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Between the Nile, museums, and bustling bazaars, explorers are bound to find treasure in Egypt's capital.
Multi-day trips
From Hurghada: Full-Day Trip to Cairo and Giza with Lunch
From US$ 102
Cairo: Pyramids of Giza, Sphinx, Saqqara, Memphis & Lunch
Cairo: Dinner Cruise on the Nile River with Entertainment
Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Citadel & Old Cairo Tour
Hurghada: Full-Day Trip to Cairo by Plane
Top sights in Cairo
1. Egyptian Museum of Antiquities
2. Old Cairo
3. Khan el-Khalili
4. Tahrir Square
5. Dahshur
6. Cairo Citadel
7. Memphis, Egypt
8. Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha
9. Ben Ezra Synagogue
10. Mosque of Amr ibn al-As
Ancient Egyptian gems
Pyramids of Giza, Sakkara & Memphis: Private Tour with Lunch
Cairo: Egyptian Museum and National Museum Private Tour
From Cairo: Half-Day Tour to Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx
Giza Pyramids and Sphinx: Half-Day Private Tour
Egyptian adventure activities
Cairo: Pyramids Quad Bike Adventure & Optional Camel Ride
Cairo: Desert and Bahariya Oasis Day Trip with Meals
From Cairo: 4x4 Desert Safari, Sandsurf, and Camel Ride
Pyramids of Giza: 1-Hour Quad Bike Desert Safari
Cairo: Giza Pyramids Tour with Quad Bike Safari & Camel Ride
Our most recommended things to do in Cairo
1. From Hurghada: Full-Day Trip to Cairo and Giza with Lunch
Discover the "City of a Thousand Minarets" on a full-day tour of Cairo, with round-trip transfers by bus from Hurghada. Relax in air-conditioned comfort on the long journey, admiring views of the Gulf of Suez. Upon arrival, your private Egyptologist guide will take you to Giza Plateau to see the oldest of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World. Get breathtaking views of the Pyramids of Giza as you explore the mortuary temples of Cheops, Chephren, and Mykerinus. Learn the story of how the temples were constructed and hear the stories behind their legends. Continue to the Great Sphinx, the giant statue of a reclining mythical beast with a lion's body and the face of the Pharaoh Khafre. Go to the Valley Temple opposite, attributed to the Pharaoh Khafre, and marvel at the feat of ancient engineering. Next, take a break for lunch at a local restaurant. Then, drive into central Cairo to discover the artifacts at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square with fast-track entry. Designed by French architect Marcel Dourgnon, the museum's collections exceed 120,000 masterpieces from the pre-dynastic to the Pharaonic and Greco-Roman periods. Learn about the mummification art of Ancient Egypt before your return transfer to Hurghada.
2. Cairo: Dinner Cruise on the Nile River with Entertainment
Begin this wonderful dinner excursion from the lobby of your hotel at 6:30 PM. Join the 5-star deluxe Nile Cruise and set sail for a 2-hour trip from Cairo and discover the beauty of the ancient Egyptian city by night. Take in the wonderful views of Cairo illuminated by the glaring city lights as you savor a special open buffet dinner. Enjoy a belly dance show, Arabic songs and music, along with a Tanoura show while delighting in your endless meal. This amazing Arabian night experience ends with a drop-off at your hotel. Dinner is included in the tour price but beverages are not.
3. Cairo: Pyramids of Giza, Sphinx, Saqqara, Memphis & Lunch
Be picked up from your hotel in Cairo or Giza. Visit the Step Pyramid of Zoser, Egypt's oldest existing colossal stone building (2630 BC) built for King Djoser. Next visit Memphis, the first capital after Upper and Lower Egypt's unification in 3100 BC, and witness the Colossal Statue of Ramesses II. Enjoy lunch at a local restaurant and visit the pyramids of Cheops, Chefren, and Mykerinus. Next, see the Great Sphinx, a limestone statue of the mythical creature with a Pharoah's head and lion's body. Explore the Valley Temple, a funerary complex with a mortuary temple and the Pyramids of Chefren. There will be free shopping time to enjoy the experience on your own, discussing the price directly with the vendors. After, return to your accommodation in Cairo or Giza.
4. Hurghada: Full-Day Trip to Cairo by Plane
Upon arrival in Cairo you will be greeted by an Egyptologist who will accompany you throughout the tour. The tour starts in Giza, where you can marvel at the famous and impressive pyramids of Cheops, Chephren, and Mykerinos, as well as the world-renowned Sphinx. The tour also includes a visit to the Valley Temple. After a break for a delicious lunch, the tour continues on to the Egyptian Museum. Here you can admire the treasures of the young pharaoh Tutankhamun with more than 120,000 masterpieces of Egyptian art and artifacts. In the afternoon you can enjoy shopping at the Khan el-Khalili market. At the end of the tour you'll be transferred to the airport in Cairo to catch the flight back to Hurghada, followed by a direct transfer to your hotel.
5. From Hurghada: Cairo and Giza Full-Day Highlights Tour
Travel back in time to experience the heritage of Pharaonic Egypt on a full-day tour to Cairo and Giza, with transfers by air-conditioned vehicles from the Red Sea. Following a pick-up from your hotel, get some great views of the landscape en route to the Egyptian capital. Stops can be made whenever you require. Upon arrival in Cairo, visit the Egyptian Museum on Tahrir Square, and discover one of the most comprehensive collections of Ancient Egyptian relics in the world. Explore treasures that tell the story of a highly-developed culture. For a supplement, you can enter the Mummy Room to learn all about the mummification process, and come face-to-face with some of the Egyptian royals of the Pharonic days in mummified form. Transfer to Giza in the afternoon to see the Great Pyramids and Great Sphinx in the Giza Plateau. Marvel at this last surviving monument of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World, built more than 4.500 years ago as everlasting graves for the pharaohs Cheops, Chephren, and Mykerinos. Marvel at the mysterious Sphinx statue of a Pharaoh's head with a lion's body. Optional activities in Giza upon payment of a supplement include a look inside the Great Pyramid or Small Pyramid, a ride on a camel, or a visit to the Solar Boat Museum, where you will see the legendary boat that Pharaoh Cheops had built in order to sail through the underworld Transfer back to your hotel in the evening for the end of tour services.
6. Pyramids of Giza, Sakkara & Memphis: Private Tour with Lunch
Embark on a full-day tour to the Giza Pyramids, the Sphinx, Memphis and Sakkara. Start your tour by visiting the Great Pyramids - Cheops, Chephren and Mykerinos. The highlight of this section is getting close up to the Sphinx - the legendary guardian with a lion's body and the head of King Chephren. Admire the impressive statue and get your photo taken beside it. You will then visit Sakkara, a 27 km journey away from Cairo. The highlight of this section is the Step Pyramid. Built for King Zoser, it is considered an important part in the process of the pyramid evolution. Finally, you'll head over to Memphis. Not the home of Elvis, of course, but the ancient capital of Egypt!
7. From Cairo: Full-Day Historical Alexandria Tour
Enjoy a full-day trip to the historic city of Alexandria and experience the remnants of a bygone era. After pickup from your hotel in Cairo or Giza, you'll drive towards Alexandria, stopping along the way to use the bathroom and get a coffee. Upon arrival, start your tour of this ancient city. Head towards the marble-stone Roman amphitheater of Kom El-Deka that once accommodated over 800 visitors. Enjoy the sights of its pleasure garden and mosaic floored Roman baths and villas. Afterward, move on to the Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa where you can feel the aura of ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman architectural excellence. The cemetery was constructed in the second century AD and is still one of the seven wonders of the middle ages. Next, visit Pompey's Pillar, the significant Roman triumphal column in Alexandria. Savor a delicious lunch from a local restaurant and then enjoy a photo stop at the Library of Alexandria, one of the largest and most renowned archives of the ancient world. Stroll along the Citadel of Qaitbay, built above the ruined Alexandria lighthouse. At the end of the tour, you'll be driven back to Cairo or Giza to be dropped off at your accommodation.
8. Giza Pyramids and Sphinx: Half-Day Private Tour
Meet your tour-guide in your hotel lobby and depart in a private, air-conditioned vehicle to the Giza Plateau. The tour begins by exploring the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. You will visit the Pyramid of Cheops (The Great Pyramid of Giza), the largest pyramid in the world. Continue your tour with visits to the Pyramids of Chephren and Mykerinos. Learn the architectural significance and fascinating history of these magnificent structures. While on the Giza Plateau, you will see The Great Sphinx of Giza and learn about the mystery of one of the oldest and largest sculptures in the world.
