Two weeks ago, I visited London for the day to attend Aashni & Co's Wedding Show at the Dorchester Hotel. The event promised collections and appearances from some of India's top designers including Sabyasachi, Tarun Tahiliani and Manish Malhotra.
Read on to see what I thought of the show and how my day went!
After much deliberation on what to wear, followed by a two and half hours on the train from Manchester, I arrived with my sister at Euston Station where we met up with Ziggi from Ziggi Menswear and got a taxi to the Dorchester Hotel.
The ballroom at the Dorchester was the perfect setting for this luxury wedding show, the exhibition started off with a display of wedding cakes, but to be honest I hardly noticed them - it was the the circular space displaying a single outfit from each designer that caught my eye!
Once I'd marvelled at this initial display, it was time to go into the main display area. Each designer had their own display area with fitting rooms and there were lots of mirrors around the room.
It was great to see the designers interacting with everyone, and I don't just mean the "high net worth individuals" who had been invited to the event, but ordinary people like me and this girl in this photo! Having said that, I did spot a few of what I can only assume was Aashni & Co's elite clients being escorted around the exhibition by guides.
Aside from the collections by the designers I knew I'd love, the key standouts and suprised for me were the likes of Sonali Gupta and Anushree Reddy - both of these designers had really fun, bright and vibrant collections.
I fell in love with Anushree Reddy's feminine pastel tones in pink and mint with some fab floral prints.
I didn't try any of these on, but the lovely Nigar from The Desi Dossier did and here's how it looked - beautiful!
Sonali Gupta's collection was composed more of primary colours - bold yellows, brilliant blues and reds. Her pieces on Pernia's Pop Up Shop had caught my eye in the past and I really liked her short dresses worn with dhoti-style pants, which as you can see from the screengrab below, sold out on Pernia's!
So...was the event worth the £30 ticket price? Personally for me, as someone who writes about Asian fashion and loves Indian designers I would say it was worth it. Even though I didn't really make the most of speaking to the designers (and I ended up losing my camera so I didn't even get any good photos!) I just loved seeing the collections up close and being there in the grandeur of it all.
Someone I spoke to about the event commented that it's really difficult to get an appointment with some of these designers, even if you visit their flagship stores in India, so to have them all in one place offering advice to brides is something that doesn't happen every day!
Here's my "photobooth" pic from the show!


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Q: Moq framework Func I am new with Moq and TDD and what I am trying to do is to set up method on repository interface.
Here is full story.
I have a domain entity class called Tenant with property BusinessIdentificationNumber
public class Tenant:EntityBase<Tenant>,IAggregateRoot
{
 ...
 public string BusinessIdentificationNumber {get;set;}
 ...
}

Next I have repository for this entity which interface is like
public interface IRepository<T>
{
 ...
 T FindBy(Func<T,bool> func);
 ...
}

where the problem is, I use a domain service which holds the rules for creating a tenant and is like
public class TenantCreationService:ITenantCreationService
{
    public TenantCreationService(IRepository<Tenant> tenantRepository){...}

    public void CreateTenant(Tenant tenant)
    {
        //from here there is call to IRepository<Tenant>.FindBy(funcMethod);
    }
}

And in unit testing where I am testing the TenantCreationService I mock the repository passed to constructor, but I would like to test the feature :

*

*when tenant with BusinessIdentificationNumber already exists in storage or session it should be returned.

So I was trying to do it like
repositoryMock.Setup(x=>x.FindBy(It.Is<Tenant>(t=>t.BusinessIdentificationNumber
   == _tenantInTest.BusinessIdentificationNumber))).Returns(_tenantInTest)

but it does not compile. You know what I want to do?
EDIT:
when i try to compile the snippet below
repositoryMock.Setup(e => e.FindBy(t => t.BusinessNumber == _validTenant.BusinessNumber)).Returns(
                _validTenant);

i get exception
Unsupported expression: t => (t.BusinessNumber == value(DP.IPagac.UnitTests.DP.IPagac.Module.TenantManagement.TenantDomainServiceTests)._validTenant.BusinessNumber)

A: I think what you are trying the acheive is this (removed some things that were extraneous for example and created ITenent so it can be mocked dynamically):
[TestFixture]
public class Test
{
    [Test]
    public void CreateTenentAlreadyExistsTest()
    {
        var tenentMock = new Mock<ITenant>();
        var repoMock = new Mock<IRepository<ITenant>>();

        tenentMock.Setup(t => t.BusinessIdentificationNumber).Returns("aNumber");

        repoMock.Setup(r => r.FindBy(It.Is<System.Func<ITenant, bool>>(func1 => func1.Invoke(tenentMock.Object)))).Returns(tenentMock.Object);

        var tenantCreationService = new TenantCreationService(repoMock.Object);

        tenantCreationService.CreateTenant(tenentMock.Object);

        tenentMock.VerifyAll();
        repoMock.VerifyAll();
    }
}

public interface ITenant
{
    string BusinessIdentificationNumber { get; set; }
}

public class Tenant : ITenant
{
    public string BusinessIdentificationNumber { get; set; }
}

public interface IRepository<T>
{
    T FindBy(System.Func<T, bool> func);
}

public class TenantCreationService : ITenantCreationService
{
    private readonly IRepository<ITenant> _tenantRepository;

    public TenantCreationService(IRepository<ITenant> tenantRepository)
    {
        _tenantRepository = tenantRepository;
    }

    public void CreateTenant(ITenant tenant)
    {
        var existingTenant =
            _tenantRepository.FindBy(t => t.BusinessIdentificationNumber == tenant.BusinessIdentificationNumber);

        if (existingTenant == null)
        {
            //do stuff
        }
    }
}

public interface ITenantCreationService
{
    void CreateTenant(ITenant tenant);
}

A: "when tenant with BusinessIdentificationNumber already exists in storage or session it should be returned." - from this test description I understood that this behavior you should test in repository class not in on service class
In unit test for services you should not test data accesses layer I mean your repositories,
you should just verify that the repository method FindBy was called.
and my suggest Create ITenantRepositry that derive from IRepository interface and from base class Repostiry.

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Rhonda, thank you for liking this. I firmly believe (as one who never really understood the game, because I lack social skills 😉 ) that unless we move past stereotypes of all kinds and simply relate to each other as people we will constantly fall short of insane ideals and never fully understand one another. That would be an awful thing. As to being far out in left field, you are not out there–you are right where I wanted this draft to put you.
you are right in what you say as to moving past those stereotypes. i personally don't see it happening, but i've often been wrong. and as to your social skills? puhleeese…it's those skills we need dear sister to help rid us of those stereotypes. more like you. and i'm happy to hang out here until your next draft pulls me into the center.
Aw, you are a sweetie for saying so! Oh, hey. Um, did I hear you say you went LEFT of something?
haha…nice try. not THAT left. you wish!
😉 you know I had to say it…Love you, no matter which direction you lean, SFAM.
wait what?? YOu Know TWO people who don't lean to the left? WHAT?
Wow! That sense of balance is expressed to effectively here, Susan.
Polly, thank you. Might be a critical balance, as I forgot to give this poor woman a safety net, didn't I?
I love that you are thinking of her safety net, Susan. I agree with Polly in that she'll find her own, but I have to say how my heart swelled when I read that you were thinking of her, still…after the poem was posted. Your last line makes it bearable.
Thanks, Jane. Yes, this one stayed with me for a while.
Just amazing … loved reading the phases !!!
I read Georgia's post and felt haunted and troubled, worried about the girls growing up now. "Later", I thought. "I'll post on hers later." And then went on to read yours. You got it. Thanks for being so fleet of pen.
Love being a muse for your poetry. Thanks!
The discovery of self, the presentation of that self through partial concealment and disguise, the denial and subduing of emotions…all parts of a socialization into a socially constructed femininity that she works through as she walks towards the "prize" and paying a price for it!
Great poem, Susan. But what to do? To be or not to be? Zat, Susan is za hansa!
🙂 I think the answer is to just be.
A sense of balance aptly and powerfully described.
Thanks, Nelle. Oh, that would have been perfect!


