Let's face it- iPods, iPads, laptops, tablets, cell phones…kids these days are glued to technological devices. And we adults get pretty glued, too! The list goes on- endless laughs from YouTube, pictures to scroll through on Facebook, games galore, and music to enjoy. But where has all this information and fun left us? In the book Alone Together, author Sherry Turkle discusses many of the effects of technology today. She says that, in many ways, we are more connected than we have ever been, yet in other ways, we are feeling more and more isolated from each other. Turkle argues that it is easy to become so immersed in technology that we ignore what we know about life. We think that one of these things we "know" about life is our need for human relationships.
We find it interesting how groups of teens and adults will sit together on their phones. Ever wonder why people sit staring at their screens…together? To us, this shows that we still understand that nothing can replace human connection. Technology is wonderful and useful, but many would probably agree that laughing alone, playing games alone, and learning alone is just not as satisfying as also having someone to share it with. Even the "share" option on social media sites doesn't quite cut it. We love our technology, but we know it is not enough. There is just something about being with others that brings a needed layer of joy into our lives. The shared human experience seems to fulfill an innate desire, yet we often allow this experience to take a back seat. So, how do we compete with all the screens?
This topic becomes particularly fascinating when we turn our attention to the effects technology is having on the relationship between parents and their children. Mere brief observation allows one to note how, at a very early age, children are being exposed to technological devices. Gadgets that not long ago were reserved for adults are now commonplace among elementary age children. Children are being afforded numerous opportunities for learning and play through technology, but we pause to ask several questions. What is being sacrificed in order to accommodate this movement? With regard to relationship, how can parents compete with the screens in their kids' lives? Can parents provide anything more exciting or interesting than what screens can offer? And how often are parents and children "together" in proximity but actually "apart" through divided attentions? What impact does technological distraction have on parent-child relationships? What is lost as children are not encouraged to play with others and build relationships with others? What are children being told if it becomes much easier for them to interact with their parents via text or Skype rather than from playing together in the back yard? These are big questions, some with tough answers.
At IDEALS for Families and Communities, we offer parent workshops, which teach parents of children ages 3-10 a special way to play with their children that builds connection and teaches skills for life for your kids. And, get this – the kids truly LOVE IT, so much so that they don't care about having devices. Let IDEALS give you some tools to create a time in your week that both you and your kids will look forward to and does not involve devices. It can take only 30 minutes a week to increase connection within your family.
The next scheduled workshop is THIS Saturday, Nov. 2nd, a 5-hour workshop where parents come together (without kids) to learn this new way of play, and then the workshop will be followed by three individually scheduled follow-up visits for each family to come with their kids to get extra coaching to develop these skills.
You can register at our workshops page.
 Sherry Turkle. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (New York: Basic Books, 2011), 101.


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1955 Porsche 550 Spyder recreation Hand built by renowned custom car builder Darrell Zipp. Darrell has a long list of credentials and over 40 years experience building Hot Rods and Custom cars from the ground up. One of the cars he helped build won the 1998 Americas Most Beautiful Roadster Award. (Dave Emory's 1932 Ford "Revolver") Darrell built this car approximately 5 years ago and has driven it 2500 miles since completion. The chassis is made of 14ga tube and was completely Tig welded. Rear suspension is fully adjustable with double trailing arms. Porsche 914 front end and steering box. All four corners of the car are fitted with fully adjustable Aldan Coil Overs. Wilwood Clutch and brake master cylinder. 4 wheel Porsche disc brakes. 914 Type 4 Porsche engine was completely rebuilt by Allen Johnsen racing engines. (with receipts) 1.9 litre, stainless 40 and 34mm valves, moly retainers, 911 cups, dual valve springs, and Keith Black 96mm pistons and 24mm pins. All fully balanced and blueprinted. Topped with Weber 40mm downdraft carbs , electronic ignition, electric fuel pump, and a custom made cooling shroud utilizing 2 vw fans. Darrell did a flow test on the shroud to assure proper cooling to each cylinder. In addition there are 3 oil coolers, one in the shroud and one behind each rocker panel scoop. Transmission is a porsche 901 5 speed, very nice for around town and the freeway. Exhaust is made of Stainless steel and tig welded. Fully custom body built by Darrell based off of the original 550 body and modified to create a very unique and more modern look. It even has forward opening doors! Darrell knows fiberglass, he founded Zipper Motors years ago, a company that specializes in building early Ford bodies and chassis. Interior is very minimal with ultrasuede seats, removeable racing steering wheel, and Haneline Gauges. The Top has an aluminum frame and covered in Hartz Stayfast Canvas. It removes with only 4 allen head bolts, 2 minutes, and weighs 20lbs. This 550 weighs 1600lbs wet and makes over 120hp, a very fun combination. It handles like a race car, very tight and nimble, and really a fun car to drive...especially being on the right hand side! Titled as a 1973 Porsche coupe.


Happy Birthdays is a strange game, not only because of the concept, but just the name alone. Originally released on other consoles titled Birthdays the Beginning it's been renamed to Happy Birthdays for the Nintendo Switch release. No, I don't see the point either. Anyways, what's in a name? It's yet another peculiar title from the masters of solid Japanese quirkiness, NIS America. With their absolutely solid release line up, this is one that caught my eye the most just because it's so different even by their standards.
There is a slight sliver of story in Happy Birthdays, you are an unknown child exploring the undergrowth and coming across two cubes which magically transport you to another planet that needs your help creating more life. After a brief time helping out, it's decided that you should leave back to your home world. Upon returning, everything has changed and it seems the meddling you did in the cubes altered your world too. That means going back in and putting everything right. How to do that? By creating humans in this world.
Happy Birthdays is a biome creation simulator thingy. As a person who is completely fascinated by nature and the science behind it, it's only natural that I was drawn to Happy Birthdays as a concept. So much so I bought it myself (although a review copy was offered). As you're plonked onto an environment style of your choice ranging from desert land, snow and grassland, as well as a completely blank canvas for you to choose, the lives that populate the land are at your finger tips.
As you play through the very useful tutorial you'll soon realise that the whole aspect of creating new life is far more basic than you would believe. It's all about raising and lowering the ground. Yes, that's really just about it. Doing this will change the temperature of the biome which affects what kind of life lives or dies.
By moving the land up and down you can make more water to flood the area, delve into super deep water, or even create mountainous regions. The landmass is restrictively small, almost a little too small for what I would have hoped. It seems stingy and claustrophobic although the excuse is that your area it's a perfect vertical slice of what the planet would be of a whole. More of a visual representation of the planet. Saying that, it does expand after playing a short while to give you a little more room to breathe but I would have still liked a much wider playing field in order to diversify better.
The gameplay is very simple. You jump into your world, change what you want, pop back out and fast forward time and allow evolution to unfold. At the side of the screen you have a kind of update feed as to how species are doing over time. Some will reduce, others will thrive, occasionally you will discover a new species. At this point you'll probably want to jump back into your world to find and identify the new life form in order for it to appear on your evolution tree.
You can navigate your biome up close, gliding around to check on your species and tag the new ones. I did find it very difficult at first to find the new creatures in the overwhelming crowd of fluttering things, vegetation and landscape getting in the way. It wasn't until later on that I found out going in to first-person mode makes their location more clear.
This is another gripe I have with Happy Birthdays, the interface and controls aren't particularly intuitive. I found myself often fiddling around with different buttons just to get to one menu or one ability, more often than not pressing a few wrong buttons along the way to finding the correct input. In a game like this it's not so important, pressing the wrong button isn't going to kill you or ruin your game, but it's not ideal.
This evolution tree is the guide you'll need to achieve your main evolutionary goal – humankind. This tree tells you how to get to the next stage of evolution for different species; the temperature needed, the population size and the kind of terrain. There are hundreds of species in this game, both animals and flowers, mostly realistic with some elements of fantasy thrown in. In that regard, Happy Birthdays is quite a large game. It will take a long while to get all of the species available in the log.
Sadly, for me, Happy Birthdays is just a little too hands off when it comes to being involved in the creatures' development. You pump up the ground or deepen it, let time pass by and wait to see what happens. As weird as it is for me to say this, it's just too experimental with not enough guidance or input.
There needed to be more influence and control in the world. Specifically placing items or animals, environmental features and so on to change the how things develop would have been far more rewarding and interesting. It's just a little too shallow for me and it's not quite the playground I was hoping for.
I can see what they were going for but their ambitions were probably let down with budgetary restraints which is a shame. I would have loved this game to have a bit more meat to it, but like all evolution based games, it just hasn't quite reached the scope it needed to be a success.
From a visual standpoint it's a little on the basic side. This is not a big budget game by any means and that kind of shows. It's an ambitious project with very simple graphics and animations. I really enjoy how bright and colourful it is but when you zoom in close enough the models and textures are quite unflattering. It doesn't really affect the enjoyment of the game though since that's not what it's about. You can forgive the low image quality for what they're trying to achieve with the game design.
Performance wise, it's sadly not as smooth as it really should be. Zooming in and panning the camera around can make the frame rate absolutely chug, so much so you feel you're playing a very unoptimised port of the game. In all honesty, it did effect my enjoyment of the game. It took me out of the tranquility Happy Birthdays can provide. There was also so very noticeable pop-in which I feel shouldn't be in a game like this, especially when it's all in such a small space.
The audio is pretty subdued and takes a backseat to the game. At times when you're taking care of your world there can be complete silence. A solemn piano may appear once in a while and as you enter different landscapes the music will change which is a nice touch. The music that I did notice was very chilled and relaxed and I overall enjoyed it but I wish it could have been slightly more prominent.
Value is a tough one because as per usual for an NIS America game it commands a high price point. At $39.99 and £39.99 I'm not entirely sure the high price is worth the pretty experimental nature of the game to be honest. I know NIS America value their products higher than most casual fans would like and I feel this is another case of that. I feel a nice budget price would have served this one very well, so for me I would certainly wait for a sale or find a physical copy which should be cheaper. Once again, NIS America are taking their European customers for a bit of a ride with the price conversion. If you want to buy this digitally, purchase it over on the America eShop.
Summary Overall, it's clear that I was expecting too much of Happy Birthdays. This off the wall sandbox evolution simulator didn't reach the ambition that I wanted it to. It's probably too basic and not enough of a game for many of you and there's not enough depth for those interested in the premise. I don't know who the audience for this game is. In that regard it's a bit of a failure. Saying that, it can still provide a relaxing, very hands off experience where you can almost zone out and find some enjoyment from it.


