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Questions and answers about the Whidbey Institute's current status
We understand program leaders, program participants, community members, friends, and donors may have questions about how we're doing. For all those who wonder about the Whidbey Institute's status during this unusual time, we've prepared this Q&A post!
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The Whidbey Institute team
What is the current plan for reopening the Whidbey Institute?
Short answer: A major update released by Washington State on May 1 indicated it may be possible to open the Whidbey Institute as early as June 15, while maintaining physical-distancing parameters. Our trails and gardens are open for physically-distanced community use.
Long answer: Considering that program participants need time for registering and planning for their participation at the Whidbey Institute, in-person gatherings have been released through mutual discernment with program leaders on a case-by-case basis through mid-July. These decisions take into account where participants are traveling from, the nature of the gathering, and whether, from the perspective of WA State phasing, such activities will be permitted. Additional discernments will be made as we get more information about public health needs.
We've been here for 48 years supporting people in exploring what is emerging in themselves, with others and in community. In this time of great change, we are in communication with program leaders, a network of other retreat centers, health experts, and local and state governing bodies to determine our next steps toward resuming programmatic work. We anticipate that we'll be able to continue operating when Washington State reaches Phase 3 of the reopening of the state's economy.
With new information about the pandemic emerging every day, an Integration Circle including board members and key staff roles meets weekly to adapt to changing conditions. A new COVID Health role has been established to help ensure that we follow best practices that are being developed in conjunction with other retreat centers, and align with CDC guidelines for healthy hosting when we do reopen for indoor, in-person events.
How is the organization making decisions in this unusual time?
Short answer: The staff and board are sensing and responding to emerging data and have been receiving expert health, financial, and legal advice in order to re-open for in-person hosting with care and integrity.
Long answer: With new information about the pandemic emerging every day, an Integration Circle including board members and key staff roles meets each week to adapt to changing conditions, including new guidance announced by Governor Inslee of Washington State Governor Inslee on May 1. Our COVID Health role holder and Legal role holder are working to ensure that we have clear, appropriate practices and agreements in place when we are able to host again. Our Finance Modeler and Treasurer have researched all governmental support programs and we have received the SBA Paycheck Protection Program and Disaster Loan support. Our Logistics and Client Relations roles are in ongoing communication with program leaders about their sense of when and how to hold programs. Our Fundraising role holder is listening to and receiving advice from our donors, and the Integration Circle is staying up-to-date on our current and potential future hosting status and financial health.
One of the opportunities of this pause is to go deeply into strategic work, ensuring that what we prioritize now serves our best possible future as a transformational learning center connecting people with nature, with one another, and with their own potential as leaders and learners for moments just like this one.
What is the current staffing?
Short answer: After being on furlough from March 21 through April 20 and thanks to receiving the Payroll Protection Program, we are able to again bring staff up to 80% for May and June.
Long answer: This return to work allows our team to care for the land and facilities, nurture relationships with program leaders, program participants, volunteers, and donors, and develop new and ongoing ways of serving our mission during the pause in in-person programming. Staff continues to steward the trails and meadows and to support our day-use visitors on the trails. During this extended downtime we're working to ensure our facilities are in great shape when you return. We are in ongoing communication with program leaders about their upcoming programs and how hosting may change. Some members of our team, with roles pertaining specifically and exclusively to hosting in-person programming, remain unemployed.
What is the status of the Commons funding and construction plan?
Short answer: Funds donated and received for the Commons are secure in a reserve account, and are held for that sole purpose. Commons value engineering is underway, and we expect to start construction in the fall.
Long answer: Funds raised for construction of the Commons are set aside in honor of that purpose, and that purpose only. The Commons is vital for the future of the organization. This is an important moment to build, during which construction does not impact retreat activities. The design of the Commons is currently being optimized to ensure that we can cover the full cost of construction—including design completion, construction, furnishings, and technology—with funds and pledges already committed. The redesigned building will still meet all of our objectives, providing a warm and welcoming space for programmatic gathering and social connection, a kitchen, and bathrooms.
We expect to start construction of the Commons in the fall of 2020 so that it will be complete in early 2021 and ready to support our ability to serve more diverse leaders and learners of all ages with greater flexibility and capacity.
Because funds for the Commons and Caretaker Cabin have successfully been raised, our fundraising focus for the remainder of 2020—including GiveBIG—is to support operations to maintain our capable and dedicated team, and allow us to be ready to resume hosting as soon as it is safe and appropriate to do so. We are working to make it possible for this disruption to open the potential for an even stronger future of service.
What is the status of the Caretaker Cabin?
Short answer: The Caretaker Cabin construction is funded and underway! A small but dedicated crew is hard at work, building with strict attention to public health and social distancing recommendations.
Long answer: COVID-19 and the "Stay Home, Stay Healthy" Order have impacted the timing but not the importance of our WI2020 Capacity-Building Initiative. Next steps include completion of the Caretaker Cabin, still on track and scheduled for Autumn this year.
Completion of the Cabin will provide a safe, warm home for current and future caretakers and will open the building site that is needed for the future construction of Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant, accessible lodging in our heartland.
What is the status of the Legacy Forest Youth Campus?
Short answer: Development of this space is still critical to the future we want to co-create with our young leaders. Last month, with our Youth Campus partner organizations, we decided to reconvene in the fall to determine next steps.
Long answer: We continue to deepen our relationship and vision for Legacy Forest Youth Campus with our partners, Young Women Empowered and Partners for Youth Empowerment. All of our organizations are pausing this work to focus on more immediate needs during the disruptions caused by COVID-19, and are confident that the long term realization of the Youth Campus vision will have even more impact because of the lessons we are learning in this moment—lessons on interdependence, equity, nature connection, and the importance of an approach that honors them all.
What is the need to cover current expenses during the COVID pause?
Short answer: Fundraising is currently underway to support 80% staffing and care for our land and facilities.
Long answer: Current expenses include 80% payroll for those staff members providing care for our land and facilities, our neighbors and trail users, our other relationships, and our transformational learning work. This includes working to understand and meet Program Leader and Program Participant needs and opportunities now and in the months and years to come, scheduling impactful programming for 2021-2022, convening online conversations with Colleagues in Transformation, and judiciously reprioritizing current and near-future work to minimize our cash expenditures while continuing to serve our mission.
Current expenses also include insurance, utility bills, property taxes, supplies for facilities repairs, and the construction costs (already raised) for the Caretaker Cabin.
Donations to the Whidbey Institute at this time, including during GiveBIG, will support operations, and gifts received through the GiveBIG platform through May 6 will be doubled by a $45,000 matching fund donated by the Linda Sue Park Fund for Gaia, Nancy Nordhoff, Julie Beckman & Paul Lippert, and an anonymous donor.
We are eager to resume hosting when it is safe and appropriate to do so, and look forward to seeing you back on the land for a program when that day comes!

