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County council leader stepping down after 14 years
Coun John Weighell is standing down as Leader of North Yorkshire County Council with effect from May 20 but will continue as a councillor.
Published: 15:35 Monday 11 May 2015
Members of North Yorkshire County Council are set to elect a new Leader following a decision by Coun John Weighell to step down from the post.
Coun Weighell, who represents the Bedale division, has been Leader of the Conservative Group and Leader of the Council for almost 14 years.
The Conservative group will elect his successor at its annual meeting taking place on Wednesday, May 13.
Coun Weighell, who took up the role in 2001, will resign as Leader of the council with effect from the quarterly meeting of the authority, to be held on May 20. Members of the full council will be invited to appoint his successor at that meeting.
However, Coun Weighell will not be resigning his seat and has pledged to stay and support the new Leader and Executive "in any way I am able". He said: "I have particularly enjoyed representing the interests of a diverse county regionally and nationally, advocating policies for our coast, market towns and rural areas.
"This needs to continue, as there can be too much focus on cities and not enough understanding of the needs of rural areas or the opportunities for devolution to counties."
He added: "As money for all councils becomes even scarcer, I hope we carry on looking for efficiencies, including merging the county council and district councils to form a single council.
"That would save money for the council tax payer and help to protect services."
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When Kenneth E. Smith, PhD, tried LiNX, ReSound's made-for-iPhone (MFi) hearing aid, he immediately noticed the sound quality, especially in noisy environments, he said.
"I am the world's biggest skeptic, but I found LiNX to be virtually transparent," said Dr. Smith, vice president and director of operations at the Hearing Center of Castro Valley in Castro Valley and Fremont, CA, and a member of The Hearing Journal Editorial Advisory Board.
The Hearing Center of Castro Valley started participating in the limited release of LiNX last December.
Six of Dr. Smith's patients now use the product. One patient who vowed never to buy an iPhone rushed to purchase one after trying LiNX, Dr. Smith said.
In general, the association with Apple should drive a lot of interest in the product, he added.
Resound launched LiNX in global markets on February 24. Although prices will vary from region to region, estimates range from about $2,500 to about $3,500, depending on the version.
LiNX 9 is more suitable for users who often move in challenging listening environments, and LiNX 7 is more suitable for users who move in mostly moderate listening environments, according to ReSound.
The wireless hearing aid can stream high-quality stereo sound from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch without an additional remote control, accessory, or pendant.
"This way, all users need is their iPhones and their hearing aids, and that's it," said David Citron III, PhD, founder and director of the South Shore Hearing Center in South Weymouth, MA. The device's small size will appeal to individuals who are sensitive to the cosmetic aspects of hearing aids, he added.
So far, a handful of patients seen at his practice have started using LiNX, he said, adding that one of these patients had struggled with adjusting the settings on a previous device and was about to give up on hearing aids before trying LiNX.
Dr. Citron originally thought the product would appeal only to a subset of patients, such as young urban professionals, but now he says that "there wouldn't be any reason why any patient wouldn't be a good candidate." According to ReSound, the device will work for 90 percent of hearing loss cases.
Despite the positive assessments of the device, there are some potential downsides.
"To take full advantage of all the advanced features, it will require a more savvy user, so individuals with cognitive impairment or those who aren't technologically inclined might not be able to fully utilize all the advanced features," said Timothy Steele, PhD, president and owner of Associated Audiologists, which has multiple locations in Kansas.
LiNX is also available as Beltone First. Beltone and ReSound are both owned and operated by GN ReSound.
The ReSound Smart App enables users to set preferred volume levels, as well as treble and bass settings, and to use geotagging to assign and adjust to the acoustics of frequently visited places, such as home, work, and favorite restaurants.
"Anyone who wears a hearing aid or has a hearing impairment wants to be able to go through life just like someone with normal hearing," said Laurel Christensen, PhD, chief audiology officer of ReSound.
The ReSound Smart App includes a Find My Hearing Aid function to help users locate their hearing aids if misplaced. This feature will greatly benefit patients with dementia, Dr. Citron said.
There has been a high level of enthusiasm among prospective users of LiNX, said Cynthia Ellison, AuD, an audiologist and owner of Franklin Hearing Center in Franklin, TN.
Despite the waiting list for the device at her practice, some patients balked at the price or were not interested in the "bells and whistles," she said.
"In my practice, I find that many people initially reject the idea of connectivity only to ask for those features after they have worn their aids for a few months.
As a result, Dr. Ellison sometimes doesn't even discuss these features with patients until they have gotten used to their hearing aids, she said.
Having attended a LiNX training course in San Francisco in February, Dr. Ellison recommends that hearing healthcare professionals become familiar with all features of the hearing aid before discussing it with patients and take a detailed case history to learn as much as possible about patients' lifestyles.
"Only then will you, as a professional, be able to help them select a system that will truly meet their needs," she said.
It's critical to receive proper training before fitting the devices, Dr. Steele agreed.
"I would also recommend that providers who fit the product have wireless capabilities in their clinic and help patients connect and utilize this technology with their Apple devices," he added.
Based on the reactions of audiologists at the training course Dr. Ellison attended, she anticipates that hearing healthcare professionals will feel excitement over hearing aids starting to have a "cool vibe," she said.
In fact, more products have now joined the market.
On March 10, Oticon announced that later in the month it would launch its made-for-iPhone connectivity device for hearing instruments, which enables users to hold hands-free phone conversations on their iPhone. The Oticon Connect-Line App allows users to control program choice, volume, and input source through their iPhones.
"All of our wireless hearing instruments are compatible with the new MFi connectivity solution, which includes instruments launched since 2007," said Soren Nielsen, president of Oticon A/S, in a news release.
The Oticon and ReSound devices are different in that the former is an accessory that works with hearing instruments and the latter is a hearing aid itself.
Starkey Hearing Technologies' made-for-iPhone hearing aid, Halo, was announced March 17 and became available March 31. The device connects with the TruLink Hearing Control app, which is available as a free download in the App Store.
"Halo brings what people love about Starkey hearing aids to anyone who suffers from hearing loss," said Dave Fabry, PhD, Starkey's vice president of audiology and professional services.
More information and photos of the made-for-iPhone devices are available in the Manufacturers News column on page 44.
At the time of reporting, details for the Oticon and Starkey devices were more limited compared with the ReSound product, which was launched earlier. The Hearing Journal will continue to provide analysis and perspective on the just-released products as hearing healthcare professionals gain experience with them.
Made-for-iPhone technology is a positive step for the industry, Dr. Steele noted.
"I think it might even help hearing technology break through old stigmas," he said.
The Hearing Journal67(5):28,30, May 2014.


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Huddersfield Light Opera Society
We get the lowdown on the Lawrence Batley Theatre's January panto
Huddersfield Light Opera Company gears up for the town's second pantomime with Dick Whittington in January.
Hilarie Stelfox
Cast principals from Dick Whittington by Huddersfield Light Opera Company at the Lawrence Batley Theatre (Image: Huddersfield Light Opera Company)
Christmas may be done and dusted, but the panto season in Huddersfield is far from over.
The first week in January sees the opening of the town's SECOND panto, as the Huddersfield Light Opera Company brings Dick Whittington to the stage of the Lawrence Batley Theatre.
It will be the company's 41st festive production – the 26th at the LBT – and follows hot on the heels of the theatre's first-ever professional panto Cinderella.
Paul Bennett, one of HLOC's scriptwriters, says there were worries that ticket sales for their production, which normally plays to full houses, might be affected by the professional panto, which opened on December 9 and closes on New Year's Eve.
Zoe Clarkson as principal boy Dick Whittington in the Huddersfield Light Opera Company panto (Image: Huddersfield Light Opera Company)
But, it would seem that there's a real demand for slapstick and traditional panto fun, as both productions have enjoyed box office success.
While the HLOC's panto is an amateur show it's costing more than £32,000 to stage and will have costumes and scenery from professional suppliers, promising glamour, glitz and more than a few surprises.
Paul explains: "Our costumes come from John Hill's in Leicester, one of the biggest suppliers to panto. But we have had a change of scenery supplier because we tend to do pantos on a rotation and didn't want to use the same scenery that we had the last time we did Dick Whittington. So it's all new."
