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My name is Umberto Crenca, and people call me Bert.
And I'm the founder and former Artistic Director of AS220.
AS220 is a over 30 year old organization that started in 1985.
So it's an unjuried, uncensored environment.
creativity, in whatever medium they want to work in.
completely internalized at AS220 with its staff and the work that it does.
how you make your judgements and decisions and how you prioritize certain activities.
All leading to ideally a more sustainable organization.
I hate to say it in this way, but almost linear.
That you do this, it leads to this, you do this, it leads to this.
The cycle talks about great art.
we're not interested in being the curator of great art.
We do curation, but that's not the primary focus of what we do.
So we struggled with that, it took us awhile to say, wait a minute.
us to relate it to what we can do and call it great program.
is illustrated is verbatim in the way you adapt it.
You adapt it, but it lends itself to that.
creating more subtlety around it and nuance in the debates.
The debates that we have around the application of it.
attention and commitment that you make to these ideas.
it has to be relentless, you can never let up.
they can get passionate about.
I think there's where the elegance is.
How all of these things work with each other to support each other.
the organization and the level of buy-in that it requires.
that you adopt for some period of time, it may or may not have some influence.
the way you act upon your work.
in a lot of the essays the initial response is kind of like, duh.
That, in the long run, is the absolute beauty of it all.
And that's why we're choosing the word elegant, because it cuts to the chase.
It's very consumable, the information and material and how it's presented.
read it through, put it down and go look at it again.
I think you'll be amazed at how insidious it is.
How much it gets into your being and your way of thinking, around the work.


