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Monty Soutar: Making sure our soldiers aren't forgotten
Posted by Dale Husband | Apr 21, 2019 | 1 | 14 min read
Monty Soutar
Monty Soutar has made it his mission to gather and present the stories and images that show the significant but costly part that Māori soldiers have played in the two world wars.
Among the many projects he's undertaken has been Ngā Tama Toa: The Price of Citizenship,his book recounting the role of the 28th Māori Battalion's C Company in World War II.
And now he has a 400-page book (with a focus on 1914-18) about to be published. It is Whitiki: Māori in the First World War.
Monty spent four years in the New Zealand Army, but it's as a historian and writer that he's been making his valuable mark. In this chat with Dale, he explains how he got into this line of work — and what it means to him.
Kia ora, Monty. In these interviews, we're always meeting people with interesting lives — and some of them, like you, with unusual names as well. Monty, for instance, isn't all that common, is it?
A lot of people assume that, because I've written about the war, my name has something to do with Field Marshall Montgomery in World War Two. But that's not so. It goes back before then when school principals often were the main authority in many Māori communities.
And, in Paroa, in Whakatane, where my dad is from, the native school there had a headmistress who used to name a number of the kids when they were born, because she'd be there at their birth. There was a Monty in her family. And that's the name she gave my father. So I've inherited that. It has nothing to do with the war as far as I know.
My full name is Monty Glyn Soutar. Soutar is Scottish. That comes from a Presbyterian minister who landed in New Zealand in the 1870s. He started off in Nelson and ended up in Whakatane. You'll know the story of Reverend Carl Volkner who was killed at Ōpōtiki in 1865, when the Pai Mārire faith was strong. Well, my Pākehā tipuna, Alexander Chalmers Soutar, took over that parish area in Whakatane, after Carl Volkner.
He had a son who married a Ngāti Porou woman. And that's our line. Glyn is a Welsh name, and I got that from a friend of my mother's brother who'd served in the army in Korea.
You're from a big family, aren't you? Where do you come in the lineup?
There's seven of us. Five boys and two girls. I'm right in the middle. My mother Kino's family was from Hiruharama, near Ruatoria. She had two brothers who both served in the army overseas. They had a lot of whāngai in her family. I think there was a dozen of them that I've known as my uncles and aunties all of my life. And we had some of our grandparents' whāngai live with us as well, after the old people had passed away. So we're used to a lot of people being around.
Then you were sent off to Hato Paora for your high school education, weren't you?
Yes. I followed on after my two older brothers, and then I had a younger brother following on a year after me. We're not Catholics, but it's just that, when we were living in Kawerau, my mother was impressed by a Hato Paora boy who we once billeted during a rugby tournament — and she thought that, if it was good enough for him to go to Hato Paora, she'd send her boys there, too.
It was Catholic priests who ran the school, some of them very well-educated priests from the Society of Mary. They were men who were committed to the education of Māori boys. I know my English teacher had a master's in education. He was Father Barn Xavier Doherty, and he introduced us to poetry and Shakespeare and things like that, which we'd never heard of as young Māori boys coming from the Coast.
Another priest, Father Lee, pushed me into taking extra subjects for School Certificate, and that prepared me well for tertiary education.
And another influence, this time on the Māoritanga side, was Morvin Simon from Kaiwhaiki in Whanganui. He instilled in us a pride in our Māori side that we have pursued as a result. From there, I went straight to training college in Palmerston North, largely because I didn't know what else to do. That allowed me to do a degree and I ended up becoming a primary school teacher.
For how long and where?
I went back to Ruatoria, where I'd been to school myself. I did two years at Manutahi Primary, and I chose that area, partly because of my links to the place. I wanted to grow my knowledge of my mother's side. But I did only two years there, even though I thoroughly enjoyed my class of Standard 4 children, 90 percent of them Māori.
But there weren't a lot of teaching resources, especially if you wanted to teach local history, or New Zealand history from a Māori perspective. Luckily, Sir Tamati Reedy, who was the Secretary of Māori Affairs at the time, allowed me to go into the Māori Land Court in Gisborne and work through all the minute books and historical records to see if I could build a local history resource for schools on the East Coast. So I did that for two years.
I imagine that was really satisfying because it's important for our young people to grow up knowing the richness of the histories of the hills and valleys and rivers that surround them.
It is. And I couldn't understand why we should be studying Marco Polo and George Washington when, outside the window, we had pā sites. So, in my class, we talked about the heroes and explorers who had direct relevance to the young students in front of me.
One of the teachers at the school, Mate Kawai, was Apirana Ngata's daughter, and another was Ripeka Heeney, who was Moana Ngarimu's sister. I thought: "There are living resources right here. Why don't we teach them about their brother and father?"
And I also thought that, if I could instil a bit of pride and local history about the place where these kids were going to school, that would help them across a range of other activities. And it did. They'd never been taught anything, really, about local history. So they changed overnight.
And what also changed was their attitude to the core subjects, like maths, writing and reading, because they developed a sense of worth from learning about themselves and their local history.
I think that's probably half the problem for a lot of our young people who don't know who they are, and they're hungry for that knowledge. It just doesn't exist in an easy, accessible way. That's one of the main reasons I went into writing. It happened to be military history, but I saw in the stories of the Māori Battalion, for example, good positive role models. I thought there was more than enough negative stuff in the press already.
Like so many Māori families, yours has been deeply affected by the loss of relatives in the course of wars overseas. For instance, your nana lost a son at 21, in Italy.
That's true. My grandmother Iritana's eldest son volunteered at 17 and was killed and buried in Italy at 21. He was Second Lieutenant Sam Paniora. He needed her permission to get overseas. Initially, she wouldn't give it, but he told her he'd get someone else to sign him off and go anyway — but he'd prefer to have her permission. So, reluctantly, she agreed.
She never got over it. And, as a result of his death, she whangai'd two of her nephews. One of them was a Campbell, but she called him Soldier Sam Paniora.
He recently passed away. People at Waipareira would know him well.
Faenza, my other uncle, is still in Pōkeno. He was named after the place that my uncle was killed. Then my nana had a niece named Forli and she was named after the place where Sam was buried in Italy.
My mother was only seven or eight when Sam went away and she was about 11 when he died. So her family's home became sort of a memorial to him. And Mum's mission in life was to go and see where Sam lies.
Back in the early '70s, it was difficult to get to places like that. She died relatively young, at 49, so she never got to go. But that dream of hers was instilled in all of us children, and most of us have been there as a consequence. We went in the 1990s. So his story and name have come down through the generations.
Monty's Uncle Sam Paniora (left) with Bill Hogan, both of Ruatoria. Taken in Italy in 1944, not long before Sam was killed.
I'm sure you've attended many gravesites over the years, but visiting Sam's must've been an especially moving experience.
Yes. Well, it was particularly significant going to that cemetery in Forli and seeing his grave. He lies in a line of about seven men from his own platoon. Cousins. I went with some siblings and, naturally, we were thinking of our mother and her brothers who never got across there to see the grave. Thinking about our grandmother as well.
