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The death of a 38-year-old Fernie man at Elkview Operations, Sunday, remains under investigation. File photo
UPDATE: Death of 38-year-old Fernie man at B.C. coal mine under investigation
Vehicle collision occurred at approximately 10:45 a.m. Sunday morning
Phil McLachlan
Update: Monday, 10 a.m.
A 38-year-old Fernie man was killed after colliding with a fully loaded dump truck at Elkview Mine, according to RCMP.
On Sunday morning just after 10:30 p.m., Elk Valley RCMP was called to a report of a two-vehicle collision at Teck Coal's Elkview Mine in Sparwood.
Upon arrival, police learned that a pickup truck had collided with a fully loaded dump truck, and that the driver of the pickup truck was critically injured and did not survive. The driver of the dump truck was not injured.
Elk Valley RCMP continues to investigate the incident, and the circumstances which led up to the collision.
Sunday: 5 p.m.
Teck is reporting that a vehicle collision occurred at Elkview Operations this morning, resulting in the death of an employee.
The incident occurred at approximately 10:45 a.m. local time, November 18.
Elkview Operations is located three kilometres east of Sparwood in southeastern British Columbia.
"This is a tragic incident and our most sincere condolences go out to the employee's loved ones and co-workers," said Robin Sheremeta, Senior Vice President, Coal.
"We are conducting a full investigation of this incident to identify the cause and prevent a reoccurrence."
Appropriate authorities, including the RCMP and B.C. Ministry of Energy, Mines & Petroleum Resources, have been notified and an investigation into the incident is now underway.
According to a press release by Teck, no other employees were injured, and there is no ongoing safety or environmental risk.
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Garcetti pushes climate change at worldwide conference
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LOS ANGELES — Mayor Eric Garcetti said he hopes the presence of mayors and other local leaders at last week's COP21, the United Nation's climate change conference in Paris, will help push world leaders to reach an agreement effective enough to halt and reverse climate change.
Garcetti, who attended the conference, told City News Service he hopes the large gathering of mayors and other local official "finally builds the pressure for the world's leaders to come to an agreement."
"This is so different from Copenhagen," with "local leaders driving the agenda and not vice versa," he said.
Garcetti said he believes the Paris conference might be hosting "the biggest grouping of global mayors" who are tackling climate change.
"There is a real sense of urgency that cities are where the rubber hits the road," he said. "We're going to be responsible for the majority of actions to reverse climate change."
The 2009 climate conference in Copenhagen was widely viewed as a failure by world leaders to agree on goals aimed at preventing temperatures from rising by two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, up to a level that would make climate change effects especially dangerous.
Environmentalists and others were looking to the Paris conference as a second chance at reaching an agreement.
Garceti said in order to reach citywide emission reduction goals, and contribute to global efforts to stop climate change, Los Angeles will need to wean itself "completely off of coal" and switch to renewable energy, change how people travel and fuel transportation, and make buildings more energy efficient.
He added that more ships and other equipment at the Port of Los Angeles will need to be run on electricity. Cutting the amount of water imported to Los Angeles will also help reduce the energy use, he said.
COP21, also known as the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, continues until Dec. 11. Garcetti arrived in Paris Dec. 3 and left Dec. 5.
Garcetti spoke Dec. 4 during the "Cities of the Future: Innovation and Sustainable Urbanization in China" portion of the Climate Summit for Local Leaders. The event is hosted by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo. Bloomberg is the United Nations Secretary-General's special envoy for cities and climate change.
On Dec. 3, Garcetti met with other city leaders at Paris's City Hall during a meeting of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group as a member of its 13-person steering committee.
Garcetti also spoke Dec. 5 at the Cities & Regions Pavilion at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, as a representative for mayors from the United States.
Garcetti and five members of his office attended COP21, with most of the costs covered by Bloomberg Philanthropies and C40, according to mayoral spokeswoman Vicki Curry.
Garcetti released a report Dec. 2 touting the progress made in Los Angeles around issues of climate change, pointing to the city's greenhouse gas emissions, which are now 20 percent below 1990 levels. The city's goal is to bring emissions down to 45 percent below 1990 levels by 2025.
With cities creating 70 percent of greenhouse gases, "mayors must lead the way on climate action," Garcetti said.
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EDF Climate Corps Expands Internationally, Focuses on Top Energy-Saving Opportunities
Stephanie Kennard, (212) 616-1260, skennard@edf.org
Today, Environmental Defense Fund's Climate Corps announces its expansion into China, the world's largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Now in its seventh year, EDF Climate Corps is an innovative fellowship program that places specially trained graduate students in companies, cities and universities to save energy, money and the environment.
EDF Climate Corps fellows work to advance energy management within organizations by overcoming barriers to efficiency. By placing fellows in facilities across the U.S. and now China, EDF Climate Corps is closing the gap on resources and information needed to limit energy waste and advance low-carbon energy solutions.
"Climate change is already impacting us and we need to drive solutions for large-scale reductions in energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions that can be applicable anywhere," Victoria Mills, managing director of EDF Climate Corps said. "By continuing to demonstrate the environmental and financial benefits of advanced energy management, EDF Climate Corps is accelerating the transition to a low-carbon economy."
This summer, EDF will place 117 Climate Corps fellows in 102 host organizations. Five hosts are multinational companies with facilities in China: Apple, Wal-Mart, McDonald's, Cummins and Legrand. As China faces increasing urbanization, EDF Climate Corps' work there will support greater EDF efforts to advance market-based solutions to reduce emissions and shape the future of building energy efficiency.
While EDF Climate Corps is expanding internationally, the program continues to increase its impact in the United States. Two-thirds of this year's EDF Climate Corps fellows will work in the nine U.S. states that together consume more than half of the nation's energy: Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas and Florida. In Illinois, EDF Climate Corps joined forces with the City of Chicago to complement the city's Retrofit Chicago initiative to reduce building energy use by 20 percent over a five-year period. Fellows this summer will support building owners and operators in improving energy performance in some of Chicago's most prominent commercial buildings, including the Merchandise Mart.
"As a participant in the City of Chicago's Retrofit Chicago initiative, it seemed only natural for The Merchandise Mart to work with a fellow, given EDF Climate Corps' impressive success with building owners," Mark Bettin, vice president of engineering at Merchandise Mart said. "As the energy market matures in Chicago, we are excited to work with EDF Climate Corps to study newer technologies and refine the building's demand response capabilities."
Also as part of EDF's alignment with Retrofit Chicago, five area organizations, including Urban Innovations, have signed on to work with EDF Climate Corps as Feature Projects through December 2014 for a deeper dive into their energy performance.
"Urban Innovations is pleased to work with EDF Climate Corps as a Feature Project given that adaptive re-use of existing buildings has always been at the core of our business and embracing sustainable operations and practices is very much a natural evolution for us," Alfrieda Green, vice president property management at Urban Innovations said. "We look forward to leveraging the expertise and resources of EDF Climate Corps to strengthen our platform and develop an integrated approach to sustainable building operations and capital planning."
Further, thanks to support from The Wells Fargo Foundation, EDF Climate Corps will continue its partnership with the Building Green Initiative to place fellows in minority-serving institutions to improve energy efficiency within communities most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
"We see EDF Climate Corps as a smart investment that aligns with our business as a leading financer of high-performance energy-efficient buildings," Stephanie Rico, vice president, Environmental Affairs at Wells Fargo said. "It has returns far beyond cost savings from energy efficiency; it prepares our next generation of leaders who will join us in our efforts to help accelerate a transition to a 'greener' economy."
Since its launch in 2008, EDF Climate Corps has uncovered more than $1 billion in total energy savings for participating organizations, equivalent to eliminating 260,000 cars from the roads each year. Inspired by EDF Climate Corps' success, producers for Showtime Network's Years of Living Dangerously, a documentary series on climate change, tapped EDF to help tell the biggest story of our time. Last summer, producers followed three EDF Climate Corps fellows on their quests to save organizations energy and money. This Monday, May 26 at 8pm, the series will feature EDF Climate Corps and its work with participating organizations Caesars Entertainment, Office Depot and Texas Southern University.
See the full list of organizations and fellows participating in EDF Climate Corps. For more information, please visit edfclimatecorps.org.
EDF Climate Corps (edfclimatecorps.org) taps the talents of tomorrow's leaders to save energy, money and the environment by placing specially-trained EDF fellows in companies, cities and universities as dedicated energy problem solvers. Working with hundreds of leading organizations, EDF Climate Corps has uncovered nearly $1.3 billion in energy savings. For more information, visit edfclimatecorps.org. Read our blog at edfclimatecorps.org/blog. Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/EDFbiz and on Facebook at facebook.com/EDFClimateCorps.
Environmental Defense Fund (edf.org), a leading national nonprofit organization, creates transformational solutions to the most serious environmental problems. EDF links science, economics, law and innovative private-sector partnerships. Connect with us on EDF Voices, Twitter and Facebook.
Victoria Mills Managing Director


