Raising the Bar – Stunning Environmental Portraits. For the Love of It.
by Gavin Seim: I received an email from a PPS listener Jonathan Bielaski of Light Imaging in Canada. He just started a great personal project called For the Love of It where he's finding interesting people and doing environmental portraits that tell something about them. I wanted to share because he's doing it quire well.
Another twist is that he's staying away from heavy Photoshop work and working with tools we had from the darkroom days like burn and dodge. Way to go Jonathan. As you clearly know, good light and the basic tools work like nothing else.
It's a neat project and they're making some beautiful portraits from it. Jonathan says they plan to have a gallery showing of the results in the future. I think it would make and amazing series of wall portraits to really showcase these people. That's the beauty of an environmental portrait. It's a portrait and a piece of art and those are the sort of items that become heirlooms.


Hiipakka, Marko, Tikander, Miikka & Karjalainen, Matti. Modeling of external ear acoustics for insert headphone usage. Report no. 2009 12 / Helsinki University of Technology TKK, Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics. Espoo, Finland, November 2009.
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Lampio, Eero. Gradual-Transition Wedge-Shaped Absorption Structure. Julkaisu 25 / Helsingin teknillinen korkeakoulu, akustiikan laboratorio. TKK, Otaniemi, 1981.
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Ernesto builds agent-based models: computer simulations of social systems. These computational models can be used to test the effects of policies and changes in behaviour in a flexible but systematic fashion.
Ernesto's current research focuses on building an agent-based model of California's demersal fisheries, with an eye to improve stock management and long-term profitability. Fisheries are often the epitome of the tragedy of the commons and their management is often haphazard and contradictory. In particular it is often the case that the implementation of one policy results in fishers adapting to it and either circumventing it entirely or producing unwanted side-effects. Our model can predict these adaptations and use this knowledge to propose "optimal" policies.
Before this Ernesto worked on zero-knowledge traders: small PID based agents that are plug-and-play components for most economic agent-based models.
Bailey, R.M., Carrella, E., Axtell, R., Burgess, M.G., Cabral, R.B., Drexler, M., Dorsett, C., Madsen, J.K., Merkl, A. and Saul, S. (2018) A computational approach to managing coupled human–environmental systems: the POSEIDON model of ocean fisheries. Sustainability Science.
Carrella, E., Bailey, R.M. and Madsen, J.K. (2018) Indirect inference through prediction..
Carrella, E. (2015) Modeling Adaptive Economic Agents With PID Controllers. Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study Mason Publishing Group, George Mason University.


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Change Agent: John Gingrich
John Gingrich's experiences at Adler University inspired him to bring art therapy and large-scale public art together to create change in his community. A student in the Master of Counselling Psychology: Art Therapy program in Vancouver, he recently planned and painted a mural with local youth and young adults who have been affected by the opioid epidemic.
The mural was created through Drive Youth Employment Services (D-Yes), which helps people 16 to 30 who face barriers to employment receive free access to services that further their job prospects. Gingrich has been completing his second-year clinical practicum at D-Yes, working with youth one-on-one and in a weekly art program called Make It, which he runs with Cassandra Evans, M.A. '16.
"Building connections with people at D-Yes has been very fulfilling," Gingrich said. "Everybody has so much creativity and openness that they bring in to our sessions and our groups."
Gingrich describes the mural process as six months of team solidarity and collaboration. He worked with six youth throughout each step of the painting process, from ideation to writing a proposal to the city of Vancouver to projecting and tracing the design on the wall to painting. The youth were trained and certified on boom and scissor lifts, adding to their job skills.
The mural depicts a mix of natural elements held within a baroque frame. "This represents the balance between nature, the indigenous peoples of the land, and the Italian presence within the Grandview-Woodland neighborhood of Vancouver," Gingrich said.
"The words inspiration, creativity, connection, and compassion are reminders of what we strive for in our group and in our community. The hummingbird shows the freedom that comes from healing and gives a sense of hope for those currently struggling with addiction."
All of the youth were paid for their work on the project thanks to a grant from the city of Vancouver, which also provided funding for painting materials and primed the wall.
The participants now "have a sense of pride about this giant painting they created, knowing that is has a positive message and peaceful imagery that provides hope for people still suffering from addiction," Gingrich said.
Throughout his classwork at Adler University, Gingrich realized that the primary cause of addiction is trauma and lack of connection.
"To combat the isolation that causes and is perpetuated by substance abuse, it is paramount that people come together and unite with something of mutual interest, in this case, art," Gingrich said. "Projects like this help people achieve a common goal of healing, collectively."
Gingrich, whose grandfather was a student of Adler University founder Rudolf Dreikurs' in the 1960s, said the University has been integral in leading him to this community work. "Adler has opened the door for so many opportunities of working with communities. The socially engaged framework guides me to be as useful as possible, doing all I can to benefit others and to create change."
Remembering Our Founders
Using Poverty Simulation to Better Understand Marginalized Communities
Harold Mosak and Bernard Shulman met in the 1940s, through Rudolf Dreikurs, the influential Viennese psychiatrist and educator who immigrated to Chicago.
On the Front Lines
Adler Community Is Addressing Overdose Epidemic Head-On
Creating Virtual Connections for Veterans
Denise Dailey, M.A. '16, a Chicago Campus Clinical Psychology (Psy.D.) student, is helping veterans in transitional housing on Chicago's West Side stay connected during the pandemic through telehealth services.