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Alice In Wonderland Movie Review
By Mommy Iris March 8, 2010 Updated: March 8, 2010 1 Comment3 Mins Read
As a child once, I can say that, like others kids, I also enjoyed fairytale stories, watching cartoon shows and other animated films. Some of these cartoon and animated films I really loved to watch over and over again are the timeless Cinderella Story, Sleeping Beauty and Alice in Wonderland.
Honestly, I can still clearly recall each of these stories – of what happened to the main characters, the plot of the story and even the names of the villains. Guess what?! Here's a secret, I still love reading and watching fairytale stories until now. So, when I saw the trailer of Alice in Wonderland movie, without even thinking, I immediately told myself that "I must watch this movie!".
What actually charmed me when I saw the trailer was the colorful world of Alice in Wonderland. They are like eye candies shown in vivid colors that are very enticing to a child's eye – which, I think, is the real target of the movie. Luckily, I was fortunate to receive a free movie pass to the premiere night of the Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland 3D film! I was excited to go and experience 3D movie-watching once again.
The first part of the movie, for me, is just a retelling of a 19-year-old girl's dilemma, where confused Alice, as portrayed by Mia Wasikowska was in the middle of adulthood and childhood. But during her time in the human world, she was bothered by her dreams about an enchanted world with magical creatures – which turned out to be the Wonderland. Poor Alice has no idea about her dreams because she has vague memories of her past and she doesn't recall anything about the Wonderland. Then, when she fell on a rabbit's hole, and consequently reached the Wonderland, Alice's world turned upside down due to magical characters, like Mad Hatter, played by Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen and Ann Hathaway as the White Queen, among others.
At first, I thought that Tim Burton's (the film director) Alice in Wonderland is just a 3D version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass books, but I was amazed at how Linda Wolverton (the story writer) wrote a new story based on a book. As for me, it's pointless to compare the book version from the 3D version of the Alice in Wonderland as each story has its own distinct story line though the characters are the same.
The movie is recommended for children (though some animations may seem "dark" and scary for them) and to everyone who love fairy tales. Even if you have or haven't read the book version of the movie or even its previous animated version, still you can enjoy watching it, as what I have mentioned, this one has a different story to tell that can entertain moviegoers from all ages.
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T. H. Musthafa (born 7 December 1941) is a Kerala politician who served as the Food Minister of Kerala from 1991 - 1995 while Karunakaran was the Chief Minister. He is a five-time legislator belonging to Indian National Congress.

Early life
Musthafa was born and brought up in a Muslim family named "Thottathil Kottappurath". He did his primary school education in his village and neighborhoods. His grandfather and family were appointed the tax collector of old royal family of central Travancore. His family name is considered as one of the oldest and traditional families of the state. Traditionally, they farmed to provide income for the family. His grandfather was a farmer and landlord.

Musthafa completed high school in 1965. He discontinued his studies due to lack of good schools in his neighborhoods.

It has visibly seen that Musthafa keeps young and educated people around him to compete with new generation leaders and politicians.

Political career
He started his party leadership at age 16 as per party records. He was a closest ally and loyalist of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. His political career was effected after their assassination.

 Positions held

1957-1960 Youth Congress Mandalam President Vazhakulam
1962-1964 Youth Congress Perumbavoor Block President
1962-1965 Youth Congress Ernakulam District Gen. Secretary
1964-1968 President Perumbavoor Block Congress Committee
1966-1968 Gen. Secretary Ernakulam DCC
1968-1978 President Ernakulam DCC
1978-1983 Gen. Secretary KPCC
1982, 1984 Deputy Leader Congress Legislative Party
1982-1986 Vice Chairman Kerala Khadi Industries Board
1983-1997 Vice President KPCC
Kerala Legislative Assembly Member (MLA) 1977
Kerala Legislative Assembly Member (MLA) 1982
Kerala Legislative Assembly Member (MLA) 1987
Kerala Legislative Assembly Member (MLA) 1991
1991-1995 Minister Food and Civil Supplies
Kerala Legislative Assembly Member (MLA) 2001

He recently finished 60+ years in Indian National Congress. The book related to his 60+ years political career in Congress was published by A.K. Antony.

He was the captain of Raj bhavan March from Manjeshwaram to Raj bhavan trivandrum covering a total distance of more than 1572 kilometres by foot.

He was elected as DCC (District Congress committee) president for 14 years in Cochin. He got selected for KPCC vice president, AICC member and much prestigious party leadership in Indian National Congress (INC). K. Karunakaran and Musthafa made the base for congress in Kerala at the time of party split, Indira Gandhi was their direct reports to Delhi.

His family includes social activists, farmers, engineers, doctors, management professionals as their profession. One of his brothers sri. T.H. Abdul Jabbar served as the Presidant of Vazakulam grama panchayath during 2010–2015. Shri. Musthafa became MLA for the first time in 1977, from Aluva constituency, as a Congress candidate. He was again elected as MLA in 1982, 1987, 1991 and 2001 from Kunnathunadu constituency. Lost elections at Aluva in 1980 and Kunnathunadu in 1996.

Musthafa served as the head for several Kerala government organizations including Kerala state khadi board. Lmtd, Rubber Marketing board. Lmtd, CIAL (Cochin International airport limited), etc. Noted educated IAS, IPS, IFS, IRS officers served Musthafa in his entire political career. Rather than his educational qualifications, Musthafa was considered a go-getter and trend maker politician of Kerala.

Controversies
When civil service officer Mr. Teeka Ram Meena IAS took action against the civil supply wheat scam of 7.5 crore Indian rupees and brought back the money to the state treasury, then the food minister of Kerala took action against him, the minister himself put bad comments in his confidential note (service book), transferred him to Poojappura to a small government office.  Later when Mr. E. K. Nayanar became the chief minister of Kerala, he himself changed the service book with respect to the report of Mr. C. P. Nair IAS and also CAG.

