The main hall holds a maximum of 100 people, offering a practical hard floor suitable for many uses. The main Hall has double bi-fold doors opening onto a fenced, grassed outside area, overlooking Wort's Meadow.
Other benefits if required: a hearing loop system and drop-down projection screen.
The lounge holds a maximum of 60 people offering a delightful carpeted and comfortably furnished room. The lounge doors open onto an extensive seated patio area. This has superb views across the large open space of the village recreation ground, offering excellent facilities for children and adults.
The hall offers two different rooms which can be hired independently or interlinked if required by bi-fold doors.
The hall offers a choice of large and small tables and 160 matching banquet chairs for you to use. We also hold child-sized tables and chairs to use if required.
The building has two toilet blocks offering ease of access and serving each room independently; both are well equipped with baby changing facilities and disabled toilets.
The extensive, spacious and well-equipped kitchen has the luxury of two integral high-level cookers and double hob units, a freezer, larder fridge and dishwasher. It is very well equipped for your catering needs, offering low and high level work areas and large serving hatches if required.
The entrance vestibule is accessed by a ramped path leading from the car park offering a spacious area to welcome people, with hooks for coats to be hung and the benefit of hand rails for those who may need extra support.
Landbeach Sports and Social club offers splendid bar facilities from an adjacent room. This service can be booked if required.
The Hall offers excellent parking facilities for 26 cars. Vehicular access is from Cockfen Lane. Security cameras are in place. Pedestrian access is by a footpath. The hall has a cycle rack.


text:
Brun fransgaffelslända (Elipsocus moebiusi) är en insektsart som beskrevs av Tetens 1891. Brun fransgaffelslända ingår i släktet Elipsocus och familjen fransgaffelstövsländor. Arten är reproducerande i Sverige. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

Fransgaffelstövsländor

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Brexit: Austria to Receive EUR 16.8 Million to Cushion Impact
People › Politicians ♦ Published: January 15, 2021; 15:30 ♦ (Vindobona)
To alleviate the likely negative effects of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union, the European Commission has set up a reserve, from which EU member states will receive funding. Austria is entitled to EUR 16.8 million, while other member states, which have closer trade links to the leaving party, will receive more.
After Brexit, the EU tries to alleviate the economic effects on the EU member states. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Furfur / Public domain
Austria is to receive EU 16.8 million in 2021 from the reserve proposed by the European Commission to cushion the economic and social consequences of the United Kingdom's exit from the EU.
Ireland, which will be hardest hit, is to receive more than EUR 1 billion. …
Brexit Agreement: Austria's Economy Significantly Better Off (January 14, 2021)
Schramböck: "UK Will Remain Important Partner in Europe" (December 30, 2020)
Brexit Agreement: Federation of Austrian Industries and WKO Welcome Agreement (December 26, 2020)
UK United Kingdom, Johannes Hahn, EU European Union, Elisa Ferreira, Economic Policy, Brexit, EC European Commission

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
(Redirected from HDNet)
Founded September 6, 2001
President Mark Cuban
Company 2929 Entertainment
(through HDNet Inc.)
Anschutz Entertainment Group
ViacomCBS
Creative Artists Agency (20%)
Ryan Seacrest Media
Notable Series Dan Rather Reports
Drinking Made Easy
Inside MMA
Former Names HDNet
This article about a network needs to be expanded with more information.
Please help out by editing it.
AXS TV is an American entertainment television channel, targeting the male audience. Originaly named HDNet, it gained it current name on July 2, 2012, following owner HDNet Inc. selling shares of the company.
3 Current Shows
4 Upcoming Shows
5 Shows in Limbo
6 Past logos
Program Listing: A complete listing of shows that aired new episodes on AXS TV.
WOW – Women of Wrestling (Season 2 — September 7, 2019)
Shows in Limbo
The Ronnie Wood Show (Season 1 — July 11-August 15, 2018)
80s in the Sand (Season 1 — April 7-April 28, 2019)
The Big Interview with Dan Rather (Season 4 — April 16-June 18, 2019)
Rock & Roll Road Trip with Sammy Hagar (Season 4 — May 5-July 28, 2019)
A Year in Music (Season 1 — July 7-September 8, 2019)
Trunkfest (Season 2 — July 7-September 8, 2019)
The Very VERY Best of the 70s (Season 1 — May 16-October 31, 2019)
Mixtape (Season 1 — September 10-October 31, 2019)
Paul Shaffer Plus One (Season 1 — September 15-November 10, 2019)
Rock Legends (Season 2 — September 10-November 21, 2019)
The Top Ten Revealed (Season 4 — September 15-December 1, 2019)
Brian Johnson's Life on the Road (Season 1 — September 15-December 1, 2019)
The X Factor (Season 16 — October 14-December 2, 2019)
Past logos
HDNet logo
The logo used from 2012-2013
Official website for AXS TV
Retrieved from "http://m.tviv.org/w/index.php?title=AXS_TV&oldid=2593185"
Network Stubs
American Networks


The National Park Service Turns 100 Today!
Way back in the summer of 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed an act that created the National Park Service – a federal bureau designed to protect the 35 existing national parks and monuments (the first national park, Yellowstone, was founded by congress in 1872, with the remaining added in the next 40 years). Fast forward 100 years, and America's parks system encompasses 413 areas (with Maine's Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument being added just yesterday!). Of these, there are 59 national parks, 84 national monuments, and 78 national historic sites. In total, the Parks Service oversees over 84 million acres, with land in every state.
Over the past year, we've had the pleasure of visiting many of the national parks, from Cape Cod to Bryce Canyon. This past autumn, we took a grand circle tour of 6 of the great western national parks: Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Bryce Canyon, Grand Canyon, Arches and Mesa Verde. In total, we covered over 3,600 miles in just 10 days, but we packed those days plum full of adventure. Each park was spectacular in its own right, but if we had to choose a favorite, it would be the granddaddy of them all – Yellowstone. We spent four days in that park, two in and around Mammoth and two days around Old Faithful. We even had the great honor and luck of staying in the original 1903 portion of the Old Faithful Inn.
Since then, we've been on a few other national parks as business trips have brought us nearby. This past winter, I visited the Grand Canyon and Arches again, and for the first time, visited the Colorado National Monument and its epic Rim Rock Road. Just a few weeks ago, we took our family to explore another first for us, the Cape Cod National Seashore. All in all, we were blessed with spectacular weather throughout – including more than one sky-on-fire-gorgeous sunset. This year may have marked our first big foray into the national parks, but rest assured, Lord willing, it will not be our last! Happy birthday National Park Service – and here's to many, many more centuries of success and joy!
After 10 days of travel, 3,000 miles, 4,200 photos and over a month of editing, we've finally arrived at our last post from our Autumn in the National Parks Collection. Over the course of our trip, we also photographed 142 ultra-high resolution panoramas – most in excess of 100 megapixels. The national parks, with their wide open vistas and expansive views lend themselves perfectly to the medium of panorama – offering a unique perspective on the parks that better represents the true scale of the subject in a way that even the best conventional photos can seldom do. So, without further adieu, here's about 40 of our favorite Panoramas, offering a sort of summary of an amazing, breathtaking, glorious tour of our nation's crown jewels!
Here in Florida, without towering mountains, but replete with tall trees, it's hard to get a panoramic sense of distance, yet out west the opposite is true, and vistas such as Bryce Canyon (top) and the Grand Tetons (above) lend themselves perfectly to the medium. Below, I tried my hand at some panoramic astrophotography in Arches – that's the aptly named Ham Rock in the foreground. Over the last decade, stitching software has come a long way. When we first got started, I stitched everything manually in Photoshop. I took forever and the amount of airbrushing required to bring it to a professional level was rather tedious and slow. But today, with the built-in panorama capabilities of Adobe Lightroom, I am able to stitch even wide angle images with ease, all while maintaining their raw characteristics. There's still some tweaking in Photoshop, but nothing like when we first got started.


