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Spiritual Agnosia
By David Scott
(From 1 Thessalonians Sermon Series)
We continue in our series on Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians, and we come to chapter two, verses 13-16. In the opening 12 verses of this chapter we saw Paul's deep conviction that he had been entrusted with this sacred stewardship to preach the gospel. But what would the response be as this gospel went out? He knew that God had sent him to gather in the elect, and those who had been appointed for eternal life would respond favorably to the proclamation of the gospel. But in any given city Paul didn't know exactly what he might encounter. So he is filled with thanksgiving at the way the Thessalonians had truly embraced the message, and he writes about it here in our text…
1 Thessalonians chapter two, verses 13-16…
Scripture Reading & Text Comments
Read vv.13-16
The latter part of this passage is sometimes characterized as "harsh", "vitriolic", "violent", and "anti-Semitic." Some commentators are so uncomfortable with verses 15-16 that they will say it must have been added later by someone else, that Paul could never have said this. However, there is no manuscript evidence for such a theory. Other commentators argue that these words could not have been Paul's, because they are in conflict with his seemingly more positive treatment of the Jews in Romans 9-11. But again there is no textual evidence for this, and if you read Romans 9-11 you find both sides of the equation, that is, very strong statements that the Jews are in rebellion against God, that the majority of them had been hardened, as well as strong statements holding out hope for the salvation of the remnant.
Paul loved his countrymen and longed for their salvation. Even after writing this letter while in Corinth, Paul would go on to Ephesus and continue his practice of going to the synagogue first to preach the gospel. But he wasn't going to avoid the fact that God's own people had rejected one prophet after another, something which Jesus himself says in Matthew 23. They had killed not only God's prophets, but even God's own Son. Jesus died under Pontius Pilate, and the Roman soldiers actually did the killing, but over and over again in the Gospels and the book of Acts, the Jewish authorities and the nation of unbelieving Jews as a whole are culpable for the death of Jesus.
This is the only place in Paul's letters where he comes right out and states it so clearly. Of course, Paul would have been horrified if later Christians would use his words to justify anti-Semitism.
The key thing to see is that Paul's strong language here is not anti-Semitic, it is anti-unbelief. He has equally strong language about Gentile unbelief elsewhere in his writings, such as Romans 1. Anyone—Jew or Gentile—who opposes the message of salvation going out is diametrically opposed to God himself, and thus the strong language fits, even to the point where words that were formerly only applied to the enemies of God's people the Amorites, who were said to be "filling up the measure of their sins," is here applied to the Jews who oppose Paul's message. Anyone who rejects the gospel of God rejects the Son of God, and anyone who rejects the Son of God is an enemy of God.
This is why Paul says at the end of verse 15 that the unbelieving Jews are "hostile to all men" or "opposing all mankind," by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved. Their hostility to all men is this: they try to prevent the spread of the gospel to the Gentiles. The most loving thing you can do for your fellow human beings, the most humanitarian thing, is to allow them access to the message that God has provided a way to escape his wrath through his Son Jesus.
One last textual item to note, and that is the final phrase — "the wrath of God has come upon them at last." The commentators puzzle over Paul's putting it in the past tense. Why didn't he say, "The wrath of God will come upon them at last"? Some explain this as an expression of the certainty of judgment, that God's judgment is so inevitable that it can be spoken of as a past event, for the sake of emphasis. But it seems better to take it in the sense you find in a passage like Romans 1.18ff — where we read that the wrath of God is already being revealed from heaven.
In that context the wrath of God is seen in the way that God lets unbelief run its course in all kinds of unrighteousness and immorality. Here in our text, it is a matter of God giving the unbelieving Jews over to their sin, allowing them to fill up the measure of their sin, allowing them to be hardened in their opposition to the gospel. He may also have had in mind some specific events that his readers would have perceived. Within a year or two prior of Paul writing this letter, the Jewish people had suffered greatly, including their expulsion from Rome by decree of the emperor Claudius, and the massacre of thousands of Jews in the temple during the Passover of AD 49.
These would have been vivid, recent events, and they function as a foretaste of a great judgment that would come in AD 70, which in turn is a preview of the final judgment to come upon all who oppose the Lord Jesus Christ.
John Stott, The Message of 1 & 2 Thessalonians
Wanamaker, Charles, Commentary on 1 and 2 Thessalonians
F.F. Bruce, 1 & 2 Thessalonians
Leon Morris, 1 and 2 Thessalonians
George G. Findlay, The Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians
You might remember the Robin Williams/Robert DeNiro movie Awakenings, based on the true story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, a neurologist who in the late 60s discovered beneficial effects of a new drug called L-Dopa. He applied this drug to patients who had survived the 1920s epidemic of the so-called "sleeping sickness," a terrible disease that attacked the brain, leaving some victims in a catatonic state. Dr. Sacks found that with L-Dopa, some patients could at least temporarily come out of this sleep-like state to resume a fairly normal life.
Dr. Sacks has over the years written a number of other books over the years, the most famous of which was a collection of case histories dealing with some of the more difficult neurological challenges he had ever seen. The book was entitled, "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat." If you didn't know the background you might think that title was meant to be a joke. That is what the clerk at the bookstore thought when I bought the book last week. But it was no joke. This patient's condition did result in some pretty humorous moments, but in the context of a very sad existence.
Let me share a bit of that story with you:
There was nothing wrong with that man's eyes, but he could not truly see in terms of attaching any meaning to the things he saw. They call it visual agnosia.
Our text tonight reminds us that far too often people are suffering from a kind of spiritual agnosia. They hear the message of the gospel, but it does not register with them. They can open the pages of Scripture, or they can come to church and hear a minister preaching the message of salvation through Jesus Christ, but to them it is only words. The gospel does not come in power, it does not weigh on them; there is no sense of personal appropriation of the message, no whole-hearted embrace of the message as personally relevant to them.
This is the great dividing line that runs through the human race. It may appear that two people who live in the same town, shop at the same stores, eat the same food, attend the same sporting events, and so on, are no different, but in reality there is a vast, immense, eternal difference between a person who merely hears the Word and a person who truly hears it and receives it as the Word of God.
It's interesting to note that the apostle Paul typically mentions some items of thanksgiving in his letters to the various churches, and then he usually moves on to the heart of the letter. In the case of 1 Thessalonians, he gave thanks to God for a number of things in chapter one, verses 2-10, and then moved to the topic of his ministry to them in the opening verses of chapter two. But just when we thought that he had left that note of thanksgiving behind, Paul departs from his normal structure and suddenly brings up a matter of great thanksgiving — it seems as though he wants to draw special attention to the way that the Thessalonians had embraced the gospel as what it really is, the very Word of God.
Why is this a critical issue in Paul's mind? Why would he be so filled with thanksgiving that the Thessalonians had responded this way to his gospel message? What is at stake?
Well, as we have already seen thus far in our study of the book, Paul believes that every single person's eternal destiny is at stake. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, and every person's greatest need is to have that sin forgiven, to be reconciled to God, to be welcomed back into his presence and to be spared the fury of God's wrath.
We saw back in chapter one, verses 9-10 that when Paul summarized his message to the Thessalonians, it centered on this message of Jesus being the one who could deliver you from the wrath to come. The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. Those who know Christ can take great comfort and encouragement at the prospect of the second coming. Paul says that "God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him." (5.9-10). But for those who do not embrace the gospel with all their hearts, it will be a terrifying day. 2 Thessalonians 1.9 — "They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, when he comes on that day…."
With the coming of the Lord in view, Paul had a sense of urgency, as we said last Lord's Day evening. There is salvation in no one else — there is no other name under heaven given among men by which a person can be delivered from the wrath of God. Jesus took the judicial punishment that we should have received, the wrath and curse of God. He was delivered up for our trespasses, and raised for our justification. If you hear that good news and believe it, you can have assurance that on the last day God will welcome you into his kingdom. It will be a day of rejoicing. But if you hear the message of the gospel and see it as nothing more than a human opinion, or a self-help remedy, or a philosophical school of thought, then you will face God as the avenging Judge, and you will not escape his justice.
You say, "Well, what about all those people we know who are virtuous, decent people, but who see the Bible as a merely human book?" Are they going to suffer eternal destruction away from the presence of the Lord? You have to remember that this approach, as polite as it might be on the surface, contains within itself a principle of fundamental hostility to God.
It is the same impulse that led to the atrocities mentioned in v.15 — persecution, killing the prophets, and even killing the Lord himself. There is no neutrality here. The person who will not recognize the gospel as a divine message refuses to do so because there is in that person's heart a rival deity — namely, the self. Whether a person shakes his fist against God, and violently opposes the gospel, or whether it comes out as a polite, tolerant "no thank you" to the gospel, the core principle is the same, and the outcome is the same.
And this isn't limited to unbelievers. The same fundamental opposition to God that Paul condemns here in the unbelieving Jews finds it way all too often into our heart. We struggle against the tendency to elevate our own will, our own opinion, our agenda, and our voice. We set ourselves on the throne by failing to submit to the divine authority of God's Word. We obey the commands of God selectively, only when they make sense to us, or when they fall in line with our plans and our little kingdoms.
The Word not only comes to unbelievers announcing the way to escape the wrath of God, it also comes to believers announcing the way to navigate through a dangerous, narrow path as followers of Christ. It is our map, our ammunition, our light, our protection, our greatest weapon, and our counselor. Above all, it brings us face to face with Jesus, who loved us and gave himself for us. The Word does not cease to be an urgent message once we have been converted. It is always urgent, always leading and guiding us to the way of wisdom, helping us to avoid pitfalls and temptation, to be trained in righteousness.
We all wish that we were further along in Christian maturity. We all want to be the kind of people that Paul describes in 1 Thessalonians 1 and 2 — people who are marked by deep and unwavering faith, a steadfast hope, an active and selfless love, people who are willing to suffer hardship for the sake of the truth. Those things will happen, if we receive the word as a divine Word, like these early Christians in Thessalonica. God's Word was at work in them. It will do the same in us. Amen.