9. From Cairo: Half-Day Tour to Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx
Kick start this exhilarating tour with a convenient pickup by your Egyptologist tour guide from your hotel in Cairo in an air-conditioned vehicle. Get to know more about the history of Egypt in this 4-hour tour that takes you to the Giza Pyramids. Head over to the Great Pyramids, a renowned destination and one among the Seven Wonders of the World. Visit the Great Pyramids from the inside (if this option is selected). Continue the tour with a panoramic view of the Pyramids of Giza: the Pyramids Cheops, Chephren, and Menkaure. You'll also get to see the impressive Sphinx of Giza, truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Don't forget to take as many photos as you can of these amazing structures. As the tour comes to an end, you'll be dropped back at your hotel.
10. Pyramids of Giza and Great Sphinx: Private Half-Day Tour
This 4-hour sightseeing tour explores the mysteries of the Great Pyramids of Giza and Great Sphinx in the Giza Plateau. The oldest and last remaining of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World, the site is not only the most popular attraction in Egypt, it's one of the most loved destinations in the world. In the company of an expert Egyptologist guide, you will visit the Pyramid of Cheops, the middle Pyramid of Chephren, and the small Pyramid of Mykerinos. Continue to the Great Sphinx with its head of a man and body of a lion, gazing imposingly across the valley. Then, complete your tour of the pyramid complex with a walk through the Valley Temple, learning more about the site's astonishing creation and construction back in 2560–2540 BC.
Frequently asked questions about Cairo
What top attractions are a must-see in Cairo?
The must-see attractions in Cairo are:
Egyptian Museum of Antiquities
Pyramid of Djoser
Khan el-Khalili
Cairo Citadel
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What are the top things to do in Cairo this week?
The top things to do in Cairo are:
Cairo: Quad & Camel Ride Combo Tour Around the Pyramids
From Cairo: Full-Day Tour of Historical Alexandria
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Which tours in Cairo are taking additional COVID-19 precautions?
These experiences in Cairo are taking additional COVID-19 precautions:
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The best time to visit Cairo is from October through to May, when the weather isn't insufferably hot. Hotels are cheaper during its scorching summer, but don't settle for a place without air conditioning and a pool!
Book 3 or 4 days minimum just for sightseeing, but a full week is recommended for archeological day trips, or simply to uncover the many sides of Cairo's vibrant culture.
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From October through May, you'll find cooler temperatures, making sightseeing more pleasant.
Top Attractions in Cairo
1 Egyptian Museum of Antiquities
2 Pyramid of Djoser
3 Khan el-Khalili
4 Tahrir Square
5 Cairo Citadel
6 Memphis, Egypt
7 Old Cairo
8 Hanging Church
9 Alabaster Sphinx
10 Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha
11 Islamic Cairo
12 City of the Dead, Cairo
13 Pyramid of Menkaure
14 Pharaonic Village
15 Dahshur
16 National Museum of Egyptian Civilization
17 Church of St. Barbara
18 Heliopolis
19 Coptic Museum
20 Abu Serga
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2 Cairo Day Trips
3 Cairo Tours
4 Cairo Camel Riding Tours
5 Cairo Airport Transfers
6 Cairo Cruises & Boat Tours
7 Cairo Desert Safaris
8 Cairo Museums & Exhibitions
9 Cairo Walking Tours
10 Cairo Quad & ATV Tours
11 Cairo Nature & Adventure
12 Cairo Transportation
13 Cairo Tickets
14 Cairo Bus & Minivan Tours
15 Cairo Dinner & Lunch Cruises
16 Cairo River & Harbor Cruises
17 Cairo Air & Helicopter Tours
18 Cairo Museum Tickets
19 Cairo Food & Gourmet Tours
20 Cairo Private Experiences
Cities in Egypt
1 Hurghada
2 Cairo
3 Sharm el-Sheikh
4 El Gouna
5 Luxor
6 Alexandria, Egypt
7 Aswan
8 Giza
9 Marsa Alam
10 Dahab
11 Soma Bay
12 Makadi Bay
13 Edfu
14 Kom Ombo
15 Ain Sokhna
16 El-Alamein
17 Fayoum
18 Nagrig
Other Sightseeing Options in Cairo
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What people are saying about Cairo
This trip was awesome! Ahmad our guide impressed us , he is just made to do his job, he is the best guide I've ever seen. The road is long but the drivers were so good, we slept very well on the road to Cairo and back to the hotel we have a lot of fun. We eaten on a boat, the lunch was very tasty, and we were really enjoyed the little ride with the felucca If you visit Egypt this is a must to do!!! Thank you all very much
From Hurghada: Cairo and Giza Full-Day Highlights Tour Reviewed by Pelnars, 12/29/2021
It was a once in a lifetime experience, thanks to our guide Solosh and our driver Rami. They made this day so special for us, it couldn't have any better. All our wishes were granted, we got so much background information about the culture, explained in a very entertaining way with a great storyline. Thank you Solosh and Rami, we will never forget this day and also we will never forget you.
Cairo: Pyramids of Giza, Sphinx, Saqqara, Memphis & Lunch Reviewed by , 12/29/2021
It was really a great day. Very good organization and process. Ramadan was a great guide! You have to see the pyramids once in a lifetime! Thanks again to everyone involved for an unforgettable day!
Hurghada: Full-Day Trip to Cairo by Plane Reviewed by Gerald, 12/28/2021
Ooo the bikes were amazing.My guide was very accommodating and personal which made the experience unique .He ensured my safety and continually check to be sure I was having a good time.
Cairo: Pyramids Quad Bike Adventure & Optional Camel Ride Reviewed by Jerry, 12/30/2021
The guide ,the ambiance ,food and music all was just beautiful for my evening .I will recommend you it either solo or with companion.
Cairo: Dinner Cruise on the Nile River with Entertainment Reviewed by Jerry, 12/30/2021
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Los Angeles, California the home for Hollywood's glamour, awesome weather in the Winter, and the highest population of homelessness in the nation. In the shadows of Downtown LA, lies the community of Skid Row. A community once known for its hard workers and now it is a neighborhood for charity, good deeds and special care.
On an average night in the 23 cities surveyed, 94 percent of people living on the streets were single adults, 4 percent were part of families and 2 percent were unaccompanied minors.
The average length of stay in emergency shelter was 69 days for single men, 51 days for single women, and 70 days for families. For those staying in transitional housing, the average stay for single men was 175 days, 196 days for single women, and 223 days for families.
In the City of Los Angeles in January 2011 there were an estimated 23,539 homeless persons, which represents a 9% decrease from the prior count.
What is the public's responsibility for the homeless, can city government handle this on their own?
For 12 years, California Muslim Communities have organized themselves together as the Coalition to Preserve Human Dignity (CPHD). Volunteers, Organizations and Institutions sharing collective resources for Humanitarian Day (H-Day) projects. Humanitarian Day is a direct social service that provides; hot meals, clothing, medical examinations and essential care that is normally unavailable for people in transition and/or homeless.
H-Days are held during the month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast for 30 days during sunlight hours. H-Day founded by the ILM Foundation, who organizes by identifying leadership, creating relief and build community organizations to sustain urban life... in Los Angeles, Oakland, Long Beach, South Central, the Inland Empire, Pasadena, Bakersfield and Dallas - making an effort to please the Creator.
Join the movement of "People Helping People" and next Thursday it might be you featured for community care. We are an authorized affiliate fundraiser for Humanitarian Day. Please Donate Today and click this button Every Thursday!
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The video capture my attention! We are doing something similar at our church We feed the homeless once a moth n the N. O. Ill always remember the line one of the brothers used " The bottom line we all are people" to me it meant we all are subject to change.And I just want to say I know CPHD has provided a safe haven for the people As well.Thanks for sharing.
That video was inspiring to say the least! I've participated at Humanitarian Day events several times before but never Downtown LA, there's seems to be a different vibe there.


