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I say let him [Barack Obama] do his best to run the country, like any President, and the rest of us can do him a favor by not constantly debating how black he is or isn't. Enough already. He's the President, for Christ's sake. Let him do his job.
David A. Hollinger, "Chats: Is Obama Black, Bi-racial, or Post-racial?" Z�calo Public Square, September 7, 2011. http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/09/07/is-obama-black-bi-racial-or-post-racial/read/chats/
Vanishing Eden: White Construction of Memory, Meaning, and Identity in a Racially Changing City
Posted in Books, Media Archive, Monographs, Social Science, United States on 2015-11-04 18:08Z by Steven
Temple University Press
Paper ISBN: 978-1-43991-119-8
Cloth ISBN: 978-1-43991-118-1
eBook ISBN: 978-1-43991-120-4
Michael T. Maly, Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of the Policy Research Collaborative
Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois
Heather M. Dalmage, Professor of Sociology; Director of the Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation
For many whites, desegregation initially felt like an attack on their community. But how has the process of racial change affected whites' understanding of community and race? In Vanishing Eden, Michael Maly and Heather Dalmage provide an intriguing analysis of the experiences and memories of whites who lived in Chicago neighborhoods experiencing racial change during the 1950s through the 1980s. They pay particular attention to examining how young people made sense of what was occurring, and how this experience impacted their lives.
Using a blend of urban studies and whiteness studies, the authors examine how racial solidarity and whiteness were created and maintained—often in subtle and unreflective ways. Vanishing Eden also considers how race is central to the ways social institutions such as housing, education, and employment function. Surveying the shifting social, economic, and racial contexts, the authors explore how race and class at local and national levels shaped the organizing strategies of those whites who chose to stay as racial borders began to change.
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Race Appeal: How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns
Posted in Barack Obama, Books, Media Archive, Monographs, Politics/Public Policy, United States on 2013-06-01 20:18Z by Steven
38 tables, 23 halftones
cloth: ISBN: 978-1-43990-275-2
e-Book ISBN: 978-1-43990-277-6
Charlton D. McIlwain, Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication
Stephen M. Caliendo, Professor of Political Science
North Central College in Naperville, Illinois
Why, when, and how often candidates use race appeals, and how the electorate responds
In our evolving American political culture, whites and blacks continue to respond very differently to race-based messages and the candidates who use them. Race Appeal examines the use and influence such appeals have on voters in elections for federal office in which one candidate is a member of a minority group.
Charlton McIlwain and Stephen Caliendo use various analysis methods to examine candidates who play the race card in political advertisements. They offer a compelling analysis of the construction of verbal and visual racial appeals and how the news media covers campaigns involving candidates of color.
Combining rigorous analyses with in-depth case studies-including an examination of race-based appeals in the historic 2008 presidential election—Race Appeal is a groundbreaking work that represents the most extensive and thorough treatment of race-based appeals in American political campaigns to date.
Introduction. The Political Landscape of Race-Based Appeals
Part I The Empirical Evidence on Race Appeals
1. Producing Race Appeal: The Political Ads of White and Minority Candidates
2. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Deploying Racist Appeals among Black and White Voters
3. Neither Black nor White: The Fruitless Appeal to Racial Authenticity
4. Competing Novelties: How Newspapers Frame the Election Campaigns of Blacks, Latinos, and Asian Americans
Part II: Case Studies in Race Appeal
5. Racializing Immigration Policy: Issue Ads in the 2006 Election
6. Harold Ford Jr., Mel Martinez, and Artur Davis: Case Studies in Racially Framed News
7. Barack Obama, Race-Based Appeals, and the 2008 Presidential Election
Epilogue. Racialized Campaigns: What Have We Learned, and Where Do We Go from Here?
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Disability and Passing: Blurring the Lines of Identity
Posted in Anthologies, Books, History, Media Archive, Passing, United States on 2013-05-31 04:49Z by Steven
5.5 x 8.25; 1 halftone
Paper EAN: 978-1-43990-980-5
Cloth EAN: 978-1-43990-979-9
eBook EAN: 978-1-43990-981-2
Jeffrey A. Brune, Assistant Professor of History
Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.
Daniel J. Wilson, Professor of History
Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Passing—an act usually associated with disguising race—also relates to disability. Whether a person with a psychiatric disorder struggles to suppress aberrant behavior to appear "normal" or a person falsely claims a disability to gain some advantage, passing is a pervasive and much discussed phenomenon. Nevertheless, Disability and Passing is the first anthology to examine this issue.
The editors and contributors to this volume explore the intersections of disability, race, gender, and sexuality as these various aspects of identity influence each other and make identity fluid. They argue that the line between disability and normality is blurred, discussing disability as an individual identity and as a social category. And they discuss the role of stigma in decisions about whether or not to pass.
Focusing on the United States from the nineteenth century to the present, the essays in Disability and Passing speak to the complexity of individual decisions about passing and open the conversation for broader discussion.
Contributors include: Dea Boster, Allison Carey, Peta Cox, Kristen Harmon, David Linton, Michael Rembis, and the editors.
1. Introduction • Jeffrey A. Brune and Daniel J. Wilson
2. Passing in the Shadow of FDR: Polio Survivors, Passing, and the Negotiation of Disability • Daniel J. Wilson
3. The Multiple Layers of Disability Passing in Life, Literature, and Public Discourse • Jeffrey A. Brune
4. The Menstrual Masquerade • David Linton
5. "I Made Up My Mind to Act Both Deaf and Dumb": Displays of Disability and Slave Resistance in the Antebellum American South • Dea H. Boster
6. Passing as Sane, or How to Get People to Sit Next to You on the Bus • Peta Cox
7. Athlete First: A Note on Passing, Disability, and Sport • Michael A. Rembis
8. The Sociopolitical Contexts of Passing and Intellectual Disability • Allison C. Carey
9. Growing Up to Become Hearing: Dreams of Passing in Oral Deaf Education • Kristen C. Harmon
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The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics (Revised and Expanded Edition)
Posted in Books, Media Archive, Monographs, Politics/Public Policy, Social Science, United States on 2013-04-20 20:48Z by Steven
Electronic Book ISBN: 978-1-59213-495-3
George Lipsitz, Professor of Black Studies and Sociology
Outstanding Books Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 1999
In this unflinching look at white supremacy, George Lipsitz argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment. Above and beyond personal prejudice, whiteness is a structured advantage that produces unfair gains and unearned rewards for whites while imposing impediments to asset accumulation, employment, housing, and health care for minorities. Reaching beyond the black/white binary, Lipsitz shows how whiteness works in respect to Asian Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans.
Lipsitz delineates the weaknesses embedded in civil rights laws, the racial dimensions of economic restructuring and deindustrialization, and the effects of environmental racism, job discrimination and school segregation. He also analyzes the centrality of whiteness to U.S. culture, and perhaps most importantly, he identifies the sustained and perceptive critique of white privilege embedded in the radical black tradition. This revised and expanded edition also includes an essay about the impact of Hurricane Katrina on working class Blacks in New Orleans, whose perpetual struggle for dignity and self determination has been obscured by the city's image as a tourist party town.
Introduction: Bill Moore's Body
1. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
2. Law and Order: Civil Rights Laws and White Privilege
3. Immigrant Labor and Identity Politics
4. Whiteness and War
5. How Whiteness Works: Inheritance, Wealth, and Health
6. White Desire: Remembering Robert Johnson
7. Lean on Me: Beyond Identity Politics
8. "Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac": Antiblack Racism and White Identity
9. "Frantic to Join . . . the Japanese Army": Beyond the Black-White Binary
10. California: The Mississippi of the 1990s
11. Change the Focus and Reverse the Hypnosis: Learning from New Orleans
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More Than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order
