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It is time to find some more helpers as I am missing my cultural experience and also have lots of jobs to do. Currently there is some moving of tools etc into a new shed and building shelves.
If you enjoy interacting with a Kiwi host, playing pictionary and having fun, then come join me for a week or even longer if things go well.
You need to be enthusiastic about working-lots of easy farm jobs, gardening, painting, waterblasting, the list goes on. I will match the jobs with your skills but also teach you new skills that are not too hard.
Projects to be done to personalise your experience.
My farm is 10kms off State Highway 1 towards Wellington, very easy to stop off on your way to the ferry!
I am middle aged woman who runs a 25ha farm with beef cattle and goats in a small rural village 30mins from Palmerston North in the North Island of New Zealand. My house is 1km away from the seaside which is good for fishing and swimming.
The next space is arriving 5th may and leaving 14th may. Then the next space is from 26th May 2019.
Rachel has a job at a salesyard for stock and somedays there is over 24,000 sheep and 1400 cattle one of the bigger sale yards in the world. It does not mean i work long days i start work at 8am and Ben takes girls to school on motorbike as school is at bottom of farm.
We have pet calves, hens, and farm dogs all are cute and many helpers fall in love with Ted a beardie/huntaway breed of dog. He is always getting pats and is our most photographed per.
We live on a sheep, beef, dairy and deer farm. Ashhurst is about 15 minute drive.
We are a family of four (two small children 6 and 4) and we live on a lifestyle block in the beautiful Waiohine Valley. We like good food and fresh air. At the end of the road is an entrance to the Tararua Forest park for some great tramping, walking, mountain biking and a cool swing bridge across the river where there is great swimming. On our block we have a small herd of cattle and flock of sheep.
We are in the process of landscaping, developing an orchard, expanding our vegetable garden, and maintaining existing gardens.
We have a separate guest room with ensuite (shown in the photos). The accommodation best suits a couple. We are looking for guests to help with general farm routines (feeding out to cattle, stacking wood) and gardening (for an average of 4 hours per day) in exchange for food and accommodation.
We are 15 mins drive from Greytown and Carterton.
NOTE: Next available space from Sunday 24th March 2019.
Variety of farm, house and garden work available at all times. Looking for non smoking people that enjoy physical work, preferably couples. Plenty of farm work/ stock work, Shearing drenching, weighing sheep and cattle. All that is required is a genuine desire to experience a working farm. This is not a lifestyle block. You will be doing, not watching. Please view our references and email us if interested. Pick up from bus in Dannevirke if needed. We are here for a good time but getting the jobs done is important.So a sense of humour and commitment is needed. Unable to cater for specific dietary needs.
Also we have no cell phone reception, but we do have Wifi at the main house.
Lovely rural setting on a 10acre lifestyle block.
Family includes two boys aged 10 & 12 that are very sporty outdoor kids.
Help would be things such as mowing the lawns, gardening, small maintenance jobs around the property, firewood, and assisting feeding calves (Aug-Oct).
Need to be able to work unsupervised.
Bonus would be if you can ride horses there are horses to be exercised & the possibility of attending treks or events.
We have horses, cattle, sheep, goats, chooks, ducks, dogs & cats.
Accommodation would be own room inside the family home. Happy for you to join in any of our family activities or outings.
Able to work in with picking up if not own transport & organising experiences while staying.
Would expect 3-4 hours a day depending on jobs to be done in return for full board. Wi-Fi included.
We are YOUNG couple in our early 40s with four children aged 16, 14, 11 and 10. We manage a large sheep and cattle station on the Coast of the lower North Island with 20,000 stock units of sheep and beef cattle. Check out the station facebook page "owahanga station" for more information.
We are looking for helpers to come and stay with us and help out with farm tasks, gardening, farm maintenance and general tasks around the home. There is lots of variation in the types of jobs that we need help with and anyone with practical skills and experience would be super. Working with livestock does require skills and experience so sometimes it is not possible for helpers to work with the stock much but that is not always the case and at certain times of the year, there will be plenty of work with stock to do. However, there are plenty of other tasks to do like cutting and stacking wood, painting, weed spraying and the like if there isn't much happening with stock.
We are a beachfront property currently carrying out some renovations and refurbishments and would welcome Helpers with suitable skills to assist us.
We need assistance with painting, landscaping/gardening, and general property maintenance.
Your(twin single) room ( the RH dormer window) overlooks the beach and you have your own bathroom and lounge (big double windows). Would suit a single or 2 friends.
1 hr by train to Wellington, 10 mins to Paraparaumu township.We can arrange a trip for you to the Kapiti Island bird sanctuary.
Availability through March, April, May.
I am looking for people to help us do a variety of outdoor work especially pruning and taming a lot of overgrown bush.
Good experience in garden work is preferable so that you can undertake things independently.
We live in Otaki, which is 75km north of Wellington. It is a very peaceful town, with a strong Maori presence, a great beach and access to the Tararua National Park.
We have 3 kids so any guests need to be child friendly!
Guests have a separate sunny double room with great views and will be part of our family whilst they stay with us.
We are a busy family of six, 2 children at home (aged 15 and 17 years) and older two away. We enjoy raising a few animals and grow fruit and veggies. We lots of pets, Boots and Toby the dogs, Squeak the cat, chickens, Florrie the goat, Charlie the pony and the cows and sheep .. all friendly and sociable.
We live in a lovely original Wairarapa homestead, dating back to 1898. With a gorgeous view of the Tararuas and the Wairarapa Valley.
We are just a hop and a skip into Masterton ( 6kms) and happy to collect from the train or bus station.
We will welcome you into our family, and have you join us in our farmhouse kitchen for wholesome, often home grown meals.
We are can accommodate most diets, everything from vegan to home grown meat! We are also keen to try new recipes and you are welcome to cook your favorite meals or enjoy some of ours.


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Q: how to get current url from UI Router - State? By conditionally, I require to route my application to a new path. so I would like to know the current url of my application.
how can i get my current url from sate like toState.name?
here is my scenario:
.state('serialCreateCase', {
        url: '/sn={serialNumber}', //sn=12345;
        templateUrl:'app/createCase/create-case.html',
        controller: 'createCaseController as ctrl',
        data: {
          requireLogin: false
        }

here is the condition:
if(toState.name==="serialCreateCase"){ // i am getting proper result
          console.log('toState.name', toState );
          $rootScope.goToView("serialCreateCase");  //i am asking to go there. but not works! //sn=12345;
          event.preventDefault();
        }

Thanks in advance.

