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The Works of Samuel Parr, Ll.D. ...: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings ...
By Samuel Parr, John Johnstone
ness of consistency as well as alacrity in the course of your moral agency—you will set a very high value not only on the purity, but the dignity of a Christian life-you will cherish the wholesome fear and the animating love of God in singleness of heart—you will do what is your known and your bounden duty, not as unto men, but as unto the Lord; for both reason and religion will warrant you in the hope, that from the justice and mercy of that Lord, you will hereafter receive the recompence of your zeal for his honour, and your fidelity in his service.
SERMON XXXIII.
Colossians iii. 23.
Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily as to the Lord, and not
unto men.
In a former discourse, I explained to you the primary meaning of the text, as addressed by St. Paul to the servants of heathen masters. I pointed out a necessary distinction between their religious character, in which they had recently been delivered from the bondage of sin and the ceremonial law of the Jews, and their social character, in which they continued under lawful subjection to their earthly employers. I then stated that the language of St. Paul was capable of a larger and more important accommodation to the whole system of our behaviour, as creatures who are furnished with powers, and obliged by commands to execute the will of our almighty and righteous Master, who is in heaven.
After this introduction, I proposed, first, to consider the mingled rashness and meanness of permitting the love of worldly praise to constitute an exclusive principle of action ; secondly, the increased danger of that love when it becomes excessive, and obstructs the discharge of our most important duties towards God; and, thirdly, the exact influence which a regard to the opinion of the world may in some circumstances very properly and very meritoriously be allowed to have on our conduct. The first of these heads has been already discussed ; and you then saw the extreme folly, turpitude, and wretchedness of hypocrisy, whether it assumed the mask of religion, in order to impose on the wise and virtuous, or whether, in a contrary course, it affected an uncommon degree of vice and impiety, to captivate the sympathy of the wicked, and to excite the astonishment of the ignorant. But of what value, I would ask, is the praise of corrupt and deluded minds, when opposed to the contempt of the sagacious, and the detestation of the upright? How light too in the balance are the commendations even of the best of men, when our hearts secretly inform us that they are utterly unmerited — that they are bestowed on specious appearances, not on solid realities and that the dictates of our own serious conscience, and the sentence of an all-wise God, stand in direct opposition to the well-meant, but not well-founded applause of our fellow-creatures.
Recollect what I stated to you, not merely about the meanness, but the inconsistency of the hypocrite. Cowardly in adversity, and insolent in prosperity will be that person whom the Apostle points out to us as obeying the laws of God merely for eye-service, and as striving to please man by false pretences. If he sometimes endeavours to pay an external tribute of exterior homage to religion and virtue, his sentiments are cold, and his efforts are feeble. If he be tempted by pleasure, or oppressed by calamity, he has no regular and fixed principle to deliver him from the danger to which he is exposed. He enjoys no firm and sure satisfaction from reflection upon himself. He shudders at the prospect of detection and infamy from the world. He cannot look up with affiance to the favour, or even the mercy of heaven. On the contrary, he that is virtuous, and heartily religious, sustains a noble and uniform character amidst the sudden changes, amidst the uncertain chances, amidst the formidable perils, and the inevitable sorrows of this mortal life. He thinks without terror of death itself, and he enters upon eternity with faith that cannot be staggered, and with hope that cannot be depressed.
These plain, but I trust pertinent and simple observations, will recall to your memory the remarks which I made under the first head; and they will prepare you, at the same time, for the contents of the second, in which we are to consider the causes and the kinds of those obstacles, which an excessive fondness for human praise throws in the way of our obedience to the deity.
What, then, I would ask, is the declared will of God, even in the very loose, I grant, and very faint, but I contend also the unavoidable and unalterable, opinion of him who seldom refers to it as a rule in his choice of ends, or adaptation of means? It stands thus-Thou shalt not take the name of the
Lord in vain; thou shalt keep the sabbath holy; thou shalt not commit adultery; thou shalt not steal; thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour; thou shalt not say to thy brother, Raca - thou empty wretch ; Mora - thou stubborn and presumptuous. But the person to whom I am adverting, when kneeling before the altar, or summoned before a tribunal, will swear that good is evil, and evil is good, if there be any prospect for him to obtain credit, and upon that credit to found a claim for favour. He will scoff at the hallowed service prescribed for the sabbath, if by such derision he can flatter the intellectual pride of the scoffer, and be in his own turn complimented for exemption from vulgar superstition. He will triumph in his success over the ready compliance, and yet more in his victory over the long but ineffectual resistance of the seduced female ; and many he knows there are who will ascribe that success, and that victory, to the grace of his person, the elegance of his manners, and the fascinating eloquence of his persuasion. He will partake with the sceptered or the armed plunderer in the spoils which they have seized from the helpless, and with them he will farther share in the glory which is often obtained by skilfulness in contrivance, or hardihood in enterprize. He will accuse the innocent and insult the meritorious, if by such means he can secure the confidence of the inconsiderate, the concurrence of the envious, and the applause of the wicked. That he should thus act, "as unto men," is indeed a point upon which he and they have a reciprocal


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Q:  in parent pom is ignored when parent pom is accessed through repository I have company maven repository. I have company super pom.xml with sections <repository> and <pluginRepository> pointing to company repo. Company super pom is separated artifact.
I develop my maven project. Parent pom is company super pom. In order to pass build on clean environment I need to define again <repository> in my project home because Maven must know where parent pom can be found (see Catch-22)
I'm not happy that I have define to company repository again in my project but I accepted it.
In my project I use company plugin. The problem is that Maven cannot find company plugin. It is strange because maven finds super pom with <pluginRepository> but does not use the plugin repository to find the plugin! So I have to define again <pluginRepository>
Super pom:
<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>company-repo</id>
        <url>http://mycompany.com/repo</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
    <pluginRepository>
        <id>company-repo</id>
        <url>http://mycompany.com/repo</url>
    </pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>

My project pom:
<!-- required to find company super pom - unhappy but accepted-->
<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>company-repo</id>
        <url>http://mycompany.com/repo</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>
<!-- required to find company plugin - unhappy and hard to accept-->
<pluginRepositories>
    <pluginRepository>
        <id>company-repo</id>
        <url>http://mycompany.com/repo</url>
    </pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>

Question: Is is possible to avoid repeat plugin repository configuration in each Maven project? Maybe I should change my desing/configuration/whatever?
What interesting, <pluginRepositories> is not required if super pom is accessed through relative path instead of through repository.
Maven 3.3.3
UPDATE:
If I remove <pluginRepositories> from my project pom then effective-pom does NOT show company-repo as plugin repository. I wish.

A: Simplest would be to setup your settings.xml file like this:
<settings>
  <mirrors>
    <mirror>
      <!--This sends everything else to /public -->
      <id>nexus</id>
      <mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf>
      <url>http://localhost:8081/nexus/content/groups/public</url>
    </mirror>
  </mirrors>
  <profiles>
    <profile>
      <id>nexus</id>
      <!--Enable snapshots for the built in central repo to direct -->
      <!--all requests to nexus via the mirror -->
      <repositories>
        <repository>
          <id>central</id>
          <url>http://central</url>
          <releases><enabled>true</enabled></releases>
          <snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
        </repository>
      </repositories>
     <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
          <id>central</id>
          <url>http://central</url>
          <releases><enabled>true</enabled></releases>
          <snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
        </pluginRepository>
      </pluginRepositories>
    </profile>
  </profiles>
  <activeProfiles>
    <!--make the profile active all the time -->
    <activeProfile>nexus</activeProfile>
  </activeProfiles>
</settings>

And using a repository manager makes life easier...Apart from that you can of course use a single pom which could be made. But using a parent can't be changed for the developer and you can't change on a CI solution (like Jenkins) to configure their the appropriate settings.xml

A: Although this is a very late answer to this question, I believe I ran into the same problem and it's not actually an issue with Maven. We are using Artifactory as a local store for artifacts and it's set up to strip repository/pluginRepository information when you download poms. This behaviour can be disabled in the config panel for the repository.
https://www.jfrog.com/jira/browse/RTFACT-5343
I imagine you were running into the same problem with Artifactory.