Business leaders believe they have a compromise proposal for post-Brexit trade that would reduce barriers while allowing the UK to pursue free trade deals.
The plan – a partial customs union covering industrial goods and processed agricultural products – has been put together by the Institute of Directors, who argue it would help maintain the competitiveness in certain industries, while allowing the government to adopt an independent trade policy, including in areas such as tariffs on agricultural products like beef, oranges and sugar from developing nations.
The IoD argues that ministers should not be bound by existing precedents and must forge a bespoke deal with European counterparts. It recommends a trade framework using a customs union akin to Turkey's agreement with the EU.
"The UK could reasonably expect the same treatment, and is in fact in a stronger position, with many of those third countries already wanting to pursue deals with it after Brexit," the business group said.
A customs union covering all industrial goods and processed agricultural products would facilitate the flow of goods across UK-EU borders; remove the need for costly 'rules of origin'; would not interfere with the pursuit of external free trade agreements; but would help shift existing EU trade agreements to the UK after transition.
It would also allow the UK to maintain full control over agricultural tariffs and allow the UK to maintain a broadly distinct trade remedies policy from the EU.
Stephen Martin, IoD director general, said: "As a fundamental principle of European Union membership, the UK's decision to leave means that leaving the customs union is less a matter of choice but rather one of necessity.
Allie Renison, author of the paper and the IoD's head of Europe and trade policy, added: "There are some important choices to be made about our future economic relationship with the EU, but sadly this debate has not fully come to fruition. Even now, 20 months on from the referendum, there is still much talk and much less action.
However, the debate that has so far waged in Westminster suggests many pro-Leave figures would reject attempts to remain within a customs union of any kind.
One source has told City A.M. that such efforts on behalf of the government, through its Cross Border Trade Bill, were "an abuse of language".
MPs including Jacob Rees-Mogg and Bernard Jenkin lined up to attack chancellor Philip Hammond after he suggested "very modest" changes after Brexit, insisting the ability to do deals with other countries – and by extension leaving the Single Market and customs union – was the only way to carry out the referendum result.


text:
What Is A Hatch Chile And Is It Spicy?
By Robin Miller/Dec. 23, 2020 3:59 pm EST
Looking for a chile pepper that delivers the perfect balance of heat and sweetness? Look no further: The Hatch chile is your huckleberry.
If you've been lucky enough to visit the American Southwest in late summer/fall, you've no doubt encountered the infamous Hatch chile pepper, which hails from Hatch, New Mexico. And nowhere else (for the record). Hatch peppers are long, green chiles, pretty similar to California and Anaheim peppers, but they deliver a lot more heat (via The Spruce Eats).
Chili Pepper Madness explains that New Mexican Hatch chile peppers are an important part of the culture for anyone who lives in New Mexico, and where they're grown and harvested — in the middle of the Rio Grande agricultural territory — is frequently referred to as the Chili Capital of the World. The pepper is so revered that the annual Hatch Chile Festival that occurs each Labor Day weekend draws up to 30,000 people from around the world, all crammed into a tiny town of fewer than 2,000 people.
According to Pepperscale, the unique taste of Hatch chiles is something of a legend. Compared to other chile peppers, Hatch chiles are earthier, perhaps from the rich soil in the area they're from. They can be eaten raw, but the skin is pretty thick, so they're often roasted, which brings out unrivaled smoky/buttery notes.
What recipes can be hatched from this New Mexican green chile?
Hatch chiles are incredibly versatile and can be incorporated into a variety of dishes, including stews, sautés, sauces, dips like queso, hummus, and salsa (via Food and Wine). They're excellent on burgers and pizza, and in New Mexico, you can even find them in apple pie because the sweetness of the fruit partners beautifully with the smokiness of the chiles.
You can find both red and green varieties of Hatch chiles, but they're really same pepper picked at different times. When picked early and then roasted, they have a smoky, up-front flavor. As the chiles mature and turn red, they become sweeter and more earthy (via Food and Wine).
In terms of heat, there are several varieties of Hatch chiles, so their location on the Scoville scale fluctuates. Milder Hatch chiles start at about 1,000 SCU (Scoville heat units), which is similar to a poblano pepper, while the hotter varieties can reach up to 8,000 SCU, more akin to a serrano chile pepper (via My Recipes). Mexican Please adds that the size of a chile pepper is an indication of its heat level: Smaller chiles tend to be hotter, and larger chiles tend to be milder.
Nutritionally, one medium Hatch chile pepper has as much vitamin C as six oranges and is brimming with calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium, niacin, folate, and other important vitamins (via Spoon University).


Search through our current Berkshire Country real estate listings. We have a variety of properties, including contemporary condos, country homes & commercial spaces in towns such as Lenox, Pittsfield, Dalton, & many more! Our team of professional realtors have the expertise & skill to help you find the right real estate for you!
To save your favorite listings and to receive updates when similar properties are posted, create an account with us. If you already have an account, sign in here. Please feel free to contact us regarding any questions you may have, more information & to schedule a tour for any property below!


At first Bill thought the driver misunderstood. They went around and around and around until all of a sudden he realized the man had quadruplets.
Bill, never having seen quadruplets, asked if they could take this man and his family out for dinner the next night. The next day, as the driver and his wife filed into the local McDonald's, Bill and his wife's hearts broke when they saw the last two boys. Their eyes were terribly crossed and they couldn't walk as a result. After a little digging, Bill learned there was a surgery that could fix the little boys' eyes, but a very small window of time was left for it to be done.
The problem? The driver only made $10 per day. There was no way they could afford the surgery. So God moved the hearts of Bill and his family. They looked into it and found a doctor who could perform the surgery. After the kids went through the surgery, both boys' eyes were perfectly straight and they began learning how to walk.
God gave Bill and his family eyes to see the need that was around them. What an awesome way to view the world. Imagine the difference we can make as Christ expresses His life through us. After all, miracles happen when people step out in faith in Him. Will you?
Holy Spirit, I think MY eyes are the ones that are crossed. I'm that one who cannot walk freely as You intended. Correct MY vision. I believe that You will bless me as I allow You to bless others through me. I believe that I'll be storing up treasure in heaven. Amen.
Have you ever watched a potato sack race? Kids stick both feet inside a sack and try to race to the finish line. Instead, they usually topple over in clumps.


Aadhaar cards have been issued hastily to meet the deadline of 100% enrollment. According to the police, Aadhaar cards issued in Old Hyderabad, full names of the card holders were not registered. Instead, most of the cards carried short names without any middle or surnames. Also, the cards had some vague addresses where the addressees did not reside.
After looking into the details, the probe agencies looking into the matter suspect of hasty action to complete the target. To substantiate the suspicion, it is said that the cards bearing such address have been returned to government.
Up till now, 5.35 crore Aadhaar cards have been issued of which 47 lakh cards have been issued in the city of Hyderabad under phase I of the programme. Phase II is yet to start.
This entry was posted on May 2012 at 12:49 PM	and is filed under Hyderabad City Updates. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Your Feedback Matters!
respected sir we have not received our aadhaar card till now what should we do now we stay in old city jahanuma.


