After the honey almond nuts and packs of Lotte chocolates (Ghana) are gone, writing keeps great memories of a trip intact.
To me, this year is a breakthrough for my blog and to a lot of my fellow bloggers. I am saying this after years of struggling to keep blogging alive when Instagram and feed goals entered the scene and made everything by the numbers, way easier to digest in their bite sizes, and of course, produced more aesthetically pleasing and even faster content than our good ol' online blog can provide.
In my KTO-Cebu Pacific Korea trip, I met fellow content creators but not Instagram-ers, but vloggers and newspaper writers and staff of popular online magazines. It made me take pride in what I do, representing my industry and craft while on the trip.... I'm a blogger! I write and take photos, and create a post with all sorts of things: personal feels, travel tips from experience, insights, memories.
When I saw the vloggers' output from this trip, Raiza Contawi and AnnaCay just showed how they enjoy telling their stories in the form of videos, how they work hard to edit everything and post their vlogs right away. I was so inspired to do well in my own medium. A blog is so intensive and personal, it also takes a lot of time to produce a post! There's the selecting of photos, editing, writing from the heart, researching more info about places and stuff, before finally hitting that PUBLISH button. I am happy with the thought that blog is not dead, it co-exists side-by-side with all these different media. WOOT!
So after that long intro hehehe, sharing to you our first full day touring South Korea for Cebu Pacific x Korea Tourism Organization's "Ladies Special" campaign. Again, thank you all for still reading--especially my blog! ❤ Enjoy!!!
We woke up extra early for our first full day, and as expected, sched was super packed! I have no complaints though, I think I am the type of traveller who doesn't want to get bored or feel unaccomplished even for just a day. I want the rush of waking up early, staying out late, just to maximize a trip! I have yet to become that tita of Manila who would rather stay in her hotel room, or in a coffee shop, and waste a day away. It's cool, but maybe in the future when I get tired from all these already! Haha!
Meanwhile, so we had our breakfast, brought down our bags to the bus, and traveled from Incheon to Everland Resort to start our day.
I've been to Everland Resort last year during Spring, and now I can't seem to recognize most of the places because of the Autumn backdrop! They also have Halloween installations here and there, as if I'm in a whole new theme park. I love Koreans when it comes to being holiday/season-crazy and detail-oriented!
Anyway, we only have a few hours to enjoy Everland, so we divided and conquered the park according to our own interests. I went to the Team Extreme Ride and was able to ride the Hurricane! Sayang we had no time na to T-Express, but that's the only ride I was able to try last year so okay na, maybe next time na ang repeat. We also enjoyed the Halloween food served in one of the restos, and took gazillion autumn-themed OOTDs in the park's huge garden (Thanks Nikki of Askmewhats for my pictures!).
Nearest Subway: Jeondae-Everland Station (Yongin EverLine), Exit 3. Then take the shuttle bus to Everland.
Bitin, but we were immediately back on the road for our next stop. Have to conquer several stuff in our day's itinerary. If you're going to Everland, make sure to set a day so you can go around the whole theme park. They also have animal shows, a petting zoo, and other stuff from food to rides that you might want to visit and try.
We only had less than an hour for this stop so Pax, Nikki and I just took photos on the first area we saw coming down from our bus. The Suwon Hwaseong Fortress was used by the Joseon kings, and is now a UNESCO World Heritage. Quit a historical place to be in!
As mentioned in my first blog post, this is also one of the shooting locations for the Kdrama Love in the Moonlight. We weren't able to go around much, but I learned that inside there's a museum, some shops, the palace, a huge area for archery, etc. Just from the outside, you'll already see the wall of the Hwaseong Fortress, and can imagine how these structures guarded the palace back in the day. Entrance to this site is 1500 KRW.
Cute wall, we just have to take photos with!
Just took a quick stroll in nearby sites. It was windy during our stop, so I am good with going back to the bus after a while.
Third stop for the day is a quick visit in the Cebu Pacific Korea's office. Seeing their logo by the entrance felt like I am back in Manila!
We had tea and snacks, and talked about random things like our trip so far, our first dinner in Seoul, and about Cebu Pacific in Korea. Most Koreans actually fly to Cebu via our airline, so they are definitely doing well!
They gave us a Do Min Joon calendar, yey!
All praise ako sa lahat ng food choices and restaurants for this trip! Everything's super delicious, I just hope I can easily go back to them on my next time in Seoul. Parang hole-in-the-wall din sila na mahirap hanapin. The signage for our dinner place is in Korean! I don't think mattry ko to if it's during my solo trip. Anyway, Korean food makes me happy, so entering the resto and seeing the long tables lined with fresh and hot food... Ahhh, heaven!
Bring out more food, oppa! Hehehe.
Pax and Raiza, + Miss Aileen vs Our Food. Hehe!
Nearest Subway: Sinchon Station (Exit 6).
Walk straight along Baekbeom-ro, Palsaek Samgyeopsal is across the street.
It was super cold when we were walking around Dongdaemun Design Plaza, I think Seoul's temperature decided to drop that night to match the strong winds! I had plans to look for the LED Rose Garden and show it to Pax, but decided to just go indoors with the group to defrost.
I've been inside DDP before to check out the brands that are mostly all-local, and hang by their coffee shop. Each stall looks very artsy and inspiring, I always miss my selling and bazaarista stints whenever I go around DDP! Anyway, for this trip the highlight is a visit to the Kakao Friends store in DDP which is HUGE for a place dedicated just for the communication app mascots. They have Kakao merch from pillows to pens to kitchen essentials. Nakakaaliw lang how Koreans support their own to the point of having a solo store just for these characters!
Second stop inside DDP is the SM Town Stardium, a shop dedicated to SM idol's merch from clothes, mugs, postcards, posters, albums, and stationery. Everything's original, too! They also have signed stuff for sale, items with a line from your favorite Kpop songs, etc. Took lots of photos, so check out what might interest you!
Nearest Subway: Dongdaemun History & Culture Park Station (Exit 1).
Last stop for the day is, of course, our hotel which is right smack in the middle of busy Myeongdong. After settling in our designated rooms, Pax and I decided to go around the streets and check out some affordable masks and lip tints, and shop for midnights snacks that we can bring in our room.
We were checked-in L7 Hotel for the rest of the trip, and here's how our cozy room looks like. Very Cebu Pacific yellow! Hehe. They have all the basic things you'll need in an accommodation. I believe I slept soundly every night, hehe!
Before the night ended, I witnessed a car accident just outside our window! Medyo nakakaloka!
Special thanks to Korea Tourism Organization, Cebu Pacific Philippines and Korea, JG Summit Holdings Inc., and Stratworks Inc. for having me!


At their July 22, 2014 meeting, the Lake County Board of Commissioners voted 4 to 1 to approve a tentative property tax increase of 18%. This page was setup to collect fiscal conservative and taxpayer objections to the rate increase. I will be adding items here on a frequent basis.
You can find the names of the County Commissioners and their contact info HERE. Leslie Campione voted against the tax hike, but the other 4 Board members supported it. ( Board Chair Jimmie Conner (who sets the agenda and ramrodded this through, Sean Parks, Welton Cadwell, Tim Sullivan).
IF YOU LIVE IN LAKE COUNTY UNINCORPORATED AREAS, YOUR TAXES MAY GO UP MORE THAN INFLATION, COST OF LIVING, OR INCREASED TAXABLE VALUES SET BY THE LAKE COUNTY PROPERTY APPRAISER. (Owners of homesteaded property may see lower increases due to exemptions and the "Save our Homes" limit, but others with commercial on non-homesteaded properties will see the wage hikes based upon the higher millage rate and higher property valuations. You will see the tentative amounts on your TRIM notice which should be mailed by the Lake County Property Appraiser in mid-August.
The Board and staff claim there is a $15-million shortfall, but in my view after attending Board meetings for six years, they have greatly inflated the "pot" of budget needs which I will explain later in sections below.
Reasons for the Tax Increase.
Chair Jimmy Conner has only had ONE specific budget workshop to discuss budget increase reasons. It was held on June 24 and you can find the video of the Budget workshop (Tab 35) HERE. Click the "VIEW" link to see the video. (Note: There were earlier presentations by staff starting in January and links to those will be added soon).
HERE is the staff Powerpoint they used on June 24 to explain revenue "shortfalls" vs spending plans.


