FEIL, Wayne LaRoy March 20 1940 – June 20, 2007 Passed away peacefully at Red Deer Hospital after a brief but heroic battle with cancer at the age of 67. Wayne was pre-deceased by his father, Andrew Feil, and is survived by his loving mother, Evelyn Feil of Emerald Gardens, Grande Prairie. Wayne is deeply loved by his partner of 26 years and best friend, Don Robertson, of Calgary, and adored by Don's daughter Rosalind, of Toronto. Like a brother to his cousins Lynn Breese, of Comox, B.C. and Marj Sheehan-Berg, of Grande Prairie, Wayne is also lovingly remembered by his special aunt, Vera Sheehan, and cousins Colleen, Bill and Larry. Wayne was educated at the University of Alberta, to become a teacher. While most of his 40 year career was spent teaching in Red Deer, Wayne also taught in Grande Prairie and with the Canadian Department of National Defense in Lahr, Germany. An avid and accomplished figure skater, Wayne helped to coach and judge many young skaters in Alberta and helped to develop the sport of Precision Skating in the province. Wayne was also active in the Red Deer Theatre as an actor and director. He travelled extensively around the globe and enjoyed every trip he took. Success is To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded. A Memorial Service for Wayne LaRoy Feil will be held on Friday July 6 th, 2007 at 11:00 A.M. at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium at 6287-67A Street, Red Deer, AB. An Inurnment Service will be held at the Grande Prairie Cemetery, Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society, 4730A Ross Street, Red Deer, AB T4N 1X2. Condolences can be forwarded to the family at: www.parklandfuneralhome.com. In living memory of Wayne LaRoy Feil, a tree will be planted in the Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium Memorial Tree Park, Red Deer County, AB.


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Angela Missoni, For the Love of Family and Design
This post is part of our week of Missoni Women features. To read more about Missoni matriarch Rosita Missoni check out Monday's post, and stay tuned for a feature on Margherita Maccapani Missoni which will be posted later this week!
The Academy of Art University is pleased to announce Angela Missoni and her daughter Margherita Maccapani Missoni will be awarded Honorary Doctorate degrees when they visit The School of Fashion on May 7th; this will be the first time the Academy of Art University has granted Honorary Doctorate degrees to three generations of a family. Rosita Missoni received an Honorary Doctorate degree when she visited the Academy of Art University as a guest of honor in 1999.
Angela Missoni, along with her brother Luca Missoni, is the co-owner of Missoni S.p.A. In addition to her role as creative director of the women's collection, she assumes sole responsibility for the company's style, including the men's collection and licenses. At the age of eighteen, Angela began assisting her mother, Rosita Missoni, in the conception and creation of the women's collections. In addition, she worked on image development for some of the key licenses, including main line accessories and childrenswear.
"It is a privilege to work with my parent's invention," Missoni told Vogue, and explained that she aimed to "give a fresh outlook to their original vision." (Vogue)
In the early 80's Angela took an extended break from the business to start a family, "She spent her early-mom years raising organic chickens, starting a kindergarten, and living a tranquil life in the family's sprawling country compound" (Harpers Bazaar, 2011). Angela's focus on her family is indicative of the Missoni approach to business: Missoni is a name synonymous with family business, and for good reason. Angela has three children, Margherita, Francesco, and Teresa. Margherita is the Accessories Director for Missoni, and her mother feels confident in her talents, "Whenever Margherita feels ready I'd let her take over…Who knows what the future will bring? Maybe Theresa will run things or perhaps my nephew or my son" Angela said in an interview with Vogue.
Explaining her success, Missoni said, "We are grateful to be attached to our roots but we never lean on them." (Vogue)
Angela returned to the company in 1997 and began designing a collection under her own name and working with Rosita to devote serious attention to the main line. This set in motion a progressive restyling of the Missoni fashion vision for women. "Her runway debut in 1997 jump-started the label and was the start of a 14-year run of enormous professional success," said J.J. Martin in Harpers Bazaar. Angela has infused the family brand with new energy, renewing the store concept and giving the ad campaigns a contemporary slant. She currently lives in Milan with her partner of twenty years, Bruno Ragazzi, who runs Versace's homewares business.
"I know Missoni by heart…My parents invented a vocabulary and I liked to add to that language…I just tried to make clothes that I wanted to wear." (Vogue)
Fashion Symposium
Wednesday, May 7, 2014, from 10:00-11:30 AM
Morgan Auditorium, 491 Post Street, San Francisco
All welcome! Join the discussion with three generations of the Missoni Family – Rosita, Angela and Margherita – with Suzy Menkes, International Vogue Editor of Condé Nast and Gladys Perint Palmer.
Graduation Fashion Show and Awards Ceremony
Thursday, May 8, 2014, at 3:00 PM
2225 Jerrold Avenue, San Francisco
**Parking will be available at AT&T Park in Lot C, which is located at 1144 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 (between Mission Bay Blvd. North & Mission Rock). Shuttles will board every five minutes on 3rd and China Basin Street**
All welcome! We are excited and proud to present the 2014 Graduation Fashion Show, which will feature the collections of students from the School of Fashion. Three generations of the Missoni Family – Rosita, Angela, and Margherita – will be in attendance, with Angela and Margherita receiving honorary doctorate degrees for their invaluable contributions to the world of fashion.
Written by Ashley Castanos
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Jewish Home candidate Zevulun Orlev rejects 'Kahanists, hilltop youth, Marzels,' arousing anger in Jewish Front.
The Jewish Home party held a press conference on Wednesday to introduce its candidates and positions. During the conference MK Zevulun Orlev spoke out against "hilltop youth" and "Marzels," saying they had no place in the religious-Zionist camp.
Orlev, formerly head of the National Religious Party, began by telling reporters that the Jewish Home seeks to join the country's leadership, not oppose it. There is no place in the party for those who throw stones during protests or who refuse to enlist in the IDF, he said.
The party will be "without 'hilltop youth,' without [Rabbi Meir] Kahane and without all kinds of Marzels," he said, the latter being a reference to Baruch Marzel of the Jewish Front faction, which has joined with other nationalist factions to form HaTikvah-National Union (NU).
Jewish Home head Rabbi-Professor Daniel Heshkowitz also spoke at the gathering. The party's primary goal is to improve education in Israel and to bring back Jewish values and identity, he said.
Hershkowitz, Orlev and candidate Uri Orbach criticized some factions of HaTikvah-National Union for forming an independent party after agreeing to join the Jewish Home. There was no ideological basis for the split, Hershkowitz said. "To my regret, I realize that the conflict is not ideological. The land of Israel is no less important to me—and maybe more important—than it is to any member of the National Union," he said.
Yaakov Katz (Ketzaleh), head of the National Union, responded to criticism of his party by expressing sympathy for the Jewish Home. "I understand the pain of the National Religious Party, which has been left alone and sees forces uniting around the National Union," he said.
Despite the criticism against the NU, he hopes for the Jewish Home's success, he continued. "We call on kippah wearers who vote for Labor, Meimad and Kadima and who identify with Zevulun Orlev's ideas to strengthen the Jewish Home," he said.
The National Union will be happy to include the Jewish Home in a nationalist voting block after the elections, Ketzaleh concluded.
Other members of the party were less sympathetic. "That schemer and quarrel-monger should take off his shoes before attacking the Jewish hero Baruch Marzel, who gave and continues to give his all for the IDF and the land of Israel, and unlike Orlev gave up a spot in the Knesset for the sake of unity," a Jewish Front spokesman said of Orlev.
MK Aryeh Eldad, the founder of HaTikvah, pointed out that the NU had wished the Jewish Home success at an earlier press conference. "At a press conference held by what remains of one party after a failed attempt to disguise itself as a party representing religious Zionism as a whole, its representatives came to sling mud," Eldad said.


It's just a conspiracy theory, right? The yearning for a single world government can be traced all the way back to the Tower of Babel. If you believe in the Bible as I do, you know God wasn't to happy about that little gathering. The secret societies that have been used to foster this ongoing goal can be traced back to Babylon, Egypt, Greek and Gnostic cults, the Knights Templar, Rosicrucians, Freemasons, and the Illuminati.


