Van Giersbergen and Rygg's core audiences remain on the metal side, proof that no matter how diverse your music becomes, your old metal fans will still stubbornly cling to you like barnacles to a creaky hull.
It may have been placed innocuously at the very end of the Gathering's subdued 2003 album Souvenirs, but "A Life All Mine" was a dream duet for fans of progressive metal, a pairing of the best male and female lead singers the genre has produced in the last 15 years: Ulver's Krystoffer "Garm" Rygg, and the Gathering's angelic-voiced Anneke van Giersbergen. A languid, somber track inspired more by trip hop and IDM than contemporary metal, not only was it a drop dead gorgeous stage for the duo to exhibit their singing ability, but it was also a perfect indication of just how far the singers had evolved as artists.
Van Giersbergen had gone from a young vocalist belting out the high notes atop a rather straightforward goth/doom backdrop to the frontwoman for a bold, forward thinking, highly revered group of auteurs. Rygg, meanwhile, started out as one of the most prominent figures of the Norwegian black metal explosion of the early '90s, but quickly abandoned the extreme sounds in favor of more industrial, ambient, and often eccentric musical styles, his vocals ranging from screeching, to chanting, and finally settling on a sumptuous, velvety croon that he uses to this day.
In a way, four and a half years later, the two singers' careers have merged again, with two albums, both of which are due out this October on the great progressive metal imprint The End Records. Rygg is back with Ulver's first album since 2005's spectacular Blood Inside, a piece of work that takes the band's constantly evolving sound to an extreme that some might not have expected. Van Giersbergen, meanwhile, is starting from scratch, having announced her departure from the Gathering this past June, and quickly getting back on the horse with a new band, Agua de Annique, which, like Ulver, continues to move further away from those '90s metal roots in favor of something a bit more accessible.
But no matter how wide the appeal of both albums actually is, both artists' core audiences remain on the metal side, proof that no matter how diverse your music becomes, your old metal fans will still stubbornly cling to you like barnacles to a creaky hull. Blood & Thunder caught up with both singers, two days apart, in late September.
Melody takes precedence over atonality on the very surprising second album by the Seattle one-man black metal band, as Numinas brings more variety than few of his misanthropic peers are brave enough to do, from ambient touches, to soothing synth interludes that pop in out of nowhere, to moments of genuine shoegaze-like beauty, highlighted by "Memories of the Flesh" and the startlingly pretty "I Resperi Della Ombre".
The German power metal veterans return with a revamped lineup, but all the major ingredients are still there, as the Priest riffs and Ralf Scheepers' soaring howl dominate scorchers like "Sign of Fear" and "Blood on Your Hands". However, the flaccid "Everytime it Rains" and the nearly nine minute power ballad "Fighting the Darkness" almost derail what is otherwise a solid, fun album.
On the heels of 2005's attention-grabbing The Galilean Satellites, Philly's resident NeurIsis disciples continue to slowly evolve toward the post-rock side of the sound. So refined the quartet's music has become, that they are very close to reaching the level of their idols, as the three-part suite "Lift", the moving "Wake", and the 13 minute "Monument" are damn near masterful in execution.
An at times strange combination of King Crimson and Porcupine Tree, the prog rockers' fifth album skillfully emphasizes the song over musicianship, as tasteful melodies, solos, and singing never give way to pointless elf-indulgence, highlighted by the accessible "All That Remains" and the hooky but not hokey "Serpents in Disguise". At last, a prog band with hooks and discipline!
"I had been in the Gathering for 13 years, and I had never done anything for 13 years in my life," says a cheerful Anneke van Giersbergen, on the phone from her home in Holland. The singer shocked many by leaving the Gathering less than a fortnight after the band's North American tour this past spring, and what she left behind was a legacy few female metal singers can ever match, from six groundbreaking studio albums to an entire generation of female singers directly influenced by her work.
"It's been my whole adult life, so to leave that, on one hand, was a very clear decision and a very strong feeling, and I was ready. In 13 years, things had changed in my personal and musical life. It was difficult as well, because the guys, they were like brothers, so to leave that and to change that relationship has been a long process and was probably one of the hardest things I did.
"I told them at the beginning of March, and so we really took some time to assess the situation," she continues. "Also, the guys, they wanted to see what their plans would be next. Of course they were not happy with my decision, but they are respectful and they have good spirits to continue. Of course, I put a big stamp on the sound and the look of the Gathering, but on the other hand I'm not the only singer in the world, so it's going to change, but it's not going to stop."
It was during the writing and recording of her debut solo side project when van Giersbergen realized just how much she enjoyed being fully in charge of her music, and also that she was ready to step immediately into a more artistically rewarding project helped make her decision easier.
"There were a lot of physical reasons, but they all came out of one big feeling in my heart that it was time to change," she explains. "I was supposed to do this record besides the Gathering, and I was given time and it was all okay, but I like to do other small projects and work with other people a lot. I had some plans, and the feeling became stronger to develop that more seriously and also especially to be with my family a little bit more. Now, I can direct everything I do from this one agenda, and it feels very good to be the director of your own life. In a way the Gathering was officially a bigger band, and we were day and night constantly working with it, and it was quite intense, all the processes. So a lot of small things became one big feeling, like, 'Okay, I'm ready.'"
The more the dust settles from all the upheaval, the clearer it becomes just how prepared van Giersbergen is to set out on her own. Air, the debut album by the creatively named Agua de Annique ("'Annique' sounds better than 'Anneke'," she laughs) is a superb, highly confident collection of songs that run the gamut from hard rock ("You Are Nice"), to folk ("Come Wander"), to Coldplay-esque pop ("Yalin"), to piano-based balladry ("Day After Yesterday"), to even a few progressive-minded moments that would make her old band proud (the best being the hard-charging "Witnesses").
"Some of these are quite old, actually, because I have so many songs," she says. "In the Gathering period I also had many songs and a lot of them hadn't been used, so they were shelved. I just recorded them simply, on mostly guitar and vocals, and recently I've been playing piano and writing a lot of songs on that. They all have kind of their own charm, like the easygoing, simple ones, but I'm equally proud of the mini-epic ones, because they all have a different feel. I have so much stuff, I think I can release four more albums."
Actually, Air, for all its eccentricity, does sound like an extension of the last Gathering album, 2006's Home. In particular, two songs, "Beautiful One" and "Lost and Found", rely heavily on the contrast between darkness and light that has always been the Gathering's calling card. "It was not intentional, but I think a logical thing," admits van Giersbergen, "because my participation in the Gathering was also very personal, the way I sing and the melodies and lyrics, they are all really me, and I was part of five people, a big band, and now I am only one of those people making this record, but those elements I take with me because they come from me. So it's logical that particular sound is hearable in the music. Of course a lot of people hear that, it has the melancholy and dark edge, you can see very much in the Gathering as well."
Agua de Annique is currently preparing for a series of November shows in Holland, but for the first time in a very long time, van Giersbergen doesn't really know what to expect, and has a lot more resting on her own shoulders, saying, "With the Gathering, after 13 years, there are certain things that are very comfortable and easy, like knowing exactly what their rhythms are, and how they play and how they feel onstage, and we're one big thing, one whole. And that's of course very different now, because, this is all quite new and exciting, and also because it's my own stuff, so all the credits are for me, but all the critics are as well. So it comes a lot harder now, I really want to do a really good job, so I'm very focused on it."
Kristoffer Rygg's musical journey has been nothing short of eccentric over the years, especially his work with his most well-known project, Ulver. Formed while still in his teens, the Norwegian band went on to become one of the most important black metal acts of all time, thanks primarily to the trio of starkly contrasting albums that kickstarted their illustrious career: 1994's epic Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler, 1995's acoustic Kveldssanger, and 1996's unrelenting, ultra-aggressive Nattens Madrigal - Aatte Hymne til Ulven i Manden.
