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Modi's Popularity: 69% of Hindu Americans Support Hindu Nationalist Prime Minister
The 2020 Indian American Attitudes Survey (IAAS) results confirm the anecdotal evidence of India's Hindu Nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi's massive popularity among Hindu Americans. The findings of a survey sponsored by Washington-based think tank Carnegie Endowment For International Peace reveal that 69% of Hindu Americans approve of Mr. Modi's performance. 70% of Hindu Americans agree or strongly agree that white supremacy is a threat to minorities in the United States, compared to 79% of non-Hindu Indian American. Regarding Hindu majoritarianism in India, however, the data point to a much sharper divide: only 40% of Hindus agree that Hindu majoritarianism is a threat to minorities, compared to 67% of non-Hindus, according to the 2020 IAAS Survey.
69% of Hindu Americans Support Modi. Source: Indian American Attitudes Survey 2020
The 7 in 10 approval rating of Mr. Modi by Hindu Indian Americans stands in sharp contrast to that of barely one in five Muslim Indian Americans. Indian American Christians are almost evenly divided: 35 percent disapprove, 34 percent approve, and 30 percent did not express an opinion. Twenty-three percent of respondents without a religious affiliation and 38 percent from other faiths approve of Modi's performance, respectively. The share of "don't knows" is the smallest for Hindus and Muslims compared to other religious categories, suggesting that views among respondents of these two faiths are the most consolidated.
The IASS survey sample includes 54 percent Hindus, 13 percent Muslims, 10 percent Christians, 8 percent belonging to other faiths, and 16 percent do not identify with any religion.
Indian Hindu Nationalists in America are well organized. Organizations like Hindu America Foundation (HAF), Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America (VHPA) and Overseas Friends of BJP (OFBJP) provide funding to congressional candidates who support their ideology and policies. Any Indian American who dares to challenge them faces their wrath, as Silicon Valley Congressman Ro Khanna learned in recent elections.
Khanna had angered Modi's Hindu American supporters by joining US Congress's Pakistan Caucus and rejecting Hindutva. Democrats like Khanna from the Progressive Wing of the Democratic Party are finding it increasingly difficult to support Prime Minister Modi as he ferociously pushes his hateful Hindutva agenda to target minorities. However, vast majority of Hindu Americans, including those in Silicon Valley tech community, are solidly supporting Mr. Modi in spite of his extended lock-down and brutal actions in Kashmir. Khanna won by a wide margin in spite of Silicon Valley's Hindu Americans's fierce opposition.
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Syed S. said…
The venom Savarkar and Govalkar had spun in the Hindu mind were apparent to Jinnah long before 1947. That is why he had demanded for Pakistan as a safe haven for Indian Muslims. A K Azad and JUH were not reading the tea leaves which has now become apparent by the BJP taking over India
#Indian -#Americans Tend to Support Conservative Policies in #India , Liberal in #US . Indian-Americans hold broadly favourable views of prime minister #Modi, says a survey. #Hindu #BJP #Hibdutva https://thewire.in/world/indian-americans-support-conservative-policies-india-liberal-us-survey
As many as 70% of Hindus agree or strongly agree that white supremacy is a threat to minorities in the United States, compared to 79% of non-Hindus.
Regarding Hindu majoritarianism in India, however, the data point to a much sharper divide: only 40% of Hindus agree that Hindu majoritarianism is a threat to minorities, compared to 67% of non-Hindus, it said.
Indian-Americans have relatively more conservative views of policies in India while on issues affecting the US, the diaspora has a more liberal take, according to a survey of the political attitudes of the influential community in this country.
Indian-Americans comprise slightly more than 1% of the total US population and less than 1% of all registered voters.
The survey – a collaboration between the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Johns Hopkins-SAIS, and the University of Pennsylvania – How Do Indian Americans View India? Results from the 2020 Indian American Attitudes Survey, draws on the Indian American Attitudes Survey (IAAS).
The IAAS is a nationally representative online survey of 1,200 Indian American adults conducted between September 1 and September 20, 2020, in partnership with YouGov. The survey has an overall margin of error of +/- 2.8%, a media release said on Tuesday.
Indian-Americans' policy views are more liberal on issues affecting the United States and more conservative on issues affecting India, it said.
Regarding contentious issues such as the equal protection of religious minorities, immigration, and affirmative action, Indian-Americans hold relatively more conservative views of Indian policies than of US policies, according to the survey results.
Indian Americans, in other words, believe that white supremacy is a greater threat to minorities in the United States, a country where they are a minority, than Hindu majoritarianism is to minorities in India, a country where Hindus are in the majority, the report said.
Noting that Indian-Americans are divided about India's current trajectory, the survey said that respondents are nearly evenly split as to whether India is currently on the right track or headed down the wrong track.
On India's top three challenges, government corruption (18%) ranked the highest followed by the economy (15%). Foreign policy issues exemplified by China and terrorism are found in either the middle or bottom tier of the rankings.
Among the Indian Americans, a majority either strongly or somewhat support an all-India National Register of Citizens 55% and the 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act (51%), the report highlighted.
However, they are more opposed than not to two other issues: the use of police force against peaceful protesters (65% oppose) and government crackdowns on the media (69% oppose).
On the other issue of caste-based affirmative action in higher education admissions, the community is divided with 47% supporting this measure and 53% opposing it, it said.
Indian Americans are the second-largest immigrant group in the United States. There are 4.2 million people of Indian origin residing in the United States, according to 2018 data.
Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is the most popular political party among Indian-Americans, the survey said.
One-third of respondents favour the ruling BJP while just 12% identify with the Congress party, it said.
However, two in five Indian Americans do not identify with an Indian political party, suggesting an arms-length relationship to everyday politics in India, it added.
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Indian-Americans hold broadly favourable views of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the survey said. Nearly half of all Indian-Americans approve of Modi's performance as prime minister.
#India's "Humble" PM #Modi renames #Ahmadabad #cricket stadium after himself. #Hindutva #BJP
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Narendra Modi has renamed the world's largest cricket stadium after himself, stealing the limelight before the ground's inaugural India-England match on Wednesday. The site on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, Modi's political home town in the state of Gujarat, was recently rebuilt as the world's largest cricket venue with capacity for 110,000 spectators. Modi has sought to use a slate of signature projects — such as building the world's tallest statue and remaking India's parliament — to project himself as the country's most transformative and powerful prime minister in decades.
"It's quite stunning," said Ronojoy Sen, a senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore and author of a book on the history of sport in India. He argued that "the symbolism — the largest, the biggest, the best — being built in Ahmedabad" was central to Modi's political brand.
"This is the first time in my memory at least that a living Indian [prime minister] has named a stadium after themselves," he added.
The stadium was previously named after Sardar Patel, a leading figure in the independence movement and one of Modi's political heroes.
Indian politicians have a long history of renaming cities, monuments and government programmes after dead leaders or historical figures, particularly to change names associated with the British Raj or Islamic empires.
The country is littered with buildings named after Jawaharlal Nehru, the first post-independence prime minister, as well as his daughter and grandson, former prime ministers who were both assassinated. However, it is rare for living leaders to champion projects designed to celebrate themselves.
"The general rule is you wait for people to be out of office before bestowing those kinds of honours," said Gilles Verniers, assistant professor of political science at Ashoka University.
Mayawati, former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, was pilloried for spending public funds on expansive statue parks filled with likenesses of herself, her political mentor and elephants, her party's symbol.
But Mayawati's supporters defended the projects, saying the temple-like grounds were an inspiration for the party's core constituents, drawn largely from the lower ranks of Hinduism's caste system.
The renaming of the stadium drew praise from Modi's followers and bemusement from his critics, who accuse the prime minister of concentrating all decision-making power in his tightly run office.
"World's largest stadium dedicated to the world's largest personality!" tweeted Preeti Gandhi, who is in charge of social media for the women's wing of Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata party.
Gaurav Pandhi, who runs social media for the opposition Congress party, called it the "heights of narcissism . . . Megalomaniac!"
Modi served as chief minister of Gujarat before his ascent to the premiership in 2014.
The newly rebuilt stadium hosted Donald Trump when he visited India last year, but its debut as a cricket venue was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.
The name change was revealed only a couple of hours before the start of the third test match on England's tour of India. The ground was at half capacity on Wednesday, hosting about 50,000 fans, thanks to a precipitous nationwide drop in Covid-19 infections.
Prateek Dixit, a 54-year-old engineer from Ahmedabad who attended, said the stadium was a triumph for Modi.
"It's a proud moment for India," Dixit said. "This is Modi's dream. This is Modi's vision. He dreamt that he would make a big stadium in Ahmedabad, and now it's complete."
#Indian #Americans Don't Know What to Feel Right Now. Sheer govt negligence is compounding the feelings of déjà vu. Anger toward #Trump administration, which downplayed the threat of the #virus, has been replaced by rage over #Modi's response. #COVID19 https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/05/indian-american-covid-pandemic/618748/
Although no Indian is spared from this virus, marginalized communities such as Dalits—the low-caste workers who are keeping the country's crematoria and other essential services running day and night—are facing the brunt of the disaster in India. By contrast, many Indian Americans come from middle-to-upper-class and privileged upper-caste communities. Sruti Suryanarayanan, the communications and research associate at the nonprofit South Asian Americans Leading Together, hopes that the crisis will become an inflection point for Indian Americans to confront difficult questions about privilege, home, and belonging.
As family members in India face the catastrophe, relatives who have lived through waves of the devastating pandemic in America are trying to offer emotional and psychological support for what lies ahead. Shindé, who was based in New York last spring, has been remembering the weeks when the city became the world's epicenter. Days before her aunt Vijaya's death, Shindé texted her: "You're going to get better and dance at our wedding party 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾!!" On the same day, she texted her mom in India that Vijaya might not pull through. "We saw this in NYC," she wrote. "There were signs of improvement, and they just slipped."
In some instances, sheer government negligence is compounding the feelings of déjà vu. Shindé's anger toward the Trump administration, which downplayed the threat of the virus, has been replaced by rage over Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's response, which she calls "a mirror image of what we went through last year." In February, India's ruling party claimed that the country had defeated the virus before Modi plowed forward with massive preelection rallies.
Out of the guilt and confusion of this moment, many in the diaspora are searching for ways to help. Indian Americans make up the wealthiest immigrant community in the country, and have been using their clout in tech and politics to push the U.S. government to act. The Biden administration, which was initially slow to respond to the growing crisis in India, this week promised to immediately begin delivering AstraZeneca vaccine doses, ventilators, coronavirus tests, personal protective equipment, and other materials to India. The outcry from the Indian American community has had "an enormous" impact on the government's response, says Ashish Jha, the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, who has been among those pressuring the Biden administration.
Like everyone I interviewed for this story, I too am oscillating between waves of emotions—anger, helplessness, and guilt—as reports come in from my family in India. In recent weeks, at least two relatives have tested positive for the virus. Although I can look forward to picnics in the park this summer, India's parks are becoming grave sites. All the justified optimism around me now feels unjust and even irresponsible. For many of us with friends and family around the world, the trauma feels like a never-ending loop: When your immediate situation improves, another loved one enters a crisis.
Shindé is mourning the loss of her relatives, but she is also mourning her homeland. As an immigrant, "you're always living half in nostalgia," she said. "In a state of having lost your home, you carry a sadness with you. And I think there's these moments that just heighten that in a way that is powerless. Everything that has shaped you as a child is there. You feel just lost; your family is lost."
As "champions of militant Hindu supremacism" (Hindutva) are trying to re-invent themselves after former President Donald Trump's defeat, Human Rights Coalitions on Wednesday warned that Sonal Shah and people of her ilk have become active under garb of champions of Asian Americans in the US.
http://muslimmirror.com/eng/dont-fall-into-trap-of-taaf-hindutvas-new-front-aspaire/
After Hinduvta champions were exposed by civil society groups, the Coalitions said efforts were made to hide their real identity or to show their disassociation of the Hindtuva groups. It also advised noted Indian-origin TV journalist Fareed Zakaria and others not to be fell into trap of the newly formed The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) which is a new front for Hindutva groups.
In a statement, the Coalitions underlined that ever since several human rights groups, South Asian progressive activists and protestors against the Donald Trump administration in the US and the Narendra Modi regime in India, including the Alliance to Save and Protect America from Infiltration by Religious Extremists (ASPAIRE), Coalition of Americans for Pluralism in India (CAPI) and Coalition to Stop Genocide in India, have stepped up their efforts to expose several prominent and politically ambitious Indians in the US and their links with the far right Hindu extremists groups in India, efforts are on by those exposed to cover up their association with these groups.