And all that emotion impacts on you. You realise that you're not there on your own — you're the embodiment of all those others who would've liked to have been there. It was almost too emotional. Being ex-army myself, there was that extra sort of thinking in my mind, too. But just being able to touch the stone and have some time there. That was great.
Our cemetery, at that stage, on the East Coast was blackberry and gorse. But, in Italy, we were looking at these beautiful, manicured cemeteries, and that had us thinking we're kind of glad he's there — he's well looked after.
The Italian people who came with us conveyed to us very sincerely that they appreciate what these young men tried to do to help liberate their country. Our initial thought, when we left New Zealand, was that we'd like to bring Sam home, bring his bones home.
But having him there keeps the tie between the Italians and us. We've made good friends with the family at the place where he was killed. So we're at peace now that he's lying on foreign soil.
We still speak of the bravery of our Māori soldiers during these campaigns, their sacrifices. How does that make you feel, Monty, when you see how disadvantaged our people are despite what we gave in those war years? What feelings does that invoke in you?
I'm frustrated. In one recent interview, I was asked if the government should apologise to the Māori Battalion. But no, I don't think we need an apology. We need equality, because that's what it was about for them. Sure, they went overseas to keep the enemy at bay, assist England, and play their part in the empire we were in.
But I don't think they ever envisaged that, for their descendants, the rates of incarceration, ill-health and unemployment were going to soar when they came back from the war. After the First World War and then the Second World War, there were these promises that there would be more and more opportunities.
Ngata's "price of citizenship" was, first, about the obligations and responsibilities of citizenship. He wanted us to be treated as equals in war, and the hope was that we would have equality of opportunity in peace time.
So now, when I look at the country, I think this is not what they fought for. The system is broken and we all know that. You've got to start listening to what Māori are saying, I believe, if you're going to get some results that matter. How many more years do we need to keep at it while the stats get worse and worse?
In the course of your work — it's been remarkable work too, Monty — you've no doubt interviewed a host of people. I suspect, though, that there are some that stick in your mind.
One that comes to mind immediately is Miki Harrison, who was a '39er and went away with the first lot of 28th Māori Battalion. I was relatively young at the time and I was on the camera. Our veterans were interviewing him at Te Puia Springs and it was a stock standard interview about what happened to him overseas.
Right at the end, the interviewer asked if there anything else he wanted to put on record. He stared into the distance, and then away he went. Fortunately, I had the camera still rolling, and he talked about Greece. He said that he was a pacifist. He didn't go to war to shoot anybody. But in Greece, when they were withdrawing and their platoon got separated from the battalion, they hopped on a large schooner that was heading out.
The Australians were getting on, and this platoon of Miki's got on it, too. Civilians as well. And then a Stuka dive bomber swooped in and bombed the ship. Everybody was rushing off on to the pier. People had been killed. Then, as others ran towards the streets of Athens, there were some "fifth columnists", as he called them, who were German sympathisers, with a machine gun up in the hotel window, firing on them.
He said his cousin was caught by the machine gun bullets. He was pretty much a goner, but he was still alive and, because he was in so much pain, he called to Miki: "Miki, shoot me." There was a wounded British soldier who'd been shot in the face, crawling up on to the pier next to him. And Miki figured that, if he had to shoot his cousin, he'd have to shoot this other guy as well. He said: "I didn't come here to shoot anybody, least of all my own relatives." So he turned away. His cousin said to him: "Miki Harrison, you f'in coward."
He said that voice would revisit him, in dreams every now and then, throughout his lifetime. He told us that when he heard on the radio that we were coming to interview him, he had the dream again, "clearer than ever before."
Miki died sometime after that interview, but he said that, when he came home from the war, a lot of his relatives used to say, because he got captured in Greece, "You never really got to the war, Miki, because you got captured at the start and spent your years in a prison."
What he was conveying to us was that they didn't understand the trauma that he carried throughout life as a result of that incident. I remember that particular interview because I think of the post-traumatic stress disorder that our men must've come back with from the First World War, and subsequent wars, and there was really no programme to treat them.
So their families had to deal with these men who were trying to cope with the trauma. I think we underestimate, even today, that our young men and women coming back from places like Afghanistan or Iraq might not have been in a fighting zone but they still would've seen things that would have been difficult to cope with in peace time back here in New Zealand.
Monty, as well as doing all your research and writing, you've put a great deal of energy into pushing for the C Company Memorial House in Gisborne. I wonder what your whānau's reaction has been to your commitment to that project.
I'm sure they're proud that I've contributed in the way I have, but yeah, it is a strain on the family because you're away so much, and because you're a public figure, people sometimes want a bit of your time. So finding time for ourselves can be a challenge. People come up and tell you how much they appreciate what you've done because it's helped them personally, or that they've learned something about their fathers or uncles that they didn't know before, and now have an appreciation of why they were like what they were during their lives.
There are some folk who say we dwell on our war history too much. How do you respond to those who say that we shouldn't spend so much time looking back at this military stuff?
Yes, I've heard that, too. This is just the way Māori value their ancestors. It's a natural thing for us to do. I remember going down to interview a Māori veteran at a retirement home and some of the Pākehā veterans asked: "How come you guys are always after the Māori Battalion? They seem to be glory boys of the division. We were all there. Why isn't someone coming to talk to us?"
I said: "We can't do everybody. We're Māori. These are our uncles. We owe it to them. It's for your own to come and do your stories." That's when I realised it's a natural Māori thing to focus on this.
And particularly, my two sides of Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Porou. Ngāti Porou, in particular, because you had 10 per cent of the Māori population in our area go overseas in World War II and it was a significant proportion in World War I, as well.
Every family was affected. I know there's not a family where I come from who can't point to two or three uncles, or their father, who were away at the war. And the consequence is that you want to remember.
The C Company Memorial House that opened nearly five years ago seems to be a particularly valuable way of helping with the remembering. That really was a significant achievement, wasn't it?
I was just one of many who were involved in putting the house together. I certainly wasn't the driver of it. There were lots of us — all for the same reason, because we were descendants of those men, or were related.
It was the same with the book Ngā Tama Toa. That wasn't a one-man effort. That was a big team of people. There's no way one individual could have done all this stuff. They're team efforts. And so it has been as we prepare to launch the First World War book.
As for the C Company house, that in a way is really quite a simple plan. It's just photos on the wall, photos that families brought in and that we put up. It's got a cathedral-like appearance. I can't put my finger on it, but there's something about the atmosphere, the wairua of that building, that makes it contemplative for visitors.
You watch who come in. They touch photographs of their relatives. They weep over them. Which is something you couldn't really do in a museum. Whereas in this place, because everything is a copy, they'll pin a poppy to a frame. It would be horrendous in a museum, but you can do that in the C Company house.
Really, what they're doing is expressing their aroha and their emotion for the soldier and the place.
