I make it a point to ignore everything Dan Shaughnessy writes because that is truly the path to sanity. If I could do the same for Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, I'd be a much better person. But I had to read his piece in this morning's Globe about the Nomar Garciaparra retirement, and Dan did not disappoint.
After all, who else would have the audacity to open a column about yesterday's emotional, widely loved and approved press conference like this?
I hate to be the fly in the punch bowl here, but yesterday's lovefest involving Nomar Garciaparra and the Red Sox was truly nauseating.
Life is long and people change. There is certainly every possibility that Nomar has matured and will henceforth pledge allegiance to Boston and spread the Gospel of the Red Sox. But it's downright fraudulent to deny or ignore how bad this relationship was at the end.
Of course, no one has denied it. Terry Francona, who was manager at the time of the messy split-up, explicitly acknowledged it yesterday. But here's the thing. That was six years ago. Life is long, and people change. Wait, who said that?
This is no attempt to bash a guy when he's hurt and struggling defensively and at the plate. Garciaparra battled back from an Achilles' injury and always gives 100 percent on the field.
Flash forward, and that same columnist — Dan Shaughnessy, natch — has a different take on that Achilles injury.
He developed Achilles' tendinitis, allegedly after a ball hit him in the batting cage (nobody witnessed this).
Hmm, that's not quite the same story, is it? Well, surely, Dan's take on the infamous extra-inning game in which Jeter dove into the stands and Nomar sat on the bench hasn't changed, has it?
Both Francona and Garciaparra tried to put a better face on the decision after the 13-inning epic — a game punctuated by Derek Jeter's game-saving catch and stage dive into the seats. But the damage is done. The manager and the shortstop made hollow statements about Nomie wanting to play and working to get loose when the game went into extra innings.
So it's a problem. And Dan doesn't believe Francona's and Nomar's protestations that Nomar tried to get loose when the game went into extras. Jeter's play "punctuated" the game (semicolon? interrobang?), but the Dan dismisses the ending as a "stage dive," which as I recall was a common thought around Boston immediately afterward.
Then came the nationally televised midsummer game at Yankee Stadium, when Nomar refused to play while Derek Jeter saved the game with a face-first plunge into the stands behind third base.
Woah, woah, woah. Jeter goes from punctuating the game to saving the game, and that "stage dive" is now a "face-first plunge into the stands." It's not a big difference, but it's there, isn't it? The ramifications of the game have changed a bit. So who's right? 2004 Dan or 2010 Dan?
Well, the July 1 game took place in Yankee Stadium, which would make it difficult for a defensive play by the home team to literally save the game. After Jeter's play in the top of the 12th, Miguel Cairo tripled to open the bottom half yet couldn't score, then the Sox actually took the lead on a Manny Ramirez home run in the top of the 13th, only for Leskanic to blow it by giving up three straight hits with two outs in the bottom of the inning. After Jeter's play, which increased the Yankees' chances of winning by 15 percent, six more plays took place that swung the game further in one direction or the other. I'll give this one to 2004 Dan. An important play, a symbolic play, a seemingly crucial play at that stage of the game, but if Leskanic gets that third out in the 13th, does anyone even remember the dive today?
In good times and bad, Garciaparra was unnecessarily difficult in all interactions with the media.
Good stuff guys… I just posted a similar anti-Dan article at TBL.
Heaven for bid that you tell Dan when and where he stick his smelly mic in your face!
Bottom Line: Nomar may have sulked through 2004… and maybe getting the WS ring makes it easier to forget… but I'm over it.
Maybe some day Dan will be too.
Well, wrong on both accounts. Life is short, and people rarely change.
However, it is because life is short that we need to forgive and move on. Excellent article.
Shouldn't Nomar and Manny be at the top of that list, given how they actively worked against the team while they were still on it?
I understand that Clemens is more complicated, given questions of his preparation late in his Sox career, but he didn't force his way out of town.
Damon and Boggs seem to be more victims than any thing. Heck, Boggs' "sins" seem downright quaint today.
For me Boggs is the worst, strangely.
Boggs was my favorite Sox position player to watch, by a million miles, when I was in my teens. I absolutely treasured watching his at-bats, it was an unmissable thing for me. And when he finally developed into a good fielder I felt like my devotion to Boggs was all justified – I had always believed he was an underappreciated and unfairly maligned fielder. So when Boggs left town, became embittered, then went to straight to the Yankees and acted like the Sox (and their fans collaterally) were evil I took it personally. Boggs became dead to me, and I haven't yet felt inclined to feel any different.
None of the other players are anything like Boggs. His being dead to me is why he didn't even show up in my comment yesterday – I have almost forgotten him as a Sox icon.
Anyway, none of this may be logical, but the other four guys listed don't conjure up any of the animosity that Boggs does, that's probably due to my age and perspective on baseball now. Boggs hurt me when I was younger and more impressionable and probably just beginning to come to grips with baseball being so much about business and nothing else. With Boggs it was personal – he went RIGHT to the Yankees. Maybe that was the moment that I figured it out, and which made it easier to deal with the other guys leaving.
I find that I don't hate any of them. I think I did at one time — certainly Clemens, maybe Damon. I was too young for Boggs, and my struggles with Manny are well documented here and elsewhere. Ultimately, I realized I can't hate someone who was part of the 2004 club, and recently when I watched the first Clemens 20K game on TV, I concluded it's much easier if I let go the immaturity and embrace the greatness of the players while they were here rather than focusing on the irretrievable nature of their departures.
How do you interpret how he was treated though by the Boston media? Could you have been too young to know you were being spun?
If I'm Boggs, of course I would have been embittered by the town. He was a fantastic player and it wasn't enough. Then his personal life was dragged over the coals and repeatedly. I'm sure not all of SFs back then were as kind as you. Seeing what's happened to Damon, do you now think it was something Boggs did to cause the response?
As for the Yankees, they overpaid to get him during a time when no one wanted to come to the Yankees. They were a terrible team back then and with an awful owner. River Ave Blues recently had a review, I think.
