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Surgical management of benign esophageal disorders: The "Chicago Approach"
P. Marco Fisichella, Nathaniel J. Soper, Carlos A. Pellegrini, Marco G. Patti
Surgical Management of Benign Esophageal Disorders: The "Chicago Approach" covers all stages of the diagnosis and treatment of the most common benign esophageal disorders in a concise and easy-to-read format.Indications, patient preparation, operative techniques, and strategies for avoiding and managing complications are included and based both on evidence-based data and the experience of the most famous esophageal surgeons in the United States and abroad. Each chapter includes a summary of the current management strategy for the disease process, and a review of current state of the art techniques provided by world leaders on esophageal disease, surgeons and gastroenterologists alike. A special emphasis is given to emerging procedures in laparoscopy, thoracoscopy, and endoscopy. Surgical Management of Benign Esophageal Disorders: The "Chicago Approach" is illustrated throughout with line diagrams that depict fundamental anatomic or technical principles and is a valuable resource for surgeons and gastroenterologists in residence and training.
Springer-Verlag London Ltd
10.1007/978-1-4471-5484-6
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Fisichella, P. M., Soper, N. J., Pellegrini, C. A., & Patti, M. G. (2013). Surgical management of benign esophageal disorders: The "Chicago Approach". Springer-Verlag London Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5484-6
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Springer-Verlag London Ltd, 2013. 256 p.
Fisichella, PM, Soper, NJ, Pellegrini, CA & Patti, MG 2013, Surgical management of benign esophageal disorders: The "Chicago Approach". Springer-Verlag London Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5484-6
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| Yale-NUS looks to expand faculty
Lavinia Borzi
Yale-NUS looks to expand faculty
Lavinia Borzi 3:00 am, Nov 07, 2013
Yale-NUS plans to double the size of its student body next year — but first, it will need more faculty members.
Yale-NUS, a liberal arts college in Singapore jointly founded by Yale and the National University of Singapore, opened this fall with an inaugural class of 157 students, all of whom are freshmen. Three months into the academic year, Pericles Lewis, president of Yale-NUS, said the college is looking to hire new professors for next year, but only for two majors — arts and humanities and global affairs. Lewis travelled to New Haven three weeks ago to hold a workshop for prospective applicants for the teaching positions. Select candidates will be invited to Singapore in December for a series of round-table discussions with both faculty and students.
"I think there's a lot of excitement to start something new," Lewis said. "[The candidates] are excited about teaching and designing the curriculum."
Lewis said Yale-NUS is not looking for "radically different" professors from those at Yale or other liberal arts colleges — but he added that the new faculty members will have to work as a team, developing both the core curriculum that all Yale-NUS freshmen have to take as well as the curriculum for each major.
As the Yale-NUS student population grows, the hiring process for faculty will look different from what currently goes on at American liberal arts colleges because hiring will be done in bulk, said Dean of Faculty Charles Bailyn. Instead of doing individual visits, the candidates will go to the Yale-NUS campus in groups of 20 to 25 candidates and be involved in discussions about both curricular and extracurricular matters.
"We're not just looking for research ability and classroom teaching, but also people who are interested in developing the institution," Bailyn said.
Lewis and Bailyn said that although not all the faculty candidates are from the U.S., most of them have experience working in liberal arts colleges. Bailyn said that this will be particularly important while Yale-NUS is still in the process of establishing a "campus culture" and defining itself as a liberal arts institution in Asia.
Bailyn said that the global affairs major, which will be designed by both current and new faculty, will differ somewhat from the Yale version of the major. Global affairs at Yale-NUS will focus more on geography and environmental issues, he said, adding that NUS already has a large geography department.
Lewis said global affairs will also emphasize international relations between Asia and the West, delving beyond interactions involving states and governments in order to examine people and societies.
Michael Maniates, head of the Environmental Studies Department at Yale-NUS, said the fact that this round of faculty hiring is focused on Global Affairs does not mean that this major will be more central to the mission of Yale-NUS mission than any other. He added that he does not think there is a particular reason why the college started with arts and humanities and global affairs when expanding its faculty.
Lewis said developing a strong arts and humanities major is important at this point because those faculty members will also be able to help students develop their extracurricular activities. For example, Yale-NUS is looking for a music teacher who would be able to advise budding singing groups.
The arts and humanities major will also reflect the interdisciplinary nature of studies at Yale-NUS, as well as the school's emphasis on international exchanges, he said.
Faculty and administrators interviewed said they are not hiring in response to current student demand for particular majors. Though students have expressed interest in different areas of study, they have yet to declare their majors and may change their minds, Maniates said.
Still, it is clear that the social sciences in general will be in high demand at the college, Bailyn said.
"It would not be surprising if half the students majored in the social sciences," he said. "We have a strong emphasis on the meeting of cultures, internationalism and globalism generally."
The collaboration between Yale and the National University of Singapore began in 2009.