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2011: Muammar Gaddafi
Add comment October 20th, 2019 Headsman
Dictator Muammar Gaddafi (several alternate transliterations are familiar, such as Qaddafi and Gadhafi) was killed by his captors during the Libyan civil war on this date in 2011 — an act very much on the extrajudicial and summary side of the foggy borderlands defining an "execution".
Libya's despot since ejecting the British-supported King Idris way back in 1969, the wily colonel steered his state for 40-odd years; his blend of pan-Arabism, Islamic socialism, pan-Africanism, and direct democracy is known as the Third International Theory and expounded in Gaddafi's own manual of political theory, The Green Book — which became required reading for generations of his subjects.
Eventually a figure of western vilification and a fixture in the United States's enemy-of-the-month rotation, Gaddafi's anti-imperialist credentials earned him respectful eulogies from Palestinians, black South Africans, and Latin American revolutionaries, all of whom he had at times aided. Whatever measure of genuine popular support he earned by measures like land distribution, Gaddafi did not hesitate to buttress with brutality. Internal regime opponents and dissident exiles alike had cause to fear him, and it's not as if innocent bystanders could sleep easily either: a London constable was shot from the Libyan embassy during demonstrations in 1984, and only worldwide outcry prevented the execution of six foreign doctors who were scapegoated for an HIV outbreak in the early 2000s. Gaddafi's government in 2008 paid $1.5 billion in compensation to settle a bundle of international terrorism incidents, including the 1986 West Berlin discotheque bombing and the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Fitting that his own savage end might enter periodization historiography as the fin de siècle américain.
The ham-fisted NATO intervention into Libya's Arab Spring-era civil war that brought about Gaddafi's death might be the last that Washington will have undertaken in its purported "hyperpower" era, accountable to none but its own intentions; certainly it was (in the words of James Mann) "the apotheosis of the Obamian approach to the world."
The aftermath did not flatter the Obamians: post-Gaddafi Libya speedily descended into failed-state status and has spent most of the 2010s cursed by still-continuing civil war, human rights horror, Islamic terrorism, and even open slave markets, with knock-on effects stoking the refugee crisis in Europe.*
The chief advocate of the intervention within the Obama administration, Samantha Power of Strangelovian nomen and Bosnian war dreams, recently published her memoir, The Education of an Idealist and issued the enraging auto-exoneration, "We could hardly expect to have a crystal ball when it came to accurately predicting outcomes in places where the culture was not our own." Merely being alive for the aftermath of the Iraq omnishambles might have done her the job of scrying; Power's boss, at least, learned the lesson well enough to shy from the reckless regime-change commitments demanded (including by Power herself) for the Syria conflict that might have brought not only similar catastrophe to its immediate "beneficiaries" but the prospect of nuclear confrontation with Russia. More warfare is surely on humanity's horizon as the 2020s approach, but with great power competition rising alongside the seas, the prospect that it will be undertaken with such careless self-regard in such a large and consequential state seems remote.
Nor will future Libyas be so vulnerable as Libya, if they can help it. In the years prior, Gaddafi had ostentatiously surrendered his nuclear ambitions in exchange for aid and diplomatic normalization. Other observers like North Korea have justifiably concluded that states armed with nukes don't get invaded while those armed with Foggy Bottom IOUs are just the next Melos in waiting. They'll have the horrific viral videos of a bloodied and pleading Gaddafi being brutalized by his captors to remind them.
The dry narrative of his fate, from a UN investigation:
On 19 October 2011, Qadhafi's son Mutassim decided they should leave Sirte because the thuwar had encircled and entered the city, trapping Muammar Qadhafi and his men in District 2. On the morning of 20 October they set off in a heavily armed convoy of approximately 50 vehicles. The convoy consisted of Muammar Qadhafi; his son Mutassim who was already wounded; Defence Minister Abubakr Younis … and approximately 200 armed men. There were also women and children in the convoy. Some of the armed men evacuated their wounded colleagues from the hospital and these unarmed men were placed in cars with their bandages still on; some still had tubes in their bodies.
The convoy headed east on the main road but ran into a rebel ambush. Numerous cars were badly damaged in the ambush and a number of people were injured. They circled to the sea road and headed west. The convoy split up. At this point a Toyota Corolla in front of Muammar Qadhafi's green Landcruiser was hit by a NATO airstrike, probably by a Predator drone, and exploded. The explosion set off the airbags in Qadhafi's car. Muammar Qadhafi and switched cars. The front of the convoy started taking fire from thuwar positions near the power plant and so Muammar Qadhafi, and others took refuge in a house as some of their bodyguards engaged in a fire fight with the rebel positions.
Moments after Muammar Qadhafi entered the house, an airstrike hit the vehicles, setting off secondary explosions. The strike and subsequent explosions left many wounded lying on the ground. At this point the thuwar began shelling the house where Muammar Qadhafi was hiding. Mutassim Qadhafi took approximately 20 fighters and left to look for vehicles. Muammar Qadhafi reportedly wanted to stay and fight but was persuaded to escape. The group belly-crawled to a sand berm. On the way an electrical transformer was struck and electrical wires fell on Qadhafi, striking his head, but he was saved by his blue flak jacket and a Kevlar helmet which was knocked off. The group reached the berm and ran behind it to the road where there were two drainage pipes. The group crawled through the pipes and took up a defensive position on the west side of the road where the pipes terminated.
Muammar Qadhafi crouched outside and between the two pipes. Abubakr Younis was in the right pipe and two fighters took up a position by a berm facing south and the other fighters faced north. The group was sheltered from the road and was unseen by the rebels … [until it] decided the group would make a stand and opened fire on a passing rebel vehicle. There was a fire fight. One of the guards threw a grenade. The grenade hit the top of the cement wall above the pipes and fell in front of Muammar Qadhafi. The guard tried to pick up the grenade but it exploded, killing him … Qadhafi was wounded in the blast by grenade shrapnel that hit and shredded his flak jacket. He sat on the floor dazed and in shock, bleeding from a wound in the left temple.
At that point, one of the party fashioned a white flag from his turban and waved in surrender to the thuwar from the 501st Brigade. The thuwar laid the men on their faces and bound their wrists. Muammar Qadhafi was immediately surrounded by thuwar and beaten. Muammar Qadhafi was heard to ask, "What is going on?" The survivors were placed into vehicles and taken away. [Mutassim Gaddafi and Abu-Bakr Yunis were also killed that same day by their captors. -ed.]
This is where the eyewitness evidence received by the Commission ends. Videos of the scene show Muammar Qadhafi being roughly handled by the thuwar, many screaming "We are Misrata" to identify where they are from. He is apparently stabbed with a bayonet in the buttocks. He is placed on the hood of a vehicle, bloody but alive, before being placed in an ambulance. He clearly has one head wound from the grenade shrapnel, but is otherwise not wounded. This is the last time Muammar Qadhafi is seen alive.
A televised interview of one of those who accompanied Muammar Qadhafi in the ambulance gave an account of what happened next. The young man, who states he is from Benghazi but was travelling with men from the Misrata thuwar when the Qadhafi convoy was attacked, claims he was the one that found Muammar Qadhafi and got into the back of the ambulance with him and two men from the Misrata thuwar. The ambulance started to drive to Misrata. The young man claims there was an argument between himself and the men from Misrata on what to do with Muammar Qadhafi, with him wanting to bring Qadhafi back to Bengazi. He claims he shot Qadhafi in the head and abdomen.
The Commission is unable to verify his claims. Video shows he was in the ambulance when Muammar Qadhafi was placed in it. What is clear is that Qadhafi was alive when he was taken into custody and placed in an ambulance in Sirte by members of the Misrata thuwar and was seemingly dead when the ambulance arrived in Misrata …
According to news reports, the official autopsy states Qadhafi was killed by a gunshot to the head. The Commission was not provided access to the autopsy report despite numerous requests to the NTC. Photos of Muammar Qadhafi's body were provided to the Commission by members of the medical committee of Misrata who participated in the external examination of Qadhafi's body … Analysis of the photos of the abdominal wounds by the Commission's forensic pathologist determined they were penetrating wounds in the epigastric area, the nature of which was difficult to determine from photographs. Interviews with journalists who saw the body indicate Qadhafi was shot once in the head and twice in the abdomen.
* Just months ago as of this writing, the German sea captain Carola Rackete was arrested for breaking an Italian blockade to dock in Sicily with some 40 migrants: they'd been rescued off the coast of Libya.
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Tags: 2010s, 2011, barack obama, civil war, dictators, libyan civil war, muammar gaddafi, muammar qaddafi, nato, october 20, samantha power, sirte
1969: Nahashon Isaac Njenga Njoroge, assassin of Tom Mboya
7 comments November 8th, 2010 Headsman
At 3 a.m. this date in 1969 at a Nairobi prison that Nahashon Isaac Njenga Njoroge swung for assassinating Kenyan Luo politician Tom Mboya earlier that year … never clarifying the cryptic question he uttered to the authorities, "Why don't you go after the big man?"
"No African leader has an abler brain or a stronger will," wrote one Englishwoman who knew Mboya during his lifetime.*
A trade unionist during the waning days of British authority, the ethnically Luo Mboya had become a leading anti-colonial figure as the ethnically Kikuyu Mau Mau were suppressed.
During Kenya's last years as a British possession, Mboya organized the African American Students Foundation, to provide scholarships for students from British East Africa to study in the United States.
(It was on Mboya's AASF program — funded by John F. Kennedy — that a promising young Kenyan economics student named Barack Obama studied at the University of Hawaii in the 1960-61 academic year, and got an American girl pregnant. The reader will be familiar with those semesters' legacy.)
Upon Kenyan independence, Mboya became a Member of Parliament and a cabinet officer, holding the Economic Planning and Development portfolio until he was gunned down on the streets outside a pharmacy on July 5, 1969.
Mboya's murder by Njoroge,** a youth activist for the Kikuyu-dominated Kenya African National Union party (KANU) that Mboya himself had also joined, was widely read as President Jomo Kenyatta consolidating his own grip on the country and eliminating potential rivals.†
Mboya certainly had the talent and ambition to aspire to leadership in Kenya; little wonder that anger among his Luo people boiled over when Mboya was laid to rest.
