Whether she was seeking love or vengeance, or just an escape from her dreary, small-town existence, Colleen LaRose searched the Internet and found Muslim extremists eager to engage the unhappy American.
LaRose, 46, spent long days chained to her Pennsburg, Pa., apartment caring for an elderly parent. Now, "Jihad Jane" may now spend her life in prison — unless she persuades a U.S. judge she is not a security threat.
On Thursday, LaRose makes her first court appearance since a stunning indictment last week that charged that she plotted with terror suspects abroad to kill a Swedish artist who had offended Muslims.
LaRose's appearance may offer clues to her mental state after six months in a Philadelphia prison.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has questioned the religious devotion of alleged converts like LaRose, given her live-in boyfriend and apparent failure to ever pledge her faith at a mosque.
"Maybe it's not the Islamic faith that is making them do this; maybe it's just their personal demons," said Ibrahim Hooper, national communications director for CAIR.
LaRose spent most of her life in Texas, where she dropped out of high school, married at 16 and again at 24, and racked up a few minor arrests. After a second divorce, she followed a boyfriend to Pennsylvania in about 2004 and began caring for his father while he worked long hours, sometimes on the road. In 2005, she swallowed a handful of pills in a failed suicide attempt, telling police she was upset over the death of her father — but did not want to die.
As she moved through her 40s without a job or any outside hobbies, her boyfriend said, she started spending more time online.
Though her boyfriend, Kurt Gorman, did not consider her religious, and she apparently never joined a mosque, LaRose had by 2008 declared herself "desperate" to help suffering Muslims in a video she posted on YouTube.
"In my view, she sort of slipped sideways into Islam. ... There may have been some seduction into it, by one or more people," said Temple University psychologist Frank Farley.
LaRose and Gorman shared an apartment with his father in Pennsburg, a quaint if isolated town an hour northwest of Philadelphia. Just days after the father died last August, she stole Gorman's passport and fled to Europe without telling him, making good on her online pledge to try to kill in the name of Allah, according to the indictment. From June 2008 through her Aug. 23, 2009, departure, the woman who also called herself "Fatima Rose" went online to recruit male fighters for the cause, recruit women with western passports to marry them, and raise money for the holy war, the indictment charged.
She had also agreed to marry one of her overseas contacts, a man from South Asia who said he could deal bombs and explosives, according to e-mails recovered by authorities.
He also told her in a March 2009 e-mail to go to Sweden to find the artist, Lars Vilks.
"I will make this my goal till i achieve it or die trying," she wrote back, adding that her blonde American looks would help her blend in.
Vilks questioned the sophistication of the plotters, seven of whom were rounded up in Ireland last week, just before LaRose's indictment was unsealed. Still, he said he was glad LaRose never got to him. Although she had written the Swedish embassy in March 2009 to ask how to obtain residency, and joined his online artists group in September, there is no evidence from court documents that she ever made it to Sweden. Instead, she was arrested returning to Philadelphia on Oct. 15.
Some terrorism experts wonder if LaRose posed any serious threat to Vilks or the United States — or was simply a lost soul.
"People in distress blame the government, and now blaming the government means taking the side of these Muslim terrorists," said Ian Lustick, a University of Pennsylvania political science professor. "They're about as jihadist as you and me, but they're a lot less happy."


