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UN Women: Programme Management Specialist – Women's Peace and Humanitarian Fund
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Post Level : P-3
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UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.
The Women's Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) is a partnership between the United Nations, Member States, and the civil society, which supports women led and women's rights organizations working to build peace and provide humanitarian response throughout the world. Since the end of 2016, the WPHF has been supporting 56 civil society organizations and is present in several countries in Africa, Latin America, Arab States and the Pacific region.
UN Women hosts the Secretariat of the Women's Peace and Humanitarian Fund. The WPHF Secretariat provides support to the Funding Board, mobilizes resources from Governments, companies, foundations and individuals, provides day to day support to Country Offices implementing WPHF programmes, ensures timely and quality monitoring and reporting. The Secretariat's mandate is also to strengthen stakeholders' knowledge of and engagement with women, peace and security issues through proper internal and external communications, advocacy and outreach. Finally, the Secretariat provides knowledge management services for the WPHF, and has been mandated to establish a Community of Practice (CoP) for WPHF partners and grantees. In the WPHF supported countries, UN Women provides Secretariat services to the National Steering Committee and serves as the management entity for civil society organizations, and ensures proper monitoring, reporting and evaluation, as well as capacity building for civil society organizations on the ground.
In Africa, the WPHF has invested funding in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mali. In partnership with the Spotlight Initiative, it is also opening in 2019 country allocations in Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda, bringing to 7 the number of countries where the WPHF operates in Africa.
Under the direct supervision of the UN Women Country representative - Uganda and the supervision of the Head Secretariat – Women's Peace and Humanitarian Fund, the Programme Management Specialist is responsible for overseeing the management, development, implementation, monitoring and reporting of Women's Peace and Humanitarian Fund in Africa. This includes providing technical support to the implementation of the WPHF programme in the 7 countries (and any other additional country in the Africa region in the future), overseeing the monitoring of progress against mutually agreed results frameworks and performance indicators, providing capacity building for civil society organizations, monitoring WPHF programme financial situation to ensure adherence to delivery rates and utilization of resources to meet agreed upon targets and results, reviewing and developing partnerships and resource mobilization strategies; and leading knowledge management efforts.
Manage the programmatic development for the Women's Peace and Humanitarian Fund in Uganda and other WPHF countries in Africa:
Provide overall programme advisory support to the WPHF programme in Africa, including the launch of the Fund, the setup of its National Steering Committees and the launch and management of the calls for proposals;
Provide strategic and specialized technical advice on the development of systems, processes and mechanisms to support programme planning, implementation, monitoring and progress reporting;
Review and evaluate proposals and oversee the preparation of donor proposals and reports;
Finalize and draft policy documents, briefs and other strategic papers/ materials for the use in the development and presentation of policy and programmatic positions for the WPHF globally.
Manage the monitoring and reporting for the Women's Peace and Humanitarian Fund in Africa:
Recommend and establish programme monitoring standards, criteria, and other indicators for measuring and assessing progress/results;
Manage the monitoring of progress by civil society partners against mutually agreed results frameworks and performance indicators;
Gather information and prepare reports on progress of WPHF programme implementation for WPHF Secretariat and donors; prepare technical reports;
Provide technical support in the preparation of audits and follow up on the implementation of audit recommendations.
Provide technical support to the implementation of the Women's Peace and Humanitarian Fund in Africa:
Ensure the organization of annual meetings of the WPHF national steering committees in countries;
Analyze and ensure alignment of project budgets with logical framework matrices and work plans;
Ensure programme quality control with partner civil society organizations and identification of potential challenges;
Ensure all WPHF supported countries in Africa have aligned WPHF programme plans with operations plan.
Build partnerships and support in developing resource mobilization strategies:
Develop and implement partnerships with civil society partners and key stakeholders such as Governments, UN entities, women's movements and donor community, as well as Spotlight stakeholders in country;
Ensure effective information flow, communication and coordination between offices, programmes and projects;
Support knowledge sharing between different partner civil society organizations and movement building;
Finalize relevant documentation on donors and develop potential opportunities for resource mobilization;
Analyze and research information on donors, prepare substantive briefs on possible areas of cooperation, identification of opportunities for cost sharing;
Determine programmatic areas of cooperation, based on strategic goals of the women's Peace and Humanitarian Fund, country needs and donors' priorities and develop the relevant partnerships.
Manage knowledge building and sharing efforts:
Manage the process of identifying and synthesizing of best practices and lessons learned that are directly linked to the implementation of the programme and contribute to their global dissemination;
Develop, coordinate and provide training and capacity building plan for WPHF partners in countries, in coordination with the WPHF Secretariat knowledge management analyst.
Perform other job related duties as requested by supervisor from time to time.
Key Performance Indicators:
WPHF programmes are implemented in line with its Operations Manual and Investment Plan;
Programmes are implemented in a timely manner, in line with budgets;
Regular monitoring of programmes, addressing issues in a timely manner;
Timely and quality reporting;
Regular dissemination and sharing of information; best practices/ lessons learned on programme management.
Integrity;
Professionalism;
Respect for Diversity.
Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues;
Accountability;
Creative Problem Solving;
Effective Communication;
Inclusive Collaboration;
Stakeholder Engagement;
Leading by Example.
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Strong programme formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation skills;
Ability to develop detailed operational plans, budgets, and deliver on them;
Ability to synthesize program performance data and produce analytical reports to inform management and strategic decision-making;
Strong analytical skills;
Strong knowledge of Results Based Management;
Good knowledge of UN programme management systems.
Master's degree or equivalent in Social Sciences, Political Science, Development, Public Administration, Gender is required
A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree;
A project/programme management certification would be an added advantage.
At least 5 years of progressively responsible experience in programme management, including programme design, programme coordination, monitoring and evaluation, donor reporting and capacity building;
Experience in working in a gender/women, peace and security or humanitarian related area is an asset;
Experience in setting priorities, budgets, work plans, participating in programme development and programme writing.
Fluency in English is required;
Working knowledge of French is an asset.
All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from https://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/about%20us/employment/un-women-p11-personal-history-form.doc?la=en&vs=558. Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.
In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.


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Waqar praises Pakistan's 'fearless cricket'
Reuters . UK | Update: 13:41, Jun 24, 2019
Pakistan's brand of "fearless cricket" to beat South Africa by 49 runs in their World Cup match on Sunday at Lord's was exactly the response they needed after losing to India last week, former fast bowler Waqar Younis has said.
After being humiliated by India in a one-sided contest at Old Trafford, which took their World Cup win-loss record to 0-7 against their arch rivals, Pakistan were stung by criticism and backlash from pundits and fans.
However, a convincing win over South Africa -- which ended the Proteas' chances of qualifying for the semi-finals -- kept alive their own chances of reaching the knockout stages with three more matches to go.
"It was all about the positive intent for Pakistan against South Africa," Younis wrote in a column for the International Cricket Council.
"They played fearless cricket and weren't really worried about losing the match, which in turn gave them the freedom to pay their natural game. Coming after the disappointment of Old Trafford, Pakistan badly needed such a win.
"They have been criticised a lot and the last week has been hard on them, so coming out of that and producing such a performance was particularly pleasing... I'd really like to see them play the same way in the coming matches."
Pakistan's Haris Sohail was adjudged the player of the match for his 89 off 59 balls, which included nine boundaries and three sixes, and Younis reserved special praise for the middle-order batsman, saying his innings was a "breath of fresh air".