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2. Be inspired. Take some time, relax, bring som inspirational material with you somewhere and create. Wherever you are, when the ideas suddenly pop up in your mind, write them down, no matter how small. Keep letting life inspire you until you have a bunch of these ideas. Try to make your ideas connect with people on an emotional level.
3. You're going to need some good writing and scheduling software. Set up your project thoroughly, with all the different elements in place from the beginning. In this way you can see how they fit together, and where strengthening is needed. The base of the project is the story and a couple of platforms. Unless you're taking on a massive Hollywood project you shouldn't need to worry about every possible platform and outlet. It's all up to you, what you want your project to look like and how you want it to be perceived.
4. When you've selected the platforms you want to work on, go back to your ideas. Expand on them, build the world around them, put them in the middle of some context and think about how you would like to introduce them, and how you will digress from them as the narrative rolls on. Which ideas would be best at the beginning, or in the middle of the narrative? What should be the grand finale? Slowly add onto these ideas and interlink them. Make sure to stay within logical boundaries and watch for errors that would throw an audience off. This is of course unless you really feel you want some of these. Many creators throughout history have sought out theoretical guidelines, but if you encounter an opportunity to do something which breaks the rules but really feels right to you in the context of the piece, you might want to leave it in.
5. Eventually you will have a number of different, fleshed-out ideas going on. Try to get them all work in the same context, yet have their own unique style. You will use this to develop the different movements of your work. Keep expanding on these ideas, adding subplots, side characters, and so on. Watch and study other great transmedia projects to hear, see and feel how they progress, to help give you ideas of your own.
6. Eventually each idea will become a decently long plot. Do a walkthrough of all the different parts of your project. Does it flow right? Change and fix anything that does not feel right. Remember the interlinking of the different parts and how they should exist in the same story world and fit logically in the same context. Keep refining your project until it is complete.
7. This creative process may take a while, but by this step you should have a fully developed transmedia project down on paper. Take it to a group of people you know closely, or perhaps a group of students, and narrate the project to them, or ask them to partake of any material you have produced so far, like written text, graphic novels, online portals etc. Observe them partake of your idea. Did they experience it like you expected? Were their reactions the desired ones? Make sure you have the possibility to write down comments and reactions on the spot.
8. Go back to your transmedia mess and make a second draft with the comments and reactions taken in. Repeat these two steps until you are satisfied.
9. Take it to someone in the industry. It depends on your idea, but could be anything from a broadcaster to a production company, from a publisher to a telecom operator, depending on your idea and the platforms you're concentrating on. Rehearse your pitch well, and reel them in with your great story and magnificent execution.
10. If you get traction and commissioning (or at least adequate funding) - Voila! Time to unleash your transmedia symphony on the world!
I would like to add to point three: learn the correct format for screenplay, comic book, treatment and so on, and put together your materials in an organized manner.
Even if you plan to produce independently rather than pitch to the institutions, you still have to show it to potential collaborators. Nothing is more disconcerting than a confusing, disorganized binder full of chicken scratch and badly formatted documents.
Well, yes. And that is a skill all to itself, the art of gathering a bunch of brilliantness and get it down to a format that is no less brilliant, but that will be equally brilliant to anyone viewing / reading / hearing it.


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The feeling of discomfort, expansion, carrying extra weight around is frustrating. Let's assess a few habits that may be playing culprit.
We all know the feeling that comes with being bloated! We blame overeating and probably not eating sometimes. However, there's more that we should know.
Salty much: Consuming salt in excess, especially when coupled with low water consumption or less mineral intake leads to water being taken out from the cells and being deposited into the spaces between cells. This gives the appearance of being puffy.
Fool us not, sweeteners: Remember binging on sugar-free candies and feeling like a balloon right after, wondering what's the point of the sugar-free status. Chemicals in artificial sweeteners don't get absorbed in the small intestine and end up in the colon, where they're fermented by bacteria. Next time, read those labels carefully – often-heard-of maltitol, xylitol, sorbitol and mannitol may not be the friends we believed them to be.
Say no to sports drinks: The way you choose to rehydrate yourself after a workout may be causing your belly to bloat. Sports drinks are loaded with sugar and sweeteners. If you're looking for hydration, water and a banana should be your go-to duo. Unflavored coconut water also does wonders.
Chew some more: We seldom paid heed when our mothers asked us to chew our food slowly. There was a reason to it. Chewing helps in pre-digesting the food by mechanically breaking it down. It then becomes easier for the saliva to break it down further via enzymes. So you can imagine when you gulp food down in a hurry, your stomach as well as the small intestine need to do extra work. Bloating is unavoidable then!
Catch a wink: Did you know our central nervous system has two branches, namely, "fight and flight" and "rest and digest". When we don't get enough sleep or are overworked, the prior begins to dominate and the smooth functioning of the gut gets affected, causing bloating.
Know the "sensitivity": Many of us walk around, eating anything that catches our interest without realizing that we may be allergic to some of it. Slow down as you eat to let your body and mind process it, take a step back to think what makes you uncomfortable.
Bloating is an indicator of trouble in paradise. It's obvious something is not right. You know your body best. Try to assess what works and what doesn't work for you. Remember to move and stay fit.


On the 10th of this month, my baby sister Jayne celebrates a birthday. Why is that important? Well, Jayne and the 300,000 or so other kids who were born in December 1964 are the last of the baby boomers to hit the big 4-0. This, in many ways, marks the end of an era. The generation that for so long has dominated American mind-sets and habits, that has permanently influenced fashion (think casual Fridays), cars (it's no coincidence that the Mustang was born the year the first boomers turned 18), music, and so much more is now "officially" all grown up. Sort of.
Actually, one of the legacies we boomers have contributed to our nation is: No one acts their age anymore. A survey I saw a few years ago said that Americans aged 35 to 85 acted 10 years younger than their chronological ages. And for entrepreneurs, that's a good thing. It gives you a wider market to sell your products and services to. Younger boomers like my sister have much in common with older Gen Xers. They share many of the same concerns and lifestyles-raising families, saving money, trying to balance work and home.
But I think one of the baby boomers' biggest contributions to our world is the entrepreneurial surge that has overtaken America since the late 1980s. Of course there were entrepreneurs before there were boomers-great ones, but they were the exception, not the rule. Today, kids going to business school aren't necessarily learning to become corporate-ladder climbers; they're studying entrepreneurship.
I'm not trying to hog credit for my generation. Indeed, our ability to embrace entrepreneurship was embedded in us by our parents, who tried to give us everything we needed and much of what we wanted. And we, in turn, passed this trait on to our kids and grandkids. Today, entrepreneurial thinking is not confined to business owners-it's not even restricted to business. We have teachers, artists, scientists and doctors (among others) who now embrace what were once conceived of as unconventional-and in some cases, unacceptable-behaviors.
It's now OK (well, more than OK) to be an entrepreneur. It didn't used to be. I've mentioned before that one of the early studies of entrepreneurs equated their traits to those of juvenile delinquents: don't follow orders, don't go along with the crowd, have their own ideas about how to do things. These, to be sure, are entrepreneurial characteristics, but they are also qualities largely associated with baby boomers.
Boomers are so large a generation (there are 77 million of us) that, as I said above, we've always affected the marketplace. And now that we're aging (the first round of boomers turn 60 in 2006), that will create more opportunities and challenges for entrepreneurs. We're demanding products and services for ourselves, for our aging parents, and for our kids and grandkids. And smart entrepreneurs are filling those needs. "For an idea of what will be hot, check out "Fever Pitch." It's our annual look at the ideas, trends and businesses that will dominate in 2005. I'm certain you'll find it useful.
The past year has been a transitional year for many entrepreneurs. Hopefully, 2005 will bring prosperous times for all. All of us at Entrepreneur wish all of you a safe, happy and healthy holiday.