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Is Agroecology Being Co-Opted by Big Ag? | Civil Eats
Is Agroecology Being Co-Opted by Big Ag?
As climate-smart farming initiatives scale up, experts decry 'junk agroecology'—global initiatives they say are cherry-picking sustainable practices, while denying political realities.
Agroecology is at a crossroads. The farming system—which is primarily practiced in the developing world but is gaining some traction in the U.S.—incorporates a suite of ecological growing practices into a wider philosophy rooted in shifting power from global agribusiness companies to peasant farmers.
The approach has received growing global attention in recent years from international organizations, including the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which has repeatedly pointed to agroecology as an effective, cross-cutting strategy to reach its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including climate action, zero hunger, and reduced inequalities.
But with that increased attention has come what some advocates describe as a move toward watering down the political, societal, and civic engagement aspects of the system.
Case in point: This September, the U.N. will host the 2021 Food Systems Summit as part of its agenda to reach the SDGs by 2030. But despite FAO's past embrace of agroecology, the summit's planned agricultural programming focuses on a broader approach it calls "nature-positive production." And a discussion starter for the track lists 10 elements of nature-positive farming systems that are identical to the 10 elements of agroecology developed by the FAO several years ago, but that fact isn't mentioned.
Joao Campari, the director of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) International's food programs, who is leading the track, explained that the 10 elements "could be universally applied to help boost all nature-positive production systems."
But some advocates worry about this type of broadening. In fact, they see it as the latest example of how agroecology is increasingly being co-opted by those within the very system it sets out to change. And just this week, a coalition of academics who are members of the Agroecology Research-Action Collective announced a boycott of the summit with a petition calling on their peers around the globe to do the same. They say non-government organization (NGOs), global governments, and corporations are cherry picking agroecological principles to make small changes to inherently destructive systems while perpetuating the power imbalances the paradigm seeks to disrupt.
"They want to take the industrial system as it is and measure incremental improvements and count those as wins without actually having to question the structure of the system itself. They're going to be greener. They're going to use less of whatever [resource]. But . . . expansion and overproduction is what it all rests on, and conventional agriculture has been heavily subsidized for 80 years by the state through public funds," said Eric Holt-Giménez, an agroecologist and the former director of Food First.
Holt-Giménez spent years working in agriculture in Latin American and South Africa and wrote a doctorate dissertation on Campesino a Campesino, a worker movement he helped start, before heading up the nonprofit. "It's [true] that industry and a lot of mainstream institutions are attempting to strip agroecology of its history and politics, because to strip agroecology of its politics means that they don't have to account for their politics."
The Rise of 'Junk Agroecology'
Agronomists in several countries in the early 20th century began using the term agroecology to describe a way of farming that could conserve natural resources and support healthy ecosystems by focusing on reducing inputs like fertilizer and pesticides, building soil health, and increasing farm biodiversity. But in the 1970s and '80s, a movement in Latin America started to transform the approach into a broader paradigm that could push back against the top-down policies of the Green Revolution.
Groups like La Via Campesina believed (and still do) that small, sustainable peasant farms would not be able to succeed within a system built to reward the largest agribusiness companies, because agribusinesses offloaded many of their costs to taxpayers and received significant government support. These groups prioritized Indigenous farmer knowledge, local food sovereignty, and collective action, and agroecology became rooted in those political ideas. Today, in addition to La Via Campesina, the movement includes the Landless Workers' Movement in Brazil, and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, among others.
As the climate crisis has intensified, agribusiness companies and the global NGOs that work with them have been looking for ways to reduce their environmental footprints, in response to public and government pressure and to avoid future disruptions and disasters. Even the American Farm Bureau Federation, which has a history of lobbying against environmental policies and regulations, is talking about "climate-smart farming" and promoting some large farmers' use of sustainable and regenerative practices.
"We started to see that at the same time as this space was starting to open for agroecology, it was also starting to become more and more contested and these other actors were coming in with their own definitions of the term. There are major corporations and groups of corporations coming together—sometimes also working with charities and governments—strategically trying to push this non-transformative vision of agroecology," said Katie Sandwell, a senior project officer at the Transnational Institute. "We wanted to make people aware of that, and unpack some of the dynamics behind that trend."
Sandwell and her colleagues, along with partners at Friends of the Earth International and Crocevia, recently published a report called "Junk Agroecology." The report details three international initiatives to advance sustainability in agriculture: the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI) Platform, New Vision for Agriculture, and the Food and Land Use Coalition. (Civil Eats reached out to all three organizations for comment; none responded by press time.)
All three groups create partnerships between the world's biggest agricultural companies, nonprofits, and government agencies, and there is considerable overlap in membership. Cargill, Nestlé, Unilever, and WWF International are members of all three. The World Economic Forum, the most influential player in the sphere of public-private partnerships, was involved with the creation of two of them.
The initiatives all promote the "sustainable intensification of agriculture with agroecological nuances," the report claims. For example, one of the Food and Land Use Coalition's projects is PepsiCo's Sustainable Farming Program, which involves the global food giant helping farms within its supply chain implement practices that achieve goals like "efficient fertilizer and water use."
"The end goal of these reforms is to ensure that big business can continue profiting, without fundamentally transforming either the unjust socio-economic, political, and ecological relations on which the agrifood system is based, or the exclusionary and short-sighted ideology that legitimizes it," the report's authors wrote. "For the purposes of 'changing everything so that nothing changes,' transnational agrifood corporations find, in agroecology, a menu of extremely useful solutions that they have decided to selectively integrate into their agro-industrial model."
Of course, many advocates for food system change see even small changes within current systems as positive developments and contend that small changes at a large scale can have a significant impact on progress. Rodale Institute CEO Jeff Moyer, for instance, explained the organic farming organization's decision to work with Cargill in that way, pointing to the opportunity to move "large acreages in one swath" to organic production, for instance, as a win.
But Shiney Varghese, senior policy analyst at the Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy, a nonprofit that advocates for sustainable food and farm policies, said that it's important to distinguish between farmers who may be growing crops conventionally and genuinely want to adopt an agroecological practice to make their operations more sustainable, and corporations specifically using agroecological messaging—and the increasing use of the term "regenerative" in the U.S.—to increase profits while changing very little about how they operate.
"Minimizing inputs is certainly a desirable step for those farmers seeking to reduce their costs or their environmental footprints, but those steps by themselves do not make for an agroecological transition," Varghese said. She describes the latter as "about transforming the current order to bring about fair, healthy, and sustainable food, farm, and trade systems that help build revitalized rural communities, and healthy people and planet."
As Sandwell sees it, showcasing small improvements focused on single practices can allow companies to make their systems look more sustainable than they really are, therefore further entrenching the current system and drawing resources away from more transformative solutions.
"They're still shifting towards a food system that has more centralized power and control by a smaller number of actors," she said. So, while adding crop rotations or increasing biodiversity might be a good thing, it's a "change that might have marginal environmental improvement but continues to strengthen all of those other negative dynamics. The benefits don't add up."
Agroecology and the Committee on World Food Security
A related debate is currently taking place within the U.N.'s Committee on World Food Security (CFS), which produces policy recommendations related to food security and nutrition for world governments. Currently, CFS is in the final stages of developing a set of policy recommendations called "Agroecological and other Innovative Approaches."
Kirtana Chandrasekaran and Martín Drago at Friends of the Earth International have been engaged in that process as part of the Civil Society and Indigenous People's Mechanism, a group that represents small-scale and Indigenous food producers from all over the world. Initially, Chandrasekaran and Drago were encouraged by the fact that the policy recommendations were being drafted on the heels of FAO's progress developing the 10 elements of agroecology and acknowledging the political elements of the paradigm. And when an advisory group to CFS provided a report for use in the process, it clearly described agroecology as dependent on political change and social equity.
But two drafts later, both Chandrasekaran and Drago use the terminology of war to describe the process. "One of the big battles has been—and still is—the distinction between agroecology and 'sustainable intensification techniques,' which is basically what you could call greening the industrial model," including practices like the efficient application of fertilizer and no-till farming on large-scale commodity crop farms," Chandrasekaran said. "Agroecology includes not just a whole systems analysis, but also the social and economic dimensions, which are equally important."
Drago said that since the start of the process, representatives from the U.S. led by Paul Welcher, an agricultural attaché for U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service, have been pushing back on language that acknowledges the political components of agroecology while emphasizing the "other innovative approaches," which include sustainable intensification. The U.S. representatives proposed edits to the second draft that change references to imbalances of power within agriculture, eliminate sentences that represent agroecology's equity-centered approach as preferable to other systems, and remove language related to peasant rights and support of local, Indigenous knowledge.
It's another example of an overall "effort to capture not only a narrative but actually public funds, public investment, and public policies to transform the system in the way they need to increase profits," Drago said. "We are not going to accept . . . a set of practices that open the door for the corporate capture of agroecology." Negotiations on the CFS policy recommendations will continue in May, and the official recommendations will be endorsed in June. The USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service did not respond to a request for comment by press time.
And as the aforementioned U.N. Food Summit approaches, the issue is also playing out on that stage. To lead the summit, the U.N. secretary general tapped special envoy Agnes Kalibata, the president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), an organization that emphasizes bringing Western industrial agriculture models that utilize chemical fertilizers and high-tech, often genetically engineered, seeds to African farmers.
In March, the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples' Mechanism said its members would boycott the summit due to corporate influence and the focus on industrial farming methods over agroecology. Then, three U.N. Special Rapporteurs on the Right to Food (one current and two former) published an op-ed asserting that the event was organized with too much input from the private sector.
"Inevitably, that has meant a focus on . . . scalable, investment-friendly, 'game-changing' solutions,'" they wrote. "As a result, the ideas that should have been the starting point for a 'people's summit' have effectively been shut out. For over a decade, farmers, fishers, pastoralists, and food workers have been demanding a food system transformation rooted in food sovereignty and agroecology. This vision is based on redesigning, re-diversifying, and re-localizing farming systems. It requires that economic assumptions be questioned, human rights be protected, and power be rebalanced."
Kalibata responded to these criticisms in The Guardian, saying the focus of the summit is on considering a diverse set of interests. "While private sector engagement is important to create a momentum of change, there is no agribusiness leading any work or singularly responsible for defining summit outcomes," she wrote. "The entire purpose of the summit is to embrace not only the shared interests of all stakeholders but also—importantly—the areas of divergence on how we go about addressing the harsh reality humanity faces. If we are to build more inclusive food systems, we must be prepared to have inclusive debate. Everyone has a seat at the table."
A spokesperson for the summit also said that "farmers' organizations, Indigenous peoples' groups, and civil society organizations represent more than a third of those involved" in the summit's five action tracks. And Campari, the leader of the nature-positive track mentioned above added that "the adoption of agroecology, regenerative agriculture, and traditional and Indigenous knowledge in managing food production in land and water, are central parts of the track. As are precision agriculture and the application of advanced technologies, though these are not explicitly discussed nor preferentially positioned in the materials. All nature-positive solutions that are based on principles and practices that simultaneously benefit people and planet are welcome."
A Set of Solutions?
The debate over agroecology's politics and applications is far from over, but it's hard to imagine agricultural companies and organizations signing on to a restructuring of power, since at the moment, they control the vast majority of political capital. And yet, Holt-Giménez believes that agroecological systems can still be supported without completely upending capitalist structures.
In the U.S., he says, progressive policies like supply management to prevent overproduction, parity pricing, internalizing industrial agriculture's externalities, and applying antitrust laws would make a huge difference. "These things are not revolutionary at all, and they could be done," he said. "And suddenly, family farmers would have a real fighting chance."
In the end, that's what all of these arguments about how agroecology is applied and co-opted come down to: agroecology is not a uniquely political paradigm. As Holt-Giménez sees it, all agriculture is determined by politics, and those with political and economic power have an interest in denying that.
While industrial agriculture is often subsidized by government support, Varghese added, agroecological farmers pay for production costs in full, meaning they are at a disadvantage from the get-go. "With increasing awareness about the climate crisis . . . public support for climate-resilient agriculture will also increase," she said.
For example, Biden's USDA is currently considering setting up a carbon bank to pay farmers for soil health practices and expanding funding available through conservation programs. "The corporate sector is keen to maintain its access to the lion's share of this support. What we need is a level playing field, where agroecological approaches receive at the very least as much public financial support as industrial monocultures."
Lisa Held is Civil Eats' senior staff reporter. Since 2015, she has reported on agriculture and the food system with an eye toward sustainability, equality, and health, and her stories have appeared in publications including The Guardian, The Washington Post, and Mother Jones. In the past, she covered health and wellness and was an editor at Well+Good. She is based in Baltimore and has a master's degree from Columbia University's School of Journalism. Read more >
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Shtetl, Lost and Found: Reflections from Seduva
MEMORY ON JEWISH PEOPLE AND THEIR LIFE TO BE REVIVED IN LITHUANIA
By Dr Inna Rogatchi ©
People on the Field
The landscape in the Central and Northern Lithuania is practically endlessly serene. Especially on a hot sunny day of a premature summer. The idyll of our journey has been suddenly interrupted by a short siren while few black limos were outrunning us sharply. "The Prime-Minister", – said somebody on the bus. Our diver had a special smile on his face rushing his white bus in the same direction, for the same event. He felt belonging. Then another siren, and another mini-cortege, and yet another one. "Looks like the Speaker ( of the Seimas, the Lithuanian parliament), – said another member of our group, – " and the Foreign Minister, too" – mentioned someone else.
Entering the town of Seduva, we saw an idyll which one can rarely see nowadays in the centre of Europe: a family of quite Chagallian goats was laying serenely just next to the road; a bunch of pretty happy lambs walking nearby, and gorgeous black cow sitting like a queen with such intelligence expression on her face that we were expecting her to open her mouth and to speak any minute. The streets were empty. Everybody was just outside the town, where on a very green field a few dozens of people have gathered. I bet that Seduva never saw such number of black limos with state flags of 15 countries on them, including the USA, France, UK, Finland, France, Germany, Sweden and many others.
We all have gathered at the inviting open field on a May day when the greenery on trees branches is still young but has progressed enough. The branches around us and in the skies were gentle and pretty. It was quite windy, and normally you would be able to withstand such wind for just a few minutes. But we did not care. Nobody of us did, not entire political leadership of the country and many senior politicians, nor all the Ambassadors, not the creme a la creme of the Lithuanian intellectual and cultural elite including the director of the state Museum of Tolerance Markas Zingeris, great film director Saulius Berzinis, or quite many Lithuanian people, both elderly and young ones. There was no hierarchy on the day and the place. All those who came were standing together, shoulder to shoulder, almost literally. The security personnel was very tactful and almost unnoticeable.
The foreign guests who did come specifically for the occasion did not care either: famous Finnish architect professor Rainer Mahlamäki, senior philanthropists from Australia, top- engineer from Switzerland, senior official from Brussels. We all, almost, wore a sun glasses which happened to be quite useful, and not because of sun or wind. It was the one of those rare occasions when you could note a tough security officer wiping his tearful eyes, despite all his efforts not to make it visible.
Emanation of Love
We were all staying next to a rarely beautiful cemetery. When you live long enough, you start to realise the importance and the role of the cemeteries in a different, very personal way. Especially the Jewish ones, those ones from them that had not disappeared, or got demolished. Especially those in Europe. Especially those ones which suffered, in many ways, during the WWI and aftermath of it; the aftermath that went on for decades, in certain respects.
This Jewish cemetery in Seduva had been lovingly restored by the Seduva Jewish Memorial Fund just a few years ago. There are few such noble things in life to be done as to restore the place of the last rest of people of any faith. In our case, in case of Jews, given the history of the XX century, it is a super-mitzvah, consciously carried on good deed of fighting not only natural oblivion, but resisting and overcoming the screaming crimes carried against helpless people so enthusiastically. And even if my friend, poet and writer Sergey Kanovich, son of prominent Jewish writer Grigory Kanovich, would stop his activities in Seduva after completing this task back in 2015, I would feel deeply indebted to him. On my own behalf. On behalf of my family. On behalf of Sergey and mine enlarged, brutally, mercilessly destroyed family of our brethren.
It was a very painful process, the restoration of the Jewish cemetery in Seduva. When completed after a three years of hard work, the memorial site of the people who were populated the area in a over 60% proportion, and where there is not a single Jewish person lives for 77 years by now, the cemetery in Seduva had been immediately recognised by receiving Special Mention of the EU Prize for Cultural Heritage a year ago, in May 2017. The experts would tell you that there are not too many, to put it mildly, sites of the Jewish heritage that had received the international recognition in this century. The Seduva one is rather exception, sadly. And it is very important statement, too. Especially in the country like Lithuania, with that boundlessly terrible history of the Holocaust there.