However, despite the fact that fans and artists alike still cite those albums as major influences to this day (trendy American bands such as Agalloch and Wolves in the Throne Room are heavily derived from Ulver's early sound), the black metal aspect of Ulver's oeuvre is now a distant memory, as the last decade has yielded a series of challenging, polarizing, and often brilliant musical experiments, be they industrial (Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell), dark ambient music (Teachings in Silence), various film soundtracks, and everything in between (2005's Blood Inside). On their seventh full-length, the trio makes yet another bold move in a career dominated by bold moves, as Rygg and bandmates Jørn H. Sværen and Tore Ylwizaker have decided to take a their music into a decidedly minimalist direction, with typically stunning results.
Stripped of all accoutrements, Shadows of the Sun is Ulver laid bare, an exquisite blend of warmth and frigidity, akin to bracing yourself against an icy Nordic wind as the sun rises in the distance. With very little more than drone loops, lugubrious drumming, ambient electronic touches (including an appearance by talented electronic artist Christian Fennesz on one track), and a haunting theremin, the focus is almost exclusively on the voice of Rygg, who turns in a subdued, sublime performance. And not only is it a complete departure from the last album, but it's also one of Ulver's finest pieces yet.
"Having done so much eclectic music and being into so much in your face stuff, it's natural for us to land in a more subtle place. But I think subtlety can be very interesting, and also more potent than more [aggressive] music." explains Rygg. Calling from a chaotically noisy New York street, and answering questions in an articulate, but carefully direct manner that some might misinterpret as terse, it's a far cry from the relaxed conversation with van Giersbergen a couple days prior, but the dryly witty Rygg is in good spirits, as his album, a month away from release, is already generating some serious buzz among critics and metal scenesters alike.
Packed to the gills with layer upon layer of samples, electronic flourishes, and organic instrumentation, Blood Inside still ranks as Ulver's most ambitious work to date, and is vastly different than the quiet solemnity of the new album, but according to Rygg, the approach in the studio for Shadows was not unlike the last time the trio worked on an album. "It's pretty much been similar; it's been hell," he laughs. "It hasn't been that different, but we've probably been in a different place mentally. In terms of how we worked, it's been more or less the way we've worked for almost ten years, after we acquired our own studio and stopped playing rock music, stopped playing band music.
"The main difference is [Blood Inside] has so many layers, and there's really no technical challenge to put a lot of sound on top of sound, but it has to be like a meaningful layering process. With Blood Inside, we kind of compensated for the weaknesses of the record with putting more sound on it, whereas this time it was the opposite, the challenge was kind of keeping it interesting without resorting to all that kind of layering. So we just tried to keep things very simple. We had certain pieces that we liked, and just let that develop."
While listening to Ulver's more recent music requires a little more patience than many fans of extreme music are used to, Ulver's recording process asks the same of the band, which has become more and more meticulous as the years have gone on. "We're very much a studio-based band," explains Rygg. "We don't write songs like the usual way to write music, to make three or four different riffs and put those riffs together. Usually we have one single sound or loop or something that we start with, so it's a much bigger challenge to form a body out of that, when you don't have all the pieces before you're going to start making the form. So it's a little different, and certainly a lot more difficult. Before we could make a song in an evening, but now it takes us about a month," he chuckles exasperatedly.
Just as stark as the music are Rygg's lyrics, which speak of isolation, sadness, and an eerie detachment from the rest of the world, reflected in such songs as "Eos", "Vigil", the title track, and a terrific cover of Black Sabbath's Master of Reality slow-burner "Solitude", a ballad that suits Ulver's style perfectly. "[Shadows of the Sun] kind of refers to being on the periphery of things. You've got to believe what you want to believe, not like an ideal. It's just like we're out of something, so it's kind of a personification of how it feels. The original title was The Distance of the Sun, and the very first lyric is a simple line, 'The sun is far away,' and that speaks volumes about the atmosphere of the record. It's far away. There're no illusions left.
"We're kind of trying to unite the brutality of the sentiments with something that's constructive, something that's beautiful and pleasing to the senses," he adds. "It's a paradox in itself to describe something that's very desperate in soothing terms."
Of all the tracks, "Funebrae" is the most impeccable exploration of that enthralling dynamic of musical warmth and emotional desperation, as piano, theremin, what seems like mellotron, and various abstract drones provide the perfect atmosphere for Rygg's achingly poetic lyrics ("A strain of music / Hung from a willow"). "There's little doubt ['Funebrae'] is the best song. It's the best song, dynamically, and the lyrics I'm happy with. I'm happy with just the fact that it's the one song we spent the least time working with, so it kind of became, and it had some moments that were really defining lyrics for the record. Of course, that's all subjective and has to do with taste, but I think for me that's probably the most interesting song. It's very far away."
Describing Ulver's own musicianship, Rygg is modest, but at the same time, he delivers a line that perfectly encapsulates the band's aesthetic, and one of the reasons why after a decade of experimentation, they're still capable of unparalleled levels of esoteric beauty. "We don't play instruments; we do, but we don't do it good. What we do good is manipulate the things we don't do good," he adds with a laugh. "That's where our strength is at."
Typical of metal fans, when it comes to the music of both the Gathering and Ulver, the older, seminal material by both bands is loved the most, yet van Giersbergen and Rygg continue to distance themselves from their classic metal past. With a pair of excellent new albums that couldn't be less metal if they tried, it begs the inevitable question: Have they grown out of playing only metal music, and will they ever return to the heavier sounds that they played in the mid-'90s?
"I think where you come from, you never leave it behind, because you take it as baggage, as good positive baggage," says an optimistic van Giersbergen. "So what we did in the early days, in the Mandylion period, as we were in the same cradle as the female-fronted metal bands, and kind of evolved from that and everybody went their separate ways, and the Gathering, we made a lot of different kinds of records, we became broader, and I as a singer became broader. And when you're young, everything's black and white, you're either angry or happy. Now there's such a variety in your character and in the way you sing and write music," she says, adding, "You never know. Sometimes you have a personal revival."
While Rygg continues to dabble in the harder stuff (last year's excellent album by Head Control System is a good example), when it comes to Ulver, and especially black metal, he considers it ancient history. "I don't find it very likely. Not with this band," he says. "I can definitely join some stoner rock group or something, but I think it would have to be with other people. I think this band is like division and expansion, and it's ten years ago since we recorded something relating to black metal, so it's highly unlikely. We do work hard on trying to create our own form, so it would seem a little backwards to go back to doing something that thousands of other people are doing. It doesn't strike me as particularly interesting."


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51 But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret. We will not all die, but we will all be transformed! 52 It will happen in a moment, in the blink of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For when the trumpet sounds, those who have died will be raised to live forever. And we who are living will also be transformed. 53 For our dying bodies must be transformed into bodies that will never die; our mortal bodies must be transformed into immortal bodies. 54 Then, when our dying bodies have been transformed into bodies that will never die, this Scripture will be fulfilled: "Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?"
32 Peter and the others had fallen asleep. When they woke up, they saw Jesus' glory and the two men standing with him. 33 As Moses and Elijah were starting to leave, Peter, not even knowing what he was saying, blurted out, "Master, it's wonderful for us to be here! Let's make three shelters as memorials—one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." 34 But even as he was saying this, a cloud overshadowed them, and terror gripped them as the cloud covered them.
