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JEROME K JEROME autograph Signature.
Jerome Klapka Jerome. British (English) comic author, best known for the classic, 'Three Men in a Boat'.
Autograph presentation signature "Yours sincerely Jerome K Jerome" on his headed note paper. Monks Corner, Marlow Common, Bucks. No date but circa 1918.
8vo. Approx 6.75 x 5 inches. Mounting traces to top edge of verso, else fine.
A fine, large signature, purposely signed for an autograph collector and not one that has been extracted from a letter or document.


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Nha Trang among top regional beach spots for Chinese tourists
The central resort town Nha Trang charms tourists with long, sandy beaches.
Photo: Shutterstock/an nguyen
The coastal resort town Nha Trang ranked third among top five Southeast Asian beach destinations favoured by Chinese tourists in 2018.
The ranking is mentioned in a recent report by China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The Vietnamese coastal town followed Indonesia's Bali and Thailand's Phuket.
However, after a sudden storm off Phuket capsized and sank a tourist boat, killing 47 Chinese nationals last summer, there was a record decline in the number of Chinese tourists visiting Thailand last year, according to the South China Morning Post.
Boracay Island in the Philippines came in fourth while Sabah in Malaysia finished the top five listings.
Nha Trang, in the central province of Khanh Hoa, is well known for its beaches and scuba diving, attracting large numbers of backpackers, more affluent travellers, as well as Vietnamese tourists. Nha Trang Bay is widely considered as among the world's most beautiful bays.
In 2018, Nha Trang received more than 1.4 million Chinese tourists, up 56 percent from a year earlier, accounting for more than half of its international arrivals.
China has been Vietnam's main source of tourists in recent years, making up one-third of all foreign visitors. More than four million Chinese visitors arrived in Vietnam last year, up 48.6 percent year-on-year.
Survey results released last year by the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism showed that the average daily spending by Chinese visitors increased from $118.6 in 2014 to $130 in 2017. However, this was below what they spent in Thailand ($180), Indonesia ($183) and Singapore ($446).
It was also estimated that each Chinese spends $2,000 on average on a trip to Vietnam, but Chinese travellers to Nha Trang spend much less than those visiting Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, according to the provincial tourism department.
A Bloomberg report has said that Chinese tourists could have a big impact on Vietnam's economy. It said a 30 percent increase in spending by Chinese tourists would boost Vietnam's economic growth by nearly 1 percentage point. For Thailand, that would be around 1.6 percentage points.
Read the full article at VNExpress: https://e.vnexpress.net/news/travel/places/nha-trang-among-top-regional-beach-spots-for-chinese-tourists-3911177.html
Tags: Beach, chinese tourists, Nha Trang, Vietnam
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Q: Can't creat a recovery disk on windows 10: Some required files are missin Recently I bought a asus vivobook notebook which has genuine win 10 home pre-installed. But I have installed ubuntu 16.04 alongside it. For doing so I had to shrink the partition in which windows is installed. I have done it with windows' built in disk manager. Now I want to make a recovery disk so that I can recover my genuine windows in future.
So I go to
    Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Recovery
And clicked Creat a recovery drive
Then Next on the new window. But after that it says

We can't create a recovery drive on this PC
  Some required files are missing.

But as shown in Fig1 windows has a recovery partition in disk1(last partition). Is it the shrinking that caused this damage? If so what are the alternatives to recover my genuine windows now? Or how can I help myself with that recovery partition on my hard-drive and what is it for? Or is it anything else that causing this problem?
Fig1.Windows partition=OS(C:),second partition on disk1
2.Creating recovery disk fails

A: Start by running
sfc /scannow
to check the integrity of Windows.
It will tell you if any Windows files are missing.
If the SFC scan finished correctly, try this method coming from the post
Can't create a Windows 10 recovery drive. Some required files are missing
by a user called Criostoir O'Dochartaigh:

Open command prompt in elevated mode and type:
reagentc /disable

then type:
reagentc /setreimage /path \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE

Then type:
reagentc /enable

You may need to change "harddisk0" to "harddiskX" where X is the
  number of your "C" drive and "partition1" to partitionX where X is the
  partition number to conform with your system setup. To check go to
  Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer
  Management/Storage/Diskmanagment.  The disk partitions are numbered
  from the left of the screen starting with number 1.

