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A Hont-Pázmány nemzetség ősei, Kézai Simon szerint, Hont (Hunt) és Pázmány (Patzmann) testvérek, akik Svábföldről mint páncélos vitézek Szicíliába indultak, Géza fejedelem azonban feltartóztatta őket.

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Ők az első megtelepedett lovagok és nekik jutott az a tisztesség, hogy a Esztergomban lovaggá üssék Szent Istvánt. Valószínűbb azonban, hogy 983-ban telepedtek le Magyarországon, amikor II. Ottó császár halála eltérítette őket attól a szándékuktól, hogy Szicíliában a szaracénok ellen harcoljanak. Más vélemény szerint Gizella királyné kíséretében érkeztek Magyarországra 996-ban. A Koppány vezér ellen vívott csatában Szent István király oldalán, királyi testőrként harcoltak.

A Hont nemzetség ősi javai Esztergom és Hont megyében voltak. Egy 1135. évi oklevél szerint Szent István király a Duna mellett, annak bal partján, Csenke faluban Hont ispán számára állatok legeltetésére, a pásztoroknak pedig földművelésre 20 ekényi földet adott. Hont fia, Bény a Garam folyó mellett jutott szintén István király adományából 10 eke földhöz, kaszálóhoz és berekhez, amit – az adományos nevéről – Bénynek neveztek. Ugyancsak István király adta a szintén e nemzetségbe tartozó Lampert ispánnak Egyházmarótot és Palatnyát.

A Képes krónika szerint:
"A HONT ÉS PÁZMÁN NEMZETSÉGE."
"Azon napokban jött be Hont és Pázmán is, kik Szent István királyt a Garan vizében német szokás szerint karddal körülövezték....."

".....Szent István király pedig, összehíván előkelőit, Szent Márton hitvalló közbenjárása által az isteni irgalom segedelméért esedezék, azután pedig összegyűjtvén seregét ellensége elébe vonúla, és a Garan vize mellett övezteték föl elsőben karddal, holott is két fejedelmet tőn testőreivé, Hontot és Pázmánt; egész serege fejévé és vezérévé pedig német nemzetbeli vendégét Venczellint tevé."

A Hont-Pázmány nemzetségbeli Lampert comeshez maga Szent László király adja nőül testvérhúgát nem kevés hozománnyal együtt. Lampert sok királyt szolgált. 1124-31 között Lampert ispán második nejével, Zsófiával és fiával, Miklóssal együtt bencés monostort alapított Bozókon. II. (vak) Béla király uralkodását trónkövetelő nehezíti. Könyves Kálmán második feleségének, az orosz Eufémiának fia, Borisz támadt a király ellen. Kálmán hűtlenség miatt taszította el második feleségét. (Az Árpád-házban több ilyen eset nem fordult elő.) Az asszony 1114-ben, Kijevben szülte meg Boriszt, akit Kálmán nem ismert el fiának. 1132-ben II.(vak)Béla és Borisz közt a döntő összecsapás a Sajó-parton zajlott. A király a döntő ütközet előtt választ követelt minden fő-emberétől, hogy fattyú-e Borisz. Mindenkit megöletett a helyszínen, aki nem minősítette fattyúnak a trónkövetelőt, vagy habozott. Lampertet is így ölték meg (testvére volt gyilkosa), tölgyfából faragott kemény székkel verték szét a fejét. Miklós nevű fiát is orvul megölték. 1135-ben II. Béla király összeíratta a monostor javait és népeit. 1180-1181-ben a monostort a premontrei kanonokok kapták meg.

Az együtt nevezett Hont-Pázmány nemzetségnek csak 1206-tól (??) van okleveles nyoma, amikor II. András Sándor comes főpohárnoknak ajándékozta a Pozsony vármegyei Csütörtökhelyet. Sándornak Sebös volt a testvére, kivel apjuk, Tamás nyitrai comes halála után 1216-ban az örökségen megosztozott. Sándor 300 márka fejében már 1217-ben lemondott tisztségéről. 1253. március 13-án. IV. Béla Ivánka fiának, Andrásnak – aki őt 1241-ben a muhi csatában lovával megajándékozta – Gímes egy részét adta a másik részt már 1226-ban szerezte meg Ivánka mester, András apja. A tatárok elleni harcukat többször említik az oklevelek.

1266-ban Mária királyné Pozsegában azért ad jószágot Mikének, mert apja, Mihály, 1266-ban orosz fogságba került. 1271-ben Joakimot V. István a csehek elleni háborúban szerzett érdemeiért megjutalmazta. Ivánka fiát, banai Andrást pedig Erzsébet idősebb királyné 1274-ben azért ajándékozta meg, mert a fogságban is hű maradt hozzá. A nemzetség ugyanekkor kapta Drégely földjét, amelyet 1285-ben már mint várat említenek. 1287-ben Ábrahám fia, Tamás, az esztergomi érsekség jószágait pusztította, amiért 3000 márkát követelt tőle az esztergomi érsek. 1292 és 1295 között a Hont-Pázmányok ismét pusztították az érsekséget.

Az Árpád-ház kihalása utáni zavaros időszakban a nemzetség több tagja bizonyítottan Károly Róbert hívéül szegődött. Így például részt vettek a rozgonyi csatában:
 a Gömör vármegyei Hanván birtokos Hontpaznan nembeli István fiai és

 az Abaúj vármegyei Forrón birtokos Aladár fia Jakab, aki el is esett a harcban.

A nemzetséget az 1494-ig terjedő oklevelek többnyire birtokszerzései miatt említik. A róluk nevezett Hontban, valamint Arad, Bihar, Borsod, Gömör, Nyitra, Pozsony, Ugocsa stb. vármegyékben 1206 és 1494 között összesen 281 birtokuk volt. Ebből a nemzetségből váltak ki az osgyáni Bakos, Jánoky, Vajday, Szuhay, Födémesy, rahói és szuhai Jákóffy, Rákay, velezdi Kövér (kiknek birtokai, házasság révén a felsővadászi Rákóczi-családhoz kerültek.) ghymesi és gácsi Forgách, klopotivai Pogány, Szent-Györgyi és Bazini, Cseklészy, Batthyány, palotai Czibak, Esztáry, Mindszenti, Peterdy, Fancsikay, Ujhelyi, Bánky, mátyfalvi Zovárdffy, petri Dersfy, Csalomjai, Kővári (később: Kováry/Kóváry), Cseklészi (akik közül Bökénynek 1260-ban III. Béla király unokája, Erzsébet lett a felesége), Keszy/Kőkeszi, leszenyei Czakó, Lázár, bucsányi Bucsányi családok, kik közül különösen a Szent-Györgyi és Bazini grófok, valamint a ghymesi és gácsi Forgách grófok játszottak nagy szerepet Magyarország történelmében.

A nemzetség ágai

A Hont-Pázmány nemzetség lakóhely szerint osztályozott ágai a következők:

I. Hont megyei ágak:

a) Bozóky-ág
b) Bényi-ág
c) Csalomjai-ág
d) Födémesi-ág

II. Nyitra megyei ágak:

e) Forgách-ág
f) Szegi ág
g) Garadnai-Pogány-ág
h) Szentgyörgyi-Cseklészi-ág

III. Bihar-Szabolcsi ágak:

i) Czibak-Batthyány-ág
j) Újhelyi-ág
k) Panaszi-Pázmány-ág
l) Besztercei-ág

Jegyzetek

Források

 Dr.Karácsonyi János: A magyar nemzetségek a XIV. század közepéig. I-III. Budapest, 1900-1904
 Bártfai Szabó László 1910: A Hunt-Paznan nemzetségbeli Forgách-család története. Budapest. (rec. Bagyary Simon, Arch. Ért. 1911, 278-283.)
 A reprint kiadvány (1995 ill. 2004) Csoma József: Magyar Nemzetségi Czimerek 1904-ben irt munkájával lett bővítve.  Nap Kiadó, Budapest

Kapcsolódó szócikkek

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További információk
 Csoma József 1890: Vajday György czímerlevele és a Hunt-Pázmán nemzetség czímere. Turul 8, 112-120.
 Lukačka, J. 2013: The Estates of Hont-Poznan Kindred South of the Drava River. In: Slovakia and Croatia I. Bratislava/ Zagreb, 152-157.
 Lukačka, J.: K otázke etnického pôvodu veľmožského rodu Hont-Poznanovcov. Forum Historiae.
 Juraj Hodál 1946: Pôvod, sídla a hodnosť predkov rodu Hunt-Pázmány. Historický zborník 4, 136-164.
 Tomáš Sitár 2017: Magister Pavol z Kolár.