Doesn't the nature of how they left matter though? I'm thankful the Yankees haven't had any characters recently like Manny or Nomar sabotaging the team, but Sheffield comes close. And with him it was good riddance. Damon though wanted to get paid, again. I can't see any reason to boo him when he's back in Yankee Stadium this year, and that's even if he went back to the Sox.
> Doesn't the nature of how they left matter though?
No. It's just business, it doesn't matter. Which is what i have to keep in mind the first time the Yankees play the Halos and I have to see Matsui in white and red.
Manny sabotaged the team to two titles.
But Matsui wasn't run out of town. And he'll be cheered in the Bronx.
If ever a player in NY has come close to getting the Boston treatment, it was and is A-Rod. On some level he deserves it, but on another it's been the worst of what Clemens and Boggs got combined. Thankfully I have yet to see a Yankee clearly pull Manny/Nomar since Henderson in 89.
Nomar was a cult hero in New England and throughout RSN. His trade also came shortly before the Red Sox one their first title in a bagillion years. If I had to guess Nomar would be the last guy on that list you posted above. Sox fans have no reason to dislike him, not in the same way they do Boggs, Damon, Manny, etc…Nomar is on line with Jeter as far as popularity at their respective peaks. I'd be shocked if you found any Sox fans who would even include him on a most hated list. Just a YF's opinion, don't want to speak for RSN.
AG, I am indifferent to Matsui and Damon returning. I never really embraced either player, but I am definitely thankful for their efforts/service. We all have different attachments to different players I suppose, those 2 are not really on that list for me.
You're not claiming Manny's beloved up here, are you?
To put it another way, will all be forgotten if Manny decides to retire as a Sock? Do you think Epstein would ever let that happen?
Nomar is a special case: drafted, signed, and developed as a Sox. He didn't do much to piss off fans, the team traded him – he didn't walk. Boggs was home-grown too, but he burned bridges (aided and abetted by the Yawkey Trust, most certainly) and had the "Delta Force" shenanigans that sullied his rep as a team player early on. Clemens has his own story, which now quite obviously goes beyond just his dealings with Dan Duquette. Nomar is the lightest offender, if an offender at all. Shaugnessy's "total fraud" comment is detestable, self-serving. He may have been a fraud to Shank, but that only serves to show Nomar to be a smart person in not trusting Shaughnessy.
Damon and Manny were not home-growners. They don't deserve the same consideration that guys like Boggs and Clemens and Nomar deserve in the discussion of what team one might retire with. Damon and Manny made amazing contributions and will forever be associated with the Sox and the life-changing title of 2004. That should be enough and will probably be enough.
That's a good rundown. The only problem I see is that Nomar quit on his team in a way that Boggs and Clemens never did. The Sox had to trade Nomar and during a time when the championship drought was looking like it might fall. I'm sure they would have preferred not to. He was still productive when he was getting on the field.
As for Boggs, can you refresh my memory? The defense was always an issue and then there was Adams. But what other fire was behind the noxious smoke?
The only problem I see is that Nomar quit on his team in a way that Boggs and Clemens never did.
That is a very generous view of Clemens, who showed up overweight to camp, who seemed to visibly dog it over the course of his last couple of seasons, and who then miraculously recovered in Toronto. Clemens' attitude towards the team was tenuous for a while before he left, he was probably more under the microscope than Nomar ever was, he went through a number of contract negotiations and extensions, publicly, before it even came to Duquette. My mom has hated Clemens since long before he ever left the Sox, a gut response she had based on his dealings far prior to his troubled exodus.
As for Nomar, the Yankee game in July 2004 has contributed to an exacerbation of the idea that Nomar quit on his team; I think if we look back and take a little (not all) emotion out of it we'd realize that this too was an exaggeration of the media. To follow an earlier comment, if we are going to accuse the media of trapping us in narratives, then this one certainly should come under the same scrutiny.
Yeah, I get all that about Clemens. I guess I just didn't see the acrimony until he left.
I don't know if it's simply the media though. They weren't the ones booing Damon and Boggs. In each case the player left because the team didn't want them any longer.
Manny was far worse. But Nomar wasn't exactly a leader in 2003 and 2004 and didn't kill himself to get on the field. That July game is actually a decent approximation. The team needed him and he didn't show up. That may just be a fan's perception, but the team then traded him weeks later. That's where it starts to look like reality.
> I don't know if it's simply the media though.
He was cordially handed his hat.
I guess I missed the memo where I was supposed to hate these random people whom I've never met, who provided me hours of enjoyment, and all left my favorite team under varied circumstances. I apologize for the lack of volatility in my emotional state, but that's the way it is.
The most amazing was his 3 or 4 homerun Father's day weekend in Cleveland in 98 or 99. I had flown My Dad up for the 3 game weekend as a Father's day gift.
For a year or two prior to Mr. Ramirez arriving, he was the offense. I think his lineup protection consisted of Troy O'Leary and the shell of John Valentin.
In 2004, prior to the trade, I wanted to smack Nomar's and Theo's heads together (just as i want to with my own kids most days.) They wouldn't listen to me.
Finally, to sum up my meandering, post trade, I have always had that sad and nostalgic "oh, what could have been" feeling whenever I think of Nomar and the Red Sox.
I keep reading how Nomar "quit"…He "quit" on his team in a season where they won there first championship since forever! I think all of that gets erased from the memory bank for most fans. If the Yankees had won a WS with malcontents like Gary Sheffield and Randy Johnson I wouldn't give two craps how bad they were in the clubhouse and if they had quit. It only gets the pub it does/did because they lost. Winning solves everything. Fortunately for Nomar's legacy they did just that and did it twice after he moved on.