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I'm the author of three novels set in the Italian Renaissance, "Bring Me Giants!", "The Outcasts," and "Raphaella di Piero." I translated the French adventure story that inspired the young Ayn Rand, "The Mysterious Valley" (Atlantean Press, 1994). My fiction and non-fiction have appeared in "The Atlantean Press Review" and "The Intellectual Activist." Student of Objectivism since 1966; had the wonderful pleasure of meeting Ayn Rand in 1971! I recently discovered--and donated to the Ayn Rand Archives--both French children's magazines that the young Ayn Rand subscribed to.
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FIGHT TYRANNY! NULLIFY! CONTACT YOUR STATE LEGISLATORS TODAY!
The Founding Fathers, in the ratification debates and in Thomas Jefferson's Kentucky Resolutions, were CLEAR: citizens, acting through their state governments, DO have the right--some said even the duty--to oppose usurpations by the national government. And what could be a worse usurpation than seizing the literal power of life and death over us, deciding when we or our loved ones have "loved long enough"?
Thomas Jefferson, on Usurpations of Power :
"Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force." --Thomas Jefferson: Draft Kentucky Resolutions, 1798. Memorial Edition 17:380
"[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force." --Thomas Jefferson: Draft Kentucky Resolutions, 1798. Memorial Edition 17:383
"Where powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy." --Thomas Jefferson: Draft Kentucky Resolutions, 1798. Memorial Edition 17:386
"[The States] alone being parties to the [Federal] compact... [are] solely authorized to judge in the last resort of the powers exercised under it, Congress being not a party but merely the creation of the compact and subject as to its assumptions of power to the final judgment of those by whom and for whose use itself and its powers were all created and modified." --Thomas Jefferson: Draft Kentucky Resolutions, 1798. ME 17:387
"The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself, since that would have made its discretion and not the Constitution the measure of its powers; but... as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress." --Thomas Jefferson: Draft Kentucky Resolutions, 1798. ME 17:380
Quotations from from: http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/index.html
Thomas Jefferson, on how to construe the Constitution:
"I say... to the opinion of those who consider the grant of the treaty-making power as boundless: If it is, then we have no Constitution. If it has bounds, they can be no others than the definitions of the powers which that instrument gives." --Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Nicholas, 1803. ME 10:419
"The construction applied... to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate to Congress a power "to lay and collect taxes, duties, imports, and excises, to pay the debts, and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States," and "to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers vested by the Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof," goes to the destruction of all limits prescribed to [the General Government's] power by the Constitution... Words meant by the instrument to be subsidiary only to the execution of limited powers ought not to be construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument." --Thomas Jefferson: Draft Kentucky Resolutions, 1798. ME 17:385
You'll notice that this is the EXACT OPPOSITE of the approach used to force the fascist/socialist obamacare "law" down our throats.
NULLIFY!
From the Tenth Amendment Center:
"Who is really behaving lawlessly here? A federal government that refuses to operate within its delegated powers, and rips authority away from the states and the people? Or the states, working through legitimate democratic processes, saying, 'No!' we don't accept this? I would argue it's the federal government that's in rebellion, and it's time for the states to put a check on illegitimate federal power."
http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2012/06/28/what-next-nullify/#more-12960
http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2012/05/09/an-effective-method-to-restore-due-process/
Federal Health Care Nullification Act
The following is Tenth Amendment Center approved legislation to nullify federal overreach into the health care industry. Activists, we encourage you to send this to your state senators and representatives – and ask them to introduce this legislation in your state.
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CLICK HERE – to download the Tenth Amendment Center's Nullification Talking Points brochure (.pdf): http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/wp-content/uploads/documents/talkingpoints/Nullification-Brochure.pdf
An Act to render null and void certain unconstitutional laws enacted by the Congress of the United States, taking control over the health insurance industry and mandating that individuals purchase health insurance under threat of penalty.
SECTION 1. The legislature of the State of ____________ finds that:
1. The People of the several states comprising the United States of America created the federal government to be their agent for certain enumerated purposes, and nothing more.
2. The Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution defines the total scope of federal power as being that which has been delegated by the people of the several states to the federal government, and all power not delegated to the federal government in the Constitution of the United States is reserved to the states respectively, or to the people themselves.
3. The assumption of power that the federal government has made by enacting the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" interferes with the right of the People of the State of _____________ to regulate health care as they see fit, and makes a mockery of James Madison's assurance in Federalist #45 that the "powers delegated" to the Federal Government are "few and defined", while those of the States are "numerous and indefinite."
SECTION 2. NEW LAW
A new section of law to be codified in the [sTATE] Statutes as Section [NUMBER] of Title [NUMBER], unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The Legislature of the State of _______________ declares that the federal law known as the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," signed by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010, is not authorized by the Constitution of the United States and violates its true meaning and intent as given by the Founders and Ratifiers, and is hereby declared to be invalid in this state, shall not be recognized by this state, is specifically rejected by this state, and shall be considered null and void and of no effect in this state.
B. It shall be the duty of the legislature of this State to adopt and enact any and all measures as may be necessary to prevent the enforcement of the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" within the limits of this State.
C. Any official, agent, or employee of the United States government or any employee of a corporation providing services to the United States government that enforces or attempts to enforce an act, order, law, statute, rule or regulation of the government of the United States in violation of this act shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction must be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), or a term of imprisonment not exceeding five (5) years, or both.
D. Any public officer or employee of the State of ____________ that enforces or attempts to enforce an act, order, law, statute, rule or regulation of the government of the United States in violation of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding two (2) years or by a fine not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or both such fine and imprisonment.
E. Any aggrieved party shall also have a private action against any person violating the provisions of subsections © or (D).
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
From http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/legislation/federal-health-care-nullification-act/
ruveyn ben yosef 0
Are we ready for another Civil War?
ruveyn
Nullification is NOT the same thing as civil war.
States resisted the Alien and Sedition Acts without a civil war.
States resisted the Fugitive Slave Laws without a civil war. (Although southern states such as South Carolina a few years later cited the widespread northern resistance to the Fugitive Slave Laws as a reason for their seceding.)
See http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2012/05/09/an-effective-method-to-restore-due-process/
States are now resisting unconstitutional NDAA Indefinite Detention and obamacare, without a civil war.
The Founding Fathers COUNTED on us to resist federal tyranny.
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Location:Trescott, ME; Concord, MA
See http://tenthamendmen...re-due-process/
http://tenthamendmen...re-due-process/
Most of the impositions are imposed on individuals and businesses directly by the Federal government with the IRS inflicting penalties for non-compliance. How do state refusals to go along help against that?
When State officials are arrested for non-compliance and tried for insurrection what do you think the result will be?
CICEROSC 0
Excellent posts, Bill. I fully agree with your point, which according to my research is historically correct. Whenever I read the knee-jerk reaction that nulliification equals "civil war" or "revolution," and that therefore it can't even be contemplated, I just shake my head at how far we have fallen from the courage of the founders of this country.
Here's an excellent article written by someone who was there at the time which traces traced the history of the development of the "Consolidation" problem. Thomas Cooper MD was an English immigrant and close friend of Thomas Jeffferson, and Cooper's work both on politics and religion was excellent. During the nullification crisis Cooper was one of the intellectual leaders, and later after the religionists forced him out as president of the University of South Carolina because he would not conform to the Calvinist orthodoxy, he was retained by the legislature to publish a new edition of the statutes of the state. He used the opportunity to include with that publication many outstanding documents that go into great detail about the history of the Constitutional period and the development of the federalist / antifederalist confrontation. That work is a great resource and is available free at google books here. But as an introduction to Cooper's work it's hard to be the first article I linked, "Consolidation." That article also serves as a great introduction to the history of why it is incredible that a number of Objectivists hold Alexander Hamilton in such high regard, as he is among the real villains of the "general welfare" argument that has led uss to Obamacare and many other disasters.
Nate Smith 0
Location:Wisconsin, USA
I think there's a very small chance of a governor refusing to implement Obamacare being arrested. If one governor did decide to do this, it's very likely that a number of others would follow. And I don't believe Obama has it in him to go after all them (or even one of them). He knows this legislation is very unpopular. The leftist statists function much more subversively than overtly, and they're counting on the cowardice of the republicans (which they usually can) along with the ignorance and apathy of the citizens. Going after states and their governors would knock too many citizens out of that apathy, and they know it.
Nullification is a card they don't expect their opponents to play, and they don't have it in their playbook to fight this issue in open terms on center stage.
I hope you are right. But I can not underestimate the mendacity and baseness of neo-fascistoids like Obama and his buddies.
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PM Albanese "will be coming" to Alice Springs but Peter Dutton says it won't be soon enough
The prime minister "will reach 'Alice Springs' in the near future," his team says, while the opposition is calling for a bipartisan approach to crack down on the besieged city as a matter of urgency.
The opposition is pressuring the government to tackle what it says is the country's "biggest problem" at the moment.
Sky News reports that Anthony Albanese will indeed visit Alice Springs on Tuesday, along with Northern Territory Chief Minister Natasha Fyles and other members of the Federal Labor Party.
This has yet to be confirmed by the Prime Minister's Office.
Northern Territory Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker said the federal government "needs to be at the table" as the situation in Alice Springs reaches crisis levels.
Every night, hundreds of children unable to return home roam the streets drinking alcohol and committing crimes.
The so-called liquor ban expired last year, meaning domestic, family and sexual violence has also skyrocketed.
Locals report feeling unsafe in their own beds due to an increase in violent home invasions.
As the crisis threatens to undermine the government's Voice ambitions, Peter Dutton had asked why Mr Albanese would not travel to the city with him "today" and take a bipartisan approach to the issue.
Instead, Government Services Secretary Bill Shorten said Mr Albanese would "get there in the near future".
Mr Dutton – who has been accused of toying with the issue of politics – has called on the Government to deploy the Australian Federal Police and other services to restore law and order.
He also said the government should urgently reintroduce alcohol bans – although the NT premier said she would not support a "race-based" intervention.
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"It's not a race thing. It's a law and order and crime issue… and the Prime Minister has the resources, the ability and should show the leadership to deal with it," he told the Nine Network.
On Monday, Lingiari MP Marion Scrymgour broke with her party, saying the crisis in Alice Springs threatened to undermine the vote.
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LEstació de Sanremo (en italià: Stazione di Sanremo) és la principal estació de ferrocarril de Sanremo a Itàlia. Va ser inaugurat el 2001 per reemplaçar l'antiga estació de la via original del ferrocarril.

