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Persons of Indian Studies by Prof. Dr. Klaus Karttunen
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MUNDY, Peter
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MUNDY, Peter. Before 1609 — after 1667. British Traveller. From Penryn in Cornwall. In 1611 he became a cabin boy in a merchantman, gradually arose to higher positions. Visited France, Constantinople and Spain. Three times in India in E.I.C.'s service in 1628-34, 1636, 1655. In the 1639-48 in Denmark, Prussia and Russia. In India visited Surat, the Mughal court in Agra and Varanasi. In 1663 retired to Falmouth. His unpublished manuscript was only printed in the beginning of the 20th century.
Publications: The Travels of Peter Mundy. Edited from an unpublished MS. by R. C. Temple. 1-2. Hakluyt Soc. 2nd series 17. 1907-14; Peter Mundy, Merchant Adventurer. Ed. by R. E. Pritchard. 262 p. Oxford 2011.
Sources: W.P.C[ourtney], D.N.B. 39, 303; Wikipedia; not in Oaten 1909!
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Oh, and apart from the other reasons I don't like full public financing, it's a pipe dream anyway, both politically and, with any plausibly foreseeable Supreme Court, Constitutionally.


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Univision Makes Outreach to Advertisers Amid Coronavirus Confusion
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Spanish-language broadcaster Univision is among the media outlets working to reconnect with advertisers amid the confusion erupting from the coronavirus pandemic.
In a letter issued Friday ,the network told clients that it intends to prepare a " video presentation to be streamed once it is reasonable and safe to do so" rather than a traditional physical to start talks in the industry's annual "upfront" ad sales market. "We will rely on your guidance to inform us when your business is ready to make plans for the coming year and we will make decisions together on when we present our strategy and content," says the letter, from Steve Mandala, president of ad sales and marketing for the company, which is slated to be majority-controlled by former Viacom finance chief Wade Davis and private-equity firm Searchlight Capital Partners when a deal is completed later this year.
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Mandala believes Univision has critical programming elements that will be of interest to Madison Avenue in weeks to come. In an interview, he says organizers of Mexican League Soccer (above, pictured), currently suspended, could bring back play as early as May 25. "The thought is by that time, live games could be done without fans in the stadium," says Mandala. "We are working with our sponsors right now to reform plans." Live sports, he adds, "is a big deal for viewers and for our community, a sign of things returning to normal for our viewers, too."
And he says Univision will not be plagued by a lack of original programming over the next few quarters, because many of its primetime scripted telenovelas have a long-lead production schedule. "We produce or co-produce 90% of our programming. We are fully set through at least January of 2021," he says. "We will have original episodes for the entire year. We don't do any repeats and we don't intend to going forward, either."
Univision is one of a handful of media companies making public their Madison Avenue outreach in a chaotic time. Fox Corp. has recently approached senior media buyers to talk to them about the potential for live sports in the third and fourth quarters of 2020, while A+E Networks has discussed various ways its networks can help advertisers attach themselves to relevant social issues.
There seems to be some amount of hope that TV can conduct some sort of "upfront" market in 2020, despite the shutdown of production of new series forced by the pandemic. "My sense is there are some big clients that are ready now, and there are others who are going to take a lot of time to get ready because of this interruption," Mandala says.

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Pan-Turkism as a Rising Threat to Regional Stability
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Ankara seeks to exploit the alliance with Baku to strengthen its foothold in the region in a bid to restore the Ottoman Empire and merge the Turkic States of Central Asia into a seamless logistics space with common armed forces.
Direct involvement of Turkish military and Syrian mercenaries in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the side of Azerbaijan marked the peak of the pan-Turkism policy aggressively pursued by the Turkish leader Recep Erdogan and his ruling Justice and Development Party to extend Ankara's influence to the Turkic States of Southern Caucasus and Central Asia regions. "We celebrate this glorious victory here today. But Azerbaijan's liberation of its lands from occupation does not mean that the struggle is over. The struggle, which is waged in the political and military spheres, will continue on many other fronts," Erdogan said during the victory parade in Baku last December after the signature of a peace agreement that cemented the end of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh. Thus, he unequivocally confirmed Turkey's readiness to secure its geostrategic interests by all kinds of means, including military force.
Inciting ethno-religious conflicts
Erdogan's ominous mention of the "other fronts" provides an insight into the very essence of the foreign policy of today's Turkey that is trying to regain its former grandeur by using all openings in the turbulence created by the crumbling unipolar world order led by the United States. The disintegration processes in Europe and the diminishing role of world powers, which had previously prevented Ottoman ambitions from transcending national borders, gave Turkey a green light for geopolitical revenge. However, in order to restore its regional leadership, Ankara chose rather dubious methods, including proliferation of political Islam and encouragement of separatist sentiments in countries with Turkic minorities.
It is worth noting that although the ideology of pan-Turkism precedes the presidency of Recep Erdogan, he is the first leader in Turkey's modern history to vigorously implement it in the most radical fashion.
Turkey and the armed groups Ankara took under its wing pursue a consistent policy of terror against the Kurdish population in the areas of Northern Syria captured during the Turkish intervention. Ethnic cleansing, assassination and abduction of Kurdish entrepreneurs and landowners with the purpose of subsequent redistribution of their property among the Turkey-backed factions are rife in the occupied territories. According to human rights watchdogs, during the three-year period of Turkish occupation of Afrin, 674 civilians were killed, more than 7,300 were abducted and 300,000 were forcibly displaced. In addition, Turkish companies cut down over 314,000 olive trees and plundered more than 70 archaeological sites.
