Explorer Scouting - what is it?
This is a position of responsibility that's challenging but fun, which makes a real difference. Although the Scheme is usually taken on by Explorer Scouts looking for a new challenge, young people from outside Scouting can also participate if they are working towards their Duke of Edinburgh's Awards or Queen's Guide Award. They can do this by volunteering as non-members for a set period of time i.e. for three to six months if completing their Duke of Edinburgh's Award (Bronze). As a Young Leaders you are a valuable asset to your local, or old Group. Not only can you offer great assistance as part of the leadership team but you are likely to be the leaders of tomorrow, shaping the Movement and lives of other young people. As a Young Leaders you form an important part of the leadership team of any younger section, bringing fresh ideas, techniques and plenty of enthusiasm. Becoming a Young Leader in Wedmore Scout Group, or elsewhere, provides amazing opportunities to enhance leadership skills, makes you more employable and to gain valuable experience that will help you if you decide to continue volunteering as an adult. As a Young Leader you wear the Explorer Scout uniform, but with the Group's neckerchief. As a Young Leader and take part in a special training scheme; however, you are still free to join in with other Explorer Scout events with local Units, if you wish to do so; and to tackle the same Challenge Awards and Activity / Staged Badges.
Your Investiture is similar to those of Beavers, Cubs and Scouts, as you will be expected to make your Promise in front of the your Unit. You will then receive a District or Unit scarf to show that you are now an Explorer Scout.
You need to buy your uniform a few weeks after you join the Unit, after you are settled in. The main parts of the Explorer Scout uniform are: • District or Unit Scarf – You will be given your scarf when you are invested. • Woggle – This is usually a leather ring with the scout logo on it that holds the scarf in place. • Shirt / Blouse – A long sleeved, beige shirt or blouse, with an embroidered scout logo, onto which your badges are sewn. • Trousers / Skirt – These are navy blue with a scout logo on them. • Belt – This is leather with a metal buckle bearing the scout logo; alternatively an Explorer Belt and buckle, or Young Leader Buckle, if either of these has been awarded.
There is a range of ambitious badges and awards, through which Explorers and Young Leaders can demonstrate your proficiencies and expand your interests. You can download an App for your mobile phone or note pad that gives you details of all the awards and badges you can gain, as wells the promise and law - go to download now The Explorer programme includes 15 challenge areas, split into the three main programme themes, mirroring the challenge awards in the younger sections. These challenge areas give you choices and variety, to support you in planning your Unit programme. The three main programme themes are: • Outdoor and Adventure - covering Campcraft, Survival Skills, Peer-led Nights Away, Adventurous Activities, and Navigation • Skills - which encompass Creative, Communication, Cooking, Health & Fitness, as well as Team-building and Leadership topics • World - covering the areas of International Scouting, Environment, Culture, Visits & Visitors, and Citizenship There are three Challenge Awards for you to tackle, each of which include elements from the main programme themes; these are: • Chief Scout's Platinum Award • Chief Scout's Diamond Award • Queen's Scout Award as well as these special challenges: • The Explorer Belt • The Duke of Edinburgh's Award In addition, there are also a range of Activity Badges to test your skills and to help you to with new interests; which can also help to complete some of your Chief Scout's Awards. and Queens Scout Award. As well as special staged badge that cover a range of topics and skills that you can tackle through your time in Scouting.
The Queen's Scout Award (QSA) is Scouting's top youth award and is the culmination of everything that a young person does in Scouting. It requires commitment from young people to develop and challenge themselves in many new ways, and is an achievement that participants will remember for the rest of their lives. The QSA is aligned to Gold DofE programme and is recognised by many educational establishments and potential employers. It is available to Explorer Scouts aged 16+.
The Explorer Belt is a challenge of a lifetime. It is a chance to take part in a ten day expedition that brings you a real understanding of a different country, its culture and way of life. You will develop this understanding by travelling through your chosen country, working as part of a small team to complete a series of projects and most importantly by meeting local people. It is an experience and an achievement that you will remember for the rest of your life. If aged 16–18 years old, you may only participate in an organised expedition supported by an in-country leadership team, rather than being self-led.
The Duke of Edinburgh's Award (DofE) is a programme of activities for young people aged 14 to 25. There are three levels; Bronze, Silver and Gold which are available to 14+, 15+ and 16+ respectively. These awards link with the Chief Scout's Platinum, Chief Scout's Diamond and Queen's Scout Awards where they fulfil some of the requirements for these Scouting awards. The DofE is delivered through a number of licensed providers, so if you are participating in the scheme at school, or with some other provider, there are direct links in completing your DofE that satisfy some of your Explorer Scouting training.
The Explorer Scouts Young Leader (ESYLs') Scheme is the training programme for Young Leaders. It contains 11 modules and four missions for you to work through whilst volunteering in their chosen section. Modules give you the skills and knowledge to be successful in your role, while missions allow you to put everything into practice with support. As well as developing valuable life skills, the Scheme is an opportunity for you to make a positive impact in their communities and to fulfil the service elements of many of the top awards in Scouting. Your achievements are recognised along the way, with the Explorer Scouts Young Leader badge and woggle being presented after completing Training Module A; and mission strips being awarded on the completion of each individual mission. On completion of the Scheme, the you will be awarded an Explorer Scouts Young Leader belt buckle.
These cover a wide range of skills, experiences and interests, all of which represent the pinnacle of achievement in a particular field. Whether your interests lie in Hill Walking or Performing Arts, Aviation or Public Relations. They reward you both for developing existing strengths and undertaking new ventures; and are designed to be achieved by you at home, at school, or through a hobby that you have. Click here to go to the main Scout website where you will find a list of all of the Explorer Activity Badges and details of what do to achieve them.
These badges have a number of stages, which get more difficult as they go on - they are to help you to develop your special interests - and can also help to complete your Challenge and Chief Scout's Awards. These cover a range of topics and skills and don't have to be done in any order; it is possible for you to begin at whatever stage you find to be the hardest. However, the stages do get more difficult each time Click here to go to the main Scout website where you will find a list of all of the Staged Activity Badges and details of what do to achieve them.
The Moving-on Award helps to find out what your ongoing options are for staying in Scouting in your area – including finding out about the Scout Network and volunteering opportunities. Scout Network gives opportunities to 18-25 year olds who have an interest in Scouting, their own personal development and having fun. It's members take part in a variety of activities, which they undertake and organise themselves under the leadership of a District Scout Network Commissioner and sometimes with the support of a Programme Coordinator. If you are interested in the Scout Network you need to attend both Explorers and Network for a short period of time (at least three weeks) and take an active part in the Network programme.
The Explorer Belt is a challenge of a lifetime. It is a chance to take part in a ten day expedition that brings you a real understanding of a different country, its culture and way of life. You will develop this understanding by travelling through your chosen country, working as part of a small team to complete a series of projects and most importantly by meeting local people. It is an experience and an achievement that you will remember for the rest of your life. If aged 16–18 years old, you may only participate in an organised expedition supported by an in- country leadership team, rather than being self-led.


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King's Social House
Badrutt`s Palace Hotel
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The oldest nightclub in Switzerland presents itself today as a modern interpretation of the urban bistro, offering dishes that are perfect for celebrating and sharing in a place that is a restaurant, bar and club all rolled into one.
According to Jason Atherton, energy and enthusiasm are the two ingredients that make life worth living, and he strives to express them in culinary terms. When it comes to eating, it's not just about what's on the plate – it's about service, atmosphere and shared joy. "King's Social House" is a trendsetter for creative cuisine, sophisticated drinks and international clubbing in St. Moritz.
Restaurant, bar and club
Modern interpretation of the classic bistro experience
Eat, drink, dance and socialise
Lively and cosmopolitan

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Abigail Gewirtz, Ph.D., (left) and Na Zhang, Ph.D. (right) were honored with awards at the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) 2018 Annual Meeting.
Dr. Gewirtz, professor of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota, received the Translational Science Award, presented to an individual or a team of individuals in recognition for contributions to the field of prevention science. Dr. Gewirtz is the John and Nancy Lindahl Leadership Professor in the Department of Family Social Science and the Institute of Child Development, and director of the Institute for Translational Research in Children's Mental Health at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Zhang was one of three awardees of the Early Career Preventionist Network student poster contest. She is a 2018 Ph.D. graduate from University of Minnesota, a former student of Dr. Gewirtz's and received NCFR's Student Honors Recognition. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at Arizona State University.
Congratulations to these NCFR members!


Classic Schwarzbier has its origins in Thuringia and Brunswick, and is an exceptionally dark, bottom-fermented beer with a striking taste of bitter chocolate. It has, however, become extremely marginalized and its very existence is under threat. The brewing process is highly complex, and for the sake of simplicity, a greater amount of pale malt is often used – at the expense of aroma.
Darkon is inspired by traditional recipes. Nothing but dark malts, are used to create the characteristically mild roasted aromas of bitter chocolate and toffee.
Brownish black with a moderate head. Its scent is malty and chocolaty with a slightly smoked character. It is only slightly foamy and displays a surprisingly herbal taste – underscored by a wheaty element. This honest beverage features long-lasting bitter notes in the finish.


Oops! According to the map on plantmaps.com, my house is sitting in a small mountaintop island of zone 6b instead of 7a or 7b zones that are at the lower elevations only a few miles away. I was surprised to actually see my street in this gated community on the color-coded zone map on plant maps.com.


Bike Alki meets at 6:30 PM at Constellation Point every Thursday year-round.
Today was incredibly rainy and windy, with gusts up to 50 mph. There weren't many people on bikes downtown at 5 PM and fewer opportunities to stop and chat them up. Being that it's dark at 4:30 doesn't help. Riding home against the wind, disappointed without a 'catch of the day'. Around Alki Point I passed a group of half a dozen people on bikes. I made a U-turn and caught up with them outside the Alki Urban Market.
How windy was it tonight? Here's a short video I shot on the Second Ave. bike lane in downtown Seattle.