Njoroge's hanging during the pre-dawn hours this date — just days after Kenyatta banned the Luo-based opposition party, making Kenya into a one-party state — was conducted in secret; word only got out in late November, and even then it was not through an official announcement.
Njoroge remains the official lone gunman in this case, the only person ever held to judicial account for Tom Mboya's convenient elimination. Decades later, however, many are still searching for the real story.
* From the London Times' unsigned July 7, 1969 obituary of Mboya.
** Allegedly by Njoroge; the assassin was not caught on the scene and Njoroge denied pulling the trigger, telling the court that Mboya was his longtime friend. (London Times, September 10, 1969) There are plenty who consider Njoroge a fall guy.
† Pio Gama Pinto (1965) and Josiah Mwangi Kariuki (1975) were similar
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Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Activists,Assassins,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,Hanged,History,Kenya,Murder,Notable for their Victims
Tags: 1960s, 1969, barack obama, barack obama sr., john f. kennedy, jomo kenyatta, josiah mwangi kariuki, nahashon isaac njenga njoroge, nairobi, november 8, pio gama pinto, tom mboya
1758: Francois Macandal, forgotten black messiah
6 comments January 20th, 2009 Headsman
(Thanks to Mark Davis of macandal.org for the guest post on a remarkable historical parallel to today's inauguration of Barack Obama. -ed.)
The world was astounded when Barack Obama was elected to the Presidency in 2008 knowing the cultural barriers minorities have faced for hundreds of years. The date of inauguration, January 20, also happens to be the anniversary of the burning at the stake of a virtually unknown man, Francois Macandal,* whose epic war against cultural barriers has been buried for centuries.
Read some of his story and judge if the historic election of Barack Obama could have occurred without the man they called "Macandal."
The parallels with Barack Obama's journey are numerous, but the life of Macandal was perhaps even more remarkable, reaching great heights and falling into the darkest chasms of despair, yet succeeding in spite of staggering odds. Macandal's travails may be about finding one's purpose and dreaming of victory even when condemned by a majority, as he was relentlessly pursued by soldiers and hounded by countless naysayers.
251 years ago on January 20, 1758, Macandal was chained to a post on a platform before thousands of slaves brought together to witness his brutal torture and execution. Because of his importance, the French gathered slaves from hundreds of plantations throughout the colony of St. Domingue (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic). They believed such a horrific spectacle would quash Macandal's Revolution, which he began to end French rule and abolish slavery, 12 years before.
Around 1746 Macandal escaped his plantation, united thousands of escaped slaves along with many still enslaved, and proclaimed that he would lead them all to independence and freedom. This declaration, from someone who had only six years before been taken from his home in the Congo, was unprecedented, since no slave colony had ever defeated a European nation. Then Macandal mobilized tens of thousands and may have inspired millions to end slavery and defeat colonial hegemony in the Haitian Revolution consummated decades after his death.
But ironically even the famous, black Marxist writer C.L.R. James, attributed one of the greatest revolutions in history to something akin to 'spontaneous rioting' by 500,000 black slaves in 1791. Since 1791 almost every historian has reduced the "Haitian Revolution," the only successful overthrow of a colonial power by black slaves, to a 'collective rage,' inspired by the whites of the "French Revolution." Yet it may have been Macandal's Revolution, not the starving peasants of France, that inspired their uprising in 1789.
The true story of Macandal represents obscure but recorded testimonies about his life and explains why the slave revolt of 1791 was in fact, "Macandal's Revolution," almost 50 years in the making. Macandal foretold the end of slavery, then planned it, plotted it and began it. His story shatters a myth that has gone unchallenged for over 200 years: that the Haitian Revolution of 1791 was a spontaneous slave uprising inspired by the French peasants who had charged the Bastille Prison in Paris two years earlier.
The Haitian Revolution ultimately ousted the French, defeating Napoleon and numerous French generals. It also succeeded against the vaunted British army and established a new government run by former slaves. It was the first domino in a series of colonial defeats and changes in law that led to the end of institutional slavery; and Macandal started it all.
Correcting the Historical Record
Macandal is rarely the focus of historians and when mentioned only his insignificance is noted. But the popular version of his story was immortalized by the original French writers themselves, in the interest of bolstering a self-image of innate superiority as a nation and a race. To have recognized Macandal's brilliance would have acknowledged slavery's illegitimacy, so Macandal's real story had to be trivialized and buried.
This telling of Macandal's journey from a free child in Africa to slavery and then revolution, relies less on popular writings and more on a review of all of the records in context. For example French writers claimed Macandal broke free because he was tied with ropes and the post was made of rotted wood that fell apart when he was set ablaze. Historians have repeated this without scrutiny. The French on St. Domingue regularly burned slaves to death at the town square of the capital, "Cap Francais." At Macandal's execution they gathered thousands of slaves as witnesses, to insure a humiliating defeat and halt his widely supported rebellion. Yet, despite this grandiose staging, we are supposed to believe Macandal was insignificant. And we must accept that the French military was so inept they forgot how to execute and did not know that ropes burn and untreated, rotted wood is flammable. Many such dubious "facts," are still repeated blithely about Macandal and few Westerners grant him his bravery, genius or impact.
Interestingly, the U.S. Bill of Rights guaranteeing equality for all was also adopted in 1791, but it would be more than seven decades before slavery was outlawed in the U.S. and almost two centuries before equal opportunity laws were passed and enforced. For one tiny nation, Macandal enabled this to occur over 200 years ago.
I began researching the life of Macandal 20 years ago, startled and inspired by one chapter in Wade Davis' popular book The Serpent and the Rainbow, which focused on secret societies, Voodoo and Zombification. His version of Macandal's story was dictated to him by Rachel Bouvoir-Dominique, a Haitian Anthropologist I interviewed in 1997, at her office in Cap Haitien. Working under the tutelage of well-known author and expert on Haitian history Michel Laguerre, a professor at U.C. Berkeley, I received grants for a field study and documentary on the subject of Macandal.
Anthropologists often allocate greater weight to oral history, informal observer accounts, burial remains, maps and gravures, re-evaluating more accepted published works historians rely on, and so this account reflects my perspective and research as an Anthropologist. I examined European gravures (illustrations) and colonial records cited commonly more skeptically, because they were clearly burdened by religious, sexist and racial paradigms of the day. For example illustrations portrayed slaves with happy smiles and sanguine facades, enjoying their lives in idyllic settings on the plantations. Yet slaves faced torture, rape, separation of family and death from over-work, every day. Blacks were often drawn with monkey features (toes, ears etc.) and other demeaning caricatures.
Western writers were fiercely loyal to provincial rhetoric, including the gender and racial bias then considered crucial foundations of Christian theology. Western scholars dehumanized natives and women to rationalize slavery, prejudice and justify the infamous "hierarchy of being," which granted "white men" a closeness to God that no one else could approach. This endowed them with the right to use others as they saw fit.
There were many reasons colonial authorities destroyed or buried the noteworthy exploits of slaves. Few accounts of courageous acts from among the ranks of millions of Africans during 400 years of slavery were recorded and preserved, primarily to maintain the perception that slavery was justified, necessary and Nubian Africans were not truly human but beasts of burden. There are literally thousands of articles, books and films about individuals among the six million Jews who died during the holocaust but only a scant few from among the 100-200 million indigenous peoples killed during the colonial expansion; all the more reason to re-evaluate slaves like Macandal.
A Brief History of Macandal
During the early 18th century, around the age of 12, Macandal was taken from the west coast of Africa, probably the Loango Kingdom in the Congo. I claim the date of his birth was 1728 primarily because oral historians in Haiti I interviewed believed him to be 30 when he was fastened to a post before thousands and set on fire in 1758.
The French called him Macandal which may derive from a city in the Congo called "Makanda." The town of Makanda no longer exists due to civil war but could have ancient roots and slaves were often named after the places they came from. His name may have been taken from the term makanda (plural form of "kanda") referring to African societal groups. Some written accounts report that Macandal claimed to be descended from a ranking societal group and the son of a Chief or King.
Amazingly, Macandal could speak, read and write Arabic fluently. Some believe this is because he was raised Muslim, yet the Congo was Christianized long before Macandal was born. Portuguese mercenaries, missionaries and armies had combed every square inch of the Congo beginning in the late 1400's, searching for gold, diamonds and slaves, forcing conversion to Christianity. However Macandal's words and actions reveal a unique knowledge of both Christianity and Islam. His ancestors may have emigrated from the east coast where Muslims and Asians had allied with Swahilis to build beautiful cities and schools before the Portuguese invasion. His family may have then hidden themselves for centuries.
Conversion to Christianity was also a requirement for slaves on colony plantations but Macandal defied the French by learning the underpinnings of Christianity, to understand the roots of slavery and challenge newly acquired doctrines. Despite many influences the adult Macandal claimed no affiliation with Christianity, Islam, Voodoo or Animism.
As a child Macandal was educated and known to be accomplished in both music and art, including painting and sculpture. His dedication to learning was apparent throughout his life. He displayed a vast knowledge of plants, became a doctor on the plantation he was taken to and was sought by even the French themselves for treatment of diseases and ailments. Yet the vegetation on St. Domingue was completely different from that of the Congo; therefore, Macandal had to study his new environment and learn the properties of perhaps hundreds of plants. He secretly taught himself French and became so eloquent that the French aristocrats remarked that he could speak it better than they themselves, though education was strictly forbidden for slaves.
Based on historical records and interviews, it appears that Macandal was first sentenced to death on his plantation, around 1746 at the age of 18, for falling in love with the plantation owner's favorite lover, a young and beautiful house slave. He underwent a scene of heinous torture intended to culminate in his death in front of many witnesses, but escaped mysteriously and fled into the hills. The French replaced this account with a tale about Macandal becoming handicapped from losing a hand in a sugar mill and then being left unguarded. His escapes were always attributed to poor guard oversight.
