No, you can purchase tickets on the day. But we would suggest you still book online to take advantage of our great ticket offers and to save you time queuing on the day for tickets. As when you purchase a ticket online we will email you an E-ticket which you can get scanned at the turnstiles avoiding unnecessary queuing.
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Please join us on Tuesday, April 16, 2019 for a talk by Dace Dzenovska of the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society; Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, the University of Oxford. This event is part of the Occasional Series and is sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia.
In the 1990s, the global victory of liberalism as the blueprint for organizing economic and political life seemed certain. Today it no longer does. Governing elites in Western liberal democracies are concerned about risks posed by a variety of "illiberal populisms." Transnational coalitions involving Eastern European nationalists and North Atlantic strategists warn that the "international liberal order" is under threat from Russia. And academics are calling for reflection on liberalism's political failures.
Drawing on ethnographic research on tolerance promotion in Latvia, Dr. Dzenovska argues that these debates fail to consider the specific contours of the "actually existing" political liberalism. Post-Cold War liberalism as a historical formation comes into view most clearly in liberalism's missionary encounters with people thought to have lost their way as a result of living under "actually existing socialism." These encounters show the underlying tensions of political liberalism, such as the need to draw boundaries around liberal democratic polities while emphasizing the virtues of inclusion, openness, and tolerance. Ultimately, they reveal the actually existing post-Cold War liberalism to be an ideological formation that misrecognizes itself as a politically neutral set of tools for organizing collective life.
Dace Dzenovska is Associate Professor of the Anthropology of Migration at the University of Oxford. She writes about migration in the context of European Union enlargement, as well as about tolerance promotion and post-Cold War political liberalism in Eastern Europe. Her book School of Europeanness: Tolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism was published with Cornell University Press in 2018. She is currently working on a book manuscript on staying, leaving and arriving as tactics of life in Latvia after postsocialism, as well as on a new project on emptiness in the Latvian-Russian borderlands.


SACRAMENTO - Allen J. Miller, 75, of Sacramento, died Tuesday, August 15, 2017, at 2:36AM at his home. Mr. Miller was born July 5, 1942, in Madisonville. He was an educator, serving as principal at Bremen Elementary School for 8 years, Vice Principal at Bremen High School for 8 years, Principal at Hughes-Kirk School for 8 years, and teaching at Graham High School and Sacramento High School. He was a Kentucky Colonel and member of Sacramento Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He was preceded in death by his parents, Herman and Ava Miller.
He is survived by his wife, Wilma Davis Miller; sons Allen "John" (Terri) Miller of Sacramento, Wendell "Tony" Miller of Sacramento, and Aubrey D. "Doug" (Marquita) Miller of Bowling Green; brothers Douglas (Marquetta) Miller of Owensboro and Wendell (Kim) Miller of Sacramento; lifelong family friend Donna (Stewart) Curry of Livermore; brother-in-law Pete Davis; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Friday, August 18, 2017, at 1:00PM at Sacramento Cumberland Presbyterian Church, with Rev. John Butler officiating, assisted by Rev. Kevin Brantley. Burial in Poplar Grove Cemetery. Visitation will be Thursday after 5:00PM at Tucker Memorial Chapel in Sacramento. Mr. Miller will lie in state on Friday after 9:00AM at Sacramento Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to Baptist Health Hospice. Online condolences may be made at www.tuckerfuneralhomes.com.
He was a fantastic principal. So sorry for this family's loss. You are in my prayers.
I thought the world of Mr Miller, he was so nice to my Son and I when my Son went to Bremen School, may God bless his family always!
This is heartbreaking news. I met Allen in 1960 at Western. We were in all the plays together. He was the one who drove me from Western to the Henderson hospital in 1963 to see my brother before he died. Through the years, on stage, or in the classrooms, Allen was a dear dear friend. To his family- Allen was one of the good guys. He will never be forgotten.
Allen and I worked at the college grill at WKU. Hee was a gret guy and true friend during college days. He owned a 1951 Ford named Susie. I remember that I also had a 1951 Ford at that time also. His was black, mine was blue. We once deove from Bowling Green to Sacramento in Susie with no brakes. That was a hair raising experience. You the family have my condolences.God Bless you.
my pal in grade school and stayed buddies into college.
I have fond memories of Mr. Miller while he was a principal at Hughes-Kirk. I remember his kindness and true concern for the students. We need more like him.
Allen and I were at Western at the same time. I remember him from Western Players. In fact, I think Carol and I went on our first date to see a play that he was in. I also remember him as a teacher and administrator. I was also a teacher during the early part of his teaching career. Later on in his career I was a school board member.
Allen was a good, talented, and caring man. I will miss him.
My sympathy and condolences to his family.
I considered Allen J Miller a friend. He was the best principal that I taught under, an ally and a friend. He was always ready to defend his teachers, and I know this on a personal level. Wilma and boys, I'm so sorry for your loss. Words cannot express. I will never forget Mr. Miller.


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Hattiesburg firefighter becomes sworn police officer
Hattiesburg Fire Department Engineer Joseph Collins took the last step to becoming a sworn law enforcement officer Thursday during graduation ceremonies with the Southern Regional Public Safety Institute at Camp Shelby.
Collins, 49, is now both a sworn firefighter and police officer, which is believed to be a first for the Hattiesburg Fire Department.
"Hattiesburg Fire Department gets a firefighter and a cop for the price of one," he said.
Collins, who joined the fire department five years ago, said the training will enhance his position as a fire investigator.
"At this point, where the law enforcement certification comes in, instead of me conducting an investigation and then waiting for a law enforcement officer to take custody of the suspect, I now have that authority as well," he said.
Chief Paul Presley decided to send Collins for the training to assist in the investigative division.
"To have a sworn officer within the fire department, I think that's a first," he said. "This will be beneficial."
Collins is now authorized to carry a weapon while on duty. Other firefighters who previously worked with the department had been authorized to carry a weapon but were not sworn officers, Presley said.
Having a sworn officer with the training Collins has can help when situations arise like when victims are upset and get out of hand. Collins can help diffuse the situation.
He also can make an arrest if a fire is ruled an arson.
Presley hopes Collins' certification as a law enforcement officer will inspire others to go through the training, which is offered through the University of Southern Mississippi.
"Hopefully in the future we can have other sworn officers that are interested in this program to be certified to carry a gun," he said.
HFD Fire Marshal Stephen Mooney said having a sworn police officer on the department is something to be proud of.
"It's a huge leap forward for the fire department," he said.
Southern Regional Public Safety Institute was established on the Coast in 1987. Its facility was destroyed during Hurricane Katrina, but was reopened the following year at Camp Shelby, Director Julian Allen said.
The academy offers an 11-week, 480-hour, in-residence, basic law enforcement training academy.
The most recent academy graduated eight new officers out of the 17 who started the program. The graduates included Collins, Blake Bass of the Forrest County Sheriff's Department and Archie Wallace of the Southern Miss Police Department.
Others who graduated include Daniel Johnson of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, Tanner McCue of the Florence Police Department, Joshua Warden of the Mississippi Air National Guard Combat Readiness Training Center, Ryan Watson of the Madison Police Department and self-sponsored David Wofford.

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By Laura Mann
On 15 May, Pritish Behuria and I hosted a workshop on one of the key developmental issues facing African countries: growing youth populations. Although some view this on-going growth as a boon for African business in a global context of shrinking labour forces and consumer markets, others have been more cautious, pointing out that many African countries do not have productive 'youth bulges' (in which the working age population is larger than dependents) but rather growing dependency ratios (in which children out-number working adults). These more cautious observers claim demographic transitions have stalled in many African countries and even in countries where the birth-rate has fallen and a youth bulge is emerging, there are simply not enough formal jobs for the youth.
A 'demographic dividend' depends both on a youth bulge and on productive economic activities that make developmental use of that bulge. Much of the recent economic boom within African countries has been resource-intensive and "jobless". So if African societies are going to turn their growing youth populations into assets rather than liabilities, what then is to be done? To answer this question, we welcomed over 60 academics, students, business people and developmental practitioners to discuss the challenge that Africans societies face in reimagining their economies and social policies in light of this demographic pressure. I will set out what I think were the two most important insights of the day:
First, one of the recurring themes of the day was the idea that development itself is destabilising, a theme that is really brought to the foreground when we start talking about changing population structures.