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India-US Relationship Beyond Mutual Interest, Good For Humanity: PM Modi
PM Modi praised Donald Trump and the relation between India and the US ahead of his bilateral talks with the US President on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Manila during which the two leaders discussed a range of key issues including defence and security.
All India | Press Trust of India | Updated: November 14, 2017 05:43 IST
Donald Trump said PM Narendra Modi is as a 'friend' who is 'doing a great job'.
Manila: The relationship between India and the US goes beyond mutual interest and can be beneficial for Asia and humanity at large, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told President Donald Trump on Monday who described him as a "friend" who is "doing a great job".
PM Modi's comments came ahead of his bilateral talks with President Trump on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Manila during which the two leaders discussed a range of key issues including defence and security.
"The relations between India and the US are growing, and I also feel that the relationship between India and the US is not only for mutual interest. It goes beyond that. We are working together for the interest, for the future of Asia and for the humanity as a whole in the world," PM Modi said.
PM Modi also thanked the US president for praising India whenever he got an opportunity to speak about the country during his Asia tour.
"...in the few days wherever president Trump has travelled and whenever opportunity arose to talk about India, he has expressed very high opinion about India," PM Modi said.
"I would like to assure you whatever the expectations are of the world, of the US from India, India has always made efforts to fulfil those expectations and we will continue to do so in the future too," he said.
Donald Trump on his part described PM Modi as a friend and a great gentleman.
"PM Narendra Modi is here we had met at the White House before. He has become a friend of ours. He's doing a great job. A lot of things were solved and we will continue to work together," he said.
He said that PM Modi was doing a "fantastic job by bringing lots of factions in India together that is what I hear and is a good news and lot of good reports are coming out of India."
The two leaders are understood to have discussed the security scenario in the region besides several other issues of mutual interests, including ways to further boost bilateral trade.
The move to set up the quadrilateral alliance of India, US, Japan and Australia comes in the backdrop of growing Chinese assertiveness in the South China Sea. The US has been favouring a larger role for India in the strategically important Indo-Pacific region.
The use of the term "Indo-Pacific" by President Trump has led to speculation that it may have something to do with Washington preparing the ground for a revival of the so called quadrilateral strategic alliance between the US, Japan, Australia and India to counter China's rise.
President Trump on Saturday praised India's "astounding" growth after it opened up its economy and also lauded PM Modi, saying he has been working successfully to bring the vast country and its people together.
Speaking at a gathering of CEOs on the sidelines of the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in the Vietnamese city of Danang, President Trump had cited India as one of the countries in the Indo-Pacific region making strides.
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FAA Clears Boeing 737 Two Years After Fatal Crashes
Published on Jan 5, 2021 at 9:22 am in Airplane Accidents.
In late November 2020, nearly two years after two plane crashes resulted in the death of hundreds, the Federal Aviation Administration cleared Boeing's 737 Max to fly again. FAA Administrator Steve Dickson signed the order, rescinding the grounding. A week prior to the decision, Dickson said the agency was in the final stage of reviewing design changes to the Max that would make it safe to return to the skies.
Aviation Crashes Involving Boeing's 737 Max
As a result of the crashes, regulators all over the world grounded the 737 Max in March 2019. This was after the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jet. Just five months prior, another 737 Max, flown by Indonesia's Lion Air, plunged into the Java Sea. All passengers and crew members on both planes were killed.
On October 29, 2018, a 737 Max 8 operating Lion Air Flight 610 crashed after take-off from Jakarta, killing all 189 onboard. A week later, Boeing issued a service bulletin warning about issues with the stabilizer nose and instructed pilots on how to counteract it. On March 10, 2019, another 737 Max 8 operating Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa airport, killing all 157 onboard, due to a similar defect. That is when the worldwide flight ban for the aircraft was initiated, starting with China.
After the accidents, investigators focused on anti-stall software that Boeing had implemented to counter the plane's tendency to tilt nose-up because of the size and placement of both engines. That software pushed the nose down repeatedly during both flights when the planes crashed. It seems that a singular faulty sensor removed the pilot's control of the aircraft.
As a result of the crashes discussed above, a number of lawsuits were filed against Boeing from surviving family members of deceased passengers, seeking compensation for losses—both financial and otherwise. Both Boeing and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration face lawsuits, with victims' families, pilots, and shareholders accusing Boeing of putting profits over safety. Lawsuits have been filed by families in the United States, Indonesia, Kenya, France, Ethiopia, and other countries. In regard to the lawsuits against U.S. Federal Aviation Administration claim the government inspectors who review the planes were not properly trained.
Recommissioning the Boeing 737 Max
In order for the 737 Max to be allowed back in the skies, the FAA required design changes and will now be responsible for issuing the Airworthiness Certificate for each aircraft—something that Boeing used to do. The design changes, as well as new pilot requirements, will be outlined in the Airworthiness Direction, which goes into effect when it appears in the federal register.
The new pilot requirements include simulator training, which was required when the aircraft was introduced. In regard to the design changes, the plan no longer automatically points the nose down repeatedly or overrides commands from the pilot.
In response to the FAA's decision, Stan Deal, CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said, "The FAA's directive is an important milestone. We will continue to work with regulators around the world and our customers to return the airplane back into service worldwide."
The Air Line Pilot Association (ALPA) expressed confidence that the 737 Max is safe: "Based on the Airworthiness Directive, ALPA believes that the engineering fixes to the flight-critical aircraft systems around sound and will be an effective component that leads to the safe return to service of the 737 Max."
It's unclear how Boeing's redemption will be taken, as it comes at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has scared aware passengers and significantly affected the aviation industry. Air travel in the United States alone is down approximately 65% from a year ago. On December 9, 2020, Brazilian carrier Gol Transportes Aéreos was the first airline to resume passenger service with the 737 Max. American Airlines resumed passenger service on December 29, 2020.
While nearly 400 737 Max jets were in service worldwide when they were grounded, Boeing has since built and stored 450 more. All have to undergo maintenance and modifications prior to being put in service.
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Silencing Debate on the Middle East [incls. Joseph Massad, Edmund Burke III]
by Marc Abizeid
City On a Hill Press (UC Santa Cruz)
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/12207/silencing-debate-on-the-middle-east-incls-joseph
For the last several years, many U.S. scholars teaching in fields related to the Middle East believe that they have been targets of a systematic campaign to keep them silent.
The campaign is largely led by a handful of pro-Israeli groups such as Stand with Us, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, the David Project, and Campus Watch.
Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, claims that these pro-Israeli organizations engage in dirty tactics to threaten and harass scholars, who fear that their academic freedoms are being jeopardized in light of vigorous campaigns to censure them.
"The tactics are straightforward: vilification, slander, defamation, lies, and there are people who are masters at this," Chomsky said.
In 2002, Joseph Massad, professor of Arab politics at Columbia University and supporter of the Palestinian cause, was targeted by Campus Watch, a Philadelphia-based pro-Israeli organization founded in 2002. Campus Watch posted a dossier of Massad on its website and urged students to monitor him after he allegedly made anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic remarks in one of his classes.
"Following the launch of Campus Watch, my e-mail was spammed for months with over 4,000 e-mails daily, which I had to sift through until finally Columbia was able to install an anti-spamming program," Massad wrote on his Columbia webpage. "I also received tons of racist e-mails and phone messages including death threats."
When asked to comment, Campus Watch denied any responsibility. Cinnamon Stillwell, a representative of Campus Watch in Northern California, wrote in an e-mail to City on a Hill Press (CHP), "Campus Watch has no role whatsoever [in] such actions and we condemn anyone who would behave in this way, which is clearly unacceptable."
But in 2004, Massad was again the target of these pro-Israeli interest groups. A student claimed that Massad angrily shouted at her in class after she asked him if it was true that Israel gives prior warning before launching strikes in Palestinian Arab territories.
Massad denied the student's claims as "outright lies," but the incident quickly erupted after pro-Israeli group the David Project produced a documentary titled Columbia Unbecoming in an attempt to discredit Massad.
"In the aftermath of [the film], I have received, and still receive, a barrage of hate mail and racist e-mails and voicemail messages," Massad wrote on his webpage. One such e-mail was from a medical school professor, telling Massad to "Go back to Arab land where Jew hating is condoned."
Massad wrote on his web page that he was the victim of a "coordinated campaign from inside and outside the university targeting me, my job, and my chances for tenure, based on my political views, my political writings, and my nationality."
As attacks on Massad mounted and the campaign to dismiss him grew, the administration offered little support. Massad wrote on his web page that "the Columbia University administration acted as a collaborator with the witch-hunters instead of defending me and offering itself as a refuge from right-wing McCarthyism."
Another highly controversial case unfolded in June 2007 when Norman Finkelstein, a well-known scholar, political scientist, and critic of Israel, was denied tenure at DePaul University in Chicago. Finkelstein spent six years teaching at DePaul and despite a 9-3 vote by his department supporting his tenure, the University Board on Promotion and Tenure (UBPT) voted 4-3 to deny him tenure.
Finkelstein said to CHP that he believes a number of factors led to the decision to deny him tenure, including the influence of pro-Israeli groups and individuals. The most prominent among them was Alan Dershowitz, Harvard University professor of law.
Dershowitz, an active supporter of Israel and favored scholar of many pro-Israeli groups, published an op/ed piece in the Wall Street Journal titled "Finkelstein's Bigotry," in which he labels Finkelstein an "anti-Semite" and states that, "Whether or not he receives tenure, Mr. Finkelstein will persist in his unscholarly ad hominems against supporters of Israel, Holocaust survivors and the U.S."
According to Chomsky, who is familiar with the case, "[Dershowitz] went as far as claiming that Finkelstein's mother, who was a survivor of an extermination camp, was able to survive because she was a Nazi collaborator. This really is reminiscent of old-fashioned Stalinism."
In a letter sent to Finkelstein affirming the decision by the UBPT, president of DePaul University Dennis Holtschneider cited reasons related to Finkelstein's "ad hominem attacks on scholars with whom [he disagrees]."
But Finkelstein doubts the reasons given by the UBPT and Holtschneider.
"I've had annual evaluations for six years. None of these evaluations ever mention any problems with my scholarship, so to bring them up last-minute is not credible," he said in an interview with CHP.
Finkelstein believes that the campaign against him succeeded in destroying his career.
"I'm 53 and now I'm pretty much unemployed for life," Finkelstein said. "There's no way I'll get a job — No school would want to go through what DePaul went through."
Although UC Santa Cruz does not have a Middle Eastern Studies department, academics on this campus are no more shielded from harassment by pro-Israeli groups than professors within that discipline. A conference held last March titled "Alternative Histories Within and Beyond Zionism" generated hundreds of angry e-mails and a severe uproar from radical pro-Israeli groups. The event was organized by Lisa Rofel, UCSC anthropology professor, and co-sponsored by several campus departments.
Rofel claimed that the aim of the event was to revive discussions about Zionism that had been lost in the ensuing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Five speakers were invited and each presented his or her interpretation of the situation in occupied Palestine.
The event prompted Los Angeles-based pro-Israeli group Stand with Us, which is heavily active in Santa Cruz, to write a concerned letter to UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal. They also issued a statement on their website stating, "the conference speakers promoted anti-Israel, anti-Jewish prejudice by distorting facts and history."
The UCSC chapter of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) also contacted the administration with complaints encouraging an investigation. SPME demanded that the organizers of the event reimburse the university for the money used to fund the conference and warned them against punitive actions if they failed to do so.
Ronnie Lipschutz — UCSC politics professor and co-director of the Center for Global, International, and Regional Studies (CGIRS), which co-sponsored the conference — believes that SPME acted with hypocrisy. According to Lipschutz, SPME and other pro-Israeli groups have organized politicized events on campus featuring radical right-wing speakers.
One such speaker was ultra-conservative British journalist Melanie Philips, who spoke on campus last January cautioning against the threat of radical Islam while contending that Israel is "the litmus test for civilization."
According to Ilan Benjamin, UCSC chemistry professor and the head of SPME's UCSC chapter, the pivotal difference between events organized by SPME and campus departments lies in the funding. SPME collect their funds through private donors, while campus departments use university money.
Benjamin justified targeting Rofel and other organizers because he believes that they violated Article IX of the state constitution forbidding the use of public funds to finance events with political agendas.
"When [SPME] use[s] private funds and the name of our faculty organization to bring a speaker to campus, we are exercising our constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech," Benjamin wrote in an e-mail to CHP. "However, when professors use university money — they have the obligation to the students and to their profession to be educational and not engage in political advocacy or indoctrination."
The ambiguity for many then becomes what constitutes political advocacy.
"If you stand in front of the classroom and you advocate for a particular political candidate, that violates certain state laws," Lipschutz said. "My reading is that people like — [Ilan Benjamin] think of politics as standing in front of some forum and issuing critiques."
For many scholars who criticize Israeli policy, accusations of anti-Semitism soon follow.
"I think the charges of anti-Semitism detract from the ability to have dialogue and debate. They are simplistic, meaningless, and ultimately a red herring," Rofel said. "These charges are attempts at censorship."
