A few weeks ago, we had the chance to interview Carl Haworth, a Canadian professional soccer player with the Ottawa Fury FC team in the United Soccer League.
In our previous interview, Carl talked about his sleep regimen as a top athlete. A strict routine, involving a perfect sleep hygiene.
Carl revealed to us exclusively his talents as a clairvoyant by telling us the winner of the 2018 soccer World Cup! We wouldn't go so far as to say that his divinatory talents come from the good nights of sleep provided by his new mattress ー but one thing is for sure, his performance is only better!
For a long time, Carl had a spring mattress that did not allow his muscles to recover effectively. And even if we are not all top athletes, we know that regular sports training requires optimal sleep. Indeed, a deep sleep helps muscles not only to recover but also to develop.
And since we are really interested in our customers' experience, we wanted to know what a professional athlete's sleep experience on the Polysleep Mattress was like. So here is Carl's feedback after just over a month with his new mattress!
What was your sleep like before the arrival of your new mattress?
Before sleeping on my new mattress, I had trouble sleeping through the entire night. I would wake up and toss and turn and try to find the right position, and sometimes I would have trouble going back to sleep.
With all the trips I make as a professional athlete, I often come home very late after long days of travel... Most of the time, I have many hours of sleep to catch up on!
Unfortunately, with my old mattress, this did not happen much. I felt a real impact on my daily performance. Indeed, I sometimes had lower back pain and muscle aches because I didn't have the right support while I slept.
Why did you decide to change your old mattress?
My old mattress was a spring mattress with a 2-inch memory foam layer that was supposed to bring more comfort. A superficial comfort, because my sleep problems had been persisting for some time... So I started to think that my mattress was maybe part of the problem and that it was time to change it.
That's why I decided to turn to the Polysleep mattress! The goal was to improve my sleep, muscle recovery, and energy level.
In life, I also have a dog, which has made its place at my side at night... By isolating the movement, this mattress ensures that my dog can move freely at night without compromising my sleep (too much)!
Can you tell us more about the evolution of the quality of your sleep since then?
Changing my previous mattress was one of my best decisions! I really noticed a clear improvement in the quality of my sleep. After my training or games, I know that I can now rest effectively to allow my muscles to recover.
Now I get the necessary 8 to 10 hours (not forgetting the naps!) which allow me to perform on the field at 100%! And my dog loves it too! She loves jumping on the bed and lying next to me. The bad news? It's now difficult to enjoy my bed alone since it has become her privileged landmark in the house...!
I would recommend this mattress to any athlete, professional or not. If you want to compete with the best, you must be at your best, and a good mattress is clearly part of that equation!
The Polysleep mattress was offered complimentarily to Carl; however, we would like to point out that his words are his and are in no way influenced by Polysleep.


I am growing a garden right now. It is such a fun and rewarding experience, besides the weeds. It is something that takes good work with pretty immediate rewards. I love to have the kids work with me. We plant a seed, it grows, and they know where our food comes from.
As I was out there working, I kept wiping my wet hands on my clothes. I knew I needed a Garden Apron. I copied the top neck-line of the Lotta Apron but then the arm holes and sides are different - not so close to the armpits and not wrapping all the way around your back. I added a pocket with the cutest little ball trim ever! I'll be using more of that stuff in the future!
This apron also looks cute with the ties going around the waist twice and tied in back. The pocket really is the key to the usefulness of this apron.
I love this one especially. The yellow trim is perfect! I'd love to use it on throw pillows.


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30 May 19 to 14 Jul 19
Warne Says This About World Cup Final Overthrow
"Did Not Ask Umpires To Overturn Four Overthrows," Says Ben Stokes
Robin Singh Takes A Dig At India Coach Ravi Shastri After World Cup Upset
NZ Rugby Team Takes Dig At ICC Rule That Decided World Cup 2019 Winners
England Beat New Zealand In Thriller To Win Their Maiden World Cup
India Suffer Heartbreaking Loss To New Zealand In World Cup Semi-Final
Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul Hit Tons As India Beat Sri Lanka By 7 Wickets
World Cup 2019: India beat Bangladesh to enter semi-finals
England Lift Maiden World Cup, Rohit Sharma Finishes As Leading Run Scorer
Umpiring Error Cost New Zealand World Cup?
England Beat New Zealand In Dramatic Final To Win Their Maiden World Cup
England Win Their Maiden Cricket World Cup After Super Over Drama
Dhoni Gloves Controversy
Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka: Angelo Mathews, Sri Lanka Player To Watch Out For
Updated: 03 June 2019 17:33 IST
Angelo Mathews has been an important member of the Sri Lanka ODI squad for a long time and will be key in World Cup 2019 as well.
Jaideep Ghosh
Angelo Mathews is playing now more as a batsman than a bowler. © AFP
Angelo Davis Mathews, along with Lasith Malinga, is among the last of the formidable Sri Lankan cricketers of the early and mid-2000s who had made them such a force in world cricket. Mathews is possibly playing his last World Cup as he lines up for Sri Lanka in World Cup 2019 and his experience will be vital as the team struggles to recover from the 10-wicket hammering they received from New Zealand in their first league game. Sri Lanka now meet Afghanistan in a game they need to win.
Mathews is playing now more as a batsman than a bowler but wasn't much help in the match with New Zealand, departing for a first-ball duck.
Mathews made his One-day International (ODI) debut against Zimbabwe at Harare in November 2008. So far, he has played 205 ODIs (175 innings batting) and scored 5381 runs at an average of 41.71 and strike rate of 83.16.
Mathews has two centuries and 37 fifties, with 139 not out being his best.
He has bowled in 154 innings, with 114 wickets under his belt at an economy of 4.61 and strike rate of 44.4. A best of 6/20 is his only five-wicket haul.
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PRESS NOTES: WORCESTER WARRIORS V GLOUCESTER RUGBY
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"Well, I think as a coaching group, we have looked ahead, across this period and thought about permutations, and obviously, everyone's not going to be able to play every game. So, we're trying to get a balance of, of getting through this period and seeing what everybody's about.
"I think, for myself, and the lads who've come in, we have come in with a very open mind. We want to see what players are about. And from that point of view, it suits us to get everybody on the pitch and test them under pressure. These nine games will force you to do that anyway. But we've put together a balance of what we think is the right fit for this first game against Worcester. And that's what we'll do for all the games as much as we can. But as I say, we are forced to play everybody which, as a new coach coming in, is great."
"Well obviously, Worcester have got a few coaching changes as well. We'll all have watched each other, and you take what you think will be consistent (in their game). I think with the changes internally, there's bits and pieces that we'd like to be consistent in our game, but we understand going into this, we won't be perfect. We've looked at ourselves, we have looked at what's there, obviously, but, the focus has really been on us, what are we trying to be good at, how are we trying to play and, at the end of the game, we'll be able to work out where we are in terms of the small shifts we want to make. "
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"It's interesting geographically down here for me to work those sorts of things out. But I think it's a great challenge. Worcester are a tough outfit, and they know how to have a good battle. They're one of those teams, where it's extremely tough to go to Worcester and win.
So, it's a good challenge. It's down the road, so it is a derby. I think it's a good game for me to start off and be involved in because I know it'll be tough. And I know, Worcester will put our lads under big pressure, and I know, our characters will be tested, from a fit, aggressive team. So, a nice one to start with in terms of finding out what we're about. A tough game to start with because I know what Worcester are about."