Though Macandal probably began his new life of freedom with the intention of bringing vengeance to his former owner Lenormand de Mezy and rescuing his true love, for some reason his objective evolved. Perhaps because of the totality of his traumatic experiences or because of the influence of Maroons (ex-slaves already living in the distant mountains) Macandal met after escaping, he began working for a new goal of freedom for all.
Macandal led a sweeping and unwavering revolution during the 12 years after his escape from the plantation. Unlike other escaped slaves, Macandal actually made the end of slavery his stated mission. He became the first to unite thousands of disparate Maroons who were living free but divided by tribal affiliation and known to be ardently dedicated to the destruction of each other. His uniting of these groups was an extraordinary accomplishment and he is the first known black leader and ex-slave to do so.
He began calling himself the "Black Messiah" and gave rousing speeches in secret locations to recruit slaves. He made dangerous and daring appearances on plantations during the night to urge loyalty and inspire hope. The name "Black Messiah" had great meaning to Macandal as evidenced by one of his famous speeches at a secret recruitment meeting. The words exposed Macandal's understanding of Islam and Christianity and their link to institutional slavery. The term was a powerful catalyst he used to preempt religious and ethical indoctrination of blacks and free them from the ideological bonds of slavery. He had to usurp the authority of the Church and French government to convince slaves they deserved equality, freedom, family sanctity, education and self-government.
Macandal became a brilliant strategist and had a large, organized camp with lieutenants, captains and other ranks. He led countless attacks and escaped capture mysteriously many times. His tactics were unique and devastating. They were known to be carried on after his disappearance despite the brutal efforts of the French to extinguish illegal grassroots activity. During his reign as a Maroon leader he may have recruited half or more of the 100,000 slaves living on the plantations as secret agents of his revolution.
Maroons and slaves apparently employed his tactics for decades after his disappearance in 1758. During the decade before the final thrust for overthrow in 1791, and despite harsh measures to thwart rebellion, Maroon activity greatly increased. This activity was so secret that virtually nothing is known about this period and is one reason historians assume the war for independence was unplanned, even though the first massive attack was led by Boukman Dutty, formerly a cruel black overseer who was a contemporary of Macandal. His gathering, which launched the war, was convened at a hidden location where Macandal formerly gave his speeches, the symbolism of which cannot be denied.
Generals that followed Boukman used ingenuity and unique strategies to win the 13-year war and Toussaint L'Ouverture is given most of the credit for the victory. But Toussaint refused to support the war until after it had begun; its inevitability certain. He was 13 when Macandal was sentenced to death in 1758. A voracious reader and student of warfare he was well aware of Macandal but content as a slave under a liberal planter.
It is my thesis the "Macandal Revolution" continued through the three decades preceding the Haitian Revolution. No other slave is known to have prophesied and promised the end of slavery yet Macandal predicted that blacks would defeat the French, become free and independent of colonial rule and control the colony of St. Domingue. His rally cry and pronouncement repeatedly rang throughout the colony despite opposition and betrayal from many slaves who greatly feared the French and did not believe victory was possible.
The Haitian Revolution remains the only successful movement by black slaves to defeat a colonial power and achieve complete independence. It stands alone as a towering victory against incalculable odds. Though it is characterized as a 'riot' that generated its own momentum, 500,000 slaves and free blacks mysteriously rose up in unison, using sticks and stones, against over 50,000 heavily armed soldiers, landowners and henchmen.
The Fall of Colonialism
As Macandal's victories mounted I propose that word of his revolution spread to Europe and bolstered many anti-colonial movements. For example one of his closest secret allies was a French Jesuit priest and the Jesuits along with other religious leaders in Europe began fomenting rebellion during this period. Before news of Macandal's revolt spread, many in Europe believed the slave trade was not only profitable but philanthropic. It had long been heard in the churches that slaves were heathens being brought to Christ and treated well in the process. His uprising no doubt made many Europeans aware that slaves were not being treated well and were desperate. Macandal's shocking victories may have provoked Europeans to finally condemn colonialism and slavery. His fearless attacks and disregard for colonial might may have also seeded the French Revolution.
What really happened on January 20, 1758? Macandal endured great agony during an intense and excruciating punishment. He did this so that slaves everywhere might become free. The French claim Macandal was burned alive at the town square in Cap Francais.** Admitting he broke free and leaped out of the fire, they wrote that soldiers reclaimed Macandal and threw him back in. However some observers claimed Macandal broke his chains and fled, never to be seen again. How he broke free during any of his escapes despite being surrounded by guards and soldiers, is not known. It is interesting to note that his remains were never found and there is no burial site. Given the French proclivity for making examples of slaves to increase fear and enforce discipline, a successful execution should have been commemorated by another French monument.
For most historians, January 20, 1758, came and went with barely a mention in official memorandums. Yet a detailed search of documents reveals a massive cover-up, confusion and consternation. Macandal's Revolution was not quashed or even slowed; instead it was impelled and sent wildly rumbling down a path of manifest destiny. Plantation owners later discovered their most trusted slaves were working for the revolution. New restrictions were put on all blacks throughout the colony and 4-5 rebels were burned at the town square every month to strike fear into the rest. Intense interrogation and torture revealed ever more depth to the conspiracy. Macandal's execution day inflamed slaves and intensified their commitment to him and they became more united and fervently bent on winning freedom. Jesuits were banned from St. Domingue five years later.
As the first U.S. President with African roots is inaugurated on January 20, no one will speak of Macandal or Macandal's Revolution, which led to equal rights in 1804 for one small nation. January 20, 1758, the day the French sought to secure colonialism and slavery in perpetuity, became a day of victory for Macandal and a watershed event which brought colonialism down. Though Macandal has been denied his place, his actions may have ended slavery and paved the way for people like Barack Obama to make history.
Mark Davis received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology from U.C. Berkeley and a Master's in Anthropology from the University of Hawaii. He is the foremost authority on Macandal and his one hour documentary The Black Messiah was broadcast on PBS in 1997. He publishes information through his website at www.macandal.org.
* The man's true name is lost to us; the one he was given by the French can be alternately spelled "Mackandal" or "Makandal" or "Mackendal".
** Renamed Cap Haitien after Haiti won its independence.
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Mark Allen Group digitises former Rhinegold titles
Hundreds of back issues of Opera Now, Classical Music, International Piano, Choir & Organ, Music Teacher and Teaching Drama have been digitised in collaboration with digital publishing company Exact Editions.
Luca Da Re: The "format is conducive to an user-friendly reading experience."
The six Mark Allen Group titles, recently acquired from Rhinegold, are essential guides to their respective subject areas and will serve as indispensable resources for academic users and enthusiasts alike, says Exact Editions.
The new additions augment the already extensive selection of Mark Allen Group titles available on the Exact Editions platform, including Gramophone and Jazzwise, in both the individual and institutional markets.
In a climate, continues Exact Editions, where teaching at all levels is becoming increasingly more digital, ease of use and access is a fundamental necessity of online resources. The comprehensive search facilities, stacking technology and cross-platform usage on web, iOS and Android of the Exact Editions platform means these new periodicals are readily usable by all and will gain in value as the archives continue to grow.
The titles can be found in the Exact Editions individual and institutional shops.
Luca Da Re, Head of Marketing & Digital Strategy, commented: "We have worked closely with Exact Editions over a number of years and we are delighted to add 6 new titles to the platform. Its format is conducive to an user-friendly reading experience and I'm certain that new and existing subscribers to the recently added titles will continue to receive the same excellent service we have come to know."
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Rubberneckers are putting first responders in danger
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If you're a first responder who regularly visits accident scenes on the side of the road (or even in the road), you probably already know what new research is confirming: "Rubbernecking" drivers are a threat to your well-being and safety.
Rubbernecking is the term used to describe drivers who spend more time with their eyes glued to an accident they're passing on the road than they do to the road itself. It's another form of distracted driving — and it's particularly dangerous to first responders. Many times, police officers, firefighters, medics and tow truck drivers are concentrating on their jobs — which they should be — but that doesn't leave them a lot of ability to look out for a driver who has veered out of their lane while gawking at an accident scene.
The National Safety Council (NSC) says that 71% of drivers have outright admitted to texting about an accident scene or taking photos when they're driving by emergency personnel. Compare that to the 24% of drivers who admit to texting or taking photos while driving under the usual conditions, and you can quickly see how bad the problem really has become.
All that's bad enough — but it gets worse: 16% of drivers admit that they've either hit or nearly hit a first responder or an emergency vehicle while they were passing an accident scene. The situation seems to be getting rapidly worse, too. In 2018, a total of 40 first responders were killed, which was a 60% increase from the year before. In 2019, there have already been 21 people killed — and the year isn't even half over.
Nobody is quite sure what's causing the uptick in rubbernecking, but it's likely that social media plays a part. America's obsession with documenting everything online seems to be growing — and accident scenes obviously make interesting news.
As a first responder, you already have a dangerous, high-stress profession. Rubberneckers make your work life even more difficult. If you're injured while responding to a crash, make sure that you fully understand your rights to workers' compensation — and get legal help at the first sign of problems.