The statement pointed out that Hindutva leaders, however, do so without formally denouncing these hate groups and publicly renouncing their affiliations with them. Many youth leaders of Hinduva supremacy fronts (not to be confused with Hinduism) which started spreading their wings in the US, a couple of decades ago have been infiltrating the Democratic and the Republican Parties. They have become more aggressive after Narendra Modi, who is also a product of these extremist groups, became the Prime Minister of India in 2014.
One of those exposed was Sonal Shah, who has now surfaced as the founding President of The Asian American Foundation (TAAF), launched on May 3. TAAF describes her as a "foremost global leader on social impact and innovation". Efforts seem to be on by her to connect with the larger and therefore influential Asian American community, leaving behind the narrower Hindutva identity.
She shot to the limelight in November 2008, when the newly elected President Barack Obama nominated her for the post of energy secretary. She had to however settle as director of the White House office of social innovation and civic participation, a department created by her, after she was called off for her Hindutva links.
Recently, when Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, withdrew her nomination to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) amid bipartisan opposition in the senate, as President Joe Biden was announcing his team, Shah's name too surfaced for the post.
However Shah was again called out for her links with the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), a strident Hindu extremist group in India, and VHP-A (America) it's sister organization in the US. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), had in its World Factbook of 2018, labeled VHP as a militant group. This group was instrumental in the 2002 Gujarat pogrom, in which more than 2000 people were brutally killed and about 200,000 people were rendered homeless, triggering national and international outrage.
Shah was the national co-ordinator for VHP-A to raise funds for the 2001 Gujarat earthquake victims, which was accused of helping only Hindu victims and not the Muslim victims. She has also been associated with Ekal Vidyalayas, a movement founded by the VHP with the major objective of countering Christianity among Adivasis (forest people) in India who follow their own religion but struggling to get their identity back.
Amit S. said…
An Open Letter to #Modi #Bhakts in #America: Your God has Feet of Clay and Blood on His Hands.Your God does not feel the pain of others or acknowledge his role in inflicting the worst on them. #COVID19India #India #BJP #coronavirus #pandemic https://americankahani.com/perspectives/an-open-letter-to-modi-bhakts-in-america-your-god-has-feet-of-clay-and-blood-on-his-hands/
Vineetha Mokkil
BY VINEETHA MOKKIL
Stop leaving offerings on his bloodied altar. Stop funding his campaigns of hate. Stop enabling the annihilation of secular India's soul.
It's time to face facts. Your God does not have a 56-inch chest. Your God is all bluster, no action. All swagger, no substance. Your God has failed the people of India on every count as the worst crisis in modern times ravages the country. Your God has no interest in protecting the citizenry he is expected to serve. While India gasps for breath, while patients die in hospital after hospital for lack of oxygen, while the sick collapse on the streets and beg for medicines and beds at overcrowded hospital gates, your God is lavishing ₹22,000 crore on building himself a glitzy new palace in the heart of Delhi. Consumed by his vanity project, he forgot to instruct his government to procure adequate vaccines supplies — the one thing that could save countless Indian lives as the second wave explodes in the country.
Your God is deaf to the cries of millions of Indians in distress. He is blind to the living, the sick and the dying. His hearing is faulty — neither the dying nor the living can get through to him. He only hears the sound of his own voice.
Wake up, dear Bhakts! All those odes to India's ancient glory, the shiny promises of turning India into a Vishwa Guru who dazzles the world, all the bombastic words he uses to cast a spell on you at his Madison Square Garden rallies are a means to an end. Your god mouths the words to make sure you donate your dollars to his political campaigns and rallies. Keep the dollars coming, and he'll keep telling you what you want to hear.
Instead of glory, he has heaped misery on Bharat Mata's head. Under his stewardship, India has been dragged into the dirt. His demonitization drive broke the backbone of small businesses across the country. Much like the hare-brained Mughal emperor, Tughlak, your God's ill-conceived move sowed chaos and hardship in the life of the common man.
As we speak, India is desperately seeking foreign aid to tackle a health emergency that your God's lack of foresight caused. After a gap of 17 years, 'Atmanirbhar Bharat' has had to solicit foreign aid to bail itself out of a crisis.
Under your God's watch, India had been brought to her knees. It is a pariah nation now. The Covid hotspot every nation dreads. The country every person across the world is watching in horror. Indian travellers are banned from flying out to almost every spot on the planet. Your God has no 'masterstroke' at this moment to flaunt.
Please understand. Your God is no God. He is a conman, a scamster, a talking head who trades exclusively in hate and vitriol. Inside his Photoshopped 56-inch chest there is no beating heart. He has not consoled the families of the dead or met with them. No condolences. No hospital visits. No regrets. Your God does not feel the pain of others or acknowledge his role in inflicting the worst on them.
He has not consoled the families of the dead or met with them. No condolences. No hospital visits. No regrets. Your God does not feel the pain of others or acknowledge his role in inflicting the worst on them.
Think about it. What kind of God stays unmoved as Indians continue to die of lack of oxygen, hospital beds, and access to medical care? What God retreats into silence as 120 Indians die — every hour, every day — from a second wave that could have been averted if he had acted on time? Who holds road shows and campaign rallies and chases after votes with zero regard for human life as death stalks the land?
#Hindu Sect Is Accused of Using Forced Labor (mainly #Dalit) to Build #NewJersey Temple. #US federal agents raided the massive temple in Robbinsville, N.J., as a lawsuit charged that low-caste men had been lured from #India to work for about $1 an hour. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/nyregion/nj-hindu-temple-india-baps.html#click=https://t.co/Oz8nDR3CRo
Federal law enforcement agents descended on a massive temple in New Jersey on Tuesday after workers accused a prominent Hindu sect of luring them from India, confining them to the temple grounds and paying them the equivalent of about $1 an hour to perform grueling labor in near servitude.
Lawyers for the workers said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, a Hindu sect known as BAPS that has close ties to India's ruling party and has built temples around the world, had exploited possibly hundreds of low-caste men in the yearslong construction project.
The workers, who lived in trailers hidden from view, had been promised jobs helping to build the temple in rural Robbinsville, N.J., with standard work hours and ample time off, according to the lawsuit, a wage claim filed in U.S. District Court in New Jersey. The majority are Dalit, the lowest rung in India's caste system.
They were brought to the United States on religious visas, or R-1 visas — temporary visas used for clergy and lay religious workers such as missionaries — and presented to the U.S. government as volunteers, according to the claim. They were asked to sign several documents, often in English, and instructed to tell U.S. embassy staffers that they were skilled carvers or decorative painters, the complaint said.
Lawyers for the men, however, said they did manual labor on the site, working nearly 13 hours a day lifting large stones, operating cranes and other heavy machinery, building roads and storm sewers, digging ditches and shoveling snow, all for the equivalent of about $450 per month. They were paid $50 in cash, with the rest deposited in accounts in India, the complaint said.
"I respectfully disagree with the wage claim," Kanu Patel, the chief executive of BAPS, told The New York Times, while noting he was not in charge of day-to-day operations at the site.
Lenin Joshi, a spokesman for BAPS, also disputed the accusations, saying the men did complicated work connecting stones that had been hand-carved in India. "They have to be fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. In that process, we need specialized artisans," Mr. Joshi said, saying this work qualified the men for the visas.
"We are naturally shaken by this turn of events and are sure that once the full facts come out, we will be able to provide answers and show that these accusations and allegations are without merit," Mr. Joshi said.
#Modi's approval fall amid #India's #COVID19 crisis. Those saying "very satisfied" fall sharply to 40% from 64% last year. Those "not at all satisfied" is up to 32%, up from 15% last year. Modi still gets a 60% rating as preferred Prime Minister candidate. https://fortune.com/2021/05/03/india-covid-narendra-modi-popularity-approval-rating-election-results/
Indian Prime Minister Modi's diehard fan following is legendary. But the tsunami of COVID cases that has slammed India in recent weeks, filling hospitals and overwhelming crematoriums, is testing Modi's popularity like no other crisis has.
India recorded 2.6 million new COVID cases and 23,800 related deaths in the past week. On Monday alone, India recorded 368,147 new infections and 3,417 deaths. People are dying from lack of medical supplies and equipment, just weeks after India dispatched vaccines and medicines to the rest of the world, confident the virus threat had receded at home.
The wave of infections has incited criticism of Modi. Opponents say he was too quick to declare victory over the virus and prioritized politics over public health by holding huge rallies for state elections as the second wave gathered steam. The outcome of those elections suggest that Modi's party remains resilient, even in the face of catastrophe, but opinion polling proves that the COVID crisis is tarnishing the Prime Minister's once-unassailable approval rating.
opinions are more divided over COVID-19; some perceive it as a man-made virus unleashed by China, and others blame it on a failure of management by Indian authorities. There was some anger over the lockdown Modi imposed with little warning during India's first COVID wave in March 2020, but the general public thought that he was trying to protect them. Anger over the second wave is directed at the state governments of the worst-affected regions, the federal government, and the public's own lax adherence to protocols like wearing masks and social distancing.
The second wave of the COVID crisis also threatens to choke the recovery of India's economy. Dipti Deshpande, principal economist at CRISIL Ratings, said that her firm is maintaining its GDP growth forecast of 11% for fiscal year 2022. But she acknowledged the firm may need to reconsider that estimate if the rate of new COVID cases, now running three times levels during the peak of last year's wave, forces more lockdowns through May.
Given the current crisis, however, even leading industry officials are urging Modi to tame the virus, no matter the economic cost. Uday Kotak, president of Confederation of Indian Industry, said in a statement on Sunday that his organization urged "the strongest national steps including curtailing economic activity to reduce suffering."
Sewa International has raised millions of dollars in donations for #COVID relief. It supports pro-#Modi #Islamophobic #Hindu nationalist organizations and projects in #India, without proper disclosure of how the funds were being used. #Hindutva https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/06/covid-india-charity-sewa-hindu-nationalism.html via @slate
COVID Relief Donations Are Supporting a Project to "Hinduize" India
Why are Twitter, Microsoft, and Google promoting a charity with ties to right-wing nationalism?
As the world has become more aware of India's still-grim COVID crisis, concerned and well-meaning citizens of the world have shared links through which to donate money and supplies to India's beleaguered populace and overcrowded health and funeral services. One of the most popular of these has been a group called Sewa International.
According to the organization's press releases, Sewa's "Help India Defeat COVID-19" media campaign has raised millions of dollars from more than 100,000 donors since late April, with this money going toward purchasing and sending oxygen concentrators, oximeters, and other essential equipment to India, which is grappling with a dire shortage of these technologies. The organization has also raised money and sent equipment for COVID relief in Nepal and Trinidad and Tobago.
Sewa's initiative has become well-known within and beyond the Indian diaspora: Stories of distraught Indian Americans encouraging Sewa donations have proliferated in the news, and outlets like ABC News have highlighted Sewa's work. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey earmarked $2.5 million for Sewa as part of a $15 million donation for Indian COVID relief. Internal communications provided to me by a source showed that Microsoft and Google encouraged their employees to donate to Sewa and offered matching funds, in Microsoft's case through the donation-management platform Benevity. New Jersey's Monroe Township partnered with Sewa to provide India aid, while the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, the largest organization representing Indian American doctors, also held a fundraiser for India with Sewa. The group also has partnered with the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency to ramp up domestic vaccination efforts in both Philadelphia and Texas, where Sewa's U.S. branch is based.
Social Realities of Indian Americans: Results From the 2020 Indian American Attitudes Survey
https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/06/09/social-realities-of-indian-americans-results-from-2020-indian-american-attitudes-survey-pub-84667
According to IAAS data, 54 percent of respondents report belonging to the Hindu faith (see figure 6). The next most common response—those claiming no religious affiliation (a category that includes agnostics and atheists)—accounts for 16 percent of the sample. Thirteen percent of respondents are Muslim, 11 percent are Christian, and another 7 percent belong to a variety of other faiths including Buddhism and Sikhism. In certain cases, these larger groupings consist of smaller denominations that have been aggregated upward.
This study is the third in a series on the social, political, and foreign policy attitudes of Indian Americans. The major findings are briefly summarized below.
Indian Americans exhibit very high rates of marriage within their community. While eight out of ten respondents have a spouse or partner of Indian origin, U.S.-born Indian Americans are four times more likely to have a spouse or partner who is of Indian origin but was born in the United States.