L'estació va ser inaugurada el 27 de setembre de 2001, simultàniament amb la nova secció entre Bordighera i Imperia, en el túnel i doble vies del ferrocarril Gènova-Ventimiglia, en detriment de l'antic via única que va córrer per la costa, reconstruïda com a ruta del cicloturisme.

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Dr. Dorsey Odell Blake, Presiding Minister
was officially installed as Presiding Minister of The Church for The Fellowship of All Peoples in October, 1994. During Dr. Blake's installation service, Mrs. Sue Bailey (Howard) Thurman presented Dr.Thurman's robe – which had not been worn since his death – to Dr. Blake as a symbol of her trust in his leading the congregation "so that there will be no past greater than our future."
Dr. Blake is presently Faculty Associate at Pacific School of Religion after serving there from 2015-2018 as Visiting Associate Faculty. He recently joined the faculty of the Dale P. Andrews Freedom Seminary at Children's Defense Fund's Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry. Dr. Blake served on the faculty of Starr King School for the Ministry for nine years, six of them as Dean of Faculty. He resigned from Starr King in January 2015.
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Dr. Blake served as the Director of the Center for Urban-Black Studies at the Graduate Theological Union and Core Faculty Member at the GTU; Co-Director, United Campus Ministry, The Ohio University, Athens; and, Program Director of the Howard Thurman Educational Trust, San Francisco. He was also the first full-time Black male professor at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1972-77 where he taught in the Religious Studies Department and designed a major in Black Studies.
He received the A.B. in Sociology from Brown University, M.A. from Pacific School of Religion and the Center for Urban-Black Studies, M.Div. from Pacific School of Religion, and D.Min. from United Theological Seminary in Dayton, OH. Dr. Blake has conducted seminars and workshops locally and nationally, including one with Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi. He is the recipient of numerous community service awards, including the first Martin Luther King Award for his work with International Students while at The Ohio University where he established the International Students Emergency Fund; The Negro Spirituals Heritage Keepers Award, Friends of Negro Spirituals, 2008; the Faculty, Staff Support Award, Afro-American Association, The University of Alabama, 1977, 1976, 1973, 1972 ( the only times the award was presented); and the Distinguished Alum Award from Pacific School of Religion, 2007. He received academic grants from the Fund for Theological Education and the Danforth Foundation.
He has extensive field ministry experience with interfaith groups addressing justice and peace issues, including the California People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, The Interfaith Alliance for Prison Reform, Genesis, Religious Witness with Homeless People, and The San Francisco Interfaith Council, speaking to small audiences and rallies that have drawn over 200,000 people. In May – June 2000, he traveled to Morocco with an interfaith delegation of Muslims, Jews, and Christians in a quest to promote interfaith respect and cooperation. In October 2010 he met His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and served on an interfaith panel responding to his teachings. He is currently a member of the National Council of Elders and a member of the Advisory Board of Ethics in Tech.
Rev. Dr. Kathryn Benton, Co-Minister
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Before coming to Fellowship Church, Kathryn worked for years in the Episcopal Church in youth ministry, worship design, pastoral care, and lay ministry. Kathryn earned her Master's and Doctor of Ministry Degree at the University of Creation Spirituality in Oakland. She also holds an MA in Counseling Psychology.
Kathryn worked for many years in a family literacy program and in homeless services in both the East Bay and in San Francisco. She currently works as a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor at a Medication Assisted Treatment Program.
Rev. Martin Todd Allen, Associate Minister
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Rev. Elizabeth Olson, M.Div, BCC,
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was ordained by Fellowship Church in 2013. She has been serving on the Board of Trustees since 2016 where she chairs the Minister's Advisory Committee and co-facilitated the inaugural Dorsey O. Blake Forum for Social Transformation. In 2014 Liz began the Second Sunday Social Justice Film Series for the Fellowship community. She lives now in Oregon where she works as a Board Certified Palliative Care Chaplain for Providence Medford Medical Center. She is very active with Southern Oregon Climate Action Now where she serves on the Board and has created a documentary project - Voices of the Valley - about the impacts of climate change. Known previously as Libby Zilber, she worked with San Francisco's Theatre of Yugen and as a member of the ceramics collective Kelly Avenue Potters in Half Moon Bay. She earned her Masters of Divinity from Starr King School for the Ministry and her B.A in French and Theater from Lawrence University.
Rev. Suzi Spangenberg, Associate Minister
was ordained at Fellowship Church in 2015. She received her Master of Arts in Social Change Degree and the Master of Divinity Degree from Starr King School for the Ministry. While at Starr King, she held positions of great trust, including that of student representative to the Starr King Board of Trustees. Prior to and during her journey with Starr King, she gave creative and committed leadership to the Standing on the Side of Love Campaign against the draconian SB1070 Anti‐immigrants Bill in Arizona and provided anti-racism trainings to white congregations nationally. She is a long time social justice activist and organizer and is recognized for her excellence as a photographer and videographer. She participated in and documented the Occupy Movement nationally, and after being targeted and violently assaulted by Oakland Police, was one of 12 plaintiffs in a Federal lawsuit which helped force Oakland Police to change their crowd control policies. As an associate minister at Fellowship Church, she focuses on chaplaincy, media, and social justice.
Rev. Elena Rose Vera, Associate Minister
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Dr. Carl Blake, Director of Music
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Pianists: Gregory Lawrence • Carolyn Monk • Dr. Karen Melander-Magoon •
William "Bill" Quist • Organist: Lawrence Sumpter
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In conjunction with the 16 June Scholarship Awards Luncheon, the Fairfax-Lee Chapter conducted a general membership meeting and election of officers. Elected to the office of President was LTC (R) Ken Britt and to the office of First Vice President, Mrs. Kathy Callahan. Prior to the election LTC (R) Britt served on the Board of Directors as VP for Individual Membership. Mrs. Callahan will continue to serve as the Chairperson for the Chapter's Scholarship Committee.
The Chapter membership extends a huge thank you and congratulations to both Mr. John Hodges and Ms. Erika Laos, outgoing President and First Vice President, respectively. Both served with great distinction and dedication, ensuring the Chapter remained vibrant, viable and relevant. By their selfless service to AUSA and the Army they brought great credit to themselves, the chapter and the Soldiers, Civilians and family members they served.
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Q: VBA rounding values I am currently working on an excel spreadsheet that has hundreds of different graphs. My macro chooses the y axis values based on the minimum and maximum values of the data series. I am trying to round the min and max to numbers that make sense. For example if the minimum is 926.43 round to 900 and a max of 1223.21 round to 1300. It needs to be able to work for ranges of data where the min and max are single digits or they are in the millions. This is my code so far and it works in excel but Length always ends up being 6 whenever I run it in VBA. Any suggestions?
    Set srs = ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(1)
    Min = WorksheetFunction.Min(srs.Values)
    Max = WorksheetFunction.Max(srs.Values)

    Digits = Int(Max)
    Length = Len(Digits) - 2
    MinRound = WorksheetFunction.RoundDown(Min, -Length)
    MaxRound = WorksheetFunction.RoundUp(Max, -Length)

A: MRound is what you are looking for.
Dim i as integer
i = 1076
i = Application.worksheetFunction.MRound(i, 100)

That will produce i = 1100
You can use it to go to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, whatever.

A: I am using two custom functions as substitute to worksheetfunction.RoundUp and worksheetfunction.RoundDown. Place these two functions in a module.
Function RDown(Amount As Double, digits As Integer) As Double
          RDown = Int((Amount + (1 / (10 ^ (digits + 1)))) * (10 ^ digits)) / (10 ^ digits)
End Function

Function RUp(Amount As Double, digits As Integer) As Double
    RUp = RDown(Amount + (5 / (10 ^ (digits + 1))), digits)
End Function

RDown(262704615421,-9) = 262000000000  i.e. minimum
Rup(262704615421,-9)  = 263000000000   i.e. maximum