text:
Posted June 2, 2014 by Jeff in Tunes
The Menzingers: A fully democratic process
Philadelphia-based pop punk band The Menzingers ups the ante on its new album Rented World, a terrific collection of songs that has drawn comparisons to the Replacements. The very funny music video for the tune "I Don't Wanna Be An Asshole Anymore" also has gotten some well-deserved attention. Singer-guitarist Tom May recently phoned from his Philly home to talk about the album and current state of punk rock.
I love the video for "I Don't Want to be an Asshole Anymore." Did you guys come up with the concept or how did it come to be?
The director thought it up. We had been given a couple of treatments for the video. We didn't really like very many of them. The director sent that one and all four of us were like, "Yes. This has to happen. Whatever we need to do to make it happen, we gotta do it." It was filmed while we were in Australia and we didn't see anything until the video was done. It was pretty cool.
It was like the coolest thing we've ever done and none of us had anything to do with it.
What about the song? I mean it's a good song, too. What inspired that?
Thanks man. It's actually something that our drummer said one night when we were leaving the practice space and then [singer] Greg [Barnett] took that and turned it into lyrics. It had a couple different incarnations when we doing the music for it and decided to go with this. It's kinda what we're used to, the straightforward punk rock anthem kind of song.
Were you trying to do something differently on this record? Can you talk about it a little bit?
Yeah, every record that we do, we try to challenge ourselves in a sense. The things that we write, we want them to be difficult for us to play at first. This record we didn't say, "Oh, we need to make some conceptual rock record" or something like that. We just kind of got together in a small room up in North Philly and thought about what we've been listening to and what we want to play over a period of a couple months. We kind of just smashed all the songs up.
Jon Lowe worked as an engineer. What do you think he brought to the album?
Sonically, he brought everything the album is to it. I remember a lot of times where we'd be playing and he's like, "Woah, do you really need to be playing anything there?" He brought an idea of contrast to recording that we never really thought of before. He definitely brought a perspective to it that we weren't used to ourselves.
How does the songwriting work? Are you the primary songwriter or does the group as a whole? How does that happen?
Well, Greg and I both sing the songs, so we'll sing whatever we write, but for the most part we'll come to practice with a couple chords. It varies, but we usually come to practice with a couple of chords or some lyrics in mind or some melodies in mind and then four of us really write the songs.
I brought songs to this record that sounded completely different in my mind before we started working on them together. It's a fully democratic process.
What do you think are the differences between the two of you in terms of your approach?
I don't know. I guess I usually wait on lyrics and focus on melody first whereas Greg usually has the lyrics beforehand. Greg has more of a structure or chord-based kind of thing. I like to write lyrics over riffs more than chords straight through. I don't know. I guess I never really thought about the differences.
Do you and Greg share influences?
At first, we were influenced by almost all the same stuff. Greg is a lot more into folky kind of music. I listen to a lot of electronic music and stuff like that. But for the most part, since we spend so much time all of us together driving around in a van, everybody's listening to the same thing all the time. We're always texting each other different music that we find. So, we listen to the same stuff for the most part, but it can diverge for sure and it's really funny when it does.
Scranton, Pennsylvania is not really known for producing a lot of bands. Are you guys the odd people out?
It is now actually. A lot of times we'll be in England or Germany or something and someone will say, "Why are there so many bands coming out of Scranton?" And we don't really have any idea. You've got Tigers Jaw, Title Fight and all those bands.
At what point did you guys move from there?
We moved to Philadelphia about six years ago.
You guys often get comparisons to the Replacements. Is that accurate?
It's the coolest comparison you can get. I don't particularly see it. They're a really good band, a quintessential rock n' roll band. They're the band that everybody wants to be. When people compare us to them, especially it's happened more recently, it's really, really cool. That's one of the bands we grew up listening to. They're phenomenal.
Do you remember the band's first show?
Vaguely, we've debated about what the actually first show was. The first show we played–the first memorable show–was at Café Metropolis, which is a venue in Wilkes-Barre. It was cool because I think I broke several or at least one guitar string and everyone was drunk, so it was a big fuck about. I think that our first couple of shows definitely just blend together in my mind. Those days were a lot of fun.
What do you think of today's punk rock and what do you think will happen in the future?
It's weird because sometimes I feel I've become a bit detached. I'm not a 17-year-old kid who listens to punk and I'm not even in a punk band that's just playing whatever basement show they can play. When I go and see my friends' bands it seems to me that punk rock has gone a bit towards what you would call punk rock and emotional rock. I'm talking about the smaller bands that lean toward the indie side. I think I really don't know where the political part has gone. I mean everybody has philosophically political lyrics but there's no real Anti-Flag holding up the scene like there was when I was younger. I really have no idea where it's going to go. I think maybe another genre of music will fill that spot. Some kind of electronic movement or something
What do you guys have planned for the rest of the year?
We're just going to tour and tour and tour. It's similar to the last time we released a record where everything was new and exciting and our shows were bigger and we just met all kinds of new people. The rest of this year, I think we're just going to go and see our friends from around the world and play music for people.
Upcoming 2014 Tour Dates
Rochester, NY – The Bugjar
Toronto ON – Opera House
Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop
Pittsburgh, PA – Altar Bar
Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge
Minneapolis, MN – Triple Rock
Des Moines, IA – Vaudeville Mews
Davenport, IA – River City Experience
St. Louis MO – Firebird
Denver, CO – Marquis
Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court
Boise, ID – The Shredder
Seattle, WA – El Corazon
Portland, OR – Branx
San Francisco, CA – Slims
Los Angeles, CA – The Roxy
San Diego, CA – The Irenic
Phoenix, AZ – Pub Rock
Albuquerque, NM – Launchpad
Austin, TX – Red 7 Inside
Houston, TX – Fitzgeralds Downstairs
New Orleans, LA – Siberia
Tampa FL – Orpheum
Orlando, FL – The Social
Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade – Middle
Richmond, VA – Strange Matter
Baltimore, MD – Ottobar
Maia Sharp Celebrates Newfound Freedom on Highly Personal Album
Carlos Vives Explores Cumbia's Roots With New Album and Documentary
Sie7e Gets the Psychedelic Reggae Vibe Going on New Album
Jonaz Embraces '90s House Music with His New Single


Secret sharing (SS) for (k, n) threshold generates secret data into n shadows, where any k or more shadows can reconstruct the secret while any \(k-1\) or less shadows reconstruct nothing of the secret. SS is useful for cloud computing security, block chain security and so on. Since nowadays image covers more information, secret image sharing (SIS) is studied widely. Although most SIS principles are derived from SS and SIS belongs to SS, SIS has its specific features comparing to SS due to image characteristics, such as, pixel value range, region relationship and so on. In this paper, first we discuss the relations between SIS and SS, where differences between them are mainly considered. Then, some typical sharing principles are employed to further indicate the differences and analyze the possible ways to deal with the issues when directly applying SS to SIS. Finally, we perform experiments to verify our analyses.


text:
Home»Sound»Rogue Sounds»ROGUE SOUNDS: Fractal Love Jam really sticks to its guns
Rogue Sounds/Sound
ROGUE SOUNDS: Fractal Love Jam really sticks to its guns
Josh Gross 2016-05-12
Josh Gross / May 12, 2016 /	0
Warhol had soup cans. Bowie had space. Motley Crue had girls, girls, and lessee…. right, girls. Sometimes an artist just finds their thing and sticks to it.
Such is the case with Ashland band Fractal Love Jam. Every album cover is fractals. Every poster. Every show-augmenting projection. And the band works it into their music as much as possible as well on their new album, Flowers in the Dark, as well, with lyrics that trip the life fantastic over music tracks that combine electro-jam, world music, and dreamy ballads.
The band performs as a two-piece, with composer Martin Ball and vocalist Jesslynn Jones playing guitars along with sequenced beats. Rather than use the studio as an opportunity to incorporate more live instruments, the band ported that sequenced performance style straight into the studio. It gives Flowers in the Dark, a tight and focused sound, but one that often feels flat and lifeless without much dynamic range beneath the vocal melodies.
The title track, "Flowers in the Dark," has an interesting retro bent to it, sounding a bit like late '80s underground electronic music like LA Style.
The fourth track, "It's a Beautiful Day," is a goddamn tragedy. The scourge of corny nordic-white reggae now seems tragically unstoppable, as time has proved it impervious to good taste or self-awareness. But there is still a spectrum. and between the weak bland beats, synth horns, and uninspired vocals, it sounds like a cheap karaoke track.
The sixth song, "Pure Energy," returns to reggae, and with less of the synth horns, and more filtered swirls of sound, it works better.
The lyrics throughout are a fairly purple, ramming the central themes home without any regard to subtlety or nuance. The band says those themes are universal love, self-discovery, transcendence, nonduality, and entheogenic awakening and exploration. That includes stuff like energy, wormholes, infinity, and of course, fractals. But without splitting hairs too much it can be summarized as shit you think of tripping balls and grinning like a dingus. That isn't much of a surprise, as the band's lyricist, Martin Ball, is also the organizer of the annual Exploring Psychedelics academic conference at Southern Oregon University.
Flower in the Dark closes with "Movement Underground," another reggae tune that leans heavily on the fake horns for its opening hook. When the melody line ditches the horns for synth sounds, the melody is mega-hooky.
The thing that's tricky to grasp is that Flowers in the Dark contains some remarkably complex composition with thick layers of sound and melody that go far beyond the average bass, guitar, drums and keys of most bands. And the band deserves credit for tossing out the bland three-chord, verse/chorus, verse/chorus formula. But a lot of the drum and synth sequencing is done with sounds about 30 years out of date, and not in a good way. It's as corny as fall in Iowa. But when the album moves away from those sounds, it's pretty solid.
In the end, here's the thing with Flower in the Dark, and Fractal Love Jam in general. You're either into it or you're not. Not a lot of middle ground. But what matters is the band is into it. Like WAY into it. And whether you like what they stand for or not, they stand for something, and they stick to their love-guns. That's a helluva lot more than can be said about a lot of bands.
Josh Gross
Ace reporter. Produced playwright. Internationally recognized rock and roll superstar and burrito connoisseur.