Posted in Books, History, Media Archive, Monographs, Politics/Public Policy, Social Science, United States on 2013-03-23 21:00Z by Steven
7×10; 1 figure
Paperback: EAN: 978-1-56639-909-8, ISBN: 1-56639-909-2
G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology
In the United States, anyone with even a trace of African American ancestry has been considered black. Even as the twenty-first century opens, a racial hierarchy still prevents people of color, including individuals of mixed race, from enjoying the same privileges as Euro-Americans. In this book, G. Reginald Daniel argues that we are at a cross-roads, with members of a new multiracial movement pointing the way toward equality.
Tracing the centuries-long evolution of Eurocentrism, a concept geared to protecting white racial purity and social privilege, Daniel shows how race has been constructed and regulated in the United States. The so-called one-drop rule (i.e., hypodescent) obligated individuals to identify as black or white, in effect erasing mixed-race individuals from the social landscape. For most of our history, many mixed-race individuals of African American descent have attempted to acquire the socioeconomic benefits of being white by forming separate enclaves or "passing." By the 1990s, however, interracial marriages became increasingly common, and multiracial individuals became increasingly political, demanding institutional changes that would recognize the reality of multiple racial backgrounds and challenging white racial privilege.
More Than Black? regards the crumbling of the old racial order as an opportunity for substantially more than an improvement in U.S. race relations; it offers no less than a radical transformation of the nation's racial consciousness and the practice of democracy.
Read the introduction here.
Part I: White Over Black
1. Eurocentrism: The Origin of the Master Racial Project
2. Either Black or White: The United State and the Binary Racial Project
Part II: Black No More
3. White by Definition: Multiracial Identity and the Binary Racial Project
4. Black by Law: Multiracial Identity and the Ternary Racial Project
Part III: More than Black
5. The New Multiracial Identity: Both Black and White
6. The New Multiracial Identity: Neither Black nor White
7. Black by Popular Demand: Multiracial Identity and the Decennial Census
Part IV: Black No More or More than Black?
8. The Illusion of Inclusion : From White Domination to White Hegemony
9. The New Millennium: Toward a New Master Racial Project
Epilogue: Beyond Black or White: A New United States Racial Project
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The contrast between the multigenerational and first-generation experiences
Posted in Excerpts/Quotes on 2013-03-18 14:59Z by Steven
The contrast between the multigenerational and first-generation experiences is further underscored by the fact that the latter is frequently viewed as a more legitimate basis for multiracial identity. The reasons for this are related to the repeal of anti-miscegenation laws in 1967 and the liberalization of social attitudes on race over the past three decades. Moreover, the first-generation experience originates in the context of interracial marriage and thus includes an element of choice. Marriages confer equal legal status on both parties and, by extension, equal legitimacy on both parents' identities. The one-drop rule, therefore, has been less consistently enforced, both in theory and in practice, in the case of their offspring. This is particularly true of policies at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and to a lesser extent of the Census Bureau. Before the 1980s, the NCHS ciassified racially blended children in terms of the "minority" parent, while the Census Bureau classified them in terms of the father's racial or ethnic identity. Since the 1980s both agencies have based the children's race on the racial identity of the mother. Many multiracial children of European American mothers have therefore been designated as "white" rather than as "biracial." Since the mid-1960s, however, adoption agencies have tended to describe blended children as "racially mixed" or "biracial" in order to attract white adoptive parents by appealing to their Eurocentric bias.
Such flexibility has not been extended so readily to multi generational individuals. Their experience carries with it the implicit stigma of concubinage, rape, and illegitimacy; and the parents and families of these individuals have typically been seen as African American. Attitudes toward Native Americans and Latinos—two other populations that have experienced significant miscegenation with European Americans—provide a point of contrast. The European American, as well as the Native American and Latino communities, have more openly acknowledged multiple racial and cultural backgrounds in the discourse on identity. In these populations as well, however, the same divisive and pernicious "colorism" that has infected African-descent Americans has arisen, with the result that lighter-skinned and otherwise more European-appearing Latinos and Native Americans are treated preferentially within and outside their communities. Nevertheless, greater openness among these groups to multiracialism has mitigated the generational differences as the primary factor determining the legitimacy of multiracial identity. Multigenerational individuals of European American and African American decent, therefore, find themselves at odds not only with the larger society and the African American community, but often with first-generation individuals as well. Since most African-descent Americans have some European American ancestry in their genealogy but identify themselves as black, blacks often accuse multigenerational individuals of trying to escape the stigma attached to "blackness." Some first-generation individuals contend that their own biracial experience is the legitimate starting point for a blended identity…
Daniel, G. Reginald. More Than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002). 104-105.
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Reframing Transracial Adoption: Adopted Koreans, White Parents, and the Politics of Kinship
Posted in Asian Diaspora, Books, Media Archive, Monographs, Politics/Public Policy, Social Work on 2012-06-02 02:12Z by Steven
Kristi Brian, Lecturer in Women's and Gender Studies and Anthropology and Director of Diversity Education and Training
College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
Until the late twentieth century, the majority of foreign-born children adopted in the United States came from Korea. In the absorbing book Reframing Transracial Adoption, Kristi Brian investigates the power dynamics at work between the white families, the Korean adoptees, and the unknown birth mothers. Brian conducts interviews with adult adopted Koreans, adoptive parents, and adoption agency facilitators in the United States to explore the conflicting interpretations of race, culture, multiculturalism, and family.
Brian argues for broad changes as she critiques the so-called "colorblind" adoption policy in the United States. Analyzing the process of kinship formation, the racial aspects of these adoptions, and the experience of adoptees, she reveals the stifling impact of dominant nuclear-family ideologies and the crowded intersections of competing racial discourses.
Brian finds a resolution in the efforts of adult adoptees to form coherent identities and launch powerful adoption reform movements.
Preface: The Personal and the Political
1. Adoption Matters: Beyond Catastrophe and Spectacle
2. Adoption Facilitators and the Marketing of Family Building: "Expert" Systems Meet Spurious Culture
3. Navigating Racism: Avoiding and Confronting "Difference" in Families
4. Navigating Kinship: Searching for Family beyond and within "the Doctrine of Genealogical Unity"
5. Strategic Interruptions versus Possessive Investment: Transnational Adoption in the Era of New Racism
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Black Power, White Blood: The Life and Times of Johnny Spain (With a New Epilogue by the Author)
Posted in Biography, Books, Law, Media Archive, Monographs, United States on 2012-06-01 18:13Z by Steven
5.5×8.25; 36 halftones
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-56639-750-6
Lori Andrews, Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Science, Law and Technology
IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
A struggle to transcend race and find justice
Originally published in hardcover to much acclaim, this vividly written biographical drama will now be available in a paperback edition and includes a new epilogue by the author. Conceived within a clandestine relationship between a black man and a married white woman, Spain was born (as Larry Michael Armstrong) in Mississippi during the mid-1950s. Spain's life story speaks to the destructive power of racial bias. Even if his mother's husband were willing to accept the boy—which he was not—a mixed-race child inevitably would come to harm in that place and time.
At six years old, already the target of name-calling children and threatening adults, he could not attend school with his older brother. Only decades later would he be told why the Armstrongs sent him to live with a black family in Los Angeles. As Johnny came of age, he thought of himself as having been rejected by his white family as well as by his black peers. His erratic, destructive behavior put him on a collision course with the penal system; he was only seventeen when convicted of murder and sent to Soledad.
