FASIH, Esma'il (Esmāʿil Faṣiḥ, a.k.a. Nāṣer; b. Tehran, 21 February 1935; d. Tehran, 15 July 2009), eminent Persian novelist and translator (Figure 1).
Fasih was born in Bāzārča-ye Darḵungāh, in the neighborhood of Galubandak, in the then central precincts of Tehran. He was the last child of Arbāb Ḥassan, an illiterate grocery store owner who passed away when Fasih was barely three years old, and Turān Ḵanom, Arbāb Ḥassan's second wife (Badiʿ, p. 1; Kamāli Dehqān, 2009, p. 8). Fasih grew up in an overcrowded home among his nine other surviving siblings. After finishing his six years of grade study at ʿOnṣori Elementary School at the top of his class in 1947, he continued his schooling at Rahnemā High School where he received a diploma during the turbulent final months of Moṣaddeq's premiership in 1953 (see COUP D'ETAT OF 1332 Š./1953). The imprints of this period of his life deeply and extensively inform all of his writing. His Dard-e Siāvaš (The Pain of Siavash, 1985) is historically and symbolically based on this tragic moment in Iran's modern history.
Fasih left Iran in 1956, and eventually ended up in Montana State College in Bozeman, Montana. Beginning with his junior year at the college, he transferred to the University of Montana in Missoula where he earned a BS in Chemistry and a BA in English. Upon graduation, he moved to San Francisco, where he fell passionately in love and married Annabel Campbell, a Norwegian girl. Fasih and his pregnant bride moved to Washington, D.C. in early 1962, where she and their child died due to childbirth complications. Fasih was devastated (Kamāli Dehqān, 2007a, p. 1). This personal tragedy also finds its way into the whole of his fiction, beginning with his first novel Šarāb-e Ḵām (Raw wine, 1968), but centrally in ʿEšq o marg (Love 'n death, 2004), which together with the aborted nationalist movement of Moṣaddeq, dwells at the deepest level of Fasih's view of the world.
Fasih returned to Tehran in 1962 and after a brief stint with the Franklin Publishing Institute (see FRANKLIN BOOK PROGRAM) as translator found employment as a teacher with the National Iranian Oil Company's (NIOC) Industrial Vocational High School (Honarestān Ṣanʿati) in Ahvaz in the late summer of 1963. He owed this employment to the intercession of Sadeq Chubak, himself a writer and an employee of the same company in Tehran. The two writers developed a friendship that lasted through the death of Chubak in 1998 (Badiʿ, pp. 2-3).
A year later, in the summer of 1964, Fasih married Paričehr ʿEdālat in Ahvaz. They had two children: a daughter, Sālumeh (b. 1965), and a son Šahryār (b. 1970). It was while the family was stationed in Ahvaz that Fasih spent over a year (1968-69) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, to earn a MA degree in English literature. When Fasih returned to Iran, he was transferred to Abadan to teach at Abadan Institute of Technology, a post he held until the siege of Abadan at the start of Iraq's invasion of Iran (see IRAQ vii. IRAN-IRAQ WAR) forced the school's closure, and his retirement as an assistant professor in 1980.
Fasih devoted the remaining years of his life almost entirely to writing until his death on 15 July 2009 due to brain hemorrhage in the National Iranian Oil Company's hospital in Tehran. He is buried in the artists' plot of Behešt-e Zahrāʾ cemetery in the south of Tehran.
Fiction. Fasih, with twenty-one published novels and five published collections of short stories, occupies a unique place among the contemporary writers of Persian fiction. Over a writing career spanning more than four decades, he established himself as an outstanding chronicler of his nation's turbulent predicament over the same period (Badiʿ, p. 1; Ferdowsi, ZEMESTĀN-E 62).
Fasih had a prodigious fascination with fiction from an early age (Kamāli Dehqān, 2009, p. 8). His facility with English, a skill he had largely developed before leaving Iran, allowed him to gain direct access to American fiction, whose overall influence on his work is hard to deny (Rajabi, p. 10). His first success as a writer came when a short story he wrote as a student of English Literature in Montana, apparently an English version of "Ḵāla Turi" (Auntie Turi) later published in his collection of short stories, Ḵāk-e āšenā (Familiar soil, 1970), placed second in his class, earning him a one hundred dollar award, and the professor's admiration, "I think we have a writer on our hand," a praise that left a lasting impression on Fasih (Kamāli Dehqān, 2009, 9; see also http://aftab.ir/articles/art_culture/literature_verse/c5c1130073769p1.php).
Fasih's debut in Persian is Šarāb-e ḵām, in which he not only introduces Jalal Arian (Jalāl Āriān), the narrator of 15 of the 21 of his forthcoming novels, and the protagonist of the vast majority of his stories, but also virtually all the major themes, supporting characters, narrative strands and plot twists that create a distinctly Fasihian style in modern Persian fiction (Ojākiāns, pp. 17-22). This continuity underlines Fasih's concept of the author as a craftsman, and writing as the practice of a technique of meticulously, deliberately and tightly structuring not only a novel, but a whole career of writing; an approach very close to the one known in the West as Constructivism.
Evidence of this advanced imagining of a world to be created, defined and filled in, may already be found through Fasih's depiction of Nāṣer Tajaddod, an aspiring writer in Šarāb-e ḵām. Born like Fasih and Jalal Arian in Darḵungāh and returned from abroad to become a professional writer, Tajaddod appears as the writerly avatar of Fasih and speaks his thoughts, concerns, and ambitions of retrieving the glorious literary past of Iran by creating a literature equivalent in its grandeur as the national task of Persian novel, the impossibility of that he has already sensed. The author of an unpublished novel named, symbolically, Az ḵākestrhā (From the ashes), he is in the end buried alive by well-meaning villagers of a symbolically named village Sarāb (Mirage).