Neil Broadbent as Idle Jack in Dick Whittington from Huddersfield Light Opera Company (Image: Huddersfield Light Opera Company)
The annual HLOC panto always has an original script, tailored to local audiences and with topical jokes, conceived by Paul and his
co-writer Chris Brearley, who also happens to be a lighting expert and as well as stage directing is taking a leading role.
"Our money goes on costumes, sets, lighting and special effects," says Paul, "because we don't have to pay the actors. We say ours is a professional panto performed by amateurs."
Because panto is such a popular genre with actors, there's always fierce competition for parts and Paul says the entire cast for this year's show is made up of people who normally take leading roles, including those whose names will be familiar to Huddersfield audiences such as Neil Broadbent, Dom Moccia, Alyce Liburd and Alicia Walsh.
Chris Brearley in the guise of Sarah the Cook from Huddersfield Light Opera Company's Dick Whittington (Image: Huddersfield Light Opera Company)
In keeping with panto tradition there's a Principal Boy, played by Zoe Clarkson, in the title role, and a Dame (Chris Brearley).
Paul explains: "Ours is a traditional panto. We do our best to stick to the basic story that people expect to see and we try to make it a family panto.
"A lot of the big professional pantos are quite smutty, but ours only has a little innuendo in it. You've got to include a decorating scene, or something like that, for the slapstick.
"Ours this year is going to be a cooking scene in a galley.
"We've got all sorts of special effects because Chris is very good at that.
"And we're promising something quite different for the finale."
Tommy the Cat in Huddersfield Light Opera Company's production of Dick Whittington (Image: Huddersfield Light Opera Company)
As usual, the Strickland Cook Theatre School is providing a team of young dancers for the show and Pam Strickland is the choreographer.
Dick Whittington is at the LBT from Saturday, January 7, until Saturday, January 14.
Spectacular shows and musicals coming to West Yorkshire theatres in 2017
Tickets are £6 to £15. There are matinees on January 8 and 14.
There's an additional treat promised for panto-goers, who will be invited to take selfies with cast members in full costume after each performance.
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Real Alcázar
Top choice palace in Seville
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A magnificent marriage of Christian and Mudéjar architecture, Seville's Unesco-listed palace complex is a breathtaking spectacle. The site, which was originally developed as a fort in 913, has been revamped many times over the 11 centuries of its existence, most spectacularly in the 14th century when King Pedro added the sumptuous Palacio de Don Pedro, still today the Alcázar's crown jewel. More recently, the Alcázar featured as a location for the Game of Thrones TV series.
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The Alcázar started life in the 10th century as a fort for the Cordoban governors of Seville but it was in the 11th century that it got its first major rebuild. Under the city's Abbadid rulers, the original fort was enlarged and a palace known as Al-Muwarak (the Blessed) was built in what's now the western part of the complex. Subsequently, the 12th-century Almohad rulers added another palace east of this, around what's now the Patio del Crucero. The Christian king Fernando III moved into the Alcázar when he captured Seville in 1248, and several later monarchs used it as their main residence. Fernando's son Alfonso X replaced much of the Almohad palace with a Gothic one and then, between 1364 and 1366, Pedro I created his stunning namesake palace.
Patio del León
Entry to the complex is through the Puerta del León (Lion Gate) on Plaza del Triunfo. Passing through the gateway, which is flanked by crenellated walls, you come to the Patio del León (Lion Patio), which was the garrison yard of the original Al-Muwarak palace. Off to the left before the arches is the Sala de la Justicia (Hall of Justice), with beautiful Mudéjar plasterwork and an artesonado (ceiling of interlaced beams with decorative insertions). This room was built in the 1340s by the Christian King Alfonso XI, who disported here with one of his mistresses, Leonor de Guzmán, reputedly the most beautiful woman in Spain. It leads to the pretty Patio del Yeso, part of the 12th-century Almohad palace reconstructed in the 19th century.
Patio de la Montería
Dominated by the facade of the Palacio de Don Pedro, the Patio de la Monteria owes its name (The Hunting Courtyard) to the fact that hunters would meet here before hunts with King Pedro. Rooms on the western side of the square were part of the Casa de la Contratación (Contracting House), founded in 1503 to control trade with Spain's American colonies. The Salón del Almirante (Admiral's Hall) houses 19th- and 20th-century paintings showing historical events and personages associated with Seville. The room off its northern end has an international collection of beautiful, elaborate fans. The Sala de Audiencias (Chapter House) is hung with tapestry representations of the shields of Spanish admirals and Alejo Fernández' celebrated 1530s painting Virgen de los mareantes (Madonna of the Seafarers).
Cuarto Real Alto
The Alcázar is still a royal palace. In 1995 it hosted the wedding feast of Infanta Elena, daughter of King Juan Carlos I, after her marriage in Seville's cathedral. The Cuarto Real Alto (Upper Royal Quarters), the rooms used by the Spanish royal family on their visits to Seville, are open for guided tours (€4.50; half hourly 10am to 1.30pm; booking required). Highlights of the tours, which are conducted in either Spanish or English, include the 14th-century Salón de Audiencias, still the monarch's reception room, and Pedro I's bedroom, with marvellous Mudéjar tiles and plasterwork.
Palacio de Don Pedro
This palace, also known as the Palacio Mudéjar, is Seville's single most stunning architectural feature.
King Pedro, though at odds with many of his fellow Christians, had a long-standing alliance with the Muslim emir of Granada, Mohammed V, the man responsible for much of the decoration at the Alhambra. So when Pedro decided to build a new palace in the Alcázar in 1364, Mohammed sent many of his top artisans. These were joined by others from Seville and Toledo. Their work, drawing on the Islamic traditions of the Almohads and caliphal Córdoba, is a unique synthesis of Iberian Islamic art.
Inscriptions on the palace's facade encapsulate the collaborative nature of the enterprise. While one, in Spanish, announces that the building's creator was the 'highest, noblest and most powerful conqueror Don Pedro, by God's grace King of Castilla and León', another proclaims repeatedly in Arabic that 'there is no conqueror but Allah'.
At the heart of the palace is the sublime Patio de las Doncellas (Patio of the Maidens), surrounded by beautiful arches, plasterwork and tiling. The sunken garden in the centre was uncovered by archaeologists in 2004 from beneath a 16th-century marble covering.
To the north of the patio, the Alcoba Real (Royal Quarters) feature stunningly beautiful ceilings and wonderful plaster- and tilework. Its rear room was probably the monarch's summer bedroom.
Continuing on brings you to the covered Patio de las Muñecas (Patio of the Dolls), the heart of the palace's private quarters, featuring delicate Granada-style decoration; indeed, plasterwork was actually brought here from the Alhambra in the 19th century, when the mezzanine and top gallery were added for Queen Isabel II. The Cuarto del Príncipe (Prince's Suite), to its north, has an elaborate gold ceiling intended to recreate a starlit night sky.
The most spectacular room in the Palacio, and indeed the whole Alcázar, is the Salón de Embajadores (Hall of Ambassadors), south of the Patio de las Muñecas. This was originally Pedro I's throne room, although the fabulous wooden dome of multiple star patterns, symbolising the universe, was added later in 1427. The dome's shape gives the room its alternative name, Sala de la Media Naranja (Hall of the Half Orange).
On the western side of the Salón, the beautiful Arco de Pavones, named after its peacock motifs, leads onto the Salón del Techo de Felipe II, with a Renaissance ceiling (1589–91) and beyond, to the Jardín del Príncipe (Prince's Garden).
Palacio Gótico
Reached via a staircase at the southeastern corner of the Patio de las Doncellas is Alfonso X's much remodelled 13th-century Gothic palace. Interest here is centred on the Salones de Carlos V, named after the 16th-century Spanish King Carlos I who was also the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, and the Salone de los Tapices, a huge vaulted hall with a series of vast tapestries.