Washington, DC—New data released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) offers an insightful picture of the impact the arts have on the nation's economy. The arts contribute $763.6 billion to the U.S. economy, more than agriculture, transportation, or warehousing. The arts employ 4.9 million workers across the country with earnings of more than $370 billion. Furthermore, the arts exported $20 billion more than imported, providing a positive trade balance.


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Corey Taylor's grandmother, Thelma Taylor, has died. The Slipknot/Stone Sour frontman shared a tribute to her in a post on Instagram. "She was my hero," he wrote. "My rock. My everything. She raised me. Taught me to be kind but tough. Work and encourage others to do so. I've never known a day without her in this world. My heart has broken. I loved her so much. And I will miss her every day. She was an incredible woman. And I owe her everything. I love you, Gram. Thelma Taylor 1926-2018."
In the first part of Taylor's Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction? episode, he speaks on his early life and how his grandmother took custody of him at age 15 after he overdosed. She also helped him purchase musical equipment around that time. "I'm sad to say that I still owe my grandmother quite a bit of money," he said laughingly. "But, at the same time, I think I've paid her back because I've helped her out over the years with a lot of stuff."
He revealed that he gave his grandmother a copy of every Platinum plaque that Slipknot has received. "Suddenly her house was full of them, and she was just like, 'You can stop now, because I have nowhere else to put them.' She's still got a stack in one of her spare bedrooms."
He also spoke on how she was still working at the time the interview took place in 2015. "She worked for 25 years at one place, retired, took a year off, got bored [and] went back to work. She's been working there for 24 years. You wonder where I get it? My grandmother, ladies and gentlemen." You watch the full episode below.


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Lille pursuing Sven Botman as replacement for Gabriel
As reported by De Telegraaf, Lille have made an opening offer for 20-year-old Ajax central defender Sven Botman, who the Ligue 1 side view as their primary candidate to replace central defender Gabriel.
The young Dutchman spent the 2019/20 campaign on loan with Heerenveen.
Le Petit Lillois report that talks are at an advanced stage for the player and that Les Dogues had their opening bid rejected but that Ajax have produced a counter-proposal. The Dutch side leaked the talks to the process in a bid to incite a bidding war, but the local outlet claims that at the moment, Les Dogues are hopeful of finalising a deal at the €8m mark.