And one difference with this particular exhibition is that there's always a volunteer who sits there, because we know, when people come in, they want to share a story, their emotion, with somebody. To come in there by yourself, that's okay, but you always want to talk to somebody about why you've come. I think that adds another dimension to that particular house. It's got a wairua of its own.
What are your plans for the future? What's driving you now?
We've got the launch of the First World War book coming up in June. We're in the planning phase for the launch at the Auckland War Memorial Museum. The reason that the official launch is being done there is because that's where the Māori Pioneer Battalion returned to, 100 years ago this year — the Auckland Domain. That's where they were welcomed.
And another link was that I was the World War One historian in residence at the museum while I was writing the book — as well as being a historian for the Ministry of Culture and Heritage. So, in a sense, it's giving back.
The second launch will be in Gisborne because much of the material came from this region. We also thought to have it here because, 100 years ago, there was the grand Hui Aroha which welcomed back the Pioneers (the Māori Battalion that served during World War One) from the eastern seaboard, which is pretty much the Bay of Plenty down to Wairarapa. They were dropped in Gisborne and welcomed there, so we thought we'd recreate that.
We're going to put 100 young men in World War One uniforms. Fortunately Sir Peter Jackson has stumped up again to supply those uniforms. And we're inviting all the iwi to take part by sending three or four young men to be part of the guard.
We've got a wānanga weekend early next month where they'll be trained to march and sing some of the old World War One songs. They'll parade through the main street of Gisborne on June 8. It'll be quite a spectacle to see 100 men dressed in the Pioneer uniforms. Those 100 men doing the haka will, I think, be a sight worth seeing.
After that I'm going to have a good rest and think about what next. I think I'll move away from military history, although I'm still down to assist A and D companies, in a small way, to help them complete their histories.
My small part in helping to ensure that our soldiers are not forgotten is to present history through a Māori lens.
This interview was condensed and edited for clarity.
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hirini	on April 26, 2019 at 1:21 pm
Kia ora Monty,
Ae, I remember that korero of Miki's from our interviews back then . Talking in Maori about his wounded mate…Percy Goldsmith, tough man, handled steers… kua taotu, ko ana whekau (intestines) kua puta mai.. mea mai.. shoot me, kao, shoot me I am done for… Ka kurua mai tana ringa ka mea mai. Miki you gutless bastard… Ka mate.. Sad story… After the war my Grandfather Hanara TeOhaki Reedy named his son, Percy Piraeus after his cousin Percy Goldsmith who died at the Port of Piraeus in Athens, Greece… The same time we started those interviews in 1994, then Major-General Birks, General of NZ Army introduced Ngati-Tumatauenga-NZ Army as official recognition of Maori Warrior culture with British Regimental System. Amended the NZ Army Coat of Arms to include Taiaha with Sword. Lots of other things he brought in. Also he helped with the access to defence archives. Ka pai tou korero Monty. Yep, we got to keep the fires of remembrance burning. Lest we forget. A cold wind blows from the north..


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Going ahead, the company provided crypto-specific revenues data from the first time which came in at $289 million. However, for the current quarter, it predicts revenues from this business to take a hit and be about one-third of the first-quarter level.
NVIDIA's non-GAAP gross margin expanded 510 basis points (bps) from the year-ago quarter to 64.7%, which exceeded management's guidance of 63% (+/-50 bps).
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The company issued its outlook for second-quarter fiscal 2019. For the quarter, NVIDIA expects revenues of $3.10 billion (+/-2%).
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How Have Estimates Been Moving Since Then?
In the past month, investors have witnessed an upward trend in fresh estimates. There have been 11 revisions higher for the current quarter. Last month, the consensus estimate has shifted by 14.2% due to these changes.
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Our style scores indicate that the stock is more suitable for growth investors than momentum investors.
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Prognostic marker in liver cancer (unfavourable), endometrial cancer (unfavourable) and ovarian cancer (favourable).
Several cases of carcinoids, melanomas along with a few cases of gliomas, colorectal, liver and pancreatic cancers showed moderate nuclear/nucleolar positivity. Remaining cancer tissues were weakly stained or negative.


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They seemed to think that their exegesis of the sacred texts of economics and business studies was blessed with a natural authority. The students concurred. Even when I projected my plastic slides onto the paint-peeling wall in lurid colour, they were inattentive. They took my colleagues' aural dictation with the utmost seriousness. It was almost as if the ritual enunciation of the notes by the lecturer's voice sanctified them as a legitimate source of learning.
Academics today are increasingly expected to embrace all manner of digital media. Instead of sheaves of notes, we carry laptops, tablets or USB sticks to our lectures, to plug into multi-media audio-visual suites.
We might be asked to teach Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS), to use social media for research impact or course delivery, to reach wider audiences through YouTube clips or podcasts of our lectures. We're also encouraged to embrace web-based teaching and assessment, and to offer student support via email, text messaging, or even Facebook.
This digitisation of education makes perfect sense at a time when a huge proportion of under-30s rarely engage with print media, preferring to access their information via internet-connected mobile devices.
But, engaging as digital media may be, is there a risk that the importance of the academic role is being forgotten, to the detriment of the student's education?
No doubt, digital media can make higher education more appealing – and there is something suspiciously medieval about fetishising the personal authority of the individual scholar. But the foundation of Western education for two and a half thousand years has been not the medium, nor the message, but the messenger who gives physical expression, ritual force and emotional texture to the abstractions of the intellect.
The nuanced intellectual interaction of student and teacher in a shared physical space, stimulated by reading and expressed in voice or writing, is the motif of a higher education. Today, the Oxbridge model of small group tutoring remains the gold standard for higher education, reflecting the importance of proximity and dialogue in the scholarly relationship.
But few academics succeed in avoiding the need to translate their work into the latest communication media. Most universities try to improve the economic efficiency and market attractiveness of their offer by digitising courses to attract audiences that are bigger, more dispersed, and, perhaps, less skilled in the art of listening.
First-year classes numbering in the hundreds are made possible through multimedia course delivery – and the equivalent learners overseas can number in the thousands. At Georgetown University, for example, the chief information officer has explained that students check their mobile devices 43 times a day. In response, the university now has 35,000 students and faculty interacting on a mobile platform.
Which is all very well, but, as the late Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan pointed out: a medium is not merely a means of transmission – it influences the character of the message.
There is a risk that academic ideas, adapted for digital presentation, might be reduced to misleading but easily conveyed simplicities. This reductionism lends itself to the commodification of higher education. Digitised courses can be subdivided, rebranded, repackaged, sold on and distributed in different forms as part-time, distance learning, "taster" or self-study units.
As media "content" that can be "delivered", some of the work can be devolved to less-qualified staff, or even to machines (for example, to mark online multiple choice tests). The author of the course, whose curation of ideas and intellectual judgement lie at the core of the entire process, can be reduced to a faint imprint, or even erased altogether.
Even a star academic who earns millions of views for an online lecture is little more than a social media marketing tool. Education, as opposed to entertainment, is inherently incremental and demands a judicious mix of personal and mediated interaction between students and academics.