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JUNE 26 TCM FILM NOIR DISCUSSIONS FOR #NOIRSUMMER FOR ALL 13 FILMS
June 26, 2015 in Summer of Darkness: Investigating Film Noir
1. The Postman Always Rings Twice: Cora has to be one of the most manipulative women in film history. While it's true that Frank started the ball rolling when he insisted on hitting on a married woman, she certainly uses it for her advantage. At one point she tells Frank that if he loved her he would kill her husband. There is nothing colder than that. You see it all the way through the piece that she is perfectly willing to hold things over Frank's head, to threaten him, to manipulate him with the "love" she has for him.I think that when Frank and Cora run away that first time, the moment they turn around on that road, Frank, Cora & Nick are all dead from that point forward. I think had they kept going the love affair would've been measured in weeks, over before it had barely begun. But her decision to keep a man who lured her away from her husband in her sphere of orbit is clearly because she plans on using him. There is a constant stream of cross/double cross in this one that is insane. As far as stylistic elements are concerned, the scene that stuck with me visually was the one where they club nick. The camera focuses on Frank's shoes and the bottle right next to them. the bottle goes up and the camera next cuts to a close up of Cora's face. You never see Nick...just see the horror on Cora's face. It's a fascinating sequence from the audience's perspective and from the elements of Noir perspective. The things that are left to the imagination allow for the scene to be infinitely more horrifying than it would've been if they had shown us what happened.
2. They Won't Believe Me: The story is told by means of testimony being told from the witness stand...a bit like Murder, My Sweet was a story being told in a police interrogation room...the opening has the same sort of feeling to it. Larry isn't a likable person, he's a cheater, a ladies man & a liar. We talked a lot about the concept of fate last week, how one of the characteristics of a Noir film is that the man character doesn't seem to be able to take responsibility for the fact that they caused the problem themselves. In this case while he wasn't a killer, he did make the decision to let the police believe that the woman's body in the car was his wife. He also took one look at the jury's grim expressions and believed he was doomed so he tried to make a break for it. Those were his decisions, both of which cost him everything. You can't feel bad for him as much as you would normally because he isn't a likable character.
3. The Woman on the Beach: There is this wild surrealist dream sequence in the beginning of the film. There is also this strong notion of obsession. The blind painter is obsessed with his art and his wife becomes someone else's obsession. It's the idea of obsession controlling them. This upstanding naval officer finds himself driven to murder for love of a woman...it comes not from love but from his obsession.
4. Lady in the Lake: I did not understand why the film credits had christmas music in them at all...didn't fit with anything about the film...it opens like remember the night or christmas in Connecticut...not like a noir film. Though the random gun at the end of the title sequence. I didn't like the first person camera stuff...I felt like it was way overused in this film. I also kind of felt like the big payoff was too hinted at...I figured out pretty quickly that the body in the lake was the missing wife. From that point forward it was waiting for them to keep up. I think going back to the daily dose for dark passage, first person POV can be a useful tool...but using it for the entire film is unnerving and distracting. I get why, the idea is probably to replicate the first person narrative from the marlowe books but it doesn't translate well to the big screen. Also the whole subplot with him being a writer...I'm reading the book right now...just started it...and that bit is so far not in there at all.
5. Out of the Past: I heard someone say once that where plays are concerned, the story typically starts when something comes along to destroy the status quo. I think that is definitely what we are dealing with in this film. You have the idea of someone living a happy quiet existence which is shattered by the arrival of an old friend. It is this old friend that upends his life....it reminded me of "The Killers" in that the Swede had settled into a new existence until the man who had betrayed him rediscovered him and sent the killers after him.
6. Possessed: This entire film feels like a decent into madness..One of the shrinks she sees early on says that basically you know you're crazy when you can no longer distinguish between the things that only exist in your mind and the things that are actually happening. The Filmmakers are very clever with how they show that...they shoot her first delusion as if it's actually happening...the only way we know it isn't is that the camera cuts from the dead body on the floor to a living version of the same person as she comes through the door.
7. Act of Violence: Frank has this need to atone. It's what prompted his involvement in the housing complex, it is what prompted him to stand on a train track and try to get run over. It was what prompted him to save the life of the man who wanted to kill him. He was trying to do the right thing...and you can't hate him for that.
8. The Set-Up: There is a small character in this one, Luther, that really interested me. He's intelligent, well-spoken and seemingly well regarded by the other boxers. This is fascinating to me, it was typical for films from the golden age of hollywood to portray black actors as unintelligent comic relief servant types. For one to be well spoken and well regarded was rare and memorable.
9. The Mask of Dimitrios: there was a very cool quote by Leiden early in the film. "He died by Violence, that's justice isn't it?" Brings up an interesting point about Noir Films and the production code. The Production code wanted every bad guy to be punished...and it didn't care how really. Leiden seems to be poking fun at that fact...that it didn't really matter if the "justice" made sense in the story. It didn't matter if it was accidental or on purpose, it didn't even matter who enacted said justice so long as by the end of the film the bad people had paid for their crimes.
10. The Stranger: fantastic cast in this one, absolutely fantastic. I particularly love that Edward G. Robinson played a "good" guy in this one. He did that a handful of times but is typically best remembered for his malevolent gangster characters. Seeing Well's character spiral out of control was fascinating too, when he sees that his wife survived the "accident" he arranged for her, he kind of looses it. And I doubt many films have used a clock as a murder weapon...but it was fantastic as a plot device...the clock itself became a character in the film...it gets a lot of screen time too.
11. The Third Man: The sequence at the end, down in the sewers is fascinating. There is this one part where he is standing alone in this hallway tunnel and you hear voices from every opening around him.There is a strong sense of inevitability in that. Another facinating shot was his fingers coming up between the grate shot from the street above...so all you see are those creeping fingers trying to claw their way to the surface. It's very interesting strictly from a visual perspective.
12. Point Blank: This Neo-Noir just made absolutely no sense to me...at all. I tried I really did but it's too disjointed and I couldn't follow it.
POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (MGM,47): Dead Letters.
When Chambers (Garfield) burns the "Man Wanted" sign after hearing Cora (Lana) is married, his fate is sealed.
THEY WON'T BELIEVE ME (RKO,47): Unbelievable.
Ballentine, though innocent, committed the crimes in his heart so he thinks no jury will believe him.
THE WOMAN ON THE BEACH (RKO,47): Bygones.
After being baptized by water and fire, they see the light.
LADY IN THE LAKE (MGM,47): Private eyes.
Movie's 1st person POV fails because audiences identify with movie stars more easily than with themselves.
OUT OF THE PAST (RKO,47): To betray or not to be.
Kathy is treacherous because she attracts the treacherous type.
POSSESSED (WB,47): Interpretation Of Dreams.
Madness as a waking dream of fears and wish-fulfillment.
ACT OF VIOLENCE (MGM,48): Informer? (I hardly knew her).
Another noir protagonist who finds the country is no sanctuary from his past sins.
THE SET-UP (RKO,49): Pocket Full Of Mumbles.
A boxer's managers fix a fight and forgot to tell him figuring him for a loser.
THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS (WB,44): Truth Is Scarier Than Fiction.
A novelist is intrigued by the story of a cadaver and while investigating, finds he's alive and deadly.
BERLIN EXPRESS (RKO,48): Insult To Codebreakers.
Heavy-handed allegory about Allied cooperation in war torn Berlin but thrilling action.
THE STRANGER (RKO,46): At least the clocks ran on time.
Time runs out on a Nazi war criminal. Welles proves he can make an on-time under-budget movie & it shows.
THE THIRD MAN (Selznick,49): Sublime.
Great speech and score. Why did Lime call Holly? Was he suppose to be the 3rd man or the corpse?
Did the balloon man stumble because he's drunk or because Vienna is crooked?
pestocat
LocationPalo Alto California
I'm not a boxing fan and so was not looking forward to watching this film. But I really enjoyed this film noir display. As Bill is preparing for the match, he glances out the window to his apartment to see if his wife has left and decided to watch him after all. The boxing scenes are very good and seem very real. The close ups of the boxing audience were excellent. These are real boxing fans. The overexcited women were interesting to see. The night scenes where Julie is walking the streets while Bill is boxing has film noir shadows. There the French poetic realism, Bill is 35 and past his prime he wants to win just one more in order to get the to the next level. As with the other 'elder' boxers, there is that dream to just win one more so that they move up. But they never get there and come back and are beat up and are sent off to the hospital. There is no hope. Lots of shadows as Bill is beat up in the dark alley. But in the end Bill's right hand is broken so bad that he knows he can't again and so he knows that Julie is happy too.
Shannon Muir
LocationGlendale, CA
I was actually on my honeymoon when I stumbled across information about the class while trying to find out what movie was on TCM in the hotel room (turned out it was a Christopher Lee marathon day). We didn't come home for a few days after so I had to rely on the TCM app to try and catch up on some films, and based on the class materials decided to just do OUT OF THE PAST and THE THIRD MAN as my selections for the week. Getting back up to speed with the rest of my life - not to mention the other lectures and quizzes - just didn't allow for any more viewing
I'll take these in reverse order. THE THIRD MAN proved to be visually stunning as well as a complicated and woven plot. An interesting side note is that my husband also loves radio drama and mentioned to me that the Harry Lyme character had a radio drama that opened with him being shot at in a sewer, and that the whole radio drama is a prequel to the events of THE THIRD MAN and that it ran before the film came out. It seems odd to both of us people would have been rooting for the Lyme character in another medium as protagonist while he's clearly the antagonist (I don't think villain works, Harry's got a bit more dimension to him) in the film. Still, we both enjoyed watching it together (though he'd already seen it by himself once before).
OUT OF THE PAST proved slightly hard to follow at times, and I can best compare it to metaphorically peeling off the layers of an onion about the lead's life. The part where things got most confusing was when the secretary and the first female associate in the latter part of the film were cast too similar in looks (for us anyway) and for a bit we lost track of which was which. Once the pieces fell into place, the film worked for us. Good use of framing, and staging... particularly items like the lamp getting knocked over and the storm blowing the door open as a metaphor for physical pleasure still sticks out.
Thanks for the explanation. But I have to admit that such an assumption seems almost like a flaw in Out of the Past, in any movie. If one didn't know this kind of convention in film noir, one would be hard-pressed to come up with "good people involved with those in the noir world" as an explanation. I prefer to have a movie be its own self-contained universe, to be honest.
This was exactly the same assumption about the Kid's motives both my husband and I arrived at on seeing this film. It also meant that, by doing so, she could have closure and not carry those doubts or uncertainty lingering with her past haunting her. It left her free to build a new future. In this way it ties in with the title.
Was also quite surprised for the time period that a deaf and dumb character played such a pivotal role instead of being relegated to either a comedy or very small position. That was kind of refreshing. As someone else said, I wonder what the extent of his role was in the book. Could it have been expanded on from the book, or could he even be an added character? We've seen that in modern cinema. I'm going to go see if I can locate the text and compare.
"They Won't Believe Me"
*SPOILER ALERT*
I have a question about this one--how did Greta die? was it an accident? did she trip and fall? I couldn't tell what had happened. Interesting how the horse ended up as a witness/leading the police to her body.
Sir David
LocationColumbus, Ohio
Before I forget...just why did Harry Lime want Holly Martin to meet him in Vienna anyway?
I was fully prepared to hate this film because 1. Orson Welles, and 2. Zither music. In the end though I think I could have liked it...Welles was hardly in it and did very little to annoy me but the whole movie (for me) was rendered virtually un-watchable by that awful music! Every single moment there was a lull, up it popped...dum dee dum dee dummdee dum...until I found my teeth physically aching and finger hovering above the fast-forward button. Please someone tell me that there's a version you can get without the score!
Anyway. Ignoring the score, it made great use of the setting in post-war Vienna, lots of dramatic night lighting and Noir skewed angles, great set-pieces and the scenes in the sewers were terrific and a suitably serpentine plot. I enjoyed Joseph Cotton's acting and Trevor Howard was good and even - dare I say it - Orson Welles played his part well.
That Zither music though...
Act of Violence
I think I must be all Noired out after watching this, my 86th film from the schedule, because I simply couldn't care less about the two protagonists. Van Heflin deserved his Noir-come-uppance for being a stool-pigeon, of course, but they never made Ryan at all sympathetic enough for us to really care that he was a good guy hell-bent on revenge, he was simply there. It's as if they expected the limp alone to make us think he was threatening but at the same time deserving of getting revenge for it and his happy ending.
Personally, I think it would have been a far better film had Van Helfin continued to lie and deny and portray himself as the victim until the very end. Still, it is what it is, and there were some great noir visuals if nothing else and I thought Mary Astor as the worn-out hustler was excellent: I wish she'd had a more prominent role.
Berlin Express
A Realist movie, and - for me - a very important movie. I've seen many photos of post-war ruination but seeing it in a movie setting really brought home just how devastating it must've been to have had to live in such a setting after the war. How did the people cope? How did they live? How difficult it must've been to have rebuilt...I don't even know if I would have know how or where to begin. I wonder too if the struggle to survive (and the personal selfishness - in the form of basic survival) it must have engendered sowed the seeds of the future decline of so many of the standards people held dear before the war leading us to the selfishness we see all around us today?
The plot was, in my opinion, not really all that important in terms of everything else, but it was an enjoyable movie. Robert Ryan I liked, though this could be more because he carried my surname in the movie, than anything else! I liked Eddie Muller's comments about the filming of Merle Oberon by her husband...I agree, he did manage to make her look average in pretty well every scene!
The backdrop was the real star though (even though in a tragic way). I wonder what the actors thought as they performed against such a depressing "real" background?
I think the zither music was supposed to get on your nerves by the end of the movie! Harry Lime seemed like lots of fun until Holly Martin found out what he was really doing in Vienna. That's when things start to unravel and, I believe, the zither music gets a lot more repetitive.
Harry Lime invited Holly Martin to Vienna with an offer of a job. Jobs and food and just about everything were scarce during and after the war in Europe. Unless, of course, you're Harry Lime working in the black market.
. . . Movie trivia: According to Wikipedia. Dickie Moore, who played The Kid, is one of the few living members of Our Gang from the original Hal Roach series and also one of the few living actors of the silent film era. He's now 89.
Just found out that Dickie Moore passed away today (September 12, 2015). So cute in Our Gang.
Dickie Moore died on September 7, 2015. You may have just found that out, but it didn't happen 'today'.
Thanks for confirming. None of the articles I read online gave the day of Dickie Moore's death.


