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Myles Gaffney Music
Myles Gaffney
Irish Folk Singer
"Northside til i die"
― Myles Gaffney
Welcome to Myles Gaffney Music.
MYLES GAFFNEY . IRISH FOLK SINGER / SONGWRITER.
Welcome to Myles Gaffney Music
About Myles
Myles Gaffney has established himself as one of the leading lights in the Irish Folk Music scene. A professional Songwriter from Cork , Myles' music is rooted in his Irish working class background.
Myles burst onto the scene with not one , but two Grammy Nominations for his songs "Come Hold My Hand Son" and "Song for Fallen Mothers". His early writing was recognised as the new voice of Irish Folk music and was awarded the prestigious Irish Folk Album of the Year in 2017.
Myles' music feeds on his experiences as Irish working class which is imbued with his studies of Political and Social History. Never shirking from a strong message , his songs are full of vivid descriptions of Struggle , Justice , Social Events , Heroes and issues facing everyone.
Described in the Press as "The Last of a dying breed…" Myles is one of the few songwriters to continue the Irish Folklore tradition of writing the songs and stories of Ireland and it's people.
Myles has written songs for a diverse section of the Irish community , including broadcaster Joe Duffy , sporting legend Roy Keane , Paddy Hill ( Birmingham 6) , Joe Joyce and Joan McDermott (Survivor of Mother and Baby Home) and has always made sure to engage with his subjects to ensure an authentic voice.His work develops the themes of personal experience with a social context and real-world view of the topics he produces.
The Irish Music community has taken Myles to it's heart and has been acclaimed by luminaries such as Christy Moore , Damien Dempsey , John Spillane and Declan O'Rourke to name but a few.
Myles' live performances are renowned for their energy and audience singing along qualities. Touring regularly , Myles' shows are always popular and a great way to engage with artist at his height.
Myles Gaffney proudly presents his debut album 'Redemption Road'. This album recorded with legendary Cork Musician Andy Dunne is Myles first album but as you can hear in these songs…
Don't Underestimate Me
Myles Gaffney Presents his most personal album thus far with "Don't Underestimate Me". Myles' Music reflects his upbringing in Cork's Northside , his love of History and Politics , his…
Brand New Album from Myles Gaffney
My Spotify Listings
Myles in Conversation with Mick O'Brien on his show Sin E on Dublin City FM. Myles' interview starts at 1.01.00
With Tommy Tiernan on The Neil Prenderville Show. Corks RedFM
Interview by Alan Donovan on CRY Youghal
©Myles Gaffney - Web design by Zazsi Web Design , Ballincollig , Cork.


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CEO Briefing October 2021
Homepage Latest News CEO Briefing October 2021
After a wonderfully warm September, it's certainly starting to feel autumnal out there now - and I do love this time of year, when the nights draw in, big coats are taken off their hangers, and the landscape becomes a blend of reds, oranges and browns. Our staff and pupils in our Doncaster academies will have the unusual benefit of two whole weeks to enjoy the autumn scenery, as their half term break starts early this year and runs through a fortnight!
The shift in seasons is neatly analogous to the changing of the guard at the Department for Education, as Nadhim Zahawi has been appointed as the new Secretary of State and has in turn undertaken a clean sweep of his ministerial team, with new appointments across the board. This will herald changes for all of us working in the state education sector, as the emergent priorities of the new Departmental team become clearer. A key dependency on any change in Government policy will be the funding settlement the Department for Education gets following the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) which is due to be announced in the coming weeks. Many reading this briefing might not know what the CSR is, and therefore may feel it isn't an important issue for them. However, it is something that will directly impact all of us.
The CSR will set out Government spending and taxation plans for the next 3 and a half years, and the future (and consequences) of inflationary pay awards for public sector staff will be determined by the outcome of the CSR. Previous rises above 1% for teachers (though not Teaching Assistants) have been covered by a Government grant, and the availability of further funding to cover future increases will be a key determining factor for the Government. This year (2021-22), the School Teachers' Review Body is not recommending an inflationary rise for teachers, though there is growing pressure for all public servants to have the same pay recognition as NHS staff (a 3% rise has been offered). We also know that we will all be paying more in National Insurance contributions from April 2022, which will create a budget pressure for the public sector if funding is not provided to cover the increase in costs.
At the same time as finding funding to ensure staff are paid fairly, the Government is also under intensifying pressure to revise its COVID-19 catch up funding . The £3bn promised thus far fell that short of the estimated need that the Government's Catch Up Commissioner resigned in protest. At the weekend, the Telegraph published a letter which I co-signed with over 100 other MAT leaders, backing the Education Recovery Plan proposed by the Confederation of School Trusts, the ASCL union and other national organisations, asking the Government to target investment where it will have greatest impact for all children & young people. All of which makes the outcome of the CSR so very, very important for our workforce and the pupils and families we serve.
Whilst we've continued to see a steady flow of positive cases this year, it appears (so far!) that the vaccination programme is helping to reduce transmission rates, and certainly reduce the impact of COVID-19 on individuals who contract the virus. Cases across the Trust are much lower now compared to the same time last year, and we hold to cautious optimism that this trend will continue through the winter months.
By the time I write my next briefing, we'll already be practising in our academies for the Christmas performances! Blimey…
Posted in CEO Briefs on Oct 05, 2021

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Kevin Saxby (the state's attorney in the McGrath wolf control case) is a genius!! He argued in court that controlling wolves at McGrath is no different than controlling stray dogs in Anchorage! Think about it--Your neighbor lets his dog out in his yard and it goes into your yard. A Supercub circles overhead and the gunner shoots the dog dead with a 12 gauge load of buckshot. YES--WE NEED AERIAL DOG CONTROL IN ANCHORAGE. I'm sick and tired of stray dogs on my property. Once every 10 years a stray dog kills a moose. We need to stop this senseless slaughter of moose by dogs! The Anchorage Assembly must pass an ordinance to allow aerial shooting of stray dogs. There are frustated pilot wolf hunters who would do the shooting at no charge! The Municipality could save huge sums of money by firing all the dogcatchers and closing the crematorium. The objective would be to remove ALL stray dogs from an "Experimental Micro-management Area" (the city limits would define the boundaries) for the next five years. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (experts at censusing animal populations) could first do a stray dog census. If it was as accurate as the moose censuses at McGrath, we would know the exact number of stray dogs plus or minus 100,000. Yes, dog lover whackos everywhere would sue to cancel the permits issued to pilots. But, we could get Saxby to argue in court that the program is based on the best available scientific data, that the meetings were properly noticed, that a small minority of people who want this really are a huge majority, and that if we stop it now stray dogs will over-run the city and kill off all the moose (and probably all the little children). If that fails, we could get Ralph Seekins to change the law prohibiting shooting of dogs.
CONTACT THE ASSEMBLY TODAY! URGE THEM TO SUPPORT AERIAL DOG CONTROL!