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Worldwide, companies like yours are rapidly adopting a new business model: the virtual office, where team members use technology to break down geographic boundaries and collaborate on projects from around the globe. New ways of doing business require fresh new approaches to management, and this is particularly true when managing IT resources that may be located almost anywhere...from Baltimore to Bangalore. Managing Without Walls shows managers like you how to leverage the virtual business model for maximum effectiveness. With it, you'll learn special techniques for being successful at managing, coaching, and developing team members in this new and exciting, but challenging, environment.
Many managers try to apply traditional management processes to this new way of doing business, often with limited success. Researchers tell us that 80% of human communication is non-verbal, but this valuable "face time" is lost in a virtual team setting. Therefore, managers must learn to both manage and communicate differently. This book demonstrates why traditional methods fall short in this new paradigm and offers effective alternatives.
The authors discuss at length the management and communication issues you'll face. They then explain how to conquer those issues and share proven methods to handle virtual teams. With this practical advice, aspiring as well as existing virtual managers will acquire the skills and tools they need to be successful in today's new business reality.
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I'm so thankful that the fall colors stuck around long enough for Erika and Nikhil's beautiful engagement session. These two are getting married (for the second time!) next year at Jorgensen Farms, which is one of my absolute favorite venues to photograph. I say second time because they are actually heading to India in a few short weeks to have a traditional celebration with all of Nikhil's family and ten of Erika's closest family and friends who will be traveling along. I'm dying to see photos of Nikhil riding in on a white horse and Erika in all three of her colorful dresses covered in henna! I'm so excited to take part in telling their unique story when they celebrate with their families back home in Ohio next summer! Congratulations again Erika and Nikhil!