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movie to split into two. But with what result?
Following on from the events of Catching Fire, where Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) is rescued from the destroyed games arena, the victor is whisked away to District 13, where a plan to overthrow the Capitol by rebel leader Alma Coin, the President of the District, is well advanced.
Hoping to entice Katniss to be the 'Mockingjay', the figurehead for the rebellion, Coin and former games master Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman) send Katniss to the ruins of District 12, with significant death and destruction strewn all around. Katniss quickly becomes a willing pawn in a propaganda program by Coin when a complication involving Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) threatens to derail the plan.
Having not read the original Suzanne Collins novels, my only exposure to the world of Hunger Games has been through these three movie adaptations, which all feature noticeable peaks and troughs of quality, although I'm willing to bet that many of the perceived flaws can be traced back to the source material, not just to a film series struggling to find its feet. While the last entry, Catching Fire, was far consistently superior to the original in both story, performance and pacing, Mockingjay, presents a surprising regression in many areas, however, I'm confident that most are self-inflicted by studio greed.
My biggest complaint with the film is that is essentially one half of a whole story. A regrettable consequence of the studio's decision to stretch out the narrative, the screenplay by Peter Craig and Danny Strong fails to handle well what The Deathly Hallow or The Hobbit did arguably more successfully; that is, craft a three part structure with a clearly defined beginning, middle, and end. From my limited research, it seems this creative decision was made long before cameras rolled, so it's a head scratcher and the complete opposite of what occurred on The Hobbit, with the seams far less evident.
Away from the competitiveness of the games, (which I'm glad aren't revisited for a third time), the story calls for Katniss to take up the mantle of rebellion figurehead. As she has shown throughout the last few years, and indeed on the first two features, Lawrence is a gifted actress, yet she is given little to do in this script other than simply react to what is happening on screen. There's very little introspection to her actions, and as she is manipulated further and further, it makes less and less sense compared to her previously displayed intelligence and resourcefulness, altering her characteristics that the audience has come to expect.
With a bit of upheaval in the plot, some of the previously central characters are sidelined including Hutcherson, yet others are given meatier roles, including Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose true motives have now been revealed. The introduction of Cressida (Natalie Dormer) stirs the pot a little, yet in a fairly one-dimensional, 'point a to point b' kind of way.
From a technical point of view, Mockingjay does everything it should. But it's a disappointing feature in isolation, and undoubtedly the weakest in the series. As it is, Part 1 shuffles from set piece to set piece, progressing without haste, nor sense of looming threat, before simply concluding, without even a hint of a cliffhanger. I hope the pay-off in the delayed finale makes up for it.
Ben Gourlay
Ben is based in Australia and has been writing entertainment based news and reviews since 2002 and for TweakTown since 2007. A student of film, Ben brings a wide understanding of the medium to the latest happenings in entertainment circles and the latest blockbuster theatrical reviews.
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Shitty Media Man Sues Creator of Shitty Media Men List
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On Wednesday, Stephen Elliott filed a lawsuit against Moira Donegan, the creator of the Shitty Media Men list, in which he asks for $1,500,000 in damages, alleging that his inclusion on the list and "[t]he wholly unsubstantiated allegations published in the List, particularly with regard to allegations about Plaintiff, contained numerous false statements alleging criminal sexual conduct on the part of Plaintiff."
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Moreover, he wishes to further out the people who contributed to the spreadsheet. As Elliott writes in his complaint, "Plaintiff will know, through initial discovery, the names, email addresses, pseudonyms and/or "Internet handles" used by Jane Doe Defendants to create the List, enter information into the List, circulate the List, and otherwise publish information in the List or publicize the List."
He then goes on to list the entry in which he was named: "On or about October 11, 2017, Defendants published Plaintiff's full name in the List, along with the names of several other men connected to the media industry; Plaintiff's name was entry #13, along with an AFFILIATION of "Freelance writer/novelist." Defendants further published the defamatory allegations of, "Rape accusations, sexual harassment" [sic] under the ALLEGED MISCONDUCT column heading."
At the end of September, Elliott wrote an essay for Quillette with the rather hyperbolic title, "How An Anonymous Accusation Derailed My Life." In his complaint, he lists some of the repercussions he claims to have suffered, from lower than expected book sales to people blocking him or unfriending him on social media. (He also states he "became extremely depressed as a direct result of the List.")
In January, Donegan outed herself as the creator of the list, after she heard word that Harper's was about to publish an essay that named her as its creator.
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A limited edition of SC license plate bag Louis Vuitton has been the occasion for a new collaboration between the fashion house and Sofia Coppola.
As happens in the best fairy tales, this story begins with a "once upon a time…", and our protagonists are Sofia Coppola and Louis Vuitton fashion house. Yes, once upon a time Sofia Coppola, a director from extremely feminine tastes as well as icon minimal style and, more precisely, Sofia Coppola was in 2009 when he designed a bag for the fashion house bearing his name, giving life to the SC , a practical bag but absolutely feminine as just the Louis Vuitton brand can do.
The love affair between the beautiful daughter of Francis Ford Coppola and the maison. French always continues today at the SC handbag from SizeableHandbags.com, or rather, of his new limited edition, the 'BB', smaller and with a new palette of colors.
But the romance does not end there: there was also a party (almost a dance!) And instead of the royal palace there were spaces of the department store Le Bon Marché, according to some one of the oldest shops in Paris. During the presentation of the new models of BB, Sofia became a director in a window dresser, collaborating on the windows of Le Bon Marché for the occasion were consecrated entirely to the world Vuitton, and creating ten different settings and unique.
pink neon hearts, juicy cherries and gigantic, deer and heart-shaped balloons are the elements chosen by Coppola to accompany and celebrate his bag, which stands like a princess at the center of each construction. The shop windows designed to Le Bon Marché is a leap into a world of magic, fairy tale, in which femininity and dreams that we had as a child all take shape in a swirl of lights neon.
Sofia said that showcases who realized they had to express a state of mind bright, cheerful, light and girlish , which in great fluorescent pink, hearts, flowers and fawns we seem to have fully achieved.
The large soiree was held on October 1, in the presence of a very long list of VIPs including Miranda Kerr, Eva Herzigova, Ellen von Unwerth, Hailee Steinfeld. Among the guests of honor invited to the inauguration there was also the small (age only) promise of the American cinema, Elle Fanning, who has to thank precisely Sofia Coppola for having achieved prominence with the role of co-star in the film Somewhere.
Do not miss the video of the making of the shop windows.
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Q: Sorting eventlog in powershell I am using a command that will display the eventlog of a remote machine and filter it by the eventId. What I am trying to do is have it only show me the recent X events. Like 1, 5, 10, however many I specify. I says to use -newest 5 , but when I try to get newest events after filtering them by eventId for example, it won't let me do it
Get-EventLog system -computername c78572 | select eventid,machinename,timewritten | where {$_.eventid -eq 6009} | ft -autosize