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North Africa & South West Asia::
November 18 ,2018
The US and UK's Sudden Concern for Civilians in Yemen
At first glance, it may seem like a positive move. The Trump administration and London are both putting pressure on Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to implement a ceasefire in Yemen's atrocious war. Washington and London are also calling for warring sides to enter into peace negotiations within a month.
What's wrong with that, you may ask? Well, as Houthi rebels who took over Yemen at the end of 2014 are saying, the country has been under aggression for the past three years from a Saudi-led coalition supported militarily by the US, Britain and France. The unrelenting war on the poorest country in the Middle East has led to the world's worst humanitarian crisis in decades, with over half of the population – some 14 million people – at risk of starvation, according to the UN.
Therefore, the appropriate legal and moral course of action now is not merely a ceasefire or talks. It is for the Western-backed Saudi, Emirati coalition to immediately halt its criminal aggression against Yemen. In short, stop the foreign interference in Yemen's sovereign affairs.
US Secretary of State James Mattis and Britain's Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt appear to be impelled by humanitarian concern for the massive human suffering in Yemen with their recent calls for cessation of hostilities.
But a more nuanced reading of their exhortations suggest that the real concern is to burnish the blood-soaked image of the Saudi coalition that their governments support, and, secondly, to inveigle the Houthis into a negotiations framework that will result in undue foreign influence over Yemen's politics.
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Last week, Washington announced that it was suspending mid-air refueling flights for Saudi and Emirati warplanes that have been pounding Yemen since March 2015, which has resulted in a horrendous death toll among civilians. The indiscriminate killing of the Saudis and Emirati air strikes has been amply documented, albeit downplayed by Western media. The latter keep repeating a figure of 10,000 dead in Yemen – a figure which has bizarrely remained unchanged for at least the past two years. The real death toll from air strikes is unknown but likely to be near 50,000.
American, British and French military support for the murderous operations in Yemen should have stopped months, even years ago, if official humanitarian concerns were genuine.
The question is: why the sudden effort by Washington and London, as well as Paris, to call for a ceasefire and follow-on political talks?
One factor, no doubt, is the barbaric murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi by assassins linked to the House of Saud. Turkish authorities believe that Khashoggi was brutally murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, his body hacked to pieces and dissolved in industrial-strength acid. Audiotapes obtained by the Turkish authorities have implicated the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the murder plot against the dissident journalist.
The gruesome details of Khashoggi's killing and the blatant lies that the Saudi rulers have issued to cover up their barbarity have heaped immense pressure on Washington, London and Paris over their close ties with the House of Saud. Public outrage has demanded that sanctions be imposed on Riyadh, such as cancelling multi-billion-dollar arms deals.
It seems significant that the acute disgrace over the appalling Khashoggi affair and the association of the US, British and French governments with such a despotic Saudi regime has in turn prompted these Western powers to mount a damage-limitation exercise in public relations.
This is where the Yemen war provides an opportunity for the Western powers and their Saudi clients to salvage their tarnished public image.
By pushing for a ceasefire in Yemen, Washington, London and Paris can claim to be "getting tough" with the Saudis for the sake of alleviating "humanitarian suffering". By appearing to respond to the Western calls for a ceasefire, the Saudis can then also claim they are relenting out of humane concern.
However, such pleas have not stopped Saudi and Emirati-backed militia on the ground besieging the Yemeni port city of Hodeida on the Red Sea, for which 80-90 per cent of the entire population in the country rely on for food and other vital supplies. In other words, the Western-backed Saudi coalition is using starvation tactics to bring the Houthi rebels and the wider Yemeni population to their knees. That is a monstrous war crime.
What Mattis is calling for in terms of ceasefire is for all heavy weapons in Yemen to be put under the control of United Nations peacekeepers. Washington is also demanding that the Houthis rebels withdraw from the country's border with Saudi Arabia, from where the rebels have mounted missile attacks which have gravely harassed the Saudis, including in the capital Riyadh. The Houthis have struck Saudi territory in response to the air strikes.
So, what the Americans, British and French are striving for is, firstly, a respite from the sordid publicity over the Khashoggi killing. If the "humanitarian appeal" over Yemen succeeds to placate Western public outrage, then these governments will be able to continue business-as-usual selling the Saudi regime lucrative weapons contracts.
Secondly, by drawing the Houthi rebels into "peace negotiations" that will also burnish the Western and Saudi public image, as well as – equally importantly – forcing the rebels into accepting a compromise on their revolutionary government. By entering negotiations with the Saudi-backed remnants of the exiled Yemeni leader Mansour Hadi, the Houthis will inevitably have to accept making concessions and allowing an accommodation with the ousted, discredited regime.
Mansour Hadi, who has been living in exile in Saudi Arabia since the Houthis seized power, was reviled by most Yemenis for his corruption and being a puppet of the Saudis and Americans. His exiled clique is routinely and mendaciously referred to by Western media as the "internationally recognized government of Yemen".
When he fled the country in ignominy in early 2015, the Houthi rebels had succeeded in spearheading a popular revolt. The rebels profess a branch of Shia Islam, but there was every indication that they had a relatively democratic program for pluralist governance.
The Saudi and American sponsors of the ousted Mansour Hadi reacted to the overthrow of their puppet by launching an air war on Yemen in late March 2015 – a war which has continued unremittingly ever since, with Britain and France also joining the profitable slaughter by suppling warplanes and missiles.
Another lie told by Western media is that the rebels are proxies of Iran, a lie which is used to "justify" the Western-backed criminal war against the country. Iran supports the Houthis diplomatically, but there is no evidence of arms supplies. Even if there was, so what? That wouldn't justify aerial bombardment of the country and its people.
The devastation inflicted on Yemen and its people has largely been ignored by Western news media. Despite the lack of coverage, the Western public have nevertheless become aware of the horror and their governments' complicity. Harrowing images of skeletal children dying from starvation and lack of basic medicines have shamed Washington, London and Paris into taking some action, however despicably inadequate and long overdue.
The recent impetus for a ceasefire and talks in Yemen coming from the US and its Western allies is not due to humanitarianism. It's a cynical PR exercise to whitewash bloodied images – both theirs and that of their Saudi client regime. The Yemen war has been shown to be a sickening charnel house in a futile bid for Western regime change against the Houthi revolution. By forcing the Houthis into negotiations, the Western powers hope to achieve their regime change objective by another tactic – and gain PR capital at the same time.
If Washington, London and Paris were really serious about ending the suffering in Yemen, they would simply demand that the aggression stops immediately, so that the Yemenis are allowed to determine their own political future without foreign interference. But the Western powers will not do that because their interference in Yemen, along with the Saudis, is the very reason why this criminal war of aggression started and grinds on.
*(Yemeni men carry the body of victim who was killed in air strike in the district of Al-Hali in Hodeida province. Image credit: Felton Davis/ flickr)
*This article was originally published on strategic-culture.
Finian Cunningham (born 1963) has written extensively on international affairs, with articles published in several languages. For over 20 years, he worked as an editor and writer in major news media organisations, including The Mirror, Irish Times and Independent.
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import scrapy
# from scrapy.shell import inspect_response
from scrapy import signals
from jobcrawl.items import JobItem
from scrapy.http import HtmlResponse
from jobcrawl.selenium_scraper import DrushimScraper
from pydispatch import dispatcher
# from scrapy.xlib.pydispatch import dispatcher

# import sys
# import locale
# import codecs
import re
import datetime

class DrushimSpider(scrapy.Spider):
    name = "drushim"
    allowed_domains = ["drushim.co.il"]
    base_url = "https://www.drushim.co.il"
    scrape_url = 'https://www.drushim.co.il/jobs/search/%22%22/?ssaen=1'
    start_urls = (scrape_url, )
    seen_job_ids = set()

    def __init__(self):
        # sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter(
        #     locale.getpreferredencoding())(sys.stdout)
        # reload(sys)
        # sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')
        self.selenium_scraper = DrushimScraper(self.scrape_url, self.logger)
        dispatcher.connect(self.spider_closed, signals.spider_closed)
        self.total_jobs = 0

    def parse(self, response):
        page = 1
        for page_source in self.selenium_scraper.scrape():
            response = HtmlResponse(url=self.scrape_url, body=page_source, encoding='utf-8')
            page_job_count = 0
            for item in self.parse_html(response):
                self.total_jobs += 1
                page_job_count += 1
                yield item
            self.logger.info("Drushim: Page %s job count = %s, total_jobs=%s", page, page_job_count, self.total_jobs)
            page += 1

    def parse_html(self, response):
        job_container_list = response.xpath(
            "//div[@class='job-item-main pb-3 job-hdr']")
        for job_container in job_container_list:

            job_link = job_container.xpath(
                ".//div[@class='flex nowrap align-self-center pc-view open-job text-center']/a/@href").extract_first()
            if job_link:
                job_link = "{}{}".format(self.base_url, job_link)

            try:
                job_id = "-".join(job_link.split("/")[-2:])
            except:
                job_id = ""

            if not job_id or job_id in self.seen_job_ids:
                continue

            self.seen_job_ids.add(job_id)

            try:
                job_title = job_container.xpath(
                    ".//span[@class='job-url primary--text font-weight-bold primary--text']").xpath(
                        "normalize-space(string())").extract_first()
            except:
                job_title = ""

            try:
                company = job_container.xpath(
                    ".//div[@class='layout job-details-top mt-md-2 align-baseline']"
                    "/div[@class='flex grow-none ml-3']/p").xpath("normalize-space(string())").extract_first()
            except:
                company = ""

            try:
                company_jobs = job_container.xpath(
                    ".//div[@class='layout job-details-top mt-md-2 align-baseline']"
                    "/div[@class='flex grow-none ml-3']/p/a/@href").extract_first()
            except:
                company_jobs = job_link

            job_description = ""

            job_sub_details = job_container.xpath(".//div[@class='layout job-details-sub']").xpath(
                "normalize-space(string())").extract_first()
            jsd_val = []
            if job_sub_details:
                jsd_val = job_sub_details.split("|")

            country_areas = jsd_val[0].strip() if jsd_val else ""
            category = jsd_val[2].strip() if jsd_val and len(jsd_val) == 4 else ""
            job_post_date = jsd_val[-1].strip() if jsd_val and len(jsd_val) == 4 else ""

            try:
                job_post_date_num = re.findall(r'[\d]+', job_post_date)[0]
                job_post_date_num = int(job_post_date_num)

                if job_post_date_num:

                    second = 'שְׁנִיָה'.decode('utf-8')
                    seconds = 'שניות'.decode('utf-8')
                    minute = 'דַקָה'.decode('utf-8')
                    minutes = 'דקות'.decode('utf-8')
                    hour = 'שָׁעָה'.decode('utf-8')
                    hours = 'שעות'.decode('utf-8')
                    day = 'יְוֹם'.decode('utf-8')
                    days = 'ימים'.decode('utf-8')
                    # month = 'חוֹדֶשׁ'.decode('utf-8')
                    # months = 'חודשים'.decode('utf-8')
                    hms = [second, seconds, minute, minutes, hour, hours]