As Tim Dyson and Kate Meagher reminded us in the opening panel, changes in the population structure can fundamentally disrupt social order. Growing or slowing populations dislocates society and forces it to reimagine and restructure its economies and social policies. This attention to demography reveals the dynamism of development for rich and poor countries alike. 'Development' is not something a society passes through; it never ends. Development creates social change, social change creates social dislocation, and in turn social dislocation warrants social response and political recalibration. In other words, both lack of development and development itself can put pressure on society.
For example, Portia Roelofs talked about 'development as demolition' in Oyo State, Nigeria. To upgrade markets and make way for development infrastructure and real estate, traders are being forced to relocate to the city's margins where new formal stalls and marketplaces have been built. Business is slow in these new markets and traders struggle to make profits yet they are still being convinced to move. A moral economy of expropriation has emerged in which the government labels those that accept this demolition-led development as 'enlightened citizens' who understand the 'sacrifice' necessary in the here and now while those that resist are deemed deviant or disruptive, as 'bad youth' holding back the country's future. The youth themselves try to subvert this discourse by insisting that they are part of the rising tide of formality, carefully sweeping the pathways in front of their stalls and keeping a safe distance from the road. Eyob Gebremariam similarly discussed how the Ethiopian government has claimed that recent protests are being driven by the country's growth; patience is required while the government adjusts itself and tries to find solutions. His work focuses on the evolution of the government's youth policies over time. Across African countries, the 'youth' have been identified as a threatening social group although as Eyob and others point out, the youth is not a single coherent category. I was really struck by his claim that the Ethiopian government has admitted the slow pace and limitations of growth and that growth itself, rather than lack of growth is responsible for frustrations among the youth.
While this kind of political rhetoric indicates a sensitivity to what development really involves, it also opens the door to anti-developmental political mobilisations as people feel they do not benefit from the cherished growth promised and promoted by their political leaders. This possibility forces us to think about the temporality and unevenness of development. If development only exists in a distant future or for other groups, populism and political violence can emerge in the here and now. Development therefore does not only entail growth but the articulation of social responses to manage the unevenness and pace of that growth. This social response may take the form of innovations in social policy and/or corporatist social contracts, but as Karl Polanyi warns such 'social protection' may also take deadly form. 'Development' is a rocky sea upon which societies struggle to keep afloat.
Adam Branch provided a fascinating lens to examine this rocky sea, focusing on recent Uganda protest movements such as the 2011 Walk to Work protest. Due to the difficulties that opposition parties face in uniting disparate constituencies of urban poor, urban middle classes and rural poor, the democratic system has struggled to translate frustrations about development into more inclusive policies. In such a political context, a developmental model has emerged that is not based on a stable working class and productive relations between capitalists and workers but rather on a form of securitized urbanism in which elites are physically separated from the poor. Both security services and NGOs help discipline and regulate their behaviour so as to maintain the status quo. Instead of seeing violence as outside of development and as politics as something 'issue-less' or merely 'patrimonial', Branch suggests that we should see these frustrations and the repressions they provoke as part of development, as particularly messy attempts by opposition groups to upset that status quo and as attempts by the state elites to 'protect' their growth from the destabilisation wreaked in its path (for more details, see his new book).
Simply put, while we tend to think of social conflict as responses to lack of growth or economic activity, what we might actually be witnessing are reactions to forms of growth deemed morally reprehensible or corrupt. This moral ambiguity was addressed by other speakers as well. Eschewing simple narratives about youth unemployment and violence, both Luisa Enria and Akin Iwilade described the context in which violence can emerge from youth employment/unemployment. Luisa Enria repeated the words of one of her respondent's: "As long as we face embarrassment, it is not a job." Rather than the labour market being a clearinghouse for the supply and demand of labour, Enria frames the labour market as a social site imbued with meaning, identity and social networks. Young people come into contact with politics not as members of a 'youth category' but as members of particular occupational categories and social groups with different ideas about what constitutes dignified and undignified work. Similarly Akin Iwilade describes contexts in which labouring can become both subversive and complicit: when legal work is unimaginable, crime can become employment and 'legal' employment, crime. At their best, the youth involved in oil patronage in Niger Delta see themselves as businesspeople and entrepreneurs, and at worst, they are freedom fights subverting an oppressive social order. Development is therefore not understood as the mere presence or absence of growth (or even its distributions across social categories) but as reflecting power struggles over who gets to determine what is legitimate and what is crime.
In all three cases of Uganda, Sierra Leona and Nigeria, developmental frustrations did not find voice in formal political structures or parties but rather in forms of political violence and subversion. Such research reveals one of the key weaknesses of the liberal imagination that emerged in the 1990s. While proponents of political and economic liberalisation believed that elections would naturally translate into better economic policies as parties would have to compete for votes, what African countries have instead inherited are societies struggling to voice their political frustrations through formal structures and states struggling to contain those frustrations in liberal ways.
The popular response to youth unemployment has often been job creation programmes, particularly in post-conflict environments such as Sierra Leone or Niger Delta. Yet panellists discussed the lack of imagination surrounding these programs as well as the disjuncture between self-employment strategies, youth aspirations and national growth strategies. After all how many hair-dressers or taxi drivers can one economy absorb and does such work take people 'off the streets' and out of social contexts in which they experience 'embarrassment'?
This brings us to the second key insight of the day: that we need to connect youth employment programmes into broader strategies of economic transformation.
Emma Murphy discussed some of the results of her project, POWER2YOUTH, which sought to explore the dynamics of youth exclusion and inclusion in North Africa and the Middle East. Moses Oketch similarly discussed his research into TVET programmes in African countries. They spoke of how a 'supply side myth' had emanated from within the European Union and spread into other regions of the world through 'active labour market programmes'. These initiatives imagine that the problem is one of skills mismatch or lack of skills and that if young people simply acquire the 'right skills,' then they will become developmental assets for their countries, helping to drive innovation and economic upgrading. Yet this myth is premised on a 'free market' vision of development in which private firms willingly absorb those skills and upgrade into (riskier) higher value activities. In this view, there is no need to examine the 'demand for labour' because the private sector will sort it out on its own.
However, we have pretty conclusive evidence that the highest unemployment rates are among graduates of university and training colleges. From my own doctoral work on higher education expansion in Sudan, expanding educational opportunities in the 1990s (in which Sudan went from having three public universities to twenty seven) did not result in a more dynamic and more highly skilled economic activities but rather in higher levels of graduate unemployment and intense frustrations among the youth. We really can't keep believing that training young people is automatically going to result in economic upgrading and innovation. Rather we have to confront the unwillingness of private firms to engage in the kinds of (risky) economic activities that would require and use those skills. If we fail to do so, we are in effect asking the youth to live in a surreal 'as if' world in which their new skills are in demand when they are not.
While both business school practitioners and heterodox development economists believe the private sector plays an extremely key role in development, these two groups conceptualise the private sector very differently. While one speaks of entrepreneurs and their dispositions for risk-taking and hard-work, the other speaks of capitalists and their strategies of accumulation and political influence. As Thandika Mkandawire highlighted in his keynote speech, over the past three decades or so, the word 'entrepreneurship' has come to be universally favoured while the word 'capitalism' is seldom spoken out loud. Is it mere semantics or does the ascendency of 'entrepreneurship' over 'capitalism' reveal something more profound about the imaginative space in which development debates exist?