In this article entitled, "Homeless Tent Camps Belong Outside City Core," The Olympian worries that the creation of two permanent houseless encampments that the city plans to move forward with in the coming months, each to have space for 40 individuals, will frighten away the yuppies that the newer luxury condominiums were created for.
It doesn't take much effort to see that these high end "dwelling units" and the houseless people who supposedly threaten the interests of downtown landlords and business people are dialectically entangled beyond the relation The Olympian imagines them to share.
Elsewhere, the same newspaper recognizes an aspect of the actual relationship between houselessness and the encroachment of luxury condos in Olympia when it quotes a city employee who states, "'I think it's fair to say homelessness grew . . . with West Coast rent increases.'" Houseless people are not a threat to landlords, they are the victims of landlords.
What we're seeing in Olympia is an example of how class warfare waged from above is a self perpetuating battle instead of one that can be decisively put to rest: coast-wide rent increases begets houselessness and the urgent need on the side of the capitalist class to conceal houselessness if it wants to create the kind of sanitized environment that encourages the well off to move in and start shopping.
With the advent of large scale, centralized production in factories, bosses faced a similar dilemma: they were suddenly able to hoard more capital than they could possibly spend, but they had also placed a large number of workers who shared the same lot in daily contact with another, thus making industrial organizing not only possible but necessary for survival. Capitalism, because it is based on this manner of class war, cannot operate without breeding these crises.
Furthermore, the bosses of the industrial era and the landlords and business owners of Olympia share a set of techniques to manage, on the one hand, houseless people, and on the other hand, industrial workers. You can find the police wherever mass strike action takes place and you can find them enforcing the criminalization of houseless people. Olympia Downtown Alliance has even hired a private security firm, Pacific Coast Security, to make sure the harassment never stops.
At least there is some hope for eighty individuals who will benefit from the new permanent camps the city plans to create along with the Low Income Housing Institute, a Seattle-based non profit that owns over forty properties around the Puget Sound (including three in Thurston County, with one located in downtown Olympia) and manages tent and tiny house cities in Seattle. Sadly, however, we don't need to do that much digging to unearth some dirt on the way LIHI runs other tent cities and its transitional housing program.
While The Olympian wrings its hands over "activity catering to the destitute . . . in a business zone," there's nothing stopping LIHI from transforming transitional housing and tent cities into "business zones." Unfortunately, it is difficult to find what most would refer to as a "reliable source" on the kind of organization LIHI really is. As one tenant of the LIHI-owned building in Olympia put it when I asked about their thoughts on the non-profit, "they're just terrible … but when you come here you come here off the streets," which makes it much less likely that tenants will speak up about unjust practices.
A Facebook group called Victims of Seattle LIHI, however, calls the organization slumlords and accuses them of profiting off of the houseless and systematically evicting people without just cause from apartments originally built with the aid of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit which extends credit to developers with the caveat that they operate with rent caps in place, thereby subsidizing the creation of low income housing. These evictions, which are usually issued shortly before the lease on one of their apartment ends, not only allow LIHI to steal deposits but are also illegal since they are never accompanied by the "good cause" that the LIHTC program requires.
A Seattle Solidarity Network campaign based on a LIHI deposit theft from 2012 also suggests this is not a new practice. It's not just the deposit thefts, either. LIHI and an affiliated group, SHARE, have been accused of "misusing public money, illegally withholding bus tickets, and forcing the homeless into activism" over the course of their management of different tent cities in Seattle, according to a Seattle Times article entitled, "Homeless group's tough tactics draw criticism." You've got to wonder how non-profit the organization is when you hear that one of the tenants of the LIHI owned building in Olympia pays $600 in rent, only $40 of which was covered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD. Another said LIHI refused to do repairs around the building and were not receptive to complaints regarding the way the building is managed. Though LIHI files its taxes as a non-profit, they nevertheless operate with the same motives and structures that all landlords share, only their tenants have even less power or social capital than your average renter. They own and control the spaces they rent, not the tenants.
As the new permanent tent cities take shape in Olympia, we need to remember LIHI's history, listen to the occupants, and be prepared to act in solidarity in any way we can.


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Posts Tagged: Military Intervention
The Alarming Rise of Civilian Deaths in the War On Terror
By Phyllis Bennis, May 10, 2019
New reports show an escalation in civilian casualties from U.S. operations in Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia — and a pattern of U.S. denial about the scale of the problem.
Paul Ryan Was a Villain And No One Will Miss Him
By Peter Certo, December 20, 2018
The outgoing House speaker's entire career was a cash grab for billionaires, capped off by a low trick to literally starve children in Yemen.
Europe Should Bolt NATO
By John Feffer, July 23, 2018
Europe should take advantage of Trump's hostile attitude to get out of a relationship that's brought more drawbacks than benefits.
An Emerging Russia-Turkey-Iran Alliance Could Reshape the Middle East
By Conn Hallinan, April 19, 2018
The unusual triple alliance coming out of Syria could change the regional balance of power and unhinge NATO — if it holds together at all.
It's on Us to Stop the War in Yemen
By Olivia Alperstein, April 4, 2018
American taxpayers are helping to fight someone else's war in Yemen, and the blood is on our hands.
Oversimplifying Conflicts Doesn't Help Protect Civilians
By Andy Heintz, March 1, 2018
Conflicts don't have to include "genocide" to demand intervention. And "intervention" doesn't have to mean military action.
Oh Magog! Apocalyptic Christianity Returns to U.S. Foreign Policy
By John Feffer, March 1, 2018
Trump is no churchgoer. But for evangelicals, his hard right line on Israel and machinations against Iran make him an instrument of the endtimes.
While the Two Koreas Talk, Trump Is Throwing Shade
By Christine Ahn, February 8, 2018
The White House seems hell bent on hijacking an Olympic moment of inter-Korean unity.
North Korea Is Walking Back War — And Pundits Are Strangely Disappointed
By John Feffer, January 10, 2018
Pundits seem more concerned about the North driving a "wedge" between the U.S. and the South than about preventing nuclear war.
The Fall of the House of ISIS
By John Feffer, October 25, 2017
ISIS is on the decline, but the catastrophic political divisions in Iraq and Syria that gave rise to it are no closer to being mended.


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Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies aged 90
By Reuters/Marc Frank &nbspNovember 26, 2016 | 02:34 pm GMT+7
Cuba's President Fidel Castro gestures during a tour of Paris in this March 15, 1995 file photo. Ailing Cuban leader Castro said on February 19, 2008 that he will not return to lead the country, retiring as head of state 49 years after he seized power in an armed revolution. Photo by Reuters/Charles Platia
His death seems unlikely to trigger a crisis as Raul Castro, 85, is firmly ensconced in power.
Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied U.S. efforts to topple him, died on Friday, state-run Cuban Television said. He was 90.
Castro had been in poor health since an intestinal ailment nearly killed him in 2006 and he formally ceded power to his younger brother two years later.
Wearing an olive coloured military uniform, Raul Castro appeared on state television to announce his brother's death.
"At 10.29 in the night, the chief commander of the Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, died," he said.
"Ever onward, to victory."
Castro's remains will be cremated, according to his wishes. The bearded Fidel Castro took power in a 1959 revolution and ruled Cuba for 49 years with a mix of charisma and iron will, creating a one-party state and becoming a central figure in the Cold War.
Then Cuban President Fidel Castro looks at a news ticker flashing on the front windows of the U.S. diplomatic mission while visiting the construction site outside the mission in Havana in this January 25, 2006 file photo. Photo by Reuters/Claudia Daut/File Photo
He was demonized by the United States and its allies but admired by many leftists around the world, especially socialist revolutionaries in Latin America and Africa.
Transforming Cuba from a playground for rich Americans into a symbol of resistance to Washington, Castro outlasted nine U.S. presidents in power.
He fended off a CIA-backed invasion at the Bay of Pigs in 1961 as well as countless assassination attempts.
His alliance with Moscow helped trigger the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, a 13-day showdown with the United States that brought the world the closest it has been to nuclear war.
Wearing green military fatigues and chomping on cigars for many of his years in power, Castro was famous for long, fist-pounding speeches filled with blistering rhetoric, often aimed at the United States.
At home, he swept away capitalism and won support for bringing schools and hospitals to the poor. But he also created legions of enemies and critics, concentrated among Cuban exiles in Miami who fled his rule and saw him as a ruthless tyrant.
Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro and late Argentine revolution leader Che Guevara (L) during the May Day parade in Havana's Revolution Square in this May 1, 2013 file photo. Photo by Reuters/Desmond Boylan/File Photo
In the end it was not the efforts of Washington and Cuban exiles nor the collapse of Soviet communism that ended his rule. Instead, illness forced him to cede power to his younger brother Raul Castro, provisionally in 2006 and definitively in 2008.
Although Raul Castro always glorified his older brother, he has changed Cuba since taking over by introducing market-style economic reforms and agreeing with the United States in December to re-establish diplomatic ties and end decades of hostility.
Six weeks later, Fidel Castro offered only lukewarm support for the deal, raising questions about whether he approved of ending hostilities with his longtime enemy.
In his final years, Fidel Castro no longer held leadership posts. He wrote newspaper commentaries on world affairs and occasionally met with foreign leaders but he lived in semi-seclusion.
His death - which would once have thrown a question mark over Cuba's future - seems unlikely to trigger a crisis as Raul Castro, 85, is firmly ensconced in power.
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro (L) holds up the arm of his brother, Cuba's President Raul Castro, during the closing ceremony of the sixth Cuban Communist Party (PCC) congress in Havana in this April 19, 2011 file photo. Photo by Reuters/Desmond Boylan/File Photo.
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You little poop.... You got me!
I TOTALLY BEAT U BOOKIE! LOL LOL LOL LOL! luv yah!
Haha it's pretty sweet huh?
I totally love that picture of you and Kenna kissing Edward on the side of your blog. You guys are hot as Edward!!!
Oh ya now I just played Tic Tac Toe, I dont like stuff like that, Im a big baby, blah, im a chicken!
Nice! I was trying to figure out how in the heck it was going to have levels!!
SOMETHING! Or maybe I should say SOMETHING SCARY!!!!
Bookie- I HATED that because I'm such a fraidy cat anyway. I was all excited to play tic-tac-toe and I had a strategy and everything down. BOO!!!!
That totally made me jump! SCARY!
That was HILLARIOUS!!! AND HORRIBLE!!! Lucky I didn't have any kids on my lap for that one! But WOW!! You should've heard me scream! THEN all the kids came over, but I put my hand over that icky, creepy, horrible thing, so they didn't see it. But they all started asking "What mom? What? Is it the Mask?" (That's what they call the scary one Deb and Kenna sent like a year ago...they had night mares for WEEKS!) Love ya!
Yeah! I wasn't expecting that! Now your mom is sending victims from her blog! Ha ha! You two make a good team! I love you guys! I hope you are doing ok.