I got home today from work, turned on the tv to watch the news and saw that metro's red line had a deadly crash around 5:00pm this afternoon. I was on the blue line during that time.
According to the local news reports, which have been on all evening, both red line trains were headed in the direction of Washington, D.C. The first train had stopped between Takoma Park and Fort Totten stations.
The second train rear ended the first train so fiercely that the second train vaulted on top of the train that was rear ended. Check out the picture below to see what I'm talking about.
According to one of the passengers the second train stopped due to the train in front of it that had stopped. But apparently the driver of the second train started back up. The second train must have been going pretty fast to crash so hard into the first train.
So far six people were killed including the female driver of the second train and seventy people were injured.
What you're seeing below is the front of the second train on top of the first train.
One Red Line Metrorail train rammed another from behind this evening between the Fort Totten and Takoma stations, killing at least six people and injuring 70 in what authorities called the transit system's deadliest crash ever. The smashup was so forceful that the trailing train vaulted on top of the other.
Metro officials said the two six-car trains were headed in the same direction, toward Shady Grove, when one rear-ended the other shortly after 5 p.m. The female operator of the trailing train died.
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) said this evening that six people were killed but rescue personnel were still combing the wreckage. "This is the deadliest accident in the history of our Metro train transit system," Fenty said.
Fire Chief Dennis L. Rubin estimated 70 people were injured, six critically, 14 moderately and 50 with minor injuries. Authorities said rescuers were searching the trains at the scene in Northeast Washington to ensure they were evacuated.
"We're using heavy rescue equipment to cut open the cars to get whoever's trapped in there out," said D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services spokesman Alan Etter.
Passengers who climbed out of the wreckage described a violent, shuddering crash.
"All I heard was a boom," said Dylan Hooks, 17, who said he was on one of the trains. "Everybody started screaming. Somebody hit their head on the glass." The electricity went off, he said, and passengers had to open the doors themselves to exit.
"You could hear all this crashing and glass breaking. I didn't hear any brakes at all." He said he saw the train lift into the air. Seats in his car were ripped out and tossed around. Some passengers were trapped; some screamed.
You can read the rest here at the Washington Post. I'm sure more info will come out about this crash.


Reported total crime in the Dunedin Clutha Waitaki Policing Area has decreased by 5% in the year to 30 June 2014 according to figures released today through Statistics New Zealand.
Dunedin Clutha Waitaki Area Commander Inspector Jason Guthrie said that this meant there were 541 fewer crimes by comparison with the previous financial year.
"These results reflect the hard work that Police staff and partners do to keep our communities safe and reinforces the fact that the Prevention First operating strategy is the correct approach to take," Inspector Guthrie said.
Inspector Guthrie said that reductions in theft (-10.0% or 305 fewer offences) property damage (-19.2% or 443 fewer offences), robbery (-23.8% or 10 fewer offences), and public order offending (-14.2% or 181 fewer offences) are particularly pleasing.
These significant reductions are balanced by increases in harassment (+43.9% or 190 offences) and burglary (+44.3% or 408 offences).
"Dunedin continues to experience one of the lowest rates of burglary offending in the country and remains amongst the safest places in New Zealand to live and visit – we are committed to enhancing this reputation by working hard and addressing the drivers of crime," Inspector Guthrie said.