Sohail, who had not played in the World Cup since Pakistan's opening-match defeat to West Indies, built an 81-run partnership with Babar Azam (69), and his knock was hailed as the game's turning point by captain Sarfaraz Ahmed.
"He played magnificently well, and ultimately, his innings... was the difference," Younis added. "Pakistan have needed someone to come in at five or six and up the ante.
"Haris has always been a very conservative and technically sound batsman but against South Africa, he took the mantle and played in a very different fashion.
"For me, he's my number four batsman in the team... and you can give him more overs to build that innings. He and Babar Azam could really complement each other."
Pakistan next play table toppers New Zealand, who are unbeaten at the tournament, at Edgbaston on Wednesday.
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About Jacob Falkovich
Jacob is so proud of his blog, putanumonit.com, that it's on his online dating profiles. He also tweets @yashkaf.
Predictable Identities 27: Craving and the Pill
April 15, 2020 By Jacob Falkovich
This entry is part 27 of 27 in the series Predictable Identities
Kaj Sotala suggests a predictive processing-informed model of suffering in which a mind is stuck oscillating between two unpleasant interpretations of the world, each one disconfirming the other's prediction in a painful way.
Normally, a brain confronted with two contradicting views will pick the one matching incoming evidence and discard the other. But the brain also generates cravings, and they can break this resolution process.
Desires are manifested in your brain as a prediction. When you want pizza you predict the sensation of pizza in your mouth. If there's no pizza currently in your mouth you can resolve the discrepance in two ways. Though your action, by grabbing a slice, or by updating and giving up on the pizza prediction. A craving is a desire that you can't give up on, one that comes from a place too deep to overwrite with disconfirming evidence.
When you're craving [money/sex/power] you predict strongly that you have them, to the point of almost hallucinating the orgy on your private jet. The lack of a jet or a confident plan to acquire one disconfirms the prediction. But then the craving rises again and overwrites the realization that your goal is unattainable, each prediction and disconfirmation creating mental suffering in an ongoing cycle.
There are two ways to break the loop of craving and suffering. One is to fulfill the desire, which works great (until another craving arises). But there's another way: if you can convince yourself utterly that what you're craving is unattainable, then your brain will suppress the loop at the stage of predicting the craved outcome. You will never get what you wanted, but the suffering will ease.
The internet has a term for it: blackpilled. The black pill must be completely impenetrable to work. If your brain can imagine even for a second that your craving is satisfied the cycle of suffering will continue.
It is almost impossible for people to cleanse their soul of hope entirely unless in the grips of severe depression. Direct evidence of the world is too noisy to conclude anything with such certainty. The black pill requires a community and an identity reinforcing it, to convince one fully of their hopelessness.
Predictable Identities 26: Academic Identity
March 4, 2020 By Jacob Falkovich
Why do smart kids go to grad school, to be underpaid and overworked for the prime years of their youth in a setting that sextuples their chances of suffering from anxiety and depression?
Scott Alexander posits that academia is like a drug gang: the suffering is worth the 5-10% chance of becoming a kingpin tenured professor. Tenure is pretty great. You get paid six figures to converse with intellectual peers, do research, and have your ideas read by an admiring public. But wait: I get paid six figures, chat with the best shitposters on Twitter during work hours, do research, and you're reading my blogchain instead of an academic paper. Most people smart enough for a PhD can follow a similar path to corporate sinecure with a much more certain success rate than the academic lottery.
What I'm missing is the identity of an academic. An academic is an intellectual, a truth-seeker and truth-teller, a lifelong learner. Whereas I only do those things, if I feel like it.
An identity gives you permission to do all the above. External permission, such as being allowed in a laboratory if that's where your interests are pursued. But it's also about allowing yourself to engage in intellectual pursuits. Or even: being afraid that without the external pressure of people expecting (predicting) novel intellectual output from you, you would not create any.
Consider this tweet:
Who would stay in a job that drives them to anxiety attacks and tearful breakdowns? Only someone who literally put "Scientist" in their name, who made that epithet more painful to lose than their mental health.
The dark irony of this all is: since your identity is in the hands of academic institutions, they exert vast control over you. It could be benign, but it could include demanding that someone betray their actual truth-seeking and truth-telling work if it goes against the institutions interests. The identity is not the thing; sometimes you must choose one over the other.
Predictable Identities 25: External Control
February 5, 2020 By Jacob Falkovich
My psychiatrist friend deals with a richer slice of New Yorkers, and she describes a common pattern. Her clients recount an abusive relationship or job that is pushing them to the verge of suicide. But they can't leave, it is the only thing more dreadful than staying. Sometimes they admit the true issue: if I'm not [X], I don't even know who I am.
Identities can control us. And other people can control our identities, grant them to us and withdraw them. My friend's clients contemplate death, but the alternative is the death of the story they tell themselves.
Esther Perel describes how identity comes into play in relationships. Historically, marriage used to be about what you do (produce kids and/or feed and clothe them) or what you have (an alliance with the Habsburgs). But modern romance is about being loved for who you really are inside, not trivialities like what you bring to the table. This builds an identity of specialness: soulmate, the missing piece, the only one. As divorce and infidelity are becoming more common than ever they are also more painful, shattering one's life story along with the relationship.
Not to be outdone by romance, companies also jumped on the identity-producing game. Jobs used to be described in terms of action: "glue together 170 widgets a day". Now they describe a persona: "leader in the space" / "embodiment of our culture" / "inspiring team member". You no longer merely work at BigCorpInc; you're a Googler, Postie, Amazonian.
But these manufactured articles lack the predictive power that imbues identities with potency. Can you tell much about a person from the fact that they're a Microsoftie? But some identities have predictive associations that were accumulated over centuries. Those who grant and withhold them possess great power, ripe for abuse.
Yes, we're going to talk about academia.
Predictable Identities 24: Anti-Identity
January 15, 2020 By Jacob Falkovich
Identity is a set of habits of thought. The very idea of identity is just another habit you picked up. The good news: once you realize that, you can build your own from scratch. The bad news: it will troll you.
Countless clichéd people want to be a writer and start cultivating that identity. They install Scrivener. They read research papers and inspiring novels. They plan how the book's cover will look. They introduce themselves as a writer. They don't write much.
There are many diagnoses of this common malaise. The predictable identities one is: adopting X as an identity makes you optimize for being predicted as X, rather than for X itself. If you tell people about the book you're writing they'll predict that you're a writer and will treat you accordingly, reinforcing your identity. If you merely accumulate words in a draft file, they won't.
If I hear someone identify as a "truth seeker" I know that they're a devout Christian, devout skeptic, or both (i.e., Jordan Peterson). "Truth seekers" love public debates, they love researching arguments and counterarguments, they love talking about the importance of truth. What they rarely seem to do is actually change their mind about anything — the invisible action that doesn't reinforce their "truth seeking" identity.
The first step to escaping the trap of identity is to build an identity of fluidity, corrigibility, and small verbs rather than big adjectives.
— "Are you a writer?"
— "I've been writing this blogchain."
— "Will you turn it into a book?"
— "Probably not, but I may change my mind."
— "So you're not really a writer."
— "Never said I was."
It's hard to go overboard with an identity of breaking-habits and keeping the self small, since your natural inclination will always pull you towards consistency, and others will assign labels to you whether you want to or not. Adopting an anti-identity can get you to a middle ground, and that's a good place to start.