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(1934-04-14) April 14, 1934 (age 85)
20th-/21st-century philosophy
Western Marxism
Marxist hermeneutics[1]
Postmodernism · modernism · science fiction · utopia · history · narrative · cultural studies · dialectics · structuralism
Notable ideas
Cognitive mapping · national allegory · political unconscious
Karl Marx · Vladimir Lenin · Hegel · Jean-Paul Sartre · Theodor Adorno · György Lukács · Walter Benjamin · Erich Auerbach · Kenneth Burke · Raymond Williams · Northrop Frye · Ernst Bloch[2] · Louis Althusser · Philip K. Dick · Ursula K. Le Guin · Frankfurt School
Slavoj Žižek · Kim Stanley Robinson · Perry Anderson · Gopal Balakrishnan · Mark Fisher · Alexander R. Galloway
Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is an American literary critic and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmodernity and capitalism. Jameson's best-known books include Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) and The Political Unconscious (1981).
Jameson is currently Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies (French) and the director of the Center for Critical Theory at Duke University.[3] In 2012, the Modern Language Association gave Jameson its sixth Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement.[4]
1 Life and works
1.1 Early works
1.2 Research into Marxism
1.3 Narrative and history
1.4 The critique of postmodernism
1.5 Recent work
1.6 Holberg International Memorial Prize
1.7 Lyman Tower Sargent Distinguished Scholar Award
1.8 Influence in China
2.1 Books
2.2 Selected articles
2.3 Selected book reviews
2.4 Selected interviews
Life and works[edit]
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Jameson was born in Cleveland, Ohio. After graduating in 1954 from Haverford College, where his professors included Wayne Booth,[5] he briefly traveled to Europe, studying at Aix-en-Provence, Munich, and Berlin, where he learned of new developments in continental philosophy, including the rise of structuralism. He returned to America the following year to pursue a doctoral degree at Yale University, where he studied under Erich Auerbach.
Early works[edit]
Auerbach would prove to be a lasting influence on Jameson's thought. This was already apparent in Jameson's doctoral dissertation, published in 1961 as Sartre: the Origins of a Style. Auerbach's concerns were rooted in the German philological tradition; his works on the history of style analyzed literary form within social history. Jameson would follow in these steps, examining the articulation of poetry, history, philology, and philosophy in the works of Jean-Paul Sartre.
Jameson's work focused on the relation between the style of Sartre's writings and the political and ethical positions of his existentialist philosophy. The occasional Marxian aspects of Sartre's work were glossed over in this book; Jameson would return to them in the following decade.[6]
Jameson's dissertation, though it drew on a long tradition of European cultural analysis, differed markedly from the prevailing trends of Anglo-American academia (which were empiricism and logical positivism in philosophy and linguistics, and New Critical formalism in literary criticism). It nevertheless earned Jameson a position at Harvard University, where he taught during the first half of the 1960s.
Research into Marxism[edit]
His interest in Sartre led Jameson to intense study of Marxist literary theory. Even though Karl Marx was becoming an important influence in American social science, partly through the influence of the many European intellectuals who had sought refuge from the Second World War in the United States, such as Theodor Adorno, the literary and critical work of the Western Marxists was still largely unknown in American academia in the late 1950s and early 1960s.[7]
Jameson's shift toward Marxism was also driven by his increasing political connection with the New Left and pacifist movements, as well as by the Cuban Revolution, which Jameson took as a sign that "Marxism was alive and well as a collective movement and a culturally productive force".[8] His research focused on critical theory: thinkers of, and influenced by, the Frankfurt School, such as Kenneth Burke, György Lukács, Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Louis Althusser, and Sartre, who viewed cultural criticism as an integral feature of Marxist theory. This position represented a break with more orthodox Marxism-Leninism, which held a narrow view of historical materialism. In 1969, Jameson co-founded the Marxist Literary Group with a number of his graduate students at the University of California, San Diego.[9]
While the Orthodox Marxist view of ideology held that the cultural "superstructure" was completely determined by the economic "base", the Western Marxists critically analyzed culture as a historical and social phenomenon alongside economic production and distribution or political power relationships. They held that culture must be studied using the Hegelian concept of immanent critique: the theory that adequate description and criticism of a philosophical or cultural text must be carried out in the same terms that text itself employs, in order to develop its internal inconsistencies in a manner that allows intellectual advancement. Marx highlighted immanent critique in his early writings, derived from Hegel's development of a new form of dialectical thinking that would attempt, as Jameson comments, "to lift itself mightily up by its own bootstraps".[10]
Narrative and history[edit]
History came to play an increasingly central role in Jameson's interpretation of both the reading (consumption) and writing (production) of literary texts. Jameson marked his full-fledged commitment to Hegelian-Marxist philosophy with the publication of The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act, the opening slogan of which is "always historicize" (1981). The Political Unconscious takes as its object not the literary text itself, but rather the interpretive frameworks by which it is now constructed. It emerges as a manifesto for new activity concerning literary narrative.
The book's argument emphasized history as the "ultimate horizon" of literary and cultural analysis. It borrowed notions from the structuralist tradition and from Raymond Williams's work in cultural studies, and joined them to a largely Marxist view of labor (whether blue-collar or intellectual) as the focal point of analysis. Jameson's readings exploited both the explicit formal and thematic choices of the writer and the unconscious framework guiding these. Artistic choices that were ordinarily viewed in purely aesthetic terms were recast in terms of historical literary practices and norms, in an attempt to develop a systematic inventory of the constraints they imposed on the artist as an individual creative subject. To further this meta-commentary, Jameson described the ideologeme, or "the smallest intelligible unit of the essentially antagonistic collective discourses of social classes", the smallest legible residue of the real-life, ongoing struggles occurring between social classes.[11] (The term "ideologeme" was first used by Mikhail Bakhtin and Pavel Nikolaevich Medvedev in their work The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship and was later popularised by Julia Kristeva. Kristeva defined it as "the intersection of a given textual arrangement ... with the utterances ... that it either assimilates into its own space or to which it refers in the space of exterior texts ...".[12])
Jameson's establishment of history as the only pertinent factor in this analysis, which derived the categories governing artistic production from their historical framework, was paired with a bold theoretical claim. His book claimed to establish Marxian literary criticism, centered in the notion of an artistic mode of production, as the most all-inclusive and comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding literature.[13] According to Vincent B. Leitch, the publication of The Political Unconscious "rendered Jameson the leading Marxist literary critic in America."[14]
The critique of postmodernism[edit]
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In 1984, during his tenure as Professor of Literature and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Jameson published an article titled "Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" in the journal New Left Review. This controversial article, which Jameson later expanded into a book, was part of a series of analyses of postmodernism from the dialectical perspective Jameson had developed in his earlier work on narrative. Jameson viewed the postmodern "skepticism towards metanarratives" as a "mode of experience" stemming from the conditions of intellectual labor imposed by the late capitalist mode of production.
Postmodernists claimed that the complex differentiation between "spheres" or fields of life (such as the political, the social, the cultural, the commercial), and between distinct social classes and roles within each field, had been overcome by the crisis of foundationalism and the consequent relativization of truth-claims. Jameson argued against this, asserting that these phenomena had or could have been understood successfully within a modernist framework; the postmodern failure to achieve this understanding implied an abrupt break in the dialectical refinement of thought.
In his view, postmodernity's merging of all discourse into an undifferentiated whole was the result of the colonization of the cultural sphere, which had retained at least partial autonomy during the prior modernist era, by a newly organized corporate capitalism. Following Adorno and Horkheimer's analysis of the culture industry, Jameson discussed this phenomenon in his critical discussion of architecture, film, narrative, and visual arts, as well as in his strictly philosophical work.
Two of Jameson's best-known claims from Postmodernism are that postmodernity is characterized by pastiche and a crisis in historicity. Jameson argued that parody (which implies a moral judgment or a comparison with societal norms) was replaced by pastiche (collage and other forms of juxtaposition without a normative grounding). Relatedly, Jameson argued that the postmodern era suffers from a crisis in historicity: "there no longer does seem to be any organic relationship between the American history we learn from schoolbooks and the lived experience of the current, multinational, high-rise, stagflated city of the newspapers and of our own everyday life".
Jameson's analysis of postmodernism attempted to view it as historically grounded; he therefore explicitly rejected any moralistic opposition to postmodernity as a cultural phenomenon, and continued to insist upon a Hegelian immanent critique that would "think the cultural evolution of late capitalism dialectically, as catastrophe and progress all together".[15] His failure to dismiss postmodernism from the onset, however, was perceived by many as an implicit endorsement of postmodern views.
Recent work[edit]
Jameson's later writings include Archaeologies of the Future, a study of utopia and science fiction, launched at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, in December 2005, and The Modernist Papers (2007), a collection of essays on modernism that is meant to accompany the theoretical A Singular Modernity (2002) as a "source-book". These books, along with Postmodernism and The Antinomies of Realism (2013),[16] form part of an ongoing study entitled The Poetics of Social Forms, which attempts, in Sara Danius's words, to "provide a general history of aesthetic forms, at the same time seeking to show how this history can be read in tandem with a history of social and economic formations".[17] As of 2010, Jameson intends to supplement the already published volumes of The Poetics of Social Forms with a study of allegory entitled Overtones: The Harmonics of Allegory.[18] The Antinomies of Realism won the 2014 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism.[19]