Besides the Kurds, Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh have also experienced the plight of Turkic nationalism last year. Turkey sent thousands of Syrian mercenaries to support Azerbaijan's troops in the fight for the disputed region. Nagorno-Karabakh is considered a part of Azerbaijan, but since 1994 it has had a quasi-independent status, profiting from the protection of Armenia. During three months of fierce clashes, Azerbaijan managed to achieve superiority with Turkey's active support and forced Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to sign an agreement that secured Baku's control over occupied territories.
Military experts say that Azerbaijan's victory was regarded by Ankara as a proof of the correctness of its foreign policy. It also was strategically important in terms of Turkey gaining direct access to the Caspian Sea and the Central Asian region via Nakhichevan Autonomous Region, Nagorno-Karabakh, and the main lands of Azerbaijan for further expansion into the Turkic countries.
Many nations - one army
Another goal of the pan-Turkic project, perhaps the one with the top priority, is the creation of the so-called Turan army. The term Turan, which in the original connotation denoted a historical region in Central Asia, is commonly used by Turkish nationalists to designate all Turkic states. It gained more and more traction in the Turkish media as violence in Nagorno-Karabakh escalated. This ambitious idea envisages the unification of the armed forces of the Turkic countries under the leadership of Turkey.
Many analysts believe Ankara has begun to take steps in this direction long ago, integrating the Turkic countries into multiple joint political and economic organizations and initiatives. For example, in 2009, the Turkic Council was created, which, in addition to Turkey included Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. As it was stated at the time, the council's aim is to promote comprehensive cooperation between the Turkic states, including the military sphere. Within the framework of the council's work, Turkey has repeatedly put forward proposals to accelerate the formation of the joint armed forces, but until recently all these imperial initiatives did not go beyond ink on paper.
At the same time, the developments in Nagorno-Karabakh have largely become a catalyst for a significant rapprochement between the Turkish and the Azerbaijanian armed forces, possibly paving the way for further consolidation of the Turkic countries in the near future. The allies in Baku and Ankara have already announced their intention to conduct joint aviation and landing exercises in the province of Kars, a region located on the Armenian-Turkish border that has historical ties with Armenia. Given the territorial proximity of the drills' site to Armenia and the recent end of the war in Karabakh, which left thousands dead and wounded, the planned maneuver represents a thinly disguised aggression and is an unambiguous message to neighboring states.
In recent years, Turkey's appetites not only began to grow within the former Ottoman Empire, but also transcended the areas of its historical influence, reaching Latin America, Western Europe and Southeast Asia. Ankara consistently supports the Muslim Brotherhood and its political affiliates in Tunisia and Libya, instrumentalizes the Turkish diaspora to exert pressure on the policies of several European countries, incites pan-Turkic sentiments and uses "soft power" in the Balkans and Central Asia, changing the long-standing balance of power. Turkey is also a haven for Islamic radicals from all over the world, in particular from the Xinjian-Uygur Autonomous Region of China. Surprisingly, these actions by Turkish nationalists are yet to elicit an adequate and coherent response from China, the EU, Russia and Iran, as well as other leading states and international organizations, who must fully understand the potential repercussions and threat of Turkic separatism to their integrity and sovereignty.
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Millennials Flip the Dial to Classic Hits as the Summer Starts
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When the weather heats up for summer, the sun also starts to shine brighter on Classic Hits radio, which has experienced the most listener growth over the past two summers. So it's not surprising that the format is off to a strong start this year once again.
While the audience share among persons 6 and older for this popular format was flat from April to May at a 5.4%, the 18-34 and 25-54 listener bases are growing. Classic Hits trended 3.6%-3.8%-3.9% among 18-34s and 4.7%-4.7%-4.8% among 25-54s since March 2016. The 3.9% share in May 2016 among 18-34 year-olds is the first time outside of the holidays that the format has reached this level among this listener group. This format may not be targeted toward Millennials, but they are tuning into Classic Hits like never before.
The Alternative format is also blazing new listening trends. Tune-in to this format tends to be pretty steady from month to month, but that may be changing, particularly among the older listeners of this format. This May, the listener share of adults 25-54 grew to 3.9%, which is good enough for a new record. While Alternative is still the sixth-most popular format among Millennials, the appeal of Alternative music appears to be spreading to the money demo of adults 25-54.
Just like in April, the All Sports format continued to surge at the onset of summer. Among persons 6+ the format jumped from a 4.5% share in April to a 4.9% share in May. The share among 18-34 audience climbed from 3.2% in April to 3.6% in May. The All Sports core demo of adults 25-54 moved up half a point to hit a 5.5% share in May. Thanks to post-season basketball, hockey and the start of baseball season, there are lots of reasons for sports fans to tune into Sports Talk radio in the month of May.
*Nielsen Audio officially has 48 measured PPM markets, but three of them (Nassau-Suffolk, Middlesex-Somerset-Union, and San Jose) are included in the larger New York and San Francisco metro areas. Therefore, the listening data from those Maykets are included in these results even though we did not break them out separately.
Data used in this article is inclusive of multicultural audiences. Hispanic consumer audiences are composed of both English and Spanish speaking representative populations.