Catherine Dolan's presentation helpfully described the history of Kenyan developmental discourse, recounting the continuities and change over time. The colonial state saw Kenyans primarily as labourers that needed to be trained and dislocated from their social networks. Policies sought to create stable 'civilised' working classes with new 'dispositions' and new habits. Education was vocational, rather than academic or professional for colonial officers felt Kenyans lacked 'the flexibility of mind' to become businesspeople. Upon independence, the discourse changed dramatically as the context was not one of labour shortage but of labour surplus. Kenya now needed businessmen to grow the economy, redress the racist colonial policies and help create jobs for its labour. This was the era of state-led growth with Kenyan capitalists positioned as the midwives of development. Over time, due to liberalisation in the 1980s and the more recent inclusive market paradigm, the figure of the capitalist has slowly faded and the entrepreneurial petty trader has emerged in its place. Entrepreneurship is no longer seen as a class category or as a group that acts in concert with larger economic plans but rather as striving individuals possessing talents and special dispositions.
Yet in Marco Di Nunzio's presentation, Why don't hustlers become businesspeople? he made it clear that being an entrepreneur is anything but an individual endeavour. Hustlers often fail to become businesspeople because they lack the resources and social connections to turn their 'street trust' into 'shop trust'. Becoming an entrepreneur requires hanging out with other entrepreneurs and moving in such circles requires money and connections. These are important insights when we think about contemporary processes of formalisation, be it the cannabis sector in rich countries or informal transport systems in poor countries. Formalisation changes the parameters of who can take part in business. The myth of the self-made man (or woman) minimises stories about useful connections while the language of entrepreneurship disguises the need for broader strategies of economic development.
We invited an entrepreneur/capitalist to speak at the workshop. Perez Ochieng shared her experiences of running a successful business, SACOMA. Her firm aims to capture more value from basic crops like sweet potato by working with universities on innovation into storage, production/recipes and branding. She is frustrated that so many of her fellow Kenyans spend time chasing development funds rather than building successful businesses. To her, entrepreneurship should be placed at the forefront of developmental efforts. Yet her firm is currently working with UK based universities on upgrading. This arrangement means that much of the upgrading strategy is being captured by UK actors and workers, not Kenyans. In future, she wants to work more with Kenyan universities yet this requires broader strategies and support networks.
One of the striking aspects of her talk was her discussion about the importance of these helpful networks and institutions within British universities and the British government in helping to propel her business forward. Her experience demonstrates the importance of situating discussions of entrepreneurial-led growth within broader economic plans that coordinate efforts between private firms, universities and government departments. Thandika's comments about capitalism moved her to wonder if she herself was a capitalist or entrepreneur and what that meant for Kenyan development.
Our last panel of the day addresses some of these bigger issues by looking at youth employment in different sectors of the economy: Cathy Boone discussing the position of youth in agriculture, Tom Goodfellow and Pritish Behuria discussing the Rwandan government's strategy to boost employment in services and Roy Macconachie discussing the slow (and somewhat unintentional) diversification of the Sierra Leonean economy. In all three presentations, there was a sense that we have to shift our attention away from thinking about 'supply side' programs towards an approach that examines the interplay between skills and broader economic strategies to absorb those skills.
Thinking about capitalism (as opposed to entrepreneurship) focuses our attention back on relationships between capitalists, states and labour and on strategies to diversify and structurally transform economies. Job creation programs that focus merely on training or on self-employment among the youth close down this imaginative space and individualise the structural failure of neo-liberalism on the African continent. And until we see economic development as a holistic process in which development itself can create social dislocations, and we are honest about the distribution of those benefits and harms across society, we will not be able to manage the demographic and economic pressures facing African societies.
Laura Mann is a member of ROAPE's Editorial Working Group and a sociologist whose research focuses on the political economy of markets and new information and communication technologies in Africa. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Creative Nonfiction | November 2016
The Guest Room
By Meghan Moravcik Walbert
"It's so hot up there," my husband says as he descends the stairs into our living room.
"I know," I say, not bothering to look up from my work to meet his eyes. "So hot."
We love our home, but like all homes, it is imperfect. Built in 1925, we revel in its charm. The wood detail that frames each window. The white built-in bookshelf that has held the books and framed pictures of countless families during its 91 years of life.
Then there are the things we don't relish. The singular tiny bathroom, for example. Or the fact that central, vented air conditioning simply isn't an option on our second floor.
"I opened our bedroom window," Mike says. "I think it's cooler outside than it is in there. I opened up the window in the guest room, too."
That makes me look up from my computer to stare back at him.
"The guest room," I say. "You called it 'The Guest Room.'"
The words sting a place deep inside of me, but they sting only because I know they are true.
The room, sandwiched between our bedroom and our five-year-old son Ryan's bedroom, started out as The Guest Room. Then, for 11 months, it was the place where our four-year-old foster son slept. The boy we nicknamed "BlueJay." It was BlueJay's Room.
For the almost-year we cared for BlueJay, he spent countless hours kneeling in front of the train table in that room and hundreds of nights tucked tightly under the rainbow-colored quilt.
Pieces of BlueJay, memories of all the bedtime stories Mike read to him and the songs I sang to him vibrate through that room. The sign with his name still hangs on the back of the door. The star lamp we bought for him remains dim. The hat rack we installed for him on the wall hangs empty, his many hats long since packed up and shipped off to the home of those now raising him.
Photo by Literary Mama photo editor, Heather Vrattos
These things are still there, but he is not. And he hasn't been for several months. But others have come through that room on occasion, sleeping in his bed—the bed—for a night or two. The others, they are guests.
"I've been thinking we should put away a few of the pictures of him," I tell Mike. The thought has been growing within me for weeks but it's only now that I can put a voice to it.
"Because there are as many framed pictures in this house of a child who is not ours as there are of a child who is," I say, motioning toward the table that holds the "family" photo we had professionally taken of the four of us last fall.
Nearby are the side-by-side professional photos of each boy. The picture of Ryan and BlueJay posing together in coordinating shirts on Christmas Eve, Ryan's arm slug around BlueJay's narrow shoulders. The photo of the four of us standing on a giant rock in the woods at the end of a long weekend away with friends.
"The photos will work their way out naturally," Mike says. "We'll get new family photos taken this year, and some of those will replace the old ones."
I nod, but I'm thinking how I want to take them down now anyway. Today. Right this second. Before it becomes any more obvious that in our house, BlueJay will remain frozen in time.
The picture of Ryan leaning against the wooden fence last fall is already starting to look outdated; but the picture of BlueJay doing the same does not. BlueJay is out there in this world right now growing up, getting taller, and looking every day a bit less like a little boy and a bit more like a big boy.
But in this house, he'll always be four years old. Even when he's 6 or 10 or 13 or 18.
There will be no new pictures dated by year and placed carefully in front of the old. No new pictures taken on his first day of kindergarten, middle school, high school.
There will be no laughing over the new, adult-like phrases he has learned. There will be no marveling at the fact that he can finally ride a bike or the big roller coasters at the amusement park.
Here, within these old walls, he will never grow older.
Before BlueJay left our home in March, I thought I would always want to be surrounded by these pictures and other mementos of our time with him. The coffee mug in my kitchen cabinet with the picture of Ryan and BlueJay sitting on Santa's lap. The wooden monkey BlueJay colored for me that hangs from my rearview mirror. The clay snowman he made in preschool that sits on my writing desk. The one of dozens of pictures he drew of a "ghost family" that still hangs on our refrigerator.
(I wonder why he drew so many pictures of ghost families. Could it be because of the way family has continually appeared and disappeared from his life?)
I knew we would have no contact with BlueJay once he left, a choice that was not ours to make but one we must accept. I thought maybe these things would be a way to hold on to him. But it turns out that they hold more emptiness than comfort. I can't hold on to BlueJay in any physical, meaningful way. A picture on my dresser of him laughing as the ocean waves crash over his feet during our annual beach vacation doesn't change that.
As time goes by, Mike and I are moving on. We are healing and deciding what the future might hold for our family. Ryan is moving on, starting kindergarten, and readjusting to being an only child. I have to hope and assume BlueJay is moving on, bonding with his relatives, and falling into new routines.
It is time for our house to move on, too.
It's time to allow ourselves a few small changes that reflect the simple truth: BlueJay will always be a part of our hearts, but he will not be a part of our lives.
It's time for a few less pictures. A few more mementos to be taken down and packed up. A shift in mindset, a shift in vocabulary.
It's time to start calling it The Guest Room.