Alongside this continuing project, he has recently published three related studies of dialectical theory: Valences of the Dialectic (2009), which includes Jameson's critical responses to Slavoj Žižek, Gilles Deleuze, and other contemporary theorists; The Hegel Variations (2010), a commentary on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit; and Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One (2011), an analysis of Marx's Das Kapital.
An overview of Jameson's work, Fredric Jameson: Live Theory, by Ian Buchanan, was published in 2007.
Holberg International Memorial Prize[edit]
In 2008, Jameson was awarded the annual Holberg International Memorial Prize in recognition of his career-long research "on the relation between social formations and cultural forms".[20] The prize, which was worth 4.6 million kr (approximately $648,000), was presented to Jameson by Tora Aasland, Norwegian Minister of Education and Research, in Bergen, Norway, on 26 November 2008.[21]
Lyman Tower Sargent Distinguished Scholar Award[edit]
In 2009, Jameson was awarded the Lyman Tower Sargent Distinguished Scholar Award by the North American Society for Utopian Studies.
Influence in China[edit]
Jameson has had an enormous influence, perhaps greater than that of any other single figure of any nationality, on the theorization of the postmodern in China. In mid-1985, shortly after the beginning of the cultural fever (early 1985 to June Fourth, 1989)—a period in Chinese intellectual history characterized in part by intense interest in Western critical theory, literary theory, and related disciplines[22]—Jameson introduced the idea of postmodernism to China in lectures at Peking University and the newly founded Shenzhen University.[23][24] These were minor events amid the larger cultural ferment, yet ended up being quietly seminal: Jameson's ideas as presented at Peking University had a major impact on some gifted young students, including Zhang Yiwu and Zhang Xudong, budding scholars whose work would come to play an important role in the analysis of postmodernity in China.[25]
Notwithstanding the impact of these lectures on a few future intellectuals, 1987 was the year of Jameson's truly enormous contribution to postmodern studies in China: a book entitled Postmodernism and Cultural Theories (Chinese: 后现代主义与文化理论; pinyin: Hòuxiàndàizhǔyì yǔ wénhuà lǐlùn), translated into Chinese by Tang Xiaobing. Although the Chinese intelligentsia's engagement with postmodernism would not begin in earnest until the nineties, Postmodernism and Cultural Theories was to become a keystone text in that engagement; as scholar Wang Ning writes, its influence on Chinese thinkers would be impossible to overestimate.[24] Its popularity may be partially due to the facts that it was not written in a scholarly style and that, because of Jameson's specific critical approach, it was possible to use the text to support either praise or criticism of the Chinese manifestation of postmodernity.[24] In Wang Chaohua's interpretation of events, Jameson's work was mostly used to support praise, in what amounted to a fundamental misreading of Jameson:
The caustic edge of Jameson's theory, which had described postmodernism as "the cultural logic of late capitalism," was abandoned for a contented or even enthusiastic endorsement of mass culture, which [a certain group of Chinese critics] saw as a new space of popular freedom. According to these critics, intellectuals, who conceived of themselves as the bearers of modernity, were reacting with shock and anxiety at their loss of control with the arrival of postmodern consumer society, uttering cries of "quixotic hysteria," panic-stricken by the realization of what they had once called for during the eighties.[23]
The debate fueled by Jameson, and specifically Postmodernism and Cultural Theories, over postmodernism was at its most intense from 1994 to 1997, carried on by Chinese intellectuals both inside and outside the mainland; particularly important contributions came from Zhao Yiheng in London, Xu Ben in the United States, and Zhang Xudong, also in the United States, who had gone on to study under Jameson as a doctoral student at Duke.[23]
Bibliography at Jameson's Duke University faculty page
Sartre: The Origins of a Style. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1961.
Marxism and Form: Twentieth Century Dialectical Theories of Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1971.
The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1972. for more info see:[1]
Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1979. Reissued: 2008 (Verso)
The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 1981.
The Ideologies of Theory. Essays 1971–1986. Vol. 1: Situations of Theory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1988.
The Ideologies of Theory. Essays 1971–1986. Vol. 2: The Syntax of History. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1988.
Postmodernism and Cultural Theories (Chinese: 后现代主义与文化理论; pinyin: Hòuxiàndàizhǔyì yǔ wénhuà lǐlùn). Tr. Tang Xiaobing. Xi'an: Shaanxi Normal University Press. 1987.
Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature. Derry: Field Day, 1988. A collection of three Field Day Pamphlets by Fredric Jameson, Terry Eagleton and Edward Said.
Late Marxism: Adorno, or, The Persistence of the Dialectic. London & New York: Verso. 1990.
Signatures of the Visible. New York & London: Routledge. 1990.
Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 1991.
The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1992.
The Seeds of Time. The Wellek Library lectures at the University of California, Irvine. New York: Columbia University Press. 1994.
Brecht and Method. London & New York: Verso. 1998. Reissued: 2011 (Verso)
The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998. London & New York: Verso. 1998. Reissued: 2009 (Verso)
The Jameson Reader. Ed. Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks. Oxford: Blackwell. 2000.
A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present. London & New York Verso. 2002.
Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions. London & New York: Verso. 2005.
The Modernist Papers. London & New York Verso. 2007.
Jameson on Jameson: Conversations on Cultural Marxism. Ed. Ian Buchanan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2007.
The Ideologies of Theory. London & New York: Verso. 2009. (One-volume edition, with additional essays)
Valences of the Dialectic. London & New York: Verso. 2009.
The Hegel Variations: On the Phenomenology of Spirit. London & New York: Verso. 2010.
Representing 'Capital': A Reading of Volume One. London & New York: Verso. 2011.
The Antinomies of Realism. London & New York: Verso. 2013.
The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms. London & New York: Verso. 2015.
An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army. Ed. Slavoj Žižek. London and New York: Verso. 2016.
Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality. London and New York: Verso. 2016.
Allegory and Ideology. London and New York: Verso. 2019.
Selected articles[edit]
"Metacommentary". PMLA. 86 (1). January 1971.
"Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture". Social Text. 1. Winter 1979.
"Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism". New Left Review. New Left Review. I (146). July–August 1984.
"Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism". Social Text. 15. Autumn 1986.
"Globalization and Political Strategy". New Left Review. New Left Review. II (4). July–August 2000.
"Future City". New Left Review. New Left Review. II (21). May–June 2003.
"Fear and Loathing in Globalization". New Left Review. New Left Review. II (23). September–October 2003.
"Symptoms of Theory or Symptoms for Theory?". Critical Inquiry. 30 (2). Winter 2003. Archived from the original on 2007-08-06.
"The Politics of Utopia". New Left Review. New Left Review. II (25). January–February 2004.
"War and Representation". PMLA. 124 (5): 1532–1547. October 2009. doi:10.1632/pmla.2009.124.5.1532.
"The Aesthetics of Singularity". New Left Review. II (92). March–April 2015.
"On Re-reading Life and Fate". New Left Review. II (95). September–October 2015.
"Gherman's Anti-Aesthetic". New Left Review. II (97). January–February 2016.
"Marxist Criticism and Hegel". PMLA. 131 (2): 430–438. March 2016. doi:10.1632/pmla.2016.131.2.430.
Selected book reviews[edit]
First Impressions, a review of The Parallax View by Slavoj Žižek (London Review of Books September 7, 2006)
Then You Are Them, a review of The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood (London Review of Books September 10, 2009)
In Hyperspace, a review of Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative by David Wittenberg (London Review of Books September 10, 2015)
No Magic, No Metaphor, a review of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (London Review of Books June 15, 2017)
Selected interviews[edit]
Topical excerpts from interviews at the Stanford Presidential Lectures website
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Hullot-Kentor, Robert. "Suggested Reading: Jameson on Adorno". In Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. 220-233.
Irr, Caren and Ian Buchanan, eds. On Jameson: From Postmodernism to Globalization. Albany: State University of New York Press. 2005.
Kellner, Douglas, ed. Jameson/Postmodernism/Critique. Washington, DC: Maisonneuve Press. 1989.
Kellner, Douglas, and Sean Homer, eds. Fredric Jameson: a Critical Reader. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2004.
Kunkel, Benjamin. "Into the Big Tent". London Review of Books 32.8 (April 22, 2010). 12-16.
LaCapra, Dominick. "Marxism in the Textual Maelstrom: Fredric Jameson's The Political Unconscious." In Rethinking Intellectual History. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1983. 234-267.
Link, Alex. "The Mysteries of Postmodernism, or, Fredric Jameson's Gothic Plots." Theorising the Gothic. Eds. Jerrold E. Hogle and Andrew Smith. Special issue of Gothic Studies 11.1 (2009): 70-85.
Millay, Thomas J. "Always Historicize! On Fredric Jameson, the Tea Party, and Theological Pragmatics." The Other Journal 22 (2013).
Osborne, Peter. "A Marxism for the Postmodern? Jameson's Adorno". New German Critique 56 (1992): 171-192.
Roberts, Adam. Fredric Jameson. New York: Routledge, 2000.
Tally, Robert T. Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism. London: Pluto, 2014.
Tally, Robert T. "Jameson's Project of Cognitive Mapping." In Social Cartography: Mapping Ways of Seeing Social and Educational Change. Ed. Rolland G. Paulston. New York: Garland, 1996. 399-416.
Weber, Samuel. "Capitalising History: Notes on The Political Unconscious." In The Politics of Theory. Ed. Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, Margaret Iversen, and Diana Loxley. Colchester: University of Essex Press. 1983. 248-264.
West, Cornel. "Fredric Jameson's Marxist Hermeneutics." Boundary 2 11.1-2 (1982–83). 177-200.
White, Hayden. "Getting Out of History: Jameson's Redemption of Narrative." In The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1987. 142-168.
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Our work was viewed in more than 10 countries from China to the US. Yes, our designs were used as a advertisement template for all BSF's schools print advertisement. Cool, no?
This campaign was launched on 2012 and with some changes but it's still being used everywhere.. nice.
Paper Marketing (flyers, brochures, etc) is maybe a little bit deprecated for some cases, but it can still be incredibly useful for local actions. These days, paper marketing should be monitored and have a way to evaluate the degree of success of the action. It's a good idea to create a flyer for your campaign, but do it well, make it efficient, don't trash hundreds or thousands of paper leafs.