No picture, not even impressive ones taken by a drone, would give you the impression of this place unless you visit it. Here we were, in the middle of green plains of the geographical centre of Lithuania, Jews, Lithuanians, Finns, Americans, Germans, Swedes, French, British; men and women, of all possible ages between 15 and 85; powerful leaders and simple pensioners, artists, architects, and writers, and military officers, film-makers and diplomats, philosophers and IT engineers, businessmen and public figures. We all visited that cemetery on our own, nobody organised it. Our feet moved us all there as if on their own, but it fact, it was the other organ that carried us on there. And everyone who went to the cemetery, was doing it on their own way: professor Mahlamäki was staying on his own, trying to measure some other perspectives than a visual ones; the Speaker of the Seimas, Viktoras Pranckietis who is from this very place, and for whom it was profoundly personal, was washing his hands entering the Jewish cemetery in full accordance with Jewish tradition, simply, without any pomp.
I did not know what and whom I was watching more at the moment: the cemetery which has returned dignity to my people whose sons and daughters had been wiped off life there; or the people who were visiting it on that sunny day in May 2018 with palpable respect and empathy. I thought that I could stay on that piercing wind indefinitely, without being cold for a moment. And those who visited that big enough cemetery were not in rush to leave it, quite in disaccord with a protocol. It was not the day for protocols, anyway.
The Sense of Place
We all came to the cemetery after just finished ceremony that had brought us all together on May 4th, 2018 in Seduva. It was ground-breaking ceremony for the forthcoming museum and memorial complex of an unique concept, The Lost Shtetl. In parallel with the work of restoring the cemetery, the same group of people led by the same man, Sergey Kanovich, has come to the idea to build a museum in that serene, on the first glance, place and to make it a memorial for the people who were annihilated there – and everywhere in Lithuania. The idea is very simple, actually. When Sergey and I were discussing the things around The Lost Shtetl, I have asked him what about the film in making in conjunction with the project is going to be. My friend replied quickly: "About the same what is the museum to be about: it is about a life destroyed".
And it is that vision that had defined the location for The Lost Shtetl – two hour drive from the Lithuanian capital, at the place which has no other special attractions; among the fields of the Lithuanian plain. There are those who did not get the thought behind this location: "Who needs a museum in a middle of nowhere? A museum must be in Vilnius", – Sergey have heard from some foreign diplomats whose imagination quite clearly did not lead far. But Sergey, his team, the sponsors of the project, and its creators from Finland and the US all knew that the current location is fundamental feature of the concept. That concept can be described quite simply: everything in The Lost Shtetl project has to be authentic. The creators do not allow themselves a luxury of pretension.
According to the incomplete data, there had been 283 shtetls like Seduva in Lithuania before the Second World War. And, as we all know, there are just 3000 Jews are in the country today, in a shocking contrast with 250 000, a quarter of a million people who were forming 10% of the Lithuanian population in 1941. Should this life which had been so thriving and which is an integral part of Jewish heritage, and more generally, human tradition, be left abandoned? If we will succumb to such lenience of mind and soul, what does it tell on us, those who live today and who are descendants of the people who were living in those places in such density and such intense life? The people like Sergey Kanovich who have got the idea of restoring the Shtetl lost, the people like the private sponsors of the project who has put not only their resources, but their very souls into the process of its creation, deserve a huge gratitude. Clearly, there are many projects of a virtual memory on the subject in our technologically advanced time. Those are good for studies and research. But for the memory to become living, it should be materialised. There is no way around it. This is how a human perception works.
I would never forget the first impression that the one of the few similar projects of publishing the map of the Jewish Lithuania in a pre-WWII period has left on me and my husband: deep sorrow of the life, talent and human spirit erased. I still remember that feeling today although there are years passed since we were presented with the first publication of such map. It felt like a scar on a soul that is not going anywhere.
In a contrast, I also remember the first impression when I have heard about and saw the project of The Lost Shtetl Museum: a wave of a warm gratitude over the reassuring understanding that the destroyed life would be restored now; that the Lost Shtetl to be found.
It is no coincidence that the description on the Yad Vashem entrance contains the words from Isaiah pointing On the Name and the Place. In the magnanimity of the destroyed lives, so many of them at the places unknown, the very meaning, or rather the sense of the place has a prophetic importance. Additionally, a place is crucial because it still bears energy of events and human presence there sometimes even throughout centuries. Those are the places where your emotional memory associates itself with your people, and you are becoming to feel your roots.
With on as many as 283 places in Lithuania for the memorial to its exceptionally talented, versatile, in many senses special Jewry, Litvaks, defining the place for the memorial was a challenge for the project team, I can imagine. Among many other factors, you should also think about the attitude of the local authorities, and of the local population, too. The positive and open stand from their behalf is not necessarily goes automatically in Lithuania, after the unspeaking crimes committed so efficiently and following total neglect for decades after that. In the case of Seduva, the Sergey Kanovich team did meet the people whose heart is in the right place. They have become a devoted partners in The Lost Shtetl endeavour.
There was also meaningful geographical factor in choosing Seduva for the Memorial. After the ground-breaking ceremony, Viktoras Prankievicius, the Speaker of the Lithuanian Parliament, Seimas, was speaking to Rainer Mahlamäki, the Finnish master architect who has designed the building. "Did you realise that this complex will be staying right in the centre of Lithuania, exactly, literally in the geographical centre of our country? It is so very important for us!", – the Speaker said. It is, indeed. The Lost Shtetl would extrapolate all those 283 disappeared shtetls all over Lithuania. Both intellectually and spiritually, it would speak for all of them. That's why we all have had such a good use of our sun-glasses in the windy day in Seduva.
Inna Rogatchi (C). Architect Rainer Mahlamäki at the Jewish Cemetery in Seduva, Lithuania. 2018.
How to Build the Life Disappeared?
The Finnish maestro of architecture Rainer Mahlamäki also has quite strong point of feeling the space – especially so with regard to museums, and further on, in particular,regarding the museums dealing with history. " I believe , and I feel, that any museum of history would not succeed as a building out of the context of the space, – says professor Mahlamäki. – I have had that experience with POLIN ( the Museum of History of Polish Jews in Warsaw), and it is fundamental that the building is a part, continuation and reflection, all at the same time, of the place where it stays. Every time when I am coming to POLIN, and I do it regularly and quite often, the sensation of the fact that the museum stands in the very heart of the Warsaw Ghetto, makes me feel special. Now, with POLIN staying there, it is a dialogue of that so utterly tragic – and heroic – place with the reflections that we are having at the place today".
Professor Mahlamäki is quite right. POLIN is visited by 2 million people from all over the world annually, and all those reflections indeed are connected to the place of where POLIN stays.
Recently, in the debate ignited by the outrageous law in Poland which aims to censor the narrative of Holocaust, well-known Polish artist and intellectual Dr Patricia Dolowy have written: "All my life I am living in Muratow, and after the war, there was no life there, just huge, overwhelming, haunting emptiness. Until the moment when the POLIN building had been erected there. The life, the sense, the feelings, all of it that has been whipped away so cruelly and so finally, had returned to us".
I am thinking about this essence, the very sense of making the museum, of erecting the building also in Seduva, by the same architect who related his heart to his creations, in his customary under-stated manner.The design for The Lost Shtetl complex of building is stunning. It is as if it is coming from a dream. "How else one can relate the main message for this project? – tells the architect, – the one on the life gone, disappeared, the life that had been so vibrant and full". Mahlamäki is saying that after being invited to design The Lost Shtetl, he was facing a serious challenge. "How do you create the building, a complex of buildings that would be telling, visually so too, on something that existed in a full measure, to be whipped from the face of the earth in no time and with such cruelty? It must be a dream, and there must be a light, I thought. Actually, the landscape of Seduva has defined a lot for me in the project. That landscape with its plain serenity and greenery is quite similar to the Finnish landscape that I feel in detail. Light has been crucial for me as for the artist in all my buildings; but for the project like that, light has become an essential element of the design" – shares the author of The Lost Shtetl.
What Rainer Mahlamäki has created as the result of his intense search for the right outcome for The Lost Shtetl is a complex of buildings that reminds Fellini's images in his immortal films: it is the reality which is born from a dream, and which embodies a dream. It is gentle and loving, and it is very harmonious. It is like one remembers one's family from a distance of years: the further on, the more gentle these memories are.
Grand-daughter of the people murdered in Seduva, in front of the billboard of the forthcoming museum, 77 years after. (C) Seduva Jewish Memorial Fund.
I saw all five Mahlamäki's projects on memorial architectures, three of them on the Jewish history and Holocaust, one on the Siege of Leningrad and another one on the embodiment of evil, the Documentation Centre-Museum of the Nazional-Socialism in Munich. Every time, I was deeply impressed by the degree of tact which the master has put into his projects. In the case of the project for The Lost Sthetl, never boasting about it, Rainer Mahlamäki was scrupulously attentive to the detail of his building from the point of view of its closeness to the Jewish authenticity and tradition. I would not even know about it at this stage of the project unless I would read some professional description of the project: "… such and such details are resolved in this way in reminding of the traditional Jewish way of cover roofs of buildings in shtetls". Not only the architect produces the shape of his buildings in respect and commemorating the tradition of the people that had been whipped away in the mostly cruel way; but he is not boasting about it. It tells you about the person's character, his depth and his attitude to life. In the case of Rainer Mahlamäki, it truly is a rare phenomenon.
Applied Memory: To Reject or To Embrace?
If somebody would tell me 10-15 years ago that there would be the people who would not be moved by restoration of memory, I simply would not believe it. Such thing was incomprehensible to me. But with my deep involvement into the sector of the post-Holocaust studies and activities, I am observing sustainable reality of rejection of the new commemorations.
There is two aspects in this pain-caused phenomenon, philosophical and practical ones. Philosophically, there are some people who do believe that there is no way back to the life destroyed. And because of that, there is no need in efforts to reconstruct it. It seems to be artificial to them. To me, such disposition although it contains certain logic in itself, does have a principal flaw. In my view, the more remembrance, the better. What else can we do for those whose lives had been taken so barbarically, except to remember them?.. I disagree with this intellectual claim as too intellectual, to me. Too distant from life.
And life it should be when thinking on memory. Back in 2013, my husband Michael was invited to create the exhibition for the IV World Litvak Congress, in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the extermination of the Vilna Ghetto. His was the only personal exhibition for the event. The responsibility was huge. To surprise of many, there was not a single gloom picture in that collection whose title was Jewish Melody. Michael, the grandson of Sofia Litowska, did explain his thought behind his creation that has been dedicated to his family: "When I was creating these works depicting a lullaby, loyfer, in an Yiddish family, Kletzmer musicians, gentle Jewish accordionist under two white doves, a Jewish girl playing her cello, maestro Jewish violinist who plays staying on a cloud, I was thinking on all of them alive, not dead. I was thinking on them in their finest moments. I was as if hearing their melodies. My point is that even if all of those people did not survive the Night, their melodies certainly are. Our Jewish melody is. Our memory is. It is singing, playing and smiling. I would like to remember those people, among whom there were also the members of my and wife's families, alive. I would like us to remember their melody, not their torment. I would like their melody to live". I was impressed to see the people's perception of that commemorative series. They were overwhelmed. They were grateful. They were smiling. They called it "cosmos of memory". They understood.
Since then, my husband's metaphor for living memory had been proved right many times, for different projects and aspects of what I call as applied memory. Working in this field intensively, I can see that acceptance of the concept of reviving memory is not that universal, as one would expect it, on a purely humanistic ground.
There is also another aspect of the same rejection phenomenon which is disturbing. There is a strange tendency of rejection a priory of anything done in the memory of people annihilated during the Holocaust if that anything is happening in the non-Western European countries. Some of those rejecting people are hostile to anything positive what is happening in the countries in which the SS veterans are still marching with honours and where the streets are re-named after the glorious Nazi collaborators. I do understand their indignation over those outrageous activities in a full measure.
I am personally engaged into the fight against those marches from the day that disgust had been started. I honestly am at loss of the civilised world's position and its closed eyes towards it. I also am monitoring and fighting publicly all and every tendencies of the Holocaust diminishing and its revisionism, anywhere where it is happening.
But what it has to do with rejecting the good things that are happening in those countries? In my view, the appearance of new museums, new projects, new commemorations are the best and the most important things that could happen in the countries in which societies are leaving in prejudice and half-truth. The more just things will be implemented in those countries, the healthier their societies could become. To create such project as The Lost Shtetl it is to seed one more seed of good. I just cannot see why and what for it should be rejected and criticised.
There also another side of this snobbish outright rejection of projects of applied memory. I call it a laziness of mind. Disputing the subject with the one of the critics of the restoration of memory in Lithuania, I have asked this person on how many times he was in Lithuania during the past 30 years. I tried to understand on how familiar my opponent was with the realities there. The answer has stunned me. "What you are talking about? – he said with clear low-key' indignation. – We-are-not-travelling-there. Not to Lithuania, nor to Poland, and not to Ukraine. Our family did not set its foot on the ground of those places since our relatives did manage to escape from there just before it all started, in July 1941". It was a clear pride in his voice.
"Well, – I told back – members of our families somehow did not manage to escape. Not from Lithuania, nor from Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Hungary, or Austria, for this matter. And those who did not, had been murdered there or deported to be murdered. But with my husband and with our Foundation, we never thought not to go to the places where our families once lived. Quite the contrary, we were very interested and very motivated to go there, especially to those of the places that had been awakening from their half-of-a century communist-implemented amnesia towards the Jewish people, to support that awakening, to participate in the acts of an applied memory to the best we could while fighting anti-Semitism, Holocaust revisionism, and glorifying the Nazi collaborators. It is only now, unfortunately, that we are unable to visit the graves of our family in Ukraine because we won't be able to walk on Bandera avenues, or observe the non-stop marches of the neo-Nazis there. And it is only now when the anti-Semitism in Poland has become not only wide-spread-as-usual, but it has become the official policy of the country run by the lunatic ultra-nationalists from the PiS party that we have refused to come there until that government will stay in power there".
Of course, it is a matter of personal choice to where to visit and what to support. Still, it is hard for me to see how those people who are so active in the sport of rejecting can honour the memory of our past, so tragic one, so fragile one. Clearly, a person is free not to travel, not to know, not to recognise, but in the case of applied memory, it means simply not to remember. Still-born memory does not distinguish the people whose lives had been abrupt in so horrific way. Only living memory does; and the whole The Lost Shtetl project is just that: an effort to make our memory the living one. I do not know more noble purpose.
Contrast of Attitudes: Lithuania vs Poland
While being in Seduva in May 2018 for The Lost Shtetl ground-breaking ceremony, I cannot help but to think on the Lithuanian neighbour, Poland. Could anyone imagine the entire leadership of Poland to be present at the ceremony like we attended in Seduva? Could anyone project such unanimous support by the authorities, both the highest and the local ones provided in accord, with respect and decency, and remorse, as we all who did come to Seduva on the windy day of May 4th, 2018 witnessed there?
I was not the only one who was thinking that way. A very senior European diplomat told on her impressions from the ceremony: "What a contrast between the two neighbouring countries, Lithuania and Poland, on this so vital for both matter of our common history. What a striking contrast!" Another close friend who flew in just after attending official commemorations of the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Poland just could not held his concern, returning to the subject time and again: " Practically all speeches at the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemoration , from the (Poland) president to the young activists, were inflamed with strong nationalistic sentiment. Nothing like that happened there during many years I am visiting the country. It is very disturbing; very, very disturbing".
The world realises what the situation in Poland is today like, and does not have much illusion about it. With the unprecedented official anti-Semitic policy in Poland, the attitude of the authorities in Lithuania to the public restoration of the Jewish memory and respect to the Jewish people is quite different. I am not rosy-glassed on the subject. We know that this very matter is continuously difficult in Lithuania and the rest two of the Baltic states. It is difficult because of the burden of horror which has not been disclosed as it should in none of those countries.
And actually, for better or worse, the authorities' motivation behind it is of a secondary importance. It is the outcome what matters to us today, in memory of those hundreds of thousands of the Jewish people all over Lithuania, its tailors and its professors, its musicians and its cobblers, its poets and its rabbis, its house-wives and its engineers, and all those children who had no chance to become any of them; those whose dead bodies in August 1941 were ploughed into the ground of the fields around Seduva and many other places in Lithuania. The outcome that would make possible for us and our children and grandchildren, and thousands of students of Lithuania would to come to remember them with love and affection to the white dream-like buildings of The Lost Shtetl, so their souls would have the place to be remembered, in the country where they were living for five hundred years before being exterminated there.
After the ceremony in Seduva, the Lithuanian young people, all between their 20s and 30s, had made another point: "When the museum will be built up and opened, this memorial complex will become so important for all the Europe – because where else one would be able to see the life as it was once all over here and in Europe, too, with all its features, its style and flavour?.. Creating such museum is important not for us only which it certainly is; but it is important in the pan-European context, in the way of how we today are seeing the story of the continent" ,- 30-year old Lithuanian journalist has told me on behalf of the group of his colleagues of the same age. This is the perspective of the Lithuanian people themselves, and it counts – if only because of the fundamental fact that Europe today has been formed as the direct result of the boundless tragedy of the WWII and Holocaust.
In re-assuring way, great architect Rainer Mahlamäki has said about his latest creation, the complex of The Lost Shtetl: " I can assure you that this building will be staying in a perfect condition for one thousand years. I am making it this way". I do not remember when I have heard the commitment to memory of the Jewish people made so elegantly and so whole-heartedly. The best of it, he meant it.
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Dr Inna Rogatchi is writer, scholar and fllm-maker. She is co-founder and President of the Rogatchi Foundation – www.rogatchifoundation.org . Post-Holocaust is in the focus of her professional and public attention, including series of her Outreach to Humanity special cultural and educational projects. She is the author of forthcoming film and book about the professor Mahlamäki's works on memorial architecture.
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Judit Horvath-Lindberg says:
Thank you Inna, I am going to read it. The Pictures are beautiful already.
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Thank you very much, dear Judith.