Patio del Crucero
Beyond the Salone de los Tapices, the Patio del Crucero was originally the upper storey of a patio from the 12th-century Almohad palace. Initially it consisted only of raised walkways along its four sides and two cross-walkways that met in the middle. Below grew orange trees, whose fruit could be plucked at hand height by the lucky folk strolling along the walkways. The patio's lower level was built over in the 18th century after it suffered earthquake damage.
Gardens & Exit
On the other side of the Salone de los Tapices are the Alcázar's gardens. Formal gardens with pools and fountains sit closest to the palace. From one, the Jardín de la Danza (Garden of the Dance), a passage runs beneath the Salones de Carlos V to the photogenic Baños de Doña María de Padilla (María de Padilla Baths). These are the vaults beneath the Patio del Crucero – originally the patio's lower level – with a grotto that replaced the patio's original pool.
The gardens' most arresting feature is the Galeria de Grutesco, a raised gallery with porticoes fashioned in the 16th century out of an old Islamic-era wall. There is also a fun hedge maze, which will delight children. The gardens to the east, beyond a long wall, are 20th-century creations, but no less heavenly for it.
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Proprietors Rodney Greaney and Paul Chapman have a dedicated and very passionate team who take a lot of pride in working alongside their customers to produce a unit that meets their specific wants and needs.
"We really do have something for everyone," says office manager Lisa Greaney. "We've got everything from simple floats through to luxurious horse coaches. Everything we do is about exceeding expectations and it is all to an extremely high quality using the very best of New Zealand-sourced products."
Between them, Rodney and Paul have more than 35 years' experience in the coach-building trade – Paul from 15 years working for a local bus and motorhome repair business while Rodney, a qualified coach builder, was manufacturing replica D and E-type Jaguar racing cars before moving to buses and then horse trucks, coaches and floats.
For the past seven years the company has been a sponsor of jumping. "It has been a real privilege to watch many riders progress through the showjumping classes with many now a part of our Mainland family. We see our sponsorship of the junior series as our most direct way to give back to our customers."
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By Diana Dobson


Since its founding in 1812, the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has established itself as one of the premier medical journals in the world. It earned that reputation through consistent adherence to the highest standards of accuracy, scientific integrity and editorial review.
Recently, however, NEJM Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Drazen and his senior editors have shown a disturbing disregard for the journal's traditionally high standards. This became most apparent when, in 2013, they published a series of pieces that provided a misleading and unbalanced assessment of an unethical clinical trial involving more than 1,300 premature babies.,,,, Those NEJM pieces represented an ill-conceived defense of the trial, known as SUPPORT, after Public Citizen called widespread public attention (see here and here) to the U.S. Office for Human Research Protections' (OHRP's) March 2013 finding that parents of the infants enrolled in the trial had not been informed of the risks of the research, including risks of neurologic injury and death.
On Sept. 2, the NEJM editors sank to a new low when they published a commentary by John Lantos, a physician and bioethicist at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, that grossly misrepresented the meaning of the Aug. 13 order granting summary judgment for the defendants in a lawsuit related to the trial. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of three children who had been enrolled in SUPPORT. The defendants included the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), one of the lead institutions that conducted the trial; the trial's principal researcher; and the head of the UAB institutional review board (IRB) that had reviewed and approved the trial's design and consent form. The plaintiffs alleged that the babies suffered serious injuries as a result of participating in the trial.
"Bowdre's reasoning in dismissing the charges sheds light on the central issues in the controversy. She rejects the plaintiffs' argument that because the infants had been in the SUPPORT study and medical problems had later developed, one should conclude that the study caused those problems."
The judge's decision "appear[s] to completely vindicate the investigators and the IRB."
"[N]o reasonable person could conclude that being in the study caused harm."
"The judge's analysis … has implications for an analysis of the OHRP's reasoning in its critique of the SUPPORT consent forms."
"The summary judgement is thus a vindication of both the investigators and the U.S. system of research oversight."
Each of these claims is erroneous. The judge's ruling was based on her finding that the plaintiffs had failed to provide sufficient evidence to establish that participation in SUPPORT probably caused their specific injuries — the legal standard under Alabama state law. The judge, however, did not find that infants in the trial were not exposed to increased risks by being enrolled in the trial. Indeed, the judge did not take a position, either way, on whether participation in the study, including the lack of informed consent, caused the plaintiffs' injuries.
Importantly, the judge's opinion offered no assessment, much less vindication, of the adequacy of the SUPPORT consent forms, trial design or IRB review. The judge also said nothing that would refute the OHRP's determination that the SUPPORT consent forms failed to disclose important, reasonably foreseeable risks.
In sum, the summary judgment does not vindicate the researchers or the trial's design and consent process.
How could the NEJM editors publish an article that was factually wrong in describing a straightforward legal ruling? My guess is that, in their zeal to claim exoneration for the SUPPORT researchers and to demand an apology from the OHRP (see the NEJM editorial), the editors failed to seek expert legal review of the court's summary judgment decision and Lantos' commentary.
The actions of the NEJM editors are all the more egregious given that they have ready access to leading experts on health law and ethics, including George Annas, the William Fairfield Warren distinguished professor and director of the Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights at Boston University's School of Public Health and professor at the Boston University School of Law. Since 1991, Annas has written a regular feature on "Legal Issues in Medicine" for the NEJM, now under the title "Health Law, Ethics, and Human Rights."
A careful, unbiased journal editor would have sought a legal expert's opinion before publishing Lantos' flawed commentary. The decision by Drazen and his senior editors to publish that commentary — as part of their continued effort to defend SUPPORT — tarnishes the reputation of the NEJM.
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OVALO – Mabel Jean Marshall, 76, died Saturday, June 24, 2006, at her residence. Services will be 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, June 27, 2006, at the Ovalo Baptist Church, with Reverend Price Mathieson officiating. Burial will be in McBee Cemetery, directed by Fry-Bartlett Funeral Home in Tuscola. Visitation will be 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Jean was born September 12, 1929, in Ovalo to Bessie Hancock Hawkins and John Allen Hawkins. She graduated from Ovalo High School. In 1949, she married Alton Marshall in Ovalo. He died in 1994. She lived in Bangs for 15 years, returning to Ovalo in 1975, where she enjoyed quilting, horses and raising cattle. She was employed at Abilene State School, retiring in 1992. She was a Baptist.
Preceding her in death were her parents and one sister, Jo Abbott.
Survivors include: three daughters, Jo Lynn Allbright of Houston, Lavonda Evans and husband Dana of Santa Anna, and Carol Ann Walker of Ovalo; one brother, Garland Hawkins of Cisco; a step-sister, Marcheta Mayfield of Lawn; a step-brother, Bob Cook of Dudley; six grandchildren, Heather Allbright, Matthew Allbright, Ariel Evans Holcomb, Alison Evans, Lauren De La Cruz, and Jonathan Walker; five great-grandchildren; one aunt, Nancy Fleming of Venus; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.


Alltså jag är SÅ redo för vinter nu. November kan vi lika gärna hoppa över enligt mig. Det regnar bara ändå. Jag vill att snön ska komma så att ljuset återvänder, och så att jag kan sitta här vid mitt skrivbord och skriva medan jag betraktar snöflingornas långsamma piruetter utanför fönstret.
Glögg har jag förstås redan tjuvstartat med. Både en och två och tre gånger ;) Nu när det verkligen börjar bli isande kallt när en promenerar hem från jobbet i mörkret så känns det extra mysigt att krypa upp med en filt, en liten kopp rykande varm och kryddig Goder Aftonglögg och någon mumsbit. Sätta på en gammal jazzskiva och för en gångs skull bara vara. Den här remixen av gamla raspiga vinyler är min favoritmusik att lyssna på den här tiden på året.
When I'm writing this it is the day before the trip. I'm so nervous!! I desperately want everything to go perfect and smoothly since I'll be traveling for 28 hours straight, of which 22 hours is on a plane. I'm trying to relax and tell myself that a little flight cold is not the end of the world if it happens. Although I'm not wholly convinced. Yet.