text:
Complicit in Their Own Demise?
Parks, Gregory Scott Jones, Shayne E. and Hughey, Matthew W. 2014. Hazing as Crime: An Empirical Analysis of Criminological Antecedents. SSRN Electronic Journal,
Fall 2014 , pp. 938-972
Gregory S. Parks, Rashawn Ray, Shayne E. Jones and Matthew W. Hughey
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/lsi.12075
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 December 2018
Violent hazing has been a longstanding issue within African American, collegiate fraternities and sororities, otherwise known as black Greek‐letter organizations (BGLOs). This article investigates how and what hazing victims know about their hazing experiences. Additionally, the article examines how victims' knowledge of hazing may hold serious implications for tort defense doctrines like assumption of risk and comparative fault. Specifically, the authors conduct two studies—one quantitative and the other qualitative—to find that not only are BGLO pledges aware that their pledge experiences are likely to involve mental and physical hazing, but that they believe such experiences will likely continue throughout the entirety of their induction process. Moreover, appreciation for hazing experiences is often captured in the fraternal chants, greetings, and songs they learn or create, which together reflects some understanding of danger and risk. The authors contend that these elements of black "Greek" hazing culture may serve as evidence of assumption of risk or comparative fault.
COPYRIGHT: © American Bar Foundation, 2014
Anderson, Reynaldo, Buckley, Paul M., and Tindall, Natalie T. J. 2011. Black Greek‐Letter Fraternities and Masculinities. In Black Greek‐Letter Organizations 2.0: New Directions in the Study of African American Fraternities and Sororities, ed. Hughey, Matthew W. and Parks, Gregory S., 114–135. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Associated Press. 1983. Ban on Fraternity in Death. New York Times, December 15, B14.
Associated Press. 1989. 2 N.C. Central Students Injured in Fraternity Hazing Incident. Charlotte Observer, February 24, 2C.
Associated Press. 1994. Two Fraternity Brothers Plead Guilty in Hazing Death of Pledge. Denver Rocky Mountain News, August 31, 26A.
Balaji, Murali 2007. The Professor and the Pupil: The Politics and Friendship of W. E. B. DuBois and Paul Robeson. New York: Nation Books.
Banks, Ralph R. 2011. Is Marriage for White People? How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone. New York: Penguin.
Berkowitz, Alexandra, and Padavic, Irene 1999. Getting a Man or Getting Ahead: A Comparison of White and Black Sororities. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 27 (4): 530–557.
Black Issues. 2002. Fraternity Faces $15 Million Lawsuit Over Hazing Death. Black Issues in Higher Education 18 (25): 15.
Brown, Susan K. 1994. Six More Arrested in Hazing: Thirteen Now Charged in Ritual at Southeast Missouri State. St. Louis Post Dispatch, February 19, 01B.
Brown, Tamara L., Parks, Gregory S., and Phillips, Clarenda M., eds. 2005. African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Brueggemann, Brian 2002. Frat Members Face Felony Charge: Recruit Hospitalized After Being Paddled. Belleville News Democrat, May 31, 1A.
Bryant, Tim 1994. Kick Sent Victim Down, Fraternity Brother Says. St. Louis Post Dispatch, August 26, 02C.
Burlew, Jeff 2011. Fla. A&M Drum Major's Death Ruled a Homicide. Garnett News Service, December 16, ARC.
Cinisomo‐Lara, Vincent 2003. Husband Sues Over Alleged Hazing Death—Courts: 2 Cal State L.A. Women Drowned Last September in Reported Sorority Ritual. Long Beach Press‐Telegram, June 26, A3.
Culver, Jordan 2011a. Hazing Rumors Surround Death of Fla. Student. Garnett News Service, November 22, ARC.
Culver, Jordan 2011b. Autopsy: FAMU Drum Major Died Within One Hour of Hazing. Gannett News Service, December 22, ARC.
Dennis, Andrea L. 2007. Poetic (In)justice? Rap Music Lyrics as Art, Life, and Criminal Evidence. Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts 31 (1): 1–41.
DeSantis, Alan D., and Coleman, Marcus 2005. Not on My Line: Attitudes About Homosexuality in Black Fraternities. In Black Greek‐Letter Organizations in the Twenty‐First Century: Our Fight Has Just Begun, ed. Parks, Gregory S., 291–312. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Donald, Elizabeth 2003. SIUE Hazing Victim Sues Fraternity. Belleville News‐Democrat, March 11, 3B.
Fine, Elizabeth C. 2002. Soulstepping: African American Step Shows. Champaign: University of Illinois Press.
Frazier, Lisa 1997. Former Student at U‐MD Wins Hazing Lawsuit. Washington Post, July 12, B1, B4.
Frisaro, Freida 2011. Attorney Says Suit Planned in FAMU Band Death. Associated Press, November 25.
Gamson, Marybeth 2011. Passive Activism: African American Fraternities and Sororities and the Push for Civil Rights. In Black Greek‐Letter Organizations 2.0: New Directions in the Study of African American Fraternities and Sororities, ed. Hughey, Matthew W. and Parks, Gregory S., 27–46. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
George, Cindy 2010. Family Settles Hazing Lawsuit, Parents Sued Fraternity After Their Son's Death. Houston Chronicle, September 16, B2.
Graham, Lawrence Otis 1999. Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class. New York: HarperCollins.
Green, Amy 2001. TSU Student's Death Tied to Hazing is Latest in Series for Fraternity. Commercial Appeal, March 31, B3.
Harper Dickinson, Gloria 2005. Pledged to Remember: Africa in the Life and Lore of Black Greek‐Letter Organizations. In African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Visio n, ed. Brown, Tamara L., Parks, Gregory S., and Phillips, Clarenda M., 11–36. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Harris, Jessica, and Mitchell, Vernon C. Jr. 2008. A Narrative Critique of Black Greek‐Letter Organizations and Social Action. In Black Greek‐Letter Organizations in the Twenty‐First Century: Our Fight Has Just Begun, ed. Parks, Gregory S., 143–168. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Harris, Robert L. Jr. 2005. Lobbying Congress for Civil Rights: The American Council on Human Rights. In African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision, ed. Brown, Tamara L., Parks, Gregory S., and Phillips, Clarenda M., 211–229. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Hernandez, Marcia D. 2008. Sisterhood Beyond the Ivory Tower: An Exploration of Black Sorority Alumnae Membership. In Black Greek‐Letter Organizations in the Twenty‐First Century: Our Fight Has Just Begun, ed. Parks, Gregory S., 253–272. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Hernandez, Marcia D., Fletcher, Tina, Gyant, LaVerne, and McDaniel, Anita 2012. What a Man: The Relationship Between Black Fraternity Stereotypes and Black Sorority Mate Selection. In Black Greek‐Letter Organizations in the Twenty‐First Century: Our Fight Has Just Begun, ed. Parks, Gregory S., 377–394. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Horrell, Steve 2004. Trial Date Is Set in SIUE case. Edwardsville Intelligencer, July 22.
Horswell, Cindy 2009. Parents Sue Over Student's Death: They Say Their Son Died Because of Fraternity Hazing at Prairie View. Houston Chronicle, November 4, B4.
Horswell, Cindy 2010. No Indictments in Death of Prairie View Student, Parents Decry Alleged Hazing of Fraternity. Houston Chronicle, November 11, B3.
Hudak, Stephen, and Ordway, Denise Marie 2012. Drum Major to Blame in Own Death, Filing Says. Baltimore Sun, September 13, 10A.
Hughey, Matthew W. 2008a. Virtual (Br)others and (Re)sisters: Authentic Black Fraternity and Sorority Identity on the Internet. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 37 (5): 528–560.
Hughey, Matthew W. 2008b. Brotherhood or Brothers in the "Hood"? Debunking the "Educated Gang" Thesis as Black Fraternity and Sorority Slander. Race, Ethnicity, and Education 11 (4): 443–463.
Hughey, Matthew W. 2010. Re‐Membering Black Greeks: Racial Memory and Identity in Stomp the Yard . Critical Sociology 37 (1): 103–123.
Hughey, Matthew W., and Hernandez, Marcia 2013. Black, Greek, and Read All Over: Newspaper Coverage of African American Fraternities and Sororities, 1980–2009. Ethnic and Racial Studies 36 (2): 298–319.
Hughey, Matthew W., and Parks, Gregory S., eds. 2011. Black Greek‐Letter Organizations 2.0: New Directions in the Study of African American Fraternities and Sororities. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Hughey, Matthew W., and Parks, Gregory S. 2012. Black Fraternal Organizations: Systems, Secrecy, and Solace. Journal of African American Studies 16 (4): 595–603.