I use some semolina in this recipe because it makes the halwa easier to slice.
Toast the whole almonds and 2 tablespoons of ghee in a large non stick skillet on medium heat for 5-7 minutes, stirring to prevent burning until golden and fragrant. Remove from pan and cool.
Add remaining ghee and semolina and toast stirring constantly about 4-5 minutes.
Grind cooled almonds to a smooth paste.
Add to the semolina and toast another 2-3 minutes.
Add the sweetened condensed milk and stir for 20-25 minutes until the Halwa pulls away from the sides of the pan and begins to resemble a sticky dough.
Sprinkle with saffron and stir well.
Remove from heat and allow to cool about 25 minutes in the pan.
Lightly grease a 12 by 12 inch tray with melted ghee. Spread the badam halwa over the tray with a spatula and smoothen to create an evenly thick layer.
Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate 3-4 hours.
Remove and slice into desired shapes and sizes. Cover with plastic again and refrigerate 3 hours.
Remove and gently ease each piece onto a serving tray. Let sit 25 minutes. Serve.
Alternatively you could wrap each piece into wax paper and twist both ends to form an individual piece of candy.
HEAT VEGETABLE OIL IN A PRESSURE COOKER OR LARGE DUTCH OVEN STYLE POT ON HIGH HEAT.
ADD ALL THE SPICES FOR TEMPERING AND COOK ABOUT 60 SECONDS.
ADD THE PUREED TOMATO AND ONION PASTE AND COOK ON MEDIUM FLAME ABOUT 10 MINUTES, STIRRING TO PREVENT BURNING EVERY 3 MINUTES OR SO. THIS MASALA WILL SPLUTTER AS IT COOKS SO COVER PARTIALLY WITH A LID WHILE COOKING TO ALLOW STEAM TO ESCAPE.
WASH THE BEANS, DRAIN AND ADD TO THE TOMATO ONION MASALA. ADD 1 LITER WATER, 1.5 TEASPOONS SALT AND COOK UNTIL BEANS ARE VERY TENDER ABOUT 4 WHISTLES OR 45-60 MINUTES.
COVER AND STIR FROM TIME TO TIME TO PREVENT BURNING IF USING A DUTCH OVEN.
IF YOU ARE USING A DUTCH OVEN WATER WILL EVAPORATE FASTER SO ADD MORE WATER TO THE BEANS AS REQUIRED FOR A THICK GRAVY IF THE BEANS TAKE LONGER TO COOK AND THE LIQUID DRIES UP.
ADD A 1/4 CUP OF WATER AT A TIME AND STIR.
OPEN PRESSURE COOKER OR DUTCH OVEN AND STIR IN COCONUT MILK. COOK OPEN ANOTHER 5-6 MINUTES.
Sunday Masala is a Maharashtrian specialty with Malwani influence. It is a masala made at home and reserved for special Sunday family meals that generally involve some kind of meat or fish. But this masala is very versatile and adds flavor to dishes made with baby eggplant, ash gourd, chicken, fried fish and various curries. Keep refrigerated in an airtight container for up to 6 weeks.
Many of the esoteric ingredients such as Dagadphool and Nagkesar are exclusive to the Konkan coast and maybe available on special order online or at a specialty spice store.
In a clean and dry skillet or tawa, toast the grated coconut and khuskhus on a low flame about 4-5 minutes until fragrant and lightly browned. Remove and cool.
Toast all the other ingredients together in the same pan or tawa over low heat, until aromatic and golden about 10 minutes. Cool completely.
Grind all the ingredients together to make a smooth powder. Refrigerate in an airtight bottle.