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Congressman Fattah Applauds Dept. of Education Report: Lower Teacher Salaries = Less Opportunity for African American, Latino Students
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA-02), a Congressional leader in education reform and fairness, says a new report today by the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights provides the hard facts for something educators have always known: students of color are taught by teachers who earn lower salaries, and that leaves them at a disadvantage.
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"This data shows that schools with higher concentrations of African American and Latino students receive less funding – in terms of teachers' salaries - than do schools with fewer of these students," Fattah said. "Given that salary expenditures make up the largest share of school district budgets, these disparities have the potential to seriously impact students' educational opportunity."
Specifically, this data explores differences in teacher salaries between schools of different racial compositions. The finding is drawn from a survey of nearly 7,000 school districts in the 2009-2010 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), the largest sample ever included in the CRDC. The analysis of teacher pay (one of several new data categories in the 2009-2010 survey) comes from results reported from 2,217 diverse districts – those with greater than 20 percent and less than 80 percent Latino and African American enrollment.
"The future of American democracy and economic vitality requires a well educated citizenry," Fattah continued. "This report shows that we're shooting ourselves in the foot by laying such an unlevel foundation. I urge my Congressional colleagues and those in State legislatures to see this new report as a call to arms. Our system simply is not working for far too many of our students."
Fattah is the author of two pieces of legislation pending in Congress seeking to remedy these inequities. The Student Bill of Rights Act (H.R. 1295) seeks to ensure students have access to equitable educational resources, including highly effective teachers, across school districts. The ESEA Fiscal Fairness Act (H.R. 1294) provides that schools have access to comparable dollars within school districts.
The Philadelphia Congressman is also the lead sponsor, along with Congressman Mike Honda (CA-15) of the Department of Education's Equity and Excellence Commission. That commission, which is expected to release a report at the end of the year, will detail the current state of school finance equity and recommend policies to ensure a meaningful opportunity to learn for all students.
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Last week, I tried my hardest to earnestly engage with "The Newsroom" on its own terms, to try to understand the ways in which the show, even while indulging beliefs and tics I find, respectively, obscene and repulsive, was doing well on its own terms.
That mission is over.
Our episode begins on August 25, 2011, as Sloane Sabbith encounters Maggie sleeping in the office at 6 a.m. Maggie will be storing her bags in Sloane's office as she recovers from her breakup; she explains to Sloane how you know if someone is screening your calls (it goes to voicemail after two or fewer rings). Sloane had somehow never realized this, but she knows plenty about endorphins. Sloane and Maggie go to the gym together! Meanwhile, MacKenzie and producer Jerry (Hamish Linklater) get into an argument over a hot tip (the one that will catalyze the rest of the season, it seems) that the U.S. has used sarin gas on Taliban forces, interrupting her highlighting the New York Times. Their conversation ends when Maggie comes and summons Maggie, with sopping-wet hair. No blowdryers at the gym, it seems! Oops!
The opening minutes of "The Newsroom" indicate just how impossible it is to imagine that anyone -- though people must be out there! -- earnestly watches the show for fun. Any scene involving two women seems to advance the notion that women are no more than simpering, perpetually confused dummies, even when they're just talking about going to the gym; any scene involving news judgment comes to feel like political hectoring, even when it's about something necessarily removed from partisan politics. By the time MacKenzie and Maggie come into the meeting, during which one of Will's fellow ACN anchors is lecturing the group on how, like his wife, women alllll love closets for minutes on end, one realizes that the compulsions (to infantilize women and to embrace the power of the vociferous, verbose Great Man to dazzle those around him with speech) are utterly tied. Anyway, the closet lecture ends after Sloane is told by a colleague that she's just like his wife and she seems okay with it? And Will tells the group it was his idea not to anchor the network's 9/11 anniversary coverage, though he had been commanded not to by the network after his remarks on how the Tea Party was the "American Taliban."
A flight of fancy here: given that no real legal repercussions have fallen on Will (other than what he knows will be a condemnation on the floor of the House, which, whatever), is it so bad that he's getting in trouble for this remark? Will's show effectively resembles very few shows in prime-time cable news precisely because it's focused on reportage rather than commentary (except when the show wants it to be). If, say, Rachel Maddow made the "Taliban" remark (which is hard to imagine), she'd be forgiven as it would be of a piece with her general mien. But there are reasons why straight-news anchors don't condemn entire political wings; one of them is that, in the real world, it makes their programs hopelessly muddled. Is "News Night" a show with hard-hitting reporting on Libya or a show whose host makes offensively sweeping comparisons, stopping just short of invoking Godwin's Law? We don't know, and neither do Romney's flacks, who only let Jim on the bus when one of Meryl Streep's daughters, a competing journalist, orders them to.
September 11 overlies this episode, including a scene in which young folks in the control room watch archival footage of Will McAvoy on September 11, his first day as a news anchor. What this amounts to is weird footage, shot during an ACN commercial break, of Charlie telling Will that Will was the eldest brother in his family and ergo is more protective (?); when McAvoy went back on air after this lecture, he told the audience he had been "searching for Biblical quotes," and that though he didn't know what he was doing, he would figure it out and be there for his audience. (The most important part of 9/11 was how Will McAvoy learned to be a journalist.)
Cant was comforting in September 2001; in 2013 it feels doubly lazy, both as a way to avoid actually reckoning with the historical forces that brought about September 11 (someone who throws around the term "Taliban" might do well to learn what differentiates them from the Tea Party) and to make a silly TV show feel, automatically, Deep. "The West Wing" did a very special episode in which September 11 happened in President Bartlet's world, shortly after the event itself; twelve years later, Sorkin has run out of other ideas to make his show seem like a serious program.