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Emily Wang, MD'03, spent her first two years at Duke University School of Medicine planning to specialize in HIV treatment and research. But during her third year, she couldn't stop thinking about conversations she had had with a friend who had worked in prison education while an undergraduate at Harvard. The stories he told her made glaringly clear the racial disparities in rates of incarceration and the death penalty.
She started writing to prisons asking to volunteer. A warden at a women's prison in Raleigh, North Carolina, responded, and one day soon afterward she found herself, for the first time in her life, stepping inside a prison.
The experience changed her forever. Wang now directs the SEICHE Center for Health and Justice, a collaboration between the Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School that encompasses clinical care, research, policy work, and education to address the health impacts of mass incarceration.
She points out some startling facts. Half of all individuals in the United States have at least one immediate family member who is incarcerated. Living in a community with high rates of incarceration is associated with lower life expectancy, at a population level.
"Policies that constitute mass incarceration — from over-policing, and stop-and-frisk, all the way to the death penalty — have impacted our overall population health," says Wang, a professor in the Yale School of Medicine. "And COVID probably is the best examination of that."
In 2020, Wang co-chaired a committee of the National Academy of Sciences that published a consensus report, Decarcerating Correctional Facilities during COVID-19: Advancing Health, Equity, and Safety. It details how decarceration – releases and changes to arrest policies – can reduce the transmission of COVID-19 inside prisons and jails and protect public safety and health.
Following Centers for Disease Control guidelines for reducing the spread of COVID-19 inside prisons is nearly impossible, Wang says. People sleep two to a cell. Overcrowding is common. Many prisons don't have enough masks.
Wang and colleagues at the SEICHE center used data from a large urban jail to evaluate other strategies: decreasing the jail population with releases and reduced arrests, having people sleep in single cells, and conducting asymptomatic testing.
At the beginning of the study, the reproduction rate of the virus was 8: every person infected with COVID-19 would, on average, infect 8 others. After 83 days with the new measures, the rate was down to 1.
At the heart of the SEICHE center are clinical care and other programs provided by the Transitions Clinic Network, which provides a primary care home for people recently released from prison in 14 states. Wang and a colleague started the first Transitions Clinic Program in San Francisco because, as an intern, she saw people just released from prison ending up in the emergency department for no good reason.
"Just released from a correctional facility, was on dialysis for three years, but no dialysis appointment," Wang says. "Or a person comes home, they have their insulin, but they have never administered it. They don't know how. There was always a correctional officer that took them to the window, the nurse checked the glucose."
"I thought, this is fixable. And the onus is on physicians to make this transition go better," she says.
In the Transitions Clinic Network, a person who was previously incarcerated works alongside each primary care team as a community health worker. "They are attending to the social and health care needs of the patient, but also rebuilding trust in a health care system that has all but abandoned them, inside prison and outside," Wang says.
Wang's path changed course the day she first set foot inside that prison in Raleigh. She and some of her medical student friends soon began an educational program for new prisoners designed to spark discussion about the decisions young women have to make to be well and stay safe.
Wang remembers that the whole group ended each session in tears. "I saw young women just like myself that, because of the structures, the policies, the ways that our communities are deeply segregated, had had a life course that was totally different from mine," she says. Seemingly small decisions, like dating the wrong guy, or circumstances out of their control, like not being able to afford bail, had landed them in jail.
The pace of medical school, Wang says, can feel like a treadmill you can't get off. But Duke allowed her to "create a little space" for her ideas, and it gave her a group of inspiring friends. "By bringing together the right people, something happened that was deeply special to me."