sigoths: nothing at all; occasionally sir or a single moniker like "Angel", "Prince Charming", "Lord Hawk"; very occasionally (adjective) thing - "Shiny Thing"
For whatever reason, I find it unnatural to call the closest people to me the more classical types of endearments (honey, babe, etc.). Possibly because I want to personalize them - but that doesn't explain why I tend to be most comfortable calling my significant others nothing at all. I could go all melodramatic and blather about how such people "transcend mere words"...and maybe they do, after a fashion.
But I know it's caused some friction - people thinking I like them less than I do because I don't have the classical endearments for them. People who don't understand that they've been upgraded rather than downgraded (or vice versa). I explain it to them if they ask, of course, but for the ones who don't ask...sigh.
On the plus side, I like having a "twist" sometimes in my interactions.
Oh, fine - I like being a psychological mindfuck sometimes. Happy?
Mmm...good point. Plus, there's all the physical affection. Truthfully, most of the confusion probably comes between the friends and close friends, in non-physical communication (i.e. IM, phone, etc.).
True. And since a great deal of interaction happens over IM, thus the confusion and friction in the endearments category.
And that, I think, is where the trouble comes - I have no idea what it means to someone else when I call them "sweetie" vs "sir" vs nothing at all. I only know what it means to me.
*nod* usually though after awhile people should figure out what you mean (or should ask). I mean I would take 'sir' as a sign of respect (or as humor given the context), and "sweetie" as a term of indearment used towards a friend (if followed by other things or behavior irl, perhaps take it to mean more). *shrug* Could just be how I take it, given the people that use that when refering to me.