Tanios Bekaii-Saab, MD, professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, discusses the results of the phase III IDEA project for patients with stage III colon cancer.
This is another study that could change the standard of care for these patients, Bekaii-Saab explains. The study is looking at the question of 3 months versus 6 months of oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy. In the IDEA project, researchers examined patients from pooled international studies and explored whether exposing patients to a 3-month regimen is better. This is also due to the severe neurotoxicities that are associated with the extended chemotherapy, Bekaii-Saab explains.
In conclusion, the clinical relevance of these findings is that 3 months is the new standard for up to T3 and N1 tumors. It is the same for T4 or N2 except for higher-risk patients, for whom practitioners may consider an additional 3 months of 5-fluorouracil or capecitabine.


Radio Folie/Culture was Avatar's second release—a series of auditory interventions bypassing the classic reflexes of sound creation through lateral operation.
Radio Folie/Culture challenged the very basis of artistic interaction by layering treatments of the same material.
Radio Folie/Culture was coproduced in 1995 by Avatar and Folie/Culture in collaboration with Obscure and Quebec City's CKIA radio. The disk incorporates prerecorded material using Obscure's equipment as well as live recordings of work from Sans frontière, part of the fourth Folie/Culture festival.
Avatar launched the recording on October 22, 1996, at Folie/Culture's Sortir s'en sortir night. Radio Folie/Culture was also broadcast in its entirety on January 12, 1997, on Radio-Canada's Chaîne culturelle.
Paquet - Partaik - Saint Onge / Le "Rat D'eau"


HARPER WOODS, Mich. (WXYZ) — Police have begun an investigation in a Harper Woods neighborhood after multiple gunshots were fired Thursday evening.
According to the Harper Woods Police Department, at 7:24, officers responded to a home in the 19700 block of Damman on reports of multiple gunshots being fired. When police arrived on the scene, there were people fleeing.
Once officers gained control of the scene, they recovered at least 20 shell casings from different weapons at the home and in the street.
There were no reported victims of the shooting. Harper Woods police have arrested three suspects, and are actively searching for several additional suspects, according to a release.
Two homes in the area did sustain damage from the gunshots.
If you have information on this incident, contact Harper Woods police at (313) 343-2530.


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#include <sys/mman.h>
#ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
#define MAP_HUGETLB 0x40000
#endif
#ifndef MAP_HUGE_2MB
#define MAP_HUGE_2MB (21 << 26)
#endif

#include "memkind_hugetlb.h"
#include "memkind_default.h"
#include "memkind_arena.h"

const struct memkind_ops MEMKIND_HUGETLB_OPS = {
    .create = memkind_arena_create,
    .destroy = memkind_arena_destroy,
    .malloc = memkind_arena_malloc,
    .calloc = memkind_arena_calloc,
    .posix_memalign = memkind_arena_posix_memalign,
    .realloc = memkind_arena_realloc,
    .free = memkind_default_free,
    .get_mmap_flags = memkind_hugetlb_get_mmap_flags,
    .get_arena = memkind_thread_get_arena,
    .get_size = memkind_default_get_size,
    .init_once = memkind_hugetlb_init_once
};

int memkind_hugetlb_get_mmap_flags(struct memkind *kind, int *flags)
{
    *flags = MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_HUGETLB | MAP_HUGE_2MB;
    return 0;
}

void memkind_hugetlb_init_once(void)
{
    int err = memkind_arena_create_map(MEMKIND_HUGETLB);
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Jessa Duggar Seewald pregnancy: Does timing puts her at risk for Zika virus?
Jessa Duggar Seewald just revealed the news that she is pregnant with baby number two and fans are really excited. This, of course, brought up a discussion about Zika virus and if Jessa could have it. If you are pregnant, you can pass this on to your unborn baby. Jessa's sister Jill has been living in El Salvador, and Jessa went to visit her not too long ago.
Could Jessa have Zika virus?
Jessa was in El Salvador visiting her sister not long ago. Women who have been in this area have been advised not to get pregnant and to use birth control.
It is unknown if Jill kept from getting pregnant on purpose, but she is back in Arkansas at the moment and didn't get pregnant while on the mission trip.
Jessa is due with baby number two around February, which means she got pregnant after she took the trip, but only by a few months. Jessa would have had to bring the disease home with her for this to be an issue. You can get it from insect bites. More than likely Jessa and Ben's new baby is just fine, but of course, the Duggars will probably never talk about it all.
Should Jill Dillard be the next one pregnant?
If Jill is pregnant already, then she isn't sharing the news. Jill and Derick are back in Arkansas again. It would be smart for these two to wait to get pregnant until they were back here, but it is unknown how long they are going to be in Arkansas. Jill and Derick have made it very clear that they have plans to go back to mission work again.
Jill Dillard could have brought the Zika virus back with her as well, but if they wait a bit to have a baby, then they should be fine.
Honestly, though, Jinger Duggar is now engaged and could end up being the next one to have a baby. The Duggar girls usually get pregnant pretty soon after getting married.
Are you shocked to hear that Jessa Duggar Seewald got pregnant so soon after traveling to El Salvador? Do you think that she should have waited longer on purpose? Sound off in the comments section below on your thoughts, and don't miss new episodes of Counting On every Tuesday night on TLC.