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B.L.says:
Meghan, it was a pleasure to find you here after following Bluejay's sojourn with you on the NYTimes website. I appreciate both your taking him into your family, and your willingness to let go of the past and honor his (and your own) present. And I'm especially thankful that you've chosen to share it with us.
Meghan Moravcik Walbert
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Warren Entsch Slams Peter Dutton's Marriage Postal Vote Proposal
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Queensland Liberal MP and longtime marriage equality advocate Warren Entsch has shot down Peter Dutton's renewed push for a voluntary postal vote on marriage equality.
Dutton told Sky News on Sunday that a postal vote would be "the next best option" to replace the failed marriage equality plebiscite and if a majority of Australians voted in favour in the postal vote, the government would be "bound by that outcome."
"There's no doubt in my mind that a postal plebiscite delivers the same policy intent as a plebiscite proper," Dutton said.
"I think that is a much cleaner process than people running off to support private member's motions or a Labor stunt within the House of Representatives."
But Entsch told The Guardian on Monday: "The fact that a plebiscite of any form, whether it be postal or otherwise, is not binding I think really puts the final nail in the coffin in relation to [the concept].
"That's not going to change with a … postal plebiscite."
Entsch said he appreciated Dutton's attempt to find a way through the issue "that he feels comfortable with" but said Dutton's promise to make the vote binding only applied to himself.
"With all due respect, he can make it binding for himself," Entsch said.
"He may be able to encourage people within … the party to make it binding for them.
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Marriage equality advocates said a postal plebiscite would likely be biased against same-sex marriage.
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Parent of autistic teen sues CDC to allow vaccine whistleblower testimony
Dated: February 13, 2017 by Sharyl Attkisson 16 Comments
Above: Yates Hazlehurst (right) with personal aide Lane Hodges[hr]
The following is an update of a story first published Oct. 19, 2016[hr]
The father of an autistic child has filed a federal lawsuit against the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in his son's medical malpractice case. Rolf Hazlehurst is attempting to force CDC to let a vaccine whistleblower scientist, Dr. William Thompson, testify in the case of 17-year old Yates Hazlehurst. Dr. Thompson, a senior scientist at CDC has told Congress that he and his CDC colleagues manipulated data and destroyed evidence to downplay a link their study discovered between autism and vaccines in African American boys. CDC had earlier blocked Dr. Thompson from testifying.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on Feb. 9, 2017 in Jackson, TN Photo: Joshua Coleman
Hazlehurst is represented by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Bryan Smith and the law firm of Morgan and Morgan.[hr]
Original story follows
A current senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), William Thompson, stunned the scientific community in 2014 when he confessed that he and his colleagues have allegedly conspired to cover up or downplay links between vaccines and autism, particularly in African American boys. Thompson alleges their actions included literally sorting through and throwing away data that they didn't want made public. However, Thompson revealed he saved original copies of the material in a safe, contacted an attorney, and sought whistle blower protection. He has provided the material to Congress. Pharmaceutical industry interests have successfully lobbied to prevent hearings and investigations into the alleged scientific fraud. (The accused CDC officials--William Thompson's colleagues--deny they did anything unethical or illegal.)
Read CDC vaccine safety information here
Now comes word that CDC Director Thomas Frieden has blocked Thompson from testifying in a medical malpractice case brought on behalf of 16-year old Yates Hazlehurst alleging that Yates' autism resulted from vaccine injuries.
CDC Director Thomas Frieden
Read more about the Hazlehurst case from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. here
Read "autism" listed as possible adverse event on vaccine warning label here
In blocking the testimony, the CDC said it was not necessary or relevant to the Hazlehurst case. Hazlehurst's attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. disagrees: "Yates, and thousands of others, lost their cases in the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program because the CDC and Justice Department submitted fraudulent science wrongly denying the vaccine-autism link." He and his co-counsel say they will appeal the CDC's decision.
Read the CDC's recommended vaccine schedule here
Most children who receive childhood vaccinations are not injured. However, a small but significant minority suffers severe reactions including brain damage and death. Federal vaccine court compensates certain accepted injuries but the government has long carved out autism, claiming it's not one of the brain damage injuries that can result from vaccines. On the other hand, the government has compensated many brain damage cases of autistic children when the term "autism" isn't used in the legal arguments. Further, the government secretly settled a landmark vaccine-autism case and ordered it sealed, meaning other families wouldn't learn of it. But the case leaked out to the public.
Read about $3.4 billion in federal vaccine injury awards here
In 2014, a top CDC official acknowledged to me that vaccines may rarely trigger autism in a susceptible group of children.
Hear the interview with CDC official about vaccines possibly triggering autism here
The pharmaceutical industry, government and astroturf groups have lobbied hard to deny, discredit and controversialize the notion of any such ties. When Hazlehurst's representatives hired the public relations service "PR newswire" to issue a press release on the case this week, PR newswire reportedly insisted on heavy edits (see below), including claiming the Hazlehurst case "has nothing to do with" the press release, even though it's the legal case for which the CDC testimony was blocked.
Read about top astroturfers here
Read about CDC addressing concerns about autism and vaccines here
Read more vaccine safety stories here
Read about peer-reviewed published studies suggesting a link between vaccines and autism here
The Hazlehurst case was decided long ago. Why would they be suing for medical malpractice when the "vaccine court" already opined that there was no evidence to link vaccines to Yates' autism?
http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/vaccine_files/Campbell-Smith_Hazlehurst_Decision.pdf
Also, having just watched Del Bigtree talk about this, if William Thompson is so committed to talking about this, why doesn't he just quit the CDC job and hit the talk show circuit? He could write a book and probably get a job with Dwoskin Foundation or some other group devoted to researching vaccines and autism.
The talk show circuit would NEVER entertain this scientist. After all, Pharma owns the networks. They are 80 % of their sponsorship. Just like RFK said, even he will never be allowed to write a piece for any news magazine because all the sponsors would pull out. Same with tv. He'd fall into a black hole. Besides... I'm sure he makes far more than a talk show circuit would pay and may be doing other important work he would have to abandon and throw his career away.
Researcher says
Kathy, I don't know the answer to your second question, but as for your first question: "vaccine court" opined that there was no evidence to link vaccines to autism based largely on the 2004 study in question, the one where Dr. Thompson admitted participating in eliminating and destroying data linking the MMR vaccine to autism.
So if Yates Hazlehurst's case was decided based on a fraudulent study, that's going to open Pandora's box.
I do have one question of my own, and maybe Ms. Attkisson can answer:
Why does the CDC have the power to decide whether or not William Thompson can testify, especially on a case where they are accused of corruption?
Ken Reibel says
"vaccine court opined that there was no evidence to link vaccines to autism based largely on the 2004 study in question.."
The 2004 study is only one of many studies that have looked for, and failed to find, a meaningful association between vaccines and autism. Were all of those studies fixed?
Jane Doe says
I am sure he stays there because he is safer there than if he left.
Susan Ford Keller says
What is the CDC's legal standing to block Thompson from testifying?
Fendlesworth says
Kathy is probably Dorit Reiss herself.
Has anyone not seen the Dorit Reiss Phizer photo yet?:
http://www.rescuepost.com/.a/6a00d8357f3f2969e201b7c89337a2970b-400wi
Phizer?
Jim Jam says
So is that white kid in the picture an African American?
Donna Wilson says
How far back will they go? I tried to get some help, as the single Mom, when my son was a 6 month old baby. I was told that he MUST have the DPT (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus combo shot) to attend public school later, in the state of Georgia. This was back in 1981, when my baby that is now 36 received this shot. It nearly killed him, 3 hours after the inoculation!!! It's been a long journey, & my son did survive the 106 degree fever at the emergency room, that night! Is there a class action that can include us?
Ed Arranga says
"Most children who receive childhood vaccinations are not injured." Continuously downplaying the extent of vaccine injury minimizes the current epidemic while increasing the likelihood additional children will be injured (parents are mistakenly led to believe the risks are low) . Currently, 54 percent of American children suffer from a vaccine injury http://bit.ly/2l1SLrp. In other words, most children who receive childhood vaccinations are injured.