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Tom Tillar, vice president for alumni relations for 20 years before announcing plans to step down this fall, and Karen Roberto, a University Distinguished Professor and leader in the field of social gerontology, will deliver the keynote addresses at Virginia Tech's 2015 fall University and Graduate School Commencement ceremonies on Friday, Dec. 18.
Tillar will speak to undergraduate students at the University Ceremony, which begins with a procession at 10:30 a.m., and Roberto will speak at the Graduate School Ceremony which begins with a procession at 2:30 p.m.
Both ceremonies will be in Cassell Coliseum. Approximately 2,000 students will be honored for completing their academic degrees at the end of the summer and fall terms at the two events.
Tillar, a member of the Virginia Tech Class of 1969, began his career at the university in student union and Greek life programming in what is today the Division of Student Affairs. After completing graduate work, he joined the Virginia Tech Alumni Association staff in 1975 working with its chapters, reunions, and annual giving program.
He was named director of alumni relations when a new model for the association configured its staff in an alumni relations department. Also, as secretary-treasurer of the independent alumni association, Tillar serves as an officer of its executive committee and board.
In the mid-1990s, upon the retirement of Vice President for Alumni Relations George E. "Buddy" Russell, Tillar was appointed his successor, and held the position for the next 20 years.
During Tillar's career at Virginia Tech, the number of Hokie alumni grew from 40,000 to more than 240,000 today. During that period, the number of active alumni chapters nearly doubled.
Tillar served as interim senior vice president for advancement from February to July of this year, starting the integration of alumni relations, development, and university relations under a unified advancement model.
In January, Tillar will join the Pamplin College of Business as special assistant to Dean Robert Sumichrast.
This year, the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors awarded Roberto a University Distinguished Professorship — a rank bestowed on no more than 1 percent of Virginia Tech faculty whose scholarly attainments have attracted national and international recognition.
Early in her career, fresh out of Texas Tech University with a doctoral degree in human development, Roberto refined questionnaires, knocked on doors, and went into people's homes to get a sense of how their lives changed as they grew older. In the process, Roberto made discoveries about elder abuse, the unspoken effects of illnesses, and the hidden health conditions of aging people and their families — information she shares with Virginia Tech students and the world.
A family gerontologist with an eye for the social trappings of older people and their families, Roberto relies on natural curiosity and basic questions to get a clear picture of rural older women, family relationships and caregiving, elder abuse, and coping with chronic conditions such as osteoporosis, pain, falls, and cancer.
Roberto joined the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech in 1996 as the director of the Center for Gerontology. Roberto mentors undergraduate and graduate students and uses her position as a research administrator to mentor new and experienced faculty members. Dozens of Roberto's former students serve in leadership positions in community service organizations and academia across the United States.
In 2006 Roberto was named as the founding director of the Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, where she established an infrastructure to advance the university's extramural funding portfolio in the social sciences and humanities. Through individualized faculty attention, competitive grant and fellowship programs, creation of new centers and initiatives, and an affiliate network with more than 45 research centers, laboratories, and programs across Virginia Tech, the institute has expanded the university's social science research agenda.
Roberto has traveled around the world to inform medical and scientific audiences in Korea, Hong Kong, Australia, Turkey, Ireland, Costa Rica, and Canada about her discoveries.