Drawn into the black power movement and the Black Panther Party by a fellow inmate, the charismatic George Jackson, Spain became a dynamic force for uniting prisoners once divided by racial hatred. He committed himself to the cause of prisoners' rights, impressing inmates, prison officials, and politicians with his intelligence and passion. Nevertheless, among the San Quentin Six, only he was convicted of conspiracy after Jackson's failed escape attempt.
Lori Andrews, a professor of law, vividly portrays the dehumanizing conditions in the prisons, the pervasive abuses in the criminal justice system, and the case for overturning Spain's conspiracy conviction. Spain's personal transformation is the heart of the book, but Andrews frames it within an indictment of intolerance and injustice that gives this individual's story broad significance.
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This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature
Posted in Asian Diaspora, Books, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, Monographs, United States on 2012-05-30 21:07Z by Steven
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Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies (founder of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN).)
An introduction to the themes of a still-evolving American ethnic literature
In the first book-length study of Vietnamese American literature, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud probes the complexities of Vietnamese American identity and politics. She provides an analytical introduction to the literature, showing how generational differences play out in genre and text. In addition, she asks, can the term Vietnamese American be disassociated from representations of the war without erasing its legacy?
Pelaud delineates the historical, social, and cultural terrains of the writing as well as the critical receptions and responses to them. She moves beyond the common focus on the Vietnam war to develop an interpretive framework that integrates post-colonialism with the multi-generational refugee, immigrant, and transnational experiences at the center of Vietnamese American narratives.
Her readings of key works, such as Andrew Pham's Catfish and Mandala and Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge show how trauma, race, class and gender play a role in shaping the identities of Vietnamese American characters and narrators.
Part I: Inclusion
3. Hybridity
Part II: Interpretation
4. Survival
5. Hope and Despair
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African-American Reflections on Brazil's Racial Paradise
Posted in Anthologies, Books, Brazil, Caribbean/Latin America, History, Media Archive, Politics/Public Policy, Social Science, United States on 2011-12-12 17:30Z by Steven
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Cloth ISBN: 0-87722-892-2
David J. Hellwig, Professor Emeritus of Interdisciplinary Studies
St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota
Essays that focus on the authors' observations of race relations in Brazil from the first decade of the century through the 1980s
At the turn of the twentieth century, the popular image of Brazil was that of a tropical utopia for people of color, and it was looked upon as a beacon of hope by African Americans. Reports of this racial paradise were affirmed by notable black observers until the middle of this century, when the myth began to be challenged by North American blacks whose attitudes were influenced by the civil rights movement and burgeoning black militancy. The debate continued and the myth of the racial paradise was eventually rejected as black Americans began to see the contradictions of Brazilian society as well as the dangers for people of color.
David Hellwig has assembled numerous observations of race relations in Brazil from the first decade of the century through the 1980s. Originally published in newspapers and magazines, the selected commentaries are written by a wide range of African-American scholars, journalists, and educators, and are addressed to a general audience.
Introcution: The Myth of the Racial Paradise
Part I: The Myth Affirmed (1900-1940)
1. "Brazilian Visitors in Norfolk"
2. "Brazil vs. United States"
3. "Brazil and the Black Race"
4. "Brazil" – W.E.B. Du Bois
5. "Opportunities in Brazil: South American Country Offers First Hand Knowledge of the Solving of the Race Question"
6. "Brazil" – Cyril V. Briggs
7. "Wonderful Opportunities Offered in Brazil for Thrifty People of All Races" – Associated Negro Press
8. "South America and Its Prospects in 1920" – L. H. Stinson
9. "Brazil as I Found It" – E.R. James
10. "Sidelights on Brazil Racial Conditions" – Frank St. Claire
11. "My Trip Through South America" – Robert S. Abbott
12. "Sightseeing in South America" – William Pickens
Part II: The Myth Debated (1940-1965)
13. "The Color Line in South America's Largest Republic" – Ollie Stewart
14. "Stewart in Error – No Color Line in Brazil" – James W. Ivy
15. Letter by W.E.B. Du Bois to Edward Weeks, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2, 1941
16. "Brazil Has No Race Problem" – E. Franklin Frazier
17. "A Comparison of Negro-White Relations in Brazil and the United States" – E. Franklin Frazier
18. Excerpt from Quest for Dignity: An Autobiography of a Negro Doctor – Thomas Roy Peyton
19. "Brazilian Color Bias Growing More Rampant" – George S. Schuyler
20. "The Negro in Brazil" – Lorenzo D. Turner
Part III: The Myth Rejected (1965-)
21. "From Roxbury to Rio-and Back in a Hurry" – Angela M. Gilliam
22. "Brazil: Study in Black, Brown and Beige" – Leslie B. Rout, Jr.
23. "Equality in Brazil: Confronting Reality" – Cleveland Donald, Jr.
24. "'Mestizaje' vs. Black Identity: The Color Crisis in Latin America" – Richard L. Jackson
25. "Black Consciousness vs. Racism in Brazil" – Niani (Dee Brown)
26. "Brazil and the Blacks of South America" – Gloria Calomee
27. "In Harmony with Brazil's African Pulse" – Rachel Jackson Christmas
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I will also keep giving you design reviews until you are sure that you have one that best fits your product and your business. Prior to our first grade, you have a design, contents and layout that appeal to your targeted markets and are very easy to sell.
We' ll use this extra information throughout the entire life tele-seminar, but if you'd like to post, you can begin immediately with this work. It has been designed to give you 100% quality, factual information, advice, technique and instructions for writing your text. As soon as you have had the opportunity to clear up the idea of your design, please prepare your design, contact me personally (and perhaps begin writing your first chapter), our week courses will begin!
Begin by writing the first few sections and the intro. Create the right sound for your books to excite your reader. Get to know and commit the key components of a winning publication. Obviously, your main emphasis this weekend will be writing section 2 or 3 of your text. You' re writing another story or more!
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Nothing beats the help of your co-authors to keep you in line with the original rhythm and time. During the whole programme I will give you my advices on how to compose and complete your work. I' ll provide you with a personal processing timetable that suits your writing skills and meets all the requirements for the completion of your text.
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Chicago Trolleys can be used either at home or in the office. Available in a low and high version, the Chicago Trolleys can be used for a variety of functions. While the Lower Trolleys will suit as tables in front of the sofa, the Taller Trolleys can be used within the office for sorting papers. The Chicago Trolleys have a diversity of different usages, being a flexible storage accessory.
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Take a trip back to the Blue Bomber's roots on Nintendo's new handheld.
Nintendo and Mega Man have a special relationship; The original NES console played host to the titles that made the Blue Bomber a household name. Nintendo's eShop has already offered 3DS owners in Europe and Japan the chance to relive the golden days of Mega Man, and now North America will get the same treatment. Mega Man 1 through 6 will appear on digital storefront in a series of releases beginning on December 27.
As you might expect, the first game that Capcom will add to the NA eShop is the debut Mega Man title. Mega Man 2 will follow on February 7, 2013, and the rest of the entries in the classic series will be released throughout the remainder of next year.
Of course, the Mega Man legacy extends far beyond the final NES release, with Mega Man 7 appearing for the Super NES, and Mega Man 8 dropping for the PlayStation and Saturn consoles in the late 90s. Mega Man 9 and 10 brought the franchise back to its 8-bit roots with throwback graphics and audio.
The 3DS should be able to handle the full 2D Mega Man catalog, but it looks like we'll have to settle for the first six titles to start with. No official pricing has yet been revealed.