Imperial College physicist Jess Wade has done of a brilliant job of graphically rendering Graham's Ten Commandments, which he presented yesterday at the Institute of Physics' headquarters in London. Here, Jess tells the story of how she came into science, and what led her to share her deep interest in it through her other passion, art.
Graham was the invited speaker and judge of the IOP's Early Career Physics Communicator Award, won by Niamh Kavanagh. Graham says: 'Niamh gave a superb presentation of her work, demonstrating her huge commitment to the art of engaging wide audiences with physics. The other three finalists – Euan Allen, Helen Cammack and Chantal Nobs – were also terrific and would also have been worthy winners.
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Europe ready to start Moderna vaccine rollout
But fears continue to grow over inoculation response to new virus variants
European countries could begin rolling out Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine as soon as next week after it was on Wednesday, news wires report. "With the Moderna vaccine we will have a further 160 million doses. And more vaccines will come," Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. Vaccinating the EU's 450 million people could be crucial to ending the pandemic.
But at the same time fears grow whether the jabs could stop as well more infectious variants of the virus appearing in the latest months. Currently variants found in South Africa and Britain are transmitted across the Union driving a surge in infections.
The first deliveries of Moderna vaccine to European countries will begin next week, the company said without disclosing details on volumes. The EU approval marks the fourth authorisation for the vaccine after the US, Canada and Israel, and further validation of the new genetic mRNA technology it uses. The EU approved a shot from Pfizer and BioNTech, also based on mRNA technology, two weeks ago. Additional authorisations for the Moderna shot are under review in Singapore, Switzerland and the UK.
The Moderna vaccine is administered in two doses 28 days apart. Like the Pfizer shot, it relies on synthetic genes that can be generated and manufactured in weeks, and produced at scale more rapidly than conventional vaccines. On Monday, Moderna raised its production target for 2021 to at least 600 million doses, up by 100 million. Switzerland's Lonza Group has a contract to supply ingredients for the vaccine, while Spain's Rovi is assembling the shots for fill-finish services.
The EU has ordered 160 million doses of the Moderna shot, enough to vaccinate 80 million people in its 27 Member States. The vaccine was about 95% effective at preventing illness in clinical trials, which found no serious safety issues. The Dutch national drugs authority, the CBG, said the Moderna vaccine was expected to be effective against the variant of the coronavirus detected in Britain, but cautioned this had to be confirmed by further research.
It has to be stored and shipped frozen, but does not require the ultra-cold temperatures of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. Once thawed, it can be kept at typical refrigerator temperatures. Stephen Evans, a professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said the Moderna vaccine could be kept in a fridge for up to 30 days. "Each vial has 10 doses so again, once the vaccine has reached room temperature there is a need to ensure that it is all used within 18 hours at most, so the logistics of delivering the vaccine are more complicated than for say flu vaccines," he added.
EU countries started vaccinations on 27 December and are trying to catch up with countries such as Britain and Israel where large numbers of people have already received inoculations. The campaign has already gotten off to an uneven start, with officials in Germany and France frustrated at the slow rate of progress.
Hundreds of thousands of Europeans have received the Pfizer-BioNTech shot since the rollout began just over a week ago. By comparison, Britain has administered more than a million of the vaccine in just under a month. The Netherlands started vaccinations with that shot only on Wednesday, giving its first injection to a 39-year-old care home nurse.
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EIF infuses €300m into start-ups, space technology SMEs
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In Memory of Carl Oglesby
Ross Altman
Ravens in the Storm:
A Personal History of the 1960s Anti-War Movement
Scribner, 2008, paperback reprint 2010, 352 pages, $22.
[Carl Oglesby died on September 13, 2011. We present this review as a memorial tribute. — The ATC Editors]
FORTY-SIX YEARS ago this November, then-SDS president Carl Oglesby stood on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. and told those assembled to protest the war in Vietnam that the men who were responsible for that war were not evil, they were "trapped in a system." They were, like Antony had told the crowd of those who had killed Caesar, "all honorable men." Indeed, they were all liberals.
He went on to describe that system as "corporate liberalism," which somehow managed to do collectively what as individuals they would most likely condemn: "study the maps, pull the triggers, drop the bombs and tally the dead." He told the liberals who had gathered to protest that war that perhaps there were two kinds of liberals — those who operated that system, and those who, like the SDS protesters who had joined the more moderate members of SANE (Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy — ed.), wanted to change it.
Then he suggested what changing it would require: building an antiwar movement "with a most relentless conviction." "Help us shape the future," he ended, "not in the name of this or that ism, but in the name of plain human hope." With that speech, later reprinted in countless magazines and anthologies of classic documents of the 1960s, Oglesby became the leader of the antiwar movement.
Ravens in the Storm: A Personal History of the 1960s Anti-War Movement, looks back on those days with both passion and detachment, humor and a clear sense of the opportunity wasted, and succeeds in vividly recreating the struggle to end a war that Americans increasingly opposed but didn't know how to end.
His personal memory is aided by the use of over 4,000 pages of documents he managed to retrieve through the Freedom of Information Act. During the years he led SDS and the antiwar movement he was under constant surveillance by both the FBI and CIA.
Yet Oglesby is at great pains to point out that he was not the dove they thought he was. Indeed the title of his book redefines the conflict between the cold warriors and the anti-warriors as not between hawks and doves, but rather hawks and ravens. Going all the way back to the story of Noah's Ark, Oglesby recovers the first bird that Noah released from the Ark — not the dove who came back when the storm was over, but the raven who flew out into the teeth of it and never returned.
It is in that raven that Oglesby finds a symbol for what SDS faced when it confronted the president and vice-president, the secretary of defense and the secretaries of state and national security: The students who were the prime movers of the antiwar movement were the ravens in the storm.
As their leader it is not surprising that Carl was eventually labeled "the most dangerous man in the movement." What is surprising, and makes this book a remarkable reconstruction of the second defining clash of the 1960s (along with the Civil Rights Movement), is that it was not the FBI or the CIA that called Oglesby the most dangerous man in the movement — but SDS itself.
Thereby hangs a tale, and that's exactly what this tells — the story of how Oglesby went from being the president of SDS to an outcast, a pariah, abandoned by those he had trusted most, a stranger in a strange land. Because Carl is able to look at it all with a poet's eye as well as a dramatist's (which he also was), he is able to find in these emotions recollected in tranquility a genuine "fanfare for the common man."
For five years he was in the eye of a hurricane, at the center of the storm, and through his eyes we who were there are able to relive it or, for a younger audience, to discover the source of the '60s lasting hold on the American imagination.
The Road to Radicalism
Oglesby came to SDS accidentally — he was no student radical looking to join up. In short, he didn't find them — they found him. At a time when student radicals were warned "Don't trust anyone over 30," Carl Oglesby was 30 years old and working for the defense industry's Bendix Corporation in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for whom he had "Secret Security Clearance," and worked as a tech editor.
Entrusted with military secrets, he was surely no natural in training for the position of president of SDS, whose members were now turning a critical eye to the war raging in Southeast Asia. But fortuitously, Carl had been asked to prepare a briefing on the war for his bosses, who, oddly enough, wanted to know the truth of what was happening and where their research was taking them.
Even more oddly, Carl was invited to publish his findings in the University of Michigan student paper, where some SDS members were sure to spot it. They did, and were surprised at its critical tone towards the administration. They asked Carl if they might circulate it amongst SDS people, and before he knew it, Carl was asked to write a different kind of statement on the war for an anti-draft action to take place in New York. One thing led to another, and Mr. Oglesby, with his coveted blue badge secret security clearance on his jacket, was soon to face Robert Frost's road not taken. Like Frost, Oglesby took it, left the defense contractor, and was elected the new national president of SDS on the strength of his very first statement against the war, and his strong views that Vietnam should now become the focus of SDS's campus organizing across the country.
Already the site of Tom Hayden's Port Huron Statement — the founding charter of SDS — the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor was the ground floor in the burgeoning student movement, and SDS was the group that resonated most on campus. They were looking for a leader at precisely the time this brilliant bohemian with a steady job and a proven ability to speak truth to power came right to their doorstep.
Before Carl became the leader of SDS it was principally dedicated to community organizing in northern ghettoes, and saw itself as a northern, white version of SNCC, the southern (mostly) Black Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee. SDS saw a need to create a new kind of political organization up north that would empower local people to become advocates for themselves to improve their lives in the poorest neighborhoods — the people whom socialist Michael Harrington had dubbed "The Other America."
SDS co-founder Tom Hayden organized in Newark, New Jersey one of many SDS model programs they called "ERAP," for "Economic Research and Action Project." In Los Angeles, author Mike Davis began his political career as a radical by becoming the Regional Director of the SDS house, located in one of the poorest neighborhoods surrounding USC. The ultimate goal of such organizing was to create a society based on "participatory democracy."
When Carl became SDS president he steered it to become the national voice of the antiwar movement. With a prodigious output of essays and speeches on American foreign policy and the encrusted war machine it had spawned, Carl focused his efforts on bringing the war in Vietnam into a radical critique of America's newly perceived role as the world's policeman, as Phil Ochs summed it up nicely in his song "Cops of the World."
Carl was a radical, all right, but also displayed a tendency — unsettling to some — of being willing to talk to people on both sides of the political spectrum, to create allies on what he called "the old right," whom he saw as having a potential affinity for "the new left." He even saw no conflict in responding favorably to requests from those in the business establishment who occasionally sought him out as a corporate speaker — this from the man who gave the name of "corporate liberalism" to the system that he held responsible for the crime of Vietnam.
In the later incarnation of SDS as the "Weather Underground," leaders like Bernadine Dohrn had no interest in changing and reforming America — the stated goal of early SDS leaders like Tom Hayden, Al Haber, Paul Potter, Dick Flacks, and most eloquently, Carl Oglesby. To them, Carl's ability to win over converts from all corners of society made him "the most dangerous man in the movement" indeed.
This nonviolent anti-warrior used words as his weapons, and in his ability to make them soar, found an image that resonates throughout Ravens in the Storm. It is chock-full of stories and personalities that come alive — both his friends and antagonists — and will make the reader appreciate why of all the groups that left their stamp on that decade of change, SDS alone has spoken to a new generation of student activists who are forming chapters of the "new SDS."
I hope they find this book, and reap the benefit of a life of political wisdom sown in the streets of America. In closing, here is one story Carl left out of his magnificent recreation of the antiwar movement he helped to build.
When it came time for Carl to give up his position as President of SDS we were holding the National Council in Clear Lake, Iowa, the city that said goodbye to Buddy Holly in 1959 — before his plane crashed on "the day the music died," as songwriter Don McLean would later memorialize it.
I was a delegate there as president of SDS from UCLA, and Carl was already my political hero, ever since that masterful speech at the March on Washington to End the War in Vietnam on November 27, 1965, the year he took office as the national president. But he became even more of a hero to me when I saw what transpired at the election of new officers in Clear Lake.
Presidents of SDS served for a one-year term to prevent the entrenched concentration of power in a few hands, which was one of the things SDS had first organized to challenge in the United States. But Carl was so popular, and had presided over such an amazing expansion of SDS across the country because of his personal charisma as both a writer and a speaker, that no one wanted to let him go.
There was a clear consensus to suspend the rules of our organization and make him president for another term. In effect, he was being asked, like Caesar, to pick up the crown and put it on. And had he done so, he would have been reelected by acclamation. Carl refused. But it was the way he refused that has endeared him to me throughout the years.
When he saw the way the tide was moving and that he was about to be swept up in it, he suddenly jumped up on the dining room table (we were meeting in the cafeteria of a local college) and gave us all a history lesson. He told us a story about George Washington, and how eight years after our republic was founded and he had served two terms as the first president, he was offered the opportunity to be made "president for life" by the first U.S. Congress, which did not want to turn the country over to lesser hands.
Washington thanked them for the offer and then reminded them that they had just fought a revolution to escape from one monarchy. As much as he felt honored by their trust, he said if we are going to have a republic in the United States, we had better start right now and get onto the business of electing a new president. He was going home to Mt. Vernon.
After Carl told that story he didn't have to connect the dots — everyone in the hall knew it was time to let him go, that our struggle for participatory democracy transcended any one leader, and that SDS would continue to thrive without him as president. That moment was to me the single most moving event I would witness as a member of SDS for five years — watching Carl Oglesby walk away from power, and leave SDS in the hands of a new generation of leaders.
To this day he remains my political hero, and because of Carl I fell in love with history. He made me see that history was not the past — it has enduring relevance.
November/December 2011, ATC 155