A major source of lost revenue that could be used to fund conversions to clean, renewable energy. Apparently there's also a $3.3 billion annual subsidy to the fossil fuel industry too, which is another absurd example of corporate welfare. Why should the public support corporate entities that significantly harm the environment?
Justin Trudeau's Liberal government and the provinces also continue to give $3.3 billion in yearly subsidies to fossil fuel producers in the country, despite having pledged to phase them out.
Also, months ago I made posted disturbing facts about Alberta's oil wells. There's actually new reporting on methane emissions being worse than previously estimated in Alberta too.
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China: Stringent measures opted by government for birth control among Uighurs and other minorities
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By Soumya Kumari	 On Jun 29, 2020
The Chinese government is taking stringent measures to put down the birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of its sweeping campaign to curb the Muslim population. Though it does encourage some of the country's Han majority to have more children.
Several women have spoken out against forced birth control but the practice seems far more widespread and systematic. AP initiated an investigation based on government statistics, state documents and interviews with 30 ex-detainees, family members and a former detention camp instructor. The campaign over the past four years in the far west region of Xinjiang is leading to a form of "demographic genocide", say experts.
Minority women are regular subjected to inspections and pregnancy checks. They are also forced to take intrauterine devices, sterilization and even abortion. Even while the use of IUDs and sterilization has fallen nationwide, it is rising sharply in Xinjiang.
The population control measures are backed by mass detention both as a threat and as a punishment for failure to comply.
Having too many children is a major reason people are sent to detention camps, the AP found, with the parents of three or more ripped away from their families unless they can pay huge fines.
Gulnar Omirzakh, a Chinese-born Kazakh, was ordered by the government to get an IUD inserted after she had her third child. On January 2018, two years later, four officials in military camouflage came knocking at her door anyway. They gave Omirzakh, the penniless wife of a detained vegetable trader, three days to pay a $2900 fine for having more than two children.
If she didn't, they warned, she would join her husband and a million other ethnic minorities locked up in internment camps – often for having too many children.
Han Chinese are largely spared the abortions, sterilizations, IUD insertions and detentions for having too many children that are forced on Xinjiang's other ethnicity, interviews and data show. Some rural Muslims, like Omirzakh, were punished even for having the three children allowed by the law.
Once in the detention camps, women are subjected to forced IUDs and what appear to be pregnancy prevention shots
The birth control campaign is fueled by government worries that high birth rates among Muslims leads to poverty and extremism in Xinjiang. This is an arid, landlocked region that has struggled in recent years with knifing and bombing blamed on Islamic terrorists.
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Lago Piaseczno –  lago  na região de Lublin. É um dos lagos mais limpos da Polónia ( primeira classe da limpeza da água).  O lago tem maioritariamente o fundo arenoso.A margem noroeste faz fronteira com pântanos e pauis. É possível andar a pé à volta do lago. Dos lados oeste e norte, funcionam vários estabelecimentos turísticos ex. Centro da Recreativo da Universidade de Ciências Naturais de Lublin com o clube de vela "Antares". Nos lados nordeste e leste há algumas centenas de casas de verão.

Fauna

No lago vive a maioria das espécies de peixes de  água doce existentes na Polónia. Podem encontrar-se também caranguejos e  às vezes cágado-de-carapaça-estriada.

Flora

Na superfície do lago há muitas espécies das plantas flutuantes como por exemplo: a espiga-de-água (potamogeton natans), a elodea e nenúfares entre outras. Em redor crescem bosques de coníferas (pinheiros, piceas) e caducifólias (bétulas).

Dimensões

O lago tem 38,8 metros de profundidade (é o lago mais profundo da região), 1,5 km de comprimento e 0,8 km de largura. Ocupa uma área de 86 hectares.

Ligações externas

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Premier Oil completes deal to buy BP North Sea assets in $565 million deal
UK producer says Andrew and Shearwater will help it generate cash to reduce debts
Hamish Burns
Module bound for BP's Andrew field
Premier Oil has signed a sale and purchase agreement to buy BP's Andrew Area and its Shearwater assets in a deal worth up to $565 million.
The North Sea producers had last month renegotiated the terms of the sale after the price of oil plunged as Covid-19 reduced demand.
BP renegotiates sale of North Sea assets to Premier Oil
Premier Oil had originally agreed to a $625 million package but will now pay $210 million up front plus up to $115 million depending on future oil and gas prices and foot $240 million of the abandonment bill for Andrew. BP will pay the full cost of the Shearwater abandonment.
To get the deal through, Premier also had to settle a legal dispute with one of its creditors which was opposed to the purchase. It intends to raise the $210 million through an equity fundraise and aims to have the deal completed by the end of September.
The Andrew assets 140 miles north-east of Aberdeen comprise the Andrew (62.75%), Arundel (100%), Cyrus (100%), Farragon (50%) and Kinnoull (77.06%) fields. BP holds a 27.5% stake in the nearby Shell-operated Shearwater field.
North Sea operator seeks price cut in acquiring stakes amid Covid crisis
Premier said the new assets would be "immediately cash generative and will accelerate the use of Premier's $4.1 billion of UK tax losses", helping the company to reduce its debts.
Chief executive Tony Durrant said: "The signing of the SPAs with BP is another important milestone in completing the value-accretive BP Acquisitions which consolidates the Group's position in the UK North Sea, one of our core areas, while, at the same time, accelerates the deleveraging of our balance sheet."
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Air conditioning and temperature control systems, DOMESTIC HOT WATER (DHW) production, lighting, kitchens and room service, spas and meeting rooms…The way any area in a hotel works is connected to energy and water, in fact these two are so important that, in many cases energy consumption represents a hotel's second biggest fixed cost, after the payroll.
This fact, which can be demonstrated in most of Spain's commercial accommodation, has two implications for the hotel business: energy is an essential factor, but it is also an area in which there is room for manoeuvre to reduce costs, be more efficient, achieve greater sustainability levels and even provide greater comfort for guests.
Spanish hotels have been part of the trend in international tourism, supporting sustainability not only to improve and polish their positioning and branding, but bringing it in as a key part of their management strategy.


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For the past 2 months I've been having a serious problem. Maybe it's because I talk too much but I have been waking up without being able to fully open my mouth and having to pop my jaw. I literally move the bottom half of my mouth to the right side and "POP" I'm able to yawn normally. So of course I immediately go to Dr. Google to see what is going on and "I" have diagnosed myself with TMJ (Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction).
I tried avoiding it and putting aside going to the Dentist but then the symptoms began. It began with my jaw popping, then it moved down to my shoulders. I would find myself sitting at work popping my shoulders to a consistent rhythm. The popping moved down to my legs and I began walking with a little hop. It happened at random times of the day and there was no stopping it.
Just when I thought the popping was a problem I began thrusting my hips ..
Occasionally going on the tips of my toes ..
This one time I was walking to the car and did this little kick that turned me around and I began moon walking ..
It was a 50/50 chance of getting one or the other. I had already diagnosed myself with Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction that I had exed out the other possibility. It was clear that I had TMJ (The Michael Jackson).
It spread quickly like a virus. I would occasionally blurt out a "HEEEE HEEEE!" and when I would sneeze I would finish it off with a "WOOOOO!" It was a severe case.
My hair began to curl, my pants were rolled up so my white socks were visible, and I found myself constantly wearing a fedora.
And then one day I was washing dishes and I slowly whispered, "Shamone" and a white glove appeared on my hand and then I knew that the transformation was complete.
It was official. I was the King of Pop.
& to think it all started with a popping jaw .. TMJ.
Haha, that was absolutely brilliant! So funny. I loved it.