I'm leaving aside, for reasons of space, the serious-minded subplot around Troy Davis, because what follows is so much more absurd and fun to write about -- perhaps consider the wild tonal shifts in your series if you don't want this to happen, "Newsroom" writers! The show's nadir may have come in Maggie's decision to call Jim and tell him that there's a YouTube video of her yelling at a "Sex and the City" tour bus, some hellish hangover from last season; the decision not to start somewhat fresh, here, for the benefit both of new viewers who can't possibly care and old ones who might like an angle in on Maggie aside from "silly idiot who acts in dumb ways," is astounding. Maggie uses Reporting Skills (you may have heard of them, bloggers?) to, along with Sloane, track down the woman who posted the YouTube video; here are the signs that this woman is from the mind of Aaron Sorkin:
She is hesitant to take down her video because, with more than 1,100 views, it's building her brand.
She writes a blog in the voice of Charlotte York Goldenblatt, a popular character from the television series "Sex and the City" (1998-2004). [n.b.: This really enrages Sloane, who is a Charlotte fan.]
She seems really interested in Maggie's romantic life.
As the episode grinds towards a close, with little resolved -- Maggie is still sad about whatever's going on with her love life though she's headed to Uganda to cover terrorism, Jim still hasn't managed to pin down an interview with candidate Romney, the Troy Davis stuff still little more than a chance for Will to declare he doesn't get involved in "advocacy" (unless he can call people the Taliban, I guess?) -- Will decides to Google "Will McAvoy hate." (That's what the angry do nowadays, as much as they were in 2010 or in 2002.) For as much as "Sex and the City"'s goofiness evidently left the sort of impression on Sorkin that hasn't faded in the nine years since it ended, there's a reason Carrie Bradshaw never Googled herself, or really did much on the Internet; even in that show's heyday, it was pretty obvious that remarking in the show about how the Internet doesn't understand how special and nuanced your characters are makes you, well, a solipsistic nightmare.
I may be biased because I'm writing this, for a website, from my apartment and not from my parents' basement where Sorkin presumes I lie, but I simply had to wonder: Is there any way that the Occupy Wall Street episode, evidently coming soon as the "News Night" staff is sitting around discussing what a non-story Occupy is (very realistic newsroom time-management strategy, duh; all journalists talk about stories they have no intention of covering), is going to do anything other than completely derail the show? More as the story develops.
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My focus was for this series was on sites located outside of the metropolitan landscape, where water is the central player on the stage of urban expansion and deterioration. This led me first to the city of Palm Springs, located in the middle of Coachella Valley in the Southern California desert.
Palm Springs comprises over a 100 golf courses. These golf courses have attracted over 3 million visitors each year and generate an income of $1 billion dollars. A small section of the profits from this main attraction is invested back into building and maintaining infrastructure, such as wells that siphon water from an aquifer located deep beneath the golf courses. The 400,000 residents who own homes, swimming pools, farms, golf courses and other resorts depend heavily on the aquifer.
Along with San Diego and Los Angeles, Palm Springs has become dependent on receiving water from the Colorado River by way of the Colorado Aqueduct, and ice from the surrounding mountains. According to the California Department of Water Resources, Palms Springs uses 736 gallons of fresh water per capita per day to sustain its golf courses, and other necessities to keep the town from drying out in the harsh desert climate.
In contrast to Palms Springs, sixty miles Southeast along the briny shores of the Salton Sea, like its neighbor, the Salton City. Another dependent of the Colarado Aqueduct, it is a former resort city that enjoyed its prosperity when the Salton Sea was used as a destination for tourists and wildlife, until sixty years of agricultural runoff and industrial waste polluted the large body of water. With no main attraction like its Northern neighbor other than being a candidate for landfill, the Salton City remains a question of whether it is too small to ignore or too big to pursue. According to the California Department of Water Resources, the 3500 residents of Salton City use "531 gallons of fresh water per capita per day." If this figure encompasses their daily needs for survival, then it is too big of an amount to ignore.
Edward Burtynsky, the Canadian photographic artist, stated in an interview that, "I'm a firm believer that what we do with our environment is ultimately our habitat, and this is what provides us the conditions for life. When things go wrong with the water, when things go wrong with the air, it doesn't select the left or the right, you know? When consequence comes home to roost, it doesn't respect religion or politics. It hits us all equally, for the rich and the poor."
California has been growing at a rate of 200,000 people a year. Newcomers looking to live or visit Palm Springs, Salton City and their progenitor, Los Angeles, may not be aware of the dwindling freshwater supply around the state; they may not be aware of the decade long and often extreme droughts, that have been part of California's natural history. As long as the aqueducts keep siphoning from their respective freshwater sources a false sense of security is at risk.
My observations of the cities which I have profiled in the Mulholland's Gold project leads me back to Los Angeles wondering if it will continue to provide the illusion of Eden in a semi-arid desert, or if it will end up a desert city? With all the abundance of freshwater that residents in that part of the country assume they will always have, what if the freshwater runs out? Could desalination plants, super treated wastewater and contaminated groundwater become the new "freshwater" for all these people?
I worry that even if these sources became the force-choice, they may serve only as wishful alternatives to a lasting water supply.