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Jenna McCormick: Stopping the Juggling Act
MOLLY APPLETON
For dual-code athlete Jenna McCormick, there's no doubt she's seen success on both the football and AFLW fields recently.
After a breakout season with the Brisbane Roar, McCormick backed up to win a Premiership with Adelaide Crows, despite the overlapping seasons. Having juggled the two codes since the inception of the AFLW in 2017, the conflicting schedule is nothing new. However, McCormick is hoping to open up more doors for herself with her decision to go on the Crows inactive list for 2020, allowing her to focus purely on football for the next 18 months.
"It was a really easy decision for me, it was clear what I wanted."
The defender insists on the need to go back to the beginning, where, three months out from the W-League season, she told the Crows that football was off the table for this season.
"I don't want to say I hated soccer, but I really, really didn't like it. And I just wasn't enjoying myself… So it kind of just put a bit of a dampener on me and my love for the sport, which sucked," she said.
The last 12 months, however, has been a complete 180 for McCormick. After difficult spells internationally in Norway as well as in Australia with wooden spooner's Adelaide United, Brisbane Roar offered McCormick a lifeline, drawing her back to the game.
Initially planning to play only half a season, McCormick went on to miss just one match for her club.
"It was a bit of a blessing that I took a chance on Brisbane… I had a new lease on the sport and I was loving it again."
"Being with really, really great players… all those great players, it makes you play better," McCormick explains while listing a line up of her Roar teammates including Matildas players, Clare Polkinghorne and MacKenzie Arnold.
Source: The Football Sack
"For the first time in my life I've been so clear on what I wanted and really just passionate about wanting to get it. So it's why I decided to stay and play on [for Brisbane Roar]."
From the outside, it may appear a situation of being torn between duties during this past summer of football and AFLW. However, for McCormick, it was always a clear choice.
"I signed up to play footy again last year because I love the sport and didn't have this goal," says McCormick.
"I didn't have the clarity of where I wanted to be in soccer in my head when I made the decision.
"I tried to put out to the world that if I did get an opportunity following this W-League season, I would drop everything to go and make the most of it. And my footy club was very, very supportive of that."
Much like her form has made a statement on the pitch this season, not playing for the Crows in 2020 is making another statement.
"Fully committing to soccer says to everyone, you know, a hundred percent, that's what I want to do."
After much thought, I'm extremely sad to announce that I have chosen to be placed on the Adelaide Crows In-Active list for the 2020 season. I have very clear intentions of what I want to achieve in soccer, and unfortunately my AFLW career is impeding on that. I have loved every second of my time here with this incredible group, not only playing the sport I love for three seasons, but also winning two premierships in that time. This club is like nothing I have ever experienced before and I hold every memory close to my heart. I'd like to thank the Adelaide Football Club for their continuous support of my passion and for encouraging me to chase my dreams. This won't be the last time I wear the tri-colours, but just a pause for now. I'm excited to put all of my energy into soccer and I look forward to achieving my goals. Massive thank you to each and every person who has supported me along this journey. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 📷: @kickittome 👏🏼
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Walking away from a Premiership winning team is never easy. Particularly after playing in front of a 53,000 strong crowd at the iconic Adelaide Oval. However, the experience left a broader impact on McCormick as well.
"It was really, really just out of this world unreal sort of feeling."
"It's such a huge statement for the sport and also to women's sport in general. I think that anybody who's still on the hate bandwagon and still doesn't think we're worthy of money, television deals, sponsorship, crowds or big stages is just getting left behind because we're all here to stay."
Whilst a contract in Sweden is in sight, McCormick is remaining sharp for whatever may happen, playing in South Australia's NPLW with Fulham United and training with boys.
"You never know what will happen leading up to the World Cup. So I mean, I'm realistic. I know that there's minimal sort of chances, but at the same time… I'll just do what I can to make sure that I'm prepared if that scenario sort of arises," McCormick admits.
McCormick's name is one in the fray for a potential Matildas berth following a season of commanding displays at centre-back for Brisbane Roar.
"My name's never been thrown around amongst this calibre of players in this group."
"But I'm not satisfied. I want to get to the point where I am in that squad. I'm not just a name getting thrown around. So that's the next thing for me."
On the decision to press pause on her AFLW career, McCormick is philosophical on what the new chapter holds.
"In the end, whatever is meant to be, will be and whatever path I'm meant to be on… I'll be honest."
Jenna McCormick
Molly is a Contributing Editor for Beyond 90 who endeavours to provide quality analysis of the game and telling a compelling story. Getting her start through her own blog at Molly's Footy Rants, Molly has since become a match reporter for Football Federation Tasmania and has covered the 2018/19 W-League season with The Women's Game. She also works at Channel 7 Tasmania in television news.


It was nice to see six 'dyed in the wool' Willowboggers gathered together for Willowbog Bonsia's first regular monthly workshop of this new year.
On the basis that " if it ain't broken don't fix it " nothing about the day has changed, we start with topical discussion, move on to a brief [ relatively speaking ! ] joint look at some of the trees brought along by the participants, before starting some practical work.
I have in the past looked to defend this format over the typical workshop of days gone by where the focus was entirely upon the practical work, but will not do so again except to point out that the majority of our participants hardly ever miss a month ! Of course, the fact that it is a reasonably priced bonsai day out, and that it is a chance to regularly meet other enthusiasts that have become friends and not least, at this time of year, Jean's famous soup is part of the lunchtime offering! may also play their part.
As almost always happens on these days I was grateful to have the valuable assistance of both Caz and Scott which is a way of assuring that almost whatever the numbers of participants, everyone gets a fair amount of time spent with themselves and their bonsai.
Me and regular Gary, two baldies together, looking at some of his Japanese larch.
Scott helping self confessed complete novice [ aren't we all ! ] Norma, with a European yew raw bit of material.
Caz spent a bit of the day guiding Angela as she attempts to develop a love of wiring, we are getting there Angela !!
In the foreground Martyn also concentrates on wiring, this was on one of his Scots pines that are destined to become part of a group planting in 2020, bonsai often involves a bit of forward planning !
Willowbogger Antony in the red top, also working on a Scotty. Our sixth participant fails to appear on film as in each of the images he was behind the camera, although The G- man also worked on a Pinus sylvestris, thanks Peter for recording the day, also thanks to my helpers Caz and Scott and to all the partcipants, the new year is off and running, well at least ambling along !
My choice for the studio tokonoma for this workshop day.
The Prunus of indeterminate variety from The Willowbog Collection was my main tree.
Chosen for the somewhat unseasonal appearance of blossom.
This bonsai somewhat inexplicably suffered a loss of approximately two thirds of it's branch structure last year, sad but we can re-build something from the remaining.
This alert little ceramic wren from The Proprietor's ceramic collection paid court to the bonsai.
Next up our February Bonsai Chat on Saturday 2nd, why not come and join our bonsai community ?