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Agroecology – A promising alternative to the biodiversity crisis in agriculture and industrial food systems
By Colin Anderson, Ernesto Méndez, Patrick Mulvaney, Faris Ahmed, originally published by Agroecology Now!
Ed. note: This piece was originally published on Agroecology Now on December 14, 2022. The Convention on Biological Diversity's final text of the Global Biodiversity Framework can be found here.
Agroecology builds biodiversity into agriculture and food systems and should be a focus of global biodiversity conservation efforts as if lives and nature depend on it – because they do. The world's nations are currently gathering at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP15 in Montreal to finalize a "Global Biodiversity Framework" for the next 30 years, which intends to reverse the dramatic global losses of biodiversity. Yet, to our peril, agroecology and biodiversity in agriculture have been marginalized in these debates.
I (Colin) grew up on a farm in the Canadian Prairies and am still charmed by big skies and the agricultural landscape. Seas of yellow canola flowers blossoming as far as the eye can see. Wheat fields, gently swaying in the wind, stretching from fence-row to fence row. Beautiful blankets of color, pleasing to the eye.
These simplified agricultural systems have an alluring beauty to them on the surface. Yet, you don't have to dig too deep to see that these single-species monocultural landscapes are devoid of biodiversity in the crops and livestock. In addition, they are hostile towards wild biodiversity through the elimination of habitat, the application of herbicides and pesticides or the degradation of soil health.
Yet, the intensification of industrial agriculture in this image remains the dominant model being promoted globally – a model of agriculture that must be transformed if we are to reverse global biodiversity losses and sustain life on Earth for our grandchildren. That is why the United Nations set up the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) in 1992, and why, 30 years later, with biodiversity losses still accelerating, decisive action by governments is vitally urgent.
Where is biodiversity in agriculture in Global Decision Making about Biodiversity?
This year's COP15 meeting comes during a mass extinction event. A high percentage of global biodiversity, and biosphere integrity, is at risk, and threatened especially by the dominant economic and social drivers of industrial food systems. The stakes for this CBD meeting are unfathomably high.
The evidence from FAO, IPBES and IPCC has clearly established that agriculture and land use change are among the main drivers of biodiversity loss. Large scale, monocultural, industrial agriculture threatens 86% of the 28,000 endangered species. In the last century we have also lost most of our genetic diversity in crops and livestock on industrial farms.
Currently, only 12 plant species and 5 livestock breeds make up 75% of the world's industrial food system, with just 3 species (wheat, rice and corn) providing half the calorie intake. According to the IPBES Global Assessment, this loss of agricultural biodiversity undermines the resilience of agricultural systems which are increasingly vulnerable to pests, pathogens, climate change and other factors.
Notoriously sidelined in UN negotiations, however, is a focus on highly threatened 'Agricultural Biodiversity' – the major sub-set of biodiversity in the areas where people live and work. It includes all the biodiversity, above and below ground and in waters, which supports our food and agricultural systems, provides food, fiber, shelter, clean water, medicine and underpins vital ecosystem functions.
Without deeply transforming industrial food systems towards ones that will prioritize agroecological systems of production, which reverse the losses of Agricultural Biodiversity, the very basis of human existence is in peril.
Instead, CBD debates on biodiversity have come to focus on proposals for setting aside large areas of land to conserve pristine nature. The promoted 30×30 campaign, for example, proposes setting aside 30% of territories in Protected Areas by 2030. These types of programs, however, often harm and displace millions of knowledgeable, biodiversity-conserving Indigenous Peoples and local communities from their traditional territories.
Such a focus distracts attention from what is happening on the other 70% of land, where there's a drive to intensify agricultural production using biodiversity-reducing, industrial, homogeneous monocultures. This aligns with the power structures of the industrial agrifood system. It intentionally marginalizes and displaces the people who have the greatest history, sophisticated knowledge and potential to protect, restore and enhance highly heterogeneous agricultural biodiversity in the remaining 70% of territories.
Biodiverse agroecology – a compelling alternative paradigm to build back agricultural biodiversity and confront our intersecting crises
Indigenous Lepcha farmers in Sikkim, India practicing traditional agroecological seed saving and agriculture.
Women-led agroecology in Africa
Agroecology in Vermont, USA
A growing chorus of scientists, institutions, civil society organizations and small-scale food providers have gotten behind agroecology as an alternative paradigm for organizing and transforming food systems.
Biodiverse agroecology involves the application of ecological principles to the design and management of sustainable agroecosystems, drawing from Indigenous and local knowledge, and directly addressing the political changes needed to transform food systems. It focuses on redesigning agricultural practices, policies, networks and governance, based on a set of principles that emphasize biodiversity, resilience, people's knowledge, the fundamental role of women and the importance of food sovereignty.
While industrial food systems are destroying biodiversity, smaller-scale agroecological farms are at the forefront of conserving and enhancing agricultural biodiversity, and improving ecosystem functioning, while producing the majority of the world's food. Peasant, indigenous and territorially-rooted agroecology is vital to maintaining agricultural biodiversity, on-farm, and in landscapes. In particular, these agroecosystems conserve the heterogeneity and variety within species (intra-specific biodiversity), and across species, community and ecosystem levels.
There are countless examples of agroecology emerging around the world. Agroforestry systems enhance biodiversity through incorporating trees and shrubs into cropping or livestock lands, providing resiliency against climate change and improved rural livelihoods. The adoption of intercropping, such as in the Mesoamerican Milpa systems, where corn is planted alongside beans, pumpkin, chili, and other vegetables create rich mosaics of biodiversity in farms and landscapes. In India, Amrita Bhoomi trains farmers on Zero Budget Natural Farming – a local agroecological method that needs no external inputs, very little water, and relies on natural processes. These agroecological approaches not only enhance agricultural biodiversity in farmers' fields but also provides habitat for the biodiversity in the surrounding ecosystems, to the wider benefit of people and the environment (see infographic).
Agroecology in Action from Rich Appetites on Vimeo.
Source: Christensen Fund
By working with – not against – nature, and diversifying our farms, landscapes, fishing waters and the foods we eat, agroecology supports biodiversity, contributes to the majority of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and promotes resilience. All while supporting livelihoods and some of the healthier diets on the planet.
To build up biodiverse agroecology, it is important to transform the enabling environment and confront the power of corporations and agribusiness in maintaining the status quo. This requires prioritizing, in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, the inclusion of the implementation of already agreed upon actions that sustain agricultural biodiversity. Specifically, we need to scale out peasants' dynamic management of biodiverse agroecology while respecting indigenous peoples' and peasants' collective rights to seeds, livestock breeds, territories and forms of production.
Regardless of the outcomes of this year's CBD /COP15, Civil Society should engage in broad, coordinated actions and movement building to continue to strengthen agricultural biodiversity in communities and policies. Only in this way can we truly transform food systems, stem the loss of agricultural biodiversity and address the intersecting crises of inequality, diet-related illness, climate change and hunger.
Tags: agricultural biodiversity, agroecology, Building resilient food and farming systems, indigenous foodways
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Senior Research Fellow, Coventry University


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Gardner: Schubert – Symphonies no.3, 5 & 8 vol.1 (24/96 FLAC)
Composer: Franz Peter Schubert
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Edward Gardner
Label: Chandos
Symphony No. 3 in D major, D200
01. I. Adagio maestoso – Allegro con brio
02. II. Allegretto
03. III. Menuetto. Vivace
04. IV. Presto vivace
Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, D485
05. I. Allegro
06. II. Andante con moto
07. III. Menuetto. Allegro molto
08. IV. Allegro vivace
Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished'
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Following a highly successful series 'Mendelssohn in Birmingham', the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with their former Chief Conductor Edward Gardner here presents the first volume in a new surround-sound series: Schubert Symphonies. This first volume comprises of three symphonies spanning across Schubert's life. His Symphony No. 3 (1815), with its extensive and evolving slow introduction is followed by the culminating distillation of Schubertian classicism that is his 'little' Symphony No. 5 (1816). Scored for chamber orchestra, it tells of an influence of Mozart, for whom Schubert seemed to have felt a special affinity with around this time. Completing the album is Schubert's much more intense (with a turbulent first movement and serene second) Symphony No. 8 "unfinished" (1822), of which only the first two movements and a skeleton sketch of a third Scherzo movement were completed.
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One of the best real estate developer in the Riviera maya has just started this project and it is almost sold out.
Only 12 units with wonderful backyard pool in the Gated Oceanfront Community of Grand Sirenis, close to Akumal.
You will have exclusive access as well to the Wellness Center, just a few km south close to Bahia Principe ( 2 pictures included in presentation ).
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Located just 5 minutes from the paradisiacal beaches of Akumal and its restaurants, 10 minutes from our Jungle Fish Beach Club, 25 minutes to Playa del Carmen, and 20 minutes to the center of Tulum.
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The IEA believes that the world needs a clean energy revolution in order to break dependence on fossil fuels. Such a revolution would enhance global energy security, promote enduring economic growth and tackle environmental challenges such as climate change. It would break the long-standing link between economic growth and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. But to succeed, it must also be truly global in scope.
While impressive progress has been made in developing clean energy technologies in recent years, the success stories are overshadowed by surging demand for fossil fuels, which are outstripping deployment of clean energy technologies. Coal has met 47% of the global new electricity demand since the turn of the century, eclipsing clean energy efforts made over the same period of time, which include improved implementation of energy efficiency measures and rapid growth in the use of renewable energy sources.
IEA research and analysis of clean energy technologies – which include renewable energy, electric vehicles, nuclear power and biofuels – focus on ways to boost demand and deployment so that the clean energy revolution can be achieved.


The Kit Carson Trail in Carson City, Nevada, is haunted by history. The footsteps of Abe Curry, the first superintendent of the Nevada City Mint, still echo in the halls of the building. Mark Twain's nice, Jennie Clemens, died of a fever when she was nine; her spirit peeks from the upstairs window of the family home and is said to visit the Lone Mountain Cemetery. In the 1800s, V & T Railroad baron Duane Bliss built his home on a burial ground. Today, the house occasionally chimes with laughter and music as spirits gather in the parlor in evening finery. Take a walk through Carson City's haunted history with author Janet Jones and meet the spirits that linger in the city's historic district.


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Q: Controls in a WPF UserControl don`t raise lost focus I have a MainWindow with 3 main buttons at the top and below a MainUserControl.
In the MainUserControl I have at top 3 UserControls with ButtonBars
and at the bottom a DataGrid.
When I enter data in a DataGridCell and I click into another cell a property change is fired in my ViewModel bound to the DataGrid.
When I enter data... and I click on one of the 3 main buttons again a property change is fired because of Lost Focus event.
When I ... and I click on one of the buttons in the ButtonBar in the UserControl no property change is fired because there seem to be no Lost Focus event.
How can I fix that?

A: FocusManager.IsFocusScope="False" on the UserControl or other elements like Menu solved the problem and my property changes are raised now in the model :)

A: If you change your binding to to set UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged then you will not need to rely on the LostFocus to do a property update.