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Soricimed Biopharma Inc., a private clinical stage company developing novel cancer therapeutics and diagnostics, is pleased to announce the appointment of Tom Reeves, an experienced C-level executive with experience running both public and private healthcare organizations, to the Board of Directors, as well as Mario Thomas, PhD, to the Soricimed Executive team, as V.P. Business Development.
Tom Reeves currently serves as President & CEO of Interface Biologics. Previously, Tom was the President of Occulogix where he was instrumental in their 2004 IPO that raised over $100M. A Harvard graduate, Tom began his career at BCG and has managed start-ups to billion $+ technology and medical device enterprises in Canada, Europe and the UK.
Mario Thomas, is an accomplished senior executive with over 20 years in leadership roles directing corporate growth including mergers and acquisitions. He most recently founded the International Commercialization Alliance, bringing 49 organizations from 18 countries together to share knowledge and collaborate in order to improve commercializing research outcomes. He previously served as President & CEO of Entomed SA, a world leader in the discovery and development of medicines derived from insects as well as TerraGen Discovery Inc., an international biotechnology company with global projects in the fight against infections.
Soricimed is currently in the midst of a Phase I trial of their anti-cancer agent SOR-C13. The trial is taking place at cancer centres in the United States and Canada and will run until Q1 2014, with interim results expected later this year.
Soricimed Biopharma Inc., a private Canadian clinical stage company developing novel cancer therapeutics and diagnostics, was created in 2005 by Professor Jack Stewart and Paul Gunn following the discovery and development of a proprietary peptide, soricidin. Soricidin is the basis for Soricimed Biopharma Inc.'s targeted cancer management program focused on cancer therapeutics and diagnostics. Using focused innovative strategies in collaboration with major world-class cancer research institutions, Soricimed's drugs have demonstrated a capability to reduce cancer cell viability, induce apoptosis and to reduce human tumour volume while minimizing side-effects in various classic animal and in vitro tumour models. Privately held, Soricimed is funded through private investors and various programs from the Government of Canada.


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As one of six schools within the Ball-Chatham School District, Ball Elementary School serves grades Pre-K through 4th. Ball Elementary has five sections of Kindergarten - 3rd grade, and four sections of 4th grade. Regular education classrooms are self-contained with an average of 22 students per classroom. Ball Elementary also serves all Pre-K and Early Childhood programs for the Ball-Chatham School District, which annually enrolls approximately 124 students in five morning, and five afternoon sections. The school's enrollment for 2020-21 is approximately 604 PreK-4th grade students.
With input from teachers, building administrators place students in classrooms according to their individual needs in order to maximize the potential of each child and to create balanced positive classroom environments. Ball Elementary has special education programs available for all students who qualify for services. Students in the regular education program are provided with support from our special reading teachers when reading assessments indicate interventions are needed to increase reading skills.
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Minns to call for extension of COVID-19 economic support in NSW budget reply
By Tom Rabe
October 13, 2021 — 12.00am
NSW Opposition Leader Chris Minns will use his lockdown-delayed budget reply speech to call on the government to extend its COVID economic support to a divided Sydney, while taking aim at the newly minted Premier's financial record.
Almost four months after he was scheduled to deliver his first budget reply as NSW Labor leader, Mr Minns will call for extensions to payroll tax cuts and pandemic business support as well as a "big-build" on social housing and school projects to spur economic recovery.
NSW Labor leader Chris Minns is due to give his delayed budget reply speech. Credit:Rhett Wyman
Arguing that government support for business should not be tied to vaccination rates, Mr Minns is expected to demand the Perrottet government extend its payroll tax rate reduction for another year.
NSW last year cut the benchmark tax rate from 5.45 per cent to 4.85 per cent. Mr Minns will argue it should be extended for an extra year post-pandemic.
He will also suggest the government extend its JobSaver program, which is being scaled back as NSW reopens. The state government has already committed to extending the funding until the end of November at a cost of about $500 million.
"Nobody expects support payments indefinitely but cutting too quickly will have serious consequences," Mr Minns will say.
The Opposition Leader will seek to highlight the disparity between Sydney's east and west, citing economic data suggesting businesses in the city's west have suffered losses in trade of up to 70 per cent, with two in 10 people relying on disaster support payments in some regions.
"I want to live in one Sydney, not two, our people want to live together, not be pulled apart," Mr Minns will say in his speech. "No one can make the case that the devastating effects of this outbreak have been felt evenly."
While the government has spruiked investment in shovel-ready road and local government projects during the pandemic downturn, Mr Minns will say it should look to bankroll major building projects, in the social housing and education sectors.
"It is time for a big build in social housing and schools – bringing back jobs, getting young people into their homes, and our kids learning in classrooms fit for our future."
With toll fees increasing at 4 per cent each year as government infrastructure projects blow out by billions, Mr Minns will also argue the new Premier's financial record – he was the treasurer – is more concerning than his personal politics.
"The taxpayers of this state should be far more concerned about the Premier's record of tolls, taxes, fines, charges – and record debt – than about the Perrottet collection of Trump hats and toy nuclear power stations – strange though it is," Mr Minns will say.
"At the last election, after eight years, the Liberals and Nationals ran out of ideas – and last week, after 10 years, they ran out of talent."
The member for Kogarah, who was appointed Labor leader just three weeks before NSW was thrust into the Delta lockdown, will also say the government should extend its COVID intensive learning program into 2022 after months of disrupted learning. The program was set up during the pandemic to provide small group tuition for students in primary and secondary schools.
"This wasn't just a lost winter of trading. For a lot of kids it was a lost year of learning as well," he will say.
The Opposition Leader will also reaffirm the party's position to scrap the Beaches Link tunnel in northern Sydney and instead invest in public transport infrastructure for western Sydney.
Mr Perrottet last month revealed the Delta lockdown had cost the state $11 billion, and pushed the budget deficit out to $19 billion.
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As a classical form of dance, drama and music, Kuchipudi enjoys a unique place among the Indian classical dance idioms. It is racy and sprightly- indicating the quest for conquering space and time. With its vigorous and vibrating leaps and turns, it is not cast in the mould of impressionism. It is ebullient and scintillanting and yet has the capacity to be intensely lyrical. It is bold and sensuos in the movements of the eyes, its ethos not confined to the languorous world of pining lovers.
The abhinaya aspect of Kuchipudi is unique for it combines both the stylistic (Natya) and the realistic (loka) ways of expression. With a wide variety of character and theme portrayals, the solos stand apart. The sancharis are exploited to the maximum, and narration and elaboration of a story is brought in whenever there is an opportunity.
Kuchipudi Natyam originated and developed in a village by the same name in Krishna district of Andra Pradesh.
According to the Natya Shastra, Bharata Muni along with his 100 sons was instrumental in bringing and popularizing the art of dance on earth from its original place in the heavens. The logical derivation of this is that the art of dance started exclusively with male performers and popular belief is that Kuchipudi dance was initiates either by Bharata Muni himself with one of his sons, or by theirs disciples. The enactment of male and female roles in this dance form was done solely by male members.
One of the well -known solo numbers of Kuchipudi is Tarangam. This number has a very interesting execution of the Nritta, wherein the dancer stands on the rim of a brass plate and interweaves several rhythmic variations. This is to show the prowess of the dancer over rhythm.


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"Modern Family" Star Sarah Hyland Gets Engaged To "Bachelorette" Contestant Adam Wells
Yesterday, "Modern Family" actress Sarah Hyland announced her engagement to Adam Wells, a contestant on season 12 of "The Bachelorette."
Fans of Twenty-One Pilots Help A Couple Get Engaged Outside The Show
Last weekend a man proposed to his girlfriend before a Twenty-One Pilots concert. He received some help from the fans that were waiting outside the arena.
Parents Name Newborn "Google" Hoping He Will Become Just As Useful As The Website
When Ella Karin was seven months pregnant with her second child, her husband Andi Cahya Saputra was inspired to name the child after some form of technology.
Ashton Kutcher And Mila Kunis Hilariously Respond To Internet Rumors They Broke Up
Ashton Kuther and Mila Kunis first met when they were stars on "That '70s Show."
McDonald's Fan Proposes To Girlfriend By Sticking A Ring Inside A Big Mac
And they say the perfect man doesn't exist.
Bradley Cooper Spotted On A Boys' Night Out After Split From Irina Shayk
After four years of dating, Bradley Cooper split from his girlfriend, model Irina Shayk.
Chris Pratt And Katherine Schwarzenegger Marry In Intimate Ceremony
Congratulations are in order for Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger!
French Mayor Handing Out Free Viagra To Encourage Town To Increase Population
Jean Debouzy is the mayor of Montereau, a small village south of Paris that has a population of only 650 people.
Couple Marries At The Airport Baggage Claim Where They First Met 12 Years Ago
In 2007, a woman named Michelle was assigned by her boss to pick up a man named Ron Peterson from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
Michelle Branch And The Black Keys' Patrick Carney Marry In New Orleans
Patrick Carney and Michelle Branch are now husband and wife.