References

Indian National Congress politicians from Kerala
People from Ernakulam district
Indian Muslims
Malayali politicians
Year of birth uncertain
1941 births
Living people

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Pet Ownership As a Component of Psychosocial Resilience to Disaster: An Exploratory Study in West Moors, Dorset, United Kingdom
Mai, Sahrah Gwendoline
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When disaster strikes, the focus of disaster management is on protecting the lives of humans and there is little or no provision for the welfare of animals. This approach, as well as denying animals protection as fellow sentient beings, fails to take into consideration the importance of animals to humans, particularly where there is a strong bond such as between an owner and their pet. Pet ownership influences health and wellbeing with consequences for individual psychosocial resilience. Pet ownership also influences social capital which is a key component of resilience at community level and has consequences for wider society. However, while there is growing literature on these various elements, research making links between them remains scarce. Using the United Kingdom as case study and through thematic analysis of interviews conducted with five pet owners and three emergency management practitioners, this dissertation explores links between pet ownership, health and wellbeing, social capital and psychosocial resilience. The objectives were to explore the strengths and weaknesses of pet ownership in the face of disasters and identify implications for policy and practices geared towards Disaster Risk Management (DRM). The findings agree with those of earlier studies that pets are part of the family and the relationship between owner and pet can be as close as between humans. Pet ownership and the presence of a pet in the community positively influence social capital, while distress at the death or loss of a pet has a negative effect on the psychosocial resilience of the owner and on others in the owner's social networks. Distress and grief may lead to mental illness including Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and/or lowered social capital, both of which have consequences for community resilience. In a disaster, pet ownership can be a protective factor, for example through the security and comfort of pet's presence, but can constitute risk where people refuse to evacuate in a disaster if their pets cannot be evacuated with them. The study considers implications of the findings for policy and practices geared towards DRM and concludes that there is a need to protect pets in a disaster, for their own sakes and as a way of safeguarding human health and wellbeing.
Keywords: disaster, pet ownership, pet, wellbeing, psychosocial resilience, social capital, community
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Work starts on new student accommodation at West's Garage site in Cambridge
Developers are building 202 student rooms on the corner of Newmarket Road and River Lane
Before and after: West's Garage in 2002 and the demolition site in January 2017 (Image: Keith Heppell and David Johnson)
Building work appears well underway for the erection of new student housing in the centre of Cambridge.
The former site of West's Garage, on the corner of Newmarket Road and River Lane, will see the development of 202 study bedrooms.
Watkins Jones Group, the construction firm delivering the new accommodation, has already demolished all existing buildings.
West's Garage had previously operated from the site since the 1950s.
The existing buildings on the site of Wests Garage Renault Ltd have all been demolished (Image: David Johnson)
Construction plans include providing communal facilities, cycle parking, and external landscaping for the new student housing.
Planning permission for the development was granted on appeal by the Government's Planning Inspector after Cambridge City Council's planning committee turned down the proposals in May 2015.
The committee declined to back the scheme because it was felt the building "would be poorly integrated into the locality" and "would overwhelm the houses on the opposite side of River Lane, visually dominating them to an undue extent and creating an unacceptable sense of enclosure."
Concern was also expressed that use of the building would not be limited to full-time students of the University of Cambridge or Anglia Ruskin University.
It was also argued that the proposals did not " make appropriate provision for open space and sports facilities, waste facilities or public art."
Exterior's of West's Garage, Newmarket Road, Cambridge in 2002 (Image: Keith Heppell)
Councillors unanimously voted against planning permission, going against the advice of planning officers.
Their decision was overturned on appeal in January last year by the Government's Planning Inspector.
The demolition site seen from another angle (Image: David Johnson)
He argued that the "stepped" nature of the building, with varying numbers of storeys, would ensure it kept within the "character" of the surrounding area.
A letter of intent from Anglia Ruskin University was also used to support proposals.
Section 106 clauses and funding will ensure the building is reserved for student usage and contributions are made to outdoor and indoor sports facilities.
The city council no longer has requirements on waste facility payments and funding for public art.