Finkelstein believes that many pro-Israeli groups fail to distinguish charges of anti-Zionism from anti-Semitism, and argued that the term has lost its significance.
"These [radical pro-Israeli groups] simply throw around the term anti-Semitism to anyone who disagrees with them," he said. "For a time they were quite effective; now I don't think they have much effectiveness. Once you start calling Jimmy Carter an anti-Semite and a Holocaust denier, you can see that the term is losing all of its potency."
Edmund Burke III, UCSC professor of history, recently helped organize the Ad Hoc Committee to Defend the University, which drafted a petition "condemning the recent attacks on academic freedom."
Among other things, the petition charges pro-Israeli groups with forming "unfounded insinuations and allegations, in the media and on websites, of anti-Semitism."
The petition also states, "In recent years, universities across the country have been targeted by outside groups seeking to influence what is taught and who can teach," and as a result, "faculty have been denied jobs or tenure, and scholars have been denied public platforms from which to share their viewpoints."
Burke said that the idea for the petition arose because of "something that has been emerging over the last several years as a number of scholars began to look around the country at the systematic effort to silence scholars who either teach about the Middle East in their courses, or who are in other ways linked to the study of the Middle East and Islam."
"Over the 40 years that I've been teaching modern Middle Eastern history at UCSC, I have seen a gradual shift towards the shutting down of people's ability to hear criticisms — or to hear historical facts that are at variance with what they have been raised with," Burke said. "[The shift] was accelerated with 9/11."
He worries that the success of those who defamed Massad and Finkelstein "creates a precedent such that other scholars will be targeted," and he fears that healthy discussions are being jeopardized through the efforts of "groups portraying themselves as defenders of Israel."
Burke continued, "Conversation, even painful conversations, are far more productive than just trying to silence people."
After drafting the petition, Burke found himself targeted on the home page of the Campus Watch website, which posted his photograph supplemented with a ridiculing description of the petition's purpose.
Still, pro-Israeli groups strongly deny a role in attempting to silence scholars.
Stillwell, representative of Campus Watch in Northern California, wrote in an e-mail to CHP that "Campus Watch holds no authority that would allow us to silence anyone — nor would we silence anyone even if we could."
Nonetheless, the petition's signatories vow to speak out against those who attack colleagues and universities in order to achieve political goals.
Finkelstein claimed that academics can be very cowardly because of the lengthy and grueling process it takes to establish oneself in a teaching position.
"Most of the battles that come up have to do with tenure — and people are nervous because they devote an entire life to something which is financially very unrewarding," Finkelstein said. "And once they get their position, they are so internalized of all the timidity of having gone through the process of becoming professors."
Lipschutz believes that most people are susceptible to intimidation, leading many scholars to remain quiet concerning the conflict in Palestine out of fear of repercussions.
"I don't want to spend my life, or most of my time, fighting off these people who I think are making baseless or crazy accusations," Lipschutz said. "Do you take up the shield and the sword and go out and do battle against windmills, or do you just simply say, 'I'm just going to keep my nose clean and my head down'? For most people it's easier to do the latter."
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Trade advocates put numbers behind support for new pacts
By Vicki Needham - 02/12/15 06:48 PM EST
Trade advocates are digging deep into the numbers to make their case for approving trade promotion authority (TPA) and the Obama administration's broader trade agenda.
Three groups on Thursday released reports bolstering their case that new global deals include higher standards than previous pacts like the oft-cited 1994 North America Free Trade Agreement, which has been blamed for U.S. job and wage losses.
Third Way, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers — long-time proponents of trade negotiations with Europe, Latin America and Asia — detailed their evidence that new trade deals, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), will actually help the nation's workers and businesses of all sizes.
Third Way found that trade balances had declined in 13 of 17 nations where the United States had inked pacts since NAFTA, with the trade in goods rising by more than $30 billion a year.
"Many policymakers and interest groups reflexively oppose new trade deals because of the hangover from NAFTA," the Third Way study said. "But post-NAFTA, trade deals were negotiated with higher standards."
Third Way said that their data "show that negotiators learned their lessons from NAFTA and that new deals, by increasing the U.S. balance of trade in goods and not just services, have definitively helped."
But Dean Baker, co-director at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, questioned Third Way's report, saying that "most of the trade deals were signed right as the United States was reaching its peak deficit (2006) or in the years just after."
He concluded that their "methodology would lead you to find smaller trade deficits in the years following an agreement even if the U.S. trade balance with these countries worsened compared to other countries."
Congressional lawmakers are expected to introduce TPA legislation soon, possibly by the end of the month, and the "debate will center on whether trade deals help or hurt the middle class."
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan Paul Davis RyanRevising the pardon power — let the Speaker and Congress have voices Paul Ryan will attend Biden's inauguration COVID-19 relief bill: A promising first act for immigration reform MORE (R-Wis.) said last week that, "the American worker can compete with anybody—if given a fair chance. And only a trade agreement can give you that fair chance."
In the Chamber's data, the U.S. has a trade surplus with its 20 free-trade agreement partners, including large surpluses in manufactured goods, services and agricultural products.
"The benefits of these agreements for American workers, farmers, and companies are hidden in plain sight," said Myron Brilliant, executive vice president and head of international affairs at the U.S. Chamber.
"This report casts light on how these market-opening agreements have succeeded in boosting economic growth, ensuring accountability and fairness in our trade relations, and improving conditions for the creation of good U.S. jobs."
Brilliant said trade deals especially help 300,000 small and medium-size companies that account for 98 percent of all U.S. exporters and one-third of goods exports.
But he said that new trade deals won't "become a reality without renewal of TPA."
Manufacturers said that trade agreements will help give the more than 256,000 manufacturers in the United States more access to the world's consumers by knocking down trade and other barriers.
They say that the 20 nations within the 14 trade deals "account for less than 6 percent of the world's population and less than 10 percent of the global economy, but purchase nearly half of all U.S. manufacturing exports."
"Without TPA, American manufacturers are standing on the sidelines while other countries negotiate deals that don't include, and may disadvantage, the United States," the NAM study said.
President Obama acknowledged during his State of the Union address that "past trade deals haven't always lived up to the hype."
But said he expected much more out of the deals being negotiated.
"I'm asking both parties to give me trade promotion authority to protect American workers, with strong new trade deals from Asia to Europe that aren't just free but are also fair," he said.
Still, Lori Wallach, head of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, said that the notion that newer deals have higher standards is "just factually wrong" and there is no reason to expect that the TPP will produce better results than in the past.
She said the deal with South Korea does include higher standard labor and environmental chapters but that "we are getting slammed by a massive new trade deficit" since it into effect in 2011.
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This song / video needs to be heard around the world. I'm sure there will be a lot of people walking down the aisle to this song during the summer.
So please spread the word and get your friends to watch this video.
I'm so sure when I say these words, will you marry me.
Please tell me for the rest of your life, you'll keep that love in your eyes.
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The holidays are here and we have every reason to be thankful, that during a term in which there has been a great deal of illness at many Preparatory or Public Schools, we have had nothing worse than an epidemic of mild mumps. Otherwise we have been delightfully free even from colds and coughs. Several boys have suffered from bad chilblains.
We will remember this term particularly for the ice-skating. In the end, we had glorious skating for three weeks (Jan 27th – Feb 18th) on the University Skating Club flooded meadow. The authorities were good enough to admit us at half fees (3d a time) and, even so, got about £15 from the School!
Mr Haynes produced about 30 pairs of primeval skates that had been stowed away in the dim past, but before the skating was over many new ones had been purchased.
The morning was quite the best time to go and we took off one of the morning hours of work. Often the Caravan-Ambulance made three or four journeys with small boys and provisions for picnic lunch on the ice (once, when changing a wheel for a puncture, she went down gracefully on to her axle and was derelict for some hours).
Many boys learnt to skate quite well – Dennis Buck (who, given the opportunity, will rival his brother Geoffrey some day) and Fred Huggins could cut all forward threes and do outside edge backwards. This is G.C's description of their performances – G.C (Mr Vassall) also gave them handsome skating prizes as rewards for their efforts.
Miss Field's collection of eggs for the wounded soldiers has been greatly appreciated at the hospitals. During this term 1,738 have been delivered, making a total of 3,531 since the start at Mr Fletcher's instigation in October last.
Next term begins on Wednesday 2nd May.
Postscript. We have had word that Jack Haldane, who had recovered from his previous wound and gone out to Mesopotamia, to his intense chagrin, was wounded again the day before the fall of Kut. He was injured whilst trying to put out a fire in his camp, when a bomb exploded and wounded him in the leg.
"As for France and Flanders, which is where I am (Censor Volens, or words to that effect) – well, one's chief impression is mud and water. I learnt at Lynam's or elsewhere that water flowed downhill. France is the exception. No well-behaved water does it here. It just stays.
As for work, generally one digs a trench or ditch in peace-time in order to drain a field. Here one has to try to drain the trench into the field. That is what sappers are endeavouring to do here. Action and reaction being equal and opposite, result nil. The only feasible method is to use language so warm that the water boils and so evaporates. This is only a temporary expedient however.
Yesterday Oxford was honoured by a visit from His Majesty the King.
After departing the Parks, the King went on to the High St. to visit the 3rd Southern General Hospital and the RFC School of Instruction.
With Port Meadow becoming a military aerodrome for the training of pilots, maybe we can look forward to seeing some more of our Old Dragon aviators in the future.
On August 23rd Geoff moved to Narborough for further instruction.
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When Rangers Goalkeeper Harry Brown realised his ambition in a Fog
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As a bit of a follow-on to Martin Percival's excellent recent articles, Harry Brown wrote the following for 'Soccer Star', which appeared in the magazine on 3rd January 1953: 'I was standing in the middle of a fog congratulating myself. Ever since I was a kid I'd always had an ambition to play for Arsenal. Continue reading
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Team: Howes, White, Newlands, Yenson, Hitch, Ryder, Thompson, Sugden, Roberts, Fletcher, Bevan. Attendance: 3,000 Following a goalless draw with Tottenham Hotspur the previous week, the Park Royalists travelled to Griffin Park on 17th February 1906. A match report appeared in the Sporting Life two days later: 'The incessant rain on Saturday afternoon had its effect Continue reading
Rest in peace Chris Barker 1980 – 2020
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We are deeply shocked and saddened to hear of the tragic passing of Chris Barker at the age of 39. Chris was a full back who had a long career at a number of clubs. He joined Queen's Park Rangers on a free transfer from Cardiff City in June 2007. He made 26 appearances in Continue reading
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The BBC DIY SOS – The Big Build – television programme is appealing for help from the trades for a very special project at the Dale Youth Boxing Academy. The amateur gym was destroyed in the devastating and horrific fire that killed 71 people in June 2017. The gym is where James DeGale and George Continue reading
Rest in Peace, Ray Wilkins – 4 April 2018
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We are desperately saddened and upset to learn of the passing of QPR and England midfield Ray Wilkins, aged 61. Ray, born in Hillingdon in 1956, made 207 appearances for Queen's Park Rangers and also managed the club for a spell succeeding Gerry Francis. It was reported that he was taken ill on 30 March Continue reading
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Shepherd's Bush Station & the Opening of the Central London Railway in 1900
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Shepherd's Bush Station opened on 30th July 1900 and was at that time, the western terminus of the Central London Railway. The following article appeared in 'Black and White Budget' magazine on 11th August: 'The opening for traffic of the Central London Railway ought to be the signal for further electric underground travel in London. Continue reading
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The Independent R's support today's initiative by QPR1st Supporters Trust on away ticket prices. Here is the statement from QPR1st… QPR1st Supporters' Trust is calling on the club to give travelling supporters a bit of new season – and Christmas – cheer by agreeing to a £25 ticket deal with Ipswich Town for the Boxing Continue reading
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Mansion, Betway, UK-K8.com, Dafabet, Bet365, BETEAST, SportPesa, 138.com…. gambling companies are everywhere in football. That list is just some Premier League sponsors from last season. Throw in the companies who sponsor the stadiums, the leagues, the electronic animated hoardings and the television coverage, Bet365, Skybet, BetVictor, Betfair… a football world soon appears which is saturated Continue reading
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Queen's Park Rangers co-chairman Tony Fernandes has given an interview to North American-based website Vice Sports in which he talks about the club and the near six years of ownership by him and his Malaysian business partners. https://sports.vice.com/en_uk/article/ive-learnt-the-hard-way-tony-fernandes-on-football-fandom-and-attempting-to-build-the-new-qpr It's a wide-ranging, if unchallenging, piece where Fernandes talks about lessons learned, his passion for the club Continue reading
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You Raise Me Up – QPR Fans Forum 16 March 2017
March 17, 2017 March 17, 2017 Steve Sayce
The latest instalment of the QPR fans forum gave us "The Hoos and Holloway Show", a rib-tickling side-splitting cornucopia of family entertainment that would put Morecambe & Wise to shame. Okay, maybe not… but this was perhaps the most convincing fans forum event staged under the current set of owners. Not only are Lee Hoos Continue reading