I might be exaggerating the downsides of digitisation. Most universities, I think, are sensible enough to allow the academic author control over, and physical presence in, the courses they create. In any case, there are inbuilt limits to the extent to which higher education can be depersonalised.
For one thing, academics as a species tend to be natural technophobes. Many fully digitised classrooms bear the hallmarks of Ludditism after a class leaves the room – a well-used A3 pad, interactive whiteboards written on in indelible marker, and a unbooted classroom PC. The notoriously high non-completion rates for MOOCs testify to most students' need for a personal level of engagement.
There is no turning back the tide of digitisation in higher education, but the integrity of the process demands the presence and authority of the academic. The media will obliterate the message, unless there is room in the digital university for the reassuring voice of the academic author and their skills of argument, inspiration, content curation and creation.


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Last updated 11/9/2021 at 5:08pm
Clean Up Fountain is hosting its next monthly clean-up events at the following locations. All are invited to help. Bags provided. Volunteers are asked to wear bright or reflective clothing and stay on city property.
Saturday, Nov. 13, at 10 a.m. — Heritage Neighborhood No. 2 at Heritage Park, 685 Winebrook Way (working on Jimmy Camp Creek).
Saturday, Dec. 11, at 10 a.m. — Meet at corner of Marksheffel and Furlong Circle (working on east side of Marksheffel Road).
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Broad-tailed Hummingbird: Breeds in the mountains from eastern California and northern Wyoming through the Great Basin and Rocky Mountain states to southern Arizona and western Texas. Spends winters in Mexico. Preferred habitats include mountain meadows, pinyon-juniper woodlands, dry ponderosa pines, fir or mixed forests, and canyon vegetation.
The Broad-tailed Hummingbird has a large range, estimated globally at 700,000 square kilometers. It is native to North America and Guatemala and prefers subtropical or tropical forests, shrublands, or grasslands as well as former forests. The population is estimated at 3,800,000 individuals and does not appear to be declining at a rate that would necessitate inclusion on the IUCN Red List. Because of this, the Broad-tailed Hummingbird has an evaluation status of Least Concern.
Accounts of this species mention that it nests in the same tree or bush year after year, a phenomenon known as philopatry-faithfulness to the previous home area. It will return to the same branch and even build a new nest atop the old one. One female holds the North American age record for hummingbirds, at twelve years old. The Broad-tailed Hummingbird enters torpor, a slowed metabolic state, on cold nights. It maintains a body temperature of about 54° when ambient temperatures fall below 44° F. A group of hummingbirds has many collective nouns, including a "bouquet", "glittering", "hover", "shimmer", and "tune" of hummingbirds.


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Diamondbacks @ Dodgers April 13, 2018: Dodgers try to change their luck behind Maeda
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Throwback lineup from 2011. (Photo: Stacie Wheeler)
It's fitting that the three-game series opener between the Dodgers (4-7) and D-backs (9-3) opens on Friday the 13th, because it's been a horror show a majority of the time for the Dodgers so far this season. Kenta Maeda (1-0, 0.00 ERA, -0.45 FIP) looks to right the ship at home, but old friend Zack Greinke (0-1, 5.06 ERA, 2.86 FIP) will be doing his best to derail the Dodgers and help capture Arizona's 10th victory of the year.
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The D-backs and Dodgers have fared similarly in terms of offense this year. The D-backs have a slightly better line of .234/.326/.397/.723 compared to the Dodgers' .233/.293/.348/.641 through the first 12 games for Arizona and 11 games for LA. The Chase Field humidor has slowed the home runs a bit for Arizona. The Snakes have hit 10 home runs, and the Dodgers have slugged nine. The Rockies — to nobody's surprise — and the Cardinals are leading the league with 19 homers each.
The D-backs have had excellent pitching so far this year, and have been second only to the New York Mets in ERA (2.72), second behind the Nationals in strikeouts (126), and hold the top WHIP in the NL (1.09). They have been good on the road (4-2, 2.58 ERA), with opposing batters hitting .197 against them. Their bullpen (3-2, 1.69 ERA, 0.98 WHIP) has been lights out.
Maeda, who celebrated his 30th birthday on Wednesday, is back on the starting bump after being shifted to the Dodgers' bullpen last weekend. He has yet to allow a run, and he's struck out 12 while walking one in six innings and two games. This will be his first start since March 31 when he tossed five innings of shutout ball against the Giants, striking out 10. He pitched only one inning since — an inning of relief on April 7 — also against the Giants. With the rainout and the extra off-days early on, Maeda is the one getting the short end of the deal considering most of the money he will make is based on innings pitched and games started due to his incentive-laden contract.
Overall in his career, Maeda is 3-3 with a 4.72 ERA against the D-backs in 11 starts. The nine home runs he's surrendered to Arizona are the most he's allowed against any team he's faced. Ketel Marte has owned Maeda with five hits in six at-bats. Paul Goldschmidt is only hitting .231 against the right-hander, and has never hit a home run off him.
Last time out, old friend Zack Greinke allowed five runs on nine hits in five innings against the Cardinals and picked up his first loss of the year. In all fairness, the temperature in St. Louis at first pitch was a chilly 37°F, the coldest ever recorded for a major-league game in Busch Stadium's history.
It will be a bit warmer at Dodger Stadium on Friday night, and Greinke has had a lot of success pitching at Chavez Ravine. He's 29-7 with a 2.27 ERA in 50 career games at Dodger Stadium. Overall, against the Dodgers, he's 4-4 with a 3.74 ERA in 11 starts. Corey Seager is 6-for-12 (.500) with two home runs against Greinke.
The Snakes swept the Dodgers in Arizona last week, so here's to some reversal of luck on Friday the 13th and also some hope that the bats don't have paraskevidekatriaphobia. Yasiel Puig has had the worst luck so far this year, and that catch by Trayce Thompson won't soon be forgotten. Something's got to give, and it would be extra satisfying if it were against Greinke.
Over the last 13 Friday the 13ths, the Dodgers are the 2nd-best team in MLB (10-3). The Dbacks are the 2nd-worst (2-11).
— Joe Davis (@Joe_Davis) April 13, 2018
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Stacie Wheeler, born and raised in So Cal, has been writing about the Dodgers since 2010. She wrote daily as the co-editor of Lasorda's Lair for five long years, and she has also written for Dodgers Nation, Dodger Blue 1958 and The Hardball Times. She currently contributes to True Blue LA. Stacie graduated from the University Of Southern California with a bachelor's degree in Cinema-Television. You can also watch her videos on her YouTube channel, DishingUpTheDodgers.
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Neatworkz offers new choice for systems designers on Vectorworks. Powerful and streamlined tool for various systems design.
Neatworkz is a suite of software "plugins" for the cross-platform CAD program Vectorworks that extend its capabilities to assist in the design and documentation of systems and networks. The workflow of systems design has several design phases and Neatworkz turns Vectorworks into a streamlined solution for system design.