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Writing Pregnancy in Low-Fertility Japan
November 13, 2017 November 13, 2017 KathrynLeave a comment
Title: Writing Pregnancy in Low-Fertility Japan
Author: Amanda C. Seaman
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
This guest review is by Tyran Grillo (@tyrangrillo on Twitter).
Amanda C. Seaman's Writing Pregnancy in Low-Fertility Japan is a masterfully written and timely monograph. It explores the role of pregnancy, if not the pregnancy of roles, concerning women as subjects within, and creators of, Japanese literature in a time of social restlessness around questions of procreation.
In her first chapter, "Write Your Mother," Seaman seeks to define the practical and symbolic overtures of pregnancy as literary trope. Summarizing not only the large amount of literature on pregnancy and childbirth, but also the media blitz on Japan's falling birthrate and rising aging population, she rightly asks: Does there continue to be a national obsession with all things baby? None have given this question proper attention, and Seaman's work provides a compelling response. In addition to a widespread media blackout on this question, even less attention is paid to "cultural, artistic, and intellectual responses to and representations of pregnancy and childbearing in the 'low fertility' age" (1). This, Seaman claims, lenses a unique perspective on pregnancy as a metaphorical site for the actual bodies undergoing misunderstood changes.
Seaman is concerned with how women writers are using storytelling as response mechanism, and to make this point focuses on works of Takahashi Takako, Itō Hiromi, Ogawa Yōko, Tadano Miako, and Hasegawa Junko, among others. While politicians and other policy makers have taken it upon themselves to make pregnancy a matter of intense public interest, these writers make it matter of intense private interest, albeit in the decidedly public format of mass-market publishing.
Seaman's book opens with an erudite summary of the scare regarding declining birth rates from the end of the Pacific War to the present century. Despite surface-level concern and efforts, Japan's government has done little to promote childbearing in any way amenable to actual women. As the media continues to propagate a sugarcoated version of marriage and childbirth, the realities explored by Seaman's writers of interest reflect an unabashed landscape of "danger, repression, destruction, or pain" (4). Their focus on bodies as continents shifting to the seismic activity of public opinion ensures that the self becomes not simply a beacon but a lightning rod to political provocation.
Explicit discussion on the printed page of women's fertile bodies in such intimate terms is a relatively modern concession, and before its advent women's bodies were relegated to a relatively impressionistic realm of unclean impulses and male-defined mystery. Yosano Akiko, notes Seaman, was instrumental in bringing an embodied approach to pregnancy and childbearing in the early 20th century, as well as for addressing the suffering involved in both. Her call was not taken up by many, although it did spark the "maternal turn" promulgated by such writers as Okamoto Kanoko. After the Pacific War, women's maternal roles were more intimately associated with carbon-copied nuclear family archetypes. Only in the 1960s and 1970s did a "new wave" of women writers emerge. Among them, Tsushima Yūko reclaimed motherhood, in all its ups and downs, as something distinctly women's own. Pregnancy manga soon followed in the early 1990s, and Seaman includes analyses of quintessential examples.
The title of Chapter Two – "Hey, You, Get Out of My Womb!" – references pregnancy as both a literal and metaphorical cipher of invasion. In this chapter, Takahashi Takako, Takekawa Sei, and Ogawa Yōko are shown to focus on the alien aspects of pregnancy. Seaman opens with an poem by Yosano Akiko that pays homage to folkloric themes newly applied to pregnancy. This sets a precedent for writers to come by exploring the ambivalences of the womb and using horror as a device of interruption. By capitalizing on the latter tropes, these writers challenge the characterization of pregnancy as uneventful. In Takekawa Sei's "Tsuki no nai yoru ni" (On a moonless night), we encounter fantasy as manifestation of fear of sexuality in tandem with childhood trauma. And yet, Seaman concludes, "nothing can supersede the maternal instinct, not even the personal wishes or well-being of the maternal subject herself" (26). Takahashi Takako's "Kodomo-sama" (Holy terror), on the other hand, takes fears of pregnancy into monstrous dimensions, while Ogawa Yōko's "Ninshin Karenda" (Pregnancy diary) is alienation incarnate. Seaman characterizes the latter story as a modern fairy tale in its evocation of a collective unknown as it spirals into a pseudo-scientific and occult-like framing of family bonds and communication. She further notes an overarching ambiguity at play in all of these stories.
Chapter Three, "And Baby Makes One," examines pregnancy and its connection to notions of escape and reformation of personal identity. Both Hasegawa Junko's "Museiran" (The unfertilized egg) and Tsushima Yūko's Chōji (Child of fortune) deal with women treating pregnancy as an escape and motherhood as a "type of personal salvation" (52). Seaman reveals motherhood as a leitmotif throughout Tsushima's oeuvre in constant negotiations of opposites – both in the physical and emotional sense. The 36-year-old protagonist is on the cusp of losing her womanhood (at least from society's point of view), and the narrator recalls the indifference with which she treated her present daughter, finding peace only when her maternity slips away from conscious reiteration. Hasegawa's "Museiran" goes further in its depiction of a painful hermetism, but both authors make use of dreams and fantasies, using the power of pregnancy to go beyond the playing field of romance in the shadow of failure.
Pregnancy as a way to partnership is the subject of Chapter Four, "Manual Labor," which discusses millennial writers Kakuta Mitsuyo and Tadano Miako. Seaman sees both as challenging what she calls "canonical pregnancy," by which is meant the "ideals and practices promoted by pregnancy literature" (81). Such literature "trains" expecting mothers to become realizations of the ideal, as if such extraneous knowledge were only available in magazines, books, and guidelines and not in the hardwired mechanisms of the female anatomy, which are carefully monitored by doctors and, after a child is born, education systems. Everything the mother does during pregnancy is believed to have a direct outcome in the birth and subsequent development of the child, even as little is said in such literature about a mother's relationships with others in her life.
Kakuta Mitsuyo's Yoteibi wa Jimi Peiji (My due date is Jimmy Page's birthday) and Tadano Miako's Sannen migoromu (The three-year pregnancy) rework the canonical pregnancy as "an emphatically social enterprise" (85). In Kakuta's novel, a seemingly textbook pregnancy churns the protagonist's mind into a slow, diaristic unfolding of ennui over, and alienation from, her growing fetus. Paradoxically, the story underscores and unravels restrictive pregnancy norms as she settles into the reality with relative peace and acceptance. Tadano is less introspective and more humor-oriented, choosing instead to follow surreal sequence of events, thereby underscoring folkloric tendencies and problematizing the notion of self-made mothers.
Chapter Five, "Riding the Wave," moves on to tropes of pregnancy manga, texts that allow Seaman to discover novel ways of depicting the pain of childbirth in their deft mélange of humor and critique. From Itō Hiromi's illustrated 1984 manual Yoi oppai, warui oppai (Good breasts, bad breasts) to the manga collection of 12 short stories, Go-shussan! (Birth!), published by the editorial collective known as "Cream Puff" (Chou Crème), Seaman notes a metaphorical hyper-realism at work. Using symbolic imagery "in favor of an affective but rather static emphasis on motherhood" (129) in personal narratives that challenge medicalized notions of pregnancy in dealing with a matrix of pain for which they feel ill prepared, while their use of humor, as Seaman observes, "counteracts the impression that the pregnant body is grotesque or abnormal" (143).
These themes are deepened in the sixth and final chapter, "Em-bawdy-ing Pregnancy," which offers a deep reading of Uchida Shungiku's eclectic blend of critique and family values-focused conservatism. Her controversial book of autobiographical fiction, Fazaa Fakkaa (Father fucker), examines a life of abuse at the hands of an unnamed stepfather. Seaman looks beyond the obvious sexual perversions of the novel to its catalytic pregnancies. The manga series Watashitachi wa hanshoku shite iru (We are breeding) is an optimistic yet no-less-frank examination of pregnancy. Uchida's experiential mixture of realism and exaggeration makes manga a suitable vehicle for self-expression, by which she delineates personal experience outside the trigger-happy realm of politics.
In her Afterword, Seaman concludes on an open-ended note: "It remains to be seen whether literature can offer a similarly [i.e., to manga] compelling, challenging, and idiosyncratic account of what it means to become a mother in millennial Japan" (182). The keyword in Seaman's statement here is "account," which underscores the importance of personal experience. The implicit question of this study, however rhetorical, inspires us to think beyond the script of pregnancy in search of individual connections and to view said connections not as objects of fetishizing scholarship but as the voices of living human beings.
Tyran Grillo is a Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Scholar in East Asia and the Americas at Columbia University (link). Tyran received his doctorate in Japanese Literature in 2017 from Cornell University, where his research focused on (mis)representations of animals in Japanese popular culture, as well as intersections of Asian Studies and Posthumanism. He has been a professional translator for over a decade, translating twelve books of Japanese fiction into English to date, including Parasite Eve by Sena Hideaki (Vertical, 2005), Paradise by Suzuki Kōji (Vertical, 2006), and Mr. Turtle by Kitano Yūsaku (Kurodahan Press, 2016). Alongside his academic life, Grillo is an avid arts critic, having written over one million words of impressionistic reviews and essays on music, performance, and film on his website, Between Sound and Space.
The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature, Abridged Edition
April 27, 2012 April 27, 2012 Kathryn20 Comments
Title: The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature, Abridged Edition
Editors: J. Thomas Rimer and Van C. Gessel
Poetry Editors: Amy Vladeck Heinrich, Leith Morton, and Hiroaki Sato
The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese is the most comprehensive anthology of Japanese literature since the mid-nineteenth century; but, with two enormous (and expensive) volumes, it's a bit daunting for all but the most stalwart of readers. I was therefore excited to learn that an abridged softcover version of the text has been released. At almost a thousand pages, the anthology still isn't for the casually interested. As it provides a much wider selection of writers and genres than every other anthology of modern and contemporary Japanese literature on the market, however, The Columbia Anthology is an invaluable resource not only for students of Japanese literature but also for anyone interested in Japan in any capacity.
The anthology is divided into six sections spanning from the beginning of the Meiji period in 1868 to the end of the twentieth century. The two sections devoted to the Meiji era include work by naturalists and playwrights such as Mori Ōgai, Shimazaki Tōson, Kunikada Doppo, and Nagai Kafū, as well as essays by Natsume Sōseki, including "The Civilization of Modern-Day Japan." The anthology then proceeds into the interwar period, which includes the work of authors such as Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, Edogawa Rampo, Kawabata Yasunari, and Tanizaki Junichirō. The section titled "The War Years" is mercifully short but includes stories by Dazai Osamu, Ishikawa Tatsuzō, and Ōoka Shōhei.
The "Early Postwar Years: 1945-1970" section is the longest in the anthology and reads like a hit parade of famous postwar writers such as Abe Kōbō, Enchi Fumiko, and Mishima Yukio. Many well-known postwar joryū bungaku ("women's literature") writers, such as Hayashi Fumiko and Kōno Taeko, are represented as well. The last section collects contemporary literature from the seventies, eighties, and nineties by both internationally famous authors such as Murakami Haruki and Ogawa Yōko and writers who are prolific and well known in Japan, such as Hoshi Shinichi and Furui Yoshikichi.
What is wonderful about this anthology is that, unlike other anthologies of modern and contemporary Japanese literature, it includes lengthy selections of Japanese poetry, both in "traditional" forms (such tanka and haiku) and in more modern forms (such as free verse). Although I am not a connoisseur of poetry in translation and thus can't vouch for the quality of The Columbia Anthology's selections, I am thankful that so many works of modern and contemporary Japanese poetry have been brought together in a single volume. The majority of the original publications in which these translations appeared have long since gone out of print, so The Columbia Anthology is perhaps the best way to familiarize oneself with a rich yet underappreciated body of literature. The anthology also includes dramatic scripts by playwrights and screenwriters such as Inoue Hasashi and Kara Jūrō, texts which are also difficult to find elsewhere.
My enthusiasm for The Columbia Anthology is genuine, but some of the editors' comments in the Preface shed light on some of the more conservative politics of literary anthologization. For example, to justify the entry of their project into a field in which many anthologies already exist, Rimer and Gessel state:
One difference between this volume and some of the earlier collections is related to the evolving view of both Japanese and foreign scholars as to what constitutes "literature." Many of the earlier collections sought, consciously or unconsciously, to privilege the long and elegant aesthetic traditions of Japan as they were transformed and manifested anew in modern works. […] But many other kinds of writing, ranging from detective stories to personal accounts – always valued by Japanese readers but neglected by translators in the early postwar decades – can now be sampled here.
Expanding the scope of what is considered literature through diversity in anthologization is always good, of course, but two paragraphs earlier, the editors also made this strange comment:
Whatever the level of young people's interest in manga (comics) and video games may be, literature, as opposed to simple entertainment, often remains the best way to grapple with the problems, and ironies, of the present generation of Japan.
On reading this sentence, I somehow managed to raise an eyebrow and roll my eyes at the same time. The context of this statement was a defense of the strength of contemporary literature in the face of a weighty literary tradition, but I wonder why the editors needed to make the distinction between "literature" and "entertainment" at all. Some types of print culture (such as dramatic scripts) are literature, but others (such as the text portions of visual novels) are not? Edogawa Rampo's grotesque short stories are literature, but Otsuichi's horror fiction is not? Haiku are literature, but tweets are not? And – most importantly – manga is not literature? Seriously?
Despite the editors' stated desire to expand the scope of what is considered literature, their literary politics are, as I stated earlier, quite conservative. Popular fiction by writers like Murakami Haruki and Yoshimoto Banana is included in the anthology, but the work of such writers has been so resolutely canonized by scholarly articles and inclusion in course syllabi that its anthologization comes as no surprise. It's good to have "outsider" writers like Tawada Yōko and Shima Tsuyoshi included in the anthology, but all of the volume's stories more or less fit neatly into the category of "literary fiction." You will not find the cerebral science fiction of Kurahashi Yumiko, or the historical revisionings of Miyabe Miyuki, or the fantastical explorations of Asian-esque mythology of Uehashi Nahoko, or the socially conscious mystery stories of Kirino Natsuo in The Columbia Anthology. You also won't find any prewar popular fiction, such as the short stories of Yoshiya Nobuko.
This leads me to another criticism I have concerning the anthology, which is that it is remarkably dude-centric. Until the last two sections of the text ("Early Postwar Literature" and "Toward a Contemporary Literature"), there are no female writers represented (save for Yosano Akiko, who has a few poems about flowers and vaginas); not even one of Higuchi Ichiyō's short stories is included. In the anthology's defense, many of the women writing before and during the Pacific War, such as Enchi Fumiko and Hirabayashi Taiko, are included in the "Early Postwar" section. Unfortunately, this means that their more overtly political work has been passed over for stories that focus more on "traditional" women's issues like female sexuality and the family. Furthermore, even though I applaud the editors for including literary essays in their anthology, it frustrates me that not a single one these essays was written by a woman, despite the fact that many female authors – including those represented in this anthology – are extraordinarily well known for their essays. What the editors has done is the equivalent of collecting the most influential essays on literature in North America and leaving out something as important and groundbreaking as Margaret Atwood's On Being A Woman Writer.
In the end, though, I stand by my assessment of the abridged edition of The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature as an essential resource to students of Japan. The volume contains many excellent stories, poems, essays, and dramatic scripts that are difficult to find elsewhere, and the editors keep their introductions of writers and literary epochs brief and to the point. As long as this text is supplemented to bridge over its gaps and omissions, I can imagine it becoming the backbone of a respectable introductory course on modern and contemporary Japanese literature, as well as a source of out-of-print translations of the work of less widely taught authors.
Review copy provided by Columbia University Press.
December 10, 2008 February 29, 2016 KathrynLeave a comment
Title: Masks
Japanese Title: 女面 (Onnamen)
Author: Enchi Fumiko (円地 文子)
Translator: Juliet Winters Carpenter
Publication Year: 1983 (America); 1958 (Japan)
Juliet Winters Carpenter, the translator of Enchi Fumiko's novel Masks, is one of the most eloquent translators of Japanese literature alive today. Carpenter has translated everything from Tawara Machi's groundbreaking collection of tanka poetry, Salad Anniversary (Sarada kinenbi, 1987) to Asa Nonami's hard-boiled police thriller The Hunter (Kohoeru kiba, 1996). My advice to all lovers of Japanese literature would be: if Juliet Winters Carpenter has translated it, you need to read it!
Enchi Fumiko is one of the most highly regarded writers of literary fiction in Japan. Her father was a scholar of classical Japanese literature, and Enchi grew up devouring the books in his library, from the medieval Tales of Moonlight and Rain to the stories of Edgar Allen Poe. Her pen name, Fumiko, means "child of letters" or "child of literature." When she grew up, she undertook the translation of the monumental eleventh-century novel The Tale of Genji. She is famous for incorporating allusions to classical literature into her own fiction, which was highly praised by writers like Tanizaki Jun'ichirō and Mishima Yukio.
Enchi's work is known for its tightly woven plots, subtle writing, strong visual imagery, and masterful use of symbolism. An Enchi novel is like a structuralist literary critic's dream come true. There is an incredible amount of information packed within each paragraph, and her novels and stories have inspired a wealth of interpretations. Enchi is an intellectual of the highest magnitude yet also possesses the ability to imbue her fiction with great emotional weight.
Although Enchi is primarily known in Japan for her novel The Waiting Years (Onnazaka, 1939), for which she won the prestigious Noma Literary Prize, Masks has its own spooky charms. Although the work's title refers to the masks of Noh drama, particularly the "madwoman" masks that lend their names to the chapter titles, the novel draws many of its themes and allusions from the Tale of Genji. The parallels Enchi draws between The Tale of Genji and the cultural climate of postwar Japan are fascinating. Not only does the author create distinct connections between her characters and the characters of the Heian romance, but she also makes use of themes such as spirit possession and romantic substitution to subvert the gendered expectations of the patriarchal and misogynistic societies that hold sway in both The Tale of Genji and postwar Japan.
Although Masks is primarily narrated from the point of view of a male college professor named Ibuki, who is cast in the role of Genji, its true hero is an older woman named Mieko, a powerful Rokujō-like figure with a painful past and veiled intentions. As Mieko's daughter-in-law and protégée, Yasuko, explains to Ibuki,
Believe me, she is a woman of far greater complexity than you – or anyone – realize. The secrets inside her mind are like flowers in a garden at nighttime, filling the darkness with perfume. Oh, she has extraordinary charm. Next to that secret charm of hers, her talent as a poet is really only a sort of costume.
Masks centers around Mieko's attempt to use this "secret charm" of hers in order to set into motion a deep and complex scheme of revenge, creation, and rebirth. What Mieko is able to accomplish by the end of the novel is both terrible and beautiful. If nothing else, the events that occur during the final dramatic quickening of the work are thought-provoking and will force the reader to consider multiple ethical questions.
Masks is perhaps one of the best introductions to Japanese literature, and more specifically Japanese women's literature, ever published in translation. No matter where your literary interests lie, this is a novel you need to experience.
The Diving Pool
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Title: The Diving Pool
Japanese Title: ダイヴィング・プール
Author: Yoko Ogawa (小川洋子; Ogawa Yōko)
Translator: Stephen Snyder
This is the first collection of Ogawa's fiction to be translated into English, and veteran translator Stephen Snyder (Murakami Ryū's Coin Locker Babies, Kirino Natsuo's Out) does Ogawa's sparse and poetic style justice with his smooth and intelligent translation. This volume includes three short stories: "The Diving Pool," "Pregnancy Diary," and "Dormitory." Although each of these stories is firmly grounded in reality, I don't think it would be too far-fetched to call them ghost stories. These eerie stories, although aesthetically beautiful and highly reminiscent of their setting in modern, urban Japan, derive their main appeal from an insightful portrayal of the small cruelties that people inflict on each other. The fact that all of Ogawa's characters are eminently sympathetic, combined with the lovely details of their daily lives, gives the subtle yet bizarre twist at the end of each story all the more impact.
I really cannot recommend this book enough, not just to people interested in Japanese literature, but to anyone who loves to read. It gives me great pleasure to start off this blog with this wonderful book!