A correspondent sent me this link from Arachnol. Mitt. 34 (2007) pp. 41-42 to an article published instead of a book review. It seems that a senior spider researcher was asked to review a new book on spiders, and was shocked to find 50 of his own illustrations. He has redrawn the diagrams on the basis of an older book that was correctly referenced.
The new book has the same diagrams, but now referenced as if the newer author had redrawn the diagrams on the basis of the older book. The reviewer spent months trying to get some action out of the publishers involved, who much rather would wash their hands of the whole thing. He was finally able to get the book withdrawn, but is puzzled as to why the publishers were not interested in reacting. He inquires in the end as to why the author of the new book had not just written him and asked him if he could use the pictures. With correct attribution he would have been glad to let the colleague have these pictures.


This small beach-side suburb features the serene Clovelly Beach at the end of a narrow bay. This beach is very popular with swimmers and snorkelers alike with easy access to pristine and calm water with an abundance of sea life. Locals enjoy picnics with a view at Burrows Park on the headland or sun baking on the large concrete pontoon along the side of the bay. Clovelly also features a 25 metre ocean pool. Barefoot bowls at Clovelly Bowling Club is another popular activity on the weekends with beer in hand, not to be outdone by the Clovelly Hotel. Local shops and cafes are wandering distance and places where the owners and staff will remember your name. Clovelly feels like a hidden retreat only 8km from the Sydney CBD.
Clovelly is one of Sydney's best-loved beachside suburbs, situated 8km south east of the CBD. Bounded on the north by Bronte, on the east by the Pacific Ocean, and Randwick to the west and Coogee to the south, Clovelly is a rare treasure and epitomises Sydney's beach culture.
One of the best ways to explore Clovelly is to follow the Bondi to Coogee Coastal Walk, Sydney's most famous ocean-front walk. A slice of Sydney that's great for surfing and people watching, the Bondi to Coogee Coastal Walk also plays host to Sculptures by the Sea, a free art exhibition held every October.
Clovelly boasts some great food and drink spots, such as the Top Hat Coffee Merchants. The family-friendly Clovelly Hotel is popular with the locals, as is barefoot bowls at the Clovelly Bowling Club. There's also the Clovelly Surf Life Saving Club – one of the world's first life saving clubs. The surf life saving tradition has been a prominent part of the culture and heritage of Clovelly, and competitive swimming is a dominant part of life in this idyllic coastal location.
Clovelly was settled in the 1830's and offers a unique, village-like atmosphere. It has a small shopping centre, which includes a post office, several banks, a chemist, newsagents, and several other shops – all of which will get to know your name in time. There is also a public school and Catholic school for families living in the area.
Clovelly Beach (originally named "Little Coogee") is set in a small and peaceful bay. It offers a saltwater pool on the beach's south, as well as grassy parks and picnic tables. A firm favourite with families, it can get busy in the summer. An abundance of sea life also attracts snorkelers and divers from across the city come the weekend, however despite the crowds, Clovelly offers a strong 'locals' vibe.
Housing in Clovelly is typically higher density, with many dwellings being units, flats, semi-detached houses, terrace houses or townhouses.
Speak with one of our Mint360property experts today and discover more about the wonderful suburb of Clovelly now.
In March, 2016 the median price for a house in Clovelly was $2,352,000. Fast forward to January 2017 the same home would cost $2,970,000. The demand for property in Clovelly is almost 4 times that of NSW.
House Prices and Rent Returns Clovelly.
3 bedroom home $2,933,000. $1200 per week rent.
4 bedroom home $2,970,00. $1500 per week rent.
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2 bedroom unit $1,200,00. $693 per week rent.
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Let's talk about healthy dinners that the entire family will LOVE. Ideally we would get our kids to eat loads of vegetables, a healthy fat, a little protein, something that tastes fantastic, is easy to make and very affordable. Sounds like a high order, right? Nope! Not at all! Try this amazing crowd-pleasing Stir Fry Chicken!
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I'm going to be honest – this recipe is inspired by the Whole30 cookbook. I've remade it with my essential oils and ingredients that I got from our base commissary. AND I like tripled the recipe to feed our entire family for THREE meals (yes, it makes fabulous leftovers).
Let's get started with Stir Fry!
Heat 2 TBSP of a healthy fat in our pan on Medium heat. We love the flavor of a good coconut oil with this recipe. Slice your chicken and cook until they are done! Remove the chicken from the pan. Wash the pan.
Chop your veggies, mix a few TBSPs of coconut oil with your Ginger and Cilantro essential oils. Even add a drop or two of Lime essential oil if you wish!
I love cooking with my essential oils. It means that I can easily spice any meal last minute without having to keep fresh herbs on hand!
Heat your coconut oil mix in your pan on medium heat on the stove.
Add ALL of your veggies! The amount of veggie I used barely fit into my pan! Phew! Cover and stir occasionally until all the veggies are cooked. Add chicken to the mix.
DONE! EASY, FAST, and SUPER HEALTHY. My toddlers absolutely LOVE this meal. New favorite for the whole entire family for sure!!
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Heat 2 TBSP of a healthy fat in our pan on Medium heat. We love the flavor of a good coconut oil with this recipe. Slice your chicken and good until they are done! Remove the chicken from the pan. Wash the pan.
Add ALL of your veggies! The amount of veggie I used barely fit into my pan! Phew! Cover and stir occasionally until all the veggies are cooked.
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Lewis "Lew" B. Rome (September 12, 1933 – July 1, 2015) was an American attorney and politician who served in the Connecticut State Senate and ran unsuccessfully as the Republican Party nominee in the 1982 Connecticut gubernatorial election.