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In 1950, Club's another ex-associate, B.K.Ghosh (Gagan Babu) left us. Gagan babu was the Asst General Secretary in 1939, the year when Club won Football League for the first time. This year, Dr.S.K.Gupta was elected the Vice President of the Club and Gagan Babu was nominated as the Trustee. Dr.Gupta was General Secretary of the Club from 1944 to 1950. Later, Chandrashekhar Sen took charge. In 1951, Mohun Bagan reached the finals of Durand Cup. On the first day of finals, Mohun Bagan was leading throughout the match but during the last few minutes, the goalkeeper was seriously injured and left the ground. T.Aao replaced him. Hyderabad Police equaled the scoreboard with 2-2 goals. Match ended in a draw. On the second day, Club lost by 0-2 goals. In the same year, Mohun Bagan lost to East Bengal on the second day of the finals of IFA Shield after the first day draw. But, alongside were some achievements. League Championship and Asian games Football Championship for the first time. That year Asian games took place at Delhi, where four players of Mohun Bagan were selected for the Indian Football Team, including Sailen Manna, T.Aao, Abhay Ghosh and Runu Guhathakurta. The team was captained by Manna. India defeated Iran by 2-0 goals. After Asian Games, the Indian football team went to Far East Asia Captained by Sailen Manna again. M.A.Sattar and Runu Guhathakurata were also selected. In 1951-52, Maharaja Srish Chandra Nandi passed away. General Secretary, Mr. Chandrasekhar Sen also died in the same year. Eminent Solicitor Sourendra Mohan Basu became the Secretary of the club. At the same time, Sourendra Nath Kar was elected the Vice President of the Club. Here a point must be noted that Mr.S.N.Banerjee, Mr.B.C.Ghosh, Mr.S.K.Gupta and Mr.S.M Gupta, all the four secretaries of Mohun Bagan Athletic Club got the honour to become the secretary of IFA. In Helsinki Olympics of 1952, 3 Mohun Bagan players were selected. They are Sailen Manna (Captain), M.A.Sattar and Runu Guhathakurta. For both the Olympics of 1948 and 1952, Mohun Bagan's players captained the Indian Team. After two days of draw with Rajasthan Club, that year the IFA Shield Final was absconded. Mohun Bagan won the first ever Durand Cup in 1953. In the final match at Delhi, Mohun Bagan beat the National Defence Academy of Dehradun by 4 goals to nil. His Excellency honorable President of India Babu Rajendra Prasad was the chief guest of the prize distribution ceremony. He said, "Mohun Bagan was my favorite team from my childhood. I was a regular visitor of all Mohun Bagan matches, when I was a student at Kolkata. Sometimes, when I didn't have money to buy the ticket, I could not stop myself. I watched the match from outside. I was always aware with the up to date news of the club". In the same year, Club lost another trustee Mr.Hriday Ghosh.
Club won the double crown for the first time in 1954 by winning the League Championship and IFA Shield by beating Hyderabad XI. Another glorious moment was when Mohun Bagan beat the Gresers Club from Austria by 2 goals to 1. In the same year, Mohun Bagan beat the visiting Afghan National Team by 3 goals to nil. In 1954 Indian Team visited Soviet Union under the captainship of Sailen Manna. Ratan Sen of Mohun Bagan accompanied Manna. But after the Soviet tour, during IFA Shield, Sailen Manna was seriously injured. S.Dutta of Mohun Bagan became the top scorer of the year, while the youngest player of the squad, Subimal Goswami, better known as Chuni, became the second highest scorer. During the 2nd Asian Games at Manila, Philippines, Sailen Manna (Captain), M.A. Sattar, P.Venkatesh, S.Dutta and Samar Banerjee (Badru) were in the Indian Squad.
1955 witnessed Mohun Bagan again as the League Champions. In the same year, Mohun Bagan got the opportunity to play with the visiting Soviet and Swedish teams. But Mohun Bagan was defeated by 3 goals to nil in both the matches.
1956 was a memorable year for the club. In this year, Mohun Bagan lifted the Rovers Cup for the first time. Later, the Club took part in a match with the visiting football team from Austria. After a struggling fight, Mohun Bagan was defeated by 2 goals to nil. Then Mohun Bagan lifted both the Calcutta crowns by becoming League and IFA Shield champions. Including this year's victory, Club won League for 3 consecutive times. Existing Club Secretary was veteran Mohun Bagan player Karuna Bhattacharya. Since Mohun Bagan got the invitation to visit Far East again, so the team did not participate for the Durand Cup that year. Club's Asst General Secretary Dhiren Dey took all the responsibility to arrange the tour for Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. Karuna Bhattacharya and Sailen Dey was Joint Secretary for this tour. The team included Sailen Manna (Captain), M.A. Sattar (Vice Captain), Ratan Sen, Sushil Guha, D.Mukherjee, S.Chatterjee, P.Barua, Subhasish Guha, M.B.Narsia, Chandan Singh, Chuni Goswami, K.Pal, Badru Banerjee, S.Raman, Parimal Majumdar and R.Guha. That tour of Mohun Bagan earned high esteem for the Indian Football.
In 1956, in Melbourne Olympics, Samar Banerjee(Badru) captained the Indian team. Kesto Pal was also selected in the team. Chuni Goswami, S.Chatterjee and Sushil Guha were selected as reserved players. That year, an ex Official associated with the Club, Salil Mitra (Matal Babu) passed away. Salil Mitra provided lot of assistance to the Club throughout his life. From 1934-36, he served as the Asst General Secretary, from 1937-41, as the Treasurer, and from 1945-56, as the Trustee of the Club.
In 1957, Mohun Bagan lost to Mohammedan Sporting Club at the finals of Rover's Cup by 0-3 goals. Once again Samar Banerjee (Badru) was given the responsibility of Captainship of the Indian Team for the East tour. In addition, S.Chatterjee, Sushil Guha, Kempia, Kesto Pal and Chuni Goswami were selected. But Chuni had to stay back as he was elected the Captain of the Calcutta University Team in the International University Football Tournament. Chuni led the Calcutta Team to Championship. In 1957-58, the Club did not do well in Rover's Cup and Durand Cup Tournaments. In the First Division League, the Club was left as runners. In the IFA Shield finals, Mohun Bagan had to compete with East Bengal. The first day ended up in a draw. But IFA failed to organize the second day match for that year.
In 1958, for the Tokyo Asian Games, Chuni Goswami, Amed Hossain and M.Kempia were nominated for the Indian Team. But once again Chuni had to refuse, to accept the captainship of Calcutta University Team. In 1958-59, Mohun Bagan had to quit the Tournament at the Semifinals. On the other hand, the Club won the Calcutta Football League and reached the finals of IFA Shield Championship against East Bengal. IFA failed to Final match by September. Afterwards, the final was held in January 1959, and East Bengal won the match by 1-0 goals.
Later, the Club participated in a Charity Match at the request of Delhi Football Association for the aid of the Prime Minister's Relief Fund. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru himself was present at the ground. He told Dr.Bidhan Roy that he was Mohun Bagan supporter. In Kabul's Pre-Olympics Football Tournament, Mohun Bagan's Sushil Guha, Kempia, Jarnail Singh and Chuni Goswami were elected for the Indian team. And in Kwalalumpur Mardeca Football Tournament, Mohun Bagan's T.A.Rehman and Kempia were elected for the Indian Team. Club's another player Arun Ghosh participated in Calcutta University Team in the International University Football Tournament.
At the commencement of 1959-60 Football period, Club won the Durand Cup by defeating Mohammedan Sporting Club by 3-1 goals. At the prize distribution ceremony, President Rajendra Prasad praised the sporting spirit of Mohun Bagan Club. Soon after this accomplishment, the first Division League Championship and the IFA Shield Championship added to Club's glory. The Club defeated Indian Navy at the IFA Shield finals. This year the Club also played another Charity Match with Indonesia's National Team for the Prime Minister's Relief Fund. At the end of the game, the football used in this match was auctioned by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, which was bought by distinguished industrialist and Mohun Bagan's senior member M.L.Khaitan with Rs.14000.
In 1959-60, total number of matches played by Mohun Bagan was 42,among which Club won in 36 matches, made a draw in 5 matches and lost in only 1 match against Eastern Railways. The credit for this extraordinary achievement goes to Club Secretary Sailen Manna and Asst General Secretary Dhiren Dey and Balai Das Chattopadhyay. Though Sailen Manna was aged at that time, he did not turn down when Jarnail Singh was absent and played as his substitute in 12 matches. He also played in the Charity match of Prime Minister's Relief Fund.
That year Club commenced three back system and Arun Singh became the Coach. Within a very short time he established himself as a successful Coach of the National Football Team.