Anyone in the distance of my conservative voice for the past 15 years knows I want the federal government out of Utah's education system. They also would know that I believe the Utah Constitution has a fundamental flaw regarding education. In Utah, education is the jointly held constitutional domain of the State Board of Education and the state Legislature – the former has "general control and supervision" of public education and the latter has power to fund and, hence, regulate it. This partnership is systemically dysfunctional and the ridiculous politics created by it have hampered Utah's ability to address important student needs.
Recently, Governor Gary Herbert asked the State Board of Education to co-sign a letter to Congress calling on it to include state governors in the educational mix when it comes to defining and negotiating federal education funding. The State Board denied his request by a tie vote.
On the one side of the issue are Board members and others who feel as if the Utah Constitution is clear about control of public education – and who feel that Governor Herbert is sticking his nose where it doesn't belong. On the other side are the Governor and others who understand that public education needs all the help it can get. Both sides claim to promote state autonomy and local decision making in education – the State Board by defending its constitutional supremacy and Governor Herbert and other state leaders insisting that state autonomy is enhanced by broader public and political involvement.
As with federal health care mandates, federal funds to public education addressing some very expensive student needs require smart and conservative negotiation. The State Board isn't going to give us that. The State Board, for as long as anyone can remember, seems to be in the business of doing just about anything the federal government wants states to do just to get more funding for funding's sake. So it's with great irony that Governor Herbert is accused by political opponents and citizen crusaders of an unnecessary and unconstitutional power grab.
One opponent claims the governor doesn't understand federalism and, in the same article, proves he's the one who knows little about federalism. Federalism, rightly understood, has to do with the constitutional relationship between the federal government and the states. Without a big legal or history lesson, all you need to know is that the relationship includes the federal government. Anti-federalists lost the debate in 1776. We have a federal government and we have to deal with it.
The right debate for Utah leaders to have is whether or not to accept federal dollars. The wrong debate to have is to accuse Governor Herbert or any other state leader of giving away state autonomy simply because our leaders must negotiate with the federal government after the state has chosen to take federal funds. Again, this is why libertarians and other ideologues can't govern. They have every concept of abstract principle and no concept of practical reality.
If crazed citizens don't want Governor Herbert or other rational state leaders negotiating Utah's best interests against the federal government, please spend your time changing hearts and minds about the negative effects of accepting federal funding. Don't hamper the very state leaders in a position to effectively negotiate Utah's best interests.
Furthermore, spend your time amending and clarifying the Utah Constitution about control of public education. The current confusing language was imposed upon Utah at statehood as an anti-Mormon act. The federal government didn't want control of education in the hands of the people of Utah. It wanted control in the hands of a small, strident clique of unaccountable "outsiders." Our current constitutional language on public education was a punishment on Utah, not an inspired separation of powers.
Utah's governor and state legislature are thoroughly vetted by voters in rough and tumble partisan races. The State School Board is elected in feigned nonpartisan races with little to no public interest – and the education establishment likes it that way. It has opposed every attempt to inject accountability into its elections.
In the matter of negotiating Utah's best interests with the federal government, trust Governor Herbert and the state legislature – and beware the education establishment.
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No demonetisation blues here: The obscenely opulent Reddy wedding shows us the politics of money
Bellary mining baron Janardhan Reddy pulls off a Rs 550-crore wedding for his daughter, with BJP and Congress leaders in attendance.
TR Vivek
Nov 17, 2016 · 07:00 am
Of the nearly 50,000 guests invited to the wedding of Bellary mining baron and undertrial Galli Janardhan Reddy's daughter Brahmani in Bengaluru on Wednesday, the Barjatyas of Bollywood did not make the list. The Barjatya clan, specialists in making big fat Indian wedding-themed films, could certainly have learnt a trick or two from Reddy to reinvigorate their jaded genre.
Sample this for a scene: Janardan Reddy, out on bail after over three years in jail on illegal mining charges, is barred by the courts from entering Bellary. The doting father is heartbroken that he cannot even perform his daughter's kanyadan from their family home, Parijata. The memories of growing up in the house are too precious for the girl. So, with the help of film production designer and stagecraft artist Shashidhar Adapa, Reddy builds not just a replica of Parijata but also of the Hyderabad home of groom Rajeev Reddy. Brahmani would symbolically step out of Bellary and walk into Hyderabad, at the Palace Grounds in Bengaluru.
For many, the three-day wedding gala that reached its finale on Wednesday was a brazen display of ill-gotten wealth, especially at a time ordinary Indians have been compelled to queue up outside banks to access rationed quantities of their own hard-earned money.
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The scale of the Reddy wedding is mindboggling. The custom-made invitation comprised an LCD screen inside an ornate cardboard chest that featured a music video of the two sets of Reddy families requesting the attendance of friends. That alone is estimated to have cost Rs 5 crores. The entire wedding reportedly cost Rs 550 crores.
At the functions, there were 3,000 security men and in excess of 500 bouncers in black suits. Almost every luxury hotel within a five-km radius of the venue was booked for guests. The song and dance events attracted the who's who of the Telugu film industry. However, 500 dancers were also drawn from troupes in Chennai and Hyderabad.
The temporary architectural marvels eclipsed the Tudor-style Bengaluru palace in the vicinity. Designer Adapa's mandate was to recreate the magnificent Vitthala temple at Hampi, famous for its musical pillars, and the Venkateshwara temple in Tirupati.
The Hampi Vitthala temple was recreated for the wedding in Bengaluru.
"He [Janardhan Reddy] is a big fan of Krishnadevaraya [an emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire] and asked for the Hampi Vitthala temple to be built, so the family could perform all the pre-wedding pujas there," said an employee of the family. "All this is made from fireproof and eco-friendly material."
The Tirupati replica where the wedding took place, conducted by 10 priests from real Tirupati, was kept out of bounds to both the bride and groom. "This was the big surprise, Reddy wanted his daughter to be shocked by the setting when she first entered the mantapa," he added.
Janardhan Reddy and his brothers Karunakara and Somashekara – known as the Reddy brothers – with their confidante B Sriramulu, now the Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Bellary, ran a Rs 5,000-crore iron ore mining empire in the region using their proximity both to the BJP and to the late YS Rajasekhara Reddy, former Andhra Pradesh chief minister and Congress leader. Before Janardhan Reddy's arrest in 2011, the family was said to run a "republic of fear" in connivance with the state and with total disregard for the rule of law.
The money power and the rough and ready methods of the Reddys and Sriramulu formed the glue that held together the BJP government in Karnataka between 2008 and 2013 under three different chief ministers. After 2011, the brothers quit the BJP, as did Sriramulu, who also gave up his ministerial berth in the process. In the run-up to the 2014 general elections, however, all differences were papered over as Sriramulu rejoined the BJP and duly won the Reddy pocket borough.
The wedding in Bengaluru had BJP leaders in a quandary. Attending an obscenely opulent wedding at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was defending his "surgical strike" on black money and the cashless common man was suffering presented a moral dilemma. The commencement of the Parliament session in Delhi on the day of the wedding, though, presented some of the invited MPs with an escape. However, the eventual participation of BJP state chief BS Yeddyurappa (freshly acquitted in the mining scam) and other prominent party leaders showed that political calculus and money usually trump matters of morality.
Karnataka BJP chief BS Yeddyurappa at the wedding.
Both Congress and BJP leaders present at the wedding sang from the same score sheet. "We are here because we have known Brahmani as a child and we are here purely to bless her," was the standard response across party lines.
But, at a time when the entire country is reeling under a cash crunch, how did the Reddys manage a wedding of this scale? Surely it required mountains of hard cash?
"See, we outsourced everything to the event management company," explained a family member. "It was their headache to arrange everything. The family had begun planning for the wedding six months in advance, and all payments were through cheque only."
Bellary mining
Janardhan Reddy
Rs 550-crore wedding
Reddy brothers
Extravagance and ostentation
First scientist from Andhra Pradesh to win Nobel Prize will get Rs 100 crore: Chandrababu Naidu


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The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars Part One
Part of Legend of Korra
Written by Michael Dante DiMartino
Illustrated by Irene Koh
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After their wildy their wildly successful Avatar:The Last Airbender publishing program, Dark Horse was the natural choice to do the same for The Legend of Korra. Written by Michael Dante DiMartino and drawn by Irene Koh (T.M.N.T., Sensation Comics featuring Wonder Woman), and with consultation by Bryan Konietzko, this is the official continuation of The Legend of Korra animated show!
Relishing their newfound feelings for each other, Korra and Asami leave the Spirit World . . . but find nothing in Republic City but political hijinks and human vs. spirit conflict!
A pompous developer plans to turn the new spirit portal into an amusement park, potentially severing an already tumultuous connection with the spirits. What's more, the triads have realigned and are in a brutal all-out brawl at the city's borders--where hundreds of evacuees have relocated!
In order to get through it all, Korra and Asami vow to look out for each other--but first, they've got to get better at being a team and a couple!
Written by series co-creator Michael Dante DiMartino and drawn by Irene Koh T.M.N.T., Sensation Comics featuring Wonder Woman, Secret Origins: Batgirl, Afrina and the Glass Coffin) and with consultation by Bryan Konietzko, this is the official continuation of The Legend of Korra!
Michael Dante DiMartino is an American animation director best known as the cocreator, executive producer, and story editor of the animated TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, both on Nickelodeon. He was born in Shelburne, Vermont. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design with Bryan Konietzko, with whom he created Avatar. Before Avatar, Mike worked for twelve years at Film Roman, helping to direct King of the Hill, Family Guy, and Mission Hill in addition to his own animated short, Atomic Love. The author lives in Santa Monica, California.	Learn more about Michael Dante DiMartino
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Today on homify 360°, we set off to Onil, a small town located in the province of Alicante, Spain. Here is where DMP Architects took control of a 65-square metre house to transform it into a deliciously modern space fit for the family of the 21st century.
This transformation was actually the second remodelling that this house underwent, the first one happening 10 years ago. While the first renovation was to take advantage of every bit of space available in this house, the most recent changes sought to improve the functionality and quality of the spaces by incorporating subtle changes and new materials.
Let's see the end result!
We are greeted by the new face of the newly renovated house. A charming stone staircase leads us to the first floor, which is also where the main entrance is located.
We love how appealing the exterior surfaces are: rustic stone coated in a calm cream tone, with a delicate portion of warm timber added for aesthetic effect. And just notice how quaint the green vegetation looks when combined with those rustic surfaces of the house.
The peninsula, which lightly separates the kitchen from the adjoining living room, is one of the newly added elements.
The latte brown hues of the wooden floor are a perfect addition to this rustic-style house. And what would contrast better with the floor than a snow white coating for the kitchen cupboards?
It is interesting to note how contemporary and modern the kitchen cabinets are compared to the charms of the facade that are a delightful throwback to the rustic styles of yesteryear.
A glance into the kitchen reveals the countertop surface from up close. The new materials chosen for this design definitely brings a sense of elegance and sobriety to the house, upping the scales in the favour of both modern aesthetics and brightness.
How often do you see table lamps placed on kitchen countertops? We love this special addition, as it adds a sense of home to this kitchen environment.
Taking a few steps back from the kitchen allows us to see the living room which shares the open-plan layout with the kitchen. This is the centre of the house, as well as the social area, marked by the sloping ceilings which meet in the middle.
The beautiful chestnut wood continues to adorn the floor in the living room, joined by a delightful collection of different colours like crisp white, warm neutrals, ocean blue, and violet.
Here on homify we always love bookshelves, and that stunning addition against the wall presents the perfect space to flaunt a decadent collection of novels, magazines, trinkets, and other small decorative items.
Along with the kitchen, the bathroom area holds up the modern levels of the house with perfection. And indeed, beautiful marble is included here, although only for the shower portion of the bathroom. The rest of the floor continues that delightful chestnut coating.
Here on homify we have a striking collection of bathrooms in a multitude of different styles. Be sure to check them out!
And lo and behold, the bathroom shares it open space with the bedroom.
Apparently it was the wish of the owners that their bedroom's layout would allow their bed to face north and south, abiding by the rules of Feng Shui.
Notice the fact that the bathroom vanity and bedroom shelf wall are coated in the same timber, neatly tying both rooms together.
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import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
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import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.ListView;