Religion plays a central role in the lives of Indian Americans but religious practice varies. While nearly three-quarters of Indian Americans state that religion plays an important role in their lives, religious practice is less pronounced. Forty percent of respondents pray at least once a day and 27 percent attend religious services at least once a week.
Roughly half of all Hindu Indian Americans identify with a caste group. Foreign-born respondents are significantly more likely than U.S.-born respondents to espouse a caste identity. The overwhelming majority of Hindus with a caste identity—more than eight in ten—self-identify as belonging to the category of General or upper caste.
"Indian American" itself is a contested identity. While Indian American is a commonly used shorthand to describe people of Indian origin, it is not universally embraced. Only four in ten respondents believe that "Indian American" is the term that best captures their background.
Civic and political engagement varies considerably by one's citizenship status. Across nearly all metrics of civic and political participation, U.S.-born citizens report the highest levels of engagement, followed by foreign-born U.S. citizens, with non-citizens trailing behind.
Indian Americans' social communities are heavily populated by other people of Indian origin. Indian Americans—especially members of the first generation—tend to socialize with other Indian Americans. Internally, the social networks of Indian Americans are more homogenous in terms of religion than either Indian region (state) of origin or caste.
Polarization among Indian Americans reflects broader trends in American society. While religious polarization is less pronounced at an individual level, partisan polarization—linked to political preferences both in India and the United States—is rife. However, this polarization is asymmetric: Democrats are much less comfortable having close friends who are Republicans than the converse. The same is true of Congress Party supporters vis-à-vis supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Indian Americans regularly encounter discrimination. One in two Indian Americans reports being discriminated against in the past one year, with discrimination based on skin color identified as the most common form of bias. Somewhat surprisingly, Indian Americans born in the United States are much more likely to report being victims of discrimination than their foreign-born counterparts.
To some extent, divisions in India are being reproduced within the Indian American community. While only a minority of respondents are concerned about the importation of political divisions from India to the United States, those who are identify religion, political leadership, and political parties in India as the most common factors.
Religious affiliation too correlates with one's feelings toward their Indian identity. Eighty-eight percent of Hindus say being Indian is very or somewhat important to them, compared to 79 percent of Christians and 66 percent of Muslims. This is possibly a reflection of India's current political climate. The February 2021 IAAS paper found that almost seven in ten Hindus approve of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's performance, while just one in five Muslims feel the same.34 However, without longitudinal data, it is unclear to what extent the religious divide reflects the specificities of the current context—in which Muslims in India feel especially marginalized and discriminated against—or is instead a product of longer-term trends.
Self-identification also varies by religion. While 86 percent of Hindus report identifying with some kind of "Indian" identity, 71 percent of Christians and 52 percent of Muslims do the same. Relative to Muslims, Christians and Hindus are equally likely to self-identify as "Indian American" (47 percent each versus 32 percent for Muslims), and Hindus are substantially more likely to self-identify as "Indian" (32 percent versus 17 percent for Christians and 12 percent for Muslims). On the other hand, Muslims are much more likely to self-identify as "South Asian" (27 percent compared to 7 percent of Christians and 5 percent of Hindus). Finally, Christians are more likely to self-identify as "American" without any hyphenation (9 percent versus 6 percent for Muslim and 4 percent for Hindus).
First, Hindus are more likely to report that most or all of their Indian friends are also Hindus, underscoring a greater degree of religious homogeneity in their social networks. Fifty-eight percent of Hindus respond in this way, while 48 and 46 percent of Muslims and Christians, respectively, report that their networks are comprised of those of the same religion. Second, around one-third of Christians and Hindus and two-fifths of Muslims are situated in the middle, reporting that some of their Indian American networks are made up of friends of the same religion. Third, Christians are much more likely to report that hardly any or none of their Indian friends share their religion. Nearly one in five (19 percent) identify this way, compared to 10 percent of Muslims and only 6 percent of Hindus.
#India's #Rape Scandal: PBS FRONTLINE correspondent Ramita Navai investigates a wave of shocking rape cases in India — some of them drawing in politicians from the country's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party #BJP #Modi #crime #Hindutva https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/indias-rape-scandal/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share_button via @frontlinepbs
Top #Indian newspaper raided by #tax authorities after months of critical coverage.Under #Modi, several critical media outlets have found themselves in tax investigators' crosshairs, raising fears about the health of the independent press in #India. #BJP https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/india-modi-press-raid/2021/07/22/facbc01a-eabd-11eb-84a2-d93bc0b50294_story.html?tid=ss_tw
"The raid is the outcome of our aggressive reporting, especially during the second wave of the pandemic in April," Gaur said by telephone. "Unlike some other media, we reported how people were dying for lack of oxygen and hospital beds."
Indian tax authorities on Thursday raided one of the country's most prominent newspapers in what journalists and the political opposition denounced as retaliation for the outlet's hard-nosed coverage of the government's pandemic response.
The Dainik Bhaskar Group, whose Hindi-language broadsheet boasts a combined circulation of more than 4 million, was raided simultaneously in at least four locations, including at its headquarters in Madhya Pradesh state.
Surabhi Ahluwalia, a spokeswoman for the tax authority, said searches were underway at multiple locations across the country linked to the group, but she declined to share details about the case. She said the department usually conducts searches in matters of tax evasion.
But the justification of tax evasion was panned by government critics, who pointed out that Dainik Bhaskar has been persistently needling India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with its coverage, including as recently as this week.
India used spyware to hack journalists and others
The Press Club of India said in a statement that it "deplores such acts of intimidation by the government through enforcement agencies to deter the independent media."
Under the administration of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who rose to power in 2014, several critical media outlets have found themselves in tax investigators' crosshairs, raising fears about the health of the independent press in the world's largest democracy. Reporters Without Borders, an advocacy group for journalists, recently placed India at 142nd place in its press freedom rankings, roughly on par with Myanmar and Mexico.
Om Gaur, Dainik Bhaskar's national editor, said his staff's mobile devices were seized during the raids as a "tactic to harass journalists."
The tax investigation "is not going to change anything for us," he added. "We will keep doing good journalism."
As covid-19 roiled India this spring, Dainik Bhaskar splashed photos of funeral pyres on its front pages, reported on corpses floating in the Ganges River and repeatedly challenged the government's narrative about the disaster and its official death statistics. Gaur, the editor, contributed an op-ed in the New York Times that made waves in his home country.
The paper has sometimes taken a less-than-orthodox approach to holding government accountable: As citizens in the state of Gujarat struggled to procure covid-19 medication in April, the paper published the phone number of the BJP's state president in a massive front-page headline.
#Pakistanis have never elected #Fascist leaders like #Modi and #YogiAdityanath. Religious parties in #Pakistan get very few votes and even fewer seats in federal and provincial #legislatures. https://www.riazhaq.com/2018/07/pakistan-elections-2018-pti-prevails.html
https://twitter.com/haqsmusings/status/1448323734658424840?s=20
It Is No Longer 'Incredible India' But 'Intolerant India'.
#Modi's #Hindutva activists are seeking to enforce rigid codes of normative #Hindu culture and #Islamophobia by forcing the withdrawal of progressive advertisements. #India @Diplomat_APAC https://thediplomat.com/2021/11/it-is-no-longer-incredible-india-but-intolerant-india/
The BJP's troll army soon took to Twitter, with #BanFabIndia trending and some even demanding that models in advertisements should have "Hindu appropriate dressing" with women sporting a bindi, a traditional dot on the forehead of Indian women. A right-wing influencer lashed out at the "secularization" of Hindu festivals, tweeting #NoBindiNoBusiness and calling for a boycott of brands that did not comply with the sentiments of Hindu culture. Consequently, Fab India not only withdrew its promo advertisement but tried to mollify the right-wing by stating that its soon-to-be launched Diwali campaign was titled an innocuous "Jhilmil Si Diwali" (Sparkling Diwali).
While the targeting of the skin bleach advertisement is an attempt to enforce rigid codes of normative Hindu culture with a homophobic worldview, the Fab India advertisement controversy is an attempt to entrench Islamophobia in the masses. The saffron brigade and its votaries, namely the BJP politicians, assign themselves the role of custodians of Indian culture. In their myopic view, recognition of the LGBTQ community and its rights is anathema and they are highly intolerant of introduction of any progressive ideas into Hindu festivals and traditions. Highlighting India's cultural and religious diversity, especially Hindu-Muslim brotherhood, angers the right wing.
Significantly, the increasing attacks on advertisements have coincided with the mainstreaming of hate politics championed by the BJP under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Islamophobia in India has escalated to ridiculous heights. Linguists point out that the language Urdu is not the sole preserve of Muslims in the country, but Urdu words are widely used in everyday speech and literary texts of Hindustani language.
Incidentally, these were not the only advertisements that were targeted by the Hindutva brigade this festive season. CEAT Tyres was viciously trolled and faced an onslaught of online abuse after its Diwali advertisement featured Bollywood actor Aamir Khan advising children not to burst firecrackers on the streets but within the apartment complex.
BJP Member of Parliament Ananth Kumar Hegde, who habitually spews communal venom, wrote to the CEO of CEAT Tyres accusing the company of "creating unrest among Hindus." In his letter which he made public on Facebook, Hegde also attacked the actor Khan, who is a Muslim. "Nowadays, a group of anti-Hindu actors always hurt the Hindu sentiments whereas they never try to expose the wrong doings of their community."
In a long rant, Hegde lashed out at Muslims in general for offering namaaz (prayers) on the roads, which he said was public property. He described the Azaan, the muezzin's call to prayer, as noise pollution. He issued a dire warning to the CEAT Tyres company to "not hurt Hindu sentiments" in future.
Hindutva leaders are now turning Hindu festivals into a weapon against Muslims, says Apoorvanand, a professor at Delhi University. The backlash against these recent advertisements is certainly an indicator of this trend.
'Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy' review: The collapse of democracy
https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/modis-india-hindu-nationalism-and-the-rise-of-ethnic-democracy-review-the-collapse-of-democracy/article37923912.ece
Christophe Jaffrelot, who has caught every wave in India, says the country has changed, perhaps irreversibly, from a liberal secular polity a decade ago to a majoritarian 'ethnic democracy' today
Jaffrelot tracks the continually expanding catalogue of body blows that have assailed the founding ideals of the Indian republic from the time Modi announced his candidature in the fall of 2013. Those of us who have lived through the lynching of Muslims and Dalits, the assassination of rationalist intellectuals, the trolling of scholars, the detention of activists, the harassment of movie stars, the evisceration of the media, universities and courts, the decimation of the opposition, the destruction of the economy, the persecution of the minorities, the erosion of fundamental rights, the gutting of the public sector, the targeting of NGOs, the silencing of civil society, the distortion of history, the usurpation of social media by hate speech, fake news and propaganda, the defiance and denigration of Parliamentary procedure by the ruling party, the demonisation of dissent, the encouragement of vigilantism, the garrisoning of the Kashmir Valley, the battering of the Constitution, and the forsaking of truth — having borne witness, we understand why compiling this gruesome list requires nearly 700 pages.
But the book is not just an act of meticulous, unsparing documentation, though it is that too. It will prove an invaluable record of our time when future generations struggle to explain the swift collapse of Indian democracy. Once the world's largest, liveliest and most interesting experiment in equal citizenship, universal adult franchise, regular elections, representative government, minority protection, a free press, and popular self-rule, India always had problematic enclaves of exception like Kashmir and the Northeast. But before Modi, its basic commitment to diversity and pluralism seemed genuine.
Jaffrelot doesn't just remind us of what has been happening to unravel the liberal consensus in the past 7-8 years. He also brings to bear on these data an enormous scholarly literature and theoretical toolkit about ethnic democracy, populist strongmen, rightwing nationalism, charismatic leadership, the deinstitutionalisation of the state, creeping authoritarianism that appears electorally mandated, the relentless reduction of minorities to second-class citizenship, and the mobilisation of identities in new patterns of conflict, domination and exclusion, jettisoning tolerance, equality and inclusion.
He examines how Yogi Adityanath communalises governance, runs a militia State, and makes Islamophobia an item of official policy. Campaigns of "gauraksha", "love jihad" and "gharwapsi" make for a deadly cocktail of privileged caste orthopraxy and social conservatism, reinforce patriarchy, and continually bully, shame and terrorise Muslims and Christians. The cow belt and Hindi heartland, including Rajasthan, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh along with Uttar Pradesh, spilling south into Karnataka and east into Assam, are now thoroughly saffronised.
Zafarul-Islam Khan
@khan_zafarul
Punjab&Haryana HC suspends sentence, grants bail to J&K Police sub-inspector Anand Dutta convicted for destroying evidence in 2018 Kathua rape case in which 8-year-old Asifa Bano was kidnapped, mass-raped in temple, killed & thrown in jungle. Where is our collective conscience?
https://twitter.com/khan_zafarul/status/1473907208802877443?s=20