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August 3rd, 2010 1 comment
The grim reaper evidently is a big football fan, stepping up his reaping only after the World Cup concluded (taking, however, the great South African saxophonist Robbie Jansen before its conclusion), but then with a vengeance. The most notable musician this month may be Harvey Fuqua, whose impact on music was mostly behind the scenes. Fittingly, Marvin Gaye on the last track of his last album paid tribute to his mentor. Just a short while after Big Star"s Alex Chilton, Andy Hummel died.
A couple of session musicians who played on rock classics passed on. I usually don"t include technical staff other than influential producers. But as a sound engineer Bill Porter shaped the Nashville sound. We all know songs that he has produced (many have featured on this blog), including classics by the Everly Brothers, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Skeeter Davis, Hank Locklin, and Jim Reeves. Also passing on is the relatively obscure funk and soul singer Melvin Bliss, whose 1973 b-side Synthetic Substitution became a staple hip hop sample (for a list, see here)
But the most tragic death came towards the end of the month when the jazz drummer Chris Dagley — who also was a session man (as featured on jazz singer"s Claire Martin"s latest album) "" died in a motorbike accident on the way home from playing a gig at London"s famous Ronnie Scott"s. He leaves behind his wife and three kids.
Tracks listed for each entry are on the compilation linked to at the end of this post.
Ilene Woods, 81, American singer and actress, on Juy 1
Ilene Woods – Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (from Cinderella, 1950)
Harvey Fuqua, 80, singer with The Moonglows and record producer, on July 6
Harvey & The Moonglows – Ten Commandments Of Love (1959)
Marvin Gaye – My Love Is Waiting (1982) Read more…
Categories: In Memoriam Tags: Big Star, Bobby Bare, Claire Martin, Cochran Brothers, Elvis Presley, Marty Robbins, Marvin Gaye, Neil Young, Ray Goodman Brown, Robbie Jansen, Simon and Garfunkel, Skeeter Davis, The Moments, The Moonglows, Tony Schilder, Walter Hawkins, Wanda Jackson, Youssou N'Dour


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Bún Riêu – Crab noodle soup. A typical street vendor's dish which is available in a variety of choices. Originally, soft shell crabs were used, so-called because they were caught when they had just molted their old exoskeleton and were still soft enough to eat. Soft shell crabs are really blue crabs.
Soft shell crabs are difficult to find over here but tinned crab meat is an adequate substitute.
Check in Asian markets for a spice paste made with crab meat which is sold in small tins as "gia vị cua nấu bùn riêu". Of course, the taste is not completely authentic but, again, it is an adequate substitute.
Bring 1,5l water to the boil in a pot. Preheat the oven to warm 4 soup bowls.
Drain crab meat into a bowl and combine the meat with the spice paste, the eggs, and the pork mince.
If you get fresh crabs: Pound the crabs in a mortar into a fine paste. Sift through the crab meat carefully and make sure you only use the soft and edible bits. During the cooking process, the protein contained in the crab meat will rise to the top.
Make incisions into the tomatoes at the bottom end. Put them into the boiling water briefly until the skin starts to come off. Remove from water, briefly douse with cold water and pull skin off completely. Remove stem ends. Chop and set aside. Skin and finely chop the shallot. Heat the oil in a pan and braise the shallot and tomatoes with the fish sauce at medium heat until the shallot is soft and the tomato liquid has evaporated.
Clean and wash the spring onions. Cut 2 spring onions lengthwise into 2-inch-pieces, then quarter them lengthwise, and add to the tomatoes.
Cook the rice noodles according to package instructions and drain.
Once the water has reached boiling point, add the rice vinegar. Then gently drop the crab meat into the water, giving it just a brief stir, and wait for the water to come to a boil again. The crab meat will curdle. Turn the heat down immediately, use a slotted spoon to remove the thickened crab meat which should now resemble egg royale in consistency and set aside. Mix the fermented rice with 80ml water and pour through a sieve into the crab cooking liquid. Add the tomatoes and shallot and simmer at very low heat until flavors have combined. Season with salt and pepper, possibly a pinch of sugar.
Cut the remaining spring onions into thin rings. Wash the lettuce head, then shake dry, and cut into very fine strips like you would with a cabbage. Wash the herbs and dry on kitchen paper. Use scissors to cut the long coriander across into fine strips, and to cut the perilla leaves in fine strips. Pull the cilantro apart, remove leaves from the remaining herbs, discard the stems, cut into bite-size pieces, if necessary.
Make a herb plate from all these ingredients.
Distribute the rice noodles into the soup bowls, add a piece of crab meat each, and fill up with soup. Top with fried shallots. Dilute the mam tom fish paste with a bit of water and add.
Serve with the herb plate and use the soup as a dip for the lettuce and herbs.
If you want it spicier, heat frying oil in a small pan, heat the chili powder for 1 minute at low heat, and serve as chili sauce condiment.


Diversification is a notion that the funds management industry knows all too well … except, sometimes, when it comes to its own workforce.
And Fidelity International's Alva Devoy says now — in the wake of the royal commission into financial services — is the time to talk about improving the gender balance in the industry, arguing every part of the financial chain needs to lift its game.
Devoy, managing director of Fidelity in Australia, says a gender imbalance has skewed the industry's thinking and the belief system.
She adds that it is a good time to be talking about gender balance in financial services, given the massive shift in the industry following the royal commission into the sector.
"While it will be disruptive, it will be a good shift because it is in the client interest," Devoy tells The Australian.
"It means every part of the chain has to lift their game. We have to elevate our game and be better, because now those that we are engaging with will be demanding more from us.
Fidelity International, which oversees nearly $400 billion in funds across Asia, is a member of the Mercer industry initiative, Future IM/Pact, which aims to attract more women to asset management.
Mercer did a study in 2016 to determine the major barrier for women getting into asset management, and concluded it was a lack of knowledge that the profession existed. "A lot of financial services are lumped in under investment banking … if somebody did talk to an undergraduate about asset management, they would probably think about it under that heading," Devoy says.
She adds that research has shown that women, because they are less likely than men to take risks, are great money managers.
She points to research, released by Fidelity this week, that shows that when it comes to investing, men are driven more by performance and take more risks than women.
QIC managing director of Global Liquid Strategies, Susan Buckley, says the motivation for more female participation in the industry is as much about financial outcomes as it is about striving for equality.
"The way we manage investments in the modern world is less of the star fund manager approach and more a team approach … that thrives on diversity," she says.
After 30 years in financial markets, Buckley has seen her fair share of male army bargy but says the industry is more focused on closing the gap and encouraging women into the workforce than ever, helped by changes in technology. "Especially when it comes to portfolio management, the research might say that genders approach risk differently and females focus more on the downside risk, but I think diversity has brought a great breadth to our investment approach.
For UBS head of fixed income, Anne Anderson, male champions have been key to changing industry perceptions.
"They have been change agents, whether it be for their daughter, sister or wife. Having men as allies has been the biggest single change that I have observed," Anderson says.
Discussing returning to work after her first child, notably without any maternity leave pay, she says she bought "options" on her future and stressed that women needed to do the same, whether it be in their career or with their finances. "I spent my entire salary on having a nanny. I bought options for myself to ensure that I had a deep and rewarding career alongside my caring responsibilities … I didn't shy away from taking charge and I didn't expect people to take it easy on me.
"Sometimes you have to make a downpayment in an option that may not pay off for a long time but you need to have a longer-term view of your career." Anderson is not one to dwell on the male-female ratios or advocate for gender quotas, saying instead the conversation should be about balance and that "balance is good for business".
Global head of Future of Finance at the CFA Institute, Rebecca Fender, is in Australia presenting the findings of a study into what is working in attracting and retaining top female talent in the investment industry.
While 65 per cent of companies involved stated a diversity goal, she says there needs to be a greater understanding of the reasons behind it.
"Our sole motivation for looking at diversity is how to improve investor outcomes — having diverse perspectives has been found to improve outcomes," she says, but rules out any talk of quotas.
Mercer's future impact program to attract more women to asset management involves mentoring programs, graduate programs and a range of events.
"At Fidelity we are lucky to have female role models. We have two active portfolio managers and two active equity analysts in Australia, who are available to undergraduates to say you can do this," Ms Devoy says.