For six years Elizabeth Canham lived in an Episcopal Benedictine Monastery where the rhythm work, silence, prayer, solitude and community time impacted her own journey. St. Benedict's Rule, written in the sixth century CE, contains so much wisdom that is relevant today.
Heart Whispers offers accessible insights from Benedictine spirituality to help us explore the need for faithful living in today's often stress-filled world. Through listening with "the ear of the heart," the sixth century monk Benedict gained a fresh perspective on Christian spirituality as he lived by three simple vows: stability, obedience and conversion.
Elizabeth Canham guides readers to a daily rhythm that balances work and rest, study and play. Readers will discover anew that life with God is a journey that grows richer and more blessed as we hear and respond to divine grace.
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premiere: shy lennox's "signs" is a surreal dream come true
By Myles E. Johnson
Shy Lennox is a dream and "Signs" is such a proper initial dreamscape for the 21 year-old singer with the hypnotic voice dipped in honey molasses. In his music and visuals, he joins together surreal visuals with a calm, almost casual, sensuality and inventiveness that gets you excited about both his music but his visual storytelling. Nastassja Swift hand-sculpted the masks worn in the "Shy" video from cotton and wire. Pharoh Sistare, the creator of Palette Studios, styled the clothing for the video under my creative direction. The result is something too whimsical to be a nightmare, but too exciting to be a daydream. Shy Lennox told AFROPUNK, "It was important for me to hire Black artists because I knew they would understand exactly what kind of vibe I wanted this visual to have." Lennox continues, "When it came time to make the visual match the music, I would not accept something incohesive. I believe visuals today are incredibly impactful, and I had to ensure that my first one was done perfectly."
AFROPUNK spoke to Shy Lennox about his new video, the future, and the inspirations for his dreams. It's quite obvious Lennox is one of those fully thought out artists that will be creating worlds and dreams for us for a long time. How lucky are we.
What was the visual inspiration for "Signs"?
I wrote "Signs" when I was deeply in love with my last serious partner. The visual adaptation is loosely based off of a dream I had last year on Valentine's Day. I journaled the story as soon as I woke up, but I didn't really make sense of it until months later. After making the connection between my vivid dream and my song, I planned to release the video exactly one year later for two reasons: I wanted to symbolize my own strength and new creative ability after leaving my partner, and I wanted it to be a gift to my listeners who can relate to the enchanting infatuation phase I lyrically outline in "Signs".
What can new fans expect from you in the future?
Hopefully, a deeper connection to who Shy Lennox is through multiple mediums of art and behavior. I want to establish a strong sense of camaraderie with the Black queer community through my music.
What is the inspiration for your upcoming project?
As of right now, there is no official project I am working towards, however I am always drawing inspiration from my reality along with the experiences of other Black people. With regards to my musical influences, I would have to mention the early R&B period, romantic opera as a whole, and my college music professors.
Define what Black means to you today.
Being Black is being so blatantly beautiful that those who aren't Black will never fully accept or understand your delicacy. Being Black is an identity of strength and safety that I wear proudly like a permanent badge of honor. Black is not only the color of my skin, but an expression of who I am, who I was, and who I will be. Black is a superhuman quality that evokes love, perseverance, and a magic-like ability. To me, being Black is the inability to be transparent because you are constantly shining.
Define freedom.
I am not exactly sure how to completely define freedom yet. I am only twenty-one years old and am still figuring out my individual liberties, and how to coexist in a world where I am statistically set up to fail. I will say that from what I have learned so far, actually being free is totally different than feeling free.
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An order granted by a High Court judge to mute the sound of the azaan at a Madrasah in Isipingo has raised consternations, writes an Al Qalam Reporter.
A Durban law firm acting for Madrasah Taleemuddeen Islamic Institute in Isipingo has applied for leave to appeal against a High Court judgment that prohibits the Madrasah from laudably calling out the azaan – and they are confident that the verdict would be overturned.
The application against the Institute has made international news after a Hindu neighbour, Chandra Giri Ellaurie, filed an application to have the sounds of the azaan muted further, even though the azaan was not amplified.
Judge Sidwell Mngadi issued a court order against the madrasah to ensure its call to prayer is not audible inside the neighbour's house across the street.
Ellaurie, who denied he was an Islamophobe, however, believes Islam to be racist and sexist religion. He argued the call of prayer "deprived him of the enjoyment of his property rights".
Meanwhile, M.Y. Baig, a former councilor, laid a charge of against Ellaurie for crimen injuria, blasphemy and hate speech and called for the matter to be handled by the Equality Court which has jurisdiction in a case such as this.
Attorney Aslam Mayat, acting for the Madrasah said they were hopeful that the leave to appeal would be granted soon and its case put forward.
In a press statement yesterday, Mayat said Hindu neighbours of Ellaurie had filed affidavits supporting the Madrasah that there is no sound disturbance.
The basis of the applicants' case is that he must not hear the azaan because he found Islam to be offensive. He contended that Hindusism, Christianity and Judaism are true religions because they accept the divinity of man and Islam is a false religion because it does not," Mayat said.
Nevertheless, the judge granted the order that the azaan from the Madrasah not be heard by Ellaurie in the confines of his home.
The Madrasah believes the judgment is wrong and is vigorously fighting the order.
On hearing of the restrictions placed on the azaan, a non-Muslim group, The Tactical Shooting Team, headed by Rivaaj Ramdas, were so incensed by the "banning of the azaan," they decided to drive past the Madrasah and past Ellaurie's house, playing the azaan on loudspeakers.
Ramdas said the attempt to ban the azaan was the "work of the devil". It goes against the constitution and basic human rights. He said "we are not prepared to accept this high court order". Muslims were suffering pain and hurt, and this must be challenged. "My heart is bleeding for the Muslim community. This is the work of the devil, and the devil must be destroyed. This is a fight against evil," he added.
He said the azaan would never be stopped and he and his team were prepared to go to jail for their stand.
This act of standing with Muslims touched the hearts of people around the world who praised the group's leader for his stance.
Al Qalam contacted Ellaurie for comment, but he declined to make a statement. Asked whether he was aware that another Hindu neighbour had allegedly sent a whatsapp message backing him in his claims, saying people must understand there was "two sides to a story, Ellaurie said he was not aware of the whatsapp message. Al Qalam asked him to check with his neighbour whether the message floated about was authentic or not. He contacted Al Qalam later to say his neighbour did not wish to comment.
The whatsApp message read: "The call is for the azaan to be turned down, not off…and I second that because I live very near the mosque and am disturbed every time I need to pray or meditate," the message read.
Meanwhile, Thomas Coggin, in his opinion piece in Daily Maverick said Judge Mngadi appeared to be oblivious to the diversity of the South African neighbourhood.
Meanwhile, Jamiatul Ulama (KZN) said in a press statement that the applicant did not conceal his opposition to the Islamic faith and said he considers Islam to be a false religion.
"The judgement, which we believe to be ill-conceived and a stain on the South African judiciary bodes ill for religious expression of the Islamic faith, but sets a dangerous precedent for curtailing the religious expression and freedom of practice of all faiths," the statement said.
The Jamiat also thanked the non-Muslim community at large for standing with the Isipingo Muslim community on this issue.
Posted by: Al-Qalam // Leading Stories // September 4, 2020
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Why you should know Abbas Kiarostami — and his 6 most legendary films
Explore the intimate, quiet world of the great Iranian filmmaker.
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Abbas Kiarostami, a director whose films served as many cinephiles' introduction to the vibrant world of Iranian cinema, died Monday, July 4, at his home in Paris. He was 76.
The great director's films are marked by an unforced intimacy, by their certainty that the most interesting struggle in life is that of any human being to live on her own terms. They often take place in our quietest, most contemplative spaces. Indeed, some of them are primarily about the feeling of driving around in a car, lost in thought.
Famously, Kiarostami's movies walk a thin line between fiction and reality. Some of his footage was captured in documentary fashion, while other footage was improvised from brief story descriptions or semi-scripted scenes.
He believed the best way to home in on the truth was through telling lies, and his movies would sometimes pause for long sequences that essentially amounted to found-footage slices of life. Those sequences reversed the stereotypical portrait of Iran as a backward, bloodthirsty society that threatened to take hold in the 2000s. Its political regime might have been oppressive, but the country was full of people with the same sorts of hopes and dreams as anyone else in the world.
Should you be interested in catching up with Kiarostami's catalog, here are six movies to check out, along with where to watch them. (Many are available on Hulu, of all places.)
Where Is the Friend's Home? (1987)
Kiarostami's breakthrough film with international audiences is also one of his hardest films to see. On paper, the story is straightforward: A young boy realizes he's accidentally brought his friend's notebook home from school with him and sets out to find his friend's house so he can return it. The film is the first in the "Koker trilogy," a set of three films set in the same small Iranian village. (Critics dubbed the films in this fashion; Kiarostami rejected the label.)
Poke beneath the film's surface and you'll find a movie about the moral duties we owe to each other in any society, about what it means to be a good person, and about taking care of each other. Kiarostami's protagonists are often very young or very old, perhaps because those two ages allowed him to assign the greatest moral weight to seemingly very simple choices. Where Is the Friend's Home? is appropriate viewing for any child who will read subtitles, yet it contains depths for adults to plumb as well.