Concerned Citizen says
From what I heard, employees at the CDC (and probably many gov't agencies) are legally forbidden from discussing certain work-related matters other than if compelled by subpoena.
In Thompson's case, he gave a lengthy deposition to Rep Posey and handed over tens of thousands of documents (not thousands, as is often reported). Posey spoke on the House floor requesting that the Congressional committee responsible, hold hearings and subpoena Thompson. This has not happened yet, and may never happen, because Pharma controls nearly all Congressional members.
That's why RFK is pursuing it in this manner - nowhere but Congress or a court of law could Thompson LEGALLY testify. It has nothing to do with whether he is currently employed or not - he is NEVER allowed to speak about these things at any point in his life, other than under oath.
He could just resign and then go public, but his testimony would be "tainted" because it would be illegal. It would not have the same strong impact as compared to being done legally - critics would use this to delegitamize it. He needs to do it in the right way.
Kayla Wildman says
Researcher and Keller: If I understand correctly, a federal agency does have some power to allow or refuse to allow any of its employees to testify in a court case or to speak "publicly" about agency affairs. This is why vaccine choice activists have been pushing for Congress to investigate the CDC whistleblower's charges of fraud by the CDC, and to subpoena Thompson to testify at a Congressional hearing. A federal agency cannot block one of its employees from testifying at a Congressional hearing if the Congressional committee conducting the hearing has subpoenaed that agency employee.
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Q: Cannot control-drag in xcode between cocoa touch uiview class and subview in storyboard I'm new to xcode and iOS.
I'm following apple tutorial, but I can't figure out a thing.
In the tutorial, when there is the need of a connection between the storyboard and the ViewController.swift, it's done a connection using the control-drag from the storyboard to the viewController.swift, and it works like a charm.
If I add a subview to storyboard, apple does the connection and the declaration by code in a custom cocoa touch class that implements UiView Protocol, not using the control-drag.
Now, given the fact that is clear to me the code writted by apple, I'm just wondering why the control-drag doesn't work.
I've tried to do the same thing, adding a button via ui and then tried to control-drag to cocoa touch class, and I cannot do this.
But if I do the same thing, but trying to connect it to the ViewController.swift it works perfectly.
Now, I'm just wondering why this happens.
Can't I use control-drag with a custom UiView?
Thanks for answering.

A: You can only control-drag from outlet to view on xib, after creating outlet in code you will see a dot at the left side, you can drag from there to your view and outlet will work

A: In the storyboard, you have to set the class name to the view controller.

A: If you want to create a custom view that will have subview of it's own, you can do so using a Xib file (pretty much like a storyboard, but for only one view instead of for a whole app workflow) and then you'll be able to make all the connection you wish. Storyboard is not meant to design your customView. Connection are mainly used to provide a easy/cost-effective reach from the control grasp to it's main view's subviews (IBOutlets) or to '0 line' a  target action pattern. One exception is with the custom tableView / collectionView cell though..

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Major cities in France were hit by rioting last night as the country's former Interior Minister warned that mass immigration could bring societal breakdown within five years.
"French police arrested more than 100 people after gangs of masked youths stormed through Paris suburbs and the center of Lyon on Halloween night, authorities said on Thursday, following a message on social media calling for a "purge" against police," reports Reuters.
Video footage shows one of the incidents in Lyon.
Some of the riots were inspired by "messages circulated on social media" about the movie The Purge, which depicts a chaotic urban dystopia in which all crimes are made legal for one day.
Meanwhile, in an interview given by France's then Interior Minister Gérard Collomb back in February but only recently published by Valeurs Actuelles, Collomb admits that the country's security situation is dire thanks to mass immigration.


The Indonesian Government is grappling with a measles outbreak in the Papuan district of Asmat, where at least 65 children have died since the epidemic began in October. Almost 600 people, including adults, have been treated for the disease in the remote highland district, with hundreds hospitalised in the district's capital, Agats. Many are also reportedly suffering from malaria and severe malnutrition.
Criticism levelled at the government has not been taken well. Papua has always been a sensitive issue, primarily due to region's separatist movement, but criticism has now extended to the efforts of the Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo administration to develop the region. The local immigration office detained a BBC Indonesia journalist, Australian Rebecca Henschke, after she tweeted photographs from Asmat. Henschke was ordered to leave the province, and her passport was confiscated, after allegedly offending the feelings of soldiers assisting the Asmat relief program.
Unfortunately, the aid is probably too little, too late. After news of measles-related deaths broke into the mainstream media in mid-January, the military, Ministry of Health, and Coordinating Ministry of Human Development and Culture quickly dispatched medical teams and food supplies to Asmat. Humanitarian workers say health problems have long been evident, and that the government simply choses to look elsewhere, focusing on quick-win solutions to gain political favour rather than on long-term development.
Measles vaccinations are freely available to all children at community health centres across Indonesia, but coverage is low in Asmat. This is not only due to the region's geography, with many facilities accessible to villagers only via long and expensive speedboat trips, but also to a lack of qualified health workers. Mobile health facilities and village-based vaccination clinics are rare, and locals complain that health workers rarely show up to work. Many are not provided with adequate housing and are forced to travel up to two hours each way to and from work. Others refuse to live nearby because of a lack of security; inter-family and inter-tribal conflict is common across the province. Even when staff do make it to the health centres, opening hours are short and medicines are limited.
"Only some of the 16 community health centres in Asmat have doctors," the development worker explained. "It is difficult to reach many of the centres – you have to travel by boat … But the decrease in health services is caused by many factors, including low health worker competencies, lack of budgetary transparency, and [lack of] data." She also commented that the Asmat District Health Office works slowly and inefficiently, with many of its staff uninterested in their work.
Papua and West Papua continually place last in Indonesia when it comes to human development, despite large local budgets resulting from the regions' special autonomy. Major infrastructural improvements are underway, such as the Trans-Papua Road and multiple new seaports and airports. But public services, such as health and education, remain of poor quality. Asmat has a Human Development Index (HDI) ranking of only 47.31, placing the district below Afghanistan (47.9) and just above the Democratic Republic of the Congo (43.5).
The national government has placed a priority on developing remote regions, such as Papua and West Papua, under the Jokowi administration, and the two provinces have significant annual budgets. Papua Province alone has a budget of IDR 56.85 trillion (approximately US$4 billion) in 2018; 25% of that goes to the provincial government, with the remaining 75% transferred directly to districts, cities, and villages for their own use.
At a press conference in January, the Ministry of Health's Head of Public Services, Dr Oscar Primadi, blamed Papua's situation on its uniqueness. "Residents are spread all over the place in Papua," he said. "The social, cultural, and geographic sides [of Papua] are problems in themselves." Dr Primadi also stated that many Papuans refuse to visit health centres or vaccinate their children.
Worryingly, Jokowi appears to agree, even suggesting in January that villagers should be relocated to Agats rather than continue living traditional lifestyles. His argument is that they would be able to access services and facilities more easily in the capital.
There is not enough awareness-raising from health workers. The people do not know about vaccinations, so it is normal that they are afraid. It takes time, and health workers must be patient and help build understanding. Where are the programs that do this? There aren't any. 70% of the blame lays at the feet of the government. Immunisation is the government's responsibility.
While there may be significant focus on Asmat at the moment, this is not a one-off occurrence but a long-term problem across eastern Indonesia. The same health problems have killed almost 30 people in the Bintang Mountains Regency, approximately 300 kilometres from Asmat, while 16 other districts have been named by the Ministry of Health as having the pre-conditions (measles and malnutrition) for similarly high mortality rates.
While there is no denying that providing services to residents in remote locations is difficult, the government plainly needs to reassess its development priorities in the coming months.


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Although the history of the Eisteddfod may traced back to a bardic competition held by the Lord Rhys in Cardigan Castle in 1176, the roots of the modern National Eisteddfod as we know it today lie in the latter part of the eighteenth century. In 1789 - the year of the French Revolution - the Gwyneddigion Society of London decided to support and organise the various small eisteddfodau being held in taverns throughout north Wales at the time.