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To say that Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight is the best comic book adaptation does the film a bit of a disservice. It may be a Batman film, but this isn't a kid-friendly action movie full of the bams and pows of the original series. This is a pitch-black thriller with enough drama and tragedy to please even William Shakespeare, but it will certainly keep both comics fans and uninitiated audiences equally happy. The Dark Knight starts in the wake of Batman Begins: with the appearance of Batman (Christian Bale), Gotham City's criminal underworld is unnerved. They're also plagued by the new D.A., Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), who, in his quest for justice, remains above the city's corruption. Enter a new villain, the Joker (Heath Ledger), who wants to unite the criminals for a common purpose: to kill Batman. The Dark Knight is one of the most hyped movies to date, and a lesser film would be crushed under the weight of all that expectation. Some of the publicity stems from the early death of Ledger, who turns in an excellent performance. He provides moments of humor, but this Joker is terrifying, sharing more with classic villains such as Hannibal Lecter than with his comic book predecessors. Eckhart is equally good as Dent, and Maggie Gyllenhaal deserves praise for taking over the role of Rachel Dawes from Katie Holmes. Though there's more emphasis on plot and character development than in most comic book adaptations, that doesn't mean Nolan has skimped on any of the action sequences. Each set piece is done perfectly, leaving the audience breathless. The Dark Knight is filmmaking at its best; its subject matter may be dark and depressing, but it's tough not to feel exhilarated by its artistry when the credits begin to roll. [www.rottentomatoes.com]
This is not merely a Batman movie. It is not merely a comic-book movie. It is not merely gripping summer entertainment. It is, with Wall-E, one of the two best mainstream films to be released all year and far and away the most hypnotic chiller.
-- Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle. Read this review.
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I just read John Rogers' AP report on the PR phenomenon that surrounds "Octomom", the California mother who successfully gave birth to eight babies last month. It seems the initial widespread news reporting of the "miracle" story has quickly given way to almost universal derision of the woman for her irresponsibilty in having more children and her attempts to gain financially from the story. Indeed, the mother's publicist, who had represented her for free, was forced to end his work with her after receiving death threats. Unbelievable.
But this example shows how quickly the double-edged PR sword can turn on you. If the mother had opted for privacy following the birth, the breaking news stories would have come and gone, she would likely have had to lie low for a few weeks until the buzz died down, and might then have been left in relative peace to get on with changing all those nappies. Instead, it appears she opted to capitalize on the PR, and is now paying the price for doing so. Ultimately, the realities of her full story did not meet with the same reaction as the initial focus on the miracle of eight surviving babies.
I'm not sure it would have made any difference to Octomom's situation, but there is a lesson to be taken from this. Focusing on a single key message, whether it be eight babies or a "world-first" technology, can be a tremendous way to generate headlines, but there always comes a point at which your story's surface will be scratched and the deeper details will be revealed. Whether you're planning a product launch, publishing the results of a study, or announcing a new business strategy, make sure that whole story stands up to scrutiny or the initial headlines will always be superceded by the truth.
Media train, but don't overdo it!
Last week was a particularly uncomfortable one for four ex-banking bigwigs here in the UK. They faced a public grilling from British MPs about their roles in the events that led to two of the country's biggest banks needing to be rescued with taxpayers' money.
The extensive media training that each received was widely reported on, and was even raised during the session itself. "Are you expressing sympathy because your PR advisers have told you to do so?" queried one MP.
Thank goodness not many PR folk will ever have to prepare their organisations to face such a high-profile public dressing-down, but media training is still an important element that serves its purpose well, no matter the profile of your company.
Unless you are partly responsible for the near-collapse of a major bank, you probably don't need to go through the kind of rigourous training that the four chaps in London doubtless endured in the lead up to the grilling. In general, media training should not lead to the detriment of personality.
The golden rule of speaking to the media centres on the fact that they can only print or broadcast what you tell them, so stay on message. Yes, certain subjects and situations require more focus on key messages than others, and the bigger you are, the more careful you need to be. For the majority of tech companies, however, building a successful ongoing rapport with their target media is just as important as ensuring your top three messages make it into print.
Stifling an engaging and entertaining orator to try and exert control over the resulting coverage will serve only to irritate the media or, at the very least, make for an unmemorable interview. Far better for the interviewer to encounter an executive who is happy to explore additional areas of discussion in a more casual manner. This may mean that you lose some of the focus of the message, but you'll have left behind a much happier reporter, and hopefully one who'll want to come back and talk again some time.
At inmedia, we frequently position ourselves against those whose perspective is that PR is "all about relationships." And, while I wholeheartedly stand by our mantra that it is the ability to convey a story and not the relationship that dictates PR success, it cannot be denied that relationships are still important. They are even more relevant from the perspective of a PR firm's clients than for the PR firm itself. PR firms come and go but, assuming a company sticks around, its relationship with its target media will last forever.
This week, one of my clients traveled to New York to meet face to face with a group of editors from a key trade publication that covers his company's market. Was this meeting at the request of the editors? No, we brokered it from our end. Was it for an article they were working on? No. So why was this meeting happening? Simple. It was for the relationship.
While our client had some exposure to the publication, the relationship was very much the domain of inmedia, the PR firm. This is, of course, perfectly understandable – the very reason you have a PR firm is to maintain your relationship with the media, and this remains a core part of our business – but huge value can be gained on all sides from extending the media relationship to include the client at a deeper level.