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The white flowers appear in the leaf axils from April through July and also in November. The long, thin leaves are alternate and narrow at the base.
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I had applied for a car loan in the month of October (2007) from HDFC Bank and it was approved. But at that time the HDFC Bank executive told me that my name shows in the defaulter's list as Richa. One of my cousins has the same name.
When I applied for a personal loan from Barclays Bank, they rejected it, stating the same reason. I am sure my cousin never took the loan or ever used any kind of proof from my end of such a thing. What do I do?


Carrefour francophone has further developed its remarkable summer camp program for children. Greater Sudbury's French-language cultural centre has recruited many of the same experts who ensured last year's much appreciated series, while introducing some new themes as well.
Carrefour francophone offers two series of summer camps: a French Immersion series and a Francophone series. Most weekly themes are the same in both series. The French immersion camps provide children aged 4 to 12 with opportunities to enjoy summer fun with new friends while acquiring knowledge and skills in fascinating disciplines such as magic tricks, fine arts, cooking, sciences, astronomy, theatre, world cultures and circus arts.
The camps are held at Ernie Checkeris Public School and Valley View Public School over a five-day week, except for two four-day camps due to statutory holidays. Registration fees include a healthy lunch and two snacks from Coop Boréal. If required, a free child care service is available before and after the day camps, from 7 to 9 a.m. and from 4 to 6 p.m.
From July 2nd to 5th, the Magic Camp is hosted by The Amazing René (magician René Lacourcière). René teaches fascinating illusions that children can master, like drawing a specific card from a deck and extracting a coin from someone's ear. Kids develop their dexterity, their skill at directing the viewer's eye. Who says magicians never reveal their secrets?
From July 8th to 12th, the Arts Camp is hosted by Rose-Anne Cardinal of the Sudbury Art Gallery. Children develop their inner artist by creating inspiring works using a variety of professional art supplies. They will design and produce magnificent artwork using various drawing, printmaking, sculpting, and painting techniques. Fine arts are fun arts!
From July 15th to 19th, the Cooking Camp is hosted by Chef Jean and Chef Yves of Coop Boréal. Through games and samples, children learn to recognize and harmonize flavours. They will discover locally produced food with the Eat Local Coop. They will invent a dessert and prepare a full three-course meal themselves. To eat well and grow well, make food fun!
From July 22nd to 26th, the Science Camp is hosted by Louise Bergeron of CaméléArt. Children will explore chemistry, physics, biology and engineering hands-on and demonstrate experiments to parents and friends. They will create optical illusions with lights and mirrors. They will solve a crime by studying clues. They will use tools to dismantle machines to see what's inside and learn to build strong structures and to manipulate sound and vibrations. Science is cool!
From July 29th to August 2nd, the Astronomy Camp is hosted by Paul-Émile Legault, professor of astronomy at Laurentian University. Children will visit the planetarium and see galaxies, neutron stars, powerful telescopes, holograms, and rainbows created by refracted light. They will discover the De Oort comet cloud, the asteroid belt and the De Kuiper Belt. They will even attempt to decipher an extraterrestrial message!
From August 6th to 9th, the Theatre Camp is hosted by Justine Gogoua of Just'In Arts Company. African traditions are exciting for all children. Kids get to play different drums, understand their importance in African society and even build their own drum. They learn fun moves like the harvest dance and the children's dance, and turn old clothes and dolls into exciting new puppet characters. The grand finale is their own African performance for all to see!
From August 12th to 16th, the World Tour Arts Camp is hosted by Louise Bergeron of CaméléArt. Through traditional arts, children discover the culture, history, geography and climate of many lands. There will be Egyptian hieroglyphics, North American indigenous tales with leather stamping, African music with drums and percussions, Tibetan geometrical mandalas and Haitian Taino petroglyphs. It's a world tour on the wings of traditional arts!
From August 19th to 23rd, the Circus Camp is hosted by Francis Tousignant and Christian Thériault of SirKaFran. This summer camp is a like a whole week at the circus! It's a world full of concentration, perseverance, feats of skill and good times in the traditional circus atmosphere. Children learn to perform feats with balls, pins, rings, scarves, diabolos, flower sticks, Chinese plates and more! Their new talents are put on display in a grand finale performance.
Details about all these camps, both the immersion series and the Francophone series, are available online at carrefour.ca/camps or at Carrefour francophone, 14 Beech St., in downtown Sudbury.
Registration fees in the immersion series are $185 per five-day camp, except for the Theatre Camp and the Magic Camp, which cost $160 for four days.
For further information and registration, call 705-675-6493, ext. 207, or email [email protected].
Carrefour francophone thanks its French Immersion camp partners: Rainbow District School Board, Collège Boréal, Art Gallery of Sudbury; and its funders: the City of Greater Sudbury, Heritage Canada, Service Canada and United Way.


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Darren Clarke confirms his Senior Open debut at Royal Lytham
Eight years after being crowned Golfer of the Year, Darren Clarke is looking forward to a return to the links and a new set of challenges. The Northern Irishman celebrated his 50th birthday last year and has decided to take advantage of his eligibility for the senior tour.
He will be looking to add to his tally of 14 tournament wins, the last of which was his only major title, the Open Championship in 2011, when he tees off at Royal Lytham & St Annes in July.