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ALEXANDRIA, VA. — A 19th century hose carriage at Alexandria's Friendship Firehouse Museum has been named among the Virginia Association of Museums' Top 10 Endangered Artifacts. The ten historic artifacts will compete for grants going toward conservation.
Online voting is open through Jan. 31. The two artifacts that receive the most votes will receive $4,000 and $3,000 grants, respectively. Winners will be recognized at a Virginia Association of Museums awards ceremony in Richmond on Feb. 7.
The hose carriage was used for firefighting and dates back to 1858. Alexandria's Friendship Fire Company purchased the carriage from Robert F. Prettyman, a coachmaker and Friendship member. These kinds of vehicles with hoses were used to supply fire engines with steady sources of water from wells and cisterns. Aside from serving as a useful firefighting tool, the carriage was displayed at parades.
The Friendship Fire Company was founded in 1774 as Alexandria's first volunteer fire company. The current firehouse was built in 1855, was updated in 1871 and was restored by city in 1992.
"The Prettyman Hose Carriage is an important part of Alexandria's firefighting history, and we hope this statewide visibility will help us raise the funds to conserve it," said Gretchen Bulova, director of the Office of Historic Alexandria.
Over a seven-year span, Virginia's Top 10 Endangered Artifacts program has recognized over 160 endangered artifacts at museums, historic sites, and other institutions in Virginia and DC. Last year, the 18th century ship found at the Hotel Indigo construction site placed second.
See more information about the competition and vote here.