Unfortunately, Where Is the Friend's Home? is the most difficult film on this list to track down on physical media, though a reasonably well-stocked library should have a copy. Fortunately, it's currently streaming on Hulu.
Wrote Chicago Reader's Jonathan Rosenbaum of the full trilogy in 1998:
All three works are sustained meditations on singular landscapes and the way ordinary people live in them; obsessional quests that take on the contours of parables; concentrated inquiries that raise more questions than they answer; and comic as well as cosmic poems about dealing with personal and impersonal disaster. They're about making discoveries and cherishing what's in the world--including things that we can't understand.
Close-Up (1990)
Close-Up is perhaps Kiarostami's crowning achievement when it comes to blending fact with fiction. It's based on the true story of a man who impersonated a famous Iranian director and then wormed his way into a film-loving family's confidence. He was arrested and put on trial for fraud. But because Kiarostami came to the story late, his documentary version was forced to rely on reenactments — mostly starring the people actually involved in the story.
So what is this? A documentary? A docudrama based on a true story? An attempt to take a true story and improve upon it? In some ways, it's all three at once, depending on the scene. And what's fun about it is the way that its own conception — restaged history masquerading as a documentary — parallels the film's central theme of how impossible it can be to know the truth of any other human being, even if they're telling you who they are.
Close-Up is on DVD and Blu-ray via the Criterion Collection, and you can stream it on Hulu.
Wrote Noel Murray for the AV Club in 2010:
Kiarostami extends that theme of how movies shape reality into his documentary footage, as when he interviews cops who insist that "people out to con others have a certain look," and when he films the testimony of Sabzian, who says he understands that Kiarostami's camera will be his "audience."
Taste of Cherry (1997) and Ten (2002)
Structurally these two works are quite similar, as both are filmed at close range and from the naturalistic perspective of a character driving a car around a small city. Yet Kiarostami relies on the introspection provided by these enclosed settings to raise much bigger questions about the nature of humanity and even modernity.
Taste of Cherry's subject is a man who wants to die, looking for able-bodied passengers to help him do the deed. The film's symbolism is found in deep silences, among sparse dialogue and tense visual metaphors: Something as simple as a mound of dirt being pushed onto a landfill becomes so much more when the character who's looking at said landfill is thinking about who will bury him after his death.
Writing about Taste of Cherry's triumphant Cannes debut (it won the Palme d'Or), Stephen Holden of the New York Times summed up a crucial facet of Kiarostami's filmmaking ability, as evidenced in both these films:
Mr. Kiarostami, like no other filmmaker, has a vision of human scale that is simultaneously epic and precisely minuscule. While each of the men Mr. Badii approaches is a vivid, autonomous individual with a rich personal history and an innate sense of dignity, each is also seen as part of the human anthill.
Ten's subject is an unnamed woman who engages in conversations with her various passengers as she drives around Tehran. Portrayed by actress Mania Akbari, who is essentially playing herself alongside her real-life young son, the woman embodies the complicated overlap between the politicized and the personal, as well as the ambiguity between fiction and real life that Kiarostami loves to inject into his work. The title, "Ten," refers both to the age of her son and the 10 conversations she has over the course of the film.
Through the myopic view of a dash cam, Kiarostami manages to widen the scope to reveal what a politically charged Iran looked like post-9/11 but pre-2009 Green Wave, through the eyes of women both directly and obliquely impacted by a changing culture. That the film looks like a home-camera affair only adds to its intimate, politically charged overtones.
Taste of Cherry is available on DVD via the Criterion Collection and is streaming on Hulu. Ten is available to watch on Amazon video, subtitled in English.
The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
As rich and sweeping as Ten was claustrophobic, Kiarostami's story of a free spirit named Behzad and his efforts to make a home for himself in a remote Iranian village is reminiscent of other hymns to a countryside in flux, like How Green Was My Valley or Days of Heaven. It's also a departure from the rest of Kiarostami's canon.
Whereas the director's other films have a disruptive, troubled feel as Kiarostami reacts to the changing world around him, The Wind Will Carry Us feels like a celebratory reconciliation between tradition and change, between past and future.
Although superficially the story is about Behzad's attempt to chronicle death — that of an old and fading relative — ultimately, it evolves into a tale of his new understanding of how to be alive, truly alive, in a world that feels perpetually too big and perpetually on the brink of disaster.
Writing about the film's US release three years after its debut on the film festival circuit, Time reviewer Richard Corliss said, "The rhythm of rural life has rarely seemed so lucid and luminous."
The film is available to stream on Hulu and can also be purchased on DVD and Blu-ray.
One of Kiarostami's final two films — which also happen to be the only ones he made outside of Iran— the predominantly French production Certified Copy, a vehicle for Juliette Binoche, is one of his greatest works. On the surface, the film seems to be a simple story of a couple, but as with all Kiarostami movies, it slowly reveals itself to be about the separation between the truth and fiction — and whether it even matters which is which.
Binoche and William Shimell play two people who meet by happenstance when she attends a discussion of his book. (The book gives the movie its title, as it's a discussion of how art is always a copy of something.) The two spend the day together, seemingly drawn to one another, but as the film goes on, it becomes less and less clear whether they've just met or, indeed, have been married for years and are acting out a scenario intended to shake up their marriage.
The movie's ambiguity proved to be its chief selling point for many reviewers. Writing for New York magazine, David Edelstein said:
Let me add that what's onscreen is tactile and emotional, full of shocking anger, unexpected tenderness, and devastating epiphanies. Juliette Binoche is acting a role, which means she's a fake, in the sense that all actors are fakes. But I could swear in Kiarostami's long takes she was dissolving before our eyes and becoming this woman. Acknowledging its artifice, Certified Copy becomes intensely, miraculously real.
The film is available on DVD and Blu-ray.
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Matt's Five Points, December 21: We're not shutting down this newsletter!
Welcome! I'm Matt Glassman, Senior Fellow at the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown. Here's m
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Welcome! I'm Matt Glassman, Senior Fellow at the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown. Here's my regular newsletter that always includes five points at the intersection of DC politics and political science, and often some links to interesting things I've been reading or listening to this week.
In this issue, I explain govenrment shutdowns and Questions of Privilege in the House, discuss Trump's growing influence problem, and give you my Christmas break reading list.
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The government may shut down tonight.
Here's what that actually means.
Now that the specter of a government shutdown is (once again) upon us, it's probably a good idea to review what that actually means..
I'll do it question and answer style, hopefully in a way that seems natural.
What the heck is a "shutdown"?
The actual term is "funding gap" or "lapse in appropriations." According to Article I, section 9 of the Constitution, no money can be drawn from the Treasury, except under appropriation made by law. That is, to say, the government can only spend money that it has been authorized to spend by law. And laws must be passed by Congress. So if the current appropriations expire and no new ones have been passed by Congress, then no money can be drawn from the Treasury. And that means, in the broadest sense, the government can't pay for anything — salaries, supplies, etc. Which means, more or less, that the government has to cease operations, or shut down. As Matt Fuller reminded everyone yesterday, "shutdown" is a noun, don't use it as a verb.
What do you mean "expire"?
Whenever Congress appropriates money, they indicate what period of time the money can be used. The vast majority of appropriations are annual, meaning they are for the period of one fiscal year. Some appropriations, such as money for construction projects, might be appropriated as multi-year. And some money appropriated by Congress is "no-year" money, meaning it can be spent at any time in the future, so long as it is used for its lawful purpose.
Annual appropriations are almost always provided by Congress for a period that runs from October 1 to September 30 of the following year. This is known as the fiscal year. Fiscal years are designated by the calendar year through which the appropriations provide for. So October 1, 2018 was the first day of Fiscal Year 2019, or FY2019.
Because Congress has not passed all of the annual appropriations for FY2019, there may be a shutdown.
Wait, it's December. Why are we dealing with this now?
Because Congress has been providing temporary FY2019 appropriations since October 1. There is another way to avoid a shutdown besides passing annual appropriations. And that is to pass what is called a Continuing Resolution (or CR), which is just a fancy term for a law that says, in effect, "money can be continued to be spent for a certain period of time while we work to get the annual appropriations bills passed." Such a law can be written to cover any amount of time Congress desires. Indeed, a CR is just an appropriations bill of a different form.
CRs generally provide agencies with funding at the same rate they were receiving it in the previous year, in an across-the-board fashion. Sometimes an across-the-board rate reduction is included, or so-called anomalies that adjust individual accounts. But a CR, in principle and practice, is a very short law that works at an aggregate level and doesn't consider details or changes in agency programs.
Congress has passed two such CRs this fiscal year. The first one provided funding from October 1 through December 7. The second one provided funding through December 21. It's the expiration of the second one—at midnight tomorrow—that creates the possibility of a lapse in appropriations.
Note that Congress probably isn't going to pass actual FY2019 appropriations today; they are just considering another CR that would fund the government through February 8, with the hope that the a deal on the appropriations bills could be completed by then.