Neatworkz distributes a rich set of tools that provide a high-degree of automation while placing the minimum constraints and restrictions on the designer. Drawings can begin life as vaque ideas and take shape and become more involved and resolved as work progresses.
Neatworkz - Add-on systems design tool for Vectorworks.
Neatworkz is based on an open system design principle, making drawings both human and machine readable. Nothing is hidden, all data is stored in the drawing and can inspected and modified using standard Vectorworks commands.
A series of movies demonstrate the application here. You can tour the application interface with this interactive web page here. Neatworkz is priced at 250.euros.


We love having long and special breakfasts on the weekends, and when you can make cafe style breakfasts at home - why go out? Hash Browns are always a favourite and I was surprised by just how easy it was to make them using the Kambrook Air Fryer. All it took was a light spay of oil to create the golden and crispy Hash Browns that we all love, the only problem is now that I know how easy they are to make I won't be able to stop cooking them.
I'd always put making my own waffles in the too hard basket when the reality is it's so easy! I recently tried the Kambrook Waffle Iron for the first time and have instantly fallen in love with the thick and delicious waffles it makes in just minutes. While I've been having a lot of fun experimenting with different waffle flavours (hello double chocolate chip!) you really can't go past a traditional waffle recipe - especially when you turn it into the ULTIMATE breakfast sandwich!
Everyone loves a celebration cake and they don't come much more spectacular than this fun Piñata Cake. Don't be put off by the name, this Piñata Cake is actually really simple to make and put together. The Kambrook PowerMix Planetary Bench Mixer made making these cakes and the buttercream icing quick and easy thanks to it's powerful mixing action and the way it combines ALL of the ingredients in the bowl - meaning you don't need to stop halfway and scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl. It comes with three attachments, a dough hook, paddle and whisk and the whisk is perfect for mixing cake and icing to create a light and fluffy mixture.
Place all ingredients in the bowl of your Kambrook stand mixer and beat on low speed until combined.
Increase the speed to high and beat until just smooth.
Carefully remove the cake from the oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool completely. Remove from the tin when cooled.
Once the cakes have completely cooled you can make your chocolate buttercream icing. Place the softened butter into the bowl of your Kambrook stand mixer and beat on a high speed until it's pale and creamy. Add the sifted icing sugar, cocoa and vanilla essence and beat until well combined.
Trim each of your cakes to ensure they are even - make sure you trim the TOPS of the cake and not the bottom.
Set your cooled cakes, buttercream, M&Ms, spatula, spoon, serving plate and 8cm wide round cutter onto a clean bench.
Place the first cake onto your serving plate and using the cookie cutter, push it down approximately half way into your cake. Remove the cutter and use a spoon to remove the round piece of cake.
Hold the second cake in the palm of your hand and again using the cookie cutter, push it down approximately 1/4 of the way into the middle of the TOP of your cake. Remove the cutter and use a spoon to remove the piece of cake. Set the cake down onto your bench top.
Wipe away any crumbs on your serving plate and cover the cake with a layer of buttercream - leaving the hole you have made clear.
Fill the centre hole with a heaped pile of M&Ms before carefully place the second cake on top.
Wipe away any cake crumbs and carefully cover your cake with the remaining buttercream and decorate as desired.
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That's a wrap for 2019! See you next year!
We couldn't have asked for better conditions for this year's BIG CHILL. The ground had the perfect amount of snow cover and participants got to enjoy the trail under a clear sunny crisp winter's day. Congratulations to everyone involved!
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The author of "A Sower of Land Mines Pleads to End Them," Oct. 2, eloquently describes the horrific impact of land mines around the world. Ending the devastation of what I have called "weapons of mass destruction in slow motion" is a high priority. As President Clinton told the United Nations General Assembly just a few days ago, "our children deserve to walk this earth in safety."
This is why the United States is at the forefront of efforts to end the use of land mines and their stockpiling, production, and transfer. In the last few months, dozens of countries have joined a moratorium on these activities and in a few weeks, at the direction of President Clinton, I will introduce a resolution in the UN that will commit the world community to negotiating and concluding an international agreement designed to end the scourge of these dreadful weapons forever.
At the same time, as the author discusses, tens of millions of land mines are already in the ground and they go on killing and maiming long after the conflict has ended. Along with other countries, we have contributed more than $90 million to demining efforts, and we are working hard to develop new technology to lower the costs of clearance and to reduce the danger to those heroes involved in this perilous work.
Finally, we are helping prevent greater suffering by alerting and educating on the hazards those millions of civilians, particularly children, whose lives are not only under threat everyday but whose ability to rebuild their communities is circumscribed by the hidden danger under roads, beneath playgrounds, or in unsown fields.
Whether in Cambodia, Angola, Bosnia, or in many other places, I have seen first hand the heartbreaking devastation of land mines and the continuing tragedy that they inflict. At the UN and around the world, as well as at the just-concluded Ottawa Conference, we will continue doing all we can to end this horror and make our earth safe once again.
The opinion-page essay "On Foreign Policy, US Takes the 'Do It Alone' Approach," Oct. 3, is accurate, yet I found it somewhat lacking in verve. Since the fall of communism, Americans have congratulated themselves for "winning" the cold war. However, we failed miserably in the former Yugoslavia, for which the Bush administration, especially James Baker, is largely to blame. The Gulf war turned out to be a military exercise, with the liberation of Kuwait accomplished, but nothing else. Somalia, Rwanda, the former Soviet Union, China - the list of American foreign policy ineptness goes on and on.
The refrain that the US is "the last super power" has a tinny ring, and as it echoes through the ruins of Sarajevo, it offers cold comfort to those still alive and mourning the victims of genocide.
In response to "A Businessman's Budget for the Pentagon," Sept. 26, we can never spend enough on traditional military hardware to bring the US real security. With today's nuclear, chemical, biological, conventional, and electronic means of mass destruction affordable and accessible by almost any nation, radical group, or resourceful individual, we find ourselves vulnerable from any corner. Our dependence on a highly technological infrastructure makes our transportation systems, food, and water supply - or financial institutions - vulnerable targets. In fact, the more powerful our military gets, the more likely a hostile force will move covertly against these kinds of soft targets.
Real security will come when we make the necessary investments in preventing the injustice, ignorance, and pain that motivate a desire for destruction. Having the most means we have the most to lose.
In the post-cold-war era, most of the global threats facing the US are not military in nature. Environmental decay and weak markets are far greater causes for concern than invading armies.
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Q: Supplementary reading for probability theory studies Can you advise some good books covering areas which are required for serious probability theory studies (e.g. measure theory, functional analysis)? Preferably this book should have some problem sets to work on. Thanks!

A: For a broad overview in one book at a graduate level, it is hard to beat Foundations of Modern Probability (Second edition) by Olav Kallenberg. His presentation is classroom tested, and many standard complicated proofs have been made very concise. I'm a big fan of this book!

A: A quite new and german one: Klenke, Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie.

A: Pollard, A User's Guide to Measure Theoretic Probability

A: Dudley, Real Analysis and Probability

A: Billingsley, Probability and Measure.