While we know a great deal about the various forms of Dwemer animunculi, many of the larger Dwemer marvels remain a mystery. Legends of Dwemer orreries and fabrication chambers abound, but direct, first-hand scholarship remains scant. I have spent my life in search of these Dwarven mega-structures. While I've met with considerable success, there is one mechanism in particular that I am keen to find: the Dwemer Tonal Resonator.
At the height of their power, the Dwemer exhibited near total mastery of tonal forces. Even now, countless centuries later, they remain peerless in this respect. Sound, not magic, facilitated their rise to power. I am continually astounded by tonal forces' wide range of uses. The Dwemer used sound in mining, medicine, architecture - even psychology. It's the latter use that I find most intriguing. According to ancient Chimeri scholarship, the Dwemer could employ tonal forces to bend weaker minds to their will - a form of complex aural hypnosis. Luckily, the Dwarves never managed to mobilize this technology on the battlefield against our august ancestors. The scale and complexity of the devices likely made transportation nearly impossible. But they still managed to employ it on a limited scale using massive devices called Tonal Resonators.
If the legends are true, these resonators were incredibly complex architectural wonders. They stood taller than the most imposing giants, and filled cavernous chambers with pipes, dials, and pistons. When enabled, the resonators released a series of powerful tones that could alter the brainwaves of lesser mer and men - inducing deep calm and profound pleasure, or even paranoia and terror. The uses for such a device are virtually limitless. Alas, I fear that I will never see one with my own eyes. If such a power could be replicated and perfected, the children of the Tribunal could very well reign supreme in Tamriel and continents beyond.