So you could, in theory, have a CR that prevents an October 1 shutdown and goes through November 13, at which point a shutdown could start that lasts until a CR is passed on November 19, but then starts again on December 15 when that CR expires and goes until January 6 when full-year appropriations are finally approved. Indeed, this is exactly what happened in FY1996.
So when there is a shutdown, the whole government just stops operating?
Not exactly. Under the Constitution, no money can be drawn from from the Treasury. That is, no outlays of actual money to creditors. But the Constitution doesn't prohibit the government from incurring obligations; the government is theoretically still free to enter into contracts, hire and employ labor, etc. They just can't pay off these obligations. Kinda like if you had a credit card, but no ability to pay it at the end of the month because your checking account was frozen.
But my friend is a federal employee, and he said he's not allowed to go to work during a shutdown.
That's right, because while the Constitution only prohibits disbursement, there's a federal law (the Anti-Deficiency Act) that prohibits the obligation of federal money in the absence of an appropriation, with criminal penalties for agency heads who violate it. In effect, the ADA freezes the credit card, whereas the Constitution freezes the checking account. So if your friend's agency had him come to work, it would be in violation of the Anti-Deficiency Act, because the agency would be obligating money without an appropriation, but it would not be in violation of the Constitution, because your friend's salary would not be disbursed from the Treasury.
I don't get this obligation / disbursement business. Explain.
When Congress appropriates money to an agency, it gives it to them as budget authority. That simply gives the agency an amount on a piece of paper, which is the amount of money that can legally obligate for lawful purposes. Say Congress provide $100 million in budget authority to an agency. It's not like Treasury goes and dumps $100 million in cash or gold off at the agency. All the money is at Treasury.
So when the agency spends money, it doesn't literally hand over cash to its employees or creditors, it simply enters into an obligation to pay them (be it salaries for employees or funds for capital purchases). The agency then notifies Treasury, and Treasury ultimately transfers the funds to the creditor. I think the credit card / checking account analogy, while not actually perfect, is the best way to think about it. Congress gives each agency an amount on a credit card, which they are allowed to spend. But it's all linked to one checking account, which is controlled by Treasury. The Constitution shuts off use of the checking account when no appropriation exists funding it. The Anti-Deficiency Act shuts off the credit card.
But now we're back to the question: does the whole government just stop operating?
Nope. The Anti-Deficiency Act includes an exception for the "safety of human life or the protection of property." Subsequent opinions of the Attorney General (found in appendices here), opinions of the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel, and guidance of GAO / Comptroller General have clarified what does and does not fall under this exception. In past shutdowns, OMB opinions have considered the following types of things to fall under the exception: military and national security, public safety such as air traffic control, care of patients in hospitals and prisoners in prisons (and wildlife at the national zoo), things necessary to protect federal property and continue the functions of the Treasury, and disaster relief, among other things. Under common sense interpretations, the heat can also be left on at federal buildings.
Don't let all these exceptions distort the bottom line: if no appropriations bills have been enacted, the vast majority of federal agencies will largely shut down, and sizable portion of the federal civilian workforce will be furloughed. You can see the percentages here.
Has this always been the case?
No. Prior to the Attorney General opinions in 1980 and 1981 (known as the Civiletti decisions), most agencies didn't stop operating at all when there was a funding gap; they just liberally interpreted the ADA and decided Congress didn't intend for them to cease operating. The 1980 and 1981 opinions took a much stricter view of the ADA; that's really when the modern shutdowns began.
So some federal employees keep working and some do not?
Right. Those who must continue to go to work are called "excepted" (sometimes referred to as "essential.") All others ("non-excepted" or "non-essential") are furloughed.
Of course, this only applies if there is a lapse of appropriations; if a federal agency has a non-appropriated source of funding—such as a revenue stream they are, under law, allowed to draw money from—they can use that funding to avoid the need to shut down.
So the excepted employees still get paid?
Not during the shutdown. Remember, the exception only allows the government to obligate the money (i.e. put it on the credit card) without violating the Anti-deficiency Act. Until an appropriation is passed by law, the Constitution prohibits disbursement of the money by the Treasury. So yes, the soldiers will continue to work and continue to earn money, but they will not receive a check until an appropriation is passed by law. In effect, the government legally owes them money, but can't pay them.
And the non-excepted employees will not get paid?
Yes and no. The government will not be incurring an obligation for the non-excepted employees, so they do not legally owe them anything. But in past shutdowns, Congress has typically passed legislation retroactively paying non-excepted federal employees for the period that they were furloughed.
What about transfer payments like Social Security?
Social Security is funded through a permanent appropriation, meaning that the benefits themselves are not affected by a shutdown. However, employees at the SSA could theoretically be non-excepted. In past shutdowns, OMB opinions have considered SSA employees required to process recipient benefits as excepted, and all checks have been sent out.
I thought there were usually 12 appropriations bills in Congress. What if half of them have passed?
You'd have a partial shutdown. In fact, that's what we'd have right now: 5 of the 12 bills for FY2019 have already passed. The Constitution doesn't require or concern itself with how Congress divides up its appropriations bills. If the State Department appropriations for FY2019 have been passed into law, then the shutdown doesn't affect them whatsoever. This is not an uncommon situation; during the second shutdown in FY1996, some of the bills had been passed already. During the FY2014 shutdown in October 2013, some individual departments were funded and thus the shutdown ended for them.
Does the legislative branch operate during a shutdown?
If the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act is not passed, then the legislative branch is subject to the Anti-Deficiency Act and, of course, the Constitution. Under the 1980 and 1981 opinions of the Attorney General, and subsequent interpretations by GAO, there is an ADA exemption for employees involved in the performance of Constitutional duties of the president and Congress. This makes sense: it would be ridiculous to say the bill reading clerk in the House or the sergeant-at-arms in the Senate could not work when the reason they would be working would be to support the ending the shutdown and providing the appropriations.
Members of Congress salaries' are provided for by a permanent appropriation, so they never experience a funding lapse.
In the FY2014 and FY2018 shutdown, Congress left the decision of whether Hill staffers were necessary to the constitutional functioning of Congress to individual employing authority, which is most cases were the individual Members (in their offices) or committee chairs (for committee staff). Support services, such as the cafeterias, were not open. The Committee of House Administration provided detailed guidance on the matter in FY2014, and again in FY2018.
What about the Courts?
In general, the federal courts are subject to the Anti-Deficiency Act and obviously the Constitution. On a practical level, however, the courts have not had to deal with shutdowns because they have a large stream of non-appropriated funds: the filing fees paid by litigants and others accessing the court system. These fees provide enough of their annual budget such that even in the absence of an appropriations, the courts can go about two weeks without any disruption in activities. In FY2014 and FY2018, the courts operated more or less normally during the shutdown. If a prolonged shutdown occurred, court staff would ultimately have to be furloughed, which could result in postponement of litigation and also raise constitutional questions about due process and the speed of trials in criminal matters. The courts are obviously also affected by how a shutdown impacts the Department of Justice.
Federal judges are in an interesting situation in regard to a shutdown. Article III of the Constitution provides that judges shall "receive, for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office." This potentially creates a paradox in the constitution: treasury cannot constitutional disburse money, but the judges—in theory—must be paid. This has never been tested; because of the non-appropriated funds, no shutdown has ever affected the federal courts such that a payday for judges occurred under a lapse of judicial appropriations. It is actually pretty funny to imagine a federal judge bringing suit under the Article III and having the case being heard by … a federal judge. One obvious statutory fix for this would be to create a permanent appropriations for federal judge salaries. They are mandatory money anyway—constitutionally mandatory, that is—so it's not like you'd be reducing any congressional power-of-the-purse authority.
How often have there been shutdowns?
There have been 17 lapses in appropriations of a day or longer since FY1977. The last four were two in FY1996, that lasted 5 and 21 days, respectively, one in FY2014 that lasted 16 days, and one in FY2018 that lasted 3 days. It's not clear how many actual shutdowns there have been.
Wait, there's a difference between a lapse in appropriations and a shutdown?
Yes, a pretty dramatic one.
Now you're just fucking with us.
No, this important. A lapse in appropriations occurs as soon as Congress has not provided budget authority and Treasury cannot constitutionally disburse funds. But prior to the Civiletti opinions in 1980 and 1981, agencies generally continued to operate as normal during periods of expired appropriations. And even after the Civiletti opinions, many of the short lapses in appropriations did not result in agencies shutting down; the combination of the lapses occurring on weekends and the expectation that they would be resolved shortly led many agencies to take no action. It's actually pretty hard to tell form the historical record what happened in most of the short funding lapses in the 1980s; some agencies began earnestly shutting down, others did nothing, some did something in between. This happened in the second FY2018 shutdown, which lasted only a few hours on February 9, 2018.
The only actual widescale shutdowns in the post-Civiletti era are two FY1996 shutdowns (5 days and 21 days), the FY2014 shutdown (16 days), and the FY2018 shutdown (3 days).
Ok, so what does an agency do to actually "shut down"?