A: Take a look at "Measure Theory and Probability" by A.K. Basu. This book has lots of problem sets in them and contains some serious probabilty theory. It developed measure theory with probability as the main application. Also through-out the book there are examples which were really helpful.

A: Jacod and protter is great.
Probability Theory: A Comprehensive Course by Klenke is worth looking at too.

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Q: How to convert a .csv file into a markdown outlined file? My data is contained in the following csv file, which has the following format:
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Bruce Boudreau says Canucks' coaching drama impacted players
Bruce Boudreau, who was fired by the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday, said the speculation about his job impacted the performance of his players.
The Canucks replaced Boudreau, 68, with former Arizona Coyotes coach and TNT broadcaster Rick Tocchet after weeks of speculation about the move. Boudreau's final games in Vancouver featured fans chanting his name in support, and, according to the coach, some players were distracted by the public nature of the process.
"In between periods, it was like trying to get blood out of a stone. I mean, they wanted to go, but they just didn't have that energy that they had been bringing to games every night," said Boudreau during an interview on SiriusXM NHL Network Radio on Monday.
The Canucks went 1-10-1 in Boudreau's last 12 games behind the bench.
Boudreau and his staff anticipated that the end was near before that 12-game stretch. "I would tell the other coaches that we've got 12 games against the best teams in the league. If we don't do good, it's gonna be for sure after this because our schedule lightens up a lot right now," he said.
Boudreau's future as Vancouver coach was in doubt from the start of the season. He was hired by Canucks ownership before president of hockey operations Jim Rutherford and general manager Patrik Allvin were hired — two individuals who knew Tocchet from their days with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Rutherford was critical of Boudreau's performance in several media interviews and indicated that Boudreau entered this season as head coach out of contractual obligation.
Boudreau said he and his coaches had been thinking about their fates for "an awful long time" before Sunday's firing.
"Sometimes when we'd meet in the morning, that was more of the topic of conversation than what we were doing that day," he told SiriusXM NHL Network Radio.
"Every morning we'd go in and we'd look to see if this was the day that the shoe would drop. When we didn't hear from it, we'd just go back to work. It was a different scenario than getting caught by surprise. The only surprise was when was it gonna happen," he said. "Then everything got leaked out and the whole world knew that the other night against Edmonton was gonna be the last game I'd coached for them."
Boudreau was adamant that he would never step aside for an interim coach during his lame duck status.
"I would've said absolutely not. I mean, you're gonna have to drag me out," he said. "My whole thing with the team all year was that we never…
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Zune set to hit mobile phones at last?
By Gareth Beavis published 15 April 09
But only as a software platform... boo hiss Microsoft!
Zune coming to a mobile? But how? And why?
The long-awaited Zune Phone looks dead in the water (again) as it appears Microsoft wants to re-launch the Zune name as a platform for mobile entertainment.
According to AdWeek, Microsoft is auditioning companies to take on something called Pink - which some of you eagle-eyed readers will remember as the codename for the Zune platform on Windows Mobile handsets.
This means that it's likely the Zune moniker would be absorbed into the Windows Mobile framework, rather than cannibalise it by creating a whole new OS for the Redmond chaps.
So perhaps part of the new Windows Mobile 6.5 (or possibly Windows Mobile 7, seeing as it would have to be a VERY quick port into the forthcoming 6.5 OS) makes sense for the Zune platform, and would obviously require a quick PR campaign.
What's Pink and mobile?
According to the article, the decision will be made by the end of next month, so it can't be long before the PR machine for Pink goes into hyperdrive and starts spewing out press releases and the like.
But the timing seems a little bit confusing, as the Zune platform for mobile phones doesn't seem to be ready to tie in with any forthcoming releases, but lest we forget last year's acquisition of Danger, the 'fun' mobile services provider, has yet to show any fruit.
So we'll take Steve Ballmer's word at face value and just wait and see... though if a Zune phone suddenly turns up then we'll have to all pack in this reporting game and go and open a bar on the beach somewhere, in a land far less confusing and unpredictable.
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Bryan's 'L!fe Happens' Review!!!
by Gumbercules9000 on Apr 12th, 2012
'L!fe Happens' tries so hard to be a warm hearted movie that will make you laugh and feel for its characters all throughout the movie. But due to its lack of likability of characters, and its really poor and laughable dialogue, 'L!fe Happens' plays out more like a 3rd rate series on Lifetime more than the funny, heartwarming, and vulgar humor type of film it wants to be. And it's terribly sad, because the cast of this film is amazing. I like the cast of actors in this movie, but they were given a terrible script and nothing was executed to make me laugh or feel anything for its characters or story.
'L!fe Happens' wants to be a next generation 'Sex and the City' spin off with the humor of a Judd Apatow film. None of that is accomplished here besides maybe the hatred I feel for the 'Sex and the City' movies. The film starts out with two roomates, Kim (Krystyn Ritter) and Deena (Kate Bosworth) who are both in their separate rooms about to hook up with they random guys they brought home from the club. They both run out of their rooms at the same time in search for a condom. To their dismay, there is only one spare condom left to which Deena gets it. The film immediately flash forwards about a year or so later and we see Kim with child. Insert the title of the film, 'L!fe Happens', and that is what this film tries to convey. Kim is trying to take care of her child while still maintaing a a life where she can go out and meet guys and have fun. Deena is a successful writer whereas Kim is a dog walker and sort of personal assistant to a famous actress who treats everyone, especially Kim like shit. Kim is naturally jealous of Deena. Their third roomate, Laura (Rachel Bilson) plays an extremely ditzy self proclaimed virgin who holds all sorts of odd jobs. Her character has nothing to do with the film and seems to only be added for comic relief which there is none of, besides her being in very scantily clad clothes. These three roommates are not likable at all while all their dialogue doesn't come off as real or funny or genuine.
Finally, one night Deena and Kim get night to go out on the town together and Kim meets a guy named Nicolas (Geoff Stults) who of course is successful and handsome and everything she wants. Their relationship starts with Kim lying to him that her kid is not hers but her roommates. Again, these characters are not likable. Then it's the same old story you've seen time and time again, only this time, it isn't good. The relationship between Kim and Nicolas starts out well, but the lies come out, and their relationship ends. But somehow at the end of the film, they are magically back together and everyone is happy. This all felt rushed, uninspired, and my time.
There were two things I liked about this film. Number 1 being, the cast. With a cast that has: Krystyn Ritter (Breaking Bad), Kate Bosworth (Superman Returns), Justin Kirk (Weeds), Jason Biggs (American Pie), and Seymour Cassel (Minnie and Moskowitz); you would think that this film would be all sorts of good. It never happens. Not even a little bit. Seymour Cassel and Jason Biggs are on screen for a total time of about two minutes or less. And both of them barely have any speaking parts. That's a disgrace. The other thing I liked about this film was Justin Kirk. He actually brings the comedy to a comedy film that has no comedy. But sadly, he doesn't get a lot of screen time, but when he does grace the screen, he steals the show. That's pretty much it.