                    if day in job_post_date:
                        job_post_date = datetime.date.today() - \
                            datetime.timedelta(days=job_post_date_num)
                        job_post_date = job_post_date.strftime("%d/%m/%Y")
                    elif days in job_post_date:
                        job_post_date = datetime.date.today() - \
                            datetime.timedelta(days=job_post_date_num)
                        job_post_date = job_post_date.strftime("%d/%m/%Y")

                    elif [x for x in hms if x in job_post_date]:
                        job_post_date = datetime.date.today()
                        job_post_date = job_post_date.strftime("%d/%m/%Y")

                    elif job_post_date_num == 0:
                        job_post_date = datetime.date.today()
                        job_post_date = job_post_date.strftime("%d/%m/%Y")

                    else:
                        job_post_date = job_post_date
            except:
                job_post_date = ""

            item = JobItem()
            item['Job'] = {
                'Site': 'Drushim',
                'Company': company,
                'Company_jobs': company_jobs,
                'Job_id': job_id,
                'Job_title': job_title,
                'Job_Description': job_description,
                'Job_Post_Date': job_post_date,
                'Job_URL': job_link,
                'Country_Areas': country_areas,
                'Job_categories': category,
                'AllJobs_Job_class': '',
                'unique_id': 'drushim_{}'.format(job_id)
            }

            yield item

    def spider_closed(self, spider):
        self.selenium_scraper.close_driver()

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Heritage Foundation in shadow of Haiti's PetroCaribe protests?
The Heritage Foundation came forward on September 20, 2018 to set the rules for Haiti's PetroCaribe investigation and protests. Most Haitians are delighted about any audit of the corrupt government that was foisted on them by the fraudulent presidential and legislative 2015-2016 elections. So no one asks where a private United States conservative think tank got the authority to demand a probe into a bilateral deal between Haiti and Venezuela, or to proscribe how Haitians conduct their protests.
This move by the Heritage Foundation came two months after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recommended a hike in gas prices simultaneous with violent protests and popular demands for an audit into the PetroCaribe funds. Pundits declared that Haiti's government would fall. But how could a government fall that was not standing in the first place? The July protests got out of hand and even rich Haitians like Reginald Boulos got hurt. So somebody was punished: namely, the Prime Minister, Jack Guy Lafontant, who resigned. In effect, one set of installed crooks was replaced by another. Funds from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), World Bank, and IMF have been stolen by Haitian officials for many years, but they appear to interest no one. About $9.5 billion of earthquake reconstruction funds disappeared in three years from Clinton's I-HRC, but that is also forgotten.
The sudden acute interest in the PetroCaribe funds, which amount to about $1.7 billion that were embezzled over eight years but apparently not noticed until now, is all the more fascinating because it coincides with a grab of Haiti's electric grid, attempts to extract mining concessions from Haitian officials, and importantly, efforts to garner Haiti's support for an intervention of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Venezuela that would surely lead to massive bloodshed, followed by another acronym United Nations peacekeeping operation.
Curiously, the July protests were repeated on October 17 peacefully and with only male protestors between 16 and 30 years old. Are we to believe that women, who traditionally head most Haitian families, are uninterested in government fraud and less peaceful? I can certainly think of one Haitian institution that can quickly assemble as many as 16,000 young men…. But let us put aside these observations for a moment and pretend that all the protests are legitimate. If so, then it is reasonable to assume that, while angry Haitians were burning tires and hitting the pavement, the Heritage Foundation and its branch, Transparency International, were at a table making demands from the cornered Haitian crooks. Would they sign away Haiti's electric grid and mining rights, implicate Venezuelan officials in the corruption, and join the move to condemn Venezuela's elections if threatened with prison? The answer is a definite yes.
Corrupt or not, the downfall of Venezuela would be a tragedy for all Latin America and the Caribbean. I've said it before, but it bears repeating: when you march, make sure you know who is representing you inside in the negotiations, else you might discover too late that you were working against your own best interests.
The Heritage Foundation for Haiti (LFHH), a branch of Transparency International, urges Haitian officials to adopt measures for completion of the probe into PetroCaribe funds.
They warn off "politicians and other opportunists who are determined to draw political capital and/or divert attention from their own acts of fraud and embezzlement by infiltrating this movement for surrender of the funds and remind them that the population is not fooled by these shenanigans and is keeping an eye on them." They also warn off the eternal "agitators and powerful troublemakers" who work in the shadows and have infiltrated this popular movement to foment an unstable, violent and chaotic climate conducive to their own shady and criminal operations. Again, the population is not fooled and can identify the usual suspects.
In Haiti, the PetroCaribe program, which was supposed to finance social projects, amounts to about $1,705,423,180. From 2008 to 2016, more than 385 projects were financed by PetroCaribe funds under the governments of the six prime ministers: Michèle Duvivier Pierre-Louis, Jean Max Bellerive, Gary Conille, Laurent Lamothe, Evans Paul, and Enex Jean-Charles.


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The Atlanta Opera Opens a Window to the Future
Published by Digital Arts Media Services at October 22, 2012
By Natalie Creamer
As technology use continues to grow, performing arts organizations are adopting new strategies to appeal to audiences who communicate through smartphones and tablets. Recently, The Atlanta Opera expanded its digital presence in two very innovative ways.
The Theatre Plus Network
By partnering with Dave Stevens, creator of the Theatre Plus Network (TPN), an Atlanta-based start-up that specializes in live publishing through "augmented reality," a smartphone application has been created that makes images in printed materials "come to life."
What is "augmented reality?"
The term "augmented reality" means that a picture or object is augmented or enhanced by layers of computer-generated sound, video, graphics or GPS data. In a nutshell, it means that by activating an image, it gives the viewer a different way of looking at things. It converts an image from "still" to "live."
The Atlanta Opera is one of the first organizations to create prototypes for this new app. Atlanta arts enthusiasts can expect to unlock a variety of content like videos, games, music, information and website links.
Smartphones act as "electronic magnifying glasses" that reveal something hidden through digital image recognition. Cameras recognize shapes and patterns of images. Each combination triggers different information. By downloading the TPN app, and focusing the smartphone lens on a season image displayed in one of the Atlanta Opera's promotional print materials, a picture will be "awakened" through video and sound, and provide a link that will connect patrons to the Atlanta Opera's mobile site.
The TPN app will be available to audiences who use Encore Atlanta show programs (The Atlanta Opera, the Alliance Theatre, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and the Fox Theatre), as well as direct-mail postcards and posters.
The TPN app is available free in the Apple Store and Google Play Market.
Download TPN for iPhone >>
Download TPN for Android >>
What is the purpose of using TPN?
The objective of the TPN app is for arts organizations to reach new audiences, and enrich experiences for existing and loyal patrons, by creating engaging and entertaining content.
While TPN has only been around for eight months, and still remains in the prototype stage, the hope is to eventually create a single application that would serve the entire performing arts community with one download.
What is the other innovative way The Atlanta Opera is using technology?
The Atlanta Opera has created its own mobile website!
Those visiting the Atlanta Opera's website on their smartphones will be automatically redirected to the mobile site. Audiences can view production dates, purchase tickets, and access the Blog, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages.
It just makes everything so much easier!
Usage of any images on this blog is restricted to The Atlanta Opera and approved news websites. Any other usage, particularly for professional purposes, must have written permission. For additional information, please contact The Atlanta Opera's Marketing Department at 404.881.8801.