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Followers are not interested in leaders who cannot, or will not, "walk the talk". Asking people to change, improve and achieve more is a waste of time when their leader cannot model the desired behaviors in his or her own life. Participants in this session will learn that personal leadership is at the foundation of the leadership process and that, in order to build trust and lead the business forward, they must first take on the responsibility of leading themselves. Participants will also learn to focus on the true drivers of performance, regain critical planning and personal time, dramatically increase work and life engagement, and get more done in less time with less stress.


Why am I mentioning this? Other than the fact that it's hot here, pretty much year round... I had an incident on facebook last week that bears mentioning. Apparently in Pa, there was a hot day. Some people couldn't sleep because it was over 80 at night. Others had to turn on their AC.I had no pity for them.
For full disclosure we do have an AC unit here. we put it in our insulated trailer with a TV. We have used it twice since the set up. Electricity is just too expensive.
Back to my post on Facebook. I was annoyed because it is hot here: Hace Calor. That being said, I have friends around the world who have to live in much hotter climates than we do.
I have been reading the book Humble Roots as a part of the Velvet Ashes book club. It is so good that I need to re-read it at least twice to digest all of it! The chapters I had been reading that week were on pride. Pride teaches us that we are more significant than we are. My upbringing had me believing I was "deserving" of a certain level of comfort. Humble roots humbled me in thinking that there was some level of personal importance involved. The author talks about a thankfulness being paramount in the battle against pride. Not one that stems from what I have that others don't; but a thankfulness that stems from the fact that I come from dust and return to dust. All things are gifts, even the unrelenting heat.
"The problem with privilege is we rarely see our own." I am starting to see the privileges I personally have. All is a gift.
I had a chance to read your last several blog posts today. Thanks so much for sharing how your mission and life are going :) Have you found a home school helper yet? Hugs!


Our 2019 Photographic Exhibition was held at Cyfarthfa Castle, Merthyr Tydfi from Tuesday 7th May to Tuesday 4th June 2019.
Our club meets every Friday evening at 7.30pm in the Cefn Community Centre which is on the north side of Merthyr Tydfil Click here to view map and finishes around 9.30pm. Although we are not set up as a teaching camera club, you will find our members very helpful in offering advice and encouragement on all aspects of using a camera and producing a final print or digital projected image.
Throughout the year we run various workshops covering all aspects of photography, including subjects like Macro photography, Portrait photography, and using Photo Editing software. Some of these evening are run by our very own members who have knowledge in this particular subject or we have Guest speakers in to give us all expert advice.
Internal and External Photographic Competitions are a big part of the club for those who wish to participate. We have at least five internal competitions where members can provide up to two colour prints, two monochrome prints and two dpi's. These are commented on by external judges which makes for a good evening of viewing other members images as well as learning a lot from the comments of each image from the judges. We also enter quite a few external competitions against other clubs throughout the year, this is also very interesting as we get to see what sort of work is being produced by other clubs, and how it is being received by the various judges.
We also run an exhibition once a year which has over the past few years been exhibited at the Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery.
Some members within the club also get involved in working towards various photography awards by entering International Photographic Salons, again if you are possibly interested in trying to archive this type of award, then there is a lot of advice to be had within the club.
Most of all we are a friendly bunch of photographers that like nothing more than to chat about our hobby and enjoy each others company.


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Illinois Army National Guardsman Jeff Courter weathered a 2007 deployment to Afghanistan with plain-spoken good humor, quiet faith, and a passion for trying to put it all together. A former Marine cook and Navy Reservist, he deployed to Afghanistan as an Army communications sergeant. Along with his Embedded Training Team (E.T.T.) mates, his mission was to train Afghan Border Police (A.B.P.) in Southeastern Afghanistan's Paktika Province, along the Afghan-Pakistan border.
The ABP were even less-funded, -trained, and -equipped than the Afghan National Police (A.N.P.). At one point, the ABP personnel at Courter's location mutinied and disappeared. (Courter later found out the police revolted after a self-serving translator had knowingly driven a wedge between ABP and their American allies.) Throughout his time in Afghanistan, Courter struggled to do what he could to make a difference. At the same time, he maintained a blog called "Afghan Journal," which he later collected and published as a book.
As the title promises, the organization of the book is chronological. Sometimes, this can prove deadly for a writer--writers get caught up in the mundane details and forget to breathe, and to add perspective for those of us who weren't there to see things first-hand.
In delivering his punchy posts, however, Courter successfully avoids this pitfall. All along the way, he probes his own assumptions, questions his own observations, and even lays his views and traditions alongside those of his Afghan hosts and European colleagues. There are a few choice war stories, of course, including one about renting camels for an anti-Taliban patrol that, if you don't mind me saying, had me on the edge of my saddle.
The result of Courter's efforts is a conversational, easy-to-read chronicle of how one man and one Army approached a "war on a budget" in 2007. Because of its simple-but-not-simplistic approach, I think it one of the first I'd recommend to those Red Bull friends and family with only a casual knowledge military life and purpose.
I asked the Solder how many times [Forward Operating Base] Waza Khwa had been attacked this year, and he replied it hadn't been attacked at all. I suggested that the jobs we provide for local laborers and the medical support we sometimes give may make many of the local villagers reluctant to help our enemies. After considering this for a moment, the young man agreed.
I've been in official counterinsurgency (COIN) briefings that were less applicable and understandable than than Courter's quick, common-sense counseling session with that young soldier.
Courter later resolved to continue telling the story of our involvement in Afghanistan, not only through his book, but in his ongoing "Life, Love and Truth" blog. He's also now a recruiter for the Illinois Army National Guard.
His journey continues, as does ours.
By the way, Courter's book is recently available in an Amazon Kindle version! I mention this because so many of my Red Bull buddies are apparently considering deploying with an e-reader of some sort, whether a Kindle, Nook, iPad, Sony Reader, or similar device. It's tempting--I know that I, for one, both deployed and returned home with too many books my last time around. I'll keep you posted on what we learn!
I read this book and agree with Sherpa. Jeff Courter shows a great effort to understand the people and their culture and try to make a real difference. Not an easy task many days halway across the globe!