Block build when upstream/downstream project is building. Optional final projects may be given.
This plug-in allows a project to block when upstream or downstream projects are building. Jenkins already provides this functionality built-in, but it blocks on the entire pipeline. This plug-in allows an optional final project to be specified. This allows the project to block on part of the pipeline instead of the entire pipeline.
For a detailed example on how to use this plugin, please visit GitHub README.md.
Jenkins version 1.625.3 or newer is required.


:: Vintage Kilim gallery runner with alternating stripe bands in red, ivory, grey and seafoam green. Many years of enjoyment to come with this carpet! Recently professionally cleaned, ready for in-home use. This vintage 1970's Kilim hand woven in Morocco measures 6'3"x13'.


Holy week is the time in the church year when we walk through the last week of Jesus' life, from his triumphant entry into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday), to his death on the cross (Good Friday), to his glorious resurrection. During this time, we engage in ancient rites and rituals and reflect on what the story means to us today.
This year, our focus as a community will be the smaller ways we experience death and resurrection in our own lives and what we can leave at the foot of the cross that we might have new life. Specifically, we are going to focus on those stories we have been telling ourselves about who we are that are not only untrue, but harmful, and how, through the love of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit, we can create new stories for ourselves and experience a taste of resurrection.
Join us at The Sanctuary (4525 19th Ave NE) as we hear the story of Jesus entry into Jerusalem, the revolutionary walking into the belly of the beast with his followers and supporters. Then we walk through the story of the Passion (the last supper, crucifixion, death and resurrection of Jesus) to hear the fullness of the story for those that might not be available to experience it during the week. This service will have prayer, rejoicing, song, waving of palms, and the Eucharist (communion, or the sharing in the body and blood of Jesus).
We join with Christ Episcopal Church (4548 Brooklyn Ave NE) for their Maundy Thursday service. We hear the story of Jesus washing the disciples feet, an act of deep love and service, and hear him command them to love one another. We remember this act of love by the priest washing the feet of those who have come to worship (you don't have to do this if you don't want to). Together, we celebrate the Eucharist (communion), which Jesus instituted the night before his arrest.
We gather at The Sanctuary to hear the story of Jesus being betrayed by a friend, denied by another, and left nearly alone for his unjust trial and sentence. We sit at the foot of the cross with Mary and hear of Jesus death and burial. Then, this year, we ask that you bring to the cross something you would like to give to Christ, to have him take it with him into death. Our focus is on stories you have been telling yourself that no longer serve you, stories that actively harm how you walk in the world, stories you would like to change. There will be time to nail these to the cross. After nailing them to the cross, you are invited to receive healing prayer to help you give up these stories and create something new for yourself.
At sunset we will gather at Christ Episcopal Church to hear the stories of our faith, from Adam and Eve to Jesus Christ, to sing and to pray as we await the resurrection. We walk through the stories until we reach the resurrection, which we meet with celebration and rejoicing!
Come to The Sanctuary to celebrate the resurrection! Bring the new story you want to create for yourself and we will be making art out of the new stories we are creating for ourselves, through the love of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit. We shall celebrate the possibility of new life even when all things seem dark, and the power of Jesus to make us new.
There will be much rejoicing! We will even have a band!
Join us for any or all of these services as we experience the wonder, grief and joy that is Holy Week.