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Константин Панастович Кизиров (10.05.1918, Мелитополь— 29.06.1981, Москва) — снайпер 25-го пограничного полка Войск Народного Комиссариата Внутренних Дел 236-й стрелковой дивизии 46-й армии 3-го Украинского фронта; 20-й гвардейской стрелковой дивизии 57-й армии 3-го Украинского фронта; 3-й пехотной дивизии 1-й Болгарской армии 3-го Украинского фронта, ефрейтор.

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Родился 10 мая 1918 года в городе Мелитополь Запорожской области Украины . Украинец. Член ВКП/КПСС с 1943 года. Окончил 4 класса. Работал шлифовщиком на заводе.

В Красной Армии с 1938 года. Проходил службу в пограничных войсках. С началом Великой Отечественной войны на фронте.

Снайпер 25-го пограничного полка Войск Народного Комиссариата Внутренних Дел ефрейтор Константин Кизиров в июле 1944 года в боях на правом берегу реки Днестр в районе населенного пункта Пуркары Суворовского района Молдавии поразил 23 солдата и офицера противника. За мужество и отвагу, проявленные в боях, ефрейтор Кизиров Константин Панастович 6 июля 1944 года награждён орденом Славы 3-й степени.

11-25 января 1945 года Константин Кизиров в составе того же полка в районе северо-западнее города Капошвар сразил 15 пехотинцев. За мужество и отвагу, проявленные в боях, ефрейтор Кизиров Константин Панастович 8 февраля 1945 года награждён орденом Славы 2-й степени.

28 марта — 7 апреля 1945 года Константин Кизиров в составе того же полка в боях на левом берегу реки Драва за населенный пункт Дравасабольч подавил пулемет и уничтожил свыше 10 солдат противника.

Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 29 июня 1945 года за образцовое выполнение заданий командования в боях с немецко-вражескими захватчиками ефрейтор Кизиров Константин Панастович награждён орденом Славы 1-й степени, став полным кавалером ордена Славы.

Войну закончил в Австрии. В 1945 году К. П. Казиров демобилизован из рядов Вооруженных Сил СССР. Жил в городе-герое Москве. Работал в гостинице. Скончался 29 июня 1981 года.

Награждён орденами Отечественной войны 2-й степени, Славы 1-й, 2-й и 3-й степеней, медалями.

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ST. LOUIS SUPERMAN, Documentary on Bruce Franks Jr. Ferguson Activist-Turned-Politician, to Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
St. Louis Superman
St. Louis Superman is a new documentary short chronicling Bruce Franks Jr., a Ferguson activist and battle rapper who was elected to the overwhelmingly white and Republican Missouri House of Representatives, and must overcome both personal trauma and political obstacles to pass a bill critical for his community.
Directed by Directed by Smriti Mundhra and Sami Khan, St. Louis Superman, winner of Best Documentary Short at 2019 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, will have its New York premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival on Sunday, April 28.
Bruce Franks Jr. is a 34-year-old battle rapper, leading Ferguson activist and state representative from St. Louis, Missouri. Known as Superman to his constituents, he's a political figure the likes of which you've never seen — full of contradictions and deep insights, who has overcome unspeakable loss to become one of the most dynamic and unapologetic young leaders in the country. This verite documentary follows Bruce at a critical juncture in his life. He's forced to deal with the mental trauma he's been carrying for nearly 30 years, ever since his 9-year-old brother was shot and killed in front of him. Only by confronting his pain can Bruce find peace and truly fulfill his destiny as a leader for his community.
Watch Powerful Trailer for GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH Documentary World Premiering at Tribeca Film Festival


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Stanford University, located on an 8,000 acre campus in Palo Alto, was founded in 1885 by California Senator Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane. Today, nearly 20,000 graduate and undergraduate students are taught by 2,000 faculty across seven schools: business, earth sciences, education, engineering, humanities and sciences, law and medicine. Its continuing education program offers approximately 450 courses annually and sponsors 40-50 free public performances, workshops and lectures. The pre-collegiate studies program serves more than 3,200 academically talented middle and high school students from around the world through online and summer classes.
Research is a core university priority with more than 5,500 externally sponsored projects that cross schools and disciplines. Eighteen independent laboratories, centers and institutes engage faculty and their students in projects that range from international and economic policy to projects solving problems facing the environment, energy and health care system.
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has made dozens of grants to Stanford across each of our program areas. Funding ranges from support for individual researchers, efforts to establish a new programs and departments, such as global ecology, and geotagging projects to study marine life and predators.
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Throughout the entirety of his life, Mr. Chris Fabian, has always made involvement in school his main hobby.
Mr. Fabian is a world history teacher at Southmoreland High School. Other than teaching, Fabian is also Southmoreland's club sponsor for the Youth Education Association (YEA) along with the assistant coach of girls' soccer at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg.
Fabian now consumes his time with activities at SHS and UPG, but throughout his life, he has put dedication into several different schools.
"In high school, I was the vice president of five different clubs" said Fabian, a Southmoreland graduate.
As a high school student, Mr. Fabian made his involvement in his school and Southmoreland School District his job. After graduating from high school, Mr. Fabian continued his passion for school at Saint Vincent College.
"I like the small school mentality of Saint Vincent College, and since I came from Southmoreland, that was definitely something I was looking for," Mr. Fabian said.
While receiving his bachelor's degree in history and minor in education, Mr. Fabian served as his class president, along with winning the title of Saint Vincent Homecoming King.
After graduating college, Mr. Fabian student taught for Derry Area School District before taking his position at Southmoreland. Mr. Fabian is currently the sponsor for the Youth Education Association.
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Cell and gene therapies are exciting new areas of medicine that are just starting to gain regulatory approval. They cover a wide range of individual treatments from CAR T cell cancer therapies to regenerative medicine for rare genetic diseases and degenerative disorders such as leukemia or Parkinson's.
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The article starts with "This time, they say, Einstein might really be wrong" and goes on to discuss recent calculations about blackholes that indicate that there might be a hole in our understanding of reality. Einstein might not be wrong, but something is a bit off or incomplete that becomes apparent when dealing with crazy intensity of a black hole.
So much for the perception that scientists are rigid thinkers, this is one of several quotes from scientists marveling in what they don't know and how confusing it all is. I've never met Leonard Susskind, though I hope to carve out the time to hang out with his Theoretical Minimum course materials. The impression I get from him and other scientists is confusion yes, but also delight. There is a hole in our understanding! Things don't add up and that gives us something to explore! Just when we thought we had it all figured out we found out there are more spaces for discovery.
I should add, most of physics is still ok. Newtonian physics aren't a complete picture, but it's very handy for dealing with most of the stuff that happens on earth. "Wrong" these days in physics seems to mean, amazingly close, but we keep discovering even weirder stuff so we have to keep looking, rather than "Oh no! Heavy objects do fall faster than light objects!" kind of wrongness.


Broadway Financial Corporation , parent company of Broadway Federal Bank, f.s.b. , today reported net income of $275 thousand, or $0.01 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2018 compared to a net loss of $399 thousand, or per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2017.
Broadway Financial Corporation , parent company of Broadway Federal Bank, f.s.b. , today reported net income of $751 thousand, or $0.03 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2018, compared to net income of $503 thousand, or $0.02 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2017.
Broadway Financial Corporation , parent company of Broadway Federal Bank, f.s.b. , today reported a net loss of $127 thousand, or $0.00 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2018, compared to net income of $533 thousand, or $0.02 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2017.
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Broadway Financial Corporation , parent company of Broadway Federal Bank, f.s.b. , today reported a net loss of thousand, or per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2018, compared to net income of $1.2 million, or $0.05 per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2017.


