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On Pan-African Languages
In this discussion, Dr. Souleymane Bachir Diagne advocates for multiple Pan-African languages. While he includes the colonial languages along with Swahili in his formulation, he also suggests Manding and Fula.
His recommendation of Manding, which I would broaden to include the Mandé languages generally, is a logical one. These languages possess a high degree of mutual intelligibility.
His recommendation of Fula surprised me, though perhaps it should not have. When I was in grad school, a colleague of mine, Rama who was from Senegal, told me that she considered Fula to be an ideal candidate as a Pan-African language. Consider that it is enjoys a wide geographic dispersion (see the map below).
I consider Dr. Diagne's suggestion that the colonial languages are acceptable vehicles of Pan-Africanism problematic for reasons that may be obvious. If they are not, you can read my thoughts on this here: http://libjournals.unca.edu/moja/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/MOJA21-v2i1-Rashid.pdf. I do accept that such languages are a part of our social milieu, however I also recognize that the impacts of languages extend beyond their utility and includes the political, economic, and conceptual. I contend that we leave the fetters of colonialism on our social systems and our minds by remaining wedded to these languages.
These criticisms notwithstanding, it is a worthwhile dialog.
Pan-African Forums – The Question of Language (23 Feb 2021) https://youtu.be/_BdKKOxYkdQ
Author kamaurashidPosted on December 16, 2021 Categories languageTags Africa, colonialism, decolonization, knowledge, language, liberation, Pan-AfricanLeave a comment on On Pan-African Languages
Thoughts on constructed languages, interlanguages, and sankɔfa
My interest in constructed languages has been related to two queries. 1) Might we utilize a constructed language based off of African-languages to optimize language learning? 2) Can we use a mutually intelligible constructed language for intercommunication within the African world?
With respect to the first query, Afrihili or Guosa may be an examples of this. Though you have a great deal of advocacy for learning African languages in the US, few actually attain a high level of fluency. Part of the reason for this is the complexity of living languages.
My primary African language, Swahili, is a beautiful language, but none could claim that it is a grammatically simple language with its noun class system, affixes, and nature of agreement between nouns, verbs, and adjectives. In contrast, my third African language (of which I am still a rudimentary speaker), Twi, is one where I feel somewhat comfortable with grammar, but do have some difficulty with vowels, particularly tonal variation–a feature absent in the colonial language that I speak primarily.
If we look at the research pertaining to other constructed languages, particularly Esperanto, the time frames for acquisition are comparatively short. Attobrah's creation of Afrihili, though imperfect, is an interesting model, one that could be augmented to optimize learnability.
However Dr. Edward Powe has stated that constructed languages have no natural base from which to spread. These languages spread from a speech community whose activities–economic, political, migratory–impact its diffusion. Consider the diffusion of Swahili, Twi, Hausa, or Wolof.
There is also the problem of constructed languages not fulfilling the desire present within many African Diasporan language learnings, that is connecting to specific African cultural communities–often to whom one has ancestry.
My interest in Swahili was informed by its role in Pan-African & Black Nationalist movements. My study of mdw nTr was related to it being a repository of ancient African deep thought. I learned Twi because I wanted to learn a language from West Africa, one to which I may have had an ancestral connection. This desire has also pertained to other languages of groups to which, based on my studies, I possess genetic ancestry. Thus for all of the reasons stated, I consider the prospect of constructed languages satisfying the desire for sankɔfa among African people to be exceedingly limited.
Therefore, I consider the second query to be fundamentally different. That is, "Can we use a mutually intelligible constructed language for intercommunication within the African world?" This question was quite interesting to me for a while, particularly with respect to the possibility of such a language facilitating communication among Africans who speak the colonial languages: Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.
To this end, I was intrigued by both Interlingua and Lingua Franca Nova. However of late I have become much more interested in Papiamentu, given that it has many of the things that I like about the latter, with some degree of intelligibility for Spanish and Portuguese speakers. I wondered if, such a language could be used as a textual medium, one enabling us to communicate in literary form with other segments of the African world.
I am reminded of Ama Mazama's translations of some African-centered works into French as being demonstrative of a need for deeper and broader engagement with communities fluent in French, Spanish, and Portuguese. The idea is that by using some interlanguage, one might find a much simplified means of communication short of learning what would otherwise be a complex language. Again, this was a consideration born of practicality, whereas ideally we would be centered in using African languages, most logically Swahili for such a task. But again, the issue of learnability must be addressed.
I do not consider learnability to be an insurmountable challenge. I look at what Native Hawaiians have done to revive their language. They have created a network of schools to create primary speakers of their ancestral tongue. Similarly, I think that we have to consider building supplementary schools focused explicitly on this problem–after-school programs, Saturday schools, rites-of-passage programs, study/conversation groups, and so forth including independent African-centered schools. My point is that if we are serious about solving the language problem, the solution will have to be institutionally-based.
Author kamaurashidPosted on July 22, 2018 Categories languageTags diaspora, language, mdw, Medew, Netcher, ntr, Re-Africanization, ReAfrikanization, sankofa, Sankɔfa, Swahili, Twi, uhuruLeave a comment on Thoughts on constructed languages, interlanguages, and sankɔfa
Languages and revolution
One of the most interesting aspects of the revitalization of African languages among African Americans has been that these languages have been used as vehicles of revolutionary political, economic, and cultural discourse prior to having become institutionalized as daily means of mundane communication. Examples abound, such as ujamaa, sankɔfa, aṣe (axe in Brazil), Htp (Hotep), asante, abibifahodie, mAat (Maat), kujichagulia, and so forth. While these terms have entered the African American lexicon, they have become islands of African cultural practice in that most often we lack even a rudimentary fluency in the languages in question.
While our use of African terminology (including greetings and the like) is a very positive development, we must go the necessary step further of institutionalizing these languages as tools of daily communication. Of the languages featured above (Kiswahili, Twi, Yoruba, and mdw nTr (Medu Netcher), Kiswahili's existing status as an international language make it the most attractive as a Pan-African language; Twi and Yoruba (to say nothing of Igbo, Kikongo, Wolof, and so forth) are important as languages which facilitate cultural (re)connection or re-Africanization given the West and West-central African origins of most African Americans; and mdw nTr is best positioned to serve as our classical African language, providing an epistemological framework that will aid in the decolonization of both ourselves as well as the language(s) that we adopt.