32 But now, if you will only forgive their sin—but if not, erase my name from the record you have written!"
11 Then I saw heaven opened, and a white horse was standing there. Its rider was named Faithful and True, for he judges fairly and wages a righteous war. 12 His eyes were like flames of fire, and on his head were many crowns.
35 Then a voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, my Chosen One. Listen to him." 36 When the voice finished, Jesus was there alone. They didn't tell anyone at that time what they had seen.
16 For we were not making up clever stories when we told you about the powerful coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. We saw his majestic splendor with our own eyes 17 when he received honor and glory from God the Father. The voice from the majestic glory of God said to him, "This is my dearly loved Son, who brings me great joy." 18 We ourselves heard that voice from heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain. 19 Because of that experience, we have even greater confidence in the message proclaimed by the prophets. You must pay close attention to what they wrote, for their words are like a lamp shining in a dark place—until the Day dawns, and Christ the Morning Star shines in your hearts.


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Afternoon Coffee: Sovos Acquires TrustWeaver, Beeline Partners with EverHive
- May 3, 2018 12:30 PM |
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Sovos, a provider of global tax compliance software, announced Thursday it had acquired e-invoicing compliance provider TrustWeaver, according to a press release. The acquisition, the fourth in a string of recent deals, extends Sovos' e-invoicing coverage to 60 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.
"TrustWeaver has become a seal of approval for the world's largest financial systems, which is a testament not only to the effectiveness of its software and integrations, but also to its ability to monitor and interpret regulatory change in the European region and beyond," said Andy Hovancik, president and CEO of Sovos. "We've built Sovos to reduce the costly friction between businesses and governments around the world, and it was immediately obvious to us that TrustWeaver provides an important part of that solution."
Beeline-EverHive Partnership
Beeline announced Wednesday it had formed a new partnership with EverHive, a global contingent workforce solutions firm that partners with companies to help them manage and create systems for internally and self-managed contingent worker programs, according to a press release. The program will allow both companies' customers to access the expertise of industry leaders who can structure their entire contingent worker programs, with the option of having EverHive serve as their vendor-neutral hybrid managed service provider (MSP).
"As the industry evolves at a dramatic pace, the foundation of our enterprise is based on agility, thought leadership, and unyielding collaboration," says Brandon Moreno, president of EverHive. "The strong partnership between Beeline and EverHive allows us to offer clients an expanded portfolio of a proven and trusted technology provider that works hand in hand with our customized solutions."
Trade Update
The question of whether the U.S. and China will be able to avert a trade war may hinge on the outcome of talks set to begin this week in China led by top Trump administration officials, the New York Times reports. The delegation itself, however, is causing some to worry: The White House is "sending six trade and economic officials with differing ideas on how to approach China and who are deeply divided over the desirability of a trade war."
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Sports Cricket 20 Oct 2022 Home ministry will decide if Indian team will travel to Pakistan: Anurag Thakur
Home ministry will decide if Indian team will travel to Pakistan: Anurag Thakur
Published : Oct 20, 2022, 2:08 pm IST
Updated : Oct 20, 2022, 2:08 pm IST
Thakur is expecting that Pakistan team will come to India to compete in the 50-over World Cup next year, saying 'all are welcome'
Sports minister Anurag Thakur (PTI Photo/Vijay Verma)
New Delhi: Sports minister Anurag Thakur on Thursday said the home ministry will take a call on Indian cricket team's travel to Pakistan for the Asia Cup next year since the players' security is an important matter.
Thakur though is expecting that Pakistan team will come to India to compete in the 50-over World Cup next year, saying "all are welcome".
BCCI secretary Jay Shah had on Tuesday said that Indian team will not travel to Pakistan for the continental event and they would like to compete in the tournament on a neutral venue.
It had prompted Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to say that it may affect their team's participation in the World Cup in India.
"All teams who qualify for (World Cup) are invited (to compete on the Indian soil). Many times Pakistan teams have come to India and played. I feel India is not in a position to be dictated (by someone) and there is no reason for anyone to do that. I expect all countries to come and compete," Thakur told a select gathering of journalists when asked about the controversy that erupted after Shah's statement.
Thakur spoke after it was announced that the fifth edition of the Khelo India Youth Games will be held across eight cities in Madhya Pradesh from January 31 to February 11.
Asked about Indian team's travel, the Sports Minister said, "It's a decision that will be taken by the home ministry. Overall, players' safety and security is an important matter," Thakur said.
It was pointed out that international teams have started touring Pakistan, of late, but Thakur deflected the question.
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Life in the world's biggest refugee camp
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What's it like to live in the biggest refugee camp in the world? Swiss Helvetas employee Alexa Mekonen works in a camp in Bangladesh which is home to one million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. She is helping to make their everyday life more bearable.
"Of course, I could have a simpler life. But do I want that?" Alexa Mekonen laughs. "No!" The 31-year-old is climbing a hill to reach camp 8E of the largest refugee settlement in the world. It is hot, 35 degrees, and very humid in the run-up to the rainy season.
Nearly one million Rohingya live in the hinterland of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh's most popular tourist destination. They are spread over 34 densely populated sub-camps. Around 220,000 people came here between the 1970s and 1990s, when the Rohingya were systematically driven out of their homeland Myanmar for the first time. Since August 2017, over 740,000 have fled here across the nearby border.
Here they live in the simplest dwellings, built from bamboo sticks and plastic tarpaulins, hut after hut, spread over an area of 26 square kilometres.
"When I first came here, I was shocked," says Mekonen. That was at the beginning of April 2018: "My first thought was: so many people!" And they lacked everything: food, water, electricity, and especially an infrastructure that would make life in this improvised city bearable. Mekonen was happy to have something to do at once.
In a first phase, immediately after the arrival of the first refugees, Helvetas had distributed emergency aid kits containing, among other things, soap and water containers.
Six months later, the Swiss development organisation began providing support to the Rohingya beyond short-term emergency measures. During Mekonen's first weeks, Helvetas built 320 latrines connected to large tanks in which faeces are collected. This is where biogas is produced.
Biogas from the latrines
This will supply 12 communal kitchens built by Helvetas together with a local partner organisation. A total of around 20,000 refugees benefit from these facilities. "The system solves several problems," says Alexa Mekonen. "People don't have to do their business outside, and thanks to the gas they are no longer dependent on wood as fuel, because there is none of that here anymore."
In fact, after their arrival, the Rohingya more or less cut down the forests on the hills around Cox's Bazar. They needed space and wood to build their huts and make fires. Now nothing holds the ground anymore. "That was the next big problem when I arrived. The monsoon, the rainy season, begins here at the end of May and the beginning of June. The huts on the steep slopes were threatened by landslides."
Complicating matters further, the Rohingya have to build their huts from bamboo and plastic tarpaulins. They are not allowed to use stones or bricks. Not even a concrete foundation is permitted, because the Bangladeshi government wants the Rohingya to return to Myanmar as soon as possible. But that's not an option for the Rohingya, since there are no serious signs yet from the Myanmar government that it will provide them a free and safe life in their homeland.
In Bangladesh, the Rohingya are only considered "temporarily admitted", making their situation even more difficult. "The thousands of children born here are stateless. They are not officially allowed to go to school because they are not recognised as refugees," says Mekonen.
In the meantime we have arrived at the top of the hill. Immediately she is surrounded by a group of children. Mekonen doesn't speak the Rohingya language, but with signs, gestures and the help of a translator she can communicate. She approaches everyone openly, wants to know how they are doing and listens to their concerns.
"I've always been like that," she says. As a young adult, she worked in a community centre in Geneva. Then Mekonen went abroad. While studying she went to a refugee camp in Lebanon and travelled to Namibia for a field study. After her studies she went to Tanzania for an internship, where she dealt with issues of gender justice in an agricultural project run by Helvetas.