Emotionally charged
Years might have gone by since that famous win, but it is one that is imprinted in the memories of every golf enthusiast. Wins had been few and far between for the man from Dungannon, and he dedicated the victory to his late wife, who had died of breast cancer five years earlier, aged just 39.
Clarke is looking forward to returning to a course on which he has performed well over the years. He spoke to "Golf Today" of how close he had come in 2001: "I remember being one behind on 17 and went with driver when I shouldn't have. It cost me that time, but I have great memories there and I like the course."
Who to back?
Clarke will be among many high-profile names teeing off in this year's Senior Open, and this will be an event that captures the attention of the serious sports betting enthusiasts as well as more casual followers of the sport. These days, it is a simple matter to place a bet on what were once seen as fringe sports. Established names like Betsson provide the opportunity to bet on the latest Esports leagues that are being introduced on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as major tournaments and, of course, senior events too.
Clarke will be up against some familiar names, all of whom are still playing at a high standard. The 2018 winner Miguel Jiminez is among the early favorites, while veteran Bernhard Langer proved in 2017 that even in his 60s, he is still a force to be reckoned with in this major.
Other big names looking to roll back the years will include Fred Couples, Colin Montgomerie, Tom Watson, Vijay Singh and Mark McNulty. There are also Clarke's fellow new entrants to the over-50s club in Retief Goosen, Michael Campbell and Paul Lawrie, who will all be set to make their Senior Open debuts.
An historic venue
It has been 25 years since the Senior Open has taken place at Royal Lytham & St Annes, with the club having previously hosted the event four years running from 1991 to 1994. Bobby Verwey, John Fourie, Bob Charles and Tom Wargo were the winners respectively, meaning the course has never seen a European take up the Senior Claret Jug.
If recent form is anything to go by, that is set to change this year. The past three winners have all been European, with Paul Broadhurst having won in 2016 prior to Langer and Jiminez most recently. Clarke is eager for the trophy to remain in European hands, and is relishing the challenge ahead.
"Over the last few years, Miguel, Bernhard and Paul have played some superb golf to win the Senior Open Trophy," Clarke said, "and the number of guys who travel from around the world to play just shows how important the Senior Open is on our calendars."


Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.
Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficu.
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations -- wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little.


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Country Joe McDonald is perhaps best known for his Vietnam-era folk-rock protest songs, especially the antiwar classic "I-Feel-Like-I'm Fixin'-to-Die Rag." McDonald has also been active in Vietnam veterans' causes, and he has a keen interest in Florence Nightingale and other nurses who have cared for wounded soldiers. Over the years McDonald has recorded several "nurse songs," which he describes as an effort to "advocate for people who seemed to be 'taken for granted' and seemed to have no voice of their own in the public." That's a sad tribute to a profession that includes "advocacy" as one of its core missions. But we can't argue with it.
McDonald put his "nurse songs" together on the "Thank the Nurse" EP in 2002. The songs are passionate, fairly catchy, and well-played, though not especially distinctive, musically or lyrically. And given their explicit pro-nurse goals, they will likely strike some as a bit didactic. Three of the four are about nurses at war, and two of these are tributes to nursing pioneers Nightingale and Clara Barton. McDonald sees nurses as heroic fighters for wounded soldiers who have been used and discarded. The nurses improve bad conditions, brave firefights, tend wounds, provide emotional support, and of course, "guard[] [their] patients with a .45." The last song, "Thank the Nurse," is a specific, if limited, account of what nurses do, including "saving your life." It actually suggests that nurses are more important than physicians. The songs are not free of gender stereotypes and angel imagery, and they don't fully convey nurses' clinical skills, focusing mainly on emotional support. But none suggests that nurses are physician helpers. And all give a sense of nurses' role as the last force protecting patients from death and despair.
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"The Girl Next Door," the first track, examines the experience of a U.S. Army nurse sent to Vietnam without much sense of what she was getting into. According to McDonald's web site, it was written specifically for Lynda Van Devanter, author of Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam. The song is not unlike a 1969 Rolling Stones groove, and it's the only one on the EP that really rocks. The lyrics follow the "girl next door" to a war where she sees "death and pain" and learns to tend horrific battle wounds. McDonald seems especially focused on the female nurse's lost innocence ("The jungle ain't a place for a girl to be alone / Surrounded by the enemy with all the soldiers gone"), and the contrast between her wartime role and her traditional female qualities. The chorus bears this out:
Guarding her patients with a .45
Checking their wounds to make sure they're alive
By day she's in fatigues and at night she's in a dress
She's everybody's savior--the Army combat nurse.
This song is really more concerned with what's happening to the nurse than it is with her patients:
Back home in civilian life, Army life all done
Childhood friends can't understand why she's not any fun.
But a vision of the wounded screams inside her brain
And the girl next door will never be the same.
In the final chorus, after the line about the nurse being "everybody's savior," McDonald calls: "Who'll save her now?"
There are some outdated gender assumptions here, lyrics that seem to suggest women have no place serving in combat zones, though they also suggest that the nurse "under attack" will "do her best." McDonald has explained to us that the "at night she's in a dress" lyric refers to the nurses' being forced to dress up after their shifts to "entertain officers." But no listener who isn't a Vietnam War veteran or expert is going to get that when there's no indication of it in the song. More broadly, McDonald has noted that the gender and savior imagery is meant at least in part to reflect how the soldiers saw the nurses. But again, he hasn't created the lyrical distance that would help listeners see it only that way, rather than as a statement of his own views, or at least his omniscient narrator. And although the song refers to the "tend[ing] the sick" and the "mend[ing]" and "checking" of wounds, it's pretty vague about what nurses actually do clinically.