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MSNBC's Heilemann: Trump deploying feds to Portland as 'trial run' to 'steal this election'
by Joe Concha - 07/21/20 9:10 AM ET
MSNBC political analyst John Heilemann alleged on Tuesday that President Trump is using federal agents to quell violent protests in Portland as a "trial run" to "try to steal this election."
Heilemann, a staunch Trump critic, made the claim during a panel discussion on "Morning Joe" regarding the Trump administration's decision to send federal law enforcement agents to Portland in response to weeks of demonstration it said were endangering federal property.
Local officials have asked the administration to remove the federal police, saying they are making the situation worse. Trump on Monday praised their actions and said he may send federal law enforcement to other U.S. cities.
"I don't want to be overly alarmist about this, but this is the time to be alarmist knowing where Donald Trump stands politically, understanding where we are headed in this election. I think we are looking at potentially a trial run for … a genuine attempt to, through intimidation, and potentially through force, to try to steal this election," Heilemann said.
"I think we are now at the point where we see the things that the president is doing, we see his intention to not accept an outcome of this election where he loses to Joe Biden," he added.
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf told Fox News on Monday that he does not need an "invitation" from local officials before deploying federal law enforcement.
"I don't need invitations by the state, state mayors or state governors to do our job. We're going to do that, whether they like us there or not," Wolf said.
"We want to work with them, and we have a great working relationship with the vast majority of local law enforcement," he added. "However, there are some communities that, again, want to breed this environment that allows this lawlessness."
Trump on Monday hinted he may order federal agents to be deployed to New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia and other major cities as he vows to crack down further on unrest across the country.
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Police Interest In Joining Oath Keepers Spiked After Jan 6th
Hacked data reveals the breadth and depth of the penetration into the ranks of law-enforcement authorities by far-right extremists like the Oath Keepers.
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By David Neiwert — October 7, 2021
A hacker's release last week of data from the Oath Keepers organization—which played a key role in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection—revealed the breadth and depth of the penetration into the ranks of law-enforcement authorities by such far-right extremists. It also revealed the importance of weeding them out from the ranks of police officers—and the urgency of acting quickly.
Not only was there a surge in interest in joining the group after the Jan. 6 violence, but the interest was pronounced among law-enforcement officers. A survey of the data by USA Today found more than 200 people who signed up to join the group over the past decade who identified themselves as members of a police agency; of those, 21 are still serving today.
Despite the group's well-established role in the insurrection, Jason Wilson of The Guardian found that hundreds of people either joined the Oath Keepers anew or renewed their membership afterward. These included people who cited their military ranks when they joined; among their numbers were combat veterans, national guardsmen, retired servicepersons, and members of the clergy. Others who joined were connected to the firearms industry or engaged in security contracting.
"The Oath Keepers subscribe to anti-government conspiracy theories, so the fact that officers belong to an organization that believes in this type of stuff really calls into question their discretion and their ability to make sound judgments," domestic-terrorism analyst Daryl Johnson told USA Today.
The active law-enforcement officers identified on the membership list include:
Riverside County, California, Sheriff Chad Bianco, who told USA Today he enrolled in 2014 with a single year's membership.
a police officer in the small town of Ferndale, Washington, who has been embroiled in civil-rights disputes there.
an officer at the Louisville Metro Police Department, who was involved in a 2018 shooting.
several New York Police Department officers, including a former U.S. Army member.
a former U.S. Army captain who joined the Chicago Police Department and is still there.
an 80-year-old, part-time officer at the Ashley County Sheriff's Office in Arkansas.
a corrections officer in Riverside, California.
Sheriff Bianco has long been aligned with far-right "constitutionalist" beliefs. He announced earlier this summer that he would refuse to enforce the state's COVID-19 mandates, proclaiming himself as "the last line of defense from tyrannical government overreach."
Another officer on the list—Maj. Eben Bratcher, operations chief with the Yuma County Sheriff's Office in Arizona—left a note for the Oath Keepers when he signed up: "We have 85 sworn officers and Border (of) Mexico on the South and California on the West. I've already introduced your web site to dozens of my Deputies." He told USA Today that he didn't recall writing that. He said he received newsletters from the group for "some time" but dropped out "due to the sheer volume of email I received."
The Ferndale officer, identified by BuzzFeed as Scott Langton, reportedly inquired with the Oath Keepers on Feb. 4, saying: "I'm not looking to be on some Liberal hit list." Langton has been sued at least twice for allegedly committing civil rights and use of force abuses while in uniform; one suit was settled, the other remains active in federal court. He was placed on administrative leave after his attempts to join the Oath Keepers were revealed.
A common misconception shared by most police officers is that they have a First Amendment right to say just about anything on social media or in public, Val Van Brocklin, a former federal prosecutor who trains police departments on using social media, told USA Today. But people in charge of enforcing the law are also expected to be nonpartisan and unbiased in that work, and spouting far-right extremism places a cloud over entire departments.
"The vast majority of cops in the country don't understand this," Van Brocklin said. "A public employer does not have to pay you for your insubordination or dishonorable conduct that sullies the badge and the uniform."
"I don't think police officers should be involved with extremist groups," Heidi Beirich, Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, told USA Today. "You are a part of the government, you represent the full, whole community as a police officer, and there's obviously a problem when you're in a group that's questioning the government's right to do the things that the government has the right to do."
When Daily Dot analyzed the data, it also found significant numbers of Oath Keepers within the ranks of the U.S. military, as well as within the federal bureaucracy. Some 160 alleged members shared their official military or government emails with the militia. Some 28 email addresses used the .gov domain, including those from local city governments to sheriff's departments.
Oath Keepers within such federal agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Aviation Administration, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration show up within the data as well. One domain originated from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a nuclear weapons facility.
As we observed previously:
… [E]ffectively confronting far-right extremism must begin with police reform, and particularly the task of weeding extremists out of our police forces. The public cannot expect agencies tasked with enforcing the laws that prohibit extremist violence to do so seriously when those same extremists permeate their ranks.
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MPs call on Government to secure revival of £30bn beauty and wellbeing sector post-pandemic
Today, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Beauty, Aesthetics and Wellbeing (the APPG), Chaired by Carolyn Harris MP and Judith Cummins MP, publishes a Call to Action following its inquiry into the sector's recovery from COVID-19.
The MPs launched the inquiry following concerns from industry leaders that the sector was still struggling to bounce back after the pandemic. Once worth £30bn supporting 50,000 businesses and 560,000 jobs (85% women), the pandemic has decimated the industry.
The Group found many businesses are facing debilitating staff shortages post-Brexit and due to inadequate funding for apprentices. In addition, the deficit in consumer confidence has meant that 66% of beauty businesses remain either partially or fully reliant on Government support to function.
The pandemic has taken a huge toll on the physical and mental health and wellbeing of the UK public, and the sector pays a crucial role in supporting this, taking pressure of the NHS, and helping to treat long-COVID symptoms. Yet staff shortages and a complete lack of Government recognition hinder the sector from fulfilling these needs.
The Group today makes 3 key recommendations for Government to ensure that the sector is not left behind in the UK's post-COVID recovery:
Broaden apprenticeship incentives for employers, in particular for small and micro businesses
Include further accessible and broader holistic and complementary qualifications in the National Skills Fund
Recognise the crucial role of holistic and complementary therapies, and the crucial role these can play in taking pressure off the NHS
These recommendations are based on evidence given in public inquiry sessions and written submissions from a wide range of stakeholders including trade associations, industry operators and education providers.
Co-Chairs of the APPG, Carolyn Harris MP and Judith Cummins MP, said:
"While we were grateful the sector was able to reopen in April after our year-long campaign for greater recognition, beauty, aesthetics and wellbeing continues to be left behind in the Government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
We launched this inquiry due to concerns we were hearing from the industry about serious staff shortages, a continued deficit in consumer confidence, and a lack of support for wellbeing services that play an essential role in supporting our overstretched NHS.
The sector is still facing a myriad of issues from the COVID-19 pandemic that are continuing to be side-lined.
We strongly urge the Government to implement the recommendations in our Call to Action and to ensure that this vital sector, as the beating heart of several UK high streets, can once again become an economic powerhouse and continue to support all of our wellbeing."
The Call to Action is available to download here:
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Sam Sunderland can call himself a two-time Dakar Rally winner after today's final stage of the iconic race.
The Brit finished third in Friday's Stage 12 timed section, which was enough to clear him by almost four-minutes from his next competitor, Pablo Quintanilla.
The day marks a bit of history as well, as Sunderland's result gives GasGas its first Dakar Rally, though the machine is largely a rebadged KTM 450 Rally motorcycle. For those who are unaware, GasGas became part of KTM's business group in 2019.
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Marc Marquez Continues Recovery, Back to Riding Bikes
By David Emmett 01/14/2022 5 Comments
There has been a huge step forward in Marc Marquez' recovery from diplopia, the double vision he suffered as a result of a crash riding enduro.
After consulting with the doctor treating his eye condition, the Repsol Honda rider was given the go ahead to ride a motorcycle again.
By David Emmett
KTM Sold 332,881 Motorcycles in 2021 – Up 23% From Last Year
The house of brands under KTM's management had a very, very good year in 2021, with their parent company Pierer Mobility reporting a 23% increase in motorcycle sales over 2020's dismal figures.
The preliminary report doesn't break-out sales by each motorcycle brand (KTM, Husqvarna, & GasGas), but it does separate out the firm's bicycle and e-bike figures, which have been used in the past to buoy the marketing team's efforts.
As such, we can rest assured that today's announcement and positive progress is real, and not the spin we were getting in 2020, which saw the Austrian outfit taking a first-time dip in sales results in the past decade.
Ducati is the first OEM to brag about its 2021 sales results, and it is quite the brag from the Italian brand – with 59,447 units sold last year.
That sum is an all-time record for Ducati Motor Holding, and marks a 12% gain over the total sales from 2019, and a 24% gain over 2020's results.
Helping take Ducati to that level was double-digit growth in all of the motorcycle-maker's key markets, including the United States, where sales were up a staggering 33.5%.
That growth was surely fueled by the Ducati Multistrada V4 adventure bike, which accounted for nearly 1 in 5 Ducati's sold in 2021.
Episode 258 of the Paddock Pass Podcast is out, and this one sees us looking back on the career of The Doctor, Valentino Rossi.
On the mics, we have Steve English, David Emmett, Neil Morrison, and Adam Wheeler, and they are joined by esteemed MotoGP journalist Mat Oxley, who has just completed a book that chronicles the career of Rossi.
MotoGP 2022 Silly Season Primer: Who Is Likely to Move Where?
By David Emmett 01/10/2022 12 Comments
It is the second week of January, and there as yet no substantial rumors of MotoGP rider contracts being signed.
Compared to recent years, that is a bit of a late start to Silly Season, given that all but a handful of riders have their contracts up for renewal at the end of 2022.
Perhaps the best news from Alpinestars at CES is that the Italian brand is going to make its off-road airbag system available to consumers, later this year.
The news comes as part of Alpinestars' larger airbag product line announcement, but we figured this news was so important, it deserved its own story.
This is because the Tech-Air OFF-ROAD V2 protection jacket is the first commercially available airbag system designed for off-road motorcyclists, and that makes it a game-changer for those who want the best protection in the dirt.
Alpinestars Tech-Air Airbags Get Updated & Expanded for 2022
Debuting its next generation of airbag safety equipment at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Alpinestars Tech-Air airbag product line is getting a substantial updated for 2022.
All-in-all, the release sees the debut of three all-new system: Tech-Air 10 race track system, Tech-Air 3 over/under vest, and Tech-Air OFF-ROAD V2 protection jacket.
Ex-MotoGP rider Danilo Petrucci made headlines at the Dakar Rally today, winning Stage 5 of the 2022 Dakar Rally.
Petrucci took the honors after teammate Toby Price was levied a six-minute penalty for speeding in the neutralization zone, and thus was dropped in the day's rankings from first to fifth.
Fans of small-displacement ADV bikes will rejoice to hear that the KTM 390 Adventure is getting some updates for the 2022 model year.
Looking skin-deep, we can see that the 2022 KTM 390 Adventure get a bodywork revision for the new model year, which includes some new graphics and color choices.
However, it is the changes beyond the outer layer that are perhaps the most intriguing, as the Austrian brand has brought some key upgrades and refinements to its base ADV offering.
MotoGP Grand Prix Commission Adds 355mm Discs, Tightens Up Aero Rules, & Toughens Injury Assessments
Over the winter break, MotoGP's rule-making body, the Grand Prix Commission, met to adjust a few rules for the 2022 season and beyond.
Among a host of confirmations and minor adjustments, there were one or two small but significant changes, tightening up important parts of the rules for MotoGP.
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Вахби Хазри (; родился 8 февраля 1991 года в Аяччо, Франция) — тунисский футболист, полузащитник клуба «Монпелье» и сборной Туниса. Участник чемпионатов мира 2018 и 2022 годов.