Predictable Identities: 23 – The Self
December 25, 2019 By Jacob Falkovich
In reality there are only atoms and the void, but in our mind exists the self. This thing here is part of me, this thing there isn't. The concept of self serves the same purpose as all others: it makes good predictions. Or perhaps it made good predictions at some point, and got stuck.
Self-identification gets off to a good start. A baby notices that when it wants the toy to move by itself the toy doesn't budge, but when it wants its hand to move the hand immediately obliges. It begins to identify the body: that which is immediately moveable in the intended way by thought alone.
As a child grows, more and more things are reinforced by the world as part of its identity. This toy is yours, the other one isn't: one can be grabbed with predictable good consequences, while grabbing the other one will trigger unpredictable retaliation. This essay was written by you and this is your grade for it, go back to your seat. The process is extended to one's mind: the thoughts and feelings you recognize in your mind are yours, and other people have their own.
It is at the level of thought that the model of the unified self starts to buckle under the strain of contradictions. Careful introspection reveals that your mind comprises a multitude of independent subagents influencing your behavior and emotions in ways that your conscious self can't access, let alone control. Careful study of societies reveals that our thoughts are shaped by memes, myths, and egregores, cognitive processes that run in vast groups, not individuals. This post was written by my conscious model of the self, a mild anxiety in my stomach, Alberto Albero, and Buddhism. In what sense is it mine?
Once we notice the breakdown of the rigid self as it relates to thought, we can see it in other contexts as well. Roles, blame and praise, personalities — these are merely conventions, as is private property. This even extends to the body: partnered dancers have as much control of their partner's limbs as their own, while the most control you can exert over your appendix is chopping it off.
None of this means that drawing a circle around some things and calling them "myself" is always wrong. Just that there's no clear "self" that matches reality in all contexts. This is good news, it means that the self is a thing to be played with.
Predictable Identities: 22 – The Entropic Brain
Brain researcher Robert Carhart-Harris and physicist Karl Friston suggest that psychedelics will save humanity. They are, of course, far from the first people to do so. But they're the first to explain how psychedelics will save humanity using the theory of predictive processing, which was developed in large part by Friston himself. And so with my interest sufficiently piqued, allow me to condense a decade of research on the Entropic Brain Hypothesis into a few paragraphs.
Our brains evolved to model the environment and minimize surprise and uncertainty. Since our environment is complex and dynamic, so are more evolved brains. fMRI allows us to measure brain entropy, how unpredictable is one's brain state in the future based on its current state. It's a proxy for a brain's flexibility and complexity.
Human brains are more entropic than those of our animal relatives, which in turn have more entropic brains than phylogenetically distant species. But humans have also developed a brain structure that suppresses entropy: the default mode network (DMN). According to Friston, optimal prediction is achieved when the brain is finely poised between order and disorder, rigidity and entropy. The DMN is less developed in children, and is suppressed in REM sleep, the onset of psychosis, and by psychedelics — all the above states are characterized by wandering thoughts, creativity, and magical thinking (hello, Ribbonfarm!) that isn't strongly constrained by reason and prior experiences.
The DMN is also overactive in people with depression. This manifests in two features of depression: "depressive realism" (a capacity to judge reality more accurately) and rigidity of thought (the mind is stuck in a negative bias that doesn't respond to changes in the environment). In fact, many other mental disorders can be thought of as disorders of mental rigidity. For example: addiction (the brain is stuck in loops of craving and indulgence), autism, PTSD, and schizophrenia. Psychedelics increase brain entropy and "shake it out" of its rigid habits, allowing it to settle into more salubrious patterns (especially if guided by a good therapist).
There's another effect that psychedelics cause by inhibiting the DMN — the dissolution of ego and the sense of self. Should we think of self-identity too as a disorder of mental rigidity? Stay tuned.
Predictable Identities: 21 – Enlightenment
November 20, 2019 By Jacob Falkovich
Before talking more about self-identifying, it's worthwhile to consider why we even think that there is anything to identify — a "self" that we can attach labels to. This is not a given; many people "…report no individualized sense of self, no self-related thoughts" This is from a paper on Persistent Non-Symbolic Experiences, a sciencey-sounding term for what is normally called "enlightenment".
Who's "enlightened"? If you ask them, any and all of:
An old monk wireheading in a cave, oblivious to suffering and desire.
A rationalist breaking through his default ontology to play with frameworks at will.
Me, after eating way too many mushrooms.
Whatever do these all have in common? Here's my Predictable Identities conjecture: the sense of self comes from habitual and repeated thoughts; novel thoughts make the self dissolve.
"Habitual thoughts" means everything from high-level cogitation to low-level processing of stimuli. Kaj Sotala points out that something as simple as the perception of hearing a stick hitting a woodblock is the result of complicated processing that combines several auditory frequencies, your previous experience with wood objects, and mental imagery. This processing usually happens automatically: [hear sound] -> [imagine block].
But, with enough concentration, one can break this habit, leaving just the raw sounds to do with as one wishes. The same is true of "habits" like [feel pain] -> [experience suffering] or [see object of desire] -> [experience craving] that are the common focus of the monk's meditation, or the frameworks of social interaction Valentine writes about.
When the part of your brain that monitors itself notices repeated patterns of thought it creates a high-level model called "self" that it can use for prediction. "I" am interpreting the sound as a stick hitting a woodblock. "I" suffer when in pain. "I" think of everything in terms of predictive processing. And "I" will likely continue to do so in the future.
But when a thought or interpretation arises that can't be predicted from the habits of my mind, there is no reason to assign it to a consistent thinking "self". The thoughts I'm used to thinking are mine, but the novel ones could be anyone's or no one's.
Predictable Identities: 20 – Self and Other Labeling
November 6, 2019 By Jacob Falkovich
The last post set up the motivations and trade-offs of applying identity labels to yourself and to others. One can choose to oppose this ubiquitous labeling or indulge in it. With these two axes, we can sketch out the blogchain's first (though inevitable) 2×2:
The anti-label corner is exemplified by Paul Graham's famous exhortation to keep your identity small and Scott Alexander's reminder that categories are just (occasionally) useful abstractions. This corner sees other-labeling as a distraction from more pertinent questions of what someone actually does or believes; they see self-labeling as a sacrifice of clear thinking for tribal conformity. "Nerd" is a bad label for this corner, but being resistant to labels is its very nature.
Identity politickers sit at the top right corner. They reinforce the centrality of identity built by stacking labels (intersectionality) and demand that others be loyal to their identity markers, as in the quote about black faces and voices. Identitarians are not fans of rich white guys like Paul and Scott, but these two at least stick to their expected role of adversary. They have much more contempt for identity traitors like Candace Owens.
On the top left are people who gleefully toss labels at their outgroup to reinforce its homogeneity and overall wickedness. This usually serves to distance oneself from a label. On the bottom right, a person can attach a self-label to some conventional opinion to demonstrate how nicely predictable they are and to associate with a group.
These two corners are less of a committed stance and more of a tactical application of labels, but the same is true across the board – people change their willingness to label themselves and others depending on the situation. Labeling is a political tool; we should expect hypocrisy to be the norm rather than the exception.
Predictable Identities: 19 – Labels
October 23, 2019 By Jacob Falkovich
After consistency, the most important feature of predictable identities is a good label, a pithy description that tells others (and yourself) what to expect of you.