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Yale Divinity School - Professional, Religious/Spiritual, Social
Website Mission
Anything But Christian would like to give a voice to non-Christians and Christian adjacents who want to explore different ways ministry can be represented through a non-Christian, non-colonial lens.
We believe that God does not solely belong to Christianity and that it is necessary to learn from and explore religions and religious identities. We understand "theology" to be the study of the absolute, whether that be labeled God/Gods, Truth, Mother Nature, Ultimate Reality, Brahman, Emptiness, etc. We support societal, social, and educational equality for all religions and their embodied practitioners. We are open to dual belonging, pantheism, syncretism, and pluralism as long as it is practiced respectively and compassionately avoiding misappropriation.
Our organizational events will focus on the not-solely-Christian and the non-traditional. This group will offer support and community to students who hold more pluralistic ideals.
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Asian Students Association
Yale Divinity School
Asian Students Association (ASA) provides a place for fellowship in the sharing of an ethnic bond and common faith. ASA is an inclusive space and community for students of Asian heritage, whether domestic or international students, along with fellow YDS students that are interested in advocacy of Asian/American issues. Frequent meetings roundtable discussions on current Asian/American theological issues, academic forums for the advancement of Asian-American theology, and fellowship gatherings.
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Berkeley Divinity School
Yale Divinity School - Academic, Administrative, Religious/Spiritual, Social, Special Interest
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Center for Continuing Education
Yale Divinity School - Academic, Administrative
The Center for Continuing Education at Yale Divinity School provides opportunities and resources for churches, clergy, and laity to foster the knowledge and love of God in their communities. The Center makes available the theological resources of YDS —events, lectures, programs, instructional resources, publications, and more—to enable and enrich ministry and lay learning. These resources are intended to support faith formation, religious education, and personal and professional enrichment.
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Club Creole
Yale Divinity School - Cultural
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Common Ground (formerly FERNS)
Yale Divinity School - Cultural, Religious/Spiritual, Social, Sports/Outdoors, Special Interest
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Disciples of Christ Student Group
Yale Divinity School - Religious/Spiritual
The UCC/DOC group gathers to share in times of fellowship over luncheon discussions, dinner socials, worship, and community service opportunities. All are welcome.
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DivineAbilities
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Divinity Colloquium
Our mission is to provide a forum dedicated to the fostering of collective academic conversation at Yale Divinity School. The Divinity Colloquium seeks to offer monthly sessions with a semi-formal yet low-pressure environment, during which students may present their work to an audience of fellow students. The Colloquium might take a form such as a discussion of a pre-circulated draft or a practice version of a conference talk. The ultimate aim of the Colloquium will be to provide a regularly convening venue wherein students may present their work to their peers while receiving suggestions, constructive criticisms, praise, and that overall collective academic experience that should define graduate school.
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Divinnovation
Contact: Emily Kvalheim
Divinnovation (a linguistic braiding of "Divinity" and "innovation") is a YDS student-led partnership with the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale ("Tsai CITY"). At Divinnovation, we believe that theology and faith-based imaginations are relevant to non-religious social and business practices. Conversely, we also believe that business mechanisms are relevant to the theological space and the broader world of ministry. Divinnovation seeks to develop alumni and cross-campus ecosystems to support the faith-based projects and social impact work of future leaders emerging from YDS. We also offer an interdisciplinary space where students can explore the intersections of theology and social entrepreneurship, law, business, and other non-traditional ministries.
Website Mission Contact: Emily Kvalheim
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DivOut
DivOut is a fellowship of Yale Divinity School students, faculty, and staff of all sexual orientations and gender identities dedicated to the full and equal participation of gay, lesbian, bisexual, asexual, queer, transgender, genderqueer, and gender non-conforming people in faith communities and society. We are committed to care for one another, to seek justice for those who have been oppressed, and to work for the full inclusion of all people in the family of God. We provide materials on LGBTQIA issues and information to members of the community dealing with related topics. In addition to ongoing discussion groups, DivOut sponsors lectures, panels, worship services, and other educational, social, and cultural events.
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Evangelical Fellowship
The Evangelical Fellowship strives to nurture spiritual disciplines, fellowship, and Spirit-led worship among the entire YDS community. Weekly meetings include prayer and intercession, contemporary worship, and brief reflections from students. We invite the YDS community to join us as we seek to encounter the presence of God in our daily lives.
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GCRE | Graduate Conference in Religion and Ecology
Yale Divinity School - Religious/Spiritual, Science/Technology, Speech/Debate, Special Interest
Hosted at Yale University, the Graduate Conference in Religion and Ecology reflects a desire to provide a space for students to engage in dynamic, interdisciplinary conversations across curricular boundaries, and strives to connect ethos with ethics, and ethics to applicable practicality.
Website Mission Contact: Email group officers
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Institute of Sacred Music Student Life
Yale Divinity School - Academic, Administrative, Social
- Envision, plan, and implement a range of events open to all ISM students to promote friendship, inclusivity, and respect.
- To empower students to imagine the shape and priorities of interdisciplinary community and create experiences to realize that vision for the benefit of the ISM, Yale, and broader New Haven communities.
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Korean Evangelical Student Group
The Korean Evangelical Student Group consists of both Koreans and Evangelical students at YDS including Korean-American, Korean-Korean, and those who identify themselves as Evangelical. This group has two purposes in its foundation: To encourage and help the Korean students, so-called 'minority group' in YDS community, to grow and sustain their identities by the means of prayers, worship and fellowship. Also, to contribute to the YDS community, the group will present its own ethnicity and religious identity with an open mind.
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Yale Divinity School - Cultural, Religious/Spiritual, Social, La Casa Affiliate Org, Cultural: Mixed Race, International
La Comunidad, the YDS Latinx Student Group, is dedicated to creating spaces for Latinx voices and bodies at YDS to gather and build community of solidarity and support. La Comunidad also seeks to provide resources to promote theological and cultural education for an entire YDS student body preparing for service to the church and the world. La Comunidad hopes to foster comunidad Latina: an open, welcoming place to learn, struggle, and celebrate.
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Lutheran Student Organization
Through worship, retreats, barbecues, and informal gatherings, the Lutheran Student Organization (LSO) provides fellowship for all students involved in the Lutheran traditions. Functioning within YDS's Lutheran Studies Program, students plan Tuesday evening Vespers in the Henri Nouwen Chapel, joint Eucharist services with Berkeley Divinity School, and morning school-wide services in Marquand. The LSO also sponsors guest speakers and discussion forums for issues pertinent to the YDS community.
MAR Cohort Group
Yale Divinity School - Academic
Space for MAR current students. Receive news and updates from your year group reps, schedule events together as a program community and connect with other MAR'ers!
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Marquand Chapel
Yale Divinity School - Administrative, Arts: Other, Arts: Visual Arts, Performance: Other, Performance: Singing, Religious/Spiritual
Marquand Chapel is at the heart of Yale Divinity School.
Worship is planned and led by students, faculty, and staff of both Yale Divinity School and the Institute of Sacred Music, under the leadership of the Dean of Chapel and a team of staff and students.
Worship in Marquand often draws on a wide variety of inherited Christian traditions, with the worship of many denominations being represented. Beyond that, though, we also pay attention to the rising number of people in Western society who have a lively interest in spirituality but feel no connection to traditional forms of church and worship. So Marquand is also actively engaged in original, creative, and experimental forms of worship, both for committed Christians and for those exploring the faith.
Attend Marquand five days in a row, and you may encounter an orthodox liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, a Mardi Gras worship party, a service of silent Lenten contemplation, a chapel converted into one of Dante's spheres of heaven, or a worship café. As a student at Yale Divinity School, you may well have taken part in designing one of these services.
From traditional worship to brave experiment, from ancient liturgy to post-modern praise, from the heart of America to global worship, Marquand's mission is to be worshipful, educational, and ecumenical, and we look forward to welcoming you here.
Services take place in Marquand every weekday classes are in session. All services are open to the community.
For more information, contact marquand@yale.edu.
MDiv Cohort Group
Space for MDiv current students. Receive news and updates from your year group reps, schedule events together as a program community and connect with other MDiv'ers!
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Native Crossroads
Contact: I'noli Hall
Website Contact: I'noli Hall
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Reformed Students Group
The Reformed Student Group hosts weekly student-led worship services intended to make room for non-academic spiritual reflection and building meaningful community. Created by students in the Reformed Studies Program, the services are often led by students belonging to Reformed and Reformed-adjacent traditions and borrow from Presbyterian (PCUSA) liturgies. However, the services are broadly ecumenical and open to all. The Reformed Student Group provides a space to explore what it means to be Reformed in the 21st century. In addition to our weekly worship, the group meets for more traditional PCUSA communion services on the first Sunday evening of each month. These services include a student-led homily and are presided over by an ordained minister in the Reformed tradition.
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Religion and Ecology Colloquium
Select Roman Catholic Fellowship at Yale Divinity School's group. Select the group and click on the Join button at the bottom of the page to register for this group
Roman Catholic Fellowship at Yale Divinity School
Website Mission Membership Benefits
RCF exists to bring the Catholic students of YDS together as a community to learn together, grow in our Catholic faith and get involved in local community events and service opportunities.
- Find intentional community and embrace the diversity of being Catholic at YDS
- A connection point for fellow Catholic students and faculty
- Attend and host social, faith-oriented and social events both in-person and online
- Share information about local opportunities for worship and community service and social justice
- Discuss with and support others undertaking the brand new Roman Catholic Lay Ministry Colloquium
(Ends at Graduation)
Will end at Graduation
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The Word at Yale