The issue in question was a proposed exhibition at the Musée National des Arts Asiatiques – Guimet, in Paris, where some of the most prized archaeological objects collected from the five major museums would be on display in an exhibition announced on the Museum website as "Masterpieces of the Ganges delta. Collections from the Bangladesh Museums." The only suggestion that things might not be going entirely as planned came from the notice "dates to be confirmed." The France Guide still lists the original dates: 24/10/2007 to 03/05/2008.
The fact that these very experts had over the years been the mainstay of collecting, creating and nurturing these collections, didn't appear to affect the French argument. Given Kwame Opoku's recent statement "Musée Guimet in Paris which incidentally also holds thousands of stolen/illegal objects from China and the rest of Asia," one would have expected the French to be more concerned with damage control.
Musée du quai Branly, the museum inviting me, was also on the 'wanted' list put together by Opoku and others. I needed no further convincing. I was off to Paris.
Finding the museum in the busy Paris map was not easy. Tucked away in the edge of a roundabout in Avenue D'Iena, was our famous Musée Guimet. Two homeless people had camped outside on the footpath, and children were having lunch on the short staircase. This represented the reality in all our countries but is distant from the image the establishment generally tries to provide.
This had been 1991. We had crossed into Hatia, and the ride across the choppy sea had left us all rattled. Slowly people spoke of their experiences on the night of the 29th April 1991, when the sea had become a wave.
This time I was stranded in Kathmandu when I received the news from Rahnuma. She was dreading the worst. The ticker tape on CNN said the storm was 100 kilometres from Dhaka, when I finally went to sleep in the early hours of the morning. This was the time of Internet and mobile phones, but the Net was down and the network was too congested to get calls through. Irfan managed to send a text the next day asking me to charge my mobile. Dhaka had no electricity.
Joshim was waiting as usual at the airport. At least there was electricity there. Some of the street lamps were lit. I managed to make it home in the early hours of the morning. Most of Dhaka was then in darkness. We did have electricity in the flat, but it soon went. Ragni and Nunni (two of our many children) were both fast asleep. Ragni went off this morning to an FK meeting, an exchange partnership we are involved in. The Net is up again, at least partially. Nipun is designing the majority world flyer. Life goes on. We don't yet know the extent of the damage, but the figures are undoubtedly high. We are fine. Many others sadly are not.
Abir and Munir are already out there. Jessica is preparing to leave for Patuakhali. In 1991, I had rushed back from Feni and managed to bluff my way into a military helicopter to do a story with Barbara Crossette for the New York Times. Sending the picture through the old fax transmitter in the T&T office took hours. With most connections down, we had struggled to get the picture through. And then I was out again. It was only when I met James Nachtwey in Chittagong that I found out that my picture had made the front page of the Herald Tribune. Now as I sit behind a computer screen typing text and booking tomorrow's flight to Sri Lanka, other photographers are headed for the coastline.
Last night as we waited for yet another hugely delayed GMG flight, Nayantara took Tutul and I to catch the last glimpse of sunlight in the mountains outside Kathmandu. The chanting of the priests, and the gentle bells from the stupa below made Dhaka seem far away. We even stopped to give an interview on CJMC's new FM station. Back home Bazlu bhai and his team have been pushing for permission for community radio for years. A much needed tool in times of crisis. The airwaves here have been reserved for propaganda. A once outspoken media sings the glory of the military and the untiring efforts of the government. Some with reluctance.
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Q: $a^2-b^2 = x$ where $a,b,x$ are natural numbers Suppose that $a^2-b^2 =x$ where $a,b,x$ are natural numbers.
Suppose $x$ is fixed. If there is one $(a,b)$ found, can there be another $(a,b)$?
Also, would there be a way to know how many such $(a,b)$ exists?