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Кућа Карен (средњоперсијски: Карен, Партски: 𐭊𐭓𐭍𐭉 Карен, персијски: کارن Карин или Карен, такође познат као Карен-Пахлави (Карен-Пахлав) била је једна од седам великих кућа Ирана. Седиште куће је било у Нахаванду, око 65 км јужно од Екбатане (данашњи Хамадан, Иран).

Порекло и историјат
Карен, династија Каран-Вандс, Каринванд или Карен-Пахлеви, како их још називају, тврдили су да потичу из Карена, лика фолклора и сина једнако митског ковача Кавеха. Међутим, прагматичније порекло може бити да су Карене, заједно са кућом Михран, порекле од Арсацида. Према Мовсесу Хоренатси, ово порекло било је праћено преко једног од три сина Пратеса IV, такође званог Карен. Чињеница да је Карен такође могло бити међу породичним именима династије Арсацида због чега семоже веровати овој теорији.

Употреба имена Карен могла се наћи и раније у иранској историји. Могући рани члан породице био је извесни Виштаспа крни (крни је варијација Карен) који је живео у Бактрији током каснијег Ахеменидског периода. Ова личност идентификована је са Хистаспес-ом, чланом краљевске породице Ахеменида који се борио под Даријем III током инвазије Александра Великог на Персију. Супруга Хистаспеса, унука Артакеркеса III, пала је у македонске руке након битке код Гаугамеле, иако је он касније са њом поново ослобођен и уздигнут на високи положај под Александровом командом.

Међутим, прво верификовано помињање Карена било је током Арсацидског периода, тачније као једне од феудалних кућа повезаних са партским двором. У томе су били слични кући Сурен, јединој другој потврђеној феудалној кући из периода Партије. Након освајањем Парћана, припадници породице Карене су се спојили са Сасанидима, на чијем су двору су идентификовани као један од такозваних "Партских кланова". Арменска породица Камсаракан била је огранак Куће Карен.

Након пораза Сасанида од војске Рашидуна у бици код Бадгиса, породица Карен се заложио за верност калифату. Међутим, 783. године, под Вандадом Хормоздом и савезником с Бавандским државама, Карен је прогласио независност и одбио да настави са давањем данака. Без обзира на понавне (и неке привремено успешне) покушаје освајања Карене, током којих се породица повукла даље на исток, у регион Савадкух, чини се да су неке земље Карена остале независне до 11. века, након чега је кућа Карен више није потврђивана. Остали значајни чланови породице укључују Мазиара, унука Вандада Хормозда, и чија је оданост арапском зороастризму и пркосу донела велику славу.

1910. или 1911. године у близини Нахаванда откривен је трезор за благо, популарно назван "Зафар султановим благом". Складиште - које је од тада добило митолошки статус - претпоставља се да је некада било власништво Карена.

Спахбеди из породице Карен
 Сухра (владао 525–550)
 Карин (владао 550–600)
 Аланда (владао 600–635)
 Валаш (владао 650–673)
 Неколико принчева Карена (владали 673–765)
 Вандад Хормизд (владао 765–815)
 Вандад Сафан (владао 765–800)
 Карин ибн Вандад Хормизд (владао 815–816)
 Мазјар (владао 817)
 Винда Умид (владао 800–820)
 Баванд владар (владао 817)
 Кухјар (владао 817–823)
 Мазјар (владао 823-839/840)
 Кухјар (владао 839)

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When the line to check in at a church-sponsored conference on a beautiful Saturday morning in April stretches out the door, it's a sign that the event has generated an impressive level of buzz.
For the North Carolina Lutherans, their faith partners and other friends who turned out in strength on April 12, those more predictable Saturday pursuits of grass-mowing, grocery shopping and golf would just have to wait.
The event at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Raleigh had an ambitious theme: "Navigating Public Policy Issues Guided by a Moral Compass." Specifically, it examined state government policy choices that have given rise to the Moral Monday movement – the movement grounded in a yearning for social justice that has enlisted many thousands of people to protest those choices. And it focused on the connections between social justice and a Christian faith that has concern for the vulnerable and marginalized at its core.
In case there was any doubt that these are high-priority matters within the greater Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the head of the church's NC Synod, Bishop Leonard Bolick, was on hand. The statewide synod, based in Salisbury, is a member of the NC Council of Churches. Judith Roberts brought greetings from the ELCA national office in Chicago, where she is program director for racial justice.
Bishop Bolick introduced his counterpart with the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, Bishop Michael Curry, who offered a powerful keynote speech framing the rationale for bringing a progressive faith perspective to the state's policy debates.
How to reconcile that call to activism with churches' duty to avoid becoming embroiled in partisan politics was a theme underlying the event. Organizers acknowledged a reluctance within some Lutheran churches to wade into the public policy arena – an attitude that allows churches to maneuver around controversy, but one that risks glossing over the basic Christian mandate to make sure others are treated as we'd like to be treated.
Certainly churches' own charitable efforts and social outreach programs are consistent with that mandate. But what if policies and laws are written in such a way that they make it harder for those programs to succeed? What if the political system becomes skewed to serve the interests of the powerful while the powerless are pushed aside? Surely it's legitimate for churches and their members to try to connect the dots between what they believe and how the rules of our society are structured.
The threshold that can't be crossed, at least when it comes to church-centered activity, is the one that separates issue-oriented activism from efforts meant to boost specific candidates. There can be no direct overlap between the roles of churches and political parties unless churches want to forfeit their tax-exempt status.
Gene Nichol, law professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, discussed the troubling scope and challenge of poverty in North Carolina.
Jennifer Frye, associate director of Democracy North Carolina, explained how changes to state election laws make it more difficult for some people on society's margins to exercise their right to vote. With their voices muffled at the polls, these citizens will find it even harder to influence the choice of leaders whose decisions bear so weightily on their well-being.
William Murray, a board member of the group Health Care for All NC, told the gathering that the state's decision not to expand Medicaid coverage — with most of the funding coming from Washington – represented a costly missed opportunity to invest in better health care for people of lesser means.
Judith Roberts of the ELCA discussed the consequences when racism and classism infect organizations, including churches, from the inside. Her presence was a reminder that the greater Lutheran Church understands the gravity of these issues and is committed to countering institutional racism wherever it may exist.
All in all, the conference amounted to an earnest attempt to address and overcome what for some Lutheran churches has been a conceptual barrier inhibiting them from applying their faith ideals to the real world where public policies are decided.
When conference attendees finally scattered on that warm and radiant Saturday afternoon, there could have been little doubt that in the quest for social justice, many North Carolina Lutherans intend to do their part.
Thanks to the good Lutherans and Episcopalians for their efforts on behalf of all of us; that is ALL of us other Christians but also every person who lives in NC and cares for their neighbor which includes Muslims, Jews and other people of faith: Hindus, Sikhs, Baha'is and all people of good will.
Really appreciate your supportive and encouraging words. The conference truly brought to light that many of us truly understand WE are ALL part of GOD's family…the human family, and that as family we should love, care, protect, and cherish each other. I am excited and inspired by the number of congregations who are going back to their local communities and congregations to mobilize and organize into action. It was a great conference, a great fellowship, and a great collaboration!
Steve: Thank you for your kind words! Can't wait to see what God is going to do with us.