It should be clarified that I am not arguing that these languages are destinations unto themselves, rather that they are vehicles that might facilitate our movement from where we presently are towards where we desire to be. As such, the movement beyond our present use of African languages towards greater fluency may facilitate a range of unanticipated developments. The Maori of New Zealand have found that the revitalization of their language has led to a renewed interest in their indigenous technologies among other things. We might "discover" models of governance that aid us in our organizational work and professional lives. We might reclaim models of economic organization wherein women controlled major sectors of economic activity as a means of ensuring their self-determination–which helps in the larger ujamaa project that we are engaged in. We might acquire paradigms of marriage that are beyond the relatively superficial bases that are normalized in the West, which often leads to the formation of unstable family units. We might put into practice methods of struggle that augments the depth of our vision and refines the intelligence of our methods. We might devise new ways of understanding ourselves, our community, and our movement through time and space. In short, the serious study of African languages could be nothing less than revolutionary.
Author kamaurashidPosted on June 11, 2017 Categories CultureTags Africa, Afrika, institution, institutions, Kiswahili, language, mdw nTr, Medew, Medu, Metu, Netcher, Neter, Pan-African, SwahiliLeave a comment on Languages and revolution
Africans in America and the decolonization of language
I watched the PBS documentary Language Matters last night and was particularly struck by the efforts of native Hawaiians to preserve their language. They believed that without their languages, they would cease to exist as a distinct people.
While we have been stripped of our ancestral tongues, we, like any other people require a language that affirms our culture and our humanity. A language reinforces a sense of identity, a sense of tradition, even a sense of political destiny–this is why languages are such a prominent part of many nationalist movements around the world. Language revitalization has been a prominent feature of the efforts of many groups engaged in campaigns of self-determination such as the Basque (France and Spain), Maori (New Zealand), Welsh (UK), and so on. Language becomes a way of not only marking group identity, but of reinforcing the notion that a people has a shared history and destiny distinct from other cultural groups.
While Africa is home to more language diversity than any other place on Earth, and our ancestors doubtlessly spoke a myriad of languages, most African languages are more or less ethnic languages–that is the language of a single group. The exception to this are languages that have become diffused as the second language of a wider population. Some languages have become "lingua francas" within a single territory. Asante Twi and Wolof are examples of ethnic languages that have become diffused in their respective territories, Ghana and Senegal respectively.
Kiswahili and Hausa on the other hand have become diffused internationally, as each is spoken across territories and ethnic groups. Hausa speakers can be found in Nigeria, Niger, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Chad, and Burkina Faso. According to Ethnologue, approximately fifteen million of Hausa's over forty million speakers speak it as a second language
As the official language of Tanzania and Kenya, and as a second language in parts of Uganda, Mozambique, Congo, and elsewhere Kiswahili is perhaps the most effective example of an African language that has become more or less ethnically neutral as the vast majority of its speakers use it as a second language (approximately eighty million of its estimated ninety eight million speakers according to Ethnologue). Moreover, its adoption by many speakers (or aspiring speakers) in the African diaspora, and its common association with Pan-Africanism adds a degree of conceptual or ideological import to Kiswahili that is absent in the broader perceptions of other African tongues. For instance, its association with various African liberation movements as reflected in common slogans such as "Uhuru sasa" (Freedom now), "Tutashinda bila shaka" (We will conquer without a doubt), "Elimu kwa kujitegemea" (Education for self-reliance), and terms such as kujichagulia (self-determination), imani (faith), ujamaa (familyhood), umoja (one-ness or unity) and so forth all capture the degree to which Kiswahili has been embraced as a language of liberation.
For these reasons and perhaps others, Kiswahili is perhaps best positioned to serve as a primary African language in the diaspora. It is not to say that other languages should not be studied. They should. The growing proliferation of Yoruba and Akan among diasporan Africans is both encouraging and interesting, so too the study of mdw nTr (Medew Netcher), the language of ancient kmt (Kemet) or Egypt. Yet despite this, Kiswahili's broad diffusion, diversity of learning resources, development as a suitable tool for technical communication, ability to express ideas that are philosophically and conceptually germane to African cultures and communities, and relative neutrality make it a very attractive and viable candidate as the primary African language of the diaspora, in addition to being an auxiliary language for the African continent itself.
One feature of the film Language Matters was the strategy adopted by native Hawaiians to diffuse their language in the 1960s and 70s. They focused on educating small children to speak native Hawaiian. Linda Tuhiwai Smith has discussed a similar initiative among the Maori that centered on children as language learners given their facility for language acquisition. I believe that such a strategy is highly instructive for Africans in America that are desirous of seeing an African language such as Kiswahili becoming more widespread. While the Black Power era saw the diffusion of Kiswahili among Africans in America, the depth of this diffusion has been mostly limited to single terms and phrases. Thus it is not uncommon for someone to have knowledge of greetings such as "Habari gani?" (What's the news?) or "Hujambo?" (How are you?), or to use statements of affirmation or negation such "ndiyo" (yes), "hapana" or "la" (no), or even "sijui" (I don't know), to refer to familial roles such as baba (father), mama (mother), kaka (brother), or dada (sister), or to refer to concepts using the language such as the "Nguzo Saba" (the "Seven Principles", as created by Dr. Maulana Karenga), "asili" ("essence" or "seed" as popularized by Dr. Marimba Ani's book Yurugu), and so forth. What has been lacking has been an effective diffusion of knowledge sufficient to promote greater fluency in the language.
The movement from rudimentary linguistic knowledge to greater fluency begins with the requisite will and desire, and continues with the formation of a suitable institute devised to carry forth this charge on as broad a scale as possible. Such an institute can then coordinate the development of a body of highly-trained individuals who have attained a high degree of fluency in the language, the development of curricula for different age groups in the community, and the creation of an educational infrastructure in the form of classes and institutes. From this nucleus can also spring forth literature and other media designed to aid language learning. While the first item requires a substantial investment of time and effort, the second requires an understanding of effective language learning strategies for children and adults. The third necessitates a range of resources, both technical and spatial enabling knowledge to be diffused. For instance, the use of the internet as a vehicle of language learning cannot be understated. Dr. Obadele Kambon's Abibitumikasa has become the premier African language learning institute with courses in Asante Twi, mdw nTr, Wolof, Yoruba, Kiswahili, and other languages. This resource and others should be effectively utilized. In the Chicago-area groups such as The Swahili Institute of Chicago , the Kemetic Institute of Chicago, and the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations Midwest Region are fine examples of what grassroots language institutes can aspire to accomplish (the latter two promote the learning of mdw nTr). Each of these organizations has also developed teaching and learning materials.
