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UK and US charity partnership saves over 900 orphans in Ramadan
LONDON. (July 17, 2015) – Orphans in Need (OIN – UK) and United Muslim Relief (UMR) today announced the support of over 940 orphans by UMR in their first Ramadan campaign as partners. This announcement comes as millions of Muslims across the world begin their celebrations of Eid ul Fitr marking the end of the fasting of the month of Ramadan.
The partnership was formed in March this year and has quickly ensured the care of hundreds of orphans through UMR's efforts in the US.
"We expected great things from Orphans in Need's partnership with UMR but were amazed to hear that they had supported the staggering amount beyond 900 in Ramadan alone. We are proud to be their delivery partners and will strive to work with them to ensure that these children receive the best care possible" Tufail Hussain, CEO Orphans in Need
"It is unfortunate that with all the disasters around the world, so many children have lost one or both of their parents. Through this incredible partnership with OIN and the generosity of our donors, we can begin to alleviate and address the needs of some of these orphans." Dr Abed Ayoub, President & CEO of United Muslim Relief
Over 3,000 orphans in 14 countries were sponsored by donors through Orphans in Need this Ramadan. The generosity of supporters year on year to sponsor orphans remains unwavering and shows the continued charitable nature of our communities globally.
About United Muslim Relief
United Muslim Relief is a registered 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization in the USA. It is one of the fastest growing NGOs in the United States, with a focus on building humanitarian coalitions to tackle developmental needs. UMR was first launched by a group of students at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia who wanted to do something to help the victims of the Haitian earthquake and has now become a respected humanitarian player with an emphasis on health programs. As well as serving underprivileged communities around the world, UMR has hundreds of dedicated volunteers in the US who are dedicated to making a positive contribution to American society. Our motto "beyond relief" bares testament to our belief that we must work to empower those most in need and help them attain dignity through giving them the opportunity to lift themselves out of poverty
About Orphans in Need
Orphans in Need is a British charitable organization, which was established in order to help some of the world's most vulnerable and needy people. Like many charities Orphans in Need is committed to the alleviation of all forms of poverty and deprivation, in all parts of the globe. However, the organization's primary focus is on orphans and widows; often the weakest members of any society, and the most affected by the scourge of poverty. Currently Orphans in Need is instigating, running or financing a number of poverty alleviation projects in Asia and Africa. Much of this work is centered on Orphans and orphanages, although many programs are designed to help whole communities and areas to 'lift themselves' out of the cycle of deprivation.
United Muslim Relief
Mohamed Ali,
mali@umrelief.org
Orphans In Need
Moshiur Rahman,
marketing@orphansinneed.org


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Samaritans Ireland
Irish people worried about money and their jobs in the year ahead - survey
Almost half of people are worried about losing their jobs or having difficulty finding work in 2012 according to a Samaritans' survey.
By Hugh O'Connell Thursday 29 Dec 2011, 1:21 PM
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ALMOST 70 PER cent of Irish people are worried that they will not have enough money to live comfortably in the next year with almost half worried about losing their jobs or having difficulty finding work according to a survey.
In a survey carried out by the charity Samaritans and YouGov of more than 1,000 people in Ireland, 70 per cent of people said they were either very worried or fairly worried they would suffer as a result of spending cuts in areas like health, education and welfare next year.
Sixty-eight per cent fear they will not have enough money to live comfortably in 2012 while 49 per cent are worried about losing their jobs or finding it difficult to get work.
A fifth said they were worried or fairly worried they could lose their home next year while over 40 per cent of people (42 per cent) said they were very worried or fairly worried that they would suffer ill-health in 2012.
Money, debt and bank balance were chief among the worries of Irish people this past year, followed by problems or issues with family and friends.
The top five worries for Irish people over the last year were:
Money/bank balance/debt – 64 per cent
Problems/issues with family and friends – 37 per cent
Physical health issues – 32 per eent
Mortgage/rent/housing – 30 per cent
Job security/redundancy – 30 per cent
Samaritans' Ireland Director Suzanne Costello said the charity had had more than 250,000 calls to its helpline over the past year, an increase of nine per cent.
"We know the effects of the recession have hit people hard, so if you're struggling to cope with the challenges you're facing in these difficult times, we'd encourage you to get in touch with Samaritans," she said.
Samaritans runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and is available throughout the Christmas and New Year period by phone: 1850 60 90 90; email: jo@samaritans.org; or face-to-face: visit www.samaritans.org for details of your local branch.
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Q: Infinite list is not re-rendering after getting new items using Apollo + React Native Query When I hit the end of the list, fetchmore and updateQuery run the query with the new offset and fetch the new items. But the list itself re-renders with the old data and offset.
I've added the code here for review. Summarizing it, there's a SectionList of recent transactions, which is basically a regular FlatList with items grouped by date here. To get the infinite scroll to work, I followed the docs here for pagination using offset. For some reason, the offset is not increasing to match the size of the list each time I try to fetch more - instead, it updates every other time. How can this be? Console.log statements seem to show the list re-rendering BEFORE the new data is returned.
Log from the first time I hit the end of my list:
EndReached 1: offset is:  10
Top of query function
Top of query function
Query got transactions, returning txnList. txns.length:  10
TransactionList Render: transactions.length:  10
EndReached - UpdateQuery fn... offset:  10
EndReached - UpdateQuery fn... Prev length:  10
EndReached - UpdateQuery fn... Fetchmore length:  10
EndReached - UpdateQuery fn... New data length:  20 .  <---this gets returned and should cause a re-render but it doesn't

Log when I scroll to the end of the list a second time:
EndReached: offset is:  10 <-- should be 20
Top of query function
Top of query function
Query got transactions, returning txnList. txns.length:  20 <--seems to be the transactions from the first updateQuery, this should be 10 new ones
TransactionList Render: transactions.length:  20
EndReached - UpdateQuery fn... offset:  10
EndReached - UpdateQuery fn... Prev length:  20
EndReached - UpdateQuery fn... Fetchmore length:  10
EndReached - UpdateQuery fn... New data length:  20 <--merged, skipping the duplicates 11-20 because we already had them from before

code
export class TransactionQuery extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
  }
  renderEndReached = (fetchMore, offset) => {
      fetchMore({
        variables: {
          limit: this.props.limit,
          offset: offset,
        },
        updateQuery: (prev, { fetchMoreResult }) => {
          if (!fetchMoreResult) {
            return prev;
          }
          copy = prev;
          copy.user.transactions = unionBy(
            prev.user.transactions,
            fetchMoreResult.user.transactions,
            "id"
          ); // this merges old transactions with new, removing any duplicates by matching transaction ID
          return copy;