This year I won't be celebrating Christmas (well, if we don't count my affluent advent celebrations, weekly Christmas cookie baking, Christmas decorating, the hyacinth smell in my apartment and the, like, a zillion candles I've consumed, that is). Because in two days time I'll be on a plane to Australia!!! Me and my family will spend three weeks (!) exploring Sydney, Melbourne and Cairns, and completely forget about winter & work. We have decided not to give any presents this year and instead focusing on doing this trip together. I'll bring my camera and computer obviously, and I'm hoping to have some time for blogging, other than what I already prepared for you. I can't help but to feel a little bad about flying such a long distance. It certainly isn't good for the environment. I'm telling myself that I live fairly environmentally friendly otherwise, even though I know it isn't enough. What are your thoughts on travelling and the environment?
Lately you guys have been growing in numbers. It always makes me so glad to see that more and more of you find your way here! A warm welcome to all of you <3 Many of you probably found me through other blogs. It always makes me a lil starstrucked when I see all these super cool and talented people reading and liking my blog! Lately Cashew Kitchen have been mentioned by Evelinas Ekologiska, which is one of my all time favorite blogs, the lovely Flora Wiström whom I recently discovered, Hanna Göransson with her stunning photos, brilliant Sandra Lundin and the ever so amazing Emily Dahl. I'm very grateful to be a part of such an outstanding foodie blogging community! I think I'll have to write a proper Link Love-post soon.
I've lost count on how many times I've made this salad. It actually appeared the first time on my old blog, but since I love it so much I really wanted to share it here with you again, in a slightly dressed up version. It has all the flavors reminiscent of Christmas: saffron, cinnamon, pomegranate, kale and brussel sprouts. All quickly assembled in the wink of an eye, and conveniently served in a large bowl. This salad is designed to work as a light side dish, but more often than not it becomes the centre piece of the dining table (or maybe it's just me who always help myself to a third, fourth serving…). My original recipe only contains kale, but inspired by this Brussel Slaw I thought I'd add some brussel sprouts to this one too to create a little variation in textures and flavors. I also added cashew butter to the dressing to make it a little creamier. You can of course skip the cashew butter if you like or if you don't have it at home, and go for a lighter dressing. After all, that's how I'm used to enjoy this salad over the past year.


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Beyond the Fall looks forward to a continued and successful future under her management.
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All of my experiences with Jody have been up front, above board and positive!
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Critias (/ˈkrɪtiəs/; Greek: Κριτίας, Kritias; c. 460 – 403 BC) was an ancient Athenian political figure and author. Born in Athens, Critias was the son of Callaeschrus and a first cousin of Plato's mother Perictione. He became a leading and violent member of the Thirty Tyrants. He also was an associate of Socrates, a fact that did not endear Socrates to the Athenian public.
For the work by Plato, see Critias (dialogue).
Critias was noted in his day for his tragedies, elegies and prose works. Some, like Sextus Empiricus, believe that Critias wrote the Sisyphus fragment; others, however, attribute it to Euripides. His only known play is Peirithous, of which only a single 42-line fragment survives (Sextus Empir. p. 403, 1). In addition, eight shorter quotations from unidentified plays have come down to us.
Critias gave an account of his ancestry which was later recorded in Plato's Timaeus. Critias's great-grandfather, Dropidas, was an intimate friend of Solon. Dropidas's son, also named Critias, was the grandfather and namesake of the author Critias.[1]
Critias was once a student of Socrates. The two had a strained relationship. However, it is said that Critias was the one who saved Socrates from persecution during the terror of the Thirty Tyrants.[2] However, Critias was very greedy, something that Socrates did not approve of.
After the fall of Athens to the Spartans, Critias, as one of the Thirty Tyrants, blacklisted many of its citizens. Most of his prisoners were executed and their wealth confiscated.
Critias was killed in a battle near Piraeus, the port of Athens, between a band of pro-democracy Athenian exiles led by Thrasybulus and members and supporters of the Thirty, aided by the Spartan garrison. In the battle, the exiles put the oligarchic forces to flight, ending the rule of the Thirty.[3][4]
According to Sextus Empiricus, Critias asserted that "a shrewd and clever-minded man invented for mortals a fear of the gods, so that there might be a deterrent for the wicked..." The text from which this excerpt originates is known both as the Critias fragment and the Sisyphus fragment as its origins are disputed. Most historians attribute the quotation to the character of Sisyphus in a play by Euripides.[5]
Plato's description
Critias appears as a character in Plato's dialogues Charmides and Protagoras, and, according to Diogenes Laërtius, was Plato's great-uncle.[6]
The Critias character in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias is often identified as the son of Callaeschrus – but not by Plato. Given the old age of the Critias in these two dialogues, he may be the grandfather of the son of Callaeschrus.
In popular culture
A generally unflattering portrait of Critias is provided in Mary Renault's historical novel The Last of the Wine, a retelling of Athens' last years in the Peloponnesian War and its immediate aftermath.
Likewise in Alessandro Barbero's historical novel Le Ateniesi, another tale set in the latter years of the Peloponnesian War.
List of speakers in Plato's dialogues
Jowett, Benjamin (1892). The dialogues of Plato. Vol. II. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Timaeus. P.516-517. Critias: Then listen, Socrates, to a strange tale which is, however, certainly true, as Solon, who was the wisest of the seven sages, declared. He was a relative and a great friend of my great-grandfather, Dropidas, as he himself says in several of his poems; and Dropidas told Critias, my grandfather, who remembered and told us: That there were of old great and marvellous actions of the Athenians, which have passed into oblivion through time and the destruction of the human race, and one in particular, which was the greatest of them all [...]
http://www.iep.utm.edu/critias/#H4
Buck, Thrasybulus and the Athenian Democracy, pp. 71–79
Xenophon, Hellenica 2.4
Kahn, Charles (1997). "Greek Religion and Philosophy in the Sisyphus Fragment". Phronesis. 42 (3): 247. JSTOR 4182561.
Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, III:1
Davies, J. K. (1971). Athenian Propertied Families 600-300 BC. London: Oxford University Press.
Nails, D. (2002). The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics. Cambridge: Hackett Publishing.
Rosenmeyer, Thomas G. (1949). "The Family of Critias". American Journal of Philology. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 70 (4): 404–410. doi:10.2307/291107. JSTOR 291107.
"Critias". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Fragments of Critias of Athens
Excerpt from the Sisyphus (original Ancient Greek text) (in Greek)
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Effect of cultivation parameters on the production of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-4-hydroxybutyrate) and poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-4-hydroxybutyrate-3-hydroxyvalerate) by Cupriavidus necator using waste glycerol.
Cavalheiro JM, Raposo RS, de Almeida MC, Cesário MT, Sevrin C, Grandfils C, da Fonseca MM. Effect of cultivation parameters on the production of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-4-hydroxybutyrate) and poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-4-hydroxybutyrate-3-hydroxyvalerate) by Cupriavidus necator using waste glycerol. Bioresour Technol. 2012;111391-7.
Short-chain polyhydroxyalkanoate co-polymers (poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-4-hydroxybutyrate)) (P(3HB-co-4HB)) and terpolymers (poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-4-hydroxybutyrate-3-hydroxyvalerate)) (P(3HB-4HB-3HV)) were produced using high-cell density fed-batch cultures of Cupriavidus necator DSM 545. C-source for growth and 3HB synthesis was waste glycerol (GRP) from a biodiesel plant. Incorporation of 4HB monomers was promoted by ?-butyrolactone (GBL). Propionic acid (PA), a stimulator of 4HB accumulation, increased the 4HB molar ratio 2-fold, but also acted as 3HV precursor, yielding P(3HB-4HB-3HV). Dissolved oxygen (DOC) was a key parameter for % PHA accumulation and volumetric productivity (Prod(vol)). 4HB molar ratio increased in the presence of PA and with extended accumulation time. By manipulating DOC and cultivation time, P(3HB-4HB) with between 11.4 and 21.5 molar% of 4HB were attained. Similarly, P(3HB-4HB-3HV) was obtained with 4HB molar% between 24.8% and 43.6% and 3HV% from 5.6% to 9.8%. Mw varied between 5.5 × 10(5) and 1.37 × 10(6)Da. PHA production from GRP helps reducing production costs with concomitant GRP valorization.