Let's say that you are consistent in the sentiment that individuals should be free from government intervention, and thus oppose business regulation and gun control. What should your position be on abortion, immigration, or campaign finance? It's difficult to extrapolate a coherent position from your basic values, and often not worth the effort — your take on campaign finance likely has zero impact either on government legislation or on your own life. It's uncomfortable for your political stances to be so unpredictable.
On the other hand, you may simply adopt the label of "Republican" and acquire a set of stances on all political issues. The Republican position on anything is common knowledge, and anyone who knows that this label is part of your identity should not expect any surprises. Sticking to the label is often valued much more than consistency of actual opinion:
People strongly dislike labels that don't actually help prediction, as illustrated quite hilariously by the recent backlash to "sapiosexual". From what I can tell, here's what people who call themselves that mean by it:
10% are sexually aroused purely by intelligence, not appearance (yes, they exist).
20% like hot people but only if they're smart.
30% weigh personality more than physical attributes in romantic partners, relative to others.
40% use the term merely to signal their own intelligence.
1 person (me) insists that it should mean "attracted exclusively to Homo sapiens".
The end result is that people who haven't met a single self-identified sapiosexual write articles titled You're Not Sapiosexual, You're Just Annoying in their frustration at the unpredictability of the label.
Self-labeling is a powerful tool for shaping your behavior and the reactions of others, to be used with care.
Predictable Identities: 18 – Self-consistency
October 2, 2019 By Jacob Falkovich
We like and reward people who are consistent, categorizable, and cooperative because it's easier to predict them. And since prediction shapes action shapes reality, we make other people be so. This was the first half of this blogchain; the second will cover how we do this to ourselves.
Let's start with consistency. Students who did well on an exam said that they weren't anxious before it, those who did poorly said that they were. Pre-exam questionnaires, however, show that these memories are false. We tell ourselves (and our friends) how we immediately fell in love with our partner, even if in reality the first couple of dates were awkward and skeptical. We tell anecdotes about things we did as kids that predict our current vocation, even though at age 6 we were mostly obsessed with spiders and the Power Rangers. We also predict that our attitudes will persist into the future to a much greater extent than they actually do.
Self-consistency bias affects not only our memories, but also the decisions we make. In fact, we couldn't make decisions at all without assuming some consistency in our preferences and abilities. And by convincing ourselves of our consistency, we reassure others as well.
I'm writing this post because I predict that, at least for several more months, I will be as obsessed with identity and predictive processing as I am right now. You're reading this blogchain partly for the same reason — you predict that new posts will keep coming every other(ish) Wednesday and will stay on topic. If I actually analyzed the half-life of my fascinations with esoteric topics, I may discover some discouraging patterns. It's better for all of us that I don't.
I have always been writing Predictable Identities.
I will always be writing Predictable Identities.
Isn't that reassuring?


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The famous raw food specialties throughout Vietnam that not everyone has the courage to try
Not only in Japan or Korea, but Vietnam also owns many fresh and delicious dishes, but not everyone can eat these specialties.
Vietnamese cuisine is extremely rich which makes many people passionate, but among them, there are also dishes that make many people shudder. Especially the dishes that are completely uncooked, still fresh. These raw dishes also challenge many visitors because not everyone can eat them. Sometimes many dishes use ingredients that have just been caught, or even ingredients that are still… crawling on a plate. However, the attractiveness of these raw dishes is not reflected in the appearance, but thanks to the delicious, strange, and unique flavors that are not mixed. For those who have a love for freshness, especially raw food, these are the most delicious dishes they have ever tried.
Coconut worms bathe with fish sauce
If you have the opportunity to go to the western provinces, visitors will encounter a specialty dish made from this worm living in the trunk of this coconut tree. At first glance, the appearance of this dish will make many diners "cry". But this is a favorite dish of the people of the river region because of its fatness. The common way is to put coconut worms in a cup of spicy salty fish sauce to enjoy. The dish is a combination of greasy flavor mixed with salty taste combined with the pungent taste of chili. Although the way to cook coconut worms with fish sauce is not difficult, not everyone has the courage to eat the worms swimming around in a cup of fish sauce.
Northwest dancing fish salad
The Northwest is indeed home to many specialties that are both strange to the ears and also strange to the mouth, in which it is indispensable for the jumping fish salad, a specialty with a slightly "scary" appearance but extremely attractive. To achieve the freshest taste, the caught stream fish must be processed and eaten at the table and must be carefully selected. People usually only choose the small fish with their fingertips, then mix it with spices and a variety of fresh banana core vegetables and herbs to mask the fishy smell. In addition to the basic seasonings, it is indispensable for Mac Khen seeds to create dishes with acidity, spicy, strong, sweet and characteristic aroma.
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Live Noodles
Sea urchin is a very popular seafood in our country's seas with a rough appearance, but inside, it has extremely nutritious sea urchin meat. Sea urchin contains high nutritional value, so it is often processed into many different dishes. Most of them are grilled urchin with onion fat, porridge, … but there is a specialty that not everyone dares to try, which is raw or rare lemon urchin. Eaters only need to split the sea urchin in half, wash the blood veins inside, then squeeze a lemon or put a little mustard on it to be able to enjoy. This dish is also considered extremely nutritious because it retains all the nutrients inside.
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Kon Tum yellow ant raw fish salad
The specialty dish in the mountains has a really "cry" name, but when it comes to knowing that this is a salad made from completely raw fish, many people do not dare to eat it. However, if you taste it once, diners will be fascinated by the delicious, nutritious and extremely special flavor of this dish. The processing of the salad is also very sophisticated, just like the jumping fish in the Northwest, the Central Highlands people also choose stream fish with firm, fresh meat so as not to be fishy when enjoying. In addition, there is also ant meat and ant eggs, which are also made finely and then dried in the sun to shrink. The sweetness of the eggs mixed with the fat of the ant eggs brings a very new flavor.
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Nha Trang squid and fish sauce
Nha Trang has a special dish that almost all fishermen or locals know, but many tourists from other places have never heard of it. Freshly caught squids are quickly processed by cutting them into bite-sized pieces, then boldly spicy with garlic and chili and then added to pure fish sauce. Just wait 5 minutes for the squid to absorb the fish sauce to be able to eat delicious dishes, when eating, you can also take the broccoli leaves to roll the squid, the delicious taste will be doubled. Nha Trang people just need to listen to it, they crave for the spicy taste of chili, the zesty of garlic, the salty taste of the fish sauce and each piece of fresh, crispy squid. Every time I eat it, I get addicted to it every time I eat it, I want to eat it once.
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Squid dance Vung Ang
The famous squid dish in Ha Tinh with the funny-sounding name is jumping squid, this nickname comes from the fact that these squids when caught ashore often snap very high, along with a very happy crackling sound. ears. Jumping squid has a sparkling appearance, transparent body and eye-catching flashing spots. This type of squid is used by many people to make sashimi or to eat directly because the squid is lived in the ideal salinity of sea water, resulting in a distinctive, richer flavor than other regions. Pieces of fresh, chewy and crispy white squid mixed with the spicy taste of mustard bring a new feeling to diners.
Photo: The land of Phu Quy – Nghe An
Raw sauce
The West is known as the kingdom of fish sauce with a variety of fish with strong river flavor. The most famous are the types of fish sauce that are cooked in hot pot, vermicelli or braised, but the only way that only some visitors to the West can eat is raw fish sauce without processing. The kinds of fish sauce that people love to eat raw are usually made from linguine fish, choke fish, catfish, etc. The fish sauce is mixed with spicy garlic and chili, squeezed a little lemon and served with sour coriander, boiled sweet potato or sweet potato. White rice is "standard".