Kat Coiro directed this film and wrote the film alongside Ritter. This marks Kat's first feature film she has directed and according to her IMDB page, she has a couple of other films coming up with spectacular casts. But if this is what we can expect from her, then I feel very bad for everyone involved. I hope she gets better, but 'L!fe Happens' is a waste of time, resources, and effort. The characters are not likable in the least bit, the dialogue is awkward and poorly written, and there is no satisfaction or redeeming quality about it. If you want a funny film about unexpected pregnancy, re-watch 'Knocked Up'.
-Bryan Kluger
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Prof Jagdeep Chhokar, Founding Member & Trustee of ADR, on NRIs Vs MRIs
SEC proposes postal ballot system for NRIs, Founding Member of ADR, Prof Jagdeep Chhokar raises some valid concerns. 1. Of the estimated 1 crore population of NRIs across the world, 60 lakhs are eligible to cast votes. EC seems to be going through a lot of effort to ensure voting rights to NRIs while our own MRIs (Migrant Resident Indian) do not seem to enjoy the same privilege. 2. For an estimated 28.50 crore (38% of the total registered voters in the country) migrants in India who are eligible to cast votes, there is no practical arrangement in place by the EC to exercise their franchise. The recommendation of the EC that migrants register as voters in their place of work is not doable as they are always on the move and a majority of them are not literate. Investing their time in registering as voters means foregoing their wages for a few days, which will also be true in case they choose to travel back to their villages to cast votes. 3. A practical arrangement that allows 28.50 crore migrants to cast their votes conveniently from anywhere in the country rather than giving preference to 60 lakh NRIs is the need of the hour. 4. As per a Dec 21 media report, EC is examining a plan to allow migrants to vote in their candidates' constituencies and will deliberate on a conceptual framework of the technology to enable voting from anywhere. While this is an encouraging development, the conceptual framework is still to be discussed, which means there is still time, raising questions whether the same will be in place before the 2024 general elections.
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Jeb Bush Announces Candidacy for President
Jeb Bush announced his candidacy for president on Monday--political blogger Frank Alcock weighs in.
By Frank Alcock August 5, 2015
Jeb Bush formally announced his candidacy for president on Monday.
I do not see a clear frontrunner in the GOP field. But Jeb is without a doubt among a small pack of co-favorites that also includes Scott Walker and Marco Rubio.
Jeb informally signaled his candidacy about six months ago but has refrained from making a formal announcement in order to maximize his fundraising activity through his "Right to Rise" Political Action Committee (PAC). Under current campaign finance law, PACs are far less constrained than official campaigns in raising money through large donations but they cannot coordinate with declared candidates and/or campaigns once a candidate officially declares. So Jeb worked through his PAC for as long as he could and in doing so has amassed a campaign war chest that will likely dwarf that of his opponents. His financial superiority coupled with his support among the establishment wing of the Republican Party and his family's experience in running national campaigns translate into significant advantages over his opponents. His greatest advantage will likely be his ability to compete in every state through aggressive advertising and a ground game—almost every other candidate will need to be more selective about where and how they compete.
Jeb's greatest liability is his lack of resonance with the GOP base. There are some parallels with Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign and a replay of some of the 2012 primary dynamics is certainly possible. But while Romney arguably gave into the temptation to pander to Tea Party sentiments, Jeb appears content to stand firm on his two positions that have most riled the base: support for common core education standards and immigration reform. As such he will never be embraced by the base (and the majority of GOP primary voters) and he likely has a lower ceiling of potential support than most of his competitors.
So how will this all play out?
Jeb's best chance for an early victory is New Hampshire. He currently leads in the polls (yes, it's a long way off) and his candidacy probably resonates there as well as anywhere else. A New Hampshire victory will keep him among the front runners through Super Tuesday on March 1. There are dozen GOP primaries scheduled for Super Tuesday, including Texas. This is where Jeb's financial superiority kicks in. With the possible exception of Texas, he doesn't need to win anywhere in particular, but he needs to rack up as many top three finishes as he can. Importantly, the early GOP primaries will allocate delegates proportionately, so strong showings that fall short of victories can still be helpful.
D Day for Jeb Bush comes two weeks later on March 15 in the Florida primary. It's the earliest date that GOP primary rules allow for winner-take-all contests, and Florida has opted to do just that. Marco Rubio will likely provide the stiffest competition. If Jeb fails to win Florida, his candidacy will likely be mortally wounded. If he prevails, his chances will likely hinge on whether the Republican base is rallying around a consensus alternative or if it remains split among multiple alternatives. The more the latter rings true the higher the probability Jeb Bush secures the Republican nomination for president.
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Crude Oil Slip as Asia Economies Slow
February 21, 2017 6:40 PM February 1, 2016 7:04 AM by Neal Bhai
Gold Silver Reports ~ Crude Oil prices fell in early trading on Monday after South Korea posted its weakest export data since 2009 and the prospect of a coordinated production cut by leading crude exporters seemed remote.
Front-month Brent crude was trading at $35.55 per barrel at 0047 GMT, down 44 cents or over 1.2 percent from the last close. U.S. West Texas Intermediate was down 32 cents at $33.30 a barrel.
South Korea posted an 18.5 percent year-on-year drop in exports on Monday to $36.7 billion, down to levels last seen at the height of the global financial crisis in 2009.
The slump in the export-oriented northern Asian economy is the latest indicator of an accelerating slowdown in Asia's biggest economies.
At the same time, the prospects of a coordinated cut in production by leading exporters like the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)and Russia seem difficult to realize due to differences between these producers.
Also, OPEC-member Iran, which this month was allowed to fully return to markets after years of sanctions were lifted, is not willing to participate in any cuts.
"The lack of political will may hinder prospects for a deal," ANZ bank said.
In part because of Iran's return, OPEC oil production has jumped to 32.60 million barrels per day (bpd), its highest in years, adding to a global glut that has seen over 1 million barrels of crude produced every day in excess of demand, pulling down prices around 70 percent since mid-2014. ~ Neal Bhai Reports
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My novel's car bombing reflects sad reality
I watched the news last night that talked about the scary explosion on a train in St. Petersburg.
It reminded me of the tragic events in London on 7th July 2005.
They show us such destructiveness is not a new thing. We've become a mixture of being appalled and not surprised by them.
The car bombing I detailed in my novel, 'Deprivations', didn't derive from religious fanaticism but it was still based upon the bomber's irrational hatred and destructiveness. I showed how the bomber misused his intelligence by being inventive in the way he murdered and injured people.
My novel reflects the current tragedies in this world.
I always look at these awful incidents and think, 'if someone's truly happy in themselves why would they ever want to make somebody else unhappy?'
Their religious fanaticism is just an excuse for being humanly destructive.
Thank God my destructive imagination is just imagination.
As for the weird mishandling of the recent Ken Livingstone case. I don't think he's anti-Semitic. I just think he was very thoughtless. His suspension should have included stipulating he give a public apology to people for his careless and insensitive comments.