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De Blasio's War on Minority Education
The Democratic political machine versus the students.
March 12, 2014 by Arnold Ahlert Leave a Comment
[](/sites/default/files/uploads/2014/03/winters13e-1-web.jpg)One of the biggest challenges to the miserable status quo of public school education is taking place in New York City. On one side are leftists like Mayor Bill De Blasio, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, and NAACP President Hazel Dukes. Along with their allies in city government and the teachers unions, they want to keep city children, especially minority children, in the failing, Democrat-run public school quagmire. On the other side are the advocates of school choice and charter schools that have provided poor minority students with superior educations that threaten the status quo. Their champion is Eva Moskowitz and her Success Academy Charter Schools. The former group embraces the status quo of languishing students and bleak futures. The latter group embraces hope and change.
We begin with the Mayor. De Blasio, who promised to close some charter schools during his election campaign, made good on that pledge in February, when he closed three charter schools run by fellow Democrat, but arch-nemesis, Eva Moskowitz. Moskowitz's crime? The 6,700 students at her 22 Success Academy Charter Schools scored in the top 1 percent in math and top 7 percent in English on the most recent state test. These are students who come overwhelmingly from poor, minority families, who overcame the achievement gap progressives regularly bemoan. Even "worse," four in five charters in the Big Apple outperformed comparable schools, posing a dire threat to the aforementioned status quo of dismal results. Dismal results that would be held up as a national disgrace were it not for campaign contributions provided to Democratic politicians who continue to con New Yorkers and other Americans with promises of "reform" that never happen.
De Blasio didn't stop with Moskowitz. Since becoming Mayor, he cut off funding for _all_ charter school construction that was to occur after 2015, and announced a "moratorium" on co-locating charters in existing schools. He is also looking for a way to roll back 25 of those co-locations that were already approved for next year. Ten of them involve Success Academies. He did all of this despite the reality that there is a waiting list of 50,000 New Yorkers determined to get their kids in charter schools. A lottery process that literally determines the city's educational winners and losers.
Or at least it did. Public Advocate Letitia James, who along with City Council Speaker Melissa Mark Viverito is already planning a lawsuit to shut down co-located charter schools, is now asking a judge to suspend the admission lottery for the 2014-2015 school year while that lawsuit proceeds. "We may ask the court to push the deadline back," said lawyer Arthur Schwartz who is leading the effort on behalf of James. Unsurprisingly the suit is being backed by the teachers union. Incredibly, both James and the union claim De Blasio isn't doing enough to inhibit the growth of charter schools. "We're moving forward with the litigation because, clearly, the process is broken," James said at a parent forum in Downtown Brooklyn. "The mayor did not engage parents today on this issue, so we're looking for an expedited review."
Which parents would that be? Last fall, when De Blasio looked like he was going to be elected, Moskowitz amassed a crowd of 2,000 parents, teachers and students for a pro-charter rally at the Brooklyn Bridge. At least 4,500 families scheduled to enter next year's charter class would be put in limbo by James's lawsuit – along with the thousands of parents with kids already in the charter school system whose lives would also be thrown into turmoil if James and the union prevail.
New York City Charter School Center CEO James Merriman got to the heart of the issue. "The destructive tactics . . . would create havoc and uncertainty for tens of thousands of New York City families from low-income communities," he explained. He also blasted James. "She would do well to remember that her title is public advocate, not advocate for the teachers union," he added.
Queens Councilman Daniel Dromm, who heads the City Council Education Committee, is a staunch advocate for the teachers union. He has scheduled a hearing next month aimed at pressing Moskowitz and other charter school executives to explain how they spend public funds. His real agenda is transparent. A spokeswoman told the _New York Post_ that Moskowitz has not received an invitation to testify, even as the paper itself noted that it "isn't clear" that Dromm has any jurisdiction over Moskowitz, who is not a city employee.
Dromm remained undaunted. "We need accountability, we need transparency, and we need to know who is giving them the money and what they're doing with that money," he contended. "This is an opportunity, if corruption were to exist . . . I can't just let it go."
No one has ever accused Moskowitz of corruption, and this is not Dromm's first effort to defame and single her out. On March 1, he announced he would hold an oversight hearing to investigate whether Moskowitz acted illegally when she closed her schools on March 4 so that her students could participate in a pro-charter rally in Albany. "I am deeply concerned about the legality of a school leader closing schools for entirely political purposes," Dromm said in a statement, adding, "no educator should be allowed to use children as pawns for their political agenda." That would be a rally attended by Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, who said he was "committed" to making sure charter schools will succeed.
A competing rally for universal pre-kindergarten was held by De Blasio and his supporters on the same day. As this picture indicates, it also included student "pawns" advocating on behalf of a political agenda.
With regard to political agendas, perhaps nothing makes the Mayor's unstinting support for the miserable status quo clearer than his reaction to the results of the latest entrance exam for the city's elite public schools. Tragically, but predictably, the achievement gap of black and Hispanic students relative to their white and Asian peers made itself evident once again. Out of the 5,096 students accepted by eight top-end schools, only 5 percent were black and 7 percent were Hispanic, despite an increase in the percentage of black and Hispanic students taking the test from 43 percent in 2012, to 46 percent last October.
Did De Blasio demand accountability from the public school system for failing these students? No. The Mayor's answer is lowering standards – yet more degradation of the education children are entitled to. De Blasio has called for an overhaul of admissions system, insisting that one exam shouldn't be the sole criteria that determines admission to the city's best schools. He was echoed by David Jones, CEO of the Community Service Society of New York. "We have to come up with an admission system that is wider than this one-size-fits-all exam," he contended, further suggesting that schools consider grade point averages and teacher recommendations along with the test. Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña played the diversity card. "We must do more to reflect the diversity of our city in our top-tier schools–and we are committed to doing just that," she said.
Mona Davids, head of the New York City Parents Union, cut right through the blather. "Leave the exam alone and help our students meet the standards," she said. "The solution is to improve the elementary and middle schools in neighborhoods of color so the students can perform and pass the exam."
It is precisely that kind of improvement already demonstrated by Success Academy Harlem 4, where the same minority students achieved some of the highest math scores in the entire state and 55 percent passed English exams last year. Both rates far exceeded city averages. For reference, only about a quarter of New York City students in third through eight grade earn passing scores on English and math tests; 26.4 percent passed in English proficiency and 29.6 percent passed math proficiency, according to statistics from last year. Moreover, there is compelling evidence that some charter schools are closing that very same achievement gap reflected on the entrance exams. Yet late last month, Success Academy Harlem 4 was one of the charter schools De Blasio kicked out of its space in a New York City public school building.
This is a tragedy with real victims. "We're lost right now," said Tisha Hatch, 38, whose son Robert Loveless, 9, would be unable to attend fifth grade there next fall. "I refuse to let my son go to any public school in New York City because you have failing schools that need to be closed." Maria Rodriguez's three children share the same fate. "This is the future of my children they are playing games with," she said, explaining that nearby traditional – and failing – public schools were not an option.
Chancellor Fariña's initial reaction revealed that her commitment to diversity did not breach the boundaries of union loyalty. "They're charter schools. They're on their own now," she said. "That's part of what they do. They're an independent structure, and that's how they function."
It's exactly that independence – coupled with success – that is utterly anathema to the teachers unions and their political puppets. Yet both De Blasio and Fariña were unable to withstand the firestorm they created. Two days after Farina made her callous remarks the city backed down and said it will find space for the charter school.
Regardless, Moskowitz and her supporters are taking no chances. They are filing three lawsuits of their own against the Mayor on two separate fronts. The Success Academy is filing a federal civil rights lawsuit to overturn De Blasio's decision preventing them from co-locating in a public school building. They are also filing papers in Albany with state Education Commissioner John King, seeking a reversal of De Blasio's decision to prevent two elementary schools from opening at all. They had been approved by former Mayor Mike Bloomberg before De Blasio axed them.
NAACP President and union water-carrier Hazel Dukes was enraged by the Success Academy's efforts. "This lawsuit is an outrageous and insulting attempt by Wall Street hedge fund managers to hijack the language of civil rights in their shameless political attack on Bill de Blasio," she wrote.
Duke's class warfare rhetoric is transparent. Moreover, the irony of her position is breathtaking. The president of the nation's foremost civil rights organization – ostensibly tasked with advancing the agenda of black Americans – is upset that someone is fighting tooth and nail to save the educational future of black American children. If there's a better indication of the poisonous influence exerted by the the teachers union, one is hard-pressed to imagine what it is.
The children of New York City are up against enormous foes. The pipeline of taxpayer money flowing to De Blasio and the Democratic Party through the teachers union will not be parted with willingly. Powerful allies like the NAACP are circling the wagons as well. Only a substantial public outcry will be able to right this ship, but it remains to be seen if such a backlash will emerge.