The first week has been devoted to the joyous celebration of our Emmanuel's return to us. He has been visiting us each day, in order to make us sure of his Resurrection. He has said to us: See me! Touch me! Feel! it is indeed I! But we know that his visible presence among us is not to last beyond forty days. This happy period is rapidly advancing; the time seems to go so quickly! In a few weeks, He, for whom the whole earth has been in such expectation, will have disappeared from our sight. O Expectation and Savior of Israel! why wilt thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a way-faring man turning in to lodge? Why wilt thou be as a wanderer?—So much the more precious are the hours, then! Let us keep close by his side; when we cannot hear his words, let us fix our eyes upon him; but when he does speak, let us treasure up the beautiful words, for they are as the last will of our dearest Master.
During this forty days, he is continually with his Disciples, not indeed to persuade them of his Resurrection (for of that they had no longer any doubt), but as St. Luke says, that he might speak to them of the Kingdom of God. He has redeemed man by his Blood and his victory over death; he has wrought reconciliation between heaven and earth—all that now remains to be done is the organization of the Church. The Church is the Kingdom of God; for it is in and by her that God is to reign upon the earth. The Church is the Spouse of the risen Jesus; it is he that raised her up to so exalted an honor; and now he would give her the dowry which will prepare her for that glorious day when the Holy Ghost is to descend upon her, and proclaim her to all nations as Spouse of the Incarnate Word, and Mother of the Elect.
Three things are needed by the Church in order that she may carry on her mission: a constitution framed by the very hand of the Son of God, whereby she will become a visible and permanent society; the possession of all the truths which her Divine Lord came upon this earth to reveal or confirm—and in this is included the right to teach, and teach infallibly; thirdly, the means whereby she may efficaciously apply to the Faithful the fruit of Jesus' Sacrifice on the Cross, that is to say, the graces of salvation and sanctification. Hierarchy, Doctrine, Sacraments—these are the all-important subjects upon which our Lord instructs his Disciples during the forty days between his Resurrection and Ascension.
But before following him in his divine work of organizing the Church, let us spend the rest of this week in considering him as the Risen Jesus, dwelling among men, and winning their admiration and love. We have contemplated him in the humility of his swathing-bands and Passion; let us now exultingly feast on the sight of his glory.
He presents himself to us as the most beautiful of the sons of men. He was always so, even when he veiled the splendor of his charms under the infirmity of the mortal flesh he had assumed; but what must not his beauty be now that he has vanquished death, and permits the rays of his glory to shine forth without restraint? His age is forever fixed at that of thirty-three: it is the period of life wherein man is at the height of his strength and beauty, without a single sign of decay. It was the state in which God created Adam, whom he formed to the likeness of the Redeemer to come; it will be the state of the bodies of the just on the day of the General Resurrection—they will bear upon them the measure of the perfect age which our Lord had when he arose from his Tomb.
But it is not only by the beauty of his features that the Body of our Risen Jesus delights the eye of such as are permitted to gaze upon him: it is now endowed with the glorious qualities of which the three Apostles caught a glimpse on Mount Thabor. In the Transfiguration, however, the Humanity shone as the sun because of its union with the Person of the Word; but now, besides the Brightness due to it by the Incarnation, she glorified Body of our Redeemer has that which comes from his being Conqueror and King. His Resurrection has given him such additional resplendence, that the sun is not worthy to be compared with him; and St. John tells us that he is the Lamp that lights up the heavenly Jerusalem.
To this quality which the Apostle of the Gentiles calls Brightness, is added that of Impassibility, whereby the Body of our Risen Lord has ceased to be accessible to suffering or death, and is adorned with the immortality of life. His Body is as truly and really a Body as ever; but it is now impervious to any deterioration or weakness; its life is to bloom for all eternity. The third quality of our Redeemer's glorified body is Agility, by which it can pass from one place to another, instantly and without effort. The Flesh has lost that weight which, in our present state, prevents the body from keeping pace with the longings of the soul. He passes from Jerusalem to Galilee in the twinkling of an eye, and the Spouse of the Canticle thus speaks of him: The voice of my Beloved! Behold he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping over the hills! Finally, the Body of our Emmanuel has put on the quality of Subtility (which the Apostle calls "Spirituality"), whereby it is enabled to penetrate every material obstacle more easily than a sun-beam makes its way through glass. On the morning of his Resurrection, he passed through the stone that stood against the mouth of the sepulchre; and on the same day, he entered the Cenacle, though its doors were shut, and stood before his astonished Disciples.
Such is our Savior, now that he is set free from the shackles of mortality. Well may the little flock that is favored with his visits exclaim on seeing him: How fair and comely art thou, O dearest Master!—Let us join our praises with theirs, and say: Yes, dearest Jesus, thou art beautiful above all the sons of men! A few days back, and we wept at beholding thee covered with wounds, as though thou hadst been the worst of criminals; but now, our eyes feast on the resplendent charm of thy divine beauty. Glory be to thee in thy triumph! Glory, too, be to thee, in thy generosity, which has decreed that these our bodies, after having been purified by the humiliation of the tomb, shall one day share in the prerogatives which we now admire in thee!
Let us, destined as we are to share in the glory of our Jesus, offer to him this beautiful canticle, which used to be sung in the Churches of Germany during the Middle Ages.
O King of kings! Lamb of God! Strong Lion of Juda! by the power of the Cross, thou art the Death of sin, and the Life of justice.
To repair the evil done by Adam's eating of the Tree of Knowledge, thou now givest us the fruit of the Tree of Life: to remedy the theft committed by his ambition for glory, thou givest the medicine of grace.
Thy Blood quenched the fiery sword which justly menaced us. Thou openest heaven to us, O Root of obedience! O Medicine of Grace!
This is the great Day of the Lord, which brings peace to earth, and terror to hell, and light to heaven. It is the day of the twofold Baptism—of the Law and the Gospel.
Christ is our Pasch: the old one passes away, and the new rises in its stead. This is the Day which the Lord hath made: let us, who have put away the old leaven and feed on the unleavened, let us rejoice!
Thine enemies, my soul, are drowned in the sea; thy threshold is signed with the Blood of the Lamb: eat the Pasch prepared by fire in the Night; eat it in the One House; yea, eat it with wild lettuce.
Gird thy reins, shoe thy feet, and, with a stave in thy hand, hasten and eat the head and entrails and feet of the Lamb.
Cleanse us, O Jesus, this Day, with hyssop; make us worthy of the Mystery. Dry up the sea, that we may pass; and with the hook (of thy Cross) strangle the Leviathan.
Inebriate us, lull us to rest, inspirit us, with thy Chalice, O thou that didst drink of the torrent of our miseries on the way! O thou our High Priest, our Victim, our Wine-presser, our Vine!
O fragrant Flower of the Virgin Branch! rich with the dew of the seven Gifts, ruddy as the rose, and fair as the lily!—when that merciful design of thine, that made thee stoop to aid this little world, sharing our nature that thou mightest redeem us miserable men, and taking the likeness of sin, O thou the sinless God!
O Sovereign Lord! thou that hast made thyself Brother of thy creature Man! O Hope of our first and eternal Resurrection! we beseech thee, by the promise made to Abraham's seed, give us strength, O immortal King! and make us, who were sharers in our First Parent's death, be fellow members of thy life. Unite our weakness with thy strength, and bless us, O Blessed Paschal Lamb! with the pastures of eternal life. Amen.


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Arica Himmel, née le  à New York (État de New York), est une actrice américaine. Elle est notamment connue pour incarner Bow Johnson dans la série télévisée Mixed-ish.

Biographie

Arica Himmel est née et a grandi à New York. Elle est la fille de l'auteur-compositeur-interprète Zelma Davis et de Brandon Himmel. Elle a une sœur, Zoe Himmel, qui est également actrice.

Carrière
En 2019, elle est choisie pour incarner la jeune Rainbow "Bow" Johnson, le personnage principal de la série comique ABC Mixed-ish, un spin-off préquel de Black-ish.