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In 1960, the province responded to public concern over the loss of precious and non-renewable archaeological resources by passing the Archaeological and Historic Sites Protection Act (AHSPA). That legislation provided automatic protection for archaeological sites on Crown land and, where designated, protection for such sites on private land. In 1977, the Heritage Conservation Act replaced the AHSPA, introducing new heritage programs such as the BC Heritage Trust, and extending the legislated protection of archaeological sites on private land, without requiring formal designation.
All provinces in Canada have similar legislation for protecting heritage resources, along with most countries worldwide.
What is an "archaeological site"?
An archaeological site is a location where there is evidence of past human activity. We can apply archaeological analysis to these sites in order to learn about past events and our own heritage.
Archaeological sites can include things such as ancient stone carvings, remains of ancient houses and campsites, shell middens and even culturally modified trees.
Archaeological sites represent only one component of a range of heritage resources found throughout the province, including things like historic buildings, shipwrecks, heritage trails, etc.
In British Columbia, these sites provide information about aboriginal life during the last 12,000 years, and non-aboriginal life for the past 200 years.
Why should we protect archaeological sites?
Archaeological sites represent our only link to over 98% of the province's human history.
They are a precious non-renewable resource.
Archaeological sites and their artifacts are important provincial resources similar to mineral deposits, arable land, forests, fish and wildlife.
How are archaeological sites determined?
In most instances, archaeologists discover and record information on sites and their locations, and pass that information on to the Archaeology Branch.
Archaeologists require a permit from the Archaeology Branch in order to conduct this kind of work, so no government-authorized archaeological work can proceed on private property without the landowner's knowledge.
Some sites – such as those with petroglyphs — may be easily determined by non-archaeologists.
Information submitted to the Archaeology Branch is entered into the Provincial Heritage Inventory. The Inventory is a recording system that depends on submitted information. It also includes information on many other kinds of heritage sites.
Archaeology Branch staff often receive informal information on possible sites from interested members of the public, who generally will not have an authorized work permit. They also sometimes get reports from archaeologists who are using existing information to make projections on site boundaries. That's how information can be received and become part of the Heritage Inventory without the express knowledge of the property owner.
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How can I find out if there is a known archaeological site on my property?
Consult with local government. Municipalities and Regional District offices have information on the locations of known archaeological sites within their jurisdiction. These offices are usually the first stop when obtaining a building permit or development permit.
Approach the archaeology branch . In-person inquiries are welcome during business hours, property owners are also encouraged to access information via the Branch's Web site. Phone or fax inquiries are also welcome.
Depending on the complexity of the request, the Archaeology Branch will respond as quickly as possible.
Why isn't information on archaeological sites available on land titles?
On the surface making this information available on land titles seems like an easy answer – but it's not that simple.
The vast majority of records within the provincial heritage registry do not contain enough information to identify individual private properties.
We are currently exploring the feasibility of including archaeological information on land titles.
What do I do if there is a known archaeological site on my property and I would like to make property improvements or renovations?
You need to contact the Archaeology Branch: 250-953-3334.
The Archaeology Branch will be able to provide you with advice and guidance on how to proceed in a fashion that will avoid or minimize damage to the archaeological site.
That advice may include a recommendation to engage a professional archaeologist to conduct an assessment of your property.
Is it true my property value will plummet if an archaeological site is identified on my property?
No. There is no hard evidence that having an archaeological site on your property will significantly reduce its value. In fact in many cases, properties have been developed and/or sold with the full knowledge of the presence of an archaeological site.
Having an archaeological site on your property may restrict some development options, but no more so than if there were a salmon bearing stream on the property, or if the lot fell under a restrictive zoning bylaw.
Will I be fined if I accidentally come across a potential archaeological site while building?
The purpose of the Heritage Conservation Act is to encourage and facilitate the protection and conservation of our heritage, not to prosecute property owners.
Fines can only be levied by a court, following formal, legal prosecution.
What is an archaeological impact assessment?
An archaeological impact assessment, like an environmental impact assessment, is a process where a trained professional looks at the archaeological site and your development plans.
A professional archaeologist can determine what impact the proposed renovations or improvements will have on the archaeological site.
The impact assessment report and recommendations will provide the Archaeology Branch with the necessary information to work with you in order to complete your project.
Why does a property owner or developer bear the cost of an impact assessment?
Archaeological sites have remained intact for hundreds and even thousands of years, and can remain intact unless they're disturbed. Development has the potential to disturb and damage these sites – which is something we want to avoid.
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Sorry, but I have to disagree with you on this one, and instead agree with the Libertarian Party.
Libertarian National Committee backs "measured" anti-terrorist response
The following statement was adopted by the Libertarian National Committee at its meeting in Atlanta, Georgia on October 14, 2001:
On Sunday, October 7, the United States launched military action against Osama bin Laden, the terrorist believed to be responsible for the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The U.S. military also struck military bases controlled by the Taliban regime of Afghanistan, which has sheltered and reportedly assisted bin Laden.
While the Libertarian Party has been a consistent voice against reckless foreign interventionism by the U.S. government, we support action against the perpetrators responsible for the terrorist attacks. The vicious and barbaric attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, which bin Laden allegedly masterminded, cost 5,000 innocent Americans their lives. Such horrific crimes cannot go unpunished.
A fundamental role of the United States government, as defined in the U.S. Constitution, is to protect American citizens against foreign attack. Therefore, it is proper for the government to take forceful action against terrorists who have already killed thousands of Americans, and who have threatened to kill more. Such criminals must be rooted out and destroyed before more innocent people die. Their training camps and weapons must be eliminated. Their supply infrastructure must be shattered.
At the same time, the United States' response must be appropriate and measured. Every precaution must be taken to minimize injury or death to innocent civilians and non-combatants -- in Afghanistan and in other nations. To do otherwise is not only a violation of America's ideals, it would also create future enemies for our nation and continue the cycle of violence and revenge.
We also call on the United States government to publicly reveal the evidence that conclusively links bin Laden and his terrorist network to the September 11 terrorist attacks. While much circumstantial evidence is available, and while bin Laden has made statements condoning the September 11 attacks, the U.S. government has an obligation to conclusively demonstrate that he is guilty of mass murder. Such evidence would not only help swing world opinion firmly behind the United States' actions, it would make a clear and compelling case that justice is being served by the recent military actions.
The Libertarian Party must take a more cautious stance about the military attacks on Afghanistan's Taliban government. Yes, there is considerable evidence that this totalitarian regime has aided bin Laden, and, yes, it refuses to assist the U.S. government in bringing bin Laden to justice. But it is a sovereign nation, and a military strike against it is an act of war. According to Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, only the United States Congress has the power to declare war.
If military action against the government of Afghanistan is indeed appropriate, then the U.S. Congress should establish this by debating and passing an official declaration of war. Such an action would make the attack constitutionally legitimate, and protect the vital separation of powers upon which this nation's government was founded.
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9 Powerful Business Uses For Tablet Computers
From the warehouse to the sales floor, see how companies creatively use iPads and other tablets to save time and money, sell more, and delight customers. Tablets may even find a home on garbage trucks.
There are now three hardware platforms for personal business computing: PCs, smartphones, and tablets. The tablet's still a newcomer, but the iPad's popularity kicked off a wave of experiments in companies to learn where tablets can make employees more efficient or customers happier. Many IT shops are in the test-and-learn phase, with a dozen iPads here or a handful of Android tablets there. "CIOs are playing dodgeball when it comes to the use of tablets," says Kevin Hart, CEO of Tekserve, an Apple reseller. "The requests for these are coming from all over."
One use for tablets is for companies to put them in the hands of their customers, which is what Royal Caribbean is doing on its most recently remodeled cruise ship. Here we're not talking about creating a tablet app for customers, but actually giving them a device to use. A related customer use is encouraging tablet use while they're at your venue, whether it's a resort, baseball game, restaurant, or retail store.
Royal Caribbean this month will put iPads in every stateroom of its revitalized Splendour of the Seas cruise ship. Guests can check daily activities on the ship, book shore excursions, and receive personalized promotions from Royal Caribbean, based on analytics the company runs in real time during a cruise. Royal Caribbean has used interactive TVs to provide that kind of information, but iPads are a more intuitive and enjoyable way for guests to receive it, says CIO Bill Martin.
Giving tablets to customers (or encouraging their use) will be a difficult decision for many companies--do they enhance the experience, or distract from it? Some restaurants are experimenting with tablets in place of menus. That could come off as exciting and new--or tacky and out of place, depending on the venue. Even the question of whether to encourage customers to use their own iPads stirs debate. Sports stadiums are divided on whether to allow customers to bring tablets to a game--baseball's New York Yankees stadium bans them, while the San Francisco Giants' AT&T Park provides free Wi-Fi. Giving customers a tablet, or encouraging their use, is a high-stakes call for companies.
2012 is the year companies will make big go or no-go decisions about these tablet pilot tests, to decide if a device designed for the consumer will work in businesses. Early adopters already are deploying tablets by the hundreds to sales teams. Waste Management hopes to decide this year if Android tablets are practical for use in the cabs of its 20,000-some garbage trucks.
What follows is a look at ways early adopters are putting tablets to use. (See our coverage of what tablet early adopters are learning.) This isn't about various iPad apps, nor is it about general purpose productivity, like checking email and documents. This is about putting tablets in the hands of employees and customers for specific purposes, and deciding where that makes business sense and where it doesn't, from sales to warehouses to boardrooms.
Jellico1969,
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Speaking as a minority, an IT professional, and someone with an MBA, I don't find her attire unprofessional, and I didn't even notice until you pointed it out. It occurs to me that the biggest problem faced by minorities (and likely women, though I can't speak to that extent) in IT, and indeed in general, is self-righteousness masquerading as championing minority issues.
cybrz,
Mr Murphy. The photo associated with this article "9 Powerful Business Uses For Tablet Computers" plays into preconceived stereotypes of Minorities and Women involved in Technology. This is very sad.... :-( Why is the only minority in this photo dressed unprofessionally (low cut blouse and high skirt)??