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The year 2017 was one in which the trading of cryptocurrency became a worldwide boom, and since Bitcoin was introduced, its value has risen to over 1000%. Needless to say, cryptocurrency is volatile. In the past, Bitcoin did not have a high level of volatility like it does now.
These days the price of one Bitcoin may rise or fall by hundreds of dollars within a day, and anybody could suffer unexpected losses. However, traders still find a way around the volatile fluctuation and manage to continue trading while staying in the black.
We will be looking at 4 useful tips for successful Bitcoin trading.
There is no business that involves financial trading that cannot produce losses. Bitcoin is a highly speculative investment, and no one knows what will happen next. You could see huge gains on a single trade, but you could just as easily and see huge losses. As a result of this high level of speculation, you should invest only what you can afford to lose if there is a crash or dip in the value of Bitcoin.
There is a fact that you must have at the back of your mind—you cannot lose more than you invest, so you should not invest more than you can afford. This will also help you make the right decisions and avoid panic selling when there is a dip in price. You will be able to hold the fort and avoid buying back at a higher price when the value of Bitcoin rises again.
To keep calm during periods of high volatility, traders should set a price at which they take profits or cut losses beforehand. This eliminates making trade decisions based on emotions or greed.
In the last seven years, it has been observed that the value of Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies stay mostly in a downtrend, but between September to December, the value stays in an uptrend. This is most likely a result of the high level of business activities after the summer and into the winter holidays.
Bitcoin charts help show you how Bitcoin is doing over a particular period. You should be able to study the market trends to make better trading decisions. Technical analysis is of course not an easy skill to develop, but for the purpose of your Bitcoin trading business, as a new trader, you need to spend the necessary time to learn how to stay constantly informed.
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You will need to have a good quality music stand, a student-sized chair, and extra things for the instrument that might be needed like reeds which can break or cork grease. It's also good to have a basic repair kit for instruments that you'll be teaching because things happen and you need to be prepared for anything.
Offer rewards – whether it's stickers for completing a song they've been working on for a while or a certificate when they've completed a lesson book. It will be good if you have your own instrument to model what you need the child to do in their lesson.
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About The Pogues
Lamprey-mouthed vocalist and legendary boozer Shane MacGowan first cut his teeth in punk band the Nips before packing up his DIY bags and moving on to Celtic rock with the Pogues. It was a daring move that has produced some of the most original-sounding music of the post-punk era. Red Roses for Me heralded the arrival of a band brashly defying convention simply by adhering to tradition. As a permeable ensemble of a half-dozen or more players, they were able to incorporate traditional instruments hitherto unheard of in rock 'n' roll. Mandolins, concertina, tin whistle, the dulcimer and the bodhran gave the Pogues their distinctly Irish sound, and in Shane MacGowan the band possessed an ace writer fitting squarely into the Irish literary heritage. Songs like "The Old Main Drag," "A Pair of Brown Eyes" and "Hell's Ditch" indicate that, had he been so inclined, MacGowan might have written books to put on the shelf with Flann O'Brien, Brendan Behan and the Joyce of Finnegan's Wake. Not many bands could wear the hoary epaulets of the label "National Treasure" and pull it off, but the Pogues were such a band. Chad Driscoll
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Lamprey-mouthed vocalist and legendary boozer Shane MacGowan first cut his teeth in punk band the Nips before packing up his DIY bags and moving on to Celtic rock with the Pogues. It was a daring move that has produced some of the most original-sounding music of the post-punk era. Red Roses for Me heralded the arrival of a band brashly defying convention simply by adhering to tradition. As a permeable ensemble of a half-dozen or more players, they were able to incorporate traditional instruments hitherto unheard of in rock 'n' roll. Mandolins, concertina, tin whistle, the dulcimer and the bodhran gave the Pogues their distinctly Irish sound, and in Shane MacGowan the band possessed an ace writer fitting squarely into the Irish literary heritage. Songs like "The Old Main Drag," "A Pair of Brown Eyes" and "Hell's Ditch" indicate that, had he been so inclined, MacGowan might have written books to put on the shelf with Flann O'Brien, Brendan Behan and the Joyce of Finnegan's Wake. Not many bands could wear the hoary epaulets of the label "National Treasure" and pull it off, but the Pogues were such a band.
Chad Driscoll
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Palo Santo. What? Why? How?
Palo Santo. What is it exactly? How do we use it? Why should we use it? These are questions I've been receiving from you every time I share my morning and daily rituals which involve lighting a palo santo. So, I thought it would be best if I shared some info with all of you. Palo Santo came into my life 4 years ago as I walked through La Sagarnaga, a street in La Paz, Bolivia, the city where I took my first breath of life. (Yes, I born there!) This street is full of magic. Literally. Tiny shops offering crystals, incenses, essential oils, ritual offerings, and the famous palo santo. The smell of it was so intense, refreshing and uplifting I felt drawn to get some pieces of this "holy wood", and research more about it. A few hours later, I realized I had purchased just what I needed in my life, and the first spark that would set my holistic and spiritual journey on fire. The good kind of fire! 🔥✨ In short, palo santo was (and still is) used by shamans, healers, and priests to cleanse the energy and negative vibes roaming around us or in a certain space. The smoke that rises of a lit stick is believed to enter our energy field and clear negativity, low vibrations, and evil spirits. The word literally means "holy wood" in Spanish and the palm-size wood sticks of it come from trees that grows in Central and South America. The intense aroma Palo Santo releases has also been proven to relief allergies, headaches, asthma, and stress. It also helps with reducing emotional stress, raising energetic vibration, boosting the immune system and aiding our creativity. All this in something as pure and natural as wood from a sacred tree! Amazing, isn't it?
I get mine from Bolivia and Ecuador (best ones) but you can also get them at WholeFoods or even online, AND on my blog's shop! For any product you buy, you'll get a palo santo and crystal with your purchase! Also, I'm coming up with some energy kits in the next few weeks which will be sold on my blog's shop too! Stay tuned, and stay magical! Always!