I am now deeply mired (appropriately enough) in the book "In The Graveyard of Empires" by Seth G. Jones and it reinforces on the larger Afghan national level much of what Courter documents. Lack of governance at the rural level, locals supporting the Taliban not for religious or political reasons but out of fear and the general lost opportunities early on running what Courter calls a K-Mart war.
Sherpa - Many thanks for your support of my book. Your comments mean a lot to me, as I know you are getting ready to go there yourself...I hope it has given you some mental ammo for your own deployment. If anything I wrote helps you come home safely, it will have done more than its job.


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Vanuatu's Prince Philip worshippers say his spirit lives on
By: AFP Published: 02:06 PM, 12 Apr, 2021
Yakel village chief Albi, and members of his family, holds a portrait of Britain's Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in the remote Pacific village of Vanuatu on April 12, 2021 as they worshipped Prince Philip as a living god. AFP
The chiefs of remote Pacific villages that worship Prince Philip offered a message of comfort to Queen Elizabeth II Monday, saying his soul would live on.
But the worshippers of Yakel village on the Vanuatu island of Tanna said they did not yet know who would become their new spiritual leader. For decades, inhabitants of two villages in the hinterland of the lush volcanic island of Tanna in Vanuatu -- Yaohnanen and Yakel -- have venerated Philip, who died at Windsor Castle last week at the age of 99.
Yakel village chief Albi said it was unclear how Philip's death would impact the religious movement, as his spirit was believed to be adrift and seeking a new home.
While many outsiders assumed Philip's eldest son Charles or grandsons William and Harry would succeed him in the villagers' devotions, Albi said nothing was certain. "The spirit of Prince Philip has left his body, but it lives on -- it is too soon to say where it will reside," he told AFP.
Other elders argued that Charles' succession was guaranteed in 2018, when he was given the chiefly title Mal Menaringmanu during a visit to Port Vila.
Beneath a British flag flying at half-mast, the chiefs met Monday at Yaohnanen to thrash out the issues his death has raised. The chiefs said they were sending a confidential message to the royal family following Philip's passing.
The leaders spoke in turn during painstaking discussions on the future direction of their customary belief system, with a resolution likely to be days away.
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The Prince Philip Movement is believed to have started in the late 1970s following a state visit by the Duke of Edinburgh in 1974 to Vanuatu, then known as the New Hebrides.
British officials investigating the phenomenon concluded it stemmed from an age-old legend of a returning son who had pale skin.
Upon learning that Greek-born Philip was not originally from Britain, France or the United States, they may have decided that he must, therefore, be from Tanna.
Worshippers believed he had set off from Tanna to marry the most powerful woman in the world and would one day return bringing bounty.
Anthropologists say the movement is a way for villagers on the island to find a spiritual connection to the outside world.
Despite his reputation for politically incorrect gaffes, Philip was reportedly respectful towards the islanders' beliefs.
British journalist Matthew Baylis lived among the Philip worshippers for a short time and in his 2013 book said that the prince sent signed photographs to Tanna after receiving gifts from the villagers.
In other villages on Tanna, locals are part of the so-called John Frum Movement, a similar cult which stems from the appearance of a pale-skinned stranger in the 1930s.
Adherents to the movement, which encourages the return to traditional customs of dancing and kava-drinking, believe that a hero, "John Frum" will one day return, bringing with him the riches seen in the hands of American GIs during World War II -- including radios and cars.
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Patricia Espinosa, the new Secretary of UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), and Salaheddine Mezouar, the president of COP-22, led a talk with young people this morning. The idea of the meeting was hear the youth and gave a short brief of the negotiations in Marrakech.
Espinosa, which assumed the position in the middle of this year, was positive and asked for patience. "We cannot expect that the road map is going to be done here", told the Secretary of UNFCCC. But she guarantees that the focus of the conference in Marrakech is find the best ways to facilitate the implementation of the Paris Agreement. Espinosa also complements that next week, with the presence of the king of Morocco, Mohammed VI, is expected reach 150 signatories of the agreement created last year, at COP-21, in Paris.
Mezouar use his speech to bold that Marrakech is also the COP of finance. More than guarantee commitment for the Green Climate Fund (GCF), he told that "we want a regulated market". The president also clarify that his mission at this COP: "bring real action for the real expectations". "In Marrakech we adopted a new language: the real action language".


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Turkish-Armenia Protocols Create Concern over Karabakh
By: Emrullah Uslu
October 14, 2009 07:55 PM Age: 13 years
Foreign Minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoglu (R) with his Armenian counterpart Edouard Nalbandian
Turkey and Armenia signed twin protocols on October 10 that were in preparation since February of this year (EDM, February 10, March 27, April 9, May 14, May 18, October 7). Under the agreement, Turkey and Armenia will establish diplomatic relations and re-open their border. It also calls for a panel to investigate the contentious issue of the alleged "genocide" in 1915. The process of preparing these protocols was long and drawn out. However, Turkish and Armenian diplomats skillfully negotiated the agreement. A temporary crisis erupted at the last minute, which delayed the signing ceremony for three hours. Apparently Armenian diplomats objected to the text of Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's speech in which he stressed that the South Caucasus should become a region of peace and tranquility and that the Karabakh dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia should be resolved. Yerevan has sought from the very outset of the normalization process to treat the Karabakh issue separately. In return, the Turkish side objected to the text of Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian's speech in which he referred to historical events: implying the Armenian "genocide" (Hurriyet, October 11).
American and Russian officials intervened and supported the Turkish proposal to sign the protocols without delivering speeches. While the Armenians were reluctant to sign the protocol, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov wrote a note to his Armenian counterpart: "Edward! Accept the ceremony without statements!" Javier Solana (E.U. High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy) and the French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner signed the note and sent it to Nalbandian –which convinced the Armenians to sign the protocols (www.pravda.ru, October 12).