Omego C. Thomas, age 88, passed away Saturday, April 7, 2018 at Arbors at Delaware in Delaware, Ohio. Preceded in death by parents: Noah and Virga Thomas; siblings: Odean C. Thomas, Marie Hines, Alma Gillenwater, David Thomas, Freeman O. Thomas and Mary E.Thomas. Survived by wife, Linnie Thomas; daughters: Delores (Patrick) Riggs of Palm Coast, Florida and Rita Hartung of Delaware, Ohio; siblings: Cleo M. Dull, Freddy B. Thomas and Wanda Thomson; grandchildren: Jennifer (Mark) Peterson, Melissa (Richard) Ackison and Sarah (Thad) Rusmisel; grandson, Robert Hartung Jr.; 11 great grandchildren; many nieces, nephews and great nieces and nephews; Brother and sister-in-laws: Mary Jones, Alvin Gilley, Lorainne Brown, Bessie Brown, Jerry & Dolores Gilley and Jean Pendigraff. Omego was a long time member of the East Mission Church in Delaware, Ohio and a lifetime member of the Oakland Conservation Club in Marengo, Ohio. He spent many weekends and summers outside with the club and his family. Omego loved spending time with his family and friends and will be dearly missed. Arrangements completed at Jerry Spears Funeral Home with Crematory, 2693 West Broad St. Celebration of Life Service will be held Wednesday, April 11. Calling hours 11am-12pm, with service at 12pm at The Eastside Mission Church 32 Joy Ave. Delaware, OH 43015 (740) 369-0057. A small luncheon will be served after. Flowers will be accepted at the church or in lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the church.


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2016 pattern, improved and re-cut for the 7th Beijing International Art Biennale. On exhibit September 24th through October15th, 2017 at the National Art Museum of China, NO.1 Wusi Avenue, Dongcheng District Beijing, China. The work will then stay in Beijing as part of permanent collection.


The growth of the live cell imaging market is attributed to the adoption of high-content screening techniques in drug discovery, the rising prevalence of chronic disease demanding higher and quicker diagnostic facilities, and government funding for cell-based research.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), chronic disease is expected to increase by 57% by 2020. Increased demand for healthcare systems, due to the prevalence of chronic diseases, has become a major concern. Also, increasing age and lifestyle-related chronic diseases are increasing the healthcare demand and spending. In developing markets, cancer and heart diseases are becoming the main causes of death, owing to urbanization, sedentary lifestyles, changing diets, rising obesity levels, and widespread availability of tobacco products. As per WHO, China and India currently have the world's highest number of diabetes sufferers; more than 98 million and 65 million individuals, respectively. Thus, due to the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, there is a high demand for medical devices that enable early detection and quick diagnosis, which could prove to be particularly impactful.
Furthermore, government initiatives are also supporting cell-based research. For instance, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) is offering a new funding opportunity to small businesses that are focused on assays and high-throughput screening. Thus, all these efforts are expected to augment the growth of the market over the forecast period.
As per the scope of this report, live cell imaging techniques allow the real-time examination of every aspect of cellular function under normal and experimental examinations.
The equipment segment held the maximum share in 2018. They include microscopes, cell analyzers, image capturing systems, and standalone systems. Recent technological advancements in microscopes have augmented the growth of the market. For instance, inverted research grade microscope has supported imaging of adherent cells and organelles and yield results for tissue sections of less than 5 um thickness. The overall industry trend is shifting toward automation, integration of systems, and maximizing data generation from microscopes. The increasing use of live cell imaging among cell biologists to understand the fundamental nature of the cell function and structure has resulted in the aforementioned shift.
North America dominated the market share in 2018. The generous investment and funding available for research in live cell imaging is the key driver in this region. Also, in 2016, the Government of Canada announced the funding to support the Canada Research Chairs Program. This fund was a part of total funding of worth more than USD 164 million that was allocated for infrastructure. Projects on cell imaging in plant development, which are untaken by the McGill University, are also included in this program.
The live cell imaging market consists of several major players, including Becton, Dickinson and Company, Carl Zeiss, and Leica Microsystems, among many others. The companies are implementing certain strategic initiatives, such as mergers, new product launches, acquisitions, and partnerships that help them in strengthening their market position. For instance, in March 2018, Nikon Corporation released a new product new N-SIM S Super-Resolution Microscope, which enables super-solution imaging of live cells at 10 times greater than the speed of conventional structured illumination microscopy (SIM).
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When the Labo was announced, I was excited. I've been a Nintendo fanboy for some time, so I was pumped to see what the Japanese games company had created and put it through its paces.
But, I couldn't, because Nintendo wouldn't send me one.
Now, this needs a bit of context. TNW is an international publication and we have millions of readers across the globe, the majority of which are in the US, India, and UK – which makes sense, as we write in English.
Yet, sense isn't exactly what the PR industry always relies on. As our headquarters are in Amsterdam, we're viewed as a Benelux publication, despite the fact we don't write in Dutch, French, or Luxembourgish. Now, in these markets, we don't get the same number of visitors because, you know, people tend to read things in their own language. The heathens.
So, when it came to Nintendo sending me a Labo, its UK division passed me over to its Netherlands branch which was, well, not too keen.
Well, that's not gonna stop me, Nintendo. Momma didn't raise a quitter.
I receive a lot of products to review (check our Stories on Instagram) and you know what they get sent in? Cardboard. And, at the end of the day, what's a Labo? You got it: cardboard. Well, and a Switch console, but let's not split hairs here.
Logically, there was only one solution: I had to make my own Labo. A better, purer, more brilliant device that doesn't even need some new-fangled, fancy bit of touchscreen, and mobile technology to work.
Just watch me, Nintendo, watch me. I'm coming for your revenue.
Like with everything in this wild world, the key for this new bit of kit's success is all in the branding. And, as I'm not narcissistic in the slightest, it had to include my name.
So, drum roll please, can everyone welcome the Labooth into the world.
Branding complete, I then had to decide what to actually make, so I went and checked out some of Nintendo's # c o n t e n t.
There were a lot of options, but I had to pick three that covered the widest consumer base, otherwise how would I ever knock Nintendo off its perch?
So, I went for the piano (for all the arty folks), the fishing rod (for the outdoorsy types) and the robot suit (for the megalomaniacs). Humanity in a nutshell.
Now it was time to do the damn thing.
With the piano and fishing rod being the simplest to construct, those were the first elements of the Labooth to be breathed into existence.
You wouldn't get better craftmanship in the 'factories' the Labo is (probably) made in.
Check out that hot cardboard shaft. Who needs a screen or a game with points when you have the pure unadulterated pleasure of dipping some cardboard in water?
Now, I've never actually been fishing before, but I have read The Old Man And The Sea, which I feel makes me more qualified than anyone who has dangled bait from a boat.
Man, this machine was slick. How well it work? Let's put it this way, I'm not going to have to buy a tin of sardines to smear on my toast tonight. Score.
Not even a competition. Firstly, the "official" one from Nintendo is too small, how are two hands going to fit on there? Secondly, physical keys break. They get all clogged up with grease, bodily fluids, and are strangely susceptible to marmalades.
There are none of those issues with our design. Using the latest technological advancements in marker pen, imagination, and an inflated sense of self-worth, we surpassed Nintendo's paltry attempt at a piano.
The ball's in your court, Nintendo.
Nah. We don't play like that at TNW. We can do better.
Oh. Hell. Yeah. Let's take another gander.
We all know it's not just the suit that attracts people to the Nintendo robot – it's the games you play. On the non-Labooth version, you spend time destroying a virtual world. Honestly, Nintendo? Really? That's a pretty negative message to be sending.
Instead, the Labooth robot suit is here for enjoyment of everyone. It has a basic, understated, and subtle purpose: to improve and change every aspect of life, so you can be a better person. Something it does with aplomb.
Try doing that with a Switch and a Labo. Oh wait, you can't. Hard luck, bud.
If, for some weird reason, you'd rather just buy a regular Nintendo Labo, you can take your treacherous self over here for the variety kit or here for the robot. You can do the same with the Switch.
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Visa Röster - grupa szwedzkich wokalistów, wykonująca a cappella utwory jazzowe i tradycyjne pieśni szwedzkie, najbardziej znana z interpretacji muzyki z gier komputerowych z komputera Commodore 64.