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Aus10™ Rocks: Here's Some Austin Music To Kick Start Your Week, July 4-10
By Lauren Gribble
From Wild Child, to Pushmonkey, all the way to Pong, we've got you covered for some new songs this week. Once again covering several genres, we hope this list gets your week started off the right way. Did you discover your new favorite band from our picks? Do you have a favorite song on this list? Tell us in the comments below.
Meeting after supporting a band called The Migrant on tour, musicians Kelsey Wilson and Alexander Beggins went on to form Wild Child, a group that had success with their 2011 album Pillow Talk, as it was received well on many music blogs, leading them to become a band to watch in Austin.
Luke Redfield
After busking his way through Europe, Austin musician Luke Redfield got a lucky break after British artist Nick Harper discovered him and asked Redfield to open for him. His most recent record is The Cartographer, followed by an EP titled Uncover the Magic, both released in 2015.
After forming in 1994 after a jam session at Antone's, Storyville would go on to become a prominent band in Austin. Their catchy jazz influenced tunes would earn the band 9 Austin Music Awards, with their latest album Dog Years released in 1998.
…And You Will Know Us by The Trail of the Dead
Known for their wild and energetic concerts, …And You Will Know Us by The Trail of the Dead, released their last album IX in 2014. Members Conrad Keely and Jason Reece are the sole members of the group and are popular for switching instruments during their live performances.
Known for their spacey and energetic rock tracks, Pong is one of Austin's most sought after groups, releasing a live album recorded at The Continental Club a few years back. Known for their energetic live performances, Pong is a band that you will want to listen to this week.
Toni Price
Always performing on her own terms, Austin's Toni Price has risen to achieve rock star status in Austin through her long residency at The Continental Club. She is often compared to Patsy Cline and Bonnie Raitt, who first introduced Price to the blues genre.
David Garza
After performing on the club circuit for many years, Austin guitarist David Garza managed to score a record deal in 1996. He then would release his major label debut This Euphoria in 1998. The next year, he came in second to Stevie Ray Vaughan as a nominee for Artist of the Decade at the Austin Music Awards.
Ghostland Observatory
Playing a mixture of rock, funk, and electro music, Ghostland Observatory released their debut album delete. delete. i. eat. meat in 2005. The band would become popular enough within two years to perform on Conan. While the group decided to go on a hiatus in 2013, they performed at several showcases during SXSW 2016 and are currently performing together again.
Future Clouds and Radar
Formed as a follow up to his now defunct band Cotton Mather, Robert Harrison released his first album under the name Future Clouds and Radar in 2007, with a second release a year later. Check out the song "Quicksilver" to get a taste of Harrison's dreamy sound.
Pushmonkey
Gaining recognition for their new single "Handslide," Pushmonkey released records up until 2005 with their album Year of the Monkey, after finding their place in the Austin music scene with their catchy and pure sound.
Featured photo: Wild Child taken by Davis Ayer
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2020-2022 Global Computer Chip Shortage | Where Are Those Chips?
For the last two years, industries and consumers throughout the world are facing shortages of one of today's most ubiquitous goods - integrated circuits. But how come one of the leading world industries, that has been driven by new technologies for decades, can become enmeshed in such a large-scale shortage? Let's dive into the potential reasons and try to find out.
Kenney says he was unaware until this week of justice minister's call to police chief
EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he didn't know until this week that his justice minister had called Edmonton's police chief 10 months earlier about a traffic ticket. "I do recall at some point last year hearing that minister (Kaycee) Madu had gotten a ticket (and) had paid for it," Kenney told a news conference Thursday. "I got fully briefed on all of this, including about the call and the details, on Monday afternoon following media inquiries. "Shortly thereafter, I called minister


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India, Norway Collaborate on Aquaculture Vaccine Research
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Seven Indian and five Norwegian research institutions earlier this week announced a joint research project for aquaculture vaccines. Seafood industries in both countries have been dealing with expensive viruses that can't be prevented with antibiotics. The scientists are researching vaccines that could create antibodies against various viruses and boost the immune system of fish and shrimp.
The research focuses on the most serious viruses in salmon, halibut, cod and shrimp, including infectious pancreatic necrosis and viral nervous necrosis from nodavirus. In shrimp, they're dealing with white-spot syndrome, which can wipe out stocks in an entire shrimp pond in a matter of days. The research team will also work on vaccines for pathological variants of Aeromonas, Edwardsiella and Vibrio bacteria.
Norwegian scientist Audun H. Nerland, who made the announcement on behalf of the Indian-Norwegian research team, noted that the project was the continuation of a Norwegian project at the Institute of Marine Research that studied halibut's immune system in reacting to nodavirus infection.
Nerland further explained that Indian researchers who had experience developing human vaccines would balance the expertise of the Norwegian team in creating superior vaccines for aquaculture.
The Norwegian and Indian teams have received approximately U.S.$9 million each for the research. The Indian team received a grant from government institutions and the Norwegian team is supported by the Research Council of Norway. The research will take four years, with University of Tromsø's Norwegian College of Fishery Science leading the effort.
NFI: Food workers should receive COVID-19 vaccine early on
University project to boost Africa's aquaculture sector
Millions granted to UK aquaculture R&D projects
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FDNY EMT Yadira Arroyo's legacy
FDNY EMT Yadira Arroyo's legacy lives on and inspires others two years after her death
Overtime is a way of life for members of FDNY EMS, but for Yadira Arroyo, it led to her death.
EMT Arroyo was working overtime — on her day off — when a career criminal stole her ambulance and mowed her down two years ago.
Like many of the city's EMTs and paramedics, union leaders say, the single mother relied on extra shifts to support her five children.
And Arroyo's death could have meant financial ruin for her family — since EMS workers at that time were not guaranteed automatic line-of-duty death benefits on par with other uniformed first responders like firefighters and cops.
In the wake of her tragic loss, the city's EMS unions successfully pushed the state Legislature to pass a law extending the same benefit to emergency medical technicians and paramedics, rather than leaving it up to mayoral discretion.
The families of EMS workers who make the ultimate sacrifice are now promised greater financial relief — but the same does not hold true for those who fall ill on the job.
EMS workers — who last year answered 1.5 million 911 emergency medical calls — are only given 12 paid sick days a year. Firefighters, cops, sanitation workers and other uniformed first responders are awarded unlimited sick time. Any serious illness in EMS can mean severe financial hardship for the worker and their family, their union heads say.
In the days after Arroyo's death, the Daily News launched a fund to help Arroyo's five sons. EMS members were so inspired by the gesture that they decided to keep the good will going with their own campaign, according to Vincent Variale, president of the Uniformed EMS Officers Union, Local 3621.
So two years ago, Arroyo's colleagues launched the EMS FDNY Help Fund to assist needy families of EMS workers
To date, they have raised tens of thousands in emergency assistance for the city's 4,000 FDNY EMTs and paramedics — and hope to raise more with their first awards dinner in Queens next month to honor Arroyo's legacy and boost their coffers.
"Because our base pay is so low, even with extreme overtime like Yadira did, a serious illness can be catastrophic for members," said Oren Barzilay, head of EMS Local 2507, which was Arroyo's union. "Sometimes they don't have enough money to cover the cost of medicine, food, rent, utilities and so on. This fund was created to help our colleagues in those tough times, and to make sure their families are taken care of too."
"Because our base pay is so low, even with extreme overtime like Yadira did, a serious illness can be catastrophic for members,"
Arroyo, a 14-year FDNY veteran, was killed on March 16, 2017 when Bronx resident Jose Gonzalez stole her ambulance and ran her down in Soundview. He was allegedly high when he jumped on the rear bumper and slipped behind the wheel after Arroyo, 44, stepped out to investigate.
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Section 1. Purpose. Hurricane Sandy made landfall on October 29, 2012, resulting in major flooding, extensive structural damage, and significant loss of life. A dangerous nor'easter followed 9 days later causing additional damage and undermining the recovery effort. As a result of these events, thousands of individuals were displaced and millions lost power, some for an extended period of time. Over 1,600 stores were closed, and fuel distribution was severely disrupted, further complicating the recovery effort. New York and New Jersey -- two of the Nation's most populous States -- were especially hard hit by these storms.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the Department of Homeland Security is leading the recovery efforts to assist the affected region. A disaster of Hurricane Sandy's magnitude merits a comprehensive and collaborative approach to the long-term rebuilding plans for this critical region and its infrastructure. Rebuilding efforts must address economic conditions and the region's aged infrastructure -- including its public housing, transportation systems, and utilities -- and identify the requirements and resources necessary to bring these systems to a more resilient condition given both current and future risks.
Sec. 2. Establishment of the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force. There is established the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, which shall be chaired by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Chair).
(xxiv) such other agencies and offices as the President may designate.
(iii) specifying the form and subject matter of regular reports to be submitted concurrently to the Domestic Policy Council, the National Security Staff, and the Chair.
(g) communicate with affected tribes in a manner consistent with Executive Order 13175 of November 6, 2000, regarding the consultation and coordination with Indian tribal governments.
Sec. 4. Task Force Advisory Group. The Chair shall, at his discretion, establish an Advisory Group to advise the Task Force and invite individuals to participate in it. Participants shall be elected State, local, and tribal officials and may include Governors, Mayors, County Executives, tribal elected officials, and other elected officials from the affected region as the Chair deems appropriate. Members of the Advisory Group, acting in their official capacity, may designate employees with authority to act on their behalf. The Advisory Group shall generally advise the Task Force as requested by the Chair, and shall provide input on each element of the Strategy described in section 5 of this order.
(iv) a plan for monitoring progress.
(b) The executive departments, agencies, and offices listed in section 2(a) of this order shall, as appropriate and to the extent permitted by law, align their relevant programs and authorities with the Strategy.
Sec. 6. Administration. (a) The Task Force shall have a staff, headed by an Executive Director, which shall provide support for the functions of the Task Force.
(b) The Executive Director shall be selected by the Chair and shall supervise, direct, and be accountable for the administration and support of the Task Force.
(c) At the request of the Chair, other executive departments and agencies shall serve in an advisory role to the Task Force on issues within their expertise.
(d) The Task Force may establish technical working groups of Task Force members, their representatives, and invited Advisory Group members and elected officials, or their designated employees, as necessary to provide advice in support of their function.
(e) The Task Force shall terminate 60 days after the completion of the Strategy described in section 5 of this order, after which FEMA and the lead agencies for the Recovery Support Functions, as described in the NDRF, shall continue the Federal rebuilding coordinating roles described in section 3 of this order to the extent consistent with the NDRF.
Sec. 7. General Provisions. (a) For purposes of this order, "affected tribe" means any Indian tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or community that the Secretary of the Interior acknowledges to exist as an Indian tribe pursuant to the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 479a), located or with interests in the affected area.
(b) To the extent permitted by law, and subject to the availability of appropriations, the Department of Housing and Urban Development shall provide the Task Force with such administrative services, facilities, staff, equipment, mobile communications, and other support services as may be necessary for the Task Force to carry out its functions, using funds provided from the Disaster Relief Fund by agreement with FEMA and any other available and appropriate funding.
(c) Members of the Task Force, Advisory Group, and any technical working groups shall serve without any additional compensation for their work on the Task Force, Advisory Group, or technical working group.
(e) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law, and subject to the availability of appropriations.