Filmographie

Cinéma

 2019 : Before You Know It : Olivia
 À venir : Prom Pact : Zenobia

Télévision

 2016 : Thanksgiving : Harper Morgan (8 épisodes)
 2019 : God Friended Me : Lindsay Levy
 2019–2021 : Mixed-ish : Rainbow "Bow" Johnson (36 épisodes)
 2020 : Black-ish : Rainbow "Bow" Johnson
 2021–2022 : Side Hustle : Tabitha (3 épisodes)
 2022 : Maggie : Abby

Notes et références

Liens externes

Naissance en février 2005
Actrice américaine de télévision
Actrice américaine de cinéma
Naissance à New York

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Diplo - Blow Your Head
Posted on Tuesday 28 October 2008, 11:16 - updated on 14/04/09 - Music News - Permalink
(12") Mad Decent, 2008-10-28
Long awaited new Diplo vinyl! Ever since his solo album, "Florida", Diplo has been everywhere creating mixtapes ("Santogold", "I Like Turtles"), producing (M.I.A. "Paper Planes") and remixing tracks for such as Coldplay, Radiohead, Black Lips, etc. And of course managing the Mad Decent label and roster of artists. Now he's got a nice 12" of his own material - tracks he's been working on for a while, but these are all new mixes and none of these tracks have ever appeared on vinyl before. "Blow Your Head" is a remix of Diplo's own production "Wassup Wassup" featuring Rye Rye. This is more like a dub mix of the track, using Rye Rye vocals sparingly and killing the clubs with huge drums. "Must Be A Devil" might be Diplo's best production yet - reworking a Pixies line into one of his signature dancefloor sweat messes. The B-side features remixes from the European heavy hitters The Crookers and Bart Bmore, plus one from our own Philly club king DJ Sega. Full color picture sleeve from Gunsho, and every 12" comes with a free download code for 320 mp3 version.
A1. Blow Your Head
A2. Must Be A Devil
B1. Wassup Wassup (Crookers Remix) (feat. Rye Rye)
B2. Wassup Wassup (Bart Bmore Remix) (feat. Rye Rye)
B3. Wassup Wassup (DJ Sega Remix) (feat. Rye Rye)
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COMPOSITION IS HOW YOU USE AND ARRANGE THE VISUAL ELEMENTS IN YOUR IMAGE TO TELL A STORY TO YOUR AUDIENCE.
Composition is like a tool box full of different tools you use to guide the viewer's eye to the important aspects of your image. What all is inside that tool box? Symmetry, balance, texture, leading lines, color, framing, the rule of thirds, viewpoint, depth, background / foreground, rule of odds, fill the frame, negative space, isolating the subject, implied movement, etc. are some of the different terms used to describe the composition in a photograph. This post is only focusing on the basics, and we're going to start with the most basic element: the Rule of Thirds.
Back in the day when I was getting into photography, the Rule of Thirds was my obsession. Every single image I captured followed the Rule of Thirds. I lived on a happy Rule-of-Thirds cloud and couldn't understand why everyone wasn't swooning over every single one of my images like they were the perfection I saw them to be. The issue was that I was only looking at one aspect of the image, and they were looking at the photograph as a whole. My point is that using the Rule of Thirds won't automatically make you an amazing photographer, but it is one tools that you need to know how, and when, to use. It has became so ingrained in my image creation process that you can see the rule of thirds in almost every all of my wedding photography. It's now automatic when I'm photographing weddings to look for various scenes that I can apply the Rule of Thirds to. It's not just for wedding photography, though. The Rule of Thirds applies to all aspects of photography, and all other aspects of visual art.
The Rule of Thirds seems to be the first "rule" of composition that everyone discovers. It's simple, can be used in virtually any situation, and is the perfect introduction to composition.
Below are two images, one with a grid overlay and one without. Take a few moments to look at the image without the grid and take note of what you see. When the human eye / brain looks at an image it is traveling across the image in various ways, depending on the various compositional elements in the photograph. This all happens in our brains within a split second, so it can take some practice to be able to pay attention to how you are looking at an image. What part of the image is your eye drawn to? Where do you look first? Then, where is your eye traveling? Write this down, we'll be coming back to it in a second.
You see the grid I've placed on top of the second image, two vertical lines and two horizontal lines? It breaks the image into a horizontal top third section, middle third, bottom third, and then vertically a left, right and middle third. This grid is the visual representation of the Rule of Thirds. Some cameras, as well as the crop tool in most photo editing programs can be set to show this overlay while you're photographing or cropping. Lightroom and Photoshop both have this option.
The Rule of Thirds can be used two ways. The first is to place your subject along one of the vertical or horizontal lines. In the image above, you can see I've placed Ryder, the model, along the right vertical line. While she is looking to the right, her body is facing the open space to the left which is keeping the image balanced (more on that in Part II). By placing Ryder along one of the Rule of Thirds lines I'm letting the viewer know exactly what to look at.
The second way to use the Rule of Thirds is also applied in this image. Look at the four points on the grid where vertical and horizontal lines intersect. These are the four areas of the photograph where a subject will pop from. Notice how Ryder's right eye is almost exactly in the top right intersection. That location was chosen on purpose.
Think back to when you first looked at this photograph, and what you looked at first. How your eye traveled through the image. While it won't be exactly the same for everyone, chances are pretty good that you first looked at her face and the white shirt, and last at the rest of image. As a photographer, you use the rule of thirds to tell your viewers what to look at in the image. What the subject is.
This next image is a portrait of Los Angeles in early morning. Notice where the horizon is - along that bottom horizontal line. Two thirds of this image is just empty sky, well it's filled with smog but it's visually empty. When you look at this image, what do you take away from it? How does placing the horizon along the bottom third line of the image help provide a narrative, a story within the image?
When most people think of LA, they think of the hustle and bustle of one of the biggest cities in America. Hollywood, very high end retail stores, horrible traffic, etc. Yet this image has none of that. So what is it about? I'm forcing the viewer to confront the largeness and urbanness (is that a word?) of LA in a very different way. You can't see much of the city, yet you can tell that it extends off into the smog. You can't tell where it ends, only that you aren't seeing all of it. The trees in the foreground frame the city below (more on framing in further posts). Some may see this as an environmental photograph, others as a really bad representation of LA as it's not recognizable as that specific city. I see it as a visual representation of my trip to LA. I encountered more of nature than I expected to, I traveled through many parts of LA that aren't recognizable (except to locals) as part of that city. There is much more to the city than what meets the eye. And the smog? There is a lot of it.
Looking at this next image, see if you find where the Rule of Thirds is being applied. Without cheating and looking at the gridded image, if possible.
The front lip of the mug is right along that top rule of thirds line. The fact that it's the only part of the image that is in focus also helps draw your eye to that part of the image. By combining a shallow depth of field and the angle being where the front lip is closer to the camera than the rest of the mug (we'll get to those concepts in later posts), with the Rule of Thirds I am forcing the viewer to start looking at this image at the front lip of the lens mug. There is also an obvious contrast between the silver edge of the mug and the dark brown of the coffee inside it. This also helps draw your eye to this spot. You then see the coffee in the mug, and then your eyes travel down the mug as you realize it's designed like a camera lens, and finally landing on the magazine the mug is resting on. You can't really tell what the magazine is, and it doesn't matter in this image. The focus is that it's a lens mug with coffee in it - a photographer is starting their day.