Basically I want to display a specific EventID of a remote system, and only show the most recent 5 of them.

A: If you know the InstanceId of the eventid then you can do:
Get-EventLog system -computername c78572 -InstanceId 2147489657 -Newest 5

This is the long version:
Get-EventLog system -computername c78572  |
where {$_.eventid -eq 6009} |
select eventid,machinename,timewritten -First 5

Here's another way using the Get-WinEvent cmdlet (the target should be vista and up iirc), which uses the eventid:
Get-WinEvent -FilterHashtable @{LogName='system';Id=6009} -MaxEvents 5


Manchester United needs an overhaul this summer. To think that four of the back five who started against Barcelona also started against Basel in 2011, when they were knocked out of the Champions League during the group stage, is remarkable.
David de Gea was one of them, but he should stay this summer. Yes, his mistake against Lionel Messi was shameful, but you have to look at the big picture. It is top quality.
There are not many in the world who can do better than him among the sticks.
WHO MAKES CHRIS & # 39; CUT?
IN: David de Gea, Sergio Romero, Chris Smalling, Luke Shaw, Paul Pogba, Jesse Lingard, Romelu Lukaku, Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial.
FROM: Eric Bailly, Phil Jones, Marcos Rojo, Ashley Young, Matteo Darmian, Juan Mata, Andreas Pereira, Fred, Alexis Sanchez, Antonio Valencia, Other Herrera.
IN THE AIR: Victor Lindelof, Diogo Dalot, Nemanja Matic, Scott McTominay.
Ashley Young, on the other hand, should go. I admire his career and how he proved himself at Aston Villa before joining United, but that's not the point.
He is simply no longer United material. In midfield, it is said that Paul Pogba will be sold this summer.
Really? United is much better with him in the team than outside. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer should build his team around the Frenchman.
United should, however, sell Fred. He has not shown enough. First, get rid of Alexis Sanchez.
Sometimes it just doesn't work for players and it would take a turn to make his time at United a success now.


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Mauricio Herrera-Henry Lundy, the final boxing match at the LA Sports Arena, called an end to a boxing legacy…kinda. Steve Kim reports.
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Judy is also the MFDA contact for the Michigan Funeral Sales Supply Club.
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Lethal Injection Drugs Still Clogging up the Punishment of Death
Lethal injection controversy still plaguing the death penalty. Now it's whether states can mix their own lethal cocktail when they can't obtain the drugs from outside sources boycotting. For my earlier reflections, read my op-ed on CNN.
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Robert Blecker is a professor at New York Law School, a nationally known expert on the death penalty, and the subject of the documentry Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead. He formerly prosecuted corruption in New York's criminal justice system as a Special Assistant Attorney General and has been the sole keynote speaker supporting the death penalty at several major national and international conferences. A post-graduate Harvard fellow in Law and Humanities, Blecker wrote the stage play Vote NO! which premiered at the Kennedy Center. Profiled by The New York Times and The Washington Post, the subject of a USA Today cover story, and recently featured on ABC's Nightline, Blecker frequently comments for national media. He lives in New York.
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Albert Mohler addresses the Houston Chronicle investigation of sexual abuse within the Southern Baptist Convention with an essay today. It consists mostly of meaningless and predictable hand-wringing, but does offer one modestly useful suggestion.
Now, it might be that this crisis will foster a new criterion of vital importance for the churches of the SBC — a church that would willingly and knowingly harbor sexual abuse and sexual abusers should not be considered in friendly cooperation with the Southern Baptist Convention.
I say this idea would be only "modestly useful" because — as Mohler well knows — churches are increasingly reluctant to include "Southern Baptist" in its name, or even on its Web site, because of the odium rightly attached to the denomination; a church that is reluctant to publicly identify as Southern Baptist isn't likely to much care if the right to do so is taken away. Even so, a firm, frank declaration that a church is not in friendly cooperation with the denomination puts it on the right side of the problem and is a small, very small, step in the right direction.
But only a theological shift away from its death-wish theology can save the denomination — and that won't ever happen because then they wouldn't even be Christian.