During the same period, Iolo Morgannwg's fertile imagination became the impetus for establishing a society of poets and musicians called Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain (The Gorsedd of the Bards of the Island of Britain). However, it was not until a notable gathering at the Ivy Bush inn at Carmarthen in 1819 that the Gorsedd became formally associated with the Eisteddfod.
Unlike present-day prizes of chairs and crowns, the winners of these eisteddfodau were awarded medals, and gold and silver miniatures. This exhibition aims to show a wider audience some of the eisteddfod medals now in the collections at St Fagans. Each has its story, told in the words of Professor Hywel Teifi Edwards, an authority on the history of the Eisteddfod during this period.
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Here's Paul Taylor's take on the Avid outing to Minehead from the U12's perspective.
"Tom took a break from CX this weekend to race at the Minehead festival of cycling on a superb 1.1km street circuit within the seaside town centre. With a forecast of rain we were expecting a sketchy race but the weather held although drama came from another direction!
"The start was superfast and Tom was caught on the back foot whilst trying to clip-in but got back on to the lead group going into the second lap. With the guys pushing a hard pace the bunch was whittled down to five riders going into the final lap where Tom positioned himself in second wheel. Unbeknown to the leading riders a barrier had fallen over behind them into the path of one of the young riders who was catapulted over the handlebars. By now the leading bunch were at full gas and Tom made an early attack giving himself a significant lead up to the finish line with certain victory in his grasp.
The following weekend, the riders were back in action, this time on the grass at ShamXross in the Western Cyclocross League. Here are the thoughts of Martin Harris as Jenson took Avid Sport's first ever victory!
"Well what can I say? If Carlsberg did local Cyclocross… This would be it. Each time we visit Keynsham for Cyclocross, Salt & Sham (SAS) cycle club manage to raise the bar that little bit higher.
"Our 1st trip to Somerdale was approximately 18 months ago for the schools' Cyclocross. The course had been built from scratch. Back then the long grass, though cut and raked, was challenging. I'm pretty sure that afternoon, we had children's bikes with broken hangers and mangled derailleurs.
"Since then, the course has been used for a round each of the Western League's Winter and Summer CX and this was the 2nd time for the Winter CX. The course goes from strength to strength and never disappoints. The effort and time put in to this venue is clear to see and is testament to how dedicated the SAS recruited volunteers are to give other riders the best racing experience they can.
"This winter round saw the addition of 2 new banked sections and the addition of a Sandpit! The Sandpit that would later prove to be the source of much entertainment for the baying crowds. It seems to be human nature that people like to celebrate other people's miss-fortunes and the sandpit would be a regular source of ooohs and aaaaahs as the riders pitted themselves against the sand-trap.
"As per previous visits there was the spiral of doom and I'm sure this grows in size from round to round.
"The atmosphere was amazing. The music, the crowds cheering and the ringing of cowbells was constant. The air was filled with the smell of fresh Burgers and Hot dogs. The Coffee flowed, the crowds remained to support throughout the day and from the youngest of Children, to the most mature of riders; the racing was fierce. Everyone gave their all.
"The Avid Sport riders, put in some strong performances; on the bounce from the Minehead Crits. Felix: Jenson and Tom rode superbly to lock out the top two spots in the U14 race. It was great to see so many of the team racing, with Sam Butters in the U16 race, Harry Tucker in the Juniors and Molly Hodges racing her first cross race in the women's race. Well done to all!
"This has no doubt helped cement a great foundation, on which to build their future… This is a team that's going places!
"A massive 'thank you' to Salt and Sham for their tireless efforts; to provide what has to be one of thee best local races in the South.


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COVID-19: Unpaid foreign domestic workers stranded in Lebanon
A week after her Lebanese employer kicked her out without her luggage, pay or passport, all Ethiopian domestic worker Sofia wants is to go home as Lebanon begins repatriations.
"My madam threw me out. She owes me six-and-a-half months salary," Sofia said, her hair draped in a red scarf.
"I want to go back to Ethiopia," said the mother of two girls, who has not seen them for almost three years.
Lebanon is suffering its worst economic crisis in decades, as well as a coronavirus lockdown.
Some Lebanese families have started paying their home help in the depreciating local currency, while others are now unable to pay them at all, with increasing reports of domestic workers being thrown into the street.
Lebanon is to start repatriation flights from its closed airport on Wednesday, at first for Ethiopians and mostly male migrants from Egypt.
Outside the Ethiopian consulate on Monday, Sofia was among dozens of Ethiopian women and Lebanese employers trying to secure seats on Wednesday's flight.
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But Lebanese security forces turned them away at the door, telling them to return in nine days and employers that they would have to pay for the flight.
Among the crowd, Lebanese employer Eva Awad said she could no longer afford to keep her domestic helper.
"We can't find dollars anymore, so she needs to go home," she said, adding that she intended to pay her maid in full.
– 'For sale' –
Nearby, an Ethiopian woman cried next to her suitcase, saying she had not been paid in half a year, had no passport after being thrown out, and had nowhere to sleep.
A member of the security forces said the consulate's shelter was full, at least until the flight out on Wednesday.
Consular staff did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
An estimated 250,000 domestic workers live in Lebanon, the large majority Ethiopian, many in conditions condemned by rights groups.
A sponsorship system known as "kafala" excludes maids, nannies and carers from Lebanon's labour law, and leaves them at the mercy of their employers, who pay wages as low as $150 a month.
With staff obtained at high fees from recruitment agencies even before being paid wages, and unhappy workers unable to resign without their employer's permission, some have likened the system to slavery.
Activists say calls for help have increased in recent weeks, especially as live-in workers have been in lockdown with families.
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"The level of desperation has just gone through the roof. There has been a vast increase in the number of people contacting us about unpaid salaries," a case worker for activist group This is Lebanon said.
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She said a number had been sent back to their agencies with few prospects for re-employment.
In recent months, at least two people have posted ads to sell their foreign helper on Facebook, sparking outrage from activists and a statement from the labour ministry condemning human trafficking.
Ali al-Amine, head of the recruitment agency syndicate, said agencies had received increasing numbers of calls from employers struggling to pay salaries in dollars.
"If people are employed by the Lebanese state, their income in Lebanese pounds is hardly enough for them to support themselves," he said.
But "if the contract was in dollars, we tell them they need to give her what is rightfully hers", he said.
The labour ministry says it has launched a hotline.
Immigration has waived fines for those who have overstayed their residency from November, a security source said.
– 'Thousands need food' –
After Sofia was thrown out with nothing but the clothes on her back, fellow Ethiopian worker Ala, 29, found her crying in the street and persuaded her own Lebanese employer to take her in.
"There are people who are very good, who pay for your travel and treat you like family," Ala said.
The non-governmental Egna Legna association has also taken in stranded women, according to founder Banchi Yimer.
They will now join freelance domestic workers struggling to survive without work during the pandemic.
As the lockdown started, "thousands of domestic workers and their kids needed medical and food aid", said Yimer, who used to work as a domestic helper in Lebanon but is now in Canada.
In recent weeks, she and friends have raised more than $12,000 through crowdfunding to provide food and rent for hundreds of their colleagues.
But Yimer is worried about the thousands they cannot reach, donations running out, and the mounting number of people being dropped at the consulate door.
"I'm so scared even to sleep," she said.
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Home / Shop / Sculptures / Pair Carved Wood Beggars, Gröden – Italy 18th Century.
Pair carved wood Sculptures " Beggars ", Gröden ( Val Gardena ) – South Tyrol Italy 18th Century.
The figurines are approximately 28,5 High and 12 cm Wide.
The base of one beggar has been replaced at some point. They are in overall good condition.


Rice is harvested in much the same way as other cereal crops. Care must be taken not to shatter the hull and risk losing some of the grain. Combines designed for wheat harvest (described later in this chapter), as welt as sickles and knives, may be used for harvesting rice. However, tools designed by CeCoCo in Japan are specifically for rice harvest and are described as follows.