Where does this urge come from? "It probably has something to do with my family background," says Mekonen. Her father is half-Ethiopian, half-Eritrean. He worked for an international trading company in Geneva. Her mother, a Swiss German, worked there at the airport as a ground worker for an airline. "That's why we were always able to fly very cheaply as a family."
And so Alexa and her older brother came into contact with other cultures at a very young age – India, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Ethiopia, Eritrea. "I think it's no coincidence that I'm where I am today," she says.
Meanwhile we drive a bit further in the Rohingya camp to the market, where vegetables, food and other such goods are sold. "Some money comes into circulation, which gives the people in the camp a little bit of independence," Mekonen says. And thanks to the market, something like normality returns to daily life.
Behind the market, Mekonen visits a family that is part of the latest Helvetas project. With the support of the local partner organisation Shushilan, Helvetas trains women in vegetable gardening and shows them how to build climbing gardens in the little spaces around their houses. In this way, families can eat healthier.
So far, they have lived off the staple foods of rice, lentils and oil that have been distributed here since the arrival of the Rohingya. And they can sell their vegetables in the market, which gives them a small income with which they can buy fish or meat, for example.
"The danger is that the fate of the Rohingya will be forgotten," says Mekonen. "But these people will still need our help in the future because their situation will not change. She looks at Sarah Begum, 20, who is preparing lunch for her family in her hut. "I am happy I can contribute at least a little bit with my work to making these people's lives a bit more worth living."
How Helvetas helps the Rohingya
Swiss development organisation Helvetas has been active in Bangladesh for 19 years, so it was able to help the Rohingya refugees from Myanmar quickly with emergency aid kits. The long-term projects mentioned in this report were also funded by donations from Swiss Solidarity, a Swiss institution that organises and coordinates donations in the event of disasters.
In four camps, Helvetas is also responsible, along with Alliance2015 European partner organisations ACTED and PIN, for improving safety. The people in the camp are informed about playgrounds for children, learning centres, hospitals or approaching dangers such as cyclones or heavy rain. And the Rohingya also do their bit for the common good. For example, a women's group has improved the paths to the latrines, while a boy's group has ensured that the latrines are lit at night.


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As of 2021, Dan Pena net worth is estimated to be 550 Million US Dollars. The primary source of his earnings is coming from his career as a Business Executive.
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Dan Pena Net Worth In 2021 $550 Million
Everyone dreamed of living in a castle when they were a kid, right? Dan's wish was fulfilled, unlike most others.
The famous Pena's castle is located in Angus, Scotland. The castle was also known as the Guthrie Castle. In the 19th century, Dan updated the structure. It was initially built in the 15th century.
There are 156 acres of grounds, a walled garden shaped like a horseshoe, and a loch. Furthermore, on the estate grounds, there are four cottages and thirteen bedrooms in the castle. Dan added a golf course to the castle after a year of extensive renovations and has now made it his primary residence. Several renovations have been carried out on the castle since it was purchased.
Dan Pena net worth and Bio
Who Is Dan Pena?
Originally from Florida, Dan Pena was born in Jackson on August 10, 1945. He earned the nickname "$50 Billion Man" due to his high drive for success.
Dan Pena is a well-known Mexican American entrepreneur, motivational speaker, business consultant and author. Quantum Leap Advantage (QLA), a business strategy created by him, is renowned for the successful construction of companies.
Real Name Dan Pena
Known as Dan Pena
Birthplace Jackson, Florida, United States
Profession Business Executive
Dan Pena Net worth & Bio
Dan Pena's birthday is on 10th August. He has reached the age of 75. Dan's zodiac sign is Leo.
Birthdate 10th August
Day of Birth Monday
Birth Sign Duality Assertive
The height of Dan Pena is 5 feet 7 inch, and the weight is 76 Kg or 167 lb. The eye color is Green and the hair color is N/A.
Weight 76 Kg or 167 lb
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Pena was born into a middle-class family. Dan was raised and spent his childhood in East Los Angeles, California. In 1966, he joined the US Army for 3 Years at the age of 20.
His father was one of the lead investigators in the Robert F. Kennedy assassination. Additionally, he held the rank of Lieutenant Commander during World War II. He later became a CIA agent.
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Dan spent a few days in jail for alcoholism during his high school years. San Fernando Valley State College was the next stop on his educational journey.
After graduating from college, Dan earned a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration. Immediately after completing his Bachelor's degree, he ventured into real estate.
Mother Name N/A
Father Name N/A
Who is Dan Pena's Wife?
The name of his wife is Sally Hall. He has three children with Sally, Kelly, Derrick, and Danny. There is not much information available about Dan's personal life.
DAN PENA CAREER
From Military Career to Businessman
When the Vietnam War was at its height, he volunteered for the draft. The military gave Pena a sense of self-discipline and leadership skills, which led to his business success.
He enlisted as a private and became a lieutenant commander after serving for a few years. He served at Fort Benning in Georgia while in the military. During his military service in Europe, he spent time with senior military officers and ambassadors.
It was the time when Pena experienced a more sophisticated lifestyle and a different way of living. It was clear to him that he wanted to lead a prosperous life. As he was being presented a medal, Pena recalls that the general told him, "Of course, if you were in the real world, you'd probably get rich." At that moment, his life changed for good, and he officially began his entrepreneurial journey.
A bachelor's degree in Business Administration was awarded to him by the San Fernando Valley State College, California State University, Northridge, in 1971. His career on Wall Street began after he left the military. A few interviews ago, he described his motivation as "I wanted to go where the money was.".
He began his career in commercial real estate in Los Angeles, where he maintained a closing percentage of 94.6%. Afterward, he joined the Los Angeles office of Payne Webber as an equity broker. He was transferred to New York City in 1972. He was able to double his income over five years.
Upon leaving Payne Webber in 1977, he served as a financial advisor, investment analyst, and business consultant for the investment banking firm Bear Stearns.
He realized that there wasn't much difference between the business world and military life after starting his career.
Upon leaving Bear Stearns, he became the president of Kennedy Industries, a real estate investment company focused on natural resources, entertainment, and another business acumen.
In 1980, Pena acquired fifty percent ownership of JPK Industries, serving as CEO and chairman. Pena was ousted by shareholders two years later.
Great Western Resources, Inc.
With only $820, a phone, and a fax machine, Dan Pena founded his own company, Great Western Resources, in 1982. Despite barely enough money, he built his first investment to a $450 million natural resources firm that controlled multiple energy companies over eight years, when the oil sector was at its worst.
A joint venture with Marion Oil in Mobile, Alabama, provided Great Western Resources with the support they needed to win government fuel contracts worth 50 million dollars.
Great Western Resources originated as an oil exploration drilling company.
Later on, it expanded to include all elements of the oil industry, from pipeline building to refinery operations.
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At the height of its power, the natural resource firm was involved in onshore and offshore drilling, as well as twenty-two coal mines, after going public on the London Stock Exchange.
Great Western Resources Locations
GRW has locations in the United States, Great Britain, and South America.
His tenure as CEO ended when he and the Board of directors had a rift during the 1990 Desert Storm. The Kuwaiti government-owned GWR at the time, 29% of its stock. Great Western Resources saw its stock price drop by 75% when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. Pena was once again ousted.
Pena has built much wealth from his natural resource company. When Dan left Great Western Resources with a half-billion-dollar fortune, he developed a financial coaching business.