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Images: Chicago Cub Ben Zobrist attends fundraiser for Dep. Keltner's family
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Chicago Cubs player Ben Zobrist attended a fundraiser at the Lake in the Hills home of Stewart McVicar on Thursday. Funds were raised for the family of McHenry County Sheriff's Deputy Jacob Keltner who was shot in the line of duty in March.
Becki Keltner, second from left, and members of her family gather with Chicago Cubs player Ben Zobrist for a picture Thursday night. Zobrist attended the fundraiser at the Lake in the Hills home of Stewart McVicar on Thursday. Funds were raised for the family of McHenry County Sheriff's Deputy and Becki's husband Jacob Keltner who was shot in the line of duty on March 7 and later died of his injuries.
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Chicago Cubs player Ben Zobrist, right, shares a laugh with members of the Keltner family.
Former Cub Gary Matthews poses for a picture with 11-year-old Jackson Mason of Lake in the Hills.
Holly Castro of Algonquin, sister of Jacob's widow Becki Keltner, shares a laugh with Zobrist.
Cubs Hall of Fame pitcher Fergie Jenkins poses with a fan.
Cubs former player Gary Matthews poses with a fan.
Musical duo Jim and Justin entertain.
Crews film an episode of the TV segment "Beer Money".
Cubs former player Gary Matthews offers a thumbs up.
Cubs former player Bob Dernier poses with a fan.
Chicago Cubs player Ben Zobrist attended a fundraiser at the Lake in the Hills home of Stewart McVicar on Thursday. Funds were raised for the family of McHenry County Sheriff's Deputy Jacob Keltner who was shot in the line of duty on March 7.
Cubs greats assemble to aid family of slain deputy


So I used the wrong application. I used the one where it says I can only apply to U of T. I also want to apply to Western and Ryerson. Is there a way to change that? What do I do?
I have used the wrong application that is ONLY for U of T international and have already submitted it, but now I changed my mind and also want to apply to several other universities as well? What should I do?
I believe I used the wrong application for my 2019 Fall entry. I used Toronto ONLY International 105 and have already submitted it, but now I figured I want to apply to other ontario universities as well.


I think I could survive on energy balls. Any recipe… whatever the flavor. I heart them all. Hey, we all have our thing, right? I bought some fiber cereal at the grocery store and thought I would whip up a few recipes using the cereal. The fact is, we all need fiber to keep things moving in the right direction (gross, but true!). These are super delish and already my kids are downing these little treats fast and furiously.
Combine all ingredients into your stand mixer or large bowl. Blend. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes to one hour. Scoop out with a small melon baller. Store in the fridge or freezer. Watch the magic – they disappear!
My 14 year old daughter has taken it upon herself to whip up dinner for the family this past Sunday again. She is embracing her inner-chef. I love it! This selection, again inspired by her How to Cook (teenage cookbook), tasted incredible. Totally customizable – filling each crepe with what each diner prefers. My youngest daughter, Nutella, peanut butter and bananas. My husband – ham and Brie. Whatever you wish… perfect for breakfast, lunch, dinner or dessert!
Sift the flour into a large mixing bowl and then add the sugar and salt. Set that aside. In a large measuring cup or small bowl, whisk the eggs and milk together. Making a well into the center of the dry flour mixture, slowly pour the egg mixture in and whisk until smooth. Then stir in 2 tablespoons of melted butter.
In a non-stick sauté pan over medium heat, add a touch of melted butter. Ladle some batter into the pan and spread the batter over the bottom of the pan (swirling it).
Cook for 2 minutes or until golden. Flip with a large spatula. Cook for another 20-30 seconds. Then set aside on a plate. Repeat.
When ready to fill, lay the crepe out flat and place your ingredients into the center and roll up both sides. Grill again in the pan for a minute or so or until ingredients start to melt. If sweet, top with confectioners' sugar.
Healthy double peanut butter cookies.
Say WHAT? Yes, peanut butter is definitely a staple in my daily menu. I love it. Actually, more almond butter than peanut but any nut butter I totally heart and I won't discriminate! A friend shared this recipe with me about two years ago, well the original recipe, and I've morphed it to my taste and preference. The cookie is light and more delicate versus the unhealthier original pb cookie you're probably used to. But this one is totally kid & adult approved!
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and line your baking sheets with a Silpat or parchment paper. Set aside. In your stand mixer, blend the peanut butter, coconut oil, honey, egg and vanilla together. Then in a separate bowl, blend the flour, bran, flax, powdered pb, salt, baking powder and soda. Then add to the wet mixture. Blend. The dough is oily due to the coconut oil and this is fine. Scoop out small balls of dough and drop onto your cookie sheet. Flatten with a fork (traditional cookie pattern) or with the back of a spoon or whatever you like. Bake for 12 minutes or until golden around the edges. Let cool for 2-4 minutes on the baking sheet then transfer to a rack to cool completely. Enjoy!
Roasted Red Pepper & Garlic Hummus.
This week I took a foray into baking up pitas. I have to admit, I knew hummus would come along shortly after. I mean seriously, how can you eat pitas without it?! Ha ha. Well my family gobbled up the first batch of pitas so I'm whipping up another batch. Click here for that recipe. Hummus is very easy to make and tastes so much better than store-bought versions. Plus with this, you control the olive oil (even though it's a healthy fat I still like to limit the quantity in the food I eat) and I have a little trick on exactly how to do that.
Into your food processor, add the chickpeas, garlic, two roasted red peppers, cumin, chili, salt, pepper and lemon juice. Puree into well-incorporated. While the machine is running add the tablespoon of olive oil. If you need it creamier, most likely you will, add a tiny bit (1/2 teaspoon at a time) of the reserved liquid from the roasted red peppers. This will not only infuse the hummus with more of the red pepper flavor, it will keep the calories down because you aren't using more olive oil. Puree until smooth or desired texture is achieved. Cover and refrigerate until serving. Serve with chopped veggies, pita slices etc. Also works well on a sandwich instead of mayo or mustard.
Last night my youngest christened her newly renovated bedroom with a sleepover (long awaiting this daywith her newly renovated room). She has two days off from school so why not invite a bestie over and we'll have a fun dinner and hangout. I wanted to make homemade pitas to stuff with turkey meatballs tonight, roasted purple potatoes with an avocado Chobani sauce for topping. This recipe is super easy and fairly full-proof.
These can be used for dipping into hummus or slice in half for sandwiches or dinner. And they are way cheaper than store-bought plus you know what is in them… benefit!
In your stand mixer with the hook attachment, blend the flour, yeast and salt. Then add the honey, olive oil and one cup of the warm water. Blend. If the dough is too dry, add one teaspoon at a time additional water until the dough comes together and attaches to the dough hook. Knead by hand or in the mixer for 6 minutes. Remove dough and spray the bowl with olive oil or baking spray. Add the dough back and cover with plastic wrap.
Now I have a double oven and always turn the lower oven on 375 degrees and place the dough in the upper oven. It creates a very low heat that helps the dough to rise. If you can't do that, place it in a warm area. Let rise for one hour. The dough is tougher than let's say a pizza dough but it is as you would expect it to be for a pita, if that makes sense.
Preheat your oven to 500 degrees with your pizza stone inside. Remove and divide the dough into 8 portions. Roll out to 6-8 inch round. Bake for 5 minutes. Remove and slice in half once cooled. Store in a tightly covered container.
Orange balsamic glazed chicken thighs.
This recipe is so easy and perfect for a weeknight dinner when time is short and hunger is through the roof! I used thighs you can certainly use breasts if you have those on hand. Most of these items you will have readily available in your kitchen.
Place the rack so it's about 6-8 inches away from the broiler and preheat the oven with the broiler on low (if you have a dual setting) if not, just broil. Brush or spray (if you have an oil atomizer) each piece of chicken and season with salt and pepper. Lay on your broiler pan. Place in the oven for 10-12 minutes (keeping a watchful eye on it the last few minutes) until golden. Then flip each piece over, brush with oil and season again. Back in the oven for another 10-15 minutes.
While the chicken is broiling, in a large measuring cup or small bowl, blend the honey, juice, zest, vinegar and sage. Whisk until well combined. Set aside.
Remove the chicken and pierce to ensure that the chicken is fully cooked and that juices run clear (no pink meat). Then brush or spoon the glaze over top of each one. Broil for 3 or so minutes and flip. Repeat. Coat well with the glaze. Broil for another 3-4 minutes. Remove and cover with foil for 10 minutes. Serve and enjoy. I served this along with grilled pineapple.
Banana PB Chobani Cocoa Nib Mini Muffins.
This is exactly what I do when I have too many bananas. This isn't my normal banana bread recipe as I cannot leave well enough alone! I'm attempting to healthify (yes, I know, it isn't a word) every single thing I make. These turned out great!
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and spray your mini muffin pan with non stick baking spray. Set aside.
In your stand mixer, paddle attached, cream the sugar and butter together. Add the eggs. Sifting over the bowl, add the flours, baking soda, powdered peanut butter and salt. Blend. Then add flax seed, bananas, extract, Chobani and nibs. Blend until combined. Using a mini scoop, drop the dough into the prepared pan. Fill 3/4 of the way filled and bake. Bake for 16-18 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Oatmeal Flax Cocoa Nib Cookies.
I've been trying very hard to eat as clean a diet as I can. I wanted to create a cookie that reflected that. This is as close as I've come thus far. Now this cookie isn't for everyone, I realize that. It isn't ooey and gooey. My goal, create a cookie that my family would eat, enjoy and wouldn't compromise their healthy goals and their endless fitness activities yet would refuel in a good manner. My kids loved these, so I'm happy! I hope you give them a shot because they are really good and I promise, guilt-free.
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and line your cookie sheet with parchment or a Silpat. Set aside.
In your stand mixer, blend your flax seed meal, sugar, agave, egg and water. In a separate bowl sift your whole wheat flour, salt and baking soda. Then add to the wet mixture. Blend well. Then add your oats and cocoa nibs and blend again. Avoid over-mixing. Using a mini scoop, drop the dough balls onto your prepared pan and bake for 12 minutes or until golden around the edges.