Ḵāk-e āšenā, Fasih's first collection of short stories was published in 1970. It chronicles, in five interrelated sections, the tale of Arian's family from the moment Arbāb Ḥassan, Jalal's father, leaves his hunger stricken home village, sets foot in Tehran in the final years of Nāṣer al-Din Shah's reign in 1891, and settles in Darḵungāh, the same neighborhood in which Fasih's second novel, Del-kur (Blind in heart, 1972), takes place. Del-kur begins in a midnight, when Ṣādeq Arian, the narrator of the story, a USA educated medical doctor and the youngest son of Arbāb Ḥassan, wakes up by a phone call to hear that Moḵtār, the eldest son of the family, has died presumably of a heart attack, and ends before dawn the next morning (Šarifi, p. 644). Throughout these few hours, however, the narrator takes a long internal journey and reconstructs, in chronological order, the tragic scenes of the family's bygone past, dimly colored by Moḵtār's cruelty and greed. The cast of characters consists mainly of Jalal Arian's stepbrothers, the children of Arbāb Ḥassan from his first wife Kowkab Ḵānom. Moḵtār, the evil incarnate as remembered by the narrator (Ojākiāns, p. 30), has raped and impregnated their maid, Gol-Maryam, has eloped with a married women with whom he has a son named Qadir, has beaten his younger brother Rasul into mental disorder and after appropriating Arbāb Ḥassan's inheritance fraudulently, has turned into a callous businessman. The more the past enunciates through the theme, structure and setting of the novel, the more Rasul's voice, a herald of love and forgiveness in the novel, reverberates in Ṣādeq Arian' s mind, and compels him to recognize that Moḵtār is not alone in his being blind in the heart. Fasih' s progressive capacity for introspection is well manifested in the final pages of Del-kur, and acquires a numinous overtone in his later novels (Mirʿābedini, 1, pp. 655-56; Rezaii-zadeh,; for Fasih's interest in mysticism see also his Bāda-ye kohan, 1994). The novel is also acclaimed for its intricate and accurate depiction of life in this middle-class neighborhood in Tehran from 1930s to 1960s (Badiʿ p. 63; Ojākiāns, pp. 23-24; Sepānlu, pp. 183-84).
Of Fasih's twenty-one published novels, two in particular have received comparatively wide and serious critical attention: Ṯorayyā dar eḡmāʾ (1984; translated into English by author as Sorayya in a Coma, London, 1985; and into Arabic by Muhammad ʿAlāʾal-Din Manṣur as Thorayya fi ghaybuba, Cairo, 1999), and Zemestān-e 62 (translated into German by Mohammad H. Allafi and Sabine Allafi as Winter 83: Roman (Frankfurt, 1998); and into Arabic by Muhammad ʿAlāʾal-Din Manṣur as Šitāʾ 84, Cairo, 2000).
The events in both novels happen during, or shortly after, the traumatic years of Iraq's invasion of Iran. In the first, while Iran is suffering the wounds of war, Arian is forced to go on a futile trip to Paris to attend to his comatose niece Ṯorayyā, and while tending to her conditions, finds himself among a motley crew of Iran's expatriates, who cut off from the objective realities of Iran in the first years of the Islamic Revolution, live in the remote island of their isolation in Paris (Navvabpour, 427-28; Kalāntari, pp. 283-93; Šāyesta, pp. 269-82). Zemestān -e 62 takes place in Iran, almost entirely in the war torn areas of the country's southwest that took the brunt of Iraq's devastating invasion. Although consisting of multiple plot strands, this novel is ultimately about two young men, Edris Āl-e Maṭrud, an Iranian Arab who has vanished in the war front, and Manṣur Farjām, a US-educated Iranian computer scientist, and an avatar of Fasih, who returns to Iran to mystically in effect annihilate himself into its soil by going to the front to a certain death (Mirzabenevis).
Talḵ-kām (Bitter end, 2007), Fasih's last published novel, is also narrated by Jalal Arian, who is tasked to go to London in the first year of the Islamic revolution, before the start of Iran-Iraq war and his forced retirement, to purchase computerized equipment for his college's language laboratory. While pursuing this task, he learns about a 91 year-old retired Zoroastrian Iranian professor who is confined to a gated assisted-living facility for the elderly somewhere to the south of the city. The man, once an illustrious professor in Oxford, is, notwithstanding some inconsistencies, none other than Jāvid Firuzpur, the young hero of the Dāstān-e Jāvid (Javid's story, Tehran, 1980; translated into Arabic by Salim ʿAbd al-Amir Ḥamdān as Qeṣṣa-ye Jāwid, Cairo, 2000). On a state of perpetual demise, the professor alternates between moments of lucidity, long episodes of prayer in Avestan language, and weeks of comatose.
Fasih's novels, especially those about Jalal Arian, may be arranged either by their dates of publication, or by the dates interior to the text, the dates when the events of the text take place. Following the publication dates, we go with Jalal Arian through the past four decades (1968-2006) of Iran's contemporary history. In them we see, among other things, changes in culture (for in stance as Iran goes from being run as a secular state to a religionist regime), changes in daily life (e.g. introduction of new technologies), in language (e.g. new slangs, new names for cities, streets, allies, etc.), and changes in demands of censorships (e.g. Arian's often humorous inability to name the alcoholic drinks he downs every night as part of his nightly regiment of going to sleep) with which writing in Iran has to contend. Few, if any, author in modern Persian literature allow us to trace the effects of social, political, cultural and linguist changes over so long a period as they are reflected in the world of Jalal Arian, his family and friends (Mirʿābedini, 1, p. 647).
Setting aside Farār-e Foruhar (Furuhar's flight, 1993), and Panāh bar Hafez (Beseeching Hafez, 1996), however, Fasih's stories, if arranged by the interior time of the narratives, manage to seamlessly cover an entire century of modern Iranian history. There is no major turning point since the assassination of Nāṣer al-Din Shah (Ṭašt-e ḵun, 1997), to the Iran-Iraq War up to the more recent decades of the Iranian history (Dar enteẓār, 2000, and Gerdābi čonin ḥāʾel, 2002), that is not covered by one or more of Fasih's novels and short stories. In these, and other stories, Fasih not only draws a veritable genealogical tree of Jalal's family, but also the life of an entire neighborhood over the course of a century. Darḵungāh is the toponymic counterpart of Jalal Arian, at once realistic and symbolic, textual and meta-textual. Again, no other modern Persian novelist has ever made a man, his family and friends, and his neighborhood the subject of a sustained labor of fiction writing over the course of many novels and short stories.