The goal of this preaching group is for students to learn from each other and to think about the process of preaching outside an academic context. It is challenging to get into the intro preaching class, and there are not many preaching opportunities for students who are not third-year MDivs, so this group aims to fill the gap by expanding preaching opportunities and opportunities to talk about preaching at Yale. YDS has a rich abundance of individuals passionate about preaching the Word from a wide array of different Christian traditions, and this groups taps into that by providing a space for preachers to collaborate. The primary event of this group during the 2020-2021 season has been our Word at Nine podcast, which provides YDS students with opportunities to preach a sermon on an episode of the show. The previous year, the group primarily consisted of an event called Preacher's Hour, which is essentially office hours with fellow students to talk about preaching, either through workshopping sermons that people are currently working on or through discussing topics relevant to preaching in general. Preacher's Hour has been on pause during the pandemic, but may resume in the future.
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Unitarian Universalist Student Group
The Unitarian Universalists Student Group provides support, denominational fellowship, and opportunities for education and theological reflection for Unitarian Universalist students at YDS, as well as Unitarian Universalist worship for the wider YDS community.
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Yale Black Seminarians
Yale Black Seminarians is a faith-based, student-led organization committed to enhancing the lives of black students at Yale Divinity School. The mission of the Yale Black Seminarians serves the entire Yale Divinity School community with a committed focus on mobilizing the presence of black students through advocacy, faith and the pursuit of justice. Activities have included the Fall Revival, the Martin Luther King Day Worship Service, the Angel Tree Project at Christmas, and the Parks-King Lecture in the Spring. As an integral part of the YDS Community, the Yale Black Seminarians remain committed to diversity among both students and faculty.
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Yale Divinity Drama
Yale Divinity School - Academic, Arts: Other, Media/Technology, Performance: Comedy, Performance: Dance, Performance: Instruments, Performance: Other, Performance: Singing, Performance: Theater, Religious/Spiritual, Social
Website Membership Benefits
Div Drama is a space of experimentation, inspiration, and plenty of perspiration (especially the week before a show). If you are looking to explore your inner-player this semester, join our spirited band of thespians, singers, dancers, and performers. We welcome anyone and everyone.
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Yale Divinity School Government
Yale Divinity School - Student Government
The purpose of the Student Government shall be the following:
To act as the legislative assembly of the student body of Yale Divinity School (the "Divinity School" or "YDS").
To serve as the primary representative of the student body before the faculty and administration of the Divinity School.
To act on behalf of the students and their interests on issues of YDS policy and community concern.
To advocate for the interests of the Divinity School students within the broader Yale University community.
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YDS Academic Affairs
Select YDS Alum Engagement and Development's group. Select the group and click on the Join button at the bottom of the page to register for this group
YDS Alum Engagement and Development
Yale Divinity School - Administrative
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YDS Anglican Fellowship
YDS Anglican Fellowship seeks to live out the unity of the Church while recognizing and examining its divisions, especially those in the Anglican tradition. We seek to be the Church in its humble brokenness rather than win over fellow Christians to our own theological positions.
We seek to listen, learn and pray together, thereby witnessing to the YDS community what reconciliation can look like in local communities. All Christians interested in learning to navigate theological difference are welcome.
Select YDS Commencement 2022's group. Select the group and click on the Join button at the bottom of the page to register for this group
YDS Commencement 2022
The official Yale Connect page for the Yale Divinity School Commencement. Events, information, and communications for all graduating students.
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YDS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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YDS DivFarm Student Group
Yale Divinity School - Food/Culinary, Health/Wellness, Religious/Spiritual, Social, Sports/Outdoors, Special Interest
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YDS Film Club
Yale Divinity School - Media/Technology, Special Interest
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YDS Knitting & Crochet Group
Yale Divinity School - Special Interest
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YDS Office of Student Affairs (OSA)
The Yale Divinity School Office of Student Affairs seeks to enrich all aspects of student life at YDS. The Office of Student Affairs exists to:
- Advocate for Yale Divinity School Students
- Support the Community Life Committee (CLC)
- Empower Yale Divinity School Student Government (YDSG)
- Nurture YDS Student Group leadership
In addition, the YDS Office of Student Affairs assists students with personal matters, academic concerns, and resources for students with disabilities. The Office of Student Affairs team is dedicated to ensuring that all students have the resources needed to flourish during their years at YDS.
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YDS Office of Vocation and Leadership
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YDS Paracleats Soccer Team
Yale Divinity School - Sports/Outdoors
The Yale Divinity School Paracleats are an intramural soccer in the Yale University Intramural League.
People of all enthusiasm and abilities are welcome! It does not matter if you played in college or have never kicked a soccer ball, we can find a place for you and want you on the team.
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YDS Registrar's Office
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YDS Student Org Leaders
The YDS Student Leaders' Handbook is the central resource for all Student Leaders of Clubs and Representatives in the YDS Student Government. The website is the official handbook of the YDS student org community, and events are regularly posted for training and development of our student leaders.
Student leaders needing access should email Kit.Heeley@yale.edu for access.
More details required: Which club/student org are you a leader of at YDS?
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YDS Women's Center
Welcome to the Yale Divinity School Women's Center! Located on the second floor in Fisher Hall, the YDS Women's Center exists as a space for all cisgender women, all transwomen, and all non-binary folks to confront discrminination across the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, dis/ability, nationality, and religious affiliation. This is a safe and brave space to discuss topics such as sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, gender violence, and more. This is also a place to celebrate your achievements, stories, and most importantly, your powerful voices! The Women's Center intends to provide a space to gather, to share knowledge, to share resources, and to share community.
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A monthlong sand-replenishment project undertaken to widen a stretch of Waikiki Beach will be more disruptive than initially planned, officials said Thursday. Star-Advertiser.
Long stretches of the usually majestic Waikiki Beach will be turned into roads for dump trucks and other heavy machines over the next few months while the City makes changes to its plans for replenishing the beach between the Duke Kahanamoku Statue and the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. Hawaii News Now.
The state and visitor industry have to turn to an inconvenient plan "B" on the Waikiki sand project due to a sand-blowers shortcomings. KHON2.
Taxpayers are on the hook for $90,000 following a whistleblower lawsuit claiming state officials failed to comply with environmental laws when issuing dozens of permits for activities at the protected Papahānaumokuākea monument. Civil Beat.
The financial picture for the state's two largest health insurers significantly improved in the fourth quarter, as premiums caught up with actual medical costs after a series of rate hikes over the past year. Star-Advertiser.
Hundreds of kupuna marched at the state Capitol Thursday, fighting to keep Kupuna Care a priority. KITV4.
More steps have been taken to make good on HGEA's favored nations clause, but the state and counties don't yet know how budgets will be affected in this fiscal year. KHON2.
Good news for Hawaii's fastest growing industry — the state has been ranked fourth for U.S. Renewable Energy Attractiveness. Pacific Business News.
Members of a dissident faction of Democrats who have long opposed Hawaii House Speaker Calvin Say argue that Say is behind new political boundaries that could force some of those dissidents out of office this year. Civil Beat.
Days after returning from the Academy Award in Los Angeles, Kaui Hart Hemmings was recognized by the state Senate for the success of her novel "The Descendants." Hawaii News Now.
Two weeks after emailing questions about email retention to the state's Department of Accounting and General Services — and 10 days after our article ran — we heard back. Civil Beat.
State roundup for March 2. Associated Press.
Mayor Peter Carlisle's $1.953 billion operating budget proposal for the next fiscal year would increase city government spending by $28 million compared with last year but does not increase real property tax rates or user fees. Star-Advertiser.
Mayor Peter Carlisle's operating and capital budgets for next year are nearly flat, together up just 2.3 percent from this year's budgets. Civil Beat.
Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle outlined his new spending plan on Thursday for the fiscal year that starts in July. The $1.953 billion dollar operating budget is $28 million higher than the current one. Hawaii News Now.
A bill allowing food trucks and other vendors to operate on city roads and highways for up to three hours at a time advanced from the City Council Transportation Committee Thursday afternoon.Star-Advertiser.
Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transit CEO Daniel Grabauskas is now the highest paid city employee. Hawaii Reporter.
Mary Beth Lohman, publisher of Pacific Business News since December 2009, is resigning. Advertising Director Bob Charlet will succeed her and become publisher on March 2. Pacific Business News.
A group of tech savvy designers in Honolulu wants to hear from people to help design new applications to improve life around the city. It's called, Code for America. Hawaii Public Radio.
Mayor Billy Kenoi on Thursday unveiled an election year status quo budget that holds the line on property taxes, maintains monthly employee furloughs, eliminates the West Hawaii golf subsidy and again postpones advance payments on health care for retired employees. West Hawaii Today.
Mayor Billy Kenoi is proposing to eliminate the county-operated lava viewing program at Kalapana to save $300,000 in the next fiscal year. Tribune-Herald.
The final settlement terms in the long-running Hokulia bypass saga will be revealed today. West Hawaii Today.
The more than 1.1 million visitors to Haleakala National Park in 2010 spent nearly $75 million in the park and on the island, and supported 861 jobs, a new National Park Service report showed. Maui News.
Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa is eager to grab a piece of the film industry saying the neighbor islands saw only $5 million dollars last year, compared to Oahu's $100 million. KITV4.
Officials with the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands led a presentation on the proposed Public Safety Complex in Puunene before the Council's Policy Committee on Wednesday. Maui Now.
A nasty virus causing nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and stomach pain has flared up all over Maui, a state heath official said last week. Maui News.
Work on the $21.6 million Science Building at the University of Hawaii Maui College continues on pace for an August completion, in time for next school year. Maui News.
Kauai Island Utility Cooperative officials said Thursday that they plan to pursue a second major solar farm of up to 10 megawatts. Pacific Business News.
Within hours of the end of the fifth and final forum on Thursday for Kaua'i Island Utility Cooperative Board of Directors candidates, the co-op announced its intent to build a second large-scale solar project in the 8 to 10 megawatt range. Garden Island.
An oversight in the final version of the Lydgate camping ordinance, which took more than six years to be approved, prompted the Kaua'i County Council to revisit the rules once again. Garden Island.