A: You don't need the url because you are using states
You should use this method
$state.go("serialCreateCase", {sn: 12345});

This will send the user to state serialCreateCase with the data
Key : sn
Value : 12345

EDIT
You code inside the controller should look like this
if (toState.name === "serialCreateCase") { // i am getting proper result
    console.log('toState.name', toState);
    $state.go("serialCreateCase", { sn: 12345 });
    event.preventDefault();
}

A: Edited Code:
$rootScope.$on('$stateChangeStart', function(event, toState, toParams, fromState, fromParams) {

    var curentpath = fromState.url;
    var split = curentpath.split(':');
    var params = $stateParams.sn;

    var mainUrl = split[0] +params;
    console.log(mainUrl);
  });

&& Route:
.state('serialCreateCase', {
        url: '/sn={serialNumber}', //sn=12345;
        templateUrl:'app/createCase/create-case.html',
        controller: 'createCaseController as ctrl',
        data: {
          requireLogin: false
        }

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New Ryan Leslie Video: "How It Was Supposed to Be" (Music Video 1 of 3)
December 8, 2008 1 Comment
Ryan Leslie release a new music video today for his latest single, "How It Was Supposed to Be." This is the first and three music videos for the track, he says. The video version is a bit of a rock remix as it has guitar elements that the original doesn't have. I like the song a lot. I like the original a little better, I think, but this version is cool, as well. Here's the video:

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The gadget has photo voltaic panels on it, so just leaving it in a sunny place will enable it to store electricity. As our tech arsenals grow, we run the risk of draining a battery to empty simply as we need a gadget essentially the most. The iPod touch can run many of the identical apps as an iPhone. The Memphis mansion has change into a privately run attraction, and is a vacation spot for fans of music and Southern kitsch. However whereas watching previous sitcom episodes or the most recent music videos on a computer will be fun, it doesn't actually compare to experiencing video on a television. You'll be able to watch films or listen to music on it. With rental film you may watch movie anytime that is easy for you. Whereas, given the chance, one may want to watch quite a lot of zombie films by totally different directors and producers to realize a feel for the different characters, films and overall genre. But others, like the Nintendo 3DS, have had a rougher time after an enormous debut, and may battle down the street. As of the time of this writing, there are six models of the Kindle.
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Were all these problems caused by the demand peak of Black Friday and Cyber Monday and the knock on effects or were there other factors?
Customer Experience Worse or Better?
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Despite improvements in some parts of the customer experience, it is clear the performance in other parts require further investigation and investment.


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Paris announced as venue for World Football Forum 2016 – 7-8 July 2016
World Football Forum 2016
Paris announced as venue for World Football Forum 2016
We are excited to announce that Eventica Sport's annual football industry event, the World Football Forum will
take place in Paris on 7-8 July 2016 – at the culmination of the UEFA Euro 2016 Championship, hosted by
France. Paris has long been setting the standard in culture, cuisine and fashion, and next summer, the City of
Light will also be at the epicentre of the football world as the host city of the Euro 2016 final – the perfect
backdrop to the World Football Forum.
The 4th annual World Football Forum in Paris will be the key event for the key players of the global football
industry: the personalities who guide, influence and govern the world's game.
The central theme of the World Football Forum in 2016 will be the 'New geography of football' – the high-growth
new markets for the world game.
In Russia, where the FIFA World Cup™ will take place for the first time in 2018, football is jumpstarting
modernisation plans, with a dramatic overhaul of the country's infrastructure. Qatar's preparations for 2022 are
beginning to change perceptions of sport in the Gulf. China's football-loving President Xi has prioritised football
development, unlocking a vast new market. India's new Super League aims to thrust the Indian game into the
international spotlight. Meanwhile, the football boom in Africa shows no sign of abating.
The geography of football is changing fast – and the World Football Forum will chart the opportunities
and the challenges ahead.
The World Football Forum will give suppliers and service providers a deep understanding of the opportunities in
football's emerging markets, and it will be an ideal platform for learning more about the latest trends in and
around the global football industry, direct from internationally recognised leaders.
To find out more about joining the personalities who guide, influence and govern the world's favourite sport at
the World Football Forum 2016, contact us in London on +44 20 7183 2560, or by email to ec@eventica.co.uk
http://www.worldfootballforum.org


I am really big on birthdays.
Your birthday is the one day of the year that is all about you!
There's just a special feeling people get on their birthday. Even as a kid, in a time before mundane Facebook birthday posts (from your college roommate's hometown friend that visited your dorm once in 2009 – but you haven't seen since), and text messages from your BFFs with an excess amount of balloon and cake emojis … You'd wake up on your birthday feeling important.
I've always believed that how you spend your birthday (and how good of a birthday you have), reflects your year to come … Which is why I always like to make my birthdays memorable for everyone involved.
In previous years, I'd stress myself out trying to find something unique and fun for my friends and I to do for my birthday (scavenger hunts, drag shows, etc). But in doing that, I'd be so focused on making everyone else happy, and making sure that everyone else was having a good time – that I'd forget the celebrations were actually for me.
This year, I had to think about what I wanted out of my birthday. Not what was going to appease my friends, or what was going to look best for Instagram, but what was ACTUALLY GOING TO make me happy.
And so, I decided on having a very casual get together at my mom's restaurant. I extended an invite to my close friends to drop in for some apps, cake, and of course – selfies. I was one of the most dressed down people in attendance, wearing leggings and a button down jean top (and I wouldn't have had it any other way).
My mom had a table set aside for us, adorned with "Alexa" confetti, pink and orange table displays to match my cake, and huge # 25 balloons. As my friends popped in and out, we caught up, reminisced, laughed, and ate my mom's authentic Italian cuisine. It was a perfect night.
I didn't need an extravagant celebration to make my birthday special, and I regret ever thinking that I did.
With each year that passes, I continue to learn more about myself and grow. Instead of dwelling on the bad times in my life, I am now choosing to turn my hurt and hardships into lessons, and stepping stones towards personal progress.
Almost two weeks in to my 25th year, and I am feeling motivated, confident, and strong-minded – For the first time in what seems like a very long time.
This year I hope to truly focus on bettering myself.
I plan to reassess my wants, needs, and dreams, while also working on being more grateful, understanding, and appreciative of all that I have. 25 has been great to me so far, and I am excited for where life will take me this year.
Thank you to everyone who celebrated my birthday with me, you helped make it the best one yet! I am forever grateful and lucky to have the family and friends that I do.
Birthdays are so special! Happy birthday!


