say "over the past number of months the elected members have been briefed on an ongoing basis on the operation of the Council and the support being given to the communities of Carlow since the restrictions of Covid-19" , Pender concluded by saying "I'd like to thank the front line workers in Carlow County Council who have played their role during this crisis"
Commenting on the move to Visual , Kathleen Holohan , Chief Executive of Carlow County Council said "I'd like to thank our corporate affairs section and the team at Visual for working together to ensure that we could continue to host our full Council Meetings with representation from the media and the required members of the executive team".


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People with a wide range of interests flock to Northern Oregon Coast activities. There's practically something for everyone – families, solo explorers, dog lovers, anglers, outdoorsmen and women, beach bums, thespians, artists, musicians and the list keeps going. In this wild and wonderful corner of the country, it's no surprise that many Northern Oregon Coast activities are outdoor oriented. The beaches and coastline are great places to check out, and many state parks in the area offer pristine beaches perfect for walking, lounging or kite flying. Fill your lungs with fresh air and see the world on foot or by bike with hiking trails that wind through the region; some of them are even interconnecting, and you can follow them between the towns. Astoria, Oregon, activities allow you to experience the best of the outdoors, be it by hiking, beachcombing, boating, surfing, kayaking and even zip lining. Fishing, including chartering a trip, in the Nehalem Bay and River are popular Manzanita activities. Even the many events and festivals included in Seaside, Oregon, activities utilize the area's natural resources for events ranging from beach volleyball tournaments to sandcastle building competitions.
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Child Like Spirit Humble Soul: Is The Time Getting Near?
Is The Time Getting Near?
Is the time getting near? Is the book of Revelations now before our eyes?
If you read the Bible there are so many things written in the word that we can a possibly should apply to the world today.
It is inherently conceivable God saw in us our destructiveness at the creation of mankind. We know that he sees all which leads me to believe, yes he knew at the time of our creation we were hell bent on our own destruction, hence the Book of Revelations.
However, regardless of the most intelligent person on Earth only God knows when the end of time is to be. I will admit there are times when I read the old testament concerning things that happen back in that day and wonder if in fact they were not speaking of our world today.
I will leave your conclusions on that up to you read the Old Testament and see what you think.
Bless you and all those lives you will touch.