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LOI: Clubs Seek To Avoid European Hangover
Bohemians –v- Cork City 7:45
Bohemians host title chasing Cork City at Dalymount Park.
Having not played since the 1-1 with St Patrick's Athletic on July 13, Bohemians will be looking to get one over on their in-form opponents. Currently in seventh position, the Dublin side will be relatively pleased with their current form but will look to move up the table to as high as sixth by the weekend's close.
Goals from Billy Dennehy and Mark O'Sullivan gave Cork City a 2-1 win against UCD last week. That win wasn't enough to put them top as they sit second in the league on goal difference. The leesiders will be out for another three points in order to put pressure on league leaders Dundalk, anything but a win and significant momentum could be lost.
Prediction: Away win Continue reading →
Athlone Town
Hadjuk Split
Shakhtyor Soligorsk
St Patricks Athletic
World Cup 2014: The Story So Far
With the World Cup group stages now having come to an end, we're here to provide a full review of the action over the last week, as people get geared up for the knockout rounds. There have been plenty of twists and turns in this World Cup so far, and you can find out how all the groups ended right here.
Brazil were in a strong position at the end of the first week, having beaten Croatia and earned a draw against Mexico. With their final group game this week, they put a tepid Cameroon side to the sword, winning 4-1. Neymar notched another two goals, adding to his claim to be the tournament's star performer. Even more encouraging for the host side, the under-fire striker Fred notched his first goal of the tournament, easing the pressure a little. But Brazil will need big improvements, with the knockout rounds up next. Continue reading →
Georgio Chiellini
Georgios Samaras
Leroy Fer
World Cup 2014: Recap Of Week One
The first week of World Cup 2014 is now behind us, and there has been plenty of talking points and memorable moments. Here is our recap of all the action that has taken place so far.
The opening game between Croatia and the host nation Brazil was the sole game on Thursday, and provided no end of controversy. Croatia had taken a well deserved early lead against a sluggish Brazillian outfit, before Neymar conjured an equaliser out of very little to get the home fans on their feet. Yet they failed to get the upper hand in the contest, until the referee awarded a very controversial penalty to Fred as he tumbled under Dejan Lovren's presence in the penalty area. Neymar converted, and Oscar wrapped up the 3-1 win with a good finish from outside the box, although there was strong suspicion that Ramires had fouled the Croat player in possession before moving the ball to his Chelsea teammate. The home side were very unconvincing throughout, however.
The standard of the officials continued to be brought into question during Friday's first game, as the linesman ruled out two seemingly good goals for Mexico's Giovanni Dos Santos in their game against Cameroon. Mexico did eventually get the breakthrough when Oribe Peralta turned in a rebound after Charles Itandje failed to hold Dos Santos' shot. That was the only goal of the game, securing the win for the lively Mexicans, with Cameroon looking very poor. Continue reading →
Antonio Candreva
Claudio Marchisio
Giovanni Dos Santos
Jean Beausejour
Joel Campbell
Marco Urena
Mario Gtze
Mario Mandzukic
Pablo Armero
Stefan De Vrij
Teofilo Gutierrez
Tim Chill
Wilson Palacios
Long Awaited World Cup Set For Big Kick Off
The first kick-off of the 2014 World Cup will take place later this evening. If your reaction to that is a sigh of relief, then you are likely not the only one. There has been an awful lot of build-up to these finals, with the analysis and predictions and hopes and fears gradually growing louder and louder. With no major European club football to speak of for nearly a month, the only thing to do was to look forward to the major tournament ahead. Surely it is a glorious summer when possible transfer deals are not the big talking point for football heads. But the time for action has come, finally.
It is no surprise that people are excited, of course. There is no World Cup that would not be celebrated, or treated as anything but the ultimate competition the game has to offer. But this time around, it is even more special. This is a World Cup in Brazil, the home of beautiful football. It is a rare treat for the players involved, knowing that they some of them will get to claim the game's grandest accolade in the country which has always always managed to breath creativity and flair into the game at the highest level. To win a World Cup in Brazil is about as big as it gets. Continue reading →
Ivan Mocinic
Lionel Messia
Netherland and France
World Cup 2014: Predictions For Every Team
With the kick-off of World Cup 2014 now less than a week away, the excitement is starting to build. Coverage of the event is starting to really pick up, as the footballing world gets ready for the beginning of it's biggest event of any calendar year. With that in mind, I would like to put forward my predictions for every team and how they will fare, including all the teams who will fall at the group stage hurdle, all the way on to who I predict will be the eventual winners.
Group stage eliminations
The most likely victim of what is a very tough draw, Cameroon seem like long shots to emerge from Group A. Hosts Brazil, potential dark horses Croatia and Mexico make up the rest of the group, and it may well prove too much for Cameroon to claim enough points to sneak in to the knockout stages. An experienced squad led by captain Samuel Eto'o as well as veterans Alex Song and Jean Makoun, Cameroon also boast young defensive talent in Nicolas N'Koulou and Joel Matip. Unfortunately for them, it seems unlikely that they will prove good enough to edge out two of the other teams, and so it looks like three games and out for Cameroon.
It looks quite likely that Brazil and Croatia will emerge from this group, especially if the Croatians can get a point in the tournament's inaugural match. Mexico had a very ugly qualifying campaign to even reach Brazil, finishing fourth in their group, behind the United States, Costa Rica and Honduras. They eventually beat New Zealand comfortably in a play-off, but it does not augur well for them in such a tough group. Still, Mexico boast a very experienced squad, with the likes of Rafael Marquez still around to organise them. If the likes of Javier Hernandez (who has a scoring rate of better than one every two games for his country) catches fire, then maybe they have a shot. But all signs point to an early exit for Mexico.
Alan Dzagoev
Alessio Cerci
Alexander Kerzhakov
Ashkan Dejagah
Asmir Begovic
Bryan Ruiz
Eliaquim Mangala
Emir Spahic
Emmanuel Emenike
Faryd Mondragon
Felipe Caicedo
France.Ecuador
Fredy Guarin
Giorgios Karagounis
Gonzalo Higuain. Ezequiel Lavezzi
Hassan Yebda
Igor Denisov
Ivan Perisic
Jan Verthongen
Javad Nekounam
Jean Makoun
Joel Matip
Jorge Valdivia
Juan Camilo Zuniga
Kolo Toure
Kwadwo Asamoah
Kwak Tae-Hwi
Mario Gotze
Mateo Kovacic
Miralem Pjanic
Nicolas N'Koulou
Oscar Tabarez
Philip Lahm
Roman Shirokov
Samuel Eto'o
Sejad Salihovic
Senad Lulic
Sergei Ignashevich
Shinji Okazaki
Sulley Muntari
Yuri Zhirkov
Five Players To Watch At The World Cup
With just two weeks to go now until the 2014 World Cup kicks off in Brazil, it feels like time to start examining the participants in greater detail. There is hardly any point in telling you to look out for the likes of Xavi, Lionel Messi, Neymar or Cristiano Ronaldo, so instead we're going to take a look at some of the slightly lesser hyped individuals, whose performances could be the difference between their countries falling flat in the group stage or making a surprising run to the latter stages of the competition. A lot of countries at this year's World Cup will fancy their chances of going all the way, and a lot of unheralded players are about to become a lot better known. With that in mind, here are five players we have picked out to watch. Continue reading →
Champions League.Real Madrid
Jordy Clasie
Kevin Strootman
World Cup 2014: The Dark Horses
Yesterday, we had a good look at the four teams most likely to win the upcoming World Cup. What we have yet to touch on is one of the most lively debates before any international tournament. Who will be the team who emerges from nowhere to thrill the crowds and cause a few upsets along the way? Is there a team from lower down the international pecking order who can surprise us all and go all the way? Usually there is at least one team who overachieves in these competitions, and calling them right is often the difference between winning and losing the fantasy football wars, so here we will look at four teams who could potentially go from dark horses to World Cup champions in the space of a few weeks in June. Continue reading →
Adrian Ramos
Ante Rebic
Anthony Van Den Borre
Cristian Zapata
Darijo Srna
Diego Lugano
Jose Pekerman
Luis Perea
Marc Wilmots
Mario Yepes
Paris St Germain
Sebastian Pocognoli
Stipe Pletikosa
Thibaut Courtois and Simon Mignolet
Vedran Corluka
Victor Ibarbo
Zakaria Bakkali


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Counterattack at Moircy
by James McGhee | 23 Nov 2001 | Personal Accounts
By nightfall we were coming into the Belgian village of Freux Menil. It was there that we got the message that the First Battalion up ahead of us had encountered fierce enemy resistance at Moircy. Soon it became clear that the Germans were counterattacking and trying...
The Saar
I reported to Capt. Howard J. Wall of L Company, Third Battalion, 345th Infantry Regiment. At first there was not a great deal going on in the way of combat action, but on the morning of 16 December 1944, we jumped off with a fresh, full-strength company in an attack...
James R. McGhee
by James McGhee | 23 Nov 2001 | Biographies
James R McGhee was a junior 2nd Lieutenant when he joined the 334th FA at Camp McCain, Mississippi, not long out of OCS. He served in various capacities in Service and C Batteries before winding up with A Battery at Fort Jackson, SC. He joined them as a Forward...
First Combat
by Nace Mefford | 09 Nov 2001 | Personal Accounts
Colonel Cubbison was the BN 334 CO and I became his voice radio operator once overseas – in his command car. We arrived as a green division in the Saar Basin. The first night a couple of GIs walked into our farmyard – I think from the 26th division, the...