Клубная карьера

Хазри родился во Франции. Он воспитанник футбольной академии «Аяччо». В 2003 году он перешёл в молодёжную команду «Бастии». 20 февраля 2009 года в поединке против «Амьена» Вахби дебютировал за клуб в Лиге 2, выйдя на замену в конце матча. 13 марта во встрече против «Монпелье» он забил свой первый гол за команду. В следующем сезоне Вахби стал основным полузащитником клуба.

В сезоне 2011/12 Хазри помог «Бастии» выйти в Лигу 1. 11 августа 2012 года в матче против «Сошо» он дебютировал в Лиге 1. 28 октября в поединке против «Бордо» Вахби забил свой первый гол в высшем дивизионе чемпионата Франции.

Летом 2014 года Вахби перешёл в «Бордо», подписав контракт на четыре года. 9 августа в матче против «Монпелье» он дебютировал за новую команду. 17 августа в поединке против «Монако» Хазри забил свой первый гол за «жирондистов».

30 января 2016 года Хазри перешёл в «Сандерленд», подписав контракт, рассчитанный на 4,5 года. 2 февраля в матче против «Манчестер Сити» он дебютировал в английской Премьер-лиге, заменив во втором тайме Джермейна Ленса. 13 февраля в поединке против «Манчестер Юнайтед» Вахби забил свой первый гол за «Сандерленд».

По итогам сезона клуб вылетел из Премьер-лиги, а Хазри на правах аренды вернулся во Францию, став футболистом «Ренна». 10 сентября в матче против «Марселя» он дебютировал за новую команду. В этом же поединке Вахби забил свой первый гол за «Ренн».

Летом 2018 года Хазри перешёл в «Сент-Этьен». По обоюдному согласию сторон сумма трансфера не была разглашена. 11 августа в матче против «Генгама» он дебютировал за новую команду. В этом же поединке Вахби забил свой первый гол за «Сент-Этьен».

27 июня 2022 года, Хазри на правах свободного агента подписал контракт с клубом Лиги 1 «Монпелье» и взял в новом клубе номер 99.

Международная карьера

В 2009 году Хазри дебютировал за молодёжную сборную Туниса. В ноябре 2011 года тренер молодёжной сборной Франции вызвал Вахби в команду для участия в матчах отборочного турнира молодёжного чемпионата Европы.