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St John Baptist High School Isaak Davies in Year 10 gained his 3rd and 4th caps for Wales U16s football this week where he played against a very strong German national side.
We are extremely proud of Isaak and his achievements with the Welsh national team.We look forward tohearing of your progress this year. Well done.


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Q: Pass an enum to a function - by value or by reference? Correct my if I'm wrong, but the reason you pass integers and other basic data types by value is because the memory they occupy is too small, so it's a waste to make a pointer variable of that data type (which will probably be at least the same size as the data type).
That's why I always pass ints and other basic types by value to functions, and other (bigger) data types are passed by const references or by pointers of const. Did I grasp this right?
Now I've seen many APIs that pass enum types as const references, like so:
enum FileOptions { ReadOnly, ReadWrite, WriteOnly };
void processFile(const FileOptions &options);

As far as I know, enums are usually interpreted by the compiler as plain integers, so why are they passed by references? Is it done to abstract the data type from the developer, so he won't think of FileOptions as an integer? (although it is).

A: The only advantage I can see is, that if you later decide to create a class with extended funcitonality, you can pass it still efficiently without changing the code everwhere.
Any decent optimizer doesn't care for the reference if it is a const reference for a base type anyway, and creates the same code in both cases.
Another consequence could be if the reference is to some other variable and it is changed by another thread, it can even change it's value during the course of your function (even though it says it's const) which, I would think, is not really desireably. In this case it would heavily depend on the optimization what value is used in a given branch of that method.

A: You are right, the enum is basically a 'const int'.
Second guessing why some developer chose a certain style is futile.
Unless you call the function in a very close loop it doesn't matter anyhow.

A: In modern C++ there is also enum class which is strongly typed enums.
I think const reference is used only for similarity and easy to modificate in future.
For example you have a class with a lot of methods, all parameters in this methods usually complex objects and of course passed by const reference. So you declare the enum parameter in the same way. And you will know for sure that it's should not be changed and so on
Later you may deside to convert enum in more complex object, and you will no need to update function declaration at all. It's already suitable for such refactoring

A: There is one big difference: If you pass options as a value, then it becomes a local variable in your function, and only your function can change it. If you pass options as a const&, then there is a variable somewhere, which might be a static or global variable, and if your function modifies any other variable of type FileOptions, then it might be the one that was passed to you as a const&, so the value of options might change.
And if your function calls another function, then that function might change the variable behind options. So as a developer, after any function call you could suspect that options might have changed (although if that happens, that would be about the worst possible programming style imaginable), but also the compiler would have to assume that it has changed unless it can prove otherwise.
Modifying a const& in that way would be awful, so we can safely assume that unless the caller absolutely hates you a const& won't be changed. You use const& when you actually want to pass a value, but passing it by reference seems to be more efficient. For an int that is pointless, for an array containing ten megabytes worth of int's it's not at all pointless.
Another use for const& instead of value is for objects that cannot easily be copied. For example a mutex cannot easily be copied. Or an object giving exclusive access to a file can by definition not be copied in a meaningful way.

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I'm starting to research all of the child care and preschool options in my community. There seem to be several choices available, but how do I know which one is best?
Choosing child care or a preschool program for a child is an extremely personal decision. The choices are individualized based upon the needs of the family and the child. The "best" option is the one that meets your needs as a parent and the needs that your child has. The only way to tell if a program is best for you and your child is to visit the program and ask lots of questions.
Probably the two biggest factors parents need to consider are the hours for which you need care and how much it will cost. You'll also need to consider if you want a location close to home or work if you work a long distance from where you live. You may also consider choosing a provider who is close to a relative that can be called on in an emergency.
All parents should consider their child's individual needs. If a child has an identified "special" need, parents need to ask if the provider is capable of providing care for that child. If the child is beginning to walk, is there space that is safe for beginning walkers? Is there sturdy furniture that a toddler can hold on to? Is there cushioning on the floor to soften the blow of falling down?
Before selecting your child care option, you must see what the options are in person. Schedule a visit. Then, after you visit as a parent, you should take your child with you to see how the fit is, to see if they get along with others, or if they run to play with some of the toys that they see, or if they are nervous or hesitant. The first time, they'll probably be hesitant, but you want them to be there as part of the initial evaluation.
Parents should begin to investigate their options at least a month or more prior to needed childcare. They need to take the time to schedule appointments with providers with and without the child. I would advise parents to visit, without their child, during the busiest time of the day, to see how "rush hour" is handled. This is usually right before lunch time. Once they select a site, parents should slowly transfer their child by attending with their child for an hour or two for the first two or three days, then extending the time until the child is there for the total amount of time.
People who care for children should have an environment that is conducive to children. First and foremost, safety must be a consideration. Is there ample space for the number of children in the program? Can children walk around comfortably without bumping into other children? Is the furniture in good repair? Does the environment look inviting to children? Are there toys and other materials (paper, crayons, etc.) that children can access in the play space?
Usually, we think of 4-year-olds as a preschool age. But the program can be provided at any age. The curriculum is based upon the age and the developmental levels of the child. For instance, a preschool program is preparing a child for kindergarten, but it doesn't mean we're trying to teach that child how to read. We're looking at readiness skills--letter recognition, color recognition – not actually putting a kindergarten program for 4-year-olds. So that distinction should be clear for parents. Don't expect your child to learn how to read at four. Give them time to prepare for that process.
Typically, in family child care programs, the hours are a little bit longer than typical center-based programs that usually close at 5:30 or 6:00. And if you get off work at 5:30, and you work, live in the San Fernando Valley, you have to go from downtown--to L.A. to--you're not going to be there by 6:00.
Sometimes family child care homes look like someone's home, but then, during certain hours when children are there, it transforms into this beautiful, loving, nurturing place with lots of things to do. And sometime at the end of the day, the family child-care provider will pack up their things and put it away to look like, "Now, I'm in my home." So just know, when you go during child care hours, it should look as if children are actually playing there, for the most part.
Drop-in care is an important option, but parents and families need to know that drop-in is for emergency. It's not a long-term solution. But it's a good idea to have a drop-in site available or identified just in case there is an emergency and you can't take off of work, or you can't find someone else to care for your child. It's a place where your child can go in case the regular provider is sick. If you choose family child care, believe it or not, family child care providers do get sick sometimes. Not often, but they do. So in the event that something comes up and you can't take your child to the regular place, you need to have another option for emergencies.
There are several differences between child care centers and family child care programs. The main difference is the location. Centers based care is usually in a commercial building. Some centers are converted homes, but in the majority of centers, no one actually lives in the facility. Family child care homes, in most cases, are actually the homes where the owners of the business live. Another major difference is the ratios of adults to children. In family child care homes, there are usually less children per adult. Center based care also tends to have more restrictive hours, and often are open from Monday through Friday, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. There is more of a variety of hours in family child care, such as evening and weekend care options. Curriculums tend to be different in child care centers versus family child care centers. The age range of kids who attend the program also varies, with child care centers focusing on preschool-aged children, and family child care accepting kids of many ages, including school-aged children.
The main similarities between these different child care options are the loving, nurturing, adults that care for children. Most early educators did not enter the field for the money, but because of their love for children and their commitment to the future generations.
There are several places where parents can go for more information. The first place to start is their local resource and referral agency. This is a resource to find different types of child care in your community. If they don't know where to find it, they can contact the National Association for Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA). They can also contact NAEYC or NAFCC.
I needed to find a place that was convenient, affordable and that I would feel comfortable with. I visited four places and met with the teachers. I really liked the family atmosphere at the place I chose. As for the curriculum, the children can choose from many different activities like singing, reading, painting, etc. They are not forced into doing things they don't want to do and they are free to choose the activities they want to participate in. That's good, especially for the younger ones. As they get older, their schedule is more structured and more academic.
I have a family child care, which means that I'm licensed and care for children in my own home. Most of the kids I have now are from an agency that helps parents who are in need, so I provide child care for low-income families as well as for other families. At times I've offered early morning, weekend, after-school and some late night care. Sometimes I will do early morning care around 5:45am but mostly for the kids who live in my area so that I can make sure they get on the school bus. But again, these are some services that most typical preschools and non-family child care wouldn't normally be able to offer.
Our preschool is set up as an academic program. The children are not usually there for a full day. It's not an inflexible schedule, but I don't think we have the same kind of flexibility as a family child care. It's very structured.


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Q: detaching a chrome tab on catalina causes a jump to a different workspace It is my habit to have dozens of chrome tabs open across a dozen workspaces in macOS.
Often I want to to re-organize these tabs.
For example, I may have an instance of chrome on workspace 5 with 10 tabs.
Let's say that I want to detach 3 of these to a separate instance of chrome on the same workspace.
This has worked fine for years. However, after the upgrade to macOS Catalina, when I detach the first tab, I and the tab are forced to a completely different workspace containing a completely different instance of chrome.
This is extremely disorienting and annoying and it happens every single time that I detach a single tab from an instance of chrome.
I've tried these commands in the terminal as suggested here:
 $ defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-auto-swoosh -bool YES
 $ killall Dock

But when I detach a tab now, the tab just seems to disappear.
It is actually transported to one of my 12 workspaces but I am not.
Now I have to go searching for it.
This is driving me insane.
Anyone have a work-around?
UPDATE: I've confirmed this is a bug in chrome not macOS mission control
This is so annoying that I switched to firefox and firefox does NOT experience the same issue.

A: Actually, I do get "teleported" with my tab, but that is also super annoying. Ordinarily I want the tab on the same desktop, that's why it was in that browser window in the first place.


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Stage Door: Ho, Ho, Holiday Shows
Yes, it's the season. If you couldn't tell by the decorations and the department stores, all you need to do is wander into many of Cincinnati theaters.
By Rick Pender on Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 9:22 am
Yes, it's the season. If you couldn't tell by the decorations and the department stores, all you need to do is wander into many of Cincinnati's theaters. The always dependable and heartfelt staging of A Christmas Carol is under way at the Playhouse. If you've never seen it, you owe it to yourself to make the pilgrimage to the hilltop in Eden Park. It's a love production, beautifully staged and very faithful to Charles Dickens' 1843 novella about the redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge. On the Playhouse's Shelterhouse stage is The Second City's Holidazed & Confused Revue, an evening of blackout skits rooted in improv (a few scenes actually rely on audience suggestions or interaction). The talent from the Chicago troupe is first-rate, and the buzz is clearly on in terms of people enjoying the show: It's been extended a week beyond its original closing date. You now have until Jan. 7 to catch a performance. Playhouse Box Office: 513-421-3888
Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati has opened its annual holiday musical, this time around a world premiere sequel to last season's popular Cinderella. In Cinderella: After Ever After we're regaled with what happens when reality sets in as an engagement party is planned for the heroine and her Prince. They'd like something simple, but everyone else has opinions and desires for more (or less, in the case of the stingy king). A misdirected magical spell turns things upside-down and inside-out, leading to a lot of new humorous twists. Brooke Steele is sweetly charming as Cinderella, and Patrick Phillips is winning as her earnest, eager but rather klutzy prince. Four actors generate a ton of the show's entertainment: Deb Girdler as the pushy, status-climbing stepmother; Michael Bath as Prince Freddie's penny-pinching dad; and Torie Wiggins and Sarah Mackie as the competitive, empty-headed stepsisters. They are all watchable. Together they constitute a hurricane of humor. Through Dec. 30. ETC Box Office: 513-421-3888.
Another original piece of holiday entertainment opened last night at the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts: The Nights Before Christmas, a new holiday musical created by Tim Perrino and Steve Goers. Perrino, the artistic director of Cincinnati Landmark Productions (CLP), assisted by music director Goers, is staging the story about the life of Clement C. Moore and the poem he wrote, "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (better know as "The Night Before Christmas"). Moore was a sober scholar of classical literature, so there's been speculation about whether or not he actually wrote the lighthearted poem about a jolly elf in a red suit. Props to CLP for creating another new holiday show. It's onstage until Dec. 23. … At CLP's other venue is one more weekend of a production that's decidedly not in the holiday spirit: Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage portrays two sets of parents who meet to discuss a playground fight between their sons. The attempt at peace making quickly deteriorates into a brawl with raw emotions and more being flung in all directions. It's a no-holds-barred drama fueled by pure, acerbic bile. Through Sunday. CLP Box Office: 513-241-6550
CityBeat's Erica Reid gave a Critic's Pick to Cincinnati Shakespeare's production of Much Ado About Nothing. In her review, she praises comic actor Miranda McGee's performance as Beatrice in one of Shakespeare's funniest comedies: The show "presents us not only the best of her humor but also the depth of her heart." Working opposite veteran Jeremy Dubin as the haughty Benedick, Reid says, "Together they are word-perfect and snappy, with an Abbott and Costello-like banter and a surprising amount of chemistry." This production has a shorter run than most of Cincy Shakes' shows (wrapping up on Dec. 10), since it's followed shortly by Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some), opening on Dec. 14. By the way, McGee plays "Drunk Santa" in that one. Cincy Shakes Box Office: 513-381-2273, x1.
If you want something that's simply high-spirited and entertaining, check out Thoroughly Modern Millie at Northern Kentucky University. It's the story of a small-town girl who travels to New York City to marry for money instead of love. The Tony Award winner is delivered complete with frisky flappers and dashing dudes, as well as thunderous tap dancing. Onstage until Dec. 11. NKU Box Office: 859-572-5464.
Finally, if you're looking for Annie Kalahurka in The 12 Dates of Christmas, I'm sorry to report that the production promised at Clifton Performance Theatre has been canceled due to some unforeseen complications. The promise is offered that it will be here for the holidays in 2017.
Rick Pender's STAGE DOOR blog appears here every Friday. Find more theater reviews and feature stories here.
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Уильям Новински (, также Nowinsky; ,  — , ) — американский скрипач.

В 1932 г. получил стипендию Нью-Йоркского филармонического оркестра для обучения у концертмейстера вторых скрипок Имре Поганя, занимался под его руководством до 1938 г., затем ещё год продолжал занятия в Джульярдской школе. В 1940 г. играл в Индианаполисском симфоническом оркестре, затем в 1941—1943 гг. Миннеаполисском симфоническом оркестре (под руководством Димитриса Митропулоса), после чего вернулся в Нью-Йоркский филармонический оркестр и до конца жизни играл в группе первых скрипок, в конце жизни был старейшим оркестрантом.

Выступал также как ансамблист, в начале 1940-х гг. играл вторую скрипку в струнном квартете Жака Гордона. Затем возглавлял свой квартет, с которым в 1946 г. осуществил первую в США запись Увертюры на еврейские темы Сергея Прокофьева (участвовали также кларнетист Дэвид Вебер и пианистка Вивиан Ривкин).

Преподавал (в частности, в музыкальной школе при социальном агентстве Хенри-стрит), среди его учеников Эдино Кригер. Составил учебное пособие для оркестровых скрипачей с разбором отрывков из стандартного репертуара (; 1961).

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BISSCHOFF, Christo. A longitudinal view of the attitudes on business ethics of South African managers: Trends from 2007 to 2016. Tydskr. geesteswet. [online]. 2018, vol.58, n.3, pp.530-547. ISSN 2224-7912. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2224-7912/2018/v58n3a6.
This study aimed to identify trends in ethical attitudes of managers in South Africa from 2007 up to 2016. The literature basis of the study deals with defining business ethics in South Africa from the recent past up to 2017, investigates the contentious issue of using student groups as populations, and then also particularly ascertained the suitability of experienced part-time managers in training (or retraining) as a population for business studies. Here, sufficient evidence cleared population for a focused study such as this. The empirical study then proceeded to employ all managers who crossed paths with a South African business school through the years, i.e. part-time MBA students and managers entering into advanced executive education. In total, 1 929 managers partook in the longitudinal study where they had to evaluate the behaviour described in a set of 12 business ethical scenarios. Their attitudes towards the ethical business scenarios were annually recorded on a balanced six-point scale. The data showed high reliability with a Cronbach alpha coefficient of 0.873. The validated questionnaire developed by Fullerton in 1993 was adapted and used to fit South African conditions. This questionnaire is widely used and has collected business ethics data successfully in more than nine countries across six continents. Data were captured and analysed professionally by the North West University's Statistical Consultation Services. In general, the trend analyses on the scenarios indicate that, in 2007,11 of the 12 scenarios displayed unacceptable ethical attitudes by the managers. Then, up to 2011/12, ten of these scenarios displayed similar, or even worse, managerial ethical attitudes. Since then, the trends show a steep improvement in the ethical attitudes of the managers in nine of the original unacceptable attitude scenarios. The scenario notfitting the trend of the other nine deals with obtaining a benefit from loopholes in a system. This scenario was deemed as strongly unacceptable behaviour in 2007; however, up to 2016, it has steadily deteriorated up to a point where managers believe that to benefit from loopholes in the system is only marginally unacceptable. More specific scrutiny of this analysis is required for the categorisation of the results. Here, the results were categorised into three categories. : 1) Unacceptable in 2007, but acceptable in 2016; 2) Acceptable in 2007 and remained so in 2016; 3) Unacceptable in 2007 and remained unacceptable in 2016. A total of nine scenarios were characterised belonging to the first category. All of these scenarios improved and they all show similar trends (as indicated in the general discussion of results) of improvement after 2011/12. Regarding the second category, two scenarios indicated acceptable ethical attitudes by managers back in 2007, and they remained so. They deal with "repeated visits to a dealer to capitalise on restricted bargains", and "using a dealer to get product information and then buy it online". It is also evident that the trends are steadily increasing towards acceptable behaviour. This means the attitudes of the managers at present towards these scenarios are pointing towards acceptance of such actions, and consequently more towards unethical business practices. Although limited to two scenarios only, and despite their being categorised as unethical practices, these trends are worrisome. The final category is represented by only one scenario. This is where unacceptable ethical attitudes were recorded in 2007, and it is still unacceptable in 2016. Here, the results show that the practice of buying incorrectly priced goods was, and still is, deemed acceptable (thereby indicating an unethical attitude). It was deemed marginally acceptable to take advantage of a dealer's mispriced goods in 2007, but then ethical attitudes seriously declined up to 2014 when it became very acceptable to do so. It is encouraging to see that since 2014 the attitudes pertaining to this scenario improved, where this behaviour is once again marginally acceptable. The value of the longitudinal study resides in attitude being a strong behavioural driver. This means that ethical business behaviour can be positively influenced if attitudes are showing an inclination towards ethical business practices. Here, the measurement of attitudes is important to provide a barometer of the business ethical atmosphere of South African managers; this could be useful in ethical business behaviour alteration.
Palavras-chave : attitude; ethics; business; managers; unethical; trend; scenarios.
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Mario Hibert, PhD, since 2006 teaches at the Department of Comparative Literature and Librarianship, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo. He holds a doctoral degree in information and communication science, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Croatia; and has a Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democracy from the Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies, University of Sarajevo. He explores the critical issues of librarianship, networked society, and information ethics and is engaged as a program selector at the Documentary Film Festival on Human Rights "Pravo ljudski". Mario regularly publishes scientific and professional papers in the fields of information science and library science, and also writes poetry, essays and film studies.


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Posting seems OK Today Mitz.Did get another Error yesteday re Line 2018.Thanks for updating.Just then I clicked onto a Thread and got this message,but refresh fixed it.Thought it best to inform you.
sorry dstm I am doing a quick edit…all done for the night though…my brain is fried!!!!
i have a similar issue dstm.. the response page when posting goes awry sometimes. If you just click on home a couple seconds after hitting post though.. you will find that the message has posted, despite your not having waited for the response page.
Ah, yes, that pesky problem – and thanks so much on working to fix it!This morning it did what it always does to me ... when I hit post, I get that same message on an otherwise blank screen, "Couldn't get mail server response codes"
thanks guys for letting me know about this and even though I have been trying to find the problem, it actually happened to me yesterday and I ended up posting the same thing twice.. I think this error has come along since I have upgraded the board..Will kill the problem soon I hope.
Hi! I cant find where the New Thread tab is any more? Ive scowered the pages for hours and can't find it, could some one tell em where to find it?
Nevermind, I just found it and it. It was called something different to what I remember, oops sorry!


First published at The Sleuth Journal, this piece is by Syrian rapper and activist Mohammad Abu Hajar. Abu Hajar's rapping can be seen and heard here.
For me, being in Europe after participating as an activist in Syria in an epic revolution showing unbelievable steadfastness by ordinary people, is important for many different reasons. Firstly, I feel like I carry a duty to tell the stories of my countrymen who I left behind, the stories of daily life full of wishes, pain and stolen moments of joy, moments stolen from between the jaws of death. Secondly, Europe means to me a platform where politics are taken to another, more advanced level, with freedom of expression and human rights – at least the basic human rights – well maintained. To me, being in Europe means acquiring new techniques and methods of analyzing political events; all this is in addition to doing my Master's degree in Economics at a European university.
The new knowledge and culture that I've encountered here in Europe are extremely important to me, yet it's still important to relate the other untold side of the experience. What I'm trying to write about here is an entirely different subject to the usual topics. While the political and social dimensions of the relationship between the locals and the new arrivals are both well covered by academic research and papers, the psychological and the personal aspects of this relationship have been largely overlooked.
The reason behind writing those words is a cumulative explosion of a feeling that many in these societies are not yet able to consider us as fully equal human beings. I don't wish to generalize here; I'm not talking in this instance about the hostility of the far-right motivated by ultra-nationalism, but am thinking specifically about a variety of the more liberal, left wing-affiliated mind-sets or the so-called humanists.
I came to Europe two years ago already musically skilled, with an excellent-grade Bachelor's degree, and with extensive political experience in the Palestinian liberation movement and the Syrian political situation. I came with tons of stories about the daily struggle for freedom and justice; I was filled with ideas of being human first of all, crossing nations and borders while forgetting about nationalism to reach a wider horizon, I felt more willing to integrate and expose myself to the local political movements. On only my second day in Rome I attended the CGIL – workers' union- festival in the Circo Massimo area; two weeks later I went to Naples on a train full of Italian activists to celebrate the departure of the Estelle aid ship bound for the Gaza Strip.
In my first hectic year everything was fine; political life in Europe is more developed and there are many activists involved in Middle East causes. The fact that we share a lot of mutual interests and areas of concern boosted my ideas of a universal shared humanity.
Later on, however, I began to notice that a lot of people become oddly excited when they discover that that I'm a Rap musician. I feel their unspoken assumption: 'How sweet, an Arab – poor- guy – produces Rap music.' That patronizing attitude reminded me of my childhood, when I'd imitate the elders, and they would say with a sympathetic smile, 'He's trying to be a man,' with a similar pleasant but paternalistic attitude.
Moreover, I feel that too many of the activists, we – the activists of the Third World- are just additional numbers for the list of connections they want to build, in order to boast to their friends and/or to satisfy an underlying desire to play the hero's role, to acquire heroism by proxy, which they try to satisfy by knowing heroes or being witnesses to heroism.
Above all, the nature of the locals' relationship with the new arrivals can be summarized by: the former shows pity for the latter.
But nobody wants pity or to be assigned to the role of victim; even those who have been victimized, generally speaking, give more value to acknowledgment and solidarity than to pity and even then nobody likes to be categorized as a victim permanently, it's a kind of objectification, and I doubt that anyone likes to be treated as an object, whether as the object of heroism or of brutality.
This attitude from the host societies, even while it's non-hostile, still reflects an underlying feeling of superiority, even if it's presented in a different way; here it comes to in the form of patronage.
It is noteworthy here to mention that I've spoken with many activists from different developing countries now based in Europe about this issue; the majority answered that they feel there is a kind of pity in the attitude of Western activists, which is deeply annoying to most of them.
I asked the same question of a Western activist, who said that she too definitely perceives this attitude from her fellow Western activists, and is aware that the majority treat activist colleagues from Third World countries according to the rule, "We shall speak for you", this is the way that most Western activists understand the concept of brotherhood with fellow activists from other less-developed countries, that is, as little more than selective patronage at best.
In conclusion, I'd like to emphasize that what I've said here does not in any way aim to detract from these Western activists' work; this is simply a declaration of my own feelings, which I can't state to be unquestionably correct.
Yes, I also see this attitude in the best of people. Maybe even in me. It is something we feel strongly for the oppressed …. my Father told me once that the Irish feel this harder in our souls because we have been oppressed. ANYWAY. I will share and see what falls out of it…Keep it up this was eye opening.
There are certainly some westerners willing to experience second-hand heroism through the earthquake known as the Arab Spring. Who like watching revolutions overturn tyrants.
But sadly there have been far more who are deaf to the aspirations of the various peoples struggling for their futures, and more concerned with gloating over the failures of past politicians than supporting genuine struggles for change.
The progressive movement in Britian, at least, has become inflitrated by a reactionary form of pacifism which is insensitive to the demands of the people and which only listens to professors and conspiracy bloggers, and which ultimately results in apologism for the likes of Gadaffi and Assad.
This faction is far more guilty of treating people as livestock to be reared by the most efficient farmer/dictator than the romatics evoking dreams of the Spanish Civil War.


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Anthropoetics VIII, no. 1 Spring/ Summer 2002
Xunzi and the Ancient Chinese Philosophical Debate on Human Nature
Herbert Plutschow
East Asian Languages & Cultures
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles CA 90095-1540
plutscho@humnet.ucla.edu
It took an event of extremely tragic proportions such as the Holocaust for Western thinkers to begin to reverse our traditional understanding of man as innately good but corruptible by the environment to the more sobering postmodern understanding that man is evil with a potential for good. Despite the sporadic emergence of such negative views of mankind, we had to wait until the latter half of the twentieth century for this view to receive at least some academic attention. After World War II, the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung, a disciple of Sigmund Freud, warned us of the dangers of man to himself. The war experience but also his realization that revolutions create violent vacuums in the political and social order opened his eyes to man's violent nature and to the likelihood that man needs order to protect him from himself. This negative understanding of human civilization as a protective process of deferring human violence may seem indeed revolutionary. However, such controversy is nothing new to man's understanding of himself; it already appeared in ancient myth. Like the Adam and Eve myth, a number of cultures explained the birth of civilization negatively, as a violation of taboo, whereas other myths and the religious institutions that developed out of them explained it positively, as divine intervention. It is needless to point out that the latter view came to dominate our ways of understanding our institutions until recently. The violence of the twentieth century, however, reminded some Western intellectuals of the possibly negative beginnings of our civilization.
Unlike those of the West, Chinese thinkers carried this negative understanding of the human from myth into the historical state-forming periods. During the Spring and Autumn (770-481) and Warring States (480-221) periods, many Chinese intellectuals and political advisors to kings and princes engaged each other in a lively debate about human nature and its significance for, and impact on, the state. The following is meant to further the debate on generative anthropology with a discussion of this approximately two-thousand-three-hundred-year-old debate.
As I understand it, Rene Girard and Eric Gans's generative anthropology is basically a reflection on human violence caused by man's mimetic desire and the resentment it generates. According to this view, human civilization developed as an effort to defer resentment and violence by channeling them into institutions intended to protect us from them. Humans defer violence into such artificially created institutions as language, ritual, religion, law and ultimately the state.
I wish to start my discussion where I left it in my article, "Ancient Chinese Sacrificial Practice in the Light of Generative Anthropology" (Anthropoetics 1, 2 [December 1995]). Given the extent to which the first two historical dynasties of ancient China, Shang (c. 1570-1045 BCE) and Western Zhou (1045-771 BCE) practiced human sacrifice, a fact for which there is archeological evidence in both oracle bone inscriptions and mass graves of sacrificial victims discovered in recent decades, I proposed to define these dynasties as sacrificial states according to the terms set forth by generative anthropology.(1) However, human sacrifice disappeared as a state ritual in the subsequent Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.(2) Though practiced privately, the sacrifice of human victims came to be replaced at the state level by straw or clay puppets of the kind Chinese archeologists recently unearthed at the foot of Qin's (221-207 BCE) first emperor, and/or by animal sacrifice, the latter practiced in fact until the end of China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1912).
The reasons for the discontinuation of human sacrifice are unknown but open to speculation. Ancient Chinese philosophers ignore ritual bloodletting but emphasize instead ritual morality as the foundation of state. Xunzi (Hsun tzu, ca. 310-ca. 215 BCE) presents funeral ritual, that is, ancestral rites requiring blood sacrifice in ancient times, as the basis for ritual morality and good citizenship. In the world, those who obey the dictates of ritual will achieve order; those who turn against them will suffer disorder, as Xunzi wrote in his Discussion of Rites.(3)
This shift from a sacrificial to a moral ritual is particularly evident in the philosophical debates stretching from the Spring and Autumn period to the end of the Warring States period and beyond. None of the other prominent Spring and Autumn and Warring States period philosophers: Confucius (Kong Fuzi, 551-479), Mozi, (ca. 480-390), Mencius (Meng Zi, ca. 382-300) Zhuangzi (ca. 365-280), and Han Feizi (d. 233) took issue with human sacrifice, however they may have deviated from each other in their opinions about the principles of statehood and good citizenship. This may have been because these philosophers realized the moral potential ritual creates in humans, namely respect, loyalty, love, reverence, and frugality, not to mention its potential for philosophical debate on social and political issues.
While they were idealizing the first dynasties and their wise rulers, it seems enigmatic, however, that none of these philosophers even so much as mentions human sacrifice, not even as a negative, no-longer-desirable state-supporting ritual. They write as if such sacrifice had never existed. They ignore the fact that the wise Yao, Shun, Yu, King Tang of Shang, Wen and Wu of Zhou, whom they all idealized as the fathers of good statehood, actually practiced human sacrifice.(4) The philosophers stress the kings' moral qualities–virtues they themselves recommended to their contemporaries–rather than the sacrificial violence these kings had perpetrated. They prefer to render these sage kings meaningful to their own contemporary socio-political needs and to use them as metaphors for what they believed the ideal state to be in their own times.
The breakdown of the unified dynasties of Shang and Zhou into a number of separate, independent, and often violently competing states prompted these philosophers to look back upon the Shang and Zhou dynasties as the ideal foundation of the kind of unified peaceful state they themselves envisioned. A peaceful and prosperous China, for them, had to be a unified China a la Shang and Zhou and not the China divided into violently competing "Warring States." In order to achieve the ideal unified China, these philosophers, often employed by the state as government advisers, advocated what they believed, each in his own way, to be the moral qualities necessary for the kind of citizenship they all considered essential to the state. None of them even remotely considered anything but ritual and morality to be the ideal foundation of state.
These philosophers all agreed on yet another premise. They all felt that moral virtue, whether innate or acquired through education, must be cultivated under state guidance. Morality and state depended on each other; one could not exist without the other. Whether this morality was given at birth or not, a controversial question for some of them, as we shall see below, they all agreed that this cultivation, more or less synonymous with learning, is indeed essential to state order. One had to learn to be a good citizen, whether or not the tendency for good moral citizenship is believed innate or acquired.
Another common feature one discovers in all these philosophers is the debate on statecraft, that is, they asked themselves fundamental questions as to how a state should be organized: what should be the relationship of rulers and ruled in a network of reciprocal duties and responsibilities, which they all believed to depend on morality. What is unique in the history of human civilization at that time is that these philosophers preferred to debate socio-political morality, as it were, rather than engaging in metaphysical speculations; that is, they placed man and not the gods at the center of the state. Some, it is true, used the supernatural as a metaphor for the state, but their debates were worldly rather than metaphysical. Xunzi himself proposed that good government brings about heavenly blessings. Xunzi and his contemporaries refused to rely on the supernatural to the extent we observe in most other ancient states. For reasons we do not always understand, they preferred to concentrate on the socio-political foundation of the state, that is, on the socio-political dimensions of ritual morality.
Among these philosophical debates, there is one particularly relevant to the discourse of generative anthropology: the debate on human nature. This debate centered on two prominent philosophers: Mencius and Xunzi, although others sporadically nurtured the debate with their own views. Idealist that he was, Mencius believed in the innate goodness of man. He believed that man's ability to learn how to be a good and responsible citizen stems from and thrives upon his innate goodness. If man were not innately good, Mencius argued, how could he possibly learn to be a good citizen? However, Xunzi maintained that man is bad and that the state needs to control and guide him to becoming a good citizen. Mencius nevertheless maintained that the individual must cultivate and the state must nurture, guide, and help maintain his goodness. For Xunzi a man without a state was a wild man, one who could not possibly be civilized, whereas Mencius seems to have believed in the basic goodness of even a stateless person.
This debate is not one conducted from extreme opposites as it may seem at first sight, for both Mencius and Xunzi concurred that man must practice his goodness consciously and conscientiously regardless of whether it comes to him by birth or from the state. Living in a state meant living for the sake of the state; it presupposed being good. Both agreed that man has the ability, whether by birth or inclination, to be good. Yet, unlike Xunzi, Mencius did not believe in a state-enforced morality; morality had to come more from the heart than from the state. For him, a child is good; thus, in order to be a worthy citizen, man should carry his childlike naiveté and simplicity into his adulthood. According to the more realistic Xunzi, however, the state must contain man's behavior and dictate the moral principles necessary for its interests and survival. Since man's nature is evil, it must wait for a teacher before it can become upright, and for the guidance of ritual principles before it can become orderly.(5) I understand this "teacher" to be the state or its representative; he teaches in the interest of the state, of the common good. Xunzi maintained that the two important ritual principles, namely, courtesy in interpersonal relations and the humility of controlling one's personal instincts and desires, must be imposed by the state. They are not innate. If man does not possess ritual principles, his behavior will be chaotic. Xunzi taught that if man does not understand these principles, he will be wild and irresponsible. For him, man is evil, and, arguing against Mencius, he claims that man's goodness is not a gift of nature, but the result of conscious activity of being in a state.(6)
As others had done before him, Xunzi justified his negative views of man through the sage kings of antiquity, the ultimate legitimizing authorities. Xunzi maintains that they had been able to create an ideal statehood precisely because they operated not on an idealized understanding of man as innately good as much as on the realization that man's nature is evil, deciding instead to provide an example of good, moral leadership. According to Xunzi, the wise kings were wise precisely because they understood that if man has no ritual principles to guide him, he will be perverse, violent, and disorderly. Accordingly, Xunzi taught that the wise kings created ritual principles in such a way as to reform man's emotional nature and make it upright, and to train, transform, and guide it into the proper channels.(7) These kings were wise because they themselves provided the example of such enlightened conduct. Xunzi argues against Mencius that if man were indeed good, we could dispense with sage kings and forget about ritual principles.(8)
In his explanations of man's evil nature, we find Xunzi amazingly close to the ongoing debate in generative anthropology. Desire is the main cause of man's evil nature, Xunzi argued. Unbound desire is inimical to the state. Desire and morality are incompatible. Any man who follows his nature and indulges his emotions will inevitably violate the forms and rules of society and will end up as a criminal.(9)
The nature of man is such that he is born with a fondness for profit. If he indulges in this fondness, it will lead him into wrangling and strife, and all sense of courtesy and humility will disappear. He is born with a feeling of envy and hate, and if he indulges in these, they will lead him into violence and crime, and all sense of loyalty and good faith will disappear.(10) Here Xunzi comes close to GA's notion of the deferral of desire. For Xunzi, man defers his desires within a ritual. If a man concentrates upon fulfilling ritual principles, then he may satisfy both his human desires and the demands of ritual; but if he concentrates only upon fulfilling his desires, then he will end by satisfying neither.(11)
Ritual for Xunzi seems to fulfill a dual purpose: it both defers and satisfies desire. Desire unbound by ritual constraints creates disorder, preventing one from satisfying one's desires. It was most likely this deferring quality of ritual that led ancient Chinese philosophers to consider ritual as the foundation of the state. If the state fails to channel human desire through ritual restraints, it will crumble. Xunzi elaborates this point further:
Man is born with desires. If his desires are not satisfied for him, he cannot but seek some means to satisfy them himself. If there are no limits and degrees to his seeking, then he will inevitably fall to wrangling with other men. From wrangling comes disorder and from disorder comes exhaustion. The ancient kings hated such disorder, and therefore they established ritual and right in order to curb it, to train man's desires and to provide for their satisfaction.(12)
Xunzi believed that, under proper government control, desires can be channeled to the benefit of the state. All those who maintain that desires must be lessened before there can be orderly government, he maintains, fail to consider whether desires can be controlled, but merely deplore the fact that they are so numerous.(13) Desire is not necessarily disruptive to the state, as many of Xunzi's contemporaries claimed. For him a successful state is one that effectively controls human desire through the self-controlling mechanisms of morality and outside pressures he calls "environment."(14)
Morality was the key to controlling desire. Xunzi understood morality as a self-controlling mechanism. Although a man's desires may be excessive, his actions need not be so, because the mind will stop them short. If the dictates of the mind are in accord with just principles, then, even if the desires are manifold, what harm will this be to good government?(15) For Xunzi, government authority and self-control were the keys to good citizenship and the foundation of an orderly, peaceful state.
In his philosophy, Xunzi responded to what seems to have been a common debate to which other Chinese philosophers contributed. Shen Tao and Sung Chien, for example, emphasized self-control, that is, human passivity and self-generated elimination of desire, over government control. Han Feizi of the legalist school, on the other hand, put the emphasis squarely on the side of government. For him, all must be under government control; the state will ruin itself unless it controls the people through law.
In sum, ancient Chinese philosophers agreed on a number of fundamental premises: they concurred in their emphasis on benevolent government as a unifying source. Another such premise is education: they all thought it necessary for man to be educated in order for him to practice and cultivate a morality of good citizenship. They all felt that the morality of each individual citizen contributes to state welfare and that the rulers should set the example. None of these philosophers thought that domination by sheer force can constitute an ideal and lasting state. A stable state was only possible as a reciprocal endeavor; the rulers provide the example to which the ruled respond positively by individual morality and good will. Some advocated more or less total state control over mind and behavior. In the debate between Mencius and Xunzi, a debate between idealism and realism of sorts, all aimed in fact at the same end: the restoration of a united China under a strong but benevolent dynasty.
The subsequent unified Chinese dynasties profited from one or another of these philosophical debates. The state of Qin that unified China in 221 inspired itself from the legalist school founded by Han Feizi, a disciple of Xunzi. The Han who came into power in 207 marked a return to the less radical schools of Confucianism. Later philosophers continued the debate, which became a philosophical tradition. It shaped Chinese historiography. Beginning in the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) it was customary practice to portray the last king(s) or emperor(s) of the preceding state or dynasty as evil (something that justified dynastic change), and to portray the founders of new dynasties as moral examples. Chinese histories explain political change as a struggle between good and evil. The last rulers mark a movement away from the moral examples set by the founding fathers and a return to the evil, violent instincts of man. The founding fathers, in contrast, establish peace and order by diverting human energy towards peaceful ends.
This debate was carried on in Vietnam, Korea, and Japan, especially after these countries adopted Chinese-style governments. In Japan this happened roughly in the mid-seventh century, but there is much earlier evidence of the influence of Chinese statecraft. In none of the Japanese imperial tombs, which archeologists date back to the third through the sixth centuries, do we find sacrificial burials; we find only such clay substitutes such as recently uncovered by the thousands on the bottom of the tomb of the first emperor of Qin (r. 221-207). However, stories of human sacrifice, usually portrayed as self-sacrifice to counter the dangers of flooding, are widespread. Human bones have been unearthed in riverbanks, dikes, bridgeheads and, as late as the seventeenth century, at strategic points of castle walls. Such sacrificial practice, however, could no longer be public; it could only be practiced in secret. The many hito-bashira (human pillar) legends suggest a widespread sacrificial practice, but it is also conceivable, especially in cases lacking archeological evidence, that storytelling was in itself a substitute for human sacrifice. The existence of storytelling as a substitute for ritual is now common knowledge among scholars of mythology and folklore.
The Chinese-style government established in Japan by the mid-seventh century prompted the Japanese to look up to China as a model in practically all important state matters, but also to continue the Chinese philosophical debate on political morality and good citizenship. The Japanese state developed in a combination of Chinese Confucianism, legalism, and, as is evident in Japanese political behavior and punitive practice, on Xunzi's realistic warnings that a strong and successful state is necessary to contain man's evil nature.
1. More than 1200 sacrificial pits were unearthed in 1934-1935 in the area of An Yang, the capital of Shang. In 1976, archaeologists discovered 191 pits containing more than 1200 victims. (back)
2. The latest law prohibiting human sacrifice was promulgated by Qin in 384 BCE. (back)
3. Hsun tzu, Basic Writings, tr. Burton Watson (Columbia University Press, 1963) p. 94. (back)
4. Yao: legendary wise king of antiquity
Shun: legendary wise king of antiquity
King Tang of Shang: dynastic founder
King Wen of Zhou (r. 1099-1050 BCE), dynastic founder
King Wu of Zhou (r. 1049/45-1043 BCE), dynastic founder (back)
5. Hsun tzu, Basic Writings, p. 158. (back)
6. P. 157. (back)
10. P. 157. (back)
11. P. 91. (back)


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