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California bishops ask for U.S. House vote on bipartisan DACA bill
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, is seen in Beverly Hills April 30. Three California bishops have asked him to allow a debate and a vote in the coming month on long-stymied Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival legislation, popularly known as DACA. (CNS photo/Mike Blake, Reuters)
By Catholic News Service • Posted May 21, 2018
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CNS) — Three California bishops have asked House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, to allow a debate and a vote in the coming month on long-stymied Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival legislation, popularly known as DACA.
In an ad placed May 18, in The Bakersfield Californian newspaper, which is in McCarthy's district, the California Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the state's bishops, asked McCarthy, "Please don't abdicate your authority — allow a vote on DACA now."
There are four DACA-related bills in the House, but the California Catholic Conference asked McCarthy specifically for a vote on a bipartisan bill co-sponsored by two California congressmen, Jeff Denham, a Republican, and Pete Aguilar, a Democrat.
Their bill, the Uniting and Securing America Act, has 50 co-sponsors — 25 from each party. A companion Senate bill also has bipartisan sponsorship from Sens. John McCain, R-Arizona, and Chris Coons, D-Delaware.
The bill would prevent DACA recipients, also known as Dreamers, from being deported and would allow them to seek full citizenship. About one-third of all Dreamers live in California; they came across the U.S. border with their parents as young children.
It also would require the federal Department of Homeland Security to conduct a mile-by-mile security assessment of the U.S.-Mexico border and estimate the cost of securing each mile by 2019, with an eye toward implementation by 2020.
The bill would further add at least 165 immigration judges and 69 immigration attorneys by the end of 2020 to address a backlog in immigration courts.
"The time to act is now. We have to do what we can to protect these blameless people who were brought into our country when they were only small children," the letter to McCarthy said, asking that a vote be taken by June 25. "You have the power to allow for a debate and a vote on DACA. As majority leader, you and Speaker (Paul) Ryan (R-Wisconsin) can decide what legislation reaches the House floor," it added.
An effort is under way to collect sufficient signatures on a discharge petition, which would sidestep Ryan and McCarthy and force the bill onto the House floor for debate.
The letter was signed by Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles, who also is vice president of the U.S. bishops' conference, and Bishops Armando X. Ochoa of Fresno, whose territory includes Bakersfield.
David Scott, spokesman for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, said the Orange County Register refused to accept the ad.
Archbishop Gomez also posted a message May 18 on the Los Angeles Archdiocese's Angelus News Facebook page calling for a DACA vote.
"The Dreamers have been waiting for decades for Congress to do its job and pass immigration reform legislation. But for many years now, reform has been blocked in the House for political reasons by a minority of lawmakers," Archbishop Gomez said. "This is happening again, right now. It is wrong. It is cruel, unjust and frustrates the will of the American people."
He added, "There is broad bipartisan support in Congress to help the Dreamers. More than 75 percent of Americans support granting these young people a permanent legal status. This is not about Republicans or Democrats. It is about right and wrong. People's lives are in the balance."
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Lenders are selling buy-to-let mortgages where – all other factors remaining the same – borrowers will be losing money every month once the Government's planned tax changes take effect.
Many lenders are aggressively expanding into buy-to-let, one of the fastest-growing parts of the mortgage market.
But they could be putting borrowers – and their own businesses – at risk, commentators warn, because their generous loan offers do not appear to factor in drastic tax increases due to apply to buy-to-let investors from 2017.
In an example, a higher-rate taxpayer with a £300,000 property and a £240,000 loan remortgages with Aldermore's 3.99pc five-year fixed deal. He borrows the maximum amount permitted (80pc of the value) and has the minimum level of rental income the bank requires – 125pc of the monthly mortgage interest.
If his rental income of £1,000 a month remains steady, his annual after-tax profit of £1,440 today will be completely wiped out by 2019 thanks to the tax increases. By the time the tax changes are fully implemented in 2020, he will be making a loss of £480 a year.
Lenders appear to be counting on landlords to increase rents rapidly.
Ray Boulger, of mortgage broker John Charcol, said borrowers were being lured in by cheap rates without understanding the tax implications.
"Borrowers are banking on capital growth, which is unlikely to keep up the pace of recent years, and strong rental growth, which again is not guaranteed," he said.
One major lender, Coventry Building Society, said it would be "fair" to count on increased rents and house prices. It expected its borrowers to generate positive cash flow even after 2020. Aldermore did not respond to requests for comment.
Since the tax changes were announced, buy-to-let mortgage rates have fallen considerably. The average two-year fixed rate has fallen from 3.39pc in July to 3.26pc and five-year fixed deals are down from 4.15pc to 4.06pc, according to data from Moneyfacts.co.uk.
Mr Hargreaves said lenders and brokers should be doing more to make borrowers aware of the tax risks before they take out a loan.
How is buy-to-let tax changing?
Landlords will no longer be able to deduct the cost of their mortgage interest from their rental income when they calculate a profit on which to pay tax.
In effect, the Chancellor wants to tax landlords on their turnover rather than profit, meaning that tax will be payable on nonexistent income. For some, tax rates will exceed 100pc. The change will be phased in from 2017 and fully implemented by 2020.
Smith & Williamson, the accountancy firm, has calculated that any higher-rate taxpayer landlord whose mortgage interest is 75pc or more of their rental income, net of other expenses, will see all of their returns wiped out by 2020.
For additional-rate (45pc) taxpayers, the threshold at which their investment returns are wiped out by the tax is when mortgage interest costs reach 68pc of rental income. Some current basic-rate taxpayers will also be hit, because the change will push them into the higher-rate tax bracket.
Many concerned landlords have written to their MPs to urge them to fight the change as the Finance Bill passes through Parliament. But they are finding little support.
Fiona Mactaggart, Labour MP for Slough, told a Telegraph reader, who is also a landlord and her constituent, that she thought "the plans to restrict support for buy-to-let are unlikely to be changed".


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Updated on April 27, 2016 9:12pm EDT
Facebook Delivers Rock-Solid Earnings
By Andrs Cardenal Fool.com
Image source: Facebook.
Facebook reported earnings for the first quarter of 2016 on Wednesday, April 27. The company has delivered impressive performance over the past several quarters, and expectations were already quite high for Facebook leading to the report. However, the company still managed to beat those demanding expectations, and Facebook stock was rising by an explosive 9% on Wednesday after the closing bell.
A big and profitable networkFacebook ended the third quarter of 2016 with 1.65 billion monthly active users, a healthy 15% increase versus the same period in 2015. Daily active users grew 16% year over year, amounting to 1.09 billion. Daily users represent 66% of all monthly users, a small increase from 65% in the first quarter of 2015. Even if Facebook has already reached a gargantuan scale, the user base keeps growing at a nice rate, and activity levels show that engagement remains on the rise.
The company is also reporting impressive performance in mobile, a crucial growth segment in the industry. Mobile monthly users stand at 1.51 billion, growing by 21% versus the same period last year. Daily active users in mobile platforms grew 24%, ending the quarter at 989 million.
The numbers look even better when compared against Twitter and its user statistics for the same period. The short-message social network ended the first quarter of 2016 with 310 million monthly users, and the user base grew only 3% year over year. Even worse, Twitter is completely stagnant in terms of user growth in the United States. Twitter is just no match to Facebook in terms of size or growth, showing that not every company in the social network industry is enjoying the same kind of performance as Facebook.
Importantly, Facebook is also making huge progress in terms of monetization. Average revenue per user was $3.32 last quarter, a 33% increase versus $2.50 per user during the first quarter of 2015.
Booming sales and earningsTotal revenue during the quarter grew 52%, reaching $5.38 billion. Excluding the unfavorable impact from currency fluctuations, the increase in constant currency revenue would have been an even stronger 58%. Advertising revenue amounted to $5.2 billion, growing by 57% in U.S. dollars and by 63% on a constant currency basis. Mobile advertising was a major driver during the quarter, accounting for 82% of advertising revenue. That's up from 73% in the first quarter of 2015.
Facebook is investing tons of money in technology and all kinds of growth projects, so total expenses increased 41%. Nevertheless, revenue still outgrew costs, so the operating margin jumped from 26% of revenue to a much bigger 37%.
Booming sales and expanding profit margins was a powerful combination for Facebook during the quarter, and earnings per share grew by a staggering 189%, from $0.18 to $0.52 per share.
Mark Zuckerberg's companyFacebook also announced that it will create a new class C stock, which will have the same economic rights as the current class A and class B shares but will have no voting rights. Facebook currently has a dual-class structure: Class A shares trade in the stock market and have one vote per share, and class B shares are mostly owned by insiders, don't trade in the stock market, and have 10 votes per share.
If the proposal is approved, Facebook will issue two shares of class C stock as a one-time stock dividend for every outstanding share of class A and class B common stock. The main idea behind this move is making sure Mark Zuckerberg's voting rights won't get diluted in the future, so that the company's founder and CEO will keep calling the shots even if his economic ownership is diluted away via new stock issuance in the coming years.
According to the press release: "This proposal is designed to create a capital structure that will, among other things, allow us to remain focused on Mr. Zuckerberg's long-term vision for our company and encourage Mr. Zuckerberg to remain in an active leadership role at Facebook."
In all, it was quite a strong earnings report from Facebook, as the company delivered impressive performance in key areas such as users, revenue, and profits. As long as the company continues producing this kind of growth, investors in Facebook will probably sleep well at night knowing that Zuckerberg is holding the reins.
The article Facebook Delivers Rock-Solid Earnings originally appeared on Fool.com.
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Since 1919, Rolling Road has been one of the premier private golf clubs in the Baltimore area. The club's centerpiece, a beautiful and challenging 18-hole golf course was designed by two-time British Open champion and world-renowned golf course architect, Willie Park, Jr. Unique to the golf world, Rolling Road has no tee times; members have the privilege of being able to show and play when it is convenient. To add to the convenience, Rolling Road boasts an average round time of about 3 ½ hours.
The club offers numerous dining options, including both elegant and casual dining. Our Grille Room features a more casual atmosphere, and is open Tuesday through Sunday for lunch and dinner. We also offer a more elegant atmosphere in our upstairs dining rooms, where members can make reservations to dine privately, and where we host various dining events as well. Rolling Road Golf Club also boasts a beautiful pool and outdoor patio area, with an Olympic sized pool, a baby pool area, a snack bar, and a beautiful patio seating area.
Rolling Road has a very active membership. When you're not golfing or lounging by the pool, there's almost always something going on at the club. Each month, Rolling Road holds numerous social events that appeal to all of our members. Rolling Road is also proud to be one of the most family-friendly clubs in the area. Children at Rolling Road are considered when planning social events, and there are numerous activities planned for all ages. We have a special "Kids Room," where your children can hang out, watch a movie or play games.
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Visual angle is the angle a viewed object subtends at the eye, usually stated in degrees of arc.
It also is called the object's angular size.