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11 convicted for violating COVID -19 regulations
Posted by Observer | Mar 4, 2021 | Observer National | 0 |
Kandjemuni Kamuiiri
According to Namibian Correctional Services (NCS), only eleven people have been convicted for violating the COVID -19 state of emergency regulations since their enactment.
Commissioner of NCS, Meunajo Tjiroze, said the eleven are individuals that were sentenced by the courts, with the Namibia Police Force having arrested 795 suspects for the period March 2020 until January 2021. "Many people are not adhering to the Covid-19 regulations, this comes in as Shikongo announced that a significant number of people are paying the N$2000 fine through admission of being guilty for breaking the Covid-19 regulations," said Namibia Police Force Commissioner, Joseph Shikongo, adding that people are failing to understand the effects of Covid-19, which is raising major concerns for the law enforcement system.
"There is a high level of non-compliance, like violating the curfew, the trading hours, the non-adherence to the mask and social distancing."
With the regulations of contravening curfew and prohibitions relating to liquor making up the highest number of arrests, Shikongo said, "Last weekend Friday to Saturday we arrested about 63 people for violation of the curfew, and that is just at the two police stations, Windhoek Police Station and Klein Windhoek Police Station.""What we do not want is to arrest people, because if we start arresting everybody, we will not have cells to put them in. Our cells are already overcrowded."
Shikongo said the Police's role was currently to educate the people before getting to the point of arresting offenders contravening the Covid-19 regulations. "We have been educating them since day one and it looks like people are just ignorant. If people could only just understand that Covid-19 has an effect on our society, take responsibility and not wait for officers to come and tell them what to do."
Shilongo added ,"during the first phase of lockdown the crime rate went down but as of now, we have seen an increase in some crimes, such as rape, domestic violence and murder," pointing out that in the past weekend six murders were recorded in the Khomas Region alone.
"Statistics would've have been more if put together countrywide. Some of these crimes are attributed to liquor, because majority of these matters are happening in bars, after people were drinking or quarrelling after drinks," he said.
Statistics from Nampol's Head of Operational Division, Deputy Commissioner Ismael Basson, show that 795 arrests were made during this time and N$257 500 was paid in fines. " 252 suspects were arrested for prohibitions relating to liquor, summing up to N$70 500 in fines paid to State, with N$4000 collected from 11 arrests made for restrictions relating to certain businesses operations and activities. Five arrests of suspects that did not pay their fines for restriction of movement from places of residence; one arrested paid a fine of N$1000 for prohibitions relating to entry into Namibia; seven suspects were also arrest for restrictions relating to transportation of goods and persons paid N$8000," Basson said.
"Restrictions on number of persons to be conveyed in a motor vehicle, 49 arrests were made and N$10 000 was paid. 17 suspects were arrested for not wearing a mask of which the fine numbered up to N$29 000 paid to the state."
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India to launch second lunar mission on July 22 after delay
FILE PHOTO: Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) scientists work on various modules of lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 at ISRO Satellite Integration and Test Establishment (ISITE) in Bengaluru, India, June 12, 2019. …
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – Unlike the Apollo program that put astronauts on the moon 50 years ago, NASA is gearing up for a long term presence on Earth's satellite …
'Artificial snow' could save stricken Antarctic ice sheet – study
LONDON (Reuters) – Governments could stop the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from sliding into the ocean and submerging coastal cities by launching a last-ditch engineering project to blanket its surface …
Apollo 11's astronauts snapped photos for science. Then came MTV
(Reuters) – The Apollo 11 astronauts who made mankind's first visit to the moon 50 years ago were trained in how to take pictures for science. Back on Earth, some …
Apollo 11 astronaut returns to launch pad where first humans lifted off for the moon
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins returned to the launch pad Tuesday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida where he flew to the moon 50 …
Buzz Aldrin, second man on moon, recalls 'magnificent desolation'
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Fifty years after their history-making voyage to the moon, Buzz Aldrin recalls the first moments of the Apollo 11 launch being so smooth that he and …
Scientists look for answers to earth's beginning under the moonscape
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Robots to install telescopes to peer into cosmos from the moon
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REHOVOT, Israel (Reuters) – Diners in some upmarket restaurants will soon be able to tuck into laboratory-grown steak, thanks to an Israeli startup that seeks to tap into consumer concerns …


This rare lithograph print (1, ONE) by Mario Radice bears his own studio stamp, a pencil signature as well as a title. It is folded to fit in the previous and original frame from 50's (this sale is only for the print), and it measures, as folded shown in the images, about 16 5/8'' x about 25.75''. Dated in 1950's. Marked 11 of the small edition of 20. In vintage condition. For its condition, please enlarge the listed pictures and carefully examine the piece. This will be rolled for shipping.


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Alexander Turnbull Library object number 1026035

Transcription reprinted by Ian St George in eColenso May 2015 Supplement, available at http://www.colensostudy.id.au/Newsletters/eCol%205%20May15%20supplement.pdf

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Dear Mr. Colenso,

If 11 a.m. to day will suit you, I shall be very glad to see you at the new Court House; or to pay you a visit at your own place after the natives in town leave for the Wairoa. Yours very truly,  Donald McLean.

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Governance and Social impact
Governor Akeredolu swears in new SSG
Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, and on Tuesday July 7, 2020 inaugurated the new Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Hon. Temitayo Oluwatuyi, with a call on him to dedicate his energy to the service of the people.
At the inauguration ceremony held at the Cocoa Conference Hall of the Governor's Office, Arakunrin Akeredolu charged the new SSG to use the wealth of his experience to coordinate the affairs of the current administration efficiently and honestly for the benefit of the people.
Reminding Hon. Oluwatuyi that he was considered worthy of the appointment at this crucial moment, the governor asked him not to betray the trust.
He said: "Any person called upon to serve must be ready to dedicate his/her time and energy for that purpose."
Arakunrin Akeredolu also used the occasion to admonish politicians and their supporters to cast aside attitudes which promote bitter recriminations.
According to him, acts and tendencies which may lead to the breakdown of law and order should be discouraged by the people.
As the forthcoming governorship election draws near in the state, the governor assured the people of the government's continued readiness to protect lives and properties, warning that the state would not hesitate to firmly and promptly sanction all infractions to the law.
Arakunrin Akeredolu, however, described as unwarranted, lies ascribed to the immediate past SSG, Hon. Ifedayo Abegunde, that the governor agreed with some people to carry out evil or participate in the commission of crime against the people of the state.


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    {
        [Fact]
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        {
            var results = await _client.UserConfiguration_GetUserConfigurationAsync("Admin").ConfigureAwait(false);