OMB provides clear guidance on the procedures for this in Circular No. A-11 and other public and non-public documents provided to agencies. Agencies are required to maintain contingency plans for funding gaps including decisions about what activities are exempt from the ADA and what employees will be furloughed or designated as exempted; OMB provides guidance for both short (less than 5 days) and longer lapses in appropriations. Once a lapse has occurred, agencies are not allowed to perform activities that would violate the ADA but must perform activities related to the orderly shut down of operations, including the formal furloughing of employees and the securing of federal records.
For many agencies, these orderly shutdown activities don't occur until Monday if the lapse occurred after close of business on Friday.
Where can I learn more?
As always, my recommendation is to go the most recent CRS report on the topic (I used to be a co-author of it.) It has all the citations and links you could ever dream of to lead you to the primary source material you need to keep yourself busy for a whole weekend reading about this stuff.
Trump continues to be a weak POTUS, part XXIV.
And he's opening new cracks in his coalition.
I continue to believe Donald Trump is as weak president in danger of a failed one-term presidency. I subscribe to the general Neustadt argument on presidential power, and I've written about it plenty before: on Trump's general Neustadtian weakness, his trouble managing the White House, his cheerleader role in congressional agenda-setting and legislation, and a host of tweetstorms about his various poor moves that have sapped his power.
Now, all presidents are powerful in an absolute sense, but we differentiate them by their ability to influence public policy outcomes. Presidents compete with lots of other actors in the government—elected members of Congress, appointed administration officials, civil servants, White House staffers—for influence over legislation and executive branch administration. Ultimately, a president's success or failure rests on their ability to persuade others that the costs of opposing him are too high.
And, in this sense, Trump just looks supremely weak in DC. He can't get the GOP to do anything legislatively that is on his agenda but not theirs. He constantly complains about his own cabinet officials, who appear to ignore him regularly, but is too boxed in politically to fire them. Private sector "allies" loudly walk away from him the minute he crosses them. And he can't even stop the record-setting departures and the legendary-level leaks at his own White House, where power-hungry staffers engage in endless intrigue, precisely because they know it is so easy to manipulate the president if you can get the face time.
In the last few weeks, things seem to be getting worse for Trump. In response to Trump's less-than-emphatic denunciation of MBS and the Saudis over the Khashoggi murder, the Senate invoked the War Powers Resolution for the first time ever, directing Trump to end U.S. involvement in Yemen. GOP Senators have completely ignored Trump on his central domestic policy issue, the border wall, instead preferring to craft their own deal with the Democrats, even as Trump escalates the issue and backs himself into a corner. Numerous GOP Senators went apoplectic in response to Trump's announcement about leaving Syria. And in response to the Mattis resignation, Majority Leader McConnell did not mince words about his dissatisfaction.
It's important to remember how unusual all of this is. Senators of the president's party normally bend over backwards not to criticize the president, ever. But under Trump, it has become routine. And make no mistake, it constrains Trump and forces his hand. Despite his supporters' belief that he is "tough" and doesn't bend to political pressure, quite the opposite seems true. Trump constantly reverses his positions and backs down from stands that he is allegedly taking. This happens all the time in foreign policy. He questions NATO Article V. He's going to close the border. He says he believes Putin over U.S. intelligence services. He says he believes MBS about the killing of a journalist. And on and on and on.
What is new in the most recent round is that it's not the usual suspects coming after Trump. Sure, Corker and Flake aren't happy about any of this. But Trump has opened new fault lines in December, among constituencies that haven't been his fiercest critics in the past two years. First, the neo-conservatives and others who want to project American military power. Graham's reaction to Syria was exemplary here. This is not a huge slice of the GOP, but it's another faction that is now angry with him on their core issues. Second, his immigration base. Trump's unwillingness to really fight on the wall issue last week had him in hot water with the Ann Coulter crowd and other right-wing media that prioritizes the immigration issues. This is not a constituency Trump can afford to lose, and his pivoting to digging in on the CR over the issue (smart or otherwise) probably reflects those concerns to some degree.
What I'm reading over Christmas break.
A lot of books about partisanship.
The Red and the Blue - Steve Kornacki - E-book
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From MSNBC correspondent Steve Kornacki, a lively and sweeping history of the birth of political tribalism in the 1990s—one that brings critical new unders…
Sides, J., Vavreck, L. and Tesler, M.: Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America (Hardcover) | Princeton University Press
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A gripping, in-depth account of the 2016 presidential election that explains Donald Trump's historic victory.
An Uncivil War - Greg Sargent - Hardcover
In An Uncivil War, the Washington Post's Greg Sargent sounds an urgent alarm about the deeper roots of our democratic backsliding—and how we can begin…
Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity, Mason
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The book Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity, Lilliana Mason is published by University of Chicago Press.
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The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil WarIn The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story …
Explainer: What's a Question of Privilege in the House?
And why did Pelosi (try to) use it yesterday.
Yesterday, Minority Leader Pelosi attempted to put the Senate-passed Continuing Resolution on the floor of the House, by raising it as a Question of Privilege. What was that all about?
For normal legislation, the majority party in the House has significant agenda-setting power. Specifically, legislation cannot typically reach the floor except by positive procedural action of a majority of the House's members. Consequently, individual members cannot typically get their preferred bills or resolutions on to the floor against the wishes of the House's majority party. This puts the majority party leadership squarely in charge of the floor agenda. By holding together their partisan procedural majority, the majority party routinely prevents bills and amendments that it opposes from reaching the floor that, if they did, would be likely to pass. Also, measures that thus have little or no support in the House cannot clog the agenda and waste floor time.
But a small set of measures are different. Under the House's rules, certain topics can reach the floor via a Question of Privilege, which any member can unilaterally raise (with notice) and the Minority Leader can raise immediately. A Question of Privilege has procedural precedence over all motions except the motion to adjourn. In short, the majority party does not have the ability to prevent a Question of Privilege from reaching the floor.
What issues can be raised via a Question of Privilege? Rule IX of the House classifies two sets of issues: first, "those affecting the rights of the House collectively, its safety, dignity, and integrity of its proceedings," and second, "the rights, reputation, an conduct of Members." Essentially, it covers issues related to the proper conduct of the House, its members, or its role in the separation of powers system.
Most notably, impeachment resolutions can be raised under a Question of Privilege. Even if the vast majority of members—including the entire majority party—oppose the consideration of an impeachment resolution , any individual member can easily get such a measure on the House floor for consideration.
This is how Representative Al Green, D-Tx., got his impeachment resolutions against president Trump (H. Res. 646 and H. Res. 705) on the floor earlier this Congress. It is also how Representative John Fleming, R-La., forced his resolution (H. Res. 828, 114th Congress) impeaching the IRS commissioner onto the floor against the wishes of the GOP leadership.
None of those resolutions ultimately got a vote on final passage. Both of the Green resolutions were immediately disposed of by the majority using non-debatable motions to table (both of which passed easily). The result was to give Green a procedural vote on impeachment but no debate. The Fleming resolution survived a tabling motion from the minority, but then was referred by motion to the Judiciary Committee, giving Fleming and his allies no final passage vote, but getting them several procedural votes and an hour of debate.
Yesterday, however, Pelosi was not trying to use the Question of Privilege to get the Continuing Resolution on the floor. A CR is unambiguously not eligible for consideration under the Question of Privilege. What Pelosi was doing was a messaging maneuver, designed to use the Question of Privilege mechanism to force a vote. As with many House rules, you can force a vote if you just blatantly break the rule. Yesterday, the Speaker (correctly) ruled that Pelosi's use of the Question of Privilege was out of order. Pelosi then appealed the ruling of the Chair. Republicans immediately moved to table (kill) the appeal, and Pelosi demanded a recorded vote on the tabling motion.
This technique—breaking the rules to force a vote on either an appeal or the tabling of an appeal—happens now and again in the House, when the minority wants an issue on the floor but can't overcome the agenda-setting power of the majority. And while a vote to table an appeal of the ruling of the chair that a Question of Privilege is out of order may seem like a tenuous connection to an underlying substantive issue, the minority can often make some majority-party members uncomfortable by trying to link the vote to the substantive issue, particularly when the majority is using their agenda setting power precisely to avoid taking tough votes on the substantive issue.
As it turns out, the tabling motion yesterday was a straight party-line vote, so it's unlikely it will affect any members at all, and it yielded Pelosi only a tiny amount of press. But watch for use of the Question of Privilege in the 116th Congress. Liberal Democrats will have it as a potential weapon if they become frustrated with the Democratic House leadership's unwillingness to go after Trump as aggressively as the liberals would like. Threatening to force a proxy vote on a Trump impeachment might become a substantial bargaining chip for them.
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Nebria vuillefroyi is a species of ground beetle in the Nebriinae subfamily that is endemic to Spain.