Craft beers may be stealing today's headlines; but many of the craft cocktails created by local mixologists are also state-of- the-art. If you're in the mood for one of these taste bud bending, handcrafted concoctions, then check out the 5 best places to snag a craft cocktail in Boca Raton.
The Gluttonous Goat is a unique little spot that has definitely earned a place on this elite list. This gastropub offers a laid back atmosphere, seriously tasty food, and remarkable craft cocktails. There's nothing pretentious about this place—including the delectable drinks – since many of them are served in mason jars. While the serving jars may be old style, the crew behind the bar is anything but. These multifaceted mixologists can take an old drink recipe and, with a deft twist and well measured pour, craft an entirely new creations with exceptional flavors, colors, and names. Sit inside or outside and, while you sip your cocktails with friends, enjoy a hookah from the smoke bar next door.
One of GG's signature cocktails includes the "Bloody Green Fairy," a fascinating mixture of pearl vodka, extracted tomatillo water, horseradish, lime, tobacco, togarashi, and spicy green bean. Or, indulge in the slightly sweetened amalgam known as "The Honey Badger." Start with a base of benchmark bourbon, then add jalapeño infused honey, fresh rosemary, and orange bitters. Another original is "The O.G. Revenge," made with pearl vodka, fresh smashed watermelon, a hint of jalapeño, and simple syrup.
The Gluttonous Goat is located at 99 SE Mizner Blvd. #114, Plaza Real South, Boca Raton, FL. You can find free parking in front and to the north and south of the establishment. Plus, there's additional parking to be found in the Bank of America lot after 5 p.m. According to OpenTable, the Goat is open for business from 4 p.m to midnight on Tuesday, Wednesday, andThursday. On Friday and Saturday, they're open from 4 p.m. until 2 a.m. and on Sunday, they're open from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m. However, if you check their Facebook page, it states that they are closed Sunday and Monday. So call ahead if you plan to visit or wait until later in the week.
If you've ever been to Tanzy, then you know you're in for an amazing experience, whether you're there for the food, drinks, or both. Leading the crew at Tanzy is Adam Seger, the Master Barman/Advanced Sommelier. He's been dubbed "The Charlie Trotter of Cocktails" by Newcity Magazine and the "Spirits Guru" by Food & Wine, which speaks volumes about his expertise. Some locals simply call him "the Spiritualist," because of his heavenly creations.
Among Tanzy's list of well regarded signature cocktails, in no particular order, are the following: the "Tanzy Dirty Martini," made with Punzone organic Italian vodka, Kalamata olive, rosemary, lime, Yuzu Luxe, salt, and pepper; the "Raspberry Collins," built with Nolet gin, Luxardo Bitter, and raspberry-Prosecco soda; and the "Tanzy Mary," a mixture of San Marzano tomato bloody, Parma Bar Garni, and Peroni Back.
Of course, Tanzy is also known for its liquid nitrogen cocktails like the "Raz Berri," wherein Grey Goose vodka, Chambord, Yuzu Luxe, raspberry syrup, and Prosecco are all whipped together. Or the "Champagne Crush," made with lemon-infused Belvedere vodka, Moet & Imperial champagne, Grand Marnier, and ginger-citrus sorbet, to name just two of their spectacular palate pleasers.
While all of their intriguing drinks are crafted with an articulate hand and creative flare, the delicious cuisine is also well worth sampling. You'll find Tanzy next to the IPic Theater in Mizner Park at 301 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, FL.
Kaapow is not just an Asian restaurant with French/Vietnamese inspirations—it's also an excellent spot to grab a craft cocktail. Their secret is to combine fresh ingredients with the talents of highly knowledgeable mixologists. The result: a restaurant that's bound to please every guest. Enjoy cocktails like the "Austin Mule" that consists of Tito's vodka, ginger, lemon, lime, simple syrup, and soda. Their "Mai Tai" is expertly mixed using Atlantico Reserva rum, Appleton 12 year rum, triple sec, house orgeat, and lime. "Hattori Hanzo" consists of a green tea infused Bulldog gin, sage liqueur, lemon, honey, and blackberry jam.
If you're more of a traditionalist – maybe you're a whiskey aficionado who simply craves a "Manhattan" or an "Old Fashioned," then feel free to request your favorites. Kapow! is known for being one of the best craft cocktail bars in the Boca Raton area and they are happy to fulfill your cocktail wishes.
Kapow! Noodle Bar is located in Mizner Park at 431 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, FL. You can find free parking in one of the garages or on the streets. They're open from 11:30 a.m. to midnight on Sunday through Thursday and from 11:30 to 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday. Don't forget to check out their happy hour special that features $5 drinks along with $4 to $6 small plates, Monday-Friday from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m.
Without a mention of the Rebel House, a post about the best cocktail places in Boca would not be complete. This restaurant has an energetic vibe with an ever-changing menu, seasonal craft cocktails, and their signature house inventions. They present a bountiful brunch with bottomless mimosas and "Dirty South Bloody Marys" on the menu. Enjoy a standard "Bloody Mary" or jazz it up with meat, cheese, pickle, celery, and jalapeño.
If you are someone who enjoys celebrating with seasonal cocktails, then you'll be pleased to know that the Rebel House has some special features on their fall menu. Take a taste of the "I'll Take A Graham." It's a S'Mores Old Fashioned made with high west campfire, graham cracker whiskey, vanilla simple, chocolate bitters, and toasted marshmallow. Or dare to sample "Casa Dragone's Drink," a mixture of "Dragon's Blood" Casa Dragones, green chartreuse, Mezcal, blood orange liquor, and blood orange slice garnish.
If you've never been there, you're in for a treat. The specialty of this restaurant is its focus on whiskeys and bourbons, combined with the staff's ability to crafting an eclectic assortment of cocktails using that traditional base. So if whiskey is your libation of choice—then the choices at Rebel House are many and varied.
Rebel House, located at 297 E. Palmetto Park Rd, Boca Raton, FL, is open daily from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and then reopens again at 5 p.m. each night. Closing time is at 10 p.m. on Sundays, midnight Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and 2 a.m. the rest of the week.
While Yard House is known for its local craft beer, the craft cocktails deserve some serious respect, too. Check out the "Pineapple Express," consisting of New Amsterdam pineapple vodka, Cruzan pineapple rum, Monin mojito, fresh pineapple, and mint. The "Upper Manhattan" is simple, yet delectable and made with Bulleit rye whiskey, sweet vermouth, peach purée, and aromatic bitters. The "Moscow Mule" is made with Russian standard vodka, house made ginger beer and served in a copper mug with a lime wedge. Sangria lovers will enjoy the house-crafted "Midnight Sangria" made with Fat Cat pinot noir, Hennessy V.S Cognac, Midori melon, citrus agave, clover honey, seasonal orange, and pomegranate seeds. And for the old fashioned set, there's a variety of "Old Fashioned" craft cocktails that are need no introduction. (So we won't mention them by name).
The Yard House is located in Mizner Park at 201 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, FL. The restaurant is open nightly from 11 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. from Sunday through Thursday, and until 1:20 a.m. on weekends.
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Global markets: Asian shares subdued, focus on new round of Sino-US talks
By: Reuters |
Tokyo | Published: February 12, 2019 7:36:53 AM
U.S. and Chinese officials expressed hopes on Monday that a new round of talks would bring them closer to easing their months-long trade war.
Japan's Nikkei was up 1.1 percent after a market holiday on Monday. (Reuters)
Asian shares barely budged on Tuesday with investors looking to a new round of Sino-U.S. trade talks as the world's two largest economies try to resolve a tariff dispute that has put a dent on global growth and corporate earnings.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was unchanged in early trade. Japan's Nikkei was up 1.1 percent after a market holiday on Monday.
U.S. and Chinese officials expressed hopes on Monday that a new round of talks would bring them closer to easing their months-long trade war. Beijing and Washington are trying to hammer out a deal before a March 1 deadline, without which U.S. tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports are scheduled to increase to 25 percent from 10 percent.
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"There will be no winner in a trade war. So at some point they will likely strike a deal," said Mutsumi Kagawa, chief global strategist at Rakuten Securities. The trade dispute has already started to impact global growth, hitting businesses confidence, factory activity and disrupting supply chains. The worry is that a protracted Sino-U.S. tariff row could severely hurt corporate earnings globally.
Analysts are now expecting U.S. corporate earnings for the current quarter to drop 0.2 percent from last year, which would mark the first contraction since the second quarter of 2016. In the currency market, the dollar held firm, having gained for eight straight sessions against a basket of six major currencies until Monday, its longest rally in two years.
Although the Federal Reserve's dovish turn dented the dollar earlier this year, some analysts noted the U.S. currency still has the highest yield among major peers and that the Fed continues to shrink its balance sheet. "We see the dollar's strength essentially stemming from the Fed's balance sheet reduction," said Makoto Noji, chief currency and foreign bond strategist at SMBC Nikko Securities.
Growing evidence of a loss of momentum in the global economy has also lifted the U.S. currency, most recently led by the European Commission's downgrade of growth in Europe, making the dollar a better investment option by default. The dollar's index rose to its highest levels in almost three months to 971.123 on Monday. It last stood at 97.062.In contrast, the euro dropped to as low as $1.1267 on Monday, its weakest in 2-1/2 months, and last stood at $1.1278 .
The dollar popped up to a six-week high of 110.51 yen. While the dollar drew support from the relative strength of the U.S. economy, its near-term direction hinges on the congressional negotiation on government spending. A Democratic Senator said on Monday negotiators were working into the night in hopes of striking a deal on funding border security programs through Sept. 30 and averting another round of federal agency shutdowns.
The talks resumed on Monday after having broken down over the weekend. Oil prices ticked up slightly after falls on Monday as traders weigh support from OPEC-led supply restraint and a slowdown in the global economy.
U.S. crude futures traded at $52.55 per barrel, up 0.27 percent.


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Pennsylvania Senator Richard Alloway II announces his retirement, effective Feb. 28 – Capital Growth Management Inc.
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Senator Richard Alloway II, a Republican serving Adams County and portions of Franklin, Cumberland, and York counties, announced Friday that he's retiring, effective at the end of next month.
"It has been an honor and a privilege to hold this position and to be the voice for local communities in Harrisburg for the past decade in the Senate," Alloway said in a statement. "I am extremely grateful for the trust that has been placed in me by community residents, and from the bottom of my heart, I thank all of my constituents for giving me that amazing opportunity and for helping me to be a better elected official.


My job was to add 25 illustrations and 109 vignettes to 109 fairy tales and produce a book that would be attractive to both children and grown ups. I used a metal comb on paper to create an abstract landscape from black and white rasters, in which I saw the motifs of the individual stories. I defined the structure of these abstract rasters and wove the motif of each individual illustration using the same black and white lines.