            Assert.NotNull(results);
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Facebook outlines its AI-driven efforts to fight terrorism
After facing criticism from EU leaders following the string of terrorist attacks in the UK, Facebook is stepping up its efforts to curb extremist content online.
By Stephanie Condon for Between the Lines | June 15, 2017 -- 18:46 GMT (11:46 PDT) | Topic: Artificial Intelligence
Facebook made its own AI-powered assistant for Messenger Users in the US will have access to a version of M that helps them carry out six specific actions.
After facing criticism from EU leaders following a string of terrorist attacks in the UK, Facebook on Thursday outlined the ways it's stepping up its efforts to curb extremist content on its social network, including its use of artificial intelligence.
Facebook prying: Watchdogs hit back on excessive harvesting of your data
Amid concerns over Facebook's use of tracking users with pixels, Belgium joins the Netherlands, France, and EC in legal moves.
"We agree with those who say that social media should not be a place where terrorists have a voice," wrote Facebook's Monika Bickert, director of global policy management, and Brian Fishman, counterterrorism policy manager, in a blog post. "We want to be very clear how seriously we take this -- keeping our community safe on Facebook is critical to our mission."
Bickert and Fishman said Facebook removes "terrorists and posts that support terrorism" when the company spots them. That said, they added, "We don't want to suggest there is any easy technical fix."
Facebook is using its most "cutting edge techniques" in AI to specifically combat terrorist content about ISISI, al Qaeda, and their affiliates, they said. Those techniques include image matching -- using previously removed terrorist propaganda to identify and prevent the same images or videos from being uploaded to Facebook again.
Facebook is also experimenting with language understanding, analyzing pro-terrorist text that's been removed from the site. "That analysis goes into an algorithm that is in the early stages of learning how to detect similar posts," the blog post said.
The company also uses algorithms to try to identify "clusters" of terrorists, by finding accounts that appear to be associated with or similar to disabled terrorist accounts. It's also updating its methods to detect new fake accounts from repeat offenders, and it's sharing data across its family of apps, which includes Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram.
In addition to using AI, Facebook also noted how it's hiring specialists and working with government and industry partners. The company is expanding its community operations team to 3,000 people globally to monitor content. It's also hired more than 150 counter-terrorism specialists, including academic experts on counterterrorism, former prosecutors, former law enforcement agents and analysts and engineers.
Additionally, Facebook is working with other internet companies like Twitter and Youtube to combat extremism. It's also receiving briefings from government agencies across the globe and participating in public-private initiatives such as the Global Coalition Against Daesh. Facebook also supports "counterspeech" programs such as the Online Civil Courage Initiative.
Lastly, Facebook noted that it can't read encrypted messages. However, it said, "we do provide the information we can in response to valid law enforcement requests, consistent with applicable law and our policies."
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Sports column: Running through the 2022 bowl lineup
Published 8:00 am Sunday, December 25, 2022
By Ernest Bowker
We're heading into the second week of college football's bowl season. It's hard to break down 43 games in depth, so here are some quick-hit thoughts on a few of the more noteworthy ones:
• Considering last weekend's New Mexico Bowl featured BYU vs. SMU in ABQ, it should have been called the Acronym Bowl.
• No disrespect to either team, but seeing 5-7 Rice vs. 6-6 Southern Miss in the Lending Tree Bowl in Mobile on Dec. 17 is not exactly making the case for more bowls to be added to the schedule.
• Cincinnati's coach was hired by Louisville, a few weeks before the teams played each other in the Fenway Bowl in Boston. Awk-warrrd …
• Does the winner of the Birmingham Bowl between Coastal Carolina and East Carolina get to proclaim themselves the king of the Carolina directional schools?
• Kansas vs. Arkansas in the Liberty Bowl came about because Missouri reportedly refused to play Kansas. Gotta love spiteful border rivalries.
• Missouri landed in the Gasparilla Bowl in Tampa instead, against Wake Forest. That's … better?
• Oklahoma-Florida State was the national championship game in 2000, and could have been a Playoff game as recently as seven or eight years ago. Now it's the Cheez-It Bowl, and a cause of holiday depression.
• Speaking of depression, the Guaranteed Rate Bowl in Phoenix, with one-time Top 20 teams Wisconsin (6-6) and Oklahoma State (7-5), is the epitome of "Why do we have to play this game?"
• Remember when Syracuse was a spunky 6-0, ranked in the Top 25 and leading Clemson on the road at halftime? Yeah … they finished 7-5 and wound up playing Minnesota in the Pinstripe Bowl. There have been meteors that didn't crash that hard.
• Maryland vs. North Carolina State in a postseason game in Charlotte should be reserved for the ACC basketball tournament, not a football bowl game.
• I have nothing to say about the Sun Bowl (UCLA vs. Pittsburgh on Dec. 30) other than it's played in a stadium literally built into the side of a mountain. That's really cool.
• LSU vs. Purdue in the Citrus Bowl, in a match-up of conference runners-up, is the "You were ThisClose" Bowl.
• Tennessee vs. Clemson seems like a uniform match-up Orange Bowl executives have waited their whole lives for.
• The winner of the award for "Bowl game not even people betting on it will watch" goes to the Arizona Bowl. Wyoming and Ohio play in Tucson, on the afternoon of Dec. 30, in a game streamed only on Barstool Sports' app.
• Ole Miss lost four of its last five and is stumbling into the Texas Bowl (Dec. 28 vs. Texas Tech) like a drunken frat boy making the walk of shame.
• It's Mississippi State vs. Illinois in the ReliaQuest Bowl in Tampa on Jan. 2. Every time you call it the Outback Bowl, you need to go sit in the corner for five minutes and try to figure out what it is ReliaQuest does. No Googling.
• Speaking of the ReliaQuest Bowl, it's very fitting that the football wake for Mike Leach is in a stadium that contains a pirate ship.
• Back in July, when I was talking to Tulane linebacker and Vicksburg native Nick Anderson at the Malcolm Butler Football Camp, he said he thought the Green Wave would have a special year. Everything went wrong in 2021, he said, and every key player was coming back and motivated. He had no doubt they'd be a lot better than their 2-10 record last season.
Tulane finished 11-2, won the American Athletic Conference championship, and will play Southern California in the Cotton Bowl on Jan. 2.
I should have asked Nick for some lottery numbers.
Ernest Bowker is the sports editor for The Vicksburg Post. He can be reached at ernest.bowker@vicksburgpost.com
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Ernest Bowker is The Vicksburg Post's sports editor. He has been a member of The Vicksburg Post's sports staff since 1998, making him one of the longest-tenured reporters in the paper's 139-year history. The New Jersey native is a graduate of LSU. In his career, he has won more than 50 awards from the Mississippi Press Association and Associated Press for his coverage of local sports in Vicksburg.