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Glen Fuller
A history of anticipating the future: an analysis of the AN Smith lectures, Andrew Olle Lectures and media commentary
FULLER, G. & Barnes, R., Nov 2018, In: Media International Australia. 169, 1, p. 101-116 16 p.
The Problem with Strava
FULLER, G., 8 Feb 2017, SBS, p. 1-3 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Bulletin › Article
Application programs
Journalistic challenges of the public and private: Exploring professional and ethical norms
Stevens, J. & FULLER, G., Jul 2017, In: Australian Journalism Review. 39, 1, p. 113-125 13 p.
ethical implications
The #tay4hottest100 new media event: discourse, publics and celebrity fandom as connective action
Fuller, G., 3 Apr 2018, In: Communication Research and Practice. 4, 2, p. 167-182 16 p.
Essay: The Paradox of Activity
FULLER, G., 2016, Online ed., Ireland: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, p. 91-92, 2 p.
Digital News Report Australia 2018
FISHER, C., LEE, J. Y., PARK, S. & FULLER, G., 14 Jun 2018, Canberra: News Media Research Centre, University of Canberra. 106 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Reports
Digital News Report Australia - 2017
FISHER, C., LEE, J. Y., PARK, S., FULLER, G., WATKINS, J., BLOOD, W. & PAPANDREA, F., 13 Jun 2017, Canberra: News Media Research Centre, University of Canberra. 88 p.
Play: Canberra Destination Playgrounds Study
HOPE, C., Bishop, K., ALSTON, S. A., FULLER, G., TURNER, B., Cleland, D. & CURHAM, L., 2018, Canberra, Australia: ACT Government. 159 p.
One for the Team: Domestic Violence Scandals and Reflexive Media Commentary by Rugby League Players in Australia
Packard Hill, E. & Fuller, G., 1 Feb 2018, In: Communication and Sport. 6, 1, p. 41-57 17 p.
'There is no Zyzz': the subcultural celebrity and bodywork project of Aziz Shavershian
FULLER, G. & PAGE JEFFERY, C., 2017, In: Celebrity Studies. 8, 1, p. 20-34 15 p.
Enthusiasm for Making a Difference: Adapting Data Journalism Skills for Digital Campaigning
Fuller, G., Jun 2018, In: Asia Pacific Media Educator. 28, 1, p. 112-123 12 p.
Foreign study tours for student journalists: cross-cultural learning and education
FULLER, G. & BRIDGES, S., 2018, ANZCA Conference Proceedings 2017. Martin, F. (ed.). Australia: Australian and New Zealand Communication Association, p. 1-15 15 p. (2017 ANZCA Conference Proceedings).
Malcolm Turnbull's conversational career on Twitter: the case of the Australian Prime Minister and the NBN
FULLER, G., Jolly, A. & FISHER, C., May 2018, In: Media International Australia. 167, 1, p. 88-104 17 p.
Beyond the 'usual suspects': #ROCUR social media accounts and voice, controversy and trolling
SANDHAM, S. & FULLER, G., 2018, ANZCA Conference Proceedings 2017. Dwyer, F. (ed.). Australia: Australian and New Zealand Communication Association, p. 1-16 16 p. (ANZCA Conference).
Digital News Report: Australia 2016
WATKINS, J., PARK, S., BLOOD, W., Papandrea, F., Deas, M., DUNNE BREEN, M., FULLER, G., RICKETSON, M., LEE, J. Y. & FISHER, C., 2016, 73 p. Canberra : University of Canberra.
Canberra Urban Activation Study: Play, Creativity and Culture
HOPE, C., TURNER, B., FULLER, G. & HINTON, S., 2017, Canberra, Australia: ACT Government. 208 p.
Shane Warne versus hoon cyclists: Affect and celebrity in a new media event
FULLER, G., 2017, In: Continuum. 31, 2, p. 296-306 11 p.
FISHER, C. & FULLER, G., 22 Jun 2017, Canberra: News Media Research Centre, University of Canberra. 88 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Other