Early life and education

Rome was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on September 12, 1933, to parents Albert and Celia (Sabol) Rome. Graduating from Bloomfield High School in 1950, Rome earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Connecticut in 1954 and his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1957. He founded a private practice law firm in Bloomfield and practiced law throughout his life.

Political career
Rome served on the town council of Bloomfield (1961–69) and as town mayor (1965–69). He was elected to represent Connecticut's 8th Senate district in 1970, representing the towns of Bloomfield, Canton, East Granby, East Windsor, Enfield, Granby, Hartland, Simsbury, Suffield, Windsor, and Windsor Locks. After serving only one two-year term of office (1971–73), Rome was selected by his Republican Party colleagues to serve as the state senate's majority leader (1973–75) and minority leader (1975–79). Rome earned a reputation for pragmatism and bipartisanship. In 1975 and 1976, he was elected to the Executive Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures and chaired its nominating committee.

In the 1978 Connecticut gubernatorial election, he was the Republican Party nominee for lieutenant governor, but his ticket was resoundingly defeated by Democratic Party incumbents Ella Grasso and William O'Neill. Four years later, Rome ran a spirited campaign for governor but lost the 1982 election to O'Neill, despite receiving endorsements from fifty-nine of Connecticut's leading newspapers as well as from the New York Times.

Rome's loss marked the end of his career in elected office. He returned to private law practice and also founded a lobbying firm.

Later career
Rome was a lifelong advocate for the University of Connecticut. As a legislator, he championed the establishment of the UConn Health Center in the 1970s. After quitting politics, he served on the Connecticut Department of Higher Education Task Force (1984–86) and on UConn's Task Force on Athletics (1986–89). Rome was rumored to be a candidate for UConn president in 1990, though Harry J. Hartley was ultimately appointed.

In 1992, Governor Lowell Weicker appointed Rome chair of UConn's board of trustees. Serving until 1997, Rome was instrumental in securing passage of the UConn 2000 legislation, which committed $1 billion in state funding to renew the university's infrastructure. Over time, he also developed a strong working relationship with Hartley. The Lewis B. Rome Commons building and ballroom on UConn's Storrs campus was named in his honor.

Rome was at the center of a major push to move the New England Patriots to Hartford. He called for the building of a new football stadium to be used by the UConn Huskies, as well as by the Patriots. Although the move fell through, the Huskies did get a new stadium at Rentschler Field, built in 2003.

Rome also advised the Mohegan Tribe during the 1990s, providing legal and lobbying support in the tribe's successful bid to achieve federal recognition and build the Mohegan Sun casino.

Personal life
Rome was Jewish. He died following a long illness on July 1, 2015, and was interred at the Beth David Cemetery in Wethersfield, Connecticut.

Rome was married twice. In 1954 he married Ann Kathleen (Nicolle) Rome, with whom he had four children; David, Deborah, Richard, and Thomas. The couple divorced in 1990. Rome remarried, to Kristine (Payne) Rome (1947–2011). When Lewis Rome died in 2015, he was survived by his first wife and all four of his children.