in this life might be very, very simple.
the heart with its longing to love.
Doesn't it remember the hurt?
the rubble, the wreckage, the stench?
larger buds, then bloom! A riot of bloom!
they will stay until they are boiled.
And dead. Does the heart learn from this?
and to let the heart love, to love despite.
in being a fool, how it burns.
And that chokecherry tree stanza, though relating the story about the frog is by far the most memorable. Though I've heard it before, you tell it like I haven't heard it, and combined with the hot springs, it grows larger until it not only encompasses you but also the reader. The indolence and pleasure and danger all mixed into the same stew.
I do think you end better on the word "burn" — that tiny simple line not really needed. The reach back to simplicity is already in the start of that burn stanza.
thanks David, you are right about taking off that little last line. Oh the urge to explain things! Trust the reader, trust the reader.
As for the heart not learning, I've been told the most essential element for successful relationships is not forgiveness, but forgetting.
ps I tried to double-, triple-, or even quadruple-like this, but alas, the internet was unable to understand my intentions.
Nonetheless, this poem stands out, even amid your already standoutable poetics.
Rosemerry – honestly, you are breaking through the stratosphere… I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this.
Sweet you, thank you … Let's go there together soon!


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Bringing an eclectic mix of world street food and British gastronomy to World Heritage Site, Ironbridge Gorge. A leafy river scene is backdrop to this friendly historic pub (est. 1854) recently refurbished and refreshed to now offer craft ales, cocktails, live music and world food all under one roof.
The Malthouse has 12 B&B rooms and in addition a stunning Penthouse suite & a Riverside cottage with two double rooms each and a stunning river view.
The Malthouse is one the busiest and liveliest music venues in Shropshire. Featuring live cover bands every Friday & Saturday night.


There's two sides to developing a game: churning out new features and content, and ironing out all the kinks that came with the new content. And, because Dark and Light just received new PvE content over the weekend, Snail Games thinks that it's probably best to spend time fixing bugs and balancing the game for the remainder of the month. What good is new content if it's just going to be buggy right?
Check out the new PvE Mistvane Shrine in the video below. You can also head over to the Dark and Light official forums for additional info.


In this biting collection of commentaries newspaper columnist and blogger, Sean O'Leary, explores with insight, passion, humor, and more than a little love the seemingly endless challenges that bedevil his home state of West Virginia. West Virginia Poet Laureate, Marc Harshman, calls this collection "a must-read for anyone concerned about not only the future of West Virginia, but other states in Appalachia".
West Virginia is a paradoxical place that seems to operate countercyclically to the rest of America and sometimes counterintuitively as well, making nonsense of conventional methods for understanding how people, societies, and economies work. How can a state that has fewer working adults than any other also have an unemployment rate that's below the national average? Why does West Virginia's economy sometimes, however briefly, seem comparatively prosperous, but only when the economies of all the other states are in decline? Why, if the coal industry is the economic engine that drives West Virginia's economy, are the places where coal is mined among the most impoverished in the state and nation? In fact, why does the coal industry, which comprises only 6% of the state's economy, loom so large in the politics and perceptions of West Virginia? Why do the people of West Virginia cling so determinedly to coal mining jobs which may sustain them financially, but which also destroy them sometimes suddenly in apocalyptic explosions and sometimes slowly and agonizingly through black lung disease and broken bodies? Why do we blow the tops off of our mountains? Why does West Virginia's latest putative economic savior, the natural gas industry, grow robustly while having little measurable impact on jobs or local economies? Why, when West Virginia's extractive industries prosper, don't West Virginia residents prosper as well? Why in a state that relies more than any other on the federal government for incomes and healthcare do political leaders ridicule Washington for its profligacy and rage against perceived federal intrusions? Why when statistically West Virginia stands to gain more from Obamacare than any other state, are state leaders at best ambivalent about taking advantage of the opportunity? Why does West Virginia have the highest rate of death by drug overdose in the nation? Why when violent crime has been plunging for more than a decade in the rest of America has it been going up in West Virginia? Why, when in the aftermath of mass shootings that have made the rest of America more receptive to gun control measures, is West Virginia's legislature furiously crafting legislation to vacate gun control laws and increase gun ownership and use? Why in a state that has the lowest average level of educational attainment in America is West Virginia cutting funding for higher education even as it sits on a billion dollars in a rainy day fund and cuts business taxes? Why when West Virginians elected senators Jay Rockefeller and Robert Byrd to a combined fourteen consecutive terms, are they suddenly poised to replace Rockefeller with a candidate who is politically and philosophically his and Byrd's diametric opposite? Why is a state whose white voters gave then candidate Barack Obama a larger share of their votes than did white voters in twenty other states sometimes called the most racist place in America? Why do West Virginia residents, who are personally unpretentious and self-effacing, become enraged at the mere mention of the word, "hillbilly" and rise, with Senator Joe Manchin in the forefront, to smite any personality foolish enough to tell a West Virginia joke or television executive foolish enough to propose a West Virginia-based reality TV show? Questions about West Virginia are endless – endless in number and endless in what they can reveal not just about the state and its people, but about humanity. In this book Sean O'Leary attempts to answer just a few.
Sean O'Leary is a playwright, newspaper columnist, and blogger whose bi-weekly commentaries explore the economics, politics, culture, and history of West Virginia. He resides near Harpers Ferry, WV.