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John Wick 2 to begin filming this fall
By George Wales published 23 September 15
Fans of Keanu Reeves-based badassery are about to have something to celebrate with the news that John Wick 2 is set to begin filming this fall. It had previously been rumoured that a sequel was on the cards, and now Thunder Road has confirmed that cameras will roll on the project within the next couple of months.
In case you missed the original, it saw Reeves star as a retired hitman forced to return to a life of violence by Alfie Allen and his thuggish associates. An OTT guilty pleasure, it ended up taking $78 million at the global box office, representing a serious return on its $20 million budget. Reeves will be back for the sequel, as will co-directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski, alongside screenwriter Derek Kolstad.
"With such tremendous fan and critical support for John Wick, we knew that there was still so much more of this story to tell," said a Lionsgate spokesman earlier this year. "We are thrilled that Keanu, David and Chad have re-teamed with us and promise to bring audiences even more excitement the second time around." No release date has been confirmed as yet, with John Wick 2 expected to arrive in cinemas in 2016.
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New york is unpredicatable in many ways.This year the weather is proving that quite early.Not even a fair chance to enjoy Fall, Winter comes and steals the show.
I would love to be there to see the first real snow.
But only for an hour.
Seeing it is one thing, living with it is another.
Last year there was a major snow storm.
It made life for New Yorkers a little harder.
But the pictures were beautiful.
Don't the alphabet remind you of ice?
And the snowflakes really hit the spot.
Now I have to admit to something.
Most scrapbookers (actually ALL responsible scrapbookers) give you the name of the product.
I,on the other hand, have layouts from too long ago to know what company they are.
I did not know I would become a Blogger.
But I promise from now on I will keep all the pakaging.
Meantime enjoy and be inspired.
This morning I woke up to find this on my daughter Chanale's blog.
And I thought to myself what a great opportunity to give homage to this wonderful person.
So here is a layout I did many years ago.
For my children to remember how lucky they were to have Frida in their lives.
For my children to remember the important lessons she taught them about how to be a decent human being.
She is from "Chassidei Umos Haolam" for sure.
Two of my amazing girls were born on the same calendar date.
Must have been a great date to be born.
They are both fun and fabulous .
Must have been the day Hashem gave an extra dose of "best laughs".
I am humbled by their talent and capabilities.
And most of all for their big hearts.
They give us much nachas.
How lucky I am to be their mother.
Dont't wait till someones birthday to show them how much you love them.
"far a kush git men nisht kein patch"
(for a kiss you don't recieve a slap).
Its like shoplifting but it's not against the law.
Actually it's very much encouraged.
Not many people can be totally creative without inspiration.
Scrapbooking is about more than one thing.
It's whatever fills your need.
So therefore the first and most important thing is to JUST DO IT!
Last year I was asked by this magazine if they could publish one of my layouts.
Here's a perfect example of creating "outside the box". The patterned paper featured here is actually from a Jewish holiday collection, but as you can see, adding a little of this and a little of that makes for a very happy springtime layout. How sweet is that?
This paper is from the Rosh Hashana collection (hence SWEET) for Crafting Jewish Style.
The creater of these awesome collections asked me to design layouts.
The magazine gives specific instructions how to make this layout.
Did I say "you can do it" yet?
Here's a layout that I scraplifted from this book a few years ago.
I loooove how it came out.
As you can see I changed the words.
But all the same the message is clear.
And now I have it forever documented.
You should be convinced by now that you can do this.
That you want to do this.
Start with this layout too.
Purchase exactly what you need.
I will show you one more example of a scraplift.
This is from my very favorite Elsie.
A few years ago she put out this book.
She inspires me to be free with my creativity in a fun and colorful way!
And if you read my blog from the beginning you will remember this one.
I changed it up but you get the idea.
So now that I am starting to trust you with my secrets the least you could do is start scrapbooking.
If you will check in with me I will show you more at a later date.
Just to keep you interested.
My mind was working overtime.
What could I do to make this sweater mine.
So I decided why not use the opportunity to learn something new?
I learned how much fun it is to learn something new.
So now I'm thinking about making a skirt.
I don't know who you are so please e-mail me your address.
Thanx to all of you who participated.
I will definitely be doing this again in the future.
I'm excited about this little sweater.
Making two of them for my two cuties.
Using the lovely Peter Pan yarn.
The fun part is deciding how I will add some whimsey to it.
Gotta make it my own.
So I'm looking at some of my favorite blogs.And I come across this.
I'm thinking I could do this.
I looked through my collection of 'stuff I buy on sale just in case'.
I found exactly what I needed and went about creating.
A perfect way to wind down after all the Yom Tov festivities.
First I found a canvas. Yep I only paid $3.50.
Then I used this wonderful quote from a book I bought in a thrift shop.
My daughter was reading it the other day and got a kick out of this particular one.
The author has a website with all kinds of interesting things.
Transformed the canvas to this.
Especially for a first try.
And put it on a shelf to display.
I could see myself doing this again.
If you have any questions on how to do it give me a call write me an e-mail.
My daughter is a good sport.
I showed her this layout and asked her if she minds me poking fun at her.
She said if it makes me happy, then she's happy.
I think she's growing up.
Make a layout poking fun at someone you love.
Make sure they are also a good sport.
You could do what KELLI CROWE did.
That is where my inspiration came from.
She is one of my 3 favorites scrapbookers.
If you need a good start on laughing read this.
Research has shown that the health benefits of laughter are far-ranging.
While more studies need to be done, studies so far have shown laughter can help relieve pain, bring greater happiness, even increase immunity.
I laugh when I read the 'funnies'.
You can use comics for scrapbooking.
I cut out a few lines from an old Curious George book.
Hard to believe I was 15 once too.
The point I'm making here is, if you read a funny comic, cut it out, scan and copy it (before you scrap it).
You can use it now or put it into an envelope and wait for the right picture.
I have a bunch saved up.
The girl (woman) in this picture walking with her mother wrote this.
I think it's worth reading.
What a spectacular idea to make for someone you love.
This is where it originated.
OR you could do what my CHANALE did.
She strung many of my layouts across the wall.
It was such a beautiful show of love.
Make something meaningful for the one you love.
It may not be a heart.
Don't wait to show your love for someone.
Raising children is not easy.
We try our best to teach them right.
Times change, our children move forward.
It's not easy to raise a child.
We don't always know what to do.
It's a challenge that's all new.
To love , to guide.
To place them in life's role.
Last night I woke up thinking how wonderful my daughter is.
I wanted to express that through my layout.
What better way than with hearts.
Don't forget about my GIVEAWAY post.
You only have a chance if you comment.
I still have my 1st grade class photo.
It's the only one I have from all my years in school.
Some of these little girls might be your mother!
How could my mother have given me that haircut!!!
P.S. DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE GIVEAWAY. IT'S AWESOME!!!
GIVEAWAY!!! Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
I will be giving away a starter kit to one lucky winner.
So you guys could see that I am REALLY serious about teaching you from the very beginning.
I'm gonna give you all a week.
OR when I get 50 comments.
You will get lots of goodies which I will post a picture of soon.
If I see tons of comments it make make me feel even more generous.
Who knows what more surprises you will find !!!
I almost want to send this to myself .
Just to feel that excitement of opening up the box!
I love ribbons on my layouts.
When I'm in the store I can never remember what colors I have.
Actually I have a lot more.
But I'm embarrassed to show you all of it.
I've started to get organized.
This is far as I got.
That was easy to do because they are already rolled up.
It's the loose ones that are a pain in the neck.
Found this which I ADORE!
This is also a great idea.
Meanwhile I will keep using ribbons on layouts like this.
You can see this layout.
You don't always have to put it in to a scrapbook.
You can also frame it.
This one is so simple anyone can do it.
I used a glue stick.
Everone has a glue stick and a stapler.
It's all in the combination of colors.
If you hang out with me I will teach you how to make pretty flowers.
I promise you I will teach you how.
Make a list like I do.
In your little note pad.
Put it in your purse.
You never know when you will be near Michaels.
Or a REAL scrapbook store.
So you could make something like this.
I can feel you getting excited about this.
you will be able to do all of this!
I'm gonna give you guys a tip.
It's gonna rain alot on sukkos.
Amazon sells them really cheap.
It's a brand new year, are you ready?
For me this year is already amazing.
Cause I am ready to teach you.
Get a few things though.
Cause we are gonna start very very soon.
And I want you to be ready.
Meanwhile I will show you something to whet your appetite.
What if I tell you one day you will be doing this.
Just be patient and I will show you how.
I'm starting to hum now!
Every year before Yom Kippur I make KREPLACH.
I roll out the doe as the woman in this video shows you.
Rolling out doe is an arm twister.
Especially when you live in Florida and it's hot.
This year I had a light-bulb moment.
I just cut little pieces of the doe.
THEN I rolled each little piece separately.
Ok, maybe just a tiny little bit of sweat.
But it was so much easier.
If any of you like to knit, this is the yarn for you.
I am making three vests for the cutest boys ever.
Here's how they look in progress.
Easy as one line knit one line pearl.
Also known as 'stockinette' stitch.
Used mostly to make socks.
So smooth to knot with you might never stop.
And best of all - not expensive.
That's why it's called self striping.
Can you imagine how cute they will make the vests look?
I will definitely be scrapping that picture.
Being creative is not always about skill. It's about will.
I don't know anything about using a sewing machine.
But I've seen lots of layouts where a sewing machine is used.
So a few years ago I bought one in Walmart.
I didn't learn how to make a dress.
But I can sew across my layouts.
Meanwhile here is some of my fancy sewing work!
It's really fun to let your design flow.
Even when you don't know what you're doing.
Here I used stitches to make the grass and the rays of the sun.
This picture is from 20 years ago!
Did some of my 'professional' finger painting.
I'm telling you guys - you can really do this.
The worst that will happen is that you'll paint like me.
Being creative is not always about skill.


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La musica di corte coreana può essere classificata nelle seguenti categorie:

 Aak, a sua volta suddivisibile in:
 Musica per il culto di Confucio (): eseguita oggi due volte all'anno all'Università Songgyun'gwan di Seul, è suonata da due orchestre, che si alternano nel rito. Secondo la visione confuciana, esse rappresentano, rispettivamente, il Cielo e la Terra; la presenza dei danzatori completa la triade cosmica con l'Uomo. Come la musica, anche la danza () è lenta e solenne: essa è divisa tra repertorio militare e repertorio civile.
 Musica per il culto degli antenati reali (chongmyo cheryeak): è presentata una volta all'anno presso il santuario degli antenati (chongmyo), con doppia orchestra simile alla musica per il culto di Confucio. La strumentazione delle due compagini differisce leggermente, ma entrambe sono dominate dalle batteria di campane (p'yŏnjong) e quella di litofoni (p'yŏn'gyŏng).
 Tangak, musica conviviale di origine cinese
 Hyangak, corpus autoctono

Bibliografia

 Lee Hye-gu, Essays on Korean Traditional Music, Seul, Royal Asiatic Society-Korea Branch, 1981
 Sestili Daniele, Musica e tradizione in Asia orientale. Gli scenari contemporanei di Cina, Corea e Giappone, Roma, Squilibri, 2010