This is an adjustable, hand-pushed rice cutter which promises to make the work of men, women, or children five times faster than when using a hand sickle. A 20-inch wide cradle collects the stalks as they are cut.
This tool will reap slightly more than Vio acre per hour. The blade is easily detached for cleaning and sharpening. The operator uses both arms to power this toot and stands in an almost erect position. This technique is easy on workers and gives them the power to easily cut through stalks, even thick-cropped rice plants, leaving them grouped and ready for sheaves.
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This is a lightweight tool designed to cut wheat or rice stalks at a rate of i/A acre per hour. It is made of steel pipe and is powered by a li/2 h p., air-cooled engine.
The reciprocating mower is a high-speed machine which has largely superceded the scythe for cutting grass and forage crops, even for small acreages. Cutting close to the ground, it is especially valuable for harvesting badly laid cereal crops. Avoiding the chopping and shredding action of forage mowers, reciprocating mowers do not disturb the kernel or separate it from its husk. Left intact, threshing and cleaning procedures can be saved until a convenient time after the crop is safely delivered to the barn.
The cutting mechanism of a reciprocating mower.
can be either an animal-drawn or ground-driven machine, have its own power unit (motor mower), or be a front end or side attachment for a two- or four-wheel tractor.
When animal-drawn, the large land wheel rotating on the ground as the animal draws the machine forward provides the power to operate the mower knives through the gearbox and the pitman. For the tractor-drawn types, the power to operate the machine is obtained from the tractor engine. The tractor-drawn mower can be hitched to the tractor in a number of ways.


Rameau ennobled by Louis XV and admitted to the Ordre de Saint-Michel.
Rameau suffering from a 'putrid fever accompanied by scurvy'.
Rameau's letters patent of nobility registered at the Parlement de Paris (supreme court of justice).
Death of Rameau at his home, rue des Bons-Enfants.
Rameau buried in the cemetery of his parish church of St Eustache.
Official inventory of the joint estate of Jean-Philippe Rameau and Marie-Louise Mangot.
First memorial service celebrated at the church of the Oratorians, rue St Honoré.
Rameau leaves 193,720 livres, a considerable sum, to be shared between his widow, Marie-Louise Mangot, and her two surviving children, Claude-François and Marie-Alexandrine.
Second memorial service held at the church of the Carmelite fathers 'near the Luxembourg'.
Third memorial service held at the Oratoire.
Marriage contract for Marie-Alexandrine Rameau and François-Marie de Gaultier signed at the Rameau home, rue des Bons-Enfants. Among the signatories: M. le Maréchal Duc de Richelieu, M. le Duc de Choiseul-Praslin and Jean-Benjamin de Laborde. Marie-Alexandrine to receive a dowry of 100,000 livres from her mother.
First revival of Castor et Pollux (second version) at the Académie royale de musique.
Third revival of Les Fêtes d'Hébé ou Les Talents lyriques at the Académie royale de musique.
First revival of Naïs at the Académie royale de musique.
Partial revival of Les Fêtes d'Hébé ou Les Talents lyriques ('La Danse' and 'La Musique') at Versailles in the Théâtre de la Cour de Princes.
Rehearsal (but no performance) of Abaris ou Les Boréades at the Académie royale de musique.
Rameau's Vérités également ignorées et intéressantes tirées du sein de la nature published in Paris.
Last hours of happiness for the royal family before the deaths of the Dauphin (1765), the Dauphine (1767) and the queen, Marie Leszczyńska (1768).
Death of Locatelli in Amsterdam.
Haydn composes his Symphony no. 22, 'The Philosopher'.
Dauvergne obtains the reversion of Francœur's position as surintendant of the Musique de la Chambre.
Académie royale de musique transferred temporarily to the Théâtre des Tuileries (also known as the Salle des Machines), after modifications by Soufflot.
Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique portatif published in Geneva.


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Mongolian Government Visits Bithumb, New BTM, Hardware Wallet
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Meanwhile, hacked crypto exchange Coinrail has launched an international service for non-Korean customers, and a US bitcoin ATM operator plans to enter the Korean market.
In South Korea, Bithumb was visited by officials of the Mongolian government. Upbit is offering free training leading up to its developer conference. A public company has unveiled a hardware wallet as it enters the crypto space.
Mongolian Government Officials Visit Bithumb
Senior officials of the Mongolian government visited Bithumb's headquarters on August 16, local media reported. They were trying to determine the feasibility of using blockchain and cryptocurrency in solar energy businesses in Mongolia.
The Korea Economic Daily elaborated:
What they have focused on is the possibility of virtual currency remittance and payment functions and blockchain technology. Mongolia is seeking to utilize blockchains and virtual currency to activate new energy projects such as solar power generation at the government level.
"With the visit of high-ranking officials of the government, it is possible that Bithumb will pursue a business alliance with the Mongolian government or establish a local corporation", the publication noted.
Ksign Launching Hardware Wallet
Ksine's CEO, Choi Seung-rak, introducing Touch x Wallet.
Kosdaq-listed company Ksine Inc. has commenced its cryptocurrency business with the launch of a hardware wallet called Touch x Wallet, the company announced on August 16.
Touch x Wallet uses locally developed fingerprint authentication technology and has a built-in battery. It can store up to 10 cryptocurrencies – including bitcoin, ether, and ripple – which the company plans to expand to about 50 by the second half of next year, Cctvnews reported. The wallet also has high-resolution electronic paper (e-paper) to display QR codes of addresses and allows users to check their balances.
Upbit's Crypto Training and Developer Conference
Dunamu Inc, the operator of South Korea's major crypto exchange Upbit, announced on August 16 that it is holding a free crypto and blockchain training for the public on September 12. This is a pre-program leading to Upbit Developer Conference which will take place on September 13 and 14 at the Jeju Creative Economy and Innovation Center.
The class consists of two parts. The first focuses on the origin and history of blockchain and cryptocurrency. The second focuses on the theory and practice of blockchain including the basic understanding of Ethereum and Lambda chain, solidity and Dapp development, and smart contracts.
Recently, the governor of Jeju Island requested the central government to designate the island a special zone for blockchains and cryptocurrency.
Coinrail Launches International Service
Coinrail, which was hacked on June 10 and resumed services on July 15, announced last week that it has officially launched the Coinrail international service for non-Korean users. Foreigners can now access the exchange's crypto-to-crypto markets. The service is available in English.
Coinme Rolling out Bitcoin ATMs in Korea
U.S. bitcoin ATM (BTM) operator Coinme revealed on August 16 that it is "seeking to roll out its service in Korea before the year-end", the Investor reported.
Currently, the company's ATMs are in 67 locations across the U.S., the new outlet noted, adding that "Coinme said it is eying Asia as the next spot for expansion, specifically focusing on Korea and other countries in the region, including Hong Kong and Singapore."
CEO Neil Bergquist was quoted saying:
We have seen really promising interest in Coinme from Korea…There's a large and sophisticated cryptocurrency community which understands the potential of a token tied to real world applications.
"The Coinme ecosystem also seeks to offer massively reduced transaction costs, so we see real synergies with the Korean market", he added.
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Emmanuel Mutai Arrives As One Of The World's Best
Mutai Gets First Major Win & First 2:04 Of His Career, As Former World #1 Martin Lel Surprisingly Takes 2nd In 1st Marathon Since 2008 Olympics
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The bridesmaid finally caught the bouquet at the 2011 Virgin London Marathon, as Kenya's Emmanuel Mutai, who had finished second in his last three marathons, got the win in incredibly impressive fashion, running away from the field thanks to a pair of 4:30 miles for miles 21 and 22 (mile 22 was actually 4:31), enabling him to go on to set a new course record 2:04:40 (previous course record was 2:05:10) and become the 4th-fastest performer (5th-fastest performance) in human history.
The win was much deserved from Mutai - whom we called the newest "Mr. Silver" in our race preview - as coming into the race, he'd had developed a history of running incredibly well in the world's best marathons but not finding a way to win. In addition to his three straight runner-ups at three of the most competitive marathons on the planet in last year's New York, last year's London and the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Mutai had run six majors in a row and finished in the top six every time but with zero wins to his credit.