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Confession time: I actually finished this two weeks ago. I've been meaning to take photos every day since then, but other stuff has just been popping up. You know, homework, rain, dance, procrastination. Actually, the rain just started yesterday. We had a little bit of a heat wave last week. It went up to 31 degrees the other day! (Everyone in the US reading this is probably thinking, what?!? 31 degrees? That's hot? I know how it is. I do a double take when someone says that the temperature dropped to 50, or that it was 90 the other day. I don't think in Fahrenheit. Water doesn't freeze at 32 degrees. It just doesn't.) Anyways, it was nice to get a little more wear out of my summer clothes.
This is my third Pendrell blouse, and, like my culottes, was a bit of an experiment. I had some red polka dot bamboo jersey lying around that my mom bought a while back, and I wanted to make it into a top, but didn't really have a good pattern for knit tops.
I believe my mom was planning to make this into a second camisole for me, after self-drafting one last year. Even though I wear the cami a lot, I've decided that camis don't work so well for my body type. I need them to give enough coverage in the front, and yet sit below my shoulder blades in the back... which doesn't seem to work. Even though we fitted the cami to be like that, gravity does its thing and the neckline sinks lower and the back rides up. Sigh.
I was actually planning to make the Maria Denmark Day to Night Drape Top with this, since I have a black polka dot shirt that's quite similar to this pattern and gets quite a bit of wear. But... I kind of forgot about that until halfway through making this. Oops. I had a fair chunk of time to spend sewing, I was not in a mood to finish my culottes, I saw this fabric just sitting there, and this seemed like a good idea at the time.
Now, this top is designed for drapey wovens. It has no zipper and is therefore very blousey - which I love, but I find that it really needs to be tucked in to be the most flattering. Since I wanted this to be a casual piece for layering, I thought I would probably be wearing it untucked with cardigans, and therefore wanted it to fit nice and snugly. I couldn't exactly size down since I make a straight size 0 in Sewaholic patterns, so I just took generous seam allowances (1", to be exact). And yes, I realize that princess seams are unnecessary for knits, especially jersey knits with as much stretch as this one, but it was the best pattern I had and I wasn't feeling up to self-drafting something.
I'm still kind of astounded that I managed to cut this out without sacrificing anything, and I'm still not entirely sure how I managed it. I somehow was able to squeeze it out of 0.6 metres of fabric instead of the recommended 1.8. A big part of it was not cutting the neck and armhole binding on the bias, being a knit. I also shortened it by 2", just like in my other versions. Still, I don't think I've ever had such an efficient layout - when I was all done, I barely had enough left over to try some sample seams. I was planning to make the sleeveless version as an alternative to a cami, but realised there was a little empty square that I might just be able to squeeze some sleeves out of. The Pendrell cap sleeves for view B didn't fit, but my pattern pieces for the Alma blouse just happened to be sitting on my cutting table waiting for a FBA. Looking through the pieces, I realized that the cap sleeves for view A would just fit into that little empty square. I had no idea if they would be compatible with the pattern, but figured it was worth a try.
They did end up working out nicely, although since I couldn't line up notches, they are a teensy bit uneven, but I don't think it's very noticeable. I only noticed this yesterday, when I took the photos of it flat. I also think I gathered them a little bit more than on the original pattern, again, because I didn't have notches to match them to. Overall, though, I really love them! They have a different look in a knit, but I think they really suit the polka dots. They are cute and very flattering, as opposed to the plain cap sleeves that are usually found on knit tops. I think that I'll get a little more wear out of this with sleeves, because it just feels a little more complete. Without, I think it would feel like I would need to wear a cardigan with it. I still can because the sleeves aren't bulky, which makes this a pretty versatile piece.
I must say, even though I've made this twice already (past versions will probably be blogged about at some point), I struggled with this version. It should have been fast and easy, but it most definitely wasn't. Why? It's a knit. I really, really hate sewing with knits, and especially jersey knits with quite a bit of spandex (I don't know the exact fiber content, but this is suuuper stretchy. I would hazard a guess at 8-10% spandex. It's stretchier than a knit rayon top I have that is 8%, anyways).
On a bit of a side note, when I was younger I sewed almost exclusively with knits, because I had some weird idea in my head that they were easier to sew with than nice, stable wovens. I have no idea why. All that time, I thought sewing was a lot more difficult than it actually is, because I only sewed with knits. Now, I sew pretty much exclusively with wovens.
The seams themselves weren't too bad, I just used a slight zig-zag and serged the edges, but the topstitching for the neck and armhole binding drove me crazy. I used a double needle because I think it looks nicer than a zig-zag, but it took me lots of tries (and quite a bit of unpicking) to finally get it perfect good enough. It still puckers a little bit in a few places, where the second needle didn't catch the binding underneath. This probably wasn't the best way to finish the neck, but I wanted this to be a quick project, so I just went for it. Isn't it funny how so often the things we do to make things "faster" end up taking so much time?
It's definitely not my best handiwork (the above picture it one of the better parts), but I'm still pretty happy with it. It fits, in comfortable, and it's very wearable. I have to admit that even though anything I sew that's knit is never particularly well-made, they still get quite a bit of wear.
One thing I noticed about this top after I finished was that it's actually really bright! I know what you're thinking. Of course it's bright. Duh. It just seems brighter now that it's a top, oddly enough. It didn't look quite that bright when it was just fabric. I still really like it, especially with a cardigan to tone done the brightness a little bit.
I, of course, styled it with a skirt for these photos, and then realised that I would be wearing it far more often with jeans and a cardigan, so I changed and took some photos like that too.
It can be dressed up or down pretty easily. When I added the bolero/blazer (it's kind of a combination of the two, so I call it both, depending on how I feel), it reminded me of the outfits I would wear for band concerts back when my band teacher said that girls had to wear all black, but guys could wear whatever colour dress shirt they liked. A bunch of the girls in band decided that this was completely unfair, and wore coloured shirts anyways. Shortly thereafter, he gave up telling the girls they had to wear all black.
I think I bumped the tripod, so I cut off my feet in this photo... but you get the idea.
I do really love this pattern, even though it's not really the same pattern after taking so much out of the seams and changing the sleeves. As I mentioned before, I've made two of these already and love them both. Also, the skirt I'm wearing in these photos is the Sewaholic Hollyburn. Can anyone tell I like Sewaholic patterns?
I've seen loads of pendrells but like yours the best! that's due to the changes you made. I love the fit, just hoe I like a blouse and the sleeves, the gather suits the fabric beautifully.
I really like how this top came out in a knit, it looks great on you. I've not worked with any Sewaholic patterns, yet, byt a few of themy are on my wishlist.
Thank you! I would highly recommend any of the Sewaholic patterns that I've tried so far. All of them (Pendrell, Alma, Cambie, and Hollyburn) have turned out great and get a lot of wear.
I love this shirt, especially the sleeves! It looks so great on you as well. Great job!