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2016 "Socialist Register" takes aim at politics of the global right
March 4, 2016	11:47 AM CST By C.J. Atkins
With its 2016 edition, "The Politics of the Right," the Socialist Register has once again demonstrated why, after 52 years, it remains one of the premier international academic journals of the left. This year's issue brings together a collection of nineteen essays by scholars from around the world engaging with the pivotal challenges presented by the advance of the political right on every continent. For American readers facing record turnout numbers for Donald Trump during the primaries, the growth of billionaire-funded "grassroots" organizations, and the resurgence of racist extremism, this focus on the right danger and its connection to international trends is especially timely.
Although the authors in the volume cover very diverse ground and vastly different political contexts – from Europe to Africa, Asia to the Middle East, and spanning both American continents – there is a unity of focus that draws all their pieces together. As the editors, Leo Panitch and Greg Albo, say in their preface, this year's Register is a "careful political mapping of the new right," dealing with the questions of its social base, organizational strength, influence in mainstream politics, and the extent to which it is already penetrating the state. For each of their respective countries or regions, the contributors seek to do just this.
Liz Fekete, for instance, traces the way in which overlapping ideological commitments are drawing together "ultra-patriot" far-right movements and centrist politicians in large swathes of Europe, as they converge on hyped-up fears of refugees, the denial of welfare services to immigrants, resistance to multiculturalism, and devotion to a system of law-and-order supposedly under threat.
Many of the authors draw a connection between these types of phenomena and the deterioration of democracy under the conditions of an ongoing neoliberal crisis. Geoff Eley, a historian of classical fascism and Germany, makes the point abundantly clear when he states, "As a practice of citizenship and participatory identification with a system of governance, democracy is becoming dangerously hollowed out." The onset of the financial crisis of 2008 and the incoherent response to it allowed "a politics that begins to look like fascism" to coalesce. Though 2008 and its aftermath, as Eley says, have really just been a further aggravation of the dislocation and uncertainty that has been the norm for millions since the beginning of capitalism's restructuring in the 1970s.
One condition allowing twentieth century fascism to prosper, as Eley points out, was the incapacity of the state to carry out its primary functions in relation to the economy and social cohesion. There was the growth of the idea that the 'system,' however interpreted, no longer worked and that a radical new alternative was needed. It is a call again heard from right-wing leaders in many countries today. What we don't see or hear, this time around, however, is an organized and vocal left opposition to such developments. In fact, as many contributors demonstrate, a number of populist right movements are gaining ground precisely in the aftermath of failed or stalled left advances.
For an American audience, the contributions from Doug Henwood and Bill Fletcher, Jr. are of particular interest, dealing as they do with the historical trajectory and current manifestations of right politics in the U.S. context. In Henwood's essay, readers receive a crash course in the development of the post-war right and the forces that have backed it – from the bristling of small businessmen caught between the New Deal compromise of big labor and big capital in the 1950s, to the new assertiveness of "movement conservatives" in the 60s and 70s, and culminating in the victory of Reagan in 1980 and the inauguration of the neoliberal era.
In the contemporary period, according to Henwood, the right consists of a fragmented business class consumed with short-term shareholder value and private equity schemes combined with a radicalized Republican Party, whose leadership often tends more toward the sabotage of government than the pursuit of the stability that characterized the conservatism of the past. The two feed off each other and aid one another in the pursuit of their respective agendas, but as Henwood reminds us, it would be a mistake to simplistically conflate them.
His point that the right's greatest accomplishment has been to steer the Democratic Party in its own direction over the last thirty years is well-made, but Henwood is perhaps too harsh and overly sarcastic in his critique of the American left's lesser-evilism. The thinking of the latter, in his estimation, runs along the lines of: "If the Democrats lose, brownshirts will move into the Oval Office." While an accurate description of the simple logic of many a liberal, it does tend to paint more sophisticated and nuanced strategic considerations vis-à-vis the right danger with too broad a brush.
Bill Fletcher Jr.'s contribution steps back from the institutional incarnations of the right to examine the ideological underpinnings of what, in his essay "Stars and Bars," he terms the "neo-Confederate" movement. While of course the agitation of Confederate flag supporters was a visible part of this trend, Fletcher guides readers to to take a wider view of today's political right. Like Henwood, he cautions the left not to mistake right-wing populism as simply an instrument or expression of big capital; construing it as such only leads to the inability to formulate a proper counter strategy.
At the core of the right resurgence in Fletcher's analysis, is race and the notion that specially oppressed groups serve to bring down the society around them. "Race, old and new," Fletcher argues, "serves as a convenient mechanism to displace anger about neoliberal globalization and focus it on other victims of globalization" – from immigrants to African-Americans to non-migrant Latinos.
White workers, who grew up with the firm belief that racial hierarchy would always keep them at least a few steps ahead on the ladder, have been forced to face the reality of declining wages and the elevation of people of color to positions of power, with the election of a Black president as the most powerful symbol of this shift. This powerlessness in the face of neoliberal restructuring and diversification of the public face of power have fueled the paranoia, fear, and anger of right-wing populism. It is a powerful analysis that is matched by the breadth of its strategic prescription: the only way to stop the right is to build a majoritarian popular-democratic bloc, with a reconstructed labor movement at its core.
Not ones to get lost in the fog of disconnected analysis, the authors in the Register all maintain this focus on political strategy; each demonstrates an acute appreciation for the fact that in many locales the left is still at an impasse and an urgent need for practical action to limit the advance of a new authoritarianism remains. While connecting the dots of todays' right-wing movements to their historical antecedents, there is also attention given to the very distinct ways in which they differ from the fascisms of the past.
In this, one of the most important factors is the very different relation of today's developing right movements to the international economy. Whereas the classical fascists of the 1930s were nationalists and economic protectionists, the practical programs of most of today's resurgent authoritarians displays a certain hypocrisy, or perhaps more accurately, a contradiction, on such questions. No matter how much they may brandish their blue collar credentials, the political consequences of their programs betray the true class interests served (even if not always consciously so) by many of these movements. As the Register's editors note, today the radical right "targets labor migration while tolerating the internationalization of capital." Thus in every wall that they may want to build to control the movement of workers, a door is always left open for capital to come and go as it sees fit.
There are many other powerful essays in the 2016 Socialist Register that are deserving of more commentary than this brief review allows. As a whole, the volume is an important contribution to discussions now going on in many countries about how to confront the danger of the right. It combines well-researched analysis with an attention to questions of strategy and organization. It could not have appeared at a more opportune time.
Socialist Register 2016: The Politics of the Right
Edited by Leo Panitch and Greg Albo
Available in the U.S. from Monthly Review Press, in Canada from Fernwood Publishing, and in the U.K. and the rest of the world from Merlin Press.
C.J. Atkins
C.J. Atkins is the managing editor at People's World. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from York University in Toronto and has a research and teaching background in political economy and the politics and ideas of the American left. In addition to his work at People's World, C.J. currently serves as the Deputy Executive Director of ProudPolitics.
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The exercise pad that sits rolled up the closet, while the treadmill serves as a clothes hanger, can make an ideal sleeping pad when you are camping. Additionally, instead of lugging your pillows from the bedroom into the woods, a large zip-lock bag filled with are can serve as a pillow. However, of all the camping tips offered, the best one may be not to put your head on the bag without a cloth covering.
When packing tools you think may be needed in camp, have a pair of channel lock pliers. They make good potholders for lifting hot pots off the fire. They can also be used to twist the baling wire for repairs, as offered in previous camping tips.
Many camping trips have been ruined by bad weather, and while it may not last the entire trip, even a few hours being cooped up in a tent can cause tempers to grow short. Be sure to have a few games and maybe some cards to help pass time while waiting for the sun to shine and the sky to clear. Among the most valuable camping tips may include the use od baggies or various sizes to help keep things dry. Even without the raining morning dew can make many things damp and be useless when needed.
Building a campfire is easier when it is dry and you use matches, and camping tips on making weather proof matches can be invaluable. The large wooden kitchen matches can be dipped in was to protect them from the humidity. They can also be coated with clear nail polish to make them waterproof, may will be harder to light. Using the cardboard rolls from toilet paper, stuffed with dryer lint or scrap paper make excellent fire starters while on a camping trip.