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Roger Adkins is a scholar-administrator with a complex profile that includes extensive administrative work and expertise in global learning, ongoing interdisciplinary research and scholarship, and teaching in both domestic and international settings. They are a passionate interculturalist who strives to make global learning accessible for every student, both in on-campus and off-campus settings.
Roger identifies as queer, lives with a disability (not visible), and comes from a working-class background. They were also a first-generation college student. They are passionate about inclusiveness and are very happy to serve as a mentor or advocate for students from diverse backgrounds. They identify as gender nonbinary and use they/them/their pronouns.
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Ph.D., University of Oregon
M.A., University of Oregon
B.A., Hiram College
Selected Courses:
Epic Masculinities: a course on the epic narrative (in multiple genres and cultural contexts) and its alliances with cultural constructions of masculinity – often a narrowly nationalistic, heteropatriarchal, racialized, and militant masculinity
Women Behaving Badly: a course on 'evil' women characters (villains, murderesses, dark goddesses, wicked stepmothers, femmes fatales, etc.) in diverse texts, folktales, and popular culture, with analysis of what constitutes the 'feminine excess'
Talking to Monsters: a course on transformations in the notion of 'the monster' in postmodern texts and contexts, with extensive theoretical investigation of 'the Other'
Fantasy on the Fringe (off-campus study): a course based in the UK that examines how fantasy literature, the fantastic modality, and folklore provide unique venues for reimagining a more socially just reality
Out on the Fringe: Culture, Identity, and Folklore in Scotland (off-campus study): an alternate version of the course listed above that zooms in on Scotland only
Scholarly Interest
Roger is a scholar of queer studies, folklore, and literature, with a recent emphasis on the queer potential of narratives of the fantastic. They are also engaged in scholarship in the pedagogical fields of global learning, career development, and equity/access/inclusion.
Other/specific areas of interest include: postmodernity studies, postcolonial studies, Nordic cultural studies, Sri Lankan studies, fantasy literature, science fiction, disability studies, critical masculinity studies, epic narrative, ethnography, festival studies, graphic narratives, subjectivity and Foucauldian theory, folklore of the supernatural, curriculum globalization, and global competency development.
Current ongoing projects include:
Decolonizing and queer approaches to global learning
The queer potential of narratives of the fantastic
Intersubjectivity as a way of mitigating the Self/Other divide
"Toward Decolonizing Education Abroad: Moving Beyond the Self/Other Dichotomy," co-authored with Bryan Messerly, in Critical Perspectives on Education Abroad: Leveraging the Educational Continuum, ed. Elizabeth Brewer and Anthony C. Ogden, Stylus, 2019
"Bed, Bath and Beyond, or: What Is to Be Done About Gender-Binary Accommodations in Study Abroad Programs?" NAFSA Rainbow SIG Newsletter, Fall 2017 issue
"Bloomsbury Group." Encyclopedia of Gender and Society, ed. Jodi O'Brien. Los Angeles: SAGE, 2009
Placing Women's Studies: An Introduction to Women's Studies, co-edited with Shelly Kowalski, Judith Raiskin, and Kathleen Sullivan. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998 (custom textbook)
"Where 'Sex' Is Born(e): Intersexed Births and the Social Urgency of Heterosexuality." Journal of Medical Humanities 20.2 (1999)
Association of International Education Administrators
Diversity Abroad Network
Forum on Education Abroad
NAFSA: The Association of International Educators
Why I Teach at Earlham
I am genuinely passionate about the kind of educational experience that Earlham provides. Although I am an alum of Hiram College in Ohio, I had a keen interest in Earlham when I was searching for colleges because I value the kind of powerfully inclusive, egalitarian, self-reflective, contemplative, and socially just pedagogy we employ here. I was drawn back to the College as a professional by the opportunity to make my own contributions, particularly in the areas of career and global education. I believe in what we do here, and I am a champion for students who are ready to challenges boundaries – both their own and those of the current limits of our collective imagination.
Off-Campus Study Experiences
I have several times taught a course on folklore, pop culture, the fantasy genre, and social justice. The course has included some combination of sites in England, Wales, and Scotland. Here are some examples of the hands-on and immersive activities from these courses:
mining UK museums for evidence of both British colonialism and the various forms of resistance to it;
visiting the Warner Brothers Harry Potters Studios Experience in Watford, England, with a critical eye on how it (further) commercializes the novels and films and how the Harry Potter phenomenon culls from British folklore traditions;
a tour of east London street art led by a former street artist, followed by a workshop in the creation of street art;
staying overnight in a Scottish castle and learning about its history and the family folklore from the current occupants;
intensive lessons in the languages of the Celtic Fringe (Welsh, Cornish, Manx, and/or Scots Gaelic) paired with consideration of the experiences of the internally colonized peoples in the UK;
touring Blackfriars Kirkyard (cemetery) in Edinburgh, Scotland – it is both the scene of mass grave-robbings that provided cadavers for early university anatomy courses and the site of many graves of people with suspiciously Harry Potter-ish names;
visiting Neolithic sites (standing stones, stone circles, cairns, etc.);
spending an afternoon of individual contemplation, reflection, writing/sketching, etc. in the ruins of Tintern Abbey in rural Wales; and
meeting with members of various immigrant, queer, working-class, and religious minority groups in the UK to learn about their organizations, practices, and the social stigmas they face.
I have also been developing new course concepts for Eastern Europe (Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, and Romania) and the Canadian Maritimes (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island).
My own study abroad experience was in Iceland, and it was a hugely transformative part of my education. I never believed it would be possible for me to participate, but there are numerous opportunities and many sources of funding available. I strongly encourage every student to study abroad!
In the course of my work in global learning at the University of Oregon, Cal Poly, and Gustavus Adolphus College, I have also engaged in site visits, faculty/staff seminars, program-development travel, and other related work in these countries: Canada, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, India, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Tunisia, and Wales.
Immersive travel, local histories and counter-histories, film, cultural diasporas, meditation, hiking and the outdoors, social-justice activism
My Personal Hobbies
Antiquing/rare books and documents, tea blending, baking, game nights, children's literature, typography, fanfic, social media