But the song does offer a rare and striking look at the psychological effects on nurses who regularly confront horrific trauma in settings where their own safety is threatened. This theme runs counter to the still-common notion that nurses are spiritual beings, angels (or "saviors") who don't suffer like other humans from a lack of security, time, rest, money, or respect.
The EP's second and third tracks are more folk-oriented songs that provide surprisingly compelling history lessons about 19th century nursing pioneers Nightingale and Barton. As they do so, Grateful Dead guitar god Jerry Garcia backs McDonald with some of his fluent guitar runs.
"The Lady with the Lamp" describes the suffering of the British soldiers in the Crimean War, and at least in a general sense, what Nightingale did to help them. The chorus:
The Lady with the Lamp
You know she understands
She's the soldier's friend
Seemingly told from the perspective of a gravely wounded soldier, the song describes "the hell of war"--"A soldier's life is just give and give / And then they ask for more." It also includes a few lines that could be seen as references to Nightingale's advocacy and work for the soldiers: "Walking on the picket line where my comrades fell / Holding up the thin red line in the shot and shell." Though some today might read the "thin red line" to refer to battlefield health care, McDonald has explained that it is a reference to the red-clad British soldiers themselves, taken from a contemporaneous poem.
Eventually the narrator gets to his own condition: "Now I'm in this cold and lonely room / Wondering if I'll live at all." He asks his nurse for a cup of tea ("I've such a terrible thirst"), for some final company ("I feel it's come to the worst"), and to convey his last words and belongings to the family he will never see again. But the song is not just a lament or a tribute; it has a target:
First they use us
And then they throw us away.
Only Miss Nightingale
Knows the price that we pay.
I'm guessing Country Joe, Navy veteran and veterans' advocate, is not just talking about distant history here.
After the reference to Nightingale as the "soldier's friend" in the final chorus, McDonald sings: "She will hold his hand / Stay with him till the end." Of course, a number of these descriptions of care are consistent with relatively unskilled hand-holding. We don't get much sense of what Nightingale and her colleagues actually did to improve the outcomes of patients who did not die, nor of Nightingale's lasting public health achievements. In this sense, the song is something of a missed opportunity. But the portrait of the nurse as patient advocate and emotional supporter is strong. In particular, the song strongly aligns Nightingale with the soldiers' interests in desperate times. As McDonald has noted to us, she improved the way dying soldiers were treated, keeping them company at the end, making sure last words and belongings were sent home, and keeping records of death, though the song does not make clear that she actually pioneered these key changes.
"Clara Barton" is also pretty general, but it's stronger in its portrait of a nurse engaging in large-scale patient advocacy. And there's no hand-holding. Instead, McDonald goes right to Barton's lasting public health influence and her role as a female pioneer:
Every time in the world that someone receives first aid
You can thank Clara Barton for the life that is saved
She lived out her life in a world ruled by men
Every time they knocked her down, she got back up again.
This is a simple but powerful statement of what Barton did in founding the American Red Cross, an organization that has obviously had a huge impact. And the remark about Barton's determination despite being female is much better than the references to women in "The Girl Next Door." Then McDonald turns to some things that Barton did for Civil War soldiers.
Civil War veterans with tears in their eyes
Told how she braved the battle just to save their lives
She never ran from the shot and the shell
Bringing aid and comfort in the midst of hell
And even then at the war's very end
When the prisoners were lost and without friends
She helped families to find those that they loved
A professional angel sent from up above.
We appreciate the reference to life-saving, and to helping reconnect families following the war's end, which is no trivial thing. It might have been nice to get something more concrete than "aid and comfort," a phrase that may implicate some of the unskilled hand-holder concerns. And even though Barton was not a trained health worker like Nightingale, as McDonald has explained, the reference to a "professional angel sent from up above" still suggests that nurses are noble spiritual beings, rather than skilled health workers who need decent working conditions. And no, simply including the word "professional" does not fix it.
"Clara Barton" also reveals the platitudes and filler in some of the EP's lyrics:
Thank the Lord for Clara Barton and long live her name
The American Red Cross is her claim to fame
When you see a Red Cross worker in a time of blood or war
Take a moment to remember and thank the Lord--Clara Barton!
This verse doesn't pull its weight. Without the extraneous words, it might have explained some of what Barton or the Red Cross has done, specifically, like save millions through blood donations, give primary care to refugees, or feed earthquake victims.
The last song, "Thank the Nurse," explains a little about what nurses do to save lives and improve outcomes. And it includes surprisingly favorable comparisons to physicians. Because the song is an explicit "thank you" to nurses, it has less of a story to tell, and so it is less organic. The chorus:
Thank the nurse that's nursing you
The one that nursed you through
For saving your life...saving your life...saving your life
This is a bit awkward and general, but the verses are full of specifics about nurses' vital 24/7 care:
Doctors diagnose and physicians prescribe
Surgeons can operate but they don't save your life
When a fever's burning, who helps you through the night?
Gives you medication, checks your vital signs
When you wake up in recovery, who's right there by your side?