Jalal Arian appears as fully formed in Šarāb-e ḵām, Fasih's first novel, as we see him decades later in Ṯorayyā dar eghmāʾ, Zemestān-e 62, and in his last published work Talḵkām. He ages in the fictional world of Fasih, and the wear and tear of life begins to affect his health and looks, even deepen his sense of irony, but the fundamentals of his character, and the script of his actions, remain the same. He remains the same tall, bony man, loved by woman, who is naturally drawn to helping those in need of help, those who are wronged by the evil that dwells in the world, prototypically a damsel in distress, which in turn, more often than not, drives the plot forward. Even when Jalal is not the narrator or the protagonist, his story provide context for Fasih's fiction.
This pervasive presence of the same narrator and protagonist, replicated at the thematic level by his worldview and his notion of fate and death, underlines Fasih's concept of the enigmatic relationship between the world of the novel and the world that lies outside, between the author and his biography and the characters, events and places in the novels. It also offers a glimpse into Fasih's notion of Iranian history and his literary ambition to annihilate biography and history in the unity of literature.
In "Ḥarekat," an ironically mystical "annihilationist" short story, the protagonist rendered restless by his "Iranian heritage… coursing through [his] blood" (p. 112), drags himself over the skin of his homeland, including a stint near the ruins of the Temple of Ānāhitā (q.v.), his nation's Goddess of water and of fertility, and ultimately returns to its womb, signified by collapsing into the square's pond, when beaten to death by a crowd of his fellow countrymen.
Jalal Arian and all the emblems of good in Fasih's fiction, Manṣur Farjām and Dr. Yār Nāṣer of Zemestān-e 62, Ṣādeq Arian of Del-kur, and Siāvaš of Dard-e Siāvaš, to name a few, and all the female characters who are murdered or driven to death by the likes of Ṣamad Ḵażāʾeri, the Arab antagonist of Šarāb-e ḵām, enact and reveal the predicament of their homeland, whose history manifests itself in the lives of its people, and describes the nature of the signification that binds all the worlds of Fasih together, his own, his characters and ultimately his nation.
Fasih's short stories are gathered in five collections, published from 1972 to 1990, with some overlaps and repetitions. Although considered by some critics to be of lesser quality than his novels (Omidi Sorur), they do not in any significant sense form a body of work distinct from Fasih's novels. Some of Fasih's short stories in Ḵāk-e āšenā, and at least a couple of stories in ʿAqd o dāstānhā-ye digar, notably "harekat" (pp. 67-120), a long story bordering on a novella in the latter collection, easily match the best of this form in Persian literature.
All of Fasih's fictions are informed by his double consciousness of the merciless events that shape his life, and the equally merciless logic of the history he is born into, each replicating the fundamental structure of the other at its own distinct level; a trajectory of fall and decadence. They deal, with or without Jalal Arian, with a number of fundamental questions, chief among them the eternal struggle between good and evil, and a fascination, perhaps an obsession, with death (Yavari, 1999, p. 588). The curse of Jalal Arian's life, as an Iranian and as a man, "who has had a shining past and is today a fallen and suffering man," (Šarāb-e ḵām, p.173), appears as a recurrent motif in Fasih's fictions, allegorized or otherwise. The story of Mirza Ḵodādād Zarrin-negār, the calligrapher and the main character in Panāh bar Hafez, is in many ways a projective iteration of Jalal Arian's story. Ḵodādād, like Jalal Arian and Fasih, and so many of his avatars, falls in love with a Western woman (a Portuguese girl by the name of Angelico Bella, clearly a partial anagram of Annabel Campbell, Jalal Arian/Esma'il Fasih's first wife) who dies during childbirth and leaves her calligrapher husband to seek solace and salvation in Hafez.
Commentators have remarked unfailingly that names in Fasih's fiction are selected for semiotic effect (e.g. Badiʿ, p. 16; Ferdowsi, ZEMESTĀN-E 62; Navvabpour, p. 429). The name Jalal Arian, that sits uneasily on the jaded character of the person who bears it, gives an ironic nod to the grandeur of ancient Iran. Siāvaš, the name of the murdered young idealist in the novel Dard-e Siāvaš, a novel that distantly echoes the story of a homonymous tragic hero in Ferdowsi's Šāh-nāma, allegorically correlates with the wrongful death of Moṣaddeq's nationalist movement in 1953 (Ojākiāns, p. 37; Mirʿābedini, 11, pp. 1018-19). Jāvid (lit. everlasting), the name of the Zoroastrian protagonist in Dāstān-e Jāvid, and the name of Edris, son of Maṭrud Āl-e Maṭrud (lit. refused from the clan of refused), the Iranian-Arab boy that Jalal Arian searches for in Zemestān-e 62, are clearly chosen for their semiotic suggestions. And so do the name of Nāṣer Tajaddod (lit. supporter of modernity), the aspiring writer in Šarāb-e ḵām, the name of the novel he is working on, "Az ḵākestrhā", and Sarāb, the name of the isolated village he ends up being buried alive in. The name Nāṣer, has also a self-referential function in the novel reminding of Nāṣer as the name Fasih was called by in personal life. Many aspects of Fasih's life, as well as his literary reflections and ambitions are also transposed onto Nāṣer Tajaddod, the writer inside the text. As noted by a critic, the name of Farroḵ Foruḡ, the girl who pursues Tajaddod in the novel, is probably motivated by Fasih's close friendship with the noted Persian poet Foruḡ Farroḵzād (Kamāli Dehqān, 2007a, p. 9). In Talḵkām, the name of the kindly physician who attends to the ailing Iranian Zoroastrian Professor Firuzpur is Robert Malteno, the name of the well-known British progressive editor and publisher who brought out th e English translation of Fasih's Sorayya in a Coma.