        }
      });
    }
  };

  render() {
    return (
        <Query
          query={TXN_DATA}
          fetchPolicy="cache-and-network"
          notifyOnNetworkStatusChange
          variables={{ limit: this.props.limit, offset: 0 }}
        >
          {({ data, error, loading, fetchMore }) => {
            if (error) return <Text>ERROR! O NO! {error}</Text>;
            if (loading) {
              return <Text> LOADING </Text>;
            } // this is annoying and causes the list to snap back to the top each time we fetch more items.
            if (data && data.user) {
              const transactions = data.user.transactions;
              if (transactions) {
                return (
                  <TransactionList
                    transactions={transactions}
                    renderEndReached={() => this.renderEndReached(fetchMore=fetchMore, offset=transactions.length)}
                  />
                );
              } else {
                return <Text>No transactions found</Text>;
              }
            } else {
              return <Text>Transactions query returned no data/user</Text>;
            }
          }}
        </Query>
    );
  }
}

const Transaction = ({ name, date, amount, logoUrl }) => (
  <ListItem icon noBorder>
    <Left>
      <Thumbnail small source={{ uri: logoUrl }} />
    </Left>
    <Body>
      <Text>{name}</Text>
    </Body>
    <Right>
      <USD value={amount} />
    </Right>
  </ListItem>
);

class TransactionList extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
  }

  renderItem = ({ item, index, section }) => {
    return <Transaction {...item} />;
  };

  renderHeader = ({ section }) => {
    return (
      <ListItem itemDivider style={{ backgroundColor: "white" }}>
        <Moment element={Text} format="dddd, MMMM D">
          {section.title}
        </Moment>
      </ListItem>
    );
  };

  render() {
    const byDate = groupBy(this.props.transactions, "date");
    const dates = Object.keys(byDate)
      .sort()
      .reverse();
    return (
      <SectionList
        sections={dates.map(date => ({ title: date, data: byDate[date] }))}
        renderItem={this.renderItem}
        renderSectionHeader={this.renderHeader}
        keyExtractor={item => item.id}
        onEndReached={this.props.renderEndReached}
      />
    );
  }
}

A: Fix:
It seems Query won't re-render if it doesn't think the merged object (copy) is different enough from the previous query result - maybe it's a shallow compare? I discovered this fix by adding a test message to the object before returning it.
copy = prev;
copy.user.transactions = [...prev.user.transactions, ...fetchMoreResult.user.transactions]; // this change isn't detected. Shallow compare?
copy.message = "Hi there"; // this fixes the issue but is ugly
return copy;

A neater fix is to use lodash cloneDeep
copy = cloneDeep(prev);
copy.user.transactions = [...prev.user.transactions, ...fetchMoreResult.user.transactions];
return copy;

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The pharmaceutical company Bedford Laboratories, which is a subsidiary of Ben Venue Laboratories, has issued a nationwide voluntary recall of all hospital and user level products of Leucovorin calcium injections. So far, the only applicable batches of the injection that are being recalled by the company are the Leucovorin calcium injection dosage of 500mg SDV Bedford label and the 500mg SDV NOVA PLUS ® label. It is worth noting that no other lots of the injections that have been sold are subject to the recall.
The recall is being undertaken due to the discovery of visible crystalline particle matter in a small number of vials within the lots mentioned before. The substance has been distinguished as an active drug substance and isn't a foreign material and is not a contaminant. Its been regarded as a potential health hazard which can induce adverse reactions that include vein irritation, phlebitis, clinically occult pulmonary granulomas which can be detected at autopsy exams, severe lung dysfunction, tissue infarction, occlusion of capillaries or arteries, anaphylactic shock and even in some cases death.
Leucovorin calcium rescue is usually indicated after a high dosage methotrexate therapy for osteosarcoma. It is also indicated for diminishing toxicity and to counteract effects of impaired methotrexate elimination and overdose of folic acid antagonists, the treatment of megaloblastic anemias from a folic acid deficiency usually when it isn't feasible to pursue an oral therapy, and for use in combination with 5-fluororacil to prolong survival in the palliative treatment of patients who've got advanced colorectal cancer.
Healthcare practitioners and customers who have received the product from the lots are being notified to quarantine these products immediately.