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Concealed-permit gun holders save lives — Texas church attack just the latest example
Texas attorney general says new gun law saved lives in church shooting
The attack on the West Freeway Church of Christ reminds us of an important truth that too many still deny:
Concealed-permit gun holders save lives. And in today's world, they and their weapons should be welcomed in churches and other houses of worship.
Within seconds of the shooter opening fire on the Texas congregation Sunday, he was shot dead by two parishioners with concealed handgun permits. Four other parishioners had their concealed handguns drawn, ready to respond. The attacker killed two congregants before he was taken down, but the death toll could have been much higher.
"The citizens who were inside that church undoubtedly saved 242 other parishioners, and that might get swept aside," said Jeoff Williams, a regional director with the Texas Department of Public Safety. "It was miraculous. The true heroes in all this are the people who were sitting in those pews today and responded, the immediate responders … it was truly heroic."
"Today evil walked boldly among us," Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn said at a press conference. "Let me remind you, good people raised up and stopped it before it got worse."
Sunday's shooting demonstrated yet again that there are simply too many targets for police to be able to protect everyone. It's also not realistic to keep terrorists and criminals from getting weapons. The war on guns has been as much of a failure as the war on drugs. There is simply no backup plan when background checks fail to stop killers from buying weapons.
When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law earlier this year making it easier for people to carry guns with them into places of worship, former Vice President Joe Biden criticized the action. "It is irrational, with all due respect to the governor of Texas, it is irrational what they're doing on the same day you see a mass shooting … and we're talking about loosening access to have guns," Biden said.
Permit holders have stopped dozens of would-be mass public shootings in malls, churches, schools, universities and town centers.
It's hardly irrational. Permit holders have stopped dozens of would-be mass public shootings in malls, churches, schools, universities and town centers. Gun control advocates raise the alarm that a permit holder will accidentally shoot a bystander or a police officer responding to reports of a mass shooting will accidentally harm a permit holder. This has never happened in a mass public shooting.
But there are many examples of permit holders saving lives by stopping church attacks:
In Antioch, Tenn., on Sept. 24, 2017, Emanuel Kidega Samson shot one person and injured seven others. But the attack could have been much worse. Samson was slightly injured when a 22-year-old usher, Robert Engle, tried to stop him, which gave Engle a chance to retrieve his permitted concealed handgun from his car. Engle went back into the church and held the attacker at gunpoint until police arrived.
In Aurora, Colo., on April 24, 2012, Kiarron Parker crashed his car into other vehicles in a church parking lot and opened fire on congregants as he exited his vehicle. Parker killed one person before being shot dead by a parishioner who was an off-duty police officer.
In Spartanburg, S.C., on March 25, 2012, a gunman kicked open a church door and pointed a shotgun at the pastor and his congregation. Parishioner Aaron Guyton, a concealed weapons permit holder, got the drop on the man and held him at gunpoint while two others held him down. Sheriff Chuck Wright called Guyton and others at the church "everyday heroes."
In Colorado Springs, Colo., on Dec. 9, 2007: Matthew Murray killed two people in the Colorado Springs New Life Church parking lot before being shot by church member and volunteer security guard Jeanne Assam. A wounded Murray then committed suicide.
These incidents and Sunday's attack on a congregation in White Settlement, Texas, clearly demonstrate that fears about permit holders are unjustified. They are incredibly law-abiding individuals who took action in an extraordinary situation. And they didn't accidentally shoot any bystanders. It's too bad the congregation meeting in the rabbi's home in Monsey, N.Y., on Saturday didn't have similar protection.
Attacks become massacres when there's no one to fight back. If churches are gun-free zones, their parishioners become targets of those who simply do not obey the laws. Permit holders should be able to bring their guns to churches and other houses of worship. They should be able to protect their fellow congregants.
Source: John Lott, FoxNews.com, https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/john-lott-concealed-permit-gun-holders-save-lives-texas-church-attack-just-the-latest-example
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John Lott is an economist and was formerly chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission. Lott is also a leading expert on guns and op-eds on that issue are done in conjunction with the Crime Prevention Research Center. He is the author of nine books including "More Guns, Less Crime." His latest book is "The War on Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies (August 1, 2016). Follow him on Twitter @johnrlottjr.
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Yanaï Lab
Xchange festival
Artistic development
Compagnie So'Ham Bugün
United Colors of Méditerranée
Steak & the Indian tuk tuk
Spicy Frog
Mario D'Souza
Cécile Pitois
Projet Indian Electronic Music
Audio Pervert
Electric Vocuhila
North & West Africa
Majnun / Africa tour
Japan / Korea
Yacht club – Asian tour
Marie Cherrier – Les Bas fonds de Paris au Danemark
Music box Village
About Yanai Lab
Since the beginning of the group, Electric Vocuhila mixes influences jazz, free jazz and free funk (in reference to Ornette Coleman and its Prime Time Band) and is inspired by various African music, but also of many contemporary Malagasy music (related to artistic movement called the Tsapiky), Zimbabwean and Congolese (like the Sébène and other musics from the Congolese rumba).
In 2015, the group met guitarist Damily and his musicians, one of the largest tsapiky bands. Damily is even at the origin of the beginnings of this current in the south-west of Madagascar. The guitarist now lives near Angers for about fifteen years.
He supported the group in their approach to understanding and understanding this music, which they have been using up to now through recordings and videos, as well as discovering the issues (when the trance that it causes is used to communicate with the ancestors and the healing of the sick) and the contexts in which it is played (mainly marriage and burial ceremonies that last several days).
This meeting gave rise to several compositions for Electric Vocuhila. If the band did not share the stage with Damily, it has already been invited to play in the first part of the famous guitarist, as the music of the jazz band resonates with the authentic pieces tsapiky of the Malagasy artist.
The trip to Madagascar (especially to Tulear) quickly became obvious.
Beyond observing and studying Tsapiky traditions, it is important to understand what can integrate their musical vocabulary, to question their practice, their relation to dance and trance. The ultimate goal of this immersion is, eventually, to share the stage with Malagasy musicians or dancers and to create together a new repertoire quite original, born from this fusion.
When we think of Madagascar, we think of its mafana rhythms, hot, which characterize the north of the country. Down in the south, the heat becomes stifling.
In Tulear, a city carried on the Mozambique Channel, the music is like the weather: boiling. This is how we approach the Tsapiky.
If you want to define the music tsapiky, we hear a hellish beat on batteries zebu skin, electric guitars riddled, high-pitched voices that vibrate your eardrums, a saturated sound and from the hardware tinkered. The musicians, they seem to knit on a groove that appears upside down, at a frantic pace. In practice, the audience is carried away and rubs shoulders with a state of trance.
In a country of music between traditions, evangelization and varieties, the Tsapiky is the terrible child of the class: indomitable, angry as much as jubilant, he built himself on the sidelines by appropriating the repertoire of local "traditional" music for boost it.
Remedy of horse to the misery ambient, the Tsapiky is overbooked: that one gets married, that one buys a new car, that one makes to circumcise his son, that one is depressed, that one buries the ancestors or that they are dug up to party with them, the Tsapiky leads the dance.
Nurtured by sound influences and instruments by Congolese, Kenyan and Mozambican music, Tsapiky has been associated since the 1960s and 1970s with village music from southern Madagascar. The result, borrowed from flavors, is halfway between local traditions and modern daring. The guitar leads the dance and is often supported by the bass-drum combo.
In this project, Electric Vocuhila goes to the source of a contemporary musical trend that has been a strong inspiration for him for many years. On the spot, in Madagascar, the musicians wish to meet the artists who were born with this way of creating, but also to celebrate, to heal, to live. Yes, because the Tsapiky promises to be a real adventure of life.
The collaboration with the Tsapiky musicians or those who live to the rhythm of the Tsapiky is obvious but the goal of the Electric Vocuhila musicians is not to go to Madagascar to come and do the Tsapiky as the purists. It is a question of coming first as an observer to be able to conceive then, in their own way and by drawing on their own musical and artistic experiences, and to find possible convergences with Malagasy artists.
"We do not want to imitate the Tsapiky musicians," says Maxime Bobo, saxophonist, and keyboardist Electric Vocuhila. "We are interested in the meaning and content of this music, beyond its aesthetic aspect, in order to question and nourish our vision and our way of doing music as we have developed them in places dedicated to music and not – like the tsapiky – in the context of festivals and traditional ceremonies where music has another function (celebration, trance, healing etc …) ".
It will be a question of crossing the road of the Malagasy of Tulear, leaving an open door on the opportunities to play and to feed, during each day of the trip, of all the tradition Tsapiky.
The four boys of Electric Vocuhila already have a clear idea of what they expect: they would like to borrow part of the tradition tsapiky – and why not dance, embodied by professional Malagasy dancers – to create a unpublished show of new compositions inspired by Tsapiky music specially designed during the trip, hand in hand with the artists chosen for this collaboration. A restitution (mixing diffusions of the show and cultural actions) would take place in France, and will be considered also in Madagascar with the contacts of local diffusers which were identified.
In order to better prepare this trip, which will take the form of a residence, Maxime Bobo (saxophonist and keyboardist, member of Electric Vocuhila) will leave in December 2018 to discover Madagascar and its tradition Tsapiky as ambassador of the group. He enjoys a tour of Damily and his group in Madagascar to meet influential broadcasters and a series of Tsapiky artists. Among the identified contacts, the French Institute of Antananarivo and the Alliance Française de Tulear, who seem to be the privileged interlocutors on the project as the musicians of Electric Vocuhila conceived it.
Project planed for 2020-2021
Yanai Lab is looking for a production trainee !
Yanai Lab moves to PlatO
Steak represented Region Centre-Val de Loire at Xchange 2017 !
Spicy Frog arrives in France in October
Audio Pervert et Fuzzy Logic shared the stage in Mumbai !
Anaïs Rambaud
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Ghosts. Some will stay with you. Some will leave you.
It goes far beyond trick or treat. Many of my ghosts still go "Boo!" in the night, but, most of them haunt me from afar. Actually, some of my ghosts aren't dead at all — they're very much alive.
I still find it difficult to believe that this is my third, sober Halloween. The first was euphoric. My first holiday after getting clean, I sat on a chilly porch in a big, grey hoodie. I wore a knit animal hat with my best friend, who had one too. We laughed, passed out candy, and I felt like — for the first time — I had finally discovered what I wanted in life and that I had it — sitting there on that porch — sober. My second Halloween, I was completely lost. This time last year, I was more haunted than ever. I was flanked by ghosts — most of which, weren't even mine. I wore a blonde wig. I sat, with over a year of sobriety, wishing I were somewhere else — someone else. I wanted to change a situation that wasn't mine to change. I ignored my own fear. I hid from it. I took a smug selfie, which I posted on Facebook with the caption: "So, blondes really do have more fun." I thought that if I typed it out, maybe I would believe it were true — It wasn't. Even my smirk lied.
This year, I don't know what to expect. I feel a ghost walking next to me. Part of me wants to run. Part of me wants to offer up my skeleton-hand. Sometimes the only way to chase away spooks is to face them. Look them in the eye. And, sometimes, it's best to realize that ghosts are ghosts, and to leave them, where they belong, in the ground.
Sobriety makes choices like these, easier. I know what's practical, rational, and even wise. But, knowing has no bearing on my impulse. When I feel, I feel big. My heart opens like a flower, or it seizes up like the breaks on a runaway train. I've lived in my own extremes. My first and second Halloween in sobriety were my typical modus operandi — High/Low. Utopia/The Underworld. So, what's next? What follows up the two, opposite ends of the spectrum? Normalcy? Mediocrity? Boredom? Stability? Do I want those things?
I think of that first year, my friend, smiling, in his blue-cat-hat. How I shoved Reece's Peanut Butter cups into my face and thought: This is what it's really about — Joy. Laughter. Freedom. Love. — That porch was cold, but heat radiated from a new place in my heart and I felt a warmth I hadn't realized I had inside myself. I think how, a year later, that same warmth had burned out. How even warm rooms felt cold. How ghosts filed in and took what wasn't theirs to take. How I hid inside myself and kept smiling. I didn't know — A blonde wig wouldn't fool anyone. Even myself.
I wish I had some crumb of wisdom for you in this post. I wish I could offer something honest and true that would carry some weight. A bit of hope. A story where all the costumes fit. A story where the candy doesn't rot your teeth. But, all I can think about is how it feels — being haunted. Quiet, secretive, and dark. I suppose it's only appropriate that as All Hallows' Eve nears, all the undead and invisible spirits have come to pay me a visit. My own heart-hinges are creaky and they echo here in my haunted-house-head.
I offer up a prayer for the dead. For the ghosts that still haunt me and for those that have gone their own way. It's the best I can do. I pray that, this year, things fall on even ground. That there is happiness and reverence. That, whether my wig is on or off, I am who I am — without fear.
As for the ghost at my side — there's no escaping it — I reach out my skeleton-hand.
I don't worry about the obvious things.
When I enter a state of worried-panicked-frenzy, I know better than to examine what's right in front of my nose. I have always managed to keep those details well tended. The thing I am wary of: The periphery.
I, like many alkies and addicts, am very good at keeping up appearances. I know what to say and how to say it — even to myself. I mastered that skill long, long ago. Back while I was still drinking, I had to convince myself, and you, that I was not only OK, but, better than OK. — Great. Stellar. Perfect.
These days, I often find myself painfully sober. So, I keep up other appearances. Without the booze, emotions and feelings become a special-kind-of-complicated — communicating them, containing them, and sometimes hiding them — even more so. I feel it, the hair on my arms stands up as the pub turns on it's magical-magnetic-tracking-device. I fight the pull. But, I keep quiet, because I'm OK. — I think.
But, that's how it happens. Or, so I'm told. Seasoned, sober old-timers will tell you that it starts, first, with that teeny-tiny, itty-bitty, little thought — You're OK. The second thought becomes — well, a bourbon might end up being OK too. And, the third thought — there's no time for that — because you're already seated on a bar stool. Struck drunk.
It isn't obvious. All these little things appear innocuous. The fucking periphery.
So, I tread lightly. I can't see where or how all the shit starts to pile up. But, I'm starting to notice my own cracks and how they've widened. I'm no fortune teller. I can't say when or how, or even if, it will collapse. Yeah. Maybe, it won't collapse. But, it's there — the little voice that tells me — It. Just. Might. Collapse.
The not-so-obvious feeling. That's the one that worries me.
On a Friday night, I stay in as a precaution. I sit at the dining room table and I write it down in Sharpie marker on a little, maroon notepad — the most obvious thing I can think of: Don't fuck it up.
I pour myself another cup of coffee.
It's tenuous and tenacious — my sobriety. In this moment I respect it's power. I allow my unwise inclinations to dissolve. I let them go. I don't judge them.
Lots of things can happen, the good and the bad. So, I decide to open my eyes a little bit wider. I monitor the periphery closely.
In a still moment, my little feelings subside. My coffee mug is still warm in my hands. I'm here. Now. And — I'm OK.
Better than OK. — I'm Great. Stellar. Perfect.
Sometimes, I don't know myself.
Getting sober has been a crazy evolution. I've glided, then bounced, through various stages of metamorphosis. But, despite charting my own movements, I'm still a stranger.
What's even scarier than not knowing the person I've become — is liking her. She sees things in a new, easy-going way. She's funny. She doesn't care about crap that doesn't matter — for the most part anyway. She's more and more consistent with every month that passes. And, sometimes, that means she's a consistent mess, but there's a stability in her clutter that feels like some kind of Darwinian progress.
She's shown me that when I let myself cave and make some room, I have the ability to develop into a different, better version of myself. For a time, I kept things as small as possible — contained them. I used to think that if any one thing got too big — it would all go to shit. Back then, I was set on taking things. Now, the space I inhabit is given to me. There isn't an internal struggle for territory any longer. I'm kinder to myself. I respect my own wisdom. And, while I will still break my own rules, my own promises, and occasionally my own heart — I know that I can trust myself to see things as they are.
A fog has lifted. My mind no longer talks in a desperate, panicked voice. I'm less apologetic: Life's too short for desperation. — Take me or leave me.
This stranger I've allowed to inhabit my space — I listen to her — even if I choose to ignore her advice. Like me, she is sensitive and pragmatic, but, she knows where a bit of tough love and recklessness will serve her — and us. She has good ideas. Sometimes, I even think I trust her.
So I do this thing — this dancing with myself. And, it's not so bad. We cut a rug almost as well as my father and I do at family weddings. This woman suit I wear — it fits better than when I first tried it on. I'm almost comfortable. Maybe the older, more rigid version of myself has finally softened. And, suddenly, this person I never intended to be — the one I avoided — has become the best version of me yet. Go figure.
Sometimes strangers will offer you candy — let yourself be tempted. This other version of me — She was patient. She was kind. She moved slowly, allowing me to change without seeing or feeling it. She snuck into my day to day being. And, just like that — I was someone new.
Like a chameleon, I shed that skin — old feelings and people — it feels good. I discover that those things we hold on to so desperately are the things that we need to let go of most. Discarding the older version of yourself, the one that no longer fits, is liberating — like tossing out your "fat jeans." It's more than a costume change. It's a declaration.
Give in. Go without a fight. Evolve.
Take the candy.
My giggle has snowballed.
What started off as a thin curve in the corner of my mouth, now parts my teeth and lips. Old, stale air busts out of my lungs, exhaling dust, like a door being pulled off an ancient, sealed tomb. It's more than just a breath — I let everything go. I once sat, tight-lipped and quiet, but now — wild noises erupt from my face.
Laughter. It's happening.
At unpredictable times, with unpredictable rhythms, and in unpredictable places. It's disconcerting — and glorious.
Up until recently, laughter was something I used with caution — I guarded it. I covered my mouth with my hands. Laughter seldom passed these lips that, for a long while, only spoke solemn words. Back then, I let all the jesters in my life perform without reward. I held on tightly to a pain that, I was sure, laughter would invalidate. So, it leaked it out in small spurts, like little coughs, that barely sounded.
I have since learned to let things escape.
Now, I hold my knees together while my stomach shakes. I laugh — tears streaming from the corners of my eyes, running over my cheekbones — which are sore from smiling. Sometimes, I think I need to be sedated. But, instead of quieting the squeals of my sweet abandon — I let them loose. It frees me up. It makes space for the things that need the room. It allows others to do the same. The word "infectious" is not an appropriate one here. This thing — this audible joy — is not a disease. It's the cure.
Laughter is its own form of permission. The first time I set it free — along with the ancient air that sat trapped in my gut — I felt like I might be sick. I didn't know what I was letting go of. I have learned to embrace the vacancy. There is just an empty space now, but, it's not a void that needs filling. So, I leave it — happily unoccupied.
Today, I snort out my pleasure like a pig in shit. I sit in front of the TV screen and let it hit the chords I cannot hit myself. I let a friend's sarcasm rub me the right way. I feel it — my own fresh air — rushing up the sides of my chest. I belt out chuckles that travel from the couch to the kitchen.
Laughter is the great necromancer. Something in me is alive again.
I feel it rise in my throat. I throw my head back. I let it escape me.
Now, who's got a good joke?
Queen Of Tides
October 1, 2014 October 1, 2014 2 Comments
The tide goes out.
Fucking planetary shifts. Everything feels like it's moving but, in truth, it all remains the same.
I've been toggling between complete abandon and steadfast rigidity. Even in my sobriety, there is lack of balance. I make subtle shifts in an attempt to adjust, but, I'm still unsure if I'm putting my weight on the right foot. I only know one thing for sure: I cannot keep standing still.
Change is like pulling teeth. Gritty, bloody, then sore. I'm the Queen of Comfortable. I like knowing what's next. Guarded. Predictable. Safe. But I'm finding, these days, that I've started to lose interest in safety. Being stationary — a statue in status quo — has never been my forte. But, moving in a different direction is scary. There are only certain people and things I can count on — what if they don't move when I do?
I ask myself, should I listen to my mother? Or God? Or my heart? — Are they all the same? Is the crazy, homeless guy outside my apartment window my guru? — Probably not, a friend tells me. So who's the expert? Is it me? Maybe that little voice going off inside me isn't wrong. Starting over is hard. Starting from scratch is harder. I try to remember that I've become skilled at wading through the changing tides.
I wonder how many things I'll change my mind about this week. Which dreams I'll abandon — And what I'll exchange them for.
I sometimes think about what I'm missing while I'm busy giving myself lectures on why things can't and won't turn out well. Being careful, playing my cards right, waiting until the iron is hot, then striking — it's all a satin bow on my rotting pile of procrastination. I'm tired of waiting. For a long time it was someone else who held my strings in place. Now, I've no one to blame but myself.
I lay quietly in the dark — I allow myself to hear the sad thoughts that make my heart turn to glop. It's the stillness, not the mayhem, that draws the tide back in — gravity. The water glides with such ease, when it's finally pulled back into the well at the ocean's core, it leaves behind soft lines in the sand — they wait under the waves until the water peels back like wrapping paper.
The moon is up. And, I think — maybe I'll do something crazy.
Everything is different. Gravity.
The tide comes in.