В январе 2013 года в матче против сборной Эфиопии Хазри дебютировал за сборную Туниса. Он попал в заявку национальной команды на участие в Кубке Африканских Наций 2013. На турнире Вахби принял участие в одном матче против сборной Того. 23 марта в поединке отборочного турнира Чемпионата Мира 2014 против сборной Сьерра-Леоне Хазри забил первый гол за национальную команду.

В 2015 году он во второй раз принял участие в Кубке Африки. На турнире Хазри сыграл в матчах против команд Кабо-Верде, Замбии, ДР Конго и Экваториальной Гвинеи.

В 2017 году Вахби в третий раз принял участие в Кубке Африки в Габоне. На турнире он сыграл в матчах против команд Буркина-Фасо, Сенегала, Алжира и Зимбабве. В поединке против зимбабвийцев Хазри забил гол.

В 2018 году Хазри принял участие в чемпионате мира в России. На турнире он сыграл в матча против команд Англии, Бельгии и Панамы. В поединках против бельгийцев и панамцев Вахби забил по голу.

Летом 2019 года Хазри был вызван в состав своей национальной сборной на Кубок африканских наций в Египте. Во втором матче против Мали он забил гол на 70-й минуте, а команды сыграли вничью со счётом 1:1.

Зимой 2022 года принял участие в Кубке Африки, где забил 2 гола и помог команде дойти до четвертьфинала.

14 ноября 2022 вошел в окончательный список своей сборной на мундиаль в Катаре. На турнире он сыграл в 2 из 3 матчей, забив единственный и победный гол в ворота действующих чемпионов мира французов и был признан лучшим футболистом встречи по версии ФИФА, однако из-за результата в параллельной встрече карфагиняне не смогли выйти в плей-офф, закончив турнир на третьей строчке в группе с четырьмя очками. После этого Вахби Хазри объявил о завершении карьеры в сборной.

Голы за сборную Туниса

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Игроки сборной Франции по футболу (до 21 года)
Игроки сборной Туниса по футболу
Игроки ФК «Бастия»
Игроки ФК «Бордо»
Игроки ФК «Сандерленд»
Игроки ФК «Ренн»
Игроки ФК «Сент-Этьен»
Игроки ФК «Монпелье»

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Congratulations! I hope you enjoy these. Send me an email with your address and I'll get these little books out to you. I do love making little books to give away which means I should think of more contests. Granted that would mean I need to work faster. Yikes.
Know why else a drum roll is needed today? I have started Emma by Jane Austen. I've only read one Jane Austen book (Northanger Abbey) so this is big news. Also, it's my first book for the Classics Challenge. Only 45 pages into it and I am thoroughly enjoying it.
Emma is so wonderful — I hope you enjoy it!
Interesting that your first Austen book was Northanger Abby and not Pride & Prejudice. I've not read Northanger – should I? Emma I quite enjoyed but P&P will always be my favourite.
I love Emma. Good choice to start with. Congrats to all those lucky winners. Have a great weekend. Look forward to catching up soon.
I hated Emma. H-a-t-e-d it. It took me 6 tries before I finally read the whole book. And now I think I kinda like it. ha! I found it interesting that Austen apparently admitted that Emma wasn't very likeable.
P&P was my first and my favourite and likely always will but but Persuasion is gaining ground and I cannot understand why it's discussed and referred to so rarely.
I loved Persuasion–and P&P. I loved the movie, Emma, but have yet to read the book. Maybe this year!
I can't believe this is only the second Jane Austen novel you've read!! I went on a Jane Austen spree in my teens and again a few years ago! I love them all as much as the other!! Enjoy!!
You know my travails with Jane Austen – but I've never tried Emma! And how I love the movie! So maybe I should give that one a whirl as well.
Sam – Oh you should! By the way, guess what else I'm reading? Anne Lamott – I know how much you love her.
See, I never thought Northanger Abbey was one of Austen's better books, but some people love it best. My favorite is P&P, but I think you should save it. Enjoy Emma.
My favorite is P & P. I wasn't as captivated by Emma, but after seeing the movie (with Gwyneth Paltrow) and Clueless, I think I'd enjoy better.
Well, somehow you vanished off my links. I thought there was a blog I hadn't seen in a while! Must correct that.
Emma was the only Austen that I didn't enjoy. I'm interested in seeing how your experience goes.


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The Ocean (Live from Boston, MA, Mar. 6, 1981 - Encore - Fade Out)
Song Lyrics:
Picture in grey
Just me by the sea
And I felt like a star
I felt the world could go far
If they'd listen
To what I said
Washes my feet
Splashes the sole
Of my shoes
About this song
It first appeared on the "Fire" Single - U2 / "U2 R.O.K." Single - U2, in 1981.
The writing credits for this song are: Bono / U2
It was performed by U2 on 1981-03-06 at The Paradise Theatre in Boston, MA, USA.
This track first appeared on the "Fire" single in 1981 at 2:12 in length. On "The Complete U2" in 2004 it was 2:19 in length. On "October (Remastered) in 2008 it was 2:15 in length. The minor differences in track length can be attributed to the imprecise editing of live tracks. On "The Complete U2" the track does not fade in, it is part of a continuous live show. On the remastered version of "October" it both fades in and fades out at the start and the end. On the "Fire" single the song continues from the previous track and so does not fade in but does fade out.
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We have a Four Legged Down! Bailey has been having trouble on the steps. The first time she didn't come downstairs I assumed she had done something silly, but then realized it seemed like she was stuck. In true "Beverly Goldberg" fashion I googled her symptoms and was convinced she was dying. Thankfully we have a rational and knowledgeable vet who easily determined that she has a sprained knee. Crisis averted!
Rufus had a panic attack just knowing Bailey was going to the Vet! As I left the house he was in the window melting down and had the neighbor's dog in a panic.
She is on pain meds and an anti-inflammatory for the next few days. The doctor ordered lots of rest, but next week we have to start getting back into a shape that is not so round!
Every once in a while the "crazy" Riley takes over the house. Today is that day! He has been a wild man since 9am. He has been on the go playing in the snow, helping cook a turkey and driving the two legged and other four legged nuts. Rufus is hiding in the two legged's bedroom hoping Riley doesn't find him. Bailey is under my desk as a last ditch effort to tolerate her buddy. He has "talked" all day long. He just wants to play, chew on their ears and cause a general ruckus!
At his age I am thrilled to see him be so spirited, but I can tell you that rest of the house is hoping he will pass out soon!
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! Go for the Rescue…Adopt Don't Shop!
Author fourleggedlifePosted on March 2, 2019 March 2, 2019 Leave a comment on A Rescue Of Course!
Some of us are upstairs catching up on work while others are apparently sleeping in! Are you comfortable Miss Bailey? Can I get you anything?? This dog is such a character. She is a love bug and unless the mailman or a stray cat is on the property she never barks. Bailey will spend hours sitting on the porch or in my bed!
We are constantly asked "Why do you have 3 dogs?" I would have 10 if we could afford it and our neighbors wouldn't kill us! The key to my sanity–a fenced in yard and peanut butter filled Kongs. When all else fails call Grammie for busy bones!
This weekend there has been an influx of posts on social media about dogs in need of rescue. 2 Million Dogs each year are euthanized because of over population. Dog ownership is not easy, but I urge you to consider adopting from your local rescue. This is the time of year when "Christmas puppies" have been dumped and they need a second chance. Not everyone can take on a Rufus, but who wouldn't love a Bailey???
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Earlier this week I saw a post on social media about a gentleman who works from home and names his dog Employee of the Month every Month! This gave us a chuckle and I decided we should start thinking about our own Employee of the Month. It is a tight race, but I think Riley might be a little ahead of the competition.
Riley is never late for work and is always the first one up the steps to the office. He is quiet on conference calls and never snores at work! He take minimal breaks and is more than willing to eat lunch at my desk. Rufus and Bailey better step it up…February is almost over!
National Love Your Pet Day! According to the Four Legged this is everyday at our house! These three can drive you nuts, but then they curl up in a little ball next you with their head in your lap and you instantly fall back in love. I was out of town for a few days and the Four Legged had their BFF Jill stay at the house with them. I told Rufus before I left that he had to cooperate as we are running out people willing to sleep with him!
Our plane was late so I arrived at home about 4am and tried to sneak in the house, but I was instantly greeted by barking, kisses, and pure excitement! I braced myself against the stove because Rufus was coming at full speed for a hug. All 110 pounds of him was trying to climb me. Bailey has not let me out of her sight since. Shortly after getting home my little Riley realized that I had been hanging out with his cousin Mila and is giving me the stink eye! He loves Mila and keeps checking my bags to see if she is going to pop out. Mila taught him how to jump from one couch to the other without touching the floor. A game I just love!
Today is a snow day in the burgh and the Four Legged are loving it. As I try to work they are in and out playing in snow, watching cars slide down the hill, and grabbing treats. Riley would roll in the snow all day if you let him. The perfect way to celebrate Love Your Pet Day!
Just a reminder to everyone that for your own safety and sanity you should not breed a Beagle with any large breed dog. Beagles are adorable. They are probably the cutest breed in my opinion. When they are puppies their ears are full size so they trip over them. Their ears hang in their water bowls while they are drinking. Seriously…so darn cute! BUT–Beagles are crazy when it comes to food. They live in a world where they assume you are not going to feed them. They are always hungry and with the exception of lettuce I have yet to own a beagle that didn't love all food. I have even seen a 20 pound beagle body slam a doberman into a dining room wall to steal their hamburger!
Rufus weighs 110 pounds and reaches the counter when standing on all fours. If he goes up on his back legs he is taller than me. (I'm 5'10) So when you are trying to let a ham rest after cooking there is no safe place to keep the ham. We ate dinner at 4:15pm yesterday because we had no choice, but to cut the ham and then put it safely in the fridge. Rufus can reach every surface in the kitchen and dining room. Thank you to the genius who thought it was a good idea to breed a beagle with a larger breed dog. I had plans to finish work, clean my office and then eat dinner, but ham at 4:15pm became the new plan!