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Long Live Seattle's Autonomous Zone
The Rich Legacy of Autonomous Zones in the Americas
The Capitol Hill Organized Protest, Seattle's autonomous zone, is the latest in a series of resistance movements across the Americas.
By Hanna Wallis
An entrance to the Capitol Hill Organized Protest in Seattle, Washington on June 14, 2020. (Noah Riffe / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Seattle—On the evening of June 8, the street barricades in Seattle that had encircled tear-gas-laced standoffs for over a week became the boundaries of a new social order. The city's police department had just evacuated their east precinct on Capitol Hill, the former epicenter of protest frictions and the most densely populated residential neighborhood in Washington state. With the cops suddenly absent, activists protesting the police killing of George Floyd seized a six-block area around the police station. Before long, they had erected signs that read, "You are now entering a free Capitol Hill" and spray-painted the precinct house entrance, relabeling it: "The Seattle People's Department."
What has emerged inside those borders is an alternative society known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ)—now the Capitol Hill Organized/Occupied Protest (CHOP), an anti-capitalist vision of community sovereignty without police. Day by day, new projects spring up around the premises. On one corner, people of different races gather at a cluster of couches known as the "Decolonization Conversation Cafe." Across the street, they can access free food, water, clothing, books, and medicine from volunteer tents lining the sidewalks.
To some, the space represents a small utopia. For others, it's an anarchic violation of law and order. Despite the recent hype that has drawn tourists to check out the scene and has inspired the formation of similar encampments in other parts of the country, the CHOP is not an unprecedented or isolated event. It shares a history of resistance with Indigenous-led movements across the Americas.
Seattle's occupied zone replicates a long legacy of resistance organizing rooted in Latin America. The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) of southern Mexico began creating their own self-determined territories in the 1980s, after a century and a half of structural violence from the Mexican state. In 1994, 3,000 Zapatista members wearing black ski masks or red bandanas stormed public arenas, government buildings, and police stations in the state of Chiapas, in southern Mexico. The historic siege was sparked by the government's decision to sign the North American Free Trade Agreement with the United States and Canada, a deal that would further exploit rural and Maya communities. (Chiapas remains the poorest state in Mexico, and despite its enormous wealth of natural resources, 70 percent of its Indigenous population suffers extreme malnutrition.)
The Zapatistas understood that NAFTA would bring a mass influx of cheap corn imported from the United States and annihilate local farm economies and ecosystems; at the time, then-EZLN leader Subcomandante Marcos described it as a death sentence for Indigenous people. Similar to Black Lives Matter leaders who are calling for police abolition, the Zapatistas believed the answer to neoliberal trade deals was to reject the colonial and capitalist model that had marginalized their communities for generations. The only solution was to build a new vision of society from the ground up.
Zapatista women attend an event marking the anniversary of the resistance movement in Chiapas, Mexico, on December 31, 2019. (Hanna Wallis)
Throughout Chiapas, many Zapatista members now live and work in caracoles, autonomous and guarded areas where state and corporate presences are not allowed. They created their own self-governance structure, culturally specific education system, and infrastructure to achieve stronger food sovereignty. The Zapatistas changed global consciousness by showing the rest of the world that the people could succeed in building an alternative society.
In Seattle, the occupation on Capitol Hill is also proving that possibility. Instead of employing a punitive system that criminalizes people experiencing homelessness or mental illness, the CHOP community regulates itself with collective safety and de-escalation strategies. A group that calls itself the Seattle Bike Brigade patrols streets bordering the area beside volunteers with walkie-talkies. Whenever a suspicious or disruptive person is identified—a white supremacist on one occasion, a suspected informant caught photographing people's faces on another—people swarm the culprit to peacefully escort them from the premises. After two chaotic gunfire episodes, CHOP organizers drafted guidelines to limit late-night activity and substance use. Their efforts keep evolving as they work to translate the vision of a just and free society into practice.
The entrance to the Seattle Police Department's east precinct building on Capitol Hill. (Hanna Wallis)
Yet the CHOP differs significantly from the Zapatistas and similar movements because protesters are collaborating with city authorities and have no intention to make themselves fully sovereign. The space was formed not by a takeover but mostly because the police had evacuated. Organizers changed the name from the Capitol Hill "Autonomous Zone" to "Organized Protest" in part to deflect from the conservative media's fear-mongering claims that the community intended to secede. As one activist, who requested anonymity, explained, "We are not doing this to separate ourselves from America. It's because we are American that we want to make this space where we can come together, to be joyous, to have justice and equality."
Every day at 3 pm, a people's council meets outside the precinct house to strategize about how the community can accomplish long-term policy change outside of CHOP itself. There is no single person or group ostensibly leading the CHOP. Instead, the project strives for bottom-up organizing, echoing the Zapatista governance principle of "mandar obedeciendo"—to lead by obeying. Inside the CHOP, community members are prioritizing the voices of black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) speakers and striving for intersectionality. On June 14, they held a cultural day in which Pacific Northwest Native people from numerous tribes sang songs and drummed around a sacred fire encircled in cedar branches in support of black lives. "We don't care about oppression Olympics," an Indigenous woman reminded the crowd. "It's about realizing that our struggles are parallel to our black relatives' struggles."
Protesters emphasized that the same militarized police forces that kill BIPOC people in the United States also defend the fossil fuel industry and other extractive projects that destroy Indigenous lands around the world. (Both groups suffer disproportionate violence at the hands of US police.) Environmental defenders, many of them Indigenous, are murdered at alarming rates, particularly in Latin America. The impetus and goal of many resistance movements in the region is to protect and recover ancestral territory from the powers that usurped it—from Colombia's Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC) to the Landless Workers Movement (MST) of Brazil. For most of them, the first step to reversing exploitation, erasure, and genocide is securing land rights to have the physical space where they can manage their own resources and governance.
Drummers from numerous tribal nations hold a ceremony at the CHOP as part of an effort to unite black and Native struggles. (Hanna Wallis)
The CHOP, too, represents a reclamation effort on several levels: Police no longer rule a central hub of the city; Indigenous leaders are teaching the community to honor the Duwamish and Suquamish land they stand on (Seattle is named for Chief Sealth of the same tribes); and, surrounded by luxury townhouses that have gone up in the past decade, the protest area is also a symbol of resistance in the face of gentrification, where, unlike much of the city, new Amazon wealth hasn't pushed people of color and low-income residents out. Along with their three core demands: defunding the police, freeing protesters, and investing in BIPOC communities, CHOP activists hope to turn the east precinct building into a community center.
At a press conference on Monday, Mayor Jenny Durkan and Seattle Police Department (SPD) chief Carmen Best both said the City would be transitioning to end the experiment on Capitol Hill, citing the recent shooting incidents. They both emphasized that Seattle would commit to reinventing community safety by listening to BIPOC activists' guidance. Regardless of when and how the occupation disbands, the organizing coming from CHOP has already succeeded. Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant announced on Twitter on June 15 that the council had unanimously ruled in favor of legislation banning the SPD from buying tear gas and other protest-control weapons. Three days later, the Martin Luther King County Labor Council voted to expel the SPD union.
Prominent activist Nikkita Oliver reminded demonstrators on June 14 that their efforts at CHOP represented a symbolic victory, but only a starting point. She shared the recommendation that Seattle's former Black Panther leader Aaron Dixon had told her: "We should be spending 25 percent of our time dismantling the system and 75 percent building the world we want to see." As a lived expression of imagining radical change, CHOP has proven to Seattle the famous Zapatista axiom, "otro mundo es posible"—"another world is possible."
Hanna WallisHanna Wallis is a filmmaker and journalist focused on resistance movements. She is currently directing a documentary in rural Colombia about an unarmed Indigenous defense force, la Guardia Indígena.
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In the case of Arafat's death, it is 1260 + 1335 years (i.e., biblical numbers) from Ezekiel in 592 BC, but only after Ezekiel (and all epochs) are calibrated, as said, to Jesus the Messiah.
Hence, Arafat died 75 years and 96 [or 103] days (on the 360 calendar), which is why his death, symbolically speaking, was as 1929 or 1922 BC. The 75 years between his birth and death is the difference between the 1260 of Revelation 11, and the 1335 of Daniel 12. (1290 is simply 1260 with a leap month added.) That is, literal Aug. 592 BC (of Ezekiel 4) plus 1260 + 1260 years = literal Aug. 1929; therefore, Aug. 592 BC plus 1260 + 1335 years (1260 + 75) = Aug. 2004. Plus, 103 days more till his death.
2025 BC is a pivotal point of time in bible numbers, but I won't take time now to show how. It particularly works in the mirror (but not merely so). For instance, 2025 BC plus 70 jubilees (70 x 49, or, 7 x 7 x 7 x 10) = AD 1406, the mirror of when Israel entered the Promised Land in 1406 BC, and when the jubilee cycles officially commenced. (Arafat was largely responsible for taking back land form Israel through bogus peace talks. He took Jericho and Bethlehem, for example.) Hence, the actual literal AD 2025 coming up is a very important year on God's calendar. Interestingly, there were 490 x 7 years from the exodus of Israel from Egypt in 1446 BC unto when "Operation Exodus/Moses" occurred around spring of AD 1985, as prophesied in the acrostic about Dan, when thousands of Danites of Ethiopia were snatched and returned to their native homeland of Israel. It was their Jubilee---a prelude to what is to come!
I could go on, but this is sufficient to show that there is a connection, both numerically and thematically to Yasser Arafat's death to the Acrostic of Genesis 49, deciphered even as he took ill and then died.
Below is a chart put on the Net 7 years ago, as explained at 1260 days Bible Prophecy.
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Page one: Are horoscopes bible codes?
Page two: Why are bible codes so complex and in riddles?
Page three: What about "The Da Vinci Code."
Page four: What good are the bible codes?


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