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Final Ernst-Greenfield debate of 2020 campaign
October 15, 2020 By O. Kay Henderson
Republican Senator Joni Ernst and Democratic challenger Theresa Greenfield debated a range of security issues tonight during a live TV forum. Health care security was a flash point. Ernst said the Affordable Care Act has failed to provide affordable insurance to all.
"The public option that my opponent supports is really just a truck stop on the way to, on the road to a single payer system or government take-over of health care," Ernst said.
Greenfield said the public option would create competition with private insurance and let Iowans buy into Medicare rather than rely on their employer for insurance.
"I have talked to folks who are entrepreneurs and they want to get started, but the cost of health care has kept them from doing that, forcing them to stay in a job instead of growing our economy with their creativity," Greenfield said.
Asked to identify the greatest long-term security threat to the country, Ernst cited North Korea, Iran, China and Russia as "bad actors."
"If you look at our security, of course our national debt is a crisis that we really do need to face," Ernst said.
Greenfield responded: "I find it odd that Senator Ernst would recognize debt as a threat when she voted for a tax bill that increased the debt by $2 trillion."
As for other domestic threats, Ernst denounced white supremacists as "horrible organizations" and Greenfield said such groups should be monitored by federal law enforcement. Both were asked if systemic racism exists in America. Ernst was first to speak.
"I believe that there are many challenges that we have in various systems, but I would not just say broadly that we have systemic racism across the board."
Then, Greenfield answered: "discussing systemic racism does not mean that any one individual is a racist, but rather that we have to look at the discrimination across our systems."
Ernst spoke from a studio in Washington, D.C. Greenfield was in Altoona at a training facility for union apprentices. Technical difficulties during the live broadcast prevented the candidates from hearing some of the moderators' questions and, in a few instances, the candidates' answers couldn't be heard. The 90-minute format allowed moderators to pose the same questions again at a later point in the broadcast.
The event was co-sponsored by The Des Moines Register, KCCI in Des Moines, KTIV in Sioux City and KWWL in Waterloo.
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Discover Who You Are in Christ!
I am accepted. I am God's child (see John 1:12). I have been justified (see Romans 5:1). I am united with the Lord, and I am one spirit with Him (see 1 Corinthians 6:17). Your promise of self-fulfillment is told and retold in Scripture--and the road to discovering it leads to Christ and Christ alone.
In this bestselling study guide, Neil Anderson poses thought-provoking questions for personal reflection or group study that will help you learn how to grow in the strength and truth of your identity in Jesus Christ. The answer to your question, Just who am I? will be changed forever by Victory Over the Darkness and this study guide.
Jesus promises His people that You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free (John 8:32). Our identity in Jesus Christ is a fundamental truth that we believers need to understand if we are to experience this promised freedom and to grow to Christian maturity.
Who are you? It sounds like a simple question, but attempting to answer it soon reveals the complexity of the issue. How would you answer the question if someone asked you, Who are you?
We tend to identify ourselves and each other by what we look like, what we do, and perhaps even by our theological position, our denominational preference or our role in the church. But is who you are determined by what you do, look like and believe in? Or is what you do, look like and believe in determined by who you are? That's an important question, especially as it relates to Christian maturity.
Neil Anderson believes that your hope for growth, meaning and fulfillment as a Christian is based on understanding who you are, specifically, your identity in Christ as a child of God. Your understanding of who God is and who you are in relationship to Him is the critical foundation for your belief system and your behavior patterns as a Christian.
Do you naturally identify yourself as a child of God as you think about who you are? Why or why not?
Where in your own life do you see a connection between your belief system and your behavior patterns? Give an example or two of how your beliefs about yourself influence your behavior.
What changes in your behavior might result if you were able to clearly see yourself as the much-loved child of God that you are?
Neil tells of an attractive 17-year-old girl who, from the outside, seemed to have everything going for her: excellent grades, musical talent, a full-ride university scholarship, a wonderful wardrobe and a brand new car.
Upon talking with Mary, Neil quickly realized that what was on the inside didn't match the outside. He asked Mary, Have you ever cried yourself to sleep at night because you felt inadequate and wished you were somebody else? Through her tears, she asked, How did you know?
What does your appearance suggest about you? What do you think people see as they look at you?
Perhaps, like Mary, you have felt inadequate and wished you were somebody else. How does what is inside you differ from your outward appearance? Comment on any discrepancy between your outward appearance and your inner reality.
Shame, fear, insecurity, loneliness, past hurts—there are many reasons why people, intentionally or otherwise, hide their real selves from others. Why do you hide your real self under an outside appearance that is so different from what is inside?
Often what we show on the outside is a false front arising from our belief that if we appear attractive, perform well or enjoy a certain amount of status, then we will have it all together inside as well. But such is not the case. You plus attractiveness, you plus good performance and you plus status do not equal wholeness and significance. The only identity equation that works in God's kingdom is you plus Christ. Only you plus Christ equal wholeness and meaning.
How did you learn that being attractive, performing well or earning status does not mean wholeness or does not win you love?
In what area(s) of your life has Christ given you the wholeness and meaning you once were seeking?
In what area(s) of your life would you like Jesus to give you wholeness and meaning?
In God's kingdom, everyone has the same opportunity for a meaningful life. Why? Because wholeness and meaning in life are not products of what you have or don't have, what you've done or haven't done. In Christ you are already a whole person positionally and you already possess a life of infinite meaning and purpose because of who you are—a child of God.
Although a Christian's identity in Christ is the key to wholeness, many believers have difficulty with their identity, security, significance, spiritual maturity and sense of worth. Ignorance is probably the primary reason (see Hosea 4:6). For others it is carnality, or the lack of repentance and faith in God, and for some it is deception by the father of lies (see John 8:44).
What false ideas might you have about who you are?
Asking a person about false ideas about him- or herself may be like asking fish about the water they swim in. The individual can't see what is so much a part of his or her reality. If you're not sure which ideas about yourself are false, ask someone you trust to help you see yourself as God sees you. Also, spend some time in prayer asking God to help you see yourself through His eyes.
Neil tells of a young woman convinced that she was evil. While she may have done some evil things, at the core of her being she wasn't evil, as evidenced by the deep remorse she felt after sinning. She did, however, let Satan's accusations about her behavior influence her perception of herself instead of believing the truth.
In what ways are you trapped in this same downward spiral? Have you, for instance, failed at something and therefore see yourself as a failure? Are you basing your identity on something you've done rather than on who you are as a child of God? Be specific, and then, as you pray about this downward spiral, thank God that He sees you as His child.
Why would it be to your disadvantage to focus on the missteps you've taken in your life?
When we swallow Satan's lie and believe that what we do determines who we are, that false belief sends us into a tailspin of hopelessness and more defeat.
Genesis 1 and 2 tell how God created Adam and Eve in His image which gives us the capacity to fully think, feel and choose. After God breathed life into his nostrils, Adam was both physically and spiritually alive (see Genesis 1:26,27). For the Christian, to be spiritually alive is to be in union with God by being in Christ. And that union with God means three important things for believers.
1. Significance—In the original creation, humankind was given a divine purpose—dominion over all the other creatures. As a restored child of God, you have important work to do for your Lord.
2. Safety and Security—In the garden of Eden, Adam and Eve's needs were cared for. Likewise, we who follow Christ lack nothing. Safety and security is another facet of our inheritance in Christ.
3. Belonging—A true sense of belonging comes not only from knowing that we belong to God but also from belonging to each other just as God created Eve to provide a meaningful, open, sharing relationship for Adam.
Which of these is most appealing to you right now? Why?
Which of these seems most unreachable to you? Why?
Significance, safety and security, and belonging were no longer human attributes once sin entered the world.
The effects of man's fall were dramatic, immediate and far-reaching, infecting every subsequent member of the human race—infecting you. We'll look at five effects of the Fall.
With the Fall, Adam and Eve's union with God was severed. They were separated from God. When did you first become aware of your separation from God? What circumstances brought you to the realization that you needed God?