In closing, the diffusion of African languages in the Americas in fact is an act of cultural reclamation, a decolonization of the language of those whose estrangement from their ancestral homeland has made the quest for linguistic empowerment all the more fervent. The last fifty years illustrate the degree to which African languages have served the ends of spiritual enlightenment, scholarly inquiry, political education, and casual discourse. This process, despite its uneven outcomes to date, has been one that remains pregnant with possibility as it offers a path towards a potential decolonization of the African mind, a simpler means towards international communication within the global African community, and a mechanism to engage more fully with the deep thought of African culture as these are conveyed by language. As such language is a vital component in the process of Re-Africanization, but its effective utilization towards such an end can only be maximized via a greater degree of organization than what has yet transpired.
To this end, the creation of a Taasisi ya Kiswahili kwa Waafrika Merikani or a Swahili Institute for Africans in America will be a necessary step in this process. This must be followed by the creation of a scholarship fund and institutional connections to facilitate the training of a first generation of instructors. The third stage will be the creation of a body of instructional resources followed by the establishment of a network of instructional vehicles in the form of Saturday schools, after-school programs, rites-of-passage programs, and other mechanisms to teach primarily children, in addition to adults. This fourth stage should occur parallel to the fifth, which is the diffusion of literature (i.e., comics, fashion magazines, political education materials, scientific articles, art publications, news organs, and so on in the language so as to utilize it as a conduit of information. These steps are, I maintain, a process that can lead to both the institutionalization of Kiswahili (or any other African language) in the African diasporan community and its diffusion over the span of time.
Author kamaurashidPosted on June 13, 2016 Categories CultureTags Africa, Afrika, America, Kiswahili, language, liberation, Pan, Swahili, uhuruLeave a comment on Africans in America and the decolonization of language
Esperanto, la universala Afrika lingvo? Esperanto, the universal African language?
Cxi ne estas malbona ideo, sed gxin havas iu limigoj. This is not a bad idea, but it has some limitations.
The good part is that Esperanto would be easier to learn. While English, French, and other European languages are official languages in many African countries, many people cannot speak them properly. In some ways the European languages, the colonial lingua francas, have remained the languages of the cosmopolite elite as they are generally the ones who have been afforded the opportunities to learn them. Moreover with the curricular changes in some countries to primary school instruction being in local languages primarily (say in Ghana and Tanzania), English and French will become even more imperiled as languages used fully among the masses.
This is not necessarily a bad thing. By that I mean that the decline of the old colonial languages, while dysfunctional in the sense that it removes a common medium of communication, also allows for that role to be supplanted by other languages. In some places this transition is taking place organically. Take the spread of Asante Twi in Ghana as it is quickly becoming the defacto lingua franca of that country. Swahili is also slowly spreading into central Africa and north and south beyond the bounds of Kenya and Tanzania. Again these are promising developments as English (or French) were insufficient as organic mediums of communication in many respects.
This question of organicity is in fact the challenge of Esperanto. Esperanto does not necessarily have an organic base from which it can naturally spread. There are some groups in Africa who are teaching the language. On Facebook recently I was intrigued to see an Esperanto-Swahili dictionary, but the language lacks a foothold. This is something that can only be mediated by institutions or a living and thriving speech community.
I think that Swahili is a stronger contender for an indigenous language that might become a continental language, and in some ways this would be better. While no one owns Esperanto, it is still a European-derived language, and its advance in Africa does little to satisfy the decades old challenge of "modernizing" African languages as tools of creative and intellectual production (read Ayi Kwei Armah's "Our Language Problem"). The fact that creative writers, legislators, and scientists still rely on Western languages to capture and communicate their knowledge would not be solved by the adoption of Esperanto. They would simply move their dependence from one European language to another (albeit an artificial one), while failing to facilitate this necessary development in their indigenous languages. I would consider such an outcome to be a profound waste of potential.
Author kamaurashidPosted on May 17, 2016 Categories CultureTags Africa, Esperanto, language, lingua francaLeave a comment on Esperanto, la universala Afrika lingvo? Esperanto, the universal African language?
Language and sovereignty
The acquisition of sovereignty is not simply a political process, in fact the actualization of statehood is one of the later stages of this arc of national development. One might argue that it begins more squarely in the minds of the people, in their conscious recognition of their right to be independent, to be the arbiters of their collective affairs. Part of the social psychology of nationalist struggle is embedded in the language that the people employ to express their aspirations for freedom.
Martin Delany, in his book The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States,
writes:
In our own country, the United States, there are three million five hundred thousand slaves; and we, the nominally free colored people, are six hundred thousand in number; estimating one-sixth to be men, we have one hundred thousand able bodied freemen, which will make a powerful auxiliary in any country to which we may become adopted—an ally not to be despised by any power on earth. We love our country, dearly love her, but she don't love us—she despises us, and bids us begone, driving us from her embraces; but we shall not go where she desires us; but when we do go, whatever love we have for her, we shall love the country none the less that receives us as her adopted children.
Delany establishes three major points in this passage. First is that we, African people in the U.S., are powerful force, one that is capable of contributing favorably to any society. Second is that we are loathed by that same society. That this loathing denies us comfort sufficient with equating this society with the intimacy and warmth that we associate with home. Third he advocates that we find a home, that we chart a future for ourselves free of the fetters of degradation.
Central to Delany's advocacy for independence is the use of language as a way of demarcating the social milieu wherein such struggle is to waged. In so doing he articulates a very specific image of African Americans: A powerful collective, persecuted, yet aspiring towards a sovereign reality.
The second stage in the arc of national development is the formation of social movements for the acquisition of sovereignty. Two historical examples that illustrate this are the tradition of maroonage during the era of enslavement and the movement for the establishment of independent cities and towns in the immediate aftermath of enslavement's supposed abolition. In each of these contexts the people, in word and deed, affirmed their right to be free. These actions were an outward manifestation of an underlying belief in the legitimacy of independence and the viability of sovereignty as a response to the oppressive state apparatus of U.S. society.