Fasih's portrayal of women as often vulnerable and prone to victimization, suicide and murder, has led a commentator to argue that, "the only good women in Fasih's stories are dead women" (Badiʿ 16; see also Sāsān Šāyesta, p. 278; for an opposing view see Azar Nafisi). It should be noted, however, that Fasih not only refrains from blaming women for their predicament, he rather portrays them as intelligent, professional, well read and brave. They are often fully sexual, without being blamed for it, a trait in part required by the novelistic device of keeping Jalal Arian single, and sexually available. In his relations with women, he is respectful, decent, sexual, and never condescending, even as he shows the good side of man as the guardianship of the always already fragile good. If the women he comes to love have to die, it is because his love is a curse its spell he cannot break.
In Fasih's fiction, the potential of dialogue as a narrative technique is fully displayed. He renders sentences as structured in spoken language, even if grammatically incorrect (Yarshater, pp. 480-81), and maintains the moral ambiguity of circumstances in deceptively simple sentences. His approach to fiction and its relations to biography and history mark a turning point in the path modern fiction has taken in Iran. In his eminently accessible novels, and in the humbleness of their narrative style, there is a great literary ambition at work: the will to annihilate biography and history in the unity of literature in order to create a body of fiction that depicts the predicament of an ancient nation verifiably capable of great literature.
Translations. Fasih's translations, all from English into a highly accessible Persian, are remarkable for their respectable commercial success, and their subject matter. They may be roughly divided into three major groups: psychological, literary, and political. The largest group, and by far the most commercially successful, are books on psychology, among which mention must be made of I'm OK, You're OK (1969), an internationally popular book, by Thomas A. Harris (1910-1996), which Fasih translated as Vażʿiyat-e āḵer (1982, 24th print 2008). This and other psychological works translated by Fasih belong to an integrative approach in psychology known as "Transactional Analysis" (TA), developed by the Canadian psychiatrist Eric Berne (1910-1970), whose popular work, Games People Play (1964), was translated into Persian by Fasih, under the title Bāzi-hā: ravānšenāsi-e ravābeṭ-e ensāni (1987, 11th print 2007). The nature of the relationship between Fasih's interest in TA and practices of the novel has yet to be studied.
A second group of translations focus on literary texts and includes Shakespeare: zendegi, ḵolāṣa-ye āṯār: Hamlet (Tehran, 1997), a translation of Homer Andrew Watt's (1884-1948) Outlines of Shakespeare's Plays (1934), an act-by-act synopsis of all of Shakespeare's plays; Rostan-nāma (Tehran, 1994), a translation of E. M. Wilmot-Buxton's Book of Rustem: Retold from the Shah-Nameh of Firdausi (1907), which Fasih translates into Persian "to show that Iranzamin is the mother of human civilization, and the maker of the first global state," (Rostam-nāma, p. iii); Ostādān-e dāstān: majmuʿa-i az dāstānhā-ye jahān (1991), a translation of Great Short Stories: Fiction from the Masters of World Literature (1989); and Raymond Chandler's (1888-1959) Little Sister (1949), as Ḵˇāhar kučika (Tehran, 1997). The relation between Fasih's literary translations and his own creative work has yet to be studied systematically. Fasih himself emphasizes the influence of English, particularly American fiction on his own work (Fasih, 1987, p. 826; for a diverse and at times opposite surmises on such influences see Najaf Daryābandari in interview with Kamāli Dehqān; Rādmaneš; Amini Najafi; Omidi Sorur; Yazdani Khorram).
Although the list of Fasih's translations regularly appears on the back of his books, the third group of his translations--two books by the well-known American Marxist historian Philip Sheldon Foner; A History of Cuba and its Relations with the United States (1972), and The Spanish-Cuban-American War and the Birth of American Imperialism, 1895-1902 (1962-1963) which were translated and published by Fasih, in 1982, and 1983, respectively, are never included in the list. This suppression is perhaps significant. Fasih's work is deeply political, though not reducible to it. This political concern is so well integrated into his novels to make it an immanent aspect of his work. A politics of an anti-colonial bent, ultimately related to the formative experience of Fasih's support for Mosaddeq's nationalist movement, mixed with a certain kind of Arab-rejectionist sentiment (Kamāli Dehqān, "Goft-o-guʾi telefoni bā Esma'il Fasih") runs through his novels, starting with his first (Šarāb-e Ḵām, 1968) all the way to his last published novel (Talḵ-kām, 2007).
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Ehsan Yarshater "Šarāb-e ḵām o bāda-ye kohan," Irānšenāsi, 1/3, Autumn 1989, pp. 472-81; repr., Kelk, 55-56, 1994, pp. 268-76.
Houra Yavari, "FICTION ii (b). THE NOVEL," Encyclopaedia Iranica. IX, 1999, pp. 580-92.
Idem, "Tāriḵ dar dāstān," Kankāš 6, spring 1990, pp. 61-74.
Mehdi Yazdāni Ḵorram, "Neveshteh-I az Mehdi Yazdani Khorram darbareh-ye Esma'il Fasih," formerly at hadikhojinian.blogspot.com/2007/04/blog-post_7697.html.
Ali Ferdowsi, "FASIH, Esma'il," Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, 2011, available at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/fasih-esmail (accessed on 28 January 2011).
Hagigi: His full name was Bahman Hagigi. He was admitted to the Abadan Institute of Technology (AIT) in 1356 (1977). He was a moderate. He was killed by an Iraqi bomb which was dropped on the AIT's student dorm during the first days of Iraq's invasion of Iran.
Sabouri: His full name was Ahmad Sabouri Jahromi. He was admitted to the AIT in 1975 or 1976. He was an ardent Marxist-Leninist. He was arrested and executed by agents of the Islamic Republic shortly after the Iraq's Invasion of Iran.
Keshtkaar: His full name was Abdolreza Keshtkar. He was admitted to the AIT in 1977. He later joined the Pasdaran Corps and participated in the Iran - Iraq war where he was killed during the first years of the war.
All of them were Fasih's students. All of them were young and pure. In his novels, where he mentions them, he laments their fortunes—a sign of his deep affection for his students, no matter what ideologies they had.