Updates 2017 and 2018: Phnom Penh is developing at a rapid rate and, unfortunately, some of the structures listed in the original post (published in 2016) no longer exist or are being redeveloped. I've added a comment next to the applicable building in the body of the text below. If anyone has any future updates, I would be grateful to hear from you.
Also, during our last time in the city (February 2018), we made our way to the Royal University of Phnom Penh and a brief description, along with some photos, has been added at the bottom of the post. I would highly recommend a visit if this style of architecture interests you.
I'm going to begin by saying that we cannot take any credit for the contents of the walking tour of Phnom Penh which I am about to showcase. During our recent extended period in Cambodia's capital, we stumbled across a superb company called Khmer Architecture Tours. They offer some fascinating guided walking and cyclo tours of the city's modern and colonial architecture for very reasonable prices. Guides tend to be a mixture of students of architecture, researchers as well as local and expat architect enthusiasts. This kind of thing is right up our street (if you'll excuse the pun) but unfortunately, we missed out joining one of their guided tours because they are mostly offered at the weekends and the timing didn't quite work out for us.
All was not lost, however, as Khmer Architecture Tours also provide a free map (with brief descriptions of what you are looking at) which allows you to undertake your own self-guided walking tour of the city's most interesting buildings. For copyright reasons, I cannot replicate the map (or descriptions) in this article but it can be downloaded as a pdf here. We followed the suggested route, which took around three hours to complete, to the letter but also went further afield to see other structures of note such as the Chaktomuk Conference Hall, Independence Monument, the White Building, the National Olympic Stadium and the Railway Station – all recommended if you have the time.
It isn't until you start this self-guided walking tour that you realise what a fascinating city Phnom Penh is, architecturally. The city is an diverse mix of French colonial buildings and New Khmer Architecture, the latter being a phrase coined to describe the wave of architectural flourish that combined Khmer tradition with Modernism in the 1950s and '60s.
Update February 2018: The Royal Villa (pictured above) is currently being redeveloped as a Hyatt Regency Hotel. Fortunately, the distinctive yellow-facade is not being demolished but rather incorporated into the hotel's design. The hotel is due to open in 2020.
In fact, we became particularly interested in the New Khmer Architecture movement of the 1950s and '60s. This was a golden period for Cambodia. The Kingdom had gained its independence from the French (1953) and the then king/prime minister, Norodom Sihanouk, had an all-encompassing vision of creating a new, modern and progressive Cambodia that would be a key player on the world stage. This post-independence project was probably a tad overambitious but part of his plan involved the development of the country's own unique style of architecture. A new generation of Cambodian architects (many of whom, not surprisingly, had studied in France) worked on the project over the following years but the foremost architect who would emerge as the driving force behind the movement was a man called Vann Molyvann, a gifted designer who was a favourite of Norodom Sihanouk and is still alive today (2016). His legacy includes the Chaktomuk Conference Hall, the Independence Monument and the Olympic Stadium which, when completed in 1962, was the most coveted arena in all of Southeast Asia.
You can certainly see distinct Brutalist design-influences in New Khmer Architecture, which is not surprising given the Brutalist movement was around at the same time. Reinforced concrete dominates many of the structures and it is obvious in lots of the designs that the French influence was still very much in the back of the architect's minds at the time. There is even an element of traditional Khmer temples, of which the Independence Monument is a good example.
New Khmer Architecture came to an abrupt end in 1970 when a US-backed coup lead by Cambodian military general, Lon Nol, ousted Norodom Sihanouk from power. Incredibly, many buildings of note in Phnom Penh survived the devastation of the Khmer Rouge, although some were destroyed by the regime and many of those that remain are visibly in poor shape, something that is all too evident when you follow the tour. In conclusion, though, Phnom Penh's architecture is one of the reasons why we think it is the most fascinating city in Southeast Asia.
We would encourage anyone to undertake the self-guided walking tour put together by Khmer Architecture Tours or better still join one of their guided tours and learn even more about the city's unique style of architecture.
I have only commented on the photos below if I have something different/extra to add to the descriptions listed on the Khmer Architecture Tours downloadable map.
Norodom Sihanouk was a huge fan of cinematography and produced more than fifty films throughout his lifetime. As a result, there are several cinemas in Phnom Penh dating back to the 1960s and beyond. The Capital Cinema was designed by Vann Molyvann.
Located on the waterfront, this large conference hall was abandoned during the time of the Khmer Rouge but is in use once more. It is yet another Vann Molyvann creation.
This building was home to the American Embassy until 1965 when diplomatic relations between the two countries broke off for the first time. The second and only other time to date that diplomatic ties were broken was in 1975, just before the Khmer Rouge came to power.
This public toilet is one of a pair situated at opposite corners of the open space in front of the National Museum. You can still use them to this day but I wouldn't recommend it unless you are desperate!
Update February 2018: Both toilets were demolished at some point in 2016/2017 as part of the redevelopment of Veal Preah Man, the former funerary complex of King Norodom Sihanouk.
The Independence Monument was designed by Vann Molyvann in 1958 and commissioned to commemorate independence from France a few years earlier. There are no prizes for working out that it was modelled on the central tower of Angkor Wat.
This building is directly opposite the Former US Embassy and was formerly used by the Americans as an operations building in the 1960s.
Also known as the National Sports Complex, this Vann Molyvann designed structure is still used for sporting events both at local and international level. The area around the stadium is prime real estate and when we visited (February 2016) practically the whole thing was encircled by massive building projects so whether its days are numbered as a sports centre or not is anyone's guess?
There is an interesting story on Wikipedia about how the stadium played a role in the 1966 football World Cup. You can read more about it here.
Update February 2018: Don't worry, this wonderful structure hasn't been demolished. We simply made a return visit the last time we were in Phnom Penh and took some alternative photos, this time in the afternoon light, and I can't resist putting them up!
I particularly wanted to see the railway station, as it was from here that I embarked on my epic train journey to Battambang when I first visited Cambodia in 1992.
The Mansion is a gorgeous French colonial-era building directly behind the Foreign Correspondents' Club (FCC). In fac, the Mansion belongs to the same people who own the FCC and there is often an outdoor bar inside the grounds.
The White Building was one of the largest apartment blocks to be established as part of Norodom Sihanouk's vision for a new Cambodia. What you see in the photo is just one block out of six and in fact the whole area sprawls for quite some way along the street. The White Building was jointly designed by two architects, a Khmer and French-Russian, and the project was overseen by Vann Molyvann. The structure was built in 1963 to house moderate income tenants and in particular artists and their families, but many either fled during the time of the Khmer Rouge or were forced into the countryside as part of the regime's ideology of a peasant utopia and the building never returned to its former glory. All six blocks are still in use and house an estimated 2500 tenants but most of them are poverty stricken and the housing project has a reputation (which is not necessarily justified) for prostitution, drug use and other such vices.
Update 2017: The White Building was demolished in the summer of 2017.
Phnom Penh's busy Central Market was constructed in 1937. Its large central dome was designed to allow maximum ventilation, and has four limbs extending from it. Confusingly, Psar Thmei translates as New Market.
First opened in 1929 simply as 'Le Royal' and closed for a period of just over twenty years following the Civil War in Cambodia, today this hotel is Phnom Penh's premier luxury hotel and a city landmark.
Dating from the '30s, the Lux still survives as a cinema today, showing mostly Khmer movies and horror movies from Thailand and Hong Kong.
Modernist in style but not much to look at from the outside, bustling Phsar Kandal is a great local market to explore.
Because of it's out of the way location (the university is closer to the airport than the riverside), the Royal University of Phnom Penh is not part of the downtown self-guided walking tour (*), but, the complex is certainly worth venturing out to see. Established in 1960, many of the university's faculties were built between 1965 and 1975 in the style of New Khmer Architecture, although the campus's most distinctive building, the Institute of Foreign Languages, was added in the early 1980's, after the fall of the Khmer Rouge.
(*) Khmer Architecture Tours do have other tours that include the university and it can be incorporated into any bespoke itinerary.
If you follow Khmer Architecture Tour's suggested route, you will pass many examples of apartment blocks, mostly built in the 1940s, 50s and 60s and their pdf download does a great job of explaining the different styles of Phnom Penh architecture from French colonial to art deco to modernist.
That was very interesting. I am much more of a fan of Cambodia's colonial and art deco architecture than the concrete monstrosities of the 1950's and '60's. Brutal indeed. Reminds me of the horrific Le Corbusier buildings in Chandigarh in India. But, de gustibus non disputandum. And I will certainly take your advice and try to do this walking tour if I ever return to Phnom Penh. Thanks.