The diagram on the right shows an observer's eye  looking at a frontal extent (the vertical arrow) that has a  linear size , located in the distance  from point .

For present purposes, point  can represent  the eye's nodal points at about the center of the lens, and also represent the center of the eye's entrance pupil that is only a few millimeters in front of the lens.

The three lines from object endpoint  heading toward the eye indicate the bundle of  light rays that pass through the cornea, pupil and lens to form an optical image of  endpoint  on the retina at point .
The central line of the bundle represents the chief ray.

The same holds for object point  and its retinal image at .

The  visual angle  is the angle between the chief rays of  and .

Measuring and computing
The visual angle  can be measured directly using a theodolite placed at point .

Or, it can be calculated (in radians) using the formula, .

However, for visual angles smaller than about 10 degrees, this simpler formula provides very close approximations:

The retinal image and visual angle
As the above sketch shows, a real image of the object is formed on the retina between points  and . (See visual system). For small angles, the size of this retinal image  is

where  is the distance from the nodal points to the retina, about 17 mm.

Examples
If one looks at a one-centimeter object at a distance of one meter and a two-centimeter object at a distance of two meters, both subtend the same visual angle of about 0.01 rad or 0.57°.  Thus they have the same retinal image size .

That is just a bit larger than the retinal image size for the moon, which is about , because, with moon's mean diameter   , and  earth to moon mean distance  averaging   (), .

Also, for some  easy observations, if one holds one's index finger at arm's length, the width of the index fingernail subtends approximately one degree, and the width of the thumb at the first joint subtends approximately two degrees.

Therefore, if one is interested in the performance of the eye or the first processing steps in the visual cortex, it does not make sense to refer to the absolute size of a viewed object (its linear size ). What matters is the visual angle  which determines the size of the retinal image.

Terminological confusions
In astronomy the term apparent size refers to the physical angle  or angular diameter.

But in psychophysics and experimental psychology the adjective "apparent" refers to a person's subjective experience.
So, "apparent size" has  referred to how large an object looks, also often called its "perceived size".

Additional confusion has occurred because there are two qualitatively different "size" experiences for a viewed object. One is the perceived  visual angle  (or apparent visual angle) which is the subjective correlate of , also called the object's perceived or apparent angular size.
The perceived  visual angle is best defined as the difference between the perceived directions of the object's endpoints from oneself.

The other "size" experience  is the object's perceived linear size  (or apparent linear size) which is the subjective correlate of , the object's physical width or height or diameter.

Widespread  use of the ambiguous  terms "apparent size" and "perceived size" without specifying the units of  measure has caused confusion.

Representation of visual angle in visual cortex
The brain's primary visual cortex (area V1 or Brodmann area 17) contains a spatially isomorphic representation of the retina (see retinotopy).  Loosely speaking,  it is a distorted "map" of the retina. Accordingly, the size  of a given retinal image determines the extent of the neural activity pattern eventually generated in area V1 by the associated retinal activity pattern. Murray, Boyaci, & Kersten (2006) recently used Functional magnetic resonance imaging  (fMRI) to show that an increase in a viewed target's visual angle, which increases , also increases the extent of the corresponding neural activity pattern in area V1.

The observers in experiment carried out by Murray and colleagues viewed a flat picture with two discs that subtended the same visual angle  and formed retinal images of the same size , but the perceived angular size  of one was about 17% larger than for the other, due to differences in the background patterns for the disks. It was shown that the areas of the activity in V1 related to the disks were of unequal size, despite the fact that the retinal images were the same size.  This size difference in area V1 correlated with the 17% illusory difference between the perceived visual angles. This finding has implications for spatial illusions such as the visual angle illusion.

See also
Visual acuity
Visual angle illusion

Notes

References
 Baird, J. C. (1970).  Psychophysical analysis of visual space. Oxford, London: Pergamon Press.
 Joynson, R. B. (1949). The problem of size and distance. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1, 119–135.
 McCready, D. (1965). Size-distance perception and accommodation-convergence micropsia: A critique. Vision Research. 5, 189–206.
 McCready, D. (1985). On size, distance and visual angle perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 37, 323–334.
 Murray, S.O., Boyaci, H, & Kersten, D. (2006) The representation of perceived angular size in human primary visual cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 9, 429–434 (1 March 2006).
 McCready, D. The Moon Illusion Explained.

External links
The University at Buffalo's Interactive Visual Acuity Chart for the display of letters or symbols for a specified Snellen line on your computer monitor at exactly the right size (note: you must follow the instructions for calibration).

Vision
Angle


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Tow interesting related stories found this morning.
Russia is currently building 37 per cent of the civil nuclear facilities under construction globally, followed by China with 28 per cent. Rosatom, the Russian nuclear corporation, has orders on its books worth US$100bn.
In 2008, Iceland held ostentatious talks with Moscow about being bailed out of its banking crisis, one lure for Moscow being the prospect of strategic influence near the Arctic. In the same year, Pakistan – traditionally a foreign policy ally of China's – made a plea to Beijingto prevent it falling into the hands of the IMF after its economy had gone way off track. And in 2013, Cyprus – which also has close links with Russia, being a safe haven for the cash of its oligarchs – looked to Moscow for licit official money to supplement what it already had when it was struck by a banking crisis.
In each case, Russia and China turned them down.


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Meir Shalev (Nahalal, Israël, 21 juli 1948) is een Israëlisch schrijver.

Hij is bekend geworden door zijn ironische sketches op de Israëlische radio en televisie. Nadat hij de televisie vaarwel zei, begon hij aan zijn schrijverscarrière. Zijn eerste boek kwam in Nederland uit in 1989 onder de titel 'Russische roman'.

Shalev schrijft ook non-fictie en kinderboeken.

Prijzen
 Juliet Club Prize (Italië)
 Chiavari (Italië)
 Entomological Prize (Israël)
 WIZO Prize (Frankrijk, Israël, Italië)
 Brenner Prize, Israëls hoogste literaire onderscheiding voor Een duif en een jongen.

Boeken

Fictie
 1990 Russische roman
 1992 De kus van Esau
 1994 De vier maaltijden
 1998 De grote vrouw
 2003 Fontanel
 2006 Een duif en een jongen
 2010 Het zat zo
 2014 Een geweer, een koe, een boom en een vrouw

Non-fictie
 1995 De Bijbel nu
 1997 Vooral over de liefde
 1998 Mijn Jeruzalem
 2000 De geest van het verhaal
 2011 In den beginne
 2017 Mijn wilde tuin

Kinderboeken
 2001 Je schaamt je rot met zo'n vader
 2002 Een zondvloed, een slang, een ark & een mandje

Referentie
  Meir Shalev, capsule biography and bibliography at Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature. Retrieved February 14, 2005.