But politicians being politicians they don't like saying 'sorry'.
Anyway I was really talking about how my 'Deprivations' novel includes details about a car bomber.
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Convinced! A Bible study on the SIM Purpose & Mission Statements
Convinced!
SIM's new Mission and Purpose Statements took effect on January 1, 2016, following a wide-ranging and collaborative process. But what are their moorings in the timeless pages of Scripture? What are their moorings in the broader, lively dialogue on missions today? And how are these statements rooted in our DNA as a global mission in the early decades of the 21st century? This is what this Bible study is all about. Whether you just heard about SIM ten minutes ago, or have been a member or friend of SIM for 50 years, this study will enlarge your understanding of the particular calling that God has been leading SIM to fulfil.
Organisations often change over time, and their statements evolve with them. But this is not the sense in which our statements have changed. In our journey to craft these words, we carefully examined Scripture; we revisited why our founders went out; we observed changes in the world; and we concluded that we must remain faithful to our founding purpose, our founding call and our founding commitments. While strategies, methods and protocols evolve, our statements remain anchored in the original vision God gave to our pioneers.
Now in the season of our 125th anniversary celebrations, there is no better time to return to the simple 'why' of our existence, captured in these statements. It is with great pleasure that we present the following Bible study, a complement to our statements. A multi-ethnic team has contributed to this work, and we hope the final result will support you to flourish spiritually and in ministry.
We invite you to engage with it individually, and together as ministry teams, offices, and countries. It can also be printed and given as a gift to friends, family, supporters and ministry partners. New workers in SIM will benefit from this study as well, as they learn about the community of SIM with whom they are serving.
As we have done for more than 125 years, so we do today: we seek the lost who are living and dying without Christ behind diverse barriers to the gospel. By Prayer, we cross these barriers to make disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. In this way, may the earth be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea!
HISTORICAL NOTE: A review of SIM's statements was mandated in 2014 by the International Board of Governors. A review process began the same year, with the assistance of a Working Group who undertook the huge task of developing multiple options for consideration. A proposed statement was discussed by the Board in February 2015, with further input from the Global Assembly in March. This statement went on to all SIM entities for review by their boards and councils. Their comments and input contributed to the final wording, submitted to the International Board of Governors in August 2016, and then unanimously approved by all signatory entities. The new Mission & Purpose of SIM took effect January 1, 2016.


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Introduction to Guangzhou Foreign Language School
Guangzhou Foreign Language School (GZFLS for short) is one of the first seven foreign language schools approved by Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China in 1962. It was founded in Shaheding, Guangzhou in 1963 and suspended in 1966, whose staff were absorbed into Guangzhou College of Foreign Language (Guangzhou University of Foreign Studies currently). It was resumed in Pei Ying Secondary School in 1972, and moved to the site of No.22 Middle School (True Light High Schoolnow) in Guangzhou in 1977, and its staff were absorbed into Guangzhou Normal School.
In July 2007, the Guangzhou Municipal Government decided to build a new school for resuming Guangzhou Foreign Language School in Nansha District. The school started to be constructed in May 2009 and opened in January 2010. According to the modern education deployment of Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Education as "forefront of the world, first-class in China, with Guangzhou characteristics and demonstration leading", the school-running orientation clearly stipulated in SJH (2016)No.1646 is "to become a model window school to cultivate innovative and top-notch talents, actively explore the diversified development of ordinary high schools, promote the international exchange and cooperation of basic education in Guangzhou, and introduce high end talents for Guangzhou."
GZFLS is located at No. 102, Fenghuang Avenue, Nansha District, Guangzhou, covering an area of 269 mu. It is now a public, full-time and boarding secondary school directly under the Municipal Bureau of Education, mainly undertaking the education of general junior and senior degree courses. The offices, general affairs office, educational affairs office, moral education office and international department are set up with the approval of the Municipal Office, and 219 (34 newly increased) teaching and administrative staff are approved. Among them, there is one principal, one secretary, two vice presidents (one is still vacant), and the cadre team is loyal, pure and responsible.
GZFLS was officially resumed for enrolling students in spring 2010. There are 6 grades for junior and senior high school with 48 classes and 1792 students (planned to recruit 1800 students), of which 1049 are junior high school students and 743 are senior high school students.The team of teachers is young, lively and capable. There are 209 of teaching and administrative staff (including temporary staff of 43). The average age of authorized staff is 38.3 years old, 12 full-time foreign teachers (including foreign teachers hired by international curriculum partners) are hired all the year round. Among them, there are 76 CPC members and 7 members of democratic parties;There are 66 male teachers and 96 female teachers; 116 have bachelor's degree and 44 have master's degree; There are 3 special-grade teachers, 3 principal senior teachers, 49 deputy senior teachers, 67 intermediate teachers, 36 junior teachers (including 3 teaching assistants), and 9 teachers without evaluated professional titles (including 2 trainees and 7 staff on management positions).
The campus covers an area of 269 Mu and is constructed in two phases. With a construction area of 48,450 square meters, the first phase of the projectwas built by Nansha District Government in 2009 and completed in the same year.The second phase of the project has a total land area of 179,332 square meters, a planned building area of 70,124 square meters, and a total investment of 340 million yuan.The planning, design and bidding have been completed, and construction will be started within this year. After the completion of the second phase of the project, the total construction area of the school will reach 124,599 square meters (including 48,450 square meters of the first phase and 6,205 square meters of independent construction).At the same time, the scale of junior high school and senior high school will be doubled on the basis of the scale of the first phase, reaching 108 classes of junior high school and senior high school with a total of 3600 students of Chinese nationality (1800 in junior high school and 1800 in senior high school), the scale of 4800 students in total is achieved, and the scale of teachers will be further expanded.The school strives to build a diversified and open international school-running pattern to lay a foundation for the cultivation of compound and international talents.The school offers three mainstream international courses as A-level, AP and IB, "5 + 1 + 3" curriculum model for foreign language teaching, the small classes, AB class hierarchical teaching.In recent years, international sister schools has been established with well-known middle schools in many countries, andthe school has negotiated and signed international education cooperation projects with world-class universities, and made efforts to build a green channel for students to go directly to world-class universities.
Focusing on the construction of foreign language characteristic brand, science and technology education brand and teaching quality brand, the school has successively become a member school of Work Research Association for National Foreign Language School, experimental school of International Bilingual Education of High School of the Ministry of Education, international code school of The College Board, Pasch project school of Germany, youth science and technology education base in Guangdong Province, characteristic school of Guangzhou youth science and technology education, practice base of principals' continuing education for Guangzhou primary and secondary school, experimental base of international exchange and cooperation for Guangzhou basic education, standardized school of Guangzhou compulsory education, the first batch of Guangzhou (ordinary high school) characteristic schools, model school of Guangzhou school management by laws in Guangdong Province, the school with excellent parentsin Guangzhou, and the first batch of civilized campuses in Guangzhou.
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