Armenians have long argued that the Karabakh dispute should be a separate issue and that Ankara should not use it as a precondition for Turkish-Armenian rapprochement. Yet the Turkish side, due to the country's close relationship with Azerbaijan, always links Karabakh to the Turkish-Armenian normalization process. One week before the signing ceremony, Armenian diplomats rejected the Turkish offer to invite the U.S. Russian and French Foreign Ministers as members of the Minsk Group (which was established to find a solution to the Karabakh issue) (Aksam, October 5).
During the ceremony the members of the Minsk Group were behind Davutoglu and Nalbandian, which provided an impression that powerful states supported the Turkish-Armenian rapprochement. Inviting the members of the Minsk Group to the signing ceremony was one of the Turkish diplomatic successes. Yet, in order to link the Karabakh issue with the protocols Turkish neo-nationalists objected to the picture of the Turkish and Armenian foreign ministers signing the protocols in the presence of U.S., E.U., and Russian officials, as if they were under international pressure (Haberturk, October 13).
Nevertheless, there is no direct reference to Karabakh in the protocols. Indeed, the protocols contain only indirect references to it:
"Referring to their obligations under the Charter of the United Nations, the Helsinki Final Act, the Charter of Paris for a New Europe, reconfirming their commitment, in their bilateral and international relations, to respect and ensure respect for the principles of equality, sovereignty, non-intervention in internal affairs of other states, territorial integrity and inviolability of frontiers, bearing in mind the importance of the creation and maintenance of an atmosphere of trust and confidence between the two countries that will contribute to the strengthening of peace, security and stability of the whole region, as well as being determined to refrain from the threat or the use of force, to promote the peaceful settlement of disputes, and to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms" (Turkish-Armenian Protocol on establishing good neighborly relations and to develop bilateral cooperation in the political, economic, cultural and other fields, October 10).
In response to nationalist criticism, the Turkish government has pointed to the above mentioned indirect reference to the Karabakh dispute, and emphasized this in the ratification process. Although it was revealed that the government will send the protocols to the Turkish parliament on October 21, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared that parliament will await the resolution of the Karabakh dispute and only then ratify the agreement (NTV, October 12). However, it appears that such a strategy is unsatisfactory for Baku, who sent a group of parliamentarians to Ankara to ensure that the Turkish parliament does not ratify the protocols until the dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia has been resolved (Vatan, October 13).
What makes Turkish nationalists and the Azerbaijani government anxious is whether the international community will pressure Ankara to ratify the protocols before finding a solution to the Karabakh issue. Promises made by the international community before the referendum in Cyprus to unify the island in 2004 and its subsequent failure to keep these promises, has raised fears among the Turkish public concerning Karabakh. In the case of Cyprus, without keeping its promises to end the isolation of the Turkic Cypriots, the E.U. is exerting pressure on Turkey to recognize the Greek Cypriot state as representing the whole island.
Delaying the ratification process in the Turkish parliament until Azerbaijan and Armenia resolve the Karabakh dispute would be an intelligent policy for Ankara to pursue to avoid any international pressure to open its border with Armenia ending its long standing boycott caused by the Armenian occupation of Azerbaijan's province of Karabakh. However, since there is no direct reference to Karabakh in the protocols, it might prove counterproductive if international actors, such as Russia, the E.U., or the U.S. change their current positions to put pressure on Ankara to ratify the protocols before a solution to the Karabakh issue is agreed.
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Malaria is a deadly disease that has existed for centuries and has yet to be eradicated. The mosquito-borne illness disproportionately impacts people in developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Ending malaria would save hundreds of thousands of lives every year and bring the world one step closer to achieving the United Nations' goal of good health for all. Join us in taking action on related causes here.
The world could be rid of malaria by 2050, a new report says, but not without global cooperation.
The report, commissioned by The Lancet medical journal, states that with more funding, innovation, and international collaboration, eradicating malaria in the next 30 years is an "ambitious," but "achievable" goal.
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Hannah Murdoch – Dec 18, 2020
More than ten years ago, USV hosted a small group of educators, entrepreneurs, activists, and investors for a day-long session called Hacking Education. In summarizing that discussion, our partner Brad described the group's collective optimism about the role technology would play in driving down the cost of learning and increasing access to knowledge. With an understanding of the hard work ahead, he noted –
"If the transition from the current high touch, but high cost, learning environment to an efficient peer-produced learning network is as abrupt and brutal as the transition we are witnessing in the music and newspaper industry, the social consequences are likely to be a lot more severe."
In many ways, the last nine months have been that 'abrupt and brutal' transition. More than 90% of households with school-aged children adjusted to distance learning overnight. Our institutions are still learning to adapt. Many students have been left behind. In this moment, a little more than a decade after the first, USV gathered a small group together for "Hacking Education 2.0". We reflected on what the next decade of K-12 education might hold, and the questions we're all wrestling with today.
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"One of the things that's most exciting to me about where we are right now is that the shift to online learning has moved a lot of assignments, curriculum, and assessments from analog to digital. They are now programmable because they are digital content. And the thing that has made it possible for online and tech-enabled education platforms to be adaptive, responsive, and flexible is how they've digitized – they can process mass amounts of data. We haven't figured out what to do with that yet, but it's easy to imagine how you could personalize learning to make a student more successful."
Core curriculum vs. interest-driven learning
There was also agreement that today's students will need to cultivate a life-long love of learning rather than concentrate the majority of education (time + dollars) in the first few decades of life. Amir Nathoo, CEO of Outschool, suggested that letting students direct their learning experience outside of the core curriculum will be critical to sparking this necessary curiosity –
"If we just stick to the core curriculum, then it is very difficult for kids to develop differentiated skills. More of the school day needs to be spent on kids pursuing their interests with the benefit of increased autonomy and self-direction – with this, kids' motivation to learn can increase. There's going to be so much change in technology and society in the next 10 years, I think we will head in a direction of hybrid core + self-directed."