James, Rawn Jr. 2010. Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation. New York: Bloomsbury Press.
Jones, Ricky L. 2004. Black Haze: Violence, Sacrifice, and Manhood in Black Greek‐Letter Fraternities. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Kallestad, Brent 2011. Fired FAMU Band Director: Hazing Warnings Ignored. Associated Press, November 29.
Karangelen, Jennifer J. 2004. The Road to Judicial Abolishment of Contributory Negligence Has Been Paved by Bozman v. Bozman . University of Baltimore Law Review 34 (32): 265–286.
Kendrick, A. Catherine 1999. Tort Law Ex Parte Barran: Can a Pledge's Voluntarily Submitting to Hazing Constitute Assumption of the Risk? American Journal of Trial Advocacy 23:485–489.
Kendrick, A. Catherine 2000. Ex Parte Barran: In Search of Standard Legislation for Fraternity Hazing Liability. American Journal of Trial Advocacy 24:407–440.
Kimbrough, Walter M. 2003. Black Greek 101: The Culture, Customs, and Challenges of Black Fraternities and Sororities. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
Lexington Herald‐Leader. 1997. Student Possibly Paddled in U of L Fraternity Hazing. Lexington Herald‐Leader, April 11, B1.
Los Angeles Times. 1994. Two Fraternity Members Sentenced in Death. Los Angeles Times, October 30, 18.
Massey, Douglas S., Charles, Camille Z., Lundy, Garvey F., and Fischer, Mary J. 2003. The Source of the River: The Social Origins of Freshmen at America's Selective Colleges and Universities. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
McKenzie, Andre 2005. In the Beginning: The Early History of the Divine Nine. In African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision, ed. Brown, Tamara L., Parks, Gregory S., and Phillips, Clarenda M., 182–210. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Montgomery, Derek 2002. Alleged Hazing Incident at Cal State‐Los Angeles Leaves Two Dead. Badger Herald via U‐Wire, September 25.
New York Times. 1994. Two More Alumni Are Charged in Hazing Death. New York Times, February 24, A18.
O'Neil, Tim, and Riley, Marianna 1994. Student Dies in Hazing: University City Man, 25, Beaten During Initiation. St. Louis Post Dispatch, February 17, 01A.
Parks, Gregory S., ed. 2008. Black Greek‐Letter Organizations in the Twenty First Century: Our Fight Has Just Begun. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Parks, Gregory S., and Bradley, Stefan M. 2011. Alpha Phi Alpha: A Legacy of Greatness, the Demands of Transcendence. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Parks, Gregory S., and Brown, Tamara L. 2005. "In the Fell Clutch of Circumstance": Pledging and the Black Greek Experience. In African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision, ed. Brown, Tamara L., Parks, Gregory S., and Phillips, Clarenda M., 437–442. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Parks, Gregory S., Jones, Shayne E., and Hughey, Matthew W. 2013. Belief, Truth, and Positive Organizational Deviance. Howard Law Journal 56:399–445.
Parks, Gregory S., and Ray, Rashawn 2013. Poetry as Evidence. University of California Irvine Law Review 3:217–258.
Parks, Gregory S., and Southerland, Tiffany F. Forthcoming. The Psychology and Law of Hazing Consent. Marquette Law Review.
Pelletier, Amie 2002. Regulation of Rites: The Effect and Enforcement of Current Anti‐Hazing Statutes. New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement 28:377–418.
Ray, Rashawn, Heard, Danielle C, and Ingram, Ted N. 2012. Bloody, But Unbowed: Making Meaning of "Invictus" and "If—" for the Shaping of a Collective Black Greek Identity. In African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision, ed. Brown, Tamara L., Parks, Gregory S., and Phillips, Clarenda M., 445–476. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Ray, Rashawn, and Rosow, Jason A. 2009. Getting Off and Getting Intimate: How Normative Institutional Arrangements Structure Black and White Fraternity Men's Approaches Towards Women. Men and Masculinities 12 (5): 523–546.
Ray, Rashawn, and Rosow, Jason A. 2012. Two Different Worlds of Black and White Fraternity Men: Visibility and Accountability as Mechanisms of Privilege. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 41 (1): 66–94.
Ray, Rashawn, and Spragling, Kevin W. 2011. "Am I Not a Man and a Brother?": Authenticating the Racial, Religious, and Masculine Dimensions of Brotherhood Within Alpha Phi Alpha. In Alpha Phi Alpha: A Legacy of Greatness, The Demands of Transcendence, ed. Parks, Gregory S. and Bradley, Stefan M., 207–222. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Ricks, Steven W. 1989. Slaps, Blows a Part of Hazing Ritual, Examiner Reports. Atlanta Journal‐Constitution, October 26.
Robbins, Danny 2011. Police Tape Raises New Issue in Prairie View A&M Death: Frat Leader Not Indicted Despite Taking the Blame in Recording. Houston Chronicle, January 23, B2.
San Gabriel Valley Tribune. 2002. Coroner Confirms CSLA Students Drowned. San Gabriel Valley Tribune, September 18.
Skocpol, Theda, Liazos, Ariane, and Ganz, Marshall 2008. What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Somers, Nicole 2007. College and University Liability for the Dangerous yet Time‐Honored Tradition of Hazing in Fraternities and Student Athletics. Journal of College and University Law 33 (3): 653–680.
Stombler, Mindy, and Padavic, Irene 2005. Sister Acts: Resistance in Sweetheart and Little Sister Programs. In African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision, ed. Brown, Tamara L., Parks, Gregory S., and Phillips, Clarenda M., 233–251. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
US Census Bureau. 2012. Census Regions and Divisions of the United States. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.
Valente, Judith 1977. Student's Death During Hazing Is Investigated. Washington Post, April 25.
Waldron, Thomas W. 1994. Fraternity Members in Hazing Must Perform Volunteer Service. Baltimore Sun, June 29, 2B.
Walker, Corey D. B. 2008. A Noble Fight: African American Freemasonry and the Struggle for Democracy in America. Champaign: University of Illinois Press.
Weems, Ralph E. Jr. 2012. Alpha Phi Alpha, Civil Rights, and the Shaping of Public Policy. In Alpha Phi Alpha: A Legacy of Greatness, The Demands of Transcendence, ed. Parks, Gregory S. and Bradley, Stefan M., 233–262. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Whaley, Deborah Elizabeth 2010. Disciplining Women: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Black Counterpublics, and the Cultural Politics of Black Sororities. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Yacavone, D., ed. 2013. All Men Are Free and Are Brethren: Essays on the History of African American Freemasonry. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Zook, Kristal Brent 2003. Swept away. Essence 34 (185): 180–186.
Alexander v. Kappa Alpha Psi Frater nity, 464 F.Supp.2d 751, 753 (M.D. Tenn. 2006).
Ballou v. Sigma Nu Gen. Fraternity, 352 S.E.2d 488, 495 (S.C. App. 1986).
Blackston v. Omega Psi Phi, 97 Ci 3463, 1999 WL 33655000 (Ky. Cir. Ct. 1999).
Edwards v. Kappa Alpha Psi, 1999 WL 1069100, 1 (N.D. Ill. 1999).
Ex Parte Barran III v. Kappa Alpha Order, Inc., 730 So. 2d 203, 204 (Ala. 1998).
Green v. Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, 91‐VS‐36257A, 1992 WL 1350855 (Ga. 1992).
Griffen v. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, 2007 WL 707364, 1 (E.D. Pa. 2007).
Kenner v. Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, 808 A.2d 178, 180 (Pa. Super. Ct. 2002).
Lloyd v. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, 1999 WL 47153, 1 (N.D.N.Y. 1999).
Lombas v. Moran Towing & Transp. Co., 899 F.Supp. 1089, (S.D.N.Y. 1995).
Missouri v. Allen, 905 S.W.2d 874, 875 (Mo. 1995).
Morrison v. Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, 738 So. 2d 1105, 1110 (La. App. 1999).
Perkins v. Spivey, 911 F.2d 22 (8th Cir. 1990).
Quinn v. Sigma Rho Chapter of Beta Theta Pi, 507 N.E.2d 1193, 1197 (Ill. Ct. App. 1987).
Snell v. Omega Psi Phi, CAL95‐14509, WL 33103496 (1997).
Thomas v. Lamar Univ. & Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, 830 S.W.2d 217, 218 (Tex. App. 1992).
Wade v. Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., Plaintiff's Fourth Amended Brief (2010).
Walker v. Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, 706 So. 2d 525, 526 (La. Ct. App. 1997).
Weil v. Seltzer, 873 F.2d 1453 (D.C. Cir. 1989).
URL: /core/journals/law-and-social-inquiry