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Storm Passes, Eastern North Dakota Digs Out
Another winter storm has come and gone in North Dakota, leaving the eastern half of the state digging out from the snow.
Fargo, Grand Forks 'Pounded' By Winter Storm
Much of eastern North Dakota is digging out from what officials call a "once in a decade" winter storm.
Stolen Police Car Crashes on I-29
Authorities have released the name of the man who stole a police car and fatally crashed it on the interstate Monday near Grand Forks.
Grand Forks: Death On A Quiet Street
Police detectives in Grand Forks are investigating the deaths of a mother and her three children.
America's Best Hockey Town is in North Dakota
The University of North Dakota's hockey season may be over, but that doesn't mean there's isn't reason to celebrate. For the fourth straight year, 'America's Best Hockey Town' is Grand Forks.
Metallica's World Wired Tour Coming to North Dakota !!
It's been 30 years since they last came to ND and now they're back . Metallica Playing Grand Forks on September 8th.
A 70 Pound Chunk of Building Falls on Girl At High School Game
A 12-year old girl getting hit by 70-pound piece of a balcony that fell on her.
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Two people are dead following a crash on Thursday morning (Jan. 18) in Grand Forks County.
The Best Pancakes In North Dakota
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The Best Wings in North Dakota
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I am Stella, a self-taught cook who loves to learn about food, create delicious meals for friends, improve my food photography, and, of course, eat.
This blog started as a showcase for my personal (and ever-growing) recipe collection and has expanded into an exploration of the history and culture of food, especially Texas food, as well as a place to spotlight regional Central Texas producers and products, served with a side of sarcasm.
A lifelong Anglophile, I also spent four years living in the UK, so I also write about British food occasionally. My recipes are thus mainly informed by my background (growing up Behind the Pine Curtain), my time in England, and my love of and fascination with all regional varieties of Mexican food. I really, really like cheese, lemons, and horseradish, and I hate tomatoes (I know, I know).
In my time, I've been a record store clerk, burger flipper, gas station attendant, newspaper reporter, tour guide, bookseller, wine seller, grad student, construction planner, event planner, library assistant, admin monkey, and fundraising flunky. Aside from the four years in the UK, I've been a proud and lucky Austinite since 1997.
My personal goals include finding the perfect cheese enchilada plate; publishing a dark humored, semi-autobiographical, Southern Gothic memoir; and having big Texas hair.
If you have any more questions of a technical or foodie nature, check out the Frequently Asked Questions section.
How am I just now finding out about you?! Texas anglophiles gotta stick together. (I think Jerry Hall said that.) Love your blog.
We have loads in common: love for UK, Austin, food… Looking forward to browsing your blog.
Fighting Wildcats? How old are you? Do we know each other? Are we related?
a year later, im 24. so we?
Thanks, CamiChristie! That sounds even tougher than the UK. How much does an avocado go for over there?!


The experience Theresa went through is heartbreaking.
Theresa was only two years old when she was placed in the care of her grandmother. From there, her torment started. Theresa suffered living in a satanic cult, void of all love and God, where she was raped and beaten. Several therapists and police have worked with Theresa, and believe her story is real. Theresa is now standing up for the pain she went through and speaking out against her abusers and the cult.


Overall this is an awesome flying durable drone. This mini Hexacopter looks hard to fly, but if you've ever flown a quadcopter you'll have no problem controlling this one. It does have a 6-axis gyro which helps it with stability. The speed was normal, not fast like the Mini Cheerson CX10 but not too slow like Air Hogs Helix X4.
Charging is done with a USB charger and takes around 45 minutes to fully charge. I've had really good luck charging with the Anker USB chargers. They charge faster than using a laptop and come with multiple charging ports! With 6 motors I wasn't expecting long flight times but was surprised when it lasted a full 6 minutes.
The blades do pop off when you crash but they are pretty easy to find and put back on. You do get an extra 6 blades in the box and if you need even more they are cheap and easy to find. The frame made of sturdy plastic protecting a ridged computer board in the middle.
The 6 led lights help with orientation, 4 blue in the back and 2 red in the front. For around $30 bucks you can't go wrong.


Silverberg said in the Best of Introduction that this story pleases me the most of all those he's written. It has apparently showed up in college texts on writing techniques. It's the story of Tom Two Ribbons, a Sioux in the future coming to terms with his life and his ancestry. The viewpoint shifts as needed between third, first, and even second person. It's a good story, though it won no awards.
The story was adapted for the Sci-Fi Radio program.


Guwahati: Taking the advantage of the situation the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa-I) has recruited nearly 50 youths since August this year and trying hard to regain its foothold in Upper Assam districts. Admitting that security agencies don't not have exact figure of the new recruits, authoritative security sources said that at least 50 youths including some highly qualified are suspected to have joined the outfit.
Pointing out that huge public sentiment against the Citizenship (Amendment) bill has made their task of recruiting new cadres easier, security sources said that the tea industry, which was on revival path has become the first target of Ulfa-I. Referring the kidnapping of at least two garden managers by Ulfa-I rebels recently, security sources said that outlawed Ulfa-I cadres have unleashed the reign of terror in almost all the tea garden of Upper Assam.
Informing that more than a dozen tea estates have been served the extortion notices ranging from Rs 50 lakhs to two crore by Ulfa-I, security sources said that of late the outfit has resorted to kidnapping to mount pressure on garden managements but Ulfa-I had intensified its extortion related activities in June by kidnapping a tea garden employee at Jagun in Tinsukia district.
Dinanath Upadhyaya, who was employed as a supervisor at a tea garden was kidnapped on June 8 for not paying the "protection money" to Ulfa-I within the set deadline. Paresh Barua, commander-in-chief of Ulfa-I on June 12, had called up Radha Chetia, the owner of the tea garden, and had confirmed that the outfit has kidnapped him.


BERLIN (AP) — A court Germany has sentenced a 44-year-old Iranian man to life in prison for stabbing to death a woman on a street in the western city of Duesseldorf last year. German news agency dpa reported Thursday that the Duesseldorf regional court earlier found Ali .S, whose full name wasn't released for privacy reasons, guilty of murder.
The suspect, who was arrested in Spain, had stalked the 36-year-old woman. She had rejected his advances, whereupon he stabbed her 27 times in July 2018.


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Adolf Loos by August Sarnitz
Adolf Loos (1870–1933) was a flamboyant character, whose presence in the cultural hotbed of early 1900s Vienna galvanized the country's architectural landscape. An early, impassioned advocate of modernism, he all-out rejected the grand Secessionist aesthetic prevalent in contemporary Viennese architecture, as well as any hallmarks of the European fin de siècle.
Instead, in lectures and essays, such as the milestone Ornament and Crime of 1913, Loos articulated his "passion for smooth and precious surfaces." He advocated that architectural ornamentation was, by its nature, ephemeral–locked into current trends and styles, and therefore, quickly dated. In doing so, it would drag the building it decorated, into obsolescence. Loos, himself a Classicist at heart, argued instead for simple, timeless designs with time-honored aesthetic and structural qualities.
Rising to prominence in Vienna in the 1890s with commercial retail projects in the city, Loos developed his signature style, introducing the concept of "spatial plan" architecture and eschewing decorative fripperies for opulent, fine-quality materials, rendered in crisp lines. Major projects, such as Vienna's Café Museum (1899), Loos House (1912), and the fashion store Knize (1913), divided critics, the public, and even royalty–Emperor Franz Joseph I would refuse to travel past Loos House, bristling with rage at its insolently minimalist aesthetic.
In this introduction to Adolf Loos' colorful and inspiring career, we get to explore the writings, achievements, and legacy which continued to resound down the decades, influencing successive styles and generations in the architectural conversation between elaborate and elemental aesthetics.
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Saying even the darkest period in Philippine history brought out heroes, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas on Thursday urged the Filipinos to do more for real change as thousands of protesters marked the anniversary of the 1972 martial law declaration by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos with an outcry against what they said was President Duterte's authoritarian tendencies and his brutal war on drugs.
Hundreds of riot police were deployed to secure the "End Tyranny" marches and rallies in Metro Manila, the largest and angriest since Mr. Duterte took office in June last year.
Marcos' martial law era, which ended in January 1981, had been marked by massive human rights violations, muzzling of civil liberties and plundering of the national coffers.
But the protesters warned, "Never again, never again to martial law," in flags and placards that they carried as they marched across Manila to gather at Rizal Park for the main mass action.
"Through our protest today, we are showing the President the scale and strength of the people's opposition to martial law," said Santos Mero, deputy secretary general of the Cordillera People's Alliance, which sent a contingent to the Rizal Park rally.
The President's fiercest critics are alarmed by the former Davao City mayor's autocratic rhetoric and his disdain for those who oppose him.
Mr. Duterte has warned he would use force or expand nationwide his martial law declaration in Mindanao if antigovernment protesters threaten public order.
He placed Mindanao under martial law to deal with a bloody siege of pro-Islamic State (IS) terrorists in Marawi City that has dragged on for nearly four months.
His allies have jailed or threatened to jail critics of his signature program, a war on drugs in which police have killed thousands of mostly poor suspects in sweeps of the slums, justified as protecting the youth against the drug menace.
"We are losing our national soul to the Father of Lies and Prince of Darkness," Archbishop Villegas said, referring to the devil.
"They are killing the poor and poisoning our consciousness," the outgoing president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said in his homily during Mass at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Dagupan City, Pangasinan province.
While martial law is confined to Mindanao, more than 13,000 people have been killed in the war on drugs, Villegas noted.
He lamented that killing the poor has become the only solution to crime, while the respectful and polite are ridiculed and the rude and ill-mannered seen as the new saints.
"Fake news abound and liars succeed to mislead and confuse. Human rights and the indigenous peoples are worth P1,000," he said, referring to the slashing of the budgets of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) to just P1,000 by Mr. Duterte's majority allies in the House of Representatives.
Stand up and do more Villegas said Filipinos should stand up and do more as dignified, respectful, honest and brave people.
"We pray to stay free. We ring bells every night. We light candles. We help the orphans of the killings. But we must do more," he said, adding that the faithful should wake up to the truth.
He stressed that the public has the right to demand change, maintaining that the people should "not relent, tolerate excuses and jokes" and demand promised change.
"Wrong is wrong and right is right. When they confuse one for the other, stand up and correct the wrong with courage but with love. Stand up. To keep quiet in the face of evil is a sin," he said.
"The change we need is for the better, not the change from life to death. We need a change from darkness into light, not the change of darkness into deeper darkness," he added.
Villegas recalled that Marcos' martial law era was one of the darkest periods in the country's history.
"Stop the killings, start the healing," students demanded in signs they put up at De La Salle University on Taft Avenue.
At least 3,000 students from schools located along the avenue and nearby areas joined thousands of other protesters from various groups in the Rizal Park rally.
Organizers said the 30,000 protesters joined the Rizal Park rally.
Many of the students carried pictures of three teenagers killed by police in Mr. Duterte's war on drugs in recent weeks.
"You can bury the body but not the truth," they said in the signs they carried protesting the killings.
"There is darkness looming over our land. We should unite to prevent this darkness," activist Catholic nun Mary John Mananzan told the crowd at a Rizal Park rally spearheaded by the Movement Against Tyranny.
"Let us oppose the killing of our children. Stop all these killings," she said.
Emily Soriano, who lost her 16-year-old son in the war on drugs, told the crowd President Duterte should be replaced.
"I hope we replace the President. The pain is too much. We can't take it anymore," she said.
At least 5,000 protesters — youth, lumad and militant groups' representatives — gathered on Mendiola Bridge near Malacañang.
At Bantayog ng mga Bayani in Quezon City for those who died and who disappeared during the Marcos dictatorship, survivors of human rights abuses shared personal experiences.
At the CHR compound in Quezon City, the agency's chief, Jose Luis Martin Gascon, told reporters democracy was not yet lost under the Duterte administration.
"The courts and our legislative bodies are still running, and we can still take collective action," Gascon said.
Police said no untoward incidents marred the rallies in Metro Manila.
The rallies in the provinces were also peaceful, with thousands of protesters marching in urban centers in Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao.
Mr. Duterte was not burned in effigy in his hometown of Davao City, but the protesters denounced his bloody war on drugs.
In Cagayan de Oro City, protesters from the provinces of Misamis Oriental and Bukidnon staged a rally at Magsaysay Park, and in Baguio City representatives of civic groups, teachers and students tackled martial law in a forum held at Saint Louis University.
In Bicol region, thousands of protesters from the militant groups Bayan, Piston, Gabriela, Karapatan and Anakpawis vowed to oppose a reimposition of martial law in rallies in Legazpi City and Naga City.