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Stop Expecting Music From Musicians
By Joshua Eferighe
SourceComposite by Ned Colin/Getty Images
Because musicians have to make a living too.
You are part of an angry mob.
You might not realize it, but you, your friends, your family and everyone you know are all mob affiliates, armed with short attention spans ready to riot whenever your favorite artist decides they're not dropping a song this week.
Don't believe me? Just look at how Rihanna has been treated since her last studio album, Anti, in 2016.
In October, Rihanna released a self-titled "visual autobiography" weighing 15 pounds and standing over 16 inches tall, with more than 1,000 exclusive photos of her personal and professional life. And how did people react? They demanded an album. In the spring of this year, Rihanna became the first woman to create a brand for LVMH Moët Hennessy–Louis Vuitton and the first Black woman to lead a major luxury fashion house with Fenty Maison, a Paris-based line she founded with LVHM. And how did people react? They demanded an album. Last year, she unveiled her Savage X Fenty line, and in 2017, Fenty Beauty, which went on to raise $100 million in its first 40 days. Yet again, an album was requested.
Rihanna is the wealthiest woman in music, steadily expanding her business portfolio and is on her way to becoming a mogul. And yet? People are demanding an album.
I offer another solution: Stop expecting music from musicians.
You may not claim allegiance to Rihanna's Navy — the name of her fanatic following — or even like her music (which I'm totally judging you for if that's the case). But we all are victims of and subject to this new expectancy culture in music.
Audio-One founder David Frangioni, who's worked with giants like Aerosmith, Kiss and Ozzy Osbourne, says that contrary to our anxiety-stricken thirst for more, it's never been a more amazing time to be a music fan toy.
"When I was starting out and playing music in the '70s as a little kid, I had to wait sometimes a week to catch some kind of music I wanted to see on some television show, and a lot of times it would be a prime-time special where the artist would play for three and a half minutes. And in the whole year, that was the only time I could see the artist," Frangioni explains.
But to the mob demanding more tunes week in and week out, it's admittedly not entirely your fault. Thanks to streaming, music is being released at speeds like never before. The amount of global music has increased roughly sevenfold, according to a 2018 Wall Street Journal report. As a result, artists are releasing music much faster to catch up. This has not only given us quantity but immediacy, which, in turn, has conditioned us into believing we're supposed to be getting music all the time.
What fans and consumers of music do not understand, however, is that although streaming now represents approximately 80 percent of the music industry's overall revenue, artists hardly see any of that.
Between all the streaming giants, Napster pays out the highest per stream at $0.019, meaning an artist would need a smash hit to see any revenue. Labels and streaming platforms see cash long before artists do.
It's a large reason why pop giant Taylor Swift parted ways with her label of 13 years to sign with Republic and Universal Music Group in November 2018. For Swift, it was not only about owning her masters but ensuring the earnings her label makes from selling its Spotify holdings would be shared with artists, as well as making payouts non-recoupable.
The thing is that every musician who has a following doesn't have that kind of backing and can't get a deal like Swift's, especially underground and independent artists. As a result, leveraging visibility is the only sensible thing artists can do, specifically in the hip-hop space, which is as influential now as it's ever been.
When you see A$AP Rocky in a Loewe's spring campaign, Vince Staples starring in his own television show or Ice Cube start a basketball league, you're seeing the power of music and the savvy of musicians at work.
Your favorite singer, rapper or band is more than a musician — they're creative, multitalented artists and entrepreneurs who, through music, found ways to break into other passions.
"Music is the quickest way into showbiz," says Zach Bellas, an American singer-songwriter, producer and founder of the independent recording label SMB Records. He was quoting 1970s music and movie executive legend David Geffen.
"Songs can move quickly and it can change who's paying attention to you in an instant," Bellas adds. "At the end of the day, it's gathering attention to you so that they can pay attention to anything you do, and music is the best way to start that."
When we start looking at musicians as people and not machines mandated to crank out hits, maybe, just maybe, we'll appreciate someone like Rihanna expanding her business portfolio, instead of hounding her for yet another album … like an angry mob.
Joshua Eferighe, Reporter Contact Joshua Eferighe
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'Light' Shows on Stage thru June 12
Jeffrey R. Smith
Local reviewer really enjoyed Altarena performance
To preclude any ambiguity, The Light in the Piazza is best thing to happen to High Street since they put in the bridge.
Furthermore, now through June 12, you don't have to cross a bridge or wait in a tunnel to see the best theatre the Bay Area has to offer: it is here at the Altarena. Writing as a critic who sees 50 or more plays a year, this is the one you have been waiting for. Community theaters are often staid in their offerings, they are loath to take creative risks or to venture out onto an artistic limb; by sharp contrast, Alameda is fortunate to have Clay David as an artistic director.
David is here to challenge his audience; not to underestimate them; nor to sedate them with mere entertainment. Rather than sticking to reheats and recycling an anthology of tried, tired, tested and time-worn classics of theatre Americana, David delivers exactly what Alameda should demand from its artistic director: living art.
Quality theatre is performance art. Achieving superlative theatre involves intelligent risk and originality; not hunkering down within the ramparts of the safe and secure. Community theater often panders to subscribers — trotting out nostalgia pieces and settling for dredging up remembrances rather than delivering theatrical experiences. Real theater, is not about reruns of reruns.
Had you attended the opening night performance of The Light in the Piazza at the Altarena you would have witnessed the energized buzz of Alameda's cerebrotonics, theatre aficionados, music critics (self-appointed and otherwise), the literati and the illuminati, the core cognoscenti of stage art and of course, the indomitable bohemian fringe.
The confluence of music and lyrics by Adam Guettel, and a sleek book by Craig Lucas, deliver this adaptation of Elizabeth Spencer's novella into the imaginative hands of director Stewart Lyle; the rest is stage magic. Given that the setting is Firenze and the plot involves falling in love in Italy, it follows that Guettel's score swoons romantically and soars passionately.
Musical Director Francesca Brava pulls out all the control rods; her orchestra is on stage, hidden behind a diaphanous curtain; the music swells and flows like the Arno, inundating the audience. Contrary to the maxim of Henry David Thoreau, to wit — "Most men (people) lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them" — the characters of Piazza courageously let the songs out of their hearts and drive desperation, like an evil spirit, from their thresholds.
The operatic music and lyrics highlight the colliding, conflicting and clashing feelings of all of the characters. Beware: there is something unusual about the soaring melodies; something rarely heard in American musicals. As Josh Cohen, the violinist, explained: the music is a departure from expectation and tradition. "It's called dissonance."
He should know, he really leans his bow into the strings to produce the dissonant sound that rightly characterizes the score. The effect is to provide a stimulating subliminal element: a message buried deep within the tonal quality of the music.
The music exposes, illuminates, the psyches of the characters. Cohen, a talented violinist rivalling Joseph Gold, wrings non-traditional strains and unsettling sounds from his instrument: the music is reminiscent of Phillip Glass (Einstein of the Beach) and Elvis Costello (The Juliet Letters).
The Light in the Piazza is set in 1953, the beginning of the Eisenhower doldrums. Margaret Johnson (played infuriatingly well by Donna Turner), is a domineering, overly-protective, smothering mother — she might give you shortness of breath — and she is stereotypic tourist: one that mispronounces and misplaces the accent on even the most rudimentary Italian words and she reads aloud from her tour book like a hack Cicerone.
Margaret is the unhappy wife of an American businessman; she is traveling with her daughter Clara. Clara is 26 but emotionally she is going on sixteen; blame it on a kick from a rented pony at her twelfth birthday party. Madison Genovese is simply dazzling as Clara; she lights up the stage; she needs no Klieg Lights; she is a veritable array of Klieg Lights.
Her exuberance when she falls in love with Fabrizio Naccarelli is absolutely contagious — the entire audience momentarily — and secretly of course —flashes back to his or her first love when he or she was convinced they had invented love itself.
Fabrizio Naccarelli, a handsome Florentine, is played by the dashing Kyle Stoner.
The passionate and romantic sparks of Stoner and Genovese are incendiary — fortunately the house smoke alarms never sounds. The Light in the Piazza evolved in Seattle in June 2003, its owners are as protective of their show as Margaret is of Clara. They are selective in approving venues for the play. Much to the credit of Stewart Lyle and David, the Altarena was approved. The critics talk about nearly all shows; but this is a show that audiences will talk about; it is not to be missed.
Tickets are available online at www.altarena.org or 523-1553.
Jeffrey R Smith is a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle.