Muzycy
 Sofia Åberg (sopran)
 Karin Öjehagen (sopran)
 Hanna Kappelin (sopran)
 Elsa Persson (alt)
 Pex Tufvesson (tenor)
 Johannes Lindén (bas)

Dyskografia
 *** Commodore 64 *** Vocally (2004)
 Vokalmusik på svenska (2005)
 A cappella in Swedish (2005)
 READY. Vocally too (2005)

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The Chicago Bears are about to enter the most difficult part of their 2018 schedule. It features three-straight divisional games including two within 80 hours of each other. It's a stretch that can make or break a young football team. It starts this Sunday against the Detroit Lions, a team the Bears have beaten once in their last 10 meetings.
That has to change if they want to make the playoffs this year. It's not going to be easy. The Lions have some really good players on their roster. One of whom has become somewhat of a major thorn in the side of the Bears the past couple of years. That's Pro Bowl cornerback Darius Slay.
He almost single-handedly denied Chicago a victory in Detroit late last year when he intercepted Mitch Trubisky twice. The guy gives them problems. That's why it's a big deal that he's been M.I.A from Lions practices this week. According to Nate Atkins of MLive, he has sat out his second-in-a-row with a knee injury that has bothered him for over a week.
Darius Slay (knee) and T.J. Lang (neck) both missed #Lions practice again. We'll see how banged-up the rest of the team is with the injury report.
Slay did play in the previous game against Minnesota. He even had an interception in the game. However, the fact he's not practicing after being limited most of the previous week suggests he may have aggravated the injury further. Detroit may be trying to get him as much rest as possible to keep him reserved for the game but no work at all suggests he's in a lot of pain.
This is not good news at all for their defense. Their pass defense, currently 4th in the NFL is one of the few things keeping their team afloat right now. At 3-5 they're clinging to a thin lifeline. If Slay goes down, it could expose them in a big way. Especially with the Bears getting Allen Robinson back healthy.
This is a game the Bears know they have to win, but more important know they can win. They've played every opponent on the schedule tough to this point and are 11 points away from being undefeated. They have no reason to fear the Lions anymore, with or without Slay on the field. Still, if he's not out there it will be a big advantage they can look to exploit.
It worth noting one thing. Quarterbacks have a 100+ passer rating against all the Lions cornerbacks who have played this year. That includes Slay.


I got this tray at Goodwill for $2.99. Cute enough but needs some love. So after spray painting it two coats of basic black, I decided I wanted to mod podge something funky on it.
It gives it a funky, vintage, side of a barn look, doesn't it?
And all for $2.99!! You can do this too because I guarantee that most Goodwill's in the USA right now have one or two wooden trays sitting in the wooden craft aisle. So easy and really cute. I was originally going to put magazines in this thing but it is so cute I don't want to cover it up.
Thanks! It makes me happy to get this kind of feedback!