This is a proper tea party cake. You know; tea, coffee, scones and a slice of this brown butter whipped cheesecake topping cake. As much as that name is a mouthful, this cake is also a mouthful. A mouthful of buttery, cakey, creamy deliciousness. Sigh. Okay let's talk about the brown butter situation. Browning the butter gives it a deep, nutty, caramel aroma that permeates the sponge and turns an ordinary butter cake into something quite special. It longs the process out somewhat but it's totally worth it as you can really taste the difference. The whipped cheesecake topping is e v e r y t h i n g (omg). It's super light and airy because you literally mix cream cheese with icing sugar and fold it in to a whole load of stiffly whipped cream. Ugh. Love.
Seriously though, the topping to cake ratio though. Let's appreciate.


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ACP may refer to:

Organizations

Medicine
 Albany College of Pharmacy, New York
 American College of Pathology, an association of diagnostic pathologists, physicians, and laboratory professionals, based in Houston, TX
 American College of Physicians, a national organization of internal medicine physicians in the US
 American College of Prosthodontists, dentistry
 American College of Psychiatrists, a US association of psychiatrists based in Chicago, Illinois
 Appalachian College of Pharmacy, Virginia, US
 Association of Cancer Physicians, a specialty association in the UK for medical oncologists
 Australian College of Pharmacy

Politics
 Australian Citizens Party , a political party in Australia previously known as Citizens Electoral Council
 Australian Communist Party (2019), a political party in Australia founded in 2019
 A Coruña (Parliament of Galicia constituency)
 Aberdeen Central (Scottish Parliament constituency)
 Aberdeen Central (UK Parliament constituency)
 Aberdeenshire Central (UK Parliament constituency)
 A Connecticut Party, a political party formed in 1990 in Connecticut, US
 Active Citizen Project, a New York City-based non-profit organization founded in 2003
 African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States
 Alliance for Climate Protection, a non-profit organization involved in education and advocacy related to climate change
 American College of Pediatricians, a socially conservative advocacy group of pediatricians and other healthcare professionals, Gainesville, FL
 Asociación Cívica de Potosí, a Nicaraguan political organization founded in 1996

Publishing
 Are Media formerly ACP Magazines and Australian Consolidated Press
 Academy Chicago Publishers
 Associated Construction Publications

Other groups
 Aerospace Cadets of the Philippines, a co-educational youth program oriented in aerospace technology
 Associated Collegiate Press, a national organization for college student media in the US
 Association of Chess Professionals, a non-profit organisation to protect the rights of professional chess players and promote chess worldwide
 Association of Chinese Professionals
 Atari Coldfire Project, a volunteer project that has created a modern Atari ST computer clone called the FireBee
 Audax Club Parisien, a cycling club
 American Charities for Palestine, a non-profit organisation supporting the development of Palestinian education

Science
 Acampe, an orchid genus
 Accessory gland protein, a non-sperm component of semen
 Acepromazine, veterinary sedative
 Acetophenone, a chemical compound
 ACP1 (low molecular weight phosphotyrosine protein phosphatase), an enzyme encoded by the human ACP1 gene
 ACP2 (lysosomal acid phosphatase), an enzyme encoded by the human ACP2 gene
 ACP3 (Prostatic acid phosphatase), an enzyme produced by the prostate
 Acyl carrier protein, a component in both fatty acid and polyketide biosynthesis
 Anterior chamber paracentesis, a surgical procedure done to reduce intraocular pressure of the eye
 Asian citrus psyllid, or Diaphorina citri, a citrus pest and vector of citrus-greening disease
 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, scientific publication
 Autologous Conditioned Plasma, used for treatment of injuries
 Automatic and controlled processes, the two categories of cognitive processing

Technology
 AC Propulsion, electric vehicle drive systems company
 IBM Airline Control Program, software operating system
 Algebra of Communicating Processes in mathematics
 Aluminium Composite Panel, building material
 Automatic Colt Pistol, designating several cartridges
 Average CPU power in computing

Other uses
 Address confidentiality program, for crime victims
 Advance care planning, for adults establishing their medical care policy in case they become incapacitated
 Advanced clinical practitioner, a UK term for mid-level practitioner
 Affordable Connectivity Program, for low-income households
 Airport Core Programme, Hong Kong
 Assistant Commissioner of Police, India and Hong Kong
 Attorney–client_privilege, a common-law concept in the United States
 Eastern Acipa language, a Kainji language of Nigeria
 Sahand Airport, Maragheh, Iran (IATA: ACP)

See also
ACP Rail International, a division of ACP Marketing
American Computer and Peripheral, a defunct computer company
ACPS (disambiguation)

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Iowa school board may repeal protections for media advisers
September 3, 2010 December 4, 2018 Chelsea Keenan
IOWA — A policy designed to help protect high schoolstudents' freedom of speech and journalism advisers' jobs could bein jeopardy as the Johnston Community Board of Education considers repealing it.
The policy up for review was adopted in April 2009 and prevents advisersfrom being "dismissed, suspended, disciplined, reassigned, transferred orotherwise retaliated against," for refusing to censor student speech.
"Students get concerned and feel that they have to self censorthemselves to protect their favorite teachers," said Tyler Buller, aformer board member and creator of the policy.
The initial policy passed on a 4-3 vote, but since then, three of themembers who voted in favor of it have left the school board, Buller said.
President Tracey Orman and vice president Jackie Heiser, who both votedagainst the initial policy, remain on the board. Orman and Heiser along withJohn Dutcher, who was not on the board during the vote but spoke against it, areon the committee in charge of the policy review, according to the Des MoinesRegister.
Opponents of the policy met with an attorney who said Iowa law already hasteacher protections, according to the Des Moines Register. They also saidthe anti-retaliation policy would blur the line between free speech andacceptable guidelines for defining curricular standards.
The new proposed policy would get rid of Buller's change and wouldadd a line stating administrators can review or prohibit students' speechif the speech has "an indirect impact to the school community,"according to a draft provided by Buller.
Buller said this addition to the policy was the revision that troubled himthe most.
"It's very vague," he said. "What speechwon't have an indirect impact on the school?"
Leslie Shipp, Johnston High School's newspaper adviser, agreed.
"Anytime you do any kind of student publication someone is eventuallygoing to be unhappy," she said. "I've been lucky thatI've had a lot of good principals and superintendents. The pressureusually comes from the parents."
Shipp, who has been adviser of The Black and White since 1991, saidparents have gone to the principal asking for her removal several times, but theadministration has always been supportive of her and her students.
Iowa law states that students control the content of their publication,with limited exceptions, while advisers are there to help students maintainprofessional standards of English and journalism.
"Many people don't understand [the state law]," she said."Tyler's policy just made our community and board members aware ofIowa law."
The full board will vote Sept. 13 on whether to revise the policy.
Orman did not return messages for comment.
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"Finally, the academic session 2013 has successfully come to an end. The school officially closes for winter vacation w.e 20th December for the teaching faculty, however, the office staff would be around till 31st of December. Mr.M.B.Mongar(17619855) will be the teacher on duty for the entire period of Winter Vacation.So, please do contact him if you require any assistance with regards to the School programmes.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Aum Lhaden Pem, the Proprietor,Mr.Gyamtsho,the Managing Director, Deputy Principals, Assistant Principal,the Course Leaders, the Head of Departments,Subject Teachers, the Teacher Aids, the Office Staff, the Caretakers, the School Bus Drivers,the School Leaders and all my Precious Students and Parents, for all their input and support in making 2013 Academic Year a Huge,Huge Success! Wishing each one of you a Very,Very Happy Holidays,Merry Christmas and An Awesome New Year,2014.