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Spike Cello Festival 2017 – W/ Hugh Buckley & Cello Ireland (Jazz Rushad Eggleston (US)
Ticket Price: €15 BUY TICKET
Band Website: https://www.spikecellofest.com/
Spike Cello Festival 2017
Dublin's Alternative Cello Festival
Saturday Feb 11th
Workmans main space 8pm
Hugh Buckley & Cello Ireland (Jazz)
Rushad Eggleston (US)
***Purchase 3 day tickets here***
The inaugural Spike Cello Festival is a three-day program of cello related events taking place from 10th to 12th February 2017 in various venues across Dublin. This exciting Festival celebrates the diverse use of the cello across non-classical music style and genre from Jazz, Traditional, Folk, Pop, Rock, to Yoga-cello* and Cello-clowning**. A full timetable of events with dates, times and locations will be available closer to the time at www.spikecellofest.com Tickets cost €15 per event or €50 weekend pass (plus booking fee) available from www.workmansclub.com
The Workman's Club (10 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2 – theworkmansclub.com) will play host as the Spike Cello Festival hub. 'Yocella' (cello yoga) will take place in the inspiring surrounds of the Georgian Vintage room over looking the River Liffey by day and become a discussion space by night for 'Cello Chat'. Meanwhile, the atmospheric downstairs space in the Workman's Club will house Spike Cello Festival's evening events and, the more formal Sunday Concert (12th February 2017) will take place in the renowned Dublin Municipal Hugh Lane Gallery (hughlane.ie) at noon as part of their popular concert series.
The line up of artists for Spike Cello Festival 2017 includes some of the worlds most exciting and accomplished cellists including; Úna Ní Chanainn – RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Kate Ellis – Crash Ensemble, Kevin Murphy – Slow Moving Clouds, Seti the 1st, Vyvienne Long – Vyvienne Long Sextet, Lioba Petrie – 3epkano, Unshaped Form, Mary Barnecutt – Mary & the Pigeons, Rushad Eggleston – US, cello performance artist, Crooked Still and Kitty Maguire and Anna Marcosi – cello-Yin-yoga, Yocella
Conceived by cellists Lioba Petrie and Mary Barnecutt, Spike Cello Festival promises to present an exciting program catapulting the cello to centre stage. Having both worked in Dublin through many genres and styles of cello playing, Lioba and Mary wanted to create an event dedicated to showcasing and celebrating the alternative cello world. For those wishing to immerse themselves in all things cello, Spike Cello Festival 2017 is not to be missed! "And if I spike you, you'll know you've been spoken to." Danny, Withnail and I (film 1987)
Cello-Clowning**
Rushad Eggleston describes himself as a cello clown. Rushad's untethered performance style and creative approach to music-making is a perfect fit for SPIKE and introduces our audience to something completely unique. His freedom with the instrument and sense of musical adventure captivates audiences of all ages.
LIOBA PETRIE – Festival Director
Dublin born cellist Lioba Petrie studied in Dublin's Conservatory of Music and Drama, graduating in 2000 with a diploma in instrumental teaching and then graduating from NUI Maynooth with a BA Mus in 2001. Lioba is passionate about chamber music and is a member of the Astral string quartet.
Over the last four years, Lioba has enjoyed composing and performing music for theatre, in particular Nick Lee's "Luca and the sunshine" as part of Dublin Fringe festival and also "The Messenger" with London based Limbik Theatre company. For 11 years Lioba was a member of 3epkano with whom she wrote, composed and recorded film scores for old silent movies and modern film. As part of this ensemble Lioba performed at major arts festivals all over Ireland as well as BAM film festival and at the Lincoln Centre in New York and the National Gallery in Washington D.C. Lioba continues her work with film with new ensemble Unshaped Form.
In September 2015, Lioba enjoyed an artist's residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, (Paris) where she was commissioned to compose and then perform a new score to Chris Marker's film "La Jetee" (1967). As well as working as a freelance musician, Lioba took over the co-management and curation of the popular Kaleidoscope Night concert series in January 2014. Lioba teaches privately and holds teaching positions in the Rathdown Music centre and at Clongowes Wood College.
MARY BARNECUTT – Festival Director
Mary Barnecutt works as a cellist and music teacher in Dublin. She plays with many orchestras and ensembles across most genres of cello playing from free jazz improvisation, arranging and performing her own ambient folk compositions to being the principal cello with the Dublin City Chamber Orchestra. She is a founder member of the Alpha String Quartet and has worked with many artists such as Adrian Crowley, Chequerboard, Julie Feeney, Seti the 1st, Vanishing Lakes, Vyvienne Long and Hilary Woods.
Mary runs two multi-instrumental projects in primary schools in Dublin 7 and Finglas. She also enjoys helping other musicians put on their performances and works for the Hugh Lane Gallery in their Sundays at Noon Concert Series as a concert coordinator.
Mary recently wrote, produced and recorded her own music in an album entitled Into Air under the name 'Mary and the Pigeons'. www.marypigeons.com
'…a lush collection that sounds organic and occasionally magical…it's the music that takes centre stage, speckled with heart-swelling flourishes and sinister undercurrents.' Lauren Murphy, Ticket, Irish Times * * * *


The item Erewhon and Erewhon revisited, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
One of Samuel Butler's most famous works, "Erewhon" is the story of a fictional country in which Butler satirizes the Victorian society of the time in which he lived. An anagram of the word "nowhere," "Erewhon" upon first impression appears to be a utopian society. However as the country is further detailed is becomes apparent that this is clearly not the case. The titular setting of the novel is loosely based on Butler's experiences as a young man working as a sheep farmer in New Zealand. The sequel, "Erewhon Revisited," was published twenty-nine years after the original. In it we discover the identity of the unnamed protagonist of the first book, who returns to "Erewhon" and upon meeting his former lover Yram, discovers that he has fathered a child with her and that now the people of Erewhon worship him as a type of deity. Along with Butler's semi-autobiographical work "The Way of All Flesh" these works are among his most highly regarded, satires in the vein of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver Travels."