A: You want $x = a^2 - b^2 = (a-b)(a+b)$. Let $m = a-b$ and $n = a+b$, then note that $a = (m+n)/2$ and $b = (n-m)/2$. For these to be natural numbers, you want both $m$ and $n$ to be of the same parity (i.e., both odd or both even), and $m \le n$. For any factorization $x = mn$ satisfying these properties, $a = (m+n)/2$ and $b = (n-m)/2$ will be a solution.
The answer to your question of how many such $(a,b)$ exist is therefore the same as how many ways there are of writing $x = mn$ with both factors of the same parity and $m \le n$. Let $d(x)$ denote the number of divisors of $x$. (For instance, $d(12) = 6$ as $12$ has $6$ factors $1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12$.)

*

*If $x$ is odd, note that for any divisor $m$ of $x$, the factorization $x = mn$ (where $n = x/m$) has both factors odd. Also, out of any two factorizations $(m,n)$ and $(n,m)$, one of them will have $m < n$ and the other will have $m > n$, so the number of "good" factorizations of $x$ is $d(x)/2$. In the case where $x$ is a perfect square, this means either $\lceil d(x)/2 \rceil$ or $\lfloor d(x)/2 \rfloor$ depending on whether or not you want to allow the solution $a = \sqrt{x}$, $b = 0$.

*If $x$ is even, then $m$ and $n$ can't be both odd so they must be both even, so $x$ must be divisible by $4$. Say $x = 2^k \cdot l$, where $k \ge 2$. How many factorizations $x = mn$ are there with both $m$ and $n$ being even? Well, there are $d(x)$ factorisations of $x$ as $x = mn$. Of these, the factorisations in which all the powers of $2$ go on one side can be got by taking any of the $d(l)$ factorisations of $l$, and then putting the powers of two entirely on one of the $2$ sides. So the number of representations $x = mn$ with $m$ and $n$ both being even is $d(x) - 2d(l)$. Again, the number where $m \le n$ is half that, namely $(d(x) - 2d(l))/2$, where in the case $x$ is a perfect square, you mean either $\lceil (d(x) - 2d(l))/2 \rceil$ or $\lfloor (d(x) - 2d(l))/2 \rfloor$ depending on whether you want to allow the $b = 0$ solution or not.