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December 18, 2016 — "Joseph's Peace Matthew", 1:18-25
by FBC Laurens | Dec 22, 2016 | Sermons Archive
Joseph's Peace
As Christmas came in December of 1863, life for the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow felt anything but peaceful and hopeful. For one thing, he was still struggling with the unexpected death of his wife who had died roughly two years before. At the same time, his son Charles was serving in the Union Army during the Civil War and had been severely wounded just a few weeks before at a battle in Virginia. And finally, the war itself, now in its third year was weighing on Longfellow not only as he wondered about members of his own family, but also as he thought about the well being of the country as a whole.
In turn, on Christmas Day itself, Longfellow began to pour out his feelings in a poem. In his writing, he wrote about the bells of Christmas that sound out the joy of the season as well as the hope of Christ for peace on the earth and good will to men. Yet, as he thought about those same bells, in his honest and raw emotion, he had to admit that the sounds of those bells were being drowned out in his heart and soul. They were being overshadowed by the cannon's firing, the hated being voiced by the North and the South that filled the air, violence, death and life's many aspects of tragedy. As he thought about this, he wrote the very words that we sang just a few moments ago…"for hate is strong and mocks the song Of peace on earth, good will to men!". (I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, wikipedia.com)
As the first Christmas approached, the bells of joy, hope and peace had been drowned out in Joseph's life too. In his situation, that which had led to his own uncertainties and stresses was not war or death as Longfellow had faced but rather uncertainly about what was going on with Mary, this woman that he had committed himself to marrying. Now, during the period of their engagement, she had apparently not kept their promises to each other and worse still, she had tried to cover up her poor decisions with both an unwillingness to tell the truth and with a desire to concoct a truly unbelievable story about carrying God's child. Their wedding bells could no longer be heard in Joseph's mind as he continuously rolled over in his mind what has happened.
Yet, almost out of nowhere, Joseph was able to muster a profound sense of peace in this horrific situation. When I say he was able to recover a sense of peace, I am saying something somewhat similar to what we said about Elizabeth last week when we spoke of her ability to find joy. Here is what I mean. The biblical idea of joy, as we discussed last week, is the sense of an interior well being, contentment or settledness that exists regardless of exterior circumstances. It is different from happiness in that joy is again not dictated by what happens in day to day life but rather by what has happened in our soul.
Similarly, peace, as the Bible speaks of it, is not the absence of war or violence or life's struggles, but rather it is the presence of an interior calm that we are able to maintain even when life is chaotic.
Just as he reaches the breaking point with what he has heard regarding Mary, Joseph seems to reestablish this inner peace. It comes his way even though life around him remains chaotic.
Life is chaotic, but, Joseph appears calm.
There are two things about what Matthew tells us regarding Joseph that I think helped the young carpenter to have such a peace and I want to mention them this morning as helpful in our own quests to be at peace in our soul even when peace seems absent in our world.
First, Joseph had resolved to do the right things even if others did the wrong things. One of the most beautiful parts of Joseph's story is his decision to treat Mary justly and fairly even though he was certain that she had betrayed him. Yes, Joseph had decided to divorce Mary but he was going to do it in as gracious a way as possible by finding a way to preserve as much of her dignity as he could. He didn't want to hurt Mary. Again, even though he sensed that she had wronged him terribly, he did not feel it was right for him to respond with similar behavior of his own.
What does this have to do with our own peace you ask? Honestly, I think it has a great deal to do with peace for both us and for our world. If we pledge to ourselves that no matter what others do that we are going to respond with right behavior, we find a peace in knowing that nothing that happens to us is going to rob us of keeping our moral convictions or doing what we know we should. Likewise, if we can model to the world the idea that bad decisions or evil done by others is never license for us to act with an equal measure of hatefulness, a level of peace may indeed find its way into not only our lives but to other corners of our world too.
Last week, I had an opportunity to test the state of my spirituality – I went shopping on Woodruff Road in Greenville! While I was there, I approached the same intersection twice. The first time, I was appalled at how people behaved. They honked, made ugly faces and starred down their fellow drivers at that incredibly congested intersection. The second time I came to the same intersection, I was the frustrated one and joined in with an "if you can't beat them, join them" attitude. You see, we convince ourselves that we are justified in responding to the evil of others with evil on our own as if this is our God given right and responsibility.
Yet, Joseph's story challenges us to do the right thing – even when no one else expects it. When we do, it changes us and changes the world. It is a critical element of interior and exterior peacemaking.
Second, Joseph was a man of faith and trust no matter what. From what we know of Joseph in scripture he was a fairly simple man. I say this because we are taught that Joseph was a carpenter which comes from the Greek word Tekton used at a later point in Matthew to describe him. Tekton means not only a carpenter but more specifically it means a general, entry level carpenter as opposed to the term architekton or master carpenter from which comes our word architect. From a simple life came a simple faith. In essence, when God spoke to him in a dream and said that Mary's story was true and that Joseph should not hesitate to remain committed to her, Joseph accepts God's word and does as he is asked with no questions ask. It is a remarkably simple faith exhibited by an apparently simple man.
In essence, Joseph finds a peace about what is ahead with a life built around a common statement of today – "God has said it, I believe it and that settles it." I know that sounds trite and so matter of fact. I know such a statement appears to oversimplify complicated situations. But, think about it for a moment. How much of our inner turmoil is built around our inability to simply accept, affirm or live by what God has said to us? So often, God speaks and our response is not to accept it but rather to continue to question, to continue to push back with our concerns or simply to delay to accept what we have heard.
Let's be honest, Mary's story about what had happened to her was full of question marks. It didn't make any sense whatsoever. Yet God told Joseph Mary was not leading him astray and that he could trust her. God told Joseph to go forward with their planned marriage and to treat this child as a son. And, Joseph simply accepted God's word and did what God said. When Joseph made this decision, don't you know that the inner knot in his stomach began to fade away?
Back to Longfellow's Christmas poem that we began with today. In the midst of his despair – the death of his wife, the horrific injury to his son, the war that would not end – he began to hear the bells ring again and the sounds of Christmas, piercing the silence. For some reason it brought him peace, for some reason it made him hopeful again.
He really couldn't explain it but he trusted it. There were lots of questions but he gave himself over to a God he could not deny and whose love he could not shake. In turn, his mood in the poem quickly switches from the dark belief that the Christmas bells have been drowned out by the sorrows of the world to this moving statement of profound trust and hope that end the poem, – "then pealed bells more loud and deep: God is not dead nor doth he sleep; the Wrong shall fail, the Right prevail, with peace on earth, good-will to men."
God speaks, we hear…but will we trust it? Will we act on it? Will God's word settle it for us? And, will we believe with simple faith, the faith of Joseph, and find peace? Amen.