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PIT Count Finds Almost 1,500 People Without Shelter in Humboldt
Posted By Iridian Casarez on Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 3:11 PM
A homeless man in Eureka.
Almost 1,500 people spent the night of Jan. 22 without shelter in Humboldt County, according to results of the Point in Time count released by the county Department of Health and Human Services.
The biennial count held Jan. 23 found that 1,473 people had experienced unsheltered homelessness the night before, more than double the number counted in 2017. That puts Humboldt County's rate of homeless people per 10,000 in population at about three times the state average of 34, according to U.S. Department Housing and Urban Development data.
The PIT count is part of a national effort to tally sheltered and unsheltered homeless people, as requirement by HUD. The numbers are then used to designate funding to help address homelessness and housing insecurity. On a single day in January, volunteers all over the U.S. head out to count and survey homeless people.
HUD defines the unsheltered homeless as "an individual or family with a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings, including a car, park, abandoned building, bus or train station, airport or campground."
This year's unsheltered count increased 120 percent from that of 2017, when the number of unsheltered homeless individuals counted in Humboldt County greatly decreased from 2015. A total of 668 people were counted in 2017 as opposed to the the 1,180 in 2015. Eureka's homeless population decreased immensely in the last count, with only 206 people counted, down from 513 two years prior. This year, Eureka counted 653 unsheltered homeless people. Similarly, down south In Garberville and Redway, 220 unsheltered people were counted this year after the 2017 count failed to record a single homeless person in the area.
The biennial count directed by the Humboldt Housing and Homeless Coalition is conducted almost entirely by volunteers and the coalition recruited more than 140 this year to count and survey people using a new software system, Sally Hewitt, co-chair of the HHHC and senior program manager with the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services, said in a press release.
"We are still finalizing some of the numbers from the surveys but we know this was a very successful PIT count," she said. "This is due to the amazing work done by many volunteers who turned out early to begin counting and surveying people experiencing homelessness."
Homeless individuals who chose to participate in the survey answered questions about their backgrounds, physical and mental health and where they slept the night before. And for the first time this year, individuals that did not want to participate were still counted and added to the census. The number of sheltered homeless individuals — those sleeping in "supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designated to provide temporary living arrangement" — will be available soon.
"Thank you to all who participated and supported this work that directly benefits the communities of Humboldt," Hewitt said. "Their work assures we will have the funds we need to help people into housing, to assist them in retaining housing and to help prevent currently housed people from becoming homeless."
Here are the totals from DHHS:
The unsheltered count, below, indicates the number of people who slept in a place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation, the night before the Jan. 23, 2019 count.
Location: Number of people:
Eureka — 653
Arcata-Manila — 263
Garberville-Redway-Benbow — 220
McKinleyville — 121
Fortuna-Loleta-Ferndale — 83
Willow Creek-Weitchpec-Orleans-Pecwan — 49
Rio Dell — 40
Blue Lake — 14
Orick — 14
Petrolia — 10
Trinidad — 6
Total — 1,473
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Over 40 shooting attacks on the antiterrorist operation (ATO) troops are registered.
The situation in the ATO area in Donbas remains tense with pro-Russian militants further violating a cease-fire by shooting at the ATO positions, 45 times today, the ATO press centre has said on Facebook.
They fired small arms on a Ukrainian strongpoint near Shyrokyne in the morning and grenade launchers during the day.
They were shooting from Kominternove in the direction of the ATO positions in Hnutove and Talakivka with 82- and 120-mm mortars.
Near Donetsk, they used grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms against Ukrainian servicemen in Pisky. Ukrainian positions in Avdiyivka, Opytne and the Butivka mine were mortared.
In the Horlivka area, the militants fired machine guns and small arms on Novhorodske and Mayorsk and mortars on Zaytseve.
According to information available to the ATO HQ, the militants were instructed by the Kremlin to step up combat efforts along the entire line of contact ahead of the 13 February Normandy Four meeting.