Externe links
 interview met Meir Shalev op 13 oktober 2010

  "You were caught with your trousers down in a war of your own making" - speech at Tel Aviv mass rally, May 2007

Israëlisch schrijver
Hebreeuws schrijver
Israëlisch kinderboekenschrijver


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Dr. Seuss and Asians – A Troubled Past Today
By sallyedelstein / March 3, 2021 / History, news, Race, WWII / 15 comments
Care for a side of bigotry with that green eggs and ham?
On Tuesday the beloved children's book author Theodor Seuss Geisel's birthday, it was announced by the Dr. Seuss Enterprises that 6 of his classic children's books will no longer be published because "they portray people in hurtful and wrong ways."
A study found that after studying 50 books by Dr. Seuss 43 out of 45 characters of color have characteristics aligning with the definition of "orientalism" or the stereotypical offensive portrayal of Asia.
One of the books cited was "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street," where an Asian person is portrayed wearing a conical hat, holding chopsticks, and eating from a bowl.
Oh, the places Dr. Seuss went before!
An anti-Japanese political cartoon by Dr. Seuss.
Long before he penned his series of children's books, Theodor Geisel worked as a political cartoonist from 1941-1943 creating more than 400 political cartoons for liberal NY Newspaper PM. Along with subjects such as racial discrimination and social injustices, he did create anti-Japanese propaganda and supported Japanese internment.
Though it is baffling to see Geisel who railed against racism, Jim Crow, and anti-Semitism in his cartoons also offer up bigoted depictions of Asians both in the US and overseas, it is important to be viewed in the context of the times.
In fairness to Dr. Seuss, it serves as a guide to note the normalcy of prejudice especially against Asians in mainstream America. That was Life in these United States!
The demonization of Japanese Americans during WWII could serve as a history lesson in what happens when racist propaganda is disseminated as patriotism.
And it didn't take long.
A mere two weeks after the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, a racist guide geared to the hapless American to differentiate a Jap from the Chinese was published in two highly respected periodicals Life Magazine and Time as a public service to a frightened public.
Slap the Jap –That's Life
After Japan's surprise attack on America, fear and hysterics ran high.
Like most Americans in December of 1941, Bob White was in a state of anxiety. Shaken to the core by this violent act of terrorism perpetrated against America in Pearl Harbor, he was left confused. Like others, Bob simply didn't know who to trust.
This native of Newberg worried…was the Chinaman washing his shirts really Chinese or a Japanese spy. Maybe the Oriental whose family fix-it shop had been there for generations might be sending signals back to Tojo. Who could tell if they were even Japanese?
Life magazine understanding this confusion came to his rescue.
In a world of insecurity and uncertainty, Bob White could count on 3 things. A white Christmas, the regular delivery of the U.S. mail, and the reassurance from his favorite magazine Life.
Like most Mondays, Bob looked forward to his weekly copy of Life, the eyes and ears and voice of America to entertain, inform and instruct him.
But this December 22 was not like most Mondays. Only 2 weeks earlier President Roosevelt had appeared before Congress asking them to declare war on Japan. The date that would live in infamy was fresh in American minds.
So when the doorbell rang at noon, Bob could count on it being the mailman making his delivery. As Sam the mailman shook off the snow and handed Bob his weekly copy of Life, he smiled and said winking: "It's a keeper!"
Long May She Wave
Bob's heart swelled with pride at the image of the majestic waving American flag that filled the cover of the magazine.
Flipping through the thick periodical he pored over the graphic photos documenting the devastation from the attack in Hawaii, fueling his hatred of the cruel and barbaric enemy. The jingoistic copy confirmed what Bob knew in his heart – harnessing America's might we would pull together to beat the Japs!
Reading onward, his eyes fell on the bold-face heading "War and Terrorism" under which he noted a series entitled "The Handbook for Americans."
This former Eagle Scout knew that to win this war both on the battlefield and on the home front, Americans needed to be prepared.
Americans needed to mentally awake and morally straight and most importantly, keep informed. Like any good handbook, this one offered practical, useful information.
The first article in the handbook was a handy guide for identifying dangerous Japanese warplanes.
But more urgent than the planes was the vital information on how to identify a Jap.
Yes, not only does the reader learn to recognize enemy Jap warplanes, identifying them by their unique markings, they learn to distinguish Japanese Americans from Chinese Americans.
Not unlike most Americans, Bob tended to lump all members of the "yellow race" together.
It was Life's mission to carefully point out the differences concerned that our anger and contempt not be directed at our good Chinese friends but at the Japanese.
Bob sighed in relief. Finally a helpful guide to identifying the real enemy.
It was a major task, but Life made it so much easier.
Life Magazine December 22, 1941
Entitled "How to Tell Japs From the Chinese:" Bob read with interest as the article explained:
"In the first discharge of emotions touched off by the Japanese assaults on their nation, US citizens have been demonstrating a distressing ignorance of the delicate question of how to tell a Chinese from a Jap. Innocent victims in cities all over the country are many of the 75,000 U.S. Chinese whose homeland is our staunch ally.
So serious were the consequences threatened, that the Chinese consulates last week prepared to tag their nationals with identification buttons.
These photographs are marked with crudely notated facial features such as an anthropologist might compare one animal to another. Life Magazine December 22, 1941
Lest you engage in a friendly conversation with a Japanese American store clerk this handy guide would protect you from this dangerous encounter.
To dispel some of this confusion between Asian friend and foe , LIFE provided a rule-of-thumb for characteristics that distinguished friendly Chinese from the enemy alien Japs.
As in the warplane article, Bob learned how to differentiate between Japanese and Chinese people, with "instructive, easily interpreted diagrams and photographs.
The article's "helpful captions" explain distinctive bones structures and facial features" with the arbitrariness and stereotypes worthy of an instructor of eugenics .
American racism 100% proof. The second page of the article is framed between two columns of advertisements. Americans consume their racism along with their whiskey.
The Chinese we learn, are smiling and friendly the Japanese is frowning and angry.
The engaging Chinese man is described as a "public servant," while the Japanese man ( General Tojo) is listed as a "Japanese warrior" whose face "shows the humorless intensity of ruthless mystics."
Across the street, Bob's neighbor Mary was picking up her own mail, anxious to read her issue of Henry Luce's other publication Time. It too carried its own helpful article "How to Tell Your Friends From the Jap."
Arbitrary instruction from Time December 22, 1941
It wasn't long before distinguishing between a Jap and Chinese would be as easy as identifying an enemy airplane with their handy-go-to guide. Everything you needed to prevent you from mistaking your friendly Chines storekeeper for a Japanese American traitor
Life would help you identify the enemy and properly direct your hatred to the appropriate source. To a frightened hysterical public, it came in the nick of time.
Hatred of the other because of fear is dangerous. Deplorable acts of racism somehow justified and even honorable in the time of terror and war end up with predictably terrible consequences.
© Sally Edelstein and Envisioning The American Dream, 2021
Tags: Dr Seuss, Japanese. WWII
Sally, two bookend comments. Your last paragraph speaks volumes. Full stop
On the flip side, I hope this does not unduly taint the good legacy of what Dr. Seuss did in his more meaningful work. We are all imperfect and have done things we regret or would be surprised we did when revealed after 25 years. Of that, I am 100% certain. I would hate to see all the stupid things I said and did laid before me now. What will happen is we will silence too many good voices for their worst behaviors.
Yet, as you note there are things we must reconsider and take out of mainstream press. The annual "Huck Finn" debate on whether to include all of his narrative is a good example. The book is about pointing out the stupidity of racism, but it uses highly derogatory language, meant to offend and make you think. The fact the language may be euphemized, does not take away from Twain's powerful statement that racism is unwise and based on fear.
Thanks for the good post. Keith
After the war, he questioned his beliefs about the Japanese. Years later Dr. Seuss wrote, "Horton Hears a Who" ( a metaphor for the American postwar occupation of Japan) in part as an apology to the Japanese that he had demonized during the war. Dr Seuss brought and continues to bring a great deal of joy to many. As an editorial cartoonist, he did a lot of work against social injustice.
jmartin18rdb
Brilliant. And what great research and images. Bravo!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the piece.
Doug Thomas
My 5th grade teacher (in 1958) mentioned that the decorative rising sun above her home's front door caused her lawyer husband and her concern during WWII because of the fear ignorant idiots would think they somehow supported the Japanese! Unfortunately, this part of the US has no end of ignorant idiots, and the WWII variety gave us the generations that voted for a certain former president, tice!
That's remarkable that decorative imagery might be confused with an ethnic/national connotation. Wartime does that to people and brings out the worst in some folks.
Put the flag on a pole, wave it around, and there are people who will do stupid things like storm the US Capitol and think they are patriots.
danielwalldammit
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
TheChattyIntrovert
I got a copy of the book "Dr. Seuss $ Co. Go to War" in my library. It's got a few of his cartoons in it (and plenty of others from editorial cartoonists of the time, mostly from PM I believe… been a while since I read through it). And the cartoons against the Japanese are definitely cringe, his and others. The ones with Hitler are more ridiculous or impassioned.
It's a hard subject, certainly worthy of study and discussion. Like any medium, they're the products of their times, and Seuss felt pretty bad about it later in life, though dehumanizing the enemy was the name of the game on all sides. He still felt remorse for the things he wrote. That is very important to remember. And that's why Horton Hears a Who is so important, too, because the book is a teaching tool on multiple fronts. I was much older when I read that one and I got the message pretty easily… and bought it as soon as I learned the full story.
(it's supposed to be "Seuss & Co", but I can't type today, dang it. Too tired.)
You are right about the importance of Horton Hears a Who. It was his attempt to right a wrong.
zobop republic
And now because of the Covid-19 pandemic anyone of Asian descent is being attacked nowadays. It makes me angry as Hell! (I personally blame Donald J. Trump for today's hateful attacks. He started it.) No one is blaming a Dr. Seuss book for these attacks on Asian-Americans.
Many years from now our descendants will say, "it is important to be viewed in the context of the times."
We need to "get it right" before the fall western civilization.
Well, that's my two-cents. Thanks.
There is no question at all that the blame for the increased violence and hate directed at Asian Americans comes from Trump. His insistence on referring to the virus as "The China Virus" fueled and fanned this hatred. There seem to be so many opportunities to get it right and we seem to always fall short.
dolphinwrite
Never ever believe in propaganda and rhetoric. I grew up on Dr. Seuss. He did a fantastic job of writing and creating. May many others find the creativity in themselves.