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As I've gotten older, I've learned 12 key life lessons that I wanted to share with you. I hope this helps you live the best life possible.
A 'Gratitude-Attitude' is central to both success and happiness. In other words, everything.
Share your thoughts so you can cherish your feelings. If we don't share how we truly feel, we deny ourselves and those around us our truth, and without truth, it's hard to trust, and without trust, relationships aren't built on solid foundations.
The harder you work the luckier and happier you seem to get.
Telling the unvarnished truth > endless mendacity.
Ask for help. A problem shared is halved, and perhaps even better, a goal or wider plan shared is 100% more likely to happen than if not.
Pay for expertise…and try to overshoot what you can afford. 'A' players take you forward in both financial and personal growth.
A good routine enhances creativity/inspiration.
Visual reminders are eminently useful. Have your goals on the wall where you can see them every day. E.g. Bedroom, bathroom, office. To create the future you need to remind your brain (conscious and subconscious) what you truly want and what's important each day. This will help you focus on the right stuff, instead of a load of thoughts (or emails) that aren't that useful or important.
Your network = your net worth. Build your network before you need it – and offer value first (and second…) before asking for help.
You can only focus on so many goals at once. Usually, a max of two at a time if you want mastery anytime soon.
Life's not a rehearsal. It can hit you with curve balls that change things forever, instantly. Don't assume you have time. Make every day count.
Be kind. Everyone's going through his or her own 'stuff', which you rarely see, and to a degree, we're all winging it, so we must remember to be kind. I think this takes us back around to the number 1 life lesson on being thankful for what we already have, including those around us.
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Team of the Year honor goes to Tucson
Sidewinders struggled briefly before steamrolling to Triple-A title
(Tucson Sidewinders)
By Kevin T. Czerwinski / MLB.com | November 29, 2006 5:00 AM
It seems a bit ironic that Oklahoma City is where Tucson laid claim to being the best Minor League team in the land by winning the inaugural Bricktown Showdown. After all, a little more than a month before the title game, the Sidewinders were in the midst of their biggest crisis of the season at the same AT&T Bricktown Ballpark.
In early August, Tucson worked its way out of a tailspin, recovering from a six-game slide that began in the Sooner State and ended in Arizona a week later. The Sidewinders went on to win 98 games, the last of which was the Bricktown Showdown -- not only to take home the Triple-A championship but to earn their place as the MiLB.com Team of the Year.
Chip Hale's team had been dominant for much of the regular season, slicing its way through the Pacific Coast League, despite losing key players on a steady basis to parent club Arizona. Stephen Drew, gone; Carlos Quentin, gone; Enrique Gonzalez, gone; Chris Young, gone; All-Star-caliber players, all plucked from the roster when the Diamondbacks were in need.
So, as the calendar turned to August, it appeared as if misfortune -- and a persistent Sacramento River Cats team --was about to catch up with Tucson. The Sidewinders lost a 2-0 decision in Oklahoma City on Aug. 7 and proceeded to drop the next two games to the RedHawks before heading home for a four-game set with hard-charging Sacramento.
The River Cats took the first three games of the series by a 16-7 margin before Tucson scored two ninth-inning runs to avoid a sweep, and perhaps salvage its season.
"Once we lost Quentin and Drew and Young and all those guys, and we were still winning, we still had to keep looking in our rear-view mirror because Sacramento was playing so well," Hale said. "And then we hit a rut in Oklahoma and lost three of four games and wound up losing a series for the first time in about two months.
"And then Sacramento beat us the first three games of the next series. But we beat them the fourth game with two in the ninth inning, and that was almost like a swing game. Everything just started to swing toward us after that and we started playing well."
The Sidewinders went 24-8, including their Bricktown win, the rest of the way, which included a nine-game winning streak at the end of August. The club steamrolled into the playoffs, where it won six of seven games, toppling Salt Lake and Round Rock to win the PCL crown. A victory over Toledo in the Showdown followed, and Minor League Baseball had its reigning champ.
"It's tough, because you look at our record and we had such a high win total, but we were never comfortable until the last week of the season," said Hale, who was promoted to the parent club as its third-base coach earlier this month. "Sacramento was always coming so hard at us. I remember talking to (Charlotte manager) Razor Shines at the Futures Game and they were ahead in their division and clinched it in the first or second week of August.
"But I think that ended up hurting them in the end. In a way, Sacramento was a big help to us, making us as good as we were for as long as we were."
The Sidewinders also were faced with what every other Minor League team must endure -- player promotions. None of the aforementioned players was with Tucson for the entire season, so there was always a need to bring in players from below. And more often than not, they did an admirable job.
The most significant of the contributors was Micah Owings, a right-hander who was promoted from Tennessee of the Southern League midway through the season. Owings was 6-2 at Double-A, then went 10-0 for the Sidewinders and was the winning pitcher at Bricktown.
"A guy like Micah, that's what he does best," Hale said. "You try to figure out what his best pitch is and it's just a wow factor. He just wins and gets it done. He does not accept losing."
The rest of the Sidewinders had their moments as well. Alberto Callaspo finished second in the PCL with a .337 average and Scott Hairston was seventh (.323). Callaspo led the league in hits (165), while Dustin Nippert tied for the league lead with 13 victories. Tucson had the league's best team batting average (.289) and fourth-best ERA (3.88).
So when it all came down to that final game in Oklahoma City, where the Sidewinders faced one of their greatest challenges of the season, they played just a bit better than their competition one last time.
"For us, winning the PCL was an accomplishment. It's a big league and it's sprawled over so much of the country," Hale said. "When we got to Oklahoma, the guys were extremely tired, but they saw how much the people there were promoting the game and the big party they had beforehand, and they got fired up.
"They realized that if we don't win this game, it's almost a waste because we won't be crowned the Triple-A champion. To have that many wins and not be the champs would have been kind of a letdown. We were really re-energized by things there."
Interesting when you consider that wouldn't have been the case five weeks earlier.
Kevin Czerwinski is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.


Interview with Tony Nuzio, Founder and CEO at ICC Logistics Services, Inc.
In a world where customers are expecting personalized communication, more customer data means more complex marketing programs. Unfortunately, for large business-to-consumer (B2C) companies, the sheer size and complexity of datasets can result in less personalization, but I don't believe it has to be that way.
Personalization at scale is now achievable, enabling even the biggest brands to be approachable. However, this requires that brands have access to all customer data in real-time, something that many companies are still struggling to achieve. Large enterprises can excel at personalization, but it requires a shift in thinking and a rerouting of customer data.
As marketers, we've all likely been part of an organization that uses multiple, disparate marketing cloud software solutions that operate as islands. These tools do a great job at the specific task they are designed for, but they don't necessarily play well with other marketing tools. For small organizations, it might not be a big deal if you store all your customer data in a single marketing cloud customer relationship management (CRM) platform that gives you access to a global customer view, but for organizations with extensive data, it is impossible (and cost prohibitive) to keep copies of data in sync in the cloud.
The common practice of adopting multiple platforms that all require their own database has limited marketers in how they can use and access customer data. The larger the organization, the more dots there are to connect. When data points are not connected, customers often receive messages that are irrelevant. We need more visibility into everything customers are doing in order to effectively communicate with them.