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. Can pop music sound more beautiful and perfect than Beach House. Hardly! For six albums long now. Of which, 'Teen Dream' ('10) - let's just say: their breakthrough album - and 'Bloom' ('1ere particularly good examples. What's more, they attained everything that an indie-pop band could possibly achieve: guest appearances in world famous TV shows like 'Late Show with David Letterman', 'Late Night with Jamie Fallon' and 'Later with ... Jools Holland'. Time for a new visit with their latest album, the yet to be released '7'.
This concert is part of the Autumn Falls Festival.
Beach House effortlessly sold out AB in '10 and in '1 and it will be no different this time.
'7' is their 7th album and covers an oeuvre of 77 songs.


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Mad cow sound check
As Japanese consumers become ever more "fussy" over food safety issues, there is a growing demand for technology that improves food quality. To ease the minds of health-conscious meat-eaters, researchers at Japan's National Institute of Animal Health (NIAH) have developed a convenient method for identifying cattle infected with mad cow disease, simply by measuring the brain waves they produce in response to audio stimuli.
To develop and test the new method, the researchers infected 11 healthy cows with mad cow disease and observed the onset of symptoms and changes in brain activity. Mad cow disease (a.k.a. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or BSE) is a fatal infectious disease that affects the central nervous system of cattle (and humans), turning the brain into a sponge-like substance. Symptoms of the disease include loss of muscle control, inability to stand or walk properly, agitation, and red eyes.
Approximately 24 months after infection, the 11 test cows began to exhibit the typical physical signs of BSE. However, at around 22 months after infection -- before the physical symptoms became evident -- the researchers discovered that the brains of the infected cows had a delayed reaction to sound. In all 11 mad cows, the brain waves elicited in response to audio stimuli were a few tenths of a millisecond slower than in healthy cows.
The researchers believe the acoustic nerves responsible for transmitting sound impulses to the brain became damaged as the disease progressed, resulting in a delayed response time. By using a device that measures this delay, ranchers can identify mad cows in their herds, the researchers suggest.
While the newly developed method is still less accurate than conventional lab testing of brain samples taken from carcasses, it does make it easier to detect possible infection at an early stage, before outward signs of the disease appear.
The researchers, who plan to study the data further and improve the accuracy of the test, eventually hope to develop a portable version of the device.
[Source: Mainichi]
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Born Dumbarton, 3 July 1922.
Died Dunedin, New Zealand, 16 July 1983.
David Ward was one of the most important Scottish singers in living memory, with a notable international career, and a vital presence in the early years of Scottish Opera. Ward had an effortlessly powerful, but attractively soft-grained voice, able to convey strong emotion. Unusually tall, he was easily able to dominate the stage, and was an ideal exponent of the major Wagner and Verdi bass and bass-baritone repertoire.
David Ward served in the Royal Navy during World War ll and then trained at the Royal College of Music with Clive Carey. Much later (c1962) he studied his major Wagner roles in Munich with Hans Hotter, who had been the dominant Wotan of his own generation. Ward joined the basses in the Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus in 1952, quickly making an impression and being given his first solo role the following year – the Old Bard in The Immortal Hour (Boughton). He created the role of Captain Hardy in Lennox Berkeley's Nelson (1954) and remained a principal with the company from 1953 to 1959. Many years later, in 1972, he returned to revive one of his old roles, Bartók's Bluebeard, at the Coliseum.
During the fifties Ward sang in Scotland during the annual Sadler's Wells tours, when his roles included Dr Grenvil in La Traviata (1957) and Colline in La Bohème (1958). During the 1959 tour he sang Zuniga (Carmen), Don Fernando (Fidelio, conducted by a young Colin Davis), and Monterone in Rigoletto.
Ward also returned to Scotland for appearances with amateur companies, including Zaccaria in Nabucco (Edinburgh 1957) and Méphistophélès in Faust (Dundee 1958).
Ward's major appearances with Sadler's Wells included the title roles in Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle and Wagner's Flying Dutchman, and this last gave an indication of how his career would develop. His Covent Garden debut followed in 1959, as Pogner (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), followed by Fasolt (Das Rheingold), Hunding (Die Walküre) and Morosus (The Silent Woman by Richard Strauss).
At the recommendation of Rudolf Kempe, he was engaged at the Bayreuth Festival in 1960-2, singing Fasolt, Titurel (Parsifal) and Nightwatchman (Meistersinger). He then studied the role of Wotan in Munich with Hans Hotter, who had been impressed by his potential. When Covent Garden was directed by Georg Solti, Ward sang major parts regularly. His Wagner roles included Heinrich (Lohengrin), Wotan and King Mark. His Verdi repertoire extended to King Philip (Don Carlos), Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra), Padre Guardiano (La forza del destino) and Zaccaria. Other roles with the Royal Opera included Sarastro, Commendatore, Don Basilio, and Rocco, as well as Arkel (Pelléas et Mélisande), Khovansky (Khovanshchina), the Grand Inquisitor (L'Africaine) and the Pope in Benvenuto Cellini, which last he sang with the company on its visit to La Scala in 1976.
David Ward made his first appearance with Scottish Opera in 1964 as the Commendatore (Don Giovanni), and returned the following season for Boris Godunov, and in 1966 and 1967 for Wotan in Die Walküre and Das Rheingold as the company assembled its first Ring Cycle. The Wanderer in Siegfried and a complete cycle followed in 1971. In 1973 he added King Mark in Tristan und Isolde and repeated Boris Godunov in 1974. His last new roles with the company were Banquo in Macbeth and Pogner in Die Meistersinger, both in 1976. He came to the Edinburgh Festival twice as a guest with visiting companies other than Scottish Opera – in 1960 with Glyndebourne (I Puritani with Joan Sutherland) and in 1968 with the Hamburg Opera as the Flying Dutchman.
David Ward enjoyed an extensive international career, singing regularly in the USA, Germany and Italy. In 1967 he sang Wotan in five Ring cycles in Buenos Aires. This, he recalled, enabled him to retire to New Zealand.
David Ward did not feature in many studio recordings. He sings Hunding in Erich Leinsdorf's recording of Die Walküre, made by Decca in 1961. In 1963 he featured as Monterone in Solti's recording of Rigoletto. He is Arkel in the famous Covent Garden recording of Pelléas et Mélisande conducted by Pierre Boulez in 1970.
There is a live recording of Parsifal from Bayreuth in 1960. The conductor is Knappertsbusch and Ward sings the small role of Titurel. The rest of the cast is excellent, including Régine Crespin as Kundry. Glyndebourne has also released a recording of I Puritani made in Edinburgh. David Ward is also featured as Friar Lawrence in the recording of Berlioz' dramatic symphony Roméo et Juliette with Pierre Monteux conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. It was recorded in Walthamstow Town Hall in 1962 and is presently issued under the Millennium Classics label.
There is also a BBC re-issue of a 1963 Proms performance of the Verdi Requiem, with Giulini and the Philharmonia.