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Danielsson: Two conditions remain for visa liberalization for Kosovo
After a visit to Kosovo, the European Commission's Director General of Neighborhood and Enlargement Negotiations, Christian Danielsson reinstated two conditions for visa liberalization – the border agreement with Montenegro and fight against organized crime and corruption.
Turkey Launches Operation "Euphrates Shield" Against ISIS in Northern Syria
Today, August 24, Turkish military has started its cross-border operation "Euphrates Shield" against ISIS in northern Syria.
Serbian Radical Party Protests Against the Visit of the US Vice President – "We Don't Want Biden, Trump Is in Our Hearts!"
BELGRADE, Serbia – On August 16, the US Vice President Joe Biden met with top Serbian officials in Belgrade. Downtown, demonstrators affiliated with the Serbian Radical Party welcomed Biden with banners that said, "We Don't Want Biden, Trump is In Our Hearts!" and "Biden Get Out!".
Joe Biden Urges Kosovo to Ratify the Border Deal with Montenegro
Today, August 17, during his visit to Kosovo's capital Pristina, US Vice-President Joe Biden called for Kosovo to ratify the border deal with Montenegro, and to allow the creation of the Union of Serb Municipalities.
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The Insurance Company Says I'm At Fault For The Car Accident – What Next?
If you're involved in an auto accident, the first thing you should do is remain calm. If you follow the standard protocol after a car crash, you will get back on your feet quickly. You should pull over to the Read more…
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ARSENAL are set to let striker Yaya Sanogo go out on loan in January.
The Frenchman has struggled to find first-team football this season and will be sent out on loan to find some experience.
Several Premier League clubs are interested in the 21-year-old with Aston Villa, Sunderland and Crystal Palace all being linked.
The forward's availability is likely to have clubs from across Europe - as well as in the England - on alert to acquire his services.
Sanogo signed for the Gunners in 2013 from Auxerre but has failed to make a real impression.
He has just one goal to his name so far - the opener against Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League win in November.
He has played 19 times for the Gunners, eight of them starts.
Sanogo's chances of first-team football at Arsenal are limited due the talent above him in the pecking order.
Boss Arsene Wenger has Olivier Giroud, Danny Welbeck, Lukas Podolski, Theo Walcott, Alexis Sanchez and Chuba Akpom to pick from.
Now, the 6ft 4ins striker will look to cut his teeth in a loan move in January.


John Terry has confirmed that his move to Spartak Moscow is off – igniting hopes among supporters that he could return to Villa Park.
The 37-year-old flew to Rome over the weekend to undergo a medical with the Russian side, but he has now pulled out of the deal.
Terry released a statement on his Instagram account saying: "After considerable thought, I have decided to decline a contract offer from Spartak Moscow.
"They are an ambitious club and I have been very impressed with their professionalism and the time they have given me.
Terry has made it clear that he would like to continue playing, and in a recent interview the former England captain said he had 'unfinished business' at Villa Park.