Overcoming these divisions means a shift in thinking. Instead of adding stacks of tools that create data silos, organize your customer data around a centralized database, and then use applications that can plug into the single source of truth instead of parsing data between different applications. Transforming the digital marketing technology set up to be able to access all company data in real time for a seamless, deeply personalized customer experience is inevitable.
For businesses that want to successfully incorporate personalized, real-time marketing into their strategy, storing all facets of marketing data in a single database is a must. But, customer data is not the only data marketers need to access. Marketers may also need access to data such as inventory levels that update in real time, geo-location data, shipment tracking data, etc. In fact, your success in marketing depends upon the accessibility of your entire dataset, not just customer data.
As marketers, we strive to learn as much as we can about each individual customer to be able to best serve their needs and communicate with them in a meaningful way, yet much of what companies know about customers is off limits for the Marketing department. Due to concerns about the security of sending data to a marketing vendor and exposing it to the Internet, sensitive data remains locked in a vault behind a company's secure firewall, never to be accessed by the Marketing department.
New regulations are increasing the focus on protecting customer data. Countries are increasingly seeking to protect personally identifiable information (PII) of their citizens by asserting jurisdictional control over this information, as exemplified by the EU-US Privacy Shield completed in July 2016. More recently, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the new legislation enacted by the European Parliament to give European Union (EU) residents more control over their personal data, and even US companies with any EU citizens on their email list – which is just about all of them – must now comply with GDPR. GDPR legislation is also having a ripple effect in the United States Congress. Already, US regulation aimed at increasing customer data protection, such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the Safeguards Rule, has made customer data security a bigger priority.
Tighter cyber security means forgoing data replication and syncing in the cloud in favor of storing sensitive customer data in-house behind your company's firewall, while using the cloud only to handle non-data sensitive, resource-heavy tasks, such as message rendering and delivery. This means marketers can segment based on sensitive data, such as credit rating, medical records, or purchase history, without that data leaving the security of the company firewall.
The 2018 ESP Satisfaction Report, a survey by MessageGears and research firm Survata of 101 B2C marketers at companies that send at least 10 million emails per month, found that the majority of executives are disconnected from the reality of what their Marketing team and underestimate the daily challenges they face when it comes to managing email marketing. Fifty percent of the high-level executives indicated they were "very satisfied" with the performance of their current email service provider (ESP), but only 17 percent of the managers, senior managers, directors and vice presidents agreed. Another 80 percent of C-suite executives said they were "very satisfied" with their ESP's ease of use and real-time data access, compared with just 19 percent of the rest of their Marketing team agreeing to this. In addition, C-suite executives were nearly twice as likely as other Marketing team members to say their ESP's best attribute was ease of use (50 percent to 27 percent) and real-time data access (30 percent to 16 percent).
The disconnect means marketers may not be able to convince the C-suite to approve necessary changes, or maybe worse yet, marketers may have a change forced on them that makes their job more difficult and negatively impacts performance, including personalization efforts. This means many businesses are not able to move forward with successful digital transformation and maybe even setting the strategy roadmap back. Roadblock. Roadblock. Roadblock. When executives don't know that an ESP is under-performing, there is also less incentive for the email industry to push forward and advance.
Executives need to maintain a close relationship with their email marketing teams and ground-level workers so they fully understand their needs. In addition to requesting email ROI metrics, executives should ask for feedback on technology performance, which would provide a more comprehensive and accurate view of what's happening behind the scenes.
Customer expectations for immediate, personalized communication are only going to increase. To keep up, we have to rethink how we manage customer data and shift from fragmented silos to a unified, global customer view with the ability to use your data in real time. The future looks bright for the organizations that gain better control over their customer data.


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Q: Does every $\mathbb{Q}$-module contain a copy of $\mathbb{Q}$? Every abelian group is a $\mathbb{Z}$-module. I was curious what it would take for one to also be a $\mathbb{Q}$-module. This would mean in particular that an element of the group would have to multiplied by fractions $1/n$, and associativity of scalar multiplication requires that for any $g \in G$,
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n \left(\frac{1}{n} \left( g \right) \right) = \left( n \cdot \frac{1}{n} \right) g = 1_\mathbb{Q} g = g
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Therefore, for every integer $n > 0$ and $g \in G$, there must be an element $h$ such that $nh = g$. Equivalently, the map $f_n : G \to G$ sending $g \mapsto ng$ must be a surjection. It follows immediately that $G$ cannot be a periodic group; otherwise $f_{e}$ (where $e$ is the exponent of $G$) would send every $g$ to $1_G$. In particular, it contains an isomorphic copy of $\mathbb{Z}$ via the embedding $n \mapsto n \cdot 1_G$. My question is, does it also contain an isomorphic copy of $\mathbb{Q}$? It seems intuitively clear that it must, since it contains the integers and also must contain a multiplicative inverse of every integer -- i.e. an element $n^{-1} = \frac{1}{n} \cdot 1_G$ such that $n \cdot n^{-1} = n^{-1} + \cdots + n^{-1} = 1$. However, I can imagine that maybe for some groups $G$ there are other constructions that add in such inverses without ending up with an embedding of $\mathbb{Q}$.

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Anchor & Hope stallion Imagining dies at age 14
Published: Thursday, August 25 2022
Anchor & Hope Farm stallion Imagining, who stood in Maryland since 2016, died on Aug. 23 from complications from colic at the age of 14.
Imagining was a Grade 1-winning millionaire with an unparalleled pedigree. A son of champion racehorse and stallion Giant's Causeway, he was out of A.P. Indy's multiple graded stakes-winning daughter Daydreaming, a full sister to Grade 1 winner Girolamo and graded stakes winner Accelerator, as well as Supercharger, the dam of 2010 Kentucky Derby-G1 winner Super Saver. His female line traced back to champion Numbered Account, his fourth dam.
Imagining raced for his breeder, Phipps Stable, and was trained by Shug McGaughey throughout his 26-race career. A late developer with an affinity for the turf, he made his debut in July 2011 as a 3-year-old and broke his maiden two starts later at Belmont Park that September. In his final start of the season, he finished second in the Hollywood Derby-G1 at Hollywood Park. From that point he ran primarily in graded stakes – in 2014 and 2015, 10 of his 12 starts were in Grade 1 races.
He began to truly blossom as a 5-year-old in 2013, winning three stakes races including the Red Smith Handicap-G3 at Aqueduct.
In May of 2014, Imagining earned his biggest career victory in the Man o'War Stakes-G1 at Belmont Park, scoring by three-quarters of a length in gate-to-wire fashion. The Man o'War was one of four Grade 1 races he won or placed in that year. In addition, he finished second in the Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap-G1 and the Sword Dancer Invitational Stakes-G1 and was third in the Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Stakes-G1.
As a 7-year-old in 2015, Imagining added another graded stakes win to his credentials when he won the Pan American Stakes-G3 at Gulfstream Park in March. He retired at the end of the season with nine wins, five seconds and two thirds and $1,177,394 in earnings.
Imagining entered stud in Chesapeake City with Heritage Stallions, a partnership between Louis Merryman and Drs. Thomas and Brooke Bowman. He stood there for two seasons before the dissolution of the partnership. Starting with the 2018 season, he stood at Grace and Louis Merryman's Anchor & Hope Farm in Port Deposit.