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The City will present its case first by calling witnesses to testify against you. Generally this is the police officer who issued you the citation.
After the City, you may present your case. You have the right to call any witness who knows anything about the incident. The City has the right to cross-examine any witness that you call.
If you so desire, you may testify on your own behalf, but as a defendant, you may not be compelled to testify. It is your choice, and your silence cannot be used against you. If you do testify, the City has the right to cross-examine you.
After all testimony is concluded, both sides can make a closing argument. This is your opportunity to tell the court why you are not guilty of the offense. The City, with the burden of proof, has the right to present the first and last arguments.
In determining the defendant's guilt or innocence, the judge may consider only the testimony of witnesses and any evidence admitted during the trial.
You should be prepared to pay the fine if you are convicted.
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The judge may, in its sole discretion, defer disposition on some cases. Cost must be paid, and the court may impose a special expense not to exceed the fine amount in addition to other terms or assignments. If you complete the required terms the case is dismissed at the end of a period not to exceed 180 days.
As part of the City's focus on making Newport a safer community for our citizens and guests, we offer a vehicle compliance program for certain violations. For a list of eligible violations and the procedure, obtain a Newport Police Department Vehicle Compliance Brochure.
If you correct the violation, have the correction inspected by a DPSST certified police officer and submit the completed form to the court no later than one business day prior to the time you are scheduled to appear in court, the Judge MAY dismiss your citation. If your citation is dismissed as part of this program, you must pay an administrative fee. See the brochure for more details and restrictions.
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Our Journey Home Won't Be Stopped
Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
11 Tammuz 5778 – June 24, 2018
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Jews thrown out of their Jerusalem homes by Arabs decades ago may not be able to return to their property. This, because of a Supreme Court appeal by 70 Arab families who refuse to leave the properties on which they are currently squatting.
The case concerns 1.3 acres in Ir David, also known as Silwan, below the Temple Mount. Indications are that the High Court might reverse previous decisions and prevent the land from returning to representatives of the Jewish owners. Such a ruling would be a definite setback in the forward march of the Jewish people to their one and only homeland.
But in truth, it would only be a temporary delay. Consider Nachalat Shimon, for example. This neighborhood sits just west of the 2,000-year-old burial cave of the Talmudic sage Shimon HaTzaddik. Maps of the area from between 1921 and 1945 show three neighborhoods: two Jewish ones, Nachalat Shimon and Shimon HaTzadik, with a smaller Arab one named Sheikh Jarrah slightly to the south. After the War of Independence of 1948-9, Jordan took over the entire area – an occupation condemned by the Arab League and not recognized by the international community.
We don't know exactly what happened to these areas under Jordanian rule given the sparse documentation of that period. We do know, however, that after the Six-Day War in 1967 and the liberation of Jerusalem, the entire area suddenly became known as the "Arab" neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Nahalat Shimon and Shimon HaTzadik became populated with Arabs, and the Jewish-owned lands were all but forgotten.
As a result, when representatives of the former Jewish residents sought to return to their homes, they were accused in the Arab and world media of victimizing poor Palestinians.
The facts, however, are these: Jews purchased the land of Nachalat Shimon as early as 1890, and some 20 indigent Jewish families moved in. Around 1915, more extensive Jewish construction began, and yet another Jewish neighborhood was begun in 1927. By 1947, there were 100 Jewish homes in the area.
This all came to an end within a two-hour period in March 1948. Amidst mounting Arab violence, British police arrived one day and gave the Jewish residents exactly two hours to move out. They explained that, yes, they were the ruling authority in the Holy Land, but, no, they could not defend the Jewish citizens against the Arab marauders. Within a short time, Arabs invaded the neighborhood and set the Jewish houses on fire. Only one building, a synagogue, was somehow left standing.
Just a couple of weeks later, it turned out that the British could not or would not even protect Jews passing through the neighborhood in an armed convoy – and local Arabs massacred no fewer than 78 Jewish doctors and nurses on their bi-weekly way to Hadassah Hospital at Mt. Scopus.
And yet, despite all of the above – the Arab pillage, the world's indifference, and efforts by pro-Arab groups on behalf of Palestinian "victims" – the story of Nachalat Yitzchak and Shimon HaTzaddik has been heading towards historic justice, as families have been returning to the area.
One of these is the Hubara family, who were among those thrown out of Shimon HaTzaddik by the British because of the Arab marauders. In 1967, they were also among those who found their old home occupied by Arab squatters. But they did not fight; they were unwilling to endure the lengthy legal battles required to redeem the property.
But in February 2005, tragedy struck the family: Shimon and Dalia Hubara's 26-year-old daughter, Odelia, was among five Jews murdered in a bombing attack by the Islamic Jihad terror gang in Tel Aviv. That changed everything, and the Hubaras decided to embark on reclaiming what was rightfully theirs. It took 12 years, but last year, with the help of the Israel Land Fund and the Jerusalem Capital Development Fund, and following a court order against the squatters for refusing to pay rent, police returned the Hubara home to its legal owners.
Today, over 1,000 Jewish residents live in the Old City's old Jewish Quarter (today's Muslim Quarter), nearly 80 families live in the old Yemenite Village of Shiloach, and a Jewish neighborhood of over 100 families, named Maaleh HaZeitim, has been built on the Mount of OIives. Eight families live in Abu Tor and six more in Kidmat Zion, on the edge of Abu Dis.
Incidentally, what did happen during the 19 years of Jordanian rule in eastern Jerusalem? The United Nations, without consulting the Jewish community or the Jewish owners, got involved in settling Arabs on Jewish properties. For instance, under the auspices of UNWRA, disputed houses in Sheikh Jarrah were handed over to the Hannoun and Gawi families in 1956. Basically, it stole Jewish property and thereby helped create what eventually became the above hotspots of tension between Jews and Arabs.
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Chaim Silberstein is president of Keep Jerusalem-Im Eshkachech and the Jerusalem Capital Development Fund. He was formerly a senior adviser to Israel's minister of tourism. Hillel Fendel, past senior editor at Israel National News/Arutz-7, is a veteran writer on Jerusalem affairs. Both have lived in Jerusalem and now reside in Beit El.
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Australia's economy was not in perfect health before the bushfires and coronavirus
Not everyone agrees that Australia's economy was doing fine before the fires. (ABC News: Ashlee Aldridge)
The Reserve Bank of Australia knows part of its job is to keep confidence high.
If people are confident they're more likely to spend more, and their spending will boost activity and create a feedback loop of growth.
During an economic crisis, the need to inspire confidence becomes paramount.
But in crisis management theory, one of the most important things a leader can do during a crisis is be honest about the situation.
And trust is critical. Evidence shows people are likelier to listen to a leader if they trust them. They're also more willing to make sacrifices for the common good.
It's a conundrum for political leaders.
Today, the coronavirus continues to spread in Australia and fears of a recession mount.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison — expected to announce economic stimulus measures later this week — on Tuesday implored a business audience in Sydney to become patriotic, to sacrifice for team Australia.
"Whatever you thought 2020 was going to be about, think again," Mr Morrison said.
"We now have one goal together this year: to protect the health, the wellbeing, and livelihoods of Australians through this global crisis, and to ensure that when the recovery comes — and it will — we are well-positioned to bounce back strongly on the other side."
"We need you to support your workers by keeping them employed. Hold on to your people, because you will need them on the bounce back on the other side."
Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaking at Parliament House on March 3, 2020. (ABC News: Tamara Penniket)
China can't cushion the blow like during GFC: Morrison
He also wanted people to recognise how tough things were going to be for his Government, in comparison to what the Rudd government faced during the GFC.
"COVID-19 is a global health crisis, but it will also have very real and very significant economic impacts, potentially greater than the global financial crisis, especially for Australia," he said.
"The epicentre of this crisis, as opposed to that one, is much closer to home."
"The GFC impacts were centred on the North Atlantic, and back then China was in a position to cushion the blow for Australia."
He then argued that Australia's economy was in good health last year, before the fires and coronavirus.
He said employment growth was strong, there had been tax cuts for individuals and businesses, there had been billions of dollars in infrastructure spending, low interest rates, strong trade, rising house prices, and a pick-up in growth from 1.8 per cent to 2.2 per cent.
Internationally, he said the US-China trade war had simmered down, the prospects for an orderly Brexit had risen, and there were early positive signs of manufacturing activity and trade improvements.
"In short, we were heading into 2020 with growing domestic and international momentum out of last year," he said.
For evidence, he cited RBA governor Philip Lowe, who said in September last year that Australia's economy seemed to have reached a "gentle turning point" after a soft patch in 2018.
Why some economists don't see a rosy picture
However, more than a few economists say the state of the economy was not that rosy heading into this crisis.
They point to other statistics, like the unemployment rate. It has been rising — from 4.9 per cent to 5.3 per cent — since February last year.
They say households have not been feeling confident, with incomes stagnating. Since the 2014 September quarter, the average real disposable income of Australia's households has slipped backwards, from $50,325 to $50,063.
They say household consumption — which makes up 56 per cent of the economy — has been on a downhill slide since the 2018 March quarter, when it was growing at 3 per cent. By the December quarter, consumption growth had fallen to a paltry annual 1.2 per cent.
Retail sales tell a similar story. Despite last year's tax cuts, retails sales contracted over December and January, by 0.7 per cent and 0.3 per cent — the first time since mid-2017 that retail sales have dropped for two consecutive months.
"Consumption started to sputter even before the coronavirus started to spread in Australia in earnest," Ben Udy from Capital Economics said.
"We think that the widespread weakness in activity will weigh on the labour market and cause the unemployment rate to surge to 5.7 per cent before long."
June quarter data to expose just how fragile we are
Westpac chief economist Bill Evans warned this week that the economy was already weak before the coronavirus outbreak.
"The economy will be dealing with the impact of the virus when it is in a relatively fragile state with growth in 2019 at 2.2 per cent compared to potential of 2.75 per cent," he wrote.
"In particular, consumer spending has been insipid, with the annualised pace running at only 1 per cent in the second half of 2020. This means that consumer spending is likely to be less resilient to shocks than if momentum had been robust."
He said the economy's pre-existing fragility would reveal itself in the June quarter data.
"Whereas exports (tourism; foreign students; agriculture; resources) and inventories (disrupted supply chains) will explain the major shocks in the March quarter given their exposure to the Chinese economy, the June quarter contraction will be dominated by Australia's and the rest of the world's exposure to the virus and the lagged effect of China's recession in the March quarter," he said.
So why would the Government want people to think that the economy will be more resilient during this crisis than the data may suggest?
In 1936, the British economist John Maynard Keynes coined the term "animal spirits" to describe how people make financial decisions, including panic-selling and buying, during bouts of severe economic uncertainty.
He believed household and business confidence could spur or hamper economic activity, and he was right.
For the rest of the 20th century, economists increasingly came to understand how profoundly important confidence was for economic activity, and central banks assumed the role of confidence whisperers.
Some governments have tried to behave similarly. Can they succeed?
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According to a fall 2012 UCS poll, 46 percent of students approved of a name change
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A planning committee will be formed by October to chart out the Third World Center's future.
The Third World Center will likely have a new name as early as September 2014, said Mary Almandrez, director of the Third World Center and assistant dean of the College.
The name change was recommended in a program review, which combined results of both a March self-study by the center's staff members and a report from external consultants specializing in racial diversity and social justice.
Almandrez cited both the program review and results from a fall 2012 poll conducted by the Undergraduate Council of Students as the driving motivators for potentially changing the name. About 46 percent of the student body said the name should be changed, 38 percent expressed no opinion and 16 percent said it should stay the same, according to the poll.
"The majority of people both internal and external favor a name change," Almandrez said. "Our goals in this process are to preserve the center's history, honor its legacy, be forward thinking and address the needs of the students today."