Jenna Chirico '16 says her mother always thought teaching would suit her. The chemistry major wasn't so sure. But when Chirico was named a Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellow in 2016, she embraced the three-year teaching commitment that defines the award, and it's been a winning formula.
Woodrow Wilson fellows receive $30,000 to complete a specially designed, 13-month master's degree program in STEM education. They spend an intensive year in the classroom before being assigned to teach for three years in high-need, urban and rural secondary schools. Chirico chose Montclair State University for her master's program. Now teaching chemistry at Bard High School Early College in Newark, New Jersey, she is one of two WC alumni to earn the highly competitive award in the last two years; in her first year of the program, Morgen Ricketts '17 is pursuing her master's degree at Georgia State University.
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International groups and campaigns | Food sovereignty now!
The food sovereignty movement is gaining global momentum. Its roots are with the many small-scale farmers around the world who are developing the concept in theory and in practice. Food Sovereignty UK acknowledges the great work being done around the world and seeks to be an ally and collaborator with such movements.


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August 14, 2011 mlynxqualey Alf Layla w Layla, theater
The (Latest) Revival of the Thousand and One Nights
This year, Alf Layla w Layla (One Thousand and One Nights) is being rediscovered. This time, with an eye to freedom.
From time to time, of course, we forget the wealth of Alf Layla w Layla, and remember only the sex and stereotypes. But their power has fed Arabic literature for generations: Taha Hussein and Tawfiq al-Hakim, for instance, chat with Shahrazad in their collaborative "The Castle,"a conversation recently re-mixed by Magdy al-Shafee.
But the Shahrazad figure has generally been spurned by contemporary writers, particularly women. (Poet Joumanah Haddad, for instance, recently killed her.) As Hanan al-Shaykh told the Guardian:
…she used to feel quite dismissive of the tales, and was rankled when book critics began to call her the "new Shahrazad". She explains: "Shahrazad to me was a cliche! She accepted that she was a prisoner of the king, she was very passive. I thought, 'I am modern, I am not like her.'"
But then al-Shaykh read the originals.
And so, years later, the gifted Lebanese novelist became the author behind an epic production of One Thousand and One Nights. The production is being staged by Tim Supple with a cast of 25 actors from Syria, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Lebanon. It's scheduled to appear at this year's Edinburgh Festival after debuting in Toronto earlier this year. The production didn't shy from the Nights' sexier aspects, featuring rubber penises and straightforward sexual content. Actors and al-Shaykh also saw it with post-Jan 25 eyes, re-seeing the relationships between subject and ruler.
Also, for English-language readers: A Thousand and One Nights got a new translation last year, from Malcolm and Ursula Lyons, which was a runner-up for the 2011 PEN translation prize, announced last week.
And, since it's his centenary, we'll finish with Naguib Mahfouz on Alf Layla w Layla:
Besides the Qur'an, heroic epics formed my literary style. I remember reading Antara Hamza al-Bahlawan and other stories at an early age. Then I read the stories of the pre-Islamic Arabs and their wars. I was greatly affected by them. Then the Thousand and One Nights, with their unparalleled richness. Their density of detail and the sheer brilliance of the plot make them important narratives in human literature. Although their effect extended to European and other literature, their effect on us was greater because they emerged from this land and are infused with our Arab heritage.
Still, the Thousand and One Nights have a bad reputation. When we were young, we only read abridged versions—all the explicit scenes were censored. I later read the complete version. The tales express all the dreams that human beings share, yet some people have given themselves the right to confiscate parts of these dreams.
When Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novels were described in terms of magical realism, I immediately thought how appropriate that was to the Thousand and One Nights. This is where we must look to find the beginnings of magical realism. The stories combine reality and fantasy, truth and invention as no other narrative had done before. Perhaps non has been so successful since, either."
Want to listen to the stories as they once enchanted al-Shaykh on the radio? Zeinobia is posting installments again this year.
And, yes, numerous forces have tried to ban the Nights. One of them here in Cairo.
Also, on The Guardian: Al-Shaykh writes about her relationship with The Nights.
6 thoughts on "The (Latest) Revival of the Thousand and One Nights"
I was just talking to a friend about One Thousand and One Nights! Last year I read a book (I think it was Dreams of Trespass) that talked about the tales, and ever since I've had half a mind to read them. I read a much abridged version when I was young, but a fuller translation sounds wonderful.
When it initially came out, I was too cheap to get the new Malcolm and Ursula translation (and too foolish to just ask for a review copy). But now the prices on Amazon seem to have dropped considerably…
CathyCairo says:
I'm going to see 1001 Nights in Edinburgh next week. Will tell you all about it when I get back
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ghazzzu says:
I have the multi-volume Burton translation, and have been wending my way through it, off and on, for years.
It must be even better in the original Arabic!
Sarha~~ says:
I have to say that I've been crazy about Thousand and One Nights since i was a little child, long before I start learning to read……My mom read those stories to me every night before I fall asleep:)….About a year ago, I found out the books and read them again….and again, those familiar words appear in front of my eyes, khalifa, Damascus, Basra…..I think that the books I read is pretty close to the original one(Though it is a translation), cause it is kind of too sexy:D……But still, I'm eager to read this new edition, but I doubt whether I'm able to buy it here in China….And of course, if I can got an original Arabic one, maybe an old book, it would be a beautiful miracle……..
It's Not the Footnotes, It's the Footnoter
One Minute with Hala Salah Eldin Hussein on Translating from English into Arabic


Before last years track season, it was hard to tell who was the better Maison twin, if it was Sean or Scott. After the track season, it is clearly Sean. Sean last year kept fighting to break the 15-minute barrier and he first did so at the Lake Park Sectional where he ran a 14:54.4 to take 5th place in a deep race. Sean then followed up that performance with a 14:55 at the state meet to take 32nd place. He just missed being an All-Stater by 7 spots. Sean was definitely fired up after that and it showed in his race at NXR where he took 34th place! He beat a host of returning all-staters which includes the likes of Jack Roberts, William Hauenstein, Charlie Nevins, and Stephen Moody. Sean's main event during the track season was the 1600m in which he dropped a personal best 4:16.28. I like how Sean is someone that will go out and do whatever you need him to do. I think that will take him far in life and as a runner.