Notice how I'm only using the horizontal part of the Rule of Thirds in this image. Vertically, the mug is centered in the frame and there is nothing to focus on when you look at the right and left third lines. There is nothing of interest at the four points where the vertical and horizontal lines intersect. There are so many different ways to use the Rule of Thirds in your photography.
Take a look at this next image. Take a moment to figure out where your eyes go in the image, what you're drawn to look at, and then compare it to the gridded image and analyze it for the Rule of Thirds.
What decisions do you think I made while composing this image? And what story is this image telling, based on the composition?
The top third of the image is empty space, the middle third is Saterra's hair and forehead, her eyes rest along that horizontal bottom third line, and the bottom third of the image consists of the rest of her face, and some fabric. The most striking thing about this image, in my opinion, is Saterra's gaze. Her eyes are staring straight into the viewer, and while you don't know anything about her you feel like she knows something about you. She has messy hair, her face is partially covered by see-through fabric, and you have no idea what is going on. Is she seducing you? Is she about to attack you? It's impossible to tell. By choosing to not include more of her body I've specifically created an image that makes you stop and wonder what is going on. Who is this woman and what is her story? While she isn't threatening, she is very mysterious. Had I placed her eyes along the top third horizontal line in the image you would have seen more of her body, her clothing, and you'd have more information to make a decision on who she is. That is not what I wanted, when creating this image. I wanted the sense of mystery, I wanted the viewers to stop and try to figure out who she was and what was going on.
What do I want you to look at? What do I want you to be thinking about when you look at these images? How have I used the Rule of Thirds to achieve my goal? The important thing to remember is The Rule of Thirds is only one tool used in these images.
The viewer follows the dog's gaze out between the curtains. While you can't see what he is looking at, you can tell he is relaxed and comfortable. There is no urgency, no alarm. There is a sense that all is right, there are no threats. With respect to the Rule of Thirds - his eyes and gaze are along the bottom third of the image, however notice that I chose to place his eyes in the middle of the image (not on the left or right third). This leaves enough of the image on the left to give you information on the dogs body language. Had I placed his eyes in the bottom left intersection, shifting the image to the left, it would have left too much empty space on the right and the story would have been more about what the dog was looking at, instead of about the dog himself. Had I placed his eyes further to the right, at the bottom right intersection, it would have lessened the mystery of what the dog was seeing out the window. This composition tells the story of both the dogs mood in this moment, and leaves the viewer with a bit of wonder at what he's looking at.
Why did I choose the bottom third of the image to place my subject? Because that leaves the top third for the curtains. I could have placed the dog the middle or top of the image, which would have showed more couch and less curtains, but this image is not about the room the dog is in. It's about the mood of the dog, and the world outside that he is looking at.
Do you agree or disagree with this analysis? The amazing thing about art is that it is subjective. Everyone that looks at this image is looking through the lens of their life experiences, and as an artist it's virtually impossible to know exactly what moment in their own life a viewer may be taken back to while looking at my work.
The Gulf of Mexico at sunrise, down at Padre Island National Seashore. It's fair to argue that the Rule of Thirds wasn't even applied here, but I disagree. The small mounds of sand in the foreground are positioned along the bottom third line, but what, if anything, does it add to the image? I really want you to gather your own opinions before I launch off into mine, so please do that first, then continue reading below the images.
So, what do you think of this image? Does the Rule of Thirds play a major role in it? Personally, I don't feel it plays quite as large of a role as it does in other images above. While the bottom third of the image is where the subject, the two mounds of sand, are, I would have to argue that the overall color and use of the light in the image plays a much more important role than the Rule of Thirds. The early morning light coming from the left, casting the shadows on the mounds of sand, makes them appear much larger than life, almost playing an optical illusion on the viewer as they try and figure out what they're actually looking at. The shallow depth of field (blurriness of the background) adds to this as the viewer searches around the image for clues as to what they're looking at. The one important aspect, relating to the Rule of Thirds, is that the bottom third below the mounds of sand is very plain, empty of objects. This helps focus the viewer on the mounds of sand while providing some environmental clues as to where the mounds of sand are.
What is the subject in this photograph?
Where am I placing the subject?
How does where I place the subject help tell the story that is in this photograph?
Ask yourself these questions AS you're shooting, while you're looking through the viewfinder. Also ask yourself these questions when you're looking at your photographs the next day, the next week, etc. What is the story you're telling in the photograph, and does use of the Rule of Thirds help tell this story? Or does it make it hard to tell the story? Go look at the work of a photographer who inspires you. Can you see the rule of thirds in any of their work?
Are there times when you should NOT use the Rule of Thirds?
Yes. YES. Very yes. These are all examples of when the Rule of Thirds would have hurt the overall composition of the image, instead of helping it. The Rule of Thirds has to be broken for some images to work, but until you have learned how to use the Rule of Thirds you won't be able to tell if brekaing it, or using it, will make the stronger image.
While the twine on the wedding invitation above isn't centered, it also isn't along the top third line. It's un-centered enough to create visual interest. With equal the border of leaves around the invitation, I knew that it would be a very boring photograph with the twine either centered, or along the 1/3 line. It would feel forced and less natural, so I broke the rule of thirds. The focus in the second image is the back of the bride's dress, and the light playing across her back. While the composition is deliberate, the rule of thirds is completely vacant in this image. Overlaying the grid makes no sense, and neither of these photographs follow the Rule of Thirds at all.
The only way you'll ever know when it's appropriate to use the Rule of Thirds is through practice, experimentation, and receiving honest critique of your work. Personally, I use the rule of thirds a lot in my work. More specifically, I typically use the bottom and right parts of the image for my subject and the top and left parts of the image to help portray the environment / context clues as to what the image is about.
Go forth and make some photographs! Experiment with the different ways you can apply the Rule of Thirds in your work!
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Q: Debugging problem I have made some changes to my project, when I debug, application seems to run the old .exe file, not the updated.  I know it happens when there are some errors but I do not get any error messages also I checked the error list, it does not show any errors.
I also re-started Visual Studio, but nothing has changed.
Please advise.
Thanks and best regards,
Furqan