import com.codepath.apps.Tweeter.EndlessScrollListener;
import com.codepath.apps.Tweeter.R;
import com.codepath.apps.Tweeter.activities.ProfileActivity;
import com.codepath.apps.Tweeter.adapters.TweetArrayAdapter;
import com.codepath.apps.Tweeter.models.User;
import com.codepath.apps.Tweeter.service.TwitterApplication;
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SAXX Underwear Co. is looking for a IT Infrastructure Lead to join the team based at our Vancouver office location.
The IT Infrastructure Lead is primary responsible for providing and maintaining the core IT infrastructure platforms and solutions. The incumbent is a leader that has a thorough understanding in IT infrastructure technologies and solutions pertaining to daily operations of the business in conjunction with good knowledge in help desk operation, project management, contract administration and maintenance, systems architecture, and budget management. The incumbent will also need to work with external vendors, contractors, and remote employees to deliver service to the organization, as well as the ability to communicate to all levels within the organization.
Ensure business needs are consistently being met with current technology.
Ensure SLA requirements are clearly defined and consistently being met.
Execute IT procurement, conduct market research, and participate in the establishment of terms and conditions for services.
Manage risks and mitigation, methods and assumptions and define the scope of projects and provide cost/benefit analysis.
Participate in cost evaluation and intended business outcomes to ensure existing services consistently deliver value to the company. Assess where increased value can be delivered for services in the pipeline.
Ensure that IT services meet the service life cycle plan from design, transition, operation and continual improvement stages.
Participate in budget planning and tracking for use of services and expenditures.
Continuous Service Improvement by constantly evaluating metrics and monitoring service levels and their outcomes and plan for changes as necessary using IT industry best practices (e.g. ITIL).
Responsible for supporting Internet connectivity and networking as well as work closely with service providers to ensure a high level of availability and access for all users.
Service and support IT infrastructure including – servers, server O/S, virtualized server environments, storage, routers, and switches and all other infrastructure and systems components to provide high availability of IT infrastructure environment to all users.
Service and support network security and firewall protection through hardware and software systems. Minimize security threats to the company using firewalls, anti-virus and intelligent blocking technology to divert malwares, viruses and other threats.
Service and support Office 365 services and access and ensure high availability of the environment.
Manage and support data backup hardware, software and services for the company's data. Ensure that reliable and time structured backups are being done and that restoration of data as required.
Support telephony and voice services using the appropriate technology (e.g. VoIP) for clear and reliable services. Work closely with service providers to ensure quality of service and high availability.
Manage and support an IT Help Desk to ensure quality support services are provided on a consistent basis to users. Track IT incidents and issues and provide regular reports on volume of incidents, problem trends, 'time to close' incidents and Help Desk KPIs.
Provide a consultative approach with users when requests for new services are submitted or discussed. Ensure the best and most effective tools are considered to deliver what users need, but adhere to a broader standard that can be supported and is sustainable and scalable as appropriate.
Manage junior Help Desk Support staff and ensure staff has clear objectives and measurements of services they provide.
Excellent customer service skills and relationship building skills. Experiences in supporting remote employees would be an asset.


As they struggle to hold back spam, at any time within the framework of "blacklisting", ISPs may block any sending of messages that look suspect due to their volumes or to their contents. The sender is then placed on a blacklist that is read by all the major actors of the industry : the blacklisted sender will often be unable to create any other emailing campaigns anywhere on the network. To avoid this rejection, all senders need to check whether they respect the latest technical and syntactic rules.
Most technical problems come from a poor configuration of the IP addresses or of the servers used for the campaign. A too intense sending rhythm or a failure to be identified by the SPF or the DKIM triggers preventive blocking by ISPs. An excellent alternative solution is to resort to an emailing professional person so as to make sure that one's messages are properly routed. You also need to reduce the rejection risks related to the insufficient treatment of the complaints that were filed or to the sendings that do not respect the opt-in regulation.
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The Reckoning of Pluralism
Political Belonging and the Demands of History in Turkey
Kabir Tambar
SERIES: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
Anthropology / Middle East
Politics / Religion and Politics
The Turkish Republic was founded simultaneously on the ideal of universal citizenship and on acts of extraordinary exclusionary violence. Today, nearly a century later, the claims of minority communities and the politics of pluralism continue to ignite explosive debate. The Reckoning of Pluralism centers on the case of Turkey's Alevi community, a sizeable Muslim minority in a Sunni majority state. Alevis have seen their loyalty to the state questioned and experienced sectarian hostility, and yet their community is also championed by state ideologues as bearers of the nation's folkloric heritage.
Kabir Tambar offers a critical appraisal of the tensions of democratic pluralism. Rather than portraying pluralism as a governing ideal that loosens restrictions on minorities, he focuses on the forms of social inequality that it perpetuates and on the political vulnerabilities to which minority communities are thereby exposed. Alevis today are often summoned by political officials to publicly display their religious traditions, but pluralist tolerance extends only so far as these performances will validate rather than disturb historical ideologies of national governance and identity. Focused on the inherent ambivalence of this form of political incorporation, Tambar ultimately explores the intimate coupling of modern political belonging and violence, of political inclusion and domination, contained within the practices of pluralism.
Kabir Tambar is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University.
"[N]ot only does the book both inform the reader about Alevis in Turkey, but it also provides a critical analysis of this marginalized group. [W]hat is stunning is that the author fulfills this quite challenging task for a country, Turkey, whose socio-politics are, to a great extent, impenetrable, even for its residents."
—Abdullah Sacmali, Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online
"Throughout the text, an eye-catching repertoire of characterizations accompanies his endeavor to place Alevism in Turkey . . . In his work, Tambar successfully demonstrates how the national framework of Turkey was constructed by creating sharp borders between those who were recognized and those who were not. This focus is of critical importance . . . It seems that the question of Alevism preserves its importance as a monitor of Tukey's political journey, which as yet continues to hover between pluralism and majoritarianism. Tambar's book, based on ethnographic research conducted in Çorum between 2005 and 2007, offers meaningful guidance for those who would like to understand this multifaceted question."
—Basim Can Sirh, Reviews and Critical Commentary
"A detailed and close analysis of the paradoxes of contemporary pluralism. The focus on the Turkish Alevi—a religious minority within Islam—allows Tambar to explore in concrete terms the ways in which state authorized narratives of political belonging at once enable inclusion and perpetuate the subordination of difference. Ironically, acknowledging the Alevi's place in Turkey's history requires a deliberate forgetting of the specificities of their collective experience. The ethnographic detail is illuminating; the argument subtle and nuanced. We learn not only about conflicts in Turkish history, but about the complex workings of modernity."
—Joan W. Scott, Institute for Advanced Study
"Written with rich ethnographic detail and impressive analytical force, The Reckoning of Pluralism shakes our taken-for-granted social and theoretical understandings of secular modernity, political belonging, and religious identity."
—Elizabeth Povinelli, Columbia University
" The Reckoning of Pluralism is a remarkable contribution to our understanding of politics of diversity and religious subjectivity not only in Turkey, but also throughout the Islamic world and beyond."
—Esra Özyürek, London School of Economics
Excerpt from Chapter 1
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If your family is like ours, we love to get outside any day we can after being in the house all winter! Some parks can get quite muddy on these Spring days. Head out and check out these 5 parks that have the soft rubber ground and are less likely to have puddles!
Erb Park was updated in Summer of 2017. Great for climbers and older kids.
Derks Park is often referred to as the "Target Park," because it is located right behind Target on Kensington Drive in Darboy. A great park for little ones and has 2 nice big fixtures. It also has lots of green space and nestled far enough away from the road for younger kids.
This park has a little walk over a bridge from the parking lot. Its a huge park and at times can get busy. We enjoy this park because it has a lot of great things for a variety of ages. Sometimes its easy to lose your kids in the structure. It also has a fun "pipe slide." Make sure kids put their hands in the air to avoid pinching little fingers. We also like walking over to the pond to watch the geese.
This Little Chute park is great for little ones. There is also a little plastic structure as well but it does have wood chips. If you need a break from the park, there is a nice little hill to roll down!
Riverside Park or "The Rocket Park" is unique fun park that features a multi-level rocket ship. This park makes me a little nervous with my 2 year old but is great with bigger kids. Its also a perfect place for a picnic or walk along the water.
This is a great park for little ones. There is a huge sandbox that is a little hard to avoid if your kiddos like playing in the sand. One advantage of this park is its neighbor is Houdini Elementary School. If you need a break its a short walk along a trail. Houdini's park does have wood chips.
Lots of great things to explore and the beautiful fountain in the summer.
Just a reminder, most bathrooms are open May 1st – October 1st. Also check out this great park resource with nice 360 views by a local Dad.
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Barker, Pearson Pace No. 25 Bethel to Record Day
Vassar (5-4) 13 23 15 16 67
Bethel (9-0) 16 15 26 21 78
Pts: Isa Peczuh - 22
Reb: Sophie Nick - 7
Ast: Jackie Cenan - 5
Pts: Makenna Pearson - 24
Reb: 2 Players (#03, #TM - 5)
Ast: Bella Williams - 4
NAPLES, Fla. – A strong defense effort highlighted the Bethel University women's basketball team's 78-67 victory over Vassar College Sunday afternoon at the Naples Shootout. The Royals collected a program-record 29 steals forcing the Brewers to turn it over 34 times. Senior guard Haylee Barker had a program single-game record 11 steals.
The nationally ranked Royals – who are No. 25 in the D3hoops.com poll and No. 20 in the WBCA – improved on their best start moving to 9-0. BU closes out its trip to the Sunshine State Monday evening against Salisbury University at 5:30 p.m. CDT.
Junior forward Makenna Pearson had a career-high day from behind the arc where she hit six 3-pointers while matching a career-high 24 points. Barker finished with a season-high 16 points while Taite Anderson tallied 12 points. Defensively, junior guard Bella Williams added eight steals.
In a fast paced first half, Vassar started out strong with a 7-0 run. Pearson dialed in from long distance putting Bethel on the board. From there the defense ramped up forcing six turnovers while BU responded with a 10-0 run to take its first lead.
A layup in transition from Barker gave Bethel its largest lead of the half at 21-15 with 8:36 to go in the second. An 8-1 run for the Brewers tied things up before they scored the half's final nine points to lead 36-31 at the break.
Bethel got off to a slow start in the second half put picked up the momentum with a fast break layup from Emma Schultz. Despite sending Vassar to the line for the final 7:22 of the third, BU chipped away at a 10-point deficit with a pair of 3-pointers from Pearson. A 19-6 run through the final five minutes gave Bethel a 57-51 lead heading into the final quarter.
The defense stayed consistent in the fourth forcing nine turnovers with seven steals. Bethel pushed the lead to double digits while free throws from Kat Brown-Erdal gave the Royals their largest advantage at 73-61.
Story by Austin Lagesse, Bethel University Assistant Sports Information Director