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"I would not have taken that trip." What we learnt from Scott Morrison's ABC interview.
Amid Australia's unprecedented and ongoing bushfire crisis, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has addressed his response to the crisis in a new interview with ABC Insiders host David Speers.
On Sunday, Morrison sat down with the journalist to address the criticism he faced over his holiday to Hawaii during the bushfire crisis.
During the 30-minute interview, the Prime Minister also acknowledged the role of climate change in the harsh conditions, signalling that the Coalition's climate change policy could "evolve" as a result.
WATCH PM @ScottMorrisonMP's full interview with @InsidersABC host @David_Speers https://t.co/ke1uEcjkkX #auspol
— ABC Politics (@politicsabc) January 11, 2020
Here are some of the key things we learnt from Scott Morrison's ABC interview.
He wouldn't have travelled to Hawaii.
In late December, Prime Minister faced considerable criticism after holidaying in Hawaii while much of Australia burned.
The criticism, which was echoed by international publications and even celebrities, eventually led the Liberal leader to cut his family holiday short.
Speaking to Speers, Morrison addressed the criticism he faced over the Hawaii trip.
"In hindsight, I would not have taken that trip knowing what I know now," he said.
"One of the great difficulties in any job, as you know, David, is balancing your work and family responsibilities. It had been a very busy year," he continued.
"I'd made a promise to my kids and we'd taken forward that break, as I explained when I came back and I thought I was very up-front about my contrition on that."
Scott Morrison also addressed his Hawaii holiday in a press conference in Sydney in December. Image: Twitter.
Morrison also addressed the criticism he faced for not announcing the overseas trip.
"I texted Anthony Albanese on my way out the door so I wasn't secretive about it... I've followed the same practice on two other occasions," he said.
"The office won't do that again. You learn from these things."
He was initially meant to travel to the NSW South Coast.
It was previously reported that Morrison's Hawaii trip was planned just six weeks before he travelled there.
Speaking to Speers, Morrison shared that he originally planned to travel to the NSW South Coast – but his plans were changed at the last minute.
"The irony of all of this was my original intention was to holiday on the South Coast for two weeks," he said.
"I had to change that arrangement because I was supposed to be on my way to India for that visit to see Narenda Modi, the Prime Minister, and then [Japan] Prime Minister [Shinzo] Abe," he continued.
"It was a very unfortunate series of events."
There are things he could have handled "much better".
Residents from fire-stricken Cobargo in Victoria shared their disdain at Scott Morrison's visit. Image: Nine.
After visiting fire affected communities, footage emerged of locals and firefighters refusing to shake the Prime Minister's hand.
Speaking to Speers, the Liberal leader admitted that there are things he could have handled "much better".
"There are things I could have handled on the ground much better," he admitted.
"These are sensitive, emotional environments. Prime Ministers are flesh and blood too in how they engage with these people," he added.
"When I went there I went there in good faith, with Jenny on occasions, to provide what consolation I could.
"They're in very strained environments... you would do things different and learn from every event but the important thing is the actions we have taken."
He will propose a royal commission.
Morrison shared that he plans to take a proposal for a bushfires royal commission to Cabinet in the next few weeks.
The royal commission will look at the impact of climate change, the role of the federal government in the bushfires, as well as the operational disaster response at a state and local level.
Mamamia's daily news podcast, The Quicky, identify the misinformation doing the rounds about the current Australian bushfire crisis. Post continues below.
The Coalition's climate policy could change.
In the interview, Morrison accepted that climate change is driving longer, hotter and drier summer seasons and the government's emissions targets need to "evolve".
The Prime Minister has previously faced criticism for lacking ambition to cut Australia's emissions.
Australia has pledged to cut emissions by 26 per cent on 2005 levels by 2030, under the Paris Agreement.
On Sunday, Morrison shared his intention to "continue to evolve our policies to meet our targets and to beat them".
"We are going to continue to evolve our policy in this area to reduce emissions even further and we are going to do it without a carbon tax, without putting up electricity prices and without shutting down traditional industries," he told the ABC.
Scott Morrison: "We could close down every single power generation facility in the country and those emissions would be taken up by China in about nine days." pic.twitter.com/jCCgE8FyLO
— Keira Savage (@KeiraSavage00) January 12, 2020
Asked whether he was open to moving the existing target, he said: "We want to reduce emissions and do the best job we possibly can and get better and better and better at it'".
"I want to do that with a balanced policy, which recognises Australia's broader national economic interests and social interest," he added.
It was the "first time ever" that the ADF had been called out.
In the interview, Morrison said the scale of the bushfires were "unprecedented", leading to the involvement of the Australian Defence Force.
"That was the first time, ever, that there has been a call-out of our reservists to respond to a disaster to the best of our knowledge. That is an unprecedented action of a Commonwealth Government," he said.
After the interview, however, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd pointed out that the ADF were called in over the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria in 2009.
Morrison claimed today this is the first time defence reserves have been deployed to respond to bushfires, and that federal governments haven't previously taken a lead role in bushfire emergencies. The history of Black Saturday 2009 shows this is simply not true @David_Speers pic.twitter.com/LDQCVYH9aQ
— Kevin Rudd (@MrKRudd) January 12, 2020
"Morrison claimed today this is the first time defence reserves have been deployed to respond to bushfires, and that federal governments haven't previously taken a lead role in bushfire emergencies," Rudd wrote on Twitter.
"The history of Black Saturday 2009 shows this is simply not true."
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May 2012 News Update
Memories Of Bert Weedon.
I met Bert Weedon along with his lovely wife Maggie for the first time in I believe 1980 at a Guitar Show in Manchester. It was such a thrill to meet this legend of the guitar. That first meeting was outstanding and Bert was VERY complimentary about my playing, and I was floating two feet off the ground after he had bestowed so many compliments on me.
We met many times over the years at various guitar shows, and when I was writing my book on Hofner Guitars he was of course my first port of call. Hilary and I have wonderful memories of spending the day in their lovely home in Beaconsfield, looking at guitars and all his amazing photographs. I was drooling over his legendary thin line Golden Hofner, probably the one he played on that Kids show all those years ago. He said of course that he would never sell it but he would leave it to me in his will. Was he true to his word? Only time will tell.
In the year 2000 I was made a Water Rat, and Bert was there to give me a wonderful gift of a signed copy of 'Play In A Day'. I was always a desperate disappointment to him because sadly I never did use his book to learn from; instead mine was called First Steps by a guy named Geoffrey Sisley, his arch rival!
Bert was ALWAYS supportive of my work, and when I launched my Troubadour album in London I invited not only him and Maggie but also Jim Marshall. Both sadly departed from this world within weeks of each other. The other occasions where Bert was in attendance at GG events was when I was in Heathcliff, and one of my solo appearances at Wavendon's Stables Theatre.
The last time I saw Bert and Maggie was at one of Jim Marshall's birthday parties. He looked frail but well, and we always embraced each other on meeting, he affectionately calling me love! We always chatted guitars/strings and plectrums, typical guitar talk and it was lovely.
I remember many years back when I was involved in my own guitar shop with my pal Neil Cope that Bert and Maggie drove all the way down from Beaconsfield to do the shop opening g for us. He and Maggie were SO generous with their time. A few years back the Water Rats put on a tribute lunch for Bert in Bournemouth and Hilary and I were invited along with Brian May and Chas McDevitt from the guitar camp. There is a photo somewhere of us cradling Debbie McGee in a rather bizarre pic. Great fun though.
This picture is from the Apollo Theatre during 'Heathcliff', May 16th 1997. Backstage with Jim Marshall, Gordon Giltrap, Bert Weedon and Cliff Richard
I could go on and on about places and events where we have shared the day with the Weedon's.
As I type this I'm a bit overcome with sadness at the loss of this special man and of course Jim Marshall. Both extraordinary people who changed the face of music. Bert did indeed teach the world to play guitar, sadly I wasn't one of them! Not my fault of course because the man at Garlands guitar shop in Deptford sold my dear old Mum the complete package of guitar/canvas carrying bag/strap/ plectrum/pitch pipes and book by G Sisley.....NOT BW.
RIP Dear Bert, and our thoughts and love go out to lovely Maggie at this sad time.
Jim Marshall OBE
I know this is old news now with the passing of this remarkable man, but do re-read my memories of Jim when you have a moment. I'm currently reading his biography which was a signed gift from the great man. Like so many people who had great talent and who I had the pleasure to meet, he will be greatly missed by those who knew him. RIP Dear James.
Oliver Wakeman news
Just keeping you abreast with the album and our upcoming October tour. The writing continues to be fruitful and Oliver and I shall be doing some guitar and piano concerts in October. The dates are coming in as we speak, and once they have been confirmed they will appear on the website Concerts section. Working with this young genius is indeed a challenge in terms of trying to keep up with his exceptional energy. So far the album artwork has been planned and the title will be 'Ravens and Lullabies'. This album I promise you will be quite a departure for me and radically different from anything else I have ever released in my entire career! Bet you can't wait...Watch this space?
Well, I have finally succumbed, and it's all that young Wakeman's fault! Seriously though, it's great fun and I'm quite getting into it and have so far about a dozen or so followers but it's a start. Do check it out.