Imagination festival takes place in four halls of Expo Prague, Holesovice (GPS below) on Friday 24th November 2017. The festival program starts at 8:00PM and ends at 7:00AM, the opening show starts at 22:00. Every visitor will receive from our hostesses a useful brochure with a dj's timetable, festival map, merchandise info and upcoming events.
A limited amount of tickets will be on available on the spot from 7:00 PM for 1200 CZK and afterwards from 10:00 PM for 1300 CZK. This year there will also be an opportunity to pay by a credit card. Visitors who have purchased a pre-sales ticket in the Goout or Festicket network (in a stone branch or on the Internet as an E-Ticket) will come to the corridors at the entrance to the festival area. Avoid purchasing tickets from resellers, the tickets are passing through scanner and it is not possible to use them again. We recommend you to arrive at 21:30 to avoid unnecessary waiting at queues and so you do not miss out on some of the headliners. Also if you arrive early you will have the opportunity to get some items from our limited edition merchandise at the "B" and "E" halls.
This year as well, there will be an ATM inside festival area, but we recommend you to take enough cash anyway! We recommend to exchange enough money to CZK, however there will be a possibility to pay by euros.
No hand strips will be given at the entrance to speed up the check in process. However you can buy an official Imagination Festival wristbands at the official merchandise tent located in the "B" and "E" halls for symbolic price.
Outside areas between the halls will be available to all visitors. Please note: You can only use your ticket once to access the festival site. After leaving the area you are not allowed to go back inside.
Accreditations are placed in front of the festival entrance next to cash desk and they are opened from 7 PM. Do not forget to take your ID which is needed for your identification.
Every visitor must go through a short security check. We thank you in advance for respecting that. In case there will a queue of people, please avoid pushing through. This will not get you into festival premises earlier. In the premises of Expo Holešovice is smoking forbidden – please respect this restriction.Our video team will be recording in the festival area. Please respect their job and you might be rewarded by appearing in our festival aftermovie.
The cloakroom will be available in hall C on the right side behind the entrance. Your clothes will be charged 40 CZK per one piece and bags or other luggage for 60 CZK per one piece. Everyone will be allowed to use a limited amount of locker boxes for 150CZK per locker (+100CZK deposit).
Overall there will be 10 bars with soft drinks and premium alcohol. Food will be available in the outside zone between halls "B" and "C"; "D" and "E".
M&G with photo wall will be available in pavilion "C"! You can take pictures with your favourite artists over there. Timetable for meet & greet will be released shortly before the event and also will be available at the event itself / in the festival booklet.
Toilets are available in halls "B" and "E". Also you can find some of them in the outside area.
In order to save the environment by a ton of waste, we are introducing this year's half-liter beer cups with the theme of the festival. The deposit per cup will be 50 CZK. When buying a new drink, each cup will be replaced with clean one (it can no longer be printed, so if you want to keep the printed cup as souvenir, take it with you). Cups can be returned to bars. Damaged cups can not be refunded.
Official Imagination Festival t-shirts & Devastator t-shirts will be sold at the merchandise shop which will be located in hall "B" & "E" for 399 CZK. We are also offering original Imagination sunglasses just for 199 CZK, bags for 250 CZK and various wristbands for 45 CZK. Imagination power bank will be available to purchase for 250 CZK and key rings for 60 CZK. Also, you can buy official festival poster here for 50 CZK.
If you are considering buying some of these clothes or accessories, do not forget to take enough cash with you.
You will find a rescue service next to the entrance to the bass music stage in hall "B".
Imagination drum and bass stage will be powered by L'Acoustics sound system. Devastator stage will be also powered by L'Acoustics PA. Knockout stage will be powered by Funktion One PA.
We reccommend you to take earplugs and protect your ears.
In order to capture all the special moments of Imagination Festival, it is possible to bring your mobile and compact digital cameras to the event. Professional cameras (with interchangeable lenses) and video cameras are only allowed for people who have received a special photo pass accreditation.
Smoking is prohibited inside the halls. Please use outside zones for smoking.
The nearest tram station is "Nádraží Holesovice" where goes trams 6, 12, 17, 92, 93, 94 during the night. The closest underground station is "Nádraží Holesovice". When you get out of the subway go upstairs and take tram number 6 / 12 / 14 / 15 / 93 / 94 (heading to "Nádraží Holesovice"). Right after you get out of the tram, just head towards the big expo building and walk around it, down the stairs – you will see 4 halls of our festival. After getting of at the Exhibition Grounds walk about 200 meters by foot to the exhibition grounds around the industrial palace and downstairs to Křižík's pavilions.Parking for cars is accessible in the expo are for 200 CZK per night / or in public parkings (which are not marked as blue zone).
Any original festival costumes (which will not offend people around you) are welcome! You are also allowed to take masks, signs, banners and flags to support your country or performers. Imagination Festival does not require any dresscode.
Visitors younger than 18 years old are allowed to enter the festival. It's prohibited to serve the alcohol to the minors.
Official afterparty will take place in Prague's Storm Club next day at 9 PM.
We wish you great party and the best party experience in the heart of Europe!


Elon trustee emeritus Elmon T. Gray, 86, a Virginia political and business leader, died Sept. 27 at his home in Richmond, Va.
Elmon T. Gray, a leader in the lumber and banking industries and philanthropist, served on the Elon Board of Trustees from 1990-1999 before being named trustee emeritus. He served five terms in the Virginia Senate from 1972-1992, following in the footsteps of his father, Garland Gray, who retired from the state Senate in 1971 after 29 years in the legislature.
Gray of Waverly, Va., and his wife, Pamela, made a major gift to name the Ella Darden and Elmon Lee Gray Pavilion in honor of his grandparents. The pavilion, which houses the political science department and the Elon University Polling Center, opened in 2004.
Both Elmon T. Gray and Garland Gray were conservative Democrats — loyalists of the late U.S. Sen. Harry F. Byrd Sr., D-Va. — and both considered running for governor.
Elmon Gray's heavily rural district included Prince George, Surry and Sussex counties, a part of Chesterfield County and the cities of Colonial Heights, Hopewell and Petersburg, a former tobacco center whose once-rundown Italianate high school was transformed into one of the jewels of Mr. Gray's many philanthropies: the Appomattox Regional Governor's School for the Arts and Technology.
In retirement, Gray keenly followed politics and lamented the sharply divided legislature's inability to agree on long-term financing for roads and rails. Gray also was active in a family-led development project in eastern Henrico County.
Gray was chairman of the Senate Education and Health Committee and also served on the transportation and commerce and labor committees, assignments to which he brought his expertise in manufacturing and land development.
U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., a former governor, said Gray "helped build and sustain Southside's economy over a generation."
As a senator, Mr. Gray won protections for gasoline retailers threatened with the loss of their franchises by big oil companies. He was an advocate for the trucking industry, which hauled to market the bounty of rural Virginia, including timber raised and cut by Gray-owned companies.
Gray's business interests occasionally paralleled his sports passion: horseracing. He was a member of a consortium of investors who worked unsuccessfully to persuade the state to locate a horse track in Hampton Roads after Virginians approved pari-mutuel racing in 1988.
Gray was a Navy veteran of World War II, interrupting his studies at VMI to serve on minesweepers in the South Pacific. He was a member of several corporate boards, including those of Universal Leaf Tobacco and the former Virginia Electric and Power Co., now Dominion Resources.
Gray was preceded in death by his wife of 62 years, Pamela. Survivors include a daughter, Katharine Taylor Gray of Richmond; two sons, Garland Gray II of Williamsburg and Bruce Burnside Gray of Richmond; two sisters, Mary Wingate Gray Stettinius of Richmond and Agnes Elizabeth Gray Duff of Fredericksburg; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
A graveside service for Senator Gray will be private; however, there will be a memorial service on Tuesday, Oct. 11 in the Virginia Military Chapel at 2 p.m.