Musica in Corea

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State still subsidises water, new tariff hikes do not include limited income citizens: HCWW chairperson - Daily News Egypt
Business State still subsidises water, new tariff hikes do not include limited income citizens: HCWW chairperson
State still subsidises water, new tariff hikes do not include limited income citizens: HCWW chairperson
Mamdouh Raslan, chairperson of the Holding Company for Water & Wastewater (HCWW), told Daily News Egypt that the new water tariff will reduce debts, construct new projects, and implement renovation plans. Egyptian authorities decided to lift the prices of drinking water by up to 46.5%, the official gazette said on Saturday, to be implemented starting …
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Mamdouh Raslan, chairperson of the Holding Company for Water & Wastewater (HCWW), told Daily News Egypt that the new water tariff will reduce debts, construct new projects, and implement renovation plans.
Egyptian authorities decided to lift the prices of drinking water by up to 46.5%, the official gazette said on Saturday, to be implemented starting with May 2018 water bills.
The government decided to raise the price of drinking water for domestic use to 65 piastres per cubic metre, instead of 45 piastres in the first consumption category which consumes 0-10 cubic metres, 160 piastres instead of 120 piastres per cubic metre in the second category—11-20 cubic metres—and 225 instead of 165 piastres for the third category—21-30 cubic metres.
Moreover, the fees became 275 piastres per cubic metre of consumption in the category which consumes up to 40 cubic metres, and 315 piastres for the highest category, which consumes more than 40 cubic metres.
Raslan added that the price hikes were fuelled by the increased production cost of water, including electricity, oil, and establishing new plants, explaining that the cost to output 1 cubic metre of water is over EGP 2.5, and hence, the state is still subsidising water for citizens.
The increase in water prices will certainly affect consumption. The increase in water prices will encourage citizens to ration their usage. The first and second categories will not be affected by the increase in prices, said Raslan, adding that those who own gardens and swimming pools will be greatly affected.
Furthermore, he pointed out that any upcoming price increase in production input will fuel new water tariff increase.
He explained that there is a deficit in the HCWW, due to the increased cost of service, while the water tariff is very low. He said that, recently, inputs for water production saw price increases, and thus, it was necessary to raise prices since the state's subsidies for the HCWW are not enough.
As a result, Egypt signed an agreement with the European Union (EU) under the European Neighbourhood Policy. Accordingly, the Egyptian government is committed to an annual increase in the tariff of drinking water for commercial and household uses. By 2019, all water subsidies will be lifted.
Furthermore, the cabinet decided a unified tariff for the border provinces of Sinai, the Red Sea, and Matrouh at 13 piastres.
The decision also included an increase in the prices of water for non-household purposes, so that services would pay EGP 3.3 instead of EGP 2, the government would pay EGP 3.4 instead of EGP 2.2, commercial activities EGP 3.6 instead of EGP 2.4, and industrial activities would pay 4.55 instead of EGP 3.35.
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Aka the chocolate truffle, the bite-sized petit four is made from a creamy mixture of chocolate ganache, usually with butter and cream. However, this German version I've prepared below is with less fat in the recipe, but does not sacrifice the decadent chocolate flavor. As I've written prior, the quality of the truffle is primarily dependent on the quality of chocolate you start with. I can't stress this enough.
Optional filling: To make an all chocolate truffle: substitute 1 cup semisweet chocolate, ground medium-fine, for the hazelnuts.
Melt the chocolate in the top of a double boiler, scraping down the sides with a rubber spatula to avoid over heating. As chocolate begins to melt, remove the bowl from the heat.
In a separate bowl, combine the confectioners sugar and cocoa powder with a wire whisk. Mix in espresso, vanilla, and nuts. Mixture should be slightly thick, add additional espresso if truffle mixture needs to be slightly smoother.
Cool mixture slightly; and with a small scoop or by hand form small balls by shaping into 1/2- to 3/4-inch diameter balls. Dip the balls into the melted chocolate.
Chill until firm. Nougatkugeln is best when served at room temperature.


I give it to all of you suffered from by Kumamoto earthquake heartily. I pray for the convergence of the earthquake and your security heartily.
As various groups added up the contribution which I took, they report it inhabitants after Kumamoto earthquake occurrence as follows. Thank you for your much support.
The contribution which I took remitted to Tottori-shi as oldness and Kano on July 1, 2016.