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essays on policing – status update – initiation of work
In a few days I will celebrate my 65th birthday. I became a German police officer in the detective branch at the age of 18. Almost 44 years later, in January 2020, I was up for mandatory retirement. About half of these four decades I rose through the ranks of a national Police in Germany. The other half I spent abroad, in senior headquarter and field positions of the United Nations and the European Union. In these functions of UN peacekeeping and peacebuilding, and EU crisis management, policing always was a cornerstone of my work. In my current work as an adviser contracted by the German Federal Foreign Office, policing is an important element within a larger and holistic framework of support action, too.
So, 45 years of policing experience. Related to work in Germany, South-East and East Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, the Carribean. Living in many places in Germany, and in Belgrade, Brussels, New York, Pristina, Sarajevo.
In my article "Seeing Deeper" I reflected on my personal experience with the fundamental shifts, including within the international peace&security architecture, over those two decades of my contribution to it. Of course, the historical timelines which are preceding the colossal changes of these days, they go way back. Some of those I witnessed in a national capacity, some during my international time. Events like, for example, the fall of the Berlin wall, or 9/11, they are examples for moments that we associate with being triggers for fundamental shifts. Sometimes they are. Sometimes they are just the coordinates in space-time where the underlying energies pop up with explosive momentum. Much later, through an analysis of United Nations peacekeeping, I would revisit the bigger picture in which some of these key events played a role, where they had an impact on what I was involved in at that time, the role of policing in peace operations. I have written about some specific aspects related to what we call "international policing" here.
Over those more than 23 years within an international context of peace&security, I witnessed times when there was a lot of enthusiasm about what policing could contribute to supporting peace processes. Policing, done right, is a key component for supporting processes towards lasting peace, and reconciliation. Therefore, support to the establishment of capable policing, deeply anchored in values and international principles and standards, can be a key enabler for lasting peace, and so much more. Think, for example, gender equality, protection of the vulnerable, protection of minorities, ensuring democratic forms of governance, contributing to justice, and in its very core, promoting human rights.
Because of the many years of my own involvement, I witnessed success and failure. The reasons for it are highly complex. Some sit with grappling to understand and to properly implement policing assistance. Some reasons sit way beyond and made it challenging for all actors with military, police, or civilian tasks, to deliver on what they were expected to. On the policing side, where some of my core experience sits, it includes that we, the so-called international community, struggled with making these policing contributions relevant. Sometimes our collective proverbial mouth was not where our money was. Sometimes the political design of international assistance in or after a conflict or war struggled with applying coherence to expectations, objectives and their implementation, either narrowly speaking for what policing could bring to the table, or related to the respective peace operation at large. When we were successful, we had to see that good news stories rarely stick, they are unfortunately not as visible as their bad-news-siblings. At the same time we saw the political development leading to the erosion of the peace&security architecture into its current deplorable state of affairs. This made it more and more difficult for any form of collective international assistance to prove its positive impact.
We now live in a period where a discussion about policing may feel very counter-intuitive compared to the huge focus on military engagement. Just recently, I argued that in my personal opinion it is time to make a decision to provide the Ukraine with heavy battle tanks. That's not policing. What I am concerned with is to contribute to a discussion in which we do not loose sight about which ingredients are vital for a peaceful society, and that we include lessons from the past into how we want to move forward in a world in which previous rules of engagement may increasingly become outdated.
"essays on policing" is offering a thematically focused window into my work. My writing about my experiences with policing is not motivated by "setting a record straight about a past long gone". It is not about a sad look back into the "good old times". It is not about giving advice with an attitude.
It is about incentivizing a quest in order to find contributions to contemporary challenges, and there is no other way than also to make reference to how we did, and failed, or succeeded, during previous challenges. We can learn only by looking into the past, without getting stuck in it.
I feel the best format for doing this is to choose the writing format of essays. This format allows me to find a balance between solid research and truthful facts, and the inevitable personal and subjective element which forms an essential for my contribution. To some extent it will be a walk on the memoir side of things, but thematically grouped. It won't be a linear historical account of my work experiences. I will jump back and forth, weaving a narrative for how I came to look at specific things from a vantage point of own experiences, good and bad. It hopefully allows me to stay humble. As I said, it is less about advice and more about storytelling within an ongoing discourse in which we all struggle to find meaningful ways forward, keeping us all together.
"essays on policing" is part of a larger set of writing projects. I have ideas for "essays on peace&security", for "essays on trauma&reconciliation". In all of them, there is a deep professional and a deep personal element of experience. Looking at the statistics of this blog, some of the articles which create the most, and the most longstanding interest, are about policing. It feels natural, therefore, to start here.
My plan is that this set of essays is forming a book. As a book, I do not plan to publish it here. I do not even know whether I go for self-publishing, or whether I find a publisher. I am not motivated by profit, but I won't do it for free either. This is going to be intense work, and a lot of time and effort will go into it.
I plan to regularly update you on the project, here on this blog. Once the structure and the outline of planned content is presented here, my thoughts about how I want to publish, and how you could purchase the book, in case you're interested, will become clear.
I am inviting you to participate. Please do so by sending me a mail: stefanfeller@mac.com.
Proceeds will go into the future of my youngest children. It will be a tiny part of my efforts to make up for time lost, because of my work, and to make good on where I failed to be sufficiently available for them, for reasons which only include my work, but go far beyond. But that will deserve a closer look within "essays on trauma&reconciliation".
I am working on a dedicated page on this site where you track progress, and where I will describe the content of essays. Meanwhile, my writing here will continue to go all over the place.
The Reason For Storytelling: If You and I Don't, Only Others Do – On Gaslighting Taken To a Global Level
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"Around 1 percent of U.S. veterans of World War II remain alive to tell their stories. It is estimated that by the end of this decade, fewer than 10,000 will be left. The vast majority of Americans today are unused to enduring hardship for foreign policy choices, let alone the loss of life and wealth that direct conflict with China or Russia would bring."
In a Guest Essay in the New York Times, titled "World War III Begins With Forgetting", Stephen Wertheim made this point. I can relate.
Like: The fewer people remember, and talk about, the Holocaust and the horrifying evil done to the world by the Nazis and Adolf Hitler, the more it becomes, at least, possible to mystify and to glorify it, and using the most ridiculous of all arguments. Like Kanye West, who now goes by the name Ye. "The Hill" is just bearer of one of countless reports about an interview which he, accompanied by Nick Fuentes, one of the most atrocious racists of recent times, managed to place in a show hosted by the likewise awful racist and xenophobist Alex Jones. Old stuff. Except that the use of social media bullhorns and supporting media is taking it to new levels. Because, whether it is ridiculous or not to praise the architect of the Holocaust wrongly as the guy who invented highways, or the microphone, it does not matter. I have heard arguments like that from my late father in law of my second marriage, more than thirty years ago. There were no Social Media by then. Today, the matter is to get a radical message out, upping the ante, on a path to mainstreaming a "truth" which is not only unsupported by any evidence, but also suppressing any historical truth about what happened. My stomach would turn upside down when I would even quote what Ye said. But wherever on whichever dubious platform, such as Alex Jones', such outrageous comments are made, within hours the message is also spread through any mainstream media. One side of them glorifying it, the other side vilifying it. For those intents and purposes behind the message itself, both work out very well.
Before I get to the gaslighting argument, upping even this ante, two other examples for why storytelling is so necessary, and which danger sits with when witnesses of horrifying events pass away in numbers: The older the Mothers of Srebenica get, the less can be done against the minimising narrative related to the horror of the Srebrenica genocide. I met the Mothers often, and I truly admire their relentless sticking to telling their stories of a genocide. This is not a function of their healing when they repeat to tell their stories. It is a sacrifice, for the good of keeping a memory alive as a cautionary tale. One day I took my visiting father with me. They are so kind, they offered him coffee and spoke with him just because he was an interested human being. No other intent, no benefit for them. My father cried and cried. Until today, more than twenty years later, he talks about the deep impact of his visiting them.
The same holds true for the genocide in Rwanda, and in uncounted other situations. The more people grow up who have no direct memory of what happened in Germany, in Bosnia&Hercegovina, in Rwanda, in Cambodia, in Stalin's Russia, during the brutal McCarthyism and under Jim Crow in the United States, or in the Armenian genocide, or else, the less the voices of those can be mitigated who minimise, refute, deny. If context is not there, nothing describes the extent of atrocious behavior against the Uighurs, the suffering of minorities in Myanmar, and I need to end with "and and and", because the list is so long.
Storytelling is a social function which can not be replaced by the noise on Social Media. Quite to the contrary, storytelling is one of the needed antidotes against the devastating effect which unhinged Social Media has. Because even the function of Social Media is subject to a gaslighting narrative, putting an unrestrained version of Twitter, for example, into a manipulative context of an alleged support of free speech, whilst the ulterior motive only is to make profit, and to increase own control.
By the way, I believe that there is a reason for why Number 45, since his account got reinstated by Elon, has not used this account ever since: Not only that this would take away from his own bullhorn (Truth Social), he does not need to use his old Twitter account, and can chose smartly when that time would be there. Simply because the message that his account got reinstated is already enough for gaining even more "followers". These "followers" likely rise in numbers directly on "Truth Social", and on connected accounts including on Twitter, as a direct consequence of the reinstatement.
When I grew up, "Followers" was used as a term for people following a certain religious or spiritual belief system. I still object against the manipulative use of terms such as "Friend" or "Follower" on social media. That's why, in this tiny world of "Durabile", my blog, I don't care about how few people "follow" my blog here. What I care about is that the day before yesterday this blog surpassed the threshold of 10.000 reads within those 120 posts since 2014. It just tells me that my storytelling is a tiny contribution to the overall need of telling stories.
Because there is no absolute truth, and no objective truth, as I pointed out here. Now, I am quoting myself from that blog post: QUOTE "Truth as a means of control. Number 45 did this on countless occasions, and more recently he is hard-pressed by people who are attempting to establish even more radical forms of white supremacy, xenophobia, racism, and anti-semitism. Read in The Rolling Stone: "How Trump Got Trolled by a Couple of Fascists". UNQUOTE
I wrote this post December 01. Four days before writing this post. At that time, I found the analysis relevant which is reflected in the article in "The Rollingstone". Meaning, that Ye, Fuentes and likeminded people were on a path pressing Nr 45 into even more radical messages.
What happened since? In a few statements including on Truth Social, Nr. 45 did what we saw on many occasions when there was an uproar: He minimised. Distracted. Sold ambigous messages. Allowed messages that he wasn't aware. That he did not know Fuentes.
I have no personal doubt that all this is part of the MO. Because, as always, the next attack is even more extreme. Meanwhile, inasmuch as I love Jimmy Kimmel, he and other well-minded Late Night Comedy hosts find themselves in the trap that each of their shows ridiculing Nr 45 helps him.
Which is what I want to end with here, today: I just read a story in the British BBC: Under the headline "Trump's call for 'end' of constitution condemned by Democrats", BBC is reporting on a message from Number 45 on his platform "Truth Social". According to this report, the White House condemned former President Trump after he called for the termination of the U.S. constitution. I quote from BBC: QUOTE In the post, Mr Trump referred to vague allegations of "massive & widespread fraud and deception" and asked whether he should be immediately returned to power. "A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great 'Founders' did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!" he said. UNQUOTE Setting parts of the text in bold letters is done by me, not by BBC.
I can't wait watching Jimmy Kimmel ridiculing Nr 45, but I mourn those months when he and others managed to find comedy topics which would not contribute to antagonism, by condemning it. May be I'll write Jimmy's staff an email.