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Editor's note: Andrew Korybko is a Moscow-based American political analyst. The article reflects the author's opinion, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was characteristically critical of China while speaking at the Arctic Council summit on Monday, but his harsh words took on an even deeper significance than usual because they were intended to open up a new geographic front of hostility in the world. The Arctic Council comprises a handful of states whose territories lay within the Arctic Circle, but it also counts several observer nations such as China.
The organization has taken on a larger international role in recent years after it has been reported that the Arctic Ocean has some of the world's largest untapped energy and mineral reserves, to say nothing of the effect that climate change has had in opening up its waters as the shortest transit route between East Asia and Western Europe. One might understandably be inclined to think that this makes the region the perfect place to practice win-win cooperation between all relevant players, but regrettably, that's not what the U.S. has in mind.
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Pompeo forebodingly mentioned early on in his speech that China's observer status in the Arctic Council "is contingent upon its respect for the sovereign rights of Arctic states," implying that accusations of disrespect for the same such as some media's irresponsible claims that China's scientific and mining interests in NATO-member Denmark's Greenland have a military component could be exploited to jeopardize its role in the organization.
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How Filipino WWII Soldiers Were Written Out of History by Rosie Cima
April 1, 2017 By MO1
How Filipino WWII Soldiers Were Written Out of History
This post was written by Rosie Cima. You can follow her on Twitter here.
Original Link: https://priceonomics.com/how-filipino-soldiers-were-written-out-of-the/
American and Filipino officers in the USAFFE in World War II (U.S. Army)
From 1941-1944, hundreds of thousands of Filipino soldiers fought and died under the command of American generals against the Japanese in the Philippines. This struggle included one of the worst military defeats in U.S. history, and a grisly period of imprisonment and occupation.
In exchange for their service in the United States Armed Forces of the Far East (USAFFE), Filipino soldiers were promised American citizenship and full veterans benefits. But Congress and President Truman reneged this offer in 1946. Only four thousand Filipino war veterans, out of an estimated 200,000 who survived the war, were able to get citizenship before the retraction was signed into law.
You didn't sleep through this section of US History. It was never taught. The role of Filipino soldiers in WWII has largely been erased from the history books.
Building a Philippine Army
In 1941, the United States suspected war with Japan was imminent. Whether they 'knew' Japan would strike Pearl Harbor is a matter of debate, but Japan had expanded its assaults to American allies. The Imperial Japanese objective was domination of all of Asia, and, having conquered Korea, parts of Russia, China and Taiwan, many of the countries that remained were colonial holdings of Western nations. According to an article in Salon:
"[Roosevelt's] administration had adopted the objective of defeating all the Axis powers and had begun the military and the economic planning to achieve it. He had shared that objective publicly with the American people, a large majority of whom now accepted war as inevitable."
The Philippines was a large American holding in the South Pacific. And what's more, it was vulnerable.
The Philippine army circa 1936 (Wikipedia)
At the start of 1941, the Philippines had a meager army. It was a commonwealth of the United States from 1935 to 1946, and the US government was stewarding the archipelago's transition from a territory of the United States into an independent nation. Part of that transition should have involved amassing a Filipino military — to replace the U.S. forces that had guarded the Philippines when it was a territory. But development of such a force was slow. Had the Japanese attacked the Philippines in January 1941, eleven months before Pearl Harbor, they would have encountered a few thousand American troops and a few thousand Filipinos.
Which is why, in the summer of 1941, following the 1940 Japanese capture of French Indochina, the U.S. started recruiting a Philippine defense force like crazy.
For the first few decades of the 20th century, because the U.S. "owned" the Philippines, Filipinos were considered U.S. "nationals." U.S. nationals can work and reside in the U.S. without restriction, carry a U.S. passport, and apply for citizenship under the same rules as other resident foreigners. As a result, in 1940, there were about 45,000 Filipinos in the United States, most of them service-aged, male farm and factory laborers.
Military service was then, as it is now, one of the shorter and more reliable paths for an alien to achieve citizenship. From 1941 to the end of the war, the government streamlined the hell out of that path. Filipino men were recruited into the U.S. military and given citizenship in mass naturalization ceremonies. Nearly one third of draft-age Filipinos in the continental U.S. volunteered for the Army.
"When I reported to Los Angeles," one Filipino-American WWII veteran is quoted in the book Filipino American Lives, "they swore me in as a U.S. citizen. I did not even have to file an application."
But the U.S. also recruited different branches of Philippine defenders from within the Philippines. Many of these individuals, and the Filipino immigrants who enlisted in the continental U.S., were motivated by a desire to protect the Philippines, their home, from an attack by the Imperial Japanese.
Filipino soldiers in basic training (US Army)
But the United States government sweetened the deal: President Roosevelt promised U.S. citizenship and full veterans benefits to Filipinos who took up arms against the Japanese.
By late November, the United States Armed Forces in the Far East (USAFFE) was formed as the merger of the Philippine Commonwealth army and the US Armed Forces stationed in the Philippines. General Douglas MacArthur was made commander of the USAFFE. Ultimately, the allied forces in the Philippine campaign from 1941-1942 consisted of 120,000 Filipino troops and 30,000 American troops, some of whom were Filipino Americans.
8 Hours After Pearl Harbor
The USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor (National Archives)
When Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, the Japanese forces surprised the defenders by attacking the Philippines a mere 8 hours later. Caught unaware and underprepared, the assault went very poorly for the allied side.
The standing Filipino defense forces hadn't had time to adequately train. "Many units went into battle without ever having fired their weapons," Louis Morton writes in The Fall of the Philippines.
Not only were they poorly trained, but they were under equipped. "There was a serious shortage in almost all types of equipment," Morton says. This extended to blankets, medicine, helmets, and gas masks. Most troops carried either Enfield 17 rifles and Springfield 03s — which dated from 1917 and 1903, respectively. They had only about 20% of their artillery requirements. Their uniforms were worn-out and second-hand, the soles of their shoes quickly wore thin. This poverty even extended to food:
"Zambales Province, where the 31st Division was located, did not produce enough food for its own needs, and as additional units joined the division the procurement of food became a difficult problem. The division railhead scheduled to open on 1 December did not begin operations until a week later, after the war had started, because of the inexperience of Filipino supply officers."
The Japanese first attacked from the North, but over the next several days, they landed on the northernmost major island, Luzon, at many different beaches on many different sides of the island.
Map of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines (US Army)
General MacArthur's plan had been to defend the whole Philippines by heading the assaults off at the beaches. With poorly trained and poorly equipped troops facing a highly-trained force of Japanese, this plan quickly failed. The command fell back to the older plan in "Rainbow Plan V." Rainbow involved retreating to the Bataan peninsula in the south of Luzon, effectively surrendering most of the country, and using Bataan to strategically defend Manila Bay for as long as possible before defeat:
"Based on the assumption that the United States would be at war with more than one nation and would be allied with Great Britain, RAINBOW accepted implicitly the loss of the Philippines, Wake, and Guam. [...] [T]he defense was to be conducted entirely by Army and Navy forces already in the Philippines, augmented by such local forces as were available. No reinforcements could be expected."
No reinforcements came, though they were sorely needed. This meant that the Bataan troops were left to fight the highly trained imperial army without provisions or reinforcements. But the dwindling forces were tenacious.