Oliver (@OliverWakeman) is on Twitter here: http://twitter.com/#!/oliverwakeman
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Whistle Test live album
Many of you will remember that last year Hilary and I were invited to London to do an interview and session with the legendary Bob Harris. All who were featured in the 40 years of the Test series in the main did a live session for the show. I'm delighted to report that my live version of Heartsong has been chosen as one of the tracks for the album.
The album is to be released on Father's Day and will be TV advertised so with a bit of luck I may get a name check.
A New Album Project
For many years now I have been working closely with my friend Paul White who has engineered most of my best work to date. Paul who is the editor of Sound on Sound magazine is one of this country's most respected people when it comes to technology and recording generally. Paul was awarded a BASCA recently for his contribution to that part of the industry, and what he doesn't know about sound isn't worth knowing. He recently published The Producers Handbook, a serious piece of work and invaluable to anyone who is interested in all aspects of the recording industry and studios generally. I have a rare signed copy!
Anyway, the point is that at long last we have decided to make a studio album together just for fun. This project will give Paul the chance to flex his creative muscles and do his thing on some of my compositions. This will be an album made purely for fun and for listening and not necessarily to be played live, that's why it comes under the banner of a Studio Project. This will be the first time in my life that I shall be working on two major projects simultaneously! Paul is a pretty damned good electric guitar player, and also a pretty mean drummer. Once again I shall keep you informed of progress.
Gigs Of Note In April
My St Georges Day concert in Charlton went well and it was good to see pals Sue and Mike Holton and Jacqui and Larry Hyett there. It was quite an amazing trip down memory lane for me. The venue was beautiful, and we were able to leave the gear there overnight as the Travel Lodge in Deptford had no parking. The following morning I was able to take Hilary on a brief guided tour of the area. It's still as scruffy as it used to be but it was home for me as a child and I loved it! The guitar shop where my dear departed Mum bought my first guitar, a Martin Colletti is still there albeit closed and shuttered. Even the name of Garlands' is still displayed but strangely back to front!
After re packing the car we drove all round the good old South Circular heading for Shipton Bellinger in Hampshire, I couldn't believe that it had been nine years since I had played there....scary or what! This swift passage of time can be a bit depressing it has to be said. Where do those years go? Anyway it was a cracking hall and a sell out concert. We stayed over with a lovely couple Carol and Ray in their delightful home in the village.
It was then in the car again heading off to the Cotswolds for my annual Tracy Sollis fund raising concert at The Fleece. Once again a lovely turnout and good to see John and Pauline Adams there along with Nicky and Andy. All in all the entire concert raised £860 for the charity which is great news for the charity. Next year will be my 20th year as a fundraiser. I think we should make that one a little different and extra special. Watch this space!
New Tune
I recently looked at my old sketch book for tunes and ideas and came across some TAB for the Baby Guitar. I thought it looked interesting so decided to explore further. Two days later the tune was finished and a recording made in readiness for editing. The piece is quite reflective in nature and whilst writing it my mind started to focus on the late Loren Jansch, and thinking about what an amazing person she was. As the piece developed I decided to dedicate it to the memory of this remarkable woman. The piece is simply called Loren.
I recorded it on my trusty Fylde cedar top custom. This guitar never lets me down and just sounds so rich and warm.
The piece I'm sure will find its way on to CD at some point. Which one is really down to whatever it's right for? I have sent MP3's to members of Loren's family just to share it with them. At the time of writing I haven't as yet got a response, but it was only sent less than two hours ago!
Mention in the Telegraph
It seems that I was the talk of Shanghai last weekend, resulting in a mention in the Telegraph by Simon Arron who was on his way to report on the F1 race in Bahrain. Giltrap fans get everywhere apparently - from the description given I assumed the 'Sheffield architect' was almost certainly my dear friend Geoff Olner which was confirmed by a quick email. Read the article for yourself here: www.telegraph.co.uk
Featured guitar - Vintage Resonator
This month's guitar from the GG collection is this lovely Vintage wood body resonator guitar.
I have a great fondness for these types of instruments, and we all know how a certain Mr Knopfler raised the visual awareness for these types of instruments with the Brothers in Arms album cover.
I used a tri-cone all metal body reso on Ring Of Kerry on the Shining Morn album, and last year a dear friend of mine gave me a stunning and VERY rare Del Vecchio model which I shall feature in future news pages.
This Vintage guitar although unbelievably inexpensive has a superb tone. Since acquiring it I have used it on a few recordings, and through the wonders of the internet I have been able to take it apart and give it a serious set up, thus improving its tone in a big way.
Car Boot Bargain
You all probably know by now what great car boot enthusiasts Hilary and I are. At a recent car boot I bought a Fostex Personal Powered Monitor for £10. This is a great piece of kit and will find great use on stage as a personal monitor when I do my smaller intimate village hall type of shows. Yes, it was £10...To buy in the shops approx £180! That's what I call a bargain!
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A Tasmanian woollen mill was close to the brink when Bruce Grant stepped in and targeted China, through exports and TV home shopping. By KRISTEN LE MESURIER.
Summary: A Tasmanian woollen was close to the brink when Bruce Grant stepped in and targeted China, through exports and TV home shopping .
He is not exaggerating. Just 18 months ago receivers were scouring Waverley's 133-year-old woollen mill for signs that it had a future. Waverley owed close to $3 million and a series of cash flow crises had made servicing the debt a nightmare.
But continuing revenue of $7.5 million a year convinced a group of local Tasmanian investors that the business was worth saving, and in July 2005 they settled $1.5 million worth of debt and took control of the business. The new owners hired Grant to bring a fresh outlook and the pluck to make changes.
Seven months later, Grant and his recently appointed export manager have signed five contracts with Chinese agents and distributors for its blankets and quilts, contracts worth $2–4 million in the next 12 months and much more in the long term.
"We've shipped $500,000 worth of stock in the past two months. I'm expecting these contracts to grow revenue by $20 million in five years," Grant says.
Those who think selling to China means fighting for shelf space, think again. For Mark Bramich, Waverley's international business development manager, it means bright lights and a camera crew, often in the middle of the night.
Between 11.30pm and midnight on February 5, Bramich ripped up quilts live on television to show viewers in southern China how Waverley's products compare with the competition.
"I learned how to introduce myself, say 'Good evening audience', and explain that I was an Australian in Chinese. That always gets a chuckle from the viewers," Bramich says.
"We tested the concept a few months ago in Taiwan. We only had 100 quilts sitting in a warehouse nearby, they sold out in 32 minutes," Grant says.
Grant and Bramich say the trickiest thing about starting in China was knowing how to structure their entry to the market: whether to use agents, distributors or both; whether to try to sell directly to retailers and who to grant exclusivity to.
Online trade portals were initially used to make contact with agents, distributors and retailers. "It's like an electronic dating service. You post what you're selling on the internet and you hear back from anyone that's interested," Grant says.
But the resulting hotch-potch network of agents and distributors is at times messy. Bramich has had to settle disputes over who has the right to sell what, where.
"Just last week I had to sit down with my agent in Shanghai and one of my big distributors and sort out a conflict because both claimed they had the exclusive right to sell in a particular area," Bramich says.
Now, having learned that clear distribution structure is critical, Bramich has signed a deal with one of China's biggest manchester distributors, the Yiyuan Trading Company in China's north. "Yiyuan will have exclusivity for distribution from here on in," Bramich says.
Waverley's woollen blankets and quilts will be sold in Waratah branded stores within China's most luxurious department stores. Yiyuan will own the stores, but Waverley will keep control of the Waratah brand and how it is marketed. Waverley's other agents and distributors have agreed to open identically branded stores.
"It will be run similar to a franchise. Think of each distributor as a master franchisor with the right to open stores within their own territory. The brand and marketing strategy will be governed by a body corporate with representatives from each 'master franchise' and Waverley," Bramich says.
Bramich learned not to expect deals to be signed overnight; it sometimes took him weeks to get access to the decision makers.
"One day I'd meet the buyer. At the next meeting I'd be introduced to the manager. Then the manager would take me out to dinner. Then I'd be told the director makes the decisions. After dining and drinking with him I'd be told, 'No, the managing director makes the decisions'," Bramich says.
Agents and interpreters are a must because they act as facilitators, translators and they warn you when you're about to commit a faux pas. "Even when it comes to presents. In the wrong context, giving a scarf as a gift can be seen as a bribe," Bramich says.
Bramich never hands over a list of Waverley's prices until he is sure the other side is serious about buying. He says he fields hundreds of queries from businessmen posing as buyers. "They turn out to be competitors sizing us up or agents or distributors after exclusivity agreements," Bramich says.
All distribution contracts have performance targets. If agreements are kept short term they can be terminated if a distributor isn't buying enough to justify being exclusive.
Having Waverley representatives on the ground in China is critical. Bramich says the next step is to open a sales office in China with sales and marketing representatives. "There needs to be that first line of contact for distributors," Bramich says.
Grant's priority is to educate consumers and build the Waratah brand in China.