This is unprecedented in contemporary history as I remember it. Since 2016 there is a history of statements in this blog concluding that it is getting worse before it gets better. But a former President of the United States fighting an accuse, possibly an indictment, for inciting sedition by establishing a narrative that is ripping down the foundations of the U.S. Constitution, this is unheard of.
There is a clause in the German Constitution sometimes named the "Stauffenberg clause": "Gegen Jeden, der es unternimmt, diese Ordnung zu beseitigen, haben alle Deutschen das Recht auf Widerstand". Or, in my translation: "Against anyone who is undertaking to remove this constitutional order, all Germans have the right to resist." It can be found in Article 20, I grew up with, it's part of my DNA and part of my pride. It's one of the defining differences between today's German Constitution and it's predecessor before the Nazis demolished it: The Weimar Constitution. It is meant as a pillar, albeit, perhaps symbolic, in efforts to robustly protect a constitution from enemies within. Sometimes during 2016 I referred to it in discussions with friends on the U.S. Constitution. Then, with tears in my eyes, I played the song "Kristallnaach", by the famous German Rockband BAP.
So, one of my hypothetical thoughts is about whether there will be people on the far-right in Germany who think about how to establish a narrative that the German constitutional order is subject to removal from within, by justifying their resistance in saying that the government and the establishment is the enemy of what the Forefathers, the Founders of our Constitution, meant. This is not far-fetched, and it is the same logic.
We have come this far in an approach of extremists in removing the foundations of contemporary democracies, and the rule of law. A few years ago, I would not have believed that one day I would read a report such as the one here on BBC. This has become the new normal, one and a half years before the next battle on presidential elections will begin, in 2024. So, my question is: What's next, if this has already become the new normal now.
Of course, this question includes where those on the Republican side are, and which legal, ethical, and moral, responsibility they assume, by openly or tacitly condoning such a development. That, on one hand, is part of domestic politics in the U.S. in which I am only an external bystander. But over here, in Europe, we fight the same fight. And we are affected by what is happening "over there". And vice versa.
We are in this together, only. There is no space for claiming "that's not my business", or for complacency. Each day, we are waking up with new worse news than before.
So, why all this under the headline "Storytelling"?
One of my next blog entries will talk about one of my recent books reads, "Dopamine Nation", by Dr. Anna Lembke. Full quote of the book in my next article. But here is the connection: Within a universe of contemporary addictive sources of Dopamine release through substance and behavioral abuse, one key problem sits with Social Media. I will also refer to the challenges one of my children has with the addictive suffering using Tic Toc.
I believe we can not use Social Media for the kind of storytelling I mean in this blog. For many reasons which I will try to explain there. But for starters, Social Media does not support peaceful fact-based storytelling implicitly through it's algorhythms. I have own examples, including this blog, or my Youtube channel. I stay away from inciting or upsetting messages and their promotion, as a consequence, nowhere in the suggestion lists of these sites any of my writing or my videos will come up.
There is a need not only to regulate Social Media, but also to devise strategies how storytelling remains a vital democratic and humble function of our societies and cultures. Storytelling is inherently local, or topological. It is unsensational, and personal. Peaceful, mindful, truthful, honest, personal storytelling. No rambling, no yelling involved.
I hope that I adhere to my own standards, here.
"With The Help of Social Media Memories Can Be Erased" – Considerations on the Relativity of Truth
May 14, 2022 May 15, 2022 / stefanfeller / Leave a comment
Preface: I read the interview with Maria Ressa (see below) and began to express my thoughts about social media manipulation during a few days in Bucharest. It turned out not to be an easy-going process, I was struggling with something that I now identify as the question "Can I find an objective truth?" In a way this felt to me like an extension of my thinking which I began with Part 1 – 3 grappling with aspects of "perception".
The following travel to Toronto, including some severe jetlag, didn't help me feeling comfortable with the results of my thought processes, so I let the issue lingering in my drafts folder. Now, with some rest and witnessing a beautiful spring morning in Ontario, I'll try it again.
What is truth?
Maria Ressa has been awarded the Nobel Price for Peace in 2021, together with Dmitry Muratov, for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace. Her journalist work is including 20 years as a correspondent and investigative reporter. The title of this blog entry includes a quote from her.
12.02.2022, the German online portal of the news broadcast "Tagesthemen" carried an interview with Maria Ressa on occasion of the Philippine Presidential elections. The elections were won by Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos jr., son of the late Dictator Ferdinand Marcos sr., who ruled the country between 1965 and 1986, until he was finally ousted. Together with his family and his cronies, he stands for decades of authoritarian reign, massive corruption, and reckless brutality. The family fled their country with an estimated 10bn USD. A good summary on occasion of the 2022 elections can be found in this BBC piece.
For context: The outgoing President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte leaves a reign of shame for history, too. Most remembered will be the wave of extra-judicial killings with which he allowed the Police to mutate into a murderous gang, killing scores of people, pretending that a strong-armed fight against drug kings would necessitate this and that there would not be a need for due judicial process. I remember U.S. President Nr. 45 speaking admirably of Duterte. Which in itself does not make Duterte a likeable person, Nr 45 also fell in love with North-Korea's dictator, and, well, his docile relationship with Vladimir Putin will never be forgotten either. Pied pipers.
The core message of Maria Ressa in this German article is that memories of decades of history can be erased, if social media is masterfully used. Not only that memory can be changed, that alternate versions of the same historical events can be created, no, Ressa says that corporate memories can be erased by social media manipulation. Disinformation campaigns on an industrial scale allow that, according to her. The BBC article quoted above would also indicate a manipulation aiming at changing the perception of history by "Bongbong" and associates for at least the last ten years.
Of course, an interview shortened for the digestion of the general public can not provide the same evidence as academic research would do. But for my thoughts it appears to be enough to rely both on the journalistic ethics behind two renowned public broadcasters and on the fact that a credible investigative journalist won the World's most prestigious award.
The past years have established a large body of evidence that social media is used systematically for manipulation of public opinion on a gargantuan scale. Many will remember the impact of such activities in the run-up of U.S. presidential elections, 2016. The litany of actual examples would be too long to read. December 2020 I wrote about one example, explaining a NATO study on aspects of this topic.
The case of the Philippine Presidential elections is frightening. Bongbong Marcos has won in a landslide election, not by a margin. No need for Bongbong even to prepare for challenging an election as being manipulated, and to contest it. According to Ressa, Bongbong's victory is based on a manipulation of the electorate on an industrial scale. On lies that create a narrative of Ferdinand Marcos sr. being a hero, the greatest leader of the Philippine Nation ever, and that his son, if he will win the elections, will give the money back to the poor. We will see whether he will do that. My experience would tell me that chances are slim if the whole election is already based on an epic manipulation of historical reality.
The overwhelming victory appears, strictly speaking by counting the votes, sound. Yet, the manipulation sits straight in front of our eyes: Democracy has been defeated with a never-ending stream of content on social media re-branding the image of the Marcos' family. Phillipinos were told that the dictatorial regime was a golden age, free of crime. Which is pretty much the opposite of what is on historical record.
But, is there something like one common repository of historical records? That's what I am struggling with here: Is there something like an objective truth?
In an Address to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin on January 27th, 1921 on Geometry and Experience, Albert Einstein elaborates on the relationship between the laws of mathematics and reality: "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." (Project Gutenberg eBooks, "Sidelights on Relativity", EBook #7333).
In the case of historical truths I would transfrom this sentence into "As far as a historical record refers to reality, it is not certain; and as far as such a record is certain, it does not refer to reality."
This leaves many people very confused. In my belonging to a group of people, I do establish and participate in a historical context about what happened which is based on a common framework through which the members of this group identify. If the framework is very different between two or several different groups of people, their interpretation of what happened in the past can have little or no common grounds. And always when two or several different explanations clash in a discourse, we try to identify an objective yardstick against which we construct our argument why we believe we hold the truth. And we fail on agreeing on the same yardstick, the same objective measuring rod. The results can include so many divergent views, like two different groups entirely disagreeing on whether historical events were constituting a genocide, or not. The result being that the shared reality of such different groups differs in so fundamental ways that coexistence is the best option, always with the threat of violent discourse looming.
There is nothing new in the above. The new aspect, insofar as my writing goes, relates to the claim that systematic social media manipulation can entirely change the public record of history. Again, the past is filled with examples how systematic disinformation campaigns can establish new perceived realities within a group. Being a German national, I like to refer to disinformation campaigns undertaken by the ilk surrounding Hitler. Goebbels for sure is an example of masterful application of deceit and the use of manipulation in order to control the German populace.
But is there something new stemming from the ubiquity of social media of these days? If the general method of manipulation through disinformation is a tool which has been used for millenia in order to control populations for the benefit of a ruling elite, what is the new dimension which comes from social media?
Maria Ressa, in that "Tagesthemen" interview, also refers to the manipulation machine used by Russia in relation to the situation on the Krim, and in the Ukraine: She claims that the first step is about oppression, and the second step is about extinguishing memory. Based upon the experiences she has made in her home country, the Phillipines, she anticipates the same method being utilised in the context of Russias intent to aggressively usurp the Ukraine. She claims that social media have the effect to divide and to radicalise. Thus, she challenges the argument that social media is a tool vital for guaranteeing the freedom of speech. Instead of being used to allow free speech, according to her the algorithms used by Twitter, FaceBook, Tic Toc, and so many more, they make sure that priority will be given to content which is distributed broadly, preferably even virally. Of course, this is the ad-driven business-model behind social media enterprises. According to Ressa, therefore the distribution of facts will always loose against the distribution of lies, hate, and resentment. Drowning the news related to factual reporting, Ressa then states that the result is an entire loss of a shared reality.
The yardstick of a common historical record has unalterably changed, the division has been established, power can be exerted by controlling the perceived reality. Ressa makes the case for a global threat for values including democracy, but she also hints at, perhaps in my view, the biggest threat of our contemporary times: That we will disagree about the climate crisis as a consequence of global warming.
Which is, probably, on top of the list of global challenges which require a joint reality framework holding true for all people and nations on this globe.
As so often, I have no simple answer. Because there simply is no simple answer at all. We tend to simplify, and to go to extremes. Which always amplifies the problem once a complex system is brought out of its previous delicate state of balance, whilst we do not know how to create a new balance, instead of the entire system collapsing.
So, who is right? Maria Ressa with claiming that social media has the potential to destroy realities, and the underlying framework allowing for democracy, or Elon Musk, who has repeatedly tweeted that taking Nr 45 off Twitter has been one of the biggest mistakes, and that this is all about guaranteeing the freedom of speech?
I am still navigating through the depths of this question, and personal consequences. Should I maintain my Twitter account (which is a microscopic grain of sand in the Twitterverse) once Musk owns Twitter? What I know is that I would be extremely careful about listening to a person who happens to be the richest person in the world, who is able to just buy a social media firm in a snap, take it off from the stock market in order to make the changes of his liking, and then to put it back on the stock market. Why should I trust somebody who has one single intention: Using things for a business model based on profitmaking? Why should I believe that a statement about freedom of opinion is unbiased, if the motivation behind is purely enterprise-driven, and the methodology being used is taking every single accountability mechanism offline?
Also not new. But for me, the new thing is that one person has the potential to make a decision that has global implications on a level unheard of in history, whilst any mechanisms of public accountability appear to be on national level, and to some extent on a level of international organisations, but where the credibility of these international organisations is under massive systematic attack.
I will tell you if I stay on Twitter.
Justice Being Served