Guthrie Castle Scandal
He opened Guthrie Castle to the public in the early 2000s. It was used as a location for weddings and public events until 2017 when the wedding planner and organizer for Guthrie Castle were embezzling money and duping brides and grooms by double-booking weddings.
He kindly refunded each couple the money they had lost after discovering that his employee had cheated them.
Pena hosts his seminars at Guthrie Castle, which he owns and uses as his primary residence. It is no longer available for publication.
Founder of The Guthrie Group
Guthrie Group has offices in Scotland and the Philippines, named for his famed home. It was founded in 1997. Chairman Pena still serves on the Board of Directors. Clients of Mr. Pena's consultancy firm come from across the globe.
The company facilitates European financial transactions for buying and selling. Their primary focus is pre-IPO funding.
Your First 100 Million
A book called 'Your First 100 Million' was written by him in 1999. Five years after Guthrie Group was founded. It outlines how success is not for the uninhibited. As part of the dedication, he gives credit to three men who influenced his life.
Pena states, "He adopted me as his first student, and he guided my initial steps into the unknown and dangerous waters of business." Following one of Jim Newman's seminars in 1978, he credits him with moving outside of his comfort zone.
Jerry Ormand, the legendary Texas oilman, taught him about the oil industry. Pena learned about the business and how to survive in it from Ormand.
Using his book, Pena teaches his mentees how to interpret and apply the roots of his business strategy in their contexts.
Using the QLA, what are the steps to success?
At the beginning of the Quantum Leap Advantage, Pena recommends the following reading:
Release Your Brakes- James Newman
Think and Grow Rich-Napolean Hill
Dr. Spocks Baby and Childcare
The 50 Million Dollar Man's QLA Book (eBook)- Dan Pena
Pena is a high-performance coach who believes you must learn specific lessons to succeed. For example, it begins by stepping outside your comfort zone and re-evaluating conventional wisdom. The fault lies with your parents for your lack of self-esteem and ambition. To achieve anything, you need to get away from your parents' influence.
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An individual should also begin by building high-quality relationships. Next, they should surround themselves with high-performance people. Following that, he suggests working on developing high self-esteem and developing self-confidence. Further, he believes that doubt does not result from accurate thinking but habitual thinking.
Pena believes you must practice, start from the ground up, and lay a solid foundation to be successful. Success is determined by the way you look and the way you speak, for instance.
Additional Seminars
There are also lessons in Quantum Leap Advantage on raising capital for your business. He teaches seminars on Deal Making and Acquisitions explaining how to buy larger companies with little to no money out of your own pocket.
Dan Pena's best advice is to find a subject you are passionate about and make money from it after you have done some research.
On his website, you can find more information and a free Success Test.
When it comes to the so-called snowflake generation, Pena doesn't hold back his views. As he explained in an interview with the London Real, ordinary people today do not possess the mental toughness and drive to succeed.
"Snowflakes," according to him, worry too much about what others will think of them, are overreacting to situations, and are easily triggered.
He offers the Snowflake Test free of charge as part of his QLA program, a short format of questions asking about childhood, your parents, and your reactions to a wide range of scenarios. If you are not prepared, the results can be a painful pill to swallow.
Dan Pena on Raising Children
In addition to expressing his feelings about 'snowflakes,' Dan also expresses his opinion on how children should be raised. Pena argues that children follow what they see their parents do rather than following what they are told.
Considering how he was raised, he strongly believes parents should teach their children leadership skills. To achieve success, you must teach discipline and understand that it requires sacrifice.
There are some people who believe Dan's statements are marketing ploys to attract consulting clients. Besides, his lack of business records raises concerns about his net worth. But, this would not be easy to do. It makes sense why there are no records of most of his money – he made most of it before the digital age.
Dan Peta has money, as shown by his castle, luxury vehicles, and private jets. Several reputable podcasts have featured him (including Dave Asprey's podcast, The Cardone Zone, and The Joe Rogan Experience), contributing to his reputation.
Many people, yet, are skeptical of his claims that he is a $50-billion-dollar man or a trillion-dollar man because they are ridiculous. The claim is not that he made $50 billion but that he generated $50 billion in total market value through his mentoring and consulting of entrepreneurs and clients (as well as equity deals).
The number cannot be verified, but it is possible that it was fabricated for marketing purposes. His numerous clients and pupils continue to value his services!
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Here are a few successful students and mentees
Shawn Casey – Lawyer Turned CEO Turned Internet Marketing.
Thelma Box – Creator and Founder of Choices Seminar.
Josh Kim – Former Teenage Phenom Kid and now a multimillionaire.
Brian Rose – Host of London Real and London Live.
Deann & George Verdier – Ecommerce Entrepreneurs.
Dan Lok – Serial Entrepreneur and Millionaire Mentor.
Klaus Kleinfeld – Serial Big Corporate Thinker.
Matt Pocius – Youngest, Highest paid Internet marketing consultant in the world.
Ron LeGrand – Former Auto Mechanic Turned Real Estate Millionaire.
During the 1981 Latin American Business Owner Awards, Dan was honored as an outstanding business owner. Dan Pena won Year's Telly Awards in 1997.
He won the Latin Business Association Outstanding Business Owner Award in 1981. In 1989, he was nominated for Inc's Entrepreneur of the Year award. As a result of his efforts, he won the Presidential Roundtable in 1991.
The most distinguished alumni of the School of Business and Economics at California State University, Northridge (1991).
Award for Excellence from the Center for Entrepreneurial Management (1994).
Listed in Entrepreneur Magazine's TOP TEN Marketing (1995).
Award for "The Communicator" (1995 & 1996).
The Telly Award was awarded in (1996 & 1997).
The Business Daily (US) published Leaders and Success in (1997).
He was Chairman of the company that was chosen as "Entrepreneurial Company of the Year" (1998)
First Honorary Member of the Institute of Human Resource Development, Nijenrode (1998)
AIREEC "Man of the Year Award" (2008) at the American International Real Estate Expo and Conference. Nominated for European Entrepreneur of the Year (EU) (1999).
The net worth of Dan Pena is estimated to be 550 Million US Dollars.
As part of his efforts to support the youth discovery of new technologies, he organizes Hackathon events.
"People with low self-esteem protect themselves by not taking risks. High self-esteem gives you the power of confidence to take chances." – Dan Pena Click To Tweet
"The difference between a failure and a high performance individual is how each deals with fear. We are all afraid. A high performance person uses his fear to galvanize his actions." -Dan Pena Click To Tweet
"Our lives are a series of lowered expectations year after year. We got pounded by everything around us. Just like our parents and their parents. We are products of our social and economic milieu." -Dan Pena Click To Tweet
"Great DNA encoding of people and values (not ideas) in young companies early on will create the truly great and lasting companies later." -Dan Pena Click To Tweet
"If you change a billion lives, that's the formula to become a billionaire and change the world." -Dan Pena Click To Tweet
"The difference between me and a lot of you here is that I have no fears. Once you become fearless, life becomes limitless." -Dan Pena Click To Tweet
"Too many people waste time on personal development instead of execution. They confuse reading for action." -Dan Pena Click To Tweet
"Always shoot for the moon. Even if you don't hit the bulls-eye, you'll at least get 80 percent." -Dan Pena Click To Tweet
Dan Pena net worth and success lessons are now clear to you. Here are three ways you can learn from him.
Be Ready to Take Risks
Den believes you can achieve your dreams and live the kind of life you want only by taking risks. Try new things, and don't be afraid to take risks.
Accept Failures & Move On
There will be failures. It's a natural part of trying something new. Accepting your failures and learning from them is the best thing you can do when you experience failure.