From four crops of racing age, Imagining has sired 50 winners to date and the earners of nearly $3.8 million. He currently ranks eighth on the list of leading Maryland sires in 2022. His most successful offspring is Monday Morning Qb, winner of the 2020 Maryland Million Classic as a 3-year-old. 11 of his progeny are earners of more than $100,000. He has 31 2-year-olds in his current crop.
"Imagining has been with us since the start in 2015. We want to thank Shug McGaughey and the Phipps family for trusting us to bring a Grade 1-winning millionaire from a prolific Phipps pedigree to Maryland. We were proud to do so and will be grateful to Imagining for what he did for us," said Grace Merryman.


Tullow's Orinduik Block offshore Guyana has been given a boost to 3,981 mmboe Gross Prospective Resources (P50), following an independent competent person's report by Gustavson Associates.
Eco Atlantic Oil & Gas, a partner in the block, said on Monday that the P50 reserves in the Orinduik Block were boosted by the CPR from 2,913 mmboe to 3,981 mmboe, identified across a total of 15 leads.
According to the company, the report is the second on the block and follows the completion of the 3D processing and an additional six months of interpretation work.
It supplements and updates the interpretation of the previous CPR announced on September 11, 2018.
Following the completion of the processing of the 2,550 square-kilometer 3D seismic program and the reported regional Tertiary aged discoveries, including Exxon's Hammerhead discovery, the company and its partners completed a further extensive evaluation and risking exercise on the leads and targets on the Orinduik Block following review and analysis of this additional information.
Colin Kinley, co-founder and COO of Eco, said: "Our first drill target scheduled for June is Jethro, on which Gustavson has firmed up their estimate to contain 214.5 mmboe (P50) at 43.2% chance of success. The partners are in the process of approving a second well, and we believe the risking will be in the same range as for Jethro. We hope to confirm drilling plans for well number two in the near future to take advantage of the economics of our rig on the block.
It is worth noting that Tullow hired Stena Forth, a sixth-generation drillship owned by Stena Drilling, in late February to drill on the Orinduik block.
Eco holds a 15% working interest in the block, Total – which recently acquired working interest from Eco – has 25% interest and the operator Tullow Oil holds the remaining 60%.
Posted on March 18, 2019 with tags Eco Atlantic, Guyana, Orinduik, Tullow.


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The problem with the British Empire was that it was run by Labour and Tory governments who were corrupt scumbags.
If the Empire had been run by a British Nationalist government who could have worked with the nationalists of the nations in the empire for mutual benefit then the world would have been a far better place.
Instead we had Tory Toffs and Labour Communists running the empire for their own benefit and for the benefit of their own masters and political parties, instead of British Nationalists who would have run the Empire in a way that would have benefited all our peoples.
The tragedy is that whilst the Tory and Labour call the BNP 'racists' the BNP never stole anyones lands, invaded their nations or slaughtered indigenous peoples in the Empire, whilst Labour and Tory were using Nazi methodology whilst hiding under the Union Jack.
Then when the Empire was collapsing they ushered in with their haste the scum that have ruined those nations.
That is the tragedy of Empire, that because Britain was run by fools, fops and communists they all contributed to its collapse and surrender.
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It is rare to hear former Marxist revolutionaries apologise for having successfully driven out an imperialist power decades before. In the rundown former British colony of Aden, a backwater that was once one of the world's key shipping hubs, such regrets are not uncommon.
"I am sorry about what happened," said Ahmed Mighali Said, 77, who fought the British Army in the bloody four-year uprising known as the Aden Emergency, which ended with Britain's withdrawal in 1967. "Under the British we had peace. The Yemeni fighters were ignorant. I hope the British come back."
The rueful attitude of many former fighters is less a nostalgia for British colonial rulers than a reaction to southern Yemen's disastrous history since they left.
Civil wars, an unpopular union with the Islamic north and the subsequent neglect of the south by the Sanaa Government — which is accused of hogging the profit from its oil and gas — are again fuelling a desire to break away, adding to the chaos in a country targeted by al-Qaeda as a new sanctuary.
Times Archive, 1967: Blood bath in Aden
Not since 1948 has a British territory been decolonized in such disastrous circumstances
"It was a great mistake," said one former fighter, now a grizzled old man. "People didn't know any better. It was an emotional response born out of Arab nationalism and Nasserite revolutionary feelings. If the British came back, we would sign a protocol saying we are sorry."
There are still many signs of the 130-year British occupation in this strategic port sheltered by the spectacular dark cliffs of a volcano. Its Crater district — the old city is built within the caldera — was the centre of the last war fought by the dying British Empire.
The Crescent Hotel, where the Queen stayed in 1954, is closed but standing, and neat little Anglican churches still serve dwindling congregations. The old bookstore, Aziz's, barely survives, selling yellowed tomes on Boy Scouting and London guidebooks with photos of Britain's thriving manufacturing industry.
The occasional Morris Minor or Austin has been kept on the road, in mint condition, weaving among the battered Toyotas past former barracks that are now teeming tenements.
In the Crater area, the Yemen military museum has lurid oil paintings, produced with more bloodlust than talent, that depict ambushed British soldiers bleeding and dying in their vehicles. Black-and-white photos show British soldiers on rooftops, hauling off suspects and jumping out of Land Rovers.
There are also photos of men being publicly beheaded with the sword during a 1955 coup in the Islamic north. The scenes are chillingly reminiscent of Iraq or Afghanistan today, and may be a taste of what lies ahead for Yemen.
Britain's dirty war, in which it sent mercenaries to the north to support the deposed royalists against the Egyptian-backed nationalists, while launching RAF air raids on villages in the south that killed scores of civilians, has echoes in today's Yemen.
In this deeply divided country the President of 32 years, Ali Abdullah Saleh, is fighting a Shia rebellion in the far north in part through airstrikes. He is also trying to crush a re-emerging secessionist movement in the south and is under pressure to fight al-Qaeda, which trained the man accused of attempting to bomb a US airliner on Christmas Day in Yemen.
So far, Britain has limited itself to helping to develop a Yemeni counter-terrorism unit, while the US has pledged to double its $70 million (£45 million) military aid budget this year.
In the craggy hills just outside Aden there is a stark reminder of the price to be paid for any deeper involvement in the country's turbulent affairs.
Line after line of graves stand in the almost treeless British military cemetery at Salahedin, a cluster of them marked June 20, 1967 — the day a military convoy was ambushed in the Crater by British-trained Yemeni police. Eight soldiers were killed in the mutiny, which triggered a full-scale invasion of the rebel stronghold by the British Army.
The force of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders was led by Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Campbell "Mad Mitch" Mitchell, who fought his way into the overcrowded ancient streets with Saracen armoured cars accompanied by the skirl of regimental bagpipers.
It was a bloody but short fight, described by the force's end-of-empire commander as "like shooting grouse; a brace here and a brace there".
Despite crushing the revolt, it was clear to Whitehall's politicians that the end was nigh, and the British moved out of Aden that year. In 1967, Aden was the second-biggest port in the world on the main sea route from east to west. Dubai, hundreds of miles off the shipping lanes, was an insignificant fishing port. Forty-two years later the roles are reversed.
"Now we are under the occupation of Zayidism," said a retired major-general who secretly fought the British after returning from officer training in Aldershot in 1966, referring to the minority Shia faith of the President and his family. "They took everything, erased our history, culture and civilisation, and undermined the rule of law."