In my writing on the general theme of my blog – Peace & Security, Trauma & Reconciliation – I often attempt to create a conduit from the impact of personal trauma towards the effects which it has on the scale of communities, or societies. You can find some comprehensive thoughts on this in my articles on (1) the impact of trauma on individuals, (2) the trauma of children in conflict and war, and (3) the impact of trauma on communities and societies ravaged by conflict and war.
On occasion of a few other articles I have also mentioned that this is not only academic writing, but that my own processing of personal trauma is entangled with this process. It is a source of personal experience, a source of strong personal motivation, but also a source of profoundly subjective views. Objective viewpoints, entirely separating the observer from the observed, they are impossible, not only in quantum mechanics. From quantum physics we know that in literally no aspect of examining and explaining the world the observer can be separated from the observed. In human sciences we know this, of course, too. The knowledge about this fact is forcing me to always step back and critically examine my own attempts to come up with the best shot at how I try to make sense of this world.
One morning end of January 2022 I woke up after a good nights sleep. I managed to keep my busy thoughts silent during the first minutes, enjoying my morning routine of making the first coffee, feeding my cat, and beginning my day with a little mindfulness exercise. It worked pretty well, I began my day in calmness.
After which I went into my morning routine of reading the news, over my second coffee. This story showed up on my screen: "DR Congo court sentences 51 in trial over 2017 murder of UN experts", from the French news agency France24. A few minutes later, my balanced approach towards the day, a Sunday morning, was over. I had to sit down and to understand why I was feeling complex emotions, and a strong nausea in my stomach. Over the years I have learned to better understand these signs of a traumatic reaction. In such a situation I try to sit still and to embrace this reaction in a gentle way, instead of mentally running away from it.
There are reasons why I reacted so strongly. I am connected to this story. I was involved in attempts from United Nations Headquarters' in New York to deal with this horrific murder. I had privileged sight on videos taken by some of the perpetrators, documenting the last minutes and seconds before and when these U.N. experts were killed. I was involved in efforts investigating this situation, and such involvement happened on so many other awful occasions before in my line of work: My more than two decades of international work include a huge amount of personal trauma I have happily piled up. I do know that this leads to a mechanism called re-enactment. I am re-enacting my own previous trauma. My work on this since many years has given me tools with which I can mitigate the effects.
I remember those days in 2017 with all diplomatic efforts on highest levels conveying the message that we, the international community of humanitarians, peacekeepers, diplomats, expected justice being served. I remember my boss of that time, a United Nations Undersecretary General, reporting to us after he returned from a field visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo. He had left the message with Congolese politicians that "this will not go away easily", that it requires a sustained effort to bring the perpetrators to justice.
I also remember that I assessed the chances for justice being served under extraordinary circumstances as being slim. I contributed to our efforts assisting investigative authorities, sending own forensic experts working in my Division, helping Congolese investigators and prosecutors. Over time, hopes of seeing this crime being solved and perpetrators being sentenced, it faded. Until I saw this story, end of January 2022, give or take five years after the brutal murder act.
02 May 2022, I am working on a set of texts which I will partially or entirely publish here, depending on whether the statements in these texts have a connection to my general theme of this blog (see above). In this context, I am working on explaining why, in my experience, there is literally no memory of any situation I have been in which does not have links to the emotions I felt at the time of the event. One hypothesis I am following in this context is that these emotions can de-link from the events which caused them. As "emotional memories" with no connection to an event causing them, they "linger around", come up when triggered, influencing my emotional and cognitive setup. This, I suspect, is especially true in situations when I am exposed to what we call "trauma".
Which would explain the feeling of grave nausea when I read the article about Congolese authorities sentencing 51 individuals connected to that murder which I, like many other events in my professional career, can not forget.
My next blog article will include thoughts on the inseparability of emotions and perceptions, communication, and memory. It will be pretty methodical, I hope I can make that one an interesting read.
In this view, this draft article which I found unfinished when opening my WordPress editor, it is a teaser on more general observations to come.
But I'm ending here by stating that justice can be served, and like here, it may contribute to my healing. As a matter of fact, it does. I must continue to believe in this, and whilst I have no sight on how professional the investigation and application of the legal process by Congolese authorities has been, or whether there was negligence, faultiness, or willful instrumentalisation of legal due process, I must believe that justice is possible as a concept, and as a part of reality, and that hopefully the real perpetrators have been sentenced.
There are new atrocities happening in 2022. As happened all those years in between, whether in Myanmar, Afghanistan, now the Ukraine, in so many places in the Middle East and Africa, and elsewhere. I must continue to believe in the possibility of individual and collective justice, otherwise there are only new wounds, but no healing, and no scars.
Waking Up in a New World?
April 18, 2022 / stefanfeller / Leave a comment
Some have suggested that we woke up in a new world February 24, 2022, when Russia began its invasion into Ukraine. Not the first time that I heard that, and by far not limited to September 11, 2001.
Some have suggested that we will forever remember where we were when the news about the Russian war machine attacking the Ukraine broke. Not the first time I heard sentences like these either, and beyond September 11, 2001 there are quite a few terrible events which will ever stay connected to memories where I was at that specific moment in time.
Of course, there is symbolism in sentences like these. There are strong emotions connected to them. But did we really wake up in something entirely new, entirely surprising, after Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation oversaw the reckless and brutal invasion of a sovereign State? After yet another rambling speech filled with alleged historical grief, fake justifications, malicious lies, and mind-blowing threats against all those who would stand in his way, including reminding us all of military nuclear capabilities at his command?
Fear, anger, rage and resentment, the feeling of being powerless need to be processed. When such feelings are affecting decision-making, results can be catastrophic. But which frameworks guide us? Science? Religion? Value-based secular concepts including human rights, the rule of law, democratic values? Pragmatism and the power of economics, and capitalism? The pure selfishness of autocracies, xenophobia, chauvinism, fascism? The conflicts surfacing over the past years are happening within a context of chaotic competition and fierce fight between these frameworks, some of which are conceptual, some of which are pure expressions of the wish to rule and to dominate. From that vantage point, the war against the Ukraine has not marked a waking-up in a new world. It is a new element in a line of events which we can see unfolding over the past many years.
In reality, the war in the Ukraine marks another severe attack against existing value systems which we got used to, and often took for granted, since the end of World War II. We seem to live in a cauldron with boiling ingredients. Little we know what will dissolve, and what will emerge, or whether the whole thing explodes.
Today, April 18, some of us celebrate Easter Monday. Others will celebrate Easter a little later. Other's won't at all, observing different symbolic events within the systems of belief and faith which they are connected to. I have read articles where authors argued why globalisation is coming to an end, and I have read articles reasoning the opposite. Which common perspective can we give to our children, holding true for all of us, notwithstanding our faith, or being agnostics, notwithstanding our cultural and historical affiliations?
Over the course of the past weeks much happened. The war against the Ukraine turned into a horror story of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and bottomless individual suffering. The world is in shock, witnessing human suffering and atrocities which European soil has not seen in decades.
By the way, Europe hasnt' seen this, other parts of the world have seen a lot of it. Just saying, with my light-blue United Nations' beret on.
Newsfeeds are still filled with the pandemic, but since a little while I notice that those plastic shields disappeared from counters in my grocery store, that bus lines carry people increasingly not wearing a mask, subtly making those who still do a minority.
Between February 28 and today, I traveled to Bucharest in Romania from Belgrade in Serbia, flew to Toronto in Canada, returned to Bucharest and Belgrade, traveled to Bavaria in Germany and from there to Sarajewo in Bosnia&Herzegovina. After a few days in Belgrade again, I am now celebrating the spring weather during an extended weekend in my campervan in East Croatia. With the ubiquitous Internet, I can do my work from everywhere. With my bank card I can pay for my groceries anywhere without the need of physical local currency. My digital equipment allows me to be in constant contact with those in my life who I love. A highly sophisticated set of two state-of-the-art batteries allows me to be entirely autonomous, "off-grid". My solar panels on the roof refill the batteries after a few hours of daylight. Meanwhile, all along this journey, a set of highly calibrated vaccine shots kept Covid-19 at bay, being the result of incredible bio-science. In due course of almost two weeks, daily rapid-tests, offered for free in Bavaria, allowed me to visit my father in the hospital without endangering him, or others. Just an effort of fifteen minutes, a printed result, no significant effort at all. High-tech breathing masks did their magic, too.
Literally every aspect of my life benefits from cutting edge science, including quantum physics driving my batteries, solar panels, computer equipment, smartphones. The practical application of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity allows me to use a global system of satellites and to punch the coordinates of the grocery store in Vukovar, Croatia, into Google Maps and to start my trip from Belgrade without even one single worry. The extent to which this almost incomprehensible science drives literally every aspect of our lifes today, it is mindblowing.
The same science is being used in precision-bombs, missile-defence systems, in conventional and nuclear components of warfare. It is being used within an information warfare for misinformation and spreading lies. In extremis, people who believe the world is flat and populated by a bunch of necrophiles and child molestors keeping us in captivity, people who attack science as a means of subjugation, they use smartphones for spreading this ugly mess.
Natural science like physics, chemistry, mathematics appears to be limited to being a tool being capable to help us in finding answers how we shape the present and the future of our world from an ethical, or moral imperative.
I don't want to ramble about religion, out of a deep respect in that people believe in their faiths. But if religion is being used for praying for my soldiers, keeping them out of harms way and victorious, if prayers are being used to ask for the enemy being destroyed, isn't that just an extension of Janis Joplin's song "Dear God, please buy me a Mercedes Benz"? Crimes against humanity have been/are being committed under the flag of all great and minor religions that ever existed in this world. What does this mean for the billions of human beings who seek moral and ethical guidance in their daily lifes? Religion, claiming to have universal and eternal answers for fundamentals of why we are, and why we are here, is unable to provide those answers, like science is unable to. But religion always was a powerful tool for societal control. Where does this leave me in this cauldron?
When I began writing this blog entry, I was driven by questions which I had after I finished reading the book "Six Impossible Things – The Mystery Of The Quantum World" by John Gribbin (eBook, you can look it up under https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewBook?id=1521733116 ). Since roughly a hundred years now, we are using highly precise mathematics of quantum physics without which none of the technological or pharmaceutical or other medical achievements would be possible. But the book is one of those which take me on a rollercoaster of entirely incomprehensible phenomena of nature on its smallest scale. John Gribbin attempts to describe the six major attempts to come to terms with why nature is producing these results. But until now, we only know how to calculate the math, but we have no idea why everything is, as it is.
That's when I began to think about what a book like this one means to somebody who has never had an interest in understanding the quantum and the cosmological scale of the world. I am torturing my fascinated brain with this since I have been a young boy. But, meaning no disrespect, most people I am meeting would simply shut down after attempting to read one page of this book. Yet, they will use smartphones for spreading their beliefs why the world is as it is, including being highly critical to science itself. There are great pieces of Science Fiction attempting to describe this contradiction, most recently I watched examples of this in "The Foundation" series on Apple+.
But ultimately, I am sitting here on an Easter Monday morning, confronted with the eternal question how all this makes sense in a world which, despite of all technological achievements, and despite a track record of 3.500 years of humanity finding peaceful answers to life questions, we still kill each other, rape each other, hate each other, dominate each other, subjugate each other, control each other.
So, this blog piece is ending with an answer solely applicable to me: My own actions and decisions matter, and there is no way how I can think of making my decisions and actions contingent on those of others. The childish blamegame "But the others have begun", that argument which I used when my parents scolded me for a fight with my brothers, I have seen it to a ridiculous extent including by former U.S. President Nr 45, by autocrats, and other pied pipers.
Think. Act responsible. Feel compassion. Start with yourself.