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Wrestling With Rhodes — Part III — The Secret Elite Stumbles Out Of The Gate
June 21, 2018 By Jim Cornelius 3 Comments
A cabal of wealthy and/or politically and socially connected Englishmen — a "Secret Elite" — forms in 1891 to ensure Anglo-Saxon domination of the world as it enters the 20th Century. They seek a federated Empire — the white dominions acting as partners with the Mother Country — and the recovery of the United States.
To achieve these ends, they develop talent through the granting of scholarships to Oxford — the legendary Rhodes Scholarships. They orchestrate global finance and trade, penetrate imperial administration, manipulate public opinion through control of the popular press — and ultimately plunge the Empire into war.
Sounds like a classic Masons/Illuminati/Bilderburger conspiracy theory, right? Or the plot to the first Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes movie…
The Secret Society initiated by Cecil John Rhodes provides a perfect host for the febrile infection of conspiracy theory. It is all too easy to fall into the trap of believing that here one has found the answer that explains everything. Yet dismissing Rhodes' Secret Elite as a mere figment of conspiracy theory would be equally misguided. The existence of the Society is thoroughly documented, principally through Professor Carroll Quigley's books Tragedy & Hope and The Anglo-American Establishment. Quigley — a professor of comparative civilization at Georgetown University — was no fringe figure.
Professor Quigley was famously name-checked by a former student — also a Rhodes Scholar — who went on to attain the pinnacle of power. His name was Bill Clinton. In accepting the Democratic Party nomination for the Presidency of the United States in 1992, he intoned:
"As a teenager, I heard John Kennedy's summons to citizenship. And then, as a student at Georgetown, I heard that call clarified by a professor named Carroll Quigley, who said to us that America was the greatest Nation in history because our people had always believed in two things —that tomorrow can be better than today and that every one of us has a personal moral responsibility to make it so."
The influence of Rhodes' Secret Elite is profound and long-lasting, echoing down to the present day. Ironically the society's first significant action to paint the map of the world British Red was an utter disaster. Yet the handling of a crisis of its own making showed how influence, artfully and not-so-artfully applied, can rescue an elite from the consequences of its own actions.
As of late 1895, the world's most productive goldfields lay within the boundaries of the independent South African Republic (ZAR), also known as the Transvaal. Thousands of Brits, Americans, Australians and Europeans of many nations had flooded into the ZAR in a gold rush as colorful as any other in the wild and woolly history of the 19th Century frontier. The Boer settlers of the ZAR looked askance at these uitlanders, concentrated in Johannesburg. The Calvinistic Afrikaners were appalled by the Gomorrah that had erupted from the veld, and they feared the political potential of the uitlanders. If they were given the vote, they might swamp and push aside the Boers who had founded this land after fleeing British rule in the Cape in the Gret Trek of the 1830s.
For Rhodes and his inner circle — up to and including British Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain — it was intolerable to allow the backward Boers to control all of that wealth, which, by rights should be British. They conceived a filibustering expedition using the British South Africa Company (BSA) Police from Rhodesia to support an uprising of Uitlanders in Johannesburg. They essentially plotted a coup in the South African Republic, seeking to raise the Union Jack over the goldfields.
Rhodes' close friend and Rhodesian administrator Leander Starr Jameson was tapped to lead the filibuster, and he gathered his paramilitary force in Bechuanaland in December 1895. The problem was, the uitlanders weren't in the mood for revolution. As long as they were making money, they cared little for politics. Aside from a few hotspurs and imperial idealogues, who smuggled arms into Johannesburg, there wasn't any support for an Uitlander uprising.
Tally-ho into the Transvaal.
Rhodes tried to call the coup attempt off, but the impetuous Jameson, who had won Matabeleland with nerve and a few Maxim guns, decided unilaterally to force the issue. He and a force of about 600 men crossed the Bechuanaland border. But Jameson wasn't dealing with the Matabele. ZAR President Paul Kruger had invested tax revenues from the mines in Mauser rifles and Krupp artillery from a sympathetic Germany, and he had good intel on the plot.
Jameson's raiders made it to Doornkop a little southwest of Johannesburg before they were cornered by a well-armed Boer Commando backed with artillery. Jameson lost 30 men before he recognized the hopelessness of his position and surrendered on January 2, 1896. He was taken weeping in chains to Pretoria and jailed.
Everybody knew that Rhodes was behind the Jameson Raid, and he was forced to resign as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony. In Rhodesia, the Matabele quickly recognized that the BSA Police had been stripped away, and in March they would rise in a rebellion that came close to knocking Rhodesia off its pins.
The game should have been up for the diamond magnate and imperial schemer — but this is where the Secret Society kicked in to save Rhodes and Jameson both
Rhodes had telegraph cables implicating Colonial Secretary Chamberlain in the plot. The government could ill-afford the scandal that entailed, and they used the threat of revoking the BSA Charter as leverage to keep Rhodes from going public. The mutually assured destruction standoff with the British Government suited Rhodes well-enough. Jameson, knowing his patron would take care of him, recovered his poise and kept his counsel. Rhodes' agents of influence worked feverishly to save his reputation while Rhodes himself worked to save his country from the Matabele uprising.
An 1896 Vanity Fair caricature of Leander Starr Jameson.
The Rhodes'-friendly press pushed hard on public opinion, portraying the Raid in the light of plucky British freedom fighters going up against roughneck Boer oppressors. The press was handed a beautiful opportunity to go big on the jingoism when Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany sent Kruger a cable congratulating him on foiling the Rhodes/Jameson plot. Now the Raid became not just a South African issue but an international one, with "meddling" from the obnoxious Kaiser setting off fervid patriotic paroxysms in Great Britain.
Rhodes — though politically damaged — came out more or less unscathed, Charter and fortune intact. Jameson, who served a year of a 15-month sentence for violating the anti-mercenary Foreign Enlistment Act of 1870, was lauded in many quarters as a hero (much as Oliver North was in the wake of the Iran-Contra Scandal). Jameson's rehabilitation would ultimately see him Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa. Such was the influence of the Secret Elite.
And a new man soon came upon on the scene to lead that elite as Rhodes was forced to step back — a new High Commissioner for South Africa who would use his position to accomplish the goals of the Jameson Raid through full-scale war. His name was Alfred Milner.
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Jim Cornelius
Born in the suburbs of Los Angeles, Jim Cornelius grew up dreaming of distant frontiers, of mountain men, long hunters, African explorers. His older brother gave him a tattered copy of Allan W. Eckert's The Frontiersmen, a biography of Simon Kenton, and the twig was bent. Graduated from...
Paul McNamee says
Fascinating run of posts, Jim.
Jim Cornelius says
Thanks Paul. I hope I can bring it all home next week.
Matthew says
One of the reasons I never believed conspiracy theories is that the evil plot always seems to run like clockwork. The fact is nothing ever does. Your article seems to back that up.
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Investigating the Effect of Lipase Concentration on the Breakdown of Fat in Milk
Enzymes are proteins which can catalyse chemical reactions without changing themselves. The enzyme lipase breaks down the fat in dairy products such as full-cream milk for people who are lactose intolerant. Lipase acts on its specific substrate, lipids produces fatty acids. If enzyme concentration increases, random collisions between the substrates and active sites of enzyme increase due to the increasing amount of active sites which allow more collisions to happen, so the rate of breakdown of lipids to simpler substances will increase. During the experiment, sodium carbonate solution and pH indicator phenolphthalein will be added ahead of…show more content…
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With the return of the rain the leaves would be thick and green again. But now they were scattered and sparse, singed by the heat of the sun. The small bird fluttered, lifting from the dust near the hut. Its red bill was tiny but visible in the morning air. The carriage rumbled past, yearning to finish its journey at the town west of the plain that Thursday morning, its rear red like the bill of the small bird. And then the train would turn again, that evening, dreaming about the city farther east.
"It will return", their herdsman said. "The bird is lucky this day".
The big stone missed. It hit the earthen wall of the hut. The herdsman walked on. The boy followed him. They went past the alii thorn trees to the millet field.
"You chased it", the boy complained. "The bird will not return".
"I do not. The nyadit will return".
"You will climb my back as you often do".
"Now it is you who said it", the boy charged. He added, "If you change, I will tell my friend Mbigo. We will laugh at you".
They both pinned their eyes on the small quelea bird flying over scanty branches of thorn trees gathered in the distance, near the dusty road which led to the town farther west. When the bird became too tiny to see they abandoned catching it with their eyes. They looked at the small swept space in front of the hut where the quelea had been eating grain-pregnant millet heads harvested by the boy's mother yesterday and now put to dry under the eye of the sun this morning again.
When his mother began spreading millet on the mat yesterday the quelea arrived behind her back and perched on the thorn tree. The bird was hungry. The way everybody else was at the beginning of the harvest season. Yesterday the quelea stood on the mat and pecked the millet grains.
"Look at it", the boy said yesterday.
The boy pointed at the mat with the millet.
"It is called 'nyadit'", the herdsman explained.
"The mouth is red like osaye fruit".
"I know you want the bird".
The boy said, "Eee, I want".
After filling its stomach with millet grains yesterday the bird hopped to the shade under the eaves of the hut thatch and sucked water from the half-broken ear of the old pot which the boy's mother had dug into the ground for hens to drink from each day. The boy and the herdsman looked on as the quelea drank, turned its red bill upwards, drank again, turned, drank, and turned…the way all birds do. The quelea shook her feathers and preened them. When the boy's mother came out of the hut yesterday the small bird flew away.
"If you want the nyadit bird", the herdsman reminded the boy as they walked to the millet field this morning, "I will make a catapult tomorrow. I will catch the bird for you".
"You are strong like God if you catch the bird for me".
"Mother says that good dead people go to His big house".
The herdsman looked at him.
"They burn with the Devil in the big fire".
They came to the millet field. The herdsman bent his back and the G of his sickle left slaughtered necks of finger-millet stems behind every drawing movement of his arm. The basket received their heads. When the basket was full the herdsman emptied it on the rising heap. The boy's mother made trips carrying the harvest home to dry in the swept laro yard where the quelea ate yesterday and the herdsman's stone missed this morning.
Towards midday the boy stood near the heap shooing away the red-billed swarm of quelea. The birds wanted to perch and eat.
Mbigo, the boy's classmate, passed on foot wearing a pair of red faded shorts, smiling but, as usual, displaying no appetite to greet them. He was going to collect milk and carry in a cooking fat tin from the homestead of the old neighbour. Mbigo the shy one whose sad face eternally looked down was bare from the waist upwards.
"Greet us, wuoyi!" the boy's mother shouted at the young passer-by from the millet field, subtly challenging the tin-carrying boy to act mature by referring to him as 'a man'.
The passer-by stopped. He looked away from the harvesting trio, smiled as always, and continued knocking the bottom of the tin.
"For how long will you be a girl, Mbigo?" the boy's mother confronted him.
The passer-by stopped drumming. His small elbow folded suddenly. His right wrist sealed the valley of his eyes. They saw his back shake.
"Do not cry, my child", she hurried to the footpath, held the bare-chested boy close, and pressed him onto her stomach, pulling his wrist away from his eyes. "Mos, my child – sorry".
Drops of tears had wetted the front of his red, faded shorts.
"He is crying! Mbigo is crying –" the boy standing near the heap of harvested millet yelled at his classmate friend from a distance.
"Do not laugh at Mbigo", the herdsman shouted at the boy. "You yourself cannot kill a single quelea nyadit. Your buttocks grind flour when those small birds approach you in a swarm".
"You told him the truth; he himself is nyadit – always eating and chirping" the boy's mother concurred from the footpath where she stood consoling the one carrying the tin.
The milk-collector stopped crying. She wiped his eyes for him.
"Is your mother at home?" the woman remorsefully asked.
"Greet her for me when you return", the woman said, dusting his red pair of shorts for him.
She let him proceed to the milk place, her guilt spreading inside her breast. She cursed herself for forgetting that the wound of the previous four years was still raw in the milk-collector's memory. She knew that even his mother had not properly healed. The milk-collector was six years old when the government had turned cruel mother-hen gouging out the eyes of her own chicks like wind and smoke blowing across the village to the east sweeping everybody west (except) capturing the milk-collector's father and marching him to the mysterious red place no one quite knew. Now the boy was ten, and still growing, but the startling memory of that year as the only explanation to the absence of his father had created a permanent child in him.
They were leaving the millet field at the same time the milk-collector was returning home wearing his red pair of shorts the tin of milk safely gripped in his hands.
"Do not forget to greet your mother for me", the boy's mother reminded Mbigo.
That evening the boy accompanied the herdsman to the railway line. Individual stars began peeping from the sky. The boy and the herdsman watched as the single torch shone from the last railway station before the train passed behind their homestead. They did not initially hear its rumbling. And then the train rattled past, its wheels quarrelling with the metallic line. The boy stood by as the long body of the carriage crawled along. He waited for the conundrum: the red tail of the train. He had wondered many times why all trains seemed to crawl, but their red tails often sped by very fast, faster even than most cars. The tail came and flashed past. The boy screamed and shouted in the grey evening.
"To the city", the herdsman told him.
"You took long before you answered", the boy said. "You have not gone to that place. You do not know how the city looks like".
"I am not like you who drinks porridge near the granary every morning".
"The city is far, but our town is here-here", the herdsman pointed west.
They went past the two alii thorn trees, rounded the entrance, and entered the homestead with the fall of darkness.
The next midday the red-billed quelea returned. She flew from the thorn branch and perched on the millet mat near the hut. The sun burned. The air trembled. The bird picked the first two grains. She raised her head and looked. The herdsman slipped the taut catapult when the quelea next dipped her head to pick the third grain. The stone did not find her head. It bruised her thigh and left a scattering of feathers crying on the dust. The bird fluttered blindly towards the ojuok euphorbia fence. The herdsman ran after her in his akala tyre shoes. The boy looked on. The sprinter found her trapped amongst the thorns and returned, happy for the boy.
The bird was alive when the herdsman gave her to the boy. Her warm blood and heart beating in the simple grip of the boy's hand made his fingers sweat. He looked again, with admiration, and saw her yellowish feathers, small wings, and the alien red bill. Her dark, rounded eyes did not look at the boy. They focused on something distant.
"She is sad", the boy told the herdsman. "She wants to go home and cook lunch for her many hungry children".
Just then the boy felt a tiny tremor in the grip of his hands. He looked again. She lost her wild and natural colour. Both her eyes were closed. Her head drooped. The feathers on her neck stood. The stone had raptured something inside her stomach. The red bill of the quelea suddenly lost its alien life. The boy feared. Something told him that the momentary trembling was the last great earthquake that shook all breathing creation – including him and his classmate, Mbigo, one silent day behind many hills in the distant future.