Be Proud of Who You Are
Let's stop comparing ourselves to everyone else and stop comparing ourselves to the other people in the world. Make sure you don't fear being different and being proud of the unique qualities you have.
This video is Dan Pena's High-Performance Lessons for Students and Young People. This video will get you up off the couch and working hard in the new year for your dreams!
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Sally Hall
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Playing Golf
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Broccoli Caesar & Hominy Girts
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This humorous trifle was first attributed to Poe by Thomas Ollive Mabbott. There are distinct similarities in this presentation of a query to one in the same paper from only a few months before for Poe's "The Literary Life of Thingum Bob." At this time, Poe was associated with the Evening Mirror as a sort of subeditor. There are certainly other examples of such humor in Poe's works, even in verse, and the attribution was generally accepted with only minor reservations.
In correspondence from Enrico Brandoli, of Italy, to the Poe Studies Association, however, this poem was revealed as an item that was being circulated in the New York newspapers around January 1845. His information was expanded in the form of an article, printed in the Edgar Allan Poe Review for the Fall of 2011 (see bibliography, below). The original source for the poem appears to be a British newspaper called the Somerset County Herald, and Great Western Advertiser (Bristol, Bath, the South Western Counties, and South Wales, UK) for April 13, 1844. It was subsequently picked up and reprinted as a humorous filler item in a number of newspapers in the US. Although it is possible that Poe was somehow involved in selecting and possibly renaming the item, it is just as likely that he had no connection to it at all, and that it was adapted by other editors at the Mirror, such as Willis or Morris. In any case, the poem was clearly not written by Poe, and thus it may be safely removed from the Poe canon.
Brandoli, Enrico, " 'Epigram for Wall Street': Who did it? Who?" Edgar Allan Poe Review, Fall 2011, vol. XII, no. 2, pp. 58-63.
Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, "Poe's Secret Poem Gives Secret to Wealth," Long Island Star-Journal (Long Island, NY), January 19, 1955.


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Wed, 01 Sep 2021, 17.00 Online (European International Women's Leadership Award 2021) (Hesse EU Office)
As a focal point in the movement for women's rights, the International Women's Day has been celebrated since 1911 on 8 March. On the occasion of that special day, the "European International Women's Leadership Award" (http://filf-iwlf.com) is awarded to women, who at a certain moment of their live, have decided to follow their dream, to break with traditional obligations around them, to challenge male-dominated areas, to act in a respectful way in order to give an example to all those women, who do not (yet) dare to raise their voice and to develop their potential.
Two years ago, that award was handed over in March in the European Parliament to female leaders and activists from China, Djibouti, France, Morocco, Nigeria, Turkey, the UK and the US.
Last year, this award had been handed over in March (impossible, due to COVID-19 restrictions, to do it again in the European Parliament) in the Representation of the State of Hesse to the EU to female leaders and activists from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Belgium, Italy, Morocco and Taiwan.
As the COVID-19 restrictions make a public event still impossible in the European Parliament, we are grateful to the Representation of the State of Hessen to the EU for hosting this year's event another time in their premises – because of the pandemic not in March, but in September.
Therefore, you are cordially invited to this year's ceremony, where MEP Corina Cretu (the former EU Regional Policy Commissioner) will hand over the awards to Oyunna Bold (Mongolia, Belgium), Monika Griefahn (Germany), Yasmine Hasnaoui (Morocco, United States), Gulnoza Ismailova (Uzbekistan), Irene Kamanzi (RdC, Belgium), Bissan Salman (Palestine, Israel), Shamim Shawl (Kashmir, UK) and Yangdutso Yangkartsang (Tibet, Belgium):
European International Women's Leadership Award 2021
Please understand that – because of the COVID-19 restrictions – only the laureates and their personal guests will be able to participate physically (Representation of the State of Hessen to the EU, Rue Montoyer 21, 1000 Brussels).
In case you want to follow the ceremony virtually, please register via eu.hessen.de/WomenAward.
The link for a virtual participation is the YouTube channel Hessen in Berlin und Europa.
With the friendly support of the Representation of the State of Hesse
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Oyunna Bold (Mongolia, Belgium)
Born as the daughter of the most famous female singer in Mongolia, Oyunna Bold studied engineering at the Moscow State University of Food Production Technologies, graduated and – when the Soviet Union disappeared – returned to her home country at a time when everything was changing: instead of one-party rule and planned economy, suddenly democracy and market economy – instead of a future, which seems to be determined in advance, she was now confronted with a panoply,a broad diversity of options of promising and/or threatening and/or fascinating and/or incredible ways in front of her.
Open to everything – and as well with the feeling of being a little bit lost – she decided to become a translator and interpreter and worked for the Czechoslovakia embassy – but that country disappeared as well and the embassy closed.
For a moment, she even developed the feeling to have a negative influence – as with whatever country she was linked to, that country broke up into pieces.
Remembering the artistic background of her family, she accepted to accompany a Mongolian music group to Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium. Fascinated by the intellectual openness in Europe and by the directness of contacts, she decided to stay in Belgium. As an Asian woman she discovered with admiration a society in which women are emancipated. A society that offers them so many opportunities to develop, learn and flourish. She immediately wanted to reach out to others, to take an interest in Belgium's culture, history, political and economic situation and to invest herself in it.
As the concept of the European Union "solidarity in diversity" seemed the model for the/her future, she decided to settle down in Brussels and sustained herself as a cleaning woman. When she discovered that her cyrillic-written university diploma was the equivalent of a Masters degree, she asked for a homologation – so new job opportunities opened-up (where she managed to develop certain skills – especially professional consciousness and sense of responsibility).
She worked at the British School in Tervuren, for an energy consulting company and finally (up to now) in the cabinets of six Belgian Ministers – by this becoming the first Asian-born person, having worked for such a long time in those inner circles of executive power in Belgium.
At the same time, she never forgot where she came from. So a few years ago, she created the Mongolian Cultural Center in Belgium. Within the framework of her diverse non-profit activities, she organised exhibitions of Mongolian painters, and looked after the internationally highly decorated Mongolian national archery team (one of the preferred Mongolian sports) during their stay in Belgium. Overall, she made it possible that we here have the possibility to learn more about Mongolian culture.
As her personal concept is to be grateful to one's roots, she uses her diverse and broad contacts in Europe for years to organise humanitarian emergency campaigns for socially deprived people in her country of origin.
She receives this award especially for her determination to never give up and for her principle that the higher you move up in the social hierarchy, the more you have to be a – proud and humble – servant of your people.
Monika Griefahn (Germany).
Born in Mülheim-Ruhr in the central post war industrial region in Germany, Monika Griefahn experienced the negative effects of the coal industry already as a child, leaving its mark and being pivotal for her career as an activist and leader in environment, politics and business.
She became a founding member of Greenpeace Germany and was Co-CEO in the early eighties. Her successful campaigns against chemical production (agent orange) and pollution in rivers and the North Sea (stop thin acid dumping), convinced Greenpeace to offer her the very first female board membership of Greenpeace International, especially responsible for training and supporting new offices all around the world, including during Glasnost in the Sovietunion.
The Stockholm-based Right Livelihood Foundation asked her to become a member of the board and the jury to select up to now the laureates of the Alternative Nobel Prize, which is handed over in the Swedish Parliament the day before the official Nobel Prize ceremony. She is cosharing as well the Right Livelihood College Worldwide, active in ten countries.
Her NGO activities convinced politicians to aks her to become Environment Minister in the German state of Lower Saxony For eight years, she concentrated on shifting away from nuclear and coal to renewable energy and on clean industrial production and waste reduction.