Is your "smart meter" spying on you?
NBCnews.com has reported that a "smart meter" can function as an in-home spy system. In an article titled "Smart meters can be used to spy on private homes" the reporter described how researchers discovered that a German "smart meter" company (Discovergy) transmitted unencrypted data over an insecure link.
The researchers were able to intercept this data, which provided sufficient information to be able to track what was going on in a household in terms of what appliance was in use at what time. The data was so detailed that they could even determine what TV programme people were watching.


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Q: Creating a Managed Metadata column using CSOM I have a list in SP2010, it has a managed metadata column, I need to migrate list to SP2013 and also managed metadata column should be created. I have referenced
[https://karinebosch.wordpress.com/my-articles/creating-fields-using-csom/][1]
[https://blog.mastykarz.nl/programmatically-creating-site-columns-content-types-app-model/][1]
I have used the below code,it does not show any error but also the column is not getting created.
if (field.TypeAsString == "TaxonomyFieldType")
                                {
                                    Guid termStoreId =  Guid.Empty;
                                    Guid termSetId = Guid.Empty;

                                    GetTaxonomyFieldInfo(srcContext, out termStoreId, out termSetId);
                                    TaxonomyField taxonomyField = srcContext.CastTo<TaxonomyField>(field);
                                    taxonomyField.SspId = termStoreId;
                                    taxonomyField.TermSetId = termSetId;
                                    taxonomyField.TargetTemplate = String.Empty;
                                    taxonomyField.AnchorId = Guid.Empty;
                                    taxonomyField.Update();
                                    srcContext.ExecuteQuery();

                                    string fieldSchema = "<Field Type='" + field.FieldTypeKind + "' DisplayName='" + field.Title + "' Name='" + field.InternalName + "' Hidden='" + field.Hidden + "'/>";
                                    targetcollField.AddFieldAsXml(fieldSchema, true, AddFieldOptions.AddToDefaultContentType);
                                    targetContext.Load(targetcollField);
                                    srcFieldCollections.Add(field);

                                }

private void GetTaxonomyFieldInfo(ClientContext clientContext, out Guid termStoreId, out Guid termSetId)
        {
            termStoreId = Guid.Empty;
            termSetId = Guid.Empty;

            TaxonomySession session = TaxonomySession.GetTaxonomySession(clientContext);
            TermStore termStore = session.GetDefaultSiteCollectionTermStore();

            TermSetCollection termSets = termStore.GetTermSetsByName("ABC", 1033);

            clientContext.Load(termSets, tsc => tsc.Include(ts => ts.Id));
            clientContext.Load(termStore, ts => ts.Id);
            clientContext.ExecuteQuery();

            termStoreId = termStore.Id;
            termSetId = termSets.FirstOrDefault().Id;
        }

A: Try it as below:
if (field.TypeAsString == "TaxonomyFieldType")
{
    Guid termStoreId =  Guid.Empty;
    Guid termSetId = Guid.Empty;

    GetTaxonomyFieldInfo(srcContext, out termStoreId, out termSetId);

    string fieldSchema = "<Field Type='" + field.FieldTypeKind + "' DisplayName='" + field.Title + "' Name='" + field.InternalName + "' Hidden='" + field.Hidden + "'/>";
    targetcollField.AddFieldAsXml(fieldSchema, true, AddFieldOptions.AddToDefaultContentType);
    targetContext.Load(targetcollField);
    srcFieldCollections.Add(field);

    TaxonomyField taxonomyField = srcContext.CastTo<TaxonomyField>(field);
    taxonomyField.SspId = termStoreId;
    taxonomyField.TermSetId = termSetId;
    taxonomyField.TargetTemplate = String.Empty;
    taxonomyField.AnchorId = Guid.Empty;
    taxonomyField.Update();
    srcContext.ExecuteQuery();

}

private void GetTaxonomyFieldInfo(ClientContext clientContext, out Guid termStoreId, out Guid termSetId)
{
    termStoreId = Guid.Empty;
    termSetId = Guid.Empty;

    TaxonomySession session = TaxonomySession.GetTaxonomySession(clientContext);
    TermStore termStore = session.GetDefaultSiteCollectionTermStore();

    TermSetCollection termSets = termStore.GetTermSetsByName("ABC", 1033);

    clientContext.Load(termSets, tsc => tsc.Include(ts => ts.Id));
    clientContext.Load(termStore, ts => ts.Id);
    clientContext.ExecuteQuery();

    termStoreId = termStore.Id;
    termSetId = termSets.FirstOrDefault().Id;
}


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Fax2World Print Expert is managed by Windows as an ordinary printer. That means that after you install the program, you wouldn't see *.exe file you can launch. Instead of this you'll find a new printer called Fax2World Print Expert in your printers folder. Then using it is very simple - in any program with printing support press print button and select printer "Fax2World Print Expert".
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Home Windows What is the most secure VPN to use right now?
What is the most secure VPN to use right now?
Shashank Jain
We live in a world where cyber threats are on the rise; we risk our private information being leaked, being denied information or resources on the bias of our nationality, our social media activities being illegally monitored and being stalked by cybercriminals.
As the world becomes tech-evolved and the benefits of the internet become near to limitless, so does the price we have to pay for our online presence. So how do we protect ourselves, access geographically restricted content and mask our online activities from prying eyes?
The answer is VPN or Virtual Private Network. A VPN works by connecting one's device with another device thereby allowing the user to browse the internet through the connection of the other device. With a Virtual Private Network, you can surf the internet fearlessly by retaining the privacy of your personal details.
Below are 5 of the best and most trustworthy VPNs available in market
1. Cyber Ghost:
Cyber Ghost is a multi-platform VPN. Primarily, it offers users privacy while online and also internet traffic security. Founded in 2004; this VPN company is the first company to generate a transparency report from 2011. But the highlighting feature of the CyberGhost VPN is the fact that the company offers friendly chat and email support services. Features of CyberGhost VPN include:
● Runs with Netflix and BBC iPlayer
● Offers unlimited and secure torrenting
● Has a huge list of servers to choose from
● Provides access to restricted content
● Blocks ads and malware
● No logs
● Protects personal information
2. I Vanish VPN:
Based in the United States of America, IPVanish VPN was first created in 2012. Currently, this VPN offers a lot of attractive features, especially that it allows up to 10 services to be connected at the same time. IPVanish VPN helps to hide the user's IP address whilst encrypting all the data that was transferred via the VPN connection. IPVanish VPN offers the following features:
● Ensures an ad-free internet browsing experience
● Provides the most secure and extremely fast connections
● Allows access to content that was restricted due to geography
● Works on various operating systems, ranging from Windows to Android to iOS to Ubuntu and even Chrome.
● Can help generate a reduced cost for international calls
3. PureVPN:
Owned by GZ Systems Ltd. that was founded in 2007. The company is based in Hong Kong. Its only disadvantage is that it cannot access Netflix. But it does offer a quick and reliable internet connection. Its features include:
● Consists of more than 2000 servers from 141 countries
● Offers unlimited data transfer
● Allows speedy change of server in case of sudden crowds in server
● Offers 24-hour live chat support
● Is easy to use
● Allows for split tunnelling
4 NordVPN:
The best part about NordVPN is that it can be used on almost all platforms (Android, Windows, Linux, iOS, and macOS). According to an audit by the PricewaterhouseCoopers, NordVPN does not log its users data. NordVPN is the first official cybersecurity partner of Liverpool F.C., since November 2018. Below are the features of NordVPN:
● Easy to use and easy to understand
● Has the largest number of servers to choose from
● Little or zero buffering
● Works along with Netflix and BBC iPlayer
● Easy to change servers, while using, in case the server suddenly becomes crowded
● Able to connect up to 6 pictures with one account
5. ExpressVPN:
ExpressVPN is a virtual private network service that was created 10 years ago (2009). It was given the title 'Editor's Choice' in 2018 by TechRadar and Comparitech. ExpressVPN primarily offers internet privacy and security. It can run on multiple operating systems and has more than 3000 servers in 160 plus geographic locations. It has the following features:
● Works with Netflix, HBO, BBC iPlayer and much more
● Offers unlimited and private P2P/torrenting
● Is very easy to use
● Is very fast and has powerful encryption
● Offers 24/7 live chat support, just in case
● Does not keep logs of the user's activities
● Offers very less buffering
● Is cost-effective Each of the above VPN services has its own set of merits and demerits. Among all NordVPN tops the chart, all thanks to the incredible features. Based on your need, you can opt for the best VPN.
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