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Susan Sarandon showed off her signature auburn locks with this voluminous curly 'do.


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ITALY striker Antonio Cassano will have 'minor' heart surgery that will likely enable him to play again in a few months.
The AC Milan striker has been at the Policlinico facility since Saturday, when he was taken for tests after suffering what the club described as a brain problem on the team plane following the team's 3-2 victory over Roma.
The 29-year-old Cassano was reportedly joking with teammates on the plane, before suddenly developing problems with his vision, speech and movement.
Milan said in a statement that Cassano will undergo the heart procedure sometime in the next few days, and that his recovery time will be better determined after the surgery.
"Presumably within four, five or six months Cassano should be cleared to play," Milan vice president Adriano Galliani said.
Cassano has a cardiac anomaly which caused a brain problem due to impaired blood flow, the club said.
"He has a minor heart problem that caused this minor discomfort and over the next few days he will undergo surgery to close the opening," Galliani said.
Combined with knee surgery for Giuseppe Rossi last week, Cassano's condition leaves Italy without its two starting forwards as it prepares for next year's European Championship.
Cassano already missed the 1-1 draw with BATE Borisov on Tuesday that qualified Milan for the next round of the Champions League.
After Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored against BATE, teammate Kevin-Prince Boateng celebrated by lifting his jersey to reveal another jersey with Cassano's name and No. 99 on it.
A steady stream of current and former teammates have been visiting Cassano, and even Diego Maradona wrote a letter of support that was published in Corriere dello Sport on Wednesday.
"I know about the thoughts, worries and torments that are going through your mind. I know that feeling of confusion and, why not, even solitude, that makes everything suddenly look black," Maradona wrote.
"I know well, and that's why I feel close to you and Rino Gattuso, who is also experiencing a sad period."
Cassano's hospitalization came less than a week after Milan midfielder Gennaro Gattuso announced the extent of a nerve problem affecting his left eye, which could keep him out for months, or the rest of the season.
Milan has also been without forward Alexandre Pato due to a thigh injury, leaving Ibrahimovic and Robinho as the club's only two healthy strikers.