Here is a program using Sage that can print all solutions $(a,b)$ for any given $x$.
#!/path/to/sage

print "Hello"
def mn(x):
  '''Returns all (m,n) such that x = mn, m <= n, and both odd/even'''
  for m in divisors(x):
    n = x/m
    if m <= n and (m % 2 == n % 2): yield (m,n)
    elif m > n: break
def ab(x):
  '''Returns all (a,b) such that a^2 - b^2 = x'''
  return [((m+n)/2, (n-m)/2) for (m,n) in mn(x)]

def num_ab(x):
  '''The number of (a,b) such that a^2 - b^2 = x'''
  dx = number_of_divisors(x)
  if x % 2: return ceil(dx / 2)
  l = odd_part(x)
  dl = number_of_divisors(l)
  return ceil((dx - 2*dl) / 2)

# Do it in two ways to check that we have things right
for x in range(1,1000): assert num_ab(x) == len(ab(x))
# Some examples
print ab(12)
print ab(100)
print ab(23)
print ab(42)
print ab(999)
print ab(100000001)

It prints:
Hello
[(4, 2)]
[(26, 24), (10, 0)]
[(12, 11)]
[]
[(500, 499), (168, 165), (60, 51), (32, 5)]
[(50000001, 50000000), (2941185, 2941168)]

and you can verify that, for instance, $168^2 -165^2 = 999$.

A: You need to exploit the fact that the right hand side of your equation can be factored. For example for part (1) of the exercise, if $x$ is odd, say $x = 2n+1$ for some integer $n$, then
$$
x = 2n + 1 = y^2 - z^2 = (y - z)(y + z)
$$
Now try to consider a trivial factorization of $2n+1$ like $2n+1 = 1 \cdot (2n+1)$ and compare the two factorizations to get a system of equations
$$
\begin{align}
y - z &= 1\\
y + z &= 2n + 1
\end{align}
$$
I think you can take it from here, but feel free to ask if you get stuck.

A: Note that $a^2-b^2=(a+b)(a-b)$ and that $(a+b)=c$ and $(a-b)=d$ are either both odd or both even.
If $x=cd$ where $c>d$ and $c$ and $d$ have the same parity then $a=\frac {c+d}2, b=\frac {c-d}2$ are natural numbers which work for $x$.
It is always possible to express an odd number $x$ in this way, using $c=x, d=1$. If $x$ is prime there is no other factorisation.
If $x$ is even, it must be divisible by 4, and if $x=4y$ then $c=2y, d=2$ will do provided $y>1$.
The number of solutions depends on the number of factorisations into factors of like parity.

A: Any number N can be represented as product of two no's .
$$ N= a*b =({a+b\over 2})^2 - ({a-b\over 2})^2  $$
$$ To\ be\ difference\ of\ perfect\ squares\ the\ condition\ is\ ({a+b\over 2}) and \ ({a-b\over 2}) \ should\ be\ integers\ .$$
This happens only iff
1) a and b are odd
or
2) a and b are even
eg. $$ 100 = 2^2 * 5^2 $$
So number of factors in 100= (2+1)(2+1) =9
They are  1,2,4,5,10,20,25,50,100
To find pairs of numbers which gives product 100 ,(trick is take corresponding numbers comming from opposite ends from the list above )
so 100 = 1*100 , 2*50 , 4*25 , 5*20  ( dont take the middle number in case the number is itself as square like 100 = 10^2)
here the pair which satisfies the condition is
2*50 ( even * even) , so a=50 , b=2
now calculate ,$$ ({a+b\over 2})\ and\  ({a-b\over 2})  $$
So
$$ 100 = 26^2 - 24^2 $$ is the only possibilty

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Gamer Kills 2, Injures 11 at E-Sports Tournament
By Agence France-Presse | Updated: 27 August 2018 11:28 IST
A man holds a sign in support of gun control outside of The Jacksonville Landing after the shooting
The video game tournament competitor went on a shooting rampage
Shooting occurred inside the Chicago Pizza restaurant
FBI is investigating the shooting: Florida Senator Marco Rubio
Two people were killed and 11 others wounded on Sunday when a video game tournament competitor went on a shooting rampage before turning the gun on himself in the northern Florida city of Jacksonville, local police said.
Sheriff Mike Williams named the suspect of the shooting at a Madden 19 American football e-sports tournament as 24-year-old David Katz from Baltimore, Maryland.
"There were three deceased individuals at the scene, one of those being the suspect, who took his own life," Williams told reporters.
He said local fire and rescue transported nine victims - seven of whom had gunshot wounds - to local hospitals, while another two people who were shot took their own transportation to hospital.
Williams said Katz was a competitor in the e-sports tournament and used "at least one handgun" to carry out the shooting.
Madden is a hugely popular multi-player video game based on the National Football League, which in a statement said it was "shocked and deeply saddened by the horrific tragedy."
The tournament at The Landing entertainment and shopping complex - a regional qualifier for finals in Las Vegas with a $25,000 (roughly Rs. 17.5 lakhs) prize - took place at the GLHF Game Bar.
Sheriff Williams said the shooting occurred inside the Chicago Pizza restaurant in the complex around 1:30 pm (1730 GMT).
Earlier on Twitter, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office had urged people hiding in locked areas of The Landing to stay in place and call 911 to make their location known.
'Traumatised and devastated'
In disturbing footage apparently captured as part of a live stream on video gaming website Twitch, several gunshots could be heard in the background, before the stream disconnected.
Twitch removed the video, but it remained available on social media. Police said they were in possession of footage capturing the incident.
"This is a horrible situation, and our deepest sympathies go out to all involved," Madden's creator, EA Sports, said in a statement.
CompLexity Gaming, one of the gaming teams, said its player Drini Gjoka was grazed on the hand.
"We're obviously shocked and saddened by this afternoon's events. Our player, Drini, was hit in the thumb but is going to be fine. He managed to escape and run down the street to a nearby gym," director Jason Lake told AFP.
Gjoka tweeted: "I will never take anything for granted ever again. Life can be cut short in a second."
Another player, "DubDotDUBBY," said a bullet had grazed his head.
"I feel fine, just a scratch on my head. Traumatized and devastated," he tweeted.
Germany-based SK Gaming also confirmed their player known by the handle "JoelCP_" was safe.
"Our thoughts are with everyone that had to be part of such a horrendous event," it said.
The professional gamer known as "oLARRY2K," of Bucks Gaming, was said to have been shot in the chest, according to several social media users, including one describing herself as his mother.
'We cannot accept this'
Survivors of February's high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, expressed sorrow at news of another mass shooting in the state.
"Once again, my heart hurts and all of me is so angry. We cannot accept this as our reality," said Delaney Tarr, one of the organisers of the student-led March for Our Lives movement.
Florida has suffered multiple shootings in recent years: 49 were killed in a June 2016 attack on a gay nightclub, while 17 were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School earlier this year.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio said that the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were investigating Sunday's shooting.
Florida Governor Rick Scott said he had offered state support in the aftermath, and that President Donald Trump had offered "any federal resources needed."
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Where the Surrealists were primarily inspired by Freud's writings on dreams, the Fantastic Realists had Jung's latest discoveries to spur them onward to new dimensions of consciousness. And so, while the early dream-works of Dali manifest much of the repressed sexual imagery uncovered by Freud, the fantastic works of the early Fuchs, by contrast, revealed the sacred images of alchemy which Jung had recently uncovered in dreams. (For example, Jung's Psychology and Alchemy which, with its many plates and engravings, led Fuchs onward to new experiments in imagery with his unicorn engravings of the fifties).
Hence, the visionary artist descends nightly into the underworld of dreams, arising each morning with new possible sources for his works. Though some dreams are difficult to remember, another species of dreams are almost impossible to forget. This is especially true of 'lucid dreams', which have become increasingly documented lately. Though Hervey de Saint-Denys (1851) was the first and probably most-indepth researcher of lucid dreams, Stephan Laberge has emerged lately as their greatest champion.
In a characteristically lucid dream, the dreamer suddenly 'wakes up' within the dream, becoming strangely aware of his state of dreaming. To a degree, he may even begin to control its actions and events. The obvious advantage, for Visionary artists, is the possibility of exploring dream-imagery much more deeply. While Saint-Denys used the technique to confront demons from his nightmares, LaBerge used it instead to soar to new heights of awareness and experience.