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A photographer captures the violence in the streets of the Central African Republic
December 19, 2013 · 8:15 PM EST
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Muslim men in militias with machetes rough up a Christian man while checking him for weapons in the Miskine neighborhood of Bangui, Central African Republic.
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It was an example of US diplomacy in the Central African Republic (CAR). The US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, made a surprise visit to the former French colony on Thursday.
Earlier this month, France sent 1,600 troops to join 3,500 African Union soldiers in an effort to stop clashes between Christian and Muslim militias. But to date, the US has limited its role to just providing transportation — and has insisted it won't send in US ground troops.
In the national capital of Bangui, Power met with politicians and visited a hospital filled with injured civilians.
"The tales that we heard of the horrific abuses that have occurred in recent days were really spine chilling," Power said. "We met with one woman, this is an example, whose husband was stabbed to death in front of her very eyes and then covered with gasoline and then lit on fire. And this is the kind of brutality that has been committed in pockets of the country in recent days and, of course, to a lesser extent over the course of the last year."
Jerome Delay, the chief Africa photographer for the Associated Press, has been capturing that brutality in pictures.
He's been based in South Africa for eight years, but passed on covering the death of Nelson Mandela, because of the importance of what's going on in the CAR.
"You know, I'm alone here, potentially — no, actually — on a huge story," Delay said. "So the right decision to make, and the responsible decision to make, was just to stay."
He stayed — and he has taken some incredible and disturbing photos.
The country has spiralled into chaos after a March coup when the mainly Muslim Seleka rebel group overthrew President Francois Bozize. Rebel leader Michel Djotodia became the Christian majority country's first Muslim leader and is now interim president.
The Christian militia and the Muslim Seleka militia clash daily in the streets. Amnesty International reports that former Seleka rebels killed nearly 1,000 people in Bangui, in revenge for deadly Christian militia attacks.
In between those two groups are French soldiers.
One of the most shocking photos Jerome Delay took is of a man holding up a knife and lunging at another man, while a crowd in the street watches the attack.
"The crowd was a Christian crowd and somebody pointed out a man saying that he is a Seleka, or an ex-Seleka colonel," Delay said. "The crowd just went and started to lynch him. This man just took a knife and tried to take a stab at him. The French did intervene, shooting warning shots in the air and then grabbed the man. What they did actually was quite smart — they made it look like they were arresting him, so they put cuffs on him and took him away. I learned the next day that the man had been released and was safe."
Another powerful picture shows a makeshift camp at an airport in Bangui. It shows families drying their clothes on the tops of planes and finding shade from the heat under the wings of a plane. Delay says there are now more than 40,000 people living at this airport camp. And every day, more people flee the fighting.
"I think that you know, all the ghosts of Rwanda are waking up," Delay said. "It's very, very difficult to bear sometimes."
A Christian man chases a suspected Seleka officer in civilian clothes with a knife near the airport in Bangui, Central African Republic.
Young men with machetes and knives, saying they are providing security, join Christians gathered in a makeshift camp for internally displaced people set up in the airport in Bangui, Central African Republic.
Internally displaced people gathered at Bangui's airport cheer at the sight of landing French military helicopters, a day after a gun battle between Seleka soldiers and Christian militias left more than 100 dead and scores wounded.
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I am currently on hiatus from health coaching.
But their are some wonderful health coaches in Redding Ca.
Have you been searching for a health/life coach in Redding, Ca? Looking to create more balance? Looking to grow or be healthier?
What you tell your body is important. You have the power to be healthy!
Because your body is a sacred temple, treating it as such will create much greater health in you and your life.
Massage and Yoga are great for clearing and cleansing the body of toxins, physical, emotional and spiritual. Meditation, and prayer are great too for clearing all levels of toxins. Exercise is important for clearing and cleansing mental and physical toxins too.
Another very important practice in cleansing yourself with a healthy diet. This means healthy organic(as much as possible) foods and supplements. We are what we eat!
What Are The Benefits of A Health/Life Coaching Session?
If you are open and working towards shifting yourself then the benefits of health and life coaching are continuous, depending on how far you wish to go in holistic healing.
How Does A Session Holistic Health Coaching In Redding, Ca Work?
A skilled health/life coach can empower you to see all areas of your life and inspire you to shift yourself so you are feeling more in your empowered in all areas of your life on the conscious level and on the subconscious level.
Emotional/Mental Stress-This manifests within us when we are unhappy with ourselves and/or our lives. When we are angry, saddened, grief stricken, depressed. When we are in relationships that don't align with who we know ourselves to be, or when we are in jobs that aren't aligned with who we know ourselves to truly be.
Emotional stress puts a great strain within. It causes stress hormones to get released within us and when this happens the immune system gets weakened and we can be more susceptible to sickness, injury and dis-ease. Emotional stress affects our digestive system as well, many times causing digestive disorders in the intestines.
Emotional/Mental Nutrition-When we get to the root of our emotional stress(quitting a job, self forgiveness and forgiveness of others or leaving an unhealthy relationship) we can dig out that painful root and re-plant healthy thoughts and mental practices within us to help our body release all the feel good hormones of joy, love and happiness.
Mind nutrition I like to call this. What we think affects our body in a tremendous way, negative and positive.
I work with you in developing a discipline in your thoughts and your mind to re- focus you for positive mental habits and thoughts which can lead to emotional healing and freedom.
Physical Stress. Mind nutrition was above and now we have physical nutrition which has a huge impact on our stress levels. Eating foods that are processed, eating sugar or lots of caffeine, alcohol and drugs-all of these affect the stress load on our body. When our body has to process so many toxins it can overload our systems and cause problems in our immune system, digestive system, endocrine and just about every system with in us.
When we eat a healthy diet our body can rest. Our body does not have to work so hard to process toxins. Then it can heal and stay relaxed and peaceful.
And since all is linked..if we physically overload our sacred temple with processed food instead of healthy food it always seeps into our emotional body. Nothing is separate within us.
Other forms of physical stress are overworking our body with too much physical labor and not allowing our body to rest and heal. Working long hours in manual labor, or sitting at a computer for long hours at a time, all of these are physical stressors.
Physical nutrition- Our body is a vibration of energy, the food we eat affects that vibration. The closer you eat to foods the way the earth created it, the closer you are to the divine energy and vibration we flow as, this is a light feeling in the body. Processed foods, sugar, alcohol and drugs cause a heavier, more dense like feeling in the vibration of a person.
As I said above, massage helps balancing so does stretching, and so does meditation and prayer, eating well, exercise and being in nature. Adding these to your holistic health life coach in Redding, CA sessions will give you added benefit in your life.