Independent t-tests of education on well-being of women.
Correlations, means, and standard deviations.
A process model of post-moral disengagement.
Indirect pathways from leadership to work engagement .
Parameter estimates of the latent measurement model for Selective Primary Control.
Comparisons of time 1 and time 2 by condition for guilt and shame.
Both mastery and performance-approach goals were not related to distance learners' assignment scores (Time 2) and examination results (Time 3).
Contextual Factors Influencing Valued Skills .
Mean endorsement to demands in the domains of work and family.
The dynamics of disengagement. Source: Klandermans, 1997.
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I found this gem this past week just released on 3/26/19 as it landed with me just wanting to hear some instrumental guitar. Hope this #InstrumentalMonday starts your week off with the positive vibe of Phil Cook.
Now I have never heard of Phil Cook so I looked him up on Wikepedia and discovered this wonderful sentence about him - Beyond his musical career, Cook works at the Center for Inquiry Based Learning at Duke University where he "assembles hands-on science kits for elementary schools."
As an educator, I spent a great deal of my career focused on Inquiry-based Learning and I just thought that was fantastic! Here's a great little review of this album by Andy Kahn from JamBase as Phil comments on the tracks from As Far as I can See.
"This is a collection of snapshots. Recording "D.L.'s Holler" in the upstairs hallway of an elementary school, outside my wife's classroom while she graded papers in a thunderstorm. Listen for the thunder roll in one of the breaks. Recording "Waiting Round The Oven Buns" in my house in January while my wife Heather, pregnant with our first child, napped in the front room. Driving hours in the wrong direction during a blizzard into Tennessee on Highway 40, making us four hours late for the recording session I had booked for his Side Up. Loading in wet and snowy and then loading out four hours later with my friends Nick and Yan, finished, victorious and laughing. Recording "Saratoga" with one son next to me flipping through Calvin and Hobbes and my other son napping just a room away. Sitting on an old front porch in Birmingham, Alabama one hot spring morning with James' beat-up classical guitar and recording a quick voice memo as we were packing up to leave. Sharing a joint with my brother Brad on the way to The Cave in Chapel Hill and feeling grateful for the spontaneous virtuosity of the Canine Boys and Libby Rodenbough. These moments, stacked up in a pile, feel like the kind of riches nobody can ever take away from me. The truest currency. I hope you, dear listener, also share this currency and feel this gratitude when you think of the journey of moments that has formed you."


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David Garfield's mission statement is "I make music." And "make music" he does, as a world-renowned keyboard artist, producer, and composer. Be it jazz, rock, funk, or world beat – he is the creative force behind the production of many internationally acclaimed recordings.
David started his career with jazz greats such as Willie Bobo, Freddie Hubbard, and Tom Scott in the 70's. After being on the L.A. scene for several years, he moved into the vast studio world and earned a reputation for fine craftsmanship and versatility. This work led to composing opportunities for television, film, and commercials (NBC / Disney / Nippon Television /
RTL Germany).
His first international release on Creatchy Records, "Tribute to Jeff," featured 78 musicians and artists including Don Henley, Eddie Van Halen, Michael McDonald, and Richard Marx, a virtual who's who in the music industry.
Garfield continues to have ongoing music relationships with George Benson (he is frequently Benson's Musical Director), Boz Scaggs, and Natalie Cole. Over the years, he has recorded with Cher, Spinal Tap, The Rippingtons, Ratt, Larry Carlton, and Smokey Robinson and has performed live with Michael Bolton, The Blue Brothers, Brenda Russell, and Rick Braun to name a few.
Alex Ligertwood
There's something deep in the soul of Scotland that produces great blues and R&B singers. Some of wold's top vocalists over the years, from Rod Stewart to Maggie Bell to Santana's lead vocalist Alex Ligertwood, have come out of that musically fertile land.
One of the first to spot Ligertwood's big soulful voice was Jeff Beck. He promptly made Ligertwood lead vocalist for the Jeff Beck band in the early seventies. Next up was a stint with another legendary British band, Brian Auger's Oblivion Express. Alex recorded four albums with Auguer's jazz-rock unit, delivering scorching vocals, playing rhythm guitar, as well as co-writing the albums with Brian Auger. During the same period, Ligertwood performed and recorded with fellow Scottish soul-mates, the Average White Band. His lead vocals are featured on three Average White Band recordings.
In the late seventies, Ligertwood served as vocalist/guitarist and co-writer with Narda Michael Walden Band before joining Santana in 1979. It has proven to be an ideal match. Ligertwood brings a vocal intensity that feeds the volcanic playing of Carlos Santana. He has recorded and co-wrote eight albums for Santana.
His vocal talents have also been featured with Spyro Gyra, Ben E. King, Didier Lockwood, Carly Simon, The Dixie Dreggs, Michelle Colombier, Pat Simmons of the Dobbie Brotheres, Jeff Lorber, and many others.
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Calvary Chapel Tracy is non-denominational, Bible believing, Bible teaching church. We are a family of believers from all different walks of life with one purpose in life - to live for and bring glory to God. Our desire is to know Christ and be conformed into His image by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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When you walk through the doors at Calvary Chapel Tracy, our hope is that you feel welcomed and like you belong. From the moment you pull into the parking lot to the moment you drive away, we pray your experience here is nothing less than encountering the Holy Spirit. The weekly act of going to church is not something we believe we must do out of obligation, but rather something we get to do as we further our relationship with our Lord and Savior. We gather to experience the love of God through the body of believers as well as through worship and the message He has for us each week.
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The Gunners gave the 33-year-old a trial last week and he played in a behind-closed-doors match against Fulham on Wednesday before training with the first team on Thursday and Friday.
But the defensive midfielder did not join up with the squad yesterday.
Inviting Mineiro for a trial raised a few eyebrows as Wenger allowed Gilberto, who also plays in the holding role, to leave Arsenal in the summer.
Birmingham and Chelsea are now believed to be interested in Mineiro.


Alice Boyd began her extraordinarily successful career securing federal dollars for Cape and Island towns out of instinct. The instinct was self-preservation.
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Ms. Boyd is president of Bailey Boyd Associates, and the person most responsible for shepherding more than $7 million to Martha's Vineyard over the past three years, in the form of federal grants. The firm, founded in 1989, works on community development projects, including housing, infrastructure construction, and sustainable employment. She now represents more than a dozen Cape and Island towns in the search for federal dollars.
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Q: IP address calculator script I need to write a Bash script that converts IP address from CIDR format to quad-style.
I must enter the IP address in the following style:
10.10.10.10/24

If I entered it in this style:
10.10.10.10 255.255.255.0

an error message should appear.
I tried this script:
#!/bin/bash
echo "enter you ip"
read ip
case $ip in
*.*.*.*/*)
b=`echo $ip | cut -d/ -f1`
a=`echo $ip | cut -d/ -f2`

if [ $a -eq 24 ];then
   echo "$b 255.255.255.0"
elif [ $a -eq 25 ];then
   echo "$b 255.255.255.128"
elif [ $a -eq 26 ];then
   echo "$b 255.255.255.192"
elif [ $a -eq 27 ];then
   echo "$b 255.255.255.224"
elif [ $a -eq 28 ];then
   echo "$b 255.255.255.240"
elif [ $a -eq 29 ];then
   echo "$b 255.255.255.248"
elif [ $a -eq 30 ];then
   echo "$b 255.255.255.252"
elif [ $a -eq 31 ];then
   echo "$b 255.255.255.254"
elif [ $a -eq 32 ];then
   echo "$b 255.255.255.255"
fi

case $ip in
 *.*.*.* *.*.*.*)
echo "enter a valid address"

esac

but I get an error

./ipcalculater2.sh: line 32: syntax error near unexpected token `...'
./ipcalculater2.sh: line 32: ` ... ...)'

What is wrong with my script?