References

External links
Nebria vuillefroyi at Carabidae of the World

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Beetles described in 1866
Beetles of Europe
Endemic fauna of Spain


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Osvaldo Colagrande (Ipaussu, 5 de agosto de 1930 - Jundiaí, 30 de agosto de 2015), foi um violinista e compositor brasileiro de choro.

Biografia
Osvaldo Colagrande nasceu na cidade de Ipaussu, sul do estado de São Paulo, mas foi registrado na cidade de Cambará, no estado do Paraná, no dia 24 de setembro, mais de um mês após o seu nascimento.

Seu primeiro contato com a música veio logo na infância, quando tinha cinco anos de idade. Já adulto, especializou-se no violão de sete cordas, com o qual acompanhou músicos como Waldir Azevedo, Jacob do Bandolim e Pixinguinha. Em 1951, tornou-se músico profissional. Em 1957, integrou o conjunto do colega Esmeraldino Salles, na Rádio Tupi de São Paulo.

Osvaldo Colagrande também fundou o Conjunto 1 x 0. O nome do grupo foi inspirado na canção 1 x 0, composta por Pixinguinha.

Carreira artística
De formação autodidata, iniciou sua carreira profissional como músico em 1951, integrando o Regional do acordeonista Antonio Bruno.

Em 1955, Esmeraldino Salles o convidou para participar do Regional do Siles, apelido do clarinetista Wanderley Taffo, que se apresentava nas emissoras Tupi e Difusora:

"Eu trabalhava em uma gráfica ali perto e, na hora do almoço, ia assistir aos programas de rádio que na época eram ao vivo e em auditório. Esmeraldino, que me conhecia como violonista, me avisou para ficar alerta que o Mão de Vaca (Manoel da Conceição) iria em breve deixar o conjunto para trabalhar com Angela Maria. Eu acabei ficando em seu lugar."

Colagrande nunca mais se separou de seu parceiro, Esmeraldino Salles, criador de um balanço característico na arte do acompanhamento, que Colagrande herdaria.

Em 1957, Esmeraldino ouviu um choro recém composto por Colagrande e pediu para completá-lo com a segunda parte. Assim surgiu o famoso "Novato", um clássico do estilo da dupla: suingado e com harmonias intrincadas. Colagrande sempre fez questão de frisar que "aquela improvisação escrita, que todo intérprete repete, foi feita por Esmeraldino.

Nos anos seguintes, Osvaldo Colagrande acompanhou os grandes astros do choro e da MPB, principalmente quando vinham a São Paulo: Pixinguinha, Sivuca, Waldir Azevedo, Altamiro Carrilho, Jacob do Bandolim, Orlando Silva, Clara Nunes, Elis Regina e Silvio Caldas - este último por 12 anos, como integrante do Regional do Caçulinha.

Em 1971, adotou o violão de 7 cordas. Dino (Horondino Silva) foi sua maior referência, porém, seu estilo não é igual ao do mestre: sua "pegada" está ligada à rítmica do choro paulista e suas baixarias sincopadas marcam a diferença.

Naturais de Ipaussu
Violonistas do Brasil
Compositores do estado de São Paulo


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Q: GitHub GraphQL API Problems parsing JSON What is wrong here?
query='{ repositoryOwner(login : "ALEXSSS") { login repositories (first : 30){ edges { node { name } } } } }'

headers = {'Authorization': 'token xxx'}

r2=requests.post('https://api.github.com/graphql', '{"query": \"'+query+'\"}',headers=headers)

print (r2.json())

I've got
{'message': 'Problems parsing JSON', 'documentation_url': 'https://developer.github.com/v3'}

but this snippet of code below works correctly
query1= '''{ viewer { login name } }'''

headers = {'Authorization': 'token xxx'}

r2=requests.post('https://api.github.com/graphql', '{"query": \"'+query1+'\"}',headers=headers)

print (r2.json())

I've tried out to change quotes (from " into ' or with " and so on)  but it doesn't work.

A: The problem is related with the double quotes (").
On the first snippet, when you join the '{"query": \"'+query+'\"}' with the query variable, you get the following result:
{"query": "{ repositoryOwner(login : "ALEXSSS") { login repositories (first : 30){ edges { node { name } } } } }"}

Notice how the double quote from "ALEXSSS" are not escaped, therefore the resultant string is not a json valid format.
When you run the second snippet, the resultant string is:
{"query": "{ viewer { login name } }"}

which is a valid json string.
The easiest and best solution is simply use the JSON library instead of trying to do it manually, so you won't need to worry about escaping characters.
import json

query='{ repositoryOwner(login : "ALEXSSS") { login repositories (first : 30){ edges { node { name } } } } }'
headers = {'Authorization': 'token xxx'}

r2=requests.post('https://api.github.com/graphql', json.dumps({"query": query}), headers=headers)

print (r2.json())

But remember that you could also just escape the characters on the query manually:
query='{ repositoryOwner(login : \"ALEXSSS\") { login repositories (first : 30){ edges { node { name } } } } }'
headers = {'Authorization': 'token xxx'}

r2=requests.post('https://api.github.com/graphql', '{"query": "'+query1+'"}', headers=headers)

print (r2.json())

it works as expected :)

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PSU-LV students give a beloved Lehigh Valley holiday tradition a new look
The set for beloved local holiday show Pip the Mouse received a makeover from two Penn State Lehigh Valley students. The goal is to make the set mobile and take it out into the community. (L-R) Patrick Vance, Liberty Bell Shrine Museum board member, Christina Galbiati, instructor and lecturer, graphic design, and Allyshia Mohr, PSU-LV student who worked on the set. Missing from photo: Zoe O'Grady, PSU-LV student who also worked on the set's design.
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By Sara Karnish
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. — Sixty years ago, "The Mouse Before Christmas", a holiday puppet show written by Dr. George R. Creegan and starring Pip the Mouse, made its world premiere at Hess's Department Store in Center City Allentown. Kids from one to 92 delighted in the tale which would go on to entertain generations.
When Hess's closed in the mid-'90s, Pip the Mouse moved to the Liberty Bell Shrine Museum in Allentown, where it has been staged every holiday season since. But after six decades and countless performances, pieces of its last remaining set were beginning to deteriorate.
Liberty Bell Shrine Museum board member Patrick Vance set a goal — to create a charity community Pip the Mouse set able to travel from one performance to another. The original pieces are unable to be moved due to their delicate condition. Vance approached Ann Lalik, lecturer and director of the Ronald K. DeLong Gallery at Penn State Lehigh Valley, about working on a project. Lalik then reached out to Christina Galbiati, instructor and lecturer, graphic design, about turning the set design into a student project. "I'd only been teaching Intro to Graphic Design, but when I was approached about teaching COMM 441 [Advanced Graphic Design], I thought this project was more appropriate for this course," Galbiati said. "I thought this would be a great opportunity for students to learn the advanced-level design programs the course required."
Galbiati started her planning for the project over the summer, and the students were assigned the project at the beginning of the semester, with the files submitted and the project essentially wrapped up by the end of November. "This was a purely technical exercise," Galbiati said. "That's why we started at the beginning of the semester — we talked about the technical aspects of large-scale installation design. I think it was a great lesson in working with a client and meeting deadlines."
Two of Galbiati's students, Allyshia Mohr and Zoe O'Grady, were required to recreate the set in vector format using Adobe Illustrator. The students were able to meet with Vance prior to starting on the project to get a better understanding of the project scope, the history of Pip the Mouse, and Vance's plans for the show's future. "It made it easier to work on it after that, when we saw how passionate he is about it," Mohr said. "It was really cool — he showed us an old picture of the set at Hess's on Hamilton Street."
The project was a great hands-on learning experience for the students, as it allowed them to show their range and gave them the unique opportunity to play a small role in preserving a beloved chapter of Lehigh Valley's history. "I think the students were really excited to be part of something historic and rooted in Allentown, as well as give back to an organization," Galbiati said. "They could participate in such a historic concept, and then there was the idea of working with a client and going through that process. It was great to give them an actual project using real life concepts, not just a paper or presentation."
Ideally, Pip the Mouse will not just stay at the Liberty Shrine Museum. Pending funding, Vance plans to take the new mobile site to venues like nursing homes, homeless shelters, and children's hospitals to make the season a little brighter for everyone. Mohr loves that idea. "Working on something large scale that will eventually be put into production was just so crazy. I'm more proud of the fact that this will be taken into the community. It helps to show I was committed to a project that was bigger than school — it was more than just something for a grade."
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Berardi: 'Great first leg'
by Gaby | Aug 18, 2016 21:58
Domenico Berardi hails Sassuolo's "great first leg" in the Europa League and admits he's "improved psychologically".
The Italian Under-21 international had a fine game in the 3-0 win over Red Star this evening, scoring one, setting up another and hitting the post with a chip.
"We prepared for this match in the best way and played a great first leg," Berardi told Sky after the match.
"Now we focus on the League and then we'll think about the return. We're a united group, and the results prove that.
"I had to improve psychologically, I promised I'd do that and I'm trying. I owe this club a lot.
"The return leg? We'll go there and we'll play."