This day people of Angola celebrate the Luanda's Day or the Day of Luanda. Luanda is the capital city of Angola.
MarkTheDay.com is an online calendar website designed to organize special occasions like Luanda's Day. Customize Luanda's Day reminders, Luanda's Day gift suggestions, Luanda's Day event planning, Luanda's Day history and tradition. Plan, organize and celebrate special occasions and holidays like Luanda's Day online at Marktheday.com. Create a free account and set a calendar reminder for Luanda's Day.


text:
Memorial to British Indian Army unveiled at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Subadar Major Judbhir Thapa, 2nd Gurkha Rifles, 1893
The National Army Museum has reinvigorated the historic Indian Army Memorial Room at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst with unseen items from its collection. The refreshed dedication displays over 100 objects from the National Army Museum's collection, some of which were shown in this room for the first time in Britain nearly 70 years ago.
The room was unveiled on Friday 6 September 2019 by Field Marshal Sir John Chapple in the presence of distinguished guests and members of the diplomatic community from the UK, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Since its inception in 1950, the Indian Army Memorial Room (IAMR) has been a focal point for cadets at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, upon both arrival and commission. The significance of the shared history between Great Britain and South Asia remains of great importance to their training, as well as their understanding of the role of the British Army today.
The Commandant, Major General Paul Nanson CBE said:
'A major part of developing the future leaders of the British Army involves looking to the powerful lessons of our forebears. The inspiration to cadets of all nations provided by the leadership, courage and spirit of the great regiments of the British Indian Army is as strong today as ever. This room serves as a fitting memorial to over 200 years of service and sacrifice.'
New display
The objects and paintings installed in this new commemorative display of the British Indian Army are some of the best examples of craftsmanship from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Brigadier (Ret'd) Justin Maciejewski DSO MBE, Director at the National Army Museum (NAM) said:
'We are delighted to be able to display more of our collection in this historic setting, especially objects of such beauty and significance in terms of the shared heritage between Britain and the nations of South Asia. These objects and the inspiring stories that they represent show the extraordinary diversity of the British Indian Army.'
The most imposing additions to the room are the series of 57 portraits and scenes which hang above new display cases filled with ceramics, silverware and regimental badges. Four pieces of stained glass have been conserved from the NAM collection and installed, along with over 40 shields of the Commanders-in-Chief in India, memorial plaques, busts and swords.
Highlights selected by NAM curator Pip Dodd include: a captivating portrait of a Pathan sowar of the 25th Cavalry (Frontier Force) by Leila Williamson, the wife of the Commanding Officer of the Regiment (NAM. 1959-02-24); James Sant's academic portrait of Colin Mackenzie in his Afghan costume (NAM. 1961-10-61); vivid Victorian stained glass depicting the coats of arms of the East India Company and Addiscombe College (NAM. 1974-03-165-1 and -2); Rissaldar Mohubut Khan, OBI bahadur, 2nd Scinde Irregular Horse (NAM. 1981-12-3-1).
The UK's Defence Adviser in India who attended the event, Brigadier Gavin Thompson, said of the room's significance:
'The Indian Army Memorial Room reflects the important shared history and links between our modern-day armies. This refurbishment is an entirely appropriate demonstration of the close historic, present and future partnership between our nations.'
History of the room and collection
The Indian Army Memorial Room was initially dedicated as a museum in 1950 to preserve the history of the British Indian Army. After the Indian Independence Act was passed and the British Indian Army disbanded in 1947, there was a call to preserve its heritage.
Supported by the last Commander-in-Chief in India, Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, as well as General Sir John Coleridge and Field Marshal Lord Birdwood, appeals were made for donations with the aim of setting up a museum.
Generous support was received from the new armies of India and Pakistan, and in 1950 this room was officially dedicated as the Indian Army Memorial Room to house the new collection. A selection of objects and paintings from this collection later formed the foundation for the National Army Museum.
Established by Royal Charter in April 1960, the National Army Museum sits on the original site of the infirmary of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, the home of the Chelsea Pensioners. Since that time, its collection of objects and artefacts pertaining to this period of the British Army has continued to grow.
Most recently, in 2013, the Museum acquired a collection of badges and insignia numbering more than 8,000 pieces. They were donated by Field Marshal Sir John Chapple, who remains a dedicated advisor and patron.
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst is accessible to members of the public on Heritage Day and throughout the year via bookings through the Sandhurst Trust - www.sandhursttrust.org
The National Army Museum is open: 10am - 5.30pm (Monday - Sunday); 10am - 8pm (first Wednesday of every month); closed Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Day
General admittance to the Museum is free
Join in the conversation:
Twitter and Instragram: @NAM_London @BritishArmy
Facebook: facebook.com/NationalArmyMuseum
Lise Simpson | Head of Protocol
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
E: lise.simpson883@mod.gov.uk | T: 01276 412 536
National Army Museum, London
E: press@nam.ac.uk | T: 020 7881 2433
About Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) is where all officers in the British Army are trained to take on the responsibility of leading their soldiers. During training all officer cadets learn to live by the Academy's motto of 'Serve to Lead'. Other nations choose to send their personnel to RMAS for Officer training because it is recognised as a world-leading military training academy.
www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/our-schools-and-colleges/rma-sandhurst/
About the National Army Museum
The National Army Museum is the leading authority on the history of the British Army. It was founded in 1960 by Royal Charter and established for the purpose of collecting, preserving and exhibiting objects and records relating to the Land Forces of the British Crown. The Museum seeks to tell the story of the nation's Army and of the soldiers who have served in it. It aims to inspire, educate and engage the public with its world-class collection.
www.nam.ac.uk


Research your family's history. Find out how various events and situations in American history affected your family. If your family immigrated to America, tell the reasons why. Share what you find with your counselor.