Currently, Brown is the only Ivy League university to have a Third World Center. In 2002, Princeton renamed its Third World Center to the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding, according to the university website.
Almandrez said no potential names have been determined so far, but any name including the word "multicultural" has been ruled out, noting that students have approached her opposing the use of the term in the center's name.
"No matter what we choose for the name — it could be the most radical, it could be the most edgy, the most black, whatever — we're not going to get 100 percent of people happy," Almandrez said. "What I can guarantee, though, is not your happiness (with the name) but that your voice is valued, and that we want it as part of the discussion."
The TWC has had the same name since its founding in 1976. According to the center's website, the term "Third World" "is not to be confused with the economic definition of the term used commonly in our society today, but understood as a term that celebrates diverse cultures."
Today, the TWC is arguably among the most influential institutions on campus. It coordinates the Third World Transition Program, the University's largest pre-orientation program, with about 200 participants each year. The center also coordinates the Minority Peer Counseling program, which is in its 40th year. In the UCS poll data, about 94 percent of students stated they had heard of the MPC program, making it the most known TWC program surveyed.
"The naming process is about more than just one person," said Shane Lloyd MPH'11, who helps coordinate TWTP and serves as assistant director for first-year and sophomore programs at the TWC. "Whatever the community thinks the name should be, I think that should be what it is."
Almandrez said the TWC will consider the recent name change at Princeton and look to emulate other "great centers" from the Ivy League and New England as it moves forward.
Though a plurality of students support the name change, the idea has met some controversy. The March review stated the UCS polling "elicited emotional responses from (TWC) staffers."
"There are people saying, 'I don't know what you're doing trying to change the name,' and there are people saying, 'Why haven't we changed the name sooner?' Almandrez said. "The name change is likely going to happen because that was recommended by the consultants, and the community said that."
Many students said they are ambivalent or oppose a potential name change.
"I don't care if they change the name or not," said Isaac Lima '16. "I'm from Brazil, which you might consider a Third World country, but I don't mind the name."
"They shouldn't change the name," said Jessica Kenny '17. "I can see how people might be offended given the term's Cold War origins, but the name isn't meant to be offensive. Once people know what it means, it's all right."
The TWC is meant to "serve as a source of support for American minorities and international students," and to "build a sense of community and University ownership among incoming students," according to its website.
Almandrez said a strategic planning committee to chart out the center's future, will be formed by October.
"We have to ask ourselves, 'What would we like the center to look like in 37 years?'" Lloyd said.
Almandrez said she hopes the center will become more involved with institutional diversity, while Lloyd said he looks forward to "strengthening our community partnerships with the larger Providence community."
The center's name was just one of six recommendations to come out of the self-study. Others included "rebranding the center to highlight scholarly experiences," "developing reciprocal partnerships" with other groups on campus and preserving and honoring the TWC's history, according to the report.
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The name should have changed years ago. It is simply offensive to put the programs for underrepresented students in a place called the Third World of Brown. Why we always need input to something so obvious is beyond comprehension.
Does anyone here actively think the name should stay the same? Why?
I also want to add on to Chahney's post. The term "Third World" as well as the Third World Center arose out of student support for the global Third World Movement (an actual historical event), where colonized countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America came together to oppose joining the First World (America and its capitalistic exploitative practices) and the Second World (U.S.S.R and its communist government with limited freedoms). They wanted to declare their independence and self-sovereignty from the U.S-USSR binary they were being forced into. In that sense, the TWC is also about self-determination of people of color within the internal colony that is the United States.
What's wrong with the word 'multicultural'?
The Third World Center had radical activist beginnings. It's not about diversity or multicultural kumbaya. It's about identifying social issues like racism, sexism, and homophobia and organizing students around to fight it. Some students believe that "multicultural" is a overused, institutionalized term like diversity that does not really grant power to people of color, but merely uses them as quotas for the purposes of the University.
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YAAAAAAAAASSS!!!
"Multicultural" fits right in with white liberal colorblindness ideology.
Chahney Hinds '12
In answer to the idea the name being 'offensive' and 'outdated':
The name "Third World" is a reference to Frantz Fanon's idea of the Third Way – that people who have experienced colonization and imperialism who were then being referred to as 'third world' due to their 'underdeveloped societies' should make their own way, because the First and Second Ways were not and would never be able to fully do them justice as human beings with cultures, histories, and societies. The Third World Center was named this by the coalition of students who worked tirelessly to make a space for students of different races, religions, nationalities, sexualities, genders, and abilities because the greater culture of Brown reflected the society of the day – one that made these students second class members of the community. Third World is a reclamation of a history that was made to be less than in a way that honored people's power to demand and claim respect, space, and consideration in the world.
Every year, people come up with the same tired argument about it being disrespectful without finding out why the Center is named this way. Almost every year, the BDH published an article where someone who hasn't done their research criticizes the name with a half-assed argument, and every year, someone explains why we need a space where we can come together and learn how to advocate for ourselves.
If people really gave a damn, they'd look into *why* a place like the TWC needs to exist at Brown, instead of hinging their dissent of some faux-concern for the Brown/Queer/Poor people using a 'slur' for themselves. Brown isn't a liberal paradise for everyone, and the idea that it is can many times cause people to forget to examine their motivations, assumptions, and actions because they think they're already doing good and being progressive.
This is not to say that the TWC shouldn't always be growing, and developing, and improving, but it does mean that people need to have respect for its history, what it means to generations of Brown students, and what it will mean for generations of students to come.
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To me this has always been a case of Internal vs. External expectations on the intrinsic association of phrase "Third World." Though the historical foundations of Brown's TWC indexes Fanon's concepts, the stronger more pervasive association deals with poverty, development, low income, global stigmatization, etc.
When people "[give] a damn", it's because the threshold for potential inclusion has been overcome: I could potentially see myself as having an association with this group/organization. Currently, most associate the phrase "Third World" with /the/ third world: as an adjective, not a noun. If that adjective doesn't apply to them, or they are looking to dissociate from that label, this dissonance precludes participation.
Though you may be "tired" of this argument Chahney, it resurfaces every year because the source of disconnect between intention and execution has not been resolved. I would encourage you to expand your view to incorporate the additional populations that did not/do not/have not yet participated with the TWC, for many reasons: (not going to Brown/parent/donor/community member/potential student/incoming student/ etc.). Even on Brown's campus, the ethos: I'm white/wealthy/coming from a 1st world country, I don't belong there/that is not a space for me, is all too prevalent. This is a true shame: critical conversations could be had to spark meaningful dialog and change a life trajectory.
While I understand that Brown's TWC aimed to "reclaim" the phrase of "Third World", the socially driven association towards low income/underdeveloped countries has continued to be stronger. In this sense, this fight could be considered lost, though the proverbial war must continue- perhaps it's time to move the efforts to a new front.
The TWC at Brown University offers immeasurable support for many students.
The unfortunate irony is that its name may be unintentionally perpetuating the "othering" that it fights so strongly to overcome.
Aiming to be solution oriented, and practical in respect to acronyms: I have felt the name could be changed to TWC: The World Center with no need for major reprinting/re-branding.
Chahney, this is not a personal commentary directed towards you. We have had creative and meaningful conversations and I respect your stance and reasons for defending it.
In this regard I simply must express my support for a name change while continuing to offer support for the work that the TWC aims to do.
First of all, her name is Dean Mary Grace Almandrez. It is disrespectful not to get it correct. Second, what this article fails to mention, and what is written clearly on the TWC website and repeated day-in and day-out by TWC student staffers is that the name is rooted in historical, philosophical, and political ideals. In the 60's, author Frantz Fanon wrote The Wretched of the Earth, in which he encouraged people of color across the world to come together in solidarity against the imperialist practices of the first world (Capitalism) and the second world (Communism). This is where the term Third World came to be adopted as a new way of thought and a source of empowerment. You can read more about it at the link I include at the bottom which is open for public view but overlooked by people who are too busy getting upset by their first reaction to the name to ever do the scholarly thing and inquire about the REASON for the name.
Now, all of this said, I am beyond tired of explaining this to people and I understand that people have negative reactions to the name, so I am not against a name change. But, I strongly believe that the name should become the Third Way Center (referencing the third way of life that Fanon mentions). Please be informed the next time you want to get up in arms about something you have never taken the time to understand. Dean Mary Grace Almandrez often says, "seek first to understand before seeking to be understood."
Here is the link I mentioned: http://www.brown.edu/campus-life/support/third-world-center/about
Third World Liberation
Here is also a history of Michelle Obama's involvement in the TWC at Princeton. It's a good outline of what the Third World Center represented all across the nation. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/10/30/a-detailed-look-at-obamas-radical-college-past-and-were-not-talking-about-barack/
"The term 'Third World' implies[,] for us, those nations who have fallen victim to the oppression and exploitation of the world economic order. This includes the peoples of color of the United States, as they too have been victims of a brutal and racist economic structure which exploited and still exploits the labor of such groups as Asians, Blacks, and Chicanos, and invaded and still occupies the homelands of such groups as the Puerto Ricans, American Indians, and native Hawaiian people. We therefore find it necessary to reeducate ourselves to the various forms of exploitation and oppression."
More Fed Up
Thing is, no one CARES about the REASON. That's exactly the POINT. I think you should take the Dean's advice yourself.
1stworldgal
God damn, i'm tired of being called a third world student. I'M NOT THIRD WORLD.
CHANGE THE DAMN NAME.
Captain Obvi
Wouldn't a name like the Franz Fannon Center be more to the point in marketing its ideologies?
If the name is to be changed, here's a suggestion: something with "global South."
Maybe The Global South Center or The Center for Global South Studies.
Annissa
if this crazy world stopped being so focused on our differences, namely color, it would be so much better. Aren't we all equal in God's eyes, all created by Him? When we can all be one race, HUMAN race, it will be a great country again. Right now we are more divided than ever, thanks to our pres, "rev" jesse, holder, etc..
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Yesterday, the Supreme Court has issued a temporary stay on Texas House Bill 2 (HB 2), Texas's anti-abortion law, which would have closed most clinics in the state and dramatically changed the way Texas women would able to access reproductive healthcare.
The stay means Texas will temporarily be unable to enforce the disastrous anti-abortion law. This is very good news, but The Supreme Court will likely hear the case next term, which could possibly lead to some extremely bad news.
HB 2 was upheld earlier in June by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. This unfortunate result lead plaintiff Whole Woman's Health, one of the most important abortion providers in Texas, to appeal to the Supreme Court, where they gained a temporary victory.
In a press release issued by Whole Women's Health, CEO Amy Hagstrom Miller wrote, "Today I breathe a deep sigh of relief as The Supreme Court of the United States protected our three reproductive health clinics in West Texas and the Rio Grande Valley from shutting their doors by partially blocking components of Texas' omnibus anti-choice law, HB2. This law, which was recently upheld by the Fifth Circuit Court, would have had a catastrophic impact on women and families across the state of Texas. We're relieved that the high court has, once again, prevented anti-choice politicians' from pushing safe and affordable abortion care entirely out of reach for the women in these communities."
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Q: How do I join two queries in SQL using UNION ALL operation? everyone.
This is my first query
SELECT A.nombres_Autor,A.apellidos_Autor,A.fechaNacimiento_Autor,A.fechaFallecimiento_Autor,L.nombre_Libro,G.nombre_Genero
FROM Autor A , Libro L , Genero G , Autores_X_Libro AXL
WHERE AXL.codigoAutor_AXL = A.codigo_Autor AND AXL.codigoISBN_AXL = L.codigoISBN AND L.codigoGenero_Libro = G.codigo_Genero
ORDER BY A.apellidos_Autor DESC ;