Possible Site Shutdown Looming - Ben10Toys.net for Ben 10 Toy Fans!
Hello, I am Stu Carter, the man who pays to keep this site running.
Mode Media, the company that owns Ning Network, which hosts this site, has abruptly gone out of business. This according to Wall Street Journal, so its no prank.
This site is still functioning, but it may only be days/weeks away from lights out! Apparently, Mode tried for months to find a buyer for their business, with no success.
Recently, they announced price hikes for hosting the site, and I was ok with that, since so many fans enjoy being here.
I have also looked at alternatives, but it would be impossible to move all the content to a new site. I have saved everyone's email, and when there is something else available, I will update you.
- Redirect the domain name to a Facebook fan page for MHD.
I do so appreciate all the work of the moderators over many years!
And the devotion of you members. BTW I will be in Hong Kong for another toy show next month, may have some Ben 10 reports.
To update you, as you can see we are still operating. Mode Media put out an announcement that another company took over operations for Ning. We were offline for a few hours today. If the site does go down, keep trying. I own this domain name so I can direct it to other places.
Seems we have a reprieve for now, someone bought the network!
Shut it, Orange. I still visit here.


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Sana Mir achieves historic landmark
By Jawad Rajput
Pakistan's senior off-spinner, Sana Mir bagged the title of the most successful women ODI's spinner in the world after she dismissed Sune Luus from South Africa in the third ODI of ICC Women's Championship.
The former captain now has 147 scalps to her name in her 118 appearances for Pakistan. Sana has leapfrogged, West Indies spinner Anisa Mohammed and Australia's Lisa Sthalekar, who had accumulated 146 wickets each. Consequently, Mohammed and Sthalekar have slipped on to the second and third position, respectively.
The 33-year-old is currently at the third position in the bowler's rankings but is expected to move ahead in the hen the new ICC rankings are released. In October last year, she had become the first Pakistan bowler to top the ICC rankings.


December 2013 - Phragmites australis has become pervasive throughout the Municipality of Lambton and as an invasive speciesare now impact has extended to and along the Lake Huron coastline. Phragmites cells have expanded across extensive sections of the shoreline negatively impacting recreational use, aesthetics and valuable coastal ecosystems. Unless a concerted effort is undertaken to control Phragmites throughout the entire region, and in a timely fashion, this aggressively spreading invader will continue to expand and increasingly become an issue.
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Drake, Cardi B Lead American Music Awards With 8 Nods Each
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NEW YORK (AP) — Rap has easily dominated the pop charts and on streaming services in the last few years, and that's reflected at the 2018 American Music Awards.
Drake and Cardi B are the leading nominees with eight each. The AMAs will air live Oct. 9 from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
Drake, with the top-selling album Scorpion and three No. 1 hits, will compete for artist of the year alongside Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Imagine Dragons and Post Malone.
Rapper-singer XXXTentacion, a streaming juggernaut before his death in June and afterward, earned nominations for new artist of the year and favorite soul/R&B album for his 2017 debut, 17.
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"When I was a kid General Electric was in my backyard. They were experimenting with man-made lightning and I went to the building where they were doing the test. When I saw it for the first time I knew what I was looking for – that mystery event of discovery between science and creativity…" —Tom Patti
Honored in 2012 as a Pratt Icon, Tom Patti has received international attention for a body of work comprising visionary architectural systems—both small scale sculptural glass works and large scale public commissions. Exhibited and published internationally, his work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art in Washington D.C., the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, and others worldwide. An artist, designer, and materials scientist, Patti has received numerous awards for his work on projects using high performance glass and plastics, collaborating with such architects and engineers as Cesar Pelli, Graham Gund, FX Fowle, Arquitectonica and Buro Happold; and has served as technical consultant on glass design for Corning, Owens Corning, PPG, Solutia, and Israel Berger & Associates.
Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1943, Patti left the Berkshires in the early 1960s to pursue a BFA and MFA at Pratt Art Institute in Industrial Design and Architectural Theory. During that time he was involved with Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), aproject co-founded by Robert Rauschenberg to develop collaborations between artists and engineers to explore the relationship of art to science and technology. Establishing this investigation as a predominant theme in his work, Patti has continued to innovate architectural and industrial glass processes entirely unique to his artwork over the past four decades.
Today his works are synonymous with an aesthetic subtlety and mystical perfection that transcends the medium, making him a leader in the field of art and high performance glass technology. In addition to Patti's artwork, Tom Patti Design collaborates with artists to fabricate impact and scratch resistant pieces for public art projects.


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Q: Thread safe implementation for Hash Map First, I'll describe what I want and then I'll elaborate on the possibilities I am considering. I don't know which is the best so I want some help.
I have a hash map on which I do read and write operations from a Servlet. Now, since this Servlet is on Tomcat, I need the hash map to be thread safe. Basically, when it is being written to, nothing else should write to it and nothing should be able to read it as well.
I have seen ConcurrentHashMap but noticed its get method is not thread-safe. Then, I have seen locks and something called synchronized.
I want to know which is the most reliable way to do it.

A: EDIT: removed false information
In any case, the synchronized keyword is a safe bet. It blocks any threads from accessing the object while inside a synchronized block.
// Anything can modify map at this point, making it not thread safe
map.get(0);

as opposed to
// Nothing can modify map until the synchronized block is complete
synchronized(map) {
    map.get(0);
}

A: Collections.synchronizedMap(new HashMap<K, V>);

Returns a synchronized (thread-safe) map backed by the specified map. In order to guarantee serial access, it is critical that all access to the backing map is accomplished through the returned map.
It is imperative that the user manually synchronize on the returned map when iterating over any of its collection views:

A: I would like to suggest you to go with ConcurrentHashMap , the requirement that you have mentioned above ,earlier I also had the same type of requirement for our application but we were little more focused on the performance side.
I ran both ConcurrentHashMap  and map returned by Colecctions.synchronizedMap(); , under various types of load and launching multiple threads at a time using JMeter and I monitored them using JProfiler .After all these tests we came to conclusion that that map returned by Colecctions.synchronizedMap() was not as efficient in terms of performance in comaprison to ConcurrentHashMap.
I have written a post also on the same about my experience with both.
Thanks

A: ConcurrentHashMap.get() is thread safe.
You can make HashMap thread safe by wrapping it with Collections.synchronizedMap().