For a company that only launched in 2014, StakeLogic have made something of a concerted effort to launch a huge range of video slots, and their range of games will soon be fast approaching 100 of them at the rate they are releasing them.
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Maggie Valley Fire & Rescue (MVF&R) has been providing the community with excellent fire protection since 1959. The agency, officially classified as a volunteer fire department, provides twenty-four hour fire coverage and carries a 4/5 ISO fire insurance rating. Those living inside the Town's corporate limits are a rate 4, while those living outside the Town limits but still within the service boundary of MVF&R enjoy a 5 rating.
To learn more about the Fire Department please visit their official Facebook page.


We love collaborating with our sisters at Manchester Bike Tours. Check out some of our shared rides of past, present and future below and come join us for a pedal around the city. Click on images below for more information and to book.


Not sure if this is bug or "working as intended" but Elite Missions from Command Center Силы ордена are NOT re spawning when you complete them. I used to do Элитный удар: Разрушенный храм multiple times and it hasn't poped back yet on any toon so far.
Maybe I should've said about only AP mission. I haven't bothered with war supplies since they nerfed the AP tokens and no bags from those. Элитный удар: Разрушенный храм definitely was not re spawning on multiple toons.


Whether this is your first apartment or you have moved in out of different apartments several times, it's always exciting to start out all over again in a new place. You can't wait to paint and decorate and really make it your own. However, before you move start decorating and buying those new curtains and bedsheets, there are a few important things that you shouldn't forget to do before moving in (besides just calling a long island moving company).
The williamsburg luxury apartments may look move in ready and spotless, but it's always a good idea to scrub down toilets, bathtubs, and sinks. You never know how often the previous renter cleaned the apartment before you. Bacteria and germs could be lurking on surfaces, and you certainly don't want to get sick while trying to get all your stuff moved in and organized. Use a cleaner such as Lysol that is known for disinfecting and killing germs so that you can ensure a healthy living environment from the beginning.
You should always have an inspection for bugs and rodents. A pest control company knows what to look for and where these pests like to hide. If there is an infestation found and your apartment needs to be exterminated, your landlord will be responsible for picking up the tab. To make life easier, you should have this done before moving in, so you don't have to cover furniture or move your furniture around. Once the fumigation is completed, open the windows to air out any toxic chemicals and smells.
You should clean and disinfect the fridge before putting any of your food inside. Germs and bacteria, such as salmonella could breed in there. With an empty fridge comes a good time to unplug and move it so you can clean underneath. Spills and old moldy food left behind may cause an unpleasant smell as well as attract bugs and rodents. Stock your refrigerator with newly purchased items. During a move, especially in warmer climates food can spoil. If the refrigerator looks like it is on its way out and in really bad shape, ask the landlord to replace it. If you don't want to bother with new furniture and appliances you can always research furnished apartments for rent.
You never know how many people the previous tenant had given access to. Call a locksmith to install a completely new set of locks and keys on all entranceway doors. Share the key only with people you trust so they can get into your apartment in case of an emergency.
If you have a budget to hire a long beach moving company, it can be a relief in having to lug heavy furniture. This is especially beneficial if you live on a top floor. Always opt in for insurance in case any damage occurs during the move and you can be reimbursed.
Before you even consider putting a deposit on an apartment, you should ask to see the apartment before and after normal working hours. If you are a non-smoker and your neighbors who live below you smoke, this could be a problem. Taking a visit at different times each day can assess the noise levels, atmosphere and overall vibe of the entire apartment building and if each tenant is considerate of one another's privacy.


This is work for a iPhone app thats already on the market, and we are now looking to improve the note detection accuracy. Here are the project specs as they stand right now.
c. fft() - called by getFrequencies() within its "main processing loop"
- we would send you the full XCode project file ready to compile. So you would just need a provisioning profile from Apple. If you don't have a developer account with Apple then we can provide you with a membership so you can obtain the necessary profile for testing.
Won't take anytime at all to get you set up with that.
Let me know when your DSP engineers could get started & there quote for this.