Those of us who have some kind of body art, mostly speaking tattoos, know the pain we must bear to engrave a memory for the lifetime. But what happens when that tattoo turns into a kind of scar on the body? In that case, we have to deal with another pain, tattoo removal pain. The most advanced and the favored method of removing the permanent tattoo is by laser rays.
In that case, the tattoo removal pain is like a burning sensation depending on the size and quality of the tattoo. The more the ink has penetrated inside the layers of skin, the more they have to burn your skin layers. But bearing that tattoo removal pain is not enough, you have to go on with a ghostly scar on that part of the skin for the left number of days.
Do Every Technique Comes with Tattoo Removal Pain?
No, definitely not. Only those procedures like surgical excision or burning the skin with laser beams are painful. But the tattoo removal pain for the procedures concerning scrubbing or bleaching is nil.
The tattoo removal pain in laser technology is more, but not much and also it is not a work of a day. You have to sit for multiple sessions, the time ranging between 5-7 weeks. Permanent tattoo removal takes a lot of time for the skin needs to be recovered between the tattoo removal sessions.
The tattoo removal pain also depends on factors like the position of the tattoo, the age of the person with the tattoo and the most important, the one who has done that tattoo is an amateur or a professional artist. The procedures for tattoo removal depends on the difference in saturation, depth of the ink into the skin and uniformity.
The age of your tattoo also plays an important role when it comes for the tattoo removal pain. The older tattoos are less painful to remove when compared with comparatively newer ones.
Firstly know about the permanent tattoo, how they are done, which layer of your skin gets affected, what ink will suit you the best, how will you take care of the healing process and many more. If you are aware of the certain facts, chances are more that you will go through a safe tattoo removal process.
There are some side effects of tattoo removal. When you have done your tattoo removal, the affected skin will show signs of hyperpigmentation, the skin at that part will either get lighter or darker. Do not let your skin to develop an infection. Then, it will be much painful.
Lastly, when you are done with your tattoo removal, avoid the use of any kind of antibiotics. You have to do so because the majority of antibiotics triggers your skin's sensitivity to light that can delay the natural healing process of your skin. The healing will be fast, the tattoo removal pain will be less.
If you have done a mistake, you have to bear the tattoo removal pain.


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John Miller "Ian" McColl (* 7. Juni 1927 in Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire; † 25. Oktober 2008) war ein schottischer Fußballspieler und Fußballtrainer. Er war Nationalspieler und später Trainer der schottischen Fußballnationalmannschaft.

Karriere als Fußballer
McColl schloss sich 1943 dem FC Queen's Park an. Daneben studierte er Bauingenieurwesen an der Universität Glasgow. Er unterbrach sein Studium zugunsten seiner Fußballkarriere, schloss es jedoch später ab. 1945 wechselte McColl zu den Glasgow Rangers, wo er 15 Jahre lang aktiv war. Insgesamt lief er in 526 Begegnungen für den Verein auf; in dieser Zeit gewann der Verteidiger, der in den 1950er Jahren auch Mannschaftskapitän war, mit dem Verein sechs Meisterschaften, fünf Pokalsiege und zwei Mal den Scottish League Cup. Zwischen 1950 und 1958 wurde er 14 Mal in der Nationalmannschaft eingesetzt.

Karriere als Fußballtrainer
Nach dem Ende der Saison 1959/1960 beendete McColl seine Karriere als aktiver Spieler. Im Jahr darauf berief ihn der Verband zum Trainer der Nationalmannschaft. Unter seiner Leitung gewann Schottland die British Home Championships 1962 und 1963. 1965 wurde er Trainer des FC Sunderland, wo er drei Jahre tätig war.

Weblinks
Nachruf auf USAtoday.com (englisch)
Nachruf auf timesonline.co.uk (englisch)

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Fußballnationalspieler (Schottland)
Fußballspieler (Glasgow Rangers)
Fußballnationaltrainer (Schottland)
Fußballtrainer (AFC Sunderland)
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Brite
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Gestorben 2008
Mann
Teilnehmer an einer Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft (Schottland)

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Convention bureau wins ad award
Liberty County Convention and Visitors Bureau Program Manager Amanda Scott, left, and CEO Leah Poole hold an ad campaign board that won a statewide award. - photo by Photo provided.
The Liberty County Convention and Visitors Bureau has won an award for Best Print Campaign in the Georgia Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus Best Ideas Competition.
The competition was held in conjunction with the 2016 Winter Meeting in Columbus. According to the GACVB, the competition recognizes and rewards creativity and effectiveness in marketing and advertising in Georgia's CVBs. The LCCVB won the award for best print campaign with a budget under $250,000.
"In the spring of 2015, we began working on a new marketing campaign that would highlight and show in a simple way the natural beauty of Liberty County," LCCVB CEO Leah Poole said. "Knowing that many people never see the water and coastline that we often take for granted, we felt that of the thousands of pictures we've taken of Liberty County, that several shot while out kayaking really portrayed the message we wanted to pass along. The photo paired with the #no filterneeded hashtag resonates with youth, photographers and those who enjoy nature."
The ads have appeared in several magazines throughout 2015 and 2016, including Southern Travel and Lifestyle, Georgia Connector Magazine, Georgia Travel Guide, Liberty County Magazine and Southern Living Magazine.
The ads were created in-house, using pictures taken by the Liberty CVB and existing software to add the text and logo.
"It's very exciting to win this award," Poole said. "We work hard to create content that will spark people's interest and encourage them to come explore Liberty County and all we have to offer. Winning this award gives us a confidence boost and lets us know that we're headed in the right direction."
GACVB has the winners for each category listed on its website: gacvb.member clicks.net/best-ideas-competition.
Visit the LCCCVB online at www.libertycounty.org or find it on social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and Periscope as LibertyCVB or on YouTube as Liberty County Convention and Visitors Bureau. Call 912-368-3580 or email tourism@libertycounty.org for more information about tourism and hospitality in Liberty County.