PRINCE2 is one of the main project management qualifications worldwide. Axelos announced their plans to revise PRINCE2 just last week and we covered it briefly. So in this post we take a closer look at the proposed PRINCE2 exam changes.
You thought the exam was tough, PRINCE2 in practice can be even more of a challenge. Like other PMs you will have studied PRINCE2 to pass the exam, applying it is so different. You are not alone in struggling with this.
Prosis Solutions Limited are the creators and owners of the PROJECT in a box range of Project Management products and services. We are licensed resellers of PRINCE2® and MSP® and licensed to also provide DSDM Atern and Praxis Framework Materials.


text:
Odpri navigacijo
Zapri menu
State Authorities
Choose language Slovenščina English Deutsch Español Français Magyar Italiano 日本語 Polski Português Slovenčina Srpski Українська
Minister Hojs visits Estonia and Germany as part of Presidency preparations
Permanent Representation to the European Union Brussels
The Minister of the Interior, Aleš Hojs, met with Krum Garkov, the Executive Director of the European Union Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (eu-LISA) in Tallinn, Estonia, today, as part of the preparations for the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the EU.
In their discussion, Mr Hojs and Mr Garkov focused on the Agency's key tasks, consisting mainly of the management and renovation of the existing IT systems (Schengen Information System – SIS, Eurodac and Visa Information System – VIS), construction of new information systems (Entry/Exit System – EES, European Travel Information and Authorisation System – ETIAS and ECRIS – TCN) and ensuring their connectivity (i.e. interoperability). The prerequisite for the successful implementation of this project is the timely completion of the central projects as well as the timely preparation of all Member States.
"Our concern is the functioning of the Entry/Exit System at the land border, which is something we raised with the Agency several times and we looked for appropriate technical solutions together," said the Minister, before adding that "the currently available IT solutions require that third-country nationals, who need to be entered into the EES, get out of their vehicles, which will increase the time needed for processing travellers at the border with Croatia" .
During its Presidency, Slovenia will organize a meeting of the Agency's Management Board as well as an annual conference on the possibilities of data collection in large-scale IT systems to improve safety and travel experience, with experts from the Ministry and the Police and the Agency working closely together.
Slovenian and German Interior Minister Aleš Hojs and Horst Seehofer
Interior Ministry delegation at the meeting with the eu-LISA delegation Slovenian and Estonian Interior Ministry delegations at the meeting
Meeting with the Estonian Minister of the Interior
The Minister concluded his visit to Estonia with a meeting with the Estonian Minister of the Interior, Kristian Jaani. Minister Hojs began by thanking Mr Jaani: "I sincerely thank you and your government for the positive response to our request for assistance in controlling the Slovenian southern border, where most cases of illegal border crossing are detected." Several days ago, the Estonian government decided to deploy some police officers to Slovenia to assist the Slovenian police in controlling the border with Croatia.
The ministers discussed the priorities of the Slovenian Presidency in the field of home affairs. Mr Hojs told Mr Jaani that during the Presidency we would focus on integrated migration management, strengthening the Schengen area and ensuring the highest possible level of security in the EU and Slovenia, while the regional priority is the Western Balkans region.
The Estonian minister expressed his support for Slovenia's efforts to make progress in the negotiations on the Pact on Migration and Asylum. "Estonia will be a constructive partner in the negotiations, which I am very pleased about," said Minister Hojs. "For both countries, progress in the external dimension of migration and the elimination of its causes are of utmost importance, as is increased return effectiveness. As for solidarity, we agree that it should be flexible and include a set of different measures to help Member States under pressure." As for internal security, both Member States support enhancing police cooperation and information exchange as well as the strengthening of Europol's mandate, as it provides a lot of assistance particularly to smaller Member States in analyzing large databases.
Meeting with the German Minister of Interior
Minister Hojs also visited Berlin, where he met with his German counterpart Horst Seehofer. The two ministers had met several times before via video link as colleagues in the Trio Presidency. Slovenia will continue the work set up by Germany, which, alongside Portugal, is Slovenia's partner in the trio. "I am pleased that, as colleague Seehofer told me, Germany would be a constructive partner in the negotiations during our Presidency," said Mr Hojs.
During their meeting, the ministers focused on migration and opportunities for progress in this area. "We believe that progress could be made on the proposal for a regulation on the EU Asylum Agency, which would be exempted from the package. EASO urgently needs a new, broader mandate to provide operational support to the Member States," Minister Hojs told his German counterpart. "We will be committed to a greater breakthrough in return and readmission, but the European Commission and the EEAS must play their role here as the external dimension of migration is under their remit. Commissioner Johansson told me a few days ago that we could soon expect a concrete list of third countries with which the EU would first step up talks in this area."
The ministers also touched on the migration situation in the Western Balkans. They agreed that the countries in the region, which have put a lot of effort into legislative solutions, should be helped to put these into practice. This requires a country-specific structured approach. This will also be the topic of the June meeting of interior ministers of the Brdo Process in Slovenia.
Help us improve our website:
Did you find the information you were looking for? YES NO
Your comment / feedback
Your comment will help us correct any substantive errors or identify recurring problems, which we will try to address.
Please do not include any personal information (for example, your first name, last name or email address) in your comment. If you want to receive a response from the responsible institution, you will have this option after clicking the Send button.
Thank you for your response
If you want to receive a response from the responsible institution, you can ask for a reply.
Clicking on the link will open your default e-mail program and automatically draft a message that you can send to the institution responsible for the content of this website.
Responsible institution:
| +386 1 428 40 00
| is.vog@znm.pg
© 2023 GOV.SI
Na vrh strani...
Zapri izbirnik jezika