It's important to have slides and/or photographs for insurance purposes, brochures and PR materials, exhibitions and galleries. Here are some tips that should help you. Just take your time and learn what works for you. Believe me, if I can do it, you can, too.
Use a 35mm single lens reflex (SLR) camera or a digital 4-megapixel or higher camera, manual or automatic with manual override and 50-55mm lens or zoom lens. Read your instructions!
Use a sturdy tripod with tilt and rotation and a cable release or self-timer to reduce risk of camera shake.
Shoot indoors with two 500-watt photo flood lamps (3200K) mounted in reflectors.
For slides, I use 3200K tungsten Ektachrome Professional films, ISO 100, which can be processed in 3 hours. If I need to re-shoot, I can often do it the same day. For prints indoors with lights, I use an 80A conversion filter and ISO 200-400 film. For digital I set the white balance for tungsten lighting.
Fasten art to a flat, black background with double-stick tape, tacks or use a black mat. Place on the wall or on an easel. The art must be parallel to the camera lens, the center of the lens pointing at the center of the art. Use a bubble level to be sure camera and art are level. Tape a gray/color scale next to the art if your slides are for reproduction.
Lamps should be 4-5 feet away from the art, behind the camera at 45 degree angle on each side and at the same height as the camera. Check to be sure there are no hot spots, shadows or shine reflecting off the art. (An artist on the Internet says he places plastic wrap over the painting so he can check for hot spots. He removes it before shooting his slides.) The room should be completely dark when you shoot. Cover the windows and turn out the lights. For textured work like collage try raking the light, using just one light from the side and adjusting the exposure accordingly.
Fill the viewfinder or LCD (digital) with the IMAGE ONLY, centered and absolutely square to the sides, top and bottom. Move the camera or zoom lens, not the art.
Focus carefully in the center of the art.
Take a meter reading using an 18% gray card or a large piece of 18% gray mat board. Set the f-stop at f8-f16 and adjust the speed according to the instructions with your camera to get the best exposure. When you shoot a picture, take three exposures (bracket exposures), one at the setting, one a half-stop above and one a half-stop below. Take three shots at each exposure and you should have 3-6 good slides to choose from. Record the settings for each slide as you take them, so you can tell which ones work best. In my experience with my equipment, watercolors or light-value artwork need to be slightly overexposed for better color saturation.
The best combination for me is a slow speed setting (1/8, 1/15, 1/30 sec.) with a high f/stop (f11 or f16) for color saturation and sharp image. Since my digital camera has only an f8 stop, I can't photograph at such a low speed.
Check camera batteries and make sure ISO setting matches film. If your digital has ISO settings, use a lower setting for less &noise&. Load your film or your media card.
Outdoor light is inconsistent in most areas, but you might experiment with it in a pinch.
I recently got good results shooting indoors under full-spectrum fluorescent lights, using outdoor print film (Kodak Gold 400). I set up with the artwork facing the open door on a bright day. This may also work with a digital camera if it has settings for color-corrected fluorescent lights.
Once you get the hang of it, you won't have to shoot so many slides. Try to shoot as many originals as you can, especially if they might be used for reproduction. Duplicates are never as sharp. For best results, always take your film to a professional color lab, not a one-hour photo processor. For digital media find a shop that can make slides from digital files.
Group your artwork by size and shoot the same sizes in sequence, so you don't have to adjust the camera or easel so much. If your pieces are a standard size, place tape on the floor to mark the position of the camera, lights and easel or art stand and also the placement of the art. It will save you time when you shoot again.
The best reference I've found is Photographing Your Artwork by Russell Hart. I haven't found anything yet on shooting art with digital cameras.