A: This sometimes happens. You can try two thing:

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*In the menu, under "Project" (I think), go to "Clean solution"

*If that doesn't help, go to the folder where your project is stored, go into the Debug folder and delete the exe file.

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In The Event has worked with 4Life for the past four years on their conventions, and is in the process of planning the fifth. We love working with their events team and were thrilled to assist with their 15 year anniversary celebration and the grand opening of the new south building at the company's Global Headquarters in Sandy, Utah.
In The Event provided florals and linens for the opening party. For the new product store within the new south building, In The Event developed custom LED light displays to spotlight the products arranged in the window displays. Additionally, one of our LED highboys was customized and used as a podium for speakers, set atop our dance floor mods, during the ribbon cutting ceremony. We also assembled floral designs for the entryway of the new building.
The event was broadcasted live to 4Life offices worldwide. Speakers at the ribbon cutting ceremony included Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, Congressman Jim Matheson, and Sandy City Mayor Tom Dolan. Congrats to 4Life on their building expansion!


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Judge: US violated victims' rights in Jeffrey Epstein sex abuse case
A judge rules the Department of Justice violated the law by failing to confer with victims of Jeffrey Epstein.
February 21, 2019 at 9:19 PM CST - Updated February 22 at 6:57 AM
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Florida violated the rights of victims by secretly reaching a non-prosecution agreement with a wealthy financier accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra said in a 33-page decision that victims of financier Jeffrey Epstein should have been consulted under federal law about the deal. Marra stopped short of invalidating the non-prosecution agreement but asked prosecutors and victims' lawyers to recommend in 15 days how to move forward.
"While the government spent untold hours negotiating the terms and implications of the (agreement) with Epstein's attorneys, scant information was shared with victims," Marra wrote. "Instead, the victims were told to be 'patient' while the investigation proceeded."
The law, Marra added, "lends itself to only one interpretation; namely, that victims should be notified of significant events resulting in resolution of their case without a trial."
Epstein, now 66, reached the deal in 2008 with then-Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta's office to end the federal probe that could have landed him in prison for life. Epstein instead pleaded guilty to lesser state charges, spent 13 months in jail, paid financial settlements to victims and is a registered sex offender.
Acosta, now President Donald Trump's labor secretary, has defended the deal as appropriate given what prosecutors knew and could prove at the time, especially with many victims reluctant to testify. Marra said in his ruling he was not passing judgment on whether the deal should have been struck, only that victims' rights were violated.
Bradley Edwards, attorney for two victims who brought the lawsuit, said the decision should mean the non-prosecution agreement is thrown out — possibly exposing Epstein to federal charges once again. The agreement also granted immunity to anyone who assisted Epstein in finding the underage girls or concealing the abuse.
"Rather than work to correct the injustices done to the victims, the government spent 10 years defending its own improper conduct," Edwards said in an email. "It is time for the government to work with the victims, and not against them, to hold everyone who committed these crimes accountable."
The Miami U.S. attorney's office declined comment Thursday. The Justice Department, however, recently opened a separate investigation into the handling of the Epstein case to determine whether prosecutors committed professional misconduct.
U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Oversight Subcommittee, said in a prepared statement that the Justice Department should reopen its non-prosecution agreement so Epstein and anyone else who abused these children are held accountable.
Sasse says given judge's order, DOJ should reopen the non prosecution agreement with Epstein and prosecute him — pic.twitter.com/58mlul80qI
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 22, 2019
"Jeffrey Epstein is a monster and his victims deserve justice," Sasse said. "I'm relieved that the court agrees that it was wrong to hide this child rapist's pathetically soft deal from his victims, in violation of federal law. The fact that it's taken this long to get this far is heartbreaking and infuriating."
Earlier this month, the Labor Department run by Acosta issued a statement saying the secretary welcomes the Justice Department probe.
"For more than a decade, this prosecution has been reviewed in great detail by newspaper articles, television reports, books, and congressional testimony," the statement said, adding that "the actions taken were in accordance with department practices, procedures, and the law."
Court documents show Epstein had a Palm Beach, Florida, mansion where at least 40 underage girls were brought for what turned into sexual encounters. Authorities say he had female fixers who would look for suitable girls, some local and others recruited from Eastern Europe and other parts of the world.
Before the scandal broke, Epstein was friends with Trump and had visited his Mar-a-Lago resort. Trump at the time told interviewers that Epstein was "a great guy." Records also show former President Bill Clinton flew on Epstein's jet more than two dozen times on various philanthropic trips. Neither Trump nor Clinton have been implicated in any wrongdoing.
Epstein also has a home in New York City, a ranch in New Mexico and a private Caribbean island.
A man screaming "You die!" burst into an animation production studio in Kyoto and set it on fire early Thursday, leaving at least 23 people confirmed or presumed dead, a Japanese fire official said.
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Scientific Council Extended
by Stefan Blachfellner Oktober 7, 2011
The Board of the BCSSS has nominated another four distinguished researchers as members of the Scientific Council. In alphabetic order these academics are:
Prof. emeritus Mario Augusto Bunge from McGill University in Montreal, Canada; he was born in Argentine and recently held a remarkable speech at the 4th Regional Congress of the Latin American Association of Systemics (ALAS) in Buenos Aires; he is a philosopher of science and system theorist dealing with a broad range of topics in a broad range of domains; he is a famous proponent of the systemic emergent materialism which need not only be applied to the mind-body problem; he is known as a severe critic of both reductionism and holism
Prof. emeritus Klaus Kornwachs; he is a philosopher of technology who had been working at the Brandenburg University of Cottbus, Germany; educated in physics, mathematics and philosophy, he taught cybernetics beginning in 1974, did research in open systems and information and founded in 1988 the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Systemforschung e.V.; currently he is teaching at Ulm University
Prof. Gerald Midgley; after spending some time as Science Leader for the Systems Thinking, Action Research and Social Science group at the Christchurch Science Center in New Zealand, he is back to UK and serves as Director of the Centre for Systems Studies at the Business School of the University of Hull; besides other publications he authors, he is editor of a four volume anthology of "Systems Thinking" with Sage
Prof. Rainer E. Zimmermann; educated as physicist and philosopher, he taught many years philosophy at the University of Kassel and is still teaching philosophy at the Munich University of Applied Sciences; he is Life Member of Clare Hall at Cambridge; he is famous for representing onto-epistemology, has been working on self-organisation and evolutionary systems; since 2006 he has been concerned with the systems thinking of Edgar Morin
Bunge, Kornwachs, Midgley and Zimmermann consort with László and Morin who have been the first members elected by the Board. The Scientific Council gives the Bord advice in matters of activities of the Center.
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How did you feel when you received that letter?
It felt like my gut had been ripped out.
So you have some health issues, what are they?
I have a rare condition called Guillain Barre Syndrome. If I stress out my body freaks out and I can drop things. My peripheral nerves have been damaged where I have no motor nerves or sensory nerves. Everything feels like velvet to me. I can feel the difference between sharp and blunt and hot and cold but everything else is velvet. I can't peel oranges or anything round but everything else I can cut up and peel but I have to be careful. That's why this house has been modified for me, the oven is up and the bench tops are low and the doorways are wide to allow me to fit my wheelchair through. They have made it easy to get things from the bench top and eat at the table.
How has Lorelle Corderoy from the Greater Sydney Aboriginal Tenants Service been helping you?
Lorelle has been a big help in advocating for me. She has made sure that she attends meetings with Housing, the relocation officer and Occupational Therapists. They contact Lorelle before they contact me, and only Lorelle can allow them to call me.
Ok and does that take some stress off you?
Absolutely, yes, yes. It's such a big help. I couldn't eat or sleep because Tyson my companion cat of 17 years got renal failure and then passed away on Christmas day last year.
So that makes the relocation even harder?
Yes, they want to put 18 units in this street but the homeowners have gone against the idea because the sewage is already really bad in the street. I have already called the guy twice this year and they said it would take 24 hours. So I called Lorelle and said I can't wait that long as I have to go to the toilet and its about to overflow and I cant go to a public toilet due to my condition. So that has been a big help as she rang housing and they had someone here within 4 hours. Also, the neighbours and I have a little vegie garden around the side and I like to feed the bird and that's a big thing for me as it means I don't stress as much. And the neighbours are like friends and family around here. They help you out when you need it. When Tyson passed away I couldn't lift the body off the couch and the neighbours came over and helped and the neighbours have always said that if I ever need help to just ask. I don't want to move, as you never know the people you are likely to get.
Just having that stress about where you are going to be moved is not good for your health?
Yeah well that's it. When my sister came down because of Tyson's death, the relocation officer called and I had her on speakerphone. And she said that if you decline the house you will have to move to the flats in Padstow. I said no so she said that she would just terminate the tenancy and I would be thrown out on the street. I put in a complaint letter and also with Lorelle's assistance that relocation officer is not with us anymore and we have a new one.
Have you been treated better with the new one?
She has been OK, but I am wary with people who smile and are too kind as I don't want to let my guard down. People have to understand that I'm 66 years old and it's hard for me to move on because I have nothing at this point.
So you don't have friends or family close by?
No family or friends, the only friends that I have live in this street. It's like I have been taken and put in another country where I don't know anyone. That's how I feel about the relocation.
They just call themselves human services but it isn't human. The old lady across the road she got moved after 25 years, I said that I would see her soon and she responded with if I'm still alive. She had given up because no one was fighting for her. It was only Lorelle and I who stand up for her. Why are they punishing us? I have worked for 30 years and it isn't my fault I can't work any longer, I was given the wrong medication.
With the modifications that you have in the house now, does that mean that you can do everything by yourself without assistance?
Yes without assistance yes, they re-did the kitchen so I could reach it. They re-did the oven and a lazy Susan and knocked a wall out so I could go from the lounge room to the kitchen. They put in a new colour bond fence.
Did they offer you a new property?
Yes they did and it was filthy, had no toilet seat and excrement everywhere. The place had cockroaches everywhere. They didn't even clean it before they showed me. I couldn't fit into the bathroom as the bath was small and on the wrong side. I'm too old to adapt my body to new changes and I'm scared.
Did they say that they were going to make modifications in the new property or what did they tell you about it?
They said that they were going to put the bedroom in the lounge room and change the door from the entrance and move the power box from the back to the front in case there was a blackout. They were going to change the small kitchen into a dining room but I can't have the chair in there. The plumber said that he didn't know about the plumbing but I need the assistant to be able to get behind me when I transfer to the bath.
At that point I put in a complaint as I felt they were treating me with contempt and as a proud Aboriginal women I'm not having my pride and my integrity belted around like that. I felt like because I'm an Aboriginal woman they thought I would just take it. But I don't have to take it and they can't treat me like a second-class citizen.
So do you feel like Lorelle has helped you to stand up for your rights?
Yes the support has been great and also Paddy Gibson and we have spoken to the Koori Mail and had posters made up. The Labor candidate Cameron Murphy said, "If I get in you wont be moving," but the other candidate got in.
Which other services do you have helping you, like getting groceries?
me after all this time and just ship me off to a strange place.
So would you recommend Lorelle to other people who would need help?
Are you going to keep fighting?
You better believe it. Don't take my kindness for weakness because you wont get a second chance. I rang Linda Bernie and she wanted to come and see the environment. She said that she would send off a letter to the Minister of Housing and now we're waiting for a response. You can't just come and move people out of their homes. It's not fair.