A: Here's an example of four ways one might convert from CIDR to netmask notation in bash.
#!/usr/bin/env bash

if [[ "$1" != *.*.*.*/* ]]; then
  echo "Usage: ${0##*/} ip.ad.dr.ess/bits" >&2
  exit 1
fi

# separate our input into network and mask using IFS
IFS=/ read network bits <<<"$1"

# build a temporary variable $s that we'll use to build $bitmask
# for the first three variants...
read zeros <<< $(printf '%032s' 0)
s=${zeros//0/1}${zeros}

# convert the mask into a 32-digit binary number
bitmask=${s:$((32-bits)):32}

# Four different methods for generating the netmask...

# The first two use `bc` and `dc`. One is likely installed on your system.
read mask1 <<<$( dc -e "2i $(fold -w8 <<<"$bitmask " | paste -sdp -)" | paste -sd. - )
read mask2 <<<$( fold -w8 <<<"$bitmask" | paste - | bc -e 'ibase=2' | paste -sd. - )

# And if dc and bc are unavailable, or you prefer not to spawn subshells, or
# risk missed dependencies, you can do this in pure bash with a few more lines.
unset mask3
for ((i=0;i<4;i++)); do
  mask3+="${mask3:+.}$((2#${bitmask:$((8*i)):8}))"
done

# And finally, instead of a loop, you can do the same thing with fancy math:
# This variant avoides the need for $bitmask, set above.
mask4="$(( 2**32 - (1 << (32-$bits)) ))"
mask4=$(( mask4/2**24 )).$(( mask4/2**16 %256 )).$(( mask4/2**8 % 256 )).$(( mask4 % 256 ))

# Print the results, obviously.
echo "network=$network"
echo "netlength=$bits"
echo "netmask via 'dc': $mask1"
echo "netmask via 'bc': $mask2"
echo "netmask via loop: $mask3"
echo "netmask via math: $mask4"

I've included code that works in each of dc and bc, since I can't predict which calculator will be available on your system. These calculators are used for base conversion.  If you don't mind your script being a little longer, you can avoid spawning external tools (like fold and paste and the calculator) using the method that generates $netmask3.
Note that in the third case, this usage of bc depends on availability of a -e option which exists in *BSD. Use another variant if you're using GNU bc (i.e. you're in Linux.)
You can of course adjust the output so that it meets your needs, as well as trim the parts of the script you're not using.

A: Please check for this corrections:
#!/bin/bash
echo "enter you ip"
read ip
case $ip in
*.*.*.*/*)
b=`echo $ip | cut -d/ -f1`
a=`echo $ip | cut -d/ -f2`

if [ $a -eq 24 ];then
   echo "$b 255.255.255.0"
elif [ $a -eq 25 ];then
   echo "$b 255.255.255.128"
elif [ $a -eq 26 ];then
   echo "$b 255.255.255.192"
elif [ $a -eq 27 ];then
   echo "$b 255.255.255.224"
elif [ $a -eq 28 ];then
   echo "$b 255.255.255.240"
elif [ $a -eq 29 ];then
   echo "$b 255.255.255.248"
elif [ $a -eq 30 ];then
   echo "$b 255.255.255.252"
elif [ $a -eq 31 ];then
   echo "$b 255.255.255.254"
elif [ $a -eq 32 ];then
   echo "$b 255.255.255.255"
fi
;;

 *.*.*.*\ *.*.*.*)
echo "enter a valid address"
;;

esac

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1. Crossing the street: If I just can't bring myself to scamper or the light changes when I'm not completely across, I'll place a hand atop my belly and deliberately sway a little bit while taking my time getting to the sidewalk. Yes, I am a bad person, but it's not like I'm jumping out in front of oncoming traffic, usually.
2. Getting people to hold doors for me: Same hand on the belly action as mentioned above, usually emphasized by my carrying too many bags. As long as I'm not the only one leaving a building, I don't think I've opened a door for myself in a month (and elevators are constantly being held for me). Totally an unnecessary perk, but I kinda like it – hurray for chivalry.
That's about it for now, but I'm sure to find more upside as I swell further.
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Il Mare di Ross (in inglese Ross Sea) è una profonda baia situata in Antartide tra Terra della Regina Vittoria e Terra Marie Byrd. Oltre la metà del mare di Ross è costantemente coperta da una spessa coltre di ghiaccio detta Barriera di Ross (Ross Ice Shelf) che ha una superficie di circa .

Descrizione
È così chiamato in onore di James Clark Ross, che lo scoprì nel 1841. A ovest del mare di Ross si trova l'isola di Ross sulla quale si trova il monte Erebus, un vulcano attivo. A est si trova l'isola Roosevelt, e sempre dallo stesso versante est, in un'insenatura si trova la baia di McMurdo che forma un porto naturale libero dai ghiacci nell'estate antartica.

Ai confini della barriera vive un terzo dell'intera popolazione di pinguini di Adelia. Forti tempeste scostano il ghiaccio e si formano vaste superfici di acque libere dette polynyas, queste costituiscono la fonte di sostentamento dei pinguini in quanto il sole provoca la fioritura di microscopiche alghe che costituiscono a loro volta l'alimento principale del krill di cui poi si nutrono i pinguini. Il Mare di Ross è il primo e finora unico luogo nel quale sono stati isolati esemplari di Cryothenia amphitreta.

Riserva marina
Il 28 ottobre 2016 la Commissione per la protezione delle risorse marine viventi in Antartide (CCAMLR), formata da 24 nazioni e l'Unione europea, dopo 5 anni di trattative, ha raggiunto un'intesa per l'istituzione nel Mare di Ross di una riserva marina di 1,55 milioni di chilometri quadrati (una superficie estesa quanto la somma dei territori di Francia e Spagna), la più estesa mai realizzata. L'accordo, firmato a Hobart, in Australia, prevede l'istituzione di un'area nel quale vi sarà un divieto assoluto di pesca della dimensione di 1,1 milioni, e di un'altra area in cui sarà consentita solo a scopo di ricerca. L'area protetta sarà attiva a decorrere dal dicembre 2017 per la durata di 35 anni.

Note

Voci correlate
 Lago Mercer

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Ross

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Q: Returning a recursive function in ML How can I return a recursive function in ML?
As far as I know recursive anonymous functions cannot be returned and only anonymous functions
can be used as returning value(if the returning value is function...).

A: Would this be the kind of example you are wondering about?
fun f n =
   let
      fun g k =
         if k = n then [] else k :: g (k-1)
   in
      g
   end

You can only make a recursive definition by naming it, but that's not a problem, because you can write a let expression anywhere.
Update to answer comment more specifically:
fun f g =
   let
      fun h 0 = g 0
        | h i = h (i-1) + g i
   in
      h
   end

(A more efficient implementation would make h tail-recursive.)


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1960s Archives - Saul Steinberg Foundation :: Saul Steinberg Foundation
Original drawing for Who Are They, in a Word portfolio, The New Yorker, November 8, 1969
Don't, from a Word portfolio, The New Yorker, November 8, 1969
Yes, But, from a Word portfolio, The New Yorker, November 8, 1969
Via Aerea, 1969
Still Life with Ledger, 1969
Nine Postcards, 1969
Louse Point, 1969
Certified Landscape, 1969
Buenos Aires Table, 1969
Bleecker Street, 1969
Artists and War, 1969
Apr 12 1969, 1969
Album, 1969
Original drawing for "The Mayor, Part I," The New Yorker, May 3, 1969
Original drawing for The New Yorker, December 28, 1968
Drawing in The New Yorker, December 7, 1968
Woman and Table, 1968
Tree Bauhaus, 1968
Luna Park, 1968
LMB 566, 1968. Ink on paper, 14 ¼ x 17 ¼ in. Private collection. In Steinberg's self-portrait at left, he wears the armband of his school (Liceul Matei Basarab) and his student number.
Jukebox, 1968
February-March, 1968
Drawing on Smithsonian Institution stationery, 1967. (3)
Drawing on Smithsonian Institution stationery I, 1967
Two drawings on Smithsonian Institution stationery, 1967. Ink on paper, 10 ½ x 8 in. Washington, DC, Smithsonian American Art Museum; Gift of the artist. (1967. Smithsonian 1974.14.31 [1] and 1967.Smithsonian 1974.14.13
Untitled (For Charles), 1967
Cover of The New Yorker, July 1, 1967
The Smithsonian, 1967
Inventory #2, 1967
Cover of The New Yorker, May 6, 1967
Untitled, c. 1966. Ink, rubber stamp, and pencil on paper, 14 ½ x 19 in. Private collection.
Original drawing for the "Rubber Stamps" portfolio, The New Yorker, December 3, 1966
Cover of The New Yorker, October 15, 1966
The West Coast, 1966
The Spiral, 1966
Inventory, 1966


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