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Ìbe Nne
Photo: The hairstyle for a new Igbo mother, according to P. A. Talbot, 1926. Musée du quai Branly.
Due to exogamy, women are able to manoeuvre between lineages in Igbo society, for this it appears that women were barred from positions to 'secure' the patriline. In most cases women are not directly in charge of ancestral veneration of male community founders in rites associated like breaking kola in the case of addressing the patriline (umunna), and masquerading. Men competed for land and resources and in most cases became the establishers of communities; in the case of Ohafia where women played the key role in establishing communities, rights to land can be traced through mothers.
Inheritance and land ownership are related to this idea of 'preserving' the patriline from women who are perceived as being able to bring in competing patrilines. Men negotiate bride money as it is the negotiation of a citizen, a women, being uprooted from one patriline ('nation') to another. A child born out of the official adoption of a woman (marriage) stays with the patriline they are recognised in, that of her father's.
Wives are still recognised members of another patriline as can be seen by the various associations of daughters and the burial of deceased wives in their father's homes; wives can return to their patriline on divorce and daughters are potential adoptees of another patriline.
It's no surprise that women's institutions like that of the Omu, the Otu Odu, etc, are primarily women's trade unions, because trade is one of the areas in society Igbo women could dominate since it was mostly a free domain outside of the structure of lineages.
Many Igbo women were the main income earners for their households, but this money was put towards the upholding the patriline of husbands represented in gestures such as the buying of titles for men, this also served to shield the economic power many wives had. Women are left with handling the issues of women and other issues outside of anything that may challenge the overall structure of the patriline which in past represented the sovereignty of the nation.
Gọ̀ - be in-lawed, ọgọ̀ - in-law, ngọ̀ - bride money? Ngọ̀, the in-law maker, is a symbol of the mixture of two families and the recognition of the adoption of a daughter into her husband's patriline, as she keeps hers (what may be termed her children's ibe nne, matriline).
The matriline in reality is also very important, the matriline is the refuge for people who came to be adopted in it. Many rites, including burials, require the participation and recognition of the matriline in Igbo society.
Names like Nneka and Nnebuisi hold the Igbo view towards mothers. There is a reason why nwanne and umunne on a personal level are the main Igbo terms for siblings and kin.
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Category: Hair, Igbo, Portraits, Women
Ahaba or Onicha woman
A photo of a woman taken around the Niger River, likely Ahaba (or Asaba) or Onicha (Onitsha) [partially cropped]. Photographed by Henry Crosse with the Royal Niger Company, c.1886–1895. MAA Cambridge.
[Probably onye Ọ̀nị̀chà.]
Category: 1880s, 1890s, Ahaba, Igbo, Onicha, Portraits, Women
Owere Creation Story
Photo: Mbari votive shrine in Percy Amaury Talbot (1926). "The peoples of Southern Nigeria." Vol. II, fig.13. via the Musée du quai Branly.
Creation of the days from the Owere (Owerri) area:
Chineke created four people [...] and put those four people inside the house in four rooms. Eke, Orie, Afo, Nkwo. These are men, and he also put women in a separate room. Then Eke suggested it would be a good idea for Ala to exist. The land just came out, and existed before we met it. The land and the sky are the same. [...] No one gave birth to them. Then Chineke called in all the gods and fixed a time for creating the days. Chineke asked, "Which of you knows the days?" Agwushi [god of divination] said he knew. "This is Eke, the next is Orie, then Afo, then Nkwo. These are the four days of the world." Chineke took Agwushi and gave him to all [...] to feed them....Then Chineke told Agwushi to go to man and leave part of himself [...] [Eke, Orie, Afo, Nkwo], and also to [...] every god—Amadioha, Ala, and all the others.
– Ugo of Ihette via Herbert Cole (1982). Mbari.
According to this record of a creation story from the Owere (Owerri) area, the days are four men put into four rooms, but there's also mention of women, although their number and relation to the men isn't substantiated, it's plausible that they are also four. Could the Izù ukwu, the eight day week, be a pair of four male and four female primordial entities making eight in total?
Also, it's interesting how the name for week or group of the days is ízù, when the entities are said to congregate in various Igbo creation stories, like ìzù, a meeting or council. Even the nsibidi signs for the four (or eight) directions is similar to the nsibidi sign for meeting or congregation, which is also similar or the same as the four and eight rods.
Category: Architecture, Mbari, Owere
'Fishery in the Lower Niger'
Image: 'Fishery in the Lower Niger' c. 1890 engraving from the travels of the officer of the French Foreign Legion, Antoine Mattei.
[...] I had before observed below Onitsha, along the shores, rustic sentry boxes, supported on six poles about 12 feet above the ground, and had taken them to be stations for guardians of the river. They are stations, but for the fishermen. They perch themselves up in these watch-boxes, whence they can command the neighbourhood. A large oblong net, a sort of seine, with a basket in the middle, made of vegetable fibres, is suspended over the water. By the aid of a long rope of the same material, the fisherman lowers or raises his net. Near at hand, in a canoe moored to the shore, two negroes, silent and motionless, are on the look-out. As soon as the net is raised the canoe comes up and the catch is thrown into it ; the sentinel, who does not move from his eyrie, then again lets down the net into the river. This method appears to answer very well, for I have seen the natives thus catch a large quantity of fish ; they swarm there, and they are as fine as they are abundant. This does not prevent them from also using harpoons and fish-hooks, which they manufacture themselves. [...]
– Adolphe Burdo (1880). "The Niger and the Benueh." p. 174–175.
Category: 1880s, 1890s, 19th Century, Igbo, Illustration, Onicha, Work
Asaba Jewellery
Asaba, turn of the 20th century. Igbo jewellery [cropped].
Category: Ahaba, Jewellry, Women
Model of Igbo Cosmology
Some of the ideas are theoretical like the placement of the days. Some of the structure and ideas are partly via Obiakoizu A. Iloanusi (1984) and from the Kongo cosmogram.
The sun is an analogy, if that's the right word, for a person's life through the mortal (elu ụ̀wà) to the spirit (Àlà mmụọ), a person may be reincarnated with a unique Chi and the Ekè (characteristics) of their ancestor, and may pass through morning, afternoon, and evening.
When the person has a complete mortal cycle (reaching ụ̀wà mgbèdè, the evening of one's life), they enter the spirit realm awaiting burial, a second burial guiding them to ancestorhood, and then ancestorhood awaiting reincarnation.
The Chi and Ekè duality is repeated, or represented, in or by several other principals of the universe, the numbers 2, 4, 8, as alluded to in another post, are important numbers.
(The circle, the path, may be likened to, or represent the Igbo allusion to ụzọ̀.)
Category: Cosmology, Diagrams, Igbo, Spirituality
Aro Woman [Postcard]
A woman from Arochukwu, early 20th century, a postcard via the US Library of Congress.
Category: Arochukwu, Hair, Igbo, Portraits, Women
Palm-winetry
Consider this made up example of a scenario:
The Igbo people were invaded by the British and the British met a people who tapped and drank wine from palm trees. The British found this strange and abominable and so they condemned what they came to call 'palm-winists' who practice 'palm-winetry.' The Igbo people where confused by the idea of palm wine being bad or them being defined as 'palm-winists' and wondered what was wrong with palm wine, but the British officers and leaders of the church and mission schools kept reiterating the idea of 'palm-winetry' and that they were better because they didn't drink palm wine but rather they drank tea. Over time this was built into the psyche of Igbo children and they decided to abandoned the abominable practice of 'palm-winetry' and insisted on only the finest British tea.
An Igbo man climbing a palm tree for palm nuts photographed by G. T. Basden, early 20th century.
Over the generations, however, a new generation rose up to counter what they considered misinformation by the British and they started what they felt to be a renaissance and a revitalisation of the culture that the previous generations had abandoned because of colonialism. One of the first things they wanted to attack was the idea of 'palm-winetry' and that Igbo people were 'palm-winists.' They insisted that the Igbo people, contrary to earlier colonial reports, were not drinkers of palm wine but that rather the Igbo people only took a sip of palm wine to check whether a palm tree was ripe enough for its palm oil to be harvested. The palm oil was the real target, according to them, not palm wine; Igbo people did not drink palm wine! In fact, Igbo people were the original drinkers of coffee and it was the British who drank other kinds of wines. Further more, the Igbo people were the original growers of tea leaves.
The story is a long winded analogy to challenge manipulative colonial-era language which introduced ideas such as 'idolatry,' 'paganism,' 'heathenism,' and the like, the suggestion is that instead of attacking a particular classification of indigenous practices, perhaps it would be wiser to take a wider look at what these classifications are and why they exist in the first place. If 'palm-winists' and 'palm-winetry' are replaced with 'idolators' and 'idolatry', what would justify the absurdity of the condemnation of palm wine as abominable that also wouldn't justify the same for 'idolatry', that is, outside of the worldview and frameworks designed by the inventors of such classification? In other words, what was the word for 'idolatry' in Igbo before colonial education?
Igbo worship is 'pagan,' 'pagan,' according to Western tradition, usually refers to religious practices outside of Abrahamic beliefs. The idea in this post isn't to challenge being labelled 'heathens' or 'pagans,' the idea is to ask what makes being 'pagan' bad for example and how can this manipulative language impact how people handle and evaluate their own worldview.
In other words, 'pagan', 'fetish', 'idolatry,' etc, are words and ideas from the European Judeo-Christian worldview and tradition, they are ideas that were solidified by them without the input of Igbo people for example, so these ideas cannot be used to judge or evaluate the Igbo worldview which is a totally different tradition and worldview.
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"The Unforgivable" – Chuck: On the Fence – Pam: Skip it
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A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
There's an almost-not-quite quality to Nora Fingscheidt's "The Unforgivable," an adaptation of an English television series that keeps you engaged just enough throughout but ultimately leaves the viewer somewhat dissatisfied. Social penance and moral redemption are the themes that drive this well-intentioned feature that ticks all the boxes where an Oscar-bait film are concerned, its strong veteran cast making it seem better than it actually is.
Sandra Bullock is Ruth Slater, a woman who's served a 20-year sentence for killing a police officer. The circumstances around this event are kept purposely vague but as various flashbacks are employed over the course of the movie, we come to see that perhaps the public's perception of this high-profile event and what actually happened are quite different.
No matter, Slater knows once branded as a cop-killer, it's hard to shake and try as she might to keep this under wraps, it eventually comes out, much to her detriment, as violent confrontations at her new workplace and other instances of social ostracization occur. Of course, she has no choice but to persevere, finding a dissatisfying menial job, a worthwhile community project and a potential new relationship with Blake (Jon Bernthal) to fill her days.
Still, the past haunts her and when she visits her former home where the killing took place and meets lawyer John Ingram (Vincent D'Onofrio), his wife (Viola Davis) and their own children, old memories are brought to the fore and many narrative complications ensue. Hoping desperately to be reunited with her younger sister Katie (Aisling Franciosi), who's been adopted by Michael and Rachel Malcolm (Richard Thomas and Linda Emond), she convinces Ingram to help her approach the family. It doesn't go well.
Oh, and did I mention Steve and Keith Whelen (Will Pullen and Tom Guiry), the sons of the police office Slater killed? They're none too happy she's out and about, enjoying life while their father lies cold in the ground. Their ire steadily increases to the point that they consider doing her harm.
Yeah, there are a lot of moving parts and it's easy to see how a story with this many separate plotlines would have been developed more fully over the length of a 10-episode series. Here, it all seems rushed and a trifle contrived. Actions and thoughts such as those the characters experience require time to develop and reach fruition but a sense of expediency and a two-hour running time prevent such nuances to exist. The overall credibility of the film suffers as a result.
And yet, the conviction with which the cast collectively brings to their roles keeps us on the hook. While it would be easy to write off Bullock's performance as a one-note turn, she brings a subtle complexity to the character that has us in Slater's corner. D'Onofrio and Davis are good in everything they do and that's no exception here, the only complaint being I wish they had a few more scenes together. The same goes with Thomas, Emond and their respective characters.
However, the tipping point occurs with a big reveal and desperate twist that occurs in the third act. Both are out of left field, each of such impact that a movie can only handle one turn of this magnitude before shattering our sense of disbelief. In the end, it's just a bit too clever for its own good, Fingscheidt opting for sensationalism rather than a dose of realism. I don't think viewers' collectively rolling their eyes was the result she was intending.
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TVS Motors' Performance for November 2011
The best way to recognize TVS Motors amidst a gang of bikers is to make useof its latest ad of TVS Apache RTR 160 with the new tagline 'Scarily Fast'. Apache is one of the best products from the TVS Racing Team owned by TVS Motors. Here let's get to know how the company performed last month in terms of its sales figures.
According to the press release from TVS Motors, this Hosur based company has registered a total sale of 175,535 units in the month of November 2011 as against 157,041 units in the corresponding month of the previous year, a growth of 12 per cent.
To specifically talk about the two wheeler sales, the company has reported that the total two wheeler sales grew by as much as 12 per cent with a sales figure of 172,829 units for the month of November 2011. To give a clear picture of Nov 2011 vs. Nov 2010, TVS Motors had sold 153,882 units recorded in November 2010.
The company has a strong base in Indonesia if its market outside India has to be mentioned. To specifically mention about the Domestic game which the company is playing, a growth of 8 per cent has been reported with sales figure of 150,406 units in November 2011 as against 139,541 units reported in November 2010.
As mentioned, the company does have an International presence catering to the needs a few nations outside the Indian soil. The company exported 22,423 units of two wheelers in November 2011 in comparison with 14,341 units in November 2010 (same month last year) which accounts for an amazing growth of 56 per cent.
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Q: First published NPM package returns an empty object I just tried my hand on publishing a simple react component but when it is imported it returns an empty object?
Package is — react-selekt (https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-selekt)
GitHub — https://github.com/mikethehud/react-selekt
import React from "react";
import Selekt from "react-selekt"

console.log(Selekt);
// returns {}

A: I suppose it's because you are building it with webpack. I would just transpile it with babel-cli to common js and that should be it
Also I would recommend to move react dependency to peerDependencies

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