So what happened in this meeting in New York? Well, they shot the breeze. Discussed the state of the industry, talked a bit about the company and what was going on with it, but no hard pitches for stories, no Q&A, no pressure to come up with the goods.
So where was the value in this meeting, you might ask. Why not ask my client, who left the meeting full of enthusiasm for the people he had just met, and excited about the future prospects for working with them. Or why not ask the editors, who expressed delight at the meeting and a desire to do so again at some point in the near future. Value was seen on all sides from a meeting that accomplished little in hard results.
Sure, inmedia could have handled this meeting ourselves, but our preoccupation with achieving results for clients would no doubt have created a different atmosphere. Sometimes stepping back from the day-to-day hard selling of stories and constant attempts to generate coverage can result in a far more rewarding result – a blooming relationship.
Could recession spell the end for print?
Cautionary words from the Financial Times' chief exec, John Ridder, as Brand Republic reports today that the business newspaper giant is laying off 80 staff, while still intending to expand its online presence. Coupled with other recent news of woes at major newspapers, including the New York Times and Canada's Globe and Mail, one wonders if the writing is finally on the wall for print-based media.
Okay, maybe it's not that likely. Granted, there is still a significant demand from the public for a physical medium by which to consume the news, but the survival of news media depends on more than subscriptions. Advertising is the key, especially among the technology trade media, where the majority of print magazine titles are free to qualifying subscribers, but it seems that companies increasingly seem to prefer the online option when it comes to spending their advertising dollars in a downturn. Certainly, the consensus is that print advertising is set for significant decline this year.
Douglas McIntyre on 24/7 Wall Street seems to think there's a good chance that 2009 could see the end of a host of big names, with a drop in advertising seen as the key factor. "At least a dozen major magazines had ad page decreases of more than 20 per cent last year," he states.
Perhaps it's too early to speak of the death of print but, without advertising to support it and little sign of when this might change, the prospect becomes more real every day.
Embargos: What's all the fuss about?
Following Michael Arrington's pre-Christmas attack on PR embargoes, I think it's a topic that is still worth exploring, particularly for those unfamiliar with how to use them effectively.
Why would anyone agree to embargo a news story in the first place? An embargo is supposed to be a tool that makes things easier on the time-constrained reporters who cover breaking news, allowing them the time to build their story ahead of the release date. The company providing the embargo realizes the added benefit of helping insulate coverage of their story against the possible negative impact of bigger "on the day" news, and can also gain more detailed coverage as a result.
So it's like an exclusive? No. An exclusive is given to a single outlet, whereas an embargo is a set date and time for release of the news that can be agreed upon with any number of media.
But how can you ensure that the embargo is not broken? Herein lies the rub. An embargo is not a legally binding contract and is entirely based on trust. As such, embargoes should only be taken up with media that can be trusted to adhere to them.
The growing problem with using embargoes in today's online society is that there is now much more to be gained from breaking them. As Arrington explains, "Traffic and links flow in to whoever breaks an embargo first." This added incentive to break the agreement means that the trust element is ever more important.
So, are embargoes no longer a worthwhile option for the PR professional? On the contrary, I would argue that they are still just as useful as they have ever been. The point is not to use an embargo without due care and attention. Sending a news story to 50 media contacts with "Embargoed until…" marked on the header is not going to cut it. At a minimum, agreement has to be reached through personal contact with each target before any information is imparted. But it is also important to ensure that those contacts you are reaching out to are the least likely to break the story - for example, they should have an ongoing interest in your company and products, or you should have already dealt with them successfully in the past. Media that value the relationship they have with your company are much less likely to break an embargo than those that have little real knowledge of your story and will think nothing of damaging the relationship in order to be first with a story.


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Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier are animated cartoon characters in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. Spike is a burly, gray bulldog wearing a red sweater, a brown bowler hat, and a perpetual scowl. Chester is a Jack Russell terrier who is just the opposite, small and jumpy with yellow fur and brown, perky ears.

History
The characters starred in only two shorts, both directed by animator Friz Freleng. The first of these films was Tree for Two (1952). In it, Chester tells his idol Spike that he knows of a cat that they can beat up. The cat is Freleng's own Sylvester, but every time Spike thinks he has the cat cornered, a runaway zoo black panther appears in Sylvester's place, thrashing the dog instead. When Chester decides to have a go of it, however, Sylvester finds himself at the little dog's mercy. By the cartoon's end, Spike and Chester have switched roles; Spike is the fawning sycophant, and Chester the smug prizefighter.

The characters' second outing was in the short film Dr. Jerkyl's Hide (1954). Spike (here called "Alfie" and with an English accent) is once again after Sylvester, only this time it is Sylvester himself who pummels the poor pooch, thanks to a potion that transforms him into a feline monster. Chester, of course, never sees this transformed Sylvester, thinking his buddy is being beaten by the tiny tomcat. The final loss of face for Alfie is his being thrashed by a fly that has also been affected by the potion, as it occurs in front of Chester's eyes.

Later appearances
 Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier appear in the movie Space Jam (1996). They are seen as a pair of paramedics during the basketball game, who take Stan Podolak away after he was flattened by the Monstars.
 Spike the Bulldog appears in The Looney Tunes Show episode "The Jailbird and Jailbunny". He is seen during the "Blow My Stack" song as a member of Yosemite Sam's anger management group.
 A live action version of Spike and Chester appeared in a 1988 commercial for Kibbles 'n Bits.