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Poland, Belarus & Ukraine Report: May 21, 2002
21 May 2002, Volume 4, Number 20
GERMAN DEBATE ABOUT CENTER AGAINST EXPULSION REACHES POLAND. Last week, Germany's Bundestag discussed the issue of setting up a Center Against Expulsion (Zentrum gegen Vertreibung) to commemorate the suffering of some 15 million Germans expelled from Eastern and Central Europe after World War II. The proposal to create such a center in Berlin originated some two years ago within the League of Expelled Germans (Bund der Vertriebenen, BdV) led by Erika Steinbach, a member of the German parliament. In the Bundestag, the BdV idea is supported by the opposition Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union caucuses. The ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD)-Greens coalition proposed its own motion regarding the Center Against Expulsion. It seems that sooner or letter such a center will be created. The argument in Germany now focuses on the nature of such a center and its headquarters.
Several months ago, SPD deputy Markus Meckel proposed that such a center/museum be created in the Polish city of Wroclaw (Breslau in prewar Germany). Wroclaw was completely cleansed of its German population in 1945 and repopulated in a forced resettlement by Poles from prewar Poland's eastern territories that were incorporated into the Soviet Union.
"In my opinion, if the center is to be created, this should be done on completely different conditions [than those proposed by the BdV]," Meckel told the Polish daily "Rzeczpospolita" in March. "Namely, the center should be created jointly with Poles, let's say, in Wroclaw. I think that Wroclaw -- the Polish city which has in recent years opened itself to an amazing extent toward its German past -- would be an ideal place for such a center. From the very beginning one should view [the idea of the center] in European categories, without limiting oneself to the presentation of the history of only one nation or only bilateral relations. And such an undertaking could be joined by Czechs."
Meckel's proposal was inconspicuously discussed by Polish historians and journalists in "Rzeczpospolita" in March and April, and found itself in the public spotlight in Poland only last week, when "Gazeta Wyborcza" Editor in Chief Adam Michnik and "Polityka" journalist Adam Krzeminski published an open letter to Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder urging them to support the proposal to set up such a center in Wroclaw.
"This would not be a museum of German woes and miseries, turning perpetrators into victims, nor a museum of Polish martyrology and colonization, but a museum of catastrophe and a sign of renewal of our shared Europe," Michnik and Krzeminski wrote. They proposed to present the history of expulsions in 20th-century Europe, starting from the Armenians, Greek, and Turks, and ending with Bosnia and Kosova. The postwar expulsion of Germans and the forced resettlement of Poles would be elements of the general picture of European expulsion policies.
On 15 May, Krzeminski explained the idea of the center on Polish Radio. "Mrs. Steinbach wants to build a museum of the expulsions of Germans, which is not what we were ever about. We are concerned to show the history of Poles, of Germans, but also of expulsions in Europe. Dragging this museum to Berlin is also a step for weakening the Holocaust Museum that has been created, right? Here we are -- the Germans, the perpetrators of the genocide; and here we, the Germans, are victims."
Erika Steinbach dismissed Michnik's and Krzeminski's appeal regarding the center in Wroclaw. "The expellees were not just coming out of Poland but from many other countries. The center should be in the German capital," Reuters quoted her as saying.
PAP reported that in her open letter, which was made public on 18 May, Steinbach suggested that Michnik and Krzeminski actually intend to block the creation of the Center Against Expulsion in Germany. "Schroeder may not get rid -- with the help of your invitation, Mr. Michnik -- of the dramatic part of German history by dumping it onto Poland," PAP quoted from Steinbach's letter. Steinbach stressed that the Center Against Expulsion should be located in Berlin, and added that Poland is free to build its own center in Wroclaw or elsewhere.
Michnik's and Krzeminski's appeal was met with an angry rebuke from Poland's right-wing pro-Catholic League of Polish Families (LPR) which called it an "antinational provocation." According to Antoni Macierewicz from the LPR, the appeal "intends to start anew the discussion about the Polish ownership right to the northern and western lands" (that is, the former German territories incorporated into Poland after World War II). Macierewicz added that the Polish government should rather make every effort "to stabilize Polish ownership" on the northern and western territories because, Macierewicz added, "a majority of Poles living there have so far not obtained full ownership rights to the real estates they possess."
NATIONALISM AND REFORM. In Ukraine and Belarus political groups can be readily categorized into three groups -- the extreme left (Sovietophiles, such as Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka; communists; and pan-Eastern Slavists), centrists, and center-right national democrats. The extreme right in both countries have miniscule support; racist and anti-Semitic remarks are more often heard from the extreme left.
The policies of these three groups can be also easily divided according to their support for three parts of a single programmatic package -- national revival (identity, language, culture); democratic and market reform; and cutting ties with the Soviet past and replacing Soviet and Eurasian values with European ones through "returning to Europe." As one moves from the extreme left to the center-right in Belarus and Ukraine, support for these three parts of a single programmatic package increases.
The strongest support for democratic reform and integrating into Europe is therefore to be found among center-right national democrats. It is no coincidence that support for these three aspects of a single program are also backed by political parties who draw upon those sections of the Belarusian and Ukrainian populations who have higher national consciousness and promote national revival and nation building. National identity, reform, and a pro-European orientation are intimately linked in Belarus and Ukraine.
National democratic parties in Belarus and Ukraine are usually negatively depicted as extreme, anti-Russian "nationalists" by the Western media, scholars, and policy makers. One reason for this is the continued location of Western journalists in Moscow (as in the Soviet era), who write about the non-Russian former Soviet republics from this Russian vantage point or after occasional forays into Belarus or Ukraine. Moscow-based journalists and Western scholars with a Russophile Soviet-studies background have also tended to reinforce the stereotype that nationalism in Belarus and Ukraine is negative, especially when it attempts to provide affirmative action for Belarusian and Ukrainian language and culture subjected to centuries of Russification.
In Belarus and Ukraine the center-right national democrats are akin to center-right parties in earlier periods of the West. (Scholars have still to provide any theoretical evidence to differentiate between civic nationalism and patriotism.) In Belarus and Ukraine, nationalism is of a civic, patriotic variety that seeks to implement the necessary political, economic, and administrative reforms oriented toward radically breaking with the Soviet past and thereby integrating these countries into Europe.
The tsarist and Soviet historical experience is understood as a negative aberration that placed Belarus and Ukraine outside European and Western developments. Not surprisingly therefore, the extreme left are their arch opponents because they say the exact opposite. For Lukashenka, the Soviet experience was the most important historical event for Belarus in its entire history. As this was undertaken together with Russia as the "elder brother" of the USSR, then it is only natural for Belarus and Russia to be in union. Likewise, the Communist Party of Ukraine led by Petro Symonenko has been the only strong supporter of Lukashenka's regime in Ukraine.
Pan-Slavists agree with the communists and Sovietophiles that "White Russia" (Belarus) and "Little Russia" (Ukraine) should orientate themselves wholeheartedly to Russia. Where pan-Slavists and communists/Sovietophiles disagree is how their prescription for the present is based on their past understanding. Pan-Slavists look to the pre-Soviet era as their "golden age" and therefore see no problem in Belarusians and Ukrainians becoming part of Russia. Communists and Sovietophiles see the Soviet era as their "golden age" and therefore would not accept anything other than a union of sovereign republics. Pan-Slavists can be best depicted as Russian nationalists and communists/Sovietophiles as Soviet nationalists.
In Belarus and Ukraine, centrists and national democrats are allied against the extreme left. In Belarus this was clearly seen in the September 2001 presidential elections when the majority of national democrats and centrists allied together into an election bloc led by Uladzimir Hancharyk, head of the Belarusian Trade Union Federation, to oppose Lukashenka's re-election. In Ukraine, the equivalent head of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine, Oleksandr Stoyan, was a high-profile member of Viktor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine bloc. In Ukraine, all centrist parties oppose Ukraine's membership of the Russian-Belarusian union.
Centrist parties in Belarus and Ukraine are at once the easiest to define and the most difficult to categorize. Centrists tend to have their origins in the Soviet higher nomenklatura who abandoned the Communist Party in favor of "sovereign communism" in 1990-91 and then altogether when the party was banned after the August 1991 putsch. Centrists at first created no political parties but used their patronage networks to establish a nonconstituted "party of power." From the mid-1990s the "party of power" transformed itself into regional mini-"parties of power" in Ukraine as economic gains made in the reform process were transformed into political power. This happened to a greater extent in Ukraine than Belarus, because reforms were speeded up after 1994 whereas in Belarus Lukashenka's election in 1994 led to the gradual re-introduction of a neo-Soviet regime. Centrists were able to become oligarchs only in Ukraine.
Because of their link to the Soviet past, centrists and oligarchs straddle the Soviet Eurasian past and the European future. Their past ways of operating in a nontransparent, corrupt fashion using patronage networks have been continued in Ukraine in the post-Soviet era. During the Brezhnev "era of stagnation" they learned to pay lip service to officially espoused rhetoric, then in the march from "developed socialism" to communism and now for "reform" toward "integrating into Europe." Centrists and oligarchs prefer not to completely break with the Soviet past and hence prefer "third-way" populist alternatives.
In the foreign policy arena they will espouse integration into the EU, and less so into NATO, but still prefer to remain active in the CIS. Hence, "multi-vector" foreign policies are preferable. Decisiveness in domestic or foreign policy is therefore not one of their strong points.
As centrists originated in the largely Russified former Soviet nomenklatura, it is not surprising that their strongest support comes from the Russophone population. Hence, centrists are supporters of state building and independence but lukewarm on nation building, something that divides them from national democrats. In Belarus, most national democrats are willing to overlook the division with centrists on the national question because of their commonly perceived threat from Lukashenka. Russophones are the most passive and least active in civil society as well as being the most amorphous both ideologically and in national consciousness. Ideologically driven parties in Belarus and Ukraine only exist on the left and right.
In conclusion, if Western policy towards Belarus and Ukraine aims to strengthen the reform movement, then it has little choice but to support these very same national democrats whom it has often criticized in the past.
(This report was written by Dr. Taras Kuzio who is a resident fellow at the Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto.)
"All of us should go to vote for Self-Defense. One hundred percent should cast ballots because those not casting ballots take part in the polls all the same. Let's elect a majority. Let's elect Poles. Let's not complain later that we are governed by a minority." -- Andrzej Lepper, the leader of the radical, populist Self-Defense farmers union, to a crowd of 2,000 in Zamosc, southeastern Poland; quoted by PAP on 20 May.