101. BESSIE, Alvah. Bread and a Stone. New York: Modern Age, (1941).
102. BIERNATH, Horst. Sender Erster Klasse. Berlin: Ullstein Bucher, (1935).
103. BIERSTADT, Edward Hale. Satan Was a Man. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1935.
104. BIGGERS, Earl Derr. The Agony Column. Indianapolis: The Bobbs Merrill Co., (1916).
105. BIGGERS, Earl Derr. Behind That Curtain. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, (1928).
106. BIGGERS, Earl Derr. Seven Keys to Baldpate. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, .
107. BINDLOSS, Harold. Carmen's Messenger. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1917).
108. BINDLOSS, Harold. The Frontiersman. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1929.
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109. BINDLOSS, Harold. Prescott of Saskatchewan. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., (1913).
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110. BINNS, Ottwell. Java Jack. London: Ward, Lock and Co, 1927.
111. BIRD, Zenobia. Eyes In The Dark. New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., (1930).
112. BLACK, E. Best [Josephine Elizabeth Best]. The Crime of the Chromium Bowl. New York: Loring and Mussey, (1934).
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The Coveo connector for Exchange now supports three different Exchange Online setups (see Microsoft Exchange Connector). Consequently, the Coveo components and parameter values required to create Exchange Online sources vary depending on the Exchange Online environment.
The configuration of the components required to create a source for a given common Exchange environment is however often simple for an administrator that is familiar with the Coveo Enterprise Search (CES) source creation process.
The topics in this section outline the required components and parameters to create a source for the supported Exchange Online environments. Parameters not mentioned should be left to their default values.
In the table of contents, each quick setup title gives information on the Exchange Online environment, helping you choosing the quick setup that best suits your needs.


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Dream Pillow This title alone brings images of rocking, cuddling, singing, and lulling to sleep. But leading up to sleepy time are many upbeat and playful activities. Babies and Adults will swirl to a dreamy cloud dance "Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland." They'll also play baby appropriate instruments to "Aiken Drum," and "Sarasponda." Favorite nursery rhymes like "Wee Willie Winkie," and "Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling," are sprinkled throughout the classes. It's easy to weave many of the class songs and activities into your families' daily routines.
Home Materials: A board book that calms and relaxes–Dream Pillow Lullaby, Home CD of the songs heard in class, a set of Art Banners for the nursery wall that strengthens vision and promotes early literacy, and a fish baby shaker for music-making at home.


Software developer Cascade Mobile has launched an online portal called Breeze Apps that lets users get free applications for their mobile phones.
Apple's popular iPhone is not supported by Breeze Apps.
Toronto-based Cascade Mobile provides a software platform for creating and distributing mobile applications.


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Nationalism could be Liberal leadership issue
Don Macpherson
Oct 01, 2012 • October 1, 2012 • 1 minute read • Join the conversation
Philippe Couillard, who is to confirm his candidacy for the Quebec Liberal leadership Wednesday, intends to make the QLP more nationalist, the Presse Canadienne reported .
The news agency said Couillard believes the party has conceded too much ground to the Parti Québécois and the former Action démocratique du Québec party, forerunner of the present Coalition Avenir Québec, on such issues as language, Quebec's political status and the accommodation of minority religions.
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It said people close to Couillard expect that under his leadership, the QLP would be "more assertive on identity, within Quebec as well as in Canada."
Couillard might face some nationalist competition for the leadership from Raymond Bachand, who declared for the candidacy on Friday. Bachand was a special assistant to PQ premier René Lévesque and donated to that sovereignist party as recently as 2003.
It will be interesting to see how far QLP members are prepared to follow Couillard or Bachand in a nationalist direction.
The party needs to increase its appeal to French-speaking voters.
But some Liberals, and not only non-francophones, are uncomfortable with nationalism.


Community service has been an integral part of the various activities done at Uttam School for Girls, Ghaziabad. Serving the community also has a positive effect on the personal development of the students. It provides opportunities for students to become active & positive contributors to society.
Under the "International Award for Young People" programme the students were actively involved in community service during summer vacations during which they taught English, communication skills, computer skills and basic etiquettes to the children from Sewa Samarpan.
The students of the school have displayed exemplary leadership qualities by planning, organising and executing all the programmes effectively. Their sincerity and dedication to provide knowledge to the children has been commendable. They used visual aids like videos and books to give grammar knowledge & help the children in spoken English. There were a number of counselling and interaction sessions that made the children comfortable and that facilitated them to speak confidently.
Learning was also made an enjoyable experience for the children by showing movies and biopics giving self motivating messages. They were also involved in learning music and dance. Children enjoyed the sports activities like relay race, athletics and other ball games. There was a quiz session on social issues and the children also spoke about the importance of educating girls. Assessments were designed to evaluate and adopt other strategies that could make the programme more effective for the next lot of IAYP participants.
The helpers from Uttam School for Girls also had an active participation in the programme. They diligently took part in all the activities and put in efforts to improve their own communication skills. Overall a friendly and open atmosphere was created for the children that made learning a memorable experience for them.


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Maya TaylorSaturday, April 3, 2021
Heavy storms to hit many parts of Thailand between today and Tuesday
The Thai Meteorological Department is warning of sudden summer storms, bringing strong gusts and possibly even hail, across many parts of the country. Yep, looks like the wet season has arrive d abut early in parts of Thailand this year. The TMD says the north-east, east, north, central, and upper south of the country will be affected from today until…
Jack BurtonFriday, April 3, 2020
Summer storm warning for 55 of Thailand's 76 provinces
Today Thailand's Meteorological Department warned people in 55 northern, north-eastern, central and eastern provinces to prepare for possible "strong winds and hail from summer storms", that are expected through until Sunday. This time of the year is also know as the bridging season between the annual dry and wet seasons. Weather can be unsettled in parts of thailand during this…
Jack BurtonThursday, March 19, 2020
Hot to very hot in the North, possible thundershowers in the South
Thailand's Meteorological Department says today that a thermal low is covering upper Thailand, while the southerly and southeasterly winds are bringing humidity to the Northeast, the East and the Central region. Chiang Mai and Khon Kaen forecasts below. Basically, it's HOT. The South is currently getting an easterly airflow across the Gulf of Thailand. In upper Thailand, hot to very…
Jack BurtonWednesday, March 18, 2020
Summer storm batters Prachin Buri
About 10 houses were damaged and the power supply cut off when a summer storm lashed a village in Prachin Buri province, east of Bangkok, last night. The violent storm that lashed Krok Hua Chang village in tambon Khao Mai Kaew lasted only a few minutes, but caused major damage. 65 year old Amporn Thaenghom says she was home alone…
ThaigerTuesday, March 10, 2020
Hotting up in northern Thailand
Hot, damn hot! The Thailand Meteorological Department says that a "thermal low" currently covers upper Thailand, while westerly winds prevail over the region, making the weather hot to very hot in some parts of the North, the Northeast, the Central and the East regions. Unpredictable weather and hotter days are normal for this time of the year leading up to…
ThaigerSaturday, May 11, 2019
Summer storms take their toll on the north-east this year
It's been a tough year for residents as a result of summer storms in Thailand's north-east region. More than 5,000 homes were damaged and 16,000 residents affected by summer storms in Nakhon Ratchasima over the past three months – the assessment from the provincial disaster prevention and mitigation office head Pornchet Saengthong. "Summer storms in this northeastern province this year…


If we get rained out tonight, all games will be rescheduled for tomorrow, Saturday, 7/7. Check your schedule later this afternoon or early evening. We will make a decision whether or not to cancel tonight's schedule by 4.30pm.


Without questioning the real and pervasive presence of Islamophobia in the West, including Australia, I would like to have a more careful look at Yassir Morsi's arguments in his 'Disguising Islamophobia' (co-written with Mohammad Tabbaa) and, to a lesser extent, 'Saving the Muslim Woman, Yet Again' (co written with Sahar Ghumkor).