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The 49ers' offense is going to look a lot more explosive this season
And that big-play potential can make them a real powerhouse in the NFC
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Trey Lance finished preseason Week 1 with a perfect passer rating of 158.3.
People around the San Francisco 49ers have to be thrilled with what they saw from Trey Lance in the preseason opener.
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In the 11 snaps he played, he showed excellent pocket awareness, escapability via his legs, and, most notably, accuracy and power in his arm.
Lance wasn't perfect — although his stat line would say otherwise. But you can't expect a guy who's only thrown 389 career passes across his collegiate and professional career to be fully polished.
Still, Lance finished 4-5 for 92 yards and a touchdown, with a perfect passer rating of 158.3. The numbers do make him look a little more impressive than he was, but he looked comfortable and confident, and brought a new element to the 49ers offense that has to have their coaches, players, and fans salivating.
On 3rd and 9 from his own 24, Lance took the snap, stepped up into the pocket, and unloaded a deep ball to rookie wideout Danny Gray.
The ball traveled 34 yards through the air and hit the third-round pick square in the chest. Gray caught it in stride and ran the next 40 yards for what turned out to be a 76-yard touchdown.
This type of explosive play wasn't very common in San Francisco's offense during the Jimmy Garoppolo era.
Over the course of the last year including the preseason, the 49ers have had four such completions that traveled through the air for 30 or more yards.
Garoppolo had one of those in his 457 attempts. Lance, in his 117 attempts, has thrown three.
Between the recently extended superstar Deebo Samuel, the star of training camp Brandon Aiyuk, and the impossible to bring down George Kittle, the 49ers are loaded at the skill positions.
This offseason, they emphasized speed at those positions, with the additions of Gray who ran a 4.33 40-yard dash, and free agent speedster Ray-Ray McCloud III.
The 49ers knew Lance would be able to add a new dimension to their offense, so they planned accordingly.
On the first play of the 49ers' first non-Lance series, McCloud got way behind the defense — and I mean way behind them — and caught a 39-yard touchdown pass from backup quarterback Nate Sudfeld.
The 49ers' offense was dominant in 2020 during their Super Bowl run. In 2022, they showed flashes. But this dominance wasn't because of Garoppolo's ability to sling the football. It stemmed from the run game. The ground and pound style that Kyle Shanahan loves to use to control games.
But the offense was always missing something. It was missing the big-play potential. It was missing the downfield shots.
Garoppolo wasn't capable of throwing a consistent deep ball. So no matter how many times the 49ers were able to move the chains via the run, opposing teams were rarely worried about getting beat deep. And this was holding the offense back.
Lance has the ability to change that.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Shanahan keep a lot of the same schemes despite the new quarterback. The 49ers will still run the ball down their opponent's throats. Behind Trent Williams and their dominant offensive line (although they do have a few new starters), the 49ers won't need Lance to do too much early on.
Lance's ability to use his legs will be a new wrinkle of the read option. But I don't see the 49ers rushing into a four-out Patrick Mahomes-style offense — they just don't need to.
But this time, when the 49ers are moving the ball down the field behind Elijah Mitchell and the offensive line, Shanahan will be able to pick his moments to take a shot.
He'll be able to use a play-action to not just throw a five-yard out to his tight ends, but this time to track down one of those speedsters 40 yards down the field. Or any of the explosive playmakers Lance has at his disposal.
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Citizenship Tangle
24 hours inside Delhi locality: How violent mobs burnt school, mosque, madrassa, protest site
Hindu residents blame the police for arriving late. Muslim residents allege the violence did not stop even after the police arrived.
Ipsita Chakravarty & Sruthisagar Yamunan
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An anti-CAA protest site vandalised near Mustafabad in North East Delhi on February 26. | Scroll Staff
"Our children's admit cards had not even been sent," said a tearful Neetu Chaudhary, as she surveyed the charred remains of Arun Modern Public Senior Secondary School. "They have destroyed all records from 1986."
The school was established in 1986. It is located in Brijpuri, at the entrance to Mustafabad, a locality in North East Delhi which saw widespread violence and arson on February 25. According to Kasim Zaid, the school's physical education teacher, it was set alight around 4-5 pm in the evening of February 25.
"We got to know last evening that there was a large crowd from Mustafabad-Brijpuri," said Zaid. The school, which has about 750 students, both Hindu and Muslim, was deserted at that time, save a lone security guard posted outside the locked front gate. According to the staff, the mob broke in from the third floor terrace.
"There's a mosque at the back of the school," said Zaid. "From there, they climbed the terrace and broke in. A mob does not see if it's a school or not." Zaid thought the rioters were local residents of Brijpur and Mustafabad, he could not say which community.
But Chaudhary, the school cashier, was emphatic: "Mohammedans have done this."
Computers burnt at the Arun Modern Public Senior Secondary School, Brijpuri. Picture: Sruthisagar Yamunan
School bus and cars burnt at the Arun Modern Public Senior Secondary School, Brijpuri. Picture: Sruthisagar Yamunan
The same evening, around 8 pm, the Farooqi Mosque next door, from where the vandals allegedly broke in, was attacked, said residents. When Scroll.in visited the neighbourhood on Wednesday afternoon, the mosque was badly charred, with bloodstains on the floor.
Behind the mosque is a madrassa, whose insides were blackened and ravaged. Residents said it had been attacked hours ago, on Wednesday morning.
The three buildings – a school, a mosque and a madrassa located next to each other – tell the story of a violent 24 hours in the twin localities of Brijpuri-Mustafabad.
Farooqi Mosque in Brijpuri burnt down by rioters. The imam of the mosque was also shot, claimed residents. Picture: Sruthisagar Yamunan
Delhi burning
For about four days now, North East Delhi has been convulsed by violence. It started as a face-off between those protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act and those supporting it. The amended law makes non-Muslim undocumented migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan eligible for Indian citizenship. Together with the proposed National Register of Citizens, it is feared, the new legislation could become a tool to harass Muslims.
For about two months, various Muslim-majority localities in Delhi have seen sit-in protests, led mainly by women. Since last weekend, the clashes over citizenship have turned openly communal.
On the evening of February 25, Brijpuri-Mustafabad and Chandbagh, down the Wazirabad highway, became a hotspot. When Scroll.in reporters visited the area on the afternoon of February 26, the highway was still dotted with burnt shops and mangled cars.