And this is my second query
SELECT A.nombres_Autor,A.apellidos_Autor,A.fechaNacimiento_Autor,A.fechaFallecimiento_Autor,L.nombre_Libro,G.nombre_Genero
FROM Autor A , Libro L , Genero G , Autores_X_Libro AXL
WHERE AXL.codigoAutor_AXL = A.codigo_Autor AND AXL.codigoISBN_AXL = L.codigoISBN AND L.codigoGenero_Libro = G.codigo_Genero
ORDER BY A.nombres_Autor ASC ;

So, I just want to know what do I have to do to join these queries using UNION ALL (and not any JOIN operator). Cz the next is not working for me.
SELECT A.nombres_Autor,A.apellidos_Autor,A.fechaNacimiento_Autor,A.fechaFallecimiento_Autor,L.nombre_Libro,G.nombre_Genero
FROM Autor A , Libro L , Genero G , Autores_X_Libro AXL
WHERE AXL.codigoAutor_AXL = A.codigo_Autor AND AXL.codigoISBN_AXL = L.codigoISBN AND L.codigoGenero_Libro = G.codigo_Genero
ORDER BY A.apellidos_Autor DESC
UNION ALL
SELECT A.nombres_Autor,A.apellidos_Autor,A.fechaNacimiento_Autor,A.fechaFallecimiento_Autor,L.nombre_Libro,G.nombre_Genero
FROM Autor A , Libro L , Genero G , Autores_X_Libro AXL
WHERE AXL.codigoAutor_AXL = A.codigo_Autor AND AXL.codigoISBN_AXL = L.codigoISBN AND L.codigoGenero_Libro = G.codigo_Genero
ORDER BY A.nombres_Autor ASC ;