The articles make many good points about the presence of covert racism in contemporary western liberal democracies, the stigmatisation of minorities (especially those of non-white, Muslim background), and the practice of using such minorities as scapegoats. Its attempt to define Islamphobia more specifically as an 'over-determining and inappropriate heaping of suspicion on all things Islamic' is praiseworthy, as is its warning about the dangers associated with Western governments' attempts to redefine Islam for Muslims on their (that is, the West's) own terms (something known in the academic literature as the ' ontological securitisation' of Islam).
Nonetheless, there are many points on which the articles needs to be critiqued.
'Disguising Islamophobia' concludes with this statement, which can be taken as its main argument: 'Disguising Islamophobia under the cloak of gender equality only harms the plight of both Muslims and women.' Let us examine this in more detail.
The authors characterise Professor Sheila Jeffreys (who specialises in gender studies at the University of Melbourne) as a 'radical feminist' (used pejoratively, of course). The reason given is that Jeffreys expressed concern that University of Melbourne did not condemn the 'imposed' gender segregation at an event. Professor Jeffreys' concerns must be understood in the framework of the clear link (amply documented in gender studies literature, including that on gender and Islam) between gender segregation and patriarchy. This is what the authors have overlooked in their criticism of Jeffreys.
Another dimension not problematised by the authors is that gender segregation in the traditional interpretation of Islam cannot be viewed in isolation from other patriarchal practices, such as the husband or father's complete control of his female kin's sexuality and mobility, as well as their lack of decision-making power on many important issues, which are defended on certain philosophical, theological and jurisprudential assumptions of normative 'Muslim masculinity'. These are artificially constructed on the basis of concepts such as men's sexual jealousy as an over-determining source of 'family honour', as well as patriarchal exegetical,theological and jurisprudential interpretations of the Qur'anic concepts of qiwama and wilaya (husband's authority over his female kin) which I have deconstructed in my book Constructing a Religiously Ideal 'Believer' and 'Woman' in Islam: Neo-traditional Salafi and Progressive Muslims' Methods of Interpretation, as well as in other articles. They also rest on particular notions of 'Muslim femininity' artificially constructed on the basis of concepts such as haya (that is, modesty and shyness) and the idea of women as sources of socio-moral chaos whose presence in the public sphere is a threat and constant source of irresistible temptation for Muslim men who can't control their limitless sexual urges.
It is important to emphasize that these views are not limited to the 'salafis' (or more correctly neo-ahl hadith (as I explain in my book) but also include all dogmatic or uncritical adherents of classical interpretations of Islamic theology, law, ethics and politics (known as madhhabists). Therefore, the authors' analogy between gender segregation practices associated with traditional Islam and gender-segregated practices in the West (gymnasiums, private schools and public toilets, for instance) are simply wrong, as they are based on very different cultural and philosophical assumptions pertaining to what it means to be male and female.
Let me also add that the lowest common denominator of feminism is about extending the same legal rights and opportunities to both sexes/genders, as well as valuing their respective contributions in order to engender a gender-just society in which all humans can flourish and reach their full potential. This is something to which we all should aspire, since there is no 'moderation in justice'.
The authors' description of Catholic conservative Tony Abbott's remarks that gender segregation is 'un-Australian' as simple political opportunism and an attempt to boost his 'feminist' credentials should also be questioned. It is simply a fact that the vast majority of Australians, including many Muslims, do consider gender segregation to be against their core values. Can we automatically describe the statements of Abbott and Jeffries as disguised Islamophobia, given what I said above? Or are they to be understood as genuine expressions of concern that Australian Muslims might be adopting practices that contrast with the values of the broader Australian society and which, given the organic link between gender segregation and other patriarchal mechanisms, are harmful to (Muslim) women? As an example, I know of instances of secret polygamous marriages that some Australian Muslim men engage in with the blessings of some Muslim clerics (though in the absence of actual case studies it is impossible to know how prevalent the practice is).
While I certainly find the views of Abbott and Jeffries to be overreactions, I can at least sympathise with some of the anxieties surrounding Western non-Muslims' views of Muslims. That is why, with some of my non Muslim friends, I co-founded an inter-faith group, Abrahamic Alliance, in Perth back in 2005 to help promote dialogue, understanding and alleviate community tensions between Muslims and non-Muslims, with some success. Unfortunately, the group no longer exists but I cannot overstate how important these and similar initiative are.
For those fearful of Islam and Muslims, this is yet another example of out-dated Muslim views being stealthily imposed on Australian society; or even the sign of an imminent take-over of our higher education institutions by 'extremist' Muslims.
The argument espoused by the authors that the political Left in the West, or in Australia for that matter, has uncritical and willingly cooperated with the political Right in excluding western Muslims is also questionable. On the contrary, the Left (in the context of Australia, represented by organisations such as the Socialist Alliance, the Friends of Palestine and others, for I do not consider the ALP to belong to the political Left in any meaningful sense of the term) has been the main supporter of the 'Muslim cause' in relation to issues such as Palestine, the so-called 'War on Terror' and the defence of Muslims against human rights abuses by western governments. Anyone who has attended political rallies organised by Muslim organisations in the West (for example, against the war on Iraq in 2003) can attest to this fact.
The authors also claim that Muslim women out of their own volition chose to sit at the back and that this is a 'common thing among Australian Muslims'. For over ten years, I have been heavily involved with the Muslim community in Perth in various capacities as a member, vice-president and president of Muslim Student Association ( MSA) at the University of Western Australia, as a co-founder of Abrahamic Alliance, and by attending various academic and non academic events involving issues relating to Islam. Most Muslim organised events were not gender segregated. They were only so when organised by the neo-ahl hadith type of Muslims (commonly referred to as salafis).
In the article 'Saving the Muslim Women, Yet Again' the authors repeat the same old narrative of why Muslim women do not need saving from white non-Muslim men. But this narrative is constructed in such a manner to stifle any criticism of traditional patriarchal Muslim practices that have been proven to cause incalculable suffering to Muslim families (especially Muslim women and children). Instead, this criticism is equated with 'Islamophobia', 'political liberalism' or 'Orientalism'.
Without going into detail, I refer to the numerous sociological and anthropological studies of Muslim women (documented on websites such as www.wluml.org or www.musawah.org), both in Muslim majority and minority contexts, which describe in detail the experiences of Muslim women as victims of patriarchal practices such as honour crimes, religiously-sanctioned forced marriages and the repudiation of wives at their husbands' whim, religiously-sanctioned domestic violence, religiously-sanctioned lack of autonomy in matters pertaining to their sexuality, mobility and even everyday decision making, to name but a few. It is easy for Muslim women (and men) who are living in western liberal democracies to underestimate the very real and highly harmful effects of practices associated with traditional Muslim family laws because they are not affected by them (or not to the same extent), and because they can pick and choose which elements of traditional Islam they want to retain and which to discard. That is why I refer to these types of Muslims as neo-traditionalists, as they do not question the many worldview assumptions and the patriarchal values on which traditional Muslim family laws stand.
In the same article, the authors argue that non-Muslim Australians seek to dictates the terms of Muslim women's identity rather than allowing the Muslim woman to do so herself. Even if that is true, the very same thing can be said about those who defend practices associated with traditional Muslim family laws. The authors seem to point (approvingly) to the work of Saba Mahmood on culturally-specific forms of agency and female subjectivity not based on a secular-liberal framework or assumptions. Mamood wrote a book on a movement of pious mosque-attending women in Egypt back in 2005 but her work has been criticised by many in academia for opening the door for cultural relativism (an excellent overview of responses to the work of Mahmood is available). Regardless whether this assessment of Mahmood's work is correct, one could ask the question as to what are the ultimate sources of the types of female agency and subjectivity she discusses. Mahmood argues that the embodied ethical practices give rise to subjectivity and agency by means of creating positive affective experiences. My answer would be that even if we agreed with Mahmood's analysis of subjectivity and agency as arising from embodied ethical practices, their origins are to be found in the patriarchal interpretations of normative religious sources and the broader socio-cultural values, practices and historical traditions that sustain them. Were these forces not present, in my view, these types of female agency and subjectivity would not have been there in the first place.