A: This is the point of ConcurrentHashMap class. It protects your collection, when you have more than 1 thread.

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Ricardo Arellano Nieves (ur. 5 maja 1976 w Aguascalientes) – meksykański sędzia piłkarski, z zawodu nauczyciel. Posługuje się językiem hiszpańskim.

W ojczystej Primera División zaczął sędziować w wieku 29 lat. Pierwszym poważnym turniejem, w którym sędziował Arellano, była Liga Mistrzów CONCACAF 2009/10. Meksykanin poprowadził wówczas spotkanie półfinałowe pomiędzy Tolucą i Pachucą, zakończone wynikiem 1:1. Otrzymał nagrodę dla najlepszego meksykańskiego sędziego w roku 2009. Arbitrem międzynarodowym jest od 2010 roku.

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Russia Tells Turkey To Drop Karabakh Linkage
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Russia -- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) meets with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Moscow, 13Jan2010
Turkey should not link the normalization of its relations with Armenia to further progress in international efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
Putin also reaffirmed Moscow's support for Turkey's dramatic rapprochement with Armenia, his country's main regional ally, after talks with his visiting Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
"We receive with great optimism Turkish proposals on the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations," he told a joint news conference. "We very much hope all elements of shortest approaches [to the normalization] will be used in the negotiating process and Armenia's leadership is also on this positive path."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was among foreign dignitaries that attended the signing in Zurich last October of two protocols envisaging the establishment of diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey and the opening of their border. Erdogan has repeatedly stated since then that Turkey's parliament will not ratify the protocols without a resolution of the Karabakh dispute acceptable to Azerbaijan. Armenia responded to those statements by threatening to walk away from the deal.
In remarks that will be welcomed by Yerevan, Putin made clear that Moscow believes the two issues should not be "tied in one package." "It is difficult to solve each of these problems separately, and if one tackles them in a single package, then prospects for their settlement will automatically become very remote," he said. "Packaging these problems is not quite right from the practical and strategic standpoints."
The Karabakh conflict was expected to be on the agenda of Erdogan's talks with Putin and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Speaking at a Moscow diplomatic academy earlier in the day, Erdogan implicitly urged the Russians to do more to broker a Karabakh settlement. He said they can become "the most important actor" in the Karabakh peace process.
The Turkish premier's high-profile visit focused on growing Russian-Turkish energy cooperation. Medvedev described Moscow's current rapport with Ankara as "strategic partnership."


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Ugandan king charged with murder after fighting kills 87Tue, 29 Nov, 2016 | Posted By: The Times Of Earth (TOE)
Ugandan policemen guard a checkpoint on the outskirts of Kampala, in February 2016 (AFP Photo/Isaac Kasamani)
Ugandan prosecutors charged a tribal king with murder Tuesday, accusing him of backing a separatist militia in his kingdom where weekend fighting between his guards and security forces left at least 87 people dead.
The Rwenzururu King Charles Wesley Mumbere is accused of commanding a militia from his palace with the aim of creating an independent state straddling Uganda and the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.
"Court sat this afternoon. He has been charged with murder," Uganda's judiciary spokesman Solomon Muyita told AFP, without giving further details.
Police and army officers stormed Mumbere's palace in the western town of Kasese on Sunday in a hail of gunfire and explosions, dragging him out and placing him under arrest after he failed to accept an ultimatum to disband his royal guards, the authorities have said.
According to police, fighting first broke out on Saturday when a joint patrol of police and troops was attacked by the royal guards and quickly spread to surrounding towns.
Kasese district police commander Sam Odong told AFP another 25 bodies had been found on Monday in towns outside Kasese, however it was not clear whether they were civilians or royal guards.
Police had earlier reported that 16 police officers and 46 guards were killed in the weekend unrest, bringing the total death toll to 87. Another 139 guards have been arrested.
Amnesty International on Monday expressed alarm at what "appears to be shocking examples of unlawful killings and a complete disregard for human rights during the arrests".
The Rwenzururu kingdom, of the Bakonzo tribe, is a modern one.
It began as a separatist movement of the same name when the Bakonzo -- tired of being subjected to the rule of another tribe given preference under British rule -- declared its own kingdom in 1962.
The move led to years of bloodshed until a settlement was reached in 1982 in which the movement laid down arms in return for a degree of local autonomy.
President Yoweri Museveni officially recognised the kingdom in 2009.
However, many in the region still feel marginalised by the government and want to create their own state known as the Yiira Republic, uniting the Bakonzo and its sister tribe, the Banande, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Uganda's Internal Affairs Minister General Jeje Odongo told a press conference that "claims and counter-claims over land rights between the Bakonzo and other communities is alleged to be one other cause of the conflict" in the region.
He said a wave of attacks was carried out in 2014, leaving nearly 100 people dead -- mostly attackers from a group known as "Youth of the Kingdom".
"In the recent wave of violence the attackers have graduated into a militia which is trained, uniformed, armed, camped, and under a command and control structure. This new structure is composed of "KilhumiraMutima" (the stronghearted and keepers of a secret)," he said.
He said regional security authorities met on November 21 to decide to dismantle camps set up by the militia, spurring a surge of attacks on police stations and posts in the region by the fighters who retreated into the palace.
Odongo said machine guns, pistols, machetes, spears and petrol bombs had been found in the palace.
The kingdom has denied any links to the alleged militia.
"At the moment the institution is not ready to give a statement," said palace spokesman Clarence Bwambale.
"We can't have the figures of our people killed because we have been denied access to the palace... but definitely we lost many people."
Kasese district commissioner James Mwesigye on Tuesday offered amnesty to members of the royal guards and alleged militia who turned themselves in, saying they would "be handled as children who went astray and have returned to the fold".
"We don't want to see more bloodshed," said Bwambale. "Come and hand yourselves in because we want to see you alive, the heroes are those who are alive."


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