The Bataan Death March (Zuanzuanfuwa)
After fighting for six months, five of those on half rations, the defenders at Bataan surrendered to the Japanese forces in May 1942.
The ordeal that followed became known as the Bataan Death March. The Japanese elected to march the surrendered forces 62 miles from Mariveles, Bataan, to San Fernando, Pamgpanga. Once on the march, the men — many of whom were already malarial, starving, and exhausted — were not given any food or water. Those who flagged were physically abused by their captors. Those who were not able to continue were executed, often in gratuitously painful or humiliating ways.
When they reached San Fernando, they were placed on a train and taken to Capas, Talac, where they were marched another six miles to POW Camp O'Donnell. Tens of thousands of allied soldiers made the march, and thousands of them died. Over the next several years, many more of them would die in captivity. Some were moved into other camps, or forced into slave labor.
A period of brutal Japanese occupation reigned over the Philippines for two and a half years. In that time, escaped POWs and civilians joined the growing ranks of Filipino guerillas. Many of these men ended up establishing liaisons with the exiled U.S. Army Command of the Southwest Pacific Area and placing themselves under MacArthur. In 1944, Commonwealth President Sergio Osmeña inducted 'recognized guerrilla units' — consisting of tens of thousands of individuals — into the Commonwealth Army.
Propaganda poster recruiting guerrillas (US military)
Allied forces began their liberation of the Philippines in October of 1944. The liberation ended, in allied victory, in the summer of 1945.
The Filipino immigrants who were living in the U.S. and had served with the U.S. military during the war returned to civilian life as American citizens. But the Filipinos who enlisted from within the Philippines were not so fortunate. In 1946, President Truman signed the Rescission Act, which retroactively annulled the offer of citizenship and any veterans benefits promised to Filipino troops under measures like the G.I. Bill. Only four thousand Filipino World War II veterans obtained citizenship before the rescission.
This was probably motivated by financial concerns — there were an estimated 200,000 Filipino veterans who survived the war. But of 66 countries allied with the United States in World War II, only Filipinos were denied benefits.
Cecilia's Crusade
Cecilia Gaerlan at a Memorial Ceremony (Don Downey)
Cecilia Gaerlan, founder and executive director of the Bataan Legacy Historical Society, sits in her mother's home in the Lake Merced neighborhood of San Francisco. Guests remove their shoes to keep the wall-to-wall carpet soft and blonde. As we conduct our interview, Gaerlan's mother is in the dining room, watching soap operas in Tagalog with her caretakers.
Gaerlan sits in the living room, surrounded by bookshelves stacked with framed photos of loved-ones. A photo of her father lies before her on a coffee table, alongside a record of his military service and a copy of the oath they made him take in Camp O'Donnell.
"My father was a great storyteller, and when we were growing up as kids, he used to tell us stories about the war," Gaerlan says. "But the way he presented them was so funny. The way he told it was like a cowboy story. Even when he was talking about the death march it was funny. It had sound effects."
"TATTATATATTATA!" she says, miming a machine gun.
These days, Gaerlan makes several trips a month to Sacramento, helping and hounding the California Board of Education to implement the state law AB 199. The law "encourages the inclusion of the role of the Filipinos during World War II in the social sciences curriculum for grades 7-12." It was passed in 2011, but is yet to be implemented.
If Gaerlan succeeds, it will be a first for United States education.
Filipino Bataan veterans in 2012, in Jacksonville, FL (Annie Chambers)
When it comes to material recognition, Filipino veterans have been lobbying the government for decades to undo the Rescission Act. In 1990, as part of the Immigration Act, George H. W. Bush passed a measure that extended an offer of citizenship to Filipino veterans. Even though it was 45 years after the fact, this resulted in a wave of immigration of tens of thousands of elderly Filipinos to the United States. Unfortunately, the act did not also extend veterans benefits to them — including old age pensions and veterans hospital medical care — and many of these new immigrants ended up on social security.
As part of the 2009 stimulus bill, Obama payed out a lump sum to surviving Filipino veterans. Filipino American citizens who served in the war were given $15,000, Filipinos who served in the war were given $9,000.
Reception was mixed. Only those on an official registry received the benefits, which was itself a gamble, given the state of wartime and postwar record keeping in the Philippines. As 91-year-old Celestino Almeda told CNN, "For a poor man like me, $15,000 is a lot of money. [But] after what we have suffered, what we have contributed for the sake of democracy, it's peanuts. It's a drop in the bucket."
But for many other veterans, the bigger insult is not the lost benefits. Most of the remaining survivors are in their 90s, now, and regretfully live in a world where their sacrifice is not appreciated or even known about. "The Bataan Death March has never, ever," Gaerlan says, "been part of the history curriculum in American schools." She also says it's neglected in education in the Philippines.
This is often explained as stemming from shame around the surrender of Bataan. But Gaerlan and her colleagues say there may be a geopolitical dimension to the blindness around Bataan, too. Japan is infamous for whitewashing its own history, especially in textbooks, and the Philippines is still economically dependent on both Japan and the United States. And the United States is still Japan's close ally.
"After the War, Japan and the US formed an alliance to ensure their mutual economic prosperity and to ensure their mutual security," Fred Baldassare wrote for the Battling Bastards of Bataan, a veteran organization. "It became an unwritten policy to play down Japanese War Crimes, satisfied with the meager results produced by the Tokyo and Manila War Crimes trials."
Cover of a U.S. history textbook (Amazon)
There's also the added shame around the Rescission Act, and the fact that so many veterans have lived and died without reward for their sacrifice.
When Gaerlan first heard about AB 199, a law to include the role of Filipinos in WWII in the public school curriculum, in 2012, she immediately started asking around: "Is anybody implementing this?"
"I found out that it had never been implemented, and then I started asking more questions and found out that the curriculum for History and Social Sciences was under revision!"
"And I said," she pitches her voice higher, and contorts her face in optimism, "Oh yeah?"
"I thought it was going to be an easy thing," she said. "I didn't realize this was going to be a multi-year process." The California Board of Education only revises its curriculum guidelines about once a decade, so Gaerlan has seized this opportunity to get Bataan finally written into history. She started petitioning assembly members to strengthen the bill, she started a campaign on Change.org, she networked relentlessly. And it paid off.
Gaerlan's father Luis Gaerlan, when he enlisted in 1941
"Eventually I met people, who I guess talked to the Department of Education, blah blah blah," she says. "Basically I'm just in the right place at the right time."
If all goes well, the guidelines will get a final stamp of approval in April or May 2016. "But of course," Gaerlan adds, "I will not believe it until I see it."
Gaerlan's background is in the arts. She started campaigning for more public awareness of this chapter of history after a particularly reading of her novel, which is set in the Philippines during World War II. She asked who in the audience had heard of the Bataan Death March. "Nobody had heard of it!" she exclaims.
She turned her novel into a play, and gave speeches on the historical background, between the scenes. The writing, research, and performance of these pieces eventually led her to found a historical society. Now, twice a year, she holds major events on the subject, bringing in the veterans themselves, and former prisoners of war, to talk about their experience.
Concurrent to these events and her lobbying efforts, she is trying to fund a film. She wants to make a documentary for use as an educational tool. Not wanting to get involved in the lengthy process of petitioning textbook companies, she hopes that if she creates an accurate, classroom-friendly movie about Bataan, instructors will use it to meet the new curricular requirement.
Gaerlan says she never should have been in charge of all this. "It only happened because nobody else wanted to do it!" she exclaims.
"But it needs to be done," she says. She looks down at the photo of her father at 21, who passed in August 2014 at age 94. "Otherwise the history is going to die."
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