There are many examples of internalisation of patriarchal norms by women of many different traditions, including Muslim women: the famous modern example is that of the religious scholar and activist Zainab Al Ghazali. This also explains why there are alternative, faith-based, women affirming or emancipatory forms of Muslim female agency and subjectivity (which are not predicated on the secular/liberal framework Mahmood criticises) that are based on progressive interpretations of normative religious teachings and non-patriarchal values compatible with contemporary human rights and the assumptions that underpin them (which are not considered as inherently contradictory but rather in accordance with the ultimate higher intents or the spirit of these very same teachings) exist.
It is further claimed that Al Qaradawi is not a salafi, a term that authors never define. I have dealt with the definition of Salafism in my book (and more information is available here). The concept of salafism in the Islamic tradition has several dimensions. One pertains to what is considered to be an 'authentic' methodology of interpreting the Islamic tradition. The second element pertains to a Sunni political doctrine regarding the role of the Companions of the Prophet in the midst of socio-political chaos that characterised early Islam, taking them as 'authentic' sources of knowledge for Islamic sciences that were developed later. The third dimension pertains to the manner in which the Islamic tradition is conceptualised based on a particular view of the nature of history and time, according to which history and time are regressive in nature. One of the most characteristic traits of Salafism seen from this perspective is the idea that one's authentic Muslim identity can only be established by returning to a fixed point in historical time: that of the Prophet and the early Muslim community viewed ahistorically and in a socio-cultural vacuum. This Salafi-oriented vision of history imposes the idea a priori that this early Muslim community ideal was followed by a period of relaxation of standards, of deviation and, finally, of division. Furthermore, time is not conceived as in itself the medium and instrument of change but rather as reappearance and re-enactment, after a period of abeyance and degradation. In other words both history and time are conceptualised to be regressive in nature. Both ahl-hadith and madhhab based approaches to Islam share this concept of history and time. Qaradawi, although reform minded in a 'modernist sense', belongs to the latter approach. Ibn Taymiyya is closer to the ahl-hadith and was reform-oriented in a puritanical sense (although admittedly his views are being hijacked by neo-ahl hadith to some extent). In that sense, Fiona Hill, whom the authors criticise for labeling Qaradawi as a salafi, is correct in her assertion that Qaradawi is indeed a salafi in the sense of modern scholars such as M. Aduh or M. Al Ghazali, who were his intellectual forerunners. Both Abduh and Al Ghazali have criticised many aspects of traditional Sufi practices, and Qaradawi shares their views on this, too. Thus, contrary to what the authors claim, Qaradawi is definitely not a Sufi in the traditional sense of the term, although he might appreciate some aspects of Sufi thought.
In conclusion, for any critique to be truly called a critique, it cannot be one dimensional and blind to all of its sources and manifestations. There must be space for sensitive, intelligent and relentless criticism of both Islamophobia as well as patriarchal practices associated with traditional Islam. Engaging in this 'multiple critiques' is exactly what progressive Muslims should do.
Dr Adis Duderija is a senior lecturer in the Gender and Islam Studies department at the University of Malaya.
The original two articles that Duderija criticizes clearly hinted that we should broaden our fight against patriarchy. We should combat visible and less visible forms, rather than act on a typical tendency to locate patriarchy in the easier target of the disliked and stigmatized Oriental Man.
The original two articles' shared point was that we must avoid displacing social ills onto stereotypical 'cultural' minorities. The irony is that Duderija himself willingly does this displacement. In our challenging of the changing face of Islamophobia, Duderija saw fit to bring attention, once again, back to the Muslim's religion/culture as the principle scene of inquiry.
Doesn't this typical move potentially allow for ideological indulgences that a liberal modernity has somehow escaped, or progressed, from producing harmful masculinities?
With Duderija dutifully running through the typical Oriental signifiers – Honor, Muslim, Male, Law, tradition – there is another point to make.
In the last, and quite strange sentence, Duderija suggests that any scene of investigation should have multiple critiques – ignoring that Duderija's piece did not criticize Abbot or Jeffery and fails by its own 'multiple' standard. Despite then his faux congratulating, in the opening paragraph, of our original points, there is a worrying trend that marks the progressive Muslims: their obsession with combating traditional Islam to win back an identity.
This is seen in their indulgence in quickly describing themselves as pluralistic and multiple. It hints best at the fantasy of the progressive that they transcend the boundaries of parochialism and are privileged with a Muslimness that self-reflects.
Where else did Duderija get the assumption that the authors lack an ability to be self-critical? Where else other than a progressive celebration of self? Or, is it dependent on pre-existing assumptions that Muslims who question the west are lacking in self-reflection? Isn't this the most typical way Islamophobes 'refute' Islamophobia – suggesting the Muslim is the real issue?
This assumed 'lack' on our part is further articulated in Duderija's somewhat overstated – tragically misplaced – assertion that we neglected a proper and critical analysis of Muslim masculinity. The two pieces had precisely the opposite aim. It was an assertion of racism and how Muslim women are silent objects in the imagination of those who rescue her (noting that Duderija, the male feminist, did not acknowledge the female author of the piece, Sahar Ghumkhor, by simply addressing myself). But, what is at the crux of Duderija's article is that he simply does not understand racism.
Consider his fleeting description of a 'concerned' Jeffery. Somehow her concern is natural, justified, and subsequently trumps any claim that a concerned feminist could commit Islamophobia.
But, is it not precisely these concerned anxieties towards non-European practices that eventually turn immigrants into 'objects' that white Australia must ultimately worry about and control? Isn't the very kernel of racism a 'concern' that immigrants and their cultural influence will corrupt what lays between Australia's borders?
One really shouldn't advertise their assumed knowledge of Islam – or social theory generally – at the precise moment they neglect the power relations in which knowledge of the Other is so typically stated in regressive ways.
I find it very strange that the author is responding to two articles written by three authors but directly titles it as an address to only one of those authors. It suggests there is a personal dimension to this particular response.
In saying this, I cannot possibly take a response seriously that renders Muslim women who do not subscribe to a particular consciousness as mere products of patriarchy and lacking any agency of their own. This is further illustrated by how I was excluded from the conversation – is this because I am merely a mouthpiece of patriarchy? The author's critique reads like an Islamophobic liberal narrative of the third world/Muslim woman who must be 'corrected' on what it means to be truly free; it's not controversial that feminist knowledge production has been a conduit of these racist and imperial ideas. 'Other' women simply do not recognise their own oppression, and must be guided away from it.
In the effort to highlight the gender dimension to this discussion, the author undermines the importance of the racial dimension that has historically established a particular discourse on freedom, modernity, equality, etc., which Western feminism (and even Muslim feminist approaches) end up reproducing as part of a rescue narrative that alone tells the story of the Muslim woman. This discourse has ensured that a history of violence – material and epistemic – is made invisible by an 'apolitical' approach that locates the problem with culture. Neo-liberalism, war, poverty, racism, are not to be the focus of the conversation but the problem 'really' lies with the Muslim man and His practices. This particular history permeates this conversation and to speak of it as an obfuscation or stifling of the 'real' issues shows the author's limited understanding of how the conversation is already racialised. The racist logic here positions the author as the critical universal subject who assumes we possess the same 'innate' desires, and that the Muslim –always polluted by tradition – lacks the capacity for thought and engagement.
The author reduces the Muslim into ideological compartments such as "madhabhists", everything that the Muslim does is a manifestation of an ideology: the west segregates on sexual difference but Muslims segregates on ideological differences which have no fundamental root to any everyday human practice. There is always an imposition, violence and trauma at work. This is not new as orientalists have historically compartmentalised Muslims as perversions of ideology and using Islamic terminology to establish a façade of an 'informed' informer who can present their case against Islam from a position of knowing their 'secret desires'. The Muslim that is represented in this article is the Muslim of the War on Terror.
In addition to my reply to Yassir (the same arguments apply to Sahar too as expressed in the Saving the Muslim woman article and given her comments she seems to approve of the contents and views expressed in other article too ) I turn now to Sahar's criticism of my article .
Sahar writes: I find it very strange that the author is responding to two articles written by three authors but directly titles it as an address to only one of those authors. It suggests there is a personal dimension to this particular response.
Sahar write: In saying this, I cannot possibly take a response seriously that renders Muslim women who do not subscribe to a particular consciousness as mere products of patriarchy and lacking any agency of their own.