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Steve Hargadon replied Sep 5, 2007 to Panel Topic #4: Are the formal structures of education changing because of online learning, and what roles can Web 2.0 software play in those changes?
"Well, I have to wonder how much of this is the result of there not being a really co…"
Steve Hargadon replied Sep 5, 2007 to Panel Topic #5: Technology decision-making in schools: The divide between IT and the classroom, and why is it so hard to implement new technologies in education?
"Great stuff. I like Dr. Muir's solution."
"Yes, certainly the conversations I am having with my kids about the uses of technolo…"
Steve Hargadon replied Sep 5, 2007 to Panel Topic #8: Publicly shared lives: how transparent should students lives be, and is it appropriate for students to be "clickable?"
"Michael: So, I know that we are probably talking about "Google ad" kind of stuff in…"
Steve Hargadon replied Sep 5, 2007 to Panel Topic #6: How much commercialization should be allowed in the classroom and in the school?
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The Northern Echo revives title last published in 1986
Newsquest-owned The Northern Echo has announced the revival of a newspaper last published in 1986.
The Despatch will be relaunched tomorrow as a "part-paid, part-free" weekly in Darlington and towns across south west Durham, including Bishop Auckland, Spennymoor, Newton Aycliffe and Willington.
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The first edition of the new Despatch
The title had run as a daily before being withdrawn in April 1986.
Editor Andy Richardson said: "In their heyday free papers were the go-to place for advertisers looking to connect with a local audience. But the days when a copy of the Advertiser was posted through every letterbox in the area has become a thing of the past - the numbers simply do not add up.
"Businesses wishing to promote their goods and services to local people are turning to a wide range of media, with digital and online platforms increasingly important, and newspapers are only part of the mix."
The Despatch will be delivered free to about 10,000 homes, and will be available from retailers for 30p.
"Readers and advertisers tell us that they still value good quality newspapers and that is why we have launched the new Despatch," added Richardson.
"It is a bright, modern-looking newspaper packed with news, views, and pictures. It will be very community-focussed, so this will be chance to feature local events, from fundraisers to fun-runs, as well as give local people a platform to share their views, and showcase success stories from schools, businesses and sports clubs in the area."
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FC Rohožník (celým názvem: Football Club Rohožník) je slovenský fotbalový klub, který sídlí v obci Rohožník. Založen byl v roce 1919. Od sezóny 2014/15 působí ve třetí fotbalové lize, sk. Bratislava..

Své domácí zápasy odehrává na stadionu FC Rohožník s kapacitou 1 100 diváků.

Historické názvy

Zdroj:

 1919 – založení
 TJ Rohožník (Telovýchovná jednota Rohožník)
 FC Rohožník (Football Club Rohožník)

Umístění v jednotlivých sezonách

Stručný přehled

Zdroj:

 1997–1999: 5. liga
 1999–2004: 4. liga  – sk. B
 2012–2014: Majstrovstvá regiónu
 2014–: 3. liga – sk. Bratislava

Jednotlivé ročníky

Zdroj:

Legenda: Z – zápasy, V – výhry, R – remízy, P – porážky, VG – vstřelené góly, OG – obdržené góly, +/− – rozdíl skóre, B – body, červené podbarvení – sestup, zelené podbarvení – postup, fialové podbarvení – reorganizace, změna skupiny či soutěže

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Externí odkazy

 Oficiální stránky
 Profil klubu na futbalnet.sk

Slovenské fotbalové kluby
Fotbalové kluby založené v roce 1919


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