By Bill Quigley. Bill teaches law at Loyola University New Orleans. He is part of the legal team in this case.
Voice of the Ex-Offender (VOTE) and 8 individuals filed a class action voting rights challenge for 70,000 people in Louisiana saying they are illegally prohibited from voting. The VOTE suit charges that the Louisiana legislature wrongfully and unconstitutionally passed a law disallowing people convicted of felonies from voting if they are on probation or parole.
VOTE's suit points out that the Louisiana Constitution only prohibits people who are "under an order of imprisonment" from voting and that this was intended only to prohibit people actually in prison or escapees from voting. The VOTE suit further notes that the Louisiana state constitutional convention voted down an attempt to restrict voting for people on probation.
The class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of the 70,000 people in Louisiana who are probation or parole. The US Department of Justice reports over 41,000 people in Louisiana are on probation and over 27,000 are on parole.
It was filed in Baton Rouge and names the State of Louisiana, the Governor and the Secretary of State as defendants.
VOTE is an organization that began in 1987 as the Angola Special Civics Project, a group at the Louisiana Penitentiary run by prisoners who had become paralegals. VOTE, now run by Norris Henderson, was officially created in 2003 when it focused on voter registration for pre-trial detainees and people convicted of misdemeanors. Henderson is a nationally recognized expert in human rights for prisoners and ex-offenders.
VOTE has registered thousands of people to vote. It educates the public about the collateral consequences of convictions that inhibit successful reentry. Vote has partnered with Tulane Medical School to provide medical care for people leaving prison and has partnered with other organizations to win several recent victories including Ban the Box and a new public housing policy.
Eight individuals also joined VOTE in filing the suit in Baton Rouge. All work and pay taxes but are not allowed to register or vote. The individuals who filed the suit include the following.
Bruce Reilly, 42, Deputy Director of VOTE, is a graduate of Tulane University law school who has won numerous awards for his work. He spent 13 years in prison in Rhode Island and has been out for 11 years. Although he can vote in Rhode Island when he moved to Louisiana, he lost the right to vote until 2035 when his parole ends.
Dwight Anderson, 40, who attended Southern University, works for CeaseFire New Orleans counselling high risk young people and others in order to reduce shootings and violence in the city. After spending five months in jail for felony drug convictions he was sentenced to probation for ten years and is not allowed to vote until 2017.
Randy Tucker, 57, has run his own business since 2006. He serves as a Deacon at Israel Baptist Church. As a result of a felony conviction he spent 25 years in prison till his release in 2003. Because he is on probation until 2065, he will likely never be allowed to vote.
Bill Vo, 31, is a student in Information Technology at the University of New Orleans. Because he spent six months in federal prison for felony drug possession and is on probation until 2017, he is not allowed to vote.
Checo Yancy is the president of the Louisiana chapter of Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants (CURE). He is an active member of the Grace and Compassion Church in Baton Rouge, a member of the Kairos Angola Advisory Board and an active volunteer with Promise Keepers - Men of Integrity. He served 20 years in Angola for a felony conviction and has been out on parole for 12 years and will remain on parole until 2029.
Ashanti Witherspoon, 66, is a pastor and has earned a Doctorate in Theology. He is involved with the Baton Rouge Violence Elimination Program (BRAVE) and speaks before schools, universities, churches, government and community organizations. He was convicted of a felony in the early 1970s, was imprisoned for 25 years until he was released on parole in 1999.
The case is expected to be heard by the end of 2016.
Sentenced were: Sr. Anne Montgomery, 83, a Sacred Heart sister from New York, who was ordered to serve 2 months in federal prison and 4 months electronic home confinement; Fr. Bill Bischel, 81, a Jesuit priest from Tacoma Washington, ordered to serve 3 months in prison and 6 months electronic home confinement; Susan Crane, 67, a member of the Jonah House community in Baltimore, Maryland, ordered to serve 15 months in federal prison; Lynne Greenwald, 60, a nurse from Bremerton Washington, ordered to serve 6 months in federal prison; and Fr. Steve Kelly, 60, a Jesuit priest from Oakland California, ordered to serve 15 months in federal prison. They were also ordered to pay $5300 each and serve an additional year in supervised probation. Bischel and Greenwald are active members of the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, a community resisting Trident nuclear weapons since 1977.
The storage area was lit up by floodlights. Dozens of small gray bunkers – about the size of double car garages - were ringed by two more chain link fences topped with taut barbed wire.
Eight Homeless Youth Die in New Orleans Fire - What Does It Say About US?
Eight young people, who the Fire Department said were "trying to stay warm," perished in a raging fire during the night in New Orleans. The young people were squatting in an abandoned wood framed tin walled warehouse in a Ninth Ward neighborhood bordering a large train yard. The young people apparently had a barrel with wood burning in it for heat. Officials said this was the city's most deadly fire in twenty five years.
Audrey, a young woman with brown dreads and a Polish last name, arrived at the scorched scene. She spent the night in the warehouse a couple of times. Because last night was so cold she and a few others begged money from people in the French Quarter and got enough to spend the night in a hotel. Do you know who was in there? "Usually 10 to 15 people, nobody uses last names, but Katy, Jeff, Sammy, Nicky, John and Mooncat usually stay there," she sobbed. Why did people stay here? "A lot of freight hoppers stay here," she said, pointing to the nearby trains. "We are just passing through, hopping trains. We don't have any money." Behind her a group of young people were crying and hugging as they picked up pieces of a navy blue sweatshirt from the burnt remains.
There are an estimated 1.6 to 2.8 million homeless youth in the US, people between the ages of 12 and 24, according to a June 2010 report of the Center for American Progress. Most are homeless because of abuse, neglect, and family conflict. Gay and transgender youth are strikingly over-represented.
The fire happened in an area of abandoned warehouses at the end of Prieur Street, two blocks towards the train tracks down from the new Family Dollar on Claiborne. It is a modest neighborhood. Some people are back, some aren't. One block from the warehouses is a long lime green shotgun house with a beautiful red rose bush in front. Next door stands a big grey double shotgun with a wide open door and tattered curtains hanging out broken windows. Untouched since Katrina, the grey house sports OWNER HAS DOG spray painted on the front and the date, 10.8.5. "After Katrina, people don't have the money to fix their houses up," said the firefighter.
Across the street from the blackened warehouse is a vacant lot with a tiny handmade wooden shelter at its end. No electricity, no water. Inside are a mattress and some clothes. Follow the path through the weeds and there is another long vacant building that looks like it was once a school. Clearly people stay here as well. Empty cans of baked beans, chili, and Vienna sausages are piled next to Four Loko cans, jars of peanut butter, and empty juice boxes. "Where's our skate park?" is painted onto the wall in blazing red. A Thanksgiving card with a teddy bear on the outside lies on the pavement. Nana wishes the best to granddaughter Heather and son Dave.
New Orleans has 3,000 to 6,000 homeless people living in abandoned buildings according to an August 2010 report by Unity of Greater New Orleans. The report, "Search and Rescue Five Years Later: Saving People Still Trapped in Katrina's Ruins," notes homelessness has doubled since Katrina. Seventy-five percent of the people in those buildings are survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Outreach workers report many are disabled but many also work. Inside abandoned buildings live full-time sitters and restaurant workers.
Since Katrina, New Orleans has a severe homeless problem because of the scarcity of affordable housing. HUD and local governments demolished over 4000 affordable public housing apartments after Katrina. "The current housing crisis in New Orleans reflects the disastrous impact of the demolition policy," according to the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing in a February 2010 report very critical of the United States. Rents rose. Tens of thousands of homes remain vacant. Over 30,000 families are on the waiting list for affordable housing.
A November 2010 report from the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center pegs the number of vacant and blighted properties at over 40,000 in New Orleans with more in the suburbs – 14,000 of which are owned by the government.
Unity for the Homeless has been asking for help for people living in abandoned buildings for years. They have four outreach workers who nightly check on people living in abandoned buildings. Five recommendations from Unity to help these thousands of people: convert abandoned building into housing for the homeless; fund case managers to help people with disabilities move into housing; additional outreach and housing search workers; create a small shelter with intensive services for people with mental health problems who are resistant to shelters; and serious investment in affordable rental housing. There are several hundred housing vouchers available for disabled homeless people but no money to fund the caseworkers they need.
Nationally, the US has severely cut its investment in affordable housing despite increasing need from the foreclosure and economic crises. Homelessness is of course up all over. The U.S. Conference of Mayors reported in December 2010 that demands for food and housing are up across the country. The causes? Unemployment, high housing costs and low wages.
Will we look into our abandoned buildings and look into the eyes of our abandoned daughters and sons and sisters and brothers? Will our nation address unemployment, high housing costs, and low wages? Will we address the abuse, neglect, and family conflict that create homelessness for millions of youth, especially gay and transgender youth? Or will the fires continue and the lives end?


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Punk Rock Theory
The Rival Mob
Mob Justice
Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 20:39
http://www.myspace.com/therivalmob
The Rival Mob is a Boston-based hardcore band that just got out of a time machine and unleashed "Mob Justice" to show all the kids how it was done back in the days of Youth of Today and Warzone. The result is a hard-hitting album that comes with a no holds barred attitude.
While vocalist Brendan Radigan is venting about everything that's wrong both in the world and in the scene, the rest of the band is trying to figure out how to write a breakdown that will cause even more mayhem in the pit than the one before it.
"Mob Justice" is a helluva lot of fun to listen to and my only qualm with it is that the recording quality sucks. Why on earth would you want to record a moshfest like this and then have it sound like a lullaby even when you turn the volume all the way up?
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24/7 Diva Heaven shares first single from upcoming debut album
Lookout! Records announce online reunion shows
Descendents don't hold back on short rager 'That's The Breaks'
Kali Masi's Sam Porter talks new album '[laughs]'
Hayley and the Crushers share video for 'Church of Flag'
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