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Steredenn is a great game that tries to innovate in various aspects but is alas impaired by lacklustre graphical design in most of its stages. It creates an adequate atmosphere for its themes, well-thought-out modes and a satisfactory gameplay, but fails in one of the most crucial points.
InnerSpace is a relaxing experience, a polished game, a work of art. Unfortunately, only people who look for something more peaceful will be able to enjoy it, since it is so zen. The way in which it sets this alternative universe is exceptional, and even with a lacklustre narrative and not-so-clear objectives, it deserves the attention of many.
Retimed gets almost every gameplay-related aspect right, but the lack of a singleplayer mode is a problem. It's an extremely pleasant experience that fulfils what the developers wanted it to. It will be an even better game when it's completed.
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When it's beautiful out, there's so much more to do with that special someone, and everyone's sense of adventure comes to life.
Fun date ideas are much easier to come up with in the summer months, typically much cheaper, and we also can't justify the boring date-night-in when it's gorgeous and hot out. The main reason why dating is so much better in the summer, though, is because we're in a better mood.
Vancouver's longest (and most fun) water slide returns to North Vancouver on August 13 and 14. Don't miss your chance to try out this 1,000 foot slip n' slide down Lonsdale Avenue with your date.
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Alice Lake is not only one of the most beautiful nearby lakes we have, but it also is a location that rents out canoes, paddle boards and kayaks. A perfect summer date would be an hour of paddling around exploring the lake, followed by blowing up a floaty and floating together while taking in the gorgeous views of the clear waters and green forests.
Every Friday until September 30, the Shipyard Plaza near charming Lonsdale Quay in North Vancouver is home to the Shipyards Night Market. This is a great summer date idea because there's live music to enjoy, beautiful views of the water, delicious local food trucks to take your pick from for dinner and a beer garden offering up local craft beer.
A Vancouver Food Tour is a great way to get outside, walk around, enjoy the city and try new foods. It's sight-seeing combined with eating – a win-win date for the Vancouver-loving foodie. You can customize your tour to your preferences when it comes to which of Vancouver's neighbourhoods you want to check out, what type of cuisine you want to try and whether you prefer wine or beer for pairings.
Nat Bailey's beautiful open-air setting makes for a casual and fun date. For as low as $14 per person, you can watch the Vancouver Canadians play ball, enjoy some cold brews, and get out in the sunshine while you root for your home team.
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Who doesn't love Italian food? The Italian Cultural Centre is hosting the Mercato Italian Market on August 19, allowing you to try many authentic tastes of Italy. The Italian Cultural Centre hosts fun date-night activities all the time, so if you miss this one, check out their website for more upcoming events.
It's too nice outside to be stuck inside a movie theatre, so why not surprise your date with tickets to see cultural outdoor theatre at Vancouver's Bard on the Beach? This is a great opportunity to enjoy the nice weather while also getting your cultural fix. August's shows include the classic Romeo and Juliet and Othello. On Wednesday, August 10, there is a special 'Wine Wednesday' pre-show event involving tips from experts.
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Book Review: The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 - 07:00
The Salt Roads is a beautiful, brutal, crystalline and ambiguous novel tracing the lives of three women of the African diaspora and one mystical spirit. The principal characters are: Mer, an enslaved woman who is a healer and worker on a sugar cane plantation on Saint Domingue during the early stages of the slave rebellion of the late 18th century; Jeanne Duval, the Creole mistress of 19th century French decadent poet Charles Baudelaire; and Thaïs (or Meritet) a sex worker in early Christian-era Alexandria, who in this story inadvertently becomes Saint Mary of Egypt (combining the legends of two early desert saints). They are tied together in this story not only in sharing a cultural and racial heritage, and by the experience of not having ownership over their own bodies--whether in a formal sense in the case of Thaïs and Mer, or due to economic necessity, in the case of Jeanne. But they also share the hosting of an entity--call her a goddess perhaps, although it takes a while for her to come (back?) to that understanding of herself--who shares their experiences and can sometimes guide or control their actions, using the imagery of a Vodou deity riding them (although I don't think that word is used). Thaïs and Mer are open to understanding these visits as a religious experience, though Jeanne seems largely unaware of her guest.
But that's just the bare bones of the structure. I would say that this novel defies plot summarization--it doesn't have that kind of arc, being unmoored in time with the sequence of scenes for each of the three human characters being interleaved across the ages representing how their spirit guest experiences them, moving back and forth as she's able. And she has her own quest of discovery and self-awareness whose goal is the making of those connections across time. I call this a "brutal" novel and it's one where the concept of "happy ending" has no meaning, except to the extent that each individual may succeed in making choices that she won't regret and taking what measure of autonomy over her life that she's able to grasp.
The prose and exposition is the sort that delights me, where the reader is plunged into an unfamiliar world and acquainted with it through the immediate experiences of the characters. Though, to be fair, I'm not going to discount the usefulness of having at least a passing familiarity with the history of Saint Dominque, with the French decadent poets, and with early Christian hagiography. It's a novel that rewards coming to it with a broad historical literacy and it won't hold your hand if you don't meet it halfway.
One thing I always appreciate in stories that are woman-centered like this is the easy and unremarkable inclusion of the wide variety of affectional and erotic bonds that women can have with each other, even while participating in the obligatory heterosexuality of the dominant culture. All three women have a rich variety of bonds with other women that include, without not necessarily focusing on, romantic and sensual relations. (I had something of an epiphany with regards to this element in the context of representation in fiction that is going to turn into a separate essay.)
The Salt Roads is a deep and powerful story about surviving and thriving and connecting with personal and cultural roots (the essence of the quest that the unifying divine spirit comes to understand). It explores exciting structural territory and narrative rhythms, not only in the non-temporality, but in the use of interleaved voices and shifts of mode. This book left me thoroughly satisfied as a reading experience.
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Adorable Miniature Horses Cheer Up Sick Kids at the Hospital [VIDEO]
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God creates out of nothing, wonderful, you say: yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
But these [men], remaining behind in confidence, inherited glory and honor and both were raised and became written by God in their memorial into the ages of the ages. Amen.
There are, perhaps, two primary elements of Protestant argumentation against the saints. Okay, three. We'll go with three, because there are probably more, and I don't want to spend months on this subject.
In the first place, I used to say, Scripture uses "the saints" to refer to all Christians, not just the dead in heaven. This is plainly evident in Acts 9:13, 32, 41; 26:10; Romans 8:27; 12:13; 15:25-26; 16:2, 15; 1 Corinthians 6:1-2; 14:33; 16:1, 15; 2 Corinthians 1:1; 8:4; 9:1, 12; 13:12; Ephesians 1:1, 15; 3:8; 4:12; 6:18; Philippians 1:1; 4:21-22; Colossians 1:2, 4, 26; 2 Thessalonians 1:10; 1 Timothy 5:10; Philemon 1:5, 7; Hebrews 6:10; 13:24; Jude 1:3; Revelation 13:7, 10; 22:21.
These passages point out what we already know quite intuitively: we are not already saints. We are "called to be saints" (Romans and 1 Corinthians) with a "glorious inheritance" to acquire (Ephesians 1), so we may be united with (others who are called) saints (Ephesians 2); all the while we are called to a higher standard of behavior (Ephesians 5). This inheritance belongs to the holy ones in the light, to which we must gain access by God's grace (Colossians). The saints, too, are those who will return with Jesus when he comes to us again (1 Thessalonians). The saints adhere to righteousness (Revelation 14), though we on earth only strive to do so. They are counted among those in heaven (Revelation 18), and they have done "righteous deeds" (Revelation 19).
So while we are all "saints" (Christians), we are not all "saints" (holy). Both uses of the term were common in the early Church. As time went on, the "holy" usage (technically, the original usage) won out, because we called ourselves Christians and didn't need euphemisms for it once people stopped killing us all the time.
The second major point I made against "the saints" as a Protestant was this: "You shall fear the Lord your God; him alone you shall worship; to him you shall hold fast, and by his name you shall swear" (Deuteronomy 10:20, NRSVCE). Because, okay, sure, maybe there are some saintly folks in heaven–but that doesn't mean we should worship them! Talking about "venerating" the saints, "revering" them, and so on–that's idolatry, plain and simple!
But is that what veneration is? Is it "worship," which is reserved for God alone? I would say not, and Scripture agrees with me. In the first place, most of our "veneration" is looking to the saints as examples (see the Clement quote above). We want to emulate the saints, and in so doing, emulate Christ (compare 1 Corinthians 4:15-16; 11:1-2; Philippians 3:17; 4:9; 1 Thessalonians 1:6-7; 2 Thessalonians 3:7-9; etc.). We treat them with respect and honor (which is not worship, or else we would not be commanded to do it so often – compare Romans 12:9-10; Ephesians 6:1-3; 1 Timothy 5:3, 17-18; 1 Peter 2:16-17). We consider them paragons of virtue and people to be admired and followed (compare Hebrews 11).
There seems to be little in Scripture to suggest that properly due veneration is forbidden, but rather setting people or things at or above God's place is. The former is appropriate, the latter is idolatry. Catholics do the former and repudiate the latter as much as anyone. We follow the saints only insofar as they lead us to God.
In a profoundly anticlimactic way, I ask, "Must it?" Let me refer back to my very first post in this series, wherein I defined the term "to pray" for the purposes of this conversation. For Catholics, "praying" doesn't mean "worship," but it means "making a request." We are not worshiping the holy dead, but asking them for their assistance. After all, "the prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective" (James 5:16, NRSVCE) and, "the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer" (1 Peter 3:12, NRSVCE). We know that the saints are in heaven, praising and worshiping God, and so we know that they are righteous; especially in the midst of our sin, their prayer would be effective indeed at getting us the grace and help we need.
This has nothing to do with adding a layer between us and God. Of course we can still pray to God. Catholics have more prayers to God than any other denomination.2 This is asking for help from people perfectly willing to offer it. Look at the full text of James 5:16. "Pray for one another." Consider also Matthew 18:19-20; Romans 15:30-32; 1 Thessalonians 5:25; 1 Timothy 2:1-2; etc. We should pray to God for each other, and we ask each other for prayer. Christians of all denominations submit prayer requests to their local church or Bible study group or Sunday school. We submit these requests because we know that we are one Body in Christ with our fellow believers–but we are also one Body in Christ with all the saints in heaven; why should we not ask for their prayers as well?
Here ends my primer on the saints. I have answered the three points I thought were heavy-hitters when I was Protestant. Perhaps I have missed others, but I have confidence in the faith. Feel free to ask via comment or email if you have questions. Next week, we begin to tackle my greatest challenge yet; this one part of the Catholic faith tripped me up more than any other, but it is no stumbling block. The driving force behind my repulsion here was not sound theology or prophetic utterance, but simple emotional reactionism, couched in my ignorant youth. The topic for the next several weeks is the greatest of all the saints, Mary, Jesus' mother.
1Coincidentally, no one is quite sure where this is written, but Clement certainly thought highly of it.
2Probably. I mean, it's almost guaranteed, statistically speaking. Just by the numbers.