The maroon tradition is indicative of the unwillingness of Africans to acquiesce to European dominance. One apt example of this comes from the account of a maroon named Mango from Virginia. They state.
I escaped my master's plantation. It was so easy. I tried to convince my close friends to leave with me. Only three did so […] To keep the remaining slaves in check, master told the slaves we were ruthless, unchristian and not to be trusted.
When we raided plantations, the slaves ran from us faster than the whites. We have twenty-seven men and twenty-eight women now. At one time we had as many as forty-eight men and thirty women before their deaths. We have lost only four men during raids and on the many plantations we have raided, we could only get six slaves to run with us. And they were all women. The whites will never catch us…
Mango expresses little ambiguity about the legitimacy of struggle against an oppressive system, of divesting that system of the human fuel that powers it. Mango's account is simultaneously critical of the state apparatus and the mass of Europeans invested in its survival, as well as instructive of what is perceived to be the most practical response—independence and sovereignty.
Though the maroon movement is typically considered only a feature of the era of enslavement, the response of our people to continued oppression after enslavement's supposed end reflects certain affinities with the maroons' view. On April 17, 1880 Benjamin "Pap" Singleton, leader of the movement of Blacks to the western United States, was called to testify before Congress. When asked why he set out to establish this movement he stated:
Well, my people, for the want of land–we needed land for our children–and their disadvantages–that caused my heart to grieve and sorrow; pity for my race, sir, that was coming down, instead of going up–that caused me to go to work for them. I sent out there perhaps in '66–perhaps so; or in '65, any way–my memory don't recollect which; and they brought back tolerable favorable reports; then I jacked up three or four hundred, and went into Southern Kansas, and found it was a good country, and I though Southern Kansas was congenial to our nature, sir; and I formed a colony there, and bought about a thousand acres of ground–the colony did–my people.
Here Singleton acknowledges the malaise of African people–incessant dehumanization and degradation. However he also articulates his view of the importance of land, that which Malcolm X said was the "basis of all independence", and thus seeks to establish a land base for African people. Singleton stops short of waging war against the system set against African people (as advocated by the maroons), nor does he call for national independence (as does Delany), what he does however is to demonstrate the necessity and intelligence of creating the institutional framework requisite of any sovereign people.
Both of these accounts evidence the use of language in significant ways. Mango's account exposes the oppressor as fallible and vulnerable in the face of opposition. He also demarcates the political sensibilities of the African masses as those who are willing to confront the enemy and those lacking in this resolve. He closes with a defiant assertion, "The whites will never catch us", in effect stating that they will not be stopped. Likewise Singleton begins by framing the necessity of his actions in terms of futurity—"our children" and the absence of viable possibilities for their lives being a source of grief and sorrow. He also reveals that the Exoduster movement was not simply the effort of a charismatic, heroic individual, but a collective effort as he notes having received favorable reports from his agents of the suitability of Kansas for his people.
The third and fourth stages in the arc of national development are the creation of a sovereign state and the defense of that state from contrary forces. These are reflected in the Republic of New Africa's New African Creed. For the sake of this discussion points 5, 6, and 8 are most relevant. These state:
5. I believe that the fundamental reason our oppression continues is that We, as a people, lack the power to control our lives.
6. I believe that the fundamental way to gain that power, and end oppression, is to build a sovereign Black nation.
8. I believe in the Malcolm X Doctrine; that We must organize upon this land and hold a plebiscite, to tell the world by a vote that We are free and our land independent and that after the vote, We must stand ready to defend ourselves, establishing the nation beyond contradiction.
These stages of struggle are interlinked. The realization of sovereignty necessitates a disruption of the existing apparatus of anti-African oppression, and as such represents a threat to the continued functioning of that system. Like Mango noted centuries ago, to deprive the existing system of African people—our labor, wealth, and our minds– is to deny it the fuel that drives it and enables our oppression. Thus the RNA clearly recognized that the most effective response to oppression is sovereignty, and that our efforts to attain sovereignty would not go uncontested.
We continue to refine our understanding of struggle, and this is reflected in our language and tactics. From "Uhuru Sasa" ("Freedom Now" in Kiswahili) in the 1960s to Abibifahodie ("Black Liberation" in Twi) today, language continues to be a contested domain, a frontier of struggle that reflects our efforts to define reality for ourselves. Ultimately language is more than a mere means of communication. It also becomes a way of demarcating space, reinforcing identity, and engaging in a process of symbol manipulation—that is the utilization of imagery for the sake of communicating certain ideas.
Language conveys layers of meaning, and these layers multiply as we move from colonial, to modern African, to classical African languages. The colonial languages are the existing frame via which we have sought to articulate much of our aspirations for freedom. These languages reflects the extent to which that struggle itself is embedded within the territorial context of European domination and the context of cultural penetration. The use of African languages within these struggles in the mid-20th Century represents both the contested nature of space—that we continued to reside in the spatial context of European domination, but that we had resolved to transform our culture to augment our capacity to resist it. These languages also symbolized a conscious process of re-Africanization, that is the reclamation of African culture in the wake European oppression. The growth of interest in the classical African language of mdw nTr (Medew Netcher) in the late Twentieth Century represents an attempt to use language acquisition as a process to reconstruct and operationalize an African worldview as a prerequisite to both conceiving and actualizing a sovereign reality.
Language matters. It is not an idle consideration. Quite the contrary it reflects the cultural logics of liberatory struggle. Via the effective use of language we might at once identify the problem before us (the Maafa), articulate the most viable response, and convey the varied mechanisms through which this solution is implemented (such as kujitawala, a Kiswahili word which means self-governing or sovereignty). Language can be employed to tell us who we are, and by extension who we are not (such as the RNA's "New African people"). Language can also capture the optimal condition to which we might aspire (such as or mAat, which is, as Sebat Rkhty Amen states, "harmonious balance"). Language provides the conceptual canvas upon which our image of possibility is rendered.
Author kamaurashidPosted on December 19, 2015 Categories UhuruTags Afrika, language, liberation, mdw, Medew, Medu, Metcher, Neter, ntr, Republic of New Africa, SwahiliLeave a comment on Language and sovereignty


GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (USA) "Maxim, all bosses" in 05:47.68 by gstick.
This is a really fast TAS through Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance played as Maxim, who is only available after the game is beaten. Unlike in the glitch-warped run, the protagonist doesn't directly fight Dracula and instead defeats every boss, reaching Dracula the intended way. However, this doesn't stop Maxim from making short work of every boss and sinking into walls wherever he wants.
This TAS by gstick improves the prior run by 1:42.59 thanks to further optimizations and an entirely new route.
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Review – Drifting Sun – On The Rebound (2016 Remaster) – by Progradar
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it…"
A common enough saying, if there's nothing wrong with a certain thing then why change it? Yet in the music industry there seems to be a propensity of remixed and remastered versions of older releases, why is this?
I suppose the technology today means that the songs can be tinkered with to produce what the artists originally wanted and there might not have been enough money in the coffers originally to release the desired versions of the tracks?
For whatever reason there is a plethora of 'breathed on' new versions of old releases around at the moment and last October Drifting Sun gave us a new version of their 1999 release 'On The Rebound' and the band's main man, Pat Sanders, has asked your intrepid music journalist to review it.
Here's the artwork for the original release:
I asked Pat why the band decided to remix and remaster the album and here it is, straight from the horse's mouth (so to speak):
"The album was originally recorded and mixed/mastered at a time when we didn't have much experience in this sort of thing, and lack of a proper budget basically forced us to take care of the mix and mastering ourselves, which wasn't handled as best as it could have been, and that has always been in the back of my mind all these years.
Therefore, I recently decided to give the album a new lease of life and have it remixed and remastered by our sound engineer Jon Huxtable. He has done a great job bringing the songs back to life, really this was more than just a simple remix… we literally pulled the tracks from the raw files and started from scratch there.
While we were working on the mix, I thought that another thing that wasn't showing the record in its best light either, was the cover, and so I did brand new artwork for it, as well as redesigning the entire booklet too. So there you have it, 'On the Rebound', Circa 2016, brand new mix, brand new master, brand new artwork!"
The band's line-up on the original album was Pat (keyboards), Chris Martini (vocals), John Spearman (guitars), Manu Michael (bass) and Tobin Bryant (drums).
There is a rich sound to the newly remastered songs and it doesn't sound like an album from the end of the last century, there's a real modern sound to the music which is evident from the opening bars of The Charade, a really up-tempo neo-progressive track with a multitude of twists and turns throughout its thirteen minute duration. The keyboards and up front and centre and the drums have a real vibrancy to them and Chris Martini has a very expressive and expansive vocal style, almost theatrical in its delivery. A nicely harmonised chorus adds to the stylish feel and there's a really intricate keyboard solo that puts a big smile on your face. John's guitar finally loses its cloak of subtlety and becomes more forceful as we move further into this impressive track, I have to admit it has really surprised me, I wasn't expecting a 17 year old release to sound this vibrant and dynamic. Swan Song opens with a powerful guitar run and Chris' almost operatic vocal, a much more serious and sober track with an emotive vibrancy. It ebbs and flows superbly and the keyboards and guitar have a real tete a tete, playing off each other brilliantly before there's a cracking guitar solo full of fire and brimstone that will have you pulling out your air guitar and joining in. A cracking track that shows just how neo-prog should be done.
A sophisticated vocal and delicate acoustic guitar open Drifting Sun with style and panache and draw you into its cultured embrace. The vocal opens up more and the music adds verve and tenacity and, along with Pat's 80's sounding keyboards, give you a rather elegant piece of music. Once again John's skill on the guitar comes to the fore with a tasty solo, it doesn't get much better than this. There are hints of Marillion but this talented band have their own identity right at the core, sit back and enjoy the music. Another cultured introduction opens Long Nights and there is definitely and 80's feel to this song with the chiming keyboard notes and elegant bass lines. The vocals are heartfelt and earnest and the track seems to glide elegantly across your aural synapses with its hypnotic beat. There's a feel of treading water, a calmness and serenity to everything as this mesmerising song continues. About half way in things take a darker turn and an aura of unease covers everything. The guitar fires up and goes on an intricate, quick fire journey, aided and abetted by the slightly discordant keyboards and driven along by the dynamic drums and bass, a proper progressive intervention into the composure and harmony of what went before. The song ventures into a more elaborate form with mysterious undertones, asking questions that you don't have answers too, it's very clever and really piqued my curiosity, I just love the freshness of the free-form and free will guitar section towards the end.