With a smile and reassurance, restoring your self-pride
Well the doctor is important, that you can't deny
But when you get down to it the nurse keeps you alive
The one who cleans your body and bandages your wounds
The one who makes your bed, gives you medicine and food
Helps you through contractions until the pain subsides
Encourage you to make it, till you see that baby smile
When you're sick and convalescing you're seldom in the mood
To pay attention to the one attending you
So sick with rack and worry you think you'll lose your mind
You survive the accident but all your friends have died
When the orderly is sleeping and physician can't be found
No need for apprehension--the nurse is makin' rounds
These lyrics do convey some of nurses' vital sentinel and support roles. However, there is still a heavy focus on psychosocial care that most people are unlikely to associate with great technical skill. The nurse "helps" you, stays by your side, smiles and offers reassurance, encourages you, cleans you, makes your bed, "gives" you medicine and food, and makes rounds. Certainly the song has many suggestions that nurses keep you alive, and maybe listeners will get some sense of how in the references to fever, hygiene, wound care, and checking vitals. The steadfast psychosocial care that dominates the song is also important. But these lyrics don't tell people how much skill it requires, or that nurses also provide advanced physical care. No one will listen to these lyrics and think: "Wow, I never considered how much thinking nurses have to do, and how much scientific knowledge they have to master. It's a good thing they get years of college-level education."
Although "Thank the Nurse" gives no direct sense of patient advocacy, it also does not link the nursing it describes to physicians. Nurses seem to be doing all of these things as part of their own duties, rather than at the direction of physicians. This at least implies autonomy.
Then there are the physician lyrics. These are almost shocking, insofar as they actually suggest that nurses are more important. Physicians diagnose, prescribe, and operate, but often they "can't be found," and--the coup de grace--they "don't save your life." This is going a bit far. As key parts of the health care team, nurses and physicians both save lives, often by working together. But we have to admire McDonald's willingness to contradict one of the most cherished assumptions of his society, that physicians save lives and nurses are their helpers.
Although the songs on "Thank the Nurse" are not perfect, they are rare examples of American popular music directly aimed at showing how important nurses are to patients facing their darkest hours, particular in war. At a time when the mass media still commonly suggests that physicians provide all important care to those wounded in the Iraq war, Country Joe's heartfelt tribute to nurses is as timely as ever. So thank the musician.
Reviewed by Harry Jacobs Summers
Nursing Editor: Sandy Summers, MSN, MPH, RN
Revised May 18, 2007
You can buy the four-song "Thank the Nurse" CD for $10 in Country Joe's Florence Nightingale Ye Old Gift Shoppe. The shop also carries other Nightingale memorabilia.
You can see the lyrics and listen to the songs here.
Also see an article on the history of Country Joe's interest in nursing and Nightingale in a NurseWeek article "Ode to Nurses" from 2001 that contains a link to a recording of Nightingale's voice --one of the first voice recordings done by Thomas Edison. She says on the recording: "When I am no longer even a memory, just a name, I hope my voice saves...the great work of my life."
We urge more nurses to tell the world about the great work of their lives.
You can send Country Joe messages at joe@countryjoe.com or:
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Europe's energy price headache becoming a migraine: IEA
Concern among EU nations about the impact of energy costs on their already suffering industry is intensifying, with some member states debating a freeze on prices and stripping away renewable subsidies
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Concern among EU nations about the impact of energy costs on their already suffering industry is intensifying, with some member states debating a freeze on prices and stripping away renewable subsidies.
"There may be a narrowing of the gap, but if no new policies are put in place, Europe will still have two to three times higher gas prices than the United States for 20 years," Fatih Birol told a Brussels meeting.
"Competitiveness will be more of a problem for many countries. Today it's a headache. Tomorrow it will be a migraine for the European economies if no policies are put in place."
The biggest transatlantic price difference is for gas as the United States has benefited from a shale gas revolution, although electricity prices in Europe are also around double those of the United States as gas is used to generate power.
The European Commission, the EU executive, is analysing the impact of energy prices on member states and is devoting two EU summits to energy and competitiveness early next year.
It will also publish in January its vision of 2030 energy and climate goals to follow the existing 2020 targets to cut greenhouse gases, improve energy efficiency and increase renewable energy use.
"ONLY LOSERS"
In line with pleas from industry, which argues energy policy has to focus on affordability, Birol said energy and industrial policies may need to be linked "for the long term".
But he also said Europe could not afford to abandon climate policies if the world is to stand a chance of achieving the U.N. goal of limiting climate change to an increase of 2 degrees Celsius – the limit scientists say will prevent the most devastating consequences of more extreme weather.
"If we are not able to address climate change, there will be only losers," he said.
Policy should focus on efficiency, connections across a single European energy market and improving domestic supplies through development of shale gas, renewable and nuclear energy, he said.
He also urged companies to renegotiate gas contracts as they expire to get more favourable terms.
EU regulators have already said they are preparing to charge Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom for abuse of its position.
They have voiced concern Gazprom has imposed unfair prices by linking gas to oil prices, helping to keep tariffs high, especially to nations most reliant on Russian gas.
The consequences of the U.S. energy revolution are far-reaching. While Europe faces a deepening trade deficit because of imported energy costs, the United States can hope for a surplus.
If the United States begins shipping liquefied natural gas in large quantities to Europe, it could help by making it easier for gas buyers to negotiate better deals.
However, Birol noted that prices in Europe were about $11 per million British thermal units (mmBtu) versus $3.5 per mmBtu in the United States. Given the cost of liquefaction and shipment – up to $6 mmBtu – any price benefit would be all but wiped out.
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