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Curtailments of PDC-South and Parks Bureau: Are They Necessary?
November 1, 2020 by Tab Rhodes
As I write this article, PPOA, ALADS, and the Department are negotiating the impact on membership caused by the proposed staffing reductions of PDC-South and dismantling of Parks Bureau. The Department, representing a failure of the Board of Supervisors to properly fund the budget this Fiscal Year 2020–2021, has decided during the supplemental budget to re-allocate resources and staffing through these curtailments.
Interestingly enough, the Board of Supervisors and CEO have represented funding was provided to the Department in accordance with prior amounts, and specifically to provide services to Parks Bureau. The Department's response to this describes a shortage of overall net County costs funding, which is causing these curtailments due to the constitutional requirements and consent decree mandates of the Custody Divisions.
It is not bad enough that the Board of Supervisors and Sheriff are at odds on just about every issue these days, but now this financial confusion is harming members as collateral damage. Why is this necessary?
PPOA has been communicating with Department executives of Administrative Services Division who, from their own representations outlined below, cause me to be concerned that these curtailments may be nothing other than a battle of political wills between the Sheriff and Board of Supervisors. During meetings in September, Department executives informed PPOA of the anticipated budget shortfall of $105 million for the fiscal year. Of that $105 million, the Department could absorb approximately $50 million through the freeze/elimination of vacant items, leaving a need for about $55 million necessary to find to keep PDC-South and Parks Bureau afloat.
Here's where things got and continue to be interesting. During these same meetings, the Department told PPOA there had been a savings of approximately $17 million in overtime for July and August. These same savings were represented in a follow-up meeting with the savings of September being approximately $8 million. If these numbers were to hold true for the fiscal year, that would represent approximate budget savings of $102 million. If the Department only needs $55 million to avoid the curtailments, why are they necessary?
Additionally, the Department represented to PPOA a projected attrition number of sworn personnel to reach 630, approximately 255 persons higher than the average of 375. Let's follow the math, using the calculations provided to PPOA by the Department: 255 sworn would represent approximately $45.9 million of salary savings for a full year. Now, as you know, prime retirement season is between December and March of any fiscal year. With that recognition, the only opportunity for full salary savings, during a year of limited to no hiring, would be in the last quarter of April–June, or 25% of the fiscal year. Back to the calculations: 25% of $45.9 million equals $11.475 million.
Adding this $11.475 million in salary savings to the $102 million projected overtime savings for the year equals a conservative estimate of $113.475 million. If the Department only needs $55 million to avoid curtailments, why are they necessary?
As if the curtailments are not bad enough, the Department is now looking to deviate from the past practice of conducting a job fair, choosing as an alternative, a "transfer process." The new process would involve members completing a preference list, and then Personnel Bureau assigning individuals to new units of assignment based on those preferences. While we all have experienced this process after graduating from the Academy, it has never been utilized during staffing reductions or closure of facilities. The Department claims this curtailment is too large and that COVID prevents an in-person job fair. While this curtailment process could affect nearly 300 employees, a job fair could be conducted at different times over multiple days or at multiple locations by classification, thus reducing the numbers in one location to a much smaller amount than we have in academy classes today. Additionally, we already did a job fair in July — during the height of the COVID pandemic — for the TORA overtime mitigation process. These excuses are getting old. Why are they necessary?
While I am not a budget expert by any stretch of the imagination, the Department's numbers do not seem to add up to curtailments being necessary. When the Department is asked pointed questions or to provide any documentation justifying the need for these curtailments, PPOA has received nothing but awkward silence. The Department's focus in our negotiations continues to be about the "transfer process" rather than the anticipated budget shortfall and accompanying curtailments.
If this is a financial problem, let's identify it, set aside our egos and utilize the many subject matter experts available who could help the Department with obtainable solutions. Otherwise, if these curtailments are political in nature, and members will be harmed in the process, I must ask … Why are they necessary?


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El Front d'Alliberament Oromo (Oromo Liberation Front, en oromo: Adda Bilisummaa Oromoo, en amhara: ኦሮሞ ፡ ነጽነት፡ ግንባር), abreujat FAO o en anglès OLF) és una organització independentista a Etiòpia, que lluita per l'autodetermionació del poble oromo.

Formació
En 1964 es va crear una organització pan-oromo anomenada Matcha Tulama Welfare Association MTWA (1964-1967) dirigida pel general Tadesse Birru, que fou prohibida el 1967. Molts dels seus membres van marxar a l'exili i a Somàlia es va formar el Front d'Alliberament dels Somalis de l'Oest (Liberation Front of Somali West LFSW) sota la direcció de Hussein Mohammed Ali, alias Hussein Sora. A la clandestinitat la MTWA va continuar funcionant i el 1971 repartia pamflets a Addis Abeba. El 1971 el LFSW va canviar el seu nom a Front Nacional d'Alliberament d'Etiòpia i un grup de membres va rebre entrenament principalment a Aden però també a altres països àrabs, que després foren enviats a Etiòpia a través de Berbera i Hargeisa, per iniciar la lluita armada; però el grup de guerrillers fou arrestat amb les seves armes per les forces de seguretat somalis i van romandre empresonats fins al 1975 (un guerriller va morir al moment de la detenció). Un segon grup de guerrillers va intentar entrar per segona vegada el 1973; aleshores els militants ja anomenaven a l'organització com Front Nacional d'Alliberament Oromo (si bé mai fou canviat oficialment i Hussein Sora continuava insistint amb emprar "Ethiopia". Hussein va restar a Aden coordinant les activitats i altres membres van marxar a Hararge on van rebre subministraments des d'Aden a través del país àfar i Wallo; la primera base guerrillera es va establir a les muntanyes Charchar el novembre de 1973 i els guerrillers parlaven sempre del Front Nacional d'Alliberament Oromo i evitaven la paraula Etiòpia. El desembre de 1972 el MTWA va tenir una conferència secreta a Addis Abeba en la que va participar Hussein Sora i un altre líder de nom Elemo Qilixxu (Baker Yusuf), que van venir de l'estranger de manera clandestina; allí es va formar el Front d'Alliberament Oromo (Oromo Liberation Movement OLF), principalment per membres del MTWA i de les restes del moviment guerriller de Bale de Wako Gutu; el procés va quedar culminat el gener de 1974 i es va adoptar un programa polític. En tot aquest any els estudiants, especialment a la universitat, van seguir agitant al país distribuint publicacions del MTWA com "The Oromo Voice Against Tyranny" i "Kana Beektaa".

Guerra civil

A començament de 1974 van començar els disturbis a Etiòpia i es van formar els primers comitès coordinadors de militars, estudiants i pagesos que van portar a la presa del poder pels militars majoritàriament comunistes el 12 de setembre de 1974. L'abril de 1974 la primera unitat de guerrillers dirigits per Elemo Qilixxu van iniciar operacions a les muntanyes Charchar, a Oròmia oriental. El Derg va enviar tropes i Elemo Qilixxu, conegut com a Hassen Ibrahim, o popularment com De Geurre va morir en combat (5 de setembre de 1974) i l'activitat armada fou reprimida.

El 1975 el Dergue, el govern militar comunista d'Etiòpia, va prometre l'autodeterminació als pobles de l'estat. Per un temps va aconseguir un cert suport dels diferents grups ètnics incloent els oromos (i l'OLF), però aviat es va produir el trencament. Els membres de l'ENLF que havien estat alliberats a Somàlia van poder retornar a Aden el 1975 on van fundar l'Organització per la Lluita d'Alliberament Popular Oromo/Organization for the Oromo People's Liberation Struggle (OOPLS); el ELNF havia conservat les seves oficines a Aden i després de la fundació de la OOPLS les va conservar tot i que els dos grups actuaven junts, però van haver de marxar a Etiòpia quan el govern d'Aden els va tancar les facilitats a causa de les bones relacions que tenia amb el Derg.

El 13 i 14 de juny de 1976 es va celebrar un congrés anomenat fundacional a Finfinne en que el Front d'Alliberament d'Oromo es va reorganitzar reagrupant a tots els moviments oromos; hi van participar els antics membres del ENLF que havien estat alliberats a Somàlia i havien pogut retornar a Aden el 1975 (o sigui el OOPLS) això com altres patriotes a títol individual; el programa polític del gener de 1974 fou revisat. La lluita armada es va reprendre i aquesta vegada va arrelar; molts guerrillers (estudiants o intel·lectuals) van anar en gran nombre i van mostrar altes qualitats; entre ells Saartuu Yusouf. El setembre de 1977 es va reorganitzar la direcció del Front amb un comitè central de 41 membres del que 5 (president, vicepresident, secretari i dos vocals) formarien el comitè executiu anomenat "Supreme Politico Military Command (SPMC)." Aquest òrgan estava dividit en cinc comitès de treball (militar, polític, financer, afers logístics i socials, i afers exteriors); els cinc membres elegits foren Muhee Abdoo, Magarsaa Barii, Gadaa Gammadaa, Leenco Lata i Baaroo Tumsaa. El 1977 l'OLF va capturar moltes armes abandonades per l'exèrcit etíop en fugida davant els somalis, i el 1978 moltes armes abandonades pels somalis en fugida davant els etíops i cubans; en un combat el 1977 va morir un dels líders carismàtics de l'OLF, Saartuu Yusouf. El 1978 els oromos van iniciar la lluita a Gara Mul'ata i altres àrees i van seguir reclutant gran nombre de militants; les seves operacions es van estendre a Hararge i Arba Guugu a la regió d'Arsi i altres quadres foren enviats a Gadab i Bale on van començar la lluita. També es va intentar estendre la lluita a l'oest de Shoa i una unitat fou enviada a la vall del riu Gudar al nord-oest d'Ambo, però la unitat fou aturada a les poques setmanes i molts dels seus membres capturats. D'altra banda el Derg va iniciar una forta repressió contra els intel·lectuals i els cercles nacionalistes oromos. Ja des del 1978 l'OLF es va dividir en dues faccions: la de Sheikh Jaraa (de la que el 1986 va sortir el Front Islàmic d'Alliberament d'Oròmia IFLO) i la que operava a l'oest a la frontera amb Sudan dirigida per Abdul Ahmed Majeed i Felmeta Gada.