The development offers ground floor retail space with a large yard to the rear. Subject to the necessary planning the property could offer significant development for both residential flats and houses.
Interested parties will need to contact Clarke & Crittenden for more details.


Washington, DC – Thousands of activists held more than 270 vigils urging President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline following the release of the State Department's Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement. The Keystone XL pipeline will be a huge source of climate pollution and clearly fails the climate test set by President Obama.
CREDO, the Sierra Club, Rainforest Action Network and 350.org, among a host of other groups, organized the vigils following the State Department's release of the final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) on Friday. Protests across the country, including major events in Washington, DC, New York City, Chicago and San Francisco, included thousands of demonstrators urging the president to keep his word in the fight against climate change and reject the controversial pipeline.
Keystone XL is a tar sands pipeline that would transport some of the dirtiest crude oil on the planet from Alberta Canada, and across American soil for export. The vigils are part of a nationwide campaign to try and stop the pipeline from ruining the climate and endangering communities along the proposed pipeline route.


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        /// </summary>
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        {
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                    return _defaultValue;
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A very rare Camaro is now for sale. Ever wanted a 2010 ZL575? Now is your chance!
Have all stock parts, that will be included in Sale.
Effective Thursday, November 21, 2013, Chevrolet will temporarily suspend order processing for the 2014 Camaro ZL1 model and the SS Performance Package (RPO: 1LE) due to the effect of cold weather on the performance tires for these models. Again, it is only a temporary suspension that does not impact the Camaro LS, LT and SS models ordered without 1LE. Order processing for the 2014 Camaro ZL1 and the SS Performance Package (RPO: 1LE) will resume on Tuesday, February 11, 2014.
The suspension of ordering will impact Camaro production from January 2014 to March 2014. It is expected any ZL1 or SS models with the Performance Package (RPO: 1LE) produced through December 2013 will be shipped to dealers.
The other ordering issue involves the 2014 Camaro Convertible beige top (RPO: 67T). The beige convertible top will end production for the 2014 model year during the month of January 2014 -- due to our Camaro Spring Edition Package that will go into production then. The last opportunity for dealers to submit orders for convertibles with the beige top (RPO: 67T) will be the Dealer Order Submission Process (DOSP) cycle that starts Thursday, December 5, 2013 and concludes Tuesday, December 10. 2013 -- therefore -- if you desire a 2014 Camaro with a Beige convertible top - you need to visit your dealer immediately to place your order.
The end of beige top production does not impact the availability of the black top (RPO: 19T). As a reminder, the recently announced 2014 Camaro Spring Special edition, when ordered with a convertible model, will include a blue convertible top.
Thank you for you continued enthusiasm for all things Camaro!