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PHOTOS: HyunA, Ha Ji Won, SEVENTEEN's The8, Kim Ji Hoon and more pose at a luxury brand event
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SEVENTEEN's The8
The8 is a Chinese singer and dancer based in South Korea. He is a member of the South Korean boy group SEVENTEEN and its subunit Performance Team. In 2019, he had his official solo debut and served as one of the two dance mentors in the Chinese survival show Youth With You. Ha Ji Won is a South Korean actress. She is best known for the historical dramas Damo (2003), Hwang Jini (2006), and Empress Ki (2013), as well as the melodrama Something Happened in Bali (2004), the romantic comedy series Secret Garden (2010), The King 2 Hearts (2012) and the medical drama Hospital Ship (2017). She has starred in several films and television series, and is one of South Korea's most sought after and critically acclaimed actresses, particularly known for her versatility in pulling off roles in various genres such as action, comedy, horror, drama, sports and medical. THE BOYZ is a South Korean boy band formed and managed by IST Entertainment. The group debuted on December 6, 2017, with the lead single Boy from their debut EP The First. The group is composed of Sangyeon, Jacob, Younghoon, Hyunjae, Juyeon, Kevin, New, Q, Ju Haknyeon, Sunwoo and Eric, and previously Hwall until his departure from the group in October 2019. Hyuna debuted as a member of the girl group Wonder Girls in February 2007. After leaving the ensemble shortly after, Hyuna subsequently left JYP Entertainment and joined the girl group 4Minute, under Cube Entertainment. 4Minute debuted in June 2009 and went on to become one of the most popular girl groups in the country. In 2010, Hyuna began a solo career with a style she described as performance-oriented music. Kim Ji Hoon is best known for his romantic comedies on television such as The Golden Age of Daughters-in-Law (2007), Love Marriage (also known as Matchmaker's Lover, 2008), Stars Falling from the Sky (also known as Wish Upon a Star, 2010), and My Cute Guys (2012). In 2010, he also appeared in the film Natalie, and cable mystery series Unsolved.
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Category Archives: Germany
Victims of the German Democratic Republic: Brief Reflection on Germany's Forgotten Internal Immigrants
Posted by commart in 21st Century Modern, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Germany, International Development, Philosophy, Political Psychology
Civilizational Compensation, Cold War Era, East Germany, GDR, Philosophy of Happiness and Time, Soviet Era
Deutsch: Deckblatt der MfS-Richtlinie Nr. 1/76 zur Entwicklung und Bearbeitung Operativer Vorgänge
Date, 1 January 1976, Source: BStU, GVS MfS 008-100/76; Author: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit der DDR | "Cover sheet of the MfS Guideline No. 1/76 for the development and processing of operational processes"; Ministry for State Security DDR. Online Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung .
Decomposition (Zersetzung): " . . . hidden psychological destruction of dissidents . . . ."
Persons of Interest in Relation to this Post: Evelyn Zupke; Hans D. Ripperger; Kristina Olney; Michelle Bachelet; Mike Mutterlose (URL's language is German).
Cause: Aid and Compensation for the harms and indignities imposed on those trapped within the Soviet-controlled German Democratic Republic and subject to enslavement and punishment at the hands of the state's secret police, the Stasi (Ministerium für Staatsicherheit).
Related: The 1619 Project
We mere humans just don't own time. For atheists, time is just a fact of life.
We do, again, and each as representative of Homo Sapiens sapiens, and for better or worse, own our memories.
It has been our species' great misfortune to find always some portion of our numbers made to suffer at the hands of others.
Forget "God, Nature, and the Universe". The earthquake, hurricane, tsunami, and volcano would seem possessed of physics and entirely dispossessed of conscience except that some of us believe that in the presence of one or the other, divine providence destroyed our lives or saved them.
Degradation, dehumanization, enslavement, subjugation, subjection, and other such evils–those are different, and in the history of our species, one sees the chains and whips changing hands by turns, and, sigh, we may feel ourselves lucky if wielding the whip . . . but then nothing lasts beyond bearing except a number of nefarious processes that we perhaps have not wrestled sufficiently into the past. So here we may acknowledge that we don't get to erase our bad memories; we don't get to retrieve the dead; we may or may not have some revenge on our tormentors–and if it was ourselves that held the keys and snapped the whips, our day–we know it secretly–has come–or will.
I believe it in the tendency of our species to develop awareness, compassion, conscience, consciousness, empathy, greater integrity and reason, and at the end of every dastardly era, great human sensibility and wisdom.
I was asked not long ago to help promote the cause of the internally displaced in place of the once Soviet-controlled and Communist German Democratic Republic.
Imagine, if you will, going to sleep in one dismal but predictable awful cultural, legal, political, and social circumstance and waking the next day without a country–and afterward a "democratic open society of the west" that prides itself on compassion but hasn't much in place for you–and then years later when it does . . . you're no more important in it than you were in the other place.
Perhaps one's personal circumstance has become more bearable , the powers that be more polite, and amends for the insufferable past made with good will whether or not sufficient to quells bad memories and the residuals in nightmares.
I have found in overview–remember my analytical discipline: collect, select, and opine–that East Germany's internal migrants, all of whom went to sleep in one place in time and woke up in another entirely–have not been overlooked but perhaps underserved in the regions of cultural and economic development. In the Soviet way, they had been locked down in time, suffocated, surveilled, deprived of normal human political and social processes, and subject to deliberate state-driven control, diminishment, and, ultimately, erasure.
How would even the most benevolent of modern societies "compensate" for that experience?
Well . . . there is today the business of living well enough to create and enjoy better memories in freedom and with at least a modicum of privacy (although the "modern" appear to have some new horrors on the horizon, e.g., massive intrusion via data sifting) as well as dignity and security.
Now and then, I haul out Qualities of Living (QOLs) a conceptual alternative to thinking about power as an expression of grandiose narcissistic ambition with accompanying control and influence ascribed to a potentate absolute or constitutional. What if power were more often the power to bring extraordinary improvement to geopolitical space in the many dimensions to be appreciated by the inhabitants of a given space?
After 1990 "the whole software of life changed" for east Germans, says Markus Kerber, a bigwig at the interior ministry. Short-term pain was inevitable. Average labour productivity in the east was 30% of that in the west. Kohl's decision to exchange Ostmarks at a 1:1 rate for Deutschmarks made swathes of firms uncompetitive overnight. Those that survived struggled with the western rules they had to import wholesale. By one estimate, 80% of east Germans at some point found themselves out of work.
Perhaps the Treuhand could have proceeded more gently, some argue today.
"Germans still don't agree on what reunification meant: Discontent may even be growing." The Economist, November 2, 2019.
Cultural and economic adjustment, development, inclusion with some foresight and vision may turn out the key that will finally fix the past in the past where it needs to be. In this day, however, quite a number of cultures, groups, and just plain people have taken up the causes of yesterday, exhumed and tallied abuses, ranted high and low for justice, but the best all may do is not relive what's gone and take pains–whatever it was–not to see it happen again.
Bailey, Charlotte. "The Lingering Trauma of Stasi Surveillance." The Atlantic, November 9, 2019.
Binder, David. "Erich Mielke, Powerful Head of Stasi, East Germany's Vast Spy Network, Dies at 92." The New York Times, May 26, 2000.
Chapple, Amos. "The Secret Lives of the Stasi: Chilling photos uncovered by a German artist reveal the Stasi's methods to monitor and terrorize their citizens." RFE/RL, December 12, 2018.
Connolly, Kate. "German reunification 25 years on: how different are east and west really." The Guardian, October 2, 2015.
Crypto Museum. "Minesterium fur Staatssicherheit – MfS".
Hertzberg, Max. "Stasi Tactics – Zersetzung." Max Hertzberg: Spies, crime and hopepunk, November 28, 2021.
Holden, Stephen. "Behind Closed Doors in Both Berlins." The New York Times, November 6, 2014.
Iannetta, Massimo and Nina Toussaint, Dirs. "The Decomposition of the Soul." Documentary, 82 minutes, 2002.
Ivanova, Irina. "The Decomposition of the Soul." Review. Indypendent, February 6, 2007.
Münz, Rainer and Ralf E. Ulrich. "Changing Patterns of Immigration to Germany, 1945-1997." Research & Seminars, University of California-Davis, Center for German and European Studies, 1998. Alternative Reference: https://www.worldcat.org/title/changing-patterns-of-migration-to-germany-1945-1997/oclc/40780392 .
Oltermann, Philip. "'I've been shafted twice': Stasi victims and their quest for compensation." The Guardian, November 6, 2019.
Rennell, Tony. "Stasi's 'no touch' torture: It was the East German secret police's most terrifying weapon – gaslighting mind games that drove its own citizens mad . . . and the lessons for today's social media generation couldn't be more stark." Daily Mail, June 8-9, 2021.
Schultheis, Emily. "As Germany's secret-police archive shutters, reckoning for its victims continues." National Geographic, August 5, 2021.
Spiekermann, Uwe. "The Stasi at Home and Abroad: Domestic Order and Foreign Intelligence." Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Supplement 9, 2014.
Stasi Documents Archive. "Introduction – Ministry for State Security".
Stuchbery, Michael. "Why Germany will never forget the Stasi era of mass surveillance." The Local, February 8, 2019.
Suarez, Hannah. "Stasi Museum–Germans spying on Germans, psychological warfare (Zersetzung)". 21st Century Expat | Digital Nomad, December 7, 2019.
The Local. "Putin's Stasi ID card found in Dresden archive." December 11, 2018.
Wikipedia: "East German Round Table"; German reunification; German Unity Day; "Matthias Platzeck"; "Otto von Habsburg"; "Pan-European Picnic"; "Peaceful Revolution AKA Die Wende"; "Stasi"; "Stasi Records Agency"; "Zersetzung".
Wilson, Katie. "Five films that shaped the GDR's legacy–and what east Germans think of them today." The Local: Germany's News in English, September 25, 2019.
In the 1970s the MfS changed its secret police activities and began increasingly to use "softer" methods. The GDR leadership did not want to compromise its attempts to gain international recognition: persecution and repression were to be concealed. The MfS now focused more on preventive surveillance and so-called "psychic demolition". It used manipulation and targeted rumours in its attempts to systematically intimidate individuals or groups, to ruin their reputations, isolate or criminalize them. Friendships were destroyed, and professional careers ruined without the victims even realizing why.
However, the change in methods did not lead to any let-up in the repressive pressure exerted by the MfS. And the aim also remained the same: to prevent the development of non-conformist or dissident ideas and behaviour.
The rest of the group agreed that the destruction of trust was one of the most painful legacies of their experiences in the GDR. The dense informer network meant that everyone spied on one another. Many did not find out who had informed on them until decades later, when they requested their Stasi file.
So in the 1970s, the masterminds at Stasi School — formally known as the College of Legal Studies — decided on a new, more subtle tactic of repression, a way of stamping out rebellion without the overt use of force.
Instead of pounding their suspects into submission, they would send them mad. And so began the policy of Zersetzung.
The word meant disintegration or corrosion or decomposition. Today we would call it 'gaslighting' — playing with someone's mind and self-worth until any resistance crumbles and he or she becomes either compliant or apathetic.
Six phases of postwar immigration to Germany can be distinguished (see table 2; see also Martin 1991; Münz and Ulrich 1993; Rudolph 1994; Seifert 1995). The first phase was dominated by the immigration of Germans: expellees, citizens of the GDR, other ethnic Germans
Posted to YouTube August 18, 2009.
Born into poverty in pre-World War I Berlin, Mr. Mielke joined the Communist youth movement at age 15, and his career epitomized the grimness of Communist rule in East Germany, where assassination, kidnapping, execution, denunciation and intimidation were used to achieve and maintain power under the long, menacing shadow of the Soviet Union.
Mr. Mielke and the ministry for state security kept the 16.5 million people of East Germany obedient to Communism and repressed dissent for more than 30 years. Not only did the ministry pursue an effective campaign against those it regarded as enemies of the state, but its army of 90,000 agents and 260,000 informers finally turned East Germany into a country that spied on itself.
Posted by Movie Coverage to YouTube September 17, 2012. URL play-dot-google-dot-com has a version with English subtitles. It's a fine movie.
Is "living well" the best revenge?
I don't know, but both alone and in community we most naturally make ourselves comfortable and secure if, when, and where we can. "Living well" with agency, autonomy, dignity, efficacy, freedom, inclusion beats all of the alternatives, and living well with some thoughtful planning for ourselves, our own, and others . . . I would call that repair and profound improvement.
Addendum: Related Online and Worth the Visit
Verhulst, Dominic. "HOHENSCHÖNHAUSEN: State Security Prison – Former East Berlin – DDR". Photography.


Observation: Eastern Market is one place that I know my pictures do not do justice to the incredible artists who have done their work there. Great photographers are walking about every day taking much better pics than mine, and I know this is one area that will have three or four dozen additional pieces of art by the time I "finish" this project. I only did about half the market this time, so I might save the other half for a year or so from now. For the time being, if you want to see some incredible photographs and understand the artist more, I would definitely check-out the Murals in the Market website.
D-Fact: More than 100,000 shoppers come to the Eastern Market on the third Sunday of May each year for Flower Day.