El 1980 l'OLF va rebre suport de Sudan i Somàlia i el 1981 va poder estendre la lluita a la regió de Wallagga. El 1982 no es va aconseguir un acord que Somàlia volia amb el Front d'Alliberament Somali Abo i el govern de Mogadiscio va retirar el suport i va tancar les oficines del OLF. El desembre de 1984 el OLF va intentar un front unit amb el nom de United Resistance Forces Against the Ethiopian Government URFAEG però no va reeixir.

Els grups principals que lluitaven contra la junta eren el Front Popular d'Alliberament d'Eritrea i el Front Popular d'Alliberament del Tigre (FPLT/TPLF). Aquest darrer va demanar una acció comuna al OLF, però aquest aleshores s'hi va negar; 3l 1981 un grup del Partit Revolucionari Popular Etíop/Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party (EPRP) s'havia rendit al FPLT i amb els seus integrants es va organitzar (març de 1982) un moviment de majoria amhara i amb alguns oromos, el Moviment Popular Democràtic Etíop/Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement (EPDM). 37 membres oromos d'aquest grup reunits amb els presoners que el TPLF havia fet d'aquesta ètnia, van formar el 26 de març de 1990 l'Organització Democràtica del Poble Oromo (Oromo People's Democratic Organization, OPDO) de tendència marxista-leninista albanesa. Al mateix temps el FPLT va crear una organització d'oposició de majoria amhara i de caràcter estatal: el Moviment Revolucionari d'Oficials Demòcrates Etíops/Ethiopian Democratic Officers' Revolutionary Movement (EDORM). Amb tots aquestos grups es va formar el mateix maig de 1990 el Front Democràtic Revolucionari Popular Etíop/Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). La OPDO va competir per l'hegemonia entre els oromos amb l'OLF.

Després de la guerra civil
El maig de 1991, enderrocat el règim etíop, l'OLF fou un dels tres fundadors del govern de transició. Va participar en la conferència de Londres El 27-28 de maig de 1991 i a la d'Addis Abeba (1-5 de juliol 1991) i va tenir tres ministres al govern de transició (Zegeye Asfaw a Agricultura, Ibsa Gutama a Educació i Dima Noggo a Informació; també tenia 12 representants al Consell de Transició (una mena de parlament de 87 membres designats) on el ERPDF tenia 43 membres dels quals 10 eren de l'OPDO, i estaven també representats el Islamic Front for the Liberation of Oromia (IFLO) amb tres escons, lOromo Abbo Liberation Front (OALF), 1 escó, i el United Oromo People's Liberation Organization (UOPLO).

Al OLF li foren assignades les zones que dominava a l'oest d'Oromia (Wollega Occidental amb capital a Demvi Dollo) i la resta quedaria sota autoritat del ERPDF. El 3 de novembre de 1991 els oromos van decidir emprar l'alfabet llatí per a la seva llengua. Aviat els dos grups es van enfrontar cadascun en els territoris que dominaven; amb major poder militar el ERPDF va detenir o matar milers d'oromos. Poc abans de les eleccions del juny del 1992 el OLF va abandonar el govern de transició, els seus caps van marxar a l'exili i el grup va boicotejar les eleccions. El seu líder fou Gallasa Dilbo (al que va substituir el 1999 Daoud Ibsa Gudina). La Southern Ethiopian Peoples Democratic Coalition (una coalició de 10 partits no controlats pel FPLT) va rebutjar els resultats electorals de 1992 que van donar l'hegemonia al FPLT i a les seves organitzacions regionals satèl·lits. L'OLF va tornar a la lluita.

El setembre del 2000 va formar part de l'ULFO (Forces Unides d'Alliberament Oromo) que s'havia dissolt el 2003. L'activitat armada es va incrementar després del 2005. Vers el 2007 estava dividit en dues faccions: OLF-QC (Oromo Liberation Front - Qaama Ceehumsa) i OLF-SG (Oromo Liberation Front - Shanee Gumii) amb la mateixa bandera. La divisió es va agreujar el 2009 i es va formar el Revolutionary Democratic Oromo Liberation Front RDOLF) que el 2011 es va unir al segon ULFO al que el OLF no participava.

La branca armada de l'organització porta el nom d'Exèrcit d'Alliberament Oromo/Oromo Liberation Army OLA, que en agost de 2021 va anunciar una aliança militar amb el TPLF després que ja s'hagués aconseguit un acord similar entre els tigrinyes i algunes milícies rebels d'Araf per lluitar contra el govern a la Guerra de Tigre, i el govern va declarar un alto-el-foc.

Referències

Grups guerrillers
Moviments d'alliberament nacional africans
Partits polítics d'Etiòpia


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Bernie the Jewish Fool
As Purim approaches, Bernie Sanders, the Jewish front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said:
[Moving the US Embassy back to Tel Aviv is] something we would take into consideration …
I am very proud of being Jewish. I actually lived in Israel for some months, but what I happen to believe is that right now, sadly, tragically, in Israel, through Bibi Netanyahu, you have a reactionary racist who is now running that country …
Our foreign policy in the Mideast should be about absolutely protecting the independence and security of Israel, but you cannot ignore the suffering of the Palestinian people.
If there was any doubt before, we know now where Bernie stands. Jerusalem is always a litmus test. The American Congress demanded that the US government recognize reality about Jerusalem all the way back in 1995. That was a quarter of a century ago. Until Trump cut the Gordian Knot, three presidents withheld that recognition. The waivers supposedly related to "national security," but everyone knew that it was a nod to the Arabs and others who opposed any Jewish sovereignty, not just our control of Jerusalem. Proof of that was the ridiculous opinion of the State Department that Israel was not sovereign in any part of Jerusalem, even the Western part that it has held since 1948 and in which its Knesset is located. And the fact is that there have been no adverse consequences for "national security."
It's important to note that Trump's declaration did not break new ground. It did not determine the precise borders of Jerusalem, and left open the possibility that some parts of it would become part of a future Palestinian state. To go back to the pre-Trump situation – if indeed it is even legally possible, given the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 – would simply be absurd, and the only reason for doing so would be to kick Israel in the teeth.
Which is also the only reason to insult our Prime Minister, by calling him a "reactionary racist." Maybe that's the way American politicians have learned to talk recently, and maybe it gets Bernie points with some stupid or antisemitic supporters, or maybe it meets some psychological need of his own, but to the (minimal) extent that the accusation is meaningful, it is entirely untrue. "Racist" is a particularly unhelpful term. The US has a long history of conflict based on the ill-treatment of dark-skinned Americans, a history including slavery, Jim Crow, and other manifestations, and this is what the word is intended to evoke. It simply has no application for Jews and Arabs, whose conflicts have religious and political origins.
Probably Bernie would justify his accusation of "racism" by referring to Bibi's famous comment that Arab voters are going to the polls "in droves," something seized upon by his left-wing opposition here. It is supposed to imply that Bibi thinks Arabs should not exercise their right to vote, just like blacks in Mississippi in 1960. But in fact it was an attempt to turn out his own voters by telling them that Arabs were going out to vote in droves against him. There is nothing prejudiced about his pointing out that the Arab parties are part of the opposition, and warning that they were getting large numbers of their voters to the polls.
As far as "reactionary" is concerned, it is correct that Netanyahu has always favored free-market economic policies over the socialist ones that characterized Israel's early years. He has nothing to be ashamed of – the results speak for themselves. If Bernie thinks the USA would be better off with government monopolies like the Histadrut's enterprises, good luck with that.
Sanders' reference to the "suffering of the Palestinian people" brings to mind Barack Obama's Cairo speech, in which he drew a direct comparison between the Holocaust and the Palestinian nakba. I'll just note that Palestinian "suffering" is primarily a result of the continued rejection of any Jewish sovereignty by their leadership and their allies, their refusal to accept legitimate offers of statehood, their readiness to use Arab refugees and their children as hostages in their war against the Jews, and their adoption of terrorism as their main political tactic. It is very wrong to treat the moral case of Israel as equivalent to that of the Palestinians, led as they are by the PLO and Hamas. Indeed, the groundbreaking aspect of Trump's policy in the region is that for the first time, he has broken away from this false equivalence.
I would like to think that Bernie is taking positions that are as different as possible from those of the Trump Administration simply in order to attack Trump. Unfortunately, that doesn't appear to be the case: Bernie's anti-Israel positions have been consistent throughout his career, and his choice of advisors and surrogates, who include Linda Sarsour, Cornel West, Michael Moore, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Amer Zahr, AOC, and others – some of whom might be given important positions in a Sanders Administration – does not inspire confidence.
But even if Bernie were not anti-Israel as a matter of principle – and I am convinced that he is – there is an important tactical reason that he could not support the Jewish state in the way that Harry Truman could. As a Jew, he is open to the accusation that he would prioritize the interests of Israel over the interests of the US. Certainly that accusation will always be made against any Jewish politician at any level who takes a pro-Israel position (even non-Jewish politicians who are pro-Israel are accused of being bought by the Jewish/Israeli lobby). And therefore he will avoid taking such positions.
He is a fool, an enemy of his own people, the most useful of useful idiots. Linda Sarsour said she would be proud to "elect the first Jewish American president this country has ever seen – and for his name to be Bernard Sanders." That says it all, doesn't it?
I hold an unpopular opinion: I don't think a Jew should be President of the US. Any Jew. One reason is the difficulty of being pro-Israel; but there is another. The president is a lightning rod. Look at the abuse heaped on Trump, Obama, Bush, and Clinton. Do you doubt the form it would take with a Jewish president, even an anti-Israel one? Do American Jews need another stimulus for antisemitic attacks?
Look, there are more issues in this election than Jewish issues. American Jews are Americans, most of them see themselves as liberals if not progressives, and they are concerned about jobs, healthcare, immigration, student debt, the cost of living, drugs and crime, terrorism, and everything else. I get that. But if they are still Jews, then Jewish issues, including support for Israel, have to count. And there has to be a point at which a candidate disqualifies himself for someone who cares about Jewish issues. Bernie's gone past that point. He's made the calculation that calling Israel's PM a "racist" will help him more with the voters who are important to him than hurt him with others who apparently are not.
Nevertheless, many American Jews will support Bernie if he is nominated. They will do it despite their misgivings, because they have elevated anti-Trumpism to the greatest mitzvah of their progressive "Torah," and because they have been conditioned to only see antisemitism when it comes from the Right. They will do it because they have become disconnected from the Jewish people and their state, and have adopted Tikkunism as their religion in place of any form of Judaism. I suspect they'll be sorry.
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1 Response to Bernie the Jewish Fool
Shalom Freedman says:
The first poll I have seen indicates nearly two-thirds of American Jews would support Sanders in a race against Trump? What does that say about their political savvy, their knowledge and concern for Israel?
Sanders is far worse than even his Democratic rivals have made him out to be, and seems to prefer left-wing tyrannies to truly democratic regimes.
It is very interesting what you say about a Jewish President. I had not thought of it so fully but now I think you are right.