Even more deserved than Mutai's win was the resurgent and surprising 2nd-place finish by three-time London and two-time New York champion Martin Lel, who was running in his first marathon since the 2008 Olympics. The injury-plagued Lel only joined the elite field as a replacement for Sammy Wanjiru at the end of March.
An incredibly stacked men's elite field started the race at 9:45 AM under very good conditions, as it was largely a windless, albeit a touch warm (race temperatures have been reported to have gone from 59 to 65 degrees Fahrenheit) day that greeted the competitors. A strong pace was set from the very get-go. A lead pack of twelve that included two pacemakers, as well as American marathon debutant Mo Trafeh, went through 10k in 29:24 (2:04:03 marathon pace, although it should be pointed out that the course loses more than 100 feet in elevation during the first 10k). A little after 15k, Trafeh was dropped by the lead group, as a pack of 11 (including the two pacesetters) went through 20k in 59:29 (30:05 2nd 10k) and halfway in 62:44-45. At 30k (1:29:21 - 29:52 3rd 10k), when the last pacemaker called it a day, the lead pack of nine was all together and everyone was on 2:05:40 pace.
Given that such a large contingent of guys were still together and given the fact that the nine in the lead pack were a who's who of marathoning royalty, it seemed likely that fans were about to witness something special. Listed below are the credentials of the "Magnificent 9" that were in the lead group at 30 km:
Tsegaye Kebede - Defending champ
Emmanuel Mutai - 3rd in last three world marathon majors, ultimate winner
Abel Kirui - 2009 World champ
Martin Lel - 3-time London, 2 time NY champ
James Kwambai - 2nd-fastest Kenyan in history, 2:04:27 PR
Marilson Gomes dos Santos - Two-time ING New York champ
Abderrahime Bouramdane - 4th last year, 2:07:33 PR
Patrick Makau - World-ranked #1 in 2010, 2:04:58 avg. for 2010
Jaouad Gharib - 2003 & 2005 World champ, 2008 Olympic silver medallist.
With so many studs so close together, it seemed that a battle to the tape was likely in store. Instead, the race for all practical purposes would soon be over, as after Kebede initially accelerated to get the lead group down to six, Mutai threw down a 4:30 21st mile that gave him a big lead. He followed that up with a 4:31 22nd mile, which was more than enough to break everyone in the field's spirits, as the two men that tried to come with Mutai - world-ranked #1 Patrick Makau and three-time champ Martin Lel - were soon left to battle it out for 2nd. After the 22nd mile, it was a race against the clock for Mutai, and soon it was easy to see why.
The Greatest 10km Stretch Ever Run In A Marathon?
Mutai steamed past the 40 km in 1:58:05, meaning he covered the fourth 10k of the course in a ridiculous 28:44 - that's 2:01:14 marathon pace for that stretch - unofficially the greatest fourth 10km stretch ever run in the history of the marathon. For comparison's sake, realize when Haile Gebrselassie set his world record of 2:03:59, he covered the 30 km to 40 km stretch in 29:09. Mutai was some 25 seconds better.
Mutai barely slowed over the final 2.2 km, as he was on 2:04:34 pace at 40k and finished in 2:04:40 to get his first London and World Major Marathon (WMM) win in his fourth try in London and seventh WMM.
"I so much wanted to win a major marathon and this time I did it," Mutai said to race organizers after the race. "Now I can say I am a great marathon runner because I achieved two goals at once - I won London and I ran 2:04."
The battle between the resurgent Lel and Makau for second wasn't decided until the final 40 meters, as after a cat-and-mouse waiting game over most of the final straight, Lel exploded past Makau four or five seconds before the line to get a much-deserved 2nd place finish, with both clocked in 2:05:45.
"I am a little bit surprised," the late addition Lel beamed after the race. "I thought I could run 2:10 and maybe finish in the top 10. I didn't think about the top two, it is way beyond what I expected."
Lel's runner-up finish was heartwarming, but the day clearly belonged to Mutai, who was simply spectacular. If Mutai had had competition late in the race, he might have run the 2nd-fastest marathon of all time, as the #2 time in history is a 2:04:26 by Gebrselassie, and the #2 performer sits at 2:04:27. The 1:05 margin of victory for Mutai was the race's largest in 15 years, as in 1986, Japan's Toshihiko Seko beat Brit Hugh Jones in 1986 by 1:42.
Mo Trafeh's Rookie Mistake
The fourth-place finisher was two-time New York winner Marilson Gomes dos Santos, who showed that he's not just made for the New York course, lowering his PR from 2:08:37 to 2:06:24, while the defending champion Kebede ended up 5th in 2:07:48.
What happened to the American Trafeh, you say? Well, he paid dearly for making the classic rookie marathoner's blunder - going too fast at the beginning. He was a DNF before the 25 km mark. Trafeh wasn't the only American first-timer who went out way too fast, as Patrick Smyth also ended up as a DNF after a 63:51 1st half. The third American rookie in the race in Stephen Shay also abandoned the race after going through halfway in 66:36.
The top American at the finish (almost by default, although he did run pretty well) was Jason Lehmkuhle (whose name was misspelled by the London organizers as Lehmkhule), who finished 13th in 2:13:40. Lehmkuhle, who sports a best time of 2:12:24 from last year's Boston, went out at a pace that might give him the first 2:10 or 2:11 of his career, as he hit 13.1 in 65:42. But he faded, particularly from 40k to the finish, as at 40k, he was on 2:13:03 pace.
Top 25 results appear below. Video highlights at bottom.
1 1 1 � Mutai, Emmanuel (KEN) 8 18-39 01:02:44 02:04:40
2 2 2 � Lel, Martin (KEN) 27 18-39 01:02:45 02:05:45
3 3 3 � Makau, Patrick (KEN) 3 18-39 01:02:45 02:05:45
4 4 4 � Dos Santos, Marlison Gomes (BRA) 13 18-39 01:02:45 02:06:34
5 5 5 � Kebede, Tsegaye (ETH) 1 18-39 01:02:44 02:07:48
6 6 6 � Gharib, Jaouad (MAR) 7 18-39 01:02:45 02:08:26
7 7 7 � Bouramdane, Abderrahime (MAR) 10 18-39 01:02:45 02:08:42
8 8 8 � Safronov, Dmitry (RUS) 15 18-39 01:03:50 02:09:35
9 9 9 � Bat-Ochir, Serod (MGL) 18 18-39 01:03:50 02:11:35
10 10 10 � Shelley, Mike (AUS) 20 18-39 01:05:51 02:11:38
11 11 11 � Rothlin, Viktor (SUI) 9 18-39 01:03:50 02:12:44
12 12 12 � Cordero, Carlos (MEX) 41 18-39 01:05:47 02:13:13
13 13 13 � Lehmkhule, Jason (USA) 19 18-39 01:05:42 02:13:40
14 14 14 � Merrien, Lee (GBR) 34 18-39 01:06:37 02:14:27
15 15 15 � Lemoncello, Andrew (GBR) 22 18-39 01:05:51 02:15:24
16 16 16 � Martinez, Jose Manuel (ESP) 12 18-39 01:04:44 02:15:25
17 17 17 � Faurschou, Jesper (DEN) 833 18-39 01:08:00 02:16:15
18 18 18 � Luna, Tomas (MEX) 47 18-39 01:05:51 02:16:58
19 19 19 � Webb, Dave (GBR) 32 18-39 01:06:37 02:17:41
20 20 20 � Vargas, Daniel (MEX) 43 18-39 01:05:47 02:19:26
21 21 21 � GILBERT, JOHN J (GBR) 754 18-39 01:09:42 02:19:28
22 22 22 � WAY, STEVEN J (GBR) 735 18-39 01:09:13 02:19:39
23 23 23 � VERMEESCH, PIETER (GBR) 919 18-39 01:09:13 02:19:45
24 24 24 � NATALI, PAOLO (GBR) 709 18-39 01:09:05 02:19:53
25 25 1 � Cuahutle, Odilon (MEX) 44 40-44 01:06:37 02:19:57
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