Heaven's Eyes is a more straightforward song with a beautiful piano opening and Chris delivers another warm, sincere vocal performance. Almost a ballad but one with more depth than your usual fare, it is stirring and touches your soul with its earnest emotion. It stirred thoughts and sentiments inside that I thought were long gone and left me thoughtful and musing on the world we live in today. Minstrel is an intriguing track, it has many layers of subtlety and, as you peel them back, you are gifted with little nuggets of wonder. There's a fantastic vocal from Chris that reminds me of some of the great frontmen that progressive rock has seen, almost a cross between Peter's Gabriel and Hammill with a little bit of Fish thrown in for good measure. A proper 'progressive' track in every sense of the word and one with a penchant for a bit of showmanship at times. It's a song for late night, lights down low, headphones on and a glass of deep red wine in your hand. As the song title would suggest, there is a touch of the troubadour about Chris' performance on this song and he is the main focus, backed up very ably by these talented musicians to add a patina of theatrical artistry to every note.
The final track, Mon Masque, is a fitting ending to the album, full of pomp and circumstance, emotion and sentiment, it has real fervor to it. I've used the word 'theatrical' in this review and you do get that feel that you could be in a West End musical, it is more than just music, there is a heart and soul to every word and every note and the band are really putting on a performance for their audience. To hear these songs played live would be pretty special I'm sure. I keep losing myself in the myriad twists and turns that envelop this song, like a musical maze that you're quite happy to be lost in.
I loved Drifting Sun's last release 'Safe Asylum' and the praise I gave that album is well justified by this remastered version of 'On The Rebound'. An entrancing, theatrical musical experience that draws you in and leaves you sated with its dexterity and brilliant tracks. Whether it was broken or not, this 'fix' has produced something rather special.
Released 1st October 2016
Buy 'On the Rebound – remastered and remixed' from bandcamp
Posted on 17th April 2017 Author martinCategories Album Reviews, ReviewsTags Chris Martini, Drifting Sun, John Spearman, Manu Michael, Martin Hutchinson, On The Rebound, Pat Sanders, Progradar, Tobin Bryant
2 thoughts on "Review – Drifting Sun – On The Rebound (2016 Remaster) – by Progradar"
Jon Huxtable (smallfishrecordings) says:
Thanks for the really positive response. I had the honour of working with the band to rebuild this album in the smallfishrecordings studio. It was a very brave step to take and proof of their dedication to their art.
It's a great album and performance of course but also a great example of what can be achieved if the mix and mastering stage is given the investment it deserves. So often, great ideas like these are obscured by shortcuts taken in the post-tracking environment. I can't wait to be hard at work on the next project – watch this space!
Looking forward to hearing the new material, glad you liked the review!
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Trick or Treat! Are you ready yet for tonight's barrage of trick-or-treaters in their fun and scary costumes? For those of you ready and waiting, I have the perfect way to pass the time.
You can "Halloweenify" your regular photos just in time for the spooky holiday. Google+ has released a fun photo filter that can turn any face into the living dead, or go the fun route with a jack-o'-lantern, or a cat or dog mask.
You'll need to be signed in to your Google+ account to access your photos. The Halloweenify filter is under the "Highlights" tab in the photos section. The fun filters are at random, so keep creating photos until you find the one you want.
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Institute general manager Dr Margaret Brumby seated at her desk in her office.
Margaret Wiadrowski (later Brumby) as a young BSc student with Dr Motoi Ishidate in the office at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 1962.
Former institute manager Margaret Brumby speaking at the quintuple anniversary of science legends.
Dr Margaret Brumby becomes the institute's general manager.
Dr Margaret Brumby AM successfully applies for the position of Walter and Eliza Hall Institute general manager. She goes on to hold the position for almost two decades.
Brumby started her undergraduate degree in science at the University of Melbourne in the late 1950s when she heard that students could obtain a 'Christmas job' in the laboratories of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. Brumby liked that after a morning's work, a laboratory technician could be persuaded to show her around the research lab. Returning the following summer she asked to visit the cancer research lab.
Brumby heeded his advice, finished her undergraduate degree and returned to the institute to complete her Master of Science in Metcalf's lab. But her scientific career was short-lived, due mainly to the lack of child-care and her husband's appointment to London. Brumby took up teaching biology at both secondary and tertiary levels, but never forgot the atmosphere and excitement of the institute.
In late 1986 Brumby saw an advertisement for the position of Walter and Eliza Hall Institute general manager and successfully applied.
Brumby's early tasks encompassed organising official visits to the new building, including for the Duke of Edinburgh and Indonesian minister BJ Habibie. Margaret Thatcher's visit was particularly memorable as it involved extensive negotiations with government security personnel requesting, among other things, that sniffer dogs roam the institute's sterile laboratories — 'unacceptable' was Brumby's response.