text:
70 faces events in Boston this weekend
G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque
Reprint: Allah is the Light / Prayer in Ramadan & Elul
This essay was originally published on 9/15/09 as Allah is the Light: Prayer in Ramadan and Elul, back when Zeek had a web partnership with Jewcy rather than with the Forward. But the formatting on that original piece has gone wonky and it's become nigh-unreadable, so I'm reprinting it here.
It is a sticky August evening in Garrison, New York. I'm sitting on a park bench at a retreat center with a woman I've only just met. I'm wearing capris, a tank top, and my rainbow kippah. She's wearing a turtleneck and long dress with her hair tucked under a scarf. Our assignment is to teach each other a favorite text from our own holy scriptures. She is a Muslim and I am a Jew.
I've chosen Psalm 27, since the month of Elul is fast approaching and it's customary to read the psalm daily during that month of spiritual preparation. We read two English translations, one from JPS and the other from my rebbe, Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. "Yah, You are my light," Reb Zalman begins. We talk about the psalms writ large and what it's like to pray them.
She opens her vinyl-covered pocket Qur'an to surat An-Nur, "The Light," and I open the translation I brought with me. "Allah is the Light of the heavens and of the earth," begins Fakhry's translation. We talk about what each of us thinks it means to speak of God in these terms. The sky over the lake turns pink and then darkens. When we turn to go inside, the meadow is filled with fireflies.
There are eighteen participants in the first Retreat for Emerging Jewish and Muslim Religious Leaders, organized by the office of multifaith initiatives at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. We have been carefully hand-picked. The Jews present were recommended by the heads of our various rabbinic programs as people likely to find this kind of interfaith encounter fruitful. The Muslims present aren't clergy students (since, it turns out, their clergy formation process doesn't map neatly to ours) but scholars, academics, community leaders, lay leaders. Many of them are Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow.
The formal structure for our time together revolves around studying one of the stories our two traditions hold in common: not the Abraham/Ibrahim, Isaac and Ishmael tale around which most Abrahamic initiatives are based, but the story of Joseph/Yusuf. Two Jewish scholars and two Muslim scholars will delve deep into the story and its commentaries over the course of our week together.
We read Tanakh and Qur'an, midrash and tafsir. Each of our teachers illuminates a different facet of this shared story. Raquel Ukeles teaches us about intertextuality in the Joseph narratives, Sherman Jackson provides a Blackamerican Muslim perspective on the ambiguity of love in the twin Joseph stories, Rabbi Or Rose offers Hasidic teachings on the Joseph cycle as a spiritual journey, and Mahmoud Ayoub teaches us about the Yusuf story as a lesson in repentance, love, and forgiveness.
If this were the entirety of the retreat experience, dayenu: it would have been enough.
Four small subgroups are formed within our larger cohort, each tasked with a project. The first group organizes a storytelling circle: one night we sit on floor pillows and pass a microphone around. We're invited to share love stories, then to share grandparent stories, which turn into immigration stories and then freeform stories about who we are and where we're coming from.
The first couple of tales are tentative, but then we start to loosen up. It's the "grandparent" theme that really gets us going. Despite our considerable differences, we all had beloved grandparents and we all want to share something of how they made us who we are.
One of the retreat organizers tiptoes out and returns with milk and cookies. We tell stories and we nosh. By the end of the evening, I'm starting to feel less like I need to be on my best behavior, and more like I can let some of my personality shine through.
The second group project is a session of intrafaith dialogue, e.g. dialogue within (rather than between) our religious-community groups. The Jews gather in the Jewish prayer space, the Muslims gather in the Muslim prayer space, and each group takes half an hour to talk about what the retreat has been like for us so far, what we're learning, what's been good, what's been hard. Not for the first time I'm amazed by the simple fact of sitting in a circle with rabbinic students from Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist and Orthodox seminaries (plus the other two transdenominational seminaries besides my own.)
I say something about that, and everyone laughs a little. And then I say the thing that's been bothering me all week: I know how different we are from one another. But I don't know enough about the Muslim cohort to know what their differences are. I don't even know what questions to ask. We all know the terms Sunni and Shia, but what do they mean in practice? I can see variations of dress in the Muslim students, but what do those imply? What do I not even realize that I don't know?
When the two groups reconvene, the students in charge of the session take a new tack. They invite us to take turns, one Muslim speaking and then one Jew speaking, asking questions of one another. We come up with an incisive list of the things we don't know about each other but wish we did. This is the first time that I hear someone outwardly name the elephant in the room, the issue of Israel and Palestine, and it feels to me as though the room breathes a collective sigh of relief.
On the first night of the retreat, the subject of travel in Israel came up at the dinner table. (Of course all of the rabbinic students have spent time there; our perspectives differ, but it's a natural area of conversational common ground for us.) I felt awkward, worried that the Muslims at our table might feel alienated but unsure how to ask them what the conversation was like for them.
Now, a few days in to our learning together, one of the Muslim professors asks a question about how Jews perceive Israel and the energy in the room shifts. One of our potential points of contention has been raised and the sky hasn't fallen. I feel as though an invisible weight has been lifted.
My small group gets the privilege of leading the session entitled "difficult conversations." When we meet early in the retreat to begin planning, we begin cautiously by asking each other what we think the difficult conversations are. Slowly we shift into talking about the stereotypes that each group holds of the other.
Often the same stereotypes cut in both directions. Each of our communities has a tendency to feel that the other is more powerful. The Jews say: but there are so many of you; Israel is surrounded by hostile nations! And the Muslims say: but you are so disproportionately powerful given your small numbers! As we share with each other what we've heard in our communities, we wear the same chagrined expressions.
We decide to begin our session with a roleplay. I will announce that we are on flight such-and-such from JFK to Heathrow and that I am our flight attendant. Then I will walk over to my two fellow retreatants, seated on chairs in the middle of the circle, and say, "I have a halal meal and a kosher meal...?" and pantomime handing one to each.
In the ensuing conversation, my two classmates will aim to work in as many obnoxious stereotypes as possible. We decide to do a trial run, so I pretend to hand the meals to them and then I sit back to see what they will do.
"Give me that," the Muslim says. "You took the wrong meal." Then he mutters, "Just like a Jew -- taking what doesn't belong to her!" It's an appalling remark, and yet in this moment it's hilarious; I have to fight back a giggle. His Jewish counterpart doesn't miss a beat: "Excuse me? I'm offended! Are you talking about my homeland, the land of Israel?" And they're off.
A few minutes later we notice that one of our fellow retreatants is standing near us, eyes wide as saucers. "We're practicing a roleplay," one of my cohorts says hastily. The retreatant who overheard the conversation bursts into relieved laughter.
We tweak her about it for the rest of the retreat -- "you didn't honestly think that was real, did you?" But of course it could have been. Each group harbors fears of the other. Maybe what's most miraculous about this retreat is that we're beginning to name those fears, and to hear each other naming them…and then we sit down to eat and talk about life and work, parents and children. Not ignoring the tough stuff, but not allowing it to define us, either.
We grow bolder. One of my colleagues asks me about my kippah: what does it mean, why am I the only woman wearing one, what do the colors signify? In return I learn about the Ismaili tradition of which she is a part, where in smaller communities women may serve as lay leaders and pastoral counselors.
I know that there are divides within each group which remain hidden. That African-American Muslims, Arab Muslims, and South Asian Muslims have different experiences and priorities doesn't come up until the "difficult conversations" session, when one South Asian Muslim notes that the Israel/Palestine issue isn't a central issue for her as it is for some of her colleagues.
By the same token, the Jewish participants generally don't raise the places where we diverge, issues of sexuality and LGBT ordination and who counts in a minyan. But even with these issues largely unspoken, we're still learning about each others' communities, and everything we learn nuances our understanding.
At lunch, a Muslim participant asks how long women have been writing midrash, crafting Torah commentary, ordained as rabbis. She seems galvanized by our response. We talk about Amina Wadud, who has been leading mixed-gender Muslim prayer since 2005. What was once inconceivable is already a reality, even if it's not yet comfortable or mainstream. What else which once seemed impossible is within our grasp?
As the week ends, the Jews are on the cusp of the month of Elul, a month of prayer and contemplation and the inner work of teshuvah (repentance/return.) The Muslims are on the cusp of Ramadan, which could be described in much the same way.
We hug and shake hands, we agree to meet on the internet. We brainstorm a list of ways we can continue to work together. What would it be like to bring each other to events in our own communities? Can we teach together? Can we write together? How can we ensure that the fragile friendships we're beginning to build outlast our visit to the Garrison Center? And, most importantly, how can we share some of this sense of transformed relationship with the people in our communities who aren't here?
On Shabbat, at the kiddush after morning services, I tell a group of people where I've been all week. "Why don't we ever hear about Muslim clergy denouncing violence?" one of the congregants at my shul asks. There is a note of gotcha! in his voice.
"Because our media doesn't report it," I say. "Or because it's being said in a foreign language and we don't understand it. Or because it's not news. Or because we're not listening. But it's not because they're not saying it."
He looks startled, but apparently decides to take my word for it. I wonder how many of my new Muslim friends found themselves in a similar position at the masjid when they got home -- when they said they'd spent several days studying texts and forming connections with Jews, what push-back did they encounter?
The family of Abraham has long been at loggerheads, but this retreat shows me that we can do better. (I would argue that we must.) Both of our traditions name us as spiritual cousins. Being related doesn't necessarily mean that we always like everything about each other—anyone with an extended family knows that. But I'd rather be on speaking terms, even though our family tree is sometimes warped by our history.
Posted at 11:00 AM in Elul, Islam, Jewish-Muslim dialogue | Permalink | Comments (3)