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Islam And Modernity, History Running Backward From Cairo To Berlin
A fully veiled woman using her smartphone in Istanbul
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Zafer Åženocak*
Germany Sources Society Ideas DIE WELT Countries
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BERLIN — There are photographs of Afghanistan's capital city Kabul, taken in the 1960s, that show elegantly dressed women sitting in street cafés. There are similar photos from the period shot in Ankara, Cairo, Damascus and Karachi.
A half-century later, comparable scenes are nowhere to be found in many of these cities.
Ankara is the last city whose inhabitants have not been overtaken by an obscure Islam that involves civil war, destruction and fully veiled women. The former joy of life in Middle Eastern cities has been replaced by a kind of hostility to life that began with a devaluation of metropolitan bourgeois culture.
In the Orient, this Western-oriented culture developed after 1800. Educational institutions as well as cultural centers were reformed based on Western models. Turkish culture took this furthest, but Cairo too was for a long time a major hub of modernization in the Islamic world.
Today, this world that brought equality for Muslim women, educational opportunities to young people, and bridged the gap between city culture and rural areas is now endangered, even in Turkey. The threat of a collapse of civilization looms, the consequences of which would be just as significant as the collapse that took place in Germany in 1933, and finally ended up overshadowing nearly all of Europe.
But the break in the Islamic world is by far the more dangerous because the antidote is seen by parts of the population as foreign and destructive to their own culture and beliefs. Before World War II, some Germans had a tendency to want to separate themselves culturally from the West, but the tendency was very narrow, and could only be pursued by negating large parts of their own literature, music and art.
But how far can a Turk, an Iranian or an Egyptian adapt to Western bourgeois culture? How strong is resistance when the pillars of the modern Muslim, based in Western culture, are attacked? Most Muslim-dominated societies are confronting that question today.
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As political Islam based on the Arab Muslim Brotherhood gains strength, the devaluation of Turkish culture is mainly playing out on the political stage. Culturally, attempts to do away with all things modern in Turkey seem doomed to failure.
The traditional novel, Islamic poem, neo-Ottoman architecture can only exist now as plagiarism. Compared to cultural creation in the language of the modern, such things have no staying power. Large parts of Turkish youth also now seem to be immune to the devaluation of modern life and its freedoms. Their creative energies are directed not only toward consumption but also to individual definition and arrangement of their spheres of life.
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Biology class at Kabul University in the early 1960s — Photo: Wikimedia Commons
But there has been a dangerous devaluation of modernity in Turkish political culture, and it stands out particularly clearly in the context of the Middle East conflict. A one-sided alignment on the part of Turks for Palestine is a symptom of this development. At the German demonstrations against Israel's Gaza war, there are more Turkish flags visible than usual.
For a long time now, hatred of Jews hasn't been just an Arab phenomenon. Nor is it a feeling that can be traced to chronic conflict, a historical and lasting disenfranchisement. Turkey's engagement against Israel is an expression of Turkish alienation from its own history.
In Turkish self-perception there is no room for anti-Semitism. The Turkish Enlightenment made it possible for Turks to build a good relationship with modern Judaism. Turkey was one of the first countries to recognize the state of Israel. All that means nothing, however, to Turkish Islamism. Hatred of Israel is a welcome pretext in the devaluation of modern Turkish culture.
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Political islam has no room for people who feel the joy of life. It wants nothing to do with elegantly dressed women who sit with men in sidewalk cafés. A culturally hostile ideology has been fashioned from Islam to hide what amounts to an inability to put down roots in the modern by building up notions of the enemy — be it Israel, the United States or the entire West.
Even in Turkey, where for a while it appeared that politicians from the Muslim spectrum would be able to modernize the country, it has now become clear from their political dealings that their movement is hostile to civilization — to such an extent that a break now threatens Turkish culture.
Here in Germany, we don't take this development seriously. And then we're surprised when anti-Semitism pops up at demonstrations. We must urgently think about how we can counter this devaluation of our civilization. Bringing German and European history in as reference sources won't be enough. History can't simply be exported.
But there are also those moments in history that transcend cultures. Do we talk about these points enough? About Kaiser Wilhelm's trip to Jerusalem and Damascus? And Theodore Herzl's visit to the Ottoman Sultan? Who today knows that Israel's primary founding father David Ben-Gurion studied law in Istanbul?
Part of the conversation would include the photo of the 1960s street scene in Kabul; the reconstruction of Turkey after World War I; and people like Ernst Reuter, who spent the 1930s and 1940s exiled in Turkey and then became post-war mayor of Berlin. He was an ambassador of human civilization.
*Zafer Åženocak is a writer of Turkish origin who lives in Germany.
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Die Welt ("The World") is a German daily founded in Hamburg in 1946, and currently owned by the Axel Springer AG company, Europe's largest publishing house. Now based in Berlin, Die Welt is sold in more than 130 countries. A Sunday edition called Welt am Sonntag has been published since 1948.
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Where is Cloongoonagh? My grandfather came from there.
I can't find it on any map.
Could it be Cloonageeragh? This is in the parish of Kilgefin. My Lohan and Banahan families are from this Townland. What is the surname that you are researching?


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What You Need to Know About Playing Slot Online
Slot machines are games that use a lever to activate a spinning mechanical reel. Each spin results in credits based on the pay table. Some slots offer advanced bonus rounds and interactive elements. If you are interested in betting on slot machines, there are several state laws governing the machines. In the United Kingdom, slot machines are classified by the Gambling Commission. These rules are governed by the Gaming Act 2005.
The first electromechanical slot machine was designed in 1963 by Bally. It was used on the High Hand draw-poker machine. This machine was made to feature automatic payouts up to 500 coins. Its popularity led to an increase in the number of electronic games.
Since the 1990s, multi-line machines have been popular. They can accept variable credits, such as a dollar or a euro, and include more than one payline. Traditionally, a multi-line slot has one to three paylines.
Many video slot machines now have nine, 15, 25, or even 1024 paylines. They may also feature a multiplier. This bonus feature increases your chances of winning a payout with increased wagers. Aside from the traditional bonus features, some newer machines feature animated graphics and interactive elements.
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Hi Angel, just wondering if there is any news on the door rubbers yet?
They made a sample of the profile but it was slightly different regarding shape and thickness, so I thought it would be pointless to make more of this and insructed them where and how should it be corrected. They told me they had to work with another type of rubber that they didn't have in stock, and would arrive by the end of December. So as soon as the holidays are over, I'm gonig to visit the company again to check if they made some progress.
I'll be watching this as well!
Hi Angel, thanks for the update.
I would like to buy enough to go around all 4 doors and the trunk, if the trunk uses the same shape. I have a R4 GTL, with gaps so big, I can see outside my passenger door while driving.
Sorry Angel, I belatedly saw your post that the trunk seals are different. Please let me know if rubber goodness is available.
Hi Angel, was wondering if you had any luck with door rubbers yet? Mine need changing but i am happy to wait for good quality ones.
The answer from the rubber company is "we are still trying to produce the correct profile shape". I think they simply can't come to an acceptable result, so I 'm searching for another company at the time. It's not easy - there are very few of them here.
Hi Angel, thanks for the update and thank you for persevering.