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John: Recombine hammer and pogo ride.
This time instead of overlapping (&&) the two cards which created the POGO HAMMER, you use the two codes to double-punch (||) a blank card, producing a different hole pattern.
The result is the HAMMERHEAD POGO RIDE. It doesn't look like it's as much fun as the original ride, but to be fair it's probably a lot safer.
Double-punching cards creates patterns with more holes, rather than less holes by overlapping cards. This strikes you as a viable method for combining more than two items without whittling down to too few holes, or too many! Just mix up the overlaps and double-punches, and the sky's the limit.
> John: Combine ghost shirt and suit.


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Jorginho's failures, Sissoko effect and more: Three burning talking points from Tottenham's 3-1 win vs Chelsea
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Tottenham vs Chelsea: Three talking points from the 3-1 debacle at Wembley
Tottenham produced arguably their best performance of the season so far as they overturned the odds to beat Chelsea 3-1 at the Wembley on Saturday. The defeat also marked the end of Maurizio Sarri's unbeaten run as the manager of Chelsea in the Premier League.
Spurs dominated the game right from kick-off and never looked back after Dele Alli put them in the driver's seat, finding the net with a glancing header off Christian Eriksen's free-kick in the 8th-minute.
Chelsea's backline was in sixes and sevens, not how Sarri would have wanted his players to fare against a potent attacking force consisting of the likes of Harry Kane, Dele Alli, Heung-Min Son and Christian Eriksen.
Harry Kane took advantage of some sloppy defending from Antonio Rudiger and David Luiz to double the advantage for the Lilywhites. Spurs had plenty of clear-cut chances to kill the game in the first half itself but Chelsea just managed to stay afloat.
However, Chelsea's hopes of a remarkable comeback did not materialise. Heung-Min Son scored his 50th goal in a Tottenham shirt, receiving the ball on the touchline down the right-hand side of the pitch and outfoxed Jorginho, Rudiger and Luiz to put the final nail in Chelsea's coffin.
With the race for the title heating up slowly but surely, the defeat is bound to have far-reaching consequences for the Blues and even more so, because Liverpool claimed all three points with a 3-0 drubbing of Watford to keep the pressure on Manchester City at the top of the table. In other words, Chelsea lost valuable ground on their Premier League rivals with the 3-1 humbling after dropping points against Everton before the international break.
Mauricio Pochettino, on the other hand, would be an extremely happy man. Spurs not only climbed above Chelsea in the standings to keep within striking distance of Liverpool and Manchester City but also showed with their authoritative display that they are more than capable of challenging for the Premier League crown.
Here are 3 talking points from yesterday's top of the table clash between Chelsea and Spurs.
1. Chelsea's defensive woes
The 3-2 victory over Arsenal earlier in the season was probably the last time that Chelsea were criticized for being a bit shaky at the back. However, Chelsea's defenders are bound to be at the receiving end of some widespread criticism from the fans and the media after the 3-1 defeat on Saturday.
Chelsea looked vulnerable right from the word go. Given that Dele Alli's opener came from a well-worked set-piece routine, it would be harsh to criticise the defenders for that. One might say that Kepa Arrizabalaga should have reacted quicker to keep the header out, something that the fans are well within their rights to expect from a 70 million goalkeeper. However, the actual defensive horror show began with Harry Kane's goal.
Antonio Rudiger has been one of the standout figures for Chelsea at the back this season but the German failed to rise to the occasion at Wembley. Faced with a dilemma of whether to close Harry Kane down or cover Heung-Min Son's incisive run behind the backline, Rudiger was perplexed and was caught in no man's land. He was partly to blame for the blunder but the David Luiz should be kicking himself once he sees the replay of that goal.
Going by the natural instincts of a centre-forward, Luiz would have been expected to put his body on the line to block the shot but he moved away from the firing line, thus exposing Kepa who didn't seem to know from where the shot was coming and was late to react. To sum it up, lack of communication across the backline, including the goalkeeper led to Chelsea's demise.
As evident from Heung-Min Son's strike in the second half, Chelsea lacked an effective plan B to provide cover at the back when Marcos Alonso joined the attack. Dele Alli showed a good presence of mind to set the Korean free down the right and he used every bit of his pace, dribbling and tenacity to drive past Jorginho, Luiz and Rudiger. Luiz made a mockery of himself by running past the charging Korean while Rudiger did not put in a last-ditch tackle to stop him.
To be honest, Chelsea had a horrible game defensively and it could easily have been 5-1 or 6-1 had Dele Alli and Harry Kane converted their chances in the second half.
2. Jorginho's failure and Dele Alli's heroics
Spurs haven't always had the luxury of Dele Alli's services in the attacking third this season due to injuries but the Englishman proved that he has the ability to wreak havoc through the opposition's defence when he is at the top his game.
Much of Chelsea's 'Sarri Ball' style of play has been supported by Jorginho. Pochettino seemed to know that Chelsea might kill the game sooner or later if they were allowed to dominate proceedings in midfield. Jorginho has been the heartbeat of Chelsea's midfield so far this season but his weakness was exposed by Pochettino's tactical masterstroke.
The Italian is renowned for his ability to dictate the tempo of the game with his flawless passing but Spurs did not allow him to see too much of the ball. His inability to deal effectively with fast and agile opposition was exposed when Son drove past him and even though he followed the Korean all the way, he couldn't make a tackle.
Furthermore, Jorginho looked helpless against the creativity of Spurs, particularly against the perpetual motion of Dele Alli. Alli's ability to move the ball quickly and change position constantly make him a difficult player to mark and Jorginho had no answer to that.
It wasn't only about the goal and the assist that Alli registered but his overall impact on the game was a lot more telling. He linked up brilliantly with the likes of Christian Eriksen, Son and Kane up front to create plenty of chances and operated as a supporting striker at times.
3 Chelsea's lack of creativity and Moussa Sissoko's effect
Pochettino has had plenty of injuries to contend with this season. Spurs have been hit hard by injuries to several of their key players and even in the game against Chelsea, they were without the services of Mousa Dembele and Jan Vertonghen.
Slotted into the central midfield in a box-to-box role alongside Eric Dier, Moussa Sissoko rose to the occasion and produced one of his best performances in a Tottenham shirt. The Frenchman absolutely dominated Chelsea in the midfield, breaking up the play with crunching challenges and carried the ball forward with a lot of energy and purpose.
Furthermore, he contributed to the attack with his intelligent passing and set up Harry Kane brilliantly in the second half. Chelsea were guilty of allowing him too much space to run into but the Frenchman deserves all the credit for his efforts.
The 3-1 defeat further documented the need for a creative midfielder in Chelsea's ranks. Sarri has preferred the trio of Kovacic, Kante and Jorginho in his three-man midfield but he should have used someone like Ruben Loftus-Cheek to change things when Spurs were stamping their authority.
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While Spurs have every reason to be ecstatic with their performance Chelsea must not make the mistake of considering this defeat as just a bad day at the office. The defeat showed that Chelsea are far behind Manchester City in a number of areas of the game and they will need to improve significantly if they are to challenge for the title.
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Tennessee suspends DB Kenneth George Jr. after arrest
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee has suspended defensive back Kenneth George Jr. indefinitely after police said he punched an officer on the side of the head last week.
Volunteers coach Jeremy Pruitt said that "we don't tolerate behavior like that and we're going to support all law enforcement that we come in contact with," but added that "at the same time, we're going to support Kenneth through this and we'll see where it goes."
The 22-year-old George faces felony charges of battery on an officer and resisting an officer with violence and misdemeanor charges of resisting an officer without violence and disorderly conduct, according to police in Miami Beach, Florida. George was arrested just before 3:30 a.m. on Thursday.
Tennessee was on spring break last week.
George is a redshirt junior from Lafayette, Louisiana. He played four games and made three tackles last season.