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Михаил Андреевич Кузнецов (22 сентября 1922 г., дер. Новая, Палехский район, Ивановская область, РСФСР — 15 августа 2004 г., Санкт-Петербург, Россия) — ветеран Великой Отечественной войны. С 1976 по 1986 гг. — начальник Ленинградского высшего ордена Ленина Краснознаменного училища Железнодорожных войск и военных сообщений имени М. В. Фрунзе (в настоящее время — Военный институт (железнодорожных войск и военных сообщений) федерального государственного казенного военного образовательного учреждения высшего образования «Военная академия материально-технического обеспечения имени генерала армии А. В. Хрулёва» Министерства обороны Российской Федерации), генерал-майор.

Биография
Родился 22 сентября 1922 года.

В 1940 году с отличием окончил 10 классов средней школы в г. Шуе Ивановской области. В том же году был призван в ряды Вооруженных Сил СССР.

В годы Великой Отечественной войны служил в составе 10 отдельного восстановительного железнодорожного батальона на Южном, Крымском, Северо-Кавказском и Закавказском фронтах, в составе Управления 36 железнодорожной бригады на Северо-Кавказском фронте, а также в составе 10 отдельной Краснознаменной восстановительной железнодорожной бригады на 2 Украинском фронте и Отдельной Приморской армии.

В 1953 году с отличием окончил Военно-Транспортную Академию имени Л. М. Кагановича в Ленинграде по специальности «Военный инженер путей сообщения по строительству и восстановлению мостов на железной дороге».

В 1962 году был направлен в г. Читу на должность начальника штаба 39 отдельной железнодорожной бригады, подполковник.

С 1965 по 1966 гг. — командир 7 отдельного учебного железнодорожного полка в г. Свердловске, полковник.

В 1966 году переехал в Москву, где до 1970 г. занимал должность заместителя начальника отдела укомплектования и службы войск Штаба Железнодорожных войск. С 1970 года — начальник отдела кадров Главного Управления Железнодорожных войск СССР, полковник.

С 1976 года начальник Ленинградского высшего ордена Ленина Краснознаменного училища Железнодорожных войск и военных сообщений имени М. В. Фрунзе, генерал-майор.

В отставке с 1986 года.

Скончался 15 августа 2004 года.

Награды
 Орден Отечественной войны I степени
 Орден Красной Звезды (дважды)
 Орден Трудового Красного Знамени
 Орден «За службу Родине в Вооружённых Силах СССР» III степени
 Медаль «За боевые заслуги» (дважды)
 Медаль «За оборону Кавказа»
 Медаль «За победу над Германией в Великой Отечественной войне 1941—1945 гг.»
 Медаль ордена «За заслуги перед Отечеством» II степени
 Медаль Социалистической Республики Румынии «25 лет освобождения Румынии от фашистского ига»
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