Underscoring his words, three policemen were shot dead in Aden this week in tribal revenge for the death of a man who was killed by officers after failing to stop at a checkpoint. The general's friends bemoan the Islamisation and militarisation of the once-secular south, which reluctantly joined the north in 1990 and failed to break away four years later in a civil war. A key role was played in that conflict by Yemeni Mujahidin, who had fought against the Russians in Afghanistan and were deployed to great effect, and handsomely rewarded, by President Saleh.
In Aden, the cosmopolitan way of life left behind by Britain has all but disappeared. "The cinemas, bars, shops, are all closed, the girls were separated from the boys and the schools provide a religious education," said one businessman, who added that even though Aden fought against the despised occupation, the British "taught us how to live".
"Our people hate unification day, 22 May 1990," said a professor. "They feel they were thrown into hell."
Most people here want independence again, this time from the north. The country's most popular newspaper, al-Ayyam, has been closed by the authorities and its editor arrested on shooting charges which supporters say are false.
At a recent demonstration outside the newspaper's offices, protesters said that the police started shooting at a crowd, accidentally killing one of their own officers and a building guard. The advocates of secession insist that they want a peaceful separation but point to the repressive attitude of the Government, which ignores their voice and takes their resources without reinvesting in the south.
"People are ready to use weapons but it hasn't come to that yet," one professor said.
Should the south rise again, it will face a tough enemy in the government forces — now being trained and equipped by the new global power, America, and by Aden's sorely missed former foes, the British.
Mutiny and mutilation
The port of Aden was visited by Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta in the 13th and 14th centuries, before growing into a ship-fuelling centre in the 1800s
In 1839 Britain took the area from Sultan Muhsin bin Fadl and established the Aden Settlement. It was to hold the territory for more than 100 years
Aden became the world's third-busiest port after the Suez Canal opened in 1869 — a stopping point for cargo ships and millions of migrants to the colonies of the British Empire
In the 1950s Britain faced pressure from the National Liberation Front, a communist group that formed part of Gamal Abdel Nasser's pan-Arab movement
Armed resistance began with a grenade thrown at the British High Commissioner in 1963, triggering the "Aden Emergency". The British Government said it would give the area independence, but keep a troop presence
In 1967 the local police mutinied and killed 24 British troops. Their corpses were dragged through the streets and mutilated. The order came to withdraw but Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Mitchell of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders — known as "Mad Mitch" — refused
On July 3, 1967, he charged into Crater with 15 regimental bagpipers playing Scotland the Brave. He held the town until the British withdrew completely in November
Sources: portofaden.com, Times database
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In this extended interview we discuss a number of interesting aspects of Apollonius' life and Philostratus' take on said life.
There is the question of Damis, Apollonius' right-hand-man, who, Philosotratus tells us, wrote a book about his master on which Philostratus has based his own account. But did Damis even exist? We discuss the literary trope of the 'found document' which never existed. (Lovers of esotericism will find many examples coming to mind here from recent esoteric history, from the 'Egyptian Tablets' of Joseph Smith to the Theosophical 'Mahatma Letters' to the 'Cypher Manuscript' of the Golden Dawn. It turns out this trope goes back to antiquity). In the case of Philostratus and his audience, was the Book of Damis even mean to be accepted as historical reality?
Then there is the question of interpretation, esoteric and otherwise, which is hugely significant but also problematic in the case of Philostratus, because he actually puts interpretive theory into the mouth of Apollonius, inviting his readers to reflect on the act of interpreting the Life of Apollonius itself. The question of the 'authorial fallacy' rears its head (again: see Episode 26), and Miles suggests, against an easy consensus which sometimes exists in scholarship on antiquity, that Philostratus and his contemporary sophists were in fact well aware that readers (and viewers of art, etc.) construct the meanings they find in what they read.
We then discuss some of the fascinating afterlife of the figure of Apollonius: master-sage, magician, pagan answer to Christ, French fin-de-siècle hipster, and much more, and follow the trail of the logos into the East Roman Middle Ages, where Michæl Psellos makes an appearance.
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Dictys of Crete and Dares of Phrygia wrote 'eyewitness accounts' of the Trojan war. The sole English translation of their works seems to be The Trojan War. The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian. Translated by R. M. Frazer (Jr.). Indiana University Press, 1966.
Eusebius: contra Hieroclem, in which the Christian father refutes a lost work by a traditionally-religious opponent of Christianiy who had held up Apollonius of Tyana as the traditional answer to Jesus.
Philostratus: there is a very good new Loeb of the Heroicus and Gymnasticus, along with what the editors (Jeffrey Rusten and Jason König) call the two dialexeis. For the Letters the Loeb of Philostratus, Aelian and Alciphron (letters of each) is still the current one, though it's pretty old. For the Lives of the Sophists it's still Wilmer Cave Wright's Loeb, in English. Watch his space for a new Loeb edition by Græme Miles and Han Baltussen, due out in 2021.
Porphyry claims that Apollonius is better than Christ: The comparison of Jesus' miracles with those of Apollonius (and Moses and Apuleius) is Against the Christians fr.4 = Jerome, Homily on Psalm 81 (PL 26,1130). In the Testimonia which C.P. Jones collects in the most recent Loeb of the VA and associated works it is Testimonium 33 (Volume 3 of this Loeb). This article is a good place to check out the whole Apollonius vs Jesus dynamic in late antiquity: Elsner, Jas'. 'Beyond Compare: Pagan Saint and Christian God in Late Antiquity'. Critical Inquiry 35, Spring 2009.
Psellos on allegory: Opusculum 44 in Michaelis Pselli Philosophica Minora, vol.1. Opuscula logica, physica, allegorica, alia (ed. J.M. Duffy), Teubner, 1992.
Follower of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, c. 1550/1575, oil on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection 1952.2.19
Flaubert, Gustave: For an edition of Flaubert's novel in English, you could do worse than this star-studded volume: The Temptation of Saint Anthony. (New York: Random House, 1992). Michel Foucault (introduction), Lafcadio Hearn (translation), and Marshall Olds (glossary).
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Google Tez has announced a deeper integration of SBI's banking services in the payment app, which adds the facility to create an SBI UPI ID through your mobile.
The UPI-enabled digital payment app will now let users create a personal @oksbi address to make payments from their SBI account directly from the app.
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SBI is India's largest public sector bank and this is a major win for Google Tez, which has already made great strides in India in a short period. Google claims that the UPI-enabled payment app has facilitated around 250 million transactions so far, and has approximately 13.5 million active users. Since the app's release on Android and iOS in September last year, the app has added support for making UPI-based transactions with over 70 banking institutions across the country.
Regarding the strategic partnership, SBI's Chairman, Rajnish Kumar said,"We are committed to create an enabling environment to promote digital payments for more Indians. We already have a multitude of services including e-commerce and m-commerce, and this partnership with Google Tez will drive innovation and deliver exciting new opportunities for our 40 crore plus customer base." He further expressed that the new feature will help in increasing the adoption of digital payments in the country.
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If you are looking for something different to do in the pool, then our pool exercise ideas are just the thing. No swimming required, just a steady, simple workout using the resistance and support offered by water. This idea is pool-based hand flutters.
Hand flutters are a great way to work and tone your upper and lower arms. Water resistance ensures they are much more effective than flutters on dry land. Always warm up before exercise. Checkout our stretching section here for more on warming up. You can find stretches for arms only here.
Body areas worked: upper arms (biceps), and lower arms (forearms).
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