Shripriya Mahesh, Founding Partner at Spero Ventures, agreed, and specifically highlighted the need to learn by doing –
"One of the spines, if you will, of how we think about K-12 education is how do we give every child a chance to love learning and to learn by doing? Those two are more tied than we think. The reason we think about hybrid curriculum is because for every child, there is a teacher or content that can inspire that child."
We have already seen core subjects augmented with self-directed study where learners develop mastery in the disciplines that matter to them. The approach is gaining traction across grades and geographies – for teens at schools like Sora and for younger learners at Prenda or Primer. Students might build a video game, help a small business launch a marketing campaign, or invest time learning the math behind their favorite kind of music.
Handing the reins to students stretches today's pedagogical assumptions about how much trust we place in learners to direct the arc of their education, and at what age they are well-equipped to do so. David Noah, Founding Principal of Comp Sci High, highlighted that in many cases, students don't have the resources or knowledge to self-select into what isn't already familiar to them. This can further disadvantage some learners more than others. He noted –
"I think there is a question for everyone, about what are the minimum barriers to entry for self-directed learning? I don't just mean a stable wifi connection, but also how much do you need to know about something to be able to be interested in it or to direct it yourself? How do you get to that point if you initially hate it? I bet we all hated something at first that we later came to like. At what point is it appropriate to say, you know enough and are prepared? Because my experience would suggest it is not always responsible to send kids out on their own, at least for core schooling."
We debated whether or not students should be allowed to forgo whole subjects entirely, and at what point such a decision is responsible. Those favoring more autonomy, sooner felt that failing early and often in the things one cares about is a way to cultivate a deeper curiosity and sense of discovery. Those who pushed for more initial structure emphasized the importance of a strong, shared knowledge base for young learners. Most did agree that late middle school/ early highschool is the age where students are best suited to direct chunks of their school day and in general, more structure is better than too little.
Access and equity
A significant focus of the conversation was then around the rising inequities of the US education system. Concerns started at the most basic – stable internet, a safe place to study, healthy food for a growing mind. Then, structural – many students face caregiving responsibilities on top of school, hold a part-time job, or don't see leaders who inspire and look like them. Finally, we thought about how the autonomy and trust enjoyed by small pockets of students today could reach those at all corners of the system.
If learning will be life-long, hybrid, and often self-directed then the benefits of this approach must be scaled to reach the public system. Linda Chen, Chief Academic Officer at New York City's Department of Education, noted that –
"Every student has a love of learning and it's our responsibility to provide the opportunities that allow this love to be unlocked for every student. Technology has certainly underscored the disparities, but it can also be a gate-smasher. Self-direction should be something that every child has access to and is entitled to – how can we do that in the public system?"
Shripriya agreed –
"If we're not able to bring some of that student agency, with technology, to the majority of children who are in K through 12, then we are saying that only the kids who can afford it are curious, or can be lifelong learners. And I think that will be a really sad place to end."
Dr. Tarika Barrett, COO of Girls Who Code, highlighted that a critical piece will be hearing from a more diverse set of communities, and building with a broad set of needs in mind –
"We have to invest in the right places. When you go to invest, are you investing in founders of color? Are you keeping an eye on businesses considering social impact? Are you putting dollars into solutions that work for the diverse many, not just the select few. If we keep investing in companies that benefit the same communities, we leave other communities behind and with them, brilliant ideas on the table."
When we kicked off Hacking Education more than a decade ago, we were wondering what it would look like to bring the benefits of the web to learners at large. Peer-to-peer learning networks, digital credentials, learning through games, and developing alternatives to the traditional system were all on our minds. Many of these concepts have flourished in the years since that conversation. At the same time, our ongoing crisis suggests the broad-based access we were hoping for remains elusive.
While we've gotten better at defining what great digital learning looks like, many families have yet to experience it for themselves. The context in which our education system functions – politically, socially, and economically – means it will continue to take a coalition of educators, policy-makers, and entrepreneurs to bring the distributed power of the web in new formats to more learners. At USV, we were excited to hear from these leaders as we think through the next wave of K-12 learning and would love to discuss the same topics with you. If you're brainstorming or building, please don't hesitate to reach out – our inboxes and minds are open.
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Half of women have been sexually harassed at work according to 'shameful' findings by TUC
SEXUAL harassment in the work place is worryingly prevalent with hundreds of women suffering every single day.
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Half of women have been sexually harassed at work (Image: Getty)
MORE than half of women have been sexually harassed at work according to shocking research by the TUC.
One in four women have been touched in the work place but feel unable to report it, with one in eight saying someone had tried to kiss them.
The survey on 1,500 women found that a third had been subjected to unwelcome jokes while a quater were on the receiving end on comments made about their clothes or bodies.
Out of one in five cases the perpetrator was a line manager or someone in a higher position of authority, with the majority of incidents involving a male.
The research also revealed that young women aged between 18-24 were particularly vulnerable, with two thirds saying they suffered sexual harassment at work.
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TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said many women were left feeling that they had no where to turn, and the problem was not taken seriously by male bosses.
"How many times do we still hear that sexual harassment in the workplace is just a bit of 'banter' " she said.
The problem is worse for younger woman (Image: Philip Toscano/PA Wire)
"Sexual harassment is undermining, humiliating and can have a huge effect on mental health.
"Victims are often left feeling ashamed and frightened.
"It has no place in a modern workplace, or in wider society.
"Employers must be clear they have a zero tolerance attitude to sexual harassment and treat any complaint seriously.
"It's a scandal that so few women feel their bosses are dealing with the issue properly."
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Roughly 79 per cent of women who experienced sexual harassment at work did not tell their employer with a quarter saying they felt the abuse would not be taken seriously.
Hundreds of women also said they felt too embarrassed and were concerned it would effect their career prospects.
One young woman told the TUC anonymously that in her previous job she worked in an almost exclusively male salesroom.
"Sexual comments about me or others, either to me or overheard in my presence, were a fact of daily working life," she said.
Some of those comments were violent in nature."