Thank u'all, community.
(I really appreciate any kind of feedback).

A: Remove the ORDER BY from the top query.
This will error:
SELECT 1 AS i
ORDER BY i
UNION ALL
SELECT 2 AS i
ORDER BY i

This will not:
SELECT 1 AS i
UNION ALL
SELECT 2 AS i
ORDER BY i

A: "order by" is not supported before "union all". Hope it is working for you.
SELECT A.nombres_Autor,A.apellidos_Autor,A.fechaNacimiento_Autor,A.fechaFallecimiento_Autor,L.nombre_Libro,G.nombre_Genero
FROM Autor A , Libro L , Genero G , Autores_X_Libro AXL WHERE AXL.codigoAutor_AXL = A.codigo_Autor AND
AXL.codigoISBN_AXL = L.codigoISBN AND L.codigoGenero_Libro = G.codigo_Genero
UNION ALL
SELECT A.nombres_Autor,A.apellidos_Autor,A.fechaNacimiento_Autor,A.fechaFallecimiento_Autor,L.nombre_Libro,G.nombre_Genero
FROM Autor A , Libro L , Genero G , Autores_X_Libro AXL
WHERE AXL.codigoAutor_AXL = A.codigo_Autor AND AXL.codigoISBN_AXL = L.codigoISBN AND L.codigoGenero_Libro = G.codigo_Genero
ORDER BY A.nombres_Autor ASC ;

A: SELECT A.nombres_Autor,A.apellidos_Autor,A.fechaNacimiento_Autor,A.fechaFallecimiento_Autor,L.nombre_Libro,G.nombre_Genero
FROM Autor A , Libro L , Genero G , Autores_X_Libro AXL
WHERE AXL.codigoAutor_AXL = A.codigo_Autor AND AXL.codigoISBN_AXL = L.codigoISBN AND L.codigoGenero_Libro = G.codigo_Genero
ORDER BY A.apellidos_Autor DESC
union all
SELECT A.nombres_Autor,A.apellidos_Autor,A.fechaNacimiento_Autor,A.fechaFallecimiento_Autor,L.nombre_Libro,G.nombre_Genero
FROM Autor A , Libro L , Genero G , Autores_X_Libro AXL
WHERE AXL.codigoAutor_AXL = A.codigo_Autor AND AXL.codigoISBN_AXL = L.codigoISBN AND L.codigoGenero_Libro = G.codigo_Genero
ORDER BY A.nombres_Autor ASC

A: Its not possible to use two different order by in Union and union all statements. Alternatively it can achieved in the following way.
USE tempdb ;

CREATE TABLE t1 (ID INT, Col1 VARCHAR(100));
CREATE TABLE t2 (ID INT, Col1 VARCHAR(100));
INSERT INTO t1 (ID, Col1) SELECT 1, 'Col1-t1' UNION ALL SELECT 2, 'Col2-t1' UNION ALL SELECT 3, 'Col3-t1';
INSERT INTO t2 (ID, Col1) SELECT 3, 'Col1-t2' UNION ALL SELECT 2, 'Col2-t2' UNION ALL SELECT 1, 'Col3-t2';