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Over 7.5 million Cubans voted the new Constitution
Feb 25th, 2019 +
The National Electoral Commission reported that until five o'clock in the Sunday afternoon over 7.5 million Cubans had gone to the polls, which represents 81.53 percent of the total registered voters in the updated lists.
Cubans' Participation in Referendum Exceeds 80 Percent
One hour after the closure of more than 24,000 polling stations in Cuba for the referendum on the new Constitution, about 81.53 percent of voters had exercised their right to vote, the National Electoral Commission (CEN) said on Monday.
Maduro Lauds Constitutional Referendum in Cuba
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday congratulated the Cuban people and Government for the referendum on the new Constitution on Sunday.
Cubans Convinced Referendum is a Sign of Democracy
Cubans affirmed that the constitutional process that is currently marking an important stage with the referendum for the ratification of the new constitution is a reflection of democracy in their country.
Raul Castro Votes in Cuban Referendum
The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Raul Castro, voted this Sunday in the referendum on the new Constitution of the Republic.
Residents in the Westernmost Tip of Cuba Support Cuban Constitution
Residents in San Antonio Cape, the westernmost tip of Cuba, are present Sunday at the polls to support the new Cuban Magna Carta.
Special coverage: The Cuban people vote in Constitutional Referendum
Yesterday, February 24, 124 years since the country's independence struggle was re-initiated, millions of Cubans participated in the successful referendum, conducted transparently, in accordance with the law, to support the construction of a brighter future and strengthen unity around the Revolution
On the doorstep of February 24 referendum
Feb 22nd, 2019 +
By agreement of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP), in an extraordinary session held on June 2, 2018, it was agreed to initiate the Constitutional Reform process and approve, as a first step, the creation of a Commission in charge of preparing the proposed Constitution.
Cuba for all
What has been done in the field of human rights, whatever the context, always implies progress, because the achievements in this area are for everyone without distinction, and their recognition in the Constitution means protection on an equal footing
A Constitution for and by the people
With their presence at the polls this coming February 24, the Cuban people will reaffirm their commitment to the continuity of the Revolution and the determination to defend its conquests, and as the best way to honor José Martí, Fidel Castro, and the homeland's heroes, stated Esteban Lazo Hernández, president of the National Assembly of People's Power, during a visit to the Special Municipality.


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SOLD Walt Disney Child's World Globe c. 1955
One of the most appealing features of this vintage 1950s children's globe, aside from the Disney characters themselves, is all the bits those characters impart about the world. "Hi diddle-diddle the Equator's 'round the middle!" sings Donald Duck while strumming his fiddle. And, "Pluto's nose points the way. The earth rotates night and day." And, "There's something to learn wherever you turn," Mickey says.
Produced by Rand McNally in conjunction with the Walt Disney Company, the globe was introduced in 1955 and originally sold only at Disneyland. Yes, the globe was designed for educational purposes, but it also carried Mickey's personal endorsement: "Visit Disneyland and see all your Disney friends like ME."
Made of screen-printed tin, the 8-inch Terrestrial globe is 10 inches tall and in very good condition with bright coloration and minimal signs of playwear. Best of all, it carries a mark that those of us who were growing up in 1955-1960 –when the globe was introduced — would like to see again: Made in USA.
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Clayton-based Oakland Capital identifies and partners with businesses with significant potential for growth.
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Oakland Capital Partners has announced that Tom Carnahan, Founder and former Chairman and CEO of Wind Capital Group, has joined the firm as Partner.
Since inception Oakland Capital has made investments across a variety of sectors, including financial services, medical devices, manufacturing, and renewable energy. In the St. Louis startup ecosystem, Oakland Capital has invested in SentiAR, Atomation, and SixThirty.
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Tom Carnahan, Founder and former Chairman and CEO of Wind Capital Group, has joined the firm as Partner.
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"As proven entrepreneurs with roots in family businesses, the team at Oakland Capital can truly empathize with the challenges confronting business owners," said Carnahan. "This is a tremendous opportunity to join a firm with its sights set on growth and excellence."
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Ronaldo Octavian Andrei Deaconu (ur. 13 maja 1997 w Bukareszcie) – rumuński piłkarz, grający na pozycji pomocnika w polskim klubie Korona Kielce. Reprezentował swój kraj na Letnich Igrzyskach Olimpijskich 2020.

Kariera klubowa

Początki w ojczyźnie i Holandii (2011–2015)
Zaczynał karierę w Academii Hagi, lecz 1 lipca 2011 roku trafił do Feyenoordu Rotterdam. Dokładnie rok później przeszedł do FC Twente, gdzie w młodzieżowych zespołach grał do 2015 roku.

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Od lipca 2015 roku do 5 sierpnia roku następnego był wolnym graczem. Wtedy podpisał kontrakt z ASA Târgu Mureș. Debiut w tym zespole zaliczył jeszcze tego samego dnia w meczu przeciwko CSM Politehnica Jassy, przegranym 0:3, grając całą drugą połowę. Łącznie zagrał 9 ligowych spotkań.

Concordia Chiajna (2017–2019)
22 lutego 2017 roku trafił za darmo do Concordii Chiajna. W tym klubie zadebiutował 28 kwietnia w meczu przeciwko CSM Politehnica Jassy, zremisowanym 0:0, grając cały mecz. Pierwsze asysty zaliczył 10 maja w meczu przeciwko ACS Poli Timisoara, wygranym 3:1. Asystował przy golach w 24. i 84. minucie. Pierwszego gola strzelił 11 września w meczu przeciwko Gaz Metan Mediaș, wygranym 1:2. Do siatki trafił w 47. minucie. Łącznie w Concordii zagrał 55 meczów, strzelił 3 gole i zaliczył 9 asyst.

HNK Gorica (2019)
31 stycznia 2019 roku trafił za 50 tys. euro do HNK Gorica. W tym zespole zadebiutował 9 lutego w meczu przeciwko Slavenovi Belupo, przegranym 2:0, grając 45 minut. Łącznie w Chorwacji zagrał w pięciu spotkaniach.

Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe (2019–2020)
7 sierpnia 2019 roku wrócił do kraju – został graczem Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe. W tym klubie zadebiutował 14 września w meczu przeciwko Chindia Târgoviște, zremisowanym 0:0, grając 27 minut. Pierwszą asystę zaliczył 13 lipca 2020 roku w meczu przeciwko temu samemu zespołowi, wygranym 2:0. Asystował przy golu w 43. minucie. Pierwszego gola strzelił 5 sierpnia 2020 roku w meczu przeciwko Academica Clinceni, wygranym 1:0. Jedynego gola strzelił w 26. minucie. Łącznie w Sepsi zagrał 21 ligowych meczów, strzelił gola i miał asystę.

Gaz Metan Mediaș (2020–2022)
26 sierpnia 2020 roku trafił do Gaz Metan Mediaș. Debiut w tym klubie zaliczył dwa dni później w meczu przeciwko FC Arges, wygranym 2:0. W debiucie asystował – przy golu w 41. minucie. Pierwszego gola strzelił 12 września w meczu przeciwko CSM Politehnica Jassy, wygranym 1:4. Najpierw asystował przy golach w 30. i 66. minucie, a potem sam strzelił gola w 82. minucie. Łącznie zagrał w 59 meczach, strzelił 14 goli i zanotował 22 asysty.

Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic (2022)
W Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic wystąpił w 6 meczach w China League One, w których zdobył 2 bramki i zanotował 1 asystę.

Korona Kielce (2022–)
28 sierpnia 2022 roku dołączył do występującej w Ekstraklasie Korony Kielce, z którą podpisał dwuletni kontrakt.

Kariera reprezentacyjna

Reprezentacje młodzieżowe
W kadrze U-16 zagrał 2 mecze i strzelił gola.

W reprezentacji U-17 zagrał 3 spotkania.

Reprezentacja seniorska
Zagrał jedno spotkanie na Letnich Igrzyskach Olimpijskich 2020.

Przypisy

Reprezentanci Rumunii w piłce nożnej
Urodzeni w 1997
Ludzie urodzeni w Bukareszcie
Piłkarze Feyenoordu
Piłkarze FC Twente
Piłkarze Concordii Chiajna
Piłkarze HNK Gorica
Piłkarze Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe
Piłkarze Korony Kielce
Piłkarze Gaz Metan Mediaș