This woman responded to her manager's 'racist' and 'sexist' dress code rules by coming to work in costume
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"Because he was older and a dad, the younger guys looked up to him."
Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism Project which helped with the report, said many people would like to think that workplace sexual harassment was a thing of the past.
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BDSwiss to sponsor DP World Tour Championship
Financial services group BDSwiss has announced it will sponsor the DP World Tour Championship and AVIV Dubai Championship in collaboration with the European Tour. The two season-ending golf tournaments, part of the Rolex Series, are held annually at the Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai. This year's Race to Dubai, a season-long competition to crown the European Tour's number one player, comes to an end.
BDSwiss becomes the official sponsor of the European Tour world champions for a first time. The move is driven by the Group's aim to showcase its brand through sponsoring top-tier sporting events and organisations.
BDSwiss CEO Alexander Oelfke commented:
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At BDSwiss, we are immensely proud to collaborate with the European Tour in sponsoring the DP World Tour Championship — a prestigious golf event that supports our global brand image and resonates with our core values of integrity, perseverance, and commitment to world-class performance.
Daniel Takieddine, BDSwiss Senior Executive Officer MENA said:
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We're delighted to be one of the official sponsors of Golf's DP World Tour Championship, a globally acknowledged sporting event that will not only support our brand with international exposure but will also bolster our efforts to become a leading multi-asset trading powerhouse in the UAE and across the broader MENA region.
Max Hamilton, Commercial Director of the European Tour, added:
We're delighted to welcome BDSwiss to our network of partners for the DP World Tour Championship. The tournament is not only an annual milestone in global golf but a highlight of the sporting calendar in the Middle East which will be broadcast to a global audience.
The DP World Tour Championship is the second major sport event sponsorship for 2021 for BDSwiss. The group signed a two-year deal as the gold sponsor of the MercedesCup ATP 250 Stuttgart tennis tournament earlier this year.
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By newsdesk Featured Stories Jersey City Police and Crime April 15, 2016
Jersey City police are investigating the theft of an unmarked police vehicle that was stolen from a lot on Central Avenue near Hutton Street across from the North District police station.
The vehicle, which was spotted in Elizabeth by Elizabeth Police early this morning, is a tan 2000 Jeep Cherokee. Elizabeth police officers attempted to stop the vehicle – which was occupied by two males – at approximately 4 a.m., however the driver fled the scene at a high rate of speed. Jersey City's license plate reader tracked the vehicle entering the city just before 5 a.m. The investigation is ongoing.
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I'm an organized person. I like to plan, get things done and I don't like being late. So, it shouldn't be a surprise that I have rules for an efficient working day.
I try to have a daily routine and even though there's almost always something that throws it off, I like having a plan, so I try to follow these 10 rules.
Make a physical list the evening before. I use a small notepad, where I jot down thoughts of what I need to do tomorrow in a list. I don't do it digitally, because I've found digital lists are too easy to ignore. My list sits next to the coffee machine, where I see it often throughout the day.
Start the day reading something meaningful. I think it's important to put yourself in a good frame of mind for the day. Don't start with work, email or the news. They all trigger feelings of stress. I'm not a religious person, so my morning reading tends to be about mindfulness, compassion and other life lessons. Another person might read the Bible, Koran or whatever. The point is to start the day with a sense of being grateful for your life and the people in your life and thereby realizing that not everyone is so lucky and that any day can potentially be your last. Don't waste your time being angry, unhappy or mean to others.
Eat a good breakfast. Not cereal or a quick bite in the car. Your brain and your body needs fat to be full, content and happy. I cook breakfast for my family every day, so we can all last until lunchtime without being hungry or needing a snack. If you're in a hurry, make sure you have a boiled egg in the fridge you can eat. Avoid sugars and carbs. They make you lethargic, tired, hungry and fat.
Delay reading your first emails of the day, because once you start, you know you'll be putting out fires for a while. Many problems solve themselves and most can wait, really, they can. So, if you have something that must be done today, do it before looking at emails.
Dumb down your smart phone. I turn my smart phone off around 8 or 9pm and usually don't switch it on until about 9am. That allows me to spend the evening with my family without distraction, sleep without disturbance and focus on my morning routines. I also removed all my social media and games from the phone, except Instagram (I use it to post pictures of my artwork, but I rarely spend much time visiting it). Instead I have my books on the Kindle app, so when I'm in a situation where I'm waiting somewhere, I spend time reading. This was an excellent tip from The Minimalists. I read more and waste much less time on Facebook. It's also much better for my data usage.
Have lunch at a set time. I don't eat a huge lunch, because I have a good breakfast, so I don't spend much time on it, but I try to have lunch at pretty much the same time every day.
Stop working when you get home. This one is hard for me, because my art studio is at my house, so it's easy to slip in there. But really it is much better to set work to the side and give my wife and kids the full attention they deserve. Again, this one is very hard for me. My brain wants to keep going. However, when I adhere to this rule I'm always happy afterwards that I did.
Read before sleeping. Nothing can keep you up more than to work late or to stare at a screen late at night. Nothing helps you sleep better than reading a book in bed. If you must have something keep you awake, let the book hit you in the face as you fall asleep.
Keep electronics out of the bedroom. Even your TV! Luckily my wife wholeheartedly agrees with me and believe me, once you start doing this your partner will too, because as far as I'm concerned, the bedroom is for 2 activities only and both are more enjoyable than TV or Facebook. I notice the difference, even if I'm just charging my phone in the bedroom. Only the Kindle is allowed.
Use a shared calendar with your family. We use a shared Google calendar. We can all add to it and see what we've going on. That way there are less surprises, better planning and less chance at double booked appointments. It really reduced stress in our household.
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Landmine Victim in Jo Haprao, Bee Ree: Mon IDP Report Case Study #2
By Burma Link, Burma Partnership and Human Rights Foundation of Monland • September 14, 2016
The following case study is from the joint report "Invisible Lives: The Untold Story of Displacement Cycle in Burma" by Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM), Burma Link, and Burma Partnership, which was launched in a press conference in Rangoon on August 12th and in Moulmein on August 15th. The 65-page report focuses on the continuing concerns of the displaced ethnic nationality communities, particularly the ethnic Mon, living along Burma's southeast border and finds that the recent reforms have not yet addressed the causes of their displacement.