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Microplitis naenia är en stekelart som beskrevs av Nixon 1970. Microplitis naenia ingår i släktet Microplitis och familjen bracksteklar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Localism and the third sector: new relationships of public service
Lookup NU author(s): Dr Jane Gibbon
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Using interview and documentary empirical evidence from leaders of a local community group that took on the running of a leisure facility after its threatened closure by the local authority, this paper examines the relationship between third sector and state sector, the role of volunteers, the changing role of third sector organisations and the theoretical and practical limitations of 'localism' in making sense of these changes. It is suggested that localism is to be understood in relation to continuing central influences over policy, that community and voluntary organisations are inextricably bound up with the public sector rather than being a discrete and independent sector in their own right, and that the extant academic literature on networks, agencies and partnerships does not adequately describe these emergent new relationships of public service.
Author(s): Fenwick J, Gibbon J
Journal: Public Policy and Administration
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0952076715610413


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Кладбище Райниса () — одно из главных исторических кладбищ Риги. Находится на улице Айзсаулес.

Рядом с кладбищем находятся Братское и Лесное кладбище.

История
Названо в честь классика латышской литературы Райниса, похороненного здесь же.

Открыто в 1929 году градоначальником Риги Альфредом Андерсоном. Входные ворота кладбища были построены в 1929 году по проекту архитектора .

Известные захоронения
См. категорию Похороненные на кладбище Райниса

На кладбище похоронены известные представители политической и культурной элиты Латвии. В центре кладбища находится могила Райниса (памятник-скульптура Карлиса Земдега, архитектор П. Арендс), рядом захоронены известные писатели и поэты, в том числе и Аспазия, Жан Грива, Мирдза Кемпе, Ян Судрабкалн, Александр Чак, Клавс Элсберг, Карлис Круза, Дора Стучка, Аугуст Апситис, Народные артисты СССР Эдуард Смильгис, Харий Лиепиньш, Юрий Юровский, Народный художник СССР Лео Свемпс, живописец Франциск Варславан, архитектор, академик АН Латвийской ССР Эрнест Шталберг, скульптор Карлис Земдега.

Есть братская могила советских подпольщиков и множество отдельных могил военнослужащих Красной и Советской армии, деятелей партизанского движения и Коммунистической партии Латвии, а также членов их семей.

На кладбище похоронены Герои Советского Союза Пётр Зубов, Георгий Исаков, Виктор Комаров, Алексей Махров, Сергей Кострицкий, Имант Судмалис, Отомарс Ошкалнс, Константин Шкаруба, советский военный деятель Артур Спрогис, Герои Социалистического Труда латвийский советский государственный деятель, академик АН Латвийской ССР Август Кирхенштейн, первый секретарь ЦК КП Латвии Ян Калнберзин, скульптор Теодор Залькалнс, Вильгельм Лайвиньш.

Ряд надгробий — памятники мемориальной скульптуры (скульптор Я. Бриедис — надгробия Цакулса, 1932, Спилнера, 1937, скульптор Т. Залькалнс — О. Лациса, 1945, скульптор К. Земдега — Э. А. Залите, 1958)

Литература

Ссылки
 Raiņa kapi
 Воинские братские могилы на кладбище Райниса

Кладбища Риги


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Second chances after life in the sex trade
An ABC7 I-Team Investigation
By Chuck Goudie and Barb Markoff
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Many people forced into sex trafficking end up with lengthy criminal records. Those records can limit education, employment and housing options for victims. Several laws are now in place to help sex trade survivors get their lives back.
"I got kidnapped by two guerilla pimps who put me in the trunk of their car and took me out toward Indiana, and beat me and told me I was under pimp arrest and that I had to do what they wanted me to do," said Brenda Myers Powell, trafficking survivor and executive director of Dreamcatcher Foundation.
"He had me hooked on crack cocaine and a week after that he had me on the streets prostituting through force, coercion and addiction," said Dr. Joel Filmore, trafficking survivor.
RELATED: The Daughter Trade
The Justice for Victims of Sex Trafficking Act was signed into law in 2014. The Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation-known as CAASE-says Illinois recognized survivors should not be continuously punished by having such a criminal record. The law enables victims of sex trafficking to petition the court to clear their criminal records.
Survivors tell the I-Team having their records vacated is emotionally draining but life altering. CAASE has helped dozens of survivors clear their convictions.
"In February 2014 the Circuit Court of Cook County said you have proven your case that you in fact were a victim, and they vacated all of those offenses that happened over that 10 year period of time," said Filmore.
Though Filmore has two unrelated charges that were not dropped, he said having the rest of his record vacated was life-altering. He is now an assistant professor at National Louis University, and runs Lighthouse Professional Counseling Services.
Powell and Stephanie Daniels-Wilson met while in treatment for drug addiction. In 2007 they founded the Dreamcatcher Foundation, a Chicago-area agency focused on helping victims of sex trafficking.
"When Brenda's record was vacated, that was huge," Daniels-Wilson said. "That gave hope to all our ladies. 'If Brenda could have hers vacated, I can too.'"
"I stood up in front of a court and an Illinois judge said that this should have never happened to you, Brenda," Myers Powell said.
Additional laws have been passed to help sex trade survivors, including one last fall that allows judges to seal victims' criminal records if they are not able to vacate them under the Justice for Victims of Sex Trafficking Law.
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The Stokes Kith and Kin Community Blog: "The Young Won't Buy Obamacare"
[Supreme Court Justice Samuel] Alito pointed out that young, healthy adults today spend an average of $854 a year on health care. ObamaCare would require them to buy insurance policies expected to cost roughly $5,800. The law, then, isn't just asking them to pay for "the services that they are going to consume," he added. "The mandate is forcing these people to provide a huge subsidy to the insurance companies . . . to subsidize services that will be received by somebody else."
-Holman Jenkins in today's WSJ.
A very sizable portion of the "somebody else" will be the Yuppie parents of the young people. Pile this on top of the subsidy the young people are/will be paying to Social Security and other "entitlements".
I would like to take this opportunity to thank my children and their friends.


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SECURE Act 2.0
Hidden within the recent $1.7 trillion Omnibus spending bill is something that can directly impact your retirement. Dubbed the SECURE Act 2.0, an extension of the original SECURE Act signed into law in 2019, the comprehensive retirement security bill aims to improve and expand retirement savings options for Americans, particularly those who are self-employed or work for small businesses.
Some of the key provisions of the Secure Act 2.0 include:
Increasing the age for required minimum distributions: The Secure Act 2.0 would raise the age for required minimum distributions (RMDs) from 72 to 73 in 2023 for anyone reaching 73 in 2023 and to 75 starting in 2033, giving retirees more flexibility to leave their retirement savings untouched for longer.
Increased flexibility for 529 Accounts: The bill would allow for a tax-free rollover of 529 accounts to a Roth IRA. This would benefit those who may have overfunded a 529. Additionally, the income limits for contributing to a Roth IRA is removed for the 529 to Roth IRA rollover; however, the annual contribution limits remain. Please note, there will be a lifetime limit of $35,000 and the 529 must have been open for 15 years.
Allowing Roth contributions to SIMPLE and SEP Roth IRAs: Currently, SIMPLE IRAs and SEP IRAs do not allow for Roth contributions. The bill allows for Roth contributions to these types of accounts.
Treating catch-up contributions as Roth: Currently, these contributions can be Roth or pre-tax. The SECURE Act 2.0 would require that all catch-up contributions be subject to Roth tax treatment.
Increased flexibility for employer matching: Currently, employer matching must be pre-tax. Under this provision, employers will be able to let participants in 401(k), 403(b), and governmental 457(b) plans receive matching contributions on a Roth basis.
If you have any questions about the SECURE Act 2.0, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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