A view of the Mustafabad main road on Wednesday afternoon. Picture: Ipsita Chakravarty
The Mustafabad main road, which branches off from the highway, runs through Brijpuri first. This area has a mosque and a madrassa as well as a substantial number of Hindu families. The road stretches for about 500 metres till it hits the Brijpuri canal, which is little more than a coil of sewage. Across the canal is Mustafabad proper, which is Muslim majority but also has several shops owned by Hindus and at least two temples.
On Wednesday afternoon, roads on both sides of the canal were strewn with bricks and spilt foodgrains, lined with charred shops. The residents had mostly receded into the alleys, peering out fearfully into the deserted thoroughfares. Police manned the entrance to both Brijpuri and Mustafabad, while security vehicles patrolled the main road.
Allegations flew from both sides of the canal. Both communities complained that while mobs were on the rampage, the police went missing. The Hindu residents of Brijpuri said the police finally arrived on Tuesday evening. But the Muslim residents of Mustafabad and Chandbagh alleged the security forces aided the marauding crowds which continued their violence next morning.
A building burnt down in Brijpuri. Photo: Sruthisagar Yamunan
Pitched battle
Like other areas of North East Delhi, tensions had been brewing since Sunday. But violence had started in Tuesday afternoon, they claimed. "There was a police barrier in front of the school," said 29-year-old Arun Kumar, a resident of Brijpuri. "But there were no police manning it from 1-5 pm. We came out on the main road to stop them [rioters] from coming this side.The police came around 5.30 pm. They probably had orders to shoot. After that, people moved back."
Another Hindu resident of Brijpuri claimed, "They were firing from the rooftops across the nala." The bullets hit 26-year-old Rahul Thakur, whose body still lay at the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, residents claimed.
A burning mosque
By the time the police arrived in the Mustafabad-Brijpuri area in the evening, the school had been burnt. But the violence continued even after the police's arrival, said residents.
Around 6 pm, mobs came and destroyed the site of a sit-in protest, alleged Asif Siddiqi, a resident of Brijpuri. For two months, makeshift tents had been pitched on a road along the Brijpuri side of the canal, meant to hold women protesting against the citizenship law. As the tent was burned and vandalised, women were injured, residents allege.
Then at 8 pm, a mob attacked the Farooqi Mosque. "There were 10-15 people praying here," said Alimuddin, a local resident. "RSS goons came in and shot at people, including the imam, who has been hospitalised. They also beat them up."
When Scroll.in reporters visited the mosque on the afternoon of February 26, they were shown blood stains on the floor and charred Qurans. Agitated residents alleged several worshippers had been shot, although they could not say how many had been injured or killed.
A few metres up the road in Brijpuri, most Hindu residents claimed no mosque had been burned, only a nearby shop. "They burned it themselves to take the narrative in another direction," suggested one Hindu resident.
Muslim residents alleged that around 8 am on February 26, Wednesday, there was fresh violence. This time, they claimed, mobs chanting "Jai Shri Ram" and various other slogans had been accompanied by policemen. "The police also set fire to the madrassa," said Arif Siddiqi, a local resident. Fortunately, the seminary had been empty at the time.
Bloodstains on the floor of the mosque. Photo: Sruthisagar Yamunan
The police move in
A policeman guarding the entrance to the Mustafabad main road said he had arrived at the spot late evening on Tuesday, after they received distress calls. There was stone pelting from both sides, he said, and he had even been hit on the head.
Across the canal, in Mustafabad proper, residents also complained of police apathy. On the afternoon of February 26, the Mustafabad MLA, the Aam Aadmi Party's Haji Yunus, sat in his home taking down complaints from local residents and working the phones.
"The most common complaint we get from people is about the police," Yunus said. "The local police are ensuring losses, not helping us." They had informed the police about people being stuck in a house, Yunus claimed, but no help had come. The Aam Aadmi Party sent its own rescue teams to various areas, claimed party workers.
Yunus said peace marches had been held over three days, including one in Brijpuri on the afternoon of February 25, involving members of both communities as well as the administration. Neither Muslim nor Hindu residents who spoke to Scroll.in, however, seemed to know anything about this.
The AAP MLA estimated about 10-11 people had been shot dead and over 50 injured in the area. The attackers came from outside, from Uttar Pradesh, he claimed.
'All is normal'
It is a line repeated by Harikant Sharma, the priest at a local temple in the Muslim-majority area of Mustafabad proper. "Everything is normal," he said. "I think it was people from outside. "Everyone [from outside the locality] tells us to leave our home, but we said we are fine here."
Sharma had been called out of his house by residents of Mustafabad, who were anxious to assert that the Hindu minority had been well protected here. Hindu shops and temples deep in the heart of Muslim neighbourhoods had been left unscathed, they point out. The temple taken care of by Sharma has certainly been left intact.
Meanwhile, shortages have started to affect both communities. Milk was running out, which made feeding children a problem. Families had supplies to feed themselves for only another couple of days. Just a few ration shops were open and exorbitant prices were being charged for rice and vegetables.
A fruit stall in Chandbagh destroyed in the riots. Picture: Sruthisagar Yamunan
Chandbagh cinders
In neighbouring Chandbagh, the scars of an attack on Monday morning were apparent near the highway. At the entrance, a fruit shop was burnt down. Almost every vehicle, from motorbikes to large buses, were charred by the fires set by a marauding crowd that residents said went on a rampage with police protection.
The trouble began on Sunday evening when a protest held by Muslim women was attacked with stones. Kalam Ahmed, a resident, said the men had to rescue the women to safer spots. "Many sustained injuries," he added.
Residents alleged that at around 11 am on Monday morning, a mob shielded by the police from the front marched from Bhajanpura and Yamuna Vihar, located on the opposite side of the highway that separates the neighbourhoods from Chandbagh. "The police first fired teargas and pushed us back. As we ran from the police action, a wave of men came from behind them and began setting fire to properties," he said.
As in Mustafabad, residents of Chandbagh point out that they had protected Hindu temples. Ahmed pointed to the Hindu temple nearby and said a mob had tried to damage it but was stopped by residents. "We consider the temple very much ours. It was a blatant attempt to blame us for attacking a Hindu temple," he said.
A Hindu temple in Chandbagh left unscathed by violent mobs that attacked the area on Monday. Picture: Sruthisagar Yamunan
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