Download the full report in English here.
အစီရင္ခံစာ ျမန္မာဘာသာကုိ ဤေနရာတြင္ ရယူႏုိင္သည္။
The following is the first case study in a series that HURFOM, Burma Link and Burma Partnership will be publishing in the coming weeks along with a series of selected interviews. The series is meant to give more in depth understanding into the situation of Mon IDPs and villagers. See methodology in the report.
Landmine Victim in Jo Haprao, Bee Ree1: Case Study 2
As a result of years of armed conflict, large areas of southeast Burma are now contaminated with landmines. In an extensive survey led by the TBC in 2014, out of the 222 village tracts surveyed in south-east Burma, landmine pollution was documented in 53% of the village tracts.2 In 2016, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Burma noted, "Landmines and unexploded ordnance are a major factor preventing IDPs' return, with casualties from landmines estimated at 3,700 over the past 15 years but likely to be far higher."3 Mine Free Myanmar has identified over 40,000 landmine survivors.4 The Special Rapporteur has called on all par-ties to the conflict to immediately cease the use of landmines.5
For many of the IDPs and refugees, the presence of landmines is an impediment to their return. Burma has yet to accede to the Mine Ban Treaty and mine clearance by government accredited humanitarian demining organizations has not been established. As presented in this case of Nai Hong Chan6 treatment and rehabilitation costs for landmine survivors are high and often only provided in major cities. Thus, landmine survivors often cross the border seeking health care in places such as the Mae Tao Clinic in Mae Sot, Thailand, led by well-known humanitarian actor from Burma, Dr. Cynthia Maung.
Nai Hong Chan currently lives in Jo Haprao IDP site in Bee Ree with his wife, daughter and three sons. Nai Hong Chan grew up in Kyaing Joar under government oppression, and as a child, was often forced to porter for the Burma Army. When Nai Hong Chan was 28 years old, he went to Sangkhlaburi, Thailand along with 80 other villagers to retrieve tin to be used for a roof in a monastery. During this trip, a mine explosion changed his life; "my hands and two eyes disappeared," he recalls.
In 1996, with the help of his friends in All Burma Students' Democratic Front (ABSDF), Nai Hong Chan was able to have an artificial eye fitted in Bangkok, an operation he says was supported by the UN. Having no means to work and support himself or his daily medicine, Nai Hong Chan came to Jo Haprao in 1999. "At that time, MRDC gave a lot of support here. Due to my misfortune, I could not work, so I decided to come here," he stated. Due to the reduction in aid, however, Nai Hong Chan's wife has had to bear the brunt of the rising costs for his care, which became increasingly difficult after she was diagnosed with cancer in 2004. Although she is now better and one of their sons takes whatever odd jobs he can find to support them, the family has been forced to live on debt. Nai Hong Chan says they currently owe approximately 1,000,000 kyat (US $840), which his wife and his son struggle to pay off. He stated, "If we cannot pay it back, we will just accept whatever that is going to happen to us."
Despite the difficult reality, Nai Hong Chan hasn't lost his ability to dream. He wants to go to Bangkok to check and treat his eyes and open his own shop in Jo Haprao to cover the cost of his food and medicine.
Mon IDP, FGD and interview with author, Jo Haprao, 25 February 2016.
The Border Consortium "Protection and Security Concerns in South East Burma/Myanmar," The Border Consortium (2014): 3, accessed June 26, 2016, http://www.theborderconsortium.org/media/54376/report-2014-idp-en.pdf.
United Nations, Human Rights Council, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yang-hee Lee, A /HRC/31/71 (18 March 2016) available from https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G16/055/13/PDF/G1605513.pdf?OpenElement.
Landmine & Cluster Munition Monitor Myanmar/Burma, "Landmine Monitor Myanmar/Burma," International Campaign to Ban Landmines (2015): 16.
It should be noted that landmines in Burma are a complex issue as not only armed actors but even villagers have laid landmines in order to protect themselves from the Burma Army attacks.
Name has been changed to protect the identity of the individual.
Tags: Burma Link, Burma Partnership, Displacement, Human Rights Foundation of Monland, IDPs and Refugees, Mon IDPs
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လူူမသိသူမသိဘ၀မ်ား – ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွ လူမသိေသးေသာေနရပ္စြန္႔ခြာတိမ္းေရွာင္ရမႈ သံသရာ


Primarily the context where this happens is within our Community Areas.
We have many biblical examples for this e.g.
Jesus helped people by looking at the whole person addressing physical healing but also spiritual issues and social consequences. In Luke 17, Jesus heals 10 lepers (physical) He sent them to the priest (social) so they would be accepted back into society and He told the thankful leper who returned, his faith had made him well (spiritual) but it also affected him emotionally as he was praising God. Jesus spoke about His followers loving each other well, forgiving well taking care of each other serving each other.
The early Christian church grew because the Christians took care of each other and others around them especially during times of plague.
As a community of Christian believers, we have a unique opportunity to demonstrate God's kingdom by developing community area groups that help us all to grow and thrive as whole people, in physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social wellbeing. Each part impacts the other, so our communities need this rounded approach not just an emphasis on one wall.
We live in a world of broken lives broken relationships, loneliness and isolation, as people come into loving, caring supportive communities just like the early Christians we will show a different way, the way of Christ.
In a "small village/Church" setting people can be known so that when life traumas happen everyone can help and support. When it comes to overcoming life controlling issues like for instance alcoholism, it is recognised that if you have even 1 sober friend you are 30% more likely to succeed in changing behaviour. Add to that prayer, physical activity, someone to talk to, and the person has a much greater chance to walk free.
Well written Theresa, very interesting and informative. Thank you.


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