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"The Forty-Year-Old Version" adds enough rhythm to the same old song
Radha Blank in The Forty-Year-Old Version. (Netflix)
Multihyphenate Radha Blank makes herself known in her latest, a familiar story with enough of its own flavor.
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In Radha Blank's award-winning directorial debut, The Forty-Year-Old Version, we follow an almost-40-year-old teacher and washed-up playwright (played by Blank as a version of herself). In the wake of her mother's death, she tries to make it as a rapper. But while the idea of the struggling artist isn't new in film, it's rare for a Black woman to be given such a rich internal life as Blank does here. Her trials and tribulations as she works on her material make for compelling viewing. As a performer, Blank's a winning presence too; she moves smoothly between the comedic and the dramatic, the two modes never feeling incongruent.
Where Blank really shows her talents is in the chemistry she has with everybody around her. This is at its most powerful with Peter Kim who plays Radha's life-long best friend, Archie. Archie falls pretty squarely into the gay best friend trope complete with personalized thongs for an island holiday with his boyfriend. But their dynamic is complex, tender, and downright hilarious, which pushes Archie from a stock character into someone more relatable.
The same could be said for her connection to D (Oswin Benjamin), the man of few words who makes her beats. His characterization isn't that interesting on its own merits, but when he's on-screen with Blank they have electric chemistry. It's kind of frustrating that you have to watch both of these interesting relationships forced into story arcs that are incredibly predictable, with disagreements and subsequent reconciliations feeling more like demands of the foreseeable plot structure than the natural behaviors of these characters. The best moments actually come when they're just relaxing outside of the contrived conflict, which the movie could have used more of.
Where this clash between the underwhelming writing and great performances is at its clearest is in Blank's relationship with her students, who are pretty much a collection of the standard characters in any "misfits at school" movie. You've got the Bill and Ted-esque comedic duo played by T.J. Atoms and Antonio Ortiz. Then there's Haskiri Velazquez as a good-hearted but fiery butch lesbian, Ashlee Brian as the student who wants to sleep with his teacher, and Imani Lewis as gifted but repressed student Elaine.
None of these characters feel particularly deep. In the case of Rosa, the writing occasionally lapses into the stereotypes of violence associated with both Latinx women and butch lesbians. Velazquez gives a pretty lovable performance but her character doesn't get much of an internal life; she's boisterous and confrontational to the point of starting a fight with Elaine upon their first meeting. In general, the writing makes these students feel less like real teenagers and more like the straw man version of teenagers discussed by aunts around the Christmas dinner table.
Despite the writing, all of these young actors give genuinely sweet performances, especially Lewis, who conveys the clash between her harsh exterior and more complicated internal life. Blank's warmth also extends beyond these students and New York City as a whole. From public transit to hip-hop to the theater scene, Blank brings her New York to life in a way that feels heavily inspired by the work of Spike Lee. In between are man-on-the-street interviews with assorted New Yorkers about aging and life, which add texture and a sense of place without being hugely relevant to the plot.
Amongst the interpersonal drama, Blank also intersperses critiques about the theater industry and the way it treats marginalized voices. There's a particular focus on Black women in theater, especially the way women of color are treated like a hot commodity, even though they remain undervalued.
As a performer, Blank's a winning presence too; she moves smoothly between the comedic and the dramatic, the two modes never feeling incongruent.
At the center of this critique is Josh Whitman (Reed Birney), a big theater producer known for diverse productions like an all-female Steel Magnolias and an "integrated" Fences. Burney is perfectly slimy, clearly enjoying every moment as he rides right up to the line of being cartoonish whilst still remaining grounded in the reality of theater. Julie Chateauvert and Doris McCarthy also show up as the kind of rich older white people these theaters are catering to, focusing on surface-level messages of unity instead of saying something meaningful about liberatory causes. There's a precision in these scenes that should have carried over to the rest of the script.
Hip-hop is also integral to the film, both in its music and as a broader philosophy. The raps in this film stylistically feel like a throwback to '80s and '90s rap in particular, with its stripped-back beats and quasi-poetic feeling. Their lyrics pack a punch on both emotional and political levels, talking about issues ranging from police brutality to selling out.
Blank also cleverly positions the film's concerns within a longer history of Black art (specifically Black female art). Her takes on modern popular hip-hop feel a little surface-level, dismissing the genre as hypersexualized and without lyrical or political value. It's a take that ignores the reality of both modern and classic hip-hop, but Blank doesn't linger on it long enough to warrant much more than the occasional eye-roll. That hip-hop vibe isn't just limited to the music. Eric Branco's black and white cinematography gives it the aesthetic of an album cover, though the monochrome feels a little underutilized.
The story being told here isn't particularly unique; it's a familiar framework that you could probably sketch out without having seen it. But there's a powerful beating heart that Blank brings out both as an actor and a director, which makes this heartwarming rather than rote. As a heartfelt comedy about aging and a love letter to New York hip-hop, the execution isn't as sharp as it could be, but the rhythms and soul of The Forty-Year-Old Version pull you through.
The Forty-Year-Old Version is now on Netflix.
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As every year, Explora Films attends Sunny Side of the Doc, one of the most important dates for documentary film professionals. During three days, La Rochelle becomes a meeting point for producers, distributors, commissioning editors and buyers from all over the world. New projects and productions are pitched, showing the new trends of the genre.
Explora Films brings this year an exclusive and ambitious documentary project: "The Lady of Cao". It has been developed thanks to the support of the European MEDIA Programme and it will be coproduced by RTVE (Radio Television Española), the Wiese Foundation and the support of the Peruvian government. The documentary portrays the story of the Mommy of Cao, the first female ruler found in Peru in the times before Columbus. Through re-enactments, 3D images and the participation of experts and researchers, we will unfold who this fascinating character was and how this discovery has changed all previous theories about the civilization she belonged to: the Moches.
Among the new completed Explora productions, the latest film by José Manuel Novoa, "The Celtic Legacy" is to be premiered in La Rochelle. The film was coproduced with TVE and Canal Historia and with the cooperation of "Fundacion Ciudade da Cultura de Galicia" and "Xunta de Galicia". The documentary will make us travel in time, from the Megalithic Era to the Romanization of the Iberian Peninsula, in the discovery of the singular culture of the "Galician Castros". Hair-rising landscapes, burial mounds, petroglyphs, fortified settlements, lithic sculptures and exquisite jewels will define an era lost in time. The look of the audience will be lead from the old Galicia to other locations in Europe during those days: Brittany, Ireland, Scotland… where the Celtic culture left deep influences that has survived until nowadays.
Explora is also presenting new completed productions during Sunny Side as "India, the pilgrims of the Ganges" and "The water factor". The first one will offer a journey around the North of India along the basin of the Ganges, the sacred river for Hindus. We will witness the most crowded pilgrimage in the planet and we will come closer to the mystic and enigmatic world of the Sadhus, the sacred men. Nature, tradition and spirituality will blend in this unique film.
On the other side "The Water Factor" will deal with the ancient relationship between men and one of the elements that has conditioned their existence: the water. We will visit different communities scattered in the five continents, whose lives depend on the access to water. From the Gobi desert to the artificial islands of the Titicaca Lake. From the Equatorial African jungles to the rice paddies in the Mekong delta, from the Orinoco basin to the shining sky-scrappers built in the middle of the desert.
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Ebd electric field in the MOS gate oxide at which it breaks down, i.e. looses its insulating properties in an irreversible manner; Ebd is measured by increasing voltage (ramped voltage) applied to MOS gate while monitoring current flowing across the gate oxide.
avalanche breakdown breakdown due to current increase caused by avalanche multiplication of charge carriers in the region featuring very high electric field.
Zener effect occurs in heavily doped p-n junctions at high reverse-bias voltage; energy bands in the junction region are sloped in such way that electron may tunnel directly from the valence band in n-type region to the conduction band in p-type region causing rapid increase of curreent; may cause breakdown of p-n junction but also can be used in a controlled fashion to make a functional device (Zener diode).
breakdown voltage voltage at which breakdown occurs and current increases uncontrollably (unless limited by the external circuit) and breakdown occurs.
ramp voltage oxide breakdown, Ebd measure of reliability of oxides in MOS gates; gate voltage is gradually increased until oxide breaks down (uncontrolled current flows across the oxide)and oxide breakdown voltage is determined; a TZDB method; oxide breakdown field is a ratio of breakdown voltage over oxide thickness typically expressed in MV/cm.
progressive breakdown gradual degradation, and eventual breakdown, of the very thin gate oxide in MOS devices under the prolonged electric field stress.
soft breakdown excessive leakage current in the MOS gate oxide, but no irreversible breakdown of the oxide.
reverse breakdown voltage, the value of reverse bias voltage that causes permanent breakdown of p-n junction, i.e. p-n junction is no longer capable of blocking current flow.


ISLAMABAD An American has hunted Pakistan's national animal and rare wildlife species, markhor, after paying a record $1,10,000 permit fee during a trophy hunting season in the country's northern Gilgit-Baltistan region.
Markhor, a distinctive species of wild goat identified by its long hair and spiralled horns, has the 'protected' status in Pakistan unless permitted by the government to kill it under trophy hunting programmes.
US national Bryan Kinsel Harlan hunted the highest-priced, flaredhorned animal Monday from the Sassi-Harmosh community conservation area in Sassi village of Gilgit, Dawn reported.
As per Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) wildlife department, Harlan paid a whopping $1,10,000 for hunting the rare wildlife species in the region under a conservation programme. This is the highest permit fee ever paid in the country.
The foreign hunter managed to hunt the 41-inch markhor trophy, which is considered a good-sized trophy, the report said. "It was an easy and close shot and I am pleased to take this trophy," Harlan claimed.
On January 21, another US citizen, Dianda Christopher Anthony, hunted the highest-rated Astore markhor after paying $1,05,000, days after fellow countryman John Amistoso hunted the Astore Markhor in the communitycontrolled Bunji area of Gilgit, paying $1,00,000 permit fee.
So far, some 50 wild animals have been hunted by foreigners and national hunters in the region under trophy hunting season 2018-19. The trophy hunting programme has been successful in increasing the number of markhor as well as bringing prosperity to the region, according to the officials.
The local people now work to protect the animal instead of killing, leading to a drastic decrease in its numbers.


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