Her successful work in that region with twice the size of Rwanda and 50% larger than Belgium and with a population of more than the double of Mongolia, contributed to her election for eleven years as member of the Bundestag, the German Parliament. During the chancellorship of Gerhard Schröder she was responsible for the legislative steps promoting renewables and ending nuclear energy in Germany (already before Fukushima).
She was asked to cover culture and media as well, especially new media and foreign cultural policy, pursuing the dialogue of cultures. As President of the Bundestag Cultural Committee she – among others – was opening the German cultural institute in North Korea and organised a seminar for Egyptian woman running for Parliament. As a member of the Inter-parliamentary Union (IPU), the focussed on developing democracy and women's participation all over the world.
After her political career in Berlin, she created the "Institute Media, Environment, Culture (IMUK)", offering advisory services and educational training in sustainability, where she still serves as CEO. For ten years, she was as well involved in the shift towards more sustainability of cruise companies. As chief sustainability officer of AIDA Cruises, she accompanied their new alignment towards the use of LNG and synthetic fuel and assisted to develop the strategy and implementation of sustainability in all the areas of cruising; she advised as well the Costa Group (AIDA, Costa and Costa Asia).
To tackle the question of waste (avoidance and reduction), she became co-founder of the NGO "Cradle to Cradle", in order to promote circular economy: towards the general public, politics and business. Since several years, she serves as well as treasurer of the Hamburg Environment Institute.
This summer, she highlighted her ideas on TEDx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFHdY0e8aDs.
Yasmine Hasnaoui (Morocco, United States)
Dr. Yasmine Hasnaoui is a specialist in Conflict resolution/transformation and Maghreb Affairs.
She has worked in the field of education for more than 11 years both in Morocco and in the United States. She was a lecturer of Foreign Languages and the Middle East and North Affairs in several universities in the United States; the Osgood Center for International Studies at John Hopkins University, Amherst College, Austin College and UMASS University (Five College Consortium).
She has also worked in various policy institutions at the national and
international levels. Ms.Hasnaoui is profiled in the media within the United
States and Morocco, and is a frequent guest speaker on Maghreb Affairs and the Moroccan Sahara at international and national forums, US Universities( Notably Fordham University and Franklin University) as well as the Council of Europe and the United Nations Human Rights
Ms. Hasnaoui is a recipient of the US State Department FLTA scholarship. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Sciences with a research on " The Evolution of the Sahara Conflict in Algerian Foreign Policy " from Mohamed V University. She holds an M.A. in Communication Studies and Media from the Faculty CaddiAyyad in Marrakech, Morocco. Ms. Hasnaoui was a former Chair of Council for International Members at Global Ties, a well-established NGO in the US.
Ms. Hasnaoui is a recipient of several Awards from the USAID for promoting the Moroccan Culture in US Universities, as well as from several national and
international educational institutions for sensitizing youths and the international community about the Sahara Conflict.
Gulnoza Ismailova (Uzbekistan)
Born in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, Gulnoza Ismailova was always tolerated and even supported by her family, when she behaved differently: More curious and more ambitious than her classmates, she won a series of school competitions and set up exchange programs and managed to visit the UK at the age of 15 and to be an exchange student to the US a year later.
During her law studies in Tashkent, she volunteered at UNICEF and interned at a bank and in different government bodies. After graduation – with honours – she followed her inner voice. Being aware that Uzbekistan has a longstanding educational and scientific history with its Muslim universities (Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva), its geographic position as the centre piece of the Silk Road, its diversity in population, its agricultural potential (cotton and rice), its high-tech industry (automobiles from Daewoo and General Motors as well as production of high speed trains), Afghanistan as a volatile neighbour, with the steadily shrinking Aral Sea as an environmental challenge – she declined offers to become a part of the financial elite.
She – instead – decided to become an active part of the administrative elite of her newly independent state, which offers the possibility to influence and to shape the destiny of a whole nation (and to be an example in neighbouring countries). She therefore joined the "Academy of State and Social Construction" (recently renamed "Academy of Public Administration") focussing on democratisation and decentralisation, gender and the need for scientific research especially for a country which is located at the equal distance of some 5,000 km to the North Pole, Shanghai, the Maldives and Brussels. She looked for synergetic effects (published in more than 80 strategy papers) and was open for critical remarks on her own ideas and had accepted training courses all over the world – from Singapore to the US and France.
Her motivation, energy, experience, expertise, multi-tasking reliability and diligence convinced her government to nominate her as Dean of the Faculty of International Law at the "University of World Economy and Diplomacy", where she has now taken over as well the position as Vice-Rector for Science and Innovation.
These functions made it possible that she
– was assisting the Uzbek Parliament in drafting legislation on local governance and civic participation,
– led the HORIZON-2020 financed EU research project "Strengthening and Energizing EU-Central Asia relations,
– implemented and coordinated with UNDP the government project on the constitutional and legal framework for local government.
– improved the qualifications of employees of self-government bodies by developing teaching tools,
– set up with the EU programme ERASMUS+ the "Tashkent Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for European studies", the first think-tank on European studies in Uzbekistan.
Two reasons influenced her to accept being a member of the Central Election Commission:
– elections are a key element of public participation,
– a high number of female candidates and elected representatives is increasing the quality of decision-making.
She receives this award on behalf of all those women in Uzbekistan and the other Central Asian countries who share her vision that societies can only contribute to sustainability if the potential of the female part of the population is unlocked and able to become an element of the well-being of humanity globally.
Irene Kamanzi (RDC, Belgium)
Born in Bukavu in South Kivu in Zaire, which later became the Democratic Republic of the Congo (RdC), Irene Kamanzi moved to the capital Kinshasa, where she was not only studying law but was exercising water-skiing and yoga.
All changed in the nineties, when the dictator Joseph-Désiré Mobutu had been overthrown and another rebellion threatened the new president Laurent-Désiré Kabila. Because of her ethnicity, Irene Kamanzi was considered a part of that new rebellion and the government forces tried to arrest her. She fled over the balcony to the nearby apartment belonging to the German embassy, where the diplomats handed over to her documents recognising her as a political refugee. After negotiations with the representatives of the Congolese government ("We only want to question her, next day she will be delivered back to the Germans"), she was handed over to the authorities and brought to a building in the premises of the residence of President Laurent-Désiré Kabila, where she was tortured for ten days. Having the impression that she would die and having in mind the promise to the German diplomats, she was transferred to a regular prison, where she succeeded to be smuggled out and was exfiltrated to the building of a German company and then in the trunk of a limousine to the main building of the German embassy.
After 45 days being hosted in the embassy, an EU convoy transported her, protected by the German Ambassador, to the banks of the Congo river, where a small boat waited for her and five other political refugees. Those 15 minutes of crossing the river without diplomatic protection would have been the last chance for the regime to get rid of them.
After their landing on the other side of the river in Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of the Congo, they were stripped of their valuables by the customs officers and handed over to the German consul. He brought them to the airport and kept them in his diplomatic car until the departure of the plane to Paris.
Having family members living in Belgium, she moved to Brussels, studied political science at the UCL (Catholic University of Louvain), and succeeded together with the EU to arrange the liberation of dozends of political refugees, especially from the prison in Lubumbashi.
She works now as the African representative for a US and a Belgian renewable energy company.
She receives this award because of three reasons:
She has become one of the most outspoken human rights defenders in Belgium for those who are persecuted because of their ethnic origin (at the moment focusing on the situation of the Banyamulenge). She argues that she has not chosen this issue – but the issue has chosen her.
She empowers other women to resist injustice, to never give up and to organise themselves in structures where no regime can break them.
Despite sometimes being haunted by memories, she is considered by her environment as a joyful person, always prepared to assist those who need her.