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Nellihudikeri  is a village in the southern state of Karnataka, India. It is located in the Kushalnagara taluk of Kodagu district.

Demographics
 India census, Nellihudikeri had a population of 6291 with 3123 males and 3168 females.

See also
 Kodagu
 Mangalore
 Districts of Karnataka

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Tunisia's economy remains stagnant despite little increase in economic growth in 2016, with no particular trends visible on its legal landscape. Figures from the Ministry of Tourism state that in 2017 foreign travel to the country rose by 23% on the previous year, demonstrating a steady increase which is important to the country's GDP, to which tourism is the biggest contributor.
The security and political situations in the region remain unpredictable, and with national elections scheduled for November 2019, there is great uncertainty about what this may hold for a country still in a transitional phase and reeling from its revolutionary fervour. There has been no notable increase in the work being undertaken in an already small legal market; international financial investments have declined and domestic lawyers have moved away from this area into more contentious issues.
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(Jude/Connor) PG
Summary: The talk after the kiss.
Fic: Maybe Purgatory Isn't Such a Bad Place to Be (Oliver/Felicity) Mature
Fandom: The Fosters
Fic: To Make it Through the Night (Jude/Connor) PG
Summary: The bedroom he shared with Jesus never felt less like his than it did now.
Fandom: BtVS
Fic: Broken Chains (Angel, Oz) PG
Summary: Angel and Oz find an unexpected way to get to know each other better.
Fic: Through the trees of loneliness (Tommy Merlyn/Felicity Smoak) Explicit
Fic: Be Careful What You Freudian Slip (Tommy Merlyn/Felicity Smoak) Explicit
Summary: Tommy remembers what Felicity said she was thinking about the night they got together and decides to do something about it. Sequel to Through the trees of loneliness.
I've also written 30K words for a new Arrow fic that is almost finished, but won't be posted until 2016 now.
Total word count: 34,791 (according to AO3)
Fandoms written in: The Fosters, Arrow, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted? More. Considering I hadn't really written anything in over two years, this was a lot of writing for me this year.
What's your own favorite story of the year? Maybe Purgatory Isn't Such a Bad Place to Be
Did you take any writing risks this year? I entered two new fandoms this year - The Fosters and Arrow - which is always scary.
Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year? I need to finish the long Arrow fic that I've been working on. I'd also like to revisit two crossovers I started a while ago but never finished. One is Pretender/Dollhouse and the other is BtVS/Lost Girl.
My best story of this year: According to the Kudos on AO3 it would be Maybe Purgatory Isn't Such a Bad Place to Be.
My most popular story of this year: Going by the Hit Count on AO3 it's Maybe Purgatory Isn't Such a Bad Place to Be.
Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Broken Chains, I really enjoyed bringing Oz and Angel together in this story, giving them something to bond over on their own.
Most fun story to write: Through the trees of loneliness - Tommy is such a flirt and I really enjoyed getting a chance to have him and Felicity get together.
Story with the single sexiest moment: Be Careful What You Freudian Slip
Hardest story to write: I'm going to have to go with Broken Chains because it was written over the course of several years.
Biggest Surprise: That I wrote anything at all this year, let alone in two new fandoms. First I was inspired to write What Comes Next? which is a missing scene from a pivotal episode on the show (youngest on screen gay kiss). And then I got inspired to write Maybe Purgatory Isn't Such a Bad Place to Be in a week after watching Romancing the Stone. I haven't written anything that long in many, many years, let alone that quickly.
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I'm very excited that I actually wrote enough for this post.
Fic Written in 2015
Fic: What Comes Next? (Jude/Connor) PG
Story/stories I haven't yet written, but intend to: I really want to write a Smoaking Billionaires (Tommy/Felicity/Oliver) story this year.
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In total, HCPI will be offering three versions of the CR-Z, available with either a six-speed manual or CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission) with paddle shifters.
The first is a CR-Z Standard model priced at P1,400,000 for the MT version and P1,500,000 for the CVT.
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President Jimmy Morales' maneuvering against Guatemala's institutions could give the U.S. a chance to recalibrate its policy.
It's not every day that a purportedly friendly foreign nation tries to intimidate the United States by dispatching a fleet of military vehicles to the U.S. Embassy. It is rarer still for the vehicles in question to have been donated by the United States itself and diverted from their intended mission of combatting crime and narcotics trafficking. And it is perhaps unprecedented that such a turn of events would elicit only a tepid response from the U.S. government, followed a short while later by the transfer of additional military jeeps to the foreign government in question.
To say that the Trump Administration's approach toward Guatemala has taken some bizarre turns in recent months is something of an understatement. At the root of the U.S. policy whiplash is a dispute between Guatemala's unpopular lame duck president Jimmy Morales and the country's UN-backed anticorruption watchdog, the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). Created in 2007 to buttress Guatemala's police, prosecutors and judges who were being overrun by organized crime, it has saved Guatemala's democracy on more than one occasion—uncovering a Hollywood-style suicide plot before it could bring down former President Álvaro Colom and uncovering the customs fraud scheme that sent his successor Otto Pérez Molina to jail. Stirred out of their cynicism with politics as usual, Guatemalan citizens rallied en masse to support CICIG and demand an end to corruption.
It is no exaggeration to say that Morales, a political novice and former professional comedian, came to office largely thanks to CICIG, and he began his tenure as a strong supporter. That the president would turn on CICIG when it launched investigations against him and members of his family is hardly surprising. That the Trump administration would break with longstanding bipartisan support for CICIG and tacitly endorse Morales' efforts to expel the commission came as more of a shock.
For an administration with an almost singular obsession with preventing unauthorized immigration, the attractiveness of an institution that enhances law and order in a principal country of origin for migrants might seem self-evident. Indeed, the Trump administration initially lauded CICIG.
As Morales escalated his fight with CICIG in 2018, however, that changed, in some cases for reasons that appeared to have little to do with the commission itself. Nikki Haley, the then-U.S. Ambassador to the UN, was reportedly impressed by Morales' decision to move Guatemala's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Senator Marco Rubio, who arguably has the greatest influence on Trump's Latin America policy, successfully convinced Morales to reject the overtures of China and preserved Guatemala's recognition of Taiwan. Some Republicans in Congress, including Rubio, bought into a conspiracy theory that CICIG had been infiltrated by Russia in order to persecute a family of Putin critics who purchased fraudulent Guatemalan identities and passports—even after Trump's own State Department debunked the theory. Efforts to discredit CICIG were aided by a six-figure lobbying campaign financed by a group of Guatemalan business and political elites, some of them implicated in CICIG investigations.
Indeed, many of the most prominent lines of attack against CICIG proved spurious and politically driven. This is not to suggest, however, that the commission should be beyond scrutiny or reproach. Its record before the arrival of current chief Iván Velásquez was inconsistent. Well-intentioned observers have at times questioned its case selection and the almost unhindered authority granted to the UN-appointed commissioner. U.S. officials, even when supportive, voiced concerns about CICIG's high profile in the media. Some donors wondered whether it was doing enough to transfer capacity to Guatemalan institutions. Cases often stalled in the courts while suspects languished in pretrial detention, though this was largely beyond CICIG's control. Whatever the relative merits of these arguments, however, Morales' decision to summarily terminate CICIG's mandate earlier this month short-circuited any possibility of reforming CICIG for the better or even allowing it to conclude its work in an orderly manner.
CICIG, it turns out, was just the tip of the iceberg. Morales' next target appears to be the Constitutional Court, which has at various points displayed its independence by ruling against the president. Morales' solution: orchestrate the removal of three unsympathetic judges, allowing him to pack the court. What follows is uncertain, but there is growing speculation about a slow-motion coup allowing Morales to suspend elections by declaring a state of exception, or at least use the courts to eliminate potential successors who might allow the investigations against him to proceed.
In the meantime, Guatemala's fragile rule of law gains are already under assault by those who see CICIG's potential departure as an opportunity to reassert a status quo ante marked by impunity for the powerful. A little over a decade of police reform and professionalization—which helped reduce Guatemala's homicide rate by about 5 percent annually from 2007-2017—are being controversially dismantled by the Interior Minister. The country's chief organized crime prosecutor frets publicly about the mafia infiltrating his unit if CICIG departs. And Congress is advancing a proposal to grant amnesty to the relative few individuals convicted of crimes against humanity during Guatemala's 36-year civil war.
Ironically, Morales' overreach may offer an opportunity to recalibrate U.S. policy and rebuild bipartisan consensus based on a sober assessment of U.S. interests in Guatemala. Even for CICIG critics and those sympathetic to Morales' approach to foreign policy, the prospect of the largest country in Central America—through which 1400 metric tons of cocaine were smuggled in 2017—drifting down the path of corrupt misrule will be disquieting. From reducing migration to combating organized crime and drug trafficking, it is hard to see how fundamental U.S. interests are positively impacted by a Guatemalan government willing to undermine law enforcement and democratic institutions to protect itself.
To advance its own stated priorities, not to mention protect the U.S. national interest, it is urgent that the Trump Administration disabuse President Morales of the notion that he is operating with a blank check from Washington. Forty-six members of the U.S. Congress—albeit all Democrats—recently urged Trump to rebuke Morales' actions with sanctions and aid cutoffs. Such forceful steps are sadly unlikely to materialize. But with an adequate bipartisan push, the Administration could be convinced to communicate red lines to Morales and his backers in the military and private sector, at least in private. If necessary, the CICIG issue should be handled on a separate track while U.S. policy focuses on broader threats to democracy and the rule of law. If CICIG's popularity among Guatemalan citizens is any indication, Guatemala's next president will have strong political incentives to maintain or revive it—as Jimmy Morales himself did. For that to happen, however, Guatemalan democracy must first survive Morales' assault. It's not too late for Congress and the Trump Administration to get Guatemala right.
Camilleri is director of the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. Ziff is a program assistant with the Peter D. Bell Program.