My husband works as a pastor. Practically speaking, this means we don't see much of him between Saturday afternoon and Sunday evening. Our three sons play all manner of sports, predominantly on these same weekends. The only possible way I can accommodate their schedules is to ask lots of other parents for help. And I hate it. By asking, I admit that I am limited. This creates inner turmoil because it seems that everyone else is able to navigate full-time jobs, laundry, groceries, going for a run, walking the dog, and somehow still get their children to games on time. In order to serve my kids, I have to bulldoze my feelings of incompetence. If I get crippled by the shame of asking, we all suffer.
God created us to need. By setting us within families, God makes a way for those needs to be met. When a baby cries to communicate his hunger and an attentive parents scoops him up and offers him sustenance, he learns two essential truths; asking results in needs being met, and, needs connect us relationally.
A quick study, I noticed that when I swallowed my needs, people responded more favorably to me. Rather than ask for aspirin when I had a headache, I climbed on the sink to reach the medicine cabinet and chewed my way through far more orange-flavored pills than our pediatrician would have recommended. Subconsciously, I formulated survival rules that forbade both the display of feelings and admission of need. An unfortunate consequence emerged from my attempt to be totally independent–I gradually came to despise neediness.
It took twenty years of marriage, three babies, and a health crisis for me to unlearn this lesson. The diagnosis at age forty-one of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue helped me to understand that not only did I have needs, but God approved of them and wouldn't let me continue without tending to them. Though the specifics of my story might be unique, I have sat with enough men and women to know many of us struggle to understand and be at peace with the role that needs play in our lives. While most of us might be willing to privately acknowledge our weaknesses and needs, far too often, shame, fear, and pride prevent what should be a natural tendency to ask for help.
The next time you feel overwhelmed or needy, take a cue from a two-year old and ask. Shamelessly. God will be pleased and typically, others will be more than willing to help.


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Murray Knocked Out of US Open by Nishikori in Five Sets Serena Beats Halep to Enter SF
by R K Gupta on September 8, 2016
Japan's Kei Nishikori played spoilsport to Andy Murray's remarkable tennis summer and defeated the Scotsman in US Open quarterfinal after being down two sets to one. Murray was being touted as the favorite to win the 2016 US Open after taking his second Wimbledon title this year, followed by his gold-medal winning performance in the Rio Olympic Games. But the Japanese was ready on Wednesday to pay the Brit on the same token with some great retrievals and a fantastic forehand that saw him score a number of points in the fourth and fifth sets. Murray had looked good after the first three sets but couldn't anticipate Nishikori's turnaround with flawless tennis in the last one hour of the match. In the other men's quarterfinal, Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka defeated Juan Martin del Potro to dash the big comeback hopes of the giant Argentinian. In women's quarterfinals, Serena Williams dropped a set against the no.5 seeded Romanian Simona Halep but still won the match. The American next takes on Czech Republic's no. 10 seed Karolina Pliskova for a place in the US Open final.
Kei Nishikori ignored all past statistics, when he lost the first set 1-6 in his quarterfinal match against the no.2 seed and tournament favorite Andy Murray of Great Britain. He came back strongly in the sixth game of the second set and broke Murray's service. The seventh game had to wait since it started raining with Nishikori leading 40-30. The players left the court for the roof to close. When they came back, the Japanese took the game to lead 4-3. After two service holds by Murray and Nishikori in the next two games, Nishikori broke Murray's service yet again in the tenth to level the set scores 1-1. But the Scot appeared to have bounced back by breaking Nishikori's service in the opening game of the third set. The Japanese was not finished and broke right back with a forceful play next. This went on until the ninth game, in which Murray broke Nishikori again and held his own service in the tenth game to lead by two sets to one.
Just when everyone thought that the 2012 US champion will wrap up things quickly, he was halted by the Japanese in the fourth game of the fourth set as Nishikori elicited a break to lead 3-1. He held his service next and broke Murray's once again for a 5-1 lead in the fourth set. Then Nishikori held his own service to force the decider. The final set started with Nishikori breaking Murray's service for the third time in a row. The class was clearly apparent in Nishikori's court movements. He was aggressive but kept the ball in play. His forehand had become a game-changer after the third set and he took the fullest advantage of Murray losing his focus. Though the Scot broke Nishikori's service in the fourth game, Nishikori retaliated by breaking back and racing to a 4-2 lead in the sixth game. With Murray's fate hanging by a thread, he managed to level the score at 4-4 by breaking Nishikori. However, the Japanese held his service to make in 5-4 and with Murray also holding his service, it was 5-5. At 30-30 in the 11th game, Murray committed a double-fault to yield a break point to Nishikori. In a brilliant interplay between the no.2 and no.7 seeds, Nishikori topped and led 6-5 with his service to follow. Nishikori lost the first point of the 12th game but controlled himself superbly to win the set, match and a place in the semifinals.
Nishikori's semifinal opponent will be Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka, who ended Argentinian Juan Martin del Potro's brave comeback effort in the other quarterfinal. After a tightly fought first set that Wawrinka took in the tiebreak, del Potro leveled the set scores by winning the second. But lack of conditioning seemed to affect del Potro, who looked fatigued in the third. That worked to Wawrinka's advantage as he finished with a 7-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 victory. In women's quarterfinals, Serena Williams won another match in Grand Slam tournaments by defeating Romanian no.5 seed Simona Halep 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. The American will next take on no.10 seeded Czech Karolina Pliskova for a place in the final. Pliskova stopped an impressive run of Croatian teenager Ana Konjuh with an easy 6-2, 6-2 victory.
R K Gupta
Mr. RK Gupta has been a prolific Kridangan writer on major international sport-events for last two years. Basically a Mechanical Engineer and Administrative Management Post Graduate, Mr. Gupta took to blog-writing as a hobby after his retirement in 2011. He graduated to full-time sports-writing after joining Kridangan.com in 2013. Most of Mr. Gupta's posts are topical and analytical in nature; completely distinct from usual media reports. His narration on popular sports-events lends uniqueness to the reporting and makes it enjoyable for global sports readership.