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The Musée Guimet (Musée National des Arts Asiatiques-Guimet or Guimet Museum) is a museum of Asian art that has one of the largest collections of Asian works outside Asia.
It was founded by Emile Guimet (1836-1918), a Lyon's industrialist who devised the grand project of opening a museum devoted to the religions of Ancient Egypt, Classical Antiquity, and Asia. In the course of his travels around the world he acquired extensive collections of objects, which he put on display in a museum first located at Lyon in 1879 and handed over to the state and transferred to Paris in 1885.
The museum's collections have been progressively grown over the years thanks to financial backing from the French Museum Acquisition Funds and to the generosity of the many donors, and it is increasingly focused on Asian civilizations. In 1945, the Musée Guimet transferred its Egyptian pieces to the Louvre and, in return, received the entire collection of objects from the latter museum's Department of Asian Arts.
After 3 years of renovation program, the museum re-opened in 2000 with luminous, spacious and airy exhibition halls. Today, it contains over 3,000 pieces from 17 Asian countries, of which 45,000 are on display, including Indian, Japanese, Chinese and Indonesian masterpieces created thousands of years ago. Some of the collections are of international renown, such as the Khmer sculptures, the Buddhas from Angkor, the Dunhuang paintings from Central Asia, the Tibetan paintings, the Japanese prints, the Silk Road treasures, the ancient bronzes and the Chinese porcelain.
The Galeries du Panthéon bouddhique (the Buddhist Pantheon), also part of the museum, have an exceptionally fine and peaceful Japanese garden and teahouse, a gift from Japanese patrons of the arts.
Address: National Museum of Asian Art-Guimet 6, place d'Iéna 75016 Paris Opening Hours: Every day (except Tuesday) from 10:00 to 18:00.
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