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Keywords Historical Consciousness Historical Thinking History Education History Teaching History Wars Jörn Rüsen Peter Seixas. Sam Wineburg Stéphane Lévesque University Students citizenship education deconstruction historical consciousness historical thinking history didactics history education history teaching moral consciousness pedagogy social studies uses of history
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Historical empathy activities in Australian history textbooks: An assessment tool to examine disciplinary and cognitive domains
Debra Donnelly, Heather Sharp
Historians study what has already happened and so must have a mechanism to reconstruct the past in the present. The past is revived via the historian's imagination and perspective, as Parfitt (2001, p.7) asserts, "to imagine something is to make that thing present and real for ourselves." To empathize in history is founded on the assumption that the past can be reconstructed—at least in part—and accessed so that the thoughts, intentions, and actions of historical actors can be understood and so connect the past and the present. This paper examines activities in Australian high school history textbooks that include empathy activities to engage students in learning history, focusing on the Australian civil rights movement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders throughout the 20th century. The paper introduces an assessment tool which incorporates Ashby and Lee's (1987) levels of empathetic understanding and Biggs and Tang's (2007) Structured of Observed Learning Outcomes (SOLO) taxonomy to aid in evaluating historical empathy activities included in textbooks designed for the Australian Curriculum: History. Data shows that the majority of historical empathy tasks require only low level empathetic responses and cognitive complexity. This paper concludes, that although modern-day textbooks have opportunities to provide a rich array of multimodal sources to inform historical empathy tasks, they predominately call on students to produce unsubstantiated and ahistorical responses.
Historical Thinking; Historical Empathy
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Thiruvananthapuram, Apr 15: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor was on Monday injured while he was offering prayers at a temple.
The incident happened during a Thulabharam offering at Gandhari Amman Kovil in Thampanoor, Thiruvananthapuram.
Tharoor sustained injuries on head and legs after the weighing balance came falling down at Gandhari Amman Kovil in Thampanoor. He was later immediately rushed to the nearest hospital for preliminary treatment, after which he was shifted to a super-speciality hospital.
Meanwhile, People across Kerala and primarily south India celebrate their New Year on the first day of the month of Medam according to the Malayalam calendar. This is also celebrated as Puttandu in Tamil Nadu, Poila Boishakh in Bengal, Bohag Bihu in Assam and Baisakhi in Punjab.
The elders and women in the family prepare the Vishu Kani a day before by using edible stuff like rice grains, cucumber, pumpkin, coconut, mangoes, betel leaves, supari, flowers, coins and fruits and a metal vessel called "urali"in front of a mirror that reflects the image of their deity.