SELECT result1.* FROM
    (SELECT top 1000 tblA.ID, tblA.Col1 FROM t1 AS tblA ORDER BY Col1 desc) AS result1
UNION ALL
    SELECT tblB.ID, tblB.Col1 FROM t2 AS tblB ORDER BY Col1 asc

 DROP TABLE t1;
 DROP TABLE t2;

References:
https://blog.sqlauthority.com/2012/10/30/sql-server-union-all-and-order-by-how-to-order-table-separately-while-using-union-all/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/language-elements/set-operators-union-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver15

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Getting To Know Eman Hassan & Her New Book, Raghead
When did you first encounter poetry? How did you discover that you wanted to write poems?
It was the summer I turned eleven. I discovered T.S. Eliot's collected poems on my mother's bookshelf, along with Emily Dickinson's work. I was blown away by how you could use words so evocatively, though at the time I clearly didn't fully realize what either poet was doing with language. My love of words began much earlier though, around the age of four: my parents were grad students, my older sister learning to read and write, I remember feeling excluded from a secret world everyone around me was privy to- I wanted in on the fun and asked my mother to teach me the alphabet. I just ran with it and taught myself how to read began composing my own song lyrics. I think poetry was the natural trajectory for me, I wrote my first poem the year I turned twelve- "flight of the swans", a poem both terrible and glorious, insipid yet tonally lovely. The process was so gratifying, I knew then that writing poetry was going to be something I was always going to do.
Do you have a writing routine? A favorite time or place to write?
I used to burn the midnight oils but Covid-19 has been a game-changer. Now I like to write in the afternoons. My writing routine tends to shift every few years but there are some constants to it too, I do a daily 25-20 minute free-write, keep word lists, an imagery list, you know, the standard poet practices. When drafting a new poem for example I get a little obsessed, I'll spend every free moment with it, mulling over lineation or verb choice, until I feel I can finally put it down, though to be honest I can be lax about keeping up with the lists at times.
The title of the book is, obviously, very evocative. What made you decide to use that as the name of the collection?
I saw that it was the right title and went with it. Since one of things the collection seeks to do is to peel back the layers of preconceived notions we have about 'other' subjectivity constructs (as well as explore how war, capitalism, and environmentalism intersect), using the pejorative, was an opening into this self/other witnessing that takes place in many of the poem's attempts to transform the dialogue into one of a self/self. Also, the title poem, "Raghead", tries to humanize that enigmatic Gulf Arab figure through a glimpse into a father/daughter relationship and gender performance. In this poem, the negative associations of being a 'raghead' are turned on its head as this cultural headcloth becomes a figure for imaginary play as the speaker of the poem thinks about sexual identity. It becomes an object that is loved and revered rather than something derogatory. Many of the poems explore different aspects of identity but the main impetus focuses on how we regard and accept each other in our respective identities— 'Raghead' seemed to be the right symbolic fit.
A conversation I find myself having with a lot of my poet friends is how to take care of ourselves when we are writing about heavy subjects, which are very present in this collection. What are some ways you practiced self-care while writing this book, if any?
I won't lie, writing these poems often became emotionally overwhelming. I think those who are compelled to write witness poetry (and I think most of poetry nowadays is witness poetry) are to some degree traumatized by what they have seen or experienced and share in their work. While the act of writing about trauma can be healing, the actual process asks you to relive it. Carolyn Forché calls the act of witnessing an atrocity an "impress of extremity". I think it was Muriel Rukeyser who said that even the act of witnessing by reading witness poetry, the reader takes on some of the trauma of what they have read, I think that holds true for witness poets who give account or testimony on the crimes against others. I would sometimes need to take breaks and I had to learn to allow myself to switch gears; I wouldn't stop writing but switched subject matter. Getting exercise, quality sleep when I could and allowing myself small pleasures like sunshine, a glass of wine or a piece of chocolate went a long way!
Where do your poems most often come from—an image, a sound, a phrase, an idea? Do you usually know exactly what path a poem will follow before you write it, or do you let the poem lead you, so to speak?
Every poet knows that when the muse will strike when she strikes, and you must accept the invitation and channel her or else the opportunity passes. I've found myself suddenly sitting down in stairwells and pulling out a notebook or my phone, furiously jotting down what comes. I think poets are Makars, as the ancient Greeks called us. We are in touch with something larger than ourselves that calls us to service. The greatest joy is in the process of writing in service to this calling. The poem always leads the way, giving rise to its form and imagery.
What are three books (poetry or otherwise) that you think everyone (or most people, at least) should read at some point?
Right now, I'm reading Arthur Sze's Sight Lines, his craft is *incredible*- every poet should read him! Everyone, poets or otherwise, needs to read Citizen, by Claudia Rankine: the way she traces the impact of systemic racism and the damaging psychic trauma it inflicts is so important right now in the world. Also, Carolyn Forché's In the Lateness of the World, she's one of the great ones and this is her best work yet. Finally, if I can add a fourth book, it's Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. It's a work of fiction and such a classic story of a man who gets caught by the material trappings of the world and wakes up from it as an older person, I think everyone can relate to or benefit from this timeless tale of personal growth and awakening.
Sample poem from Raghead:
Raghead
Kuwait, 1988
It was more than penis envy, more than ancestral calling
of desert warriors, who understood
the power those filmy layers had to survive the sun's
but oh man, the tactile allure of phyllo fabric between fingers
still thrills me.
Castration complex, straight-up sexual attraction—
no matter, but I used to don
my father's headgear, preen in his bedroom mirror
(mmm, how handsome!),
my pulse pounding in Bedouin drumbeat fashion,
afraid to wrinkle it starched goodness
or be found in its gauzy tabernacle, admiring
how white material
flanked my profile like holy side burns, stiff wings
halo-like, delicate when left
hanging. I was outrageous in my faux drag,
feeling like a deck hand
struggling to master the art of a sail-flip
over a shoulder.
Just a curious teenager, bored over summer break, desirous
of my first dishdasha experience,
a lip-synching Boy George: karma karma karma chameleon!
Or pretending I was a nun
in habit, wagging a finger at my reflection in bouts
of mid-summer night's imagining—
get thee to a nunnery!
No matter my precaution, my father finally caught a show
of my shenanigans, zeal of his pleasure
at my make-believe surreal as he taught me to fold
the cloth, tease its front
into a dent, under an anchoring rope of gahfiyya.
He dressed me up in a dishdasha
and we went for a ride. He let me drive the whole stretch
of Gulf Road, agreeing my name
for the night was Ibrahim el-Majnoon…
… and crazy we were, with my eyeliner'd uni-brow,
penciled moustache,
and him, still loud and lively, pretending I was the son
he didn't have.
Oh ghutra: to me, you are everything but a rag.
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Eman is a bicultural poet from Massachusetts and Kuwait. Her first collection, Raghead, was selected as the Editor's pick in the 2018 New Issues Poetry Prize and was also the recipient of a Folsom Award. She earned an MFA in poetry from Arizona State University, a PhD in poetry from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and has worked as International Poetry Editor at Hayden's Ferry Review and as Associate Editor at Prairie Schooner, respectively. Her poems and poetry translations have appeared in Blackbird, Borderlands, Mizna, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Aldus Journal of Translation, among others. She lives and keeps it weird in Portland, OR.


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