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5 May 2020 / SF Restaurants, Food & Drink / Jay Barmann
Off the Grid Feeds Healthcare Workers at SF General
Off the Grid, the outfit that typically organizes street-food vendor gatherings around San Francisco and the Bay Area, has partnered with the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation to serve 3,200 meals today to doctors, nurses, and staff at Zuckerberg SF General.
A collection of 12 trucks gathered in two parking lots Tuesday to serve up meals to the hospital's huge and hard-working staff, including including Al Pastor Papi, Capelo's BBQ, Da Poke Man, and La Santa Torta, and others. Each truck is offering one vegetarian and one meat option, and the dishes come from American, Chinese, Hawaiian, Indian, Mexican, Korean, and Peruvian cuisines.
"If the staff at ZSFG aren't cared for, they can't do the best job for their patients," says foundation board president John Bell. "We are pleased to be able to support this campus-wide food distribution, which also benefits the vendors whose businesses have been impacted."
Funding for the event came from the the ZSFG COVID-19 Fund, which has raised more than $4.5 million for programs specifically to help support the hospital during this crisis. The fund has also helped by expanding the wi-fi capacity at the hospital to let patients to connect more easily with their loved ones, and providing more protective gear for staff, lab equipment for testing support, and infection control screening and protection.
"Having the local food businesses and their staff come together to feed and thank our medical heroes has been remarkable and incredibly fulfilling," says Off the Grid CEO Matt Cohen. "Initiatives like these allow for small San Francisco based food businesses to both support these medical heroes and maintain their businesses during these unprecedented times."
In a statement, Off the Grid also explained how the organization is helping frontline workers in SF.
Last month, Off the Grid created a fundraising campaign with grocery store workers to help feed employees at local grocery stores and wanted to find a way to also support hospital workers. OTG reached out to Zuckerberg San Francisco General [ZSFG] about this idea. The hospital had wanted to feed the entire staff and OTG was in a good position to handle an event of this nature as well as to provide diverse food offerings. The hospital then turned to San Francisco General Hospital Foundation [the Foundation] to utilize some of the funds they raised for the ZSFG COVID-19 Fund established in late March. One of the goals in raising the money was to support ZSFG with PPE, testing, and other equipment as well as to thank the staff with meals. The Foundation was particularly gratified to not only reward the staff but to provide a work opportunity for the food truck operators.
In order to ensure proper food safety and protection for the workers, OTG has instituted an array of safety protocols during the pandemic.
These include staff and vendors wearing gloves and face masks at all times, six-foot spacing between those waiting for food, and all food service areas are regularly wiped down with disposable disinfectant wipes.
Today's food-truck gathering was a one-time event for SF General staff, but OTG says it looks forward to possible future partnerships with the hospital foundation.
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