The Romanian Ministry of Health's Eurocopter EC135 helicopter fleet will be increased with two additional helicopters ordered as part of a framework contract signed last year covering a total six of the twin-engine rotorcraft.
This new agreement will lead to deliveries of the latest two EC135s during 2012, and provides follow-on to an initial helicopter ordered and delivered last year in the framework contract with the Eurocopter Romania affiliate. As part of the mission equipment, Romania's rotorcrafts are outfitted with an emergency medical services kit provided by Austria's Air Ambulance Technology.
The Romanian Ministry of Health's growing EC135 inventory will be used for emergency medical missions and assistance of the general population. These acquisitions are part of a wide-scale program launched by the government to develop its medical evacuation and support capabilities, building on the services provided by two previously-ordered EC135s that are owned by Ministry of Health, along with two EC135s of the Ministry of Administration and Interior (MAI). All four helicopters are operated by the MAI's General Inspectorate of Aviation.
"Romania's EC135s have been demonstrating for many years their capabilities in meeting the country's mission needs for law enforcement and emergency medical missions, including operations performed during the recent severe winter," said Jean-Louis Mascle, the CEO of Eurocopter Romania. "We have committed our company's full resources to support Romania's expanding Eurocopter fleet, as well assisting in its development of a national medical evacuation network."
Eurocopter Romania was founded in 2002, and is one of the key players in helicopter support, overhaul, repair and retrofit. More than 100 helicopters - including Pumas, Super Pumas, Dauphins and EC135s - for worldwide operators have been overhauled in the subsidiary's 4,500-square meter facility at Brasov. In addition to these activities, Eurocopter Romania also has delivered more than 25 new and previously-owned helicopters.
The S.C. Eurocopter Romania SA subsidiary of Eurocopter SAS was officially created in 2002. Located in Brasov, the company has developed activities related to the civil, parapublic and military markets. Eurocopter Romania markets and sells the full range of new Eurocopter helicopters in Romania and neighboring countries, and offers close-proximity technical support to customers. It also is a key industrial center within the Eurocopter Group for repair, overhaul and upgrades of Puma and Super Puma helicopters on the worldwide market. Since the creation of the subsidiary, more than 80 Pumas from around the world have been worked on in its facilities. Eurocopter Romania has seen a steady development over the past 10 years, maintaining a growing trend in its turnover that reached 26.3 million euros in 2011.


Presentation of the diifférents musical instruments in the schools of the area.
Breadboarding comprising 4 titles, with the studio Pier Feeler.
It is the beginning of a series in concerts with Mans, with the "Bakery of the Old woman".
The group begins from the evenings spectacles in Tours, in the "Rapsodia".
Recording by FR3 Mans in the concert to the "Bakery of the Old woman".
Concert with the Festival "Rockasav" with Savigny/Braye.
Participation in the Festival of the Music with Troo.
Joel integrates the group after a few years of replacement of the boss.
Concert for the 10 years of the group trad' "Little Louis Laplanche" in Villiers/Loir, within the framework of the "Great Meeting".
Concert with the Festival of Pierrefite/Sauldre.
Concert of opening of the Festival of Montoire/Loir.
The group launches out in the recording of its first opus.
After 2 years of recognition, entry of Bulgarian Borislav to the rhythmic one.
Birth of the Web Site and the Forum.
Concert for the official publication of this second opus "the road of Balkans".


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New made-in-Ontario tooling to support Bruce Power operations for decades to come
ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc.
Jul 09, 2015, 08:28 ET
CAMBRIDGE, ON, July 9, 2015 /CNW/ - Bruce Power's maintenance and inspection activities will be enhanced through a new, state-of-the-art tooling system unveiled today by a coalition of respected Ontario-based companies that have used innovation to drive the province's nuclear industry forward by meeting the operational needs of the Bruce Power site.
"Ontario's nuclear facilities provide reliable and clean electricity. Innovation within the industry is a key driver of jobs and economic growth throughout the province," said Charles Sousa, Ontario's Minister of Finance, who was in attendance at the event. "Improving affordability and competitiveness is also key and that is why our government is committed to the refurbishment of the Bruce Power and Darlington units as part of Ontario's Long Term Energy Plan."
The Bruce Reactor Inspection and Maintenance System (BRIMS) tool is being unveiled today at ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. in Cambridge and will be shipped in the coming days by ATS to Bruce Power where it will make its debut during Bruce Power's planned outages for the balance of 2015.
"It's so encouraging to see innovation and collaboration at work sustaining jobs and economic benefits in our community and across the province," said Kathryn McGarry, MPP for Cambridge. "I'm proud of the role our local industry is playing in providing clean, affordable and reliable nuclear energy for Ontario now and in the future."
The BRIMS automated tooling system is the result of a multi-company collaboration involving Bruce Power, ATS Automation, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd., BWXT Canada Ltd., Candu Energy Inc. a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, and GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Canada.
"We are proud to be part of this important initiative for Bruce Power, a valued ATS customer," said Anthony Caputo, CEO, ATS Automation. "ATS automation solutions are at the core of mission critical processes across a wide variety of industries. We have applied our knowledge in this case to provide a very cost-effective way of inspecting and maintaining nuclear reactors."
Bruce Power provides 30 per cent of Ontario's electricity at 30 per cent below the average price and its operations inject more than $4 billion into Ontario's economy every year. Ontario's Long-Term Energy Plan is counting on Bruce Power's eight units to supply clean, reliable electricity for decades to come.
"This is an example of the nuclear industry's incredible innovation and Bruce Power is proud to be at the forefront of this world-class technology to ensure we continue to deliver clean, affordable, reliable electricity to Ontario families and business," said Duncan Hawthorne, President and CEO Bruce Power. "This new tooling builds on lessons learned from years of operation allowing for more effective execution of our inspection and maintenance activities that we carry-out on a planned basis through maintenance outages."
"The city of Cambridge congratulates all the companies involved in this successful project," said Doug Craig, Mayor of Cambridge. "Our community is proud of the role businesses like ATS Automation and BWXT Canada play in the global nuclear energy supply chain and it's encouraging to see what is possible when Ontario-based companies collaborate."
ATS is an industry-leading automation solutions provider to many of the world's most successful companies. ATS uses its extensive knowledge base and global capabilities in custom automation, repeat automation, automation products and value-added services including pre-automation and after-sales services to address the sophisticated manufacturing automation systems and service needs of multinational customers in markets such as life sciences, chemicals, consumer products, electronics, food, beverage, transportation, energy, and oil and gas. Founded in 1978, ATS employs approximately 3,500 people at 26 manufacturing facilities and 47 offices in North America, Europe, Southeast Asia and China. The Company's shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol ATA.
About Bruce Power
Bruce Power operates the world's largest operating nuclear generating facility and is the source of roughly 30 per cent of Ontario's electricity. The company's site in Tiverton, Ontario is home to eight CANDU reactors, each one capable of generating enough low-cost, reliable, safe and clean electricity to meet the annual needs of a city the size of Hamilton. Formed in 2001, Bruce Power is an all-Canadian partnership among Borealis Infrastructure Management (a division of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System), TransCanada, the Power Workers' Union and the Society of Energy Professionals. A majority of Bruce Power's employees are also owners in the business.
SOURCE ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc.
For further information: ATS: Eric Kiisel, Senior Vice President Energy, 519 653-6500; Maria Perrella, Chief Financial Officer, 519 653-6500; Bruce Power: John Peevers, 519-361-6583, [email protected]
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Q: what is the proper process to upload a react native project to a git hub repo? I created a new repo for my new local React Native project at github.com.  The create repo wizard displayed some .gitignore file options but there wasn't one specifically for React or React Native so I created the repo without a .gitignore.  The created repo on github.com displayed a drag/drop area for me to drag/drop my RN files for upload.  After I drag/dropped my project files github.com displayed an error saying that there were too many files.  So what's the proper process for me to my RN project files into a new repo on github.com?  I did a quick google and the following RN .gitignore file seems to be acceptable to reuse for my RN project, right?:
https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/.gitignore

A: Best way is to use the git commands through terminal.
Set your remote url
You can follow below steps:

*

*Open terminal, and navigate to your project folder: cd <ProjectName>

*Then add all your contents with command: git add .

*Add a message to commit: git commit -m "initial commit message"

*Finally, push your local repo to github account: git push -u origin master
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A: It's a simple process just download the git on your machine from here.
https://git-scm.com/downloads
Open the terminal on project directory then
git init
git add .
git config --global user.name "your name"
git config --global user.email "your github email address"
git commit -m "initial commit"
git push -u origin master

Note: Don't delete .gitignore file.

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Ming Hsieh Institute Medical Imaging Seminar Series
Thu, Mar 21, 2019 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Xingfeng Shao, Electrical Computer and Engineering, University of Southern California
Talk Title: Mapping Water Exchange Rate Across the Blood-Brain Barrier
Abstract: The blood-brain barrier maintains the homeostasis within the brain and the dysfunction of blood-brain barrier has been linked to multiple central nervous system diseases and psychiatric disorders. The purpose of this work is to present a novel MR pulse sequence and regularized modeling algorithm to quantify the water exchange rate, kw, across the blood-brain barrier without contrast, and to evaluate its clinical utility in a cohort of elderly subjects at risk of cerebral small vessel disease. Elderly subjects were recruited and underwent two MRIs to evaluate the reproducibility of the proposed technique. Correlation analysis was performed between kw and vascular risk factors, Clinical Dementia Rating scale, neurocognitive assessments, and white matter hyperintensities. kw was significantly higher in subjects with diabetes and hypercholesterolemia. Significant correlations between kw and vascular risk factors, Clinical Dementia Rating scale, executive/memory function, and the Fazekas scale of white matter hyperintensities were also observed. These results suggest that kw may serve as a surrogate imaging marker of cerebral small vessel disease and associated cognitive impairment.
Biography: Xingfeng Shao is a Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Danny JJ Wang's lab in USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (INI). He obtained his Bachelor degree in Engineering Physics at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, and joined USC BME department as a Ph.D. student in 2016. His research focus on MRI pulse sequence development. With background in physics and neurobiology, he has developed several MRI sequences for arterial spin labeling (ASL) and proposed a novel technique to measure water permeability across the blood-brain barrier in-vivo.
Host: Professor Krishna Nayak
Location: Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience (MCB) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
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