I never made such a claim. On contrary, I clearly stated in my article otherwise " that there exist authentic Muslim forms of consciousness and subjectivity that are neither patriarchal in traditional sense nor embedded in secular-liberal narrative" – I deal with this issue at length in my book. What I did say in the context of Mahmood's work is that patriarchal interpretations of Islam , the broader socio-cultural values and historical traditions that sustain it can result in many Muslim woman internalizing these patriarchal values ( by engendering particular subjectivities) and have given the example of Z. Al Ghazali.
Sahar writes: This is further illustrated by how I was excluded from the conversation – is this because I am merely a mouthpiece of patriarchy?
I have explained this before in the above points.
The author's critique reads like an Islamophobic liberal narrative of the third world/Muslim woman who must be 'corrected' on what it means to be truly free; it's not controversial that feminist knowledge production has been a conduit of these racist and imperial ideas. ' – I have also discussed this in my writings . Other' women simply do not recognise their own oppression, and must be guided away from it.
Again, this is a mischaracterization of my position as evident from the above. I have drawn attention to the idea that the existence of disgused Islamphobia should not prevent us from being sensitive to and speaking out against patriarchy among Muslim communities.
Well I can say the reverse about you that you are not only undermining the gender dimension but given what I stated about how you approached the entire gender segregation incident you are complicit in upholding the normative nature of gender segregation in Islam. However, unlike you, I consciously locate my critique as being 'multiple' and have a clear record (please refer to my comments directed at Yasser for evidence) on this .
Why is madhhabism an ideological compartamanalisation ?- It is how Muslims refer to themselves . Indeed, those who subscribe uncritically to classical Muslim madhhabism worldview subscribe to its patriarchal values, ethics and laws including those pertaining to Muslim family law. Read any classical fiqh manual and you'll find out.
I shall address both Yassir and Sahar's comments separately. Before I turn to their specific comments ( in two separate responses) let me first point out that neither one of them has specifically rebutted many of my specific points I made in relation to their claims made regarding the role of the political Left in Australia in the War on Terror, the issue of Salafism , the issue of Muslim women choosing to sit at the back by themselves as being 'common' , my quote from Prof Saeed's article , the existence of empirical studies on damaging effects of patriarchal interpretations of Islam on Muslim woman and the absurdity of comparing gender segregation practices as demanded by classical Islamic law with those of gender segregation contexts in modern societies including the West, the work of Saba Mahmood. These are just but the most readily evident ones.
As I clearly stated at the outset the purpose of my article was not to deny or underplay the pervasiveness of covert forms of Islamophobia in the West but to call Muslims to be more sensitive to and critical of injustices done to Muslim women often in the name of religion in addition to fighting disguised Islamophobia. This insensitivity is clearly evident in the way in which the authors of the articles do not problematise at all the action of the Muslim group who organized the event and who, not so covertly, demanded gender segregation by putting up signs directing the audience where to sit . Not only do the authors not problematise this act , they defend it ( on erroneous grounds as I have clearly shown in my article) on the basis of the argument that is it a 'common' practice among Muslims and that this act of gender segregation should be viewed as just another 'innocent' example of otherwise ,even by western standard (promiscuous/ morally declined ? ) acceptable practices such as gender segregated gyms or toilets , bereft of any boarder connotations this act of insisting on gender segregation has and the boarder religious-legal narrative it is embedded in which I have outlined in some detail. The same insensitivity on behalf of the authors can be deduced from the manner in which the words such as 'radical feminism' / 'feminism' , Orientalism, political liberalism and Islamophobia were employed as if to suggest that any critique of the incident ( as voiced by Jeffreys , Hill and Saeed) is automatically conflated with 'disguised Islamophobia' or 'Orientalism' or enabling the same . There can be no other alternative explanation in the minds of these authors although I have offered some reasonable explanations ( and let the reader judge ).
My response would be how can we broaden our fight against patriarchy if we do not even recognize ( or are unwilling to acknowledge or are not sensitive to ) the strong patriarchal overtones and dynamics surrounding the gender segregation incident itself and its underlying premises and the entire weltanschauung it exemplifies.
Yassir does not explain how I do that unless he suggests that by asking for a more balanced approach to Islamophobia that is not blind to injustices within own religious tradition I automatically become guilty of disguised Islamphobia or that I somehow enable Islamophobes or that I 'do not understand racism".
I have neither claimed nor implied that in Yassir's words" liberal modernity has somehow escaped, or progressed, from producing harmful masculinities." As I mentioned above my aim was to draw attention to the need to be engaged in a 'multiple critique' .
Yassir also accuses me of employing "typical Oriental signifiers – Honor, Muslim, Male, Law, tradition " but he misses the point that the very same signifiers are very much a crucial part of traditional and neo-traditional Muslim weltanschauung that are central to oppressive, patriarchal practices embedded in traditional Muslim family laws as exemplified by numerous scholarly studies, including my own, that I referred to in my article.
At no point whatsoever does Yassir ever (bother to) define progressive Muslims. In our exchanges elsewhere I have repeatedly referred him to my writings and offered him to write a review of my book and that I would help him in finding a publisher ( since he expressed interest to me in writing on progressive Muslims) which I thought was a kind gesture on my behalf especially given the difference between us in terms of academic seniority and ranking . I especially pointed him to my book on several occasions in which I have offered a very lengthy definition of progressive Muslims ( which is one of very few if not the only book that systematically does so) yet he has refused to do so stubbornly . So Yassir's progressive Islam , as I told him before in our exchange elsewhere, is something that he has constructed himself and does not correspond to my definition of it.
Yassir writes: Where else did Duderija get the assumption that the authors lack an ability to be self-critical? Where else other than a progressive celebration of self? Or, is it dependent on pre-existing assumptions that Muslims who question the west are lacking in self-reflection? Isn't this the most typical way Islamophobes 'refute' Islamophobia – suggesting the Muslim is the real issue?
I have answered this already in relation to the point about how the authors have approached the entire incident of gender segregation by not only not being sensitive or probelmatising this practice but also by defending it on grounds that are completely absurd and invalid for reasons I started in my article.
I have clearly stated that I consider her view as an overreaction but I also explained that one possible or likely reason (given the Professor Jeffreys specializes in Gender Studies) is that she is keenly aware of the link between gender segregation and patriarchy. I suggested in my article that the authors have overlooked this dimension and have too readily painted it with the 'disguised Islamophobia' brush.
I would like the authors to point to me where in their articles they have problematised or criticized Muslim masculinity because I cannot find it.
In my article I have tried to offer a more 'sympathetic' explanation as to why some non Muslims might be fearful of Muslims by suggesting that when Muslims adopt practices that are so alien to those of the broader society ( in addition to what non-Muslims get to see about Muslims on mainstream media) these Muslims become viewed with 'suspicion' and become subject to increasing 'public scrutiny' ( including myself and my brother who still has a government minder observing and watch all he does) . But this reaction, as I suggested, can be viewed in terms of the defense of widely accepted citizenship values not just through the lens of racism. As an analogy , if a group of ultra-orthodox Jewish men and women organized a conference at university of Melbourne and demanded segregation and there was no condemnation or an outcry similar to that of the case of the Muslim conservative group than we could be sure in describing the behavior of Abbott, Hill and Jeffrey's as racist.
I shall not comment on the issue of 'assumed knowledge of Islam' apart from referring the reader to my academic record which can be accessed here (http://malaya.academia.edu/AdisDuderija/Papers?s=nav#add) . Again , I want to reiterate that in at least three of my academic articles ( titled "Defining progressive Muslims' , "The political Dimension" and 'Historical Influences' ,) in my book I very much discuss the issue of asymmetry in power relations between the 'the west' and the Muslim 'other' in which Muslims are described in grossly Orientalist ways, so I cannot be labeled as neglecting this dimension.
Other statements by Yassir are raised by Sahar as well and I will deal with them in a separate response addressing her criticism of my article.
Thank you, Adis, for your searing and important contribution. The justification for segregation presented in the original piece is essentialist and completely acontextual.
Adis, thank you for your considered, sober and balanced analysis of this important topic.


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