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Have you established an Advanced Directive for Healthcare to ensure your wishes will be met?
I hadn't even thought about it
Legal Series
Physician Assisted Death: Carter v Canada
by ARETA LLOYD
In 2015 the Supreme Court of Canada issued a landmark decision regarding physician-assisted suicide: it is against the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to prohibit a person from seeking the assistance of a physician to end his or her life.
The result is not quite so simple as a blanket acceptance of physician-assisted suicide. The court crafted a carefully worded decision that puts parameters on this right.
The court ruled that physician-assisted death is not illegal for "a competent adult who clearly consents to the termination of his or her life, and is suffering intolerably as a result of a grievous and irremediable medical condition."
For an illness to be considered "irremediable," a person does not have to exhaust all treatment options prior to requesting assisted death. An individual has the right to reject treatments that are unacceptable to him or her.
Lawyers and courts read the decision as a series of tests or conditions that need fulfilling:
the person is an adult
is mentally competent
provides clear, voluntary, and informed consent
has a grievous and irremediable medical condition that could be an illness, disease or disability
the condition causes enduring suffering
the suffering is intolerable in the individual's circumstances.
The court gave parliament one year to amend the Criminal Code and specifically those sections at the core of the case:
section 14, which prohibits anyone from consenting to their own death, and
section 241(b), which prohibits anyone from assisting someone with ending their life.
The court did not strike down these sections as patently unconstitutional because they continue to serve an important purpose. What the court did, was tell parliament to carve out an exception for physician-assisted dying.
How did these sections offend the Charter? The Charter right at issue was section 7 which guarantees life, liberty and security. The court reasoned that the blanket prohibitions in sections 14 and 241(b) of the Criminal Code:
deprived some persons of life because they were forced to end their lives prematurely for fear that they would not have the ability to do so when they reached the point of intolerable suffering;
deprived some persons of liberty because a person's response to their grievous and irremediable medical condition is central to their dignity and autonomy and they were denied the right to make decisions about their bodily integrity and medical care;
deprived some persons of security because they were forced to live with intolerable suffering.
It should be noted that "suffering" can be physical or psychological. Past case law includes psychological suffering, although at a very high level, within the scope of section 7.
It should be noted that "suffering" can be physical or psychological.
This decision, which was unanimous, overturned the Supreme Court's ruling just barely more than 20 years ago on the same issue. At that time, the court's decision was split: 5 justices wrote the majority decision and 4 dissented. One of those four was the current Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin.
In the intervening 20 years, other jurisdictions legalized assisted suicide and adopted different regimes to regulate it. The court heard new evidence from these jurisdictions and found that it could be possible to allow assisted suicide and still protect vulnerable people. The court stated that existing informed consent guidelines used by the medical profession in end-of-life situations could be used to ensure that no one was coerced, manipulated, influenced unduly or motivated by depression or mental illness.
If you follow this issue, you already know that there continues to be disagreement about the evidence from other jurisdictions, especially on the issue of whether there are enough protections for the vulnerable. The court did not give further guidance, only that it will be up to parliament, provincial legislatures and medical regulators to address the issues.
The one-year deadline passed in early 2016 and the government received an extention until June 6, 2016 to pass a new law. Since the deadline passed without the proclamation of a new law, the existing Criminal Code provisions will be ineffective for physician-assisted death as per the court decision.
Prior to that deadline, anyone wishing for an assisted death had to apply to the Ontario Superior Court, whose guidelines include that a person must be competent. The medical regulatory body also advises doctors to obtain informed consent from a capable patient for assisted death. Therefore, depending on the timing of their request, dementia patients may be denied the option of assisted death. At this time, doctors remain bound by the guidelines of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the court process remains open to everyone.
What the Carter Decision means for Dementia Patients
The key issue for dementia sufferers is the criteria of mental competence to give informed consent to physician-assisted death, and the lack of mention of advance directives.
While it is not arguable that dementia of all types is a grievous and irremediable illness, it is not certain that in all cases it will cause intolerable suffering.
It is quite clear from the court's decision that the justices envisioned a person giving informed consent to their own death. The question that was put to the court was whether a "competent adult" was deprived of a right to die. The court upheld the trial judge's reasoning which (a) envisaged a limited exception for someone "competent, fully informed, non-ambivalent and free from coercion"; and (b) accepted that informed consent procedures for medical treatment are sufficient to address decisional capacity and protect the vulnerable. Thus, the court stated that only "a competent adult" would have the right to request assisted suicide. This phrase is relied on to exclude advance directives or substitutes from making the decision.
Further, if we apply the Carter criteria to the concept of advance consent, there is an issue with the second part of the test. While it is not arguable that dementia of all types is a grievous and irremediable illness, it is not certain that in all cases it will cause intolerable suffering. Even if someone believes their suffering will be intolerable, it is possible that it may not be. And, it may not be possible to ever confirm this.
In Ontario, advance directives are not advanced informed consent for any kind of medical treatment or withdrawal of treatment. They are simply a person's wishes that act as guidance for a substitute decision maker. Therefore, if advance directives were determined to be appropriate for assisted suicide, this would have to be amended in Ontario's substitute decision laws.
Due to these parameters it is ironic that dementia patients will also face "a cruel choice" similar to the plaintiffs in the Carter case. It may be inevitable that many people suffering from dementia will never be included in an assisted suicide regime because of the very nature of their illness.
However, near the end of the decision, the court stated that their ruling was intended to respond to the facts in the case and that they were not commenting on other situations in which physician-assisted death may be sought.
PLEASE NOTE: The information provided in this article is for informational purposes only. It is general information and should not be taken to be a full and accurate discussion of the law on this topic, nor is it intended to be legal advice or to be relied upon as legal advice by the reader.
If you have questions about physician-assisted death, you may contact the author:
Areta N. Lloyd
Elder Law Group
Areta Lloyd
Areta is a lawyer specializing in consent and capacity issues. She represents clients before the Consent and Capacity Board and at all levels of court…
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Jim Crow was not the name of a person, yet the name "Jim Crow" affected the lives of millions of people. From the 1880's into the 1960's, a majority of American states enforced segregation through Jim Crow laws (so called after a black character in minstrel shows). "Jim Crow" came to personify the system of government-sanctioned racial oppression and segregation in the United States, designed to rob blacks of their civil rights and prevent them from mingling with whites in public places.
Robinson stepped onto this ball field and changed views and attitudes around the world about Negroes in professional baseball. This former "Jim Crow" section of the City Island Ballpark was overflowing on that day and black American veterans, without incident, integrated the "white stands".
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Last seen in 2008 dropping a trio of EPs from Creepy Autograph, Valentine Connexion make a welcome return. Little may be known of The Abstract Eye, the mysterious entity responsible for the five tracks that make up Cool Warm Divine, but there's a certain Detroit hotness, a vintage rawness and undeniable analogue sexiness running through the production here. The title track pays homage to the vintage Detroit sound pioneered by Drexciya et al, laying a multiplicity of bubbling synth flourishes over rippling drum machine kicks. It's the slippery analogue flex of B Side opener "The Unseen" that impresses the most though; all neon synth lines tinged with futuristic sensibilities over simmering bass and snapping Model 500 kicks.


Five out of six possible medals were won by the Ethiopian runners in the 10,000 m finals of the men and the women at the World Championships in Helsinki. While Tirunesh Dibaba and Kenenisa Bekele once more won easily, the Kenyans just got one bronze medal by Moses Mosop. Since the World Championships in Stuttgart 1993, when the career of the then 20 year-old Haile Gebrselassie began with a victory in the 10,000 m race, the Ethiopians won every 10,000 m at the Olympics or World Championships except one single race. That was in the 2001 World Championships when the Kenyan Charles Kamathi won surprisingly.
For a long time it had been only Haile Gebrselassie who snapped away the gold medals from the Kenyans. But in the course of his triumph, a group of world class athletes developed. The one best known is Kenenisa Bekele, who meanwhile took both world records at 5,000 and 10,000 m from his role model Gebrselassie. The Ethiopian women also reached world class standard. But it took them longer than the men, although Derartu Tulu already won the Olympic 10.000 m gold in Barcelona in 1992.
Haile Gebrselassie surely has a big share concerning the enormous development of the Ethiopian long distance runners. But he wasn't the first successful Ethiopian runner. 1960 and 1964 Abebe Bikila had won the Olympic marathon; four years later his countryman Mamo Wolde did the same. But there was a big gap until the next big victory – and the first who triumphed on the track was Miruts Yifter. He won the 5.000 m as well as the 10.000 m in 1980. Haile Gebrselassie achieved Olympic victories on the track years later.
When the German athletes trained in the stadium of Addis Abeba, the Ethiopian coaches were standing next to them and noted the whole training session while the stop watch was in their hand. Later an exchange developed. Ethiopian coaches and athletes came to Potsdam for training camps and they competed in the GDR meetings. Furthermore, a lot of African coaches studied in Leipzig at the University for Body Culture (DHfK). "Among them was also the current Ethiopian head coach for distance running, Dr. Woldemeskel Kostre", explains Jos Hermens.
The Ethiopians still work with a centralised system, partly comparable to former GDR's system. All athletes normally come together to Addis Abeba before the big championships. Participation at the lucrative meetings in Europe is restricted by the offcials. And those who don't stick to the rules will not be nominated for the Olympics or the World Championships.
"much more potential in Ethiopia"