Bissan Salman (Palestine, Israel)
Born in a politically active family of Greek orthodox, she grew up in Ramle, one of the so-called "mixed cities" in Israel, where Jews, Muslim and Christians are living together. As a 15-year old college pupil, she worked as volunteer for a Japanese NGO on children rights and presented the situation of Palestinian children by travelling in Europe, Asia and Africa.
To understand the mind-set of her political opponents, she studied political science, communication and media at the Bar-Ilan University, an academic institution with close links to Zionist thinking. For her master's degree on human rights she moved to the UK, to the London School of Economics and was awarded a Chevening Scholarship, this international scheme for students with leadership qualities.
Parallel to her studies and before her current main job, she
– was Advocacy Intern at UNICEF ("Children in the media"),
– was Program Manager of Kshatot 360 (established a multicultural dialogue programme with people from different cultural backgrounds),
– was a Political Strategist at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament,
– was lecturer ("Musical Dialogue between Arabs and Jews") at the Bar-Ilan University,
– was Assistant Program Manager at the New Israel Fund UK,
– gave gender-oriented media training at the SHE SPEAKS ACADEMY,
– served as Political Advisor at the Embassy of Japan in Israel.
She serves now as Director of Programming & External Relations for the initiative "Regional Organization for Peace, Economics & Security", overseeing the diplomatic relations with government partners in Europe and across the Middle East, manage the development of the program's various components and doing fundraising with donors from London, Paris and across the US.
She was recently based for a one year study visit in Brussels to evaluate how the EU can become a more determed honest broker in the Middle East.
A TEDx Talk might give more information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixVStvKEz3I&t=80s.
Shamim Shawl (Kashmir, UK)
Born in Sopore (known as Suyyapur in antiquity), north-west of Srinagar in the Indian-admistered part of Kashmir, Shamim Shawl became a social activist already at college. She continued her political activities during the university (where she graduated in education; psychology, history and languages) and as a college teacher.
The state violence of 1990-91 influenced her political activism. During this period at least 47 people were arbitrarily killed in Srinagar on 21 May 1990 by members of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) who opened fire on a funeral procession. Demonstrations that followed that incident became a turning point in her life. Confronted with human rights violations by government forces against especially the female part of the population and the killing of her neighbours siblings by the authorities pushed her to become one of the most determined voices against violence in the region. Her outspoken standing-up against rape by state gunmen resulted in harassment and murder threatenings against her and her family.
She decided therefore to leave the country and moved to the Pakistan-administered part of Kashmir. There she worked in refugee camps and understood that her future role had to be two fold:
– empowering women to stand-up for their rights,
– inform the international community about the situation in the Indian-admistered part of Kashmir, especially the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), which gives all military an immunity for whatever they do in Kashmir while being in confrontation even with civilians;
Her contact to the international media, relief agencies and NGOs made her the most visible female voice for human rights in that conflict. This resulted in the decision of the Indian government to revoke her citizenship. She moved to the UK, where she is now the most vocal female Kashmiri voice:
– with women in the diaspora, especially widows and half widows (expression for a woman, where the husband had disappeared while being in state custody),
– in Parliament in London,
– with the UN human rights structures in Geneva (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,
– with the UN Special Rapporteurs,
– organiser of international conferences on human rights in conflict zones,
– author of a number of research papers,
– author of the book "The Plight of Kashmir Women" together,
– lecturer at universities and roundtables on the relationship between law and politics,
Her engagement in human rights at a national and international level resulted in audiences with Mary Robinson, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and with the Secretary Generals of the UN (Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Kofi Annan).
Yangdutso Yangkartsang (Tibet, Netherlands)
Born as the oldest child in a bilingual Tibetan/Chinese semi-nomad family residing near Labrang, the greatest monastery of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism in Eastern Tibet. Yangdutso Yangkartsang was always the best in her class, excelling especially in sports (basket, running) and music.
The timbre of her voice and her outstanding dancing talent won her a Training Program as Tibetan traditional opera singer. This program enjoyed the guardianship of the Tibetan scholar Gungthang Rinpoche. Due to her talent for leadership, she was selected to study Tibetan and Chinese literature in Lanzhou at one of China's most prestigious universities. During those studies, she became the chief presenter of a singing and dancing cultural group performing all over China. She married, gave birth to a son and finished her studies as the best student from her province – resulting i a free scholarship at the National Beijing Broadcasting University, unabling her to travel regularly around the world as general presenter and singer with cultural troupes.
At 30, she had achieved all that was possible for her socially, professionally and financially in China – but she felt a special spiritual emptiness and a lack of overall freedom. She took the most important decision of her life: she left her group and chose to settle in the Netherlands. She learned Dutch and English and received the Dutch nationality. The reputation of the special timbre of her voice had reached the Brussels-based Yehudi Menuhin Foundation, which integrated her into the special program "Voices for Peace" and allowed her to perform yet again all over Europe and to decide to take up residence in Belgium.
When she attended for the first time teachings of the Dalai Lama – a most momentous event for a Tibetan Buddhist – she was overwhelmed with emotions, bursted even out in tears (thus having no memory of the details of his intervention). Since then, she met with the Dalai Lama and sang for him at various occasions.
The Belgian government offered her work as a freelance Chinese-Tibetan interpreter and translator – she accepted. The "Tibetan Community in Belgium", an NGO assisting members of the Tibetan diaspora, elected her as Vice-President and finally President. She co-hosted visits of the Dalai Lama to Belgium and lobbied Belgian and European structures and convinced Belgian companies to offer more than 100 jobs to recently arrived Tibetans, convinced the other Tibetan diaspora organisations to create the Europe Tibetan Congress as a European-wide network and became one of the co-founders of the Tibetan Buddhist Centre.
To offer her new country the possibility to taste a distinctive cuisine, she founded the first Tibetan restaurant in Brussels, which she transformed into a cultural centre. Recently, she has opened a Sushi restaurant.
She receives this award to honour her success to build cultural bridges between Europe and Asia and for being the perfect example that you can – despite that you are always considered by your pairs to be the most gifted and outstanding personality – stay nevertheless modest and full of empathy.
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Digging Up a Rich Stash of Ukulele Music in the Public Domain
The ease of finding music to play, videos to stream, and a supportive community have been some of the reasons why the ukulele has taken off in popularity again. We can thank the internet for that. More specifically, we can thank the countless people who contribute by sharing their passion for all things uke.
For all of the home-brewed videos on YouTube and free tab sites, there's also a fantastic stash of ukulele music in the public domain. Public domain works are things like songs or method books that for one reason or another have lapsed copyrights and now belong to the public. In today's digital age, these public-owned, freely available works can be a huge source of material for playing and inspiration.
Of course, 100 years ago was the beginning of the first wave of ukulele mania on the mainland and songwriters quickly began churning out songs and method books that capitalized on the instrument's charm and popularity.
Some sites, like IMSLP, specialize in making public domain music available to the curious public. With scores by composers like Bach and Beethoven, it's a very popular source of music for the classical music community, but it's also a good source of vintage ukulele music.
Take this one for example, The Kamiki Ukulele Method, from 1917. Like many old instructional manuals, it doesn't have tab, but it does have a tremendous amount of music and a great guide to vintage strumming styles. If you have any standard notation-reading chops, there is something to be learned from Kamiki.
Since the IMSLP has such a strong classical presence, it's no surprise that there's also a PD version of Bach's amazing Cello Suite No 1, arranged by Thomas Preece.
So, check out some of these links, share your own in the comments, and jump into the WABAC Machine for music the way our (great) grandparents played it. It's sure to impress your friends at your next ukulele club meeting!
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