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package bs.util.tool.lucene.common;

import java.util.Date;

/**
 * 简单文档Bean.
 *
 * @author Baishui2004
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	/**
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	/**
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	/**
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	/**
	 * 原始路径.
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	private String uri;

	/**
	 * 创建/更新时间.
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	private Date time;

	public String getId() {
		return id;
	}

	public void setId(String id) {
		this.id = id;
	}

	public String getTitle() {
		return title;
	}

	public void setTitle(String title) {
		this.title = title;
	}

	public int getType() {
		return type;
	}

	public void setType(int type) {
		this.type = type;
	}

	public String getContent() {
		return content;
	}

	public void setContent(String content) {
		this.content = content;
	}

	public String getUri() {
		return uri;
	}

	public void setUri(String uri) {
		this.uri = uri;
	}

	public Date getTime() {
		return time;
	}

	public void setTime(Date time) {
		this.time = time;
	}

}

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Although it may not be as grand and well-known as Le Chateau de Versailles (which I visited in 2005 and wasn't too keen to see on this trip, especially after writing a 10,000 word university essay on the chateau and its gardens - how Louis XIV, the sun king, commissioned sculptures and paintings for the chateau complex which presented him in the guise of Apollo - the Greek and Roman god of the Sun, etc, etc, - the essay 'did my head in', I over-analysed every piece of sculpture in the gardens, looking at them again, wasn't high on my agenda), Le Chateau de Fontainbleu has its own charm. And I think I like it more for its somewhat humble simplicity and elegance, as well as its lack of tourist hoards - which allows you to see the chateau without dodging people's cameras. It's proportions, its rooms and its ground are not as awe-inspiring and impressive as that of much more regal Versailles, but it is an impressive piece of architecture and example of interior and landscape design of the middle-ages, Renaissance and up until the 19th century all the same.
The town of Fontainbleu is located about 60km south-east of Paris. The easiest way to get there is by train - it's a directed 40 minute trip. Take the SNCF train from the Gare de Lyon to the Gare de Fontainbleu Avon. From the station at Fontainbleu, there are many signs directing you to the tourist office and the chateau, or simply take the bus.
Fontainbleu is a quaint little town of about 16,000 inhabitant surrounded by the forest of Fontainbleu. In contrast to the incessant noise of Paris - masses cars, buses, the metro, people, demonstrations, etc - the town of Fontainbleu is almost serene - I only saw a handful of people and a few cars & buses as I made my way from the station to the chateau - although, I think this was greatly due to the weather. It was a drizzly and overcast February day. But there was a charm to seeing the old stone buildings and cobbled paths under these weather conditions - it gave the place a somewhat interesting and perhaps even an eerie and foreboding atmosphere.
When you walk through the chateau and it's grounds, it's difficult to comprehend how much money was lavishly spent on the place, when the vast majority of the French population were either starving or dying from common illnesses and lack of sanitary living conditions. The chateau and it's decorative elements are excessive, to say the least - gold leaf detailing, fine embroidered tapestry, crystal chandeliers, velvet upholstery, parquetry, masses of french glass windows, paintings, sculptures - not to mention the shear size of the chateau - the myriad rooms and hallways never seem to end - and the entire chateau complex itself with all its courtyards and landscaped gardens.
The first reference of the chateau was made in 1137 and from that date it was the principle residence of a number of French monarchs and was visited by many foreign dignitaries. Like many other royal residences, the chateau was not originally built to completion of its present state - it is the result of a number of different building works, under a number of different patronages, with a number of different architects and artist being employed, working within a number of different aesthetic tastes.
Only a small section of the chateau complex is open to the public - including some of the royal apartments, the chapel of the Holy Trinity, the library, and the very impressive ballroom, who's proportions are overwhelming and walls are decorated with an impressive collection of paintings.
I visited Fontainbleu in the winter, so the gardens were bleak and lifeless - I can imaging that in the spring and summer they would be green, inviting and full of birds and flowers. However, there is also a beauty in seeing the bear trees, the still ponds and lush green lawns. There were a few people, who seemed to be Fontainbleu locals, all rugged-up in their jackets, beanies and boots, braving the cold and taking their dogs for a walk through the grounds, or leisurely pushing a pram along the lakes to get some fresh air from their stifling, centrally-heated homes.


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Jewish cemetery gravestones in Fall River defaced with swastikas, anti-Semitic messages
Amanda Burke, The Herald News (Fall River, Mass.)
Mar 19, 2019 at 4:19 PM Mar 19, 2019 at 4:19 PM
Dozens of gravestones were tagged with the anti-Semitic graffiti, apparently scrawled in black marker. About 10 gravestones were defaced with swastikas. On one gravestone was written the words "heil Hitler," and on another, "Hitler was right."
FALL RIVER, Mass. — Swastikas and anti-Semitic language were written on at least 30 gravestones at the Hebrew Cemetery on McMahon Street over the weekend, police said.
The police department became aware of the graffiti Sunday when a cemetery maintenance worker saw the graffiti and reported it to police, police Sgt. J.T. Hoar said Tuesday.
No arrests have been made yet and an investigation is ongoing.
A veteran's gravestone was one of several defaced with an ethnic slur.
Above the menorah carved into one gravestone was the phrase, "Oy vey! This is MAGA country," an apparent reference to President Donald Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again."
"If that was written on a gravestone, then that person is connecting the slogan of our current president with his own anti-Semitism," said Rabbi Jacqueline Romm Satlow, who oversees the UMass Dartmouth Center For Jewish Culture, who upon learning of the incident said she was sad and disheartened.
Two gravestones were defaced with the words, "Day of the Rope," an apparent reference to the novel, "The Turner Diaries," which is about a white supremacist army that overturns the United States government, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
According to the anti-hate group, the work of fiction is one of the most widely read books by members of the alt-right. The "Day of the Rope" marks the start of the white supremacist revolution and the beginning of a genocide.
The defaced tombstones were on the north side of the cemetery, which was established in the late 1800s, according to the Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts's website, which maintains a directory of Jewish cemeteries in the state.
According to the Fall River Public Library, the cemetery was formerly associated with Congregation Adas Israel, which stopped services in 2012 when the former synagogue on Robeson Street was sold to The Word of Life Community Church.
Jeffrey Weissman, who served as president of Congregation Adas Israel, could not immediately be reached.
Anti-Semitic incidents are on the rise nationwide, said Satlow. In Massachusetts, the ADL recorded 177 anti-Semitic incidents in 2017, a 42 percent increase over 2016.
Satlow said that while difficult to pinpoint one reason for the increase, it's clear that "people who hate, for some reason, feel empowered more empowered than they did a few years ago."
In 2016, a swastika was painted on the sign for the Kollel Center for Jewish Studies outside the orthodox synagogue at 671 East Ave., in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Shortly thereafter, spray-painted swastikas and hateful language were discovered on a walkway at Cranston Stadium. The following year, eight swastikas were painted near a historically African-American church in New Bedford.
Police on Sunday had also received a report that a suspicious vehicle had been parked in the cemetery for two days, but the results of further investigation, announced on Tuesday, show that the vehicle was not connected to the graffiti. Two occupants in that vehicle have been ruled out as suspects.


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Q: Continue Counting How can I stop the NoAnsweredQuestion.Count when I click on a button...
Problem:
When I click on the reset button, the NoAnsweredQuestion.Count is still counting go to the maximum limit
Random:
private void SetcurrentQuestion()
{
    int randomQuestionIndex = Random.Range(0, NoAnsweredQuestion.Count);
    currentQuestion = NoAnsweredQuestion[randomQuestionIndex];

    factText.text = currentQuestion.fact;
    correctAnswerText.text = currentQuestion.answered;
}

This is my limit:
public void ContinueTransition()
{
    if (NoAnsweredQuestion.Count == 10)
    {
        FinalScore.SetActive(true);
    }
    else
    {
        StartCoroutine(TransitiontoNextQuestion());
        updatequestion();
    }
}

Reset button:
public void Restart()
{
   var form = new WWWForm();
   var www  = new WWW(restartBegGrammarIAQ, form);

   SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex);
   Time.timeScale = 1f;
   GameIsPaused   = false;
}

A: Add NoAnsweredQuestion.Clear() in your restart method and it should work

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Bartley Green Football Team photographed in Senneleys Park (1952). Alfred Mortiboys is in the front row, second from the right.
John